Display Patriot - P-335230 - William HARRISON

William HARRISON

SAR Patriot #: P-335230

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
 

State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A052321

Birth: abt 1730 / Dinwiddie / VA
Death: 20 Nov 1814 Petersburg / Petersburg / VA

Qualifying Service Description:

GAVE AID


Additional References:
  1. Rev War Public Service Claims, "On-Line Catalog: Images and Indexes", Library of Virginia, www.lva.virginia.gov - Brunswick County Court Booklet pg 30, 57
  2. McAllister, Joseph Thompson, "Virginia Militia in the Rev War", Hot Springs, VA: McAllister Publishing Company, 1913 (p. 178)
  3. "Virginia Military Records" Baltimore: Clearfield Publishing, 2002. Saberton, Ian. "From Yorktown to England: Cornwallis's Fraught Passage Home" Journal of the American Revolution (published 22 JUN 2017)
  4. Genealogical, Burial, and Service Data for Rev War Patriots Buried in Virginia (M.E. Lyman, 2016)

Spouse: Anne Vaughan
Children: Virginia; Mary; Lucy;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
None*


*This means that the NSSAR has no applications for this Patriot on file.
Instead the information provided is best effort, and from volunteers who have either researched grave sites, service records, or something similar.
There is no documentation available at NSSAR HQ to order.


Burial:
Blandford Cemetery (C-0371767)
Location:
Petersburg / Petersburg City / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
49478
Grave Plot #:
Churchyard
Grave GPS Coordinates:
37.226030 / -77.387620
Find A Grave Memorial #:
8952027
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Headstone - -Grave Photos and GPS provided by Craig Batten, George Washington Chapter, VASSAR



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Mr. Joshua Shawn Wilberger

Member of the clergy in Dinwiddie. Served as reverend after the war. Worshipful Master [President] of Blandford Lodge No. 3. Mayor of Petersburg 1799-1800. Records do not exist to substantiate the year Harrison served as Worshipful Master nor the dates of receiving the degrees of Symbolic Craft Lodge Freemasonry, viz.: Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason. Some biographical information drawn from Bishop Meade's "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Vol.1", the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Virginia, and service sources. Interested parties may consider consulting the Virginia Museum of History & Culture (formerly Virginia Historical Society) and Library of Virginia (formerly Virginia State Library) Spouse Data: Anne Vaughn: b. 1769, d. 02 JUL 1829 Married 1793


Send a biographical sketch of your patriot!

Patriot biographies must be the original work of the author, and work submitted must not belong to another person or group, in observance with copyright law. Patriot biographies are to be written in complete sentences, follow the established rules of grammar, syntax and punctuation, be free of typographical errors, and follow a narrative format. The narrative should unfold in a logical manner (e.g. the narrative does not jump from time period to time period) or have repeated digressions, or tell the history of the patriot's line from the patriot ancestor to the author. The thinking here is that this is a patriot biography, not a lineage report or a kinship determination project or other report published in a genealogy journal. The biography should discuss the qualifying service (military, patriotic, civil) of the patriot ancestor, where the service was rendered, whether this was a specific state or Continental service, as well as significant events (as determined by the author) of the patriot's life. This is the entire purpose of a patriot's biography.

Additional guidelines around the Biography writeup can be found here:

Send your submission1, in a Microsoft Word compatible format, to patriotbios@sar.org for inclusion in this space

1Upon submission of a patriot biography, the patriot biography becomes the property of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and may be edited to conform to the patriot biography submission standards.


© 2025 - National Society of the American Revolution (NSSAR)