Carol Barron and I have  been working on these two Wm Harrises of Henrico--there was a  recent posting on the Harris mailing list  relevant to the below will of William Harris, but the dates were reversed.  The below transcription we feel is correct.    What is evident is that there were 2 Wm Harrises who died in the year 1678.     1) Wm Harris who wrote his will 1 Feb 1678 and  probated 20 Apr 1678, sons:  Thomas, William, Edward..   2) Maj Wm Harris who on 20 Aug 1678 presided on the Henrico's Orphans Court and killed a few days later on 23/24 Aug 1678.     I offer the following documentation regarding the above 2 Williams.       1) From "Capt. Thomas Harris 1586-1658 Immigrant 1611 A Rough Manuscript" by W. Lee Harris (Dallas Library, no copyright) page 29: PERSONAL WILL OF MAJOR WILLIAM HARRIS Not knowing what the Lord hath ordained or at what time He may take me out of this life, I do settle my estate of lands, as follows:--- I give and bequeath TO MY SON THOMAS HARRIS ALL MY LAND BELOW THE WARE and keep the Ware run as his bounds till it shall come to ye spring at ye head, and then to follow ye Bottome on ye lower side of the clearing of John Rabon to the Hundred Road Path and then a straight course, or road, to the land of Colonel Peter Ashbrook, but, in no case, to cross Pocket's Path. TO MY YOUNGER SONS, WILLIAM AND EDWARD HARRIS, I give the rest of my dividend, William the plantation where I now live, and Edward to have ye land next to Ashbrook but William to extend outward one hundred yards beyond the clearing of John Rabon, on the path called Pocket's Path, and thence on a straight course to ye Red Water. MY YOUNGEST SONS (WILLIAM & EDWARD) TO LIVE WITH THEIR MOTHER TILL THE AGE OF SIXTEEN if she marry, but if not till the age of nineteen years. My will is that MY WIFE, ALICE, live on the plantation during her life, but to not hinder my son William at the head of ye Ware, if he come to himself. I desire my friends, Mr. Thomas Cocke and Mr. William Randolph, to see that this, my Will, is performed. In witness of every part hereof, I put my hand, on this the FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1678. (signed) William Harris Signed in Presence of: Richard Ligon Ann Hunt Ann Stewart Proved in Henrico Co., VA Court, the 20TH DAY OF APRIL 1678   ************** 2) Maj Wm Harris & Col Francis Eppes alive on 20 AUG 1678 serving on Henrico Orphans Court...   Henrico Orphans Court Book 1677-1739 by Pauline Pearce Warner, p 9...An Orphants Court Holden at Varina for the County of Henrico the 20th day of Augst ...in the yeare of our Lord God 1678...Present: Major Wm Harris, Coll. Francis Epes, Lt Col John Farrar, Mr. Thos. Cocke, Mr. Richd Cocke, Mr. Essex Bevill, Mr. Abell Gower--Justices of the peace. ************** 2) Maj Wm Harris & Col Francis Epps killed....   A letter of Colonel Herbert Jeffreys, the Governor of Virginia, to Sir Henry Coventry reported that: "On the 22nd and 23rd of August [1678] some Indians came downe uppon james River to the number of 150 or 200 in Henrico County … on the 24th some of the Militia officers of Henrico County gott upp a party of forty six horse and march’ d imediately upp to [ ] upper plantation of Coll: [Rowland] Place’s: The cheife officer Coll: [Francis] Epps and Major [William] Harris were kill’d and two more wounded   So since we have the one will written and proved by April of 1678 and the other William Harris alive and well with Frances Eppes in August of 1678, before their excursion against the Indians,  these are two different men.