John Hardy
- Born: Abt 1613, Bedfordshire, England 86
- Marriage: Olive Council
- Died: Abt 1670, Isle Of Wight, VA. about age 57
 General Notes:
George and John Hardy, sons of John and Olive Hardy, came to Virginia before their parents.
...John Hardy, of Isle of Wight Co., VA., ...in 1666 he received a grant for 1150 acres of land in Isle of Wight Co. He was a prominent, influential citizen and Churchman.
Source: Colonial Families of the Southern States of America, by Stella Pickett Hardy, Second Edition with additions and revisions by the author. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1974, Originally published New York, 1911, pp.261
It is known that John Hardy of Isle of Wight County, VA., belonged to the landed gentry of England, or the yeomen class, sometimes referred to as "statesmen", a term which formerly meant persons living upon small "states" (or estates) that were cultivated by the same family from generation to generation, and were held by the peculiar tenure known as Border Tenant-right.
Source: "Hardy and Hardie, Past and Present", 1935, Authored by H. Claude Hardy, Ph.D. of White Plains, N.Y. and Rev. Edwin Noah Hardy, Ph.D., of Greenwich, Connecticut, pp.364
John married Olive Council. (Olive Council was born about 1615 in Yorkshire, England and died about 1675 in Isle Of Wight, VA..)
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