Ira Harris posted this info: Source: CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS         Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants         VOLUME ONE: 1632-1666         Abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent EDWARD HARRIS, 730 acs. New Kent Co., 19 Dec. 1664, p. 117, (616). On S.W. side of Yorke Riv. By land of George Smith, by tankes Pasbehaies to Cattaile Sw. & Adj. Edmonds land. Granted to Charles Edmonds, 29 June 1657, by him deserted & granted by order of court &c., 30 Sept. 1663 & due for trans. of 15 pers.* What Edward Harris is this? What line does he fit into? Any insight is appreciated. Please respond through HH or H-COLONIALVA so that others may be helped. Response: Genealogists should always keep an open mind. I am unsure that a man named Edward Harris, living in 1734 in Hanover Co., may be the same person who many years earlier patented the cited land. There seems to be a great gap in the time span. However, we know that part of New Kent Co. became Hanover Co., one of those infamously "burned counties" of Virginia. Dr. Malcolm Hart Harris in one of his articles about some of the Harris family members, published a number of years ago in The Virginia Genealogist, differentiated one William Harris, who was associated with the Alves/Alvis family, from the William Harris who married Temperance Overton. Can we speculate that Edward Harris is of the extended family of that William Harris, who, I believe bore the prefix Major? >From ca Aug 1734 court minutes, Hanover Co. is a long inventory of the estate of David Alvis in the hands of David Crenshaw his late Guardian. (p. 123-126 of Hanover Co. court minutes). Immediately following that inventory is that of one Mary Alves, dated May 25 1732. The relationship of Mary Alves to David Alves is not stated. These inventories are followed by these minutes: In obedience to the order wee the subscribers met Michael Holland and being absent the parties viz. David Crenshaw late Guardian of David Alvis Infant and Edward Harris his present Guardian consented that we should settle all account to the Estate of sd. orphan and accordingly wee find to be due from ye sd. orphans Estate unto David Crenshaw Ten pounds 6 pence three farthens Currt. money and that the sd. parties did agree that wee should settle an account hereunto annexed to the estate of Mary Alves deceased. Wee find to be due from David Crenshaw administrator of sd. Mary unto David Alves Orphan Ten pounds-15 sterling. Cha. Chiswell Richard Clough 4 Oct 1734 Settlement of the Estate of David Alves Orphan of George Alves dec'd was recorded. (Source: Rosalie Edith Davis, HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA COURT RECORDS 1733-1735: DEEDS, WILLS AND INVENTORIES [Manchester, MO: Published by author, 1979], pp. 35-37) Further Speculation: Please refer to your abstracts from Nugent's Vol III 1695-1732: New Kent Co. Refer to the second entry for a William Harris who patented land in New Kent Co.... beg. on the South River over against George Alvis' land.... 16 June 1714. Can there be a connection? I think for many years to come, genealogists will be pondering the answers to your questions. There seem to be few clues among the currently searchable documents for any of us to be clear about these relationships. E.W.Wallace