Dear Harris Hunters especially those who suspect you may have colonial VA Harris descendanacy--or Dumas descendancy.  I highly recommend that you take a look--and maybe even print out for further study-- a list of the Virginia land patents for various Dumas families--and for the patents of their neighbors--which appear on the FREE Library of Virginia website.  Just do a google search for Library of Virginia.  Go down the alpha list of topics until you get to Land Patents (or records)-- specifically the list which includes Northern Neck land records. (I am sure there were some Harrises in Northern Neck Virginia--but this part of VA is mainly the counties claimed ca 1694 and following by several Lords, friends of Charles I and which later became the Fairfax Proprietary.  (Find a guide to doing Virginia research --probably on the familysearch.org wiki.) This is a colony--Virginia--which probably produced many of our Southern ancestors. But do not overlook the colonial records of Maryland and other Chesapeake area colonies. Please note the neighbors--especially if they clustered near a common watercourse.  Some of these watercourses are found in earlier New Kent Co (from which Hanover Co. was formed 1721) and later in Louisa Co. (formed 1742 from Hanover Co.).  Albemarle Co. was formed 1744 from Goochland Co. and from Louisa Co.)  Look in all these county records, where they exist. If your budget allows for purchase of books, I highly recommend this book by Dr George K. Schweitzer, Knoxville, TN to guide you in your search for Virginia ancestors. (google for his name.)  I wore out my first bok purchase, so I bought a new one some years ago.  The old dog-eared one can be put in a plastic Zip-lock and taken in my suitcase or my brief case when I go on a genealogical jaunt.  Some of you chase cemeteries and their inscriptions.  I chase deeds, court records, maps.  Dr. Schweitzer has a watercourse map (with lots of abbreviations).  He guides you in genealogical research in each guide which he has published. Please check the FHL [family history library website] frequently.  Much info is being digitized.  I was surprised when in Salt Lake City when I was searching a Kentucky county, where people from Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and many other colonies poured into Kentucky, mainly after the American Revolution, that a record I was seeking (looking for the call number) that the book/paper I wanted was digitized and I could sit at the computer, read it, print it, etc. Explore that website--and check the family names--some of those famiy histories [some full of errors] have been microfiched or microfilmed and perhaps have been digitized by now.  (No genealogy is ever complete.) Evelyn W. Wallace