Gov. John HARRISON

Bef 1591 -

• Name	John HARRISON
  Title	Gov.
  Birth	Bef 28 Mar 1591
  Gender	Male
  Notes	(1) Family History: Virginia Genealogies #1, pre-1600 to 1900s, Genealogies of Virginia Families III, Fl-Ha, Footnotes Upon Some XVII Century Virginians, Commentaries on the Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison [database online, Genealoy.com], pp. 899-914, © The Generations Network, March 9, 2008: CAPTAIN JOHN HARRISON, GOVERNOR OF BERMUDA IN 1623 In those happy years of my life which were spent in the north of Scotland, I could see from my study-window across the Firth of Cromarty by the shore of the Black Isle the ruins of the palace of David Lindsay who was once Bishop of Ross. All that is left of the old Episcopal mansion is a tower used nowadays as a dove-cot. The ferry which used to carry travellers over the firth from Alness to the Black Isle has been discontinued, but the office of ferryman is known to have passed from father to son for ten generations from the time of Bishop Lindsay almost to our own day. The old bishop enters our story because he married as his second wife Eleanor the sister of Captain John Harrison, Governor of Bermuda in 1623. She is called 'Helen Harrison' in the Scottish peerage. This enchanting region of Ross-shire is not lacking in other associations with 'parts beyond the seas'. Bishop Lindsay's younger son, David, became the clergyman of a parish in the northern neck of Virginia. The old man's daughter married a Spottiswood. A few miles up the firth from my home lived Sir Hector Monroe, the thirty-third laird of Fowlis Castle, and head of a family which has furnished a Virginia president to the United States. Eleanor Harrison had been a court servant to the frivolous and extravagant Queen who Was wife to James I. In 1609 Eleanor married the old Bishop of Ross and set forth with him upon their Iter Borealis. Her brother John, after his return from three years spent in the wars in Ireland, entered the service of the King's eldest son, Prince Henry, that hope of the protestant party and paragon of virtue. Since the days of the first Tudor Monarch there had been Harrisons in the Royal service at Court, and they were all of the same stock, and all ranked as "gent". One of the first of these was Thomas Harrison who made his will in 1492 (P. C. C. 9 Doggett) as "gent. in the King's Service." The ability of this family of courtiers to gain and to hold for so many generations the confidence of the Tudors is all the more remarkable since their ancestor, 'John Harrison, gent. born in Smythes, ats. Smethesby Co. Derby, temp. Henry VI' was married to Jane, daughter of Richard Kendall-and thus a sister of John Kendall, Secretary to King Richard II, who fell with his master "crookback" on Bosworth Field before the army of Henry VII. The Kendalls, of course, were attainted and lost their lands, but the Harrisons chose the prudent course of attaching themselves to the new Tudor dynasty. Thereafter, for at least a century and a half members of this family were in the royal service. With a strong family pull, our young John Harrison in 1603 clad himself in the royal livery of white and orange-tawny and for ten years served as groom of the Chamber, a period in his life to which the Captain referred many years later as "the golden daies of Prince Henry". But on November 6, 1612, the young prince died of typhoid fever. Upon the death of his patron prince John Harrison at once entered the suite of that charming princess, Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of King James known to history as the Queen of Bohemia and to her family circle as the Queen of Hearts. On February 14, 1613, at the celebration of the marriage of this Princess Elizabeth to the Elector Palatine, the masque by William Shakespeare called The Tempest was presented for the first time. The scene of the play, as originally written, was, it seems laid upon an island in the Mediterranean. Upon this scenario there had been embroidered the story of the ship-wreck in 1609 upon the rocks of the "still-vext Bormoothes" of gallant Sir George Somer's fleet on their way to Virginia. As John Harrison listened to the graceful verses, half renaissance philosophy and half fairy-tale, he little knew that like one who gazed in Dr. Dee's crystal ball, he could then foresee the whole of his own future life. Whether the players were portraying events upon Bermuda, or upon an island off the coast of Barbary, they were in either case but lifting the curtain upon the scenes of his own future career. In 1623 John Harrison became Governor of Bermuda. From 1625 for nearly a decade he served as "Morocco Agent", the King's envoy to the Barbary States. In view of certain confusions found in the account of our John Harrison in the Dictionary of National Biography, it is best to preface a discussion of his career and personality with his brief autobiography. This is found in one of his petitions to Sir Edward Coke, Principal Secretary of State, on February 15, 1630-1: "Served first in the wars in in [sic] Ireland in the time of Queen Elizabeth, 3 years. After in the Court, a servant to Prince Henry, 10 years. After in the Palatinate in those wars. After in the Summer Islands, Governor there. And 7 times imployed as his Majesty's Agent into Barbarie for settling trade there." Of his adventures in the foolhardy and disastrous attempt of the Elector Palatine to hold the Crown of Bohemia we have no record. Not a word has he left us of the decisive defeat of the Czeks at White Mountain, nor of the dramatic flight from Prague of the incompetent Electoral Prince and his brave "Winter Queen." In Lefroy's Memorials of the Bermudas we find all that is at present known of the two brief periods when as sheriff and acting Governor, John Harrison ruled those islands. His public record is entirely creditable, and appears worthy of our respect. It is true that he seems to have been rather fiercely puritanical, perhaps lacking in any of the capacity for enjoyment so marked in most of his contemporaries. Upon his recovery from a serious illness, he issued on January 29 1622/23 a proclamation for a public fast. This be it noted, was about the time when the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth celebrated the ripening of their first harvest. The Pilgrims had, we may suppose, endured enough fasting-they chose instead to celebrate a day of Thanksgiving which, ever since their time has been in our country the annual occasion for super-human feasting. Governor Harrison of Bermuda was moreover a very jealous guardian of the public morals. During his brief term as chief executive, he attempted to suspend the liquor traffic with incoming ships. We have been led to suppose that the daily routine of the hardy English sailor of that day was "Yo! ho! ho! and a bottle of rum." Imagine, then, their dismay when making port at Bermuda to find that they were no longer allowed to sell liquor to the thirsty mob on shore! How right the Spaniard had been in naming this cursed place the Isle of Devils! Some three years later Governor Harrison's successor reported that one-third of the Bermudans wanted to move on to Virginia. No wonder that, in later years, Captain John Harrison got along better with the Barbary pirates. Their prophet Mohammed had been the first recorded prohibitionist. But an even more stern measure was "An Act against unlawfull games and annighilatenge Specialties concerning them" passed by the Council under Governor Harrison's administration in Bermuda. This is, in part, reproduced here, not only for its faintly Chaucerian English, but also for the vivid picture it gives of how the English of that age passed their leisure moments. Hogarth in a later day could have done no better with his brush. "Ffor as much as divers lewd and deceiptful p. sons who have of late comen into theise Islands and have been suffered to live for the most p.te idley neither following any good arts, or other labour whereby to live honestly But p. curinge meetings as hogg eatinges and other drunken unruly and unlawfull assemblies at the houses of divers p. sons of like evill qualitie and condition, drawing and alluringe honest and well meaning people in theire drincke to dycinge, carding and other unlawful playes and games whereby they beinge unskillfull have bene cheated of greate somes of money and quantities of Tobacco and other theire goods, and becoming oftentymes debtors by bond and bills to such Cheates and Coazeners, to the highe displeasure of Almyghtie God and the great hindrance of the honester sort of the inhabitants of theise islands and of theire landlords and creditors. Theise Juglinge gamesters being for the most p.te served before them, and to the greate scandall of the present Government." The gambling denounced by this act included games of "dyce, cards, tables, shove groate, closh-quoyts" unless played "for honest and healthfull Recreacon." The penalties for infraction were "for the first offense a fine of ten pounds of tobacco; for the second to be declared infamous." Lofty as were the purposes of this Puritan Council, and stimulating as was their zeal, we note sadly the temporary nature of this reform. Among the pastimes of which the weary planters were deprived we find mentioned the game of "shove-groat." Today, more than three centuries later, under the modern name of "shove half-penny", it is extremely popular in nearly every pub in England. While so gallantly plucking the beams from the eyes of his fellow Bermudans, Governor Harrison failed to remove a certain mote from his own. When in the autumn of 1623 he "turned over" the governorship of the colony to his successor, Captain Henry Woodhouse, a balance on account was struck between them, and Harrison gave Woodhouse a bond for ??50-10-0 payable in London. Thirteen years later, when Woodhouse made his will, one item of his assets mentioned was "all moneys due from Capt. Thomas Shocks and Capt. John Harrison, which is about ??100." Imprisonment for debt was the law of England in those days, and indeed in Virginia during the life of the Old Dominion. Before passing from the subject of Bermuda, some mention should be made of the petition to the privy council by the Bermuda planters in London in 1628. Keith devotes considerable attention to this document because among the signers was one Ben. Harrison. Like most of our leading authorities on this subject, Mr. Keith believed that this was Benjamin Harrison who two years later was Clerk of the Council in Virginia. There is no other reference to him in existing records of Bermuda. Far from the languid airs of the Summer Islands, we next find our protagonist among the rude and barbarous moors. During the ten years in which Captain John Harrison served as the King's diplomatic agent to Barbary, sent there as he declares to settle trade he was constantly employed in redeeming English captives in the hands of the Sallee pirates as well as of the Turks in Algiers and of the Emperor of Morocco. The "Moros" did not restrict themselves to seizing ships at sea; raids by them upon the coasts of England were frequently made, and in 1625 a Sallee pirate was actually taken in the Thames. The Emperor's insolent treatment of foreign envoys began with their first presentation at his court-the diplomat had to stand in the palace courtyard, hat in hand, by the stirrup of the monarch to present his credentials to the Emperor seated on horseback. At that time the dominions of the Emperor were in constant turmoil. The atrocious barbarities practiced by the Moorish monarch upon his subjects were, no doubt, in part, both the cause and the result of the frequent rebellions against him. Envoy John Harrison fell into difficulties with the authorities at home, because he dealt directly with the sea pirates in their stronghold at Sallee; by this means he secured the freedom of many a wretched English or Scottish prisoner working in slavery for the Moors, by exchanging them for Moorish captives brought back by him from England. Sir Henry Marten, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, objected to any dealings with Sallee pirates. Captain John Harrison defended his action in exchanging captives with them in a letter of Dec. 26, 1626 to Sir John Coke, Principal Secretary of State, alleging "It were good policy to hold better correspondence with the Turks and the Coast near the Straits having now all the Coast of Spain to enemy, and no other refuge for our ships but the Coast of Barbary." (Hist. Mss. Comm. XII 289). Finally, in 1637, a fleet under the command of Captain William Rainborough blockaded Sallee and brought the sea pirates to capitulation. On May 5 of that year Articles of Peace were signed by Rainborough with the "Right Excellent and Renowned Lord Sidde Hamet Laiaski", who is also referred to as the "Right Excellent Saint". The Sallee pirates agreed to deliver up all the captives they had and to fetch back those sold by them into slavery in Algiers and Tunis. Captain John Harrison's public career was now ended, and on May 8, 1638 instructions were issues for 'Robert Blake, Gentleman of the King's Chamber, and his agent with the Emperor of Morocco and Barbary'. Harrison returned from Barbary a ruined man. He claimed to have ransomed from slavery and brought home from time to time some 260 Englishmen, and complained of his "great charges" shown to have been nearly ??4000 and added that he could "do no more for want of means." He had a per diem of 40/-, but the Exchequer on one occasion had payed [sic] him only half of the allowance, and a small sum at that. To credit all of the claims for reimbursement addressed by him to his government is to condemn King Charles of having meanly requited a faithful servant of the crown. But one has an uneasy suspicion that Captain Harrison was either very careless or quite unrealiable in money matters. Upon his arrival back from his diplomatic career, Harrison went into hiding to avoid his creditors. In fact we are not even sure that he returned to England. He had left his London house in charge of 'one [John ?] Wheeler a goldsmith in the strand'. His own wife was Elizabeth the daughter of Ambrose Wheeler, 'some time gentleman usher, quarter waiter to the king.' During Captain Harrison's service in Bermuda there is no mention of a wife. He probably married Elizabeth Wheeler after his return to England from Bermuda in 1623-possibly his second wife. We find her joining in his endeavor to be repaid by the government for his services and expenditures as envoy to Barbary. In their petitions neither he nor she mentions any children. This need hardly be a matter for surprise, since he writes to Secretary Coke that so much of his time had been spent in the service of the King as agent to Morocco, he "has neglected his wife for his business, having in all this time seen her but once." In 1638 he vanishes from the English records. The probability that John Harrison, the former Governor of Bermuda had by that time fled to Holland is increased by the knowledge that he was very much at home there. In 'Licenses to go beyond the seas' we find an entry of February 24, 1630: "George Tatton of age of 22 years, serv't to Captain John Harrison verss le Hage to his Mrs. Abode". It was in the Hague that the Queen of Bohemia, whom he had once served, held her court in exile. Before turning the last page of the picturesque career of this Englishman who served four sovereigns and then faded from the picture to a debtor's grave, brief mention should be made of a vexed question. Was Captain John Harrison the author of the five books ascribed to him in the Dictionary of National Biography? They are listed in the catalogue of the British Museum as the works of the Reverend John Harrison, as, indeed, I believe they were, though I have been unable to have a study made of these books in existing war conditions. Confusion seems to have arisen by reason of the facts that these two men of the same names were during the same period Court Servants and both were connected with Morocco. The older man was a clergyman, school teacher and noted antiquary. Our Governor of Bermuda was a soldier and man of action. Probably they were kinsmen. In following the old records of the career of Governor John Harrison, we have not lost sight of the purpose of this paper, which is to pursue the clues furnished by Keith to the ancestry of Benjamin Harrison. The late Alexander Brown, when writing in 1891 his Genesis of the United States, stated in a letter to my father: "I have some reason for thinking Govr. John of the Bermudas was of the same family as Benj. the Va. emigrant", adding that he was "anxious for anything additional regarding him." My present essay is a somewhat belated attempt to supply such additional information. Like Dr. Brown, I am, inclined to think that these two men were of the same family, but not necessarily closely related. Mr. Keith advanced a suggestion that Governor John might have been the father of Benjamin, but adds "I can find no tradition, however, to corroborate such a conclusion. Of John's parentage, I am ignorant." The best evidence as to the family relationships of Captain John Harrison is to be found in a petition made by him on behalf of his sister Eleanor [or Helen] Lindsay to the Privy Council found in State Papers foreign, Barbary, vol. 12. fol. 189. To understand the background of this we must turn back again to the opening of this essay-to the shores of Cromarty Firth in the north of Scotland, and to Eleanor Lindsay and her aged husband, the Bishop of Ross. The duties of a Bishop in that wild country were exacting. When hungry guests arrived at the palace, they simply stayed. There was no place to go but out. They ate the Bishop out of house and home. One day in the year of 1610, the old Bishop and his young Lancashire wife were talking of their financial difficulties; she was trying to persuade him to petition the King for a grant of lands in the new Irish plantation of Fermanagh. The Bishop was reluctant. He was genuinely fond of King James, and was one of his closest friends. Men who have been partners in a foolish and daring enterprise do not like to ask one another for money. Together with his young royal master James, then only King of the Scots, David Lindsay had once braved that wild voyage across the North Sea to claim the King's bovine Danish bride. They had been driven far out of their course, and finally landed, sadly battered, on the coast of Norway. The wedding was performed at Oslo, David Lindsay officiating. This was indeed the only reckless and unstudied action of that canny monarch throughout his life. David Lindsay loved him on account of it. The Bishop had also been present at the christening of Prince Henry at Holyrood; and had himself baptized the little Prince Charles later to become the unhappy King Charles the First of England. Bishop Lindsay was reluctant, as we have said, to make demands upon the King he liked so well. So the Bishop's lady sat down and herself wrote three letters to persons in England-viz : the commissioner for Scottish affairs; her "brother Peeter Harrison, gent."; and Thomas Gibbs (later Sir Thomas). She urged them to press the matter of an Irish land grant upon the King. The scheme miscarried. The King refused the petition, stating rather testily that "he had no idea of planting Ireland with Bishops and their wives, but would think of some other way of pleasuring the Bishop". The 'other way' which he subsequently adopted was to grant 1,000 acres of this Irish land to the eldest son of the Bishop, later known as Sir Jerome Lindsay, Lion King at Arms. By 1613 the old Bishop was dead. Some twenty-two years after her petition to the King, the widow Eleanor Lindsay began to bombard the Privy Council with complaints, reciting the story of the Irish land grant and claiming that she had been deprived of her rights. She also begged that the Privy Council call before them 'her nephew Peter Harrison clerk of the Peace at Cambridge' to account for some of her revenues improperly withheld by him, as she alleged. Moreover, she executed a power of attorney to look after these affairs for her to one Henry Dynely of New-Castle-on-Tyne, Gent. From the petition we learn that in 1610 Eleanor (Helen) Lindsay had a brother John, a brother Peter, (and friends Thomas Gibbs and Henry Dinely), and that in 1632 she had a nephew Peter Harrison who was clerk of the Peace at Cambridge. The will of which an abstract now follows seems to fit these family relationships. Will of Peter Harrison, gent. of Warmington Co. Lancs., dated July 7, 1605 and probated April 2, 1606, (P.C.C. Stafford, 100). "Goods in 3 parts, 1st for self, 2d for wife and 3d for son Peter. My own part to be equally divided between wife Margery and son Peter. To daughter Ellen, all my right and claim to two tenements in Hindley now in my occupation, called the Harebarn and Rotten Rowe. Item, Peter Harrison, son of Richard Harrison, deceased, to have ??400 which now resteth in my hands and was given him by his father to be paid by my Executors in such manner and form as by a certain writing under the hand of Richard Harrison, deceased doth appear. Wife Margery sole executrix. Supervisor, brother-in-law Mr. Legh, Rector of Standish. Codicil: All my right to certain closes now in my occupation being parcel of the inheritance of William Molineaux, gent., wholly to wife Margery for life . . . with reversion to my eldest son John Harrison." From the names mentioned in this will we can see that testator was extremely well connected in Lancashire. His eldest son John Harrison is identified by us as our governor of Bermuda in 1623. It may be objected that we have no direct evidence connecting John of Bermuda with the Harrisons of Warmington (Hindley). The Dictionary of National Biography does not attempt to give his parentage nor locality of origin. According to his brief autobiography, given above, he first appears on the scene about the year 1600 in the campaign launched by the ill-fated Earl of Essex in Ireland. Mr. J. B. Black, in his Oxford history, The Reign of Elisabeth (p. 401) says: "The Irish wars were exceedingly unpopular in England. In Lancashire and the other recruiting counties it was commonly said that men would rather go to the gallows than to Ireland." It was, most probably, in Lancashire that John Harrison joined this army, but unlike the commander, the Earl of Essex, who left the campaign after only six months and returned to London to lose his head on the block, Harrison stuck it in Ireland for three full years of the campaign and came back on the accession of King James to enter the service of Prince Henry at court. All of the letters and public documents concerning John Harrison of Bermuda which are found in the Public Record Office refer to his official career either in the Summers Islands or in Morocco. We have notice of but one personal letter of his which has survived and that receives a brief mention in The House of Lyme (N. Y. Putman's, 1917, p. 83) by the Lady Newton. Lyme, the historic home of the Leghs is in northern Cheshire, but the family had lived for generations in the parish of Winwick, in Lancashire, nearby the village of Warmington where the will an abstract of which has been given above was made in 1605. The Lady Newton writes as follows: "Thomas Legh is referred to in a letter written (in 1635) to Sir Peter Legh from Parahiba, Brazil, by one John Harrison, envoy to Barbary and author (i.e. John of Bermuda) in which he speaks of having been 'familiarly acquainted with your brother Mr. Thomas Legh at Court in the golden daies of Prince Henry.'" John Harrison had been Groom of the Privy Chamber to Prince Henry while Thomas Legh had been 'one of his Majesty's Carvers in Ordinary'. The daughter Ellen, named in the will of Peter Harrison of Warmington in 1605, was, I believe, the one who like her brother John, entered the Court service, and whom we find in the train of the Queen. She subsequently married, as we have seen, David Lindsay, Bishop of Ross. The younger brother, Peter, lived at Hindley in Lancashire, where his later career as solicitor of sequestrations for Lancashire during the Civil War is well documented. The other names found in the widow Lindsay's petition to the Privy Council have been followed in the records as well as has been possible in the disturbed conditions of today. They all point to the Harrison family which lived for two centuries in Derbyshire, and then divided, one branch settling in Northamptonshire, of which Benjamin Harrison of Gobions Manor was a scion, while the other branch came to London and became the 'Goldsmith Harrisons'. To this latter stock many of the Harrison Court servants to whom reference has already been made, appear to have belonged. Both branches of the family used the same coat of arms-a single eagle displayed of the field. It is, however, with "Peter Harrison, Clerk of the Peace at Cambridge" the nephew whom Eleanor Lindsay asks the Privy Council to summon and call to account that we are chiefly concerned. Can he be identified, and thereby strengthen our case? In the will above, Peter Harrison of Warmington does not specify his relationship to 'Richard Harrison, deceased' who left ??400 in the hands of testator for Richard's son-another Peter Harrison. If Richard were an elder son of testator, here would be a Peter Harrison nephew of Ellen (Eleanor Lindsay). The son Peter named in the will, and whom we identify as Peter Harrison II of Hindley (1591-post 1654) had among his own four sons, one Peter, later the Revd. Peter Harrison of Cheadle. Since he was born about the year 1615, he would have been rather young to have been clerk of the Peace at Cambridge in 1631. Indeed, he did not take his degree of M.A. at Cambridge until 1641, having been intruded at St. John's College from the University of Dublin. Thus, by a process of elimination, we might be inclined to believe that Peter, the clerk of the peace, was a son of Captain John Harrison of Bermuda himself. In 1628, upon the motion of North Harrison, Town Clerk, a Peter Harrison, born in 1607 at Belton in Rutlandshire was admitted as a burgess of Cambridge. The young man had served for four years as servant Talbot Pepys, Recorder of the town, who was also steward of the manor of Soham. The records of the town of Cambridge contain a letter of 1630 from the Earl of Holland, then Chancellor of the University, recommending the appointment of Peter Harrison as an attorney of the town. This suggestion was apparently neglected by the burgesses. The Earl of Holland was that unsteady nobleman who subsequently lost his head through his clumsiness as a double-crosser in times of great peril. He was a younger brother of the Earl of Warwick who was the leading member of the Bermuda Company at the time in which Captain John Harrison had served as governor. The mother of these two noblemen was a daughter of that Nevill, Lord Latimer whose family we have previously noted as the constant patrons of the Harrisons of Gobions Manor. Young Peter Harrison, having failed, in spite of his influential backing, to secure the appointment as town's attorney, appears to have been rewarded with the office of Clerk of the Peace, of which Commission Talbot Pepys was a member. This assumption is based upon entries found in the parish register of Cottenham of the birth of two children to Peter Harrison and his wife Eleanor (Ryvers) whom he had married at St. Peters Church, Cambridge on March 20, 1627-8. The first entry reads "29 Sept. 1630, Ellen, dau. of Magister Peter Harrison and Eleanor his wife baptized." A son George was baptized by this couple on February 24, 1632-3. The flourish with which this proud young father entered his name in the register as "Magister" did not indicate that he was a Master of Arts, since at the time when he might have been at the University he was working as an assistant to the steward of Soham Manor. Magister was a title found in the records of the XVI Century applied to notaries or scriveners-just such a man as would be suitable for the modest post of 'Clerk of the Peace'. This Peter Harrison had been made free of the Town of Cambridge as one who was born in Belton, Co. Rutland in 1607, and, as such was "a foreigner", and obliged to pay 40/- admission fee. But the Parish Register of Belton contains no record of his baptism. Nor does that of the adjoining parish of Uppingham. It may be worth recording that near Belton, there resided at that time three married aunts of Benjamin Harrison of Gobions in Northamptonshire. In 1607, when this Peter was born, the parish of Belton consisted chiefly of a royal chase-or game reserve. King James was notoriously addicted to the hunt, and whenever possible, forsook his royal duties for the chase. Could it have been that at this time, John Harrison (later of Bermuda), who was then groom of the Chamber to Henry Prince of Wales was in attendance at Belton with the Court? If so, a son Peter might well have been baptized by one of the Court Chaplains, instead of at the parish church! In conclusion to this chapter, the most that can be positively asserted was that John Harrison, when he entered the service of Prince Henry was following in the footsteps of many another member of the "single eagle" or "three eagle" Harrisons, known as of Derbyshire, of Gobions in Northamptonshire, of Norfolk, of Hurst in Berkshire and as goldsmiths in London. He called himself a "poor gentleman" which exactly describes the rest of his kinsfolk in these families. Young Benjamin Harrison of Gobions, later, as we believe of Bermuda, and in 1630 possibly of Virginia was of the same stock and quality. (2) Family History: Virginia Genealogies #1, pre-1600 to 1900s, Genealogies of Virginia Families III, Fl-Ha, Footnotes Upon Some XVII Century Virginians, Commentaries on the Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison [database online, Genealoy.com], p. 911, footnote 12, © The Generations Network, March 9, 2008: Peter II Harrison of Hindley, Co. Lancs., the younger brother of John of Bermuda, . . . was born in Winwick Parish on March 28, 1591 and was living at Hindley as late as 1654. [Note by compiler: Assuming that the above information is correct, John HARRISON would have been born before March 28, 1591.]
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  Father	Peter HARRISON, I
  Mother	Margery LEIGH
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  Family	Elizabeth WHEELER
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