The Ancestory of Benjamin Harrison, Charles P. Keith, 1893, pg 43-44 A number of Harrisons settled in Virginia in the XVIIth Century. The connection between but few of them is known. Those who emigrated before Benjamin the Clerk, apparently died without issue. Brown is right in making George, who was killed in a duel, the brother of Sir John. Very soon after 1640 appeared Thomas and Edward, the former figuring in Neill's works on Virginia history, first as Governor Berkeley's chaplain, and then as a non-conformist divine. (several paragraphs follow on Harrisons, I didn't want to flood this email..... and then:) This Benjamin lived at Aldham and Ipswich, Suffolk, and had a son of the same name, mentioned in the will of Judith Harrison in 1638, and of Robert Harrison in 1641; but I do not suppose the son old enough to have been Clerk of the Virginia Council about 1630; and perhaps both Benjamins are accounted for in the grant of letters of administration on the estate of persons of the name, one of Ipswich on Oct. 18, 1665, to his relict Susan, and the other "lately in parts beyond the seas, bachelor," on Sep. 26, 1682, to Thomas Younger, a creditor. The only Benjamin mentioned in the Harrison wills of Essex was the son of George by his wife Emma, Emma having died in or before 1616, as she was then spoken of as deceased by her mother Susan, who also had married a Harrison. This Benjamin survived the emigrant four years, being appointed in 1653 supervisor of the will of a brother George, and may have been the Benjamin Harrison of St. Sepulchre's, London, on whose estate letters of administration were granted on April 29, 1663, to his relict Elizabeth. So, which Thomas Younger is this, who marries in 1682 Essex, Va? He was born at least before 1662. Thanks... -Linda in KCMO