Teresa & everyone, Robert Harris (d. 1809, Surry Co., NC) moved to Surry Co. straight from Albemarle Co., VA. He was the son of Robert & Mourning Glenn Harris of Louisa & Albemarle Cos., VA, the grandson of Capt. William & Temperance Overton Harris of New Kent Co., VA, and the great-grandson of Robert Harris of Ware Creek. So, technically, as my 1713 William Harris appears to have been a grandson of Robert Harris of Ware Creek (likely through a younger son?), my William and the Robert Harris that came to Surry, NC (and Robert's brother, Christopher's son, Dabney Harris, too) were of the same root family (though I doubt they were aware of that.) They didn ot come to Surry Co. together. My William came to Surry, NC straight from Culpeper Co., VA. Robert Harris of Albemarle Co., VA & Surry Co., NC, (whose daughter married David Blackwell,) was better-educated and a much more wealthy man than my William. (Dabney Harris was in Louisa Co., VA, and also in Augusta Co. in that state---he was also illiterate, as eldest sons often were in the pioneering days.) This area of North Carolina was still very much a wilderness when William Harris, and his friends, Thomas Walsh/Welsh/Welch and Thomas Grimsley moved from Culpeper, VA to Wilkes Co. (I have another ancestress who was killed in Wilkes Co. in 1794 in an Indian attack!) :-) Pam pamstone@cfl.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "teresa stuart" <lilliebelle3@yahoo.com> To: "Pam Stone" <pamstone@cfl.rr.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [NCSurry] Names of waterways---and our William HARRIS (b. 1752) & his missing kids... Pam, Was your Harris family of VA to Surry CO NC assoc. or allied with David Blackwell in VA and Surry NC. David Blackwell came with his father in law who was a Harris from VA to Surry NC. Teresa Sturt de Rios --- Pam Stone <pamstone@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > E. W., > > Great advice for all researchers to follow!