William Harris (c.1755- ) was found guilty on 11 July 1785 at Maidstone, Kent, of the theft of a quantity of clothing, a watch, and shoe buckles from a house. Sentenced to 7 years transportation, he was sent to the Ceres hulk early in 1786, where he remained until he embarked for New South Wales on the Alexander in January 1787, arriving in Sydney in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet.
Harris was recorded as having left the colony on the Britannia in 1793.
* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p 162
'Harris, William (c. 1755–?)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/harris-william-30900/text38263, accessed 3 December 2024.