Richard [Nicholls] Harison / Harrison - Onondaga and Oswego ...

Little, if anything, is know of the early years of this ‘other’ Richard Harison until he steps on the stage of the remarkable founding
times of our country as the only classmate of John Jay [12 Dec 1745 – 17 May 1829] at King’s College in the class of 1764 at the
young age of 15.
“The Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society, Volume 3,” by Michigan State Medical Society, page 286.
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In England the "Harisons were a family of great antiquity, originally from Cumberland, afterwards of East Court and Hurst, Berkshire.
They became of considerable importance in the reign of Charles I, and were most loyal supporters of that sovereign during the
Rebellion."
James Harison
b. 1447 of Cumberland; m. Margaret, daughter of Sir John Bourclair, was great grandfather of
Thomas Harison, b. 1530, of East Court, Berkshire, who married Alse, daughter of Sir Richard Warde of Hurst House,
Hurst, Berkshire. Cofferer (treasurer) to Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, and who died aged ninety-seven years, father of
eight sons and nine daughters. Hurst House and Whistley Manor in Hurst were granted to the Wardes by Henry VIII, in 1539 and
had formed part of the endowment granted by King Edgar to the convent at Abingdon . Thomas Harison's grandson,
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“Berkshire Archaeological Journal,” Vol. 24, No. 1. 1918.
NOTES ON THE CHURCHES OF RUSCOMBE, SHOTTESBROOKE:
On the north wall is placed a curious brass representing a young woman in bed with an infant by her side. An inscription on the
stone from which this brass has been removed runs as follows:
HEERE LYETH THE BODIE OF
ALSE HARISON
THE WIFE OF THOMAS HARISON ESQVIER:
ELDEST DAVGHTER OF RICHARD WARD ESQVIER
COOFEROR TO QUEENE ELIZEBETH I
WHOE DIED IN CHILD BED OF HER FIRST SONN
RICHARD HARISON ESQVIER:
THE FATHER OF SIR RICHARD HARISON KNIGHT.
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[On another inscription on a black marble slab.]
HERE LYETH IN EXPECTATION OF A JOYFULL RESURRECTION
LADY MARGARET SAVILE, DAUGHTER TO GEORGE DACRES ESQUIER
DESCENDED FROM YE RT NOBLE & ANCIENT FAMILY OF THE BARONS DACRES OF YE NORTH.
SHE HAD THREE HUSBANDS
THE FIRST GEORGE GARRARD ESQ SECOND SONNE TO SIR WILL GARRARD
KNT SOMETIMES LD MAYOR OF LONDON. THE SECOND JOHN SMITH ESQ
IN THE COUNTYE OF ESSEX. THE THIRD THE HONORABLE & MOST
FAMOUS KNIGHT BOTH FOR THE STUDYES & ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
SR HENRY SAVILE READER TO QUEENE ELIZABETH OF BLESSED
MEMORY WARDEN OF MERTON COLLEGE IN OXFORD, & PROVOST OF EATON,
WHERE HE LEYTH INTERRED. AND BY THEM NINE CHILDREN.
BY HER FIRST HUSBAND THREE DAUGHTERS THE ELDEST
YE LADY ANNE CARLETON, WIFE TO THE LORD CARLETON, VISCOUNT DORCHESTER.
THE SECOND DYED IN HER INFANCY,
THE YOUNGEST THE LADY FRANCES HARISON, WIFE TO SR RICHARD HARISON, KNIGHT . . .
There are numerous monuments, mostly of 17th century date, in addition to those already specially set out in this same chapel. On
the south wall is a very large and 'fair monument of black and white marble' to Sir Richard Harison, son of Richard and grandson of
Alse Harison, and great grandson of Richard Ward, with effigies of a man in armour, his wife and son. We learn fro mi the epitaph
that 'He served King Charles the I all the time of the civil wars, for which he suffered the Persecution of Sequestration, Composition,
&c. His estate was much wasted by raising 2 troups of horse at his own charge,' &c. He lived to see the joyful return of King Charles
II, by whom he was made a member of the Privy Chamber. He died in 1683. There is another monument to his son William, with
later inscription; he died in 1694.
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Sir Richard Harison, Kt. b. 1584, of East Court and Hurst; B. A. St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, Member of Parliament Wootton-Bassett,
Berkshire and Windsor, 1621-1640 (intimate friend of Archbishop Laud, and whose sister, Frances, married Thomas Howard, third
Earl of Berkshire), married Frances, in direct descent from the Barons Darces of the North, daughter of Sir Henry Saville, Reader to
Queen Elizabeth, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, Provost of Eton;
The manor of Hurst, which includes the liberties of Whistley and Hinton, was granted by King Edgar to the Abbot and convent of
Abingdon, and held by them till the dissolution of the monasteries, when it was granted to Richard and Anne Ward, and from them, it
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