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Amelia Earhart

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Sarah Harris

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• • 6th Generation — 3rd Great-grandmother of Amelia Earhart
  • 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 III (Ahnentafel No:24 )

  (David) Harris Otis

• Sources for Sarah Harris

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System , Ancestor #A084813.
  • ² Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Datebase) , New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001-2008) , Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 279, Birth record for son David Harris Otis.
  • ³ Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Datebase) , New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001-2008) , Scituate, Vol. 2, p. 430, Death record for Sarah Otis.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Datebase) , New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001-2008) , Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 280, Birth record for son Ephraim Otis.
  • ⁵ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 2 , Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908) , 757, Google Books (Digital Library).
  • ⁶ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records , Friends and Ministers - Vol. 7, p. 253, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ⁷ 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, Ancestry.com (Online Database).
  • ⁸ Otis, William A. , A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America , Chicago: Unknown (1924) , 122-123, Ancestry.com (Online Database).
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd , The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Fa milies on the Mayflower , Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020) , 388.

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