1. Sir Robert Townshend (d. 1556, judge in Chester), m. (1516) Alice Povye, dau. of Robert Povye, of Twyford.
1.1. Thomas Townshend, held land in Shropshire, m. Elizabeth Periante.
1.2. Sir Robert Townshend (judge in Ludlow, Shropshire), m. Anna Machill, dau. of John Machill, alderman of London.
1.2.1. Sir John Townshend of Ludlow, afterwards of Winforton (Herefordshire), m. Alice Fitzhughes, dau of Richard Fitzhughes, of Walcot.
1.2.1.1. Anne Townshend, m. Reginald Williams of Willaston, d. 1659; see previous notes for Harris/Holland connections.
1.3. Sir Henry Townshend (judge in Chester), of Cound, Shropshire, m Susanna Hayward (dau. of Sir Roland Hayward of London (who held the manor of Cound, and Walcam Wood, in Stottesdon, birth place of Richard Cocke, of Bremo; son of George Hayward, of Bridgnorth, Shropshire), by his first wife, Joan Tillesworth.

Sir Roland Hayward m. (2) Katherine Smythe (dau. of ‘Customer Smythe’), who m. (2) Sir John Scott, brother of Mary Scott, who m. Sir Anthony St. Leger, brother of Ann Digges, mother of Dudley Digges, M.P. for Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire; father of Edward, Governor of Virginia. Roland Hayward and his second wife had issue:

(1) Alice, wife of Richard Buller of Shillingham, Cornwall; their dau., Katherine, m. James Parker, of Brownsholme, they the parents of Richard Parker, of Virginia, as follows.

(2) Ann, wife of John Eppes, born in 1586, in Lydd, Kent, son of John Eppes ‘the Elder’, gent, and older brother of:

(1) Captain William Eppes, bapt. March 7, 1594, who arrived in Virginia in the ‘William and Thomas’ on Aug. 29, 1618; and was in command of Smith’s Hundred Company in 1619.
(2) Captain Francis Eppes. On Aug. 26, 1635, he patented 1700 ac. of in Charles City, on the south side of James river, bounded on the east by Bayly’s Creek. His son, Lt. Col. Francis Eppes, m. (2) Elizabeth Littleberry, relict of William Worsham, of Jordan’s Parish, father of Sarah Womack (wife of Abraham Womack, the brother of Richard Womack, neighbour of Major William Harris, as follows), mother of:

(1) Jane Pugh, wife of Henry Pugh, relict of John Price Jr.
(2) Mary Ligon, wife of Richard Ligon, son of Mary Harris, sister of Major William Harris, as follows.

Henry Pugh and Jane Price Pugh had issue, Ann, wife of:

(1) Abraham Childers Jr, of Henrico; father of Sarah, wife of Nicholas Perkins Jr., son of Nicholas Perkins Sr. and Mary, who m. (2), as his second wife, Richard Parker, whose first wife was Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Richard Bailey.
(2) John Adkins, of Henrico.

John Price Jr. was the son of a namesake who was was almost certainly the John Price bapt. Nov. 10, 1584, at the Church of St Lawrence, in Ludlow, son of “William Preece”. Feb. 24, 1624. Muster of John Price: John aged 40. John Price m. (1) Elizabeth Matthews: ‘1613 May 30. John Prees & Elizabeth Matthews, widow‘; 2. Anne …, who m. (2) Robert Hallom. John Price settled near the Bremo land of Mr. Richard Cocke, southeast toward Turkey Island Creek, land of William Randolph.

Fellow congregants of St Lawrence were Rowland Harris and Jane Langford, who m. Sept. 14, 1595; they the parents of Richard Harris, bapt. Sep. 10, 1599, Thomas Harris, bapt. Sep. 4, 1602; John Harris, bapt. March 5, 1604; he the father of:

(1) Mary Harris, bapt. Apr. 3, 1625. In 1689, Mary (Harris) Ligon gave a deposition stating her age to be 64. (2) William Harris, bapt Jan. 13, 1627. Edward Lewis was the step-father of the Harris brothers; they being step-brothers of Thomas Lewis, aged 23 in 1623, recorded here:

Hannah Boyse, dau. and heir of Luke Boyse, late of Henrico, decd., patented in Nov., 1635, 300 ac. in Henrico adj. land of her mother Alice Edlowe; due 200 ac. for transportation of servants, viz.: ‘Thomas Lewis, Robert Hallom, Joseph Royall, Edward Holland, and Oliver Allen’ (Virginia Magazine, v., p. 97).

The Harris brothers were also first-cousins of:

(1) Mary Harris, second wife of Fleetwood Dormer, whose mother was Mary Isham, the aunt of Henry Isham, who resided at Bermuda Hundred, Henrico Co., who m. Katherine Banks, relict of Joseph Royal; their issue being: 1. Henry Isham (obit. 1678), 2. Anne Isham, who m. Col. Francis Eppes, 3. Mary Isham, who m. Col. William Randolph, named as a ‘friend’ in the Will of Major William Harris, as was a son of Richard Cocke. Fleetwood Dormer’s first wife was Katherine Ligon, second-cousin of Thomas Ligon, whose son and namesake married Mary Harris, b. 1625.

(2) Thomas Harris, Esq., of Prescot (b. 1604, St. Lawrence, Ludlow), who, in marrying into the Hollands, was kin of Richard Cocke, of Bremo (and the Williams of Willaston): Thomas Harris, Esq., of Prescot, m. (1632), Alice Holland, dau. of William Holland, bapt. (1574) at Burwarton, and buried there in 1642 (Will proved P.C.C. 94 Campbell), son of Thomas Holland, bur. (1612) at Stottesden, and Alicia, ‘fil. Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne’ (Will pr. P.C.C. 19 Capell,1613); styled ‘of Pickthorne’, great-aunt of Richard Cocke, b. 1597, in Pickthorne, Stottesdon; bapt. December 13, 1597 at Sidbury, Shropshire; obit. Bremo Bluff, Henrico, 1665.

Major William Harris held land adj. that of his sister, Mary (Harris) Ligon, on Curles Swamp, on the north side of James River, between a plantation called ‘Curles’ belonging to Col. William Randolph, and a plantation of John Woodson, containing 200 ac. left to Mary Ligon by her father Capt. Thomas Harris, dec’d.’ (B. 4, p. 4).

William Randolph’s land was not on the south of the river, as was the ‘Longfield’ land of Captain Thomas Harris, who died by 1646, when an act of the Assembly of Virginia of that year ordered a fort to be erected at the Falls of James River, to be called Fort Charles; an abstract being: “And, whereas, there Is no plantable land adjoynlng to fort Charles, and therefore no encouragement for any undertaker to maintnaine the same, lt is therefore, thought fitt and Inacted, that if any person or persons purchasing the right of Capt. Thomas Harris shall or will settle or inhabit on the south side of James River right opposite to the said fort. The Crown granted this land as an escheat in 1700, its last owner having died without issue; his boundaries being defined.

Major William Harris held land on ‘Ware Run’. The specific location of ‘Ware Run’ is give in Richard Womack’s grant: ‘Now know yee that I ye sd Sir Will Berkeley knt. give and graunt unto Richard Womack foure hundred and fivety acres, three rood eight po: of land on ye North side of Appomatock River in Henrico Cout extending as ffolloweth beginning at a small branch of ye Ashen Swampe and running along ye Swampe So: by Ea: 220 po: over a small branch to a Pokicory No: Ea: over ye same branch 26 po: then up ye branch No: Ea: by Ea: 94 po Ea: by No: along ye branch to ye head of it 102 po So: So: Ea: 22 po: to John Puckett his line (his dau. m. Richard Womack Jr.) No: Ea: b Ea 54 po: No: Ea: by No: 130 po: to ye head of ye Spring Run No: Ea: by Ea: 56 po: No: by We: 34 po: No: We: 60 po: to Mr. Baugh his line neigh ye Round Slash No: No: We: 15 po: to Major Harris his cornor We: by So: 380 po: to ye place aforementioned the sd land being due unto ye sd Richard Womack by and for ye transportacon of nine persons into this Collony’. March 15, 1672. To repeat, Richard Womack was the brother-in-law of Sarah Worsham, dau. Elizabeth Littleberry, who m. Lt. Col. Francis Eppes, brother-in-law of Ann Hayward, half-sister of Sussana Hayward, wife of Sir Henry Townshend, of Cound, Shropshire.

It is far less fanciful, than the fabrications surrounding this subject, to suggest that Mary Harris was adopted by her uncle, Thomas (bapt. in St. Lawrence, 1603); a second captain of that name, and was a step-sister of his son, Thomas, bapt. there in 1628. ‘Tho. Chamberlaine aged twenty-seven or thereabouts deposeth that he heard Mrs. Lygon say that she and her brother had made an agreement that Maj.Thomas Harris her sd. brother, should have the whole proffitts of the surveyor’s place till her sonne come of age, since her said soyne come of age this depont heard Major Harris say he had made an agreement with his kinsman (nephew, Richard Ligon), for halfe the proffitts of the said place, and all soe this deponent hath heard Mr. Ligon say the same’.

John Price’s son and namesake m. Jane Pugh, who subsequently m. Hugh Ligon, son of Mary Harris. William Randolph and Joseph Pleasants witnessed the Will/probate of John Price Jr. (1710/1711).

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