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In 1721, Benjamin Harrison IV (1693-1745), though just 18 years old, succeeded to Berkeley and married a daughter of Robert ‘King’ Carter (1662-1732), Virginia's largest landowner. Helped by her dowry, work started on the manor that year and other than the brass, all the materials used in its construction were sourced from the plantation.
Benjamin (III) Harrison, attorney general and treasurer of Virginia turned Berkeley into one of the country's first commercial shipyards at Harrison's Landing. Benjamin (IV) Harrison built the plantation’s Georgian mansion in 1726 for his wife Anne Carter, who was the daughter of Virginia's wealthiest colonial, Robert “King” Carter.
Benjamin Harrison IV and one of his daughters died on July 12, 1745. They were struck by lightning on the 2nd floor of Berkeley's manor house. Benjamin Harrison IV was the builder of Berkeley’s...
Berkeley Plantation. Benjamin Harrison IV and two of his daughters died on July 12, 1745. They were struck by lightning on the 2nd floor of Berkeley's manor house. Benjamin Harrison IV was the builder of the Georgian home. He married Anne Carter and they had 11 children.
Benjamin (V) Harrison was born in 1726 on Berkeley, the family plantation beautifully situated on the banks of the James River overlooking the seaport of Petersburg and Richmond. He was a descendant of a family long established in Virginia, his father, Benjamin (IV) Harrison , having married the eldest daughter of the King's surveyor general (Anne Carter).
When Carter Bassett Harrison was born in 1756, in Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia, United States, his father, Benjamin Harrison, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Bassett, was 26. He married Mary Howell Allen about 1724, in Virginia, United States. He died on 18 April 1808, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in ...
Harrison was born ca. 1756 in Charles City County, Virginia, the son of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Bassett (1730–1792), the daughter of Colonel William Bassett and Elizabeth Churchill, daughter of burgess William Churchill (1649—1710). He was born at the Berkeley Plantation, also known as Harrison's Landing.
