Jonathan HARRIS ^{1 2 3 4}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Research Notes: Harris, James of New London, Connecticut and His Descendants; From 1640 to 1878 by Nathaniel Harris Morgan, 1878. ¹ "Jonathan was admitted a freeman in Cochester on his wedding day, April 13, 1761, and soon after marriage removed to Goshen, Orange County, NewYork, and thence to Newburgh, where he resided until 1789, when he removed to Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and bought a tract of land south of Shepard's Creek, on the Susquehanna river, but in 1800, lost it by a defect in the title. He afterwards removed to a part of the large farm of his son Alpheus, near "Spanish Hill," of legendary notoriety, where he lived with his son Samuel until his death. He was an upright and intelligent man, shrewd and somewhat eccentric and facetious. To a question once put to him as to the best business or occupation for a young man, his ready reply was that "loaning money was the best business he knew of, but very difficult to establish. He was a farmer."

Jonathan married Lodema TOZER, daughter of Samuel TOZER and Wife of Samuel TOZER (MAIDEN UNKNOWN), on 13 Apr 1761. (Lodema TOZER was born in 1741 in Colchester (Salem Parish), New London County, Connecticut and died on 16 Sep 1831.)