The History Of The Harrison Family Of Barren County Kentucky

Traces the history of the first Harrisons to come to Virginia: Cuthbert Harrison and his son Burr II and their descendants.

The present work is the result of consultation and cooperation. Those engaged in its composition have had but one purpose, and that was to give to the people of Kentucky a social and political account of their state, based on contemporaneous history, as nearly as the accomplishment of such an undertaking were possible. It has not been the purpose of those who have labored in concert to follow any line of precedent. While omitting no important event in the history of the state, there has been a decided inclination to rather stress those events that have not hitherto engaged the attention of other writers and historians, than to indulge in a mere repetitionot that which is common knowledge. How far they have succeded in this purpose a critical public must determine.

The Neville family lineage is traced back to John Neville (b. 1612 -1664) who was born on the Isle of Wight. He immigrated to America around 1634 and settled in St. Mary's County, Maryland. He married three times and was the father of five children. The next several generations of descendants lived in Virginia.

A genealogy of the descendants of William Masters, Sr. born about 1691 in Calvert Co., Maryland, died after 1771 in Prince George County, Maryland. He married Mary Veatch about 1713.