Ira Harris has posted On Harris ColonialVA some abstracted North Carolina wills, among them an abstract of the will of one Matthew Jouett. The Jouett family is closely associated with Harris family in Albemarle Co. and perhaps previously in other counties. And, of course, one of Major Robert Harris's sons, Tyree Harris, migrated to North Carolina--Orange Co., ca 1763, part of which became Caswell Co., NC in 1777. Some comments about this Matthew Jouett of Caswell Co. MATTHEW JOUETT (grandson of Matthew Jouett the elder of Hanover Co., VA) According to John H. Gwathmey, TWELVE VIRGINIA COUNTIES WHERE THE WESTERN MIGRATION BEGAN [Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981] p. 339, Matthew Jouett was a son of John Jouett of Albemarle Co. and his wife Mourning Harris. He was killed in the Battle of Brandywine, as a captain in the Revolution. Reportedly he was commander of 7th Virginia Regiment of Foot. Matthew Jouett had his will probated in Caswell Co., Sept court 1779 (WB A-80). The will names a son named Matthew, as well as a number of other children and a wife named Sarah. The other children were: John, Susannah, Nancy, Polly, Thomas, Betsy, Washington. The executors were his wife and Thomas Brooks, Absaolm Tatom, Richard Moore. Test: Jere Poston, Henry Cobb, Chas. Taylor. (Katherine Kerr Kendall, CASWELL COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA WILL BOOKS 1777-1814... [Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc, 1997 reprint of 1979 original], p. 4) I believe Matthew Jouett was awarded bounty land by the State of Virginia, but further research is in order. E.W.Wallace