You asked about finding your Northern Harris perhaps in a list of Revolutionary War folks. Each of the 13 colonies and the states formed from those colonies have different kinds of lists of participants in the Revolution, but the pensions, for the most part, were awarded by the U. S. government. Therefore, the lists in the below-mentioned volumes are abstracts of pensions held by National Archives. Nowadays the photocopies of the pension claims from NARA are rather costly. However, some States awarded bounty land for service. The Northern states, for the most part, did not have any extra land to award, so the lists mostly include southerners!!! A librarian-genealogist-author named Lloyd D. Bockstruck has compiiled a book of these latter awards. Sear for his name in online library catalogs. I believe some lists have been compiled by Murtie June Clark. Do an author search and see what you can find. Are you near a LARGE genealogical library, or perhaps a University or college library? How about your State Library? If so, scan [well, not the computer scan] the online catalog for this author/editor: White, Virgil D. This man has devoted years of his life to compiling lists/indexes of US miltary records, including pensions. For Revolutionary War Pension abstracts [I think he did not list rejected pension claims] this is the title of his four volumes, the fourth volume being the index [by surname] for the preceding three volumes. Genealogical abstracts of Revolutionary War pension files [Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1990-1992] The Dewey decimal call number at my large city library is Gen 973.344 W588 [Your library may have a different call number, or there may be a Library of Congress call number] I believe some years ago another organization published an index, by state, of rejected Rev. War pension claims. Try to find such a book by looking at online catalogs--even the Family History Library catalog at _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) . [Use keyword: rejected Revolutionary War pension claims, or some such combination] If you do not find Virgil D. White's books in your neighborhood, write me offline and I will suggest a way to get a photocopy of a specific pension abstract from White's compilation--for a fee, of course. [White does not give ALL the details in a pension claim, and that detail sometimes is just the item you need to prove relationships!!!] Whenever you find a collection of Virgil D. White's indexes, be sure to look them over. They are well indexed, but be sure to look for variant spellings. You may find a long-lost ancestor, just as I did, in one of Virgil D. White's volumes. My German ancestor [landed here ca 1851 or so] apparently was recruited for the US Army [as were many other immigrants, especially Irish and German] during the 1850s. When I got his widow's pension record, I added MANY facts to my family genealogy--some of them pretty amazing!!! I cannot delete the following *cut* from my local library catalog. The formatting will be *messed up* E.W.Wallace Call # Gen 973.344 W588 Author _White, Virgil D._ (http://catalog1.lapl.org/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?doSearch+10695+965+_+//NB/White,_Virgil_D+-0+-1) Title(s) Genealogical abstracts of Revolutionary War pension files / abstracted by Virgil D. White. Edition 1st ed. Publisher Waynesboro, Tenn. : National Historical Pub. Co., 1990-1992. Paging 4 v. ; 29 cm. Contents v. 1. A - E -- v. 2. F - M -- v. 3. N - Z -- v. 4. Index. Subject Headings _Military pensions United States Revolution, 1775-1783._ (http://catalog1.lapl.org/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?doSearch+10695+965+_+//SB/Military_pensions_United_States_Re volution__1775_1783+-0+-1) **************From Wall Street to Main Street and everywhere in between, stay up-to-date with the latest news. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000023)