Francis Whitmore (1674) / Hannah (Harris) Whitmore

Name: Francis Whitmore

Birth: October 12, 1650, Cambridge, Mass. (SAV)

Emigration: Born in Massachusetts Bay Colony; to Middletown c. 1674. (HMC)

Death: September 9, 1700 (MLR)( MAN)

Occupation & Public Service: Tailor (MLR); lieutenant of Middletown train band (Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776).

Marriage: m. Hannah Harris, February 8, 1674, Middletown, Conn. (b. abt. 1652, Rowley, Mass. or Middletown, Conn.; d. unknown) She was the daughter of William Harris and Edith (Dorney) Harris of England, Rowley, Mass., and Middletown, Conn. (SMFSD In-Depth First Settler Profile: William Harris)

Children: 10 children with first wife between 1675-1698. (BCVR)(MLR) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).