Jane Lucy (Harris) Gentry (1763 - 1821)

Born 18 Sep 1763 in Albemarle, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Richard William Gentry Sr — married 12 Mar 1784 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died 17 Sep 1821 at age 57 in Madison, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Jane (Harris) Gentry lived in Appalachia, in Kentucky.

* Richard Gentry in the North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000

Name: Richard Gentry Gender: Male Age: 80 Birth Date: 1763 Birth Place: Albemarle County, VA Death Date: 1843 Death Place: Madison County, KY Spouse: Jane Harris Child: Richard Gentry

Jane Harris was born on 18 September 1763, daughter of Christopher Harris and a granddaughter of Major Robert Harris of Albermarle County, Virginia.^[1]

Jane married Richard Gentry on April 5, 1784. After farming tobacco for a year, the couple moved to Kentucky in 1785, with Jane carrying infant son Rueben on horseback. The couple lived for a year in Boone's Fort in Clark County, Kentucky and in 1787 they moved to 300 acres in Madison County, Kentucky. The couple's second child, David Gentry was born at Boone's Fort, Clark County, Kentucky, and the couple's third son Richard was born in the family cabin. ^[1]

Jane was born about 1763. Jane Harris ... ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Richard Gentry, Ph.D., Gentry Family in America 1676 to 1909, p. 50 ,Grafton Press, New York 1909
2. ↑ A source for this information is needed.

• Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree

Jane Harris or Nancy Jane Harris

first wife of Richard Gentry IV (IV indicates number of generations this family in America, Nicholas I being the immigrant), who after her death m'd Nancy Guthrie/Gutherie (he had 19 children, 16 sons acc to Gentry book (GFA) (7 kids with 2nd wife); the online 'Journal of Gentry Genealogy' (JGG) gives him 19 kids, 7 of them w 2nd wife Nancy Guthrie)

see Jane Harris's lineage in 'Gentry Family in America' (GFA) book by Richard Gentry, available on google books (on p. 60)

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=374096&frompage=99

sez b. 18 Sep 1763

sez d. 17 Sep 1821

http://friscia.rootsweb.ancestry.com/friscia-html/d0005/g0001277.html#I064879

acc 4/09 bcs

Jane Harris 1763 - 17 SEP 1821

* BIRTH: 1763, Charlottesville, Albemarle County, VA * DEATH: 17 SEP 1821, Boonesboro, Madison County, KY

Father: Christopher Harris Mother: Agnes Mc Cord

Family 1 : Richard Gentry

* MARRIAGE: 15 APR 1784, Charlottesville, Albemarle County, VA

1. +Reuben Estes Gentry 2. +David Gentry 3. +Richard Gentry 4. +Christy Gentry 5. +Jane H Gentry 6. +James Gentry 7. Joseph Mc Cord Gentry 8. +Nancy Gentry 9. +Joshua Gentry 10. +Joseph Mc Cord Gentry 11. +Overton Gentry 12. +Rodes Gentry 13. +Jane Harris Gentry

see

http://strongfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I5597&tree=STR06

acc 4/18/09 bcs

from 1919 book by Richard Gentry, "Gentry Family in America"

They (Jane and Richard) came over the "Wilderness trail" to Kentucky on horseback, the mother carrying in her arms her son, Reuben. They selected 1000 acres of land in Madison County, Kentucky, but settled at Boone's Fort. Later they built for themselves a house on the Madison County estate, which remains in the Gentry family to this day, the present owner being Hon. John Harris, who married Nancy White, the daughter of Jane Gentry and granddaughter of the Revolutionary soldier Richard Gentry, and Jane Harris, his wife. Richard Gentry had nineteen children. Seven of his sons came to Missouri, 1809 to 1816.

see

http://friscia.rootsweb.ancestry.com/friscia-html/d0004/g0001720.html acc 4/18/09

see

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.harris/7382/mb.ashx

acc 4/18/09 bcs Following the Revolutionary War, many in Virginia migrated to Kentucky including Christopher Harris and his second wife, Agnes McCord Harris. Their daughter Jane married Richard Gentry.

Next summer, a group of people descended from this branch of the Gentrys and Harris family are holdi

CORRUPTED NOTES - Claiborne family information appears here suddenly

-- see

https://archive.org/stream/gentryfamilyinam1909gent/gentryfamilyinam1909gent_djvu.txt

GFA

acc 3/21/18

Children: (i) James Blythe Anderson; b. Dec. 25. 1868; m. Alice Simms, of Bourbon Co., Ky., at Ashville,

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N. C, June i6, 1898, and had: Joseph Caldwell Anderson; b. May 3, 1899, and Elizabeth B. Anderson; b. Jan. 4, 1903.

Children, second marriage :

13. JosiAH Collins (64), born Aug. 19, 1822; died 1851.

14. Robert Richard (65), born March i, 1824.

15. Charles Walker (66), born Feb. 26, 1826.

16. Valentine White (67), born May 22, 1827.

17. Tyre Martin, born July 5, 1830; died Jan. 4, 1844.

18. William James (68), born Feb. 26, 1832.

19. Mary Jane Estes, born Oct. 29, 1834; married Reuben

Engleman. She died in May, 1854, leaving child, Mary Clark, who died without issue.

EXCURSUS—-HARRIS.

The ancestors of Jane Harris, wife of Richard Gentry of Madison Co., Ky.:

Robert Harris, the immigrant, came from England to Vir-ginia about 1650. In 1660 he married Mrs. Mary Rice, formerly Miss Mary Claiborne, a daughter of William Claiborne, first Colonial Secretary of the Virginia Colony. Their son, William Harris, married Temperance Overton, daughter of William Overton of Glen Cairn in Hanover Co., Va. William Harris was a large land owner in Virginia from 1713 to 1725, as shown by the old land office records, and his father-in-law, William Overton, also had large land grants, received from head rights for transporting immigrants to Virginia. William Overton was a son of Col. Robert Overton of England, born in 1609. Distinguished himself in battle of "Marston Moor" ; governor of Hull in 1647; accompanied Cromwell to Scotland in 1650, and commanded a brigade at battle of Dunbar ; governor of Edinburg; scholar and soldier; intimate friend of Milton, who celebrated his exploits in the "Defensio Secunda." See Dictionary of National Biography.

Maj. Robert Harris, a son of William Harris and Temper- ance Overton Harris, was born in Hanover Co., Va., and lived there until 1742, when he was appointed by the King as surveyor of the new county of Louisa, which was cut off from Hanover Co. in 1742. He resigned his office as a member of

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the House of Burgesses from Hanover, and settled in Louisa Co. He afterwards moved to Albemarle Co., Va., where he owned a large estate at his death in 1765. He was a vestryman of Fredricksville Parish for a number of years before his death. His will is of record in Albemarle Co., Va., in Will Book No. 2, page 185, and was recorded Nov. 8, 1765. His will was witnessed by Daniel Maupin, John Maupin, John Maupin. Jr., William Maupin and Connerly Mullins. His son. Tyre Harris, succeeded him as vestryman of Fredricksville Parish.

Children :

1. Christopher Harris.

2. Tyre Harris. He settled in North Carolina and be- came High Sheriff of Orange Co., of that Colony, under Governor Tryon, and was present and took part with him at the battle of the " Alamance," May 18, 1771.

3. Robert Harris.

4. William Harris.

5. Mary, married James Harris.

6. Mourning Glen, married John Jouett.

7. Nancy, married Joel Crawford; they were parents of the Hon. William Harris Crawford of Georgia.*

8. Lucy, married William Shelton ; among their descend- ants were Thomas Shelton Moberly of Kentucky, Rev. R. M. Dudley, once President of Georgetown College, and A. C. Caperton, editor of the Western Recorder.

9. Sarah, married Capt. John Rodes, May 24, 1756,

born Nov. 16, 1729, son of John Rodes and Mary Crawford of Virginia. They are the ancestors of the Kentucky and Missouri families of Rodes. A large number of prominent families are descended from this estimable lady, Sarah Harris Rodes. Among them are the Stones, Brecks, Estills and Rollins of Missouri and Kentucky.

10. Anna, married John Dabney.

11. , married William Dalton.

• William H. Crawford was U. S. Senator, Sec. of Treasury under Monroe, and Candidate for President in 1824.

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Christopher Harris, son of Major Robert Harris, married first, Mary Dabney ; second, Agnes McCord, in Virginia. She was of the same family as the McCords of St. Joseph, Mo.

Children, by first wife:

Dabney, of Surry Co., N. C. Sarah, married James Martin. Robert, married Nancy Grubbs. Mourning, married Foster Jones. Christopher, married EHzabeth Grubbs. Mary, married George Jones.

Children, by second wife: 7. Overton, married Nancy Oldham, daughter of Richard Oldham, a Madison Co. Pioneer of 1776.

8. John, married Margaret Maupin; was a Captain in Revolutionary War and settled in Kentucky in 1790. Was prominent as a politician, and became Circuit Judge of Madison Co. His youngest son, Maj. Wil- liam Harris, born May 16, 1805, married Malinda Duncan and had one son, the Hon. John D. Harris of Madison Co., Ky., who married Nancy Jane White, his second cousin, a granddaughter of Richard Gen- try of Madison Co., Ky.

9. Benjamin, married first. Miss Jones; second, Miss

Bergin.

10. Barnabas, married Elizabeth Oldham.

11. Samuel, married Nancy Wilkerson.

12. James, died 1798.

13. Jane, married Richard Gentry in Albemarle Co., Va.,

April I, 1784, and in 1786 they joined a party of emi- grants for Kentucky, and settled in Madison Co. Her husband, Richard Gentry, served as a Revolutionary soldier in Capt. Benjamin Harris' (her brother's) company.

14. Margaret.

15. William, married Ann Oldham.

16. Isabella, married John Bennett.

Major James Blythe

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The authority for the principal part of this Harris data is the " Genealogy of the Harris Family of Madison Co., Ky.," by the Hon. William Chenault of Richmond, Ky.

Among the names of the grantees mentioned in the second Charter of Virginia, granted by King James in 1609, were the following :

Capt. Thomas Wyat.

John Robinson.

John Elkin.

John Hawkins.

Charles Hawkins.

Thomas Harris, Gent.