... He [John Harris] married Hannah, a daughter of Charles and Sarah Stewart, of Upper Makefield, and had seven children. Of the children of this marriage, Anne, the eldest married Doctor Shields, of Philadelphia, and at his death Judge Harry Innes, of Kentucky. Their child, Maria Knox, first married her cousin, Jack Harris Todd, and at his death she became the second wife of Hon. John J. Crittenden. Sarah Harris married Captain Charles Smith, of Wayne's army, Elizabeth, Judge Thomas Todd, of the United States Supreme Court, whose second son, Charles Stewart Todd, was aid-de-camp to General Harrison in 1812, and represented this government at Saint Petersburg and at Columbia, South America, and Mary Harris married James Hanna, a lawyer of Newtown, a man of considerable property, and had four children. Commodore Spotts of the navy is a grandson. Jack Harris married Jane Hunt, of New Jersey. His son William was a commander in the navy, and drowned off Vera Cruz during the Mexican war, trying to save the life of a brother officer. Hannah and Rachel Harris died unmarried. The Hannas lived near Newtown, belonged to the old church, and likewise removed to Kentucky.
After the death of Charles Stewart, in 1794, Mrs. [Sarah] Stewart, with her daughters, Mrs. [Mary] Hunter, Mrs. [Hannah] Harris, and Mrs. [Anne] Shields, a daughter of Mrs. [Hannah] Harris, and all widows, with their children, immigrated to Kentucky, where their descendants are numbered among the most distinguished people of that state. Charles Steward, the father of Mrs. [Hannah] Harris, had four other children, Robert, who died, unmarried, at Trough Spring, Kentucky, William, a schoolmate of Daniel Boone, who accompanied him on his second visit to Kentucky, and was killed at the battle of Blue Licks, Mary, who married James Hunter, and Charles, who died at Newtown in 1773, at the age of thirty-seven. Charles Stewart, the father, died September 26th, 1794, aged seventy-five, and was buried in the Presbyterian yard at Newtown. ...
