Dear Harris-Hunters of whatever colony or State: Since genealogy/lineage of early American ancestors, at least in the South, where all my ancestors (except for one Ulster Irishman who came prior to 1820) originated, is by guess and by gosh, I am sending you some material which I cut and pasted from Christopher Harris's will. Ira Harris is right are right -- no person named Elizabeth appears in Christopher Harris's will, proved in Madison Co., KY. So my information posted earlier seems to be incorrect. Thanks for catching this. Ira is of the opinion that a child of Christopher Harris named Elizabeth did not survive to adulthood. (I believe some of the dates we have the older children of Christopher Harris came from an old DAR application, which may be very flawed.) I know that Christopher Harris was married to Agnes McCord by about 1776 as there is an Augusta Co., VA deed executed by this couple. (An abstract appears in Lyman Chalkley's Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish in Virginia--last time I looked it was on the internet.) By the way, Ira (or other interested parties), have you ever found the name Mary Dabney in any Dabney or Harris documents? I know traditionally a Mary Dabney is Christopher's first wife, and the fact that Chris has a son named Dabney Harris (I have some slight info on him) and that Christopher mentions Cornelius Dabney in his will would seem to indicate a close relationship. (There are so many Cornelius Dabneys that I am unsure whether the reference may be to the father of Mary Dabney or to a brother.) Madison Co. Wills Bk A-54: In the name of God Amen, I Christopher Harris being through the Abundant mercy and goodness of God tho weak in body yet of perfect understanding and memory do Constitute this my last will & Testament and desire it should be received by all as Such --- that I will and Desire that my first Children (viz) Dabney Harris, Sarah Martin, Robert Harrys, Mourning Jones, Christopher Harris & Mary Jones should have the following negroes (excepting thirty pounds out of my son Dabney's Legacy which is to be paid the Executors of this Part of my will for the use and Benefit of my wife and Other Children (viz) Ritter and her children, Pompi, Moses, Allice, George, Betty, Lucy and Delphy the above Negroes to be Divided agreeable to Cornelius Dabney's Seniors' will, and I do appoint Foster Jones and Christopher Harris as Executors of the above part of this Will and as to the Ballance of my Estate I Direct that first my Debts shall be paid out of what money I have by or is Owing to me the house where I live I Direct should be finished which together with the tract of land whereon I live I leave to my Dear & Loving wife during her life and at her death to son Overton Harrys as to the Ballance of my Negroes (David, Cate, Fanny, Stephen, and Eddy together with my Household furniture, Stock of every kind and Plantation Utensels I desire that my wife may have the whole Benefit of them during her life or widowhood and if she should Marry the whole to be sold and Equally Divided amongst her Other Children as to my Lands on Muddy Creek. I will and Bequeath them as follows the Drowning Creek Tract of land I will and Bequeath to my son John Harrys the Sycamore Spring Tract to my son Benjamin Harris the tract on which my son Wm has built to my son William Harris and the Tract Called the Holly Tract to my son Barnabas Harrys and my land in Albemarle County together with the Stock that is thereon I direct shall be sold and that my son James and Samuel Harris shall Receive of the money as much as Col. John Miller & Robert Rodes shall Judge the land to be worth that I willd to my Other sons viz to be made Equal to the, as to my three Daughters, viz, Jane Gentry, Margaret Harris, and Isabel Harris my will and Desire is that Jean Gentry shall Receive ten pounds and [blank] and Margaret and Isabel Harris to have fifty pounds apiece out of the Ballance of what my Albemarle land and the Profits arising from that place and if that should not be Sufficient that It shall be made up to them out of my Personal Estate that my wife and Executors after mentioned shall think best as to my lands on Licking Waters my will is that if they are Obtained it should be sold and Equally divided Amongst my last set of Children and I do appoint my dear and loving wife with John Sappington and John Harris to execute that part of my will that respects my wife and her Children as Witness my hand & Seal this twentieth day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety four. Witness Hartly Sappington Richd Sappington Joseph Wills (s) Christopher Harris At a court held for Madison County on Tuesday the 1st day of March 1794. This will was proved to be the last Will & Testament of Christopher Harris by the Oath of Joseph Wells, Hartley & Richard Sappington Witnesses thereto and Ordered to be Recorded Test Will Irvine On page 58 of Madison Co. will book is an inventory dated 1 July 1794 conducted by Robert Rodes, David Crews, John Millar. Inventory totaled 606 pounds, 14 shillings, 2 1/2 pence. Among the household items and furniture and farm implements and utensils, was a shelf of books valued at 5 pounds. The greatest value was put on the livestock: 42 head of cattle, 32 sheep, 14 "gease," a bay horse, 1 sorrel mare, two mares, 1 horse, 1 white horse, [a] sorrel mare, 1 black mare, two sows & pigs, 13 hogs. (2) (Surviving) Children of the first marriage to Mary (?) Dabney [These are NOT in order as given in the will] first Children (viz) Dabney Harris Robert Harrys Christopher Harrys Sarah Martin Mourning Jones Mary Jones Children by Agnes McCord Overton John Barnabas Benjamin William James Samuel Jane Gentry Margaret Isabel Back to Chuck's original question about a marriage of an Elizabeth Harris in Madison Co., KY to a Davis groom, with John Harris as bondsman. A guess: She is the daughter of John Harris. Perhaps if the researcher obtains a copy of the original bond [which MAY exist and may have been filmed], he find out the relationship. Some Kentucky marriage bonds give very specific information about the parents of both the bride and the groom as well as their ages and their places of residence, but the early bonds may not give this information. E.W.Wallace