Bridget (Angier) Harris migrated from England to American Colonies.
Biography
She is an ancestor of President Franklin Pierce[1]
She married John Harris around 1643-1644. She is buried in Rowley, Mass.[2][3]
Bridge died on 4 August 1672 in Rowley, Massachusetts, United States.[4]
Research Notes
In this source, Bridget is listed as "possibly a daughter of Edmund and Bridget (Rogers) Angier of Wiston Co., Suffolk, and a niece of Rev Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich who, in 1655, left legacies of 20 shillings apiece 'to the children of my Cousin John Harris of Rowley, vis Elizabeth, Nathaniel, John and Mary'"[5]
Marriage to John Harris by 1643, possibly in Rowley, MA: [6]
Children with John Harris: Ezekiel, Nathaniel, John, Mary, Thomas, Timothy. John Harris' second wife and widow was named Alice: [7] NOTE: Alice was actually John Harris' 3rd wife. See source on John Harris profile
Marriage of son, Nathaniel, shows Bridget and John Harris as parents: [8]
Lists 3 sons born in Rowley, MA. John, born 1649; Thomas, 1651; Timothy, 1657: [9]
Bridget was almost certainly the daughter of Edmund and Bridget (Rogers) Angier. The will of Dorothy Rogers of Dedham in the County of Essex, widow, dated 16 April 1640 mentions Abigail, Bridget and Martha, daughters of late husband (John Rogers), the four children of daughter (assumed to be Bridget) Angier: John, Samuel, Bridget and Mary.[10]
Sources
↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents
↑ Blodgette, George B. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, Newcomb & Gauss Co., Salem, Mass., 1933.
↑Death:
"Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988"
Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook) Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2495 #80964480 (accessed 8 August 2023)
Bridge Harris death 4 Aug 1672 in Rowley, Massachusetts, USA.
↑New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 2, page 704
↑The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) Reference Volume 2, page 219
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Potential issue with merge of Unknown-211777 and Angier-10. The daughter on -211777 was born before Angier-10 by decades and the daughter's birth seems to jibe with sources in her profile. We could be looking at a different person. Suggest more research.
Angier-10 and Unknown-211777 are not ready to be merged because: Further research indicates there may be two different John Harris. One did not marry a Bridget; the other did, based on NEHGR, Torrey, etc. Additional research is required to determine the parentage of the Bridget Angier that married a John Harris.
New information obtained from NEHGR Vol 168; January 2014; Whole Number 669, p25; Michael Johnson Wood "The Earliest Shermans of Dedham Essex" gives the birthdate of her father Edmund as 1612. This source also does not mention a third wife named Bridget Rogers. The parents of Bridget Angiers need to be looked at.