Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Harris Connection to the General Wayne Inn

Campbell Harris (1781 to 1853) is my great-great-great-great grandfather, and the father to our (large) Mary Harris, husband of Sanford. Joseph Smith Harris, Campbell's nephew, wrote two books on the Harris family genealogy. Here are excerpts from the books regarding Campbell and the General Wayne Inn.


Notes on the Ancestry of the Children of Joseph Smith Harris and Delia Silliman Brodhead By Joseph Smith Harris: (pg. 17)

hauling it seven miles to West Chester He left a fair property his farm of one hundred and twenty five acres being appraised just before his death by three of his neighbors at $14,608.09 His son Campbell had at that time the General Wayne property which had originally been a part of the Harris estate and forty acres of land and James also had a farm adjoining his father

This entry references Campbell's father, William Harris. This entire book is available for free via Google Books at the above link. The following is on page 19:


end of their lives very little gray hair Campbell Harris XVIII 7 after his marriage lived at the General Wayne on the southern edge of his father

Joseph Smith Harris also references Campbell Harris and the General Lee in the aforementioned Harris Family History" (page 47).

"Campbell Harris was a farmer. In his early married life he had a farm of forty acres in East Whiteland, Chester county, and was proprietor of the General Wayne inn, on the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike."

It would appear from these entries that Campbell's young children possibly grew up in the Inn. Mary Harris was born in 1811; the Harris family history indicates that Campbell moved to Geneseo in 1817. Mary would have been 6 years old when the family moved.
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