Harlan Family In America

18th Century Harlan Furniture on Antiques Roadshow!

This just in from Betsy Chittenden:

Dear Harlans,

I am a Harlan descendant and I thought I'd contact you with a news item.

My mother spent her childhood summers at the Stargazer Farm in Chester County, PA, where her grandparents resided in the 1920s and 1930s. This is the historic Harlan property where Mason and Dixon stayed for several winters while surveying the Mason-Dixon line. Her grandmother was #8270, Mamie E. Harlan. When her grandparents died in the 1950s, her father had to sell the property out of the family. However, my mother was given many pieces of furniture and other items from the farm.

Harlan Family readers may be interested to know that a piece of Harlan furniture from that farm will be featured on Antiques Roadshow in a few weeks. The show was taped in Atlantic City last summer; they are airing it in three segments, on January 25, Feb. 1, and Feb. 8. (Sadly, we don't know which of the three it will be on.) The piece of furniture is a candlestand dating from the mid 18th century, so it was probably originally made or purchased by #72, Joel Harlan, who we believe either built or expanded Stargazer Farm. It stayed in the farmhouse and the family and thus would have at some point been owned by #305, Caleb Harlan; #1191, Joel Harlan; #3727, Henry Kirk Harlan; #8270 Mamie E. Harlan; and then to my mother.

We hope to get future tickets to Antiques Roadshow and take more Harlan family items to be appraised!

The Harlan Family in America is a non-profit association formed in 1987 to perpetuate and promote the Harlan family heritage and genealogy. Most Harlans/ Harlands/ Harlins alive today are direct descendants of George or Michael Harland who emigrated from England and Ireland or from Thomas Harland who remained in Ireland. The family genealogy is documented in "The History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family" by Alpheus Harlan. Originally published in 1914, the book has been reprinted and is currently available through the Harlan Store on this web site.

These original Harlans were Quakers and came to the new world seeking religious freedom. They arrived at William Penn's Colony at New Castle, Delaware in 1687. Since that time their descendants have multiplied, diversified and spread across the United States. For more than 310 years, they have managed to stay together as a family by maintaining a family organization, publishing a newsletter, The Harlan Record, and holding national family reunions. Further information on these subjects is available on this site.

Other Harlans have immigrated to the United States in later years from England, Ireland, and Germany. We welcome the addition of their descendants to our extended family.

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18th Century Harlan Furniture on Antiques Roadshow!

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