The home plantation of Benjamin Harrison (d. 1791), named Berkeley, was immediately to the west of Westover. In 1773 Harrison was a burgess for Charles City County; later he became a signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia (1781–84). Harrison married Burwell Bassett’s sister Elizabeth (1730–1792), who on 9 Feb. of this year had given birth at Berkeley to William Henry Harrison (d. 1841), ninth president of the United States (see WATERMAN description begins Thomas Tileston Waterman. The Mansions of Virginia, 1706–1776. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1946. description ends , 163–68; HARRISON [5] description begins “Harrison of James River.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 30 (1922): 408-12; 31 (1923): 83-87, 180-82, 277-83, 361-80; 32 (1924): 97-104, 199-202, 298–304, 404–10; 33 (1925): 97-103, 205-8, 312-21, 410-19. description ends ).