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Alice Alvis (Stewart?)

Also Known As: "Alice Alves", "Alice Harris", "Alice II West", "Alice (Unknown) [Unknown] [Farmer] [Harris] Alvis", "widow married Farmer", "relict Alice Farmer married William Harris", "relict Alice Harris married George Alvis.", "West", "Stewart", "Farmer", "Harris"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Virginia Colony, Colonial America
Death: before 1713
New Kent County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Wife of Major William Harris and George Alvis
Mother of William Harris, of Louisa County and Edward Harris, Sr., of New Kent County

Managed by: Hugh A. Miller II (Ty)
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About Alice Alvis


William Harris married a second time to Alice. William and Alice were the parents of sons,

  1. William and
  2. Edward Harris and maybe
  3. a third son. Their daughter was
  4. Love who Thomas Harris identified as his sister-in-law [half-sister] in his will.

George Alves (bef 1650-bef 1733) married

  • 1) unknown, daughter Susannah
  • 2) Alice, widow of William Harris; no children
  • 3) Mary, son David

2 (Major) William Harris 1629 - 1677/78 b: Abt. 1629 in Henrico County, VA d: February 01, 1678 in Henrico County, VA. 2nd Wife of William Harris: Alice (unknown) ?- 1696 (no proof that she was a Stewart? 1648-1697) b: in VA d: Aft. 1696 in New Kent County, VA m: Abt. 1670 in Henrico County, VA  

Maj. William Harris married first Lucy, by whom he had a son Thomas Harris [7042.2.1] and reportedly a daughter about whom we have no information.

William married a second time to Alice. William and Alice were the parents of sons, William and Edward Harris and maybe a third son. Their daughter was Love who Thomas Harris identified as his sister-in-law [half-sister] in his will


George Alvis (or Alves) originally came to America sometime before 1682 (George married before 1682, Alice (—) Harris, wid. of Maj. William. Henrico Orphans’ Court, 1 Feb 1682), but returned to Great Britain ca 1710 (the St. Paul’s Parish Vestry Book shows clearly that he was in Great Britain in 1711). He came back to America in 1712: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, Vol. 1, Gale Research: ALVIS, George, n.a. Boston, Mass., 1712. Boyer, Ship Passenger Lists, National and New England, p. 178 with three servants. George’s wife Alice was living in 1700, but may have died before George’s trip to Great Britain. She does not appear on his entry at Boston Harbor in 1712, although three servants were listed. He probably remarried about 1713 or later, and died in 1734 leaving one minor son, under 16, named David. If David was born in, say, 1714, his father would have been about 60 or 70.


From https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.virgi...

After the death of Major William Harris, his widow Alice remarried to George Alves. It seems certain that Alice was mother of William Harris, Jr. and Edward Harris for in his will, Major William Harris stated that: "MY YOUNGEST SONS (WILLIAM & EDWARD) TO LIVE WITH THEIR MOTHER TILL THE AGE OF SIXTEEN." The following abstracts further show that William Harris, Jr. was son of Alice, that the widow Alice remarried to George Alves, and that Edward Harris was the youngest son of Maj. William and Alice Harris:

From book: HENRICO COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS 1677-1705, by Benjamin B. Weisiger III. (Henrico Co., VA Rec. Bk. No. 2, 1678-1693, p 137) [Henrico Ct. Feb. 1682/83] The Complaint of GEORGE ALVIS AGST MR RICHARD LYGON COMMENCING AN ORPHN OF MAJR WILLM HARRIS DECD (BY NAME WILLIAM HARRIS) is referred until the next Court and then the sd Mr Lygon is to appear and bring the Indenture betwixt him and the orphn to the court, and there Exibitt it in the p’sents of the sd Orphn

(Henrico Co., VA Rec. Bk.. #2, 1678-1695, p.139) [Henrico Ct., April 2, 1683] In the suite of GEORGE ALVIS AS MARRYING ALICE THE RELICT OF MAJR WITT [SIC] HARRIS DECD (CONCERNING WILLIAM HARRIS AN ORPHN OF THE SD DECD) AGST MR. RICHD LYGON, the sd Alvis declaring that he doth not use his endeavour for educating and maintining the sd Orphn according to the Indenture, wch Indenture being exhibited and the orphn present, and the Court thereupon concerning the allegacons aforesd not true, it is ordered that the orphn served his time, and that Mr. Lygon perform his part of the sd Indenture.

(Henrico Co., VA Will & Deed Bk. 1688-1697, p. 646) William Byrd of Charles City Co., for a tract of 225 accres assured to me by WILLIAM HARRIS, SON OF MAJ. WILLIAM HARRIS, late of Henrico Co., dec’d, make over TO EDWARD HARRIS, SON OF SAID MAJ. WM HARRIS, AND YOUNGEST BROTHER OF SAID WILLIAM ABOVE, all my right in a tract on south side of James River near a place CALLED THE WARE, which Maj. Harris died seized of, and since escheated, except land I have already conveyed and except 225 acres since conveyed TO me by William Harris 1 Oct. 1692. 2 Aug. 1697 No witnesses Signed: William Byrd – Rec: 1 Aug. 1697.



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Alice Alvis's Timeline

1640
1640
Virginia Colony, Colonial America
1672
December 1, 1672
Henrico County , Virginia, Colonial America
1674
1674
Henrico County, Virginia Colony, Colonial America
1713
1713
Age 73
New Kent County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
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