Patience HARRIS

Female 1654 - 1732  (78 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Patience HARRIS was born in 1654 (daughter of William HARRIS and Edith ?); died on 19 Mar 1732 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    NEHG Register 164 - Jul 2010
    On 24 July 1678, "Patience the Daughter of Wm. Harris," appeared before a court in hartford "to Answer for her committing fornication." She accused John Orton "for begetting her with Child which child was born march last." Orton admitted "that he was at the house of Wm Harris & kept there sometime about the time he was charged with begetting her with child." The court ordered Patience to pay a fine of L5 and Orton, adjudged "to be the reputed father," was ordered to pay 2s. per week as maintenance for the child "till it shall attayne the age of three yeares if it shall liue so long."
    The court record refers to Patience as though she were still single in March and July 1678, but Middletown vital records and land records both indicate that a few months before, on 2 Jan. 1677/8, she had m. there, as his second wife, Deacon Daniel Markham.....

    Patience married Daniel MARKHAM on 02 Jan 1677. Daniel died on 06 Feb 1712 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  William HARRIS was born in 1620 (son of Thomas HARRIS and Elizabeth ?); died before 04 Feb 1688 in Middletown or Wethersfield, Connecticut.

    William married Edith ? before 1642. Edith died on 05 Aug 1685 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Edith ? died on 05 Aug 1685 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    Children:
    1. Hannah HARRIS was born in 1652.
    2. Martha HARRIS was born in 1647 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 14 Jul 1713 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
    3. Mary HARRIS was born on 01 Jul 1645 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 01 Sep 1721.
    4. 1. Patience HARRIS was born in 1654; died on 19 Mar 1732 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    5. Elizabeth HARRIS was born in 1650; died on 07 Oct 1684 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.