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This is the chronology of events for William T. Hardin's family. William T. Hardin migrated from Anderson County (Formerly Pendleton District), South Carolina in the early 1830's to settle and live the rest of his life at Ralph (formerly Hickmans) in southern Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. On this site interested kin can help with the giant Hardin jigsaw puzzle. At its launch the site’s information is speculative in places, with the hope that collaboration will bring more certainty. Start at the links at left. They’re generally chronological, and the names under each location tab are generally of men who settled as young adults in those places. Unproved but likely fits have a yellow background (caution). More speculative fits and families believed unrelated are shown with red backgrounds. The haplotype i1a Hardins -- the subject of this site -- are a distinct family, revealed by spotty decendants’ Y-DNA testing. (They are completely unrelated to many other Hardins, including Colonel Joseph Hardin of the Revolutionary War, the founders of Texas, or the 19th century Texas serial killer John Wesley Hardin.) Typical of the Scotch-Irish or Scottish settlers, this group seems to have migrated south from the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland area. By the 1750’s they were in Virginia and and far south as west-central North Carolina. By 1790 my own family had settled in and near Pendleton District in South Carolina. In all these places they sometimes lived among other Hardins completely unrelated. For convenience I will call the author’s (Travis Hardin’s) family the “Eastern i1a Hardins” and more specifically the “Pendleton Hardins” -- the group called “Plumnelly Hardins” by Oran Hardin. The author’s ancestors lived in Chatham County (Old Orange), NC before moving to Pendleton District, South Carolina. The Pendleton patriach was Gabriel Hardin. From Pendleton and Laurens Districts one band of brothers migrated mainly to Floyd County, Ga. and Cherokee County, Ala. Old-timers said, according to J. Oran Hardin, they lived “Plum out of Georgia and ne’ly out of Alabama.” Other Pendleton Hardins settled in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Another relation named Gabriel Hardin arrived in Lunenberg County, Va. in the 1750s, later leaving for Moore (old Cumberland) county, North Carolina. The “Western i1a Hardins” include descendants of John R. Hardin of Iredell (old Rowan) County, NC, who was or was not the son of Robert Hardin of Rowan County, NC, an emigre from Talbot County, Maryland around 1755. (See p.108, 109, 125 of Carolina Cradle by Robert W. Ramsey.) John R. Hardin’s descendants went to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. A relative, John Hardin arrived in the 1850s in present day Burke County, NC (old Rowan) and later migrated from there to Washington County in southern Indiana. What is known with certainty from the DNA tests are that the Plumnelly Hardins are the same family as John R. Hardin of Rowan County, NC, John Hardin of Washington County, Indiana, and Gabriel Hardin of Moore County, North Carolina.

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