Cutliff (Harmon) Harman (abt. 1748 - abt. 1831)

Born about 8 Mar 1748 in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Susanna (Fouts) Harman — married 1772 in Ash County, North Carolina

Husband of Mary (Parky) Harmon — married 15 Oct 1825 in Ashe,North Carolina,United States

Descendants

Died about 30 Apr 1831 at about age 83 in Cove Creek, Ashe, North Carolina, USA

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Biography

Cutliff was born in 1747. Cutliff Harmon passed away in 1838. Original name was likely Gottlieb Hermann - see Cutliff Harman from http://pfoutsr.wixsite.com/davenportnewsletters/newsletter-2 Research of Dr John Scott Davenport, Ph.D

After Cutliff and Suzan's marriage, Cutliff was employed by Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman, and a Col. Robinson to help transport goods from Yadkin Valley, NC to Sycamore Shoals near Elizabethton, TN and from the mountains of Western NC to the State of Franklin (now Eastern TN).Col. Robinson was also involved in the purchase of several counties from the Cherokee Indians.On one particular trip, Cutliff passed through Wilkes Co., (later Ashe Co., and now Watauga Co.), NC.He liked the area so well that he decided to move there, and he bought 522 acres of land from James Gwyn for 300 pounds.The land had been granted to James Gwyn for 50 schillings for every one hundred acres, and the original land grant was signed by Samuel Johnston, Governor of NC on May 18, 1789.This land, (later known as the Harmon and John Mast lands), was transferred to Cutliff on Aug 6, 1791.The country was then a territory to the Ohio River and was called the Washington. Cutliff went back to Rowan Co., and brought his wife and six children to what is now Cove Creek in Sugar Grove, NC.While Cutliff built their new home, he and his family took shelter beneath a huge rock at the mouth of Phillips Branch known as "Shupe's Rockhouse," getting its name from a Shupe family that once lived under it.According to an old newpaper clipping, the rockhouse was a beautiful and lovely chamber midway in the face of a cliff 100 feet high.The shelter was entered by a descending stairway of three natural stone steps, and Cove Creek ran west almost to the base of the cliff and then turned directly south.This rockhouse has since been called the "Harmon Rockhouse," and the first white child born in the area was supposedly born there.Cutliff's new neighbors were Benjamin Ward, Sr., a Revolutionary War veteran living on Watauga River, and Samuel Hix, a Tory seeking refuge in the Hix Settlement in Valle Crucis, NC.Down through the generations, the descendants of these three men have intermarried time and time again.Either Cutliff Harman or Samuel Hix were the first person to bring the "Jack Tales" (??) to this area, learning them from the early pioneers of America with whom they had become acquainted, and perhaps adding their own German touches.Cutliff died at the age of 90 and was buried beside where his house once stood. ^[1]

Cutliff Harmon: Born 1748, PA or Rowan Co, (now Randolph Co.), NC

Died February 1838, Cove Creek Twp., Ashe Co. (now Watauga Co.), NC

Fact 1: Name may have been anglicized from "Gottieb Hermann"

Fact 2: Cutliff sold his 60 acres on the Uwharrie to John Yount, on 21 June 1798 (Randolph Deeds 8:64) and moved to Wilkes Co, (now Watauga Co.), NC (Bk. B, pg 7, Wilkes Co-formerly Washington County, NC.

Fact 3: 1791, Came from Randolph Co., NC and bought 522 acres of land on Cove Creek in presEnt-day Watauga Co., NC from James Gwyn to whom it had been granted on August 6, 1791

Decendancy from the Ancestral File at FamHisCen

TAX 1779 Randolph Co, NC on William Millikan's list

ASHE COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - Cutliff Harman to heirs of Andrew Harman 27 Aug 1814

Name

Name: Cutliff /Harmon/^[2][3]

Name: Cutliff /Harmon/

Name: Mathias Cutliff /Harmon/

Birth

Birth Date: 08 MAR 1748

Place: Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA

Alternate Birth Place

Frederick County, Maryland, British Colony

Marriage

Husband: George Hermann

Wife: Margaret Mary Wiley

Child: Cutliff Harmon

Marriage Date: DEC 1744

Place: Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States

Residence

Residence Date: 1779

Place: Randolph County, NC^[4]

Residence Date: 1800

Place: Morgan, Ashe, North Carolina^[5]

Deed

Ashe Co., NC Deed Book C p358 A deed from Cutlif Harmon to A. Harmon heirs, 64 acres. This indenture made the twenty seventh day of Augst in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred Fourteen between Cutlif Harmon of the County of Ashe and the State of North Carolina of the one part and Council, Golder, Mathias and Rachel Harmon Jointly, of the other part Witnesseth that the said Cutliff Harman as will for and in consideration of the natural love and affection which he hath and beareth unto them the said Council, Golder, Mathias and Rachel Harmon the Children and heirs of Andrew Harman Deceased as also for better maintainance and propermanant of them the said Council, Golder, Mathias and Rachel Harman my grand children hath given, granted, aliened infeeof and confirmed and by these presents, do give, grant, alien, infeeof and confirm unto them the said heirs of Andrew Harmon Deceased all that tenement or tract of Land lying and being in the County and State aforesaid on Cove Creek the waters of Wattauga it being my part of a tract bought of Richard White containing sixty four acres be the same more or less, with all and singular its appertanances thereunto belonging or anywise appertaining, with all the estate, right, title intrust or claim of him the said Cutliff Harman of in and to the Said tenements to have and to hold the said lands and premises hereby given, granted or intended to be given and granted unto them the said Council, Golder, Mathias, Rachel Harmon their heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behalf of them the Said Council, Golder, Mathias and Rachel Harmon their heirs and assigns forever and I the said Cutliff Harmon for myself my heirs, my executors and Administrators do convenant and agree to and with the Said Council, Golder, Mathias and Rachel Harmon their heirs and assigns shall and may from hence forth and forever peaceably have and possess the Said premises free and clear from all other charges or incuberences whatever made or done or suffered by me the Said Cutliff Harmon his heirs, executors or administrators or any other person or persons Lawfully claiming under me or them or either of them, in witness, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and date first above written. Cutliff Harman (SEAL)

Samuel Hire (his mark) Bedent Baird Edom Goode

Ashe County, North Carolina, November Term 1814, the within deed was duly proven in open Court by John E. Mast in order to be Registered.

Death

Death Date: 30 APR 1838

Place: Cove Creek, Ashe, North Carolina, USA

Cutliff Harmon. Source: Database online. Record for Rachel Harmon. Source: Database online. Record for Andrew Harmon. ^[6]

Mathias Cutliff Harmon. Source: Database online. Record for Eli Harmon. Found multiple versions of name. Using Cutliff Harmon.

Born 8 MAR 1748. Frederick County, Maryland, United States of America. Source: Database online. Record for Andrew Harmon. Source: Database online. Record for Eli Harmon. ^[7] 8 MAR 1748. Rowan, North Carolina, USA. Map: Latitude: N35.635941. Longitude: W80.522858. 1750 Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States. Source: Database online. Record for George Hermann. 8 MAR 1747. Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States. Source: Database online. Record for Rachel Harmon. Found multiple copies of birth date. Using 8 MAR 1748

Died 30 APR 1838. Cove Creek, Ashe, North Carolina, USA. Source: Database online. Record for Andrew Harmon. Source: Database online. Record for Eli Harmon. ^[8] 30 APR 1831. Cove Creek, Ashe, NC. 30 APR 1831. Cove Creek, Ashe, North Carolina, United States. Source: Database online. Record for George Hermann. 30 APR 1831. Cove Creek, Watauga, North Carolina, United States. Source: Database online. Record for Rachel Harmon. Found multiple copies of death date. Using 30 APR 1838

Residence 1800 Morgan, Ashe, North Carolina.

1838 Death

Cutliff Harman

Birth: 1748, Frederick County, Maryland, USA

Death: 1838, Ashe County, North Carolina, USA

Family links: Parents:

- George Adam Harmon (1710 - 1789)

- Mary Margaret Wylie Harmon (1720 - 1808)

Spouses:

- Mary Elizabeth Parker Harmon (____ - 1822)*

- Susannah Fouts Harman (1755 - 1817)*

Children:

- Mathias Harmon (1774 - 1856)*

- Mary Harmon Baird (1775 - 1855)*

- Elizabeth Harman Ward (1782 - 1820)*

- Nancy Harman Curtis (1782 - 1856)*

- Andrew Harman (1789 - 1814)*

- Susannah E. Harman Mast (1790 - 1868)*

- Eli Harman (1793 - 1828)*

- Rachel Harman Rearick (1797 - 1870)*

- Rebecca Harmon Adams (1798 - 1864)*

Burial: Harman Cemetery (Upper)

Sugar Grove, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA

findagrave

Buried Sugar Grove, Watauga County, North Carolina, United States of America. ^[9]

Memorial

Cutliff Harman

Birth: 1748 Frederick County, Maryland, USA

Death: 1838 (aged 89–90) Ashe County, North Carolina, USA

Burial: Harman Cemetery (Upper), Sugar Grove, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA

Memorial #: 25422102

Bio: Born in Frederick Co., Maryland, the son of George and Mary Wiley Hermann/Harman. He married Susannah (Susan) Fouts abt. 1772 and they had 10 children. Cutliff purchased 522 acres of land in 1791 in what would become Watauga County.

Family Members

Parents

George Adam Herrmann 1710-1789

Mary Margaret Wiley Herrmann 1720-1808

Spouses

Mary Elizabeth Parker Harmon Unknown-1822

Susannah Fouts Harman 1755-1817

Siblings

George Harmon 1746-1790

Phillip Daniel Harmon 1752-1811

Elizabeth Harmon Waggoner 1754-1790

Matthias Harmon 1755-1856

Katherine Harmon Lopp 1756-Unknown

Ulrich Harmon 1758-Unknown

Elisabeth Harmon Waggoner 1768-1850

Children

Mathias Harmon 1774-1856

Mary Harmon Baird 1775-1855

Elizabeth Harman Ward 1782-1820

Nancy Harman Curtis 1782-1856

Andrew Harman 1789-1814

Susannah E. Harman Mast 1790-1868

Eli Harman 1793-1828

Rachel Harman Rearick 1797-1870

Rebecca Harmon Adams 1798-1864

Created by: Thomas L. Harman (46867870)

Added: 21 Mar 2008

Burial.^[10]

Note

Cutliffe "Cutliff" Harmon Council's grandfather known as "Cutliff" Harmon (also Harman) was one of the first settlers in the Cove Creek area in 1791. Born: Est 1748, Salisbury, Rowan, NC 977 Marriage (1): Susan FOUTZ (Fouts) before 1774--Ten Children; Andrew Harmon was 9th child. Marriage (2): Elizabeth PARKER after 1817 in Cove Creek, Watauga, NC Died: 1838, Cove Creek, Watauga, NC about age 90 Grandfather (father's side): John Michael Hermann born c. 1670 married Kundigunda Regis Father: George Harmon (Hermann) born 1710- d. 1787 married Mary Margaret Wiley 1720-1789 in Maryland, The Harmons came from Germany to America about 1725. Traveled doen Shenandoah Valley from Maryland- Pennsylvania to New River Virginia area (Giles Co.). Brothers: George, Mathias, Philip Sisters: Elie; Katharine (Catherine)

Cutliffe Harman (Harmon) was a Revolutionary War Soldier. (C-205) He and his wife Susan were the first Harmans in Watauga Co., NC according to "A Family History of Watauga Co." They came from Rowan Co. (now located in Randolph Co.) in 1791 and bought 522 acres in Cove Creek from James Gwynn. His mother was thought to be a Wiley by elder descendents. He, wife Susan and children supposedly lived in a natural rock cave called Shupe's Rockhouse at the mouth of Phillips Branch until his house was built. Cutliff was employed by Daniel Boone to help transport goods and purchase Indian lands. (C-1845) Susan died several years before her husband who lived to the ripe age of 90. She, he and his second wife, Elizabeth are all buried in Cove Creek at the Cutliff Harmon homeplace. (C-695, 698)

Cutliff Harmon, son of a German immigrant from the Danube River valley, might have heard when he’d gotten a job transporting goods into these mountains in 1790. Except, he would have heard, “Wilkes County,” because the area around Boone did not get set aside as part of Watauga County until 1849. Cutliff’s employer, family history relates, had been Daniel Boone, who had established a store in western Virginia and a trading post in the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina.

HERE IS MORE

Cutliff and his young wife, Susan Fouts, whose family had moved with his from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, had set out on their own after the Revolutionary War to settle in Randolph (now Rowan) County. They had seven children with them when they’d made the trek up the Watauga River to Cove Creek, along the way to what had been, up until 1789, the independent State of Franklin in east Tennessee. While building his first home there, Cutliff and his family “took shelter beneath a huge rock at the mouth of Phillips Branch known as ‘Shupe's Rockhouse,’” family historian Terry L. Harmon has noted. “The rockhouse was a beautiful and lovely chamber midway in the face of a cliff 100 feet high,” he reports. “The shelter was entered by a descending stairway of three natural stone steps, and Cove Creek ran west almost to the base of the cliff and then turned directly south.” The baby of the family at the time of the trip, Andrew Harmon, grew up and married Sabra Hicks, daughter of the Harmons’ neighbor, Samuel Hicks. When Andy died at age 25—a snagged shoelace had prevented him from getting out of the way of a tree he was felling—Sabra left her two oldest children, Council and Goulder with her in-laws, Susan Harmon and John Mast. Council got to know his grandpa, “Big Sammy,” original transmitter of the Jack Tales in this region.

Sources

1. ↑ "The Harmon Family 1670-1984"The Genealogy of Cutliff Harmon and his Descendents by Terry Harmon, Minors Publishing Co., Boone, NC
2. ↑ Source: #S16 Data: Text: Residence date: 1779 Residence place: Randolph County, NC
3. ↑ Source: #S57 Page: Year: 1800; Census Place: Morgan, Ashe, North Carolina; Roll: ; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Residence date: 1800 Residence place: Morgan, Ashe, North Carolina
4. ↑ Source: #S16 Data: Text: Residence date: 1779 Residence place: Randolph County, NC
5. ↑ Source: #S57 Page: Year: 1800; Census Place: Morgan, Ashe, North Carolina; Roll: ; Page: ; Image: . Data: Text: Residence date: 1800 Residence place: Morgan, Ashe, North Carolina
6. ↑ Source: #S1872
7. ↑ Source: #S1872
8. ↑ Source: #S1872
9. ↑ Source: #S1872
10. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/25422102/cutliff-harman : accessed 01 July 2018), memorial page for Cutliff Harman (1748–1838), Find A Grave: Memorial #25422102, citing Harman Cemetery (Upper), Sugar Grove, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Thomas L. Harman (contributor 46867870) .

• Source: S16 Author: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Title: North Carolina Census, 1790-1890 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999.Original data - Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.Or; Repository: #R1 Repository: R1 Name: Richard Schultheiss Address: Schultheissrichard msn.com E-Mail Address: Phone Number:

• Source: S57 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1800 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Second Census of the United States, 1800. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1800. M32, 52; Repository: #R1

• "North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8T9-JPB : 10 February 2018), Cutliff Harman and Mary Parky, 15 Oct 1825; citing Ashe,North Carolina, reference ; FHL microfilm 6,330,300.

• http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/council-harmon.aspx

SOURCES: An Appalachian Medley: Hot Springs and the Gentry Family by Jacqueline Burgin Painter (Biltmore Pr., 1994). Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer among Singers by Betty N. Smith (U. of Ky. Pr., 1998). The Harmon family, 1670-1984: The Genealogy of Cutliff Harmon and His Descendants by Terry L. Harmon (Minor’s Pub. Co., 1984). “Mountain White Folk-Lore: Tales from the Southern Blue Ridge,” told by Jane Hicks Gentry to Isabel Gordon Carter, and published in “Journal of American Folklore,” XXXVIII, 1925.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Harmon-1315 created through the import of LNMaggard GEDCOM.ged on Apr 9, 2012 by Larry Maggard.

• WikiTree profile Harmon-1316 created through the import of LNMaggard GEDCOM.ged on Apr 9, 2012 by Larry Maggard. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Larry and others.