Walter Harris, Jr.

1688 - Aft 1730  (> 42 years)

• Name	Walter Harris
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	1687/8	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Misc	Jacobus estimated his birth date as "by 1690." Harris concurs, showing that Walter1 Harris was first called "senior" sometime between March 1707/1708 and August 1709, leading to the estimate that his son Walter Jr. was born between March 1686/1687 and August 1688. In 1711 he was called Walter Harris Jr. of Middletown. Middletown records show that Walter Harris married there three times between 1713 and 1720; Harris says his first two wives probably died at the births of a first child. Two days before he married his first wife, Walter Harris, a resident of Middletown, bought from her brother John Ranney five acres of the Thomas Ranney estate in East Middletown, later Portland. In May 1715 he purchased an adjacent five-acre parcel from John's brother Ebenezer Ranney. In 1721/1722 Walter Harris owned the Covenant and was chosen to collect a minister's rate in 1723. He was a member of the school committee in 1728 at the East Society in Middletown (Portlant First Congregational Church Records). On 10 March 1729/1730 he sold his homestead in Middletown to Ebenezer Lyman of the North Parish in Lebanon, Connecticut. His last deed was acknowledged at Hartford on 4 September 1730. By 1732 he was living at Lebanon, in the part later called Columbia, when he was mentioned in the will of his wife's father Ebenezer Booth of Stratford, Connecticut. On 27 November 1746 at Lebanon, Walter and Deborah Harris made an arrangement with their son-in-law Ebenezer Buck of Hebron, Connecticut; they conveyed to Ebenezer their 55 acre homestead on condition that he "take the special care of them to maintain and provide for them ... fitting and suitable for their old age." In May 1747, Ebenezer Buck of Hebron assigned his interest in this property to Nathaniel Harris of Lebanon for L600, but no transfer of the obligation was mentioned. On 17 March 1759 his land there was mentioned as adjoining a parcel owned by John Woodward, which was sold on that date to Walter's son Nathaniel.
  Residence	Middletown, , Connecticut, United States   [2]
  Died	Aft 4 Sep 1730  [1]
  Residence	1747	Lebanon, , Connecticut, United States   [3]
  Person ID	I12846	Arthur - Research
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2008

  
  

  Father	Walter Harris
  Mother	Mary Hale
  Family ID	F19336	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Abigail Ranney,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	21 Jan 1713/4	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States   [1]
  Children	1. Abigail Harris,   b. 1714, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F17850	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Wheeler,   b. 8 Aug 1690, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	23 Jan 1717/8	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States   [1]
  Family ID	F17851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Deborah Booth,   b. Est 1688,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Abt 1 Nov 1720	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States   [1, 2, 3]
  Children	1. Abigail Harris,   b. 11 Dec 1721, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Deborah Harris,   b. 13 Aug 1723, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Nathaniel Harris,   b. 13 Jun 1725, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Elizabeth Harris,   b. 14 Apr 1728, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4991	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1687/8 - Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Residence - - Middletown, , Connecticut, United States Married - 21 Jan 1713/4 - Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States Married - 23 Jan 1717/8 - Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States Married - Abt 1 Nov 1720 - Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States Residence - 1747 - Lebanon, , Connecticut, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S798] Electronic: RootsWeb World Connect, Evelyn Beran's Database <http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sanford-shulsen&id=I39527>, viewed 27 Mar 2006. [S1501] Book: Downeast Dicksons, p.13-27, 34, 35, 40., p.18. [S1924] Book: Booth Genealogy, p.4.