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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 ...
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, was home to the United States 23rd president Benjamin Harrison. Open to the public as an educational and historical service, we seek to promote patriotism and citizenship through appropriate educational activities, events, and by artfully exhibiting the Victorian time period as Harrison and his family might have ...
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 (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).
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...
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.
In 1700, Benjamin Harrison IV was born in a small house on the plantation. He would grow up all his life on this plantation. After attending the College of William and Mary, he would become the first of the Harrison family to become a college graduate.
