Thanks for the reply on the deed. I've been led astray so many times by "helpful" additions by abstracters and transcribers. It's good to know this one wasn't mis-leading. I have a Brawner who supposedly went to Loudoun County based on an added word by a transcriber. I chased him there for many years. Then one day, I found where a census taker wrote down "Fauquier County" as the birthplace of one of his children and I found that I had been looking in the wrong place for many years! The abstractors of the census simply put "Virginia" as her birthplace, but when I viewed the microfilm, there it was! Isn't genealogy fun? Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: "marianne dillow" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:12 AM Subject: [MDCHARLE] JOHN DENT > Thanks to those who responded to me on and off the list on John Dent. Your > efforts in my behalf are very much appreciated. > > I am finding MANY MD names in Loudoun as well as Stafford County in Va which > was an earlier county than Loudoun (which was formed in 1757 from Fairfax .) > > I have also received a new tithable list from Loudoun in which my Solomon > Hardy had a tithable in 1768. If he was 21 years of age, his birthdate would > be 1746 or earlier. > > The Solomon that married Rachel Livers was born ca 1732 and I feel that my > Solomon was named after him as there is 14 years difference in their ages. > > The earliest Hardy's in the tithables in Loudoun are the following : > > (1) Benjamin Hardy in 1760 for 1 tithable...List taken by George West. > > (2) William Hardy in 1761 for 1 tithable FOR Capt. Wm. Douglass tithables > taken 1767 and 1 other tithable in 1762 , List taken by Charles Tyler. > > The rest of the tithables are in the 1767-1781 range for William Hardy, Sr > and Jr. ; Benjamin, James, George and Henry Hardy (spelled both Hardy and > Hardy). > > Some of the Md names that were List takers on the tithable lists are : > James Hamilton, George West, Capt. William Douglass, Charles Tyler, William > Stanhope, and possibly John Moss, George Summers and Levan Powell ?? > > The earliest Hardy deed in Loudoun is in 1757 with George Hardy and wife Mary > with eldest son George with William Hardy as a witness. I believe this William > was in the 1770 deed with wife (possibly Sarah Hanson dau of John Hanson, Jr > and Elizabeth Tyler.) and son Hanson Hardy with my Solomon Hardy born ca 1746 > witnessing the deed and leasing land on Goose Creek on the same date next to > William Hardy. > > A few months later Benjamin Hardy and wife Mary and son John is leasing land > on Goose Creek next to William and Solomon Hardy. > > In other records in Loudoun the Hardy's have associations with Hanson, Dent, > Tyler, Massey, Luke Marbury and Ann Beanes. Edward Trafford, Esq took my > George Hardy, Jr and William Hardy, Sr to court in Loudoun in 1762 and 1771. > > Edward Trafford, Esq from Liverpool knew both Hardy families in Virginia and > Maryland because I also found a record where he was in records of the > following : > > William Hardy died 1761...Payments to Edward Trafford, Esq and Sons , > merchants in Liverpool. This Wiliam Hardy was born 1722 and died 1757, son of > George Hardy and Elizabeth Drane. This William Hardy married Elizabeth Lanham. > > Upon checking on Edward Trafford, Esq it appears that he was a businessman, > Mayor of London in the 1740's for one year and I then found records where he > was bringing people from England to Maryland in his ships and one account > named him as a slave trader. > > Whoever Edward Trafford, Esq was, he certainly knew both Hardy families in > Virginia and Maryland, and there were some kind of financial transactions with > the Hardy families on both sides of the Potomac River. It gives some clues > worth looking int. > > Thanks again to everyone for their replys and the info on these other > Maryland names in this posting naming Loudoun are meant for those who might > have not known their family members went from MD to Va. > Kindly Regards, > Marianne Dillow > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message