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Excerpt from Address on the Life and Character of Gen. William Henry Harrison, Late President of the United States, a Member of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science: Delivered Before the Institution; June 24, 1841
His eldest son, Benjamin Harrison, was, during his life, which terminated on the 10th April, 1710, at the early age of thirty - seven years, distinguished in the history. Of the colony. 'he was by profession a lawyer, and is represented as eminent for his intelligence, learning, eloquence, and fidelity; the unwearied pa tron of widows, orphans, and of all the poor and op pressed; the arbiter and pacificator in all controversies and disputes; a most upright judge in all the litiga tions of the county; the stern avenger of impiety and iniquity, and a zealous promoter of the public good. Dying at Williamsburg while exercising the func tions of Speaker of the House of Burgesses, the mo nument erected to his memory, bearing an inscription in Latin, of which the foregoing summary of his char acter is the translation of a part, is supposed to havebeen erected at the public expense. It appears, from the contemporaneous legislative records of Virginia, (3 Henning's Statutes at large, 538, that he was, at the period of his death, treasurer of the public impositions; that he possessed considerable wealth, having died the proprietor in fee Simple of twenty thousand acres of land, besides a large per sonal estate, the administration of which devolved upon his widow, a daughter of Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester.
He left one son and one daughter. The son, also named Benjamin, likewise appears to have been a man of high respectability of character, and a mem ber of the Provincial Legislature. He married a daughter of Mr. Carter, the king's surveyor - general. He accumulated a'valuable estate, and was killed, to gether with two of his daughters, by lightning, in the mansion - house at Berkeley, leaving six sons and three daughters who survived him. Of the daughters one married the celebrated Peyton Randolph, the first President of Congress, and another his brother William.
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