Marriages of Priscilla Draper, daughter of David & Sarah.

Above: Records of the two marriages of Priscilla Draper, firstly to William Footman in 1808, and then to Jeremiah Harris in 1822. She was in her eighteenth year when she married William, and almost 32 at the time of her second marriage to Jeremiah. Strangely, Priscilla was noted as being a spinster at the time of her second marriage. There is no doubt that the Priscilla Draper who married William Footman and the one who later married Jeremiah Harris is the same woman, as in the will of her uncle, Henry Draper, he referred to her as "my niece Priscilla Harris otherwise Priscilla Footman."

The best candidate for Priscilla's husband is a William Footman, aged 32 years, who was buried at St. Andrews, Holborn, on April 8, 1820.

Jeremiah Harris is a mystery man. I can find no reference to him apart from his marriage to Priscilla Draper. I have searched Ancestry.com and Family Search for children born to Priscilla and Jeremiah Harris to no avail. I can't find a death for him, nor find either in the census returns.

I did find a death for a Priscilla Harris of the same age as Priscilla Draper...Priscilla Harris was buried at St. Lukes, Chelsea, on January 26, 1844, aged 55 years.