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About Sarah Harris
Sarah (Nettleton) Harris is Buried in Old South Farms Cemetery in Middletown, Ct
Biography
Source for some information: http://www.middlesexhistory.org/exhibits/english.htm
Party to adultery with Thomas Miller. Thomas left his wife for Sarah Nettleton
Gravestone of Sarah Miller Harris, 1728
Behind a simple gravestone in the Old Farm Hill Cemetery hides a story of scandal among Middletown's earliest settlers.
The Puritans have an enduring reputation as moral and upright people; in many respects their reputation is deserved. Obedience was central to their religion: children were to obey their parents, wives their husbands, and citizens the laws of their government. Yet Puritans were human, no less susceptible to temptation and error than their modern counterparts.
A case in point centers on several of Middletown's earliest settlers. Thomas and Isabel Miller moved here from Rowley, Massachusetts about 1652. On May 6, 1666, the couple's maid, Sarah Nettleton, gave birth to a son. The father was Thomas Miller. Thomas was about 56 years old; Sarah was 22.
Within a few days of the birth, Thomas's wife Isabel died. Thomas rapidly married Sarah Nettleton, but did not escape a brief imprisonment for his adultery. All things considered, the couple was fortunate to avoid the standard civil penalty of the day, which included the whipping of both or being "burnt on the Forehead with the letter A."
For his sin, Thomas Miller's home church in Rowley excommunicated him. Finally, in 1674, the convicted adulterer made his only trip back to Massachusetts to express his repentance, and was received back into church membership. Thomas and Sarah Miller had eight children together, the last born after Thomas's death in 1680, when he was over 70 years old. Some years later, Sarah married John Harris and lived well into her eighties.
Family
From http://avocadoridge.com/carney/getperson.php?personID=I5618&tree=tree1
Spouse: Thomas MILLER (7 Nov 1609 - 14 Aug 1680) Married: 6 Jun 1666 Middlesex, Middletown, Connecticut
Children:
- 1 Thomas MILLER (6 May 1666-1667 - 7 Sep 1727)
- 2 Samuel MILLER (1 Apr 1668 - 11 Apr 1738)
- 3 Joseph MILLER (21 Aug 1670 - 3 Mar 1717)
- 4 Benjamin MILLER, Governor (10 Jul 1672 - 22 Nov 1747)
- 5 John MILLER (10 Nov 1674 - 3 May 1745)
- 6 Margaret MILLER (1 Sep 1676 - 31 Dec 1764)
- 7 Sarah MILLER (7 Jan 1678 - 1727-1728)
- 8 Mehitable MILLER (28 Mar 1681 - 17 Apr 1753)
- 9 Andrew MILLER ( - )
- 10 Robert MILLER (Abt 1672 - 2 Aug 1727)
- 11 Leonard MILLER (Abt 1774 - 2 Jul 1850)
- 12 John MILLER|ARD (Abt 1605 - Yes, date unknown)
- 13 George MILLER (Abt 1645 - Abt 1690)
- 14 John Christian MILLER (Abt 1690 - Abt 1768)
- 15 Joseph MILLER (12 Jul - 13 May 1747)
- 16 Caleb MILLER (Abt 1715 - Bef 1747)
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Mar 7 2018, 5:28:25 UTC
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nettleton-21
- Middlesex County Historical Society, see: https://mchsct.org/exhibits-displays/their-own-stories-online-exhib....
- Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection, Sarah Nettleton Miller, Birth year: 1645; Birth city: Branford; Birth state: CT. Source Information
- Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. See: http://ancstry.me/2DNfVvd
- Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Sarah Nettleton and Thomas Miller, 06, June 1666, Middletown, Connecticut. Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. See: http://ancstry.me/2DN95Wj.
- "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7KV-NQX : 3 December 2014), Sarah Nettleton in entry for Thomas Senior Miller, 14 Aug 1680; citing, reference item 1 p 54; FHL microfilm 1,513,707.
- Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Record for Sarah Nettleton Miller Harris, died March 20, 1727. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. See: http://ancstry.me/2DkwdKL.
- Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 January 2018), memorial page for Sarah Nettleton Harris (1642–20 Mar 1728), Find A Grave Memorial no. 22302649, citing Old Farm Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by AllanG (contributor 46922592).
- Jacobus, Donald Lines. "The Nettletons in America", The Connecticut Quarterly” (Hartford, Conn., 1908) Vol. 11, Pt. 2, Page 492
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862)
- Ancestral File: 1THR-Q8 & MJTV-9G
- Bacon, Reginald. Early Families of Middletown, Connecticut (Variety Arts Press, 2012) Volume 1: 1650 - 1654. pp. 5, 61-63, 99.
- Parsons, Samuel, H., Record of the Births, Marriages and Deaths of The First Proprietors of Lands in Middletown, CT, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1860) Vol. 14, Page 67
- https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/n/e/t/Wesley-A-Nettleton/WEBSITE-0001...
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Sarah Harris's Timeline
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1644
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Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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| 1666 |
May 6, 1666
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Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
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| 1668 |
April 11, 1668
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Middletown, Middlesex, MA
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| 1670 |
August 21, 1670
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Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
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| 1672 |
July 10, 1672
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Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
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| 1674 |
March 10, 1674
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Middletown, Middlesex, MA
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| 1676 |
September 1, 1676
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Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
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| 1679 |
January 7, 1679
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Middletown, CT
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