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James Harris

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: June 04, 1714 (73-74)
New London, New London County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of John ‘of Rowley’ Harris and Bridget Harris
Husband of Sarah E. Harris
Father of Sarah Harris; Deborah Harris; Margaret Sumner; Lieut. James Harris; Margaret Harris and 7 others
Brother of Richard Harris; Elizabeth Bradstreet; Nathaniel Harris, of Rowley, MA; John Harris; Mary Jane Allen and 2 others
Half brother of James Harris, of Boston

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Immediate Family

About James Harris of Boston

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Captain James Harris

5 August 1648–before 13 September 1715

Birth • 1 Sources
5 August 1648
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Age 67 Death • 1 Sources before 13 September 1715 New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America

James Harris in entry for Asaph Harris, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

Captain James Harris 1648–1715

Marriage: 1666 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Sarah E Denison 1650–1715

Children (14)

Sarah Harris 1668–1695

Mary Harris 1669–1670

Deborah Harris 1670–1671

James Harris 1673–1757

Margaret Harris 1675–

Mary Harris 1676–1677

Deborah Harris 1678–

Elizabeth Harris 1679–

Asa Stanton Harris 1680–1715

Hannah Harris 1682–1715

Ephraim Harris 1684–1684

Mary Harris 1686–

Ephraim Harris 1688–1748

Elizabeth Harris 1690–1750

PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

John Harris 1616–1694

Marriage: 1 April 1640 Rowley, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Bridget Angier 1628–1672

Children (16)

James Harris 1640–1714

Susannah HARRIS 1644–1677

Ezekiel Harris 1644–

Elizabeth Harris 1644–1677

Elizabeth Harris 1645–1672

William Harris 1647–1693

Nathaniel Harris 1647–1732

Hannah HARRIS 1647–

Captain James Harris 1648–1715

John Harris 1649–1714

Mary Harris 1650–1655

Elizabeth Harris 1650–1677

Mary Harris 1651–1720

Thomas Harris 1651–1651

Sarah Harris 1653–1746

Abigail Harris 1655–1720



Seven of their children were baptized at the Old South Meeting House, Boston, in 1683.

From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary

JAMES, Boston, by w[ife]. Sarah had Sarah, b[orn]. 2 Mar. 1668; James, 4 Apr. 1673; Margaret, 16 Jan. 1674, d[ied]. soon; Mary, 3 Feb. 1677; Deborah; Elizabeth; Asa, 10 Nov. 1680; Hannah, 22 Apr. 1682; all bapt[ized]. 1683; Ephraim, 17 Dec. 1684; Mary, again, 11 Oct. 1686; Ephraim, again, 11 July 1688; and, perhaps by ano[ther]. w[ife]. James. Eight of this name had, in 1828, been gr[aduated]. at Harv[ard]. and none at Yale, four at Dart[mouth]. sixteen at the other N[ew]. E[ngland]. and N[ew]. J[ersey]. coll[eges]. as Farmer found.

Sources

  1. Morgan, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Harris), 1805-1881. Harris genealogy : a history of James Harris, of New London, Conn., and his descendants; from 1640 to 1878. With an appendix containing brief notices of several other early settlers of New England of the name of Harris / by Nath'l Harris Morgan. Hartford : The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1878. page 16.

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James Harris of Boston's Timeline

1640
1640
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1668
March 2, 1668
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
1670
July 1670
1673
January 16, 1673
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
April 4, 1673
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
1674
January 16, 1674
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
1677
February 3, 1677
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
1678
June 1678
1680
November 10, 1680
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts