This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QBC.2ACI/2253.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Mary, All we know about my William Harris ancestor's (b. ca. 1750 Culpeper Co., VA, d. 1848 Wilkes Co., NC) time in Virginia is that he enlisted in the Revolutionary War at the Culpeper Co. Courthouse in January 1776, according to his Revolutionary War pension applications, and he was born in Culpeper Co., according to his obituary. William Harris first appears in Wilkes County in 1784 in a tax list. His son Silas told the 1850 U.S. Census he was born in Virginia. The rest of William's life in Virginia remains a mystery that refuses to be cracked. We know a fellow Revolutionary War soldier from Culpeper County, Nathaniel Harris, lived on Block or Black Water Run, a tributary of the Rappahanock River in northern Culpeper. There was a William Harris who bought land on Negro Run, a neighboring tributary to Black Water Run, when Culpeper was forned in 1749, but there is no know nconnection to my ancestor William. Family historian Pam Ross speculates my ancestor William's father is John Harris, b. ca. 1727 in Spotsylvania Co., Va. John Harris married Hannah Stevens or Stephens on April 3, 1784, in Spotsylvania Co. Ms. Ross cites a child of the couple as William Harris, b. 1752. John Harris also had a brother, William, as well as brothers James, Robert and perhaps Job, Ross said. I hope you find this of interest. Thanks for writing. Stephen Harris