John Hardin

American soldier, farmer, rancher, marksman and hunter

1753 CE to 1792 CE

John J. Hardin (1 Oct 1753–circa May 1792) is a soldier, farmer, rancher, noted marksman and hunter.

He is wounded fighting in Lord Dunmore's War; serves as a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War and as a Kentucky Co., Virginia militia commander in the Northwest Indian War.

He is a member of the Methodist church and one of the first judges in the original Washington County, Virginia (later to become Washington County, KY).

John Hardin is killed in an ambush while acting as a peace emissary (under the direction of the President, George Washington) to the Shawnee Indian people.

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