Ancestry of
William Henry Harrison

9th U.S. President

Benjamin Harrison IV

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• • Grandfather of William Henry Harrison — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Harrison III 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Burwell   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1695 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Jul 1745 
  • Death Location:
  • Berkeley Plantation, Charles City Co., Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Carter
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1722 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Harrison

  Benjamin Harrison V (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Carter Henry Harrison

  • Notes: 

  • Benjamin Harrison IV and his two youngest daughters were killed when their house was struck by lightning.

• Sources for Benjamin Harrison IV

  • ¹ Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 105.
  • ² Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 342, 345.
  • ³ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 435, 440-442.
  • ⁴ Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed., Some Colonial Mansions: and Those Who Lived in Them, Vol. 1, Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Company (1898), 426.
  • ⁵ Keith, Charles P., The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America 1889-1893 . . ., Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1893), 50.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 842, 858.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 468, 662.
  • ⁸ Seversmith, Herbert Furman, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, Washington, D.C.: typed manuscript (1939), Vol. 5, p. 2097.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Benjamin Harrison IV", (accessed 01/10/2014).
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Benjamin Harrison V", (accessed 03/07/2010).
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Robert Carter I", (accessed 03/07/2010).