Isaiah Harrison
© January 2005
Compiled by Teresa Martin Klaiber
22937 Long Branch Road, Rush, KY 41168
Isaiah Harrison, [Thomas, Richard, Rowland, John, Thomas, John, William, Thomas³, Adam², Henry De Hede¹] was born about 1666 in Chester, Cheshire County, England near the Irish Sea. He was the son of Thomas Harrison and Katherine Bradshaw.
Isaiah came to America before 1687 on the Spotted Calf and settled in Oyster Bay, Queens County, Long Island. In January 1687 he had become a Freeholder purchasing 100 acres from John Wright.
Isaiah married Elizabeth Wright about 1688 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Isaiah was a blacksmith by trade. Elizabeth died in 1698 leaving Isaiah with 5 children under the age of nine the last having been born in March of that year. After the death of Elizabeth Isaiah married Abigail Smith. On April 20, 1702 he and Abigail sold the land and moved to Smithtown, New York.
At the same time he purchased 500 acres on the west side of the Nissequoque River in Suffolk County. In 1708 he purchased an additional 200 acres in Smithtown. Abigail had four children which were raised along with his other children by Abigail.
After his children were grown Isaiah sold his lands in Suffolk County New York and moved the family to Sussex County Delaware where he bought 900 acres known as "Maiden Plantation." Maiden Plantation was about eight miles west of Lewes, Delaware in the Coolspring vicinity. The tract known as Maiden Plantation was originally laid out by William Darval of Kent.
It is thought from signatures on deeds that Abigail died in the latter part of 1722. Isaiah sold part of Maiden Plantation to sons Daniel, Jeremiah and Thomas between 1732 and 1736. In the spring of 1737 Isaiah, his son, except for Gideon who died, his daughters, except for Elizabeth, moved to Virginia. The family pioneered the south Fork of the Shenandoah, near Naked Creek and Linville Creek preparing to take up land there when "sickness broke out among them" according to published accounts. There was an epidemic of small pox recorded in South Carolina reported for that year that is possible was spreading in Virginia. According to researchers the family buried their father on the bank of the Shenandoah which is now part of the Shenandoah National Park.
Children of Isaiah Harrison and Elizabeth Wright are:
i. Isaiah Harrison, born 27 September 1689 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY.
ii. John Harrison, born 25 September 1691; died May 1771; married Phoebe --?--; born 1686; died 06 December 1793.
iii. Gideon Harrison, born 25 June 1694; died 1729.
iv. Mary Harrison, born 25 May 1696 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York; married Robert Cravens, Sr 1721 in DE.
v. Elizabeth Harrison, born 30 March 1698.
Children of Isaiah Harrison and Abigail are
: i. Daniel2 Harrison, born Abt. 1701 in Long Island, New York; died 10 July 1770. He married Margaret Cravens 1724 in Delaware.ii. Thomas Harrison, born 1704 in Suffolk County, New York.
iii. Jeremiah Harrison, born 1707 in Suffolk County, New York; died 1777.
iv. Abigail Harrison, born 1710 in Suffolk County, New York; died 1780.