Lower Brandon Plantation

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Lower Brandon Plantation (or simply Brandon Plantation), on the James River in present-day Prince George County, Virginia, was owned by the Harrison family from 1700-1926. It was originally bought by Benjamin Harrison II, who lived from 1645-1712. It was then passed to his son Nathaniel Harrison, 1677-1727. After Nathaniel's premature death in 1727 it went into the hands of his son Nathaniel Harrison II, 1703-1791. Sometime before his death in 1791, Brandon came under the possesion of Revolutionary War Col. Benjamin Harrison, 1743-1807.

Benjamin Harrison married three times. The first marriage was to Anne Randolph. After her premature death, he married Lucy Carter Fitzhugh. She also didnt live very long. The third marriage is the only one to have produced children. That was to Evelyn Taylor Byrd of Westover. Their four children were:

  • George Evelyn Harrison (1797-1839)
  • William Byrd Harrison (1800-1870)
  • Anne Harrison (1802-1842)
  • Elizabeth Page Harrison (1804-1836)

All but Ann Harrison are buried at Brandon in the family graveyard. Ann Harrison is buried in Winchester with the Byrd family.

Benjamin Harrison II: 1645-1712..Removed from Wakefield in 1977 to Brandon with his wife Hannah.

Hannah Churchill: 1651-1698

Nathaniel Harrison: 1677-1727

Nathaniel Harrison: II 1703-1791

Benjamin Harrison: 1743-1807

William Byrd Harrison: 1800-1870

Mary Randolph Harrison: 1804-1857

Elizabeth Page Harrison: 1804-1836

Evelyn Byrd Harrison: 1860

Nelson Page Harrison: April 1855-Sept 1855

George Evelyn Harrison: 1797-1839

Isabella Harmonson Ritchie: 1798-1870

George Evelyn Harrison, Jr: 1837-1880

Guliema Clifford Gordon: 1840-1911

William Gordon Harrison: 1869-1939

William Gordon Harrison II: 1909-1998

Jane Kollock Harrison: 1914-2003

George Evelyn Harrison: 1910-1984

William Gordon Harrison III: 1945-1999

William Foushee Ritchie: 1813-1877

Robert R. Ritchie MD: 1816-1866

Nannie Addison Harrison: 1841-1862

Richard Randolph Cuyler: 1856-1922

Gulielma Gordon Harrison: 1864-1916

Archdale Taylor: 1862-1890

Susan R. Hogan: 1836-1863



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