Johnson Harmon
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Col Johnson Harmon (Harman)(c. 1675 – 1751) was an army officer in colonial America. He led the expedition during Father Rale's War that killed Father Sébastien Rale in the Battle of Norridgewock. Harmon was heralded as a hero upon his return to Boston. New England Officer and historian Samuel Penahallow proclaimed the attack was "the greatest victory we have obtained in the three or four last wars."[2]
Career
Harmon was from York and was a teenager during the Raid on York (1692) during King Williams War.[3] During Queen Anne's War, in 1707 he was present, with his younger brother John, at Winter Harbour (Biddeford, Maine) he helped repulse the attack of natives in 50 canoes.[4][5] In this battle Benjamin Donnell was killed by Indians.[6] On 10 October 1710 Bomazeen with 60–70 Indians attacked the village of Winter Harbour, killing 3-4 and taking many more prisoner, including Harmon.[7] (Harmon was part of the expedition that killed Bomazeen, upon their return from the Battle of Norridgewock.[8]) He was released from captivity at Chambly, Quebec on 22 May 1711 in exchange for Beauvenire de Vercheres who was taken in the Raid on Haverhill (1708).[9][10][11]
In 1716, Harmon was considered for the position of messenger for the Indians.[12]
A year prior to the Battle of Norridgewolk, the Abanaki Indians made a failed attempt to assassinate Harmon.[13]
Harmon was the brother-in-law of the second-in-command of the expedition to Norridgewock, Col. Jeremiah Moulton. He was the father-in-law of the soldier that killed Rale, Richard Jacques.
Harmon was representative to the Massachusetts General Court (1727).[14][15]
At age 70, Harmon applied to fight in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). While Harmon did not fight in the Siege, Moulton and Jacques did.
References
- ↑ https://cemeteriesofbrunswickmaine.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/winners-and-losers-part-2-the-rest-of-the-story/
- ↑ French & Indian Wars in Maine By Michael Dekker, p. 70
- ↑ http://www.snowshoemen.com/node/20
- ↑ p. 247
- ↑ http://www.snowshoemen.com/node/20
- ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mainegenie/DONNELL.htm
- ↑ Hutchinson, The History of Massachusetts Bay. , p. 189
- ↑ p.38
- ↑ . 140
- ↑ New England Captives Carried to Canada Between 1677 and 1760 During the ... By Emma Lewis Coleman, p. 248
- ↑ Mass Archives, p. 194
- ↑ pp.461-462
- ↑ Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of the State of Maine: From the ..., p. 79
- ↑ New England Captives, p. 250
- ↑ Harmon Gaenology, p. 140