1. John Fuljames, yeoman, of Weston Zoyland, Somerset (15 mls fr. Wedmore/Cheddar). Probate 11/55/485; Nov. 28, 1573.
1.1. John Fuljames, bur. May 10, 1601, in High Ham, Somerset (5 mls fr. Weston Zoyland, 10 mls. fr. Wedmore/Cheddar). The distances betw. families of these places was often considerably shorter than this, with a hamlet to the south of one being contigious with one to the north of another). High Ham was part of the Glastonbury estate until the Dissolution when it reverted to the Crown.

(Weston Zoyland was sold to Edward Dyer in 1570, although a lease was assigned to Thomas Moore, a Taunton merchant; father of John Moore, merchant of Bristol, father of George Moore, who m. Jane Barcroft, da. of Charles Barcroft, a London vintner. George Moore’s brother, Thomas, was an overseer of the Will of John Jennings, dated Oct. 19, 1678 (witness of the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), who named son-in-law William Seward, grandson of John Seward, the Bristol sea captain and merchant, on adjacent land to his settled Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

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1.1. John Barcroft.
1.1.1. John Barcroft, noted in an assignment of interest in 1652 in a messuage between John Barcroft, late of Chard (20 mls fr. High Ham), now of London, merchant, and Robert Barcroft to John Chapman of Chard, merchant and Henry Tooley of London, Haberdasher. Will of Philobert Cogan, of Chard (Proved Apr. 12, 1641), mentions ‘Mr. John Barcroft; cousin, William Cogan (probable father of the John Coggin, witness of the will of Thomas Harris, d. 1688; John Coggin ‘of the City of Bristol, but now resident in Virginia’.
1.2. Charles Barcroft, d. Sept. 23, 1661, m. (2) Elizabeth. In Calendar of State Papers: Colonial America and the West Indies 1675-6, Addenda 1574-1674 p. 83, an entry for March 8, 1639 about “Elizabeth, wife of Charles Barcroft of Old Ford, Middlesex” to the effect that in August 1636 her husband abandoned his trade in London and went to Virginia “where he yet lives.” The entry goes on to note that “his brother John Barcroft was there deceased” and that Charles Barcroft “merchant” was sending her yearly expenses. 23 Sept 1661 – administration on Charles Barcroft’s estate granted to his son-in-law George Moore.
1.2.1. Jane Barcroft, m. George Moore, of Bristol.
1.2.1.1. Eleanor Moore, Richard Piland, son of James Piland, bapt. on 30 August 1604, in St Mary’s Le Porte, Bristol,

Arthur Smith, of Bristol, merchant, transported Jane and John Barcroft, Isle of Wight, 1637.
Anthony Fulgham transported Charles Barcroft, Isle of Wight, 1650
Elizabeth Barcroft transported John Hardy, Isle of Wight, 1647. He was probably related to this George Hardy:
Mary Jackson, m. Capt. George Hardy, who patented 500 acres on July 17, 1648 ‘lying on east side of Lawne’s Creek extending to main river and along the great river to the creek dividing the same from land of Alice Bennett’. On June 19, 1666, he made a deed to land which belonged to his wife Mary whom he refers to as the ‘daughter of Richard Jackson, dec.’. Her sister, Sarah Jackson, m. Col. Arthur Smith II. George Hardy was an appraiser of the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677.

Weston Zoyland manor house had been held by Edward Dyer’s father, Thomas, and passed to Francis Dyer (S.R.O., transcript file 2/54), only son of John Dyer, of Roundhill, mentioned in the will of his father, 1597. He m. (1) Elizabeth, da. of Owen Gwynne of Bristol. She m. (1) John Ashe, of Tickenham (d. 1580), by whom she left issue, two sons: 1. John Ashe, who m. Elizabeth, sister of Francis Dyer, and their son, Richard Ashe, was born at Roundhill, and baptised at Wincanton, on Aug. 30, 1600, and bur. at Tickenham, Jan. 7, 1617; 2. Owen Ashe. (See “Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Vol. X” by Frederick William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo, 1907).

Gwyn, Owen (by 1530-93/94), of Bristol, Glos, and London, made his will on Jan. 11, 1592 as “of the castle of Bristol and the county of Gloucestershire, esquire”. He asked to be buried in St. Peter’s, Bristol, “without pomp or charge” and divided the two leases and his property in Bristol between his grandsons (described as ‘nephews’) John and Owen, sons of John Ashe of Tickenham, Somerset.

John Ashe, of Tickenham was the son of his namesake and Jane Gorges, da. of Sir Edward Gorges, eldest son of Sir Edmund Gorges and Lady Anne Howard, by his wife Mary, da. of Sir Anthony Poyntz of Iron Acton, co. Gloucester.

1.Thomas Harrys of Mells, carpenter, b. 1494. “Thomas Harrys”, a tenant of Glastonbury Abbey, who is recorded thus: Harrys v Dyar. Plaintiffs: Thomas Harrys. Defendants: Thomas Dyar, knight. Subject: Tenement in the late abbot of Glastonbury’s manor of Greinton. Somerset. 1544-1551. (C 1/1228/15-18)
1.1. John Harrys, witnessed a Will in 1554 concerning Mells.
1.1.1. Richard Harris, bur. Dec. 19, 1593, in Nunney.
1.1.1.1. John Harris, m. Joan Collier, July 19, 1601, in Nunney.
1.1.1.1.1. William Harris, bapt. Oct. 3, 1602, Mells. Perhaps the William who was headright of John Moone (1637) and John Seward (1648) in Isle of Wight. John Moone’s da., Sarah Moone, m. Lt. John Pitt, son of Col. Robert Pitt, the Bristol sea captain and merchant. John Moone’s da. Mary Moone, m. Thomas Green; his sister m. Anthony Fulgham, of Pitminster, Somerset; their son, Michael Fulgham, m. Anne Izzard, having issue: (1) Anne Fulgham, who m. Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. (2) Susannah Fulgham, who m. Hardy Council, son of Hodges Council Jr. and Lucy Hardy, in 1705. The Hodges and Council families were of Wedmore, Somerset, 20 miles from Mells/Nunney, on the main east/west road; a connection made more close by the intermarriages of the leading families of each place into the same families (Bluets, etc.).
1.1.2. John Harris, m. Joan Stubbs, Feb. 10, 1569, in Wedmore.
1.1.2.1. John Harris, d. 1625; m. (2) Christiana Thurston, bapt. 28 Oct. 1591, on Oct. 8, 1618; she was the great-niece of Joan Thurston, who m. (2) John Counsell, on Aug. 13, 1573.
1.1.2.1.1. Robert Harris. Lawne’s Creek, October 26, 1646: “James Tooke (his family were tenants of the Symes, of Mells) to Robert Harris, all my right and title to this lease”.
1.1.2.1.1.1. Edward Harris, bapt. 8 Aug. 1624, probably d. in 1677, in Virginia. The inventory of Edward Harris states that he owed money to “Mrs Davis”; almost cartainly the wife of John Davis, i.e. Mary Greene; da. of Thomas Greene and Mary Moone, and cousin of Martha Greene, who m. Anthony Fulgham, of Pitminster, Somerset. He is not further recorded in the registers.
1.1.2.1.2. Thomas Harris.
1.1.2.1.2.1 Thomas Harris, bapt. Dec. 31, 1637, Cheddar, ‘son of Thomas’, perhaps he who pat. 240 a. adj. Mathew Tomlin, Mar. 27, 1686 (B.7, pp. 510-11), m. Hester Tibbits, probably as second wife, who decd. in 1581. He is not further recorded in the registers.

1.2. William Harris (“of Glastonbury”), m. Dorothy Westbrooke, Aug. 31, 1562, at Wivelscombe, Somerset.
1.2.1. Richard Harris, m. Elianor Bennett, Oct. 8, 1594, sister of Edward Bennett, aforesaid.
1.2.1.1. Thomas Harris, m. Judith Blake, Nov. 20, 1623. He was the cousin of Governor Richard Bennett, whose first wife was Anne, who was Charles Barham’s sister (see Douglas Richardson, ‘Plantagenet Ancestry’. Mr. Charles Barham Ex., Thomas Harris (d. 1672) and Thomas Tuke (of Barwick, Somerset, whose family were tenants of the Symes family of Mells), overseers, were officers of the will of William Ridley, who was the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife.
1.2.1.1.2. John Harris, bapt. 18 Feb. 1624; probably d. 1687, Virginia, m. Unity.
1.2.1.1.2.1. Elizabeth Harris, m. Samuel, son of Robert Lancaster Sr. and Sarah, widow of her 2nd husband, Richard Bennett Sr., d. 1710. Robert Lancaster of Virginia was of a branch of the Lancasters, squires of Cheddar, as given elsewhere.
1.1.2. John Harris,
1.1.2.1. Thomas Harris bapt. Feb. 3, 1582; “son of John”.
1.1.2.2. Sergeant John Harris (it may be presumed), bapt. Oct. 1, 1587, bur. Aug. 3, 1637, in Nunney
1.1.2.2.1. Thomas Harris, bapt. Oct. 8, 1615 (in Othery juxta Greinton, whence the family holding, yet noted in the register as a son of a John Harris “of Aller”, 6 miles from Greinton, who is not recorded in the Aller registers), d. 1677, m. Alice West, in 1635, in Nunney, where a family of West were established. William West m. Katharin Peare (Perry?) on May 23, 1608, in Bath (18 miles from Nunney); their dau. being Alice West, bapt. Sept. 16, 1615. It was a common practice for marriages to take place in such ‘regional’ churches as Bath, especially if a rich relative (Godparent) lived there; a consideration of ample proportion.
1.1.2.2.1.1. Thomas Harris. bapt. Aug. 14, 1636, in Nunney, possibly he who d. in 1668).

1.1. Thomas Fuljames. bapt. Oct. 14, 1572, in High Ham, bur. May 21, 1580.
1.2. John Fuljames, bapt. May 22, 1575.
1.2.1. Anthony Fuljames, of Pitminster, m. (2) Martha Greene.
1.2.1.1. John Fulgham, b. 1639, at Pitminster.
1.2.1.2. Michael Fulgham, m. Anne Izzard.
1.2.1.2.1. Anne Fulgham, m. Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
1.2.1.2.2. Susannah Fulgham, m. Hardy Council, son of Hodges Council Jr. The Counsell family of Wedmore were tenants of the Hodges family.

1.2.2. Elizabeth Fuljames, bapt. June 11, 1622, in Pitminster.
1.2.3. Sarah Fuljames, bapt. December 21, 1624, in Pitminster, m. (in 1642, in Pitminster) John Cotton of Silverton, Devon. The Reverend William Cotton, Sarah Fuljames’s father-in-law, was Rector of the Were Family’s church in Silverton. The estates of Counselor John Weare, the head of the Were family in Silverton, and his eldest son, John, Jr., were sequestered in 1648 by Parliament. By 1650, Counselor John Weare, his wife Margaret (Dart) Were, John, Jr., Francis, and Katherine, had emigrated to the south side of the eastern branch of the Corotoman River, in Virginia, next to Anthony Fulgham. By 1647, Anthony was in Northumberland Co., and filed for a 500-acre patent on the south side of the Corotoman River. Anthony m. his second wife, Martha Greene, whose great-grandfather, John, was living in St Giles Cripplegate, where his eldest son, John, was born, in 1568, and his son and namesake in 1592. He m. Katherine Walker (in St Giles Cripplegate) on 9 Feb. 1618. They had issue: Thomas b. 1621 (m. Mary Moone), Martha b. 1626 (married Anthony Fulgham). John Greene appears as headrights in the land patent of John Weare of Silverton, Devon (and others) dated 7 Sep 1654. John Weare and Anthony Fulgham had close familial connections and cooperated in seating their patents on the Corotoman River between 1647 and 1654.
1.3. Nicolas Fuljames, bapt. Jan. 25, 1578, bur. 30 Sept. 30, 1591.
1.4. Anthony Fuljames, bapt. May 1, 1582.

They were all connected before Virginia.