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1.1. George Moore, of Bristol, b. 1632, m. Jane Barcroft, dau. of Charles Barcroft, whose family held land in Chard, Somerset.
1.1.1. Ann Moore, m. Thomas White. Their estate was appraised between March 22, 1741 and July 26, 1742 by Thomas Day, John Goodrich, and Edward Brantley. (Chapman, Wills, p. 142).
1.1.1.1. Avis White, m. John Harris, son of Robert Harris, son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
1.1.2. Eleanor Moore, m. Richard Piland, the son of James Piland, bapt. on Aug. 30, 1604, in St Mary’s Le Porte, Bristol, headright of Francis England, in 1642.
1.2.2.1. James Piland witnessed the will of Robert Lancaster, on April 28, 1720, and appraised the estate of John Brantley, on April 26, 1725.
1.2.2.1.1. James Piland, m. Elizabeth Brantley, dau. of Phillip Brantley (son of Edward Brantley Sr.) and Joyce Lewis; dau. of Rebecca George (dau. of John) and Thomas Lewis. John and Nicholas George of Virginia were very probably of the Georges of Portbury, Somerset, a junior line of those of Wraxall. Nicholas George was the probable father-in-law of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, whose estate was appraised by Edward Brantley Sr.
1.2. Katherine Moore, m. (1) …
1.2.1. Joyce …, m. (1) Francis England, (2) George Cripps.*
1.2.2. Susanna …, m. (1645) Thomas Atkinson, who m. (2) Susan Gwaltney, dau. of Thomas Gwaltney.
1.2.3. Mary …, m. (1) John Burgess, (2) Richard Skinner.
1.2.3.1. Joyce Burgess, m. … Cripps.
1.2.3.2. Susanna Burgess, m. Robert Braswell.
1.2. Katherine Moore, m. (2) Robert Flake, a tobacco factor for Bristol merchants.
1.2.1. Elizabeth Flake, m. Peter Hayes, son of Peter Hayes, and Ann Hudson.
1.2.2. Mary Flake, m. John Clarke.
1.2.2.1. Elizabeth Clarke, m. Robert Barham, son of Charles Barham, associated with Thomas Harris, d. 1672.

1.3. Thomas Moore. Francis England, George Cripps. William Jennings of Bristol, surgeon, appts. Thomas Moore of Pagan Creek his atty. to collect from Arthur Skynner, Gyles Driver (headright of Thomas Harris, d. 1672), and Joseph Whitson, and by virtue of a letter of atty. from John Hardiman of Bristol, taylor, to collect from William Hudson in Nansemond. June 29, 1667. (Bodie, vol. 2, p. 550). February 1692: Thomas Moore and Thomas Thorpe were sworn by Capt. John Goodrich to appraise the estate of Richard Towle. (D.B 1, p. 133). John Goodrich Jr’s estate was appraised by Robert Kae, of Bristol, who also witnessed the Will of George Bechinoe, of Bristol (son of Edward Bechinoe (d. June 9, 1679), who appraised the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677). George Moore administered the estate of George Bechinoe, in 1700. George Bechinoe’s sister Anne Bechinoe, d. 1712, m. (1) Robert Kæ, (2) John Goodrich Jr. Edward Bechinoe’s estate was administered by his relict, Mary, and Richard Bennett, close cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. It can reasonably be suggested that Richard Bennett was Edward Bechinoe’s br.-in-law. Robert Kae was also the atty. of Theoderic Bland (who m. Anne Bennett, da. of Governor Richard Bennett; the cousin of the Thomas Harris who m. Judith Blake, Nov. 20, 1623, in Wivelsicombe, Somerset), and father of Elizabeth Kae, who m. Timothy Fenn; their dau., Dorothy Fenn, m. Joseph Thorpe, Sr.; parents of Thomas Thorpe, d. 1711 in IOW Co., who m. (1) bef. 1686, Martha Jennings (d. 1702; dau. of John Jennings and Mary Seward), and sister of John Jennings, who m. Mary Hill (dau. of Silvestra Hill, dau. of Edward Bennett); a cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672, whose Will was witnessed by Silvestra Hill’s husband, Nicholas. William Skinner (Jr.) of Bristol, merchant, partner of Thomas Thorpe, appointed (1688) Robert Kae his “atty” to recover 5,500 lb. of tobacco from Francis England. Test. Robert Harris (and James Edwards); son of Thomas Harris, d. 1688. Thomas Thorpe’s dau., Sarah Thorpe (by first wife), m. (1) William George, son of John George, thus kin of Thomas Harris, d. 1672. Their son, John Thorpe, apraised of the estate of Thomas Harris, d. 1730.

CRIPPS

1. Thomas Cripps, “yeoman” of Berwick Bassett, d. 1579.
1.1. Thomas Cripps. November 11 to 18, 1591. John and Edward Seede bought by fine from Thomas Crippes and George Staples the Manors of Charelton Soughton, Upton Soughton, in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Representing 20 messauges, 10 tofts, 20 gardens, 20 orchards, 2000 acres of land, 100 acres of meadow, 1000 acres of pasture, and 100 shillings rent, for the sum of 800 pounds sterling.
1.2. Henry Cripps. Will of Henry Crippes or Cripps, Yeoman of Berwick Basset, Wiltshire. Jan. 31, 1598.
1.2.1. Henry Cripps. Inquis. taken at Tetbury, August, 12, 1634, before Leonard Chamberlaine, esq., escheator, after the death of Tobias Chapman, by the oath of Henry Cripps, Richard Box, William Linck, Thomas Gay, William Veyzey, Nathaniel Cambridge, Samuel Cambridge, John Veyzey, John Weekes, Thomas Milles, Tobias Mayo, Henry Mayo, Nathaniel Crippes, John Driver, junior. Henry Cripps of Horsley, yeoman, churchwarden of Tetbury in 1617 (Henry Mayo in 1619). Bargain and Sale. (1) Francis Powlett of Longashton esq. and Hugh Smith of the same esq., son & h. of Thomas Smith dec’d. (2) Henry Mayo of Horsley clothier. Close called Willmeade (4 ac.) in possession of Wm. Clarke and 3 groves of wood called Bennettes Hillers and Nicholasses Groves (22 ac.) in Horsley in possession of Christopher Hiller and all manner of tithe upon the same, with rights of passage over various lands to the meadow & groves, reserving rent of 3s. during life of Eliz. Cripps, widow,* 6s. after. Consideration: £160 (towards portions of daughters of Thomas Smith. Feb. 10, 1653. (Bristol Archives, AC/D/5/13). *Elizabeth Pollington, m. Henry Cripps Sept. 3, 1593, in Oldland, Gloucestershire.
1.2.1. Andrew Cripps, of Berwick Bassett (Will – 66 Evelyn – pr. June 5 1630 by son Thomas), m. Jane Caswell, Nov. 20, 1591.
1.2.1.1. Thomas Cripps. Caswell v Cripps. Plaintiffs: Robert Caswell. Defendants: Thomas Cripps. Subject: money matters, Wiltshire. (C 5/381/49).
1.2.1.2. Alice Cripps, m. John Shipway, Nov. 30, 1626.
1.2.1.3. George Cripps, m. Mary Sadler, Dec. 6, 1630, in Purton, 10 mls. fr. Berwick Bassett.
1.2.1.3.1. George Cripps, m. Joyce, dau. of Katherine Moore and Robert Flake, as given.

1.2.1.4. Edith Cripps. Settlement made on the marriage of John Cary and Edith Cripps relating to lands in Milton Lilborne. 1625 (Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, 149/104). Milton Lilborne is 10 mls from Berwick Bassett. John Cary was certainly a grandson of Richard Cary; bapt. Aug. 18, 1542, at St. Nicholas, Bristol; bur. June 14, 1591. Cary v Hall. Plaintiffs: Richard Cary. Defendant: John Hall and his wife Agnes. Subject of decree: Moiety of a conventual lease, from Cirencester Abbey, Gloucestershire, of manor or rectory of Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire including tithes and advowson. April 26, 1583. (C 78/61/3). John Cary was a second- cousin of Col. Miles Cary; bapt. Jan. 30, 1622, at All Saint’s Church, Bristol; who m. Anne Taylor, dau. of Capt. Thomas Taylor, of Warwick Co., VA. Richard Cary was the br. of “Elizabeth Carye”, who m. Henry Cogan, July 1, 1565, their probable son, Henry Cogan (Clothier, Will proved June 29, 1613), m. Joane Burrridge, on Nov. 30, 1590, at St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton. She was the sister of John Burridge, grandfather of Robert Burridge, who m. Elizabeth Cogan, sister of John Cogan, d. 1689, in Virginia (who witnessed the will of Thomas Harris, d. 1688). Their son was John Burridge, of Lyme Regis, Dorset, b. ca. 1651, 1st s. of Robert Burridge, merchant, of Lyme Regis, by Elizabeth, sis. of John Cogan of Bristol. educ. Wadham, Oxf. matric. Mar. 13, 1668, aged 18. unm. suc. fa. 1676. Burridge’s father, of Taunton origin. (The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983). The Barcrofts, Burridges, and Cogans were all associated with Chard, Somerset.

“Samuel Tucker of Rotterdam (who) has received of (cousin – M.S) Samuel Tucker of Bristol goods lately in custody of John Edwards, cozen, in Isle of Wight. Aug. 5, 1664″; John Edwards being a trading partner of Robert Burridge. This John Edwards was probably the father of (1) Ann Edwards, who m. Henry Cary, son of Miles Cary. (2) John Edwards, Jr., who m. Ann Braswell, niece of Robert Brasswell Jr., who m. Susan Burgess. The Will of Joyce Cripps (1679) named (1) Susan Braswell “my sister’s daughter”, who she ‘cut off with a shilling’. (2) her sister, Mary, wife of Richard Skinner.

Given the tight associations of the Thomas of 1672 and 1688, some “Harris Hunters of old” believe the following to be a likely genealogical scenario, with Edward Harris, d. 1677, being a first-cousin of Thomas Harris, d. 1688.

1. Richard Harris, m. Eleanor Bennett, Oct. 8, 1594, in Wiveliscombe; the sister of Edward Bennett, business partner of Edward Robins (whose attorney was Thomas Joyner, whose son was the guardian of an orphan of Thomas Harris, d. 1688), and father of Silvestra Bennett, who m. Nicholas Hill, who (with Edward Brantley) witnessed the Will of Thomas Harris, d. 1672.
1.1. Thomas Harris, d. 1672, m. Judith Blake, Nov. 20, 1623, in Wivelscombe. Mr. Charles Barham Ex., Thomas Harris and Thomas Tuke overseers, were officers of the Will of William Ridley, who was probably the br. of Elizabeth Ridley, Charles Barham’s wife.
1.1.1. Thomas Harris, d. 1688.
1.1.1.1. Robert Harris.
1.1.1.1.1. John Harris, m. Avis White, granddau. of George Moore.
1.1.2. John Harris.
1.1.2.1. John Harris, m. (April 13, 1689), Elizabeth Church.
1.1.2.1.1. Isabella Harris, b. April 17, 1695, m. Nicholas Fulgham, son of Nicholas Fulgham, d. 1736, and Martha Pitt.
1.2. Edward Harris of St. Dunstan in the East, London, merchant, aged 45, named in the Hubberday v. Penniston court case of 1641, which stated he received tobacco from Virginia with Captain Thomas Cornwallis, associate of Richard Bennett. Edward held land patented by his cousin, Richard Bennett, on Nov. 4, 1642. This was adj. land held by Wm. Newsome, April 6, 1653, p. 51.
1.2.1. Edward Harris, d. 1677, m. Martha Hardy.
(1. George Hardy, appraiser of the estate of Edward Harris, d. 1677. 1.1. Mary Hardy, m. William Bennett, probable grandson of Richard Bennett, d. 1709 (br.-in-law of Charles Barham), great-nephew of Eleanor Bennett, afors.).
1.2.2. Thomas Harris, d. 1677, tobacco associate of kinsman, John Bland, br. of Theoderick Bland, husband of Ann Bennett, great-niece of Eleanor Bennett.

They were all involved in the Bristol/Virginia tobacco trade.

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