I have been tracing the line of Harrises that emerged from Brunswick County, VA in the early 1700's and migrated south to NC and eventually Wilkes, Greene, and Warren Counties, GA. I came across this website: http://www.marthaann.org/harrisorigins.html which contains conflicting information. Now, I am confused. I have always thought that Edward Harris, father of Nathan Harris (b. 1716), and grandfather of Walton Harris (b. 1739 - he eventually married Rebecca Lanier), was the son of Thomas Harris, who was the grandson of Sir William Harris of Cricksea, Essex, England. The following passage from the above-noted website tells me that Edward was not the son of Thomas Harris, but of a guy named Henry Harris who immigrated to Virginia from Wales in 1691. Has anyone come across any proof of Edward having been the son of a Henry Harris from Wales?? Or does anyone have any definitive proof of Edward being the son of Thomas? I hope someone can set me straight in this matter. >Henry Harris emigrated from Whales and settled in Virginia in 1691 No. 2. Edward Harris had thirteen children, eight sons, five daughters. No. 3. Nathan Harris, tenth child, was born 1716 and married (1737) Catherine Walton of Burnswick County Virginia. Ahe was a daughter of Judge George Walton of that county. Fourteen Children: Walton, Nathan, Isaac, David (killed at the siege of Augusta, Ga.), Elias, Rowland, Herbert, Gideon, Howell, John Henry, Catherine, Martha, Elizabeth, Ann. (See page 8 Washington and Harris line.) [Note: this page number will not correspond when this is printed out. Original was on legal size paper. Note also we have retained all spelling and typographical errors, throughout,to keep this copy true to the original, e.g., Burnswick (Brunswick), Ahe (She), etc.] No. 4. Walton Harris, first child, born in Burnswick Couty, Virginia, 1739, married Rebecca Lanier, who was a great grand-daughter of John Washington, the founder of the Washington family in America. (See Washington-Harris line.) They afterwards moved to North Carolina, where theyowned the large fisheries at the mouth of the Yadkin River, and then came to Georgia. The Harrises belonged to an ancient family whos seat was in Glamorgan, Whales. They were enthusiastic members of the Welsh Baptist Society. During the flucuating religious troubles of that period, they had been compelled to fly to France, and there joined with the Hugenots, and it is probably that the intimacy was then formed between the French Laniers and the Welsh Harrises which resulted in the emigrating to America at the same time. On the promulgation of the Edict of Nantes, Welsh refugees in France returned to Whales, where they lived until the revocation of the Edict. It was then that the Laniers left their home in the south of France, and went first to England,and then to Whales. Emigrating soon after with the Harrises and others mentioned in the Lanier Papers, and settling in Virginia. Here they settled a town known as Monokim, or Monocan Town. ... It is therefore from Monacan Town that the Laniers and the Harrises derive their origin in the United States. (See Bisho! p Meade's work, "The Old Churches and Families of Virginia.") From: http://www.marthaann.org/harrisorigins.html