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First & Second Generations
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Harlan Genealogy
These first eight generations are taken from the book compiled and published by Alpheus J. Harlan
in 1914, and a copy of which I now have in my possession. After that the history is all from the
cooperation of family members as sent to Beulah Wolfe, daughter of Myrtle Harlan Woolman.
In the book the Barton Stone family has the basic outline but there are errors so most of the
information after his is based on the information given by the direct families.
Previous to 1751, the calendar year began with a different month. In that year, the government
decreed that the year should begin the first day of January. So previous to that there may be two
numbers for a particular date and in some circumstances there may be a discrepancy. For instance,
July was the fifth month before 1751.
EMIGRATION ROUTES See: Maps
1625
1680
1687
1698
1753
1799
1800
1841
1853
1864
1886
Bishoprick, Near Durham, England
Donnahlong, County Down, Ireland
America, New Castle or Centerville, Delaware
Pennsbury, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Chatham County, North Carolina
Laurens Dist., South Carolina
Union Dist., South Carolina
Big Pigeon River, Tennessee
Barren, Monroe County, Kentucky
Bethel, Wayne County, Indiana
Randolph County, Indiana
Tipton County, Indiana
Alden, Hardin County, Iowa
Gifford, Hardin County, Iowa
Furnas County, Nebraska
If you will notice there isn't much activity the first two generations. Until Daniel Boone
opened up his "Wilderness Road" - later to be known as the "Cumberland Gap" - there was
no way to get over the mountain ranges. Once the Gap was opened in 1769, people began
moving south in preparation to crossing over into the new territories. The Cumberland Gap
is a pass through the Appalachian Mountains at the meeting point of Virginia, Kentucky,
and Tennessee.
Note:
The Woolmans came straight from England to Nebraska in 1871 so their trek to Nebraska
was not near as long and drastic as the Harlan's 200 year struggle to get to that area.
But in 1900 the two "clans" came together in the marriage of Frank Woolman and Myrtle Harlan.
Myrtle's other family, the Johnsons (see: the story), got to America by mistake from
Topcliffe, England. Her father thought he was on board a ship to Australia but instead landed
in Canada in the year 1840 and later emigrated to central U.S. and eventually Nebraska.
Barton Stone's wife, Jane Ayers, came to be in Ohio by virtue of her ancestors arriving on the
Mayflower.
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