Elizabeth (Pigg) Harrison (1645 - 1697)

Born 1645 in Old Rappahannock County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of George Mott — married about 1667 in England [uncertain]

Wife of James Harrison — married 1674 (to 1690) in Virginia Colony

Descendants

Died 27 Mar 1697 at about age 52 in Hanover Parish, Richmond County, Virginia

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Biography

Elizabeth was NOT a daughter of John Pigg. This relationship was based on a deed of sale of land at the going price. Nothing less - nothing more.

Elizabeth (Pigg) Harrison was a Virginia colonist.

Elizabeth Pigg is the great, great, great, great, great, great grand mother of Harry Truman.^[2]

Reference to the wife of James Harrison in 1690. He married the Relict (widow) of George Mott^[3]

HARRISON, James (16??-1712) married circa Elizabeth MOTT, widow and executrix of George MOTT, deceased; she died before 27 Mar 1697. Their only child was Jael Harrison (167?-1733); she married (1) William WILLIAMS who died intestate in Essex County in 1712 and (2) Richard Johnson with whom she lived in Spotsylvania County on the Rappahannock River immediately opposite Ferry Farm, home of George Washingtons parents. Richard Johnson died intestate in 1726 and Jael (Harrison) Williams Johnson died testate in Spotsylvania County in 1733 survey of the Northern Neck of Virginia made for Thomas, Lord Fairfax, designates the estate as Williams and immediately opposite the Strother plantation which was purchased and occupied by Captain Augustine Washington in 1738. In 1745 a ferry was established from the Williams plantation across Rappahannock River to the Washington plantation and this continued to be a well accustomed passage for many years. ^[4]

BE IT KNOWN unto all men by these prsents that I ELIZABITH MOTT doe hereby make and appoynt WILLM. LAMBE my true & lawful! Attrny in my name & stead to acknowledge the land mentioned in two Bills of Sale the one to WILLM. GRIFFINS the other to DAVID BRUNAUGH of the Date of the 24th of April! 1671 each for three hundred & fifty acres of land to each of them & shall hould firme & valid wtsoever my said Attrny shall doe in the Prmises. In Witness whereof I have heareunto sett my hand & seale this 3d day of May 1671 Test RICHARD BOWING, ELIZA. MOTT ^[5]

^[6]Contributed by: James Hughes

^[7] THOMAS HARRISON, witnessed the signature of Elizabeth Mott, the "relict" of George Mott in 1674. Soon after, Elizabeth married JAMES HARRISON, who sued in Stafford Court in 1689 on behalf of Ellen Mott

THOMAS HARRISON, witnessed the signature of Elizabeth Mott, the "relict" of George Mott in 1674. Soon after, Elizabeth married JAMES HARRISON, who sued in Stafford Court in 1689 on behalf of Ellen Mott

Sources

1. ↑ [Rappa db 1656-1664 pg 228]
2. ↑ http://www.trumanlibrary.org/genealogy/index.php?m=family&id=758
3. ↑ Index to Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia page 128
4. ↑ Richmond County DB#3, p.3; Rappahannock County COB #2, p 253; Essex County COB1708-1714, Page 444, p450; DB#13, Page 320; D&W$14,p.61; Virginia Gazette 2 May 1745; 6 Hening 15.
5. ↑ 1668-1670 Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Deed Book 4, Part I; [Antient Press]; Page 219-220
6. ↑ Contributed by: James Hughes http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?jael,harrison::harrison ::5490.html
7. ↑ URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?jael,harrison::harrison ::5490.html

• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I22749&tree=Tree1
• Well sourced site by Janet Ariciu
• Marriage Record Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649–1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003. for Elizabeth Mott and James Harrison, 1674, Virginia

Acknowledgments

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