Edward Harris - John Harris & Dorothy Lymbry of Shirley Hundred

NO! Nothing written by James Hargraves is considered true. He kept reinventing his line of ancestry every time we proved him wrong in our Harris DNA Surname Project. His only objective was to claim descent from Sgt John Harris d1638, and thence to his royal ancestry. by hook or by crook. DNA has proven conclusively that the Edward Harris d1677 was a brother of Thomas Harris d1688. The Pagan River Harris family of Upper Parish IOW was NOT related to either the Crixie England Harris family nor their descendants in Charles/James City of those of the Blackwater River area in the Lower Parish of IOW. This is all documented in the John Brayton 1995 book. Sgt John had no son named Edward but did have several other children including a son George who died in 1663 in Charles City, married with no issue. His plantation was inherited by his brother Thomas Harris d1677. FYI, the property of Thomas Harris d1677 was forfeited to the crown for his role as the leader of Bacon's rebels so his children received nothing. Until his death a few years back, James Hargraves still claimed that the Thomas Harris d1672 was the son of Sgt John Harris. But the yDNA of his close Harris cousin proved him to be from an entirely unrelated line of Harris.

Thanks, that's why I asked. :) I am following along and trying to learn in order to improve the Geni tree, I am not a Harris descendant personally (as far as I know). I really appreciate your information and patience with us.

@tom king

So.... I know for a fact that Buck Harris (1827-1894) is one of my ancestors. How far back can my lineage be trace with a reasonable amount of certainty? To Edward Harris (isle of wight 1642-1677)?
You seem like you really know your Harris family stuff!!!

Excellent, this demonstrates we got Rob hooked up correctly to the existing Geni profiles & tree.

Line is correct except for the daughter of John Harris & Patience Taylor named Olive. see my discussion for her dying unmarried and without issue in 1812 in Warren Co. GA. It was a cousin Olive Harris who married Joshua Harris but she died in Montgomery Co, NC in 1816.

Created a new Olive Harris & substituted for Olive Harris

@tom king

THANKS SO MUCH!!!

Hmmm. Harris DNA group 4... Is there somewhere I can learn more about that?

go to harrisdnaresults.com you can click on the link above this or any other group that will take you to a new page where each submitter has posted his lineage. These lineages are not neccessarily correct.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gohrpage/harrisdn...

Last updated August 1, 2015. You should test, Rob. :)

That's exactly where I told Rob to go to after he looked at the main Harris result that show all of the submitters and their markers values in each group. It's important to look at the big picture before clicking on the link above group 4 to go to the page you cite.
Gotta stop as I sprained my right wrist late night and can only hunt and peck with my
left hand that tembles with Parkinsons. Plewse forgive any typos or garbled spelling.

We read typo-ese, it's one of Geni's languages. (joking).

Feel better.