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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Per 16 Feb 2002 website: <http://www.gencircles.com/users/cherylbills/1/data/3>:
"Nathaniel Harmon (Footnote 6)
Birth: 15 Jan 1686 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut (1 2)
Death: 16 Oct 1744 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut (3) [Kerry's note: this date is an obvious error.]
Father:Nathaniel Harmon; Mother:Mary Skinner
Text: Nathaniel Harmon his son which Mary his wife bare to him born January the 15th 1686.
Ear Mark for Cattle: Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut (4 5); Text: Nathaniel Harmon Jun, His mark is a slit down the top of ye near ear and on half... cutt on ye fare side of ye off ear. Entered December ... 1710. (6).
Spouse: Esther Austin; MARRIAGE: 6 Sep 1705.
Notes Individual: He died 76 yrs; 9 mo; 1 day. Headstone Reads: 'In memory of Mr. Nathaniel Harmon who died Oct 16 AD 1763; in the 76th year of his age. Also Mrs. Esther, wife of Nathaniel Harmon, died May 20 AD; 1761; in the 74th year of her age. A combat with death we all must have, The rich, the poor, the lord, the slave, the young, the old, the middle age, must all be swept from off the stage.' Artemus Harmon's book p. 160. Tombstone in Suffield, CT of Nathaniel Harmon Jr. and Esther Austin.
Footnote sources:
1. Title: Connecticut, Suffield. Births, Marriages, Deaths Call Number: 1,317,067 Page: pg. 12-13.
2. Note: See image of this record under John and Mary's marriage source.
3. Title: Harmon Genealogy (the) Author: Artemas C. Harmon Publication: Gibson Bros, Inc. Washington DC 1920 Page: pg. 160.
4. Title: Suffield Ear Marks Call Number: 1,317,067.
5. Note: Photocopy in Cheryl Bills files NatSr003.
6. Title: Dow, Brown and Allied Families Author: Dow, Harriet B. Publication: The American Historical Company, Inc. New York. 1929 Call Number: John013 Page: pg. 157-158 Text: Nathaniel Harmon Jr. was a surveyor of highways for Suffield in 1734-35 and in 1742-42 he as an assessor."
MARRIAGE:
1. Alt. date: 24 Jan 1710. Verify which is correct.
BURIAL:
1. From the Internet 6 Jul 2008 at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kathycamp/Inscriptions/Page043.htm: Suffield, Hartford County, ConnecticutHeadstone Inscriptions 1660-1937. This list of inscriptions, town of Suffield, was copied in 1934, under the auspices of the F.E.R.A. and the W.P.A. sponsored by the Connecticut State Library, as compiled under the supervision of Charles R. Hale, State Military Necrologist, assisted by Miss Mary H. Babin, Secretary. Hartford, Connecticut, December 1937. Inscriptions, 125-3 West Suffield Cemetery, buried next to each other:
Harmon Nathaniel died Oct. 16, 1763, age 75 yrs.
Harmon Mrs. Esther wife of Nathaniel, died May 20, 1761, age 73 yrs."
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