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Note: Dr. John Harris was among the early settlers of Truro, although he did not come until a few years after the Township was granted. He and his family were one of the six families that sailed from Philadelphia in the month of May, 1767, sent by a company to settle in Pictou.
Dr. John Harris moved to Truro about the year 1776, and settled on the interval of Salmon River. He was a Justice of the Peace, and was in the habit of celebrating the marriage contract. He was also Town Clerk. He died instantly falling off a horse.
He represented Truro in Parliament from the year 1781 until the year 1784.
From the Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867" by Leonard H. Smith and Norma H. Smith, Volume 1, Part 1 - From Nova Scotia manuscripts shows:
HARRIS, John. Dr.; plus wife, from Cross Roads, Md., to Pictou, N.S., on BETSY (45).
Sources for part 1 are:
(45) Stevens, Mrs. C. G. "John Rogers," with letter from Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 15 Sept. 1967. Typescript at Public Archives of Nova Scotia: MG-1, Vol. 1451, No. 10. HOPE (sic for BETSY), June 1767.
Volume 1, Part 2 - From Nova Scotia Periodicals also shows:
HARRIS, John. Dr.; plus wife; Philadelphia, Pa. to Picotu on BETSY 6 May 1767 (197:112).
Sources for part 2 are:
(197) Harris, R. F., Comdr., "A Pioneer Harris Family and the Pre-Loyalist Settlement of Pictou," Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, 33(1961):103-135.
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