William Harris/Julia Sweptson of N.C., Ga., Montgomery Co., Alabama
 

Source: Dictionary Of Alabama Biography

WILLIAM HARRIS, planter, was born June 2, 1774, in or near New Bern,
Craven County, North Carolina; son of John and Mary Harris, of New
Bern, North Carolina. he moved to Georgia about 1800, and removed to
Montgomery, Alabama about 1817.  He was one of the largest plantation
owners of his time.  Besides the one near Montgomery, he was the
owner of a plantation of over 2,000 acres of the LaFayette Grant,
near Tallahassee, Florida.  He and his two sons, Peter Coffee and
Stephen W., were buried on the plantation near Montgomery, settled by
him in 1817. Married; (1) August 18, 1799, to Julia Fulcher, of New
Bern, North Carolina; (2) to Julia Morse; (3) August 25, 1803, in
Hancock County, Georgia to Sarah, daughter of Peter Coffee, of Prince
Edward County, Virginia, and sister of Gen. John E. Coffee, of the
War of 1812; (4) December 1811, to Mary Mary Drew Carroll, daughter
of Col. Phillip and Mary Drew (Temple) Alston, of North Carolina.
Children: there were no children by the first and second marriage; by
the third 1. Julia Sweptson, m. Judge Joseph W. Field; 2. Peter
Coffee, m. Narcissa Ann Hooks; by the fourth; 3. Stephen Alston, m.
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick; 4. Sarah Smith, m. Albert James Pickett; 5.
Mary Gatlin, m. John Gindrat. Last residence: Montgomery County.

Ira L. Harris III
Evansville, Indiana