Hartford County CT Archives Court.....Harmon, Nathaniel March 13, 1653 *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ct/ctfiles.htm *********************************************** ************************************************************************ The USGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. It is always best to consult the original material for verification. ************************************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Harmon Bills cherylbills@gmail.com May 29, 2007, 4:23 pm Source: Film 844,478 Pg. 380; Film 0,879,184 Written: March 13, 1653 Recorded: May 2, 1712 Nathaniel Harmon To All Christian People to whom these presents shall come, I, Nathaniel Harmon send Greeting. Know ye that I, Nathaniel Harmon, of Suffield in the County of Hampshire within the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in England; Weaver, for and in consideration of ye natural ... good will and affection which I have and do bear towards my loving and dutiful son, Nathaniel Harmon; have given, granted and by these presents do freely ... and absolutely give and grant to the said Nathaniel Harmon his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns a certain homestead or houselot within the township of Suffiled ... the contains of six acres be it more or less it being situated on the west side of the tract commonly called High Street, the front built upon said street, the rear or west end bounds upon the Brook called Muddy Brook. The south side bounds upon the home lott that was John ... ... and henceforth together with the appurentances unto the said Nathaniel Harmon, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns from henceforth as his and their proper estate of inheritance ... infinitely without any manner of condition ... the said Nathaniel Harmon has absolutelly and of my own accord ... ... in further testimony & Mary Harmon, wife of ... said Nathaniel Harmon both by ... positively willingly give, yield up nd surrender all her rights of Domain and Power of this of in and unto ye above described premises unto him, said Nathaniel Harmon, his heirs & assigns. In witness whereof, I, Nathaniel Harmon and Mary, my wife, have hereunto set our hands and sealed this seventeenth day of December in the eighth year of the reign of our Soverign ... ... of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland defender of the faith in the yar od our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and nine. Signed, Sealed and delivered in the Nathaniel Harmon & Seal presence of: Joseph Hauloy Joseph Remmington Freegrace Norton Dec 20th 1709: Nathaniel Harmon ... personally appeared before me this .... .... and did acknowledge this instrument to be his act and deed. Cor. Joseph Hauloy On the 27th Day of January 1717/18 this deed was received and was then registered from the original. John Pynchon, Regt. (Film 0,879,184) An inventory of the Estate of Nathaniel Harmon, deceased, as it was taken and appraised by us the Subscribers on ye 10th 1712 which inventory was taken as money: ITEM L S D Apparrell Books & Armour 4...15..5 Spectacles .....4.... A feather bed 3......... Rugs, sheets & blankets 6...13.. A bolster & a pair of old curtains ...11... Three bed spreads with their cords 1...9...6 Two old beds ...10... A new bed & pillows 1...1...10 An old bolster 1...1...10 Pillow beens ....18.... Two table cloths ...13.... Two napkins ....2.... Lead, flints, bullets, moulds, Sword ...15...4 A little .....ab ....8.... A great brass kettle 3...10... A little brass kettle 1...10... A great pott and two pair of pott hooks ...16... An old skillet & warming pan ....7...6 Pewter Vessels 1....8...6 An Iron enamel & frying pan ...13... Earthen & tinn vessels with spoons ....8... A candlestick & a pair of stillyards ....7...2 Smoothing Irons ....2... Wooden ware viz bowls, dishes & platters ....9...6 A talbe & chairs ...15...6 Two glass bottles, two pair of curds & two pails ...10... Weaver Loom & tackling 1...10... Four spinning wheels ...15... Chest & Case Saddle & furniture 1....7...6 A keeler & pork with the barrel; Lard with tub 1....4... Soap, beer barrel, meale, Indian corn & rye 3....1...3 Cheese cloth, linsey woolsey cloth, old barrel & cheese kurds ...18...4 A sithe, sickle, baggs, knives, scizers, slice, hammerall ...17... A beetle, wedges, hoes, axes, hay fork, bridle, bitts, collar 1......... Ox yoke, cart & caps & plane caps, horse traces, a ring & hooks 1....1...1 Pail bails, cart bands & cart boxes, sheeps wool, sow & slaves all 3....6...2 Plow & irons, an old peck, a meal seive, Indigoe all ...13...9 Part of new sled, cow bell, lithe hacking, cheese fatts, sheep shears ...14...8 A small trunk, a looking glass two in all, cheese fatts ....5...8 An ox, two cows, two calves, one mare, sheep, swine all 16....3... The house & 17 acres on which it stands 70......... The meadow & other lands amounting to 63........ The crop on ye land 3......... TOTAL 200..11..8 Joseph Harmon, James Youngglove, Joseph Winchell Hampshire. Sept 3rd. 1712. Mary Harmon & Nathaniel Harmon (Jr) Administrator on the estate of Nathaniel Harmon, deceased, made oath before me under written judge pf {rpbate of wills for said county that the within inventory is a true one of the estate of deceased so farr as they can as yet come and if more estate hereafter appear, they will readily make discovery of the same from time to time. Samuel Partridge Debts Due from Said Estate: John Elliot of Windsor 9....4... Doctor Mather 2...12...7 Timothy Thrall 2...10...6 Samuel Strong ....2...6 James King 1.......... John Huxley ....4.... Nathaniel Harmon ...19... Ebenezer Harmon ....4... Samuel Copley ....5... Thomas Kent ....3... John Austin ....6...4 Mathew Copley ....1...8 David Allin ....5...4 Land Sold 20......... A calf died, cost 1........... 2 sheep 4/each ....8... Probates 1......... TOTAL 40...10...5 Allowance for bringing up of Young Child 10......... Probate Record, 21 May 1713, SLCFHC, Salt Lake City, Utah, 0,879,184. "As to the settlement of the estate of Nathanile Harmon of Suffield deceased, his inventoried estate amounts free 210.16.3 of which the widow, Mary, relict to the deceased her 3rd of land and housing is 37.13.4 for life and in moveable goods 32.7.10 for her own disposal. To the eldest son Nathanile as his double share and although it is more just I allow it as his in as much as his father in his lifetime and his mother now living deeded the land which is at ... 15... to him and his heirs forever. The remainder of said estate is 95.15.1 is divided to the eight younger children which is to Mary daughter to the deceased 11.19.4; to Elizabeth 11.19.4; to Anne 11.19.4; to Samule 11.19.4; to Sarah 11.19.4; to Ruth 11.19.4; to John 11.19.4 and to Benjamin 11.19.4 The ..(third?) of said widow's share of land to be equally divided; the value thereof to the said eight children: (Nathaniel exempted in this division); viz: to Mary, Elizabeth, Anne, Samuel, Sarah, Ruth, John, and Benjamin. If any of the children now under age die before they are of age to receive their said portions the survivors to enjoy their shares or portions according to law. This is approved and allowed as a settlement of estate this 21 day of May 1713. “ Samuel Partridge, Judge of Probate Additional Comments: In the West Suffield Cemetery there is a Memorial to the Harmon family erected by Israel Harmon 3rd. That memorial gives Nathaniel's death date as 1685. This is wrong. That was the year of his marriage to Mary Skinner. File at -- http://files.usgwarchives.net/ct/hartford/court/harmon8gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ctfiles/ File size: 7.6 Kb