Harrison Genealogy Repository

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Phoebe died during Washington's first admin age 108 years. Her funeral was preached by the Rev James Johnson formerly of the Buckmarth Ch in Frederick and who was ordained to the pastorship of the Smith & Linville Creek Ch . Sat. 8 Oct 1791. Ref: Old Ch Book pg 38-40.

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CONFLICT!

Previously we had reported that Lucy was killed 12 Jul 1745 by a lightning bolt Berkeley, Charles City Co. VA. This new evidence appears to be well supported by other documents, therefore, we believe the former was in error.

Notes from Patrick Harrison The source for the new information about Lucy Harrison is from the VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY, JULY 1981, vol. 89, no. 3, pps. 294-307. The article is by Gerald Steffens Cowden, associate professor of history at Tidewater Community College, Chesapeake, Virginia.:

"Lucy Carter Harrison of Berkeley, ( born ca. 1728, the third daughter however was a unique character and deserves a larger place in history than has been accorded her. Born in Virginia and orphaned in adolescence, she married a sea captain and accompanied him to England where she lived for the rest of her life. Widowed with small children, she became a London milliner engaged in the Virginia trade. She took a second husband - a sea captain with Virginia connections - who aided her business, but he died on the eve of the American Revolution. When war cut short her income, making it difficult to support her invalid daughter, she signed herself a loyalist and petitioned for financial assistance at the very time her brother Benjamin Harrison , a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governor of Virginia."

John Randolph of Roanoke, in family notes compiled after 1806, recorded that "Miss Lucy Harrison of Berkley (sister of Governor Harrison & Mrs. Speaker Peyton Randolph) married (Captain) Edward Randolph, Jr. Her husband died at sea April 1757 while Lucy was in London. She had two children a son Harrison Randolph and a daughter Lucy Randolph. ca. 1760s her teen-aged children went to Virginia, where they remained for the rest of their lives. According to the article, they may have left because she took up with a man named Papley and bore a child, Betty. Early in the 1770s Lucy married ship Captain Robert Necks who died of poor health at Norfolk, Virginia on one of his voyages. The last record of Lucy is that of her father's executors, dated December 10, 1793, referring to her as "Lucy late Mrs. Necks of London."

See ID# 14218 - could this be the same Lucy and Edward Randolph? ^[S748]