John Harris (1658 - bef. 1702)

Born 8 Aug 1658 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Descendants

Died before Apr 1702 before age 43 in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

Biography

Birth

John Harris was born on August 8, 1658, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, the son of John Harris, Sr. and Hannah (Briggs) Harris.^{[1] [2][3]}

Parents

John Harris the elder died by 1664, and his (2nd) wife, Hannah (Briggs) Harris married Wolston Brockway, Sr.^[1] John Harris the son of John Harris and Hannah Briggs was raised in Lyme, Connecticut by his mother Hannah and his step-father Wolston Brockway.^[1]

Occupation

John Harris made his living as a carpenter.^[1]

Marriage and Children

John Harris married by 26 Feb 1691/2 Mehitable Danks, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Swift) (Webb) Danks.^[1]

John and Mehitable had (probably) four children - John Harris b. Northampton, Massachusetts in 1696, Mary Harris "the Indian captive", Philip Harris of Simsbury, Connecticut, and a Thomas Harris who lived at Saybrook in the 1730s.^[1]

Death

John Harris died between 1696 and 1702, probably near Springfield, Massachusetts.^[1]

His Widow

Mehitable married as her second husband John Sackett II on 17 May 1703 at Westfield, Massachusetts.^[1]

NOTE: The names John and Thomas are passed down in this (and in other) early New England Harris lines. A professional genealogist such as Gale Ion Harris is helpful in sorting out the family connections correctly.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Enigmas #26 - Early Harrises of Wethersfield, Connecticut: Analysis of a Tradition], by Gale Ion Harris, TAG Vol 83 (2008-9), page 256
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCWL-ZXK : 4 December 2014), John Harris, 08 Aug 1658; citing BOSTON,SUFFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 397,042.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHT1-PLG : 4 December 2014), John Harris, 08 Aug 1658; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, 46; FHL microfilm 592,866.

• The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Enigmas #26 - Early Harrises of Wethersfield, Connecticut: Analysis of a Tradition, by Gale Ion Harris, TAG Vol 83 (2008-9), page 255 - 256

• Harris, Gale Ion. William¹ and Mary Briggs of Boston and The Connecticut Valley, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1997) Vol. 151, Page 92.

• d. "before April 1702, leaving a daughter Sarah, named in his stepfather's claim of that date to their Lyme common land." Citing NYGBR, 124 [1993]:65