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- Who was the father of Thomas S Harrison Sr?
It might be easier to answer, who is NOT the father of Thomas S Harrison Sr? This researcher has seen many documents and heard many theories on this subject but seen nothing conclusive as of yet. However, in order to keep the information organized and rule out who was NOT his father and hopefully someday find out who his father was, I have decided to start adding the information here and attach documents to the person I will add as "Unknown Ancestor Harrison". This way we can stop going over the same pieces of documentation just to realize this a Harrison we have already ruled out.
- While reading through the original hand written Revolutionary War records of Grayson?s Regiment for Thomas S Harrison Sr, I found it unusual that no one had ever mentioned any other family member fighting with him. I looked through all 1,000+ pages and found there was another Harrison in Grayson?s Regiment. His name was John Harrison and he enlisted on 10 Mar 1777 as a Private, just 20 days prior to Thomas enlisting. We may never know who this John Harrison was because he died in the War just two months later on 16 May 1777. I know the date is correct because it is hand written on the original July Muster Roll.
I did a search online for this John Harrison and the date of death and came up with not one single person fitting this date. I searched DAR and found not one single person fitting this date or Regiment.
It is possible he did not have any children. It is possible he had young children who were adopted by another man after his death. It is possible he is a relative of Thomas. It is possible he died so young that there were no other records of him. Unfortunately we may never know who this John Harrison was.
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