Dear K McGee You wrote in answer to Ira Harris's query about Obediah Harris the following: X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:48:43 -0800 From: K McGee <[email protected]> To: [email protected] From what I have in my stuff, I believe that most of your Obediahs were Quakers. I suspect that you could follow their family members in the Monthly Meeting records for Randolph Co. IN . . . That is, if they remained Quaker when they married and had children. I'm sorry that I don't have the IN books but I believe you might be able to find them in your library -- especially since you're there in IN. There also might be answers in the Q-R mail list archives. Since I'm supposed to be related to Wm Harris and Temperance Overton through their daughter, Elizabeth (spouse John Hudson). K McGee My response: Although I am interested somewhat in Harrises in Virginia in particular who may have been Quakers and others who may have been Baptists, I am particularly interested in any progeny of William Harris and his wife Temperance Overton. Reason; I am descended from Major Robert Harris and his wife Mourning [believed to be Glen or Glenn], son of William Harris and Temperance. I am descended from Robert's son, Christopher Harris, who died testate in Madison Co., KY ca 1798. (Robert's records are mainly in Louisa Co., VA but a few in Albemarle, and, of course, Hanover is largely a burned county.) Is John Hudson the person who died intestate before March 1733 in Hanover Co., VA? I have a copy of the transcribed/abstracted admin. bond filed by Elizabeth (X) Hudson, William Harris, and Daniel Patrick. This appears in a publication by Mrs. Rosalie Edith Davis, HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA COURT RECORDS 1733-1735: DEEDS, WILLS AND INVENTORIES [Manchester, MO: Published by author, 1979] Do you think the William Harris who assisted in this bond is Elizabeth's father, or is he a brother? Give me your thoughts. Mrs. Davis has transcribed other records for Louisa Co. where Robert Harris and some other Harrises later resided. If you want to see her catalog, this is her website: __http://www.angelfire.com/va3/redavis/_ (http://www.angelfire.com/va3/redavis/) _ Remove the punctuation--rootsweb does not like the *raw* URL and rejects my messages if I don't add punctuation of some sort. Mrs. Davis notes *many surnames occurring in these [Hanover Co.] records will be found in Louisa County after its formation in 1742 and from 1761 in Albemarle county records.* I find Mrs. Davis's books of colonial Louisa Co. invaluable for my Harris research--those Harrises of that area, however--not all Harrises!!! There are several references in Hanover records to Charles Hudson. How is he related? Did Elizabeth remarry? E.W.Wallace [female]