Person:Burr Harrison (4)

Records of Burr Harrison

'From Stafford County, Virginia records:

• p. 63, October 1700 - To the Worshipful Court - The humble petition of Burr Harrison sheweth that your Petitioner intermarrying with ye Widow of Edward Smith deced and she dying your Petitioner desires your worships would be pleased to grant ye Petitioner the guardianship of Edward Smith's children to it Edward & Katherine Smith and petitioner shall ever pray. Granted. [Note: record proves Burr Harrison married widow of Edward Smith and that she died prior to October 1700].

1.   McGhan, Judith. Virginia Vital Records: From The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982)
   pg. 366.

   Lettice Green married at least twice: firstly, Edward Smmith (by whom she had William, Edward and Katherine Smith); and secondly, Burr Harrison (by whom she appears to have had no issue). She died before 1700, for in that year Burr Harrison petitioned for a and was granted for and was granted the guardianship of her Smith children. By that time he had married again having espoused Mary, widow of WIlliam Mansbridge. That is, if it was not Burr Harrison, Jr., who married these widows! It is possible to differentiate between them due to the destruction of the records of this period and no mention of the death of Burr Harrison the Immigrant is to be found. The last mention of Burr Harrison, Jr., was in 1693 and in Book "W-Z", which xovers the period from 1699-1709, only one Burr Harrison is mentinoed. So the elder Burr probably died before 1699. The will of a Burr Harrison, probably the second of that name, was recorded, on page 99 of Will Book "K", in or about 1723.