The below from Charles Lucas, a Hardy researcher

Lemuel Hardy, Jr. and his brother Benjamin settled in Dobbs County, North Carolina by 1770 in what is now the Jason community of Greene County. This is almost due east of Goldsboro, North Carolina just across the Wayne-Greene County line. Lemuel was listed in the 1769 Dobbs County Tax List.

Lemuel Hardy served in the Bertie County, North Carolina Militia as a Private during the Revolutionary War.

He is mentioned in the will of Governor Gabriel Johnston 16 May 1751:
" to wife Frances Johnson small plantation on Salmon
Creek in the County of Bertie which I lately purchased
of Lamb Hardy."

Lemuel Hardy has been given a DAR number. DAR Patriot Index, Vol. 2, p1309 "Lemuel born 5-20-1730 NC died 1799/1800 NC married Mary Sutton NC"

Lemuel Hardy and his wife, who was a descendant of George Durant, were the parents of fourteen (14) children, and moved to the Jason community about 1779-80. The first nine of their children were born in Bertie County. The complete list, as shown on the charts of Miss Margaret Hardy, Route 1, LaGrange, NC and Mrs. Dan W. Parrott, Kinston, NC, and checked against other sources is as follows: 1. Sarah Hardy, b. 10/24/1761 d. 2/12/1803 m. Charles Tull b. 12/2/1753 d. 12/8/1836, 2. John Hardy, b. 1765 m. Mary Taylor, 3. Sutton Hardy b. c1766 m. Martha Taylor and moved to Mississippi, 4. Mary Hardy b. c1769 d. 1853 m. Benjamin Best, 5. William Parrott Hardy, b. 1771, m. Cleopatra Parrott, 6. Thomas Hardy, b. c1773; no record of marriage, 7. Martha Hardy, b. 1775 m. a Mr. Taylor, 8. Daughter b. 1776 m. a Mr. Taylor, 9. Edith Hardy b. c1778 m. Drewery Aldridge, 10. Lemuel Hardy III, b. 2/3/1779 d. 10/17/1856 m.1. Unity Taylor and m. 2nd and 3rd two Mewborn sisters. 11. Elizabeth Hardy, b. 1780 d. 1805 m. John Wesley Gibbons, 12. Winifred Hardy b. 1781 d. 1841 m. Henry Best b.
4/1/1762, 13. Nancy Hardy b. 3/4/1782 d. 10/22/1844 m. Lemuel Sugg b. 2/17/1778 d, 11/14/1852 14. Benjamin Hardy b. 1784 d. 1841 m. Mary Edwards. (The Eastern North Carolina Hardy-Hardee Family in the South and Southwest, by David L. Hardee).

Lemuel Hardy II, referred to in some of the D.A.R. and S.A.R. records as Jr., was b. May 20, 1730, in Bertie County, d. 1797, in Greene County, m. Mary Sutton, b. November 6, 1747, d. 1800, a descendant of George Durant (see sketch in Chapter 19). Lemuel Hardy, II, sold his land on Salmon Creek in 1769 (Bertie Book L, p. 198) and moved to Dobbs, now Greene County. Carson DeVane Baucom of Raleigh, NC is a descendant through their daughter, Nancy Hardy, b. March 24, 1782, d. 10/22/1844 m. Lemuel Sugg in 1802.

Lemuel Hardy, Jr. (II) and Mary Sutton are buried in the Mewborn Cemetery, just northeast of Jason, North Carolina.

Refer to: <http://www.bjhughes.org/rediscovery.html> for more information on the grave of Lemuel Hardy II.

Is her mother Elizabeth Chancey or Judith Harrison? Some confusion exists.