Robert Harrison

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Collier. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: Abt 1695, Wakefield, Southwark, Surry, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1695, Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1695; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1704, Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1745, Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 1745; Alt. Death

Notes:

He built the Berkeley mansion in1726. He was Sheriff and Burgess. He was
killed by lightning along with 2 daughters.

Benjamin married Anne Carter in 1722. Anne (daughter of Colonel Robert "King" Carter and Elizabeth "Betty" Landon) was born in 1702 in Corotoman, Lancaster County, Virginia; died in 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

SOURCE for Birth/Death Dates:
"Thanks for your interest in Historic Christ Church. Anne Carter, who
married Benjamin Harrison IV of Berkeley, Charles City County, was the
first child of Robert Carter and Betty Landon Carter. Our records show
she
was born in 1702 and died in 1743. Her husband's years are 1695-1745.
I
hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if you have any more
questions. Again, we appreciate your interest in HCC. Best wishes,
Robert Teagle
Education Director
Foundation for Historic Christ Church
www.christchurch1735.org
804-438-6855
804-438-5186 (fax)"
Members of theCarter family rest in the burial ground at this church.
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Mother of five sons and six daughters.
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A Genealogy of the Known Decemdants of Robert Carter of Corotoman see
page 2
and 253 for data on Anne.
NOTE: The sixth child of Robert "King" Carter and his second wife,
Betty Landon Carter was Anne Carter who was born in 1702 at Corotoman.
In 1722 she
married Benjamin Harrison IV of "Berkley" in Charles City County.
Her son, Benjamin was a signerof the Declaration of Independence
and a
Governor of Virginia. Two US presidents Harrison were descended from
Anne.
Her children were: Ann Harrison , Elizabeth Harrison, Benjamin V
Harrison, Robert Harrison, Lucy Harrison, Henry Harrison,
Carter Henry Harrison, Nathaniel Harrison , Charles Harrison ,
etc.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Burial: Berkely; Alt. Burial
• Alt. Burial: Berekely, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Burial
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1718, Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1726, Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: Between 13 Dec 1726 and 1730, Berkeley, Charles City, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 13 Dec 1730, Berekely, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1791; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 24 Apr 1791; Alt. Death

Notes:

Benjamin Harrison, American patriot and statesman, born in Charles City
County, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia legislature (1749-1775,
1777-1781;
1784-1791). As representative (1774-1777) from Virginia to the
Continental Congress, he helped lay the groundwork for the departments of
state, war,and the navy. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence and presided over the debates preceding its adoption. He
served (1782-1784) asgovernor of Virginia. In 1788 he was a member of
the Virginia convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution.
He was the father of William Henry Harrison and the great-grandfather of
Benjamin Harrison, presidents of the United States.
His wife, the former Anne Carter, was the daughter of Robert "King"
Carter, America's first millionaire, and his second wife, Elizabeth
"Betty" Landon formerly of England.SIGNER of the Declaration of
Independence
Governor of Virginia
Member of the Continental Congress
Father of Pres. William Henry Harrison; great-grandfather of Pres. Benj.
Harrison.

Benjamin married Elizabeth Lucy Basset in 1748. Elizabeth was born on 13 Dec 1730 in New Kent County, Virginia; died about 1792. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 1730, New Kent County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 13 Dec 1730, Eltham, New Kent County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 13 Dec 1730; Alt. Birth

Notes:

Elizabeth Bassett - (A)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Burial: Christ Church, Lancaster County, Virginia; Alt. Burial
• Name: King
• Alt. Birth: 1663; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1663, Corotoman, Lancaster, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1665, Corotoman, Lancaster County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1665, Corotman, Lancaster County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1665; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1732; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 4 Aug 1732, Corotman, Lancaster County, Virginia; Alt. Death

Notes:

Col. Robert "King" Carter was America's first millionaire!
Obituary:
Headline:
SACRED GEOMETRY' RETIREE BELIEVES CHURCH IS ARCHITECTURAL
CALENDAR - Publication Date: April 23, 2000 - Source: Richmond
Times-Dispatch
Page: C-4; Subjects: ARCHITECTURE; RELIGION; BUILDING; SCIENCE
HISTORY
Region: Virginia
"Thou has ordered all things in number, weight and measure," quotes
Stephen Stewart from the ancient apocrypha's reference to God that he
said the British royal architect Sir Christopher Wren adopted as his
motto. Wren died in 1723,at least seven years before Lancaster County's
historic Christ Church was begun. But Stewart, who has pursued the
oft-referenced but never proven connection between Wren and the famous
Colonial church, thinks the motto is apt. "Number, weight and measure"
he believes describes the architectural masterpiece right down to the
curious symbols engraved in the metal key escutcheon on its front door
and the church's decorative sunburst pattern of wooden inlay above its
three-tiered pulpit.
Stewart is convinced the 265-year-old registerednational historic
monument is an architectural calendar. He believes it was deftly created
to tell time and celebrate the glory of Easter. It does, he maintains,
through a number-crunching design created with the use of what he calls
"sacred geometry" - the golden ratios of proportion that have existed in
architecture since earliest times. He says Christ Church is adjusted just
slightly south of an east- west alignment. It's the only way possible to
do what it does, he says. Among many things he has cataloged, it allows
the sun toshoot
a beam of light precisely upon the altar table during the midpoint of the
days reserved for Easter in the church calendar.
The building, he says, was carefully planned so its high west elliptical
window can capture the western sun beginning April 4, the midpoint of
Easter according to the moon phase, and continuing through April 8, the
midpoint among the span of days betweenMarch 22 through April 25 that
Easter can fall. The beam slants down to glisten on the altar table or
cross, depending on the day.
Whoever designed Christ Church "was building a house of worship including
all of God's geometry found in nature," says Stewart.
Stewart is not without his critics.
Officials associated with the church foundation say there has never been
a hint that Christ Church was designed to be anything else but a supreme
example of structural art.
"You would expect you'd find some mention" in records that Christ
Church was deliberately calibrated to capture sun rays, says Robert A.
Cornelius, the church foundation's director."
But, in the course of dogged day-after-day observations and record-
keeping over the years, Stewart says he's found that the building is
alive with solar phenomena and references to calendar numbers 52, 365 and
multiples of 13.
He has documented sunbeams striking, fourtimes a year, a tombstone
that's precisely in the center of the church's cross- shaped
intersection. The beams center the tombstone on May 6, Aug. 7, Nov. 7 and
Feb. 5. The dates are referred to in astronomy as "cross-quarter dates,"
Stewart says. They mark the midpoints of spring, summer, fall and winter.
Outside, shadows from the eaves on the west-facing wing move in tandem
withthe beam inside the church, Stewart said. The shadows trace the
course of spring to summer and back to fall as they are cast upon the
west faces of the south and north wings, he says.
There are an average 93.5 days from spring to summer and 93.5 days from
summer to fall. There are 93.5 courses of bricks on the building's walls,
Stewart says. But the tomb, which contains the remains of David Miles, a
former indentured servant who was a county justice, holds aspecial
interest for Stewart, who measured the dimensions of everything in the
church and its church yard before the foundat

Robert married Elizabeth "Betty" Landon between 1701 and 1702 in Grendall, Hertfordshire, England. Elizabeth was born between 17 May 1683 and 1684 in Credenhill, Hertfordshire England; died on 3 Jul 1719 in Williamsburg, Virginia; was buried in Christ Church, Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Burial: Old Christ Church, Lancaster County, Virginia; Alt. Burial
• Name: Betty
• Alt. Birth: 1673, Credenhill, Hereford, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: Between 1683 and 1684, Credenhill, Hereford, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1683, Credenhill, Hereford, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1683; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 17 May 1683, Gednal, Hereford, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 3 Jul 1719, Lancaster County, Virginia; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 3 Jul 1719, Corotoman, Lancaster, Virginia; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 3 Jul 1719, Corotman, Lancaster County, Virginia; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 3 Jul 1719; Alt. Death

Notes:

Known as Betty.
At Old Christ Church, Lancaster Co., VA, east of the church:
"o the memory of Betty Carter, second wife of Robert Carter, Esq.,
youngest daughter of Thomas Landon, Esq., and Mary his wife, of Grednal,
in the countyof Hereford, the ancient seat of the family and place of
her nativity. She bore to her husband ten children, five sons and five
daughters, three of whom -- Sarah, Betty and Ludlow -- died before here
and are buried near her. She was a person of great and exemplary piety
and charity in every relation wherein she stood; Whether considered as a
Christian, a wife, a mother, a mistress,a neighbour, or a friend, her
conduct was equalled by few, excelled by none.She changed this life for
a better on the 3d of July, 1719, in the 36th yearof her age and 19th of
her marriage."Betty Landon and Col. Robert "King" Carter (America's first
millionnaire) had five children, per "Seldens of Virginia, Volume 1,"
(1911) by Mary Selden Kennedy:
http://www.familytreemaker.com/_glc_/3439/3439_169.html

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: Abt 1695, Wakefield, Southwark, Surry, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1695, Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1695; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1704, Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1745, Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 1745; Alt. Death

Notes:

He built the Berkeley mansion in1726. He was Sheriff and Burgess. He was
killed by lightning along with 2 daughters.

Benjamin married Anne Carter in 1722. Anne (daughter of Colonel Robert "King" Carter and Elizabeth "Betty" Landon) was born in 1702 in Corotoman, Lancaster County, Virginia; died in 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

SOURCE for Birth/Death Dates:
"Thanks for your interest in Historic Christ Church. Anne Carter, who
married Benjamin Harrison IV of Berkeley, Charles City County, was the
first child of Robert Carter and Betty Landon Carter. Our records show
she
was born in 1702 and died in 1743. Her husband's years are 1695-1745.
I
hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if you have any more
questions. Again, we appreciate your interest in HCC. Best wishes,
Robert Teagle
Education Director
Foundation for Historic Christ Church
www.christchurch1735.org
804-438-6855
804-438-5186 (fax)"
Members of theCarter family rest in the burial ground at this church.
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Mother of five sons and six daughters.
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A Genealogy of the Known Decemdants of Robert Carter of Corotoman see
page 2
and 253 for data on Anne.
NOTE: The sixth child of Robert "King" Carter and his second wife,
Betty Landon Carter was Anne Carter who was born in 1702 at Corotoman.
In 1722 she
married Benjamin Harrison IV of "Berkley" in Charles City County.
Her son, Benjamin was a signerof the Declaration of Independence
and a
Governor of Virginia. Two US presidents Harrison were descended from
Anne.
Her children were: Ann Harrison , Elizabeth Harrison, Benjamin V
Harrison, Robert Harrison, Lucy Harrison, Henry Harrison,
Carter Henry Harrison, Nathaniel Harrison , Charles Harrison ,
etc.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 1613; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: 1613, Edmonton, Middlesex, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 10 Jan 1669, Corotoman, Lancaster County, Virginia; Alt. Death

Notes:

Came from England to Lancaster Co. 1649. House of Burgess, Member of the
Council. Married (1) Jane Glyn (2) Eleanor (Eltonhead) Brocas, daughter
of Richard Eltonhead. (3) Anne Carter, daughter of Cleave. (4) Sarah
Ludlow, daughterof Gabriel and (5) Elizabeth Shirley.

John married Sarah Ludlowe. Sarah was born in 1663; died after 1688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]