Hi Diane,   I saw this post and wondered if you knew the wife and children's names of William Harris, Jr.   Thanks, Fran Hill  ________________________________ From: Diane Holmes <holmes-diane@att.net> To: Anne Harris <amh504@yahoo.com>; harris-hunters@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:09 AM Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Some Edgecombe Co. NC Info Hi Anne,     I do not know if this is the Capt. William Harris you are looking for, but my William Harris who was born in 1716 was married to Mary Netherland. There is some problem in tracing him back to Capt Thomas Harris. William lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. His children were William Harris Jr., Sarah Harris, Matthew Harris, Benjamin Harris. Let me know if this helps. My home phone number is 305 233-2272. Diane D. Holmes       ________________________________ From: Anne Harris <amh504@yahoo.com> To: EVELYN WALLACE <hdanw@verizon.net>; "harris-hunters@rootsweb.com" <harris-hunters@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, August 29, 2012 12:29:08 AM Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Some Edgecombe Co. NC Info Is there information on Major William Harris, son of Captain Thomas Harris as to the names of his children and wife?   Have a good day, Anne >________________________________ > From: EVELYN WALLACE <hdanw@verizon.net> >To: Ira Harris <barebear@insightbb.com>; Harris Hunters ><Harris-Hunters@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:10 PM >Subject: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Some Edgecombe Co. NC Info > >Of course, Ira, you know there is a genforum for Edgecombe Co. NC  >However,--dismay--it has not been updated since 2009.  Does your local library >have the online database called HeritageQuest?.  There are lots of county >histories (out of copyright) which have been digitized.  There is a county >history of Edgecombe Co. on HQ  I don't know how useful it is.  Also, an e-mail >friend of mine (and a distant relative of colonial Granville Co.,NC and >afterwards of Henderson C., KY) Deloris Williams has her name on the genforum >for Edgecombe Co.  She lives in Illinois, but she is an enthusiastic genealogist >and may be able to give you some guidance on your Edgecombe Co. Harrises.  Also, >surprisingly, some common folk appear in the 26 [is that right?] volumes of the >Colonial and State Papers of North Carolina.  The volumes have been digitized by >the Univ. of North Carolina, and I have been surprised by some of the material I >have found there (in some of >the old hard copies which I stumbled on in my [not then remodeled] local LDS >family history center.  According to Helen M. Leary (Mrs North Carolina >genealogy as far as I am concerned) most North Carolinians came from Virginia.  >Even those in western NC may have come the Shenandoah Valley of >Virginia--including the Boones and the Morgans and the Linvilles and even later >some of my Moravian folk.  Access to North Carolina from the Atlantic was >hampered by the barrier islands off the coast of NC.  I think I read that is >called the Graveyard of Ships.  I know that the vacation homes on those islands >get blown away every now and then by hurricanes.  Be sure to use google.books to >prowl.  I am amazed how many of some of the Genealogical  Publ. Co. books >appear, but according to Dick Eastman's recent newsletter [free except the Plus >edition] that may change. > > > >Evelyn   > >------------------------------- >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 > > > ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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

Just for info - Albemarle Co. was formed 1744 from Goochland and Louisa Cos. Goochland was formed from Henrico [pronounced Hen-rye-co] in 1728.  Louisa Co. was formed 1742 from Hanover Co. [nearly all records prior to Civil War burned as Richmond was being evacuated by the Confederates.]  Arlene Eakle, compiler of the first edition of The Source, says in one of her lectures on colonial Virginia, If you are researching in Virginia, research ALL the counties. (Tobacco wore out the land, and younger sons may have had to move.  Primogeniture was the law until after the Revolution.) Some Netherland info.  See Virginia Patent Book No 10 for patent of Edmund Jenings, Esqr of York Co.  His patent was for 531 3/4 (Old and New Land) St. Pauls Par in New Kent Co. {part of which became Hanover Co.] 26 Apr 1712.  Adj. Robert Netherland.  Either go to the Library of Virginia website [google for it] and search the Land Records [the index includes the words Northern Neck land grants] for both Jenings and Netherland.  Then find Harrises whom yoy suspect intermarried with these families.  A noted author Lloyd Dewitt Bockstruck stated in a nationwide conference in Richmond some years ago, Fellows married the girls downstream in Virginia.  OR, if your library has at least the first three volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers by Nell Marion Nugent, search the indexes for not only Harrises but whomever you suspect they married. E.W.Wallace descendant of Majr RobertHarris, surveyor of Louisa Co.VA ________________________________ From: Fran Hill <fhhill@yahoo.com> To: "harris-hunters@rootsweb.com" <harris-hunters@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Some Edgecombe Co. NC Info Hi Diane,   I saw this post and wondered if you knew the wife and children's names of William Harris, Jr.   Thanks, Fran Hill  ________________________________ From: Diane Holmes <holmes-diane@att.net> To: Anne Harris <amh504@yahoo.com>; harris-hunters@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:09 AM Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Some Edgecombe Co. NC Info   Hi Anne,     I do not know if this is the Capt. William Harris you are looking for, but my William Harris who was born in 1716 was married to Mary Netherland. There is some problem in tracing him back to Capt Thomas Harris. William lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. His children were William Harris Jr., Sarah Harris, Matthew Harris, Benjamin Harris. Let me know if this helps. My home phone number is 305 233-2272. Diane D. Holmes       ________________________________ From: Anne Harris <amh504@yahoo.com> To: EVELYN WALLACE <hdanw@verizon.net>; "harris-hunters@rootsweb.com" <harris-hunters@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, August 29, 2012 12:29:08 AM Subject: Re: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Some Edgecombe Co. NC Info Is there information on Major William Harris, son of Captain Thomas Harris as to the names of his children and wife?   Have a good day, Anne >________________________________ > From: EVELYN WALLACE <hdanw@verizon.net> >To: Ira Harris <barebear@insightbb.com>; Harris Hunters ><Harris-Hunters@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:10 PM >Subject: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Some Edgecombe Co. NC Info > >Of course, Ira, you know there is a genforum for Edgecombe Co. NC  >However,--dismay--it has not been updated since 2009.  Does your local library >have the online database called HeritageQuest?.  There are lots of county >histories (out of copyright) which have been digitized.  There is a county >history of Edgecombe Co. on HQ  I don't know how useful it is.  Also, an e-mail >friend of mine (and a distant relative of colonial Granville Co.,NC and >afterwards of Henderson C., KY) Deloris Williams has her name on the genforum >for Edgecombe Co.  She lives in Illinois, but she is an enthusiastic genealogist >and may be able to give you some guidance on your Edgecombe Co. Harrises.  Also, >surprisingly, some common folk appear in the 26 [is that right?] volumes of the >Colonial and State Papers of North Carolina.  The volumes have been digitized by >the Univ. of North Carolina, and I have been surprised by some of the material I >have found there (in some of >the old hard copies which I stumbled on in my [not then remodeled] local LDS >family history center.  According to Helen M. Leary (Mrs North Carolina >genealogy as far as I am concerned) most North Carolinians came from Virginia.  >Even those in western NC may have come the Shenandoah Valley of >Virginia--including the Boones and the Morgans and the Linvilles and even later >some of my Moravian folk.  Access to North Carolina from the Atlantic was >hampered by the barrier islands off the coast of NC.  I think I read that is >called the Graveyard of Ships.  I know that the vacation homes on those islands >get blown away every now and then by hurricanes.  Be sure to use google.books to >prowl.  I am amazed how many of some of the Genealogical  Publ. Co. books >appear, but according to Dick Eastman's recent newsletter [free except the Plus >edition] that may change. > > > >Evelyn   > >------------------------------- >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 > > > ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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