A Timeline of Harrod Families
1700 Bedfordshire, England - John Harrod Sr. was born (Life on the Appalachian Frontier, a web link that no longer works; the author's URL indicated it was a university of West Virginia www.northern.wvnet.edu/ and the author's name was G. Norton)
1712 New Jersey – One source says John Harrod Sr. came with his father and brothers and lived first in New Jersey. His father was James Harrod (Family Group Sheet by Audrey Merriman, 624 Carola St., Creve Coeur, IL 61611, 12 November 1984)
1715 Monmouth Co., New Jersey - A John Harrod was a sergeant in the Militia there. He served under the command of Col. Pfarmer and Capt. Leonard. Source: Old East New York Vol. 5, pp. 670. John Harrod Sr. would be a bit young to be a sergeant if he was actually born in 1700. A David Harrod was on the tax list there in 1714.
1722 John Harrod Sr. immigrated and settled in New Jersey across the Delaware River and a little later south of Philadelphia. (Life on the Appalachian Frontier)
1724 New Jersey or Virginia or England Thomas son of John Harrod Sr. was born in New Jersey (Life on the Appalachian Frontier) or on the Shenandoah in the valley of Virginia. (Family Group Sheet by Audrey Merriman, 624 Carola St., Creve Coeur, IL 61611, 12 November 1984), however, I think it was Thomas, son of John Harrod Jr. who was born in the valley of Virginia) or he was born in England according to the Draper Manuscripts 37J169-174 and came to America as a small boy according to information given in an interview to a reporter about 1930 by John W. Harrod, a Confederate veteran. Bedford County Pennsylvania Archives Volume 3 says that Samuel was the eldest son of John and Sarah (Moore) Harrod so Thomas would have been born after Samuel's birth year of 1735/36 or was a son by John Harrod Sr.’s first wife
1727, 1734, or 1736 New Jersey or Chester Co., Pennsylvania, or Little Cove in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. John, Jr., son of John Harrod Sr. was born in 1727 in New Jersey. (Life on the Appalachian Frontier) or he was born in 1734 Chester Co., Pennsylvania (Ten Mile Country by Lecky) or John Herrod, son of John Harwood, was born in 1736 (Rachel Henton’s notebook). A John Herrod was born in 1736 in the Little Cove (Kittochtinny Historical Society: Papers Read Before the Society, 2 April 1964 The Story of the Fort, by Harry E. Foreman). (Whether John Harrod Jr.’s mother was the first wife or second wife depends upon which of these birth dates is correct.)
1727 Jan 5 John Harrod Sr. might have married Mary Ames. I can’t verify this. It was on the family group sheet of Cheryl Paulson, 328 Dawn Court, Ridgecrest, CA 93555, 2 Nov. 1984
1732 or 1733 Pennsylvania John Harrod’s wife was killed by Indians (Life on the Appalachian Frontier) John Harrod had two motherless sons.
1734 Virginia John Harrod Sr. married Sarah Moore in the Shenandoah Valley (Draper Manuscripts) or according to Draper, John Harrod came to America in 1734, name of wife unknown.
1734 -1736 Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Samuel Harrod, son of John Harrod Sr. was born per Draper Mss. 20J44, He was the eldest son of John and Sarah and was born on the Shenandoah per William Harrod Jr., Draper Mss 37J168 or he was over age 15 in 1736 when he was a defendant in a law-suit in Opekon. He was a half-brother of James Harrod, therefore was born before his father married Sarah Moore (Bernice Lewis Swainson, The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vols. 32, No. 2 and 3, April - July 1958) The Harrods moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where John's third son, Samuel was born in 1735 (Life on the Appalachian Frontier)
1737 (approximately) Little Cove, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania The Harrods moved from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to Little Cove, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania (Life on the Appalachian Frontier) Note: Cumberland County wasn’t formed until 1750.
1737 Dec 9 Little Cove, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania William Harrod, son of John Harrod Sr. and Sarah Moore was born. Although he later stated that he was born in Franklin Co., Pennsylvania there were no settlers in that area earlier than 1740. He was probably born in the Shenandoah Valley (Hereward Records and Papers 1620-1940: 329 Years of History and Genealogy by Susan Atkins, 1940) or William Harrod, elder brother of James, founder of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, was born at Big Cove, Bedford County, Pa., in 1737." (Documentary History of Dunmore's War 1774, Twaites Gold and Louise Phelps Kellogg, 1905) or they removed to the Big Cove in then Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and there William was born on the 9th day of December 1737 per William Harrod Jr. Source: Draper Mss 37J168
1738 - 1745 Eleanor, daughter of John Harrod Sr. and Sarah Moore was born Eleanor was born after William (born 9 December 1737 and James (born 1746) per Tenmile Country.
15 Dec 1738 Frederick Co., Virginia was created out of northern portions of Augusta and Orange Counties, Frederick began to function as a political unit around 1743. Frederick county people came from several different sources: German and Scots-Irish from Pennsylvania and Maryland, English settlers migrated to Hite's Fort near present Stephens City. English settlers from coastal counties also came there per Frederick County Marriages 1738 - 1850 by John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.
1740 - 1750 "The settlers in the Little Cove (now Franklin County) and on the Conolloways, at the time of Secretary Peters' visit to the Big Cove were: Joseph Coombs, John Herrod, Elias Stillwell, Rees Shelby, Levi Moore, Andrew Coombe, . . . " (By an act of March 29, 1798 all that part of Bedford, called the Little Cove and lying east of a line to begin in the Maryland line near the Great Cove or Tuscarora mountain . . . intersects the present line between Bedford and Franlkin Counties was annexed to Montgomery Towhnship, Franklin County.)
1742 – 1746 Virginia or Pennsylvania James Harrod, son of John Harrod Sr. and Sarah Moore was born. William Harrod Jr., said that his grandfather, John, died when James was about 12 years of age and that James was born in 1742 per Draper Manuscripts 37J167 (a letter), but Major John Griffin Fauntleroy who married Margaret Harrod said that James was born in 1746 on the eastern of the Susquehannah and Potomac region as informed by William Harrod . . . James was attached to a company of men at 14 years of age' per Draper MSS 12C23 and 12C22. Mrs. James Harrod, age 86 in 1842, said her husband was 10 years older than she which would make him born in 1746 as Fauntleroy states per Draper MSS 12C22 or he was born in Pennsylvania in 1742 per Documentary History of Dunmore's War 1774 or "The noted James Harrod was born a short distance north of Sylvan in 1742” per (Life on the Appalachian Frontier)
1744 or 1747 (approximately) Mary Harrod, daughter of John Harrod Sr. and Sarah Moore per, born after Rachel who was born after James who was born in 1742 per William Harrod Jr. Source Draper Mss 37J168, however, other evidence suggests that James could have been born ca. 1746.
After 1746 (approximately) Rachel Harrod was born. She was born after James who was born in 1742 per William Harrod Jr. Source Draper Mss 37J168 However, other evidence suggests that James could have been born ca. 1746.
1747-1750 Big Cove, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania (Cumberland County was formed in 1750). In a letter of May 1750 from Secretary Richard Peters to the Colonial governor, secretary Peters had been sent into what is now Cumberland and adjoining counties in Pennsylvania to warn people off the land which had not yet been purchased from the Indians. It was on this trip that the story of the "Burnt Cabins" occurred. Trader George Croghan was with Peters in the Augwick Valley where he had a home. When the commission went to the Little Cove and Big Cove, they report that they ordered a number of persons off their improvements, including John Harrod per Pennsylvania Colonial Records. This was at a time when William Harrod Jr. reports that his grandfather as living in the Big Cove. It was the same area that saw James and William Harrod begin their military service under Forbes and where William Harrod got his first commission a few years later. John Harrod had been there at least 3 years
1749 – 1750 Frederick Co., Maryland or Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania Joseph Coombs, John Harrod and Andrew Coombs were 3 of the 21 men who signed a petition: Conolloway Letter of Late 1749 or Early 1750 (Source: Minutes of the Provincial Council, pages 453 & 454) Whether the Tonoloways Settlement was actually in Frederick Co, MD or Cumberland Co, PA was unresolved, and whether it was Indian land or not even a more critical issue. Little Cove was in this disputed area)
1750 Little Cove, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania John Harrod paid taxes per Bernice Lewis Swainson.
1750 Jan 22 Levi Harrod was born Lancaster, Pennsylvania Susan Atkins says he was born in Little Cove in the Tuscarora Mountains of (then) Virginia 1750 or he was born January 22, 1750, in Ayr Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just five days before Cumberland County was formed. Levi's birthplace is given in some records as Bedford County, Pennsylvania per (Life on the Appalachian Frontier)
1750 May Cumberland was formed from Lancaster County in 1750
1750 May 31 Little Cove, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. John Harrod signed a petition (page 109 Source: Minutes of Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 5 pp. 453-4)
After 1750 Sallie Harrod was born. Susan Atkins says she was born in 1748, however, William Harrod Jr. indicated she was born after Levi who was born in 1750.
after 1751 Elizabeth Harrod was born. She was born after Sallie who was born after Levi who was born in 1750 per Tenmile Country
after 1752 Jemima Harrod was born. She was born after Elizabeth who was born after Sallie who was born after Levi who was born in 1750 per Tenmile Country.
1753 Frederick Co., Maryland. John and William Hearwood were on the muster roll of Capt. Moses Chapline during the French and Indian war per Susan Atkins.
1753 June 26 pages 199-200. John Harrod, first as a Corporal and later as a Sergeant was on the Muster Roll of Capt. Joseph Chapline per Susan Atkins
1754 July 3 John Harwood on a list of soldiers at Fort Necessity. This area is now located in Farmington, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania (Roster of Virginia Militia, from a website link that no longer works) John Harrod died in 1754 per (Life on the Appalachian Frontier)
ca 1755 Ayr Twp., Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. John Harrod Sr. might have died. His grandson, William Harrod Jr., said that John died when James was about 12 years of age and that James was born in 1742 per Draper Manuscripts 37J167. Perhaps he died in an Indian attack described in Coombs Fort of the Tonoloways Settlement of Maryland and Pennsylvania. 1 Nov. 1755 when a party of about one hundred Indians (Shawnees & Delawares) “entered the Great Cove and began murdering the defenseless inhabitants and destroying their property.” On November 14 (1755) Sheriff Potter made the following statement to Provincial authorities in Philadelphia "Twenty seven plantations were burnt and a great quantity of cattle killed…” Out of 93 families that were settled in the two Coves and the Conolloways, forty seven were either killed or taken and the rest had deserted." [History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA (1884)] The writer is certain that some of the Harrods were in the fort when it was attacked per (Life on the Appalachian Frontier)
1767 March 24 Ayr, Twp., Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. Alexander Buchanan sold a tract of land to William Harrod. It was located on the northeast by the lands of 'John Harwood, deceased' . . . in Little Cove, Air Twp., Cumberland Co. . . '. The name is spelled Harwood in the deed but a Note Bene is signed by William as 'Wm. Harrod' per Draper Manuscripts 4NN3. His grandson, William Harrod Jr., said that John died when James was about 12 years of age and that James was born in 1742 per Draper Manuscripts 37J167 (a letter), but Major John Griffin Fauntleroy who married Margaret Harrod said that James was born in 1746 on the eastern of the Susquehannah and Potomac region as informed by William. The description indicates that his estate had not been settled and hence that John Jr. was not the owner and would not have paid the taxes on 100 acres recorded as having been paid by John Harrod in 1763 and 1767.
1768 Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. John Harrod Jr. “moved to Bedford County after the French and Indian War” per Scioto Gazette West Reserve Hist. So. Cleveland, Ohio V. IV p. 156. Bedford County was formed from Cumberland County in 1771.
1767 - 1771 Ayr Twp., Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. John Herrod paid taxes on 50 acres in Ayr Twp., Cumberland Co., PA. This was probably John Harrod Jr.
1777 - 1773 William Harrod moved west from Little Cove to Ten Mile Creek.
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