Joanna (Harris) Bird (1690 - 1768)

Born 28 May 1690 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

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Died 17 May 1768 at age 77 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Joanna HARRIS (daughter of John HARRIS 1671 – 1738 of Isles Shoals, York, Maine and Mary Sparks 1662 – 1730 ) was born 28 May 1690 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, and died 17 May 1768. ^[1]
She married Benjamin BIRD on 1713, son of Thomas BIRD and Thankful ATHERTON.

Joanna HARRIS married Benjamin BIRD on 30 Jan 1710 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Benjamin BIRD (son of Thomas BIRD and Thankful ATHERTON) was born 13 Apr 1686 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, and died 29 Mar 1757 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.

Children:

Mindwell Bird 1711 – 1756

Mary Bird 1713 – 1756

Anne Bird 1714 – 1799

Sarah Bird 1716 – 1782

Benjamin BIRD 1717 – 1787

Ann Bird 1717 – 1748

Elizabeth Bird 1721 – 1736

Thomas Bird 1722 – 1722

Samuel Bird 1724 – 1784

Abigail Bird 1725 – 1725

Hannah Bird 1726 – 1769

John Bird 1729 – 1810

Ruth Bird 1730 – 1730

Susannah Bird 1732 – 1802

Joseph Bird 1733 – 1733

Jonathan Bird 1734 –

Marriage

Spouse: Benjamin Bird. ^[1]
1710. ^[2], ^[3], ^[1]
Note: Surname spelled as Harrise instead of Harris.
Note: Intention to marriage: Jan 30, 1710. ^[4]

Research Notes

NEHGR: Benjamin and Johannah (Harris) Bird had fifteen children; the first five were born in Boston, the other ten in Dorchester. ^[4]

According to the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (cited earlier), p. 312,

THE LIFE AND FAMILY OF 35. JOHN AND MARY (ROPER) SPARKS OF IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS By Russell E. Bidlack June 19, 2014 10:41 AM Pages 4192-4229 Whole Number 164 Sparks Family Association #164-A

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The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011

U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Regarding Mary Sparks c 1662 – 1730 m John Harris 1671 – 1738 there are some interesting arguments about Mary Sparks parents:

" It is also probable that John and Mary (Sinnet) Sparks had a daughter named Mary born in the early 1660s. This is based on a statement contained in a publication entitled Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis published between 1928 and 1939 in five parts in Portland, Maine, (page 650). These authors stated that a John Harris "fisherman, Isle of Shoals ... married Mary Sparks (daughter of John Sparks of Ipswich and Boston), marriage bond 24 June 1687, surety Jabesh Negus of Boston. Thereafter he [Harris] lived in Ipswich where his wife died 6 May 1730, he died 3 December 1738."

"In our earlier article on John Sparks of Ipswich, we assumed, as had others, that a Mary Sparks to whom a John Harris, fisherman of the Isles of Shoals off the shore of New Hampshire was married in 1687 (marriage bond dated June 24, 1687) had been a daughter of John Sparks of Ipswich. We have found no proof of this relationship, however, even though John and Mary (Sparks) Harris are said to have lived in Ipswich. The name Harris was very common among Puritan settlers in Massachusetts, but in an article on Harrises in Boston before 1700 appearing in Vol. 26 (1952) of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (p. 26), it was suggested that a John Harris, a son of John and Joanna Harris, born September 17, 1671, "may have been the John Harris of the Isles of Shoals, fisherman, who for some reason (youth?) gave a marriage bond (Suffolk Co. Court File No. 129936) with Jabez Negus as surety upon his marriage with Mary Sparks of the Boston-Ipswich Sparkses." If the John Harris who was married to Mary Sparks in 1687 had been born 1671, he would not only have been under sixteen, but would have been much younger than his wife. Ipswich records, according to The Hammatt Papers, p. 125, reveal that John and Mary Harris had the following children: (1) John Harris, Jr., born November 19, 1690; Joanna Harris, born January 18, 1691 (this was probably intended for 1692); (3) Mary Harris, born July 19, 1694; (4) Thomas Harris, born October 10, 1696; and (5) Sarah Harris, born in 1698. According to the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (cited earlier), p. 312, Mary (Sparks) Harris died in Ipswich on May 6, 1730, and John Harris died there on December 3, 1738. No record of the settlement of his estate has been found in Essex County, however.

Since there does appear to be reliable evidence that the Mary Sparks who was married to John Harris in 1687 was a daughter of John Sparks of Ipswich, it follows that she must have been a daughter of Mary (Sinnet) Sparks, believed to have been the first wife of John Sparks. "

From: Sparks Family Association #164-A

From Find A Grave: Memorial #51777549: About Joanna Harris Birth: unknown Death: May 7, 1768

Family links: Spouse: Benjamin Bird (1686 - 1757)*

Children: Ann Bird Ireland (1714 - 1799)* Sarah Bird Hawes (1716 - 1782)* Benjamin I. Bird (1725 - 1824)*

• Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown Specifically: Unknown

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Source: #OR01 LDS PRF.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQB-J6L : 4 December 2014), Benjamin Bird and Johanna Harrise, 30 Jan 1710; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0928191 IT 2.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCCS-DX8 : 4 December 2014), Benjamin Bird and Joanna Harris, 23 Dec 1710; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0547505 IT 1.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Trask: Vol. 25, Page 25.

• Russell E. Bidlack. THE LIFE AND FAMILY OF JOHN AND MARY (ROPER) SPARKS OF IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS. Pages 4192-4229. Whole Number 164. Sparks Family Association #164-A
• Trask, William B. Thomas Bird, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1847-).
• Find A Grave: Memorial #51777549
• OR01 Pedigree Resource File. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SYGV-48Q : accessed 2017-09-27), entry for Joanna /Harris/. Retrieved 26 September 2017.