...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 Hardy...was no doubt related in some way to Thomas Hardy of Bradford, Mass., John Hardy of Salem, Mass., and Richard Hardy of Stamford, Conn. He was proceeded to the country by his son, Captain George, who was settled in Isle of Wight County, Virginia about 1650. Another George Hardy, perhaps a brother of John, came to the colony prior to 1636 and was referred to as "Shipwright." He was the owner of the famous Hardy Mill. It has been in possession of descendants of John Hardy for a number of generations. It is said that he served as a member of the House of Burgesses from 1641 to 1652.
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.237
John Hardy (1613-70), from Eng. to VA., before 1666, was of "The Old House," Isle of Wight CO., VA,
m 1632, Olive Council (d after 1670);
Source: ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM, Frederick Virkus, THE ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY, FIRST FAMILIES OF AMERICA THE ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY , The Standard Genealogical Encyclopedia of THE FIRST FAMILIES OF AMERICA, EDITED BY FREDERICK A. VIRKUS, VOLUME I, 1925, F. A. VIRKUS & COMPANY Genealogical Publishers 440-442 S. Dearborn Street Chicago, Ill. page 422
Lucy Hardy was "daughter of John & Alice Hardy. John Hardy was the son of John and Olive (Council) Hardy who were married between 1620 and 1630."
Source: Worth S. Ray "The Bryan Family" as quoted in "Bryant Backtrails" Kemma Publ Co., Evansville, Ind. vol. 2 #1&2 (Jan-June 1970), page 21
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