Person:Lettice Green (1)

Information on Lettice Green

Lettice Green, daughter of William and Anne Green was married twice; 1st to Edward Smith abt. 1685, who died bef. 1695, and 2nd, to Burr Harrison, abt. 1695-1698.

Lettice's children with her first husband, Edward Smith are mentioned in the following records in Stafford County, Virginia (both Edward Smith and Lettice had died prior to this date):

• On Dec. 8, 1701, is a deed from Burr Harrison of Stafford, to James Bland of St. Mary's County, Md., conveying 600 acres in Stafford, and in Oct. 1702, a confirmation by Burr Harrison, as guardian of William, Edward and Katherine Smith, children of Edward and Lettice Smith, and grandchildren of Anne Scarlett, of Stafford, of a sale of land to George Mason.

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.

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.