Asa Harris (1709 - 1762)

Born 27 Nov 1709 in Preston, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Anna (Ely) Daniels — married 1736 in Connecticut

Descendants

Died 25 Jan 1762 at age 52 in Horton, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Asa was the son of Asaph Harris and Elizabeth Rogers, born in Preston, Connecticut, 27 November 1709; removed with the family to Saybrook, after the death of his father, where he m. 1st, ______, by whom he had a son Asa, and perhaps other children, who died young. He m. 2nd Mary_____, about 1748, by whom he had three children, whose births are not recorded, but who were baptized at Saybrook in infancy, at the dates given below.

Marriages

Records show the following Spouses:

Fatih McCall

Janie Doe

Anna Ely with whom he had 11 children.

Mary Rodgers

His name appears as a customer on the “old ledger” of his cousin James Harris, the Saybrook merchant, from 1729 to 1743, when that ledger ends. In 1753, “Asa Harris of Saybrook,” deeds to Richard Chapel his interest in 12 acres of land near New London, which he owned in “common and undivided,l” as the estate of his father, with his brother Ephraim and “the children of our deceased sisters, Anna Beebe and Mercy Waterhouse.” He was living as late as 1767, and probably died in Saybrook or Lyme, but I find no record of it.

Asa served in the 2nd Regiment under Colonel Nathan Whiting and Captain Joseph Spencer in the French and Indian War; 1758.

Notes

Rogers married his cousin, Mary Rogers, daughter of Samuel Rogers, with a marriage date when she was 44.^[1]

Children born to Asa and Ann (Ely) Harris were born in Saybrook, CT.

1. Asa, 3rd, 21 May 1737. M. Faith McCall, 23 July, 1761
2. Mary, baptized 20 May, 1750. M. Jonas Sweetland, 1774.
3. Ely, baptized January 1755, probably died young
4. Alpheus, baptized 19 March 1757, was living in Salem as late as 3 March, 1772, when James Ransom was appointed his guardian.

Sources

1. ↑ "James Rogers of New London, CT and His Descendants 1902 Page 41, 48, 49 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=eSE2AQAAMAAJ

• White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records; Connecticut Town Births pre -1870. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.

• Guertin, Iris, Rose, comp. Connecticut Soldiers, French and Indian War, 1755-62 Connecticut Historical Society. Vol. I-II. Hartford, CT, USA: Connecticut Historical Society, 1903-1905.

• The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land, by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, Salem, Massachusetts Press, 1910.

• Harris, Gale Ion. James and Sarah (Eliot?) Harris of Boston and New London, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2000) Vol. 154, Page 28.

• He died "by being frozen to death in a snowstorm." Also see footnote #188.

• Stover, Margaret Harris & Harris, Gale Ion. Asa and Anna (Ely) Harris of Connecticut and Nova Scotia, The Genealogist (American Society of Genealogists, 2006) Vol. 20, Page 89.