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From BETTY JO HULSE. She sent a portion of a book, TWO MAY FAMILIES OF HOLLOW SQUARE,, GREEN COUNTY, ALABAMA, by Berenice May Fuller. This has a good run down on the CUTHBERT/BURR HARRISON family in its early days in America, and prior to that in England. There is some controversy about early origins both in England and America, but I will ignore all of that for the sake of brevity. I want to give only the early generations and where they are located.
Cuthbert Harrison b c 1606/7, St. Margaret’s Parish, London, England m Susanne _______. They moved to Stafford Co. VA by 1665 and lived on the northern side of Chippawamsick Creek, near Dumphries. This is now a part of Quantico Marine Base. There were a number of plantations of this family and a number of historic homes they built on them. Children: BURR, ALEXANDER, THOMAS, SARAH, all born England.
A. BURR. 1637-1697 Westmoreland Co. VA by 1658, came as an indentured servant, but that was completed by 1659 and he became an overseer of a plantation in what is now Prince William Co., He soon married, farmed for himself on rented land. He probably m Sarah Frances Burdette. He bought land in the area of his father (Quantico Marine Base), and established himself as a successful plantation owner. His earlier records spell his name as Burr Harry, or Burr Harris, but later records as Harrison.
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A-2 Thomas Harrison, son of Burr, 1665-1746 m Sythia Elizabeth Short. He was a well-educated and influential man. He too lived at what is now Quantico, in Stafford co. "Gentleman", "Esquire". He also had extensive property in Prince William Co.
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A-2-3-3. Burr Harrison above 1738-1822 b in Fauquier and died Chester Co. SC. His grandson, Silas Johnston b 1822 found a newspaper clipping about his grandfather pasted in his mother’s Bible, which told a lot about him. (I am somewhat familiar with Silas Johnston. He was a lawyer of Newberry Co. SC, but he changed his name to Johnstone because his uncle, SC Supreme Court Justice Job Johnston did considerable work on his Johnston genealogy and determined that it should be spelled that way - so Silas and others of the family also adopted the new spelling). Burr m Elizabeth Dargan. He was a Baptist and a Baptist church built on his property in Fauquier. He sold part of his property there to his brother William, and part to James GRIGSBY, and he served under Capt. William GRIGSBY, as a First Lt. in the Revolution, a Fauqier VA Company. He and his family moved to Chester Co. SC in 1782 and settled on Little Creek of Little River, where he was a J.P. and Coroner. Children:
A-2-3-3-3 above, Jonathan Tyler Harrison 1823-1870,was b in Fairfield, but moved to Anderson Co. SC. He m Jemima Delina Osborn. In early life he was an overseer of Governor Means’ plantation and then moved to Anderson Co. where he was in the mercantile business and then later a contractor for railroad work. He was wounded fighting for the confederacy and returned home to Anderson Co. to farm. (I think that he is interesting because he represents another Harrison family of Anderson Co. SC. In addition to the illustrious family of James Harrison who m Elizabeth Hampton. However his many children were not in Anderson County for long because nearly all of them moved to Texas.
A-2-2-3-1. Benjamin Harrison m Nancy Hart. Mrs. Hulse also sent some work she had done on Alabama Harrison (more later). They had a son Derelle. He was there in the 1850 census, age 64 living with his son. B.J. Harrison. Derelle m Nancy Ann Barrett. He had brothers Benjamin m Elizabeth Russell and William who m a Robb and a sister Betsy m a Dunwoody.
To continue with children of Burr Harrison A-2-3-3 but by his second wife Elizabeth______.
A-2-3-3-12 Mordecai m Susan Alston. His estate was administered 1898 in Richmond Co. SC, but this was after he had been long dead and involved some abandoned property there. He had apparently moved to Alabama, where he got a land deed 1824 Autauga County and more in 1828. And then he is found in MS c 1836. In my March 8, 1994 Harrison Notes, p 8. I made reference to Mordecai Harrison in the 2nd troop of Georgia Rangers 1760 and in 1766, and there was a Mord Harrison earlier in Oglethorpe’s Marine Company of Boatmen. Also he was on the lists with other Harrisons: Samuel, Thomas, Francis, Humphrey and Richard. The author of this book says that in over 20 years of research she had found just this one Mordecai Harrison. But, one Mordecai Harrison with Oglethorpe around 1740’s and in Mississippi in 1836 and estate in Richmond Co. SC 1898. sounds too stretched out to be only one man of this name. However, I wonder if those Harrisons including Mordecai in GA before the Revolution might be from the Cuthbert/Burr line.
Mordecai had: Burr m Liddle; Jonathan m Caroline Ragsdale; Elizabeth m Mitchell; Rebecca m Cole; Lucinda m Nordite; Benjamin; William; Thomas m Mrs. Sykes….sorry few if any dates, but this book is about the May family and Harrisons are only a side connection.
PIONEERS OF WIREGRASS, GA, Vol. II. (copies also sent by Mrs. Hulse) p 136. FRANCIS HARRISON. 1787-1865. He is certainly not under consideration as a close relative, but he does furnish some Harrison descendants whom we could run into in GA or elsewhere who could confuse us. He was b in Birmingham, England in 1787. He came to GA at age 25, probably landing at Brunswick, and filed for citizenship in 1826 and was naturalized in Wayne County, GA. He m Annis Manning, dau of Moses Manning of SC. She too was born 1787 and lived to 100. He died 1865. Their children:
THE ANDREW HARRISON LINE as detailed in THE VENTURERS, THE HAMPTON HARRISON AND EARLE FAMILIES by Virginia G. Meynard 1981, Southern Historical Press. This 1100 page book is difficult to review, especially since I have not read it. We have just acquired it and I have scanned only. But basically I want to enclose charts it contains of this family. This book does not take the family back, in detail, beyond John Harrison who m Sarah Daniel, but it is extensive and detailed about the descendants. To put this in perspective I am adding some early ancestry to what the book contains, though some of it is controversial. One of the more controversial points is who heads the list? Is it Anthony or Andrew? Was Andrew a son of Anthony as Worth Ray has it, or is Andrew the immigrant as put forward by the book ANDREW HARRISON OF ESSEX CO. VA by James E. Harrison 1985, who makes an excellent case of Andrew, Gent, of London, son of a "Souseman" (sausage maker) being the immigrant and settled on the Rappahannock River in Essex Co. VA., but I will start with Anthony of VA as Andrew’s father.
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Transcribed by Sue Countryman - many thanks to Sue!
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