Opie Norris (d. 1839), formerly of Lancaster County, was a Charlottesville merchant who started business in partnership with John Kelly. Norris was a justice of the Albemarle County Court and became a town magistrate in 1819. He developed land in the Court Square area of Charlottesville and was a stockholder, secretary, and treasurer of the Rivanna and Rockfish Gap Turnpike Company (Lancaster Co. Will Book, 28:134; Lay, Architecture description begins K. Edward Lay, The Architecture of Jefferson Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, 2000 description ends , 135–6; Mary Rawlings, ed., Early Charlottesville: Recollections of James Alexander, 1828–1874 [1942], 9, 11–2, 19, 35; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901 description ends , 70, 83, 106, 242–4, 377; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends ; Norris to Charles Everette, 18 Aug. 1838 [ViU: John Kelly Papers]; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 13:276; gravestone inscription at Maplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville).

Letters from Norris to TJ of 22 Sept. 1806, 22 Sept. 1808, and 27 June 1810, not found, are recorded in SJL as received from Charlottesville on 22 Sept. 1806, 22 Sept. 1808, and 28 June 1810.