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Father:
Martin Parks BURKS Mother: Louise Claiborne SPINNER-GOOCH |
_Samuel BURKS III_____+
| (1755 - 1784) m 1789
_Samuel BURKS IV, Captain_|
| (1765 - 1824) m 1789 |
| |_Elizabeth BURKS Mrs._
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_Martin Parks BURKS _____________|
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| (1774 - 1864) m 1789 |
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|--Edward Calolil BURKS Judge
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|_Louise Claiborne SPINNER-GOOCH _|
(1802 - 1850) |
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Father:
John GOODRIDGE Mother: Mary Beth SALYER |
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_John GOODRIDGE _____|
| (1947 - ....) m 1974|
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|--John Paul GOODRIDGE
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| _Delbert Eliot SALYER ___|
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|_Mary Beth SALYER ___|
(1950 - ....) m 1974|
| _Leonard Cornelius HARRISON _+
| | (1892 - 1978) m 1920
|_Elsie Laverna HARRISON _|
(1924 - ....) m 1941 |
|_Ocie CARR __________________
(1900 - 1978) m 1920
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Mother: Anne CARTER |
Served as Burgess; was a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776; a member of Continental Congress for four years; and Governor of Virginia, 1782-84. The IGI shows a Tabitha b 1751 in Charles City Co., VA but this has not been shown in any other reference. The LDS Ancestral file shows also Nathaniel b 20 Mar 1759 and has not been shown by any other reference as well.
A member of the House of Burgesses and of the Continental Congress and Governor of Va.(1781-1784)
Harrison County WVa is named for him.
Congressional Biography:
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000262
HARRISON, Benjamin, 1726-1791
"HARRISON, Benjamin, (father of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison, grandfather of John Scott Harrison, great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison [1833-1901] and great-great-great grandfather of William Henry Harrison [1896-]), a Delegate from Virginia; born on the plantation "Berkeley," Charles City County, Va., April 5, 1726; pursued classical studies and attended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; member of the colonial house of burgesses 1749-1775; member of the Virginia revolutionary convention in March, July, and December, 1775; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1777; as chairman of the Committee of the Whole House he reported the resolution on June 10, 1776, offered three days before by Richard Henry Lee, declaring the independence of the American Colonies, and reported the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers, on July 4, 1776; resigned in 1778; member of the State house of delegates 1776-1782 and 1787-1791 and served as speaker 1778-1782, 1785, and 1786; Governor of Virginia 1782-1784; delegate to the State convention for the ratification of the Federal Constitution in 1788; died at his home, "Berkeley," Charles City County, Va., April 24, 1791. "
Children named in his Will (transcribed by Scott Duncan) dated Jan 3, 1780 (listed in the order mentioned in his Will): Sarah, Carter, William, Benjamin, Elizabeth Rickman, Ann Coupland, Lucy Randolf. Also named in his Will, niece Ann Bassett and nephew Carter Bassett. [S2] [S224] [S895] [S1429]
_Benjamin HARRISON II________+
| (1645 - 1712)
_Benjamin HARRISON III_____|
| (1673 - 1710) m 1693 |
| |_Hannah ? SEE NOTES _________
| (1651 - 1698)
_Benjamin HARRISON IV_|
| (1695 - 1745) m 1722 |
| | _Lewis BURWELL Jr., Maj._____+
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| |_Elizabeth BURWELL ________|
| (1677 - 1734) m 1693 |
| |_Abigail SMITH ______________+
| (1656 - 1692)
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|--Benjamin HARRISON V
| (1726 - 1791)
| _John CARTER ________________+
| | (1613 - 1669) m 1650
| _Robert "King" CARTER _____|
| | (1663 - 1732) m 1700 |
| | |_Sarah LUDLOW _______________+
| | (1635 - 1668) m 1650
|_Anne CARTER _________|
(1696 - 1743) m 1722 |
| _Thomas LANDON Of Credenhill_+
| | (.... - 1700)
|_Elizabeth (Betty) LANDON _|
(1683 - 1719) m 1700 |
|_Mary DE LAVAL ______________
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Mother: Sally Fairfax LEE |
died infancy.
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| _George LEE Col______+
| | (1714 - 1761) m 1752
| _Lancelot LEE ________|
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| | |_Anne FAIRFAX _______+
| | (1728 - 1761) m 1752
|_Sally Fairfax LEE __|
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|_Mary Bathurst JONES _|
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