Ancestry of
Bill Paxton

TV and Movie Actor

Christopher Harris

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bill Paxton — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 146 
  • Father:
  • Robert Harris 
  • Mother:
  • Mourning Glenn   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Feb 1725 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hanover County, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 4 Mar 1794 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Madison County, Kentucky 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Agnes McCord
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  • Child:

  Jane Harris (Ahnentafel No:73 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    D.A.R. #A051551

• Additional marriages for Christopher Harris

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Dabney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Feb 1745

• Sources for Christopher Harris

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A051551.
  • ² Dorman, John Frederick, ed., The Virginia Genealogist, 1969, Vol. 13, p.78.
  • ³ Gentry, Richard, The Gentry Family in America, 1676 to 1909: Including Notes on the Following Families Related to the Gentrys . . ., New York: The Grafton Press (1909), 50, 61-63.
  • ⁴ Spraker, Hazel Atterbury, The Boone Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of George and Mary Boone Who Came to American in 1717, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Publishers (1922), 532-533.

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