John Hardin
Military Person
1753 – 1792
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Who was John Hardin?
John J. Hardin was a soldier, farmer, rancher, noted marksman and hunter. He was wounded fighting in Lord Dunmore's War; served as a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War and as a Kentucky Co., Virginia militia commander in the Northwest Indian War. He was a member of the Methodist church and one of the first judges in the original Washington County, Virginia. John Hardin was killed in an ambush while acting as a peace emissary to the Shawnee Indian people.
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- Born
- Oct 1, 1753
Prince William County - Lived in
- Kentucky
- Died
- May 1, 1792
Turtle Creek Township
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on July 23, 2013
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