Goodlove Family History Project Website:Information about Lawrence Harrison
Lawrence Harrison (b. 1720, d. Bef. January 1772)
Notes for Lawrence Harrison:
Lawrence Harrison was witness to a suit in 1745.
(Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 452.20.)
In 1755 sold Land in Orange Co. and bought 346 acre near Winchester. In 1767 bought 267 acres including Fort Necessity in right George Washington. Bought land in western Pa. (Va.) in 1766. Township supervisor of Bedford , Pa. in July 1771.
Capt. of 1st Va. regiment in Revolution.
3. Chronological Listing of Andrew, Andrew & Lawrence Harrison
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Laurence3 Harrison (Andrew2, Andrew1) resided in Orange County as late as 1754; when he removed to Frederick Oounty, Virginia. He
resided there and owned land there from 1758 until 1762, removing in that rar to Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He is recorded as
having been the township supervisor July 2.6, 177l.$J. Bedford County was erected 1771 and from it later Fayette County was erected in
1783. While the lands ~hich he and his children owned were in dhat is now Fayette County, they were in his lifetime in Bedford County,
where letters of administration wore granted to Catherine Harrison, his wife, and to his son, William Harrison, January 34, 1772. {The
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Publication, Volume 10, p. 66) Research has so Car failed to disclose the family name of Catherine,
wife ol Lawrence)Harrison. Sometime following her husbands death, Catherine Harrison went to Kentucky and was residing with her daugh~- ter, Mary Harrison Moore, wife of Captain Thomas Moore, when the latter died in 1636. Other details ocmcerning Lswrence3 Herr ~,son are available in Mr. Torrances Torrence and Allied Families 52 Among the children of Lawrence3 an a her no Harrison were:
I Colonel Benjamin Harrison, who married Mary Newell.
ii Lawrence Harrison, who married Mary Allison.
iiiElizabeth Harrison, who married John Dawson of Brownsville,
Pennsylvania. In lBLt, Urbana, Ohio, lived John Dawson,
son of George Dawson, who married Elizabeth Harrison and
settled Champaign County before the War of 1812. He died
at Urbana about i86o, aged nearly 100 years. Issue: (1)
Harry, (2) Wilflam, (3) Thomas, who went to Mississippi, ([j.)
John, who died in Ohio in 1830, (~) Benjamin, and four daughters.
iv Mary Harrison, who was born in 1761, and died February 7,
1836, married Captain Thomas Moore. The account of these
aztec stars, or whom the children of ChiFte71~Fil snW~~
Ellen Moore are dir~! descendanTh, is 2~~~din another
section of these.
vMajor WiIil~TtFLian who married Sarah Crawford, and after
a most distinguished military record, was killed with Colonel
Crawford in 1783.
William Crawford to George Washington, December 6, 1770
Letters to Washington and Accompanying Papers. Published by the Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Edited by Stanislaus Murray Hamilton.--vol. 04
Decemr 6th. 1770
DR SIR/
Agreeable to your Desire I have Bought the Great Meadows from Mr Harrison1 for thirty Pistols to be paid to Mr. Jacob Hite and inclosesed is an order on you from Mr Harrison in faviour of Mr Hite, and the bill of Se'al filld. up by Mr MClaine2
and a Draft to be Run as you think Proper any alterations you want done Please to Let me now and I will see it done when Mr MClaine Coms up next Summer.
[Note 1: 1 Lawrence Harrison.]
[Note 2: 2 McLain.]
I intend to Fort pitt in a day or two the Snow that fell the time you Left my house Continued on the ground with the help of som more Ever Since so that there was no Looking at the Land with they Cation3 you Desired
[Note 3: 3 Caution?]
I shall send you a full Account by My Brothers [w]ho is to be up by Christmass if I can have the ground Clear of Snow Long a nough to have it done, at any Rate I will see it next Weeke, Colo. Croughan is at Fort pitt still and I understand is
to stay Chief part of the Winter
... Sir I wish you a Mery Christmass
... and I am Sir your very
... Humb. Sarvant--
... W CRAWFORD
NB Mr. Hite has an order of the
... sam[e] on[e] is to be paid only
... WC
Silvey/Graham & Allied Families
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ID: I9940
Name: Lawrence HARRISON
Sex: M
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Change Date: 29 OCT 2000
Father: Andrew HARRISON Jr. b: ABT 1687 in Essex co., Va.
Mother: Elizabeth BATTAILE b: ABT 1693 in Essex co., Va.
Marriage 1 Catherine
Children
Battaile HARRISON b: ABT 1730 in Frederick, Va.
William HARRISON b: ABT 1740 in Orange, Va.
Catherine HARRISON b: 1744 in Frederick, Va.
Benjamin HARRISON b: 1750 in Orange, Va.
Lawrence HARRISON Jr. b: ABT 1753 in Frederick, Va.
Elizabeth HARRISON b: ABT 1759 in Frederick, Va.
Mary HARRISON b: 1761 in Frederick, Orange Co., Va.
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4. LAWRENCE HARRISON, (Andrew,2 Andrewl) resided in Orange County, Virginia, as late as 1754; removed to Frederick County, Virginia, in 1758; remained until 1762 and removed to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, where he is of record as being Township Supervisor, July 16, 1771. (I. D. Rupp’s History and Typography of Dauphin, Cumberland and Bedford Counties, Pennsylvania, Page 490.) Bedford County was erected in 1771 and from it, later Fayette County was erected in 1783. While the lands which he and his children owned are in what is known as Fayette County now, they were during his lifetime in Bedford County, where "Letters of Administration were granted to Catherine Harrison, his wife, and son, William Harrison, January 14, 1772." (The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Publications, Vol. 10, P. 66.) Research has, so far, failed to disclose the family name of Catherine, wife of Lawrencea Harrison. Sometime following her husband’s death, Catherine Harrison, went to Kentucky and was residing with her sister, Mary (Harrison) Moore, wife of Captain Thomas Moore, where she died in 1836. (Deposition of John Cord, of Bedford County, Pennsylvania. (Ibid.) Lawrence Har~j~ons c.’stire history will be found in Torrence and Allied Families, Pages 320-325.
Children of Lawrence3 and Catherine Harrison, seven:
i. CATHERINE4 HARRISON, married Colonel Isaac Meason. (Ibid. P. 325.)
7 ii.BENJAMIN4 HARRISON, married Mary Newall, of whom later.
iii. MAJOR WILLIAM4 HARRISON, married Sarah Crawford. (Ibid. P. 327.) Additional data shows that his daughter, Sally Harrison, married Peter Journey and that the daughter, Nancy Harrison, married Daniel McKinnon. She testified that she lived adjoining Lawrence Harrison, Jr.; knew him from infancy; that he removed to Kentucky, there met Mary Allison. Sarah (Allison) West, aged 75, testified in Marion County, Indiana, that said Nancy (Harrison) McKinnon was her sister; that her sister’s wedding was delayed because of the illness and death of their father, Charles Allison.
iv. BATTLE4 HARRISON, (Ibid. p. 329).
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8. v. LAWRENCE4 HARRISON, JR. Of whom later.
vi. ELIZABETH4 HARRISON, married John Dawson, of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. "In 1846, Urbana, Ohio, lived John Dawson, son of George Dawson who married Elizabeth Harrison and settled in Champaign County before the War of 1812; died at Urbana about 1860, aged nearly 100 years. Issue, nine:
1. Harry5 Dawson. 2. Williams Dawson, born July 20, 1778, in Pennsylvania.
3. Thomas~ Dawson, went to Mississippi. 4. Johns Dawson, died in Ohio about 1830. 5. Benjamin~ Dawson and four daughters, names not given. (Dawson Family History, page 233, by Charles Dawson.)
vii. MARY4 HARRISON, born 1761; died February 7, 1836; married Captain Thomas L. Moore and removed to Kentucky. Thomas L. Moore was born in Kent County, Maryland, in 1745; died October 20, 1823, in Harrison County and is buried next to his wife in Poindexter Village, near Cynthiana, Kentucky. His father was John Moore, from Ireland. Thomas L. Moore was 1st Lieutenant in Captain Benjamin Harrison’s 13th Virginia Regiment and subsequently under Colonel William Russell and Colonel John Gibson. He was promoted to Captain, January 23, 1778. He served with George Rogers Clark in Illinois with Captain Uriah Springer. The inscription on Mary (Harrison) Moore’s tomb, reads as follows: "The Remains of Mary Moore, consort of Thomas Moore, a native of Virginia, who died 7 February 1836, in the 75th year of her age. To the memory of a fond wife, kind parents, good neighbors and a pious christian, this slab is inscribed by her children. 176 1-1836." While this reads, "by her children," the only issue known to the compiler was a son, Benjamin5 Moore.
Genealogies of Virginia Families, From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume III, Indexed by John Winterbottom, 1981
5S 122-4. Interview with Captain Sam Murphy, Sep. 28, 29, 30 1851. At age of 3 years Sam Murphy was bound out to John
Stephenson half brother to Colonel Crawford.
Old Lawrence Harrison moved over with and settled near Colonel
Crawford on the Yough, and died same year as first election in West-moreland Co., PA. - - - Sons, William, Benjamin, Lawrence, and Battle. Charles Harrison brother of old Lawrence had a son John. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford father and mother of William and Valentine were Irish. He was once an officer in the British Army. Early settled on Bullskin and thinks his two sons were born there (??). He traded in Redemptioners (White persons unable to pay their passage over the Atlantic who were sold for some seven years of service - Richard Stephenson was one of these - a tall Irishman who married Crawford’s widow. His sons were John, Hugh, Richard, James, Mark and one crippled daughter. William Crawford had no sister. He was a fine looking man- weighing over 200, perhaps 240 pounds, about 5’ 10", had some grey hair, and was 50 or 60 when killed. He left 3 (?) daughters and one son John. He raised Thomas Ravens-croft. Valentine had two sons Moses who died in 1774 and William, born 1759 and died 1782. The Lyman Draper Papers, Univ. of WI
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7. Lawrence Karrison’ (Andrew,2 Andrew 1), was residing in Orange Connty, Virginia, as late as 1754. On November 28, 1751, Andrew Harrison, Jr., of St. Thomas’ Parish, Orange County, Virginia, planter,~ conveyed to his son, ‘Lawrence Harrison, of the same County and Parish, planter, as a gift, 157 acres, being the land the said Lawrence Harrison now lives on, in the aforesaid I~arish and County. The deed in connectilin with this conveyanc~ is recorded in Deed~ Book 12, page 50, Orange County Records, and reads as follows:•
DEED OF ANDREW HARRIS~ JR. TO SON LAWRENCE’ HARRISON
This Indenture’made the twenty eighth day of November, in the XXV year of the reign of our sovereign Lord, George, the second, by the’grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King Defender of the faith &c and in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand seven hundred and fifty one, Between Andrew Harrison of St. Thomas’s parish in Orange County, planter of the one part and Lawrence Harrison (his son) of the parish and County aforesaid planter of the other part, Now this Indenture Witneaseth that the said Andrew Harrison for and in consideration of his Natural Love and fatherly affection unto (his son) the said Lawrence Harrison hath given granted aliened and confirmed and by these presents doth Give, grant, alien, release and confirm unto the said Lawrence Harrison his heirs and assigns forever all that tract or dividend of Land containing one hundred and fifty seven acres, (Except that the
said Andrew Harrison and Elizabeth his wife are to hold during their natural Lives all that part of the said Land aforementioned that is now in his fence together with the whole apple Orchard and after their decease to the said Lawrence Harrison his heirs and assigns forever being the Land wherein the said Lawrence Harrison. now lives situate lying & being in the parrish and County aforesaid on the south side of the Wysell Run and is part of a Greater tract of Land granted by patent to the said Andrew Harrison the XXVIlI day ofSeptember, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight, for one thousand acres, and is Bounded as followeth, to-wit: Beginning at a Maple in John Hiot's line on the Wysel Run, thence East, sixty poles to two white Oakes, corner to John Hiot and Lawrence Battaile dec’d, thence South East, one hundred and eighty- two poles, to a red Oak corner to Lott Warrén, thence with Warren’s line north two degrees, east one hundred and forty poles, to three small red Oaks another corner to the said;:Warren thence North, thirty nine degrees, west one hundred and forty two pólls, to two white Oaks and Gum on the Wysel Run, thence down the said Run the several Courses to the beginning, together with all houses, buildings, Gardens, Orchards, woods, underwoods, ways, waters proflts, easements, and Hereditaments, to the said Lawrence Harrison belonging or in anywise Appurtaining. ‘To Have and to Hold- the said one hundred and fifty seven acres of Land (Except as is before Excepted) and other the hereby granted premises with their and every of their Appurtenance unto the said Lawrence Harrison his heirs or assigns to the only proper use benefit and behoof of him the said Lawrence Harrison his heirs and assigns forever, and the said Andrew Harrison for himself his heirs Executors, administrators and Assigns, doth covenant and agree to and with the said LaWrence Harrison his heirs or assigns and every of them by these presents that he the, said Andrew Harrison hath not at any time heretofore made done or Committed any act mhiter or thing whatsoeyer whereby or wherewith the said lands and premises shall and may be Impeached or Incumbered in title Charge Estate of. other Ways. In Witness whereof the said Andrew Harrison hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.
Andrew Harrison• (L. S.)
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In the Presence of us
* Orange County, Virgnia, Records, Deeds, Book i, p. 51.
The preceding accounts concerning the Smith, Battaile, and Harrison families,. are based on a publication in the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Virginia, a Semi-Annual Magazine, written by the Reverend Clayton Torrence.
At a Court held for Orange County on Thursday the 28th day of NG
- veniber 1751— - -
This Indenture between Andrew Harrison of the one part and
-. Lawrence Harrison of the other part was acknowledged by the said Andrew and ordered to be recorded.
Test—Geo. Ta~-1or, Cl. Cur.
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TORRENCE AND ALLIED FAMILIES.
VIRGJNLt : IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
COUNTY:
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and exact copy of a deed recorded in this office in Deed Book No. 12, Page 50.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Court this 13th day of July, 1935.
Teste: Katherine B. Brown Deputy
Clerk Circuit Court, Orange County, Va.
On July 24, 1754, Lawrence Harrison and his wife Catherine, of Orange County, Virginja, conveyed for currency, to William McWilliams, the younger, of Fredericksburg, merchant, 157 acres of land in Orange County, on the south side of Wysel Run,. which is a part of a patent granted to Andrew Harrison, September 28, 1728, and by the said Andrew Harrison conveyed by deed, November 28, 1751, to his son, the said Lawrence Harrison.*
After the sale of the above-mentioned property, in Orange County, Virginia, Lawrence Harrison and his wife Catherine removed to ‘Winchester, Virginia, where they purchased 346 acres of land from Jacob Heit, of the County of Frederick, Colony of Virginia. - The deed covering this transaction bears date June 5, 1758.t
HEIT to HARRISON
Tuis INDENTuRE, 5 June, 1758, between Jacob ‘Heit of the County of Frederick, Colony of Virginia, of the first part, and Lawrence harrison, of the said County and Colony, of the second part: WITNESS: For and in consideration of the sum of two shillings,, current money -of Virginia
~ tracti~rparcet 1~d~theing in the County of Frederick 346 acres . . . granted to J~cob Heit by deed from the honorable,
the Proprietor of the Northern rfeck, bearing the date of March, 1752, bounded as by survey thereof, made by Mr. j~uy Broadwater, as followeth: Beginning at a stake . . . standing in the line of henry Lloyd, thence extending N. 85°, W. 84 Poles to a stake, thence 150 W., 160 . . . to a stake•. . . etc. . to have and to hold. One year hence, -to be completely paid for and ended, yielding and paying therefor the rental . . . one ear of Indian corn, tO the said Jacob Heit, on the last day of the said term.
* Orançje County Records, Deed Book 12, p. 243. t Winchester, Virginia, Deed Book No. 4, p. 409.
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THE SMITH—’BATTAJLE—HARRISON FAMILrES
Witness (Signed) Jacob Heit
James Chew
John Smith
In the year 1762, Lawrence Harrison and his wife Catherine sold the above-described property to Moses Tullis. (for 200 pounds, Winchester, Frederick County Records, Deed Book, No. 7, p. 2.
H&RRTSON to TULLIS
THIS INDENTURE, made 2 August 1762, between Lawrence Harrison, of the County of Frederick and Colony of Virginia, of the first part, and Moses Tullis, of the same . . . •second part . . . Witness: For, five shillings, current mOney of Virginia . . to said Lawrence. Harrison, in hand paid by Moses Tullis . . . doth grant . . . said tract lying in the County aforesaid, granted to Jacob Heit, by deed under the hand and seal of the Right iJon~rabie Thomas, Lord Fairfax, bearing date 1752 by transfer by Jacob Heit to Lawrence Harrison, bearing date June
5, 1758.
(Signed) Lawrence Harrison
THIS INDENTURE, 3 August 1762, between Lawrence Harrison and Katherine, hi~ wife, in the County of Frederick, Colony of Virginia, of the first part, and Moses Tullis, of the same, of the second part.
This for and in consideration of the suth of two hundred pounds current money of Virginia, paid in hand to Lawrence Harrison and his wife, by Moses.TuIli~
(Signed) Lawrence Harrison.
G~therine Harrison
fly the Oonrt—Tas Ileith, C" C" (Clerk of Court)~
~The descriptions in these deeds were the same wordiñ~ Because they are so long, they are not given iii full.)
"Lawrence Harrison, in right of George Washington, located’ 267 acres in Augusta County, Virginia, embracing Fort Necessity, in 1767.
(Wiley's History of Preston Co West Virginia, pp. 25-26 and Ellis's History of Fayeytte Co, PA., p. 831)
Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 452.4
In 1768, the Reverend Steel was sent to the Redstone Settlement, the object of his mission being to persuade the settlers there to abandon the
lands on which they had "squatted"; A meeting of settlers was held at Gist ‘s plantation, and among the names of those who met there with the Reverend Steel, were Richard and Lawrence Harrison.
(James Veech, Monongahela of Old, p. 93.)
"Captain William Crawford, exercised, to a limited extent, his vocation of surveyor, and in that capacity made numerous unofficial, surveys for George Washington, and for his brothers Samuel and. John Augustine Washington. He also made surveys for Lund Washington, and others, even before the lands were bought from the Indians. The, object of these surveys was to secure Virginia rights. Captain Crawford took up, for himself, several valuable tracts in the vicinity of Stewart’s Crossing. None of these, we believe were in his own name. The home tract, at the crossing, was in the name of his son John. Others, were in the names of Benjamin Harrison, Lawrence Harrison, Jr.,’ William Harrison, and Battle(sic) Harrison. He owned other lands, which he purchased from the Indians, or from the original settlers "
(James Veech, Monongahela of Old, p. 119.)
The progenitor of this Harrison family was Lawrence harrison, who owned the tract of land adjoining that of the Crawfords. This is flOw owned by Daniel Rogers and James Blackstone. Lawrence harrison ‘s daughter, Catherine I’Iarrison, was the wife of the Honorable Isaac Meason, (the elder), of Mount Braddock."
(James Veech, Nonongahela of Old, p. 93.)
At Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the Land Grants Office, there is a record of a Patent, June 13, 1769, for 300 acres granted to Lawrence Harrison, adjoining the lands of Colonel William Crawford. A copy of this follows:
This was one of the richest townships along the Monongahiela River. There were doubtless settlers there as early as 1761, who were driven out by the Indians, Later some returned, among whom were William Jacobs, who owned land at the mouth of ‘the Redstone Creek. In 1769, he sold his property to Lawrence Harrison and Prior Theobald.
William Jacobs applied for a survey on April 24, 1769. Having sold the tract to Lawrence harrison arid Prior Theobald, he executed a deed to them dated June 2, 1769.
Lawrence harrison transferred his right to Theobald, July 10, 1769, and on April 5, 1776, Theobald deeded it to Jesse Martin, who, in 1777, sold it to William Jackson." (Ellis's History of Fayette Co PA, pp. 614-615.)
In 1770, Lawrence Harrison appears in Bedford County, Pennsylvania records, as is evidenced by a bond signed by Alexander Morelar of Hamilton Banu Township, York County, Pènnsylvania, who wasbound to pay fifteen pounds currency to Lawrence Harrison:
Lawrence Harrison was Township Supervisor of Bedford County ‘Pennsylvania, July 16, 1771. (I. D. Rupp's History and Typography of Dauphin, Cumberland, and Bedford Counties, Pennsylvania, page 490.)
Bedford was erected in 1771 and from it, later Fayette County was erected in 1783. While the lands which he and his children woned are in what is known as Fayette County now, they were during his lifetime in Bedford County, where "Letter of Administration were granted to Catherine Harrison, his wife, and son, William Harrison, January 14, 1772." (The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Publications, Vol. 10, p. 66). Research has, so far, failed to disclose the family name of Catherine, wife of Lawrence Harrison. Sometime following her husband's death, Catherine Harrison, went to Kentucky and was resideing with her sister, Mary (Harrison) Moore, wife of Captain Thomas Moore, where she died in 1836. (Deposition of John Cord, of Bedford County, PA. (The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Publications. Vol. 10, p. 66).
Lawrence Harrison's entire history will be fournd in Torrence and Allied Families, pages 320-325. (Note: information on the children (seven) of Lawrence and Catherine will be given below. from pp. 88-89 of this above source).
Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 452.6
Lawrence Harrison married Catherine, surname unknown. Children of Lawrence ‘and Catherine Harrison, seven :
8. 1. CATHERINE HARRISON’,4 married Colonel Isaac Meason.
9. ~n. I3ENJAMJN HARRISON.4
10. iii. MAJOR WILLIAM H.&aRISON,4 married Saral Crawford.
11. iv. BATTLE HARRIsON .4
12. v. LAWRENCE HARRISON, Jm.4
vi. ELIZABETH HARRISON,4 married John Dawson, of Brownsville, Pa.
Vj~. (DAUGHTER) HARRISON,4 married Captain Thomas Moore, and removc to Kentucky.
Torrence and Allied Families, Robert M. Torrence pgs 320-325
LAWRENCE 3 HARRISON (Andrew 2 Andrew' ) was a constable in Orange County, Virginia in 1754. Later that year he sold his Orange County land. For a time after that he lived in Frederick County, Virginia. Pontiac's War disrupted frontier settlement in 1763. When Pontiac's War ended in 1765 Virginian settlers began to cross the mountains. At that time Virginia claimed what is now southwest Pennsylvania. John Stephenson and his half-brother William Crawford, and the brothers Lawrence Harrison and Charles Harrison were said to have crossed the mountains at the same time. (Wisconsin Historical Society, Draper mss. 3S53 and 5S1.) William Crawford later deposed that he made homestead improvements on Youghiogheny in 1765 and that he brought his family there in the spring of the following year. In 1767 John Stephenson was a batteau man at the Fort Pitt trading post of Baynton, Wharton and Morgan. In 1768 Lawrence Harrison was one of the Youghiogheny settlers who met with representatives of the colonial government of Pennsylvania at Christopher Gist's home. In 1769 Pennsylvania opened the Youghiogheny to white settlement.
Lawrence Harrison and Charles Harrison lived near Stewart's Crossings in a
frontier community that Virginia originally said was in Augusta County, then
West Augusta District and finally Yohogania County. Pennsylvania claimed
Stewart's Crossings was in Cumberland County, then Bedford County, Westmoreland
County and Fayette County as those jurisdictions evolved. Pennsylvania land
patents were obtained by Lawrence Harrison and his sons William, Benjamin,
Lawrence and Battle. The senior Lawrence Harrison called his home Mount
Pleasant. It was located on both sides of Braddock's Road near Youghiogheny
River. The land surveyed as Mount Pleasant is now within the City of
Connellsville in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
In January 1772 Bedford County Court issued letters of administration to Catherine Harrison and William Harrison, widow and son of Lawrence Harrison, deceased. In Virginia and Pennsylvania there are records for Catherine, wife and later widow of Lawrence Harrison. Court papers filed by Jacob Hite in Bedford County, Pennsylvania in 1772 called her Katherina. Years later in court papers filed in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania she called herself Katherina. Seven children of Lawrence Harrison are named in Torrence and Allied Families. The three daughters were Catherine who married Isaac Meason, Elizabeth who married John Dawson and Mary who married Thomas Moore. Lawrence Harrison was father of five sons.
Ref. 42.4 Gary Goodlove papers, Author unknown.
LAWRENCE3 HARRISON (Andrew2 Andrew') of BEDFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
Lawrence Harrison was a son of Andrew Harrison, who died in 1753 in Orange County, Virginia. In 1754, Lawrence Harrison became a Constable for Orange. Later in that year Lawrence Harrison, joined by his wife, "Catherine," sold his Ørange County land to William McWilliams, the younger, of Fredericksburg, who had married Rachel, daughter of Lawrence Battaile. Rachel McWilliams was a first cousin to Lawrence Harrison.
By 1757 LawrenCe Harrison had lived long enough in Frederick County, Virginia, to become overseer of a road from Worthington's marsh to Thomas Lindsay's. In 1758, Lawrence Harrison purchased land in Frederick County from Jacob Hite, son of Jost Hite, who had led the first German settlers into Shenandoah valley.
In 1758, William Crawford was a Lieutenant of Light Horse in Col. George ~~shingtOn'S Virginian regiment that served in Gen. Forbes' assault on the French at the forks of Ohio. Most of the land owned by George Washington in the transmountainl country in later years was selected for him by William Crawford.
William Crawford lived in Frederick County after 1758. His daughter, Sarah, married William, son of Lawrence Harrison. In 1762, Lawrence Harrison sold the Frederick County property he had bought from Jacob Hite. After the sale there is a gap in what is known of Lawrence Harrison.
In 1763, Pontiac's War disrupted frontier settlement. In Britain, the government issued a proclamation that forbade settlement west of the mountains, and that policy stirred resentment among the frontier Virginians. Pontiac's War came to an end in 1765. Thereafter, with not much regard for the Royal prohibition, Virginian settlers crossed the mountains..
Lyman Draper obtained statementst' that are useful to this study. Samuel Murphy was reared in the home of William Crawford's half-brother, John Stephenson. Samuel Murphy remembered that John Stephenson, William Crawford, and the brothers Lawrence Harrison and Charles Harrison, crossed the mountains at the same time. William Crawford later deposedt2 that he made homestead improvements on Youghiogheny in 1765, and that he brought his family there in the spring of the following year. By 1767 John Stephenson was a batteau man at the Fort Pitt trading post of Baynton, Wharton and Morgan. A partner of the Philadelphia company, Samuel Wharton, had been a member of the Ohio Company, with John ~ Mercer of Virginia.
In March 1768, a delegation representing the colonial government of Pennsylvania met with Youghiogheny settlers at Christopher Gist's home. The delegation meant to persuade the settlers to abandon their lands, because their settlement was illegal. Lawrence Harrison, typical of the Virginian settlers, resisted Pennsylvania's claim to sovereignty. Lawrence Harrison lived on a tomahawk claim. He did not intend to give up his home. The Indian trader George Croghan noted in his journal that during the 1768 meeting at Gist's, Lawrence Harrison "treated the law and our government with too much disrespect." Three years
after that meeting, Lawrence Harrison became the first Supervisor for Tyrone Township, in the newly created Pennsylvania County called Bedford.
Both Lawrence Harrison and Charles Harrison lived near Stewart's Crossings in the frontier country that Pennsylvania first placed under jurisdiction of Cumberland County, then Bedford County, later Westmoreland County, and finally Fayette County. Virginia considered Stewart's Crossings to be within Augusta County, later West Augusta District, and finally Yohogania County.
A community of English Colonials, Ulster Scots, Highianclers, and Germans pioneered the land near Youghiogheny, where it was said that "every settler was a wa
More About Lawrence Harrison:
Burial: Unknown, Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co. Pa.
Christening: Captain of 1st Va. regiment in Revolution.
Residence: Bef. 1754, Orange County, VA.409
More About Lawrence Harrison and Catherine Marmaduke:
Marriage: Abt. 1748, Orange, Virginia.
Children of Lawrence Harrison and Catherine Marmaduke are:
- +William Harrison, b. Abt. 1740, Orange Co., VA, d. June 16, 1782, Wapatomica, Logan Co. OH410.