Dear Glenn, Due to ongoing chemotherapy (and sometimes blood transfusions for cancer treatment), I will not be able to come to the gathering of the Harris clans in Virginia. It is one of my favorite places to visit, and I made two vacation trips (but not for genealogy) to Virginia in 2011. Then my doctors diagnosed me as having cancer. No fun. I am preparing to send an email, perhaps tomorrow, concerning a longish article submitted to The Virginia Genealogist (Frederick E. Dorman, editor) some years ago about the the three William Harrises of or near colonial Hanover Co. This longish article was compiled by Malcolm Hart Harris, whom I suspect was descended from one of these William Harrises. One group of these William Harrises were father and son, and I believe author Dr.M. H. Harris gave the children of the son and their mates. The other William Harris, Dr. Harris surmised, was not related to the other two William Harrises, and he was associated with an Alves family. I believe Dr. Harris maintained that the 3rd William Harris married the widow of Alves. Some of the later Harris families, descended from the William Harris, whom many of us claim as our ancestor, are found in Louisa Co. records of early date. In fact, my ancestor, Major Robert Harris, believed to be son of the older William Harris, had been in the House of Burgesses but resigned his post to become official surveyor of Louisa Co. Like that later Virginian, George Washington, Robert Harris, the surveyor, was able to acquire lots of land. I believe my research of Louisa Co. and its progeny county Albemarle indicates Robert in his deeds (and perhaps will) gave land to his sons and to his sons-in-law, he gave slaves. Mrs. Rosalie Edith Davis, later of Manchester, MO, transcribed and abstracted many early records of Louisa Co. and of Fredericksville Parish, but her books are not easily found in most genealogical libraries, as they were paperback. The Family History Library in Salt Lake City does not have them. I wonder if the Library of Virginia have them. Mrs Davis, about a year and a half ago, was not answering her e-mails. An heir seems to have taken over,but I do not have the URL although some kind soul sent it to me. Tsk! Evelyn W. Wallace ________________________________ From: Glenn G <archives_guy@hotmail.com> To: Harris Hunters <harris-hunters@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2012 1:57 PM Subject: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Gathering of Harris Descendants, 2012 Dear Harris Researchers, Here is a web page that I have set up that talks about a Gathering of Harris Descendants which will take place September 22-23, 2012 at Henricus Historical Park in Chester, Virginia. I've been helping Jim Harris of Beaverdam, Virginia get the word out, and we are contacting as many Harris researchers as possible. The core group will be made up of descendants of Capt. Thomas Harris of Jamestown, but there will also be descendants of other Colonial Virginia Harrises such as the William Harris/Temperance Overton family and Harrises of Isle of Wight Co., VA and Charles City Co., VA, etc. Complete information is included here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gohrpage/GatheringOfHarrisDescendants.html *The above link is a very long web address. So make sure you copy and paste all of it into your browser with no spaces anywhere. If you know someone else who might be interested in this Gathering, please pass this message on. Sincerely, Glenn Gohr __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HARRIS-HUNTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message