Thanks, Evelyn. As you suggested, I found the Vestry Book for Hanover County, Virginia at the LDS familysearch.org website. Go to: www.familysearch.org Then to: Books Then type in: Hanover Virginia Quite a number of references will come up, including: Hanover County chancery wills and notes : a compendium of genealogical, biographical and historical material as contained in cases of the chancery suits of Hanover County, Virginia and The vestry book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia, 1706-1786 and many more references. Most of these resources look like they have been digitized and are online. Click on the place under each entry where it says: Details Then click on the link that says: Link to Resource --Glenn

Dear Glenn, Thanks a lot for your postings of discoveries on familysearch.org. I hope others will make discoveries on familysearch.org of digitized records.  And post them on whatever rootsweb they subscribe to.  A lot of us are no doubt cousins as there were LOTS of Harrises in colonial Virginia. And there are a good many listed in the indexes of publications of Granville Co. NC.  (In the early days, says Mrs. Helen Leary, expert on NC genealogy, all of the northern part of North Carolina was Granville Co.) Some of the later Harrises, related to Major Robert Harris of colonial. Louisa Co., surveyor, are found in nearby Southern colonies. They are Christopher Harris of Albemarle Co., VA but by 1787 tax lists of personal property, he is also owning personal property in Madison Co., KY.  That is where he died.  The book by Hazel A. Spraker called The Boone Family has a good deal about Christopher's large family (by two wives) and their mates. (Published personal property [not real estate] tax lists of 1787, which includes Kentucky and whatever other land Virginia claimed in 1787 have been published by Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florine S. Love some years ago.  Many University libraries may have these expensive three volumes, the third volume being an index to the preceding two volumes.) If readers have access through their local (or nearby) library or to their State Library of the digitized database called HeritageQuest, they will find a good deal in The Boone Family about some Kentucky Harrises of early date, particularly Christopher and his family and their mates. Another son of Major Robert Harris (found in transcriptions of early Louisa Co. VA records) was Tyree Harris.  He and his first wife, said to be Elizabeth, went to colonial Orange Co., NC, part of which became Caswell Co. NC in 1777.  He was involved in politics in both places. The Colonial and State Papers of North Carolina have been digitized by the Univ. of North Carolina and are free to search.  The index is kind of clunky, but there IS an index, and one might find other Harris males besides Tyree in the index.  There are 20-26 volumes, and the volumes listed at the beginning of the series indicate the dates. Tyree's second wife, in Caswell Co., was one of several daughters of Richard Simpson and his wife Mary Kincheloe, both formerly of Fairfax Co., VA but later of Orange Co. NC.  One of the sons of this second marriage was Simpson Harris. (Richard Simpson was another of my ancestors.  One of his daughters (he had many)was married to Jesse Oldham, probably originally of Prince William Co., VA but later also found in Orange Co. NC court records and later in Caswell Co. and still later in Madison Co. KY.  Jesse's name pops up once in a while in Lyman C. Draper's Kentucky Papers.  He seems to have stayed in North Carolina during the American Revolution. E. W. Wallace