"(Maj.) Robert Harris and wife settled in the colony of Virginia on the James River near Weyanoke" (-R.R. Denton).
Robert Harris & Mary Claiborne Rice " had one son, Capt. William Harris",(HARRIS FAMILY GENEALOGICAL NOTES, Virginia State Library).
The marriage of Robert and Mary is substantiated in HARRIS FAMILY OF VIRGINIA FROM 1611 TO 1914, by Thomas Henry Harris.
Some entertain the belief, and may be correctly, that Robert Harris came from Wales to Richmond, Virginia, and was employed in the tobacco house of one Rice, who soon died, and Robert Harris married his widow, Mary, who was a daughter of William Clayborne, Secretary of the Virginia Colony, and that William was born in Virginia. His father having engaged in the tobacco business, probably led William to be a tobacconist. [History and Genealogies, W.H. Miller, 1907]