Apparently, judging from a Louisa Co. Order book entry of 1746, there was some kind of relationship between the Yancey family and Benjamin Harris.* As always with colonial Virginia families, it takes a great deal of analysis to try [repeat, try] to figure out the relationship.  We are handicapped in that the names of women [wives, sisters, sisters-in-law] seldom appear unless there is some crime or court case being tried.  Once in a while, a female could witness an official document if she lived near the courthouse.  If you are lucky, she may relinquish her dower rights in the sale of family property. This abstracted 1748/9 land patent of Louisa Co. suggests that there is a relationship among these males:  Benjamin Harris, Jeremiah Dumas, and possibly Robert Harris, who was the official surveyor of Louisa Co.  However, because of the office held by Robert Harris, his family relationship to other Harrises in Louisa Co. could be called into question.  His relationship to other Harrises may be that of an official and not a family member.  Louisa Co. was formed 1742 from Hanover Co. Patent Book No. 26 Benjamin Harris, 699 acs. Louisa Co. on both sides of Hickory Cr., Beg. at Dumas & Browns former C. [corner] on the Orphans Line [Orphans of Hugh Owen], adj. Benjamin Brown; 5 Mar 1747/48, p. 256.  1 pd.10 shil.  The sd L[land]being formerly gtd. Jeremiah Dumas by pat. 28 Sep 1728 [PB 13 p. 468] for 400 acs but upon a Survey lately made by Robert Harris Surveyor of sd Co. is found to contain 699 acs. the Right &  Title of which is since become vested in the sd Benjamin Harris. (Denis Ray Hudgins, ed. Cavaliers and Pioneers:  Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Vol. Five:  1741-1749 [Richmond:  Virginia Genealogical Society, 1994] p. 249)  *Patent Book no 18  [Patent for James Yancey] James Yancey, 400 acs. Hanover Co., adj Daniel Williams; 22 Sep 1739, P 398.  2 pds.  (Denis Ray Hudgins, Cavaliers & Pioneers, Vol. IV: 1732-1741 [Richmond:  Virginia Genealogical Society,, 1994], p 199 (Comments:  Daniel Williams and his wife Ursely are found in some of the surviving records of early Hanover Co.  A deed they executed with another party exists.  Daniel Williams died testate 1759 in Granville Co. NC.  He is my paternal grandmother's ancestor.  He was a son (probably second son) of my ancestor John Williams I, who patented land in Henrico Co., VA 31 Oct 1716, which land later fell into the newly formed county Goochland Co.  He sold that entire patent for 50 pds gold to John Williams, Jr.  Later John Williams, Jr., who was active in Goochland Co. politics and was a reader in the Anglican church in Goochland Co., migrated in the 1740s to Granville Co. near Nutbush Creek. John Williams I, John II's father, reportedly had four sons.  His eldest son, John, Jr.of Goochland Co., later of Granville Co., NC was my paternal grandfather's ancestor. (One published author of Southern California began one of his lectures, How many of you married cousins?  Since most Californians migrated from someplace else, no one raised his/her hand.  However, if you get back with your ancestry to colonial America, look for such cousin marriages.  Interstate highways, several World Wars, telephones, have made great differences in neighborhoods and we frequently do not know our cousins!!! I left most of mine in another state.  EWW) Evelyn W. Wallace