Isaac Harris Sr. (ca. 1741-1808)

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Identifier
NJS-PER-05411
Given Name
Isaac
Family Name
Harris
Birth Date
1741
Death Date
1808
Sex
Male
Occupation
Medical and Funerary
Biographical Description
Dr. Isaac Harris Sr (1741-1808) was a physician who was born in Piscataway, Middlesex County, and spent the second half of his life in Pittsgrove, Salem County. He had served as a surgeon during the Revolutionary War and was one of the founders of the New Jersey State Medical Society of which he served as president in the 1790s.

He owned vast tracts of land in Salem and Cumberland Counties and held people in slavery. He died in 1808 and left instructions in his will that said the people he held in bondage in his household should be free when they reach age 35.
Keywords
white person
enslaver
Places
Pittsgrove
Piscataway
Enslaver of
Selena (b. ca. 1781)
Parent of
Samuel Harris (ca. 1781-1843)
References

John R. Stevenson, The History of Medicine and Medical Men of Camden County, New Jersey (L. J. Richards & Co., 1886), p. 7, https://archive.org/details/historyofmedicin00stev/page/7.

This person is represented on the following page(s):
WikiTree: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harris-14360
Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11732534/isaac-harris
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
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