8. Benjamin⁴ Harrison (Benjamin³, Benjamin², Benjamin¹) (#1251) was born 1700.⁽³⁷⁴⁾ Benjamin died 1745 at 45 years of age.⁽³⁷⁵⁾

He married Ann Carter 1722.⁽³⁷⁶⁾ (Ann Carter is #1252.) Ann was born 1696.⁽³⁷⁷⁾ Ann died WFT Est. 1745-1791.⁽³⁷⁸⁾ Benjamin IV had never been as active politically as his father or grandfather. He is known to have been a justice of the peace in Charles City County and to have represented that county for a number of years in the House of Burgesses. He was also king's lieutenant in Charles City County

Benjamin Harrison and Ann Carter had the following children:

9 i. Lucy⁵ Harrison (#1253) was born AFT. 1722. Lucy died 1745.⁽³⁷⁹⁾ She married Edward Randolph. (Edward Randolph is #1254.) Edward was born WFT Est. 1718-1734.⁽³⁸⁰⁾ Edward died WFT Est. 1722-1818.⁽³⁸¹⁾

10 ii. Elizabeth Harrison (#1255) was born BEF. 1726. Married Peyton Randolph, son of John Randolph of Tazewell Hall, Williamsburg. Her husband was to be speaker of the House in decade preceding the American Revolution. Randolph, along with his brother-in-law, Benjamin Harrison V, would be elected as members of Virginia's delegation to the First Continental Congress. Peyton Randolph would be the first president of the Continental Congress. They had no children.

11 iii. Anne Harrison (#1256) was born BEF. 1726. Married William Randolph of Wilton (1710 - ) , son of William II of Chatsworth (1681 - 1742). Children: Wm. Beverly Randolph (no issue) Peter Randolph m. 1st Mary Spotwood 2nd Mary Page (no issue) Harrison Randolph (no issue) Benjamin Randolph (no issue) Peyton Randolph m. Lucy Harrison, his first cousin, daughter of Benjamin V Anne Randolph m. Benjamin Harrison of Brandon, probably a cousin and the son or grandson of Nathaniel Harrison of Brandon Elizabeth Randolph m. Philip Grymes Lucy Randolph m. Lewis Burwell of King's Mill

12 iv. Hannah Harrison (#1257) was born BEF. 1726. By some accounts, Hannah and her sister, Lucy, and her father, Benjamin IV, were struck and killed by lightning in a summer storm at Berkeley in 1745.

13 v. Henry Harrison (#1258) was born BEF. 1726. Died young.

14 vi. Robert Harrison (#1259) was born BEF. 1726. Died young.

15 vii. Nathaniel Harrison (#1260) was born BEF. 1726. Nathaniel Harrison settled in Prince George County where he later became sheriff. Along with his brothers, supported the Revolutionary cause. After statehood was established in Virginia, Nathaniel was elected to the upper house, the Senate, where he was chosen speaker. By coincidence, his older borther, Benjamin V, the Signer, was at the same time speaker of the House of Delegates, the lower chamber of the General Assembly.

+ 16 viii. Benjamin Harrison was born 1726.

17 ix. Carter Henry Harrison (#1261) was born 1736.⁽³⁸²⁾ Carter Henry Harrison moved to Cumberland County in south central Virginia as a young man and later became a prominent leader in that area during the American Revolution. He is alleged to have been the author of the Cumberland County Resolutions, one of the first series of resolves drawn up in any of the colonies calling for independence from Great Britain.

18 x. Charles Harrison (#1262) was born 1742.⁽³⁸³⁾ Charles Harrison was a distinguished Revolutionary War officer. A colonel in the First Continental Artillery, he was later promoted to brigadier general and became chief of artillery to Major General Nathanael Greene.

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