Francis Harison

He was the son of Rev. William Harison (died 1694), Rector of Cheriton, England. He came to New York in 1708.{{cite web |url=http://www.omdhs.syracusemasons.com/sites/default/files/history/Harison,%20Richard%20-%20paper%20Nov%202010.pdf |title=Richard [Nicholls] Harison/Harrison |website=syracusemasons.com |first=Gary L. |last=Heinmiller |date=2010 |accessdate=October 18, 2017}}

On October 5, 1721, Harison was appointed Judge of Admiralty for New York, Connecticut and the Jerseys, in place of Caleb Heathcote, deceased. Harison was Recorder of New York City from 1725 to 1735 when he returned to England.

His son George Harison was the father of U.S. Attorney Richard Harison.

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• [https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA928 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 428; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=ziOjsBEM5psC&pg=PA75 The Council of Revision of the State of New York] by Alfred B. Street (Albany, 1858; page 75)
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=n2tU4s9JGNwC&pg=PA212 And the Walls Came Tumbling Down] by Michael S. Lief & Harry M. Caldwell (pages 212f)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111010070246/http://northcountryny.com/richard_harison.htm Harison genealogy] at North County website

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