Benjamin Harrison IV
(1693-1745)
BIRTH
1693
PLACE
Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia
DEATH
1745
PLACE
Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia
FAMILY
CHILDREN
Benjamin Harrison V
(1726-1791)
HOMES
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RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Benjamin Harrison IV (1693–1745) was a Virginia planter and burgess who built Berkeley’s Georgian mansion. Completed in 1726, its date stone bears his initials and those of his wife, Anne Carter, daughter of Robert Carter. His plantations depended on enslaved labor; his will distributed land, money and enslaved people to his children. A lightning strike killed him and one daughter at Berkeley in 1745. His son Benjamin later signed the Declaration of Independence.
EARLY LIFE
Benjamin Harrison IV was born 1693. The external genealogical record identifies Benjamin Harrison III and Elizabeth Burwell as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
The available external biographical record associates Benjamin Harrison IV with the following work or social roles: politician. These labels provide the clearest documented basis for describing this person’s public or economic activity. Benjamin Harrison IV died 1745. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Benjamin Harrison IV was a Virginia planter and burgess who built Berkeley’s Georgian mansion. Completed in 1726, its date stone bears his initials and those of his wife, Anne Carter, daughter of Robert Carter. The available external biographical record associates Benjamin Harrison IV with the following work or social roles: politician. Benjamin Harrison IV died in 1745, in Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
Berkeley Plantation
12602 Harrison Landring Road, Charles City, VA
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POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Benjamin Harrison IV, the Virginia planter associated with Berkeley and father of the signer Benjamin Harrison V. These are family, legislative and architectural histories. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Harrison, Waples and Allied Families — William Welsh Harrison. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members — Cynthia Miller Leonard (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
3. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I — Lyon Gardiner Tyler (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
4. Plantation Homes of the James River — Bruce Roberts. [Related family and architectural history] Find on Amazon
5. Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite — Barbara Burlison Mooney. [Related family and architectural history] Find on Amazon
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