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Interesting Stories, Reference Materials, Research Documents and Photos

Includes links to important research correcting long-standing errors by previous historians.

 

 

Click here: for research into Thomas Harris' history, his birth to the Andrew Harris Family, Northbourne, Kent, England and migration to New England.

 

Click here: the New England Historic Genealogical Society completed an extensive research paper differentiating this Thomas Harris from several other individuals also named Thomas Harris residing in New England at the time.

 

Click here:to read The NEHGS Register Article,The Origins of Thomas Harris and William Harris of Providence, Rhode Island, by Helen Schatvet Ullmann and L. Randall Harris

 

Click here: to read a research paper "Thomas Harris II and his son Nicholas Harris and families" by Helen S. Ullmann

 

Click here:additional research has extended the Harris line back several generations before Thomas Harris to Staplehurst, Kent.

 

Click here: to go to Thomas Harris' descendants Nathan and Rhoda Harris of Palmyra, New York and their family.

 

Click here: to go to Story of the Emer Harris False Bottom Trunk

 

Photo of chest with two of Emer's grandsons with False Bottom Trunk.

Job Harris Family Bible Located. (Job was Nephew of Emer and Martin Harris) Click for More about Job Harris Family Bible

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click for: Historical Essay on Martin Harris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Harris Family History Links:

 

Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society, Vol. 4 Discussing Thomas Harris' Home Lot

http://books.google.com/books?id=mey2yVepeHsC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA34&ots=txqeZBUu2c&dq=thomas+harris+home+lot+providence+ri&output=text#c_top

A Short History of Rhode Island

http://books.google.com/books?id=zYV0R7P4TYUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1

Annuls of the Town of Providence, 1832, Staples

http://books.google.com/books?id=mey2yVepeHsC&printsec=titlepage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Click Here for History of Lime Production in LimeRock, RI by Miles Harris III

 

 

Nathan Harris and Rhoda Lapham Family of England, New England, New York, Ohio, Illinois and Utah

http://www.nathanharrisfamily.org/

 

 

 

©2005 Randy Harris