Harmon Atwood

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Harmon Atwood, born Oct. 3, 1613, baptized St Martin Parish Church, (now in London) Atwood Annals, C A Atwood 1965

• Immigration: 1642
• Immigration: Dec 16 1642 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
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Biography==Herman Atwood immigrated to New England in 1641 as an employee of Thomas Buttolph. He was from Sanderstead, Surrey.<ref name=Thwing>Thwing Collection</ref> Samuel Worthen stated that he was a son of Deacon Johnand Mary L. (Smith) Atwood; he did not describe his basis for this information.<ref name=Worthen341>Worthen, "Descendants of William Copp of Copp's Hill," page 341.</ref>

He was admitted to the Church in Boston on 24 February 1644, and that same year was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.<ref name=Thwing>Thwing Collection</ref><ref name=Worthen341>Worthen, "Descendants of William Copp of Copp's Hill," page 341.</ref> He was married to Ann Copp in Boston, Massachusetts, on 11 August 1646.<ref>A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1883. page 24: Herman Atwood & Ann Copp married 11th -- 6th month. </ref> Two children were born to their marriage: John and Sarah Atwood. <ref name=Thwing>Thwing Collection</ref><ref>Atwood and Woodgate, page 23.</ref> Hermon Atwood died in Boston before 13 October 1651, when inventory ofhis estate was taken and valued at 34 pounds, 3 shillings. The estatewas proved on 19 November 1651; administration was granted to Ann Atwood, wife of the deceased, on behalf of herself and two children.<ref>Abstracts of Early Wills, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 8 (1854), page 57.</ref>

Sources

<references/>* Atwood, Charles, and Woodgate, Henry Arthur. History of the AtwoodFamily, in England and the United States. Boston: Press of G.H. Ware, 1888.* Thwing Collection: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800 and The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630–1822. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014.) page 1912.* Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700. Vol. 1, page 52: ATWOOD,Herman/Harman (-1651) & Ann COPP (-1661), m/2 Thomas SAXTON 1651/2; 11 Aug 1646; Boston {McCormick-Hamilton 272; Cape Cod Lib. 41:2; Warner-Harrington 791; McIntire Anc. 318; Boston 24; Sv. 1:77, 457; Pope's Pioneers 23; Pillsbury Anc. 683; Reg. 8. * Worthen, Samuel Copp. "Descendants of William Copp of Copp's Hill inAuthenticated Lines, Through His Older Son, Elder David Copp of the First Church of Boston." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, v. 62 (1931), no. 4, pages 338-370.* "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQ3-ZBB : 4 November 2017), Herman Atwood and Anne Capp, 11 Aug 1646; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 818,093.

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Family arms are: lion rampant between acorns, crest, arm erect holding a battle axe. These are displayed on the front of the old Sanderstead mansion.