Ira Harris III has posted a list of landowners of Albemarle Co. ca 1815, thus: ALBEMARLE COUNTY: Harris, ________, estate, of Hanover County Harris, Benjamin; Green Mountain; 18SW Harris, Henry T; Hickory Creek; 24SW Harris, Henry; Mechams River; 11N Harris, James, estate dower; Rock Creek; 14NW Harris, James; Moorman River; 13NW Harris, Joel; Doyls River; 16NW Harris, John, ?son of William; Green Creek; 19SW Harris, John, esquire; Green Mountain & Totier; 13S Harris, John, esquire; Warren; Harris, John; Green Creek; 20SW Harris, John; Ragged Mountain; 10SW Harris, Mary, Mrs dower =17NW Harris, Nathan =18NW Harris, Robert M.=17NW Harris, Robert; Hardware River; 10SW Harris, Schuyler, estate; south branch Hardware River; 18SW Harris, Thomas Harris, Thomas, and Joel; Mountain; 22NW Harris, Thomas; Totier Creek; 20S Harris, Thomas =17NW My comment: I suspect the person(s) who held land on Doyle's River may have been linked to some degree to [Major] Robert Harris, who died testate ca 1765 in Louisa Co. How they are linked, I have no idea. Two of Robert's sons, Tyree (who had removed to Orange Co. later part of which became Caswell Co., North Carolina many years earlier) and Christopher (who removed to Madison Co., KY ca 1787 and later) seem to have left no heirs in Albemarle Co. One son William seems to have died rather young, but he may have left heirs. Robert Jr. may have remained in Albemarle Co. These are some of the patents which [Major] Robert Harris received. A 1750 patent for Robert Harris reads as follows: Patent Bk 29-270: Robert Harris, 171a, Louisa Co. in the Fk of Doyl's R near the Ledge. 12 Jul 1750 (Mary Ruth Northrop, "Virginia Land Patent Book 29, Part II, 12 Jul 1750-3 Nov 1750, Pages 259-365," MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY, VOL. 30, p. 296.) Although M. H. Harris states that about 1752, Harris disposed of his property in Louisa Co. and moved to Brown's Cove on Doyle's River in Albemarle Co., (formed 1744 from Goochland Co.), we find these patents for land in both Albemarle and in Louisa Co. during the same time period 1751 and 1752: Patent Bk 30-492: Robert Harris, 400 acs. Albemarle Co. on the Top of a Mountain an Arm of the blue Ledge; 5 August 1751. 40 Shill. (Dennis Hudgins, "Virginia Land Patent Book 30, 1 Jun 1750-16 Nov 1752," MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY, Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 83) Patent Bk 31-195: Robert Harris, 400 acs. Louisa Co. on both Sides of Rocky Cr; 15 Sep 1752 ... 40 Shill. (Dennis Hudgins, "Virginia Land Patent Book 31, 20 Sep 1751-10 Sep 1755, Part I," MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY, Vol. 31, No. 2, p. 145) Robert Harris wrote his will there, in Albemarle Co., and died there, according to Harris. Another account, however, states that Harris resigned his official position as surveyor in Albemarle Co. and removed to his former home in Louisa Co. Two patents verify that Robert Harris patented land on Doyles Cr. or River and that one of the patents was on the county line: Two patents recorded in Patent Bk 32: Robert Harris, 200 acs., Albemarle Co. on Doyles Cr. and the brs. thereof near the foot of the great Mountains, on the line dividing the Counties of Albemarle and Louisa [N65 degrees W]; 6 Dec 1753, p. 334. 20 Shill. Robert Harris, 521 acs. Louisa Co. near the blue Ridge of Mountains on the Waters of Doyles Riv., on the South fork of sd Riv.; 6 Dec 1753, p. 334. 35 Shill. (171 acs. part formerly Gtd. unto the sd Robert Harris by Pat. 12 Jul 1750 and 350 acs. the Residue never before gtd.) (Mary Ruth Northrop, "Virginia Land Patent Book 323, 16 Nov 1752-15 Dec 1753," MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY, V. 31, No. 4, p. 334) These notes were made before the publication of the last four volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers by the Virginia Genealogical Society, Richmond. The patents are also online--I am more of a bookish person myself! Please post any comments or questions to one of these Harris websites, Please. E.W.Wallace