Carter Henry Harrison (1792–1843), attorney and planter, was the son of TJ’s first cousin Randolph Harrison. Born in Cumberland County, he attended the College of William and Mary, 1810–12, and lived the following year in Milton, from which he visited Monticello. Harrison resided in Richmond from at least 1822 until 1825, and he owned twenty-two slaves in Goochland County in 1830. He moved to Albemarle County in 1834 and became a county magistrate the next year. Harrison owned forty-two slaves in Cumberland County in 1840 and fifty-six there at the time of his death during a visit to John H. Cocke’s Bremo plantation (Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 223, 378; ViHi: Harrison Family Papers; Bond from David Higginbotham to William Short, 31 Jan. 1813, enclosed in TJ to Short, 10 Feb. 1813; ViU: Harrison Diary; DNA: RG 29, CS, Goochland Co., 1830, Cumberland Co., 1840; Richmond Enquirer, 31 Oct. 1843; Cumberland Co. Will Book, 10:413–5, 429–31; gravestone inscription in Clifton cemetery, Cumberland Co.).

mr abbot & mr myers were most likely the Richmond attorneys Josiah B. Abbott and John S. Myers (The Richmond Directory, Register and Almanac, for the Year 1819 [Richmond, 1819], 33; Richmond Enquirer, 3 July 1821).