Draft:Henry Harris (Rhode Island judge)

Henry Harris (17__ – YEAR) was Rhode Island politician who served several terms in the provincial general assembly, and one term as a justice of the Colonial Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1765 to May 1766.^[1]

Harris was from Providence.^[2]

In 1755, Harris was one of three surveyors commissioned by the Rhode Island General Assembly to delineate the dividing line between Glocester and Scituate.^[3]

References[edit]

^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 60.
^ Elizabeth A. Perry, A Brief History of the Town of Glocester, Rhode Island (1886), p. 16.

Political offices
Preceded by Stephen Potter	Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court 1765–1766	Succeeded by Gideon Comstock

Category:Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court

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[1] Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.

[2] Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 60.

[3] Elizabeth A. Perry, A Brief History of the Town of Glocester, Rhode Island (1886), p. 16.

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