While *messing about* [I think this phrase is from the English children's book Wind in the Willows, which my kids, now almost 60 years old, liked to have read to them] I explored more of the many subjects on the online catalog of the Library of Virginia.  Land patents are of particular interest to me. I do not know this Richard Harris.  Does he belong to one of the subscribers?  Who are Fleming and Bradley?  Could these families have intermarried? E.W.Wallace This cut and paste addition may not transfer well to rootsweb, but we will experiment.  (If one is not curious, how does one become a genealogist-amateur or professional?)   URL (Click on link) http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=435&last=&g_p=P10&collection=LO Patent  Author Harris, Richard. grantee. Title Land grant 11 July 1719. Summary Location: New Kent County. Description: 400 acres beg.g at a white oak of Fleming and Bradlys land. Source: Land Office Patents No. 10, 1710-1719, p. 435 (Reel 10). Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia. Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41. Related See also the following surname(s): Harriss. Subject - Personal Harris, Richard. grantee. Subject - Topical Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Virginia -- New Kent County. Subject -Geographic New Kent County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century. Genre/Form Land grants -- Virginia -- New Kent County. Added Entry Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774. Library of Virginia. Archives.

Evelyn & everyone, This Richard Harris was, I believe, somehow related to our William Harris (1669-1733), who married Temperance Overton (DNA Group 6.) This Richard died about 1735, and left an oldest son, Richard, with a number of younger children (one of whom was a Robert, which I may have mistakenly identified as the Robert of Guilford Co., NC who married Leminder Smith.) NOTE that one of Charles Fleming's importations of 1714 was TEMPERANCE HARRIS, who appears to me to have been the wife of our William Harris? (Earlier researchers have shown her as having died in 1710, but the photo that I have of her tombstone appears to show a death year of 1716.) Here is SOME of my research on our mutual line. Pam ========================================= Records Compiled by: Pamela Howerton Stone Ross pamstone@cfl.rr.com 362 North Brevard Avenue Cocoa Beach, FL 32931-2936 ========================================= Extracted from: NUGENT, Nell Marion: Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Vol. Three: 1695-1732; Copyright, 1979, by the Virginia State Library; Published, 1979, Republished, 1992, by the Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond, VA, USA; ISBN #0-88490-083-5 - p. 142: Virginia Land Office Patent Book 10, p. 132 Patent dtd. 16 June 1714 Charles FLEMING, 1427 acres of New Land in Henrico County, on the South side of James River, beginning at Mr. John Pleasants above Fine Creek. Due for the importation of 29 persons: John Turner, Thos. Blackey, Thos. Letherland, Peter Wells, [Leatherland] Samuel Cowper, Richd. Foster, Richard Peale, Michael Word, [Ward] John Sparrow, Francis Ellis, Phillis Foster, Phillis Turner, Cath. Taylor, Anne Mills, John Williamson, Lewis Barrow, Jane Merry, Humph. Browning, Wm. Cluney, TEMPERANCE HARRIS, Eliz. Thompson, Thomas Thompson, Mary Nash, Wm. Thornehill, James Lightgoe, Edwd. Turland, Mathew Creed, Mary Brown, John Pethwood. =============================================== Extracted from: CHAMBERLAYNE, C. G. [Churchill Gibson]: The Vestry Book of St. Paul’s Parish, Hanover County, Virginia, 1706-1786; Published, 1940, by the Library Board, Virginia State Library & Archives, Richmond, VA, USA -p. 60: ... Vestry Book p. 62 At a Vestry held at the Lower Church 7br ye 26,th 1713 ... - p. 61: ... To lie in the Church Wardens hands for Richd HARRIS} when he hath Shingled the upper Church } 4500 ... - ============================================================= p. 70: Vestry Book p. 69 ... At a Vestry held at the Lower Church 8br, ye 15.th 1715 [15 October] P,res,t Mr Tho:s Sharp Clk Maj,r Nich,o Meriwether Cap.t Rob,t Anderson } M,r Henry Chiles M,r John White } M,r Rowl,d Horsley M,r John Mask } Mr Geo; Alvis Mr Edw;d Garland } M,r Ja,s Blackwell M,r Joseph Baughon } M,r W,m Merwether } Church Wardens St Pauls Parish D,r To Mr Tho,s Sharp, as P Law 16000 To John Fitsgerrald, as Clk & Reader 1500 To John Hall Sexton of the Lower Church 400 To his Acc,t Allow’d 80 To Rich,d Norcutt Sexton of the upper Church 400 To his Acc,t Allow’d 30 To the Widdow Pirant for 1 year 600 [Pyrant, Pyron] To the Widdow Leak for John Andersons Child for 1 year 500 To Maj,r Meriwether Last year 111 ll [lb?] Tob,o this year 60½ 171½ To Rich,d HARRIS’s Acc,t Allow’d 150 To Mr Geo: Alvis for Several acc,ts 1872 To his Acc,t last year 74 To the Widdow Leak’s acc,t old 12½ - p. 71: To 16 Tithables run away at 31 P, Poll 496 To M,r Clopton’s acc,t 105---10 P C,t abate 95 [William Clopton] To M,r Cloptons acc,t for Delinquents 307 Carried Over 22688 Vestry Book p. 70 Brought Forward 22688 To M,r Clopton for 4 days attendance to Settle and } account for the Parish Collection as the Church } 800 Wardens are to by Law } _____ 23488 To M,r Joseph Baughon for Wine. to M,r James Taylor to pt aba 60 To M,r Thorntons Acc,t 577---10 P C.t abated 497 To Stephen Raglin to a Sheet for Rich,d Horn 65 [Ragland] To John Venable for looking after Rich,d Horn besides having his horse 50 _____ 24210 Cred,t by Rich:d Pond 500 _____ 23710 _____ By 729 Tithables at 32½ P Poll comes to 23692½ To be paid the Collector next year 17½ _____ 23710 Whereas M,r David Anderson appeard this day with an Order of Court to Clear Paumonkey River on the South Side from the Piping Tree* to Hardings Landing, & for this Vestry to aSsist him with men & materials to perform the Same This Vestry is of opinion as formerly they have been, viz: that this parish is not Able to Comply w;th that Charge ... [Note: “The Piping Tree” reference is also found in several other Virginia counties, and has perplexed various historians for years. I have read conjectures regarding its meaning, some historians proposing that this tree could have referred to a ferry landing and that the passengers wishing passage across the river would blow a pipe to summon the ferry from the opposite shore. This appears logical on the surface of the argument, but in at least one instance it is absolutely clear that the tree referred to was not beside the river, but well inland. My guess is that the tree referred was at the militia muster grounds, and that the pipe was blown to send out an alarm in the area in the event of attack.---PHSR] ===========================================