Reuben Harmon

• DAR ancestor # A050896
• Service: VERMONT Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE
• Birth: 2-18-1714 SUFFIELD HAMPSHIRE CO MASSACHUSETTS
• Death: 9-6-1794 RUTLAND RUTLAND CO VERMONT
• Service Source: WALTON, RECS OF THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY & STATE OF VT, VOL 1, PP 14-15, 21-22, 280
• Service Description: 1) MEMBER OF DORSET CONVENTION; SIGNED ASSOCIATION, 1776;
• 2) JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, 1778

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Ancestor #: A050896

Service:

VERMONT Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE

Birth:

2-18-1714 SUFFIELD HAMPSHIRE CO MASSACHUSETTS

Death:

9-6-1794 RUTLAND RUTLAND CO VERMONT

Service Source:

WALTON, RECS OF THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY & STATE OF VT, VOL 1, PP 14-15, 21-22, 280

Service Description:

1) MEMBER OF DORSET CONVENTION; SIGNED ASSOCIATION, 1776; 2) JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, 1778

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Name Reuben Harmon, Sr. Gender Male Birth[4] 18 Feb 1714/15 Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Alt Birth[2] 18 Feb 1714/15 Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Christening[3] 20 Feb 1714/15 Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Marriage 25 Aug 1739 to Eunice Parsons Death[2] Sep 1794 Rutland, Rutland, Vermont, United States

Parents and Siblings (edit)

   F.  Nathaniel Harmon1686/87 - 1763

   M.  Esther Austin1686/87 - 1761

m. 24 Aug 1710

   Joel Harmon1711 - 1718

   Nathaniel Harmon1713 - 1774

   Reuben Harmon, Sr.1714/15 - 1794

   Mary Harmon1717 - 1806

   Joel Harmon1719 -

   Simeon Harmon1721 - 1803

   Ruth Harmon1723 - 1724/25

   Asahel Harmon1726 - 1817

   Nehemiah Harmon1728 - 1806

Spouse and Children (edit)

   H.  Reuben Harmon, Sr.1714/15 - 1794

   W.  Eunice Parsons1717 - 1803

m. 25 Aug 1739

   Eunice Harmon1739/40 -

   Esther Harmon1741/42 -

   Jerusha Harmon1744 - 1783

   Mary HarmonAbt 1746 -

   Matthew HarmonAbt 1748 -

   Reuben Harmon, Jr.1750 - 1806

   Medad Harmon1752 -

   Rosanna Harmon1754 -

   Oliver Harmon1756 -

   Adah Harmon1759 - 

References

     The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (R). (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).

   ↑ 2.0 2.1 Biographical history of northeastern Ohio, embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning: containing portraits of all the presidents of the United States, with a biography of each, together with portraits and biographies of Joshua R. Giddings, Benjamin F. Wade, and a large number of the early settlers and representative families of to-day. (Chicago [Illinois]: Lewis Publishing, 1893), p. 421.

   "His [John Harman's] great-grandson, Reuben,....was born at Sunderland *, Massachusetts, or perhaps at Springfield *, on February 18, 1714, and married Eunice Parsons, of Suffield, Connecticut, August 25, 1739. In 1759, he sold his real estate in Suffield, and, in 1776, became a large land owner in Rupert, Vermont. In 1779, he bought 170 acres in Rutland, the latter State, to which town he soon afterward removed, and where he held the offices of Selectman and Justice of the Peace in 1780. In June of that year, the records show that he conveyed ninety acres of land in Rutland to each of his sons, Oliver and Reuben, Jr.,... Reuben, Sr., died in Rutland, Vermont, in September, 1794, his widow surviving him until November 18, 1803, expiring at the age of eighty-six years, both greatly regretted."

   ↑ Baptisms, in Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford, Connecticut). Records of the Congregational Church in Suffield, Conn. (except church votes), 1710-1836. (Hartford [Connecticut]: Connecticut Historical Society, 1941), p. 27.

   The Name of those who have been Baptized Both adult & Infants...

   Reuben Harmon feb 20 ___ [1714/15] *

   * Reuben's christening in Suffield 2 days after his alleged birth in Springfield is mildly possible, & birth in Sunderland nearly impossible.

   ↑ Suffield (Connecticut). Town Clerk. Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1662-1904. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1982), Vol. 1. p. 33.

   "Their [Nathaniel & Esther Harmon's] son named Reuben born the 18th Day of Febry 1714-15."

GEDCOM Note

One of the earliest settlers of the Mattowee Valley section of Rupert, Bennington, VT. From Suffield, CT by 1767. At the first meeting of Rupert proprietors held in Rupert May 18, 1768 (earlier ones had been held at Bennington), Reuben Harmon was chosen Moderator. He represented Rupert at the Dorset Convention, 1776, and was a signer of the Association Test at Dorset.