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 Bef 1650 - 1714 (> 64 years)
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| Name |
George Harlan |
| Born |
Bef 11 Mar 1650 |
Durham, England  [2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Baptism |
11 Mar 1650 |
Durham, England [4, 5, 6, 7] |
| [11d 1st m 1650] |
Address:
Monkwearmouth |
| Immigration |
1687 |
Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America [2, 8] |
| Will |
1 Apr 1714 |
Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America [9, 10] |
| [21da 2mo 1714] |
| Died |
Jul 1714 |
Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America [11] |
| Cause: [5mo 1714] |
| Buried |
Jul 1714 |
Centerville, New Castle County, Delaware, United States [7, 12] |
Address:
Centre Monthly Meeting Cemetery |
| Probate |
2 Oct 1714 |
Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America [13] |
| Religion |
Society of Friends (Quakers) [2] |
| Person ID |
I7925 |
TangledRoots |
| Last Modified |
6 Nov 2021 |
| Father |
James Harland, b. 15 Feb 1625, Bishoprick of Durham, Durham, Durham, England , d. 17 Feb 1680, Durham, Durham, England (Age 55 years) |
| Family ID |
F3212 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elizabeth Duck, b. 5 May 1660, Parish of Shankill, County Armagh, Ireland , d. Bef 1714, Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age < 53 years) |
| Married |
17 Nov 1678 |
Parish of Shankill, County Armagh, Ireland [14] |
| Notes |
- Transcript of Marriage record:
George Harland in the parish of Donnahlong in ye County, of Down and Elizabeth Duck of Lurgan in ye parish of Shankill and County, of Armagh, having intentions of marriage (according to God's ordinance) did lay their said intentions before ye men and womens meetings who taking it into their considerations, desired they waite a time in which time several Friends were appointed to make enquiry in ye several places where their residences are or of later years have been wheather ye man is free of all other women, and ye woman free from all other men and wheather their relations and parents are satisfied with their said intentions. And they presenting themselves the second time before ye men and womens meetings and an account being brought to ye meeting, where all things being found clear and their intentions of marriage being several times published in ye meeting to which they do belong, and nothing appearing against it.
A meeting of ye people of God was appointed at the house of Marke Wright in ye parish of Shankill on the twenty seventh day of ye ninth month anno 1678, where they being contracted the said George Harland declared publickly and solemnly in the presence of God, and of his people in these vows, I take Elizabeth Duck to be my wife, and said Elizabeth Duck declared in like manner, I give myselfe to George Harland to be his wife and I take him to be my husband, as witness our hands.
George Harland
Elizabeth Harland
1678
Daniel Stamper.......................Timothy Kirk............................Wm. Porter
George Bullock.......................George Hodghson...................Michel Scaife
John Wright.............................Alphonsus Kirk.......................Ann Hodghson
Henry Hollingsworth................William Crook........................Ann Peirson
John Calvart............................Deborah Kirk..........................Thomas Atkinson
Francis Hillary.........................Elinor Hoope..........................Mary Walker
Alexander Noble.....................Robert Hoope..........................Mary Rea
George Lowder.......................Thomas Harland......................Elinor Greer
Roger Kirk...............................Bridgett Harland
................................................Mark Wright
................................................Ezekell Bullock
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| Children |
| | 1. Ezekial Harlan, b. 16 Aug 1679, Parish of Donnahlong, County Down, Ireland , d. 15 Jun 1731, Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age 51 years) |
| | 2. Hannah Harlan, b. 4 Apr 1681, Parish of Donaghcloney, County Down, Ireland , d. Aft 1748 (Age > 68 years) |
| | 3. Moses Harlan, b. 20 Feb 1683, Parish of Donnalong, County Down, Ireland , d. 1747 (Age 63 years) |
| | 4. Aaron Harlan, b. 24 Dec 1685, Parish of Donnahlong, County Down, Ireland , d. Sep 1732, Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age 46 years) |
| | 5. Rebecca Harlan, b. 17 Oct 1688, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America , d. 17 Aug 1775, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age 86 years) |
| | 6. Deborah Harlan, b. 28 Oct 1690, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America , d. Aft 1712 (Age > 23 years) |
| | 7. James Harlan, b. 19 Oct 1692, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America , d. Abt 1760, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 67 years) |
| | 8. Elizabeth Harlan, b. 9 Oct 1694, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 9. Joshua Harlan, b. 15 Jan 1697, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America , d. Jul 1744, Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age 47 years) |
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| Last Modified |
16 Jan 2022 |
| Family ID |
F3203 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
George Harlan "Ye sone of James Harland of Monkwearmouth, was Baptised at the Monastery of Monkwearmouth in Oald England, ye 11th day of First Month 1650." As young men, in company with his brothers Michael and Thomas crossed into Ireland and located in the Parish of Donnahlong, County, Down. Marriage records indicate that all three sons of James Harland had become Quakers.
Most Harlans are descendants of two English brothers, George and Michael Harlan, who arrived in 1687 at New Castle, Delaware - then part of the colony of Pennsylvania - and of a third brother, Thomas, who never came to America but some of his sons arrived fifty years later. James Harland, son of William is the earliest paternal ancestor of the Harlans in America that we know much about. He was born near Durham, England, about 1625 and was the father of Thomas, George and Michael Harlan. His three sons were baptized in the Church of England, at the formerly Catholic monastery of Monkwearmouth near Durham.
A 16th-century religious revolution in the Christian Church, called the Reformation, caused Britain to be in constant religious conflict and resulted in the establishment of Protestant churches. As George and Michael were growing up in the mid 1600s, a radical religious movement swept over England led by the Reverend George Fox, known as the Society of Friends, more often called Quakers. These groups, stressed an individual approach to religion, strict discipline and the rejection of an authoritarian church, had no clergy, practiced freedom of worship and opposed all forms of violence including war and slavery. They refused to take oaths and would not pay tithes to the Church of England. Both the civil and religious authorities were perturbed and began to persecute the preacher and his followers.
George and Michael Harlan and their brother Thomas became Quakers, and were forced to flee England to northern Ireland where they located in the Parish of Donnahlong, County, Down, only to find that English persecution followed them there. While residing there he married by ceremony of Friends, November 27, 1678, Elizabeth Duck of County, Armagh. At the time of his residence in Ireland, William Penn was urging Friends of England to become settlers upon his new lands in America. He cautioned them against "leaving their own country out of idle curiosity or of a rambling disposition."
Members of the Society of Friends began to emigrate to the American colonies. They settled in New Jersey and the Pennsylvania colony, which was granted to William Penn and where they found a haven. In the early months of 1687, George in the company of his wife Elizabeth and four young children, Exekiel, Hannah, Moses and Aaron and brother Michael sailed from Belfast, Ireland to the new colony of Pennsylvania. After arriving in Delaware, they had five additional children, Rebecca, Deborah, James, Elizabeth and Joshua...all recorded as hvaing been born in New Castle County, Delaware. The first Friends meetings in Delaware were those located at New Castle and at Newark, both being established during the years 1682-85. The meeting at Newark was located about three miles northeast of present day Wilmington. Newark Friends generally lived along the little Shellpot Creek. Their leader was Valentine Hollingsworth.
Delaware was originally created as part of Pennsylvania and became the "Three Lower Counties". George Harlan had bought land in Pennsylvania (now Delaware) before leaving Ireland. They came up the river Delaware and landed at the town of New Castle, and settled near the present town of Centerville. He became one of the leading citizens, and in 1695 when William Penn decided that the "three lower counties," were so remote from Philadelphia that they needed their own government, he appointed George Harlan one of the governors. Soon, however, around 1698/99 George bought land higher up the Brandywine Creek and moved his family to what is now Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania and settled as a farmer near where his brother Michael had already settled.
George Harlan first belonged to Newark Meeting, but after his removal up the Brandywine and westward, he was too remote from this meeting for punctual attendance, especially in the winter, and at a request of himself and others, a meeting "beyond Brandywine" was established and called Centre Meeting House. In those early days, Newark, New Castle, Centre, and "Old" Kennet meetings were all part of Newark Monthly Meeting. The strongest meetings of this group came to be Centre and Kennet, and by 1720 the monthly meetings for business tended to alternate between these two places.
While living in Kennet township, George had for neighbors a settlement of Indians who lived in the "Great Bend" of the Brandywine. After they had gone he obtained, in 1701, a warrant for 200 acres of land in the bend, which was granted to him "in regard for the great trouble and charge he had borne in fencing and maintaining the same for said Indians while living thereon."
George was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1712, but died two years later, leaving nine children. His brother Michael, about ten years younger, married three years after reaching America. He was not as prominent as his brother, but his will and the inventory of his estate show him to have been a prosperous farmer. Michael died in 1729, leaving eight children. Many of his descendants moved to New York and then westward along the northern tier of states. Meanwhile their brother Thomas's descendants arrived in Pennsylvania from Ireland.
On the first day of March, 1713, George deeded 203 acres to his son-in-law, William Webb, for a consideration of 30 pounds. On the ninth day of the same Month, "in consideration of the Natural Affection & fatherly love which he hath" and also "for divers other good causes and valuable considerations," he deeded 200 acres each to his sons James and Joshua. He died in "Fifth Month" 1714. He left an estate valued at L355-12-00, exclusive of land, which was considerable for those days. It is puzzling that there is no mention of his land in either his will or his inventory.
After coming to America George and Michael dropped the final "d" and the name was spelled Harlan. The family's history includes two members of Congress, a U.S. Senator, a member of President Lincoln's cabinet, and two justices of the United States Supreme Court, the first Sheriff of Warren County, Ohio, a Warren County, Judge, and Warren County, Commissioner, among others.
WILL
I George Harlan of Brandywine Creek and in the Township of Kennet and County, of Chester in the province of Pennsylvania Yeoman. Being weak at this time in body but of sound and disposing mind and memory & calling to mind the certainty of Death & the uncertainty of the time thereof doe make & ordain this my last will & testament in manner & form following, That is to say, ffirst I yield up my soul into the hands of almighty God as unto a ffaithful Creator hoping through the merrits sufferings Resurrection & mediation of my blessed Savior Jesus Christ to find mercy & forgivness with compleat salvation & my body to be buried by my deare wife in the new burying place on Alphonsus Kirks land at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named. Also my will is that all my Just debts & funeral Expenses be fully paid & discharged. Also I Give unto my son Aaron my Clock & my Great Brass Kettle. Also I Give unto my Brother Michael Harlan the young Susquhanna Mare. Also I Give unto my servant woman names Mary Mathews at the expiration of her time on cow & calf & one young mare not less than three yeares old. And lastly I make nominate & appoint my brother Michael Harlan aforementioned & my son Samuel Hollingsworth Trustees & assistants to my Executors aforementioned in the performance & Accomplishment of this my Last will & Testament. Also my will is that after my debts Legacies Bequests & expenses aforesaid are fully payed & satisfied that what shall then remain of my moveable & personal Estate if any so there be then it shall be equally divided between all my children Sons & Daughters share & share alike. In witness thereof I have to this my said will set my hand & seal this one & twentieth Day of the Second month call Aprill in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fourteen.
George Harlan (Seal)
Sealed signed & published & declared by Testator George Harlan to be his last will & Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our names as Witnesses hereunto in his presence.
Daniel Mc Farson
Nathan Maddock
Thomas Pierson.
*(note: dates prior to 1751 are given "old style", counting March as the first month of the year)
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| Sources |
- [S21] Book: History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family, pg. 2.
After coming to America George and Michael Harland dropped the final "d" and the name is spelled Harlan.
- [S967] Book: The History of Clinton County, Ohio, Chester Twp., pg. 657.
In 1687, George Harlan and hia family and his brother Michael emigrated to America, and settled near Christian Hundred, on the Delaware River, in the present State of Delaware, and in the “verge” of Center Monthly Meeting of Friends. They some few years after crossed the Delaware and settled in Chester County, Penn.
- [S21] Book: History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family, pg. 2.
3.....Baptised at the Monastery of Monkwearmouth in Oald England, ye 11th Day of First Month 1650 (note: dates prior to 1751 are given "old style", counting March as the first month of the year.)
- [S1111] Harlan Family Vertical File.
- [S1213] Webpage: The Quaker Corner.
The earliest paternal ancestor of the Harlans in America that we know much about was James Harland (1)*, son of William Harland. James was called a yeoman, not an aristocrat nor a gentleman, born near Durham, England, about 1625. He was the father of Thomas (2), George (3) and Michael Harlan (4), and had his three sons baptized in the Church of England, at the formerly Catholic monastery of Monkwearmouth near Durham.
- [S21] Book: History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family.
Ye sone of James Harlan of Monkwearmouth, was Baptised at the Monastery of Monkwearmouth in Oald England, ye 11th Day of First Month 1650
- [S1888] Find A Grave, Memorial ID 9004082 George Harlan.
George Harlan
BIRTH 11 Mar 1650 County Durham, England
DEATH 5 Jul 1714 (aged 64) Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL Centre Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Centerville, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
MEMORIAL ID 9004082
In Memory of
George Harlan C. 1650-1714
Elizabeth Duck Harlan, his wife
Michael Harlan c 1660-1729, his brother
Dinah Dixon Harlan, his wife
and their descendants
Erected on the occasion of the Harlan Family Bicentennial August 1987
- [S1111] Harlan Family Vertical File, pg. 1.
George Harlan, yeoman and a Friend, brought his family to America in 1687 in response to the urging of William Penn that Friends seeking religious freedom should settle upon Penn's lands in the New World. They dwelt at first in New Castle, Delaware, and later moved to the Brandywine Creek area of Kennett, Chester County, PA.
- [S21] Book: History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family, pg. 5, 6.
Proven 8 Mo. 2, 1714
- [S1485] Pennsylvania: Chester County Probate Records, Book A, Volume 1; p7,8; Will of George Harlan; Film #20844.
George Harlan
Chester County, Pennsylvania
Dated: one and twentieth day of of the second month called April in the year one thousand seven hundred and ffourteen 21 April 1756
Recorded: 2nd 8th month 1714
Executors: sons Ezekiall Harlan and Aaron Harlan, also brother Michael Harlan and son Samuel Hollingsworth as trustees and assistants.
Witnesses: Daniel McFarson, Nathan Maddock and Thomas Pierson
Mentioned in the will: wife deceased, son Aaron, brother Michael Harlan, servant woman named Mary Matthews,
Chester County, Pennsylvania Will Book A, v1 p7Chester County, Pennsylvania Will Book A, v1 p8
- [S21] Book: History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family, pg. 2.
Died: in the fifth month (July) 1714, Kennet, Chester County, Pennsylvania
- [S21] Book: History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family, pg. 2.
buried beside his "deare wife in the new burying grounds on Alphonsus Kirk's Land," which was afterwards, and is yet, Center Meeting Burying Grounds.
- [S1485] Pennsylvania: Chester County Probate Records, Estate #7; Probate Records of George Harlan; Film #1492101.
Chester County, Pennsylvania
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- [S1159] Marriage Record: George Harlan and Elizabeth Duck, George Harland and Elizabeth Duck.
...in ye parish of Shankill on the twenty seventh day of ye ninth month anno 1678,
Parish of Shankill, County Armagh, Ireland
17 Nov 1678
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