I descend from both George and Michael. Here is how:
Joshua Harlan, son of George and grandson of James, was born November 11, 1696/7 in the Province of Pennsylvania, (now in) New Castle, Delaware and died in June or July 1744, in Kennet Township, Chester County. He was buried in the Friends’ Burying Grounds at the “Old” Kennet Meeting House. He married Mary Heald in January 1719 at a Ceremony of Friends at the “Old” Kennet Meeting House. Mary was born November 15, 1697, at Adwood, Cheshire County, England, and was the daughter of Samuel Heald and Mary Bancroft. Joshua and Mary had seven children, including their oldest son and second oldest child, Joseph, who is in our direct line of ancestors.
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George Harlan, son of Michael and grandson of James, was born October 4, 1690, in the Province of Pennsylvania, (now in) New Castle Co., Delaware and died in 1732, in West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was buried in Friends Burying Grounds at Bradford Meeting House. He married Mary Baily in December 1715 at a Ceremony of Friends at Kennet Meeting. Mary was born September 10, 1688, in Chester Co and there in September or October 1741, in West Bradford Township. She is buried at Bradford Meeting House. Mary was the daughter of Joel Baily and Ann Short, and the widow of Alexander Stewart. George and Mary had seven children, including their oldest child, John Harlan, who is in our direct line of ancestors.
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Joseph Harlan, son of Joshua and grandson of George, was born May 17, 1723, in Kennet Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania and died there December 22, 1803. His first wife was Edith Pyle, the daughter of Samuel Pyle, a physician, born February 3, 1726, in Kennet Township and died there December 1, 1771. His second wife was Sarah Harlan, the daughter of his first cousin George Harlan (son of Aaron and grandson of George, above) and Elizabeth Hope. Joseph and Sarah had one daughter. Joseph and Edith had seven children, including Sarah, their oldest child, who is in our direct line of ancestors |
John Harlan, son of George and grandson of Michael, was born about 1716 in Kennet Township, Chester, Pennsylvania and died in Newlin Township, also in Chester. He married Sarah Wickersham, a Friend, on May 4, 1740, at the “Old” Kennet Meeting House. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas Wickersham and Abigail Johnson. They had five children, including their second oldest child and oldest son, Jesse, who is in our direct line of ancestors.
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Jesse Harlan, a son of John and grandson of George, married his third cousin, Sarah Harlan, a daughter of Joseph and a granddaughter of Joshua. Jesse was born about 1743, in Bradford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania. Sarah was born July 25, 1748, in Kennet Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. After the birth of their children, they moved to Maryland and then onward to Albemarle County, Virginia, where they both died and were buried. Jesse and Sarah were married September 10, 1764, in an Episcopal ceremony at Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington, Delaware. It is by this marriage that we are descendent from both George and Michael Harlan. Jesse and Sarah had five children, including Joseph and Jesse, who are both in our direct line of ancestors as a result of the marriage of first cousins once removed – Thomas Samuel Harlan, son of James White Harlan, grandson of Joseph Harlan, and great grandson of Jesse and Sarah, and Mary Fleming Harlan, daughter of Jesse and granddaughter of Jesse and Sarah Harlan.
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