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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Today's Hampden County of Massachusetts was originally Middlesex County until it was split off in 1662 and named Hampshire County. Hampden County was formed from Hampshire County in 1812.
2. Per 16 Feb 2002 website <http://www.gencircles.com/users/cherylbills/1/data/32>:
"Mary Dorchester (footnote 3)
Birth: 1645 in "of Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts"
Death: 7 Feb 1711/1712 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
Father: Anthony Dorchester
Mother: Sarah
LDS Baptism: 21 Oct 1992 IFALL
LDS Endowment: 27 Oct 1992 IFALL
LDS Sealing Child: 15 Jan 1993 IFALL
Probate: 2 Jan 1705 Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (1, 2, 3)
Spouse: John Harmon; MARRIAGE:7 Jan 1668/1669 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
Children:
Elizabeth Harmon
Sarah Harmon
Mary Harmon
Sarah Harmon
John Harmon
Elizabeth Harmon
Footnote Sources:
1. Title: Probate Record Page: Film 0,879,184, pp. 154-155.
2. Note: See brothers: James Dorchester and John Dorchester. Mary is the Mary Harman mentioned in these records.
3. Title: Harmon Genealogy (The); Author: Artemas C. Harmon; Publication: Gibson Bros, Inc. Washington DC 1920, pg. 159"
3. The book "Anthony Dorchester and his Descendants," by Janice P. Dorchester (1998) Janice P. Dorchester, p. 7:
"MARY2 DORCHESTER (Anthony1) was born Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, about 1648; died 7 February 1712.
She married her step-brother, JOHN HARMON, JR., son of John and Elizabeth Harmon, on 7 January 1668, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
John received 30 acres of land from Anthony Dorchester in 1664. After Mary's father's death in 1683, she went to court in Springfield against her brothers, John and James, asking for additional funds in the settlement of her father's estate and was awarded 40 pounds. The settlement came in 1684 when she and John Harmon received additional land from the brothers.
Children (HARMON), born in Springfield, Massachusetts:
i. SARAH3, born about 1669; died young.
ii. MARY, born 23 October 1671.
iii. SARAH, born about 1673.
iv. JOHN, born about 1675.
v. ELIZABETH, born about 1677.
References: Dorchester Family Chronicles, 1995, by Earle and Patricia Swanson, pp. 14, 18, 19, 22. The Dorchester Pedigree by Daniel Dorchester III, 1902, pp. 3, 4. New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Torrey, pg. 344. Dorchester Family History by John W. Sielck."
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