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]
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]
↑ Dowdey, Clifford, "The Great Plantation", Rinehart & Co., 1957
↑"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.
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
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Harrison, Col. Benjamin - of Berkeley, Charles City Co., for many years a
rep. in the assembly, was killed last Friday (Jul 12) with his two younger
daughters when lightning struck his house - Aug 16, 1745.
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Harrison, Col. Benjamin - of Berkeley, Charles City Co., for many years a rep. in the assembly, was killed last Friday (Jul 12) with his two younger daughters when lightning struck his house - Aug 16, 1745.
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