1. John ap Harry, m. Margaret Leighton, dau. of Sir Thomas Leighton and Anne Baker, dau. of Roger Baker of Shrewsbury.
   1.1. Richard Harris, m. Eleanor Jenyns, dau. of Rowland Jenyns, of Wallyburne.
   1.1.1. William Harris, yeoman of Wheathill.
   1.1.1.1. Roger Harris, of Shrewsbury.
   1.1.1.1.1. Sarah Harris, m. Richard More of Linley and Larden, d. 1643, Sheriff of Shrop.
   1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas Moore, m. Margaret Ligon, b. 1614 (great-granddau. of Richard Ligon by his first wife. Katharine Ligon, granddau. of Richard Ligon by his second wife), m. Fleetwood Dormer, Esq., who m. (2) Mary Harris.*
   1.1.2. John Harris (of Cruckton). m. Eleanor, dau. Thomas Prowde, of Sutton.
   1.1.2.1. Richard Harris, obit. 1631, m. Anna Smallman, obit. 1650, dau. of Thomas Smallman of Wilderhope.
   1.1.2.1.1. Mary Harris, m. (in 1673, as second wife), Fleetwood Dormer, b. May 21, 1616, son of Sir Fleetwood Dormer (obit. February 1, 1638), and Mary Isham, aunt of Henry Isham, who resided at Bermuda Hundred, Henrico Co. (who m. Katherine Banks, relict of Joseph Royal); their issue being: (1) Anne Isham, who m. Col. Francis Eppes, (2) Mary Isham, who m. Col. William Randolph, named as a ‘friend’ in the Will of Major William Harris, as was Thomas Cocke, son of Richard Cocke of Bremo. Fleetwood Dormer’s first wife was, to repeat, Katherine Ligon, second-cousin of Thomas Ligon, whose son and namesake m. Mary Harris.*
   1.1.2.2. Arthur Harris, m. Jane Newton, of Prescot, Shropshire.
   1.1.2.2.1. 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”.
   1.1.2.3. Rowland Harris, d. 1605, of Ludlow, m. (Sept. 14, 1595) Jane Langford, bapt. Oct. 10, 1567. She m. (2) Edward Lewis of Diddlesbury (br. of Eleanor Lewis), who by a first wife was father of Thomas Lewis (aged 23 in 1623), recorded here: Hannah Boyse, da. 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 50 acres for her personal adventure and 50 ac. for the personal adventure of her father, and 200 ac. for transportation of servants, viz.: ‘Thomas Lewis, Robert Hollum, Joseph Royall, Edward Holland, and Oliver Allen’ (Virginia Magazine, v., p. 97). Edward Lewis and Jane Langford had issue. William Lewis, who m. (Aug. 21, 1634), Anne Lutley, of Burwarton (dau. of Robert Lutley and Mary Holland), having issue: Edward Lewis, father of William Lewis, bapt. March 16, 1661, in Diddlebury, husband of Elizabeth Woodson, they the parents of Joseph Lewis, who m. Elizabeth Pleasants. “Robert Woodson, Sr. of Henrico Co. For good causes to my loving grandson’s, William & Joseph Lewis (children of his da., Elizabeth Woodson, and William Lewis), 450 ac. patented to me and Richard Farris, Giles Carter, William Harris, and Roger Cummings, on White Oak Swamp”. Recorded May 1, 1707. Mary Holland, aforesaid, was the dau. of Francis Holland (son of William Holland), whose br., Thomas Holland of Burwarton, was the husband of Alice Cocke, second-cousin of Richard Cocke of Bremo, bapt. Dec. 13, 1597, at Sidbury, Shropshire; obit. Bremo Bluff, Henrico, 1665, whose son, Thomas, was named as a ‘friend’ in the Will of Major William Harris. (‘Colonial Wills’, 1677-92, p.68).
   Mary Holland’s husband was the nephew of Joyce Lutley, who m. John Holland Sr., enfeoffed in Lamberhurst, Kent, father of John Holland Jr., of Lamberhurst, who m. Mary Barham; having issue: David Holland, who married Anne Burton; their elder son, John Holland (see PAR/498/37/14. Oct. 23, 1654), being John Holland of Nansemund, father of Michael Holland of Goochland.
   William Harris,* son of Major William Harris, was involved in the determination of the lands of Thomas Langford, descendant of Jane Langford’s br., Feb. 26, 1731. (Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 214-215).
   *His son was George Harris, bapt. April 13, 1701, in St Pauls Parish; a Vestry meeting there in 1719 connecting him to the lands of George Alvis, who had married the widow of Major William Harris. George Harris was the father of William Harris, who lived at Wolf Swamp, St. Martins Parish, Hanover Co.

1.1.2.3.1. Thomas Harris (bapt. Sept. 4, 1603, S.L.), removed to Virginia, ca. 1650, having land on Curles Swamp.
1.1.2.3.2. John Harris, bapt. March 5, 1604, S.L., m. (1) Mary Holland, bapt. Sept. 11, 1608, S.L., dau. of Roger Holland and Eleanor Lewis, who m. Jan. 13, 1598, S.L. Roger Holland was probably a younger son of Thomas Holland and Alice Cocke, second-cousin of Richard Cocke of Bremo (“friend” of Major William Harris), and uncle of Alice Holland, who m., in 1632, *Thomas Harris, Esq., of Prescot.

John Harris m. (2) Gwen Mathews (bur. Sept. 5, 1639, shortly after giving birth), Oct. 30. 1630, S.L., dau. of Edward Mathews,* bur. June 18, 1632, S.L., and sister of Edward Mathews of Henrico Co., who, on Jan. 29, 1688, sold to John Pleasants, 300 ac. on S. side Four Mile Creek, p. 44. Sept. 1691. Abraham Childers sold to John Pleasants 12 ac. on S. side Four Mile Creek for 750 lbs tobacco and cask, p. 238. May 16, 1692, John Pleasants deed of gift to Elizabeth Cocke (dau. of said John Pleasants and Jane, relict of Samuel Tucker), wife of James Cocke (son of Thomas Cocke of Bremo) to the said James Cocke and Elizabeth, his wife, 70 ac. on Curles Swamp, Henrico Co. purchased of Abram Childers, also plantation or dividend of land purchased by said John Pleasants of Henry Rowen and Robert Woodson, Sr.

“John Woodson, Sr. of Henrico Co. to Edward Lester, land next to Richard Cocke, next to land formerly William Harris’s on Curles Swamp, next to land given by Thomas Harris to his (step) dau. Mary Ligon, 90 ac., sold by Harris to Gilbert Platt, and by him to Leonard and William Ballew, and by them to John Pleasants, and by him to Hacliah Horner, and by his son Edward Horner to above John Woodson, and to Edward Lester for 1000 lbs tobacco. April 1, 1693. Signed: John Woodson, Sr. Recorded April 1, 1693.

Edward Mathews Sr. was the br. of Elizabeth Mathews: John Price of Henrico, Virginia, was bapt. Nov. 10, 1584, S.L. Muster of John Price, Feb. 24, 1624: “John aged 40, ship Starr in May, 1620. Ann his wife aged 21, ship Francis Bonaventure in August, 1620. Mary, a child, 3 months” (Hotten’s Original List, p. 203). John Price m. (1) *Elizabeth Matthews, S.L., on May 30, 1613; he subsequently m. Anne, Elizabeth’s sister or cousin, who m. (2) Robert Hallom; (3) Daniel Llewellin. On May 23, 1638, a patent was granted Matthew Price as son and heir of John Price for 150 ac. on Turkey Island Creek in Henrico Co. “granted by patent to his late father John Price, now in possession of his mother, Ann Hallom, widow – being due unto him in right of his father who had a patent granted Feb. 20, 1619, p. 558.

1.1.2.3.2.1. *Mary Harris, bapt. April 3, 1625, S.L. In 1689, Mary (Harris) Ligon gave a deposition stating her age to be 64.
1.1.2.3.2.2. Major William Harris, bapt. January 13, 1627, S.L. On June 22, 1663, Major William Harris acquired 450 ac. in Henrico County, on the north side of the James River, to a 4 mile creek, called by name “the Slashes”, adj. to Daniel Llewellin, E. upon the Malverne Hills plantation of Richard Cocke, p. 304.

The Captain Thomas Harris of the 1624 Virginia Muster descended from a John Harryes, who is recorded as of Walton, near Aylesbury, in 1431. His descendant, John Harris, in 1535, was paying a rent of £7 6s. 8d. to the manor of Maids Moreton with the mill there called ‘Brent Myll.’ The Woodliffe family also held tenements in Maids Moreton. His son was Robert Harris, Rector of Bechampton, which is situate 6 miles east of Maids Moreton. Robert Harris succeeded as Rector of Bechampton on June 11, Anno 1526. His son, John Harris is recorded in a legal case of ca. 1560, in which he is a defendant against the executor of John Finch, son of Sir Moyle Finch, and cousin of Erasmus Finch, who sponsored Margaret Bourdman in Virginia, habitee of the Captain Thomas Harris household of the 1624 Muster.

John’s sister married William Piggot, brother of Matthew Pigott, who succeeded as Rector of Bechampton. William Piggot’s sister, Ursula Pigott, married her kinsman, Christopher Pigott, of Doddershall, near Aylesbury, Bucks. Christopher Pigott’s brother, Thomas, represented Aylesbury in the 1589 Parliament before serving as county sheriff in 1593-4. Sir John Gibson married Anne, daughter of Sir John Allott, Fishmonger of Wood Street, London, and Mayor in 1590, widow of the aforesaid Thomas Pigott. Margaret Berman (Bourdman), recorded as being in the household of Captain Thomas Harris in the 1624 Muster, was a niece of Sir John Gibson on her mother’s side. (David R. Ransome, Village Tensions in Early Virginia, The Historical Journal, vol. 43, No. 2, p. 365, 2000). John’s son, James Harris, m. (Nov. 30, 1587) Luce Lucas; probable parents of Captain Thomas Harris of the 1624 Muster.

Thomas Harris 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, soe it be done this or the ensueing yeare. That hee or they underttkeing as aforesaid shall have and enjoy the houseing belonging to the said fort for the use of timber, or by burning them for the nailes or otherwise, as also shall be exempted from the publique taxes for the term of three years, provided that the number exceed not tenn, as also shall have and enjoy the boats and ammunition belonging to the said fort”.

Thomas Harris held land on the south of the James river called “Longfield”, a distinct entity from the 300 ac. acquired on August 15, 1637, north of the river, by Robert Craddock and John Davis, which had been assigned by ‘Jno. Baugh of Varina planter’ to Wm. Cooke & Richd. Carpenter, June 13, 1636, and by them assigned to Jno. Davis & Robt Craddocke of Harihatoxs planters. (B. 1. pp. 451, 452). John Davis also called his land “Longfield”, a common enough English practice concerning long strips of land. William Randolph purchased, from the colonial government, the escheated lands of Nathaniel Bacon in this locality. The Broadnax versus Soane case of 1700 shows the “Longfield” of Captain Thomas Harris to be Crown property, to be re-granted as an escheat, its last owner having died without issue.

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