You ask about one Richmond Harris. I have seen the name, but I don't believe I have any personal (descendancy) links with him. I do not know the parentage of one Richmond Harris who appears on early lists of Garrard Co., KY, but I suspect he MAY have come from Virginia. If not from Virginia, then North Carolina!!! A few brave souls sneaked in from Maryland and perhaps Pennsylvania (as did my ancestor who was a sidekick of Daniel Boone, the latter really coming from North Carolina where he linked up with Col. Richard Henderson.) The 1790 census for Virginia is largely missing (if not totally). Some years ago some lovely ladies took the surviving personal property tax lists for 1787 of all the counties of Virginia (a few counties are missing) which at that time included the several counties which existed in Kentucky. Kentucky did not become a state until 1792. There are three hefty volumes of this so-called 1787 Census of Virginia compiled by Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florine S. Love. The third volume is the index for the two preceding volumes. Harris, of course, will be a bear to research, as there are several different spellings, and nearly every ethnic group seems to claim a few Harrises--perhaps not the Germans, but some of those folks anglicized their names!!! It might be easier to start with researching the places where you KNOW Richmond Harris lived and study the tax records, the court records, the land records and see if you can find any clues as to his origins. I don't know whether tax lists exist for early Garrard Co., KY but if so, sometimes they are wonderful in making up for in-between census years. Here is one clue from a Plaintiff list from a book published by the Garrard Co., KY Historical Society some years ago. The title: GARRARD COUNTY, KY INDEX TO CIRCUIT COURT CHANCERY SUITS 1799-1868. (Do some reading on Chancery suits--they sometimes deal with estates, but perhaps not always.) Harris, Richmond vs. Anderson, T. (19-73-563) Bk 9-507, Jun 1828 Perhaps you can find Richmond on the 1830 KY census. For researching Madison Co., KY, where many early settlers were my ancestors, I have found the deed indexes--grantor and grantee--are wonderful about placing someone in a time and a place and seeing to whom he sold land or from whom he bought land--or perhaps when he died (and hrs. meaing and heirs) after his name. Have you ever tried reading deeds, which sometimes include deeds of gift (sometimes slaves or household goods) or sometimes include powers of attorney? Tax lists, court records, whatever you can find, such as probates, may give you wonderful leads. I have never used the facilities of Eastern Kentucky U. in Richmond, KY, but I am told they have a wonderful repository of genealogical materials. Telephone or e-mail--or join the Garrard Co. rootsweb--and find out the current address of the Garrard Co. Historical Society and see what other publications they have. E.W.Wallace