At a dinner lecture I attended some decades ago, one of the noted archivists of the Library of Virginia gave a talk, and some of the statements he made were eye-openers. One which stands out in my mind:  As the Confederates evacuated Richmond at the end of the Civil War, they torched the wharves on the James River.  As fires are wont to do, this one got out of control.  The Hanover Co. records, being of great historic interest, had been ordered to the Archives in Richmond, and they mostly burned.  Alas!  How many of our colonials may have owned land in that BIG county. A few of the records remain, and some years ago, a devoted genealogist, Rosalie Edith Davis abstracted and compiled this:  Hanover County, Virginia Court Records 1733-1735:  Deeds, Wills and Inventories. Until about two years ago or so, Mrs. Davis resided outside St. Louis MO in a place called Manchester, MO.  She advertised in the Genealogical Helper and I ordered a great many of her books--paperbacks and reasonably priced.  Some months ago, I discovered Mrs. Davis was not answering her e-mails.  Some kind person gave me another URL, but, dummy that I am [poor health also] I neglected to note the URL.  Unfortunately, the Family History Library in Salt Lake City does not have these booklets which are well abstracted.  Perhaps the Allen County [Indiana] Public Library in Fort Wayne has them, and perhaps a library or two in Missouri may have them.  They are rather critical for anyone who had colonials in Hanover Co., part of which became Louisa Co., and which county records Mrs. Davis had also abstracted and published. I highly recommend anyone doing research in Virginia learn how to use the Virginia Land Patents [which title includes the words Northern Neck Land Grants] on the Library of Virginia website.  If your local or nearby library has old volumes published some decades ago by the Library of Virginia and entitled Cavaliers and Pioneers, take a look at the indexes at the back of these books, and note how many topics there are:  not only surnames, but watercourses [creeks, branches, fords, etc] and counties, etc. and see what names ring a bell with you.  The counties divided all the time.  Part of Henrico Co.. one of the original counties, became Goochland.  Hanover Co. later divided into Louisa Co., where the records are largely intact and which Mrs Davis also abstracted--and published. If you can find land patents for *suspect* Harrises, do this:  Note not only the county, but the date, the neighbors, the watercourse [almost every patent mentions a watercourse; crops, people, animals need water, and the watercourses provided transportation, especially when the barrels of tobacco were rolled down to the transporting boat.] In separate e-mails, I will share with you some of the records pertaining to Harrises.  Due to later records of some of the [perhaps linked]families I collect those persons also.  After all, the women in these families are the ones who reproduced younger Harrises, and we need to know who those neighbors were.  They probably became in-laws. E.W.Wallace