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Hello All,
My name is Dan Harnden. For over 12 years I've documented every Harnden Line in North America, and have studied the possible origins of the family. For years I've argued that Benjamin Hearnden was strongly connected to the Harnden Line. The Harrington family stories even list a Richard Harrington (The Harrington Family in America Pg. 6) arriving in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1643. The Harnden family line starts from a Richard Harnden. As a matter of fact our earliest American born Harnden was a Richard Harnden b. in 1648. His father Richard was the first white settler in the part of Reading, MA that was annexed to form the town of Wilmington.
Some proof of the Harnden and Harrington family line connections are now available through DNA. Over this past year a number of Harnden family members have been genetically tested. And, the results in the Harnden lines are almost all identical. However, a nice side effect of this testing is that the Harnden family is also matching very closely to a number of Harrington and Herrington descendants.
I know almost all of the Harnden family connections intimately, however I don't know the Harrington lines as well. So, I am submitting this querry to the Harrington Forum.
I'm particularly interested in the following Harrington family members whom match very closely to the Harnden family:
Walter Howard Harrington
Elizabeth Herrington
James Nelson Harrington
Jonathan Avery Harrington
Henry Frederick Harrington
I'd like to know if they are descendants of Robert Harrington or Ben Hearnden, or both. Either way we all benefit from this study. In addition we may finally discover are mutual earliest origins in America, as our names don't match in the soundex. And, both sides have extensively studied independant name spelling variations.
On a side note I also descend from Benjamin Hearnden through my paternal grandmother.
Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.
Sincerely, Dan
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