Posting Thomas Harrises wherever I can find them--this just happens to be the vicinity in which the descendants of my Orange Co. Harris line finally settled down and are buried (Pulaski Co., IL). There was a Thomas H. Harris who bought land in Union Co., IL as early as 1818, Preston Precinct taken from the book, History of Union Co., IL Vol I, by George E. Parks: p 140 - seems to had land prior to 1818 - "farther up the river Preston Precinct was settled by Thomas H. Harris, 1111.95 acres..." p 143, between 1825-35: Union Precinct west of Jonesboro along the Miss. River: Thomas H. Harris 40 acres p 198, between 1835-50: Preston Twp: William Harris 40 acres This large book is not indexed but does have good early history of this county. ---------------------------------------------- Another book, History of Alexander, Union, & Pulaski Counties, by Wm H. Perrin 1883 also gives the following on Thomas H. Harris: p 68 - "On the 9th day of January, 1818, the Territorial Legislature concluded the time had come that imperatively demanded that a city be founded here, and on that day it passed an act for the incorporation of the "City and Bank of Cairo in the State of Illinois", the incorporators, consisting of John G. Comyges, Thomas H. Harris, Thomas F. Herbert, Shadrach Bond, Michael Jones, Warren Brown, Edward Humphreys and Charles W. Hunter who had entered a certain tract of land between the Ohio and Miss. Rivers and near the junction of the same. This land included franctional Sections 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and the northeast fractional quarter of Section 27, Town 17 south, Range 1 west, and contained about 1,800 acres...