Ebenezer Harmon (1657 - 1660)

Born 12 Aug 1657 in Springfield, Hampton Co., MA

Died 7 Apr 1660 at age 2 in Drowned in Town brook

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Biography

Ebenezer Harman, son of John Harman was born the 12th of 6th mon 1657. (Aug 12, 1657)^[1][2]

Ebenezer Harmon Son of John Harmon drowned in the Mill Brooke the 7th of the 2d Mo 1660^[2]

"First Coroner's Inquest — The first coroner's inquest within the old county of Hampshire was held on the 7th of April, 1660. The jurors present were Thomas Cooper, William Branch, William Warriner, Thomas Stebbins, Thomas Noble, John Stewart, Samuel Marshfield, Henry Burt, Benjamin Parsons, Abel Wright, Richard Sikes, and John Clark. The following is from the record of the inquest :

"This day the youngest child of John Harmon, of Springfield, called Ebenezer, of about three years of age was found dead in the brooke in Nathaniel Pritchard's yard; concerning whose death there was search and inquiry made by a jury of twelve men of this Towne of Springfield how the said child came to its end.

"The jury's returne upon oath before Samuell Chapin & Elizur Holyoke, commissioners, was that accordinge to their best light that they could have in the case they judge that the child was drowned in the brooke through its own weakness and imbecillity, without the hand of any other person being any occasion or cause thereof."^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ [Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts, to 1850. Volume Two. p.1664 (Clifford Stott: compiler) Boston: NEHGS, 2003.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts, to 1850. Volume One. b=p.16, d=p.60 (Clifford Stott: compiler) Boston: NEHGS, 2003]
3. ↑ Quote SOURCE: WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS A HISTORY 1636-1925. Board of Editors: Rev. John H. Lockwood, D. D., Ernest Newton Bagg, Walter S. Carson, Herbert E. Riley, Edward Boltwood, Will L. Clark, Staff Historian. VOLUME I. LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. NEW YORK and CHICAGO. 1926 Page 265.

Acknowledgments

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