Patent to Charles Harmar

[Henry Barraud Hunt, Jr.]

In 1630 Charles Harmar married Anne Southy, daughter of Henry Southy. Henry Southy had a sister named Anne Southy who married Lord who married Lord John Throgmorton. John Throgmorton was a brother of Elizabeth Throgmorton who married Sir Thomas Dale. Charles Harmar's patent for 1050 acres in the same area was granted 4 June 1635. The patent was for himself, his wife, Anne, and nineteen servants.(See Minutes of the General Council and Court, page 179. On 17 September 1644 the patent was renewed for Elizabeth Harmar, daughter and sole heir of Charles Harmar, with 150 acres added. See Patent Book ii, page 245. Elizabeth Harmar died unmarried before 1 May 1654, when Thomas Harmar, son of Dr. John Harmar, heir to Charles Harmar and Elizabeth, his daughter, sold sold the 1200 acres belonging to Elizabeth, to her step father, Colonel Nathaniel Littleton, as stated in a patent 25 March 1656, to Edwar Littleton, son and heir of Nathaniel Littleton (Patent Book 4, page 32.) This patent was issued to Edward  one year prior to his marriage to Sarah, daughter of Edward Douglas  and Isabella Dale.