Elizabeth Bassett
(1730-1792)
BIRTH
December 13, 1730
PLACE
DEATH
1792
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Anne Harrison
(1753-1821)
HUSBAND
Benjamin Harrison V
(1726-1791)
CHILDREN
Benjamin Harrison VI
(1755-1799)
CHILDREN
Lucy Harrison Randolph Singleton
(18th Century-1809)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Bassett Harrison (1730–1792) married Benjamin Harrison V in 1748 and lived at Berkeley, Virginia. The Harrison home’s family register identifies her parents as William Bassett and Elizabeth Churchill. Her children included Congressman Carter Bassett Harrison and future president William Henry Harrison. Her husband signed the Declaration of Independence and served as Virginia’s governor; she survived him by about a year.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Bassett was born on Dec 13, 1730. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Bassett is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Bassett died in 1792. Elizabeth Bassett Harrison married Benjamin Harrison V in 1748 and lived at Berkeley, Virginia. The Harrison home’s family register identifies her parents as William Bassett and Elizabeth Churchill. Her children included Congressman Carter Bassett Harrison and future president William Henry Harrison. Her husband signed the Declaration of Independence and served as Virginia’s governor; she survived him by about a year. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Berkeley Plantation
12602 Harrison Landring Road, Charles City, VA
GRAVE
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