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Harrison

In 1790 Captain Samuel Harrison, his wife Elizabeth and two children, Samuel Jr. and Margaret came from Belize, Honduras to East Florida. With a Spanish grant, they settled the Harrison Plantation on Amelia Island. Four children, Robert, Ephraim, Mary and Sarah were born there as Spanish subjects. In 1775, his father, William Harrison, a Captain of the British Navy, and on the American Colonial Station was living with his family in Yorktown, Va. Being loyal to the English Crown when the War of Independence broke out, he had moved to the English Colony at Belize with his wife Mary Hartley and son Samuel. Elizabeth McQueen English was the daughter of Robert English and Margaret Adamson. Various accounts disagree on Captain Sam’s birth and death dates, however, there seems to be a consensus that he died in a fall from a horse at the age of 81.

The above and the following genealogy on the first Harrisons of Amelia Island and their descendants come from sources too numerous to include here. For information concerning sources, contact the compiler at his email address.

WILLIAM HARRISON m. Mary Hartley

Child of William and Mary:

• 1. Samuel HARRISON b. 1751? [See detail below]

SAMUEL HARRISON (b. ca 1751, Yorktown, York, VA, d. 1818?) m. 1786 at Yorktown, York, VA to Elizabeth/Isabel McQueen ENGLISH (b. ca 1759 d. 28 Dec 1828 on Amelia Island, Duval [now Nassau] Co. FL)

Children of Samuel and Elizabeth/Isabel:

• 1. Margaret HARRISON (b. 1787 Belize, New Providence or Belize, Honduras d. 15 Feb 1874) [see detail below] m. 1808 to George STARRETT
• 2. Samuel HARRISON (Jr.) (b. ca 1789 Yorktown, York, VA d. Jun 1833) m. _____ (b. 1790-1800)

• Children of Samuel and ?:
• 1) 2 males b. 1825-1830
• 2) 1 male b. 1820-1825
• 3) 2 females b. 1820-1825
• >4) 1 female b. 1815-1820

• 3. Robert HARRISON (Sr.) (b. 1790 Amelia Is. [GA?] d. 8 Sep 1856 bur. AI Cem) m. 10 Jun 1813 to Mary M. E. Cooper (b. ca 1794 Darien, GA d. June 30 1872)
• 4. Ephraim HARRISON (Sr.) (b. 1800) m1. 30 Mar 1826 in Charleston, SC, to Henrietta Ann ROUX (b. 29 Aug 1802 Charleston, Berkeley, SC ca Mar 1803 Charleston, Berkeley, SC d. 26 Dec 1828);  m2. 23 Aug 1832 in St. Marys, GA to Mary Catherine O’NEILL (b. ca 1815 GA)
• 5. Mary Margaret HARRISON (b. Amelia Island, Duval Co., FL) m. William Henry Gray SANDERS
• 6. Sarah Ann HARRISON (b. Amelia Island, Duval Co., FL) m. 1824 William Henry HOUSTON ( d. ca. 1845).

Submitted by:  Robert Saunders