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Other : Marr by Rev John Osborne, Lee NH, NHRG 4/75ff
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FAMILY RECORD:
Nicholas Harford - dover, shopkeeper; presum there because of the pres of Wm
(4), altho no connec found. He bot in Dover from Richard Pinkham, 1706; in Feb
1714-15 bot from Abra. Morrell in Kit, oppo his own place in Dover, and kept a
ferry, selling the Kittery land in 1718 to Nathl Chapman. Kit wit 1727. Lists
358bd; selectman 7 times 1724-33; moderator 1728, 1731; repr 1732; wife
Elizabeth (appar Jenkins 12) was bound over to the march Sess in Dec 1701,
bondsm John Willey & Stephen Jenkins. Adm on his est to creditors 31 May 1737,
wid Elizabeth and son Joseph cited; she liv Mar 1769 (Master Tate's Diary).
Children:
a) Patience - b 16 Sep 1701; m Benjamin Ham (4).
b) Joseph - b 9 Apr 1703; m by 1735 Dorothy Furbush (1); in 1747 his wife
was Deborah.
c) Charity - b 5 May 1705.
d) Stephen - b 12 Apr 1707; m Susannah Wentworth d/o Benjamin (11).
e) Nicholas - b 1 Sep 1709; m 20 Feb 1731 Mary Ferguson (1).
f) William - b 9 Oct 1711; d 10 Aug 1716.
g) Elizabeth - b 18 Jan 1713; selling liquor in 1736, bondsm br Benj & Nathl
Roberts Jr; on 1737 her mo, bros Benj & Solomon, and Robt Mace of Gosport,
later her husb, recued her from arrest by the dep sheriff.
h) Benjamin - b 15 Apr 1716; m Scarboro 9 Dec 1737 Temperance Bryant (8).
i) Paul - b 24 Jan 1717; m by 1741 Lydia Heard (James 2); adm to her 24 Apr
1751; 4 or more ch.
j) Solomon - b 31 Mar 1720.
k) Ann - b 2 Aug 1722; m an Evans.
l) John - b 17 Dec 1724.
[Noyes, Libby & Davis, Geneal Dict of ME & NH, 1928-39, p309, 736, 788].
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Nicholas Hartford - m as early as 1700 Elizabeth Jenkins, d/o Stephen; m2
bef 1727 Charity ___ (see will of John Ham) [Canney, Early Marr of Straff Co NH
1630-1860, p442].
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Nicholas Harford - was a famous ferryman in Dover; the site of his ferry was
near the end of High Street on Dover Neck [Scales, Hist Dover, 1923 p118].
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Nicholas Hartford - aka Harford, of Dover NH, m Elizabeth Jenkins & had 12
ch b Dover. Need his ancestry [Peggy Hartford Marsh, 1399 NE Drost Dr, Bend OR
97701].
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Nicholas Hartford - was selectman in Dover NH 1724, 1726, 1727, 1728, 1730,
1731, 1733, representative in 1732, and moderator in 1728, 1731 [Quint, Hist
Memoranda...Old Dover NH, 1900, pp2,4,5 8,11].CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS:
1701 Sep 16 - Patience Harford b d/o Nicolas & Elizebeth Harford [Coll of
Dover NH Hist Soc 1:8].
1701 Sep 16 - Patience Harford b d/o Nicolas & Elezebeth, reported from
Dover [NHVR].
1703 Apr 9 - Joseph Harfutt b s/o Nicklas & Elesebeth Harfutt [Coll of Dover
NH Hist Soc 1:8].
1703 Apr 9 - Joseph Harfutt b s/o Nicklas & Elisebeth, reported from Dover
[NHVR].
1795 May 5 - Charity Harford b d/o Nicolas & Elezebeth Harford [Coll of
Dover NH Hist Soc 1:8].
1705 May 5 - Charity Harford b d/o Nicolas & Elezebeth, reported from Dover
[NHVR].
1706 May 4 - from Richard Pinkham to Nicholas Harford, 7a on Dover Neck,
bounded N by Nutter's Lane, E by High Street, S by Thomas Tibbets land, and W
by Low Street [Thompson, Landmarks in Ancient Dover, 1892, p167].
1707 Apr 12 - Stephen Harford b s/o Nicolas & Elezebeth Harford [Coll of
Dover NH Hist Soc 1:9].
1707 Apr 12 - Stephen Harford b s/o Nicolas & Elezebeth, reported from Dover
[NHVR].
1709 Sep 1 - Nicolas Harford b s/o Nicolas & Elezebeth Harford [Coll of
Dover NH Hist Soc 1:9].
1709 Sep 1 - Nicholas Harford b s/o Nicholas & Elezebeth, reported from
Dover [NHVR].
1711 Oct 9 - William Harford b [Coll of Dover NH Hist Soc 1:9].
1711 Oct 9 - William Harford b, reported from Dover [NHVR].
1711/12 Mar 20 - from Nicholas Harford to Samuel Emerson, land on W side of
Back River near Frenchman's Creek, which land was bought from Moses Davis, to
whom it was granted in 1701; it lay between the land of Thomas Layton and the
land Samuel Emerson bought of Joseph and Thomas Hall 18 Dec 1700 [Thompson,
Landmarks in Ancient Dover, 1892, p78].
1713 Jan 18 - Elezebeth Harford b [Coll of Dover NH Hist Soc 1:9].
1713 Jan 18 - Elezabeth Harford b, reported from Dover [NHVR].
1713 Apr 15 - Benjamen Harford b [Coll of Dover NH Hist Soc 1:9].
1716 Apr 15 - Benjamin Harford b, reported from Dover [NHVR].
1716 Aug 10 - Willam Harford died [Coll of Dover NH Hist Soc 1:9].
1716 Aug 10 - William Harford died, reported from Dover [NHVR].
1717 Jan 24 - Paul Harford b [Coll of Dover NH Hist Soc 1:9].
1716/7 Jan 7 - Nicholas Harford descented regarding a motion on the
minister's salary at the town meeting held on Dover Neck [Quint, Hist
Memoranda...Old Dover NH, 1900, pp237].
1717 Jan 24 - Paul Harford b, reported from Dover [NHVR].
1717 May 20 - at a town meeting on Dover Neck "Voted and granted unto Mr
Nicholas Harford the Libberty of keeping a ferry from beck's slip to Kittery he
keeping sufficient boat or gundelo for the sole transportation of man and horse
over sd ferry for which servis his fee shall be for a single person 2, and for
man and hors six pence" [Quint, Hist Memoranda...Old Dover NH, 1900, pp238];
this ferry ran to what is now known as Morrill's Point on the Eliot shore; in a
later day it was called Morrill's Ferry [Thompson, Landmarks in Ancient Dover,
1892, p94].
1718 Jul 2 - from Wm Parker of Portsmouth to Nicholas Harford, a house & 4a
on Dover Neck, begin at landing place called Beck's Slip or Point, extending
west by side of highway to High Street, then S by sd street to Samuel Haines'
land, then E by Haines' land to the Fore River [Scales, Hist Dover, 1923 p118;
Thompson, Landmarks in Ancient Dover, 1892, p18].
1720 Mar 31 - Sollomon Harford b [Coll of Dover NH Hist Soc 1:9].
1720 Mar 31 - Sollomon Harford b, reported from Dover [NHVR].
1721/22 Feb 21 - from John Hall s/o Ralp Hall to Nicholas Harford, 4a marsh
& upland on W side of Dover Neck between Hilton's Piont & Redding Point on the
salt water [Thompson, Landmarks in Ancient Dover, 1892, p215].
1721/22 Mar 16 - a road was laid out from High Street St to Beck's Slip, no
doubt to facilitate access to Harford's Ferry [Thompson, Landmarks in Ancient
Dover, 1892, p18].
1722 May 10 - Nicholas Harford was a half-share proprietor of Rochester,
sharing Lot 67 with John Kenny [McDuffee, Hist Rochester, 1892, p38].
1722 Aug 2 - Ann Harford b d/o Nicklas & Elezebeth Harford [Coll of Dover NH
Hist Soc 1:9].
1722 Aug 2 - Ann Harford b d/o Nicolas & Elezebeth, reported from Dover
[NHVR].
1724 Dec 17 - John Harfutt b s/o Nicklas, reported from Dover [NHVR].
1726 Mar 26 - Nicholas Harford petitioned the selectmen of Dover that his
grant of a ferry from Dover Neck to Kittery should pass to his heirs at his
death; his petition was granted [Quint, Hist Memoranda...Old Dover NH, 1900,
pp267].
1732 - Nicoleis Hartford petitioner at Dover DOV733:4 [Holbrook, NH Census
1732, 1981, p41].
1737 Jun 12 - Betty & Anna Harford bapt at Dover by Rev Jonathan Cushing
[Coll of Dover NH Hist Soc 1:42, 143].MISCELANEOUS ITEMS:
A committee investigating the accuracy of the first book of Dover records
prepared a lengthy list of apparently fraudulent entries. One of these on page
121 was a grant of 30a to Nicholas Harford. The committee noted that there was
"no date & the Grant & Petition for sd. grant being on the same ps. of paper &
wrote by the same had & Differs from the record because the Record is Dated &
the originall not" [Scales, Hist Dover, 1923 p161].
FAMILY RECORD:
Eugene M Bunker - m 6 Dec 1866 in Newmarket to Mary J Calley. Need par/o
both & descendants [Clifton R Sargent Jr, 102 North Rd, North Yarmouth ME
04097].Sources:
Other : Stackpole, Hist Durham NH, 1913, 2/38