Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Thomas* HARRIS | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THOMAS, one of the few in our country, often with an alias, being called, 19 Oct. 1630, at wh. time he req. to be made freem. as also 18 May foll. when he was adm. Williams, alias Harris. No doubt he came in the fleet with Winthrop [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thomas, son of William HARRIS and Agnes MASON. All children born in England, immigrated in Winthrop Fleet on the Lyon from Bristol, arriving Salem late in May 1630, two weeks before the Arbella; settled first at Winnissimmett. Oct 1630 requested freemanship (as "Thomas Will[ia]ms alias Harris") and admitted 18 May 1631 (as "Thomas Williams"). 18 Sep 1630 coroner's jury on the body of William Bateman (as "Thomas Williams"). Thomas died before land records were maintained, and left no will; does not appear in the lists of early Charlestown residents, or in Boston records, so it is likely that he supported himself solely by his ferrying operations. On 18 May 1631 "Tho[mas] Will[ia]ms hath undertaken to set up a ferry betwixt Winnettsem[e]t & Charlton, for which he is to have after 3d. a person, & from Winnettsem[e]t to Boston 4d. a person." No records of Thomas Harris in England have been found other than the mention in his father's 1599 will. Since the Winthrop Fleet was assembled mostly from East Anglia and London, one would expect to find evidence of the marriage of Thomas and the baptisms of his children in these areas rather than in Gloucestershire. Davis suggests, however, that Harris came on the Lyon, which sailed from Bristol and not from London. (The only reliable account of this family is in Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Bethia Harris ... [Portland, Maine, 1934], pp. 3-34). Richard Iles was nephew of Thomas Harris, and may have come with him in 1630; in his will he names his cousins Thomas Harris, William Harris, Anthony Harris, John Harris, Anne Maverick and Daniel Harris, giving 20s. to each. [ref 26] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THOMAS3 WILLIAMS alias HARRIS (William2, John1), his wife Elizabeth, five sons and one daughter came to America in the great emigration under the leadership of John Winthrop in 1630. It is a logical conclusion that they were passengers on the ship "Lyon" which sailed from Bristol, bringing emigrants from that city and the western counties of England, and which made port at Salem in the latter part of May, some two weeks before the arrival of the governor in the "Arbella." His name (Thomas Williams) first appears in the Colonial records on September 18, 1630, in the list of a jury of inquest on the body of William Bateman, who died from illness and exposure at Pullen Point in Boston Harbor, after a voyage from Plymouth. On October 19, 1630, as Thomas Williams alias Harris, he applied to the court to be made a freeman of the colony, was admitted, as Thomas Williams, on May 18, 1631, and took the required oath. On that same day the court recorded that "Tho: Williams hath undertaken to sett upp a fferry betwixte Winnettsemt & Charlton, for which hee is to have after 3d a person, & from Winnettsemt to Boston 4d a person." Winnisimmet was the later town of Chelsea, and it was there that the family lived. Children: John, Thomas, Anthony, Anna, William, Daniel. Thomas Williams alias Harris died before September, 1634, when William Stilson, who married his widow Elizabeth, took over the ferry. Many years later, on June 15, 1680, Stilson, aged about eighty years, testified that "Thomas Harris lived at Winnisimet, about fforty nine years since & was wont to transport persons over the Rivers, to Charlstowne & Boston till he died, and after that I married his Widdow, and kept the ffery, as my predecessors did." Why Thomas Harris used the double surname Williams alias Harris has not been ascertained. It is possible that, after the death of his father, his mother married a Williams and her sons were commonly called by the name of their step-father. It may also be that he was apprenticed as a small boy to a Williams and went by his master's name, that relationship often being much stronger than a purely business one. The commonest reasons for an alias, illegitimacy in the lower classes and marriage with an heiress in the upper, do not apply in our case. There is also the possibility that for some personal reason affecting his proposed emigration it was advisable to assume a new name. [ref 38:6] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - aka Thomas WILLIAMS 5 Jul 1590 baptism, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hatherup is situated on a hill rising from the valley of the river Coln in one of the most picturesque districts of Gloucestershire. The village itself is a mere appendage to the manor house, now called Hatherup Castle and the home of Sir Thomas Bazeley. The village church, in which the early Harrises worshipped, was so pulled about in a drastic "restoration" in Victorian days, that nothing of its original character remains. [ref 38:4] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - picture: signature - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
| Notes for Elizabeth* HILLS | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - daughter of Lawrence HILL - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Elizabeth -- (Williams alias Harris) Stilson died in Charlestown February 16, 1670(1)* aged ninety-three, which places the date of her birth in 1577 or 1578. Stilson survived her (he was twenty years her junior) and married Mary, widow of Major Francis Norton, in the following August. He died April 11, 1691, in his ninety-first year, having been a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, a representative to the General Court from 1667 to 1671, and deacon of the Charlestown church from 1659 until his death. The first bequest in his will, which is dated April 12, 1688, is as follows: "I give and bequeath unto John Harris, Thomas Harris, William Harris, Daniel Harris and Anna Maverick, Relict widow of Elias Maverick, Deceased, the children of my first wife, to each of them five shillings gs, to be paid them Six months after my Decease." [ref 38:7] *conflicting date - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - By about 1634 Elizabeth (_____) Harris, widow of Thomas Harris; her death is given as 16 February 1669/70, aged 93; she was more likely a decade younger [ref 26] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
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