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Amelia Earhart

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Thomas Harris

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 392 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Harris 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Austin   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1637 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Feb 1710/1711 
  • Death Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elnathan Tew
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1664 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Richard Harris (Ahnentafel No:196 )

• Sources for Thomas Harris

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2013, Vol. 167, p. 102.
  • ² Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 757.
  • ³ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Vol. 7, p. 63, Birth record for son Richard Harris.
  • ⁴ Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 266.
  • ⁵ Morrison, George Austin, Jr., King Genealogy: Clement King, of Marshfield, Mass., 1668, and his Descendants, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 8.
  • ⁶ Ullmann, Helen Schatvet, Thomas and Nicholas Harris of Providence, RI, 1-5.

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