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27. Nov. 2022 · Benjamin Harrison VI (1755-1799), son of Benjamin Harrison V, merchant, planter, politician, and revolutionary Carter Bassett Harrison (1752–1808), Son of Benjamin Harrison V, member of the Virginia General Assembly, U.S. Representative from Virginia 1793–99.
BENJAMIN HARRISON By Francis Burton Harrison VI Benjamin Harrison of Gobions Manor. In this series of papers, we have already discussed all of those in Eng-land mentioned by Mr. Keith as clues to search for the ancestry of Ben-jamin Harrison except for a family which had lived in Northamptonshire known as the Harrisons of Gobions Manor, and ...
It was a home to support; a way of life rather than a career. The youngest boy aspired to be a doctor, the middle boy became a lawyer, and the eldest, Benjamin Harrison VI, heir to the home plantation, was an unstable young man who failed in a mercantile business he started at Richmond and returned to live at Berkeley. There, free at last to ...
Benjamin VI died in 1799 and Berkeley was held in trust for his only son, Benjamin Harrison VII (1787-1842). On coming of age, Benjamin VII took over the running of the plantation, but he mismanaged the farming so that after he died, the Harrisons began to run into serious financial difficulties and were only just managing to hold on to Berkeley when the Civil War broke out.
The eldest son was Benjamin Harrison VI (1755–1799), a briefly successful merchant who served in the Virginia House of Delegates but who died a self-indulgent, troubled, young widower. Another was Carter Bassett Harrison (c.1756–1808), who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and the U.S. House of Representatives .
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd president of the United States (1889-1893). He was the grandson of President William Henry Harrison and the only grandson of a president to himself become president.
When Benjamin Harrison VII was born on 20 August 1787, in Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia, United States, his father, Benjamin Harrison VI, was 31 and his mother, Anne Mercer, was 26. He married Lucy Nelson in 1810, in York, Virginia, United States. He died on 30 January 1842, in Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia, United States, at the age of 54.
