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Agnes Harris

Female Bef 1604 - Aft 1680  (> 77 years)


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  • Name Agnes Harris  [1
    Birth Bef 6 Apr 1604  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Baptism 6 Apr 1604  Barnstaple, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Gender Female 
    Death Aft 1680  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 6
    Person ID I14877  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of JTS
    Last Modified 3 Feb 2024 

    Father Bartholomew Harris, Mayor of Barnstaple, Devon,   b. Abt 1560   d. Bef 10 Oct 1615, Barnstaple, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 55 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Collamore,   b. Bef 2 Sep 1566, Bishop's Tawton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 7 Dec 1647, Barnstaple, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 81 years) 
    Marriage 18 Jan 1587  Braunton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 7
    Family ID F9377  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 William Spencer,   b. Bef 11 Oct 1601   d. Aft 4 May 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 39 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1633  [5
    Children 
    +1. Sarah Spencer   d. 3 Nov 1691, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F23690  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Feb 2024 

    Family 2 William Edwards,   b. Bef 1 Nov 1618   d. Aft 1680, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 63 years) 
    Marriage 11 Dec 1645  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10
    Children 
    +1. Richard Edwards,   b. May 1647, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Apr 1718, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years)
    Family ID F9376  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 Mar 2020 

  • Notes 
    • One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors", one of DDB's six, and one of AW's three.

      Agnes Harris (b. 1604) = William Spencer
      Sarah Spencer = John Case
      Mary Case = William Alderman
      Sarah Alderman = Thomas Moses
      Amy Moses = William Halladay
      James Halladay = Rebecca Copley
      James Halladay, Jr. = ?
      Thompson Halladay = Rachel Halladay
      Anna Maria Halladay = Jacob Robert Neahr
      Henry Clay Neahr = Anna Serepta Wells
      Hortense Neahr (1884-1948) = William Stephenson Bloomer (1874-1934)
      Elizabeth Ann Bloomer (1918-2011), known as Betty Ford

  • Sources 
    1. [S1589] The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches by James Carnahan Wetmore. Albany, New York: Munsell & Rowland, 1861., first name only.

    2. [S388] FamousKin.com.

    3. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    4. [S1592] Douglas Richardson, "The English Origin of Agnes Harris, of Hartford, Conn., Wife of William1 Spencer and William1 Edwards." The American Genealogist 63:33, Jan 1988.

    5. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    6. [S388] FamousKin.com., year only.

    7. [S388] FamousKin.com., date only.

    8. [S1589] The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches by James Carnahan Wetmore. Albany, New York: Munsell & Rowland, 1861., year only.

    9. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952.

    10. [S3828] Walter Kendall Watkins, "English Ancestry of Rev. Jonathan Edwards." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 58:202, Apr 1904., says "11 Dec., 1647".