Continuing with Benjamin Sr. (Part 3.) Pam ==================================== ... Richard Harris, b. ca. 1670, d. ca. 1738, St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co.,VA; his wife is undiscovered. Richard possibly owned a shipping line in England, or at least was a partner in one, according to records in the Virginia Archives copied from the Public Records Office in London by Library of Virginia librarians in the late 1950's. {His ship(s) sailed out of Bristol, England.} He was a justice and Burgess for Hanover in 1726, and was still a justice in 1729 [Cognets, Louis des, Jr.: English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records; Copyright, 1958, by L. Cognets; Published, 1958, by L. Cognets, Princeton, NJ, USA; pp. 34, 46.} Richard Harris accumulated a substantial amount of land lying in the Cub Creek and Forks areas of Hanover Co., VA before died---he owned over 3,100 acres, according to the various patents in the Virginia Land Office Records. Richard was in and out of the Virginia Colony, apparently traveling about between England, New England, and the Virginia Colony for much of the time that he owned property in St. Paul's Parish, New Kent & Hanover Cos., Virginia. He may even have briefly lived or visited in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina {Hofmann,op. cit., p. 13.} Richard Harris witnessed several Hanover Co., VA documents involving Robert Harris, the son of William and Temperance Overton Harris over the years, including a singular document which Robert Harris, Mourning Harris and Richard Harris all witnessed {Mourning Harris signed her full name on that occasion in long script} {Davis, op. cit., p. 67.} Richard Harris' cabin still is in existence, and is a Virginia landmark {American Heritage Publishing: Historic Houses of America Open to the Public, An American Heritage Guide; A Fireside Book, Copyright, 1980, by American Heritage Publishing Co.; Published, 1980, by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, USA; ISBN # 0-67124-711-5; LOC # 80-11072; p. 318.} {The descendants of Richard Harris requires another, separate set of E-mails, as this is another large line coming early from Harris DNA Group 6. Let me just say that the younger children of this Richard Harris are much easier to identify, as they moved awayfrom Hanover Co., VA to the same area of North Carolina as the descendants of Robert & Elizabeth Turner Harris (the line of our friend and generous researcher, Ira Harris III .) Richard's eldest son and heir, William Harris (b. ca. , appears to have remained in Hanover Co., VA: his heirs are almost impossible to identify (at least that has been my personal experience.) Richard's younger children, though, are very clear: his younger children were Robert (b. ca. 1708-1786; m. Leminda Smith,) Richard (b. 1711-1787,) David (ca. 1714-1752; m. Martha Unknown,) Temperance (b. ca. 1715; m. Thomas Wilbourne,) Sherwood (b. ca. 1717; d. 1763; m. Jane Unknown,) and James (b. ca. 1718; m. Unknown.)} Cornelius Dabney Jr./II was born about 1694 in New Kent Co., Virginia, the son of Mr. Cornelius Dabney and his second wife, Susannah {Undiscovered.} His father had come to Virginia by 1664, had served as Church Warden of St. Peter's Parish, and was a member of the Vestry in that county until his death in late 1693 or early 1694 {(1) NUGENT, Nell Marion: Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants; Vol. 1: 1623-1666; Originally Published, 1934, by the Dietz Press, Richmond; Republished, 1992, by the Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond, VA, USA; ISBN #0-88490-174-2; p. 558; (2) NUGENT, Nell Marion: Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Vol. Two: 1666-1695; Indexed by Claudia B. Grundman; Originally Published, 1934, by the Dietz Press, Richmond; Republished, 1977, by Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA, USA; ISBN #0-88490-009-6; p. 31; and (3) CHAMBERLAYNE, Churchill Gibson: The Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent and James City Counties, Virginia, 1684-1786; Originally published, 1937, by the Virginia Library Board, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA; Reprinted, 1973, by the Library Board, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA, USA; pp. 2, 3, 13, 15, 16, 40, 42.} Cornelius Jr.s' siblings {or half-siblings?,} Elizabeth Dabney and John Dabney, died within three days of each other in April of 1688 (Chamberlayne, op. cit., p. 428.) Cornelius Jr. had four surviving {much} older siblings: James Dabney {b. ca. 1674}, George Dabney {b. ca. 1676, d. 1729 in King William Co., Virginia, and had no son named Cornelius}, Dorothy Dabney {b. ca.1679, m., first, William Anderson, and secondly, James Trice, having a son named William Anderson,} and Sarah Dabney {b. ca. 1680, d. ca. 1713, m., as his first wife,William Winston Jr./II, leaving two sons, Isaac (b. 1702) and William Jr./III (b. ca. 1705) {(1) des COGNETS, Louis, Jr.: English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records; Copyright, 1958, by L. des Cognets; Published, 1958, by L. des Cognets, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.; pp. 58, 59; (2) Davis, op.cit., pp. 430-433.} Cornelius' mother, Susannah (Undiscovered) Dabney, remarried to an undiscovered Anderson man, and her will, written in March of 1722 and probated in February of 1724 in Hanover Co., Virginia, lists her heirs in the following order: grandson William Anderson, under 18; James Trice, "father-in-law" of William Anderson; son Cornelius Dabney, daughter Dorothy Trice, wife of James Trice; daughter Mary Carr, wife of Capt. Thomas Carr; and son David Anderson. Her will makes it clear that James Trice was William Anderson's stepfather, or "father in the law." She named her son, Cornelius, as her executor; witnesses were John and Mary Smith {HOPKINS, William Lindsay: Some Wills From the Burned Counties of Virginia and Other Wills Not Listed in Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800; Copyright, 1995, by W. L. Hopkins; Published, 1995, by Iberian Publishing Co., Athens, GA, USA; p. 87. Mr. Hopkins discovered Susannah's will in the Virginia State Library and Archives, Archives Division, in the Trice Family Records file (Accession #25854.)} Cornelius' second wife was Sarah Jennings, whom he married in 1721 in Hanover County, and with whom he had all of his other children. Cornelius Dabney II died in 1765 in St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., Virginia; his first wife was a daughter of Charles Hudson of Hanover County, with whom Cornelius had his eldest son, William Dabney {Hopkins, op. cit., p. 97.} Cornelius' will listed his wife, Sarah, his children and his son-in-law: sons William Dabney, John Dabney, and Cornelius Dabney dec'd.; Son-in-law Ch--------- Harris; Daughters Mary Elizabeth Maupin, Fanny Maupin, and Anna Thompson. Executors were John Dabney and Henry Terrell. {Hopkins, op. cit., p. 92.} Cornelius' deceased daughter, Mary, was the first wife of Christopher Harris, and was the mother of his first six children: Dabney Harris, Sarah Martin, Robert Harris, Mourning Jones, Christopher Harris and Mary Jones. Christopher Sr., the eldest son of Robert and Mourning Glenn Harris, was born 1725 in Hanover Co., VA, and died 1794 in Madison Co., Kentucky. His will mentions an inheritance due to his first six children from Cornelius Dabney. Christopher's second wife, Miss Agnes McCord, the daughter of Mr. John McCord of Albemarle Co., was the mother of the rest of his 16 {!} children: John Harris, Benjamin Harris, William Harris, Barnabas Harris, James Harris, Samuel Harris, Jane Gentry, Margaret Harris, Isabel Harris, and Overton Harris {McCord's will abstraction from: KING, J. Estelle Stewart: Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Administration Accounts of Albemarle County, Virginia (1748-1800) Amherst County, Virginia (1761-1800); Published, 1940, by Author, Beverly Hills, CA. (No Copyright noted;) p. 14.} {Christopher Harris' will is from Madison County, Kentucky Will Book A, pp. 54-55.}] ============================================ [END OF FILE] ============================================