Benjamin Harrison IV (abt. 1693 - abt. 1745)

Born about 11 Sep 1693 in Charles City County, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Carter) Harrison — married about 1722 in Corotoman, Lancaster Co, Virginia Colony

Descendants

Died about 12 Jul 1745 at about age 51 in Charles City County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Benjamin Harrison IV is Notable.

Ancestor of William Henry Harrison 9th US President

Benjamin Harrison was born in 1693 in Charles City County, Virginia, the oldest of three known children and the only known son of Benjamin Harrison and Elizabeth Burwell. ^[1] Virginia historian and biographer Clifford Dowdey states that none of the successive Benjamins used the numerical suffix; it is employed by historians as a convenient tool for distinguishing them.^[2]

Around 1722, when he was about twenty-nine, he married Anne Carter in Corotoman, Lancaster, Virginia.^[3] She bore him eleven-twelve children:^[4]

1. Lucy Harrison, born about 1722, married Edward Randolph Jr.^[4]
2. Hannah, who died along with her father
3. Elizabeth Harrison born about 1723, married Peyton Randolph
4. Anne Harrison born about 1724, married William Randolph III
5. Benjamin Harrison born about 1726, married Elizabeth Bassett
6. Carter Harrison born about 1732, married Susannah Randolph
7. Unknown Harrison born about 1734, died in infancy
8. Henry Harrison, born about 1736
9. Robert Harrison born about 1738
10. Charles Harrison born about 1742-Twin per DAR
11. Nathaniel Harrison born about 1742-Twin per DAR

Death

Death:  :: Date: 12 Jul 1745

Place: Berkley Plantation (Charles City County), Virginia, USA

Cause: Struck by lightening^[5]

The will of Benjamin (IV) Harrison^[6]

Research Notes

A U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application, dated June 15,1961, puts his date of birth at 11 Sep 1693 with no supporting evidence. It also indicates a birthplace of Yorktown, Virginia.^[7] Other sources on Ancestry.com include dates of 1694, 1695^[8][9], 1696^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia:Benjamin_Harrison_IV
2. ↑ Dowdey, Clifford, "The Great Plantation", Rinehart & Co., 1957
3. ↑ "Reason Reascends Her Throne: The Impact of Dowry". Mooney, Barbara Burlison (2008). Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press. p. 129.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Gerald Steffens Cowden. "Spared by Lightning: The Story of Lucy (Harrison) Randolph Necks." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 89, no. 3 (1981): 294-307. Accessed December 7, 2020.
5. ↑ Maryland Gazette at Newspapers.com ($)
6. ↑ Transcription found at This web page is authored by Scott Duncan
7. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2204/images/32596_242365-00083?treeid=63403570&personid=402241966047&usePUB=true&_phsrc=fNj74126&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=929945
8. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
9. ↑ Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.
10. ↑ SAR Membership: 83833 and 82556

See Also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #42848280
• geni.com
• Biography Wikipedia:Benjamin_Harrison_IV
• Biography created by Scott Duncan
• Berkeley Plantation
• New England Families by William Richard Cutter, page 2089-Facts in this book as suspect as it indicates a birth of 1700 for Benjamin Harrison IV

Acknowledgement

• Daniel Almen Breene, Jr., Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #5584, Date of Import: Jan 16, 1999. (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: Jan 30, 1999.
• Marcus Abbott Haskins, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #1060, Date of Import: Jan 16, 1999. (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: Jan 30, 1999.