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Wife of Benjamin Harrison, Governor of Virginia and signer of the Declaration of Independence; mother of President William Henry Harrison and great-grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison. [1]
Note: She may have died in 1792 vs 1796.
Elizabeth Bassett, born 13 December 1730, daughter of William Bassett and Elizabeth Churchill, married Benjamin Harrison, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and thus ancestress of the two presidents Harrison.[2]
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