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Col. Robert S. Riley
(Ret.)
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Marc Hardoin
(Mark Hardin [I]) and Descendants
by Col. Robert S. Riley (Ret.)
2013 edition
ISBN
978-1-936091-04-1
6x9",
Hardbound, 1,066
pages
Also available on CD
R3805-$125.00
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original book Copyright - reprinted here with permission. Preface
I became interested in
the Hardins when I began researching and collecting data for
a book on my Shumate ancestors in the mid-1970s. In 1980, I
obtained from a Shumate cousin a copy of the book entitled,
The Shumate Family, A Genealogy, by Theodor-Friedrich
von Stauffenberg. In perusing this book I first learned of
a possible connection between the Shumates and the Hardins.
In his book, von Stauffenberg wrote that Jean de la
Chaumette (John Shumate [I]) and Marc Hardouin (Mark Hardin
[I]) were both French Huguenot émigrés who had come to the
Colony of Virginia in the early 1700s, who had been friends
in England after they escaped from the religious persecution
in their native France in the late 1600s, who may have
served together in the English Army for a period of time,
and who were neighbors and close friends in Elk Run,
Fauquier County, Virginia, where both had settled. This
story fascinated me to no end. T. F. von Stauffenberg
presented the hypothesis that Marc Hardouin’s wife, Mary
Hogue, was really Marie Madeleine (de la Chaumette) Hogue
who married first an English Naval Captain by the name of
Edward Hogue, and that she was the sister of Jean de la
Chaumette. Being a native of Hardin County, Kentucky, I was
also fascinated to learn that both the Shumates and Hardins
were early pioneers in Breckinridge, Meade, Hardin, Nelson,
and Washington Counties.
In the early 1980s, I
became acquainted with the French Army Liaison Officer,
Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Pierre Jacquet, who was assigned to
the U.S. Army Field Artillery School in Fort Sill,
Oklahoma. I mentioned to him the story of these two old
French families being early settlers in Virginia and
Kentucky. He suggested that I should have some family
research done on the two families in France. After he and
his wife, Nadine, returned to their home in Normandy, they
sought out and contacted Madame Anne Osselin, a
well-qualified genealogical researcher, who was at that time
Chairwoman of the Genealogical and Heraldic Association of
Normandy. I then contracted with Mme. Osselin to undertake
research on the De la Chaumette (Shumate) and Hardouin
(Hardin) families in France. Mme. Osselin is a very
competent researcher, and she quickly found much information
and documentation on both families in seventeenth century
France. Using the results of her research, I was able to
publish my book, History of the Shumate Family,
Kentucky Pioneers, in 1992. Now, I am including in
Chapter 2 and Appendixes A and B of this book the reports
and analyses of her Hardin research which she sent me and
Mrs. M. E. Sanders of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as well as the
records extracts she obtained from extant Protestant Church
Parish Registers and other sources held by various French
Archives.
My aim in writing and
publishing both the Shumate and Hardin family histories has
been primarily to assist all interested Descendants of these
two old Huguenot families to trace their early lines of
descent from their immigrant ancestors, Jean de la Chaumette
(John Shumate [I]) and Marc Hardouin (Mark Hardin [I]) and
to learn from whence they came in France. Therefore, to
support the information I present in the narrative chapters
of this book about the Hardins, I also include ten
appendixes which contain official census data, marriage,
probate, tax, and other records extracts about the early
generation Hardins in Virginia, Southwestern Pennsylvania,
and Kentucky. But, since I am not as well versed about each
individual of the early generations of the Hardin family to
the extent as I am with the Shumates, I will not attempt to
provide a short summary of each person as I did in the
Shumate book. I must rely upon others who had greater
knowledge about them to tell their story. And, as one will
soon learn when perusing this large book, only the surface
of the Hardin family history has been scratched. To do a
really thorough job of reporting on this family would
require many more years of research and unlimited funds
which would result in not just one book, but volumes.
Today, the Hardins are a very large family with many
Descendants throughout the country. However, I hope that
the information I present in this book will help the reader
to differentiate between the Hardins and the allied Harding
family who came with them as early settlers of Kentucky.
This Hardin family
history consists of three major parts. The first part
contains narrative chapters which provide a brief history of
the French people, where the Hardouins/Ardouins lived in
seventeenth century France, and where they lived and to
where they migrated in Colonial Virginia, Southwestern
Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. The second part is a copy of
Jack Hardin’s book about the early Hardin pioneers who faced
danger from Indian attacks and experienced many hardships in
settling Kentucky. The Hardin family has produced many
outstanding citizens for our country; renowned lawyers,
soldiers of the frontier, generals, doctors, educators,
Congressmen, and other public servants. And, the third part
contains supporting documentation from France, the British
Isles, and official court records extracts of Virginia,
Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Also, in Part III is Appendix K
which contains a series of Family Group Charts by which the
Hardins and their Descendants may trace their lineage back
to the Immigrant Ancestor, Marc Hardouin (Mark Hardin [I]).
Many readers or members
of collateral lines may question why information about those
families is not included. The answer is quite simple. This
book is only about the Hardin family. To include
information about the many collateral lines--those which the
Hardins married into--no doubt makes the task of writing
this family history impractical if not impossible.
Therefore, the aim which I outlined previously above is a
challenging and difficult task for a single writer to
accomplish. If an individual desires the history about a
collateral line, then he or she should seek out that family
history, if it is already in print, or if it is not, he or
she may decide to assume the task of researching and writing
it. My research for this Hardin book has spanned a period
of approximately twenty-five years. In preparing this book
for publication, the task became almost a full-time job to
write, revise, and prepare the manuscript in the required
"camera-ready" format.
This book consists of three major
parts. The first contains narrative chapters which provide a
brief history of the French people, where the Hardouins/Ardouins
lived in seventeenth century France, where they lived and to
where they migrated: Colonial Virginia, Southwestern
Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. The second contains Jack
Hardin's book about early Hardin pioneers who faced danger
from Indian attacks and experienced many hardships in
settling Kentucky. And, lastly, supporting documentation
from France, British Isles, and official court records
extracts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Also, in
Part III contains a series of Family Group Charts by which
the Hardins and their Descendants may trace lineage back to
the Immigrant Ancestor, Marc Hardouin (Mark Hardin [I]).
Research for this Hardin book has spanned a period of
approximately twenty-five years.
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