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© 1997 Charles W. Johnson, M.D.
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SUPPLEMENT TO MY HARRISON REPORT OF JUNE 22, 1991
July 20, 1991
In my report of June 22, I pressed the case for Rev. Nathan Thomas, Rev. Jeremiah and Rev. Samuel Harrison perhaps being brothers and from Mecklenburg Co. NC and sons of Samuel Harrison of the Long Grey Trail Harrisons. I now have run across more information which I have had for some time, but did not review at that time.
Will of Josiah Harrison, Mecklenburg Co. NC proved Nov. 1812 Book D p 73. Daughter Ann, son Samuel, John Craven, Jeremiah, daughter Elizabeth Adams, daughter Margaret Hait, daughter Esther. He says six children but names 7 in will dated 1810. Samuel and John Craven exec. No witness. No signature but a seal. (Perhaps John Craven was really a Craven and a son in law, married to one of the daughters or a deceased daughter. Had numerous slaves SO! Josiah, presumably the son of Jeremiah of Greene Co. TN had sons Samuel and Jeremiah who could be Rev. Samuel and Rev. Jeremiah ... no Nathan Thomas.
Will of Nehemiah A. Harrison, Mecklenburg Co. NC dated 25 Apr. 1855, proved 1863. daughter Mary Farrow, Caroline Wallace, grandson Dallas Maxwell. Sons in law Wilson Wallace and Thomas Farrow execs. Test C. Burdett Cross and W. Wallace. signed Nehemiah Harrison
This would likely be Nehemiah Jr. and when written all three Rev. Harrisons: Samuel, Jeremiah and Nathan Thomas were dead. This Nehemiah was probably the one who m Polly Wilson in 1815 and she not named in will. A. his middle initial stands for Adams which distinguished him from his probable father Nehemiah. Numerous slaves.
I do not have estate information on Nehemiah Sr. Perhaps it exists
OTHER ISAIAH HARRISONS. Isaiah is a rare name among Harrisons. They all seem to be of the Long Grey Trail Harrisons, descended from Isaiah founder of the LGT line. One other is Isaiah Jr., the eldest son of Sr. and born 9-27-1689, from NJ and by the first wife Elizabeth Wright from a Quaker family. Isiaiah Jr. apparently had a son Joseph who died 1748 and Isaiah Jr. was exec but resigned and moved "to Carolina", by 1750 when he was 61 years old. LGT knows nothing further about Isaiah Jr.
But in 1753 Ezaiah Harrison acquired 640 acres Anson County on S side Yadkin River known by the Swan Ponds. This could be he at age 64. We know not when he died or what happened to his property but by the 1790 census he would have been age 101 and therefore not likely alive. He could have had numerous descendents; even some of those in Mecklenburg, Rutherford County, Burke County, Georgia or Greene County, TN. Actually the Swan Ponds were in Burke County when so named and another resident of the Swan Ponds was Waightstill Avery, Burke County's most distinguished citizen where he had a large plantation. still honored today.
A curiosity of no genealogical significance is that Waightstill Avery also had ownership of another Swan Ponds: 600 acres on French Broad River above the mouth of Cain Creek and below the mouth of Davidson River acquired in 1783. He sold this to Benjamin Hawkins. Also in this area of what is now Buncombe County NC was James Hawkins Sr., my wife's ggg grandfather, adjacent to Benjamin Hawkins. This area where Benjamin Hawkins built Antler Hall, is now part of the fabulous Biltmore Estates. The Vanderbilts filled in the swampy area, known as Swan Ponds on the French Broad. Waightstill Avery also had much other property in what was to become Buncombe and other counties, and sold much more later to Benjamin Hawkins in what is now Yancey County.
Another early grant was 1767 for 200 acres in Mecklenburg to Samuel McComb, joining W branch of the Catawba River, a point near Jeremiah Harrison and Jonathan Woodland. The west branch of the Catawba River extends near Waightstill Avery's plantation and this suggests that possibly this Jeremiah there before 1767 could have been a son of Isiaah Jr .... just speculation.
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