Dear Ira L. Harris  III and other Harris-Hunters You wrote: Source: CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS         Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants         VOLUME TWO: 1666-1695         Abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent PHILLIP EVANS & HUGH HARRIS, 600 acs. N'umberland Co., at head of Mattapony Riv., 8 Oct. 1668, p. 198. Adj. Machotick Path & land of Tymothy Green. Trans. of 12 pers: Tho. Gregson, Tho. Hutchinson, Jno. Butcher, Wm. Battin, Jno. Griffin, Jno. Hemerson, Rich. Lentall, Wm. Morris, Wm. Hill, Rich. Chapman, Jno. Fish, Jno Buxton. Does anyone know what Harris family line Hugh fits into? What Harris family line was in (or passed through) N'umberland County, Virginia? Any insight is appreciated.  Please respond through HH or H-COLINIALVA so others may be helped. Response: I do not know how Hugh Harris fits into the greater Harris family of Northern Neck Virginia. Northumberland Co., a huge county going back to the Alleghenies when formed, was formed 1645 from an Indian district which I am labeling Chicacone--but you can get the correct spelling from the FH Library catalog. A few years later, in 1651, from Northumberland Co., Lancaster Co. was formed; Westmoreland was formed 1653; and in 1656 old Rappahannock Co. was formed. So one almost has to study the records of all these jurisdictions--a time-consuming job--ask me!!! If any Harris-Hunters have ancestors in any of those counties, you may want to purchase or borrow a very interesting book by W. Preston Haynie called Records of Indentured Servants and of Certificates for Land, Northumberland County, Virginia, 1650-1795 [Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1996]. I just discovered at my favorite genealogical library that there is a supplement by Haynie called something like Northumberland County Apprentices. Even if one has no ancestors in this Northern Neck county, later part of the Lord Fairfax Proprietary, this book will greatly increase one's understanding of social history of colonial Virginia. It apparently was filled with indentured servants, willing and unwilling. Hugh Harris is mentioned in two lists in Northumberland Co., given to the court by two different persons, as being transported by each person!!! One finds that practice frequently in this informative book--in order to obtain land, several persons claimed the same persons over and over again!!! No investigation into their claims, probably. Later, we learn that Hugh Harris himself owns/has a servant: (The author numbers each document in his book. This is No. 671. OB is order book--court records.) 671. 20 Jun 1677 -- Tho:Jrock [or Jcock], servt to Capt Jno Rogers, adjudged to be seaventeen yeares of age; Wm White, servt to Christopher Neale, adjudged to be nine yeares of age; Edmon Weston, servt to Hugh Harris, adjudged to be thirteene yeares of age and ordered yt they all serve their respective Masters according to Act. OB 1666-78, 146. (W. Preston Haynie, Records of Indentured Servants and of Certificates for Land, Northumberland County, Virginia, 1650-1795 [Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1996] p. 121). Ira and others who are interested in the land practices in colonial Virginia may want to read about Northern Neck Virginia Land Grants. Some of the early ones appear in the first two volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers. Others appear, after the Fairfaxes took over, in Gertrude E. Gray's several volumes labeled Virginia's Northern Neck Land Grants. The abstracts are not as complete as those in Nugent's and Hudgin's editions of Cavaliers and Pioneers. Oh, yes, Philip Evans, as in the quoted patent, is claimed by another person as having been transported by the claimant. Thanks for your contributions. E.W.Wallace

Dear E.W., Ira, and other Harris Hunters: I agree that the Preston Haynie books are excellent. You might be interested to know that on two occasions when we traveled to Northumberland, we found Mr. Haynie both in the court house and library offering assistance to visiting genealogists. We do hope he is still in good health and continuing to give his own brand of courteous aid to visitors. Nancy Cooper ----- Original Message ----- From: <Hdanw@aol.com> To: <HARRIS-HUNTERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:51 PM Subject: [HH] Harris: Cavaliers & Pioneers, Vol. II, 1666-1695: N'umberland Co. > Dear Ira L. Harris III and other Harris-Hunters > > You wrote: > > Source: CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS > Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants > VOLUME TWO: 1666-1695 > Abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent > > PHILLIP EVANS & HUGH HARRIS, 600 acs. N'umberland Co., at head of > Mattapony Riv., 8 Oct. 1668, p. 198. Adj. Machotick Path & land of > Tymothy Green. Trans. of 12 pers: Tho. Gregson, Tho. Hutchinson, Jno. > Butcher, Wm. Battin, Jno. Griffin, Jno. Hemerson, Rich. Lentall, Wm. > Morris, Wm. Hill, Rich. Chapman, Jno. Fish, Jno Buxton. > > > Does anyone know what Harris family line Hugh fits into? What Harris > family line was in (or passed through) N'umberland County, Virginia? > Any insight is appreciated. Please respond through HH or > H-COLINIALVA so others may be helped. > > Response: > > I do not know how Hugh Harris fits into the greater Harris family of Northern > Neck Virginia. > > Northumberland Co., a huge county going back to the Alleghenies when formed, > was formed 1645 from an Indian district which I am labeling Chicacone--but you > can get the correct spelling from the FH Library catalog. > > A few years later, in 1651, from Northumberland Co., Lancaster Co. was > formed; Westmoreland was formed 1653; and in 1656 old Rappahannock Co. was formed. > So one almost has to study the records of all these jurisdictions--a > time-consuming job--ask me!!! > > If any Harris-Hunters have ancestors in any of those counties, you may want > to purchase or borrow a very interesting book by W. Preston Haynie called > Records of Indentured Servants and of Certificates for Land, Northumberland County, > Virginia, 1650-1795 [Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1996]. I just > discovered at my favorite genealogical library that there is a supplement by Haynie > called something like Northumberland County Apprentices. > > Even if one has no ancestors in this Northern Neck county, later part of the > Lord Fairfax Proprietary, this book will greatly increase one's understanding > of social history of colonial Virginia. It apparently was filled with > indentured servants, willing and unwilling. > > Hugh Harris is mentioned in two lists in Northumberland Co., given to the > court by two different persons, as being transported by each person!!! One finds > that practice frequently in this informative book--in order to obtain land, > several persons claimed the same persons over and over again!!! No > investigation into their claims, probably. > > Later, we learn that Hugh Harris himself owns/has a servant: > > (The author numbers each document in his book. This is No. 671. OB is order > book--court records.) > > 671. 20 Jun 1677 -- Tho:Jrock [or Jcock], servt to Capt Jno Rogers, adjudged > to be seaventeen yeares of age; Wm White, servt to Christopher Neale, > adjudged to be nine yeares of age; Edmon Weston, servt to Hugh Harris, adjudged to be > thirteene yeares of age and ordered yt they all serve their respective > Masters according to Act. OB 1666-78, 146. > > (W. Preston Haynie, Records of Indentured Servants and of Certificates for > Land, Northumberland County, Virginia, 1650-1795 [Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, > Inc., 1996] p. 121). > > Ira and others who are interested in the land practices in colonial Virginia > may want to read about Northern Neck Virginia Land Grants. Some of the early > ones appear in the first two volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers. Others > appear, after the Fairfaxes took over, in Gertrude E. Gray's several volumes labeled > Virginia's Northern Neck Land Grants. The abstracts are not as complete as > those in Nugent's and Hudgin's editions of Cavaliers and Pioneers. > > Oh, yes, Philip Evans, as in the quoted patent, is claimed by another person > as having been transported by the claimant. > > Thanks for your contributions. > > E.W.Wallace > > ______________________________