I am still trying to document the parentage of Levi (perhaps Martin middle name) Harris. At one time I had found one who was of Quaker descent, but moved and lost a lot of my records. He possibly was from Maine, went to Florida and married Dorothy Bozeman. Unable to track him much before or after that. He did have land patents in Florida. There was a Levi Harris who was ousted from the Quakers for "attending places of amusement" but I don't remember where I saw it. Any help apppreciated. Emma in NM   ________________________________ From: Pam Stone <pamstone@cfl.rr.com> To: harris-hunters@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 6:26 PM Subject: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Benjamin Harrises Pt. 19 Hi, all, Wandering through other sources, I found that "Obadiah" Harris owned 440 acres of land on Wolf Branch of the Deep River in Rowan Co., North Carolina, which he sold to John Cheadle (II), of Caroline Co., VA,  in October of 1767 (John's son-in-law, Samuel Hargrave, had also purchased land in Rowan Co. in 1766 from a different owner) (DAVIS, Virginia Lee Hutcheson:  Tidewater Virginia Families:  Generations Beyond; Copyright, 1998, by the author; Published, 1998, by Genealogical Publishing Company; Second Printing, 2004, by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Mayland, USA; ISBN #0-80631-578-4; LOC # 98-72719; p. 150.  (Virginia cited Rowan County, North Carolina Deed Book 6, pp. 504, 505.) (A note to everyone:  PLEASE be aware that this Genealogical Publishing Company "rearranges" real ISBN numbers, so that it appears as an ISBN record number that identifies ONLY their books:  a CORRECT & RELIABLE ISBN number format is: X-XXXXX-XXX-X (a format of 1-5-3-1), but the Genealogical Publishing Company has altered all the ISBNs for the books THEY publish to X-XXXX-XXXX-X (or a format of 1-4-4-1.) (This publishing company, while their publications are reliable, appears to be narrowly-skirting the copyright laws of the United States.) It seems obvious that this Obediah Harris was the Quaker son of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris, as he was selling his property to John Cheadle (II), an elder of the Golansville/ Caroline.  (John Cheadle never quite made it to North Carolina, though, as he died in late 1767 or early 1768 in Caroline  Co., VA.  What eventually happened to this land is undiscovered by me, as the Caroline Co., VA records have been decimated, except for the Court records.) It also has not been discovered by me if the land that Obediah Harris owned in Rowan Co., NC was land that he himself had purchased, or whether it was land that Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris had previously purchased (please do bear in mind that, under the primogeniture laws of Virginia, Obediah was his father's sole heir-at-law.) Please remember that these records that I sending JUST record the descendants of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris, and NOT the descendants of John & Mary Stanley Harris, which I believe to have been descendants of a DIFFERENT Harris line. ALSO, I have not been able to extract EVERY record of the line of Benjamin & Sarah, but only a few of them. Here is Part 19 of the children of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas  Harris. Pam ==================================== Matthew Peatross Terrell was b. August 11th, 1762 the son of Thomas & Rebecca Terrell of the Golansville/Caroline Meeting (BELL, James P.:  Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Time, Being in Part a Transcript of the Minute Books of Cedar Creek Meeting, Hanover County, and the South River Meeting, Campbell County, Virginia; Published, 1905, Lynchburg, Virginia; Republished, 1976, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, USA; p. 20.) ==================================== Wright, op. cit. [Records of Henrico Meeting] p. 73: 5/4/1788.  Reported that James CREW continues overseeing slaves - disowned. [James, son? of James Crew & Judith Harris, and grandson? of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris] - p. 73: 5/4/1788.  Jessee CREW has long neglected attendance of meetings and is in the practice of overseeing slaves and has lately joined in marriage with a woman not of the Society - disowned. [Jesse, son of James & Judith Harris Crew, and grandson of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris] ==================================== [END OF FILE] ==================================== ------------------------------- 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

Emma - I suggest you resubmit your query but give some dates.  You gave some places, but Florida is a *newcomer* among the United States. Also, do some exploring of the Familysearch.org website.  If you see a link to *Education* or something like that, click on it.  The Family History Library at Salt Lake City has recently upgraded what they used to call Research Outlines-- a very useful guide for every State in the Union and for many foreign countries.  These may be on Familysearch.wiki (or some such URL.)  I have not kept up with ALL the changes which are taking place at FHL, but it, the FHL, is my favorite place to do research, when I am well enough to go with a group. If you are near an LDS Family History Center, telephone and get their opening hours.  Many are manned [womaned] by volunteers and are not open all the time.  Youy can locate such a center through familysearch.org Among the microfiche assigned early to FH Centers, I am told, is something called AIS [Accelerated Indexing System]  This is more or less an index (with lots of errors, duplications, etc) for all US censuses through at least 1850, and for the first years (for some western states, beyond 1850 census), there are excerpts from early tax records, as the 1790 census is not complete.  Also at the end of this extensive index are some indexes to mortality schedules for 1850 and 1860.  (I was fortunate enough to find on these mortality schedules two deceased ancestors, when and where they died, and the ailment that caused their death.) Do check the online Family History Library catalog for places where your ancestors lived and see whether there are deeds, probates, tax lists, county histories.  If your local library has some reference books on genealogy (such as The Red Book by Alice Eicholz, editor), it may be behind the reference librarians desk.  It does not generally circulate, as it is a reference book.  I believe someone told me, this book is now on Ancestry.com, but it is a reference book and not easy to read on line, I am thinking.  There is a chart for every county, telling when it was established, etc.  Very useful.  I think a fellow named Hinshaw compiled LOTS of Quaker records, and I would not be surprised that some (if not all) his books are on the internet.  A lot of us genealogists use google.com and google.books a LOT.  I use it in this way, a lot: [such and such a county, state, + genealogy] Check what databases your local library subscribes to.  HeritageQuest is very helpful, and many libraries have the library version of Ancestry.com.  Your librarian can help you solve many a problem (we hope). E.W.Wallace   ________________________________ From: Emma Phillips <emmp106@yahoo.com> To: "harris-hunters@rootsweb.com" <harris-hunters@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 3, 2012 4:22 AM Subject: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Levi Harris I am still trying to document the parentage of Levi (perhaps Martin middle name) Harris. At one time I had found one who was of Quaker descent, but moved and lost a lot of my records. He possibly was from Maine, went to Florida and married Dorothy Bozeman. Unable to track him much before or after that. He did have land patents in Florida. There was a Levi Harris who was ousted from the Quakers for "attending places of amusement" but I don't remember where I saw it. Any help apppreciated. Emma in NM   ________________________________ From: Pam Stone <pamstone@cfl.rr.com> To: harris-hunters@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 6:26 PM Subject: [HARRIS-HUNTERS] Benjamin Harrises Pt. 19 Hi, all, Wandering through other sources, I found that "Obadiah" Harris owned 440 acres of land on Wolf Branch of the Deep River in Rowan Co., North Carolina, which he sold to John Cheadle (II), of Caroline Co., VA,  in October of 1767 (John's son-in-law, Samuel Hargrave, had also purchased land in Rowan Co. in 1766 from a different owner) (DAVIS, Virginia Lee Hutcheson:  Tidewater Virginia Families:  Generations Beyond; Copyright, 1998, by the author; Published, 1998, by Genealogical Publishing Company; Second Printing, 2004, by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Mayland, USA; ISBN #0-80631-578-4; LOC # 98-72719; p. 150.  (Virginia cited Rowan County, North Carolina Deed Book 6, pp. 504, 505.) (A note to everyone:  PLEASE be aware that this Genealogical Publishing Company "rearranges" real ISBN numbers, so that it appears as an ISBN record number that identifies ONLY their books:  a CORRECT & RELIABLE ISBN number format is: X-XXXXX-XXX-X (a format of 1-5-3-1), but the Genealogical Publishing Company has altered all the ISBNs for the books THEY publish to X-XXXX-XXXX-X (or a format of 1-4-4-1.) (This publishing company, while their publications are reliable, appears to be narrowly-skirting the copyright laws of the United States.) It seems obvious that this Obediah Harris was the Quaker son of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris, as he was selling his property to John Cheadle (II), an elder of the Golansville/ Caroline.  (John Cheadle never quite made it to North Carolina, though, as he died in late 1767 or early 1768 in Caroline  Co., VA.  What eventually happened to this land is undiscovered by me, as the Caroline Co., VA records have been decimated, except for the Court records.) It also has not been discovered by me if the land that Obediah Harris owned in Rowan Co., NC was land that he himself had purchased, or whether it was land that Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris had previously purchased (please do bear in mind that, under the primogeniture laws of Virginia, Obediah was his father's sole heir-at-law.) Please remember that these records that I sending JUST record the descendants of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris, and NOT the descendants of John & Mary Stanley Harris, which I believe to have been descendants of a DIFFERENT Harris line. ALSO, I have not been able to extract EVERY record of the line of Benjamin & Sarah, but only a few of them. Here is Part 19 of the children of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas  Harris. Pam ==================================== Matthew Peatross Terrell was b. August 11th, 1762 the son of Thomas & Rebecca Terrell of the Golansville/Caroline Meeting (BELL, James P.:  Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Time, Being in Part a Transcript of the Minute Books of Cedar Creek Meeting, Hanover County, and the South River Meeting, Campbell County, Virginia; Published, 1905, Lynchburg, Virginia; Republished, 1976, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, USA; p. 20.) ==================================== Wright, op. cit. [Records of Henrico Meeting] p. 73: 5/4/1788.  Reported that James CREW continues overseeing slaves - disowned. [James, son? of James Crew & Judith Harris, and grandson? of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris] - p. 73: 5/4/1788.  Jessee CREW has long neglected attendance of meetings and is in the practice of overseeing slaves and has lately joined in marriage with a woman not of the Society - disowned. [Jesse, son of James & Judith Harris Crew, and grandson of Benjamin & Sarah Dumas Harris] ==================================== [END OF FILE] ==================================== ------------------------------- 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