>From Virginia Patent Book No 26 Benajmin Harris, 699 acs. Louisa Co. on both sides of Hickory Cr. Beg at Dumas & Brown's 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 p468] 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. (Source:  Dennis Ray Hudgins Cavaliers and Pioneers:  Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, Vol Five:  1741-1749 [Richmond:  Virginia Genealogical Sciety, 1994], p.249) Virginia Land Patents (abstracted) are online.  Find the Library of Virginia website, and then check Land Patents--the part which includes Northern Neck Land Patents.  The oldest patents, such as the cited one, will be at the very end of the surname Harris Suggest interested parties also search for Dumas, who probably were of Huguenot descent. Submitted by E. W. Wallace Descendant of said surveyor Robert Harris through his son Christopher Harris of Louisa Co., Albemarle Co., VA and who died testate in Madison Co. KY