Thomas HARRIS, (CAPTAIN)

                   From "Finding Your Forefathers in America" pg 74 and History of Louisa Co. pg
348. Robert Harris came to va. 1650
The first record we have of this family is that Capt. Thomas Harris and Thomas
Osborn settled in Virginia in 1611 on lands that are now located in Henrico
County. Captain Harris in the long Indian Wars of 1622 was second in command
to Thomas Osborne. He was member of the House of Burgesses in 1623, 1637,
1647. He married Adria Osborne, and from this marriage descended Maj. Robert Harris
of "The Forks" who married a widow, Mrs Mary (Claiborne) Rice, youngest daughter of
Col William Claiborne, the first Secretary of the Virginia Colony. Their
son William Harris married Temperance Overton, daughter of William Overton, the
immigrant, and his wife, Mary Waters; this William Overton was the son of
Colonel Overton, Governor of Hull, England, under Oliver Cromwell and later
commanded a brigade at Dunbar and Inver Keithing. (Harris Family of
Virginia, by Thomas Henry Harris of Fredericksburg, Virginia. COLONIA FAMILIES
OF THE UNITED STATES P. 265. Some records show Robert's birth date 1630