Daniel Harris

Bef 1621 - 1701  (> 80 years)

• Name	Daniel Harris  [1]
  Birth	Bef 20 Sep 1621  [2]
  Baptism	20 Sep 1621	Newnham, Hertfordshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Nov 1701	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  + 1. Anna Harris ,   b. Bef 28 Feb 1614   d. 7 Sep 1697, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age > 83 years) ▻ Elias Maverick ,  m. Bef 1635 + 2. William Harris ,   b. Bef 12 Dec 1616   d. Bef 4 Feb 1689, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age < 72 years) ▻ Edith ,  m. Bef 1642 + 3. Daniel Harris ,   b. Bef 20 Sep 1621   d. 30 Nov 1701, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age > 80 years) ▻ Mary Weld ,  m. Bef 1651
  Person ID	I36748	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LMW
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	Thomas Harris alias Williams,   b. Bef 2 Feb 1584   d. Bef 22 Mar 1633, Winnisimmet, Massachusetts (Age < 49 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth,   b. Between 1577 and 1578   d. 16 Feb 1670, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (Age ~ 93 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1610  [2]
  Family ID	F21571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Weld,   b. Bef 1 Jul 1629   d. 5 Sep 1711, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age > 82 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1651  [2, 3, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Harris,   b. 30 Sep 1663, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut d. Between 8 Dec 1695 and 13 Mar 1699, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age 32 years)
  Family ID	F12587	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2023

  
  

• Notes

  At Rowley slightly after 1643, where he was granted a house lot and took the freeman's oath in 1651. In Middletown by 16 Jul 1653. He was a wheelwright and an innkeeper. Captain of Middletown militia in 1677. Deputy to the Connecticut general court 1678, 1684, 1687, and 1689. He was one of the deputies present in 1687 when Connecticut's charter was hidden from the royally-imposed Governor Andros and, it is said, hidden by Capt. Joseph Wadsworth in the Charter Oak tree.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S6773] Randy A. West, "The English Origin of Thomas1 Harris of Winnisimment (Chelsea), Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176:364, Fall 2022. [S6078] Gale Ion Harris, "The Brothers William2 and Daniel2 Harris of Middletown, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 164:165, 164:281, 2010. [S3826] The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, 1748-1833: Wife of Dudley Wildes of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1934. [S1865] Douglas Richardson, "New England Weld Family." The American Genealogist 55:145, 1979., says "About 1646".