Edith (Unknown) Harris (1620 - 1685)

Born 1620 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 5 Aug 1685 at about age 65 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Edith (also Edee or Eedy in some records) was born about 1620 with unknown place of birth.

She married Capt. William Harris by the date of 1642 in Massachusetts. She was the mother of Hannah, Mary, Martha (m. Deacon Joseph Coit), Elizabeth and Patience.

William married first, by 1642, EDITH ____, who died at Middletown on 5 August 1685.[18] She had been admitted as “Eedy Harris” to the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 30 9m [November] 1642.

Research Notes

Disputed parentage

It has been speculated that Edith's parents were Thomas Bligh and Jane Penkevell of Cornwall, but no source material has been presented. At this point there seems to be no basis for this speculation.

Sources

• Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 10 Jul 1935, 604, Vol. 73, Pg 174
• Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Volume 070 Part 1 Middletown
• Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934, FHL Film Number 1513707
• Harris Genealogy : A history of James Harris of New London, Connecticut, and his descendants, pg. 202
• http://www.americanancestors.org/uploadedFiles/American_Ancestors/Content/Publications/Journals/Register_PDFs/NEHGR_July_2010_Vol_164.pdf
• Harris, Gale Ion. The Brothers William² and Daniel² Harris of Middletown, Connecticut, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2010) Vol. 164, WN 655, Page 167.
• Harris, T. W., Notes on The Will of Richard Hills, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1848) Vol. 2, Page 219.