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Rev Thomas H. came to the early Jamestown, VA settlement about
1640 as minister of Elizabeth River parish (Anglican,
Episcopal).
chaplain to Governor of Berkeley (1645-1652).

Rev Thomas , a native of Kingston-Upon-Hull, England, he was of
Yorkshire parentage, with residence in London, and was
descended from the Durham family of Harrisons, entitled to bear
the Yorkshire (London) Arms. He came from the same family as
the line of Alderman and Burgess of the city of Hull, which was
granted a charter by Edward I in 1299. He was an intimate of
the
Cromwell family .

Following the second Indian massacre, April 18, 1644, he turned
Puritan himself, and in 1648, after refusing to read the Book
of
Common Prayer, or Administer the Sacrements, abondoned his
ministrial office.

He removed to New England where he married Dorothy Symonds,
daughter of Samuel Symonds of Ipswich, MA, Deputy Governor
of MA, and a native of Great Zeldham, Essex Co, England. He
became an Independent or Congregational minister of the gospel.

From MA in 1650, Thomas returned with his family to England as
minister at St. Dunstans-in-the-East, London. He then removed
to
Bromborough Hall, Warrall, Cheshire, and in 1655, accompanied
Henry Cromwell (son of the Protector) to Ireland.

Upon the Restoration, Rev. Harrison returned to Chester, where
he preached to large congregations in the Cathedral. Following
the
passing of the "Act of Uniformity" in 1662, he settled
permanently in Dublin, and founded there a flourishing
dissenting church.

With the rise of the Catholic element under James II, there was
little hope for any former followers of Cromwell, or his
children.
Having been so closely allied with the Cromwell party, Thomas's
fortunes were doubtless depleted by the time Isaiah came to
America.

Rev. Thomas Harrison died in 1682 in Dublin, Ireland - "A midst
general mourning." "He was a complete gentleman", "Much courted
for his conversation." He was the author of several works,
among them "Old Jacobs Account Cast Up." He left a valuable
library.
His will recorded in 1682, and other family records was
destroyed in the courts' fire of Public Records office of
Ireland in the late
rebellion of 1922,

Identified by J. Houston Harrison, Settlers By The Long Grey
Trail, as the ancestor of the Rockingham Co Va Harrisons is
circumstantial, but a good case for his findings, thus this
author has accepted the results as reasonably adequate.

J. Houston Harrison conducted a thorough research of the origin
of the Harrison families of England and Scotland, see CVii, pp.
77-78. The Harrisons came into England with the Norse Viking
Sea Kings 1016-1035. They were among the free Danes of whom
Kingsley's hero, Hereward the Wake was one, and the last to
withstand William the Conquerer.

Northumberland is the Danish section of England and filled with
Harrisons. The name being of Danish patronymic origin more
properly spelled Arysen (Aertzsen) and common to this day in
Denmark, Sweden and Norway.(Richmond, Va Standard, No. 41, june
12, 1880)

In 1650 he returned to England and became minister of St.
Dunstans-in-the-East London. He came an intimate of Henry
Cromwell
and accompanied him in 1655 to Ireland where he settled
permanently in Dublin

After the Restoration and assumption of the English throne by
Charles II, He preached to large congregations in the Cathedral
at
Chester, England, was the author of several works of note, and
left a valuable library.