Nathaniel HARRIS ¹

  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 "Nathaniel and his wife Mary Tozer settled on the old Harris Homestead, in Salem Parish, now Salem township, where they ever lived, and where they died; and where all their thirteen children, five sons and eight daughters, were born. It is noteworthy that all these children lived past middle age, all married and became heads of families, and that no shadow of evil habit, vice, crime, or stain of reputation ever rested upon a single one of them.
Nathaniel served in the war of the Revolution for a least six months, from May 25 to November 25, 1777 and was at one time with the army at the "Head of Elk" in Pennsylvania; and although tradition among his children was that he served during the war, there is no record of longer service, and the very regular births of his children during that war serves to show that he was never long absent from home. He held a commission, however, as Captain in the State militia.
He was a farmer. He was a proud and high-toned man, proud of his lineage and blood; pruod of his little wife and of his daughters; proud of his farm stock, of his full crops, and of his abundance and rich variety of choice fruits. Of stalwart frame and stately bearing, he was ever tender and gentle as a belted knight to all womankind and to children; but among men he was dignified, austere, and even imperious and lordly. His little wife Mary, mated him most fitly in her sphere, ruling well her household, and inspiring all by the gentleness and potency of her influence and example. In his eyes she was a "spirit of the just, made perfect," his daughters were all "angels."

Nathaniel married Mary TOZER, daughter of Samuel TOZER and Wife of Samuel TOZER (MAIDEN UNKNOWN), in 1764. (Mary TOZER was born in Colchester (Salem Parish), New London County, Connecticut.)