1. Francis Derrick Sr., of Long Ashton, Somerset, d. 1637 – granted to Humphrey Hooke and others, parishioners of St Stephen’s, a yearly rent of 52s out of his tenement there – part owner in 1629 (with John Goninge and Humphrey Hooke), of the ships ‘The Hope’, ‘The Little Charles’, and ‘The Fortune’. John Goninge, same year, was the part owner of (1) ‘The Supply’ (with William Pitt, Richard Holworthy, Richard Long, and Humphrey Hooke); (2) ‘The George’ (with Richard Holworthy, and Capt. Charles Driver); ‘The Dragon’ (with Thomas Colston); ‘The Fortune’ (with Francis Derrick); ‘The Abraham’ (with Humphrey Hooke, and Mrs. Butcher); ‘The Hope’ (with Francis Derrick); ‘The Dilligence’ (with John Barker, and William Pitt).
1.1. Francis Derrick Jr. – purchased land of Sergeant John Harris, decd.

William Pitt was the father of Col. Robert Pitt, d. bef. Jan. 9, 1674, in IOW. He was Captain of the Thunder, a merchant ship out of Bristol and a Colonel in the Virginia Militia; father of John Pitt, who m. Olive, dau. of John Hardy and Alice Bennett. She m. (1) Giles Driver; (2) John Bromfield, and (3) Lt. Col. John Pitt. John Pitt and Olive Hardy had issue: Robert Pitt, d.v.p., who m. a. dau. of Col. Arthur Smith; her br., m. Sarah (who with his wife gave to George Hardy deeds for the land on Blackwater, in 1666, the deed reciting that Sarah and Mary (wife of George Hardy) were daus. of Richard Jackson and granddaus. of Alice Bennett; her husband being a cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Mr. George Hardy (aged 37 in 1670) appraised the estate of Edward Harris (d. 1677), with Edward Bechinoe (of Bristol), Richard Corsey, John Williams, and Richard Hansford. The Will of Francis Corsey, rec. May I, 1679, was witnessed by George Moore.

1.
1.1. John Barcroft, died in Virginia.
1.1.1. John Barcroft, noted in an assignment of interest in 1652 as John Barcroft, late of Chard, Somerset.
1.2. Charles Barcroft, d. Sept. 23, 1661. Administration on Charles Barcroft’s estate granted to his son-in-law George Moore. (Anthony Fulgham transported Charles Barcroft, Isle of Wight, 1650).
1.2.1. Ann Moore, m. Thomas White.
1.2.1.1. Avis White, m. John Harris, son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
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, as kin), who witnessed the Will of George Hardy, proved April 14, 1655,
A headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, was Giles Driver, witnessed here: Bridgman Joyner (of Dorset, and guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688): Appraised by Thomas Mandew, Giles Driver, Andrew Griffin. R. Dec. 4, 1719. Signed Ann Joyner. (G.B. 23).

1. Hardy was an old Dorset name. William Hardy occurs at Charminster on a subsidy roll of 1327 and Henry Herde at Abbotsbury on a similar roll in 1332.
1.1. Edmond Hardy. (Sable on a chevron between thre escallops or, as many wyverns’ heads erased of the field).
1.1.1. Edmond Hardy, of Melcombe.
1.1.1.1. Robert Hardy. Hardy v Hardy. Plaintiffs: Robert Hardy. Defendants: John Hardy. Subject: manors of Melcombe Matravers, Frome St Quintin, etc, Dorset. 1651. (C 5/13/60).
1.1.1.1.1. John Hardy.

1.1.1.2. John Hardy, b. 1604.
1.1.1.2.1. Olive Hardy, m. John Pitt.
1.1.1.2.2. George Hardy, father-in-law of Edward Harris, d. 1677, in Virginia; named as “kinsman George Hardy” (nephew) in the Will of George Hardy, proved April 14, 1655; who settled on Lawne’s Creek, adj. Alice Bennett’s land. (Nugent, p. 140). He m. Mary Jackson
1.1.1.2.3. John Hardy, d. 1676, Virginia; m. (2) Alice Tucker, relict of Arthur Allen, by whom:
1.1.1.2.3.1. Joan Allen, m. (as third husband) Reuben Proctor. Alice Tucker was a probably of the family of Walter Tucker, as follows.

1.1.1.3. George Hardy, d. Virginia, 1655. Deed: Edward Bruce to George Stevens, George Hardy and John Watkins, April 15, 1646. Robert Pitt’s dau., Elizabeth, m. George Stevens.
1.1.1.4. Samuel Hardy.
1.1.2. William Hardy. Bridgman v Hardy. Plaintiffs: Anne Bridgman, widow. Defendants: William Hardy, Ralph Hunding. Subject: lease of Abbotsbury farm and parsonage, Dorset, demised to defendant Hardy by Lady Young. 1603-1625. (C 2/JasI/B41/23).
1.1.2.1. William Hardy. Hardy v Burridge. Plaintiffs: William Hardy. Defendants: Robert Burridge, George Hardy, Elizabeth Hardy his wife, Richard Waddon, Anne Waddon (John Hardy’s sister), Robert Colmer, Elizabeth Hodder and William Clapp. Subject: personal estate of John Hardy, Dorset. 1669. (C 8/222/21). Robert Burridge m. Elizabeth Cogan, sister of John Cogan, d. 1689, in Virginia, who proved the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1688, and who m. (1) Joyce Bland, d. 1677, a dau. of Gregory Bland; hence the connection to the Bennett/Harris family of Wiveliscombe. Robert Burridge was of a family of Chard and Taunton, Somerset, and Bristol, Gloucestershire. Robert Burridge’s son, Robert, who settled in Lyme Regis, Dorset, m. Mary Tucker (see Dorset Parish Registers, vol. 3), granddau. of Walter Tucker, merchant, who settled in Lyme about 1604; he was mayor in 1607. The importance of the sons and grandsons of Robert Burridge (d. 1675) to the English south coast trade with Virginia was vast. Robert ‘King’ Carter corresponded with them
1.2. John Hardy.
1.2.1. John Hardy, d. 1669. Hardy v Tucker. Plaintiffs: Lancelot Hardy. Defendants: Honor Tucker, widow and John Hardy. Subject: estate of John Hardy, Beaminster, Dorset. 1660. (C 9/23/52).
1.2.1.1. Lancelot Hardy, b. Jan. 27, 1607.

I have not repeated the connections between the various strands of Harris, having done so repeatedly, and, more aptly, recently.

The real connection was tobacco.

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