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From: "Mike Lamb" <>
Subject: FW: [HH] John Mayhew Harris
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 03:51:50 +0000


>From: Medicine Woman <>
>To:
>Subject: [HH] John Mayhew Harris
>Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:32:23 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Anyone who has this fella in his family might want to
>get ahold of Larry.
>
>Samuel Harris brought his family from Scotland in
>the 1700's and landed in N.J. They were in the
>shipping business until the Amer. Revolution started
>and then they headed for Ky. The name of the book
>is "From Here To Yonder" inc John Mayhew Harris',
> Larry
>

It is true that this Harris family called themselves Scotch/Irish.
They did not come directly to America from Scotland,
but from Ireland. At the present time, research into how
long this line was in Ireland is on going. Most, if not all of
Samuel Mayhew Harris' children may have been born in
Ireland. According to the 1880 census in Davis County,
Iowa, Jacob Harris who was born in Hardin County, Kentucky
in 1810, entered his father's birth place as Ireland and his
mother's birth place as Maryland. Jacob was a brother to
the John Mayhew Harris who settled in Gentry County,
Missouri and to Samuel and Phoebe (Fulkerson) Harris who
settled in Sonoma County, California. There are other
siblings in this family that we are still trying to locate. They
would have been born in Hardin, Grayson, or Breckenridge
Counties, Kentucky. Also possibly Nelson County, Ky.
I would appreciate any info on this family.
All for now, Mike


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