Thomas Harris alias Williams

Abt 1590 - Bef 1634  (~ 44 years)

• Name	Thomas Harris alias Williams
  Born	Abt 1590	in or near Hatherup, Gloucestershire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef Sep 1634	Winnisimmet, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I36694	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LMH, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	William Harris,   b. of Hatherup, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. Between 1 Oct 1598 and 8 Nov 1599
  Mother	Agnes Mason,   d. Aft 8 Nov 1599
  Married	30 Jan 1579  [2]
  Family ID	F21604	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth,   b. Between 1577 and 1578,   d. 16 Feb 1670, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets  (Age ~ 93 years)
  Married	Bef 1613  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Anna Harris,   b. Abt 1613,   d. 7 Sep 1697, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 84 years) + 2. William Harris,   b. Abt 1620,   d. Bef 4 Feb 1689, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age ~ 69 years) + 3. Daniel Harris,   b. Abt 1626, England ,   d. 30 Nov 1701, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age ~ 75 years)
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2021
  Family ID	F21571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in 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 in 1634 it was taken over by William Stitson, who married Thomas Harris's widow.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [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.