Barbara Catherine HARMON^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

Bef 1740 - 1780  (~ 40 years)

• Name	Barbara Catherine HARMON
  Born	Bef 1740	Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States
  Gender	Female
  Died	1780	, Randolph, NC, USA   [6, 7]
  Person ID	I8518	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Johan George Adam HARMON \ HERMAN,   b. 1710, Stuttgart, Baden-W ,   d. 1789, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, United States of America  (Age 79 years)
  Mother	MARY MARGARET WILEY,   b. 1720, Frederick County, Maryland, USA ,   d. 1808, Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA  (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F4253	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John MAST, Sr.,   b. 1730, Bern, Switzerland ,   d. Abt 1800, , Randolph, NC, USA  (Age 70 years)
  Married	1753	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  Children	1. John MAST, Jr.,   b. 24 Feb 1754, Randolph, North Carolina ,   d. 12 Sep 1832, West Milton, Miami, Ohio, USA  (Age 78 years)   2. Nancy MAST,   b. Abt 1757, , Augusta, VA ,   d. Abt 1859, , Montgomery, Oh?  (Age ~ 102 years)   3. Elizabeth MAST,   b. 1758, Randolph County, North Carolina ,   d. 13 Jan 1831, Hamilton County, Indiana, USA  (Age 73 years)   4. David MAST,   b. 1761, Randolph County, North Carolina ,   d. Aug 1836, Union, Montgomery, OH, USA  (Age 75 years)   5. Joseph MAST,   b. 25 Feb 1764, , What Is Now Randolph, NC, USA ,   d. Aft 11 Oct 1809, , Randolph, NC, USA  (Age 45 years)   6. Hannah MAST,   b. Abt 1766, Wharri River, Randolph, NC, USA ,   d. Dec 1856, Montgomery, Ohio, United States  (Age ~ 90 years)   7. Mary MAST,   b. Abt 1769, Randolph County, North Carolina ,   d. 30 Dec 1806, Montgomery, Hamilton, Ohio, USA  (Age ~ 37 years)   8. Jacob MAST,   b. Abt 1770, , , NC ,   d. Abt Oct 1809, , Ashe, NC, USA  (Age ~ 39 years)   9. Catherine MAST,   b. 1771, Randolph County, North Carolina ,   d. Nov 1809, , Miami, OH, USA  (Age 38 years)   10. Mary Magdalena "Mollie" MAST,   b. 21 Mar 1772, , Randolph, NC, USA ,   d. 27 Nov 1850, , Miami, OH, USA  (Age 78 years)   11. Susanna MAST,   b. 30 Nov 1774, Tabernacle Twp., Randolph, NC, USA ,   d. 24 Jul 1830, , Miami, OH, USA  (Age 55 years)   12. Stephen MAST,   b. Bef 1780, , , NC ,   d. Aft 1833, Baltimore, Baltimore, Md?  (Age ~ 54 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F3395	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  We know that John's wife's first name is Barbara from the John Waginer family bible and from George Harmon's will, but there has never been any proof found that she was the daughter of George or a Harmon herself. Her Thru-Line matches are great (from 8 cM - 57 cM as of 5/2022) and indicates she is a full sibling of the other children of George Harmon and Mary Margaret Wiley. If so, she was born before any dates they were supposedly married. This simply indicates to me that they don't have her parents marriage date figured out. The Twentieth Centuries published histories of this family state that Barbara's surname was probably Harmon. According to Brad Bahler (bahler1@netzero.net), however, researcher "Terry Harmon of Boone, North Carolina wrote a massive Harmon genealogy. He (was...) twice a Mast descendant. He informed me that no North Carolina researcher in the old days (he was fortunate to have some very old genealogies) ever identified Barbara as a Harmon. In his opinion this stared with researchers in Ohio, who incorrectly remembered her as a Harmon, confusing her with John Mast and Susan Harmon." This Harmon theory pervades many published documents. It has been stated in various sources that she was the daughter of Cutliffe and Susan Pfoutz Harmon. (C-205) This has proved to be an error in confusion as a Susan or Sarah, d. of Cutliffe did marry a John Mast. However, they were a full generation younger. Cutliffe and Susan were almost peers of our Barbara. Others have stated that she was the daughter of George Harmon (one of the 7 brothers that went to the Shenendoah Valley in the 1740's). This was based upon the fact that the administrator for his will was John Mast, called a "family friend" , and husband to Barbara. However, again there is no evidence that this Barbara is the daughter of George. 1) There seem to be no Barbara's in the naming of this families siblings in this or any close time period 2) If her husband, John Mast, was a son-in-law, wouldn't John have been called that, like son-in-law Daniel was in the will? and 3) Barbara is not named as his daughter in the will. (C-1458) Brad Bahler does not believe she is a Harmon at all. Some researchers suspect she is a Lopp/Lapp by surname instead. This Lapp surname was a common one on the Amish Mennonite church of which Jacob and John Mast were members, whereas Harmon is not. Harmon was Mennonite and not Amish. There was a great rift between these two groups and it was extremely unusual for them to mix or marry in Pennsylvania. By the time these groups moved to places like North Carolina, as the Amish died out, they joined with the Mennonites and as the Mennonites became scarce, they joined with the Dunkards.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1924] Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, Pennsylvania German Pioneers - Vol 1-II (Norristown, PA: Penn. German Society, 1934 as published at www.ancestry.com). [S1948] Pennsylvania Census, 1772-1890 (at www.ancestry.com). [S1917] Ancestry World Tree Submissions at www.ancestry.com. [S1941] Howard, Betty Johnson, Letter dated Jul 18, 2001 from Betty Johnson Howard, 4730 Nelson St., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033-2646 (Well researched info on the Harmons). [S3266] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), 1,1030::0., Ancestry Family Tree (Reliability: 0). [S480] Ancestral File at www.familysearch.com. [S2568] Ireton, Judith, Beside the Stillwater (Biweekly feature published in "The Independent" around 1978).