Re: Harris Family
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MaryE Watson 12/30/06
Mary
I know I could find this if I searched the archives but who where your Harris' again?Are they from Rockingham by any chance?Or have you found them in or around Halifax-Henry or Patrick Co., Va.
They seem to be connected with Valentine and Champ Gibson family and some did go to Scott Co., Va., apparently with the Gibsons.
Gibson, Valentine. grantee.
DATE5 June 1765.
NOTELocation: Halifax County.
NOTEGrantee(s): Harris, John and Gibson, Valentine.
NOTEDescription: 404 acres.
NOTESource: Land Office Patents No. 36, 1764-1767 (v.1 & 2 p.557-1083), p. 728 (Reel 36).
Lydia Fields, dau of John Fields and Mary Gibson married to Charles Harris in Rockingham and moved to Scott Co., Va.
Also these notes I have;
From Gowen Research;
June 2000
==Dear Cousins==
Nancy Harris was d/o James & Nancy GOING (GOINS) Harris and is named in James's 1807 Patrick County will (before her mar
riage; her maiden name is supplied in Robert Harris's War
of 1812 pension file). See the Foundation website for
more on her.
Robert Harris was presumably s/o James Harris, a Revolu-
tionary War soldier and pensioner; his pension file states
that he was born in 1748 in Dinwiddie Co., VA; was living
in Orange Co., NC, in 1775; and moved to what would become
Patrick in 1781. He probably died in 1831 or shortly there-
after, as per his RW pension file. His second wife [first
wife unknown] was Kesiah [Minor] Harris, who was living
in Ohio as late as 1857 (survivor's pension).
Both the Goins family and this particular Harris family
were mixed-race families associated with the "Melungeons"
of southwestern VA and northeastern TN. Both Robert's and
Nancy's parents' families are listed as "mulatto" in most
county records, but Robert and Nancy seem to have been re-
garded as white once they reached Kentucky and Illinois--
not at all unusual for these folks in that period.
I'd be most interested in corresponding with anyone in-
terested in either of these families.
Dr. G. C. Waldrep III
Box 687
Yanceyville, NC, 27379
[email protected]
ANDthese HARRIS' are connected to the Bass family who intermarried with the GOINS
Deed Book 5 Part 2 "Orders"May 19 1687, Ann Harris, Love Harris, and Elizabeth Jennett acquitted of any wilfull neglect in death of an infant child of Ann Harris.
1693 Jean Harris age nine orphan of Richard Harris deceased with consent of mother Ann Harris bound to Malachy Johnston.
January 6, 1693 Coroner requested a ruling on his fee in cases of death by misadventure, with specific reference to the accidental deaths of Richard Harris and his two children.Matter referred to His Excellency.
June 1, 1694, John Harris orphan of Richard Harris, deceased and son of Ann Harris, apprenticed to James Lowry to learn the craft of a cordwainer or shoemaker.
She may well have been an Indian too.
Joanne
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Re: Harris Family
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