Harn, Hearn, Hearne


Researched and compiled by:
Sandra Harn

John Hearne (16??-1718) of Colleton County, South Carolina, had a son John Hearn(1710-1765) who married Elizabeth Beddise in 1732 and settled in Orangeburg South Carolina, they had nine children and 28 slaves. John and Elizabeth moved to Saint Philips Parish (Bryan Co) in 1742 and acquired over 3000 acres of land, the first of which was 500 acres on the Ogeechee River near the west side of Sterling Creek. There are still oak trees there planted in the shape of an H for Harn. He served as the English Colonial Tax Assessor and a member of the Colonial Royal House of Representation. In 1760 he moved his family to the Canoochee River, and formed Belknap Plantation, near the present site of Clyde where Fort Stewart is now located.

Children:
1. William John Harn 1735-1816 Married 3 times
1st wife Margaret Bird and child murdered by Tories
2nd wife Sophie Robinson
............John Harn 1784-1852 Married Sarah Elizabeth Hayman
............Elizabeth Harn 1787-18?? Married James Butler
3rd wife Amelia Robinson Radcliff
............Thomas, William, James, Henry and Benjamin (these children left Georgia and went to Florida in 1830 with uncle Joseph Butler.

2. Sarah Harn 1734
3. Elizabeth Harn 1737 Married Shem Butler
4. Samuel Harn RS left estate to brother Henry Harn
5. Thomas Harn 1765 Married Mary Elizabeth Proctor and died in a duel with Alex Dix in 1796
6. Henry Harn married Edith Butler
7. John Harn married Martha______.
8. James Harn 1730-1785
9. Female Unknown

Many of these Harn's left descendents in Bryan Co. and they are still there today. A compilation of the Harn Family and Descendents was written in 1984 and has been updated annually by LaMonnie Harn Moore and Sandra M. Harn.

Submitted by Sandra Harn (smharn@bellsouth.net)

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