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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 4, Ed. 1, Tree #1492, Date of Import: Dec 27, 1998]
"George Harlan ye Sone of James Harlan of Monkwearmouth was baptized at Monkwearmouth (County Durham) in Old England ye 11th day of 1 Month 1650." Sailed to America from Belfast.
"Michael Harlan came from the north of Ireland with his brother George, about the year 1687 and ye beginning of the year 1690 he married Dinah ye daughter of Henry Dixon and settled first near ye Center Meeting house in Christiana hundred & County of New Castle on Delaware and afterwards removed into Kennett in Chester County, where they lived many years." (From Records of Kennett or Newark Monthly Meeting).
George Harlan(d), of Parish of Donnahlong, County Down, Ireland and Elizabeth Duck, of Lurgan, Parish Shankill, County Armagh, were married "at the house of Marke Wright in ye parish of Shankell," 9 Month 17, 1678. Signers to marriage certificate: Henry Hollingsworth, John Calvert, Roger Kirk, Timothy Kirk, Alphonsus Kirk, Deborah Kirk, William Porter, Elinor Hoope, Robert Hoope, Thomas Harland, George Harland, Elizabeth Harland (From the Marriage Book of Lurgan Monthly Meeting, page 91).
Thomas Harland, of Donnahlong Parish, County Down, Ireland, son of James Harland, was born "nigh Durham in Bishoprick".
George Harlan settled at first about where the village of Centreville, new Castle County, Delaware, now is, and the early meetings were held in his home. Later he removed farther up Brandywine Creek, and purchased 474 acres of land in Kennett, now Pennsbury Township, Chester County. While living here, he had for his neighbors over the creek, in a great bend a settlement of Indians. After they had gone away he obtained, in 1701, a warrant for 200 acres of land in the bend of the creek, granted "in regard of the great trouble and charge he has bore in fencing and maintaining the same for the said Indians while living thereon". He died in 1714, and was buried by the side of his wife at Centre Meeting House.
He was a member of the Colonial Assembly of 1712. Served as the Provincial Governor of Delaware in 1695.
In his will, dated 2 Month 21, 1714, probated 8 Month 2, 1714, George Harlan makes mention of his brother Michael Harlan, his servant Mary Mathews, and directs that his body be interred in the new burying ground on Alphonsus Kirk's land (From The History of Chester County, page 587; Chester County Wills).
The following is a synopsis of a letter from George Harlan to William Porter in Ireland:
Brandywine Creek
The 27th of ye 10th month 1696
Loving Friend
William Porter This may acquaint thee that I have received 4 letters from thee all of one date and tennor being ye 20th of ye 9th m. '95 in Relation to Mary Child whose Son Thomas Died Something more than two years Since at Vallentine Hollingsworths he hapning to fall Sick there, & as to what is Reported Concerning his Bequest to his mother I have here sent thee the Coppy of his Will on the other side. I was with him in time of his Sickness and he being about to make his will I put him in mind of his Relations in Ireland and his answer was thus he had never Received any Letter Since he had been in the Countrie from any of them Replying further he had been troublesom to his friends in his Life time & Questioning by Reason of the Warrs and Mortallity that had been of Late in Ireland whoe of his relations might be Living or Dead and to Impose Soe troublesom an undertaking uppon his friends (as the making Sale of what he had & turning it into mony.) he would not do it.
Mine with my wifes dear Love is Remembered unto thee & to the Rest of our friends & relations Let my Bro understand that wee are all indifferent well & Know of no alterations Since I wrote by Thomas Musgrave my Wifes dear Love is Remembered in perticular to Robert Hoop and Eleanor; having often desired to hear from them Soe having not Else at present but remain thy friend
George harlan
(endorsed as written)
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