Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: Some Pioneers to Old Augusta County, Virginia, and Their Descendants of the Family of Harrison and Allied Lines

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Genealogical Publishing Com, 1975 - History - 665 pages
Many of the early Valley of Virginia settlers resided on or near the Long Grey Trail, and the author brings the full weight of his acumen to bear on the Valley settlements, more especially on that part of Augusta County later formed into Rockingham. There was perhaps no family more intimately associated with the early history of Rockingham County than the Harrisons and their connections, the county seat itself being named for one of them. Appropriately, then, this work sets forth a detailed genealogy of the Harrisons of Augusta and their Harrison cousins throughout Virginia and in large parts of the United States and Britain. Nevertheless, no attempt is made to confine the work to Harrison families. Many genealogies are included. Among the lines traced other than Harrisons are: Bear, Bowman, Brown, Burkholder, Byrd, Campbell, Chrisman, Conrad, Craven, Creed, Davis, Davison, Decker, Ewing, Gaines, Gordon, Hanna, Henkel, Henton, Herring, Hemphill, Hinkle, Hite, Hollingsworth, Hopper, Houston, Howard, Jordon, Keezells, Kennerly, Koontz, Lincoln, Logan, McWilliams, Martz, Mauzy, Monroe, Moore, Newman, Ott, Pickering, Price, Smith, Watson, Williams, Williamson, Woodley, and Yancey, to refer to some of them only. Approximately 1,000 families are covered and more than 10,000 family members are named and identified.
 

Contents

FrontispieceHarrison Coat of Arms 2 Section of Fry and Jeffersons Map of Virginia 1751
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Pages
15
Isaiah Harrisons Signature
42
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56
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67
The Old Water Bottle
72
Surnames become hereditary in England
77
Official Records of England begun
84
CAPT DANIEL HARRISON of the French and Indian War and
156
Family
214
The old Thomas Harrison House in Harrisonburg
220
Thomas Harrisons Inclusive Patent to his land at Harrisonburg
227
RING an Ancestor of Abraham Lincoln
269
The Old Harrison House at Dayton Virginia
292
Homesite of David Harrison at Virginia Caverns
356
Smithland a short distance north of Harrisonburg
385

Facsimile of a section of the Death Warrant for the Execution of Charles
84
Long Island New York settlement of 13 14
100
The Long Grey Trail at the Fairfax Line
106
Captain Kidd the pirate 193
108
The head of the Potomac River established
116
The German element 114
133
FIRST DAYS JUST SOUTH OF THE FAIRFAX LINE
138
Formation of the first counties west of the Blue Ridge
139
The first Vestrymen of Augusta
149
385419
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Old Harrison Log Cabin near Lacey Spring
438
INCLUDING AN EARLY UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA FAMILY
466
495531
495
Locust Grove near Lacey Spring
511
Continued Also the Seventh and Eighth of the Lines herein 532580
532
INGHAM LINES Seventh to Tenth Generations
581
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