Source: William and Mary Quarterly, Series I Volume 26-27, 1917-19 Pages 50-55 McGEHEE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA (Concluded) Dance and Hite Family Notes Matthew Dance (Stephen, Thomas) of Dinwiddie and Lunenburg Counties, was born September 9, 1750; died 1826; married December 23, 1769, Sarah Hill, born November 24, 1748, died April 18, 1819. Matthew Dance was a farmer in Dinwiddie County and in youth and earliest manhood a member of the Church of England, later connecting himself with the Methodist Society of Virginia; he became a local preacher and minister in that society and, later, church. In this ministry he labored faithfully for some forty or fifty years in the counties of Dinwiddie and Lunenburg, to which latter he removed in 1794. Matthew Dance acquired, by industry, a comfortable estate. The will of Matthew Dance, of Lunenburg County, dated January 24, 1824, was probated September 11, 1826, devised to son Stephen Dance, land and plantation whereon testator lived and which he purchased of Doctor William Hepburn and the widow McKery, containg 520 acres, also 12 negroes, feather bed and furniture, horse, half the cattle, sheep and hogs, half the plantation utensils; to son Matthew M. Dance, 241 acres which testator purchased of James Anderson and 8 "black people," one feather bed and furniture, horse, half of cattle, sheep and hogs and half the plantation utensils; to daugher Rebecca Harris, wife of Benjamin Harris, of Powhatan County, the negroes her husband has in possession out of my estate; to Benjamin Harris, $100; to daughter Martha F., wife of Joel Blackwell, 7 "black people"; all the work my carpenters have done for my Son Matthew M. Dance to be free of cost; no appraisement to be made of estate; executors, sons Stephen and Matthew M. Dance; witnesses, Sterling Smith, Miles Hardy, William Bragg. (Lunenburg Records, Will Book 9.) Matthew and Sarah (Hill) Dance had issue: 1. Edward Hill Dance, died 1781 2. Frances Dance married John Inge 3. Stephen Dance married first, 1805, Elizabeth Briggs; second, 1814, Martha Watson 4. Rebecca Dance married, December 15, 1802, Benjamin Harris 5. Martha Dance married January 14, 1821, Joel Blackwell 6. Thomas Hill Dance 7. ______ Dance 8. ______ Dance 9. Matthew Mayes Dance Does anyone recognize which Benjamin Harris, of Powhatan County, this is talking about? Any insight is appreciated. Please respond through HH or H-COLONIALVA so that others may be helped. Ira L. Harris III Evv., In.