Sir William Harris, High Sheriff of Essex #52ancestors

William HARRIS (Arthur HARRIS2, William HARRIS1) was born BET 1490 AND 1556 in Prittwell, Essex, Eng-High Sheriff of Essex, and died 15 SEP 1556 in Prittwell, Essex, Eng. He married Joanna COOK in Prittwell, Essex, Eng. She was born 1500 in Bocking, England, and died in England.

He married Joanna SMYTH 1515 in England. She was born in Norton, Essex, England, and died in England. He married Anne or Agnes RUTTER 1536 in England-. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=fox2&id=I093979 Had a descendant at Jamestown, VAhttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~harrisessex/WilliamHarrisJamestown.html     

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William Harris, High Sheriff of Essex is my 13th great grandfather.
You 
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your father →  Rufus S. Nichols 
his father →  Jim Nichols 
his father →  Ezekiel Hawkins Nichols 
his father →  John Nichols 
his father → Rhoda Bond Nichols 
his mother →  Sgt. Wright Bond, Revolutionary Soldier 
her father →  Page Bond 
his father →  William Bond 
his father →  William Bond 
his father → Dorothy Bond 
his mother →  Sgt. John Harris, Sr. 
her father →  Sir William Harris, Kt., of Crixsea 
his father →  Arthur Harris 
his father → William Harris, High Sheriff of Essex 
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Sgt. John Harris, gentleman of Jamestown #52ancestors

Sgt. John Harris was founder of the Virginia Company that founded Jamestown and he lived there for a while at the Shirley Plantation. He was the son of Sir William Harris and his wife Alice Smyth who was the daughter of Sir Thomas Smythe, the English Secretary of State. I did not know that England had a Secretary of State then but....            

John Harris was born about 1588-9 in Creeksea England, subscriber of the Third Charter of the Virginia Company of London along with his father. He was residing in Charles City County, Virginia at West and Shirley Hundred on the 16th of February, 1623, with his wife Dorothy and two infants.

In the census taken the 24th of February 1624-1625, John Harris does not show in the census because he was then in England.

We know that John Harris was then in England because the Parish Registers of St. Dunston in the East of Virginia shows, "gent. and Dorothy his wife, borne in the House of Edward Lymbry of Lyne House, Mariner, the same day baptized." He may have returned to England to claim a legacy of L400 given him by his brother William who died in 1622. The designation of "gentleman" in the Parish Register in 1624 would indicate that he was entitled to a coat of arms. All these circumstances show that he was the fourth son of Sir William Harris of Creeksea, England.

That John Harris was a member of the Virginia Company is proven by the fact that while he was in London, Sir Peter Courteen wrote him from Holland about some of the Virginia Company's business. "July 4, 1624, Sir Peter Courteen to John Harris. About the sale of Virginia Tobacco. Thanks him for his pains taken in the Va. Business. Tobacco of Va. will now yield no price, the markets are overlaid." "Memo July 10, 1624. I wrote to Sir Peter to remit to me here in safety." "June 17, 1625. Sir Peter Courteen to John Harris. Desires him to procure patent upon some of the Company's name, John Powell to have leave to sail and bring victuals unto the Plantation of Va. which would be to the company's profit." "Memo answered June 26, that the Virginia Company was moved but could not prevail in regard they are afraid he should go to the West Indies." John returned to Virginia and was residing in the corporation of Charles City in 1626, where he had 200 acres planted. This was the same John Harris because the records show that he had a wife and daughter, both named Dorothy. He was a Burgess member for Shirley Hundred Main, 1627-30. John Harris died in Charles City County before October 14, 1638, for on that date Francis Derrick makes a bill of sale to Richard Johnson as follows: "Whereas John Baker and Dorothy his wife, daughter of the late deceased Serjeant John Harris, have by order of Court at Henrico the 27th day of August last, surrendered unto me, Captain Francis Derrick all right and title which they claim under the dividend of land belonging to the late deceased George Calcott, which was given to the said Dorothy by the last will and testament of the said Calcott as by the surrender in the said court and by the patent and will recorded at James Cittie ect."

-------------------- John Harris and his father help found the Virginia Company. It was their money and contributions that allowed Jamestown to happen. John and his wife Dorothy migrated to Jamestown and their homesite was just north of Jamestown in Shirley Hundred. -----------------------

Birth: 1588 Creeksea Essex, England Death: Oct. 14, 1638 Charles City County Virginia, USA

John Harris was born 1588/9, Creeksea, Essex, England

Son of Sir William (I) and Alice (Smythe) Harris

Husband of Dorothy (Lymbry) Harris

Parents of Thomas Harris (m. Alice West)

Family links:

Parents: William Harris (1563 - 1616) Alice Smythe Harris (1556 - 1615) Spouse: Dorothy Lymbry Harris* Children: Thomas Harris (1614 - 1672)*

• Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown

Created by: Georgia Girl Record added: Sep 13, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 58569039

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58569039       

http://www.theharrislegacy.com/

Sgt. John Harris, Sr. is your 10th great grandfather.

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your father →  Rufus S. Nichols 

his father →  James "Jim" Ira Nichols 

his father →  Ezekiel H. Nichols 

his father →  "John" Ezekiel Nichols 

his father → Rhoda Bond Nichols 

his mother →  Sgt. Wright Bond, Revolutionary Soldier 

her father →  Page Bond 

his father →  William Bond 

his father →  William Bond 

his father → Dorothy Bond 

his mother →  Sgt. John Harris, Sr. 

her father 

Sgt. Wright Bond: Minute Man and Revolutionary Soldier #52ancestors

UPDATE although i was previously led to believe that my NICHOLS bloodline was descended from Wright Bond, DNA proved that was wrong. Wright Bond is not an ancestor but one of his descendants did marry a descendant of my HATCHER bloodline and so he is still in the family tree...
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Sgt. Wright Bond was a Minute Man and Revolutionary Soldier. He was the son of Page Bond and Ann Holland. He married Martha Brown, daughter of James Brown and Mary Spearman.
He was a descendant of Major John Bond of Virginia, who married Dorothy Harris.

http://revwarapps.org/w3382.pdf     
http://home.earthlink.net/~fbond/bond01/d1.htm   
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ywhite/wilmic/d0/i0000402.htm

 Wright² Bond (Page¹)⁽⁵⁷⁾ was born in Cumberland Co., VA. April 13, 1759. Wright died February 10, 1843 in Bedford Co., VA., at 83 years of age.
He married Martha "Patsy" Brown in Cumberland, Va, November 17, 1781.(58) Patsy was born about 1760. She was the daughter of James Brown and Mary Spearman. Patsy died after March 1848. Information taken from Bible records and with Pension Application. Patsy was 83 in 1843, and a widow. Dennis Johnson provided this info.
Wright was listed as the head of a family on the 1800 Census in Bedford Co.,VA..⁽⁵⁹⁾ According to Dennis Johnson: "It would appear that WRIGHT BOND was born 13 Apr 1759 in CUMBERLAND Co., VA. He married MARTHA "Pats/Patty" BROWN in Cumberland Co., VA. in Nov. 1781. (It states they married in Cumberland Co., VA. in the Pension file...ymw)
It is not clear where he was after November 1781 but we do know that he moved to Bedford, Va. in 1799-1800. Thus it would appear that all the children were born in CUMBERLAND CO., VA. up until Rhoda who could have been born in either location.

WRIGHT WAS A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER. HE ENLISTED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA. WHERE HE WAS BORN AND RAISED. HIS AMERICAN REVOLUTION PENSION # W3382.
"Dennis has a record of the letter sent to Miss Jane Smith in 1930 from the National Archives: "REV. AND 1812 WARS SECTION; MCS:MLB NOVEMBER 7, 1930
MISS JANE E. SMITH BEDFORD, VIRGINIA

DEAR MADAM:
YOU ARE ADVISED THAT IT APPEARS FROM THE PAPERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION CLAIM, W. 3382, THAT WRIGHT BOND WAS BORN APRIL 13, 1759 IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
WHILE A RESIDENT OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HE WAS ENGAGED IN 1775 TO SERVE FOR ONE YEAR AS A MINUTE MAN, AND DURING THAT PERIOD HE ENLISTED AND SERVED THREE TOURS IN CAPTAIN JOSPEH CARRINTON'S (Joseph Carrington - ymw)VIRGINIA COMPANY. A TOUR OF ABOUT ONE MONTH AS A PRIVATE, (a tour) ONE OF THREE AND A HALF MONTHS AS A PRIVATE AND WAS AT NORFOLK AT THE TIME LORD DUNMORE BURNED THAT TOWN, AND A TOUR OF FOUR MONTHS AS CORPORAL. HE ENLISTED IN SEPTEMBER, 1777 AND SERVED SIX WEEKS AS SERGEANT IN CAPTAIN BENJAMIN WILSON'S VIRGINIA COMPANY AND HE STATED THAT THIS SERVICE WAS AS SUBSTITUTE FOR HIS FATHER-IN-LAW, MOSES HUBBARD.

( It was first thought that he was married before Pasty Brown became his wife. But we (Linda Lawson ; David Bell ; Marcia Witt ; Janice Kay Markham ; Dennis Johnson & I) have since learned that "father-in-law" was a frequent term for "step-father" in Colonial times...This news supports the theory that Page & Ann Holland Bond were Wrights parents...David Bell says, "Sometime before 1768 - when Anne's father identified her as "daughter Anne Hubbard" in his LWT - Anne had married Moses Hubbard." ...Yvonne Anspach White)

HE ENLISTED IN 1777 AND SERVED FOUR MONTHS AS SERGEANT IN CAPTAIN ROBERT ANDERSON'S VIRGINIA COMPANY.
HE ENLISTED IN 1779 AND SERVED TWO MONTHS AS SERGEANT IN CAPTAIN ROBERT ANDERSON'S VIRGINIA COMPANY.
HE ENLISTED IN 1780 AND SERVED AS SERGEANT IN CAPTAIN ROBERT ANDERSON'S VIRGINIA COMPANY.
IN 1799 OR 1800 HE MOVED TO BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA
THE SOLDIER DIED FEBRUARY 10, 1843 IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
THE SOLDIER MARRIED IN NOVEMBER, 1781 IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA MARTHA OR PATSEY BROWN.
WRIGHT AND MARTHA BOND HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN:
SALLEY BORN JANUARY 23, 1783 DIED JULY 5, 1798 (Then this typewritten form has the following hand written notes with no comment as to whom the author is. dj)

Handwritten notes as follows:
MADE NO REFERENCE TO BATTLE OF CAMDEN (?GATES or TATES DEFEAT. dj) AS SOLDIER DID NOT STATE THAT HE ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED IN THE BATTLE.
(Page 2, dj)
CHILDREN CONTINUED
ALLEN BORN JULY 21, 1785
MEHALA BORN DECEMBER 4, 1787
WILLIAM BORN JULY 8, 1790 DIED JULY 20, 1790
ANNEY BORN OCTOBER 7, 1791
PLEASANT BORN JULY 2, 1794
MARY SPEARMAN BOND BORN SEPTEMBER 15, 1797
RHODA BORN FEBRUARY 6, 180-(ILLEGIBLE) (this is what they wrote.dj)
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
ACTING COMMISSIONER

The dj notes are Dennis Johnson's.
Wright Bond is most probably the uncle or cousin of the following child:
 3 i. Tirzah³ Bond was born in Cumberland Co.,VA. about 1778. Estimated from marriage date. She married Francis G. Hardwood in Bedford Co.,VA., June 9, 1798.(60) Francis was born about 1778. Estimate based on marriage date. Wright Bond was surety, meaning he posted the $500 bond, so we assume Tirzah was close kin.

Wright Bond and Martha "Patsy" Brown had the following children:
 4 ii. Sally Bond was born in Cumberland Co.,VA on January 23, 1783. Sally died July 5, 1798 at 15 years of age. Her body was interred July 17, 1798 in Bedford, Va.(Cumberland Co.,VA?).
 + 5 iii. Allen Sr. Bond was born July 21, 1785.
 6 iv. Mahala Bond was born in Cumberland Co.,VA. on December 4, 1787. She married Micajah Turner in Bedford Co., VA. on July 28, 1806. Wright Bond, Surety.
 7 v. William Bond was born in Cumberland Co.,VA. July 8, 1790. William died July 20, 1790 in Cumberland Co.,VA, at less than one year of age. His body was interred after July 20, 1790 in Cumberland Co.,VA.
 8 vi. Anne "Anney" Bond was born in Cumberland Co., VA on October 7, 1791. She married John B. Turner in Bedford Co., VA. on October 9, 1811. Wright Bond, Surety.
 9 vii. Pleasant A. Bond was born in Cumberland Co.,VA. on July 2, 1794. He married Elizabeth Jeter in Bedford Co., VA., April 4, 1826. (From Bedford Co., VA. Marriages: Mar. 21, 1826; Pleasant Bond & Elizabeth Jeter, dt John; Wily Noble, Surety; Married by John Ayers, April 4, 1826.) Pleasant A. Bond died January, 1863 in Bedford Co.,VA. (death date from Marcia Witt)
 10 viii. Mary Spearman Bond was born in Cumberland Co., VA. on September 15, 1797. She married Pleasant Brown in Bedford Co., VA., December 2, 1824.(From Bedford Co., VA. Marriages: Dec. 1, 1824; Pleasant Brown & Mary S. Bond; Pleasant Bond, Surety; Married by John Ayers, Dec. 2, 1824.
 11 ix. Rhoda A. Bond was born in Cumberland or Bedford Co., Va February 6, 1800. Rhoda died May 28, 1869 at 69 years of age. Her body was interred after May 28, 1869 in Bedford Co., VA. She married Isaac Henderson Nichols, Sr. in Bedford Co., VA., September 29, 1818. (From Bedford Co., VA. Marriages: Aug. 24, 1818; Isaac Nichols & Rhoda Bond; Wright Bond, Surety; Married by John Ayers, Sept. 29, 1818.)