Robert Harris

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Husband Robert Harris ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1753 or Mar 1755 1 2
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           Died: 4 Mar 1785 - Tredyffrin Twp, Chester Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Chester Valley Presbyterian Church, near Berwyn, Chester Co, PA 4

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         Father: William Harris (1701-1754) 1 2
         Mother: Catherine Douglass (1709-1780) 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Harris

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He studied medicine and served as a surgeon of the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolution. He was a valuable officer and highly esteemed by his confreres in that struggle. Dr. Harris died of quinsy at the house of John Phillips, inn-keeper, the sign of the Blue Ball, almost twenty miles west of Philadelphia, in Tredyffrin township, Chester County, on the night of the 4th of March, 1785. His will was written by Andrew Gordon, at his request, and is dated March 3, 1785, "recorded May 3, 1785, and remains in the register's office in Paxtang, Dauphin county." Letters of administration with the will annexed were granted to Mary Harris, the wife of his brother James. Dr. Harris willed the interest of a part of his personal estate to his brother John Harris during his lifetime, and then the principle to fall to Robert, son of James. His land (donation land), when surveyed, he allowed to Laird Harris, son of James. From a receipt still in existence [1896], tombstones were purchased in Philadelphia, and as there are no records in the graveyard at Derry or Paxtang, the presumption is that he was interred at Tredyffrin. The papers of Dr. Harris, which would be of undoubted historic value, were burned by a member of the family some forty years ago [1896], to prevent their falling into the hands of strangers. His medicine chest was later in the possession of his grand-nephew, William L. Harris, of East Buffalo township, Union County. [CBEDC, 113]

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 113.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 771, 871.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 871.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 771.