Mary Dorchester Harmon

• BIRTH unknown
• DEATH 7 Feb 1712
• BURIAL Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
• PLOT Willow Avenue 2-97 MEMORIAL ID 119629688

Biography

Mary Dorchester was daughter of Anthony Dorchester and his first wife Sarah ____. Mary married John Harmon Jan. 7th 1668, in Springfield, Massachusetts." [1668/9] [2] and they were named in the probate documents following her father's 1683 death. Mary's mother died in 1649.[1] Mary's birth was not recorded in Springfield, as were the births of her later siblings. She was probably born in Windsor where the records are not as complete. She was married in 1669 so a legitimate estimate of her birth would be 1648. "Mary Hermon the wife of John Hermon was Sick and died feb: 7 Anno 1711/12" in Springfield, just days before her husband's death.[2]

Spouse
John Harmon 1641–1712

Children
Sarah Harmon 10/14/1669 -11/13/1673
Mary Hannah Harmon Booth 10/31/1671–1742 m. Zachariah Booth
Sarah Harmon 2/13/1675 - abt 3/1746.
John Harmon 3/2/1678 –1742 m. Hannah Sexton
Elizabeth Harmon 12/3/1680 -____ m. Caleb Monson.

References

[1] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dorchester-16

[2] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119629688/mary-harmon

[3] http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Hampden/Springfield/MarriagesD.shtml "(DORCHESTER) Mary and John Harmon, Jan. 7, 1668."

[4] http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Hampden/Springfield/DeathsH.shtml "(HARMON) Mary, w. John, Feb. 7, 1711/12."

[5] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dorchester-16 cites

[6] Starr, Frank Farnsworth; and Goodwin, James Junius. Various ancestral lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut. (Hartford, Conn. [New Haven : The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press], 1915) Cites: Pynchon account book, Hampshire County Probate records. vol 1 folio 237, vol 1 p. 9, Springfield Twon Records,

[7] Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts, to 1850. Volume One. (Clifford Stott: compiler) Boston: NEHGS, 2003. pp 22, 124.

[8] http://www.suffieldhistoricalsociety.org/families_harmon