A Different Take on Harmon Tudor/Tedder
Some Tudor researchers that I have worked with over the years concluded that Harmon Tudor/Tedder was the son of Benjamin Tudor.John Tedder whose inventory of estate was read on 1 April 721 had two sons, John Tudor b. around 1718 and Benjamin Tudor b. around 1720.John’s widow, Mary, married Henry Rose.Henry Rose on two occasions transferred land in Brunswick County, VA, to his step-sons.In the case of John the land was give by Henry on 7 June 1750 and he states that John is the son of his wife, Mary.
John Tudor sold his land and moved to Granville County around 1764; he is in the 1769 tax list of Granville.Benjamin is firmly documented as being in Brunswick County until 1760.It is not known precisely when he moved to Granville.Benjamin and Mary of Granville County, NC, returned to Sussex County and on November 16, 1775, sold 119 acres for 34 pounds to John Avent of Albermarle Parish.Ref: Deed Book E, page 380-381.
Tudor researchers, since John Tudor’s children were documented in his will, assumed that all other Tudors, since there were no other Tudors in Granville, were children of Benjamin.These are Rebecca (Becky) Tudor born around 1759 who married Charles Moore.Sarah Tudor born around 1754 who married Sampson Harp.James Tudor born around 1760 who married Joanna Martin and Harmon born around 1762.At the estate sale of Mary Rose another son is intimated since Benjamin is listed as senior.Ernest Tedder who spent many, many years of research listed Harmon as being the son of a Tudor born around 1740.There could have been other children of Benjamin, for example the John Tudor, later Tedder, who was in Chatham.
No land in Granville could be identified as belonging to Benjamin; he probably lived on his mother’s estate before moving to Chatham County.There is a Rose listed in the 1767 tax role but no other info given. Benjamin and Mary are listed as witnesses to the Will of Runnold Brightwell in Granville County, NC, in 1771.Benjamin and John Tudor were in the Granville Militia in 1771, Capt James Yancey’s company.A Benjamin Tudor was witness to a land transaction in Chatham in 1784.
By 1788 John Tudor’s children, except one daughter, and his wife have moved to Madison Ky.Only Benjamin’s children are left in Granville.By 1800 James, Harmon, and John Tudor have changed their name to Tedder and live in Chatham County.
The conclusion by some Tudors is that Harmon is the son of Benjamin or a Benjamin Jr.
I don’t totally buy this reasoning based on DNA.I descend from Harmon and match William Tedder, born 1735 in VA, in 37 DNA markers.Yet the descendants of John Tudor match me in 12 DNA markers but at the 24 marker are off by one deviation.
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