Dear Harris descendants of Christopher Harris and his second wife Agnes McCord, and other interested parties: I hope all of you have access to the online genealogical database called HeritageQuest through your local or nearby public library--or perhaps your State Library. Those subscribers who live in North Carolina and Texas should contact their State libraries [which I hope are NOT going to be closed because of faltering budgets]. Doing a search of HeritageQuest for Persons (under Books) I typed in search terms: McCord and Pennsylvania. There is a book-- a brief genealogical history of the McCord family, who probably came from Pennsylvania down the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Some settled in Augusta Co., VA and later in Albemarle Co., VA. Some members seemed to go on to South Carolina. Those McCords who probably settled in early Kentucky may be from the Albemarle Co. branch, as are Christopher Harris and Agnes McCord. (Christopher Harris appears in the so-called The 1787 Census of Virginia, in both Albemarle Co. and in Madison Co., KY) Here is a citation of the genealogy of the McCord family Lofquist, Margaret U, The Genealogical Record of Some McCord Families in America [Arlington Hts, IL: 1965] The authoress gives this information about the will of John McCord of Moorman's River, Albemarle Co., VA: Will dated March 2, 1764, recorded November 8, 1764 John McCord of Moormans River, Albemarle County, Virginia amed his sons John and Benjamin as executors. John was bequeathed the hom plantation on Moormans River and Benjamin was to have the plantation on Ivy Creek. Son William D. and Christopher Harris (his son-in-law) are mentioned as well as his wife (but not by name). Question: Does anyone have a copy of the actual will? How cooperative are the clerks at the Albemarle Courthouse? (Some clerks in some counties, although I may have sent a check with my request, rebuff my requests for a copy of a document.) There is mention in this brief genealogy of McCord's Fort in Pennsylvania. In 1995, in the old State Library in Richmond, VA, I copied down some of the McCord patents from the old index cards. Today, however, these abstracted patents should be recorded on the Land Records section of the online Library of Virginia website _http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/land/index.htm_ (http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/land/index.htm) My research shows that in 1755 and 1756 these McCord males received patents in Albemarle Co, several of them on Branches of Moreman's River: 1756 James McCord - Albemarle Co. 1755 John McCord - Albemarle Co. 1756 Joseph McCord - Albemarle Co. 1756 William McCord - Albemarle Co. There are later Virginia land patents; therefore, probably some McCord males, perhaps relatives, did not remove to Kentucky. E.W.Wallace descendant of Christopher Harris & Agnes McCord PS. According to Lyman Chalkley's abstracts in The Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlements in Virginia, Christopher Harris and Agnes McCord sold property in that county. The date escapes me presently. (Scottish lassies frequently kept their maiden names, as I learned from reading some tombstones in a village in Scotland some years ago.) Chalkley's abstracts in three volumes can be found on this URL. Each volume has its own index--at the bottom of the first or second screen. They are rough indexes. The URL may have changed with Ancestry.com absorbing rootsweb [which is still Free, however.] _www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/) Remove any punctuation fore and aft of the URL before pasting in your search blank. **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001)