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Thomas Harris alias Williams

Male Bef 1584 - Bef 1633  (< 49 years)


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  • Name Thomas Harris alias Williams 
    Birth Bef 2 Feb 1584  [1
    Baptism 2 Feb 1584  Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 22 Mar 1633  Winnisimmet, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Alternate death Bef Sep 1634  Winnisimmet, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I36694  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TSW
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2023 

    Father William Harris,   b. Abt 1543, of Hatherup, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1 Oct 1598 and 8 Nov 1599, Hatherup, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 55 years) 
    Mother Agnes Mason   d. Aft 8 Nov 1599 
    Marriage 30 Jan 1580  Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F21604  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth,   b. Between 1577 and 1578   d. 16 Feb 1670, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 93 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1610  [1
    Children 
    +1. Anna Harris,   b. Bef 28 Feb 1614   d. 7 Sep 1697, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 83 years)
    +2. William Harris,   b. Bef 12 Dec 1616   d. Bef 4 Feb 1689, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 72 years)
    +3. Daniel Harris,   b. Bef 20 Sep 1621   d. 30 Nov 1701, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 80 years)
    Family ID F21571  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2023 

  • Notes 
    • He arrived in or before 1630 and set up the first ferry service in the colonies, the Winnisimmet ferry between what are now Chelsea and Boston's North End. After his death it was taken over by William Stitson, who married Thomas Harris's widow.

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [S3826] The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, 1748-1833: Wife of Dudley Wildes of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1934.

    3. [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., year and place only.