Anne Greenleaf Cambidge, MA>York, ME 1700s
I would appreciate any help with information on and ancestry of Anne Greenleaf who married Naphtali Harmon in 1744.The information I have so far comes from Artemas C. Harmon, The Harmon Genealogy (1920):
Anne Greenleaf, daughter of Stephen Greenleaf and (?)
b. ?
m. Naphtali Harmon, October 18, 1744, Cambridge, Mass.
d. Before 1756
(Note: a record in Ancestry.com provides her birth as 14 Nov 1727, Newbury, Mass., and her death as 28 Aug, 1762.However, these appear to be the birth and death dates associated with a different Anne Greenleaf who was daughter of Benjamin Greenleaf and Abigail Moody.)
Naphtali Harmon (John, John, James), son of John Harmon and Mehitable Parker
b. Nov. 18, 1722
m(1) Anne Greenleaf, October 18, 1744, Cambridge, Mass.
m(2) Anna Gray, June 18, 1756, Wells, Maine
d. ?
The Marriage in Cambridge in a potential clue.The Harmons were a Maine family.James Harmon, the immigrant, settled first in Saco, Maine.The family later moved to York, Maine where successive generations of Harmons down to Naphtali were born and lived.Naphtali was born in York and he and Anne lived there after their marriage.Their first two children—Samuel and Anne—were also born there.Naphtali later removed to Sanford, Maine in 1754.Anne may have died in Sanford shortly after that move.The location of the wedding in Cambridge, therefore, suggests that Anne Greenleaf’s family may have had the connection to that town.
Again, I would appreciate any information that could shed more light on Anne’s origins and ancestry.
Peter Henderson