Lower Brandon Plantation
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Lower Brandon Plantation (or simply Brandon Plantation), on the James River in present-day Prince George County, Virginia, was owned by the Harrison family from 1700-1926.
[edit] History
Brandon Plantation was part of a 1616 land grant to John Martin, of the original colonists at Jamestown and a member of its first Council in 1607. The new plantation built there was named "Martin's Brandon", apparently incorporating the family name of his wife, Mary (née Brandon) Martin, daughter of Robert Brandon, a prominent English goldsmith and supplier to Queen Elizabeth I of England. They had been married in 1586. John Martin died at Martin's Brandon Plantation in 1632.
The plantation was then bought by Benjamin Harrison II, who lived from 1645-1712. It was then passed to his son Nathaniel Harrison, 1677-1727. After Nathaniel's premature death in 1727 it went into the hands of his son Nathaniel Harrison II, 1703-1791. Sometime before his death in 1791, Brandon came under the possession of Revolutionary War Colonel Benjamin Harrison, 1743-1807. At his death, the property was divided between his sons, and Upper Brandon Plantation was created.
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| Sherwood Forest Plantation | Evelynton Plantation | Westover Plantation | Berkeley Plantation | Shirley Plantation | Curles Neck | Varina Farms | Smith's Fort Plantation | Smith's Fort Plantation | Bacon's Castle | Chippokes Plantation and State Park | Claremont Manor | Lower Brandon Plantation | Upper Brandon Plantation | Flowerdew Hundred Plantation | Appomattox Manor | |
