Edward Harden (abt. 1757 - 1804)

Born about Aug 1757 in Beaufort County, Province of South Carolina

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 9 Jul 1804 at about age 46 in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Captain Edward Harden served with Charles Town District Regiment, South Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Edward Harden is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A050169.

Birth

Edward Harden was born on 17 August 1757 in Beaufort County, South Carolina to William Harden Jr. (1720-1760) and Mary Eberson (c. 1724- ). Bulloch says that It is probable that the first of the Harden family who came to America lived for some time in the Barbadoes, and removed thence to South Carolina.

Marriage and Family

He married Jane Reed (1760-1804) c. 1780, based on known births of children.

Children of the Harden-Reed Marriage

1. John Eberson Harden died before 1819.
2. William Reed Harden died c. 1822.
3. Edward Harden Jr. was born c. 1784 in South Carolina, United States. He married 1) Henrietta Catherine Horskins (1789-1808) on 10 July 1806 and 2) Mary Ann Elizabeth Randolph (1794-1874) on 19 July 1810. Edward died on 22 February 1849 in Athens, Clarke, Georgia, United States.
4. Dr. Robert Raymond Harden Jr., M.D was born on 15 January 1792 in Georgia, United States. He married 1) Rose Marie Antoinette Claudine Josephine Gauvain (1804-1829) on 1 August 1819 in Clarke County, Georgia and 2) Matilda Harrison Morton (1812-1874) on 1 December 1829 in Clarke County, Georgia. Dr. Harden died in 1843 in Athens, Clarke, Georgia, United States.
5. Jane Harden was born c. 1794 in Georgia, United States. She died on 18 October 1810 in Georgia, United States.

Military Service

Major Edward Harden served under the command of his brother Colonel William Harden in the American Revolution.

Occupations

He was a Planter.

Death

Edward died on 9 July 1804 in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, United States at the age of 46 of a fever. He and his wife must have been sick at the same time because she died a few months later also of a fever.^[1]

Burial

The death record gives the date of 10 July 1804 for his burial, but does not mention a cemetery.

Sources

• Courtesy of U.S. Research Bureau, 3310 Georgia Ave NW, Washington DC
• 1804 City of Savannah, Georgia Records-Health Department, Vital Statistics Registers. Savannah, Georgia: City of Savannah. Record says that Edward was a 46 year old planter from South Carolina who died on July 9th of a fever and was buried on July 10th.
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed January 3, 2017), "Record of Edward Harding", Ancestor # A050169. They have his last name wrong. Wife and brothers are also mentioned.
• Clarke, Ellen Dudley, Historian General. Lineage Book National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Volume XLIX, 1904. Washington, D.C.: Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc. for DAR, 1919. Page 131. Record of Mrs. Ruby Thurmond Riviere #48277 giving lineage. ^[2]
• Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie. A History and Genealogy of Bellinger and De Veaux and Allied Families. With a Genealogy of Branches of the Following Families. Pp. 9 & 10. The

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1. ↑ 1804 death records: The majority of the mortalities shown on records of this time have the cause of death listed as fever.
2. ↑ Clarke, ED: Mrs. Ruby Thurmond Riviere was married to Georges Alphonse Riviere. She was the daughter of William Henry Thurmond and Marie Louise Antoinette Harden; the granddaughter of Robert Raymond Harden and Marie Antoinette Guavin; the Great granddaughter of Edward Harden and Jane Reed. Edward Harden (1757-1802) [incorrect date according to his death record] and ...commanded a company 1781-82 under his brother Col. William Harden, and was sent with a flag to capture Fort Balfour from the British. He died in Savannah, Ga.