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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 3. Daniel3 Harris, in Harris, Gale Ion. The Brothers William2 and Daniel2 Harris of Middletown, Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul, Oct 2010; Jan 2011)
164:289.
"Joseph Harris, b. (Middletown) 1 March 1690/1, bp. (Middletown) 1 March 169[0]/1; d. Litchfield, Conn., in Aug. 1723, where he was shot and scalped by Indians at a place later called 'Harris Plains.'
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 6. Joseph3 Hopkins, in Hopkins, Timothy. John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1932)
25-26.
"… Capt. Joseph4 Harris, b. 1 March 1691, son of Daniel Harris, Jr., of Middletown, Connecticut, … and Abigail Barnes, … He d. in August 1723 at Litchfield. … Joseph Harris was from Middletown, Connecticut, and owned a 1/60th right in the early settlement of Litchfield to which he removed shortly after marriage. … In 1723 Mr. Harris was killed by Indians while plowing in his field near the north end of what was afterward called Harris Plain, where the road turns to Milton. His was the first death among the settlers, and, in 1830, a monument was erected by the citizens of Litchfield to perpetuate his memory. (Woodruff's Residents of Litchfield,, p. 103.)"
- ↑ Middletown Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
214.
"Harris, … Joseph, s. Daniell & Abiga[i]ll, b. Mar. 1, 1690/91 [LR1:21]"
- Harris, Joseph, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
3:281.
"Probate Records. Vol. XIII, 1737 to 1742.
Harris, Joseph. Court Record, Page 27—10 April, 1738: Abigail Harris, a minor, 14 years of age, daughter of Joseph Harris, late of Litchfield decd., chose Stephen Sedgewick of Farmington to be her guardian. Recog., £300.
Page 110—2 March, 1741-2: Asa Hopkins and Abigail Harris, alias Hopkins, the wife of sd. Asa Hopkins, acknowledged before this Court that they have received of Stephen Sedgewick, guardian to the sd. Abigail in her minority, the whole of the moveable estate of Joseph Harris, late of Litchfield deceased, which belonged to them."
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