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Benjamin Harrison V (April 5, 1726 – April 24, 1791) was an American planter, merchant, and politician who served as a legislator in colonial Virginia, following ...
Benjamin Harrison V also served in the Continental Congress, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and later was Governor of Virginia. The James River branch produced President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin V's son, and President Benjamin Harrison, William Henry's grandson, as well as another Virginia governor, Albertis Harrison.
Nephew of Benjamin Harrison V. [122] Benjamin Harrison VI (1755–1799), Virginia House of Delegates 1774–75. Son of Benjamin Harrison V. Burwell Bassett (1764–1841), Virginia House Delegate 1787–89 1819–21, Virginia State Senator 1794–1805, U.S. Representative from Virginia 1805–13 1815–19 1821–29. First cousin of William Henry ...
His son Benjamin Harrison IV built the three-story brick mansion that became the seat of the Harrison family, one of the First Families of Virginia. Colonels Albert V. Colburn, Delos B. Sackett and General John Sedgwick in Harrison's Landing, Virginia, during the Peninsula Campaign, 1862. Using bricks fired on the Berkeley plantation, Benjamin ...
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The Harrison family: Benjamin Harrison V, governor of Virginia (1781–1784) and a signer of the Declaration of Independence; his son, William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. president (1841); Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president (1861–1865), great, great grandson of Isaiah Harrison; John Scott Harrison, member of the U.S. House of Representatives ...
Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]
The mansion on the Berkeley Plantation built by Benjamin Harrison IV in 1726. Benjamin Harrison IV (1693 – July 12, 1745 [1]) was a colonial American planter, politician, and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. He was the son of Benjamin Harrison III and the father of Benjamin Harrison V, who was a signer of the Declaration of ...