Person:Mary Sparks (85)

Name^[1]	Mary Sparks
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Bef 1664	death of mother
Marriage Bond	24 Jun 1687	to John Harris
Marriage	Aft 24 Jun 1687	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)to John Harris
Death^[1]^[2]	6 May 1730	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Harris, from Isles of Shoals, in Davis, Walter Goodwin. The ancestry of Bethia Harris, 1748-1833: wife of Dudley Wildes of Topsfield, Massachusetts. (Portland, Me.: Southworth Press, 1934)
p. 37.

… a daughter of John Sparks of Ipswich and Boston. … Mary, wife of John Harris, died May 6, 1730.
[Note: grounds for this identification are not explained. There is no record of her birth and no evidence to that effect has been found.]
↑ Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919)
2:578.

Harris, Mary, w. John, fisherman, [died] May 6, 1730.
"Marriage Bonds", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Vol. 64, p. 188.

Bonds preserved in Suffolk Court Files, No. 129996 [this is the number cited by Davis] to 130016.
"John Harris of the Isle of Shoales Fisherman and Mary Sparks of Ipswich Spinster", dated 24 June 1687; Jabesh Negus of Boston, Carpenter, surety. [Signed] John Harriss, Jabesh negues. Witnesses: John Bonamy, Wm. Marshall.
An unsigned bond for this same marriage, with John Poole, merchant, as surety instead of Jabesh Negus, is also on file.