Georgÿ Haramÿn I

From the Hyten family archive; subject is Georgÿ Haramÿn I (1702–1774), an 8× great-grandparent of the compiler in the paternal-grandfather (PP) line. This entry covers his birth and death in colonial Maryland, his parentage, his marriage to Anna Wilkinson, his daughter Patience, and the broader context of life in Baltimore County during the eighteenth century.

Georgÿ Haramÿn I (1702–1774) was born in Baltimore, in Baltimore County, in the Province of Maryland, where his family had already taken root in the early decades of English settlement along the Chesapeake. He was the son of the Reverend John H. Harryman (1671–1711) and his wife Eleanor Norton (1678–1733), a pairing that joined a clerical line with the established Norton household. Georgÿ was but nine years of age at the time of his father's passing in 1711, an event that would have placed considerable weight upon his mother and the surrounding kin, as was customary in the colonial households of that era.

Maryland in the first half of the eighteenth century was a province shaped by tobacco husbandry, the tidewater economy, and the steady commerce of the Patapsco. Baltimore Town itself was but newly chartered in 1729, growing slowly through Georgÿ's adult years from a modest port into a place of consequence. The Harryman family, by their long presence in Baltimore County, would have witnessed this transformation firsthand.

Georgÿ took to wife Anna Wilkinson, and of their union was born a daughter, Patience Harryman (1733–1763), whose own life unfolded within the same county that had cradled three generations of her forebears. Patience, sadly, preceded her father in death by some eleven years, departing this life in 1763, while Georgÿ himself lived on into the unsettled years preceding the American Revolution.

He died on the ninth day of February, 1774, in Baltimore County, Maryland, having attained the age of seventy-two — a notable span for a man of his century. His lifetime bridged the early provincial era and the eve of independence, though he did not live to see the Revolution come to its full course.

Georgÿ Haramÿn I was an 8× great-grandfather of the compiler upon the paternal-grandfather (PP) line.