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Harrison, Burr – Fauquier County

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Jan 26, 2014

HARRISON: – We have received a record prepared by a granddaughter of Burr Harrison which says that Thomas Harrison of Fauquier County, Va., had the following children: First son was Thomas, who moved to Kentucky, and Harrison County was named for him, and Cynthiana for one of his daughters. Second son was Benjamin. Third son was William, who was killed by negros in Virginia. Fourth son was Burr, born 1793, was married in December, 1822, in Wood County, in the Revolution under Gen. Lafayette. He married Elizabeth Dargan, of Sumter District. S. Car. There were also three daughters. Molly, Nancy and Susan, in addition to the four sons named above. The children of Burr Harrison and Elizabeth Dargan were as folfows: 1. Burr, married Nancy Hart and lived in Columbia, S. Car. 2. Mary, married Benjamin May. 3. Jonathan, married Sally Tyler. 4. Kate, ;married Samuel Johnson. 5. Elizabeth, died single. 6. Rebecca, married Nathaniel Cocknell. 7. Susan, married William Head. 8. Sophy, married Christopher Thompson. 9. Dorean, married James Runnell and Hartwell Macon. 10. Narcissa, married James Ragsdale. 11. Mordecai, married Susan Alstead. 12. Anne, married a Mr. McClellan, of Charleston, S. Car.

SOURCE: Vol, IX, No 12, April 1921 Genealogy: a journal of American ancestry

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