Born before in Charles River Shire, Colony of Virginia
Daughter of William Claiborne
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Edward Rice
— married
after 1650 in Old Rappahannock, Colony of Virginia
Wife of
Robert Harris
— married
about 1650 in Colony of Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Richard Harris, Martha Harris, Judith (Harris) Robertson, Claiborne Rice, John Harris, Mary Eppes Harris, Robert Harris Jr., Benjamin Harris, Edward Harris, Thomas Harris, William Harris Sr and William Harris
Died
after age 75
in Glen Cairn, Doswell, New Kent, Virginia
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Contents |
Biography
Disputed Last Name at Birth
- There is no primary source that identifies Mary Rice as a Claiborne or the daughter of William Claiborne. She should not be included in a list of his children. The connection is wholly through supposition by use of the Claiborne name in the Rice family.
- Note: In a footnote, Claiborne biographer Dorman says that "no record evidence has been found to support" a daughter of William Claiborne who married ___ Rice and Robert Harris." [1]
Name
Mary "Claiborne"[2][3][4][5] [6][7]Born about 1630, King Williams, Virginia[4][5]
Marriages
- First Marriage:
- Husband: Edward Rice[4]
- Marriage Date: 1660/1680 Place: St Peters Parish, New Kent Co.(became Hanover County in 1720), Virginia[4]
- Children:
- Thomas Rice[4]
- Claiborne Rice[4]
- Second Marriage
- Husband: Robert Harris (1625-1717): years given 1650/1651/1660, Charles City, or Albemarle, Virginia [Note: Albemarle VA did not exist before 1744].[8][9]
- Several children, born after 1660
Death
As Mary Harris, she died on 9 February 1710, Glen Cairn plantation, located in what was called Hanover Junction, renamed Doswell, in 1890, Virginia[4] [10]
Sources
- ↑ Claiborne, p. 6
- ↑ Source: #S14 p. 348
- ↑ Source: #S9 pp. 518-520
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3MCV-66C : accessed 2015-04-06), entry for Mary /Claiborne/.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mary Rice Claiborne in the Family Data Collection - Births; Edmund West, compiler. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2001.
- ↑ Source: #S1659360159 Book Title: _____, by Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
- ↑ Source: #S1659453484
- ↑ Source: #S1659360159 Book Title: The Kinnears and their kin: a memorial volume of history, biography and genealogy, with Revolution.
- ↑ Source: #S1659360159 Book Title:____, by Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
- ↑ Source: #S1659453484
See Also:
- Source: Claiborne of Virginia, by Dorman, John Frederick. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1955.
- Source: S14 History of Louisa County, Virginia. Harris, Malcolm H. Dietz Press, Richmond, VA, 1936
- Source: S9 Tidewater Virginia Families. Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. Self published, Urbanna, VA, 1989
- Part 1 - The introduction to William Harris of Jamestown Roots Web
- Hylbom Family Ancestry Project
- Copeland,Harris,Lawrence,Neville,Pittman,Turner,Wheeler, Roots Web
- Source: S1658871532 Repository: #R-2145023627 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=4151977&pid=1961
Acknowledgments
- Thanks to Linda Plummer for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Linda and others.
- Hanover County records
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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Rejected matches › Alice (Unknown) Alvis (abt.1640-aft.1704) › Mary (Rice) Sawyer (1656-1733) › Alice (Unknown) Alvis (abt.1640-aft.1704) › Mary Claiborne › Mary Elise (Claiborne) Alves (1890-1969) › Mary (Harris) Greatrakes (abt.1606-abt.1656) › Elizabeth (Harris) Lancaster (abt.1604-abt.1624) › Elizabeth Harris (abt.1631-) › Mary (Unknown) Aspden (abt.1632-aft.1674)
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The Magna Carta Project, which manages the profile of Elizabeth Butler, has a strict policy on this.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harris-1869
There is still a RICE child in between the HARRIS children.
Thanks
If this profile were to be project-protected, I would suggest that it be protected by the Magna Carta Project, with a "No Trail" project box and after the parents are detached.
Documentation is a lot to ask for in King William Co., where most of the records prior to the Revolution were lost in a courthouse fire in 1885.But sometimes it's possible to narrow the field by elimination, or sharpen the focus by triangulation.
The Mary CLAIBORNE who m. John WHITWORTH would have been b.abt. 1665, since the accepted birthdates for sons are 1687 and 1690.This date allows us to eliminate two candidates:
The Mary CLAIBORNE who m. (1) Robert HARRIS was b.abt. 1630, since she bore her first child in 1652.She later m. (2) Edward RICE, and she had one son by each husband to whom she gave the name "Claiborne," a sure sign of this lineage.This Mary CLAIBORNE can only be the dau. of Hon. William CLAIBORNE 1st and wife Elizabeth BUTLER, who were having their children in the 1630s and 1640s -- there were no other CLAIBORNE families in New Kent or the Pamunkey Neck at this date.THIS MARY IS TO OLD TO BE THE WIFE OF JOHN WHITWORTH.
Another Mary CLAIBORNE was b.abt. 1686, dau. of William CLAIBORNE 2nd and Elizabeth WILKES.This Mary is mentioned in her brother's 1705 will along with her dau. Elizabeth CLAIBORNE, who appears to be illegitimate.However, this same Mary CLAIBORNE is also said to have m. Henry FOX Jr., later the sheriff of King William. THIS MARY CLAIBORNE IS TOO YOUNG TO BE THE WIFE OF JOHN WHITWORTH.
In addition, John WHITWORTH is associated with the westernmost portion of the "grand patent" of William CLAIBORNE 1st, which contained some 12,400 acres on the north side of the Pamunkey in what would become King William.The easternmost portion of this tract, a plantation called "Romancoke," went to son William 2nd (1636-c.1685), the father and grandfather of the two girls above.The middle portion, called "Sweet Hall," went to son Thomas CLAIBORNE 1st (1647-1683); there is no "Mary" in his line prior to 1700.
By deed of gift 10 Nov 1676, William 1st gave the westernmost portion of his land, a plantation called "Cohoke," to his eldest son John CLAIBORNE 1st (c.1625-aft.1676).John 1st (and/or his son John 2nd) had disposed of most of this land prior to the Tithe List of 1704, including two transfers to John WHITWORTH:
These transactions put John WHITWORTH near Cohoke by 1692, just after the birth of his second child, and makes it far more likely that his wife, the former Mary CLAIBORNE, lived at Cohoke rather than the more remote Romancoke, and that she was in fact the dau. of John CLAIBORNE 1st.
John CLAIBORNE 1st was sent to England for an education and there m. Jane UNKNOWN.Dorman and Smith (1995) give John 1st only three children -- John 2nd, Henry and Jane -- for whom documentation exists in the form of headrights to John WRAY in 1678.However, they allow that John 1st and Janet may have had other children aft. they returned to VA, sometime bef. 1678, including the mysterious "couzin Umie COAKES" in the 1705 will of William CLAIBORNE 3rd -- and perhaps the Mary CLAIBORNE b.abt. 1665 who m. John WHITWORTH.