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Ben­jamin Har­ri­son V in 1749 first took the path of his fa­ther in being elected to the Vir­ginia House of Burgesses, ini­tially for Surry County; how­ever, he was not then of legal age to as­sume his burgesses seat, which was de­layed until 1752. His county rep­re­sen­ta­tions in the Burgesses were as follows: 1. 1752–1761 – Surry County 2. 1766...

In 1773, colonists protested the British tax on tea by de­stroy­ing a ship­ment dur­ing the Boston Tea Party. While all of the colonies were in­spired by the news, some pa­tri­ots, in­clud­ing Har­ri­son, had mis­giv­ings, and be­lieved the Bosto­ni­ans had a duty to re­im­burse the East India Com­pany for its losses at their hands. The British Par...

When the Sec­ond Con­ti­nen­tal Con­gress con­vened in May 1775, Har­ri­son took up res­i­dence in north Philadel­phia with two room­mates—his brother-in-law Pey­ton Ran­dolph and George Wash­ing­ton. The two men left him to re­side on his own when Ran­dolph sud­denly died, and Wash­ing­ton as­sumed com­mand of the Con­ti­nen­tal Army.Har­ri­son wa...

From De­cem­ber 1775 until March 1777, the Con­gress was on two oc­ca­sions threat­ened by British forces, and forced to re­move it­self—first to Bal­ti­more and later to York, Penn­syl­va­nia–cir­cum­stances that Har­ri­son dis­tinctly dis­liked. This has been at­trib­uted to some un­spec­i­fied ill-health he was ex­pe­ri­enc­ing at the time. In 1...

The new na­tion se­cured its Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War vic­tory in Oc­to­ber 1781 at York­town, Vir­ginia–this pro­vided only brief respite for Har­ri­son, who began to serve a month later as the fifth Gov­er­nor of Virginia. He was also the fourth gov­er­nor to as­sume the of­fice in that year–the mul­ti­ple suc­ces­sions were oc­ca­sioned by wartime ...

In 1786, Har­ri­son and other mem­bers of the leg­is­la­ture were deeply di­vided over the issue of state aid to re­li­gion. He joined with his brother and fel­low del­e­gate, Carter Henry Har­ri­son, in sup­port­ing a mea­sure of­fered by Patrick Henry to pro­vide funds for teach­ers of the Chris­t­ian re­li­gion. The pro­posal failed, and the as­...

Works cited

1. Adams, John; Adams, Charles Francis (1851). The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography, continued. Diary. Essays and controversial papers of the Revolution. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States. 3. Little, Brown. ISBN 9781443712859. 2. Dowdey, Clifford (1957). The Great Plantation (1st ed.). New York: Rinehart & Co. OCLC 279919. 3. Harrison, J. Houston (1975). Settlers by the Long Grey Trail. Genealogical Publ. Co. ISBN 080630664...