s/o Daniel Harris / Abigail Barnes
"In the month of August, 1721, Mr. Joseph Harris [one of the first settlers of Litchfield, from Middletown] a respectable inhabitant, was a work in the fields along, and being attacked by a party of Indians, attempted to make his escape. The Indians pursued him; and finding that they could not overtake him, they shot him dead and scalped him. As Mr. Harris did not return, the inhabitants were alarmed, and some search was made for him; but darkness of the night checked their exertions. The next morning they found his body, and gave it a decent burial. Mr. Harris was killed near the north end of the Plain where the road turns to Milton, a little east of a school-house now standing;and for a long time after, this Plain was called Harris' "Plain." The place of his internment remained unmarked for more than a century, but rested in the memory of the older inhabitants. He was buried in the west burial ground, near the village of Litchfield. In 1830, a suitable monument, with the appropriate inscription, was erected at his grave by voluntary contributions.
married Mary Hopkins
"In the month of August, 1721, Mr. Joseph Harris [one of the first settlers of Litchfield, from Middletown] a respectable inhabitant, was a work in the fields along, and being attacked by a party of Indians, attempted to make his escape. The Indians pursued him; and finding that they could not overtake him, they shot him dead and scalped him. As Mr. Harris did not return, the inhabitants were alarmed, and some search was made for him; but darkness of the night checked their exertions. The next morning they found his body, and gave it a decent burial. Mr. Harris was killed near the north end of the Plain where the road turns to Milton, a little east of a school-house now standing;and for a long time after, this Plain was called Harris' "Plain." The place of his internment remained unmarked for more than a century, but rested in the memory of the older inhabitants. He was buried in the west burial ground, near the village of Litchfield. In 1830, a suitable monument, with the appropriate inscription, was erected at his grave by voluntary contributions.
married Mary Hopkins
s/o Daniel Harris / Abigail Barnes
"In the month of August, 1721, Mr. Joseph Harris [one of the first settlers of Litchfield, from Middletown] a respectable inhabitant, was a work in the fields along, and being attacked by a party of Indians, attempted to make his escape. The Indians pursued him; and finding that they could not overtake him, they shot him dead and scalped him. As Mr. Harris did not return, the inhabitants were alarmed, and some search was made for him; but darkness of the night checked their exertions. The next morning they found his body, and gave it a decent burial. Mr. Harris was killed near the north end of the Plain where the road turns to Milton, a little east of a school-house now standing;and for a long time after, this Plain was called Harris' "Plain." The place of his internment remained unmarked for more than a century, but rested in the memory of the older inhabitants. He was buried in the west burial ground, near the village of Litchfield. In 1830, a suitable monument, with the appropriate inscription, was erected at his grave by voluntary contributions.
married Mary Hopkins
"In the month of August, 1721, Mr. Joseph Harris [one of the first settlers of Litchfield, from Middletown] a respectable inhabitant, was a work in the fields along, and being attacked by a party of Indians, attempted to make his escape. The Indians pursued him; and finding that they could not overtake him, they shot him dead and scalped him. As Mr. Harris did not return, the inhabitants were alarmed, and some search was made for him; but darkness of the night checked their exertions. The next morning they found his body, and gave it a decent burial. Mr. Harris was killed near the north end of the Plain where the road turns to Milton, a little east of a school-house now standing;and for a long time after, this Plain was called Harris' "Plain." The place of his internment remained unmarked for more than a century, but rested in the memory of the older inhabitants. He was buried in the west burial ground, near the village of Litchfield. In 1830, a suitable monument, with the appropriate inscription, was erected at his grave by voluntary contributions.
married Mary Hopkins
Inscription
In Memory
of
Joseph Harris
who was murder
ed by the Indians
in the year 1721.
While plowing in
his Field in the vi
cinity of the Alms
House, he was shot
by the Indians concealed in Am
bush. He was found
dead Sitting on the Ground, his
Head and Body reclining against
the Trunk of a Tree.
To record the fir-
st Death among the
original Settlers of
this Town & to per-
petuate the Memory
of a worthy but unf
ortunate Citizen
this Monument
is erected 1830 by
the voluntary Ben-
efactions of individual Subscribers
Gravesite Details
Litchfield and Morris Inscriptions D. C. Kilbourn in Litchfield, CT 1905
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