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Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Samuel Harris I was born in the village of Hartford (one mile up White River from White River Junction), Vermont, on the 1sth day of September, 1836. My father was Edward Pratt Harris, a native of Massachusetts. My mother was Elizabeth Sanborn Gillett, a native of Vermont My father graduated at Dartmouth College in the year 1826. Afterwards he founded the academy at Bradford, Vt. He studied law, and was admitted to practice about the year 1832. He practiced law in White River Junction, Vt., until the spring of 1837, when he went west to find a home. He located in Rochester, Mich., and sent for my mother in the summer. She started from Vermont about the ...
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containing an account of his early life, of his travels, which commenced in his fourteenth year and of the manner in which he was led to embrace the Christian faith in the year 1826, when he was baptised by the Rev. W. Clegg, in Pitt-Street Chapel, Liverpool: interspersed with illustrations of Jewish opinions, customs & expectations: written by himself
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