Dear Subscribers to Harris hunters of colonial Virginia: I located a lone John Harris on Goochland Co. tithable list, 1747: Tithe List by Jas. Holman, 10 June 1747 5 John Harris list: Demetrius Young, overseer. Preceding the above, however, is this Harris male: For Southam Parish by Thos Turpin, 10 June 1747: 13 for Benj. Harris: Jno. Scrugs, Jno Peters, Jno. Roberts (A. Jean Lurvey, GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA TITHE LISTS, 1735-47 [Springfield, MO: 1979], p. 7) I believe the numbers are the total number of tithables, which includes slaves. Unlike many other authors, the compiler has not listed slaves by name. If the other males have names, they may be overseers (frequently identified, however) or apprentices or indentured servants. (Colonial Williamsburg re-enactors tell us law students, such as Jefferson, lived with their professor.) A good many of these names will be found later in Louisa Co. or Albemarle Co. or Cumberland Co., which was formed from Goochland Co. (Those county boundary changes have us looking everywhere for our missing ancestors.) Suggestion: If you believe you may have relatives/ancestors in colonial Goochland Co. (along the James River, both north and south of the James River in the beginning), you may want to explore some of the writings of Benjamin B. Weisiger. Dr. Weisiger permitted the Family History Library in Salt Lake City to film a good many of his books, including one of Goochland Co. wills Access the FH Library catalog on _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) [lower right of screen has a link] Do an Author search for Weisiger, Benjamin [lower case OK] A long list of Weisiger's works will be shown. Some have been filmed, so check *View Film Notes* at upper part of screen. If Goochland Co. is your research goal, check that title. Note that his Goochland volumes (three of them) have been put on microfiche. Each microfice will cost you about 15 cents apiece to order to your local FH Center (we hope one is near you.) Order them if you so desire--you won't get a better bargain!!!! The microfiche generally stay at your local LDS center, and you can look at them again and again. If a book has been filmed, the index, of course, will be on the last page. Take pen and paper and make notes, and then photocopy if you can the pages which interest you. E.W.Wallace