Benjamin HARRISON V the Signer Birth 5 Apr 1726 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Va

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Family Group Sheet 9 Dec 2008 Husband Benjamin HARRISON V The Signer Birth 5 Apr 1726 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Va. Elected bet 1752-1775 House of Burgesses; Charles City County Elected bet 1781-1784 Governor; Virginia Death 24 Apr 1791 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Va. Education William and Mary Burial Marriage 1748 1 Father Benjamin HARRISON IV (1695-1745) Mother Anne CARTER (1699-1745) Wife Elizabeth BASSETT Birth 13 Dec 1730 Etham, New Kent, Va.1 Death 1792 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Va. Burial Father William BASSETT Col. (1709-1744) Mother Elizabeth CHURCHILL (1710-1779) Children 1 F Elizabeth HARRISON Birth 1751 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Va. Death Burial Marriage 2 F Ann HARRISON Birth 21 May 1753 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Va. Death 1821 Burial Spouse Judge David COUPLAND ( - ) Marriage 3 M Benjamin HARRISON VI, young Ben Birth 1755 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Va. Death 1799 Burial Spouse Anna MERCER ( - ) Marriage 1785 Spouse Susanna RANDOLPH ( - ) Marriage 1787 Curles Neck Plantation 4 M Carter Bassett HARRISON Birth 1756 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, VA Elected bet 1784-1786 member of VA state house of delegates; Va.2 Elected 1793/94 a Representative from Virginia to the Third Congress3 Elected bet 1795-1798 a Representative from Virginia to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses2 Death 18 Apr 1808 Prince George County, VA Burial Marriage 5 F Lucy HARRISON Birth Chr Death 1809 Burial Spouse Anthony SINGLETON (1750-1795) Marriage Spouse Major Peyton RANDOLPH ( - ) Marriage 6 F Sarah HARRISON Birth 1770 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, VA Death 27 Feb 1812 Burial Spouse John MINGE ( - ) Marriage 6 Jun 1795 Richmond, Virginia4 7 M William Henry HARRISON Pres., Gen.5,6 Birth 9 Feb 1773 Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Va. Education bet 1787-1790 Hampden-Sidney College7 Education 1790 study of medicine under Dr. Leiper; Richmond, Virginia8 Military 1798 ensign in the First Infantry Elected 1799/1800 a Delegate from the Northwest Territory to the Sixth Congress; Northwest Territory9 App bet 1800-1813 Territorial Governor of Indiana and Indian Commissioner2 Military bet 1812-1814 Major General; War of 1812 Elected bet 1816-1819 Represenative to the Fourteenth Congress and Fifteenth Congress; Ohio10 Elected bet 1819-1821 State Senator; Ohio Elected bet 1825-1828 United States Senator; Ohio11 App 1828/29 Minister to Colombia

1 Family Group Sheet 9 Dec 2008 Husband Benjamin HARRISON V The Signer Wife Elizabeth BASSETT Children William Henry HARRISON Pres., Gen. (continued) App 1829 Committee on Military Affairs (Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses) Elected 4 Mar 1841 President of the United States; Washington, D. C. Death 4 Apr 1841 Washington D. C. Burial North Bend, Hamilton Co., Ohio Spouse Anna Tuthill SYMMES (1775-1864) Marriage 25 Nov 1795 North Bend, Hamilton Co., Ohio12 8 Birth Chr Death Burial Marriage 9 Birth Chr Death Burial Marriage 10 Birth Chr Death Burial Marriage 11 Birth Chr Death Burial Marriage 12 Birth Chr Death Burial Marriage 13 Birth Chr Death Burial Marriage 14 Birth Chr Death Burial Marriage 15 Birth Chr Death Burial Marriage 16 Birth Chr Death Burial Marriage Prepared 9 Dec 2008 by: Comments Jennifer E. Capps, Curator President Benjamin Harrison Home 1230 North Delaware Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 (317) 631-1898

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SOURCES 1. The Ancestry Of Benjamin Harrison And Notes on Families Related by :Charles P. Keith 1893 Philadelphia, p 30. 2. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Historical_Intro_Biographical_Directory.htm http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/g_three_sections_with_teasers/people.htm. 3. Ibid., HARRISON, Carter Bassett, (son of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791); brother of William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)), a Representative from Virginia; born in Charles City County, Va., ca.1756; attended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; member of the Virginia state house of delegates, 1784-1786 and 1805-1808; elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the Third Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1799); died on April 18, 1808, in Prince George County, Va. 4. William and Mary Quarterly Minge Family Register Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jul., 1912), pp. 31-33 doi:10.2307/1922078 This article consists of 3 page(s). page 1. 5. Walter Lewis Zorn, The Descendants of the Presidents (Monroe, Michigan: Walter Zorn, 1955). 6. "The Irwins and The Harrisons", by Dorothy W. Bowers Irwinton Publishers Mercersburg, Pa. Times and News Publishing Co. 1973. 7. Indiana Historical Collections William Henry Harrison 1926 Dorothy Burne Goebel, p 16. 8. Ibid., p 18. 9. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Historical_Intro_Biographical_Directory.htm http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/g_three_sections_with_teasers/people.htm. a Delegate from the Northwest Territory to the Sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1799, to May 14, 1800, when he resigned to become Territorial Governor of Indiana 1801-1813. 10. Ibid., the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John McLean; reelected to the Fifteenth Congress and served from October 8, 1816, to March 3, 1819;. 11. Ibid., State senate 1819-1821; presidential elector in Ohio in 1822; unsuccessful candidate for House of Representatives in 1822; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1825, to May 20, 1828, when he resigned to become Minister to Colombia 1828-1829. 12. "The Irwins and The Harrisons", by Dorothy W. Bowers, p 107.