- Quaker roots in Yorkshire
- The Ackloms, the Harrisons and the Ridgways
- Trading with the colonies
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- Joseph Harrison, businessman
- Peter Harrison, architect
- Collector of Customs in New Haven and Boston
- The Liberty Incident
- The Boston Massacre
- The Boston Tea Party
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- Richard Acklom Harrison - the missing years
- Collector of Customs in Hull
- Death in London
- The final court cases
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The Story of Joseph and Richard Acklom Harrison A tombstone on the floor of Holy Trinity Church in Hull bears the inscription "Beneath this stone are deposited the Remains of Elizabeth Harrison Spinster who died the 10th of November 1818 aged 67 years." She died five years after her brother Richard. Elizabeth was the last member of a remarkable family which went from Yorkshire to the American colonies; played a role in the War of Independence; and ended their days quietly in Hull.
In all the histories of the American War of Independence the Harrisons have been forgotten. American historians either do not concern themselves with the British participants in the build-up to the war, or caricature them. British historians, even those as eminent as Christopher Hibbert in his book Redcoats and Rebels, have failed to research the people who represented the colonial power in America.
A wide variety of resources have been used in this research: Records in the archives: - Lancashire Record Office, QSP/727/15
- Nottinghamshire Archives, DD/FJ/11/1/7/171
- Sheffield City Council, Libraries Archives and Information: Sheffield Archives WWM/R1/1077, WWM/R1/1111, WWM/R1/1112, WWM/R1/1100, WWM/R1/1118, WWM/R1/1191, WWM/R1/1186 and WWM/F47/25/1. These are reproduced by permission of the Director of Culture, Sheffield City Council, Libraries Archives and Information: 'The Wentworth Woodhouse papers have been accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government and allocated to Sheffield City Council'.
- National Archives Treasury Papers, T1/478, T1/515
- National Archives, HO 42/31/94
- Hull Corporation Bench Books
Printed books and documents (many online): - Peter Harrison, First American Architect, Carl Bridenbaugh, Chapel Hill 1949 and Peter Harrison, Addendum, Jour. Soc. Architectural Historians XVIII (1959), 158-59. Quoted in American Society (Corresponding Members) Peter Harrison (1716-1775)
- Patriot-Improvers , Whitfield Jenks Bell, DIANE Publishing, 1997
- Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed, Gales Research 1998
- Peter Harrison (1716-1775) American Society for Propagating Useful Knowledge 1766-1768
- Zobel, Hiller B., The Boston Massacre, W. W. Norton & Co, 1971
- A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston containing Miscellaneous Papers pub. Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1900
- The Diary of John Rowe, a Boston, Merchant, pub John Wilson & Son, Cambridge Mass. 1895
- John K Alexander, Samuel Adams, pub. Rowan and Littlefield, 2004
- Papers Relating to Public Events in Massachusetts Preceding the American Revolution, published and printed for the Seventy-Six Society, 1856
- Joseph Harrison and the Liberty Incident, D H Watson in The William and Mary Quarterly, Oct 1963
- McCullough, David, 1776: America and Britain at War, Penguin Books, 2005
- H T Easton, The History of a Banking House (Smith, Payne & Smiths), pub. Blades, East & Blades, 1903
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