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From: "ledelstein" <>
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Children of Eldad HARDY, 1777-1857, of Bradford, MA
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 15:33:17 -0500
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Are you sure you have the right individuals named here? A quick Google
search has an Ephraim Hardy (1745-1793) married to Susannah Cheney in
Bradford, deceased before these dates on several websites. There was a son,
Eldad, of Ephraim and Susannah Cheney, who purportedly married Anna Leland
circa Dec 1800 in Grantham:
http://www.nonesuchfolks.com/Jacob_Leland_Trans.htm comes with a disclaimer:
This document was passed down from my great-great-great-grandmother Louisa
Brown Griffin, who is named in the document. The author is unknown, however
it appears that a number of members of the Brown family may have contributed
to it.

CAUTION - Although the names and relationships are likely to be reliable,
the dates in the document are very suspect. Consider this a secondary
source. "Just because it's old doesn't make it right."


Names of the Leland

Family
To whom and

when Married
Place of

Residence
Time of

Decease
Age


Family of Anna Leland Married to Eldad Hardy
Amasa B. Hardy
Amy Ann Potter

1835
Sempronius

Cayuga Co.

45

36
4

Osley[?] Hardy
Sylvia Stearnes

1833
State Kentucky

Montgomery Co

44
6

Lydia Hardy
Charles Goodrich

1824

wife 1831

1834
26
3

Sarah Hardy
William Spencer [?]
Jasper Stueben

N.Y.

Wife 40
2

Rebecca Hardy
(see Sibley Family)





Adrian[?] Hardy
Lovicia Carroll

1833
Jasper Stueben

N.Y.

37
4

Opriam [?] Hardy

Kentucky

27


Prudence Hardy

Jasper Stueben

23[?]


Linda (Lee) Edelstein

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From: "Essex County USGenWeb" <>
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Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 2:23 PM
Subject: [MAESSEX] Children of Eldad HARDY, 1777-1857, of Bradford, MA


> According to "A Hardy Family Tree" and "Hardy and Hardie" Eldad and
> Susannah (Cheney) Hardy had four children in Grantham, NH. They are:
> Amasa B., b. 15 Oct 1802
> Orley, b. 3 Apr 1803
> Lydia, b. 23 Feb 1805
> Sally, b. 29 June 1808
>
> Grantham has no record of these births. There is a complete record of
> ten children being born to Tristram (Tristham) and Kezia (Fraser?)
> Hardy. Those births span 1796 to 1816. Only one, Sally, has the same
> name as any of Eldad's nine children. From the 1810 census, it is known
> that Eldad, and family, had moved to Sempronius, NY by 1810.
>
> From Grantham's VRs, we know that Sally, d. Tristram, married Joshua
> Atwood, 20 Mar 1826. Eldad's daughter Sally married William Spencer, of
> Sempronius, NY, 27 Sept 1835.
>
> From footnotes in "Hardy and Hardie" it can be seen that the
> information for Eldad's family came from Lynn Hardy, who compiled and
> published "A Hardy Family Tree."
>
> As the records seem to be rather conclusive that Tristram was in
> Grantham during the appropriate time period, and there are no records of
> any of Eldad's children being born there, "WHERE were they born?"
>
> I have a call in to the Sempronius Town Clerk and will be checking
> with the Groveland Town Clerk and the Groveland Congregational Church.
> I'm not hopeful of getting anything from Groveland. Very few records
> were missed when the early VRs of MA were published.
>
> Thank you. :-)
>
> John Slaughter
> In loving memory of our son, Brennan. 11/10/88-5/31/01
> http://John.EssexCountyMA.net/Brennan
>
>
>
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