From The Settlement of Prince Edward County by Nick and Helma Mika. Transcribed here by Linda Herman

Pioneers of Prince Edward County 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

SGT. JOHN HARRISON

Served in British military for twenty-eight years. 

Sergeant Harrison spent twenty-eight years of his life in the military service. During the Revolution he was assigned duty in the Quartermaster's store and in the post office. When the war ended, he came with the first band of Loyalists to Lot 9, just east of the Rock of Marysburgh.

John Harrison was Sergeant Harrison's half-brother. His father was Grand Secretary of the Masonic Lodge in Ireland. John came to North Marysburgh with a group of Loyalists, settling on Lot 14. His father was Irish, but his mother was a Scot by the name of Cochrane of the line descended from that of Lord Dundonald. John was remarkedly strong and agile, being an expert horseman until well up in his eighties.

John's fourth son, Archibald, was a county councillor, a Reformer, and an astute businessman. During his lifetime, he procured a large amount of property with which he endowed his children.