September 26, 1672 John Cooper proved four rights for importing Thomas Hall, ROBERT HARRIS, Charles Lane and PETER HARRISON, but he promptly signed these rights over to Edmund Webb. These were apprentices.

Then John Poore took over Robert Harris/Harrison, age 15, and went to court to find out how long the indenture would be. The court said 7 years.

Robert, 1655-1717, died in Bay Hundred, Talbot County, MD. He m 21 August 1683, Alice Oliver, dau of James and Mary Oliver of Prouse's Point. Robert, after his apprenticeship acquired several small plantations and through his wife's inheritance, acquired more. There were some humorous names for these places, such as "Haphazard", "Mount Misery", "Mount Misery Addition", and "Crooked Intention".

In 1699 Robert went to court with an orphan Mary Mason. She was daughter of Thomas Mason (deceased) and age 7. He was made guardian and she was apprenticed to him.

Children: (variously went by Harris or Harrison )
Frances (1687) married Charles Jones
John (1689-1744)  married Mary Dawson
Robert  (1694) m Elizabeth _____.They had, among others, Joseph Harrison married  Mary Ann Harrison, a third cousin and dau of Thomas Harrison and Mary Porter. He died 1815 leaving 5 children, including Jeremiah Harrison, 1794-1880, owner of passenger and freight boats plying Chesapeake Bay.
James (1692 - 1716)married Elizabeth and had James and John Harrison
Joseph Harrison m Elizabeth Haddaway Lambdin, a widow and they had among others
William Harrison (1698-1749) married Elizabeth Benson (This the line my family comes from)
Joseph (1698-1753)  married Elizabeth Ashcroft.
Abigail (1699)
Alice (1700)
Sarah (1704)
Benjamin (1710-1782) married Mary Foster and then Mary Poore

One feature of this family is that very few have left the colony or the state of Maryland. One who did was Wilma Bessie Weston b 1917 who m John K. Maddy of Marion County, Iowa. He is the author of the article for HARRISON HERITAGE.

 

I just have two "tiny" pieces of information from the book Tidewater Maryland Architecture and Gardens, a Sequel to Early Manor and Plantation Houses of Maryland by Henry Chandlee Forman, 1936.

In the chapter entitled "Crooked Intention on Second Creek - One of the original grants of land given by Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, to Hugh Sherwood, comprised 130 acres under the name of Crooked Intention. The Patent was dated July 5, 1681, and tract lay in Talbot County on the north side of the Choptank River, between that river and the St. Michael's or Miles River. Then, in 1696, fifty acres of 'Crooked Intention' were sold by Hugh Sherwood to Robert Harrison I. Sherwood died in 1710."

There is a sketch of the floor plan; I don't know which of these two men built the house.

I am hoping that this blog will help me to find descendants of Robert Harrison, who arrived in St. Michaels, Maryland, on the ship Elizabeth and Katherine that landed in Talbot County, Maryland, 20 March 1679. Crooked Intention is the name of the house shown to the right and it was the home of Robert Harrison and his wife, Alice Oliver.