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William Harrison

Male Bef 1682 - Bef 1726  (< 44 years)


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  • Name William Harrison 
    Born Bef 1682  Chopawamsic, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 4 Feb 1725/26  Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I028858  Tree1
    Last Modified 1 Aug 2021 

    Father Burr Harrison,   b. 28 Dec 1637, St. Margaret's Parish, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1706, Chopawamsic, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Mother Frances Burditt,   b. Bef 1641,   d. Between 1690 and 1692, Chopawamsic, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 49 years) 
    Married Abt 1657  Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F08136  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Hawley,   b. 1686, Westmoreland County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jun 1778, Fauquier County, Virginia - probate Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years) 
    Married 1702  Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. William Harrison,   b. Abt 1703, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Dec 1745, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years)
     2. Sybil Harrison,   b. 3 Feb 1704/05, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jan 1787, Fairfax County, Virginia - Probate Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
     3. George Harrison,   b. 1707, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Mar 1748/49, Fairfax County, Virginia - Probate Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years)
     4. Sarah Harrison,   b. Abt 1708, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Oct 1785, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 77 years)
     5. Mary Harrison,   b. 1714, Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1772, Prince William County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 59 years)
    Last Modified 1 Aug 2021 
    Family ID F13086  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
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      Stafford Co VA Will Book M: 1729-1748; Pg 38
      pp. 140-143 An Inventory of part of the Estate of Capt. WM. HARRISON late of the County of Stafford Deced value and appraised by us the Subscribers as followeth .. items listed and valued Sarah Lewis ExEx
      Wm. Godfrey
      At Court held for Stafford County Jno. Heriford Giles Tillet
      8th May 1734 Addl. Inv. & appraisement admitted to record.
      1725 The Estate of Mr. William Harrison DR: To paid Capt. Mason for THOMAS DRAYDEN, To Mr. ANDREW RUSSELL, Mr. BURR HARRISON, Mr. AUGT. WASHINGTON, Hr. JOHN WILSON, Mr. JOSHUA DAVIS, Colo. Carter for Quitrent Sterl., Boon-. Dougell, & galls rum and 4 Gall Molasses, paid JOHN LEWIS, JOHN PRITCHET, Mr. GEORGE NOBLE, JOHN MUSGROVE. Contra part JOHN BENNET'S rent, THOMAS SUMMERS, DAVID GENTLEMAN, by GUY BROADWATER, JOSEPH DUNMAN, JAMES DAVIES, MICHAEL SCANDALL, JOHN WHEELER, RICHARD ANKROM, JOSEPH GUESS, Mr. CHARLES BROADWATER, Tobo sold Capt: BUTTS. Mr, JOHN WILSON, THOS. OWSLEY, JOHN TAYLOR, JOHN ANKROM, WM. GATKELL, JAMES ROBINSON, THOMAS WEST, MATTHIAS EVERSON, MICHAEL REAGAN, THOMAS OWSLEY for THOS. WILKINSON. JOHN BRUSS for ALEXANDER BEALE, ARND. STIMSON. WM. MATHEWS, EDWD. VILETT for WM. MATHEWS, JEREH. SPARKS, JOSEPH GUESS, WM. CATHELL, MINOR WILKINSON, WALTER WILLIAMS, WM. COLTER, HUGH WEST, ANDREW SMARR, JACOB YOUNG, JARRATT TRAM ELL, JOHN MADDOX, widdow VINES.
      At Court held for Stafford County 30 May 1734 SARAH LEWIS late SARAH HARRISON Exhibited this Account against the Estate of Wm. Harrison Deced and made oath thereto .. admitted to record.
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      RE: Beginning at a White Oak page 191-192-193
      36 HARRISON, WILLIAM 266 4 December 1706 NN 3:146 Dogue Run adjacent John Ball.
      Sybill West, widow, sold for £97.3 to William Triplett land devised to Sybill by her father William Harrison and now adjacent land of His Excellency General Washington and said William Triplett on Dogue Run, part of a tract granted William Harrison. The deed was for 107 1/2 acres. (Fx. Deeds M:315. 26 March 1777)

      HARRISON, WILLIAM - See SCOTT, ALEXANDER AND HARRISON, WILLIAM.
      HARRISON WILLIAM - See WATTS, RICHARD AND HARRISON, WILLIAM (2).
      HARRISON, WILLIAM - See WEST, JOHN: HARRISON, WILLIAM: HARRISON, THOMAS AND PEARSON, THOMAS.

      King George County, Virginia Order Book 1725-1728

      6 Oct 1727 Richard ROSSER served on a jury Jeremiah STROTHER versus William HARRISON
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      The Washington Ancestry and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families, Volume 1, Page 368

      [Council Journal of Virginia, C.o., 5:1420, pp. 47,

      48]: "1721, April 27. The Governor, with the advice of the Council, is pleas'd to nominate Justices of the peace for the new erected County of Prince William, viz: Thomas Harrison, Dennis McCarty, Willm Linton, Francis Awbry, Robert Jones, Burr Harrison & Moses Quarles of the Quorum; and Leonard Barker, Wm Harrison, Valentine Barker, John Wright, John Allen, Willm Hackney, and Joseph Hudnal, Gent."
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      A Quit Rent Roll of 1723; Taken from the Register of Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia; 3,302 acres, Paid 500 lbs. Tobacco ye rest in dispute with Colonel Lee.
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      STAFFORD COUNTY VA DEED BOOK J; 1722-1728; THE ANTIENT PRESS
      pp. 36-37 Know all men by these presents that I THOS. HARRISON of the Retirement of County Stafford doth farm lett unto JOHN SUMERS of same County 100 acres being part of a Patent granted Major JOHN WEST, Mr. WILLIAM HARRISON, Mr. THOMAS PEARSON and the said Thomas Harrison the whole being 4639 acres in Stafford County .. Beginning at marked white oak standing on the North side of Turkey Cock Branch .. up .. on the North side for breadth of a hundred acres of land square Including the Plat that the said Summers hath now settled on the said Turkey Cock branch during the naturall lives of the said John Sumers and SETH his wife and for life of his son JOHN SUMERS .. paying yearly just sum of 500 pounds of Tobacco and caske according to law after the 10th October .. loth agree on Death of one of the aforesaid lives that he may have liberty of paying a Double rent to putt in another of his children's lives ..
      Presence Burr Harrison, Thos. Harrison
      Elizabeth x Coleri John x Summers
      Att a Court held for Stafford County 11th September 1723 Then came Thomas Harrison Gent. personally acknowledged the within Deed .. ordered to be recorded and is accordingly.
      Memorandum The said Thomas Harrison doth acquitt John Sumers of four years
      rent from the day of the Date it hears ..
      Thos. Harrison

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