Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Thomas Harris alias Williams
Bef 1584 - Bef 1633 (< 49 years)-
Name Thomas Harris alias Williams Birth Bef 2 Feb 1584 [1] Baptism 2 Feb 1584 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England [1] Gender Male Death Bef 22 Mar 1633 Winnisimmet, Massachusetts [1] Alternate death Bef Sep 1634 Winnisimmet, Massachusetts [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 d. Between 1 Oct 1598 and 8 Nov 1599, Hatherup, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 55 years) Mother Agnes Mason d. Aft 8 Nov 1599 Marriage 30 Jan 1580 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England [1] Family ID F21604 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth, b. Between 1577 and 1578 d. 16 Feb 1670, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (Age ~ 93 years) Marriage Bef 1610 [1] Children + 1. Anna Harris, b. Bef 28 Feb 1614 d. 7 Sep 1697, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 83 years) + 2. William Harris, b. Bef 12 Dec 1616 d. Bef 4 Feb 1689, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age < 72 years) + 3. Daniel Harris, b. Bef 20 Sep 1621 d. 30 Nov 1701, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age > 80 years) Family ID F21571 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Jan 2023
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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.
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Sources - [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.
- [S3826] The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, 1748-1833: Wife of Dudley Wildes of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1934.
- [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.
- [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.