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Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Sarah Harris

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Amelia Earhart — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 49 
  • Father:
  • David Harris 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Jenckes   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1750 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Jun 1827 
  • Death Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ephraim Otis Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Oct 1769 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ephraim Otis (Ahnentafel No:24 )

  (David) Harris Otis

  George Alexander Otis

• Sources for Sarah Harris

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A084813.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 279, Birth record for son David Harris Otis.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 2, p. 430, Death record for Sarah Otis.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 280, Birth record for son Ephraim Otis.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, p. 151.
  • ⁶ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 757.
  • ⁷ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Friends and Ministers - Vol. 7, p. 253.
  • ⁸ Fales, De Coursey, The Fales Family of Bristol, Rhode Island: Ancestry of Haliburton Fales of New York, Boston, Massachusetts: T. R. Marvin and Son, Printers (1919), 201.
  • ⁹ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 122-123.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 388, 490.

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