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    1. Wooten Harris
    2. Brian Walls
    3. Cousins, I know that some of you have been asked this before, but in my research I have become more and more convinced that there is a Wooten line in my tree. Please follow: Isaac Harris, born c1729, some say in Meherrin Parish, Brunswick Co, VA, died in Brunswick Co before 1777 when it was "Ordered that John Harris, Wooten Harris, Benjamin Harris, Elizabeth Harris, and Mary Harris, orphans of Isaac Harris, dec'd, be bound out by the chuch warden of Meherrin Parish, according to law." Brun. Co. Ct. Order, Bk 12, p. 175. Wooten Harris was born March of 1759 in Brunswick Co., according to his Rev. War Pension Application. It is very very likely that Wooten Harris' mother, or to a lesser degree his grandmother, was a Wooten. However, most genealogies of the Wooten family have few or no daughters attributed to the first generations. I very much would like to work with all of you to find any data supporting the suppected connection. Which of any Wootens were in Brunswick in the 1750's and could have had a daughter who married Isaac Harris? Could this theoretical female Wooten have been the daughter of an earlier Wooten who left her an orphan to be brought up by someone else? I do not have the parents for Isaac Harris either, but both familes (Wooten and Harris) were in nearby Isle of Wight Co., VA at the close of the 17th Century. Any ideas? Brian Walls Columbia, Maryalnd

    05/23/1998 04:35:24