Andrew Harrison Jr. (abt. 1687 - 1753)

Born about 1687 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Battaile) Harrison — married 2 Jan 1710 in Caroline County, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died 13 Jul 1753 at about age 66 in St.Marys Parish, Essex County, Virginia

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Biography

He was born about 1687 in England and his parents were Elinor (Elliott) and Andrew Harrison, Sr. (1648-1718).

Andrew Harrison, Jr. married on 02 Jan 1710 in Virginia to Elizabeth Battaile.

He died on 13 Jul 1753 in St.Marys Parish, Essex County, Virginia.

Research Notes

The info below was found on this profile but does not match the vital dates.

Andrew Harrison Sr., who was born sometime between 1640 and 1660 in England. He immigrated to Virginia colony sometime before 1683. Records indicate that Andrew Sr. came to the colonies under a "headright" contract with a colony official named Cadwallader Jones.

Within a few years Andrew Sr. had made enough to free himself of the debt, because he is listed as a freeman in the mid-1680's. Further, in 1686, Andrew Sr. and some friends entered the lucrative headright business themselves. Andrew Sr. purchased several thousand acres on Golden Vale Creek in Essex Co, Virginia (Now Caroline Co). He lived on 130 acres of the land, and used the rest for headright contracts. At one point he owned 1800 acres as part of his plantation. All this land is now part of the Fort A.P. Hill military training center near the town of Bowling Green, Virginia.

Andrew Harrison Sr. was probably a wealthy man by colonial Virginia standards. He was a tobacco plantation owner, with several slaves and indentured servants, and he (and later his son Andrew Jr.) served in the office of Constable for his part of Essex Co. for a number of years. Holding an office in the colonial government speaks to the fact that Andrew Sr. was a man of wealth and privilege.

Andrew Harrison Sr. died on 13 Jul 1758 in Orange County, Virginia.

Sources

• "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X5B2-ML3 : 29 January 2020), Andrew Harrison in entry for Esly Duff, 1865.
• Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800 for Andrew "the Younger" Harrison

• Chronological Listing of Events in the Life of Andrew Harrison by by Daniel Robert Harrison

• Rootsandall.blogspot.com - "The Harrison Family" blog by Steven P. Frank

• Andrew Harrison and Other Early Harrisons, chapter#2 by Abner Harrison