![Colonel Benjamin Harrison](img/male.jpg)
Colonel Benjamin Harrison
![Male](img/tng_male.gif)
-
Arms and Icons Seal-DAR Seal-SAR
-
Name Colonel Benjamin Harrison [1, 2, 3, 4] Birth 1741 Dayton, Rockingham, Virginia, USA [1, 2, 3, 4]
Gender Male DAR/SAR Daughters of the American Revolution Ancestor #: A052087 -- Sons of the American Revolution Patriot #: P-176121 [2, 5, 6] Seal-DAR Seal-SAR FSID LZKR-HD2 Occupation 1768 Rockingham County, Virginia, USA Benjamin Harrison served as a surveyor for the highway from Linville's Creek to Mole Hill _MILT Abt 1776 Augusta County, Virginia, USA [5, 6]
American Army - Revolutionary War; Lieutenant Colonel _ELEC 1781 Rockingham County, Virginia, USA Benjamin Harrison represented Rockingham as a member of the House of Delegates Religion 22 Jun 1789 Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Virginia, USA Benjamin Harrison served as a trustee of the Presbyterian Church of Harrisonburg Death 1819 Dayton, Rockingham, Virginia, USA [1, 2, 3, 4]
Burial Dayton Cemetery, Dayton, Rockingham, Virginia, USA [3]
Person ID I29509 A Tree Called Smith Last Modified 2 Mar 2023
Father Daniel B Harrison, b. 1700, Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, USA d. 10 Jul 1770, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
(Age 70 years)
Relationship natural Mother Margaret Craven, b. 1702, Maiden Plantation, Sussex County, Delaware, USA d. 1783, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
(Age 81 years)
Relationship natural Family ID F13986 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary McClure, b. 28 Nov 1742, Dayton, Rockingham, Virginia, USA d. 1815, Dayton, Rockingham, Virginia, USA
(Age 72 years)
Marriage 1760 [1] Children 1. William Harrison, b. 1775, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA d. 1841, McLean County, Illinois, USA
(Age 66 years) [natural]
Family ID F13976 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Mar 2023
-
Event Map = Link to Google Earth
-
Sources - [S550] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 111 : 1914.
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 - [S425] Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 - [S9] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S3340] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;).
- [S3464] DAR: Benjamin Harrison, (Name: Daughters of the American Revolution;), HARRISON, BENJAMIN -- Ancestor #: A052087.
Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): COLONEL
Birth: 1741 AUGUSTA CO VIRGINIA
Death: 1819 ROCKINGHAM CO VIRGINIA
Service Source: GWATHMEY, HIST REG OF VA IN THE REV, P 354
Service Description: 1) ALSO LCOL; ROCKINGHAM CO MILITIA
Spouse: MARY MCCLURE
https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A052087 - [S3465] SAR: Benjamin Harrison, (Name: Sons of the American Revolution;), Benjamin HARRISON -- SAR Patriot #: P-176121.
State of Service: VA Qualifying Service: Colonel / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A052087
Birth: 1741 Dayton / Rockingham / VA
Death: 1819 Dayton / Rockingham / VA
Patriotic Service Description:
Lt. Col. in McIntosh's Campaign in 1777
Led troops in 1781 to aid Gen. Lafayette against Gen Cornwallis
In 1774 he commanded a company at Point Pleasant
In 1775 he was appointed Captain of a company of minute men
He was a member of the Augusta County Court Martial in 1779 and took the oath as Lt. Col. of the Militia on April 1, 1780
He was in McIntosh's campaign in 1777 in the Revolutionary War until the surrender Yorktown
https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/176121
- [S550] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 111 : 1914.