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I sent you 14 generations of Garris lineage from you on back to Amos Garris I b. 1638 Yorkshire, England, arrived in Exmore, Northampton, Va in 1654, given 50 acres, trained as a cooper-barrel/crate maker, blacksmith. Garris, France on the France Spain border just south of the resort city of Biarritz, France was founded on a high rocky fortress as a market town 200 A.D., Population 320 today, on a Roman road. They fled the French Inquisition, you will be catholic or dead, some to Holland, finding little land there some went to Germany then to Lancaster, Pa, Ours to Yorkshire, England where earlier Garris had helped William The Conqueror take England at Hastings in 1066, one was given a land grant in Cornwall east of Bristol, England where from ancient times there were tin mines and pottery dish making as exports. Another was given a Vice Kingship in Garristown, Ireland about 28 miles northeast of Dublin. After King changes in England and fighing his representatives only a small boy was left which they took to Garris, France. The Garris Coat of Arms is as Gold Shield with 3 Scarlet Chevrons/honaries, also a scarlet shield with 3 gold Chevrons. Chevrons represented the saftey and protection of the eave of a house.
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