_Richard HARRISON ___+
| (1595 - 1665)
_Thomas HARRISON ____|
| (1619 - 1682) m 1660|
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|--Isaiah HARRISON
| (1666 - 1738)
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|_Katherine BRADSHAW _|
m 1660 |
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/Harrison/d0030/g0000083.html#I328
# OCCUPATION: Founder Rockingham VA Line Of Harrisons
# RESIDENCE: 1687-NY; 1702 Smithtown, NY; 1721 Sussex Co. Del; 1737 VA
As a refugee from Dublin sailed from Chester or nearby Liverpool, Eng, on the ship "Spotted Calf" in 1687. Landing frist at Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY. As was the custom boys of genteel families and younger sons of noble families were trained to some trade, he was a blacksmith. His full signature appears on all deeds and papers at Oyster Bay, evidence that he had been taught to write in his youth.
A freeholder in Oyster Bay Town records Jan 2, 1687. Purchase of 100 acres at Suckscalls" Wigam from John Wright, his first wife's cousin, Jan 16, 1688 for sixty pounds current money of NY. The land was part of the general purchase from the Matenacocke Indians made Jan 9, 1685. Suckscall was an Indian Chief and his Wigwarm was located at what is now known as Brookville (Wolver Hollow), Long Island. Isaiah was the first white man to live on the site. Recorded in Book "B" of the Ancient Town Book of Oyster Bay Jan 2, 1687
Apr 20, 1702 sale of Oyster Bay land recorded , purchase of land at Smithtown from William Lawrence, 500 acres Suffolk Co, NY . Jun 12 1721 sold to Amos Willitts, and purchased 900 acres in Sussex Co, Delaware. "Maiden Plantation". Deeded to sons, Daniel, Thomas, & Jeremiah, 250 acres each.
Sold May 7, 1736. With the exception of Elizabeth & Gideon (who had died), He departed for Virginia with a party of sixteen. He arr. in what is now Alexandria, VA, crossed the Blue Ridge at Thornton's Gap and settled near Lewes, an early colonial port (oldest light house in America). For two years they surveyed the area and camped near Linville's Creek where Isaiah died in 1738. The Harrisons explored the region between the North River and the South Fork into high lands in the present vicinity of Harrisonburg, VA, in 1738.
Other early settlers included the Cravens, Smiths, Herrings, and Lincolns. Paraphased from House of Cravens.
Alexander Herring, Senior, and Isaiah Harrison passed away while residing in Delaware. Both died within the three year period beginning in 1735 and concluding in 1738. Shortly after their deaths, the migration of their children to Virginia began. Some of the Harrisons were settled in the vicinity of what is now Harrisonburg, Virginia in Rockingham County as early as 1738.
House of Cravens: 5 brothers from Delaware are John, Daniel, Thomas, Jeremiah and Samuel the first to locate in Rockingham Co, VA. Later Isaiah, Jr, and Mary, the eldest dau md to Robt Cravens, Sr came. All of Isaiah's living descendants settled here. Thomas named the present Harrisonburg town.
A tradition exsist in the descendant families to the effect that Pres. Wm Henry Harrison and his grandson, Pres. Benj Harrison were descendants of Isaiah Harrison. No reliable evidence confirming such tradition has been found. J. Houston Harrison had heard of the same tradition, and devoted considerable research in that connection, his findings failed to substantiate the tradition. Those Harrison families were descendants of Harrisons who settled early in Eastern Virginia, and were known as the James River branch of Harrisons. It is quite possible, however that there may have been some distant relationship between them and Rev. Thomas Harrison, the probable father of Isaiah Harrison.
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|--Christopher Steven MONSON
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| _Owen Wallace WITHROW _+
| | (1917 - 1983) m 1939
|_Nancy Margaret WITHROW _|
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|_Katie Ellen TUCKER ___+
(1921 - 1988) m 1939
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_Robert STAPLETON ___|
| (1690 - 1754) m 1713|
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|--Catherine Margerate STAPLETON
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|_Anna Maria TURK ____|
(1692 - 1734) m 1713|
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_Alexander WALLACE __+
| (1793 - 1860)
_Peter WALLACE ______|
| (1827 - 1859) m 1851|
| |_Agnes HARRISON _____+
| (1795 - 1833)
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|--Mary V WALLACE
| (1857 - ....)
| _Solomon AULTS ______+
| | (1798 - 1870) m 1822
|_Rachel AULTS _______|
(1831 - 1880) m 1851|
|_Mary C DERRICK _____+
(1805 - 1876) m 1822
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http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/West_Virginia/Bios/Kanawha/alexanderruffner.txt
Mr. Ruffner was married October 30, 1883, in Poca District, Kanawha County,
to Miss Mary V. Wallace, who was born in Poca District, October 29, 1857, a
daughter of an early settler, Peter Wallace. The latter lost his life from
the foul gas generated in an oil well that he was assisting a companion to
dig. His wife, Rachel (Aults) Wallace, also met death through accident,
being fatally burned, with one of her sons, Simon, in a fire that swept what
is now the south side of this city. Mrs. Ruffner has never been able to get
over this great bereavement, having been much attached to her mother and
brother. Mr. and Mrs. Ruffner have no children. She is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, while Mr. Ruffner comes of a long line of
Presbyterians.
Sandy Spradling
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