According to the TAZEWELL COUNTY HERITAGE VOL I: Henry Harman, Sr. was the son of Heinrich Adam and Louisa Katrina Harman. Family tradition has it he was born on the Isle of Man in 1726 while his family were on the way to America from Germany. They arrived in America in 1726 or 1727 and lived in PA a few years before moving to the Valley of VA and then on to SWVA about 1746. He has been described as being of the better class. He wore knee britches with silver buckles at the knees. Physically he was very tall, of massive frame, and very strongly built. The Indians called him "Old Skydusty" which means great warrior. In 1758 or 59 he married Anna (Nancy) Wilburn of Rowna County, NC. They had nine children: Daniel Conrad, Henry, Jr., Johann Adam, George, Mathias, Hezekiah, Elias, Rhoda, and Louisa. In 1771 he was Captain of a company of Regulators. In 1774 he was appointed a member of the committee of safety for Rowna County. He was one of two commissioners to meet with the Wythe County Commissioners to lrlun the dividing lines between the two counties in 1800. He was also foreman of the third jury empowered in Tazewell County. He died in 1822 at his home in Hollybrook in present Bland County and is buried there on what was his farm at that time. His grave is marked with a stone erected by the DAR. His will was probated in Tazewell County and is also recorded in Giles County. This was submitted by Vaugn Cassell Wythville VA. There is a picture of the tombstone - the incsription says: Henry Harman, Sr. Virginia PVT Capt. A. Osborne's Regt. Revolutionary War 1726 1822.