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AARON HARLAN II 1724-1798 Farmer, Friend (Quaker)
1724 - Born about 1724 in Kennet Twp., Chester County, PA
1746 - Married: 3rd month, 1746 in Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church,
Wilmington, Delaware to Sarah Hollingsworth, Friend;
daughter of Valentine Hollingsworth and Elizabeth Heald.
1747 -At Kennet Monthly Meeting, 1,7,1746/47; "Aaron Harlan was complained
of for his marriage by a priest and neglecting meetings."
1749 - Then on 4,6,1749, he was "disowned at Centre Meeting."
1753 - Aaron and wife, in company with others, emigrated to Chatham Co., NC.
Some years later -- they moved into Laurens Dist., South Carolina and
still later -- into Union Dist., SC.
1798 - Died Union District, SC
It is believed that both Aaron and Sarah died and were buried in Laurens Dist.
Issue of Aaron and Sarah Harlan: 10 children
Sarah: 1746-x; Chester Co., PA; d. Monroe Co., KY date unknown;
m. John McPherson in Union District
Mary: 1748-x; Chester Co. PA; d. Monroe Co., KY;
m. Nathan Breede in Union Dist.
Aaron: 1750-1806; m. Elizabeth Stewart
Samuel: x-1831; m. Sarah Breede and Sarah Belew
Samuel: 1722-x; m. 1745 to Elizabeth Hollingsworth
Joshua: killed by Tories in the Revolutionary War
George: x-1813; m. Anna Breede
Jacob: x-1799; m. Rachel Howard
James: 1765-1842, b. Chatham Co. NC;
m. Edith Howard
Valentine: 1766-1852; m. 3x: m.1- Kilpatrick;
m.2 Sarah Hollingsworth; m.3 Mildred Snow
Elizabeth: x-x d. Laurens Dist.; m. William Crow
James' son, Nathan Breede, told of his Uncle Joshua's death as he had remembered what his
father had told to him.
"The officers sought to conscript him, but being a Quaker, he was opposed to war. He was
hiding out not far from the house. A sister's daughter, I think it was, took dinner to him, and
it was supposed that the man who shot him saw where she went. That afternoon father was
at work in the field and heard a gun go off near where his brother was hiding, and immediately
went to him and found him shot through the thigh and bleeding rapidly. As soon as Uncle
saw him he said: 'Jeemes, (James) I am powerful dry.' Having no vessel, he ran to a
branch filled his wool cap with water, took it to him and then ran to the house for help. They
placed him upon a sheet, and started to the house, but he died before they could reach it."
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