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Sarah Harrison ((3)), of whose birth the date on the tombstone at Jamestown has been printed both 1670 and 1678, the latter being clearly wrong, as Hannah was born that year. If 1670 be correct, it shows that all the children, except perhaps Mrs. Edwards, but probably including her, were by wife Hannah, as Sarah is declared to have been, the tombstone saying:
"She was daughter of Col. Benjamin and Mrs. Hannah Harrison, of Surry. Born, August 14th, 1670; died May ye 5, 1713, exceedingly beloved and lamented. Sarah married Rev. James Blair, D. D., minister of Jamestown Parish, Commissary of the Bishop of London for Virginia, and President of William and Mary College, who survived her thirty years."
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There is a grave in the Jamestown Island Virginia cemetery there known as the divided grave. A large tree growing through the center of the grave. It was said that a superstitious man spread the report that the woman buried there had a crooked streak in her and the tree was a punishment sent on her. The woman buried in that grave was Sarah Harrison, one of the Harrisons of the ancestry of President Harrison. Sarah's father was Benjamin Harrison. Sarah it seems, was doubted by her lover so much so that when she told him she would marry him he was a little skeptical and so he exacted of her and secured this curious written promise: "This is to certify to all persons in the world that I, Sarah Harrison, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Harrison, do and am fully resolved and by these present do obligate myself (and cordially promise W. Roscow ELLIOTT never to marry or contract marriage with any man, during his life) only himself to confirm this promise. I, the above Sarah Harrison, do call the Almighty God to witness and so help me God."
This was duly recorded April 28, 1687. In spite of her promise and call upon the Almighty, two months after subscribing to that paper Sarah scrapped her promise and married Dr. James Blair, who becamae the founder of William and Mary College. It is this Sarah Harrison Blair whose tomb survives in the raised clutch of the Sycamore on Jamestown Island. [S23]
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Daughter of Benjamin Harrison II and Hannah Churchill of Surry
Other siblings are: Henry 1679-? Anne Mary Margaret 1685-1727* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 20 2020, 22:36:03 UTC
Not a known child of Colonel Benjamin Harrison, II, Esq.
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@R1203558009@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
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Sarah Blair's Timeline
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1670
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Wakefield, Surry County, Virginia, Colonial America
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May 5, 1713
Age 43
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James City County, Virginia, Colonial America
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May 5, 1713
Age 43
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Jamestown Church Cemetery, Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, United States
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