The family of Temperance Overton of Virginia are the subject of the worst type of pedigree-making, replete with claimed records of early baptisms that can only exist in a parallel universe. This article does not seek to lay bare the full extent of the mythology surrounding these Overtons, as a charitable omission of this allows a fuller explanation of who they probably were.

This may commence with this marriage: ‘John Overton, of S’ Sepulchre’s, Lond., Stationer, Widr, ab’ 35, & Sara Garrett, of S’ Olave’s, Southwark, Spr, ab’ 28, alleged by John Garrett, of St Olave’s afs, Printer’, 1676. He was a likely close relative of the William Overton who married Elizabeth Waters, daughter of Samuel and Anne Waters, of St. Sepulchre, London, and sister of John Waters, who bought land from William Thornton, whose family were of St Olave’s. These Overtons were probably descendants of Richard Overton, Gent, of St Olave’s, who receives a bequest in the Will of Sir Nicholas Ambrose, which was witnessed by Thomas Thornton; the progenitor of the Thornton family hereinafter mentioned.

The said Sara Garrett was the sister of Mary Garrett, recorded thus: ‘9 Octr., 1689. Henry Woodard of St. Olave, Southwark, butcher, bachelor, 23, and Mary Garrett of St. Olave, spinster, 19; at St. Olave, Southwark. With the consent of James and Sarah Garrett, her parents’ (1). They were sisters of the first mayor of Annapolis, Amos Garrett, who was buried in St. Ann’s churchyard, Annapolis, having died on March 8, 1727, aged fifty-six. His will mentioned his sister Mary, and her husband, Henry Woodward, his executor. Henry Woodward was of ‘Newington-Butts’ (which was contiguous with St. George Parish, Southwark), and was a member of the extensive Woodward family, which shared many acquaintences with the Harris family of Southwark. See ‘The Woodward Influence’, which sketches the descendants of Christopher Woodward and his second wife, Elizabeth Oldbury, dau. of John Oldbury, of Shropshire (2).

Henry Woodward and Sarah Garrett were the parents of William Woodward, a goldsmith of the Guild of London, who settled in Annapolis (3). This link to the ‘goldsmiths’ is likely to be salient to identifying the ancestry of Temperance Overton.

The possible associations of the Woodward family of Southwark with their namesakes associated with the Lyddalls and Peakes could be profitably considered. (Robert Peake married Martha Woodward, daughter of George Woodward of Upton cum-Chalvey, Buckingham. Martha Woodward’s sister, Bridget, married Thomas Lydall, and their son, George Lydall, Peake’s nephew by marriage, appears in his will as his ‘cousin’, Robert Peake. In Virginia). George Lydall’s son, John Lyddall, patented land with William Overton, their properties adjoining, in New Kent. Yet, there were more immediate and proven links between the family of the said John Overton (‘of S’ Sepulchre’s, Lond., Stationer’) and Robert Peake.

This Robert Peake was Sir Robert Peake, ‘goldsmith of London’, whose Will was proven in London, May 26, 1667 (P.C.C. Carr – 96), which bequeathed ‘to cousin James Waters, the son of Joseph Waters,£50; to cousin Waters, relict of Samuel Waters, Skinner. decd. £20′. ‘Cousin Waters’ was Ann (Peake) Waters, of St. Sepulchre, London; her Will, dated September 7, 1697, names her daughter, Elizabeth Overton, ‘now in Virginia’, and her brother, John Waters, likewise in Virginia. William Overton patented 4,600 acres on the south side of Pamunky River on Falling Creek, April 23, 1681, for transporting 92 people. Samuel Waters, husband of Ann, was buried at St. Sepulchre, London, September 6, 1665.

Ann (Peake) Waters was a daughter of Boniface Peake:

1. Boniface Peake, of Thorpe, Northamptonshire. His birth and death years are not known; all that is known for certain is that he was alive in 1612.
1.1. Sir William Peake, Sheriff, afterwards Lord Mayor of London, d. March 1, 1675, father of Sir John Peake, Lord Mayor, 1686–7. The MS. account of the Aldermen of 1672 describes William Peake as ‘dilligent in the publique affaires, resolute for the King’s interest and for the antient and orderly Government of the cittie’.
1.1.1. Rebecca Peake, m. Thomas Mann: ‘Thomas Man, Esq., sword bearer to the city of London, about 1675, married Rebecca, daughter of Sir William Peake’ (4). He was obviously of the same family as ‘William Mann, Swordbearer. 1665, 1671-6, 1688’ (5).
1.2. Ann Peake, d. 1700, generally claimed to have been born in St Sepulchre parish after her father’s death, erroneously so, as St Sepulchre baptismal records are only extant from 1662.  Her siblings baptism records included: William Peake, September 1, 1605; Christopher Peake, April 29, 1607, Philip Peake, February 24, 1608. Oliver Peake, October 18, 1612. (6). They were the issue of Boniface Peake and Joan Clarke, married on July 14, 1595, at St Kyneburgha, Castor. She was born March 17, 1578, at Westhorpe, Suffolk. Ann Peake married Samuel Waters, of Eastcote. A number of children ascribed to Boniface Peake and Joan Clarke were the issue of a probable kinsman, Henry.

John Waters ‘of Eastcott, county of Northampton, yeoman’; his Will proved on October 6, 1626 (7), named five sons Thomas, Joseph, James, Ambrose, and Samuel, and daus. Elizabeth and Ann, wife of Richard Pinckard, plaintiff in a litigation against John Boughton concerning land in Eastcott, dated 1603-1625 (8), and six grandchildren, John, Judith, William, Esther, Richard Pinchard, and John Pinchard. John Waters had married Alice Boughton on February 2, 1584 (Pattishall, Holy Cross, in which parish is Eastcott), and had numerous children, the penultimate one being Samuel Waters, bapt. July 27, 1617, at Holy Cross. Some of Samuel’s siblings included Elizabeth Waters, bapt. May 18, 1600, who m. (1) Richard Bell, January 17, 1624, (2) William Ashbie, November 22, 1626. Ann Waters, bapt. March 7, 1594, m. William Sorrill,* October 17, 1618. Joan Waters, bapt. June 27, 1596, m. John Pinckard, February 15, 1616, br. of William Pinckard, who m. Elizabeth Grendon, bapt. September 27, 1612 (Holy Cross); grandau. of George Grendon and Alice Chamberlayne, sister of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, from 1591 solicitor to Lord Berkeley, afterwards justice of Chester. In 1612, Chamberlayne m. Elizabeth Fermor, widow of Sir William Stafford of Blatherwick. He m., secondly, in 1622, Elizabeth Carey, dau. of Lord Hunsdon, and widow of Sir Thomas Berkeley. Chamberlayne d. on September 27, 1625, being step-father of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley (October 7, 1601–August 10, 1658), whose married Elizabeth Stanhope, the daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope, my direct ancestor.

Robert Sorrell, transportee of Richary Carey, in 1653, was probable the second cousin of Ann (Peake) Water’s son, John. Land near Diascund Creek changed hands frequently, usually because would-be patentees failed to farm the land they claimed. Among those who retained substanitial holdings of land in the Diascund Creek area were Sir John Ayton, Edward Cowles, William Edwards, Robert Sorrell, and n.b. the Rev. Thomas Hampton. Robert Sorell, on February 20, 1682 was noted as ‘one of Berkeley’s adherents, and fell in his Majesty’s service before James City’.

Thus, Robert Sorrell may be more correctly identified than by plucking a namesake from an English baptismal record who had no connection to those he was subsequently associated with, and, thus, is inevitably the wrong person chosen, as the central tenet of all early English/Virginia families was one of ‘continuation of association’. They had spent centuries developing their kinship groups in England, built upon continued intermarriages and close associations within their group, and did not abandon this practice in Virginia. It is a sad fact that ancestors ‘chosen’ from Burkes tomes or haphazard parish registers are still adhered to 25 years or more after their ‘discovery’, without qestioning why a ‘ancestor’ in Virginia had no associations with anyone from his supposed English origins.

The aforementioned Peakes were a junior branch of Robert Peake’s family, since the latter gave permission for them to use their family’s arms, differenced, in 1634.

1. Robert Peake, the Elder (c. 1551–1619).
1.1. William Peake (c. 1580–1639), painter and printseller, freeman of the Goldsmiths. William Webb (active 1628-45), print publisher, re-issued some sets of half-length women: the Four Complexions, the Seven Deadly Sins, and the Seven Liberal Arts (see Griffiths pp. 309-11). The first of these went to William Peake (d.1639); the last to Stent, and from Stent to John Overton, aforsaid (‘of S’ Sepulchre’s, Lond., Stationer’).
1.2. Sir Robert Peake (1592–1667) was a printseller He died in 1667, and was buried in St. Sepulchre’s Church, London. As ‘Robert Peake goldsmith‘, he is entered in a subsidy roll for the Holborn Cross Precinct of St Sepulchre’s parish of 1641. The Will of Sir Robert Peake, citizen and Goldsmith of London, proved, London, July 26, 1667, bequeathed to to ‘my cousin and sometime servant, George Lyddall, of Virginia, gentleman, £300′. Robert Peake married Martha Woodward, dau. of George Woodward, of Upton cum-Chalvey, Buckinghamshire. Martha Woodward’s sister married Thomas Lydall and their son George Lydall, Peake’s nephew by marriage, appears in his will as his ‘cousin’.

A salient point is that John Overton, and his father-in-law, James Garrett, would have known very well their fellow parishioner and printseller, Robert Peake, and would have met him regularly in church, and when discussing business.

Ann Peake’s son, John Waters, appears in the context of the Hampton and Thornton families of St. Olave, Southwark, who were kin. William Hampton, wool merchant, of London, born May 28, 1592, came to Jamestown on the Bona Nova, in 1620. He was a partner with his brother, Laurence Hampton, a London based merchant tailor, whose son and namesake m. … Garrett, a sister of the aforsaid James Garrett. William Hampton’s Will, dated September 1655, left his estate to ‘Mr. William Hampton Jr. and n.b. Rev. Thomas Hampton, Clerke‘.

Thus, John Overton, printseller, was kin of the following, and moreso if considering the probability that Thomas Mann, as follows, was synonomous with the husband of Rebecca Peake, niece of Ann (Peake) Waters, sister of John Waters. Rev. Thomas Hampton (who, as stated, patented land within Diascund Creek, near that of Robert Sorrell, probable cousin of Samuel Waters, and second cousin of the said john Waters), was the father of John Hampton, of Southwark, who married 1. Mary Mann. He received Hampfield from his father in 1677, at the same time receiving 157 acres adjoining land from John Mann. Mann’s deed calls him Capt. John Hampton, and explains his intended marriage to his dau., Mary. Before 1704, he moved to King William, Pamunkey Neck. His will is dated November 10, 1718, naming issue including William Hampton, who m. Martha (Thornton) Catlett. John Mann was the br. of Thomas Mann, recorded here: ‘Sumerell, John. 420 acres between the lands of Gyles Limscot, Thomas Mann, Wm. Mayo, Richard Booth, Bridgman Joyner, and James Bryan; on the Blackwater branches’ (9).

John Thornton, married (1614) Mary Ann Deddum, in St. Olave, Hart Street, Southwark. His grandson was William Thornton: ‘I, William Thornton for the consideration of the acknowledgement … of the dower my wife Elizabeth Thornton, now has or hereafter may have of and to one dividend of 600 acres of land sold to Mr. Waters (br. of Ann Waters, and uncle of Elizabeth Waters, wife of William Overton), and his heirs, have given, granted, bargained, sole, aliened, feeoffeed and confirmed unto my said now wife one mare …’. Witness Rees Evans (10).

The Thorntons and Overton families of Southwark are evidenced in the Will of Sir Ambrose Nicholas:

The Will of Sir Ambrose Nicholas Kt. Citizen and Alderman (11), details the disposition of his twelve tenements in Mugwell Street, ‘St. Olave within Crepulgate’. He bequeaths the property to the Salters’ Company. The houses are to be used as Almshouses for ‘twelve poor men or women free of the City of London not being young persons or such as shall accustomably use to beg in the streets’. He bequeaths all his messuages and easements, etc. in St. Alphage and ‘St. Olace Crepulgate’ to the same (occ. by Clement Newce, Gent., the Bowyers Company, Richard Overton, Gent, – Harbart Gent, Thomas Staunton, Serjeant at Mace’) … Witnesses: Edward Boldero (his granddau. m. William Harris, partner of William Underwood in Virginia); Richard Young, Roger Clarke, Wyllyam Gybbyns, Thomas Halle, Rychard Pattersyn, Thomas Thornton, he being the father of the aforementioned John Thornton, who married Mary Ann Deddum, father of Joseph Thornton (12), the father of the said William Thornton, who sold land to John Waters, brother, as given, of Ann Waters, and uncle of Elizabeth Waters, wife of William Overton.

The said Richard Overton, Gent., was the father of a John Overton, who may have been he who was associated with ‘William Coomes’,of the Coombes family of St. Olave, Southwark: ‘Coomes v Overton. Plaintiffs: William Coomes, Margaret Coomes, his wife, and another. Subject: personal estate of Margaret Nevill, widow of London, Middlesex’ (13). He may have been the ‘William Comes’ that had been ‘slain by the Indians’ before the 1624/5 Muster.

The next generation of Overtons included Thomas Overton, a tailor in Covent Garden (2 miles from St Sepulchre), whose son was John Overton (‘John Overton, of S’ Sepulchre’s, Lond., Stationer, Widr, ab’ 35, & Sara Garrett, of S’ Olave’s, Southwark, Spr.’, afors.); ‘who was apprenticed to Thomas Gould in the Stationers’ Company in 1655 for eight years; he was freed in 1663. In 1665 he bought the shop and stock of Peter Stent, after his death that year; to do this, he must have been given a significant capital by his father. In 1668 he moved back again to the White Horse without Newgate, but no longer in Giltspur Street, but instead at the corner of Little Old Bailey near the Fountain Tavern against St Sepulchre’s Church. In 1677 Overton married, in a second marriage, Sara, sister of the printseller John Garrett who is known to have been a friend of his. A presumably related Henry Overton was a bookseller in Pope’s Head Alley. Overton issued five catalogues between 1667 and c. 1672, and there is an anonymous mezzotint portrait of him made in 1708 (14). John Overton retired in 1707, and sold his stock to his second son Henry (b. 1676) who had married Sarah Baker in 1706. He died in 1713. His will, signed in 1711, shows that he, his wife, and two of their children (Henry and Sarah), were all living in the White Horse. His bequests amounted to over £1,500 – a very large sum – and included capital sums to two other sons, Philip and James, to enable them to set up in trade; a fourth son Thomas had last been heard of in America in 1702′ (15).

The said Henry Overton, a printer, who began to publish in 1629, and had in 1642 a shop in Pope’s Head Alley, was the brother of Richard Overton, the pamphleteer and radical Leveller, who was married to Mary Overton (16), who was imprisoned for no more than stitching her husband’s pamphlets.

In essence, there were a number of closely related Overton families, connected to Southwark, St. Sepulchres, and the print trade, and their desendants in Virginia were likely to have been degrees of cousin.

James Overton, son of John Overton, the printer, was likely to be Captain James Overton. The fictitious birth and marriage records relating to the early Overtons of St Peters/St Pauls parish, Hanover, can be left without comment. Temperance Overton, on chronological grounds, was most likely a daughter or niece of James Overton. She married William Harris, descended from the Harris family of Southwark, London.

The following Thomas Harris (17) was the probable brother of:

1. William Harris, who, at St. Olave, Southwark, married (May 25, 1643) Elizabeth Arnell. Anthony Arnell was a transportee of Thomas Harris, d. 1672: March 2, 1658: ‘Thomas Harris, 1000 acres, IOW Co. Upon a swamp running into the W. branch of Nansamond Riv., including 2 Indian fields. Trans. of 20 persons: John Hardy, Alexander Vaughn, Ann Lees, William Todd, Eliz. Jones, Mary Wood, John Davis, John Griffin, Fran. Anderson, Jno. Pew, Ann Greene, Eliza. Nusome, Weltin (Walton) Harris, Anth. Arnold, Sam. Trobury, Alexander Cahill (18).
1.1. ‘Wm Harris and wife, Hennerettah, of parish of Fredericksville, Louisa, deed to Martin Baker of Hanover, for good causes, thereunto moving, part of tract granted by patent March 24, 1725 unto William Harris, and by said William given said Wm. Harris, his son, in will recorded (prior to 1734) in Hanover Co. (19).
1.1.1. ‘William Harris, Junr., m. Temperance Overton: ‘1500 acres, New Land, Hanover Co., adj. Mrs. Arnold and George Woodroof’s lines; on Overton’s fork of Elk Creek. April 11, 1732. (20). William Harris Jr. was ‘Captain William Harris‘, and ‘William Harris, Gent., 76 acs. (NL), Hanover Co; beg. at James Glen’s corner; to N. side the Little River; on the Newmarket line; 24 Mar. 1725, 10 Shill.’ (21). James Overton is recorded thus: ‘James Overton, 400 acs. (new lease), Hanover Co.; on N. side the S. fork of Elk Cr.; on John Raglin’s line; 20 Feb 1723, 40 shill’ (22). Hanover County, 1706-1786, Vestry Book of St. Paul’s Parish (VBSPP), p. 107. At a Vestry being appointed at ye upper Church ye 7th of April 1724 being Easter Tuesday there was present: ‘Capt Peter Garland; Mr. John Anderson; Capt. William Harris; Mr. John White; Mr. Joseph Baughon; Mr. Jas. Overton – Church Warden. Register’d Jno Fitsgerrald Clk Vestry’. VBSPP, p. 116: At a Vestry held Lower Church in Saint Pauls Parish, January the Second 1726 – ‘Thomas Anderson and Charles Hudson were elected and appoint’d Vestry men in room of William Harris & James Overton having both first Subscribed the Test’. William Harris may have been the son-in-law of James Overton.

John Anderson was the son of Robert Anderson and Mary Overton, often given as a sister of James Overton, but, in reality, of unknown relationship to him. July 2, 1735: ‘John Anderson of Hanover to Nathaniel Anderson of same, brother of sd John Anderson for 3 shillings … 1 acre on the north side of Totopotomoys Creek at the end of a tract of 670 acres which Mary Anderson bought of George Wilkinson … where the dividing line comes to the creeks brink … to build a water mill (23).

1.1.1.1. ‘John Harris, 400 acres New Land, Hanover County; adj. Ambrose Joshua Smith, Capt. Thomas Carr and Ann Arnold; on low side of Great Rockey Creek (24). John Harris of Cedar Creek, who died before 1745, established the Quaker Meeting with John Stanley in 1721, it being assumed that he married Mary Stanley, John Stanley’s daughter. It has been noted that the Harris of St. Olave’s had intermarried with a family of Stanley.
1.1.1.1.1. Robert Harris and wife Lemenda, to Stephan Ragland, October 16, 1742, 60lbs for 230 acres. Robert Harris late of Hanover County Virgina, now of Bertie, land on Roanoak River adj. to Ragland at Turbevills Run. Witn. P. Smith, Nathaneil Hill, Jn., Arnold Brown, May ct 1741.

‘In the name of God amen I Robert Harris … of the County of Granville being … weak in body but of sound … mind and memory and understanding do make this my last will and testament utterly revoking all other wills testaments codicils of wills heretofore made by me. Item: I give to my niece Mary Harris daughter of David Harris one of my best beds of furniture also one cow and calf. Item: I give to my grandson Thomas Harris son of Thomas Harris one Negro boy called … also all the land I possess joining the land of Kimbrough Ogilvie and Thomas Wilbourn except one hundred acres which is to be laid off for said Thomas Wilbourn to him Item: I give to my daughter Mary Ogilvie fifty pounds current money to be paid out of my estate. Item: I give to my daughter Lemander Hampton fifty pounds current money to be paid out of my estate. All the rest of my estate both real and personal to be sold at twelve months … and equally divided amongst my sons Christopher Harris, Sherwood Harris, Robert Harris, David Harris, and Samuel Harris. Item: I give unto my wife Lemander Harris one Negro wench by the name of … and all the property she has unto her possession now … during her natural life … In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 5th day of June 1785. Robert Harris (Seal) (25).
1.1.1.2. Jemima Harris, m. William Overton, son of James Overton.
1.1.1.3. Robert Harris, m. Mourning Glenn (Will pr. 1776, Albemarle County; John Rodes and William Shelton, executors). She was probably the daughter of James Glenn. Book A, p. 486, November 27, 1752: ‘I, Robert Harris of Fredericksville Par., Louisa Co. For natural love and affection to my son-in-law, Willaim Shelton of afsd. Par. two mulatto slaves called Sherwood and Moses. Sig. Robert Harris. wit. Tyree Harris, Ben. Brown, Jr., Robert Wilson’.

VBSPP, p. 255: ‘The lands of Sam’l Overton, Jas. Overton, Henry Mills, Joseph Peors, Matt. Toler, Widd. Bradley, Mr. Duke, John Hickenson, and Jno. Glenn being made one Precinct, whereof Sam’l Overton and James Overton were Overseers made this return, viz. this Order. Executed, Mr. Duke’s, & Jno Hickason’s only excepted which promis’d to come, but did not, in presence of us, Henry Mills, Rob’t. Harris, Jno. Glenn, Sam’l. Overton & Jas. Overton.’ Samuel Overton was probably a son of William Overton and Elizabeth Waters, dau. of Samuel Waters, and a cousin of James Overton. James Overton’s son and namesake married Mary Waller.

1.1.1.3.1. Christopher Harris. VBSPP, p. 266: ‘The lands of Edw’d. Garland, Jas. Overton, Xpher. Harris, Jno. Glenn, Sam’l. Reynolds, Henry Farmer, Rob’t. Jennings & Abra. Venable being one precinct of which Edw’d. Garland and Jas. Overton were Overseers who made this return, the within Order executed in presence of James Glenn, Sam’l Reynolds, Abra. Venable, Henry Farmer, Mr. Robt. Jennings did not appear for his Land and Sam’l. Reynolds is all in one pattent and no Division’.

Edward Garland may have been related to Peter Garland. The Will of John Moone of IOW, pr. August 12, 1655, bequests to ‘Joanne Garland my wive’s daughter four female cattle & two hogsheads of tobacco to be delivered if she be living or her child be living … to Peter Garland my wive’s son-in-law one hogshead of tobacco’ (26). John Moon married the widow Prudence Wilson, thus Peter Garland had married her daughter, Joan Wilson. When Prudence Moone died in March 1664, Peter Garland was security for administration of her estate by her son William Wilson.

The Garlands may have been from St Saviour, Southwark: Nicholas Hickes, of St Saviour, yeoman, ‘sick in body’, bequests to the poor of St Saviour parish; names Elizabeth Hickes his wife; George Hicks his brother; Katherine his sister, wife of Robert Willson, dwelling at Elmley Castle in Worcestershire. Overseers: William Garland, brewer; Richard Boover, innholder; Thomas Whittingslowe, baker’ (27). Another Southwark brewer was ‘Thomas Waller, brewer’ (28).

In my opinion, William Harris, husband of Temperance Overton, was not the namesake associated with the Alves family. Although sharing some acquaintences, there are clear strands of disambiguation.

This may not be a pedigree of choice for some, the earliest Overtons not being identifiable, but it is a very interesting one that connects to a family which was as well known for their radical views as they were for their very fine print work. It will not be a pedigree of choice for others, as the modern phenomena of the living claiming an ancestry with those of the same name, then debaring others from that ancestry on the grounds of mismatching DNA results, is every much a tyranny as the one many English people fled from when settling in Virginia.

In this sense, these notes are a suggestion of genealogical history, rather than fantasy.

copyright m stanhope 2015

REFERENCES:

(1) LML
(2) https://walterfitzgilbertdehamilton.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/cousins-of-sergeant-john-harris
(3) 2 Fol. 763, No. Lib. B. T., No. 3, 1755-1760
(4) Le Neve’s Ped. of Knights, COL/OF/02/149
(5) Orders and receipts for payments, London
(6) St John the Baptist, Thorpe Achurch P.R.
(7) Northampton Probate Registry, Will Book A.V., p. 347
(8) Nat. Arch. C 2/JasI/P1/20
(9) Land Office Patents, p. 573, Reel 7
(10) Old Rappahannock Co. D.B. 6, p. 83
(11) Nat. Arch. H1/13/1, 1578
(12) Nat. Arch. C 5/377/207
(13) Nat. Arch. C 5/599/42. July 10, 1608
(14) CS IV p. 1699, no.78
(15) Brit. Mus., cit. Tyacke pp.130-4
(16) See Hist. MSS. Comm. 6th Rep. p. 172; Lords’ Journals, viii. 645, 648; The Petition of Mary Overton, Prisoner in Bridewell, to the House of Commons
(17) See https://walterfitzgilbertdehamilton.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/cousins-of-sergeant-john-harris/
(18) Nugent, ‘Cavaliers and Pioneers’, vol. 1, p. 386
(19) Louisa Co., Va, B. 2, p. 298
(20) Nugent, C&P, Vol. iii., p 30
(21) ibid. p. 389
(22) ibid. p. 259
(23) Hanover Co. Court Records. Recorded July 3, 1735
(24) Nugent, ibid., p. 414
(25) NC State Archives, Granville County
(26) W.B. 1, P. 88
(27) anuary 21, 1603, TNA, Prob.11/103, ff.58v-59r
(28) see Will of Thomas Foster, TNA, Prob.11/163, f.173r-v, March 1632