Person:Jael Harrison (1)

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"Marriages of Richmond County"

"Jael Harrison m(1) William Williams who died intestate in Essex County in 1712 and (2) Richard Johnson with whom she lived on the Rappahannock River immediately opposite Ferry Farm, home of George Washington's parents. Richard Johnson died intestate in Spotsylvania County in 1733 . The plantation where she lived passed to her son James Williams and the 1737 survey of the Northern neck of Virginia made for Thomas,Lord Fairfax, designates the estate as "Williams" and immediately opposite the Strother plantation which was purchased and occupied by Captain Augustine Washington in 1738. In 1745 a ferry was established from the Williams plantation across the Rappahannock River to the Washington plantation and this continued to be a well accustomed passage for many years. Jael (Harrison) Williams Johnson.

[Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=monkeys&id=I2642].