First grave on the right series5/17/2023 In 1733, he took possession of 800 acres of lands granted to him by the Penn Family which would become the original Borough of Harrisburg. Harris built a home several hundred feet south of this gravesite, traded with the "Indians," cultivated the soil and established his river-crossing ferry. His desire to venture farther into the frontier brought them circa, 1717 to this place, that of the present-day Harrisburg. The Harrises moved to Chester County and then to Bainbridge, Lancaster County. There, through his friendship with Edward Shippen, Esq., first mayor of Philadelphia, he met his wife-to-be, Esther Say. First locating in Philadelphia, Harris made his living by removing tree stumps to open new streets in that city. Here lies John Harris, Sr., father of the founder of the City of Harrisburg, who emigrated from Yorkshire England in the early 18th Century to share in the opportunities of William Penn's new world.
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