As someone notes, the surname Chambless/Chambliss is spelled a variety of ways and in the 17th century Virginia records it is more likely to be spelled Chamnis and other shorter variations of the name. Someone asked my own lineage. I descend from Henry Chambliss who died in 1795 in Greensville Co., Va. He was married three times and the Family Bible survives. By his last wife Jean Williams, he had a son David Chambless (b. 1762) who died in Halifax Co., N.C. about 1794. He had predeceased his father because his father made a bequest in his will to David's infant daughter Patsy P Chambless. David Chambliss's widow Catherine came to Tennessee in 1797 with the Harris/Hargrove clan and remarried in 1799 in Davidson Co., Tn to James Lovell. Another sibling of David Chambliss, named Mark Chambliss, born in 1771, who married Judith Johnson in 1800 in Greensville Co., Va., eventually came to Tennessee settling in Montgomery Co, I believe, where he died in 1841. I would assume some of the Chambliss persons in Tennessee must be his descendants, but I have not traced his descendants. Since my David Chambliss had only one child, a daughter, he would have no descendants named Chambliss--obviously. The Henry Chambliss who died in 1795 was born in 1734 in Prince George Co., Va. I have no doubt he was the son of Henry and Frances Chambliss. Frances is often shown with the surname Wynn, but I do not think there is any evidence for that surname. And I believe this elder Henry Chambliss was the son of another Henry Chambliss (wife Mary Moor). Unfortunately, many garbled Chambliss genealogies have been in circulation for many years and dominate the internet genealogy about the family. The shortage of records in Prince George and Charles City County, Virginia make it difficult to sort out the family prior to 1700, but the surname Chamnus/Chamus/Chamlis seems to go back to the 1670's.