Earlier today, I posted to Harris-Hunters some biographical info re James Harris, one of the sons of Christopher Harris of Albemarle Co., VA and later of Madison Co., KY, where Christopher died testate.  This tiny bit refers to the wife of James Harris--Suannah Gass, who father was an early pioneer of Madison Co., KY.  I have added information about Susannah Gass's father, long an associate of the Harris family of colonial Albemarle Co., VA and later of Madison Co., KY.  Corrections and additions are invited If you have info to add, please post to Harris-Hunters, where we can all share. SUSANNA GASS.  Susanna Gass [transcribed as Goss] married James Harris 1 Dec 1790; James Gass was bondsman; return 2 Dec 1790 (Bill & Kathy Vockery, MADISON COUNTY KENTUCKY MARRIAGE RECORDS, VOL. I, 1786-1822 [Richmond, KY:  Published by authors, 1993], p. 37)      Information that she was spouse of James Harris comes from W. H. Miller's GENEALOGIES.  (Editors' note:  Incidentally, this hefty book by Miller has flawed information in some cases, most particularly aboutthe Oldham family of Otter Creek area, earlier of Caswell Co. NC and earlier of Orange Co. NC.  Miller has mixed up the North Carolina Oldhams with those seemingly unrelated Oldham family members of early Louisville KY (Fayettte Co) area.  Most probably they had common roots in colonial Northern Neck Virginia, but to date this researcher of many decades has not been able to locate such documentation.) Susannah Harris is named as one of the numerous children of David Gass in his Madison Co., KY will of 14 April 1806, which was proved 5 May 1806.  Refer to bio of her father for a list of her siblings and the name of her probable mother - Sarah Gass. DAVID GASS Rev 1/2003 Added to Nov 2007      DAVID GASS. (d. 1806, Madison Co., KY)        Little is known of David Gass. His family probably was earlier of colonial Hanover Co., VA and possibly later of Albemarle Co., VA.  A Richard Gass obtained a land patent in Hanover Co., VA 1739-1741.  Perhaps David Gass was related to Richard Gass. Oct 2007 from LVA website  Gass, Richard.  Publication    20 August 1741.  Other Format    Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Patents 1-42, reels 1-41.  Note    Location: Hanover County.     Description: 272 acres on the north side of Little River in Saint Martins Parish, adjoining Robert Sheldrake, and Stephen Pettus.     Source: Land Office Patents No. 19, 1739-1741, p. 1093 (Reel 17).  David Gass's name, and that of John Gass, apparently his son, appear on a petition to divide the county of Lincoln [Kentucky, but then a part of Virginia] into three counties, Lincoln, Mercer and Madison.  1786.  Granted "Many of the signers of this petition were at Boonesboro," states the compiler.  (Katherine Phelps Caperton, "A Partial List of Those at Fort Boonesborough," in THE REGISTER OF THE KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, VOL. 23, p. 151 [renumbered, it seems, from original].) He was a witness to a deed of Caleb Calloway and his wife Elizabeth of Campbell Co., VA to Christopher Harris, grantee, Madison Co., KY dated 6 Oct 1790 (DB B-360). Gass appears on Madison Co. KY tax lists from time to time from 1787 to 1799.  Some years his name does not appear, probably meaning he was delinquent or else paid his taxes in another Kentucky county.  Other Gass males who appear:  John, also 1787 to at least 1795; Thomas, 1789 & 1791; William, 1799.   He died in Madison Co., KY between 14 Apr and 5 May 1806.  The first date is the date he wrote his will, and the second date is when the will was proved.  In the abstracted will, he names his wife Sarah.  His named children were Susannah Harris; John, William, James [with assumed surname of Gass]; Mary Black; Thomas [no surname] Margaret Mitchell.  Son-in-law John Mitchell.  Gr.son James Mitchell.  Ex:  wife, sons John and James.  Wit:  Richard Gentry, John Reed. (J. Estelle Stewart King, Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969), p. 163) Comment:  Richard Gentry was married to a daughter of Christopher Harris the elder.  Susannah Gass was married to James Harris, another child of the elder Christopher Harris of Madison Co., KY. Some Virginia Records      There is a reference to a neighbor of William Harris of Hanover Co. in his patent of Aug 1745 on the N. side Saxons Sw near the Rod [Road]... adj the sd. Harris, Davis, Gasse/Gass, Robert Shildrake, Charles Yancey, John Field & John Williams.   (Dennis Ray Hudgins, CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS, VOL. FIVE, [Richmond:  Virginia Genealogical Society, 1994], p. 98)       From Albemarle Co. VA Deed Bk 2-143:  14 Jun 1759  David Glass [Gass?], planter, to Wm. Shelton for 37 pds., 10 shill., 275 acres N. side Mt., Buck's Elbow, Moreman River; adj. Rich. Blalock.  Pat 7 May 1759. Wit:  Dan Burford, Arch. Woods, Jno. McCord, Robt. Harris. (Shelton's wife was a daughter of Major Robert Harris of Albemarle Co. but earlier and later of Louisa Co., VA.  This land record indicates Gass was a neighbor of Robert Harris and also of some of the families into which the Harris children married.  In-laws of some of the Harrises of Albemarle Co., VA and earlier of Louisa Co., VA:  Shelton, McCord) Kentucky Records      The name of David Gass appears in a list of men in the company of Captain John Holder, in Madison Co., VA but later KY near Boonesborough June 10 1779.  This appears in Lewis Collins' History of Kentucky.        It is unknown whether David Gass was married when he first appears in the Kentucky records.  His wife's name may have been Mary, instead of Sarah, as the name Mary Gass shows up in the court records of Madison Co., KY May 1792; she apparently was a witness for James Stephenson.  (Gass did have a daughter named Mary, whose married name in 1806 was Black.)      David Gass was early in Kentucky as reflected in Lincoln Co., KY (then Virginia) court order books, Lincoln Co., KY which was the parent county of many other Kentucky counties.    On 22 Jan 1783, he was one of three appraisers appointed by the Lincoln Co. KY court to appraise the estate of Adam Caperton  (COB 1-28).  On 18 Mar 1783, he was appointed one of three commissioners "for the purpose of collecting the specific tax in this County."  (COB 1-34)  The following day, he and the other two commissioners, made bond. On 16 June 184, he recorded his stock mark, "a smooth crop in the right ear."        (Michael L. Cook, LINCOLN COUNTY, KENTUCKY RECORDS, Vol. 2 [Evansville, IN:  Cook Publications, 1988], p. )      "On the motion of David Gass, surviving Trustee of the town on [sic] Boonesborough, it is ordered that the Sheriff summon the freeholders of said town to proceed to the election of other Trustees in place of those who are dead and otherwise disabled by law."  (COB 1-226) Gass was residing in Madison Co., KY in 1792, as his name shows up in Court Order Bk B: 6 Mar 1792:   Ordered that David Gass sheriff make the necessary repairs to the prison in this County. (Jackie Couture, MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY COURT ORDER BOOK B, 1791-1801 [Bowie, MD:  Heritage Books, Inc., 2000), p. 15)