CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Burton-Harrison
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Burton-Harrison

  Jesse Burton was a justice of the peace for Campbell in 179O. His will
recorded in 1795 lent his wife a tract of 3OO acres known as Turpin's Lott,
which was to descend to his son, John Hudson Burton, at her death. To his son,
Alexander, he devised a 300-acre tract which he had purchased from Thomas
Jefferson and was known as Ballou's Lott. To son John Hudson, also, 30O acres
bought of Thomas Jefferson and known as Jefferson's Lott. The 5OO acre lot
bought of Joseph Anthony and Thomas Butler was to be sold and money arising from
sale to be equally divided between sons, William, Robert and Jesse, Jr.—To dau.
Patsy Irvine, he gave 2O shillings; dau. Nancy, slaves and furniture; dau. Sally
(m. Samuel J. Harrison of Lynchburg), slaves and furniture. George Cabell,
William Irvine and Walter Moseley were witnesses to the will. Burton's lands
were situated on Burton's creek, from which circumstance the creek's name was
changed from Rock Castle to Burton's, which it has retained. In his will he
mentions his brother, Philip Burton. In 1786 when Lynch started the town of
Lynchburg on 45 acres of his land, he divided it into half-acre lots, and
appointed ten trustees of whom Jesse Burton was one.

  His son-in-law, Samuel Jordan Harrison, was an alderman of the town in 18O5,
and was appointed one of the commissioners to contract for a jail for prisoners
and debtors. In 1811 Thomas Jefferson sold Harrison 474 acres on Ivy creek (a
tract of land which had been conveyed to Richard Tullos in 1771), and also 1OO
acres granted Jefferson by patent in 1797. Harrison then moved from Bedford to
his Campbell land. Two of his daughters married into the Norvell family, one was
the wife of William and the other of Lorenzo Norvell. His son, Jesse Burton
Harrison, was an active citizen of Lynchburg. In 1818 he built the Franklin
hotel, a leading hostelry, the name afterwards changed to the Norvell House;
still later taken down and replaced by the Guggenheimer Department store. In
1865, when the Lynchburg National Bank was organized, Lorenzo Norvell was made
cashier of it; his daughter, Mary, married John M. Miller, who was cashier of
the First National Bank, the position later held by his son, E. P. Miller. His
daughter, Lucy Norvell, married Frank T. Lee, of Westover, a country place,
later divided and incorporated within Lynchburg limits, now covered with
residences. Mary Miller, grand-daughter of Lorenzo Norvell married Daniel A.
Payne, the president of Lynchburg Trust and Savings Bank.


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