I have an e-mail friend--and a distant cousin--of mixed slave and white descent.  She and I exchange e-mails which may be of common interest.  She and I share  a Sneed family of colonial Granvile Co. NC .and later of Person Co., NC. Judging from the land records and tax lists of most colonial families, I would say that a good many persons of black descent have Harris ancestors.  My cousin knows of many resources of which I am ignorant.  I forwarded to my cousin a *gatewayed* message to the Guilford Co. NC rootweb (I long ago declined to reply to *gatewayed* messages as there are missing dates, alliances with other families, etc.).  However, this particular gatewayed message seemed to be full of information about lack of available info about slaves and blacks, and, just on a hunch I forwarded to my cousin whom I thought might help this particular questioner.  Indeed, Cousin Deloris knew of many websites which might help the questioner.  Using some of these databses, she wrote back she had a breakthrough and * has been *preaching to the choir* every since. http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/petitions.aspx I am sharing this information with Harris-Hunters in the hope that you may help others with this information.  (I used to volunteer at a large Family History Center.  Some of my best finds were from 1) prowling the bookshelves and examining the contents of books with I was unfamiliar and 2) overhearing conversations from persons who knew genealogy and who knew the holdings of the Library--which also had a great film collection--some of the films NOT held by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.  (I even learned from a long-term German resarcher that she had already ordered films for a place where some of my mother's German grandmother's people had lived, with their four children, prior to migration ca 1852 through New Orleans.  That part of Silesia (Schliesen) is now Raciborse, Opeln, Poland.  The things you learn by being a *snooper*!!! Now, many of us can just use search engines and find some answers.  But we have to have to know how to phrase a question, and that is not always easy--even with google.com/ E.W.Wallace