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There were three brothers who in the early 1730 Virginia court records were known by the names of Burr Calvert Alias Harrison, Thomas Calvert Alias Harrison, and George Calvert Alias Harrison. Some descendants of Burr Calvert Alias Harrison have had their YDNA tested and the results have placed them into Group 5 of the Harris Family Tree YDNA site. The purpose of this website is not to prove who the ancestors were but to provide some documentation and notes on some of the descendants.
By 1773 Burr Calvert Alias Harrison, and some of his family, had moved from his family home in Virginia to South Carolina as indicated by an abstract of this deed:
1773, January 17 Jeremiah Williams, Sr. of Craven County, South Carolina sold to Burr Calvert alias Harris all that plantation orchard of land containing 300 acres in the fork between Broad and Saluda Rivers on branch of Second Creek except 50 acres given to Abraham Anderson...etc. One of the witnesses to this deed was Obed Harriss. Craven County was one of the original counties of the Carolinas before more land was divided into more counties.
The below Will of Burr Harris was written in 1783 and proved in 1787. It is found in Abbeville County, South Carolina, File 107, #2890. LDS Film #4752828 Image 578 of 614
26 day of augst one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, I Bur Harris of Ninety Six District ...
Item: ...estate both real and personel to my lving wife Jean Harris as long as she lives
Item: after her death all the land I now live on betwen my four sons Obed Thos George and Cage Harris
There is no mention of a son named Burr. One of the witnesses to the will was Robt Rutherford and what looks like Thos. Cockrill.
Below is the Will of Jean Harris: Newberry County, South Carolina Box 107, Pack 2888 Source: LDS film 4752828 Image 572 of 614. She mentions son Bur.
14th day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty six, I Jean Harris...
Item: give to my son Bur Harris one cow and calf
Item: ...estate both real and personal to be equely divided betwen my three daughters namely Lettes Cockrell Jean Dawkins and Cloey Liles ...
This will was witnessed by two of her sons George Harris and Micajah Harriss and a Robt Rutherford
There is controversy over the maiden name of Jean Harris. Some people claim that it was Haynie. However, it was Burr and Jean Harris's son Burr who married Mary Haynie, daughter of Maximilian Haynie (d. 1814 Newberry Co. S.C.). It is POSSIBLE that Jean was a Haynie if she was the sister of Maximilian Haynie. It has also been proposed that this Will of Jean Harris was written by a daughter-in-law of Burr Calvert Alias Harris and not from his wife Jean, but I personally don't believe that.
Here is the link to an abstract of Maximilian Haynies's will dated 1809 and proved 1814 located in Newberry, SC
where he states in Item 1, I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Harrison, wife of Burr Harrison, Ten dollars to her and her heirs forever, provided her husband survives her; but if she survives him, a further sum of Ninety Dollars making in the whole One Hundred Dollars, to her and her heirs forever. Proving that this Burr who was married to Mary Haynie was still alive in 1809.
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