Here are some notes I promised--to add to your notes about Robert Harris, Jr., son of Major Robert Harris of colonial Louisa Co., VA and sometimes of Albemarle Co., VA. These are not comprehensive. Others have written or have collected voluminous notes about the Browns. The Brown males are generally easy to spot because of their sometimes unusual first names, frequently beginning with the letter B. (Good idea if your surname is Brown. The Harrises seemed to recycle their first names!) E.W.Wallace LUCRETIA BROWN. A series of deeds in Albemarle Co. refer to Lucretia (Brown) Harris and to her husband, Ro. Harris, Jr. Lucretia's mother is reportedly Sarah Dabney (not confirmed). (Robert Harris is called Junr in the deeds but in reality is of a said-to-be long line of Robert Harrises.) Robert, Jr. is said to have had a great-grandfather called Robert Harris. Whether Robert I is the immigrant ancestor is difficult to prove, due to paucity of documents for colonial New Kent Co. Although this great-grandfather, the said-to-be-father of William Harris, whose wife was Temperance Overton of Hanover Co., allegedly was married to a Mary Claiborne, noted Virginia genealogist John Frederick Dorman, in his recent history of the Claiborne family, says there is no proof of such a marriage. At any rate, Lucretia Brown and Robert Harris may have been married ca 1748 as implied in a deed index of Albemarle Co. The deed itself has not been read. However, the grantee may have been the elder Major Robert Harris of Louisa Co., father of Robert Harris, Jr. Deed Items: Cross Index of Parties [Albemarle Co., VA] Page Grantor Grantee 360 - May 1748 Benj. Brown & wife Sarah to Robt. Harris From Albemarle Co., VA Deed Bk 3: p. 173: 3 Apr 1762 Ro. Harris, planter, to son Ro. Jr., love - on Blue Ridge, Doyle River, pat. of 521 acs 6 Dec 1753. Wit: Jas. Harris, Christopher Harris, Wm. Brown. p. 174: [same date] Benj. Brown, to dtr. Lucretia Harris; love, slave, Moll. Wit: Jas. Harris, Christopher Harris, Wm. Brown. * p. 175: [same date] Benj. Brown, to dtr. Lucretia Harris; love; Blue Ridge tract and Doyle's River - where she lives, adj. Jno. Statham, Benj. Thurman - 400 acs. Wit: Jas. Harris, Christopher Harris, Wm. Brown, Benj. Thurman... (From The Rev. Bailey Fulton Davis, THE DEEDS OF AMHERST COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1761-1807 AND ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1748-1763 (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1979], pp. 54-55.) Less abstracted deeds of Albemarle Co. probably can be found in he works of Ruth and Sam Sparacio of The Antient Press, McLean, VA. Earlier, Benj. Brown had deeded land to Benj. Brown, Jr. of Hanover, for 71 pds. 305 acres E. side Doyle River, adj. Sr. & Jr., Wm. Rice. Wit: Ro. Harris, Wm. Brown, James Harris, Jno. Mulling. (Albemarle DB 3-178). We learn from other deeds of Benjamin Brown, Sr. that his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Jno. Price, had died by June 1762. Brown, Sr. deeded on 10 June 1762 to his granddaughter Lucinda Price and to his son-in-law Jno. Price (to longest liver) 280 acs. of land at foot of Great Mts. adj. some in Louisa. Wit: Ro. Harris, Ro. Harris Jr., Jas. Harris. Albemarle Co. DB 5-p. 181-182 10 May 1770 Robert Harriss & Lucresia his wife of Albemarle Co. to William Cox of Orange Co.... for 90 pds. current money.. 377 acres in Albemarle Co. on the Great Muntain... W side of a branch of Doyles River.. south fork of Doyle's R. [no witnesses shown] Robert Harriss The deed was ackd. by Robert Harris. Lucreasia, wife of said Robert, personally apeared in Court... and relinquished her right of Dower. (adapted from Ruth & Sam Sparacio, DEED ABSTRACTS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1768-1772, AUGUST COURT 1768-DECEMBER COURT 1770 [McLean, VA: The Antient Press], p. 91-92) * Jane, reported daughter of James Harris [which one?] married a Cornelius Dabney [which one?]. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.