Harris, Phebe Hetfield

Born in Elizabethtown, N.J., Phebe Hetfield met and married Captain William Harris, Jr., in 1780 when Harris was a captain in the Rhode Island forces of the American Revolution.  In 1782, in the Harris house, Phebe birthed a stillborn daughter.  Bore son Dutee in 1785 and died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1797.

[The Shunned House - H.P.L.]