Hi Sam, and welcome to Harris Hunters. Sam and I have exchanged e mails in the past on his DNA 6 line for William Allen Bailey Harris (of John) m Winnefred Gordon , which also has a Family Finder kit. There are a couple Harris 8 men who run through this DNA 6 line, and that would be Milton Dean Harris 8 and Thomas Dayton Harris 8. The connections may run up Sam's Gordon line, or they may come from females down the line Samuel Pickens 6 Harris 1855 SC/Mary Elizabeth Thornell Robert Samuel 6 Harris 1883 Coosa AL /Mattie Wilbanks George Robert Harris 1911 Coosa AL Any help appreciated on these two different DNA lines. Pat Harris In a message dated 9/12/2012 1:21:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, saminala179994@yahoo.com writes: I am Sam Harris #17994 of the DNA site. Oldest known relative Allen Bailey Harris b. 1809 Pendleton/Abbeville/Pickens Co, SC - d 1882 Coosa Co, Alabama. At the time he married Winnie Gordon in 1837, he was known as Captain and was an ordinary of the Court in Pendleton and his grave marker and county records indicate he was a Reverend at the time of his death. Question: Is anyone's Benjamin known to have been a "director" of the Richmond Military Academy near Augusta, Georgia in 1826? I have found that Allen Bailey's brother Daniel Marshall Harris went there and was later a Judge of the Inferior Court in NW Georgia and suspect that AB may have in attendence there as well. That Benjamin may provide a familial tie to the John that was the father of AB and DM. Thanks. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Those Harrises who show up in the states and territories formed from the Louisiana Purchase (great chunks of land) MAY show up in the Bureau of Land Management records including Alabama.  Google for this topic--BLM.  The URL used to be more friendly, and now and then Congress gets into the act, and then it disappears and then reappears as a different URL.  Try Ancestry.com--I think I stumbled upon that topic. (Alabama was formed from Mississippi ca 1817; see the Red Book for Alabama.  I think it has been digitized and is on Ancestry.com but check your reference desk at local library.  (It is generally behind the reference librarian's desk--does not circulate, so photocopy or take extensive notes.   If your library has an expensive book called Grassroots of America by Philip McMullen [I may have misspelled his name] or if your local Family History Center has a microfiche of the same name, this is an index of some early claimants in this vast area--from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico.  (Excluded from the BLM records--the 13 colonies and the states formed from those 13 colonies plus Texas and Hawaii) but the rest of the US MAY have claimants listed. Beware:  During Andrew Jackson's adm. he vetoed a bill continuing the Federal Bank.  I found my folks and their neighbrs who were in Copiah Co. Ms were declaring bankruptcy left and right, selling land, slaves, even kitchen equipment.  Many headed for the Republic of Texas which had no reciprocal agreement with the US.  It didn't help that a couple of borthers who were fleeing had been accused of committing a murder and the Governor of Mississippi was offering a reward for their capture.  If there are old newspapers and court records, find a few scandals. I found excerpts of newspapers in genealogical journals (quarterlies) issued in Mississippi.  For a fee, sometimes genealogical societies will do research for you, but they hope to be rewarded.  E.W.Wallace PS  Read the Red Book about research in SC.  Terrible place to do family history.  Find books on church history and perhaps county history to help.  E.W.Wallace ________________________________ From: "PatCLARE@aol.com" <PatCLARE@aol.com> To: saminala179994@yahoo.com; HARRIS-HUNTERS@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] new member Hi Sam, and welcome to Harris Hunters. Sam and I have exchanged e mails in the past on his DNA 6 line for  William Allen Bailey Harris  (of John)  m Winnefred Gordon ,  which also has a Family Finder kit. There are a couple Harris 8 men who run through this DNA 6 line, and that  would be Milton Dean Harris 8 and Thomas Dayton Harris 8. The connections may run up Sam's Gordon line, or they may come from females down the line Samuel Pickens  6 Harris 1855 SC/Mary Elizabeth Thornell Robert Samuel  6 Harris 1883 Coosa AL /Mattie Wilbanks George Robert Harris 1911 Coosa AL Any help appreciated on these two different DNA lines. Pat Harris In a message dated 9/12/2012 1:21:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  saminala179994@yahoo.com writes: I am Sam  Harris #17994 of the DNA site.  Oldest known relative Allen Bailey Harris  b. 1809  Pendleton/Abbeville/Pickens Co, SC - d 1882 Coosa Co,  Alabama.  At the time  he married Winnie Gordon in 1837, he was  known as Captain and was an ordinary of the Court in Pendleton and his grave  marker and county records indicate he was a Reverend at the time of his  death.  Question:  Is anyone's Benjamin known to  have been a "director" of the Richmond Military Academy near Augusta, Georgia  in 1826?  I have found that Allen Bailey's brother Daniel Marshall Harris  went there and was later a Judge of the Inferior Court in NW Georgia and  suspect that AB may have in attendence there as well.  That Benjamin may  provide a familial tie to the John that was the father of AB and  DM. Thanks. ------------------------------- To  unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to  HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the  quotes in the subject and the body of the  message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message