Person:John Harrison (104)

John Harrison was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

Contents 1 Excerpt from SETTLERS BY THE LONG GREY TRAIL 2 Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA 3 Will of John Harrison		Welcome to Old Augusta Early Settlers Beverley Manor Borden's Grant Register Data Maps Places Library History Index
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Excerpt from SETTLERS BY THE LONG GREY TRAIL

page 164 SETTLERS BY THE LONG GREY TRAIL:

"John Harrison Jr. never married. He is said to have settled at Flook's Spring in the neighborhood to the south of his father. Some of his land on Smiths Creek adjoined the latter, some adjoined Valentine Sevier, and some joined Benjamin Borden Jr. In the Land Entry Book No. 1, of Augusta County entries were made May 20, 1748, to Valentine Sevier, for 400 acres on Smiths Creek, and to John Harrison, Jr., for 400 acres adjoining this, and for 400 acres joining Borden. On May 20, 1749, two entries were made to John (Jr.) ; "400 (acres) on Smith's Creek, between his land and John Davis, and 200 acres, between his own and his father's land, on Smith Creek" (Chalkley, Vol. I I , pp. 379, 383.)"

Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Acquisition of Land in Augusta County:

• John Harrison received a patent for 400 acres "on the Dry Fork of Smith's Creek" on 10th February 1748, (as listed in the dispositions below. Note: Smith's Creek is a tributary of the James River).

Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 738.--21st November, 1764. Zebulon ( ) Harrison and Reubin Harrison, executors of John Harrison, deceased, to Jacob Peters, £90, 400; acres on a branch of South Branch of Potomac called West Fork of Mill Creek. Delivered: Moses Hinkle, 31st July, 1793. (Note: John Harrison was the brother of Zebulon and Reuben Harrison).

• Page 495.--21st August, 1767. Ruben Moore ( ) and Ann, of Frederick County, to Rubin Harrison, £100, 400 acres on the Dry Fork of Smith's Creek, patented to John Harrison, deceased, 10th February, 1748 who devised the same to said Ann, Delivered: Thomas Patterson by your order, January, 1773.

• Page 187.--21st May, 1771. Zebulon ( ) and Reuben Harrison to Robert Dickey, £30, 18 acres patented to John Harrison, deceased, 26th July, 1765, and by him devised to grantors, said Harrison's land. Delivered: Robert Dickey, April, 1773. (Note: John Harrison was the brother of Zebulon and Reuben Harrison).

Will of John Harrison

Page 296.--23d August, 1758. John Harrison, Jr.'s will, yeoman-- Brother Zebulon, eldest son of Jno. Harrison, tract on Smith's Creek, 400 acres; to Phel Harrison, eldest daughter of Zebulon; to sister Phebe Moore, and her daughter; Ann Davison, and to her daughters; Phebe Davison; to brother, Reuben. Executors, brothers Zebulon and Reuben. Teste: Jonathan Douglass, Jno. Hopkins, James Breame (?). Proved, 15th November, 1763, by Jno. Hopkins, and 16th November, 1763, by Jonathan Douglass. Executors qualified (Zebulon's mark ), with Danl. Love, Robt. Cravens.