Leo Collins adds this paragraph to his query about some HARRIS families in North Carolina, of whom I know nothing!!! However, I received this information rather recently - about digitized NC Colonial and State Records, which has a lot of information about various early settlers of North Carolina There is a great index--look for the tab at the top of the screen. _http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/_ (http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/) This is Leo's added paragraph: Also, do any of you know of any more information on the Robert Harris-Mary Rice Claibourne connection that was called into doubt? And was that same Robert Harris the son of William Harris and Ellen Burrows, or the son of John Harris and Dorothy Calcott? For some reason I'm confused about that. My response: John Frederick Dorman, a well-known genealogist-author-lecturer of Virginia, also publisher of The Virginia Genealogist, in the past few years edited a history of the Claiborne Family. On one of the opening pages, he writes, [was it in a footnote?] that there is NO PROOF that a Robert Harris was married to a Mary Claiborne. A copy of Dorman's book is at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. If you use a form [look for the word Form somewhere on _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) ] called Request for Photocopy [you can download it], you can request a few of the beginning pages of his book--for a small fee. Here is the FHL catalog entry--I did a surname search for Claiborne in the Catalog [the formatting may get messed up] You can also do an author search for Dorman, John Frederick _Claiborne of Virginia : descendants of Colonel William Claiborne, the first eight generations_ (http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=758726&disp=Claiborne+of+Virginia) Dorman, John Frederick. Claiborne Others, writing of the Claiborne family, have concluded that Claiborne had no daughter named Mary. Indeed, trying to prove early Virginia families, especially if they were in Hanover Co. or other *burned* counties, is EXTREMELY difficult. Rice - there seem to be many of those are their grains of rice in a pound of rice!!!! If you include the Harris-Claiborne information in a family history, please state that it, the information, is unproven, or that it is a myth, or some such disclaimer!!!! If I were going to write a history of this particular Harris family, I believe I would omit, except perhaps for a paragraph or a footnote, the so-called immigrant Robert Harris in my lineage. To date, I have found nothing to link that poor fellow to William Harris and Temperance Overton of the Pamunkey River area of Hanover co. What have you other Harris-Hunters found--to verify that there is a linkage? A lot of us are hanging on your findings!!! (Positive findings, that is.) E.W.Wallace descendant of Robert Harris of colonial Louisa Co [and sometimes Albemarle Co.] and his wife Mourning [perhaps Glen or Glenn] **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)