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George Harlan is No. 3 in the Harlan Book
George was Baptized 11 Mar 1649 ("ye 11th day of first month 1650") at the Monastery of Monkwearmouth and was born at Nigh Durham in Bishoprick, England. [1] He was a son of James Harland of Monkwearmouth. [1] George remained at Nigh Durham until he was an adult when he removed, with his brother and friends, to the County Down in Ireland. [1]
'Note:' After coming to America, George and his brother Michael Harland, dropped the final "d" and the name is almost universally spelled 'Harlan'. [1]
George with his brother Michael, his wife and their four young children sailed from Belfast in 1687. [1] The ship sailed up the Delaware River to dock at New Castle (now in Delaware).
He was one of the foremost citizens of the colony becoming one of the provincial governors of the "three lower counties” (now the state of Delaware) in 1695, and a member of Pennsylvania’s Colonial Assembly in 1712. [2]
George married Elizabeth Duck 17 Nov 1678 at Marke Wright's house in Shankill, County Armagh, Ireland [3] by ceremony of Friends. [1]
“George Harland in the parish of Donnahlong in ye County of Down and Elizabeth Duck of Lurgan in ye parish of Shankill and County of Armagh, having intentions of marriage (according to God's ordinance) did lay their said intentions before ye men and womens meetings who taking it into their considerations, desired they waite a time in which time several Friends were appointed to make enquiry in ye several places where their residences are or of later years have been wheather ye man is free of all other women, and ye woman free from all other men and wheather their relations and parents are satisfied with their said intentions. And they presenting themselves the second time before ye men and womens meeting and an account being brought to ye meeting, where all things being found clear and their intentions of marriage being several times published in ye meeting to which they do belong, and nothing appearing against it. A meeting of ye people of God was appointed at the house of Marke Wright in ye parish of Shankill on the twenty seventh day of ye ninth month anno 1678, where they being contracted the said George Harland declared publickly and solemnly in the presence of God, and of his people in these vows, I take Elizabeth Duck to be my wife, and said Elizabeth Duck declared in like manner, I give myselfe to George Harland to be his wife, and I take him to be my husband as witness our hands. George Harland, Elizabeth Harland 1678 Daniel Stamper, George Bullock, John Wright, Henry Hollingsworth, John Calvart, Francis Hillary, Alexander Noble, George Lowder, Roger Kirk, Timothy Kirk, George Hodghson, Alphonsus Kirk, William Crook, Deborah Kirk, Elinor Hoope, Robert Hoope, Thomas ...“. Attached image.
Their first four children were probably born in Ireland, and the others in Pennsylvania. [1] They had nine all together.
Children of George and Elizabeth:
George and his family first settled at Centreville, where they remained for some years. [1] Before sailing, he had purchased property in the Province of Pennsylvania, in the area to become Centreville (now in New Castle County, Delaware). [1] George and his family belonged to Newark Meeting there. [4]
In about 1698/9, George purchased property upstream on Brandywine Creek and moved his family there. [1]
George died 05 Jul 1714 in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is buried beside his deare wife in the new burying grounds on Alphonsus Kirk's land, called Center Meeting Burying Grounds. [1] His will was dated dated 21 Apr 1714. [1] We do not know the date of his wife, Elizabeth's, death, but by his will we know she predeceased him. [4]
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Martin C. Styan
"George Harlan had bought land in what is now Delaware before leaving Ireland. He became one of the leading citizens, and when William Penn decided that the "three lower counties," that is, Delaware, were so remote from Philadelphia that they needed their own government, he appointed George Harlan one of the governors. Soon, however, George moved to the Brandywine valley of Pennsylvania as a farmer near to where his brother Michael had already settled." Does anyone know of a primary source substantiating that claim?