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THE
VIRGINIA MAGAZINE
OF
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY,
Published Quarterly by
THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
FOR
THE YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1895.
VO LU IVl E II.
Richmond. Va:
HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY
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ARCHER ANDERSON,
CHARLES V. MEREDITH,
' LYON G. TYLER.
■ • E. V. VALENTINE,
WM. H. PALMER.
Editor of the Magazine,
PHILIP A. BRUCE.
WILLIAM ELLIS JONES, PRINTER,
RICHMOND, VA.
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Table of Contents.
Affairs in Virginia, 1626 50
Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents 60, 178, 306, 414
Book Reviews 109, 229, 350, 44S
Causes of Discontent in Virginia 166, 2S9, 38c
First Legislative Assembly in America 55
Genealogy — Floiirnoy Family Sr, iQO, 31S- 437
Historical Notes and Queries 91, 2:4, 338, 426
Indian Wars in Augusta County, Virginia ... 397
Instructions to Governor Yeardley, 1618 t54
Instructions to Governor Yeardley, 1626 393
Instructions to Governor Berkeley, 164 c 2S1
Letters of William Fitzhugh 15, 121, 259, 370
Necrology of Virginia Historical Society 328, 435
Public Officers in Virginia, 1702, 1714 i
Proceedings of Virginia Historical Society, January No i-xxiv
Proceedings of Executive Committee, April No i -ii
Publications Received 119, 239, 355, 453
Racing in Colonial Virginia 293
Robert Beverley and his Descendants 405
Two Wills of Seventeenth Century 174
Virginia Officers in Continental Line 241, 357
Virginia Troops in French and Indian Wars 37, i43
Will of William Fitzhugh 276
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At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Virginia
Historical Society, held February 9th. 1S95, the President of the
Society, Mr. Joseph Bryan, announced the following Standing
Committees for the year 1S95:
FINAXCE. ---'-'■'
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VIRGINIUS NEWTON,
B. B. MUNFORD.
R. L. TRAYLOR,
R. T. BROOKE.
PUBLICATION.
ARCHER ANDERSON,
LYON G. TYLER,
C V. MEREDITH,
E. V. VALENTINE,
WM. H. PAL.MER.
Editor of Magazine.
PHILIP A. BRUCE.
MEMBERSHIP.
W. P. PALMER. M. D.
R. H. GAINES,
D. C. RICHARDSON,
E. C. VENABLE.
LIBRAR Y.
J. L. M. CURRY,
PHILIP A. BRUCE,
W. G. STANARD,
BARTON H. WISE,
CHARLES W. KENT
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At tlie same meeting of the Committee the followmg letter
trom the Corresponding Secretary of the Old Dominion Chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolution was read, and
was ordered to be printed in the April (1895; Magazine :
409 West Franklin Street,
Richmond, Va., January 5th, 1S95.
Mr. Joseph Bryan,
President of tJie Virginia Historical Society :
My Dear Sir,— At a meeting of the Old Dominion Chapter of Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution on January 3d, 1S95, an extract was
read from your address before the Virginia Historical Society, as pub-
lished in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. II, No.
3. January, 1S95 : " These organizations (Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities, Colonial Dames of America and Old Dominion
Chapter of Daughters of the American Re>-olution) presented to the
Society last year i902.6o in cash." The Old Dominion Chapter desires
to call the attention of the President of the Virginia Hislorical Society
to the lact, that on March 13th. 1S93. the Regent of the Old Dominion
Chapter sent him a check for 5S01.30, that on November 15th, 1S94, the
Chapter donated ^62.10 to furnishing of rooms and purchase of maga-
zines, making 5S63.40. That so far as known to the Old Dominion
Chapter, the Societies for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and
Colonial Dames of America, during 1S93, did not contribute to the
\'irginia Historical Society, nor is any record of any gift on the minutes
of those S. cieties, as is reported to the Old Dominion Chapter by the
Recording Secretaries thereof The Old Dominion Chapter respectfully
begs that a statement of the sums contributed by them be inserted in
the ne.xt number of the Magazine, as they have publicly stated that
prior to November, 1S94, they were the only one of these patriotic
Societies to contribute to the Virginia Historical Society, and so far as
they know, they are the only one of these Sncieties named which has
contributed, except in furnishing rooms and periodicals.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. Decatur Axtell, Corresponding Secretary,
Old Dominion Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Vol. II. JULY, 1S94. ^ No. i.
Public Officers in Virginia, 1702, 1714.
[Virginia— Board of Trade— Vol: 14.]
T/ie Present State of Virginia for ye year 1714 zi'ith respect
to the Colony in General.
The Right Hono^'^ George Earl of Orkney, His Maj" Lt. &
Governor General, The Hono''*" Alexander Spotswood, Lt.
Governor and Commander in chief.
Council. '"" "-• '■■":'^ •■'-""•' ^^' •"
Robert Carter, James Blair, Philip Ludvvell, John Smith, John
Lewis, William Byrd, William Cocke, Nathaniel Harrison,
Mann Page & Robert Porteus, Esq".
Wm. Robertson, Clerk. Wm. Cragg, Boor Keeper. ^,><
Principal Officers by Patent & Otherwise.
Commissary for ye Bishop of London. — The Rev'^ Mr. James
Blair.
Secretary of ye Colony. — William Cocke, Esq'.
Auditor of His MajUs Reveymes. — Wm. Blathwait, Esq^
Receiver Gen' II of His Maj'ts Reveyiues. — Wm. Byrd. Esq'.
Deputy Azidiior. — Philip Ludwell, Esq'.
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Officers of the Gen'll Court & Vice Admiralty.
Robert Carter. James Blair, Philip Ludwell, John Smith, John
Lewis, \Vm. Byrd, Wm. Cocke, Nathaniel Harrison, Mann Page
& Robert Porteus, 'Esq;', Judges of ye s'd General Court.
Chicheley Corbin Thacker, Gierke.
John Holloway, /«(/^6' of ye s'd Goicrt of Vice Admirally.
John Clayton, Advocate.
Ch' Jackson, Register. ,, ; ,
Francis Tyler, Marshall.
7 - District Officers of ve Custom's.
Wm. Keith, Esq'', Sut-veyor Ge7icrall.
Upper part of James River. — G;//^^/c;r, Edward Hill, Naval
Oj^cer, Francis Lightfoot.
Lower part. — Gollector, Francis Kannaday, Naval Officer,
John Holloway. George Walker, Searcher.
York River. — Collector, Wm. Buckner, Naval Officer, Nathan'
Burwell. Robert Jones, Searcher.
Rappahanock. — Collector, Rich^ Chichester, Naval Officer,
Ch'' Robir7on.
Yo^om^cV. — Collector, Dan' M'Carty, Naval Officer, Thomas
Lee.
Eastern Shore. — Collector, Henry Scarbrugh, Naval Officer,
Wm. Waters. Robert Howsen, Surveyor.
Lynhaven Bay & Elsabeth. — Sampson Trevethan, Surveyor.
Escheators.
For the South side of ffiynes River. — Wm. Byrd, Esq'.
Betdjeen James Of y'ork Rivers. — Philip Ludwell, Esq'.
Between York & Rappahanock Rivers. — ^John Lewis, Esq^
For the Eastern Shore. — Hancock Custis, gent.
Officers of the Assembly.
Peter Beverley, Speaker,
Benj* Goodwin, Chaplain. . -
Wm. Robertson, Clerk of ye General Assembly.
Rich*^ Buckner, Clerk of the House of Btirgesses.
John Clayton, Clerk of the Committee of Propositions &
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Miles Cary, Clerk of the Committee of Claims.
Francis Tyler, Messenger.
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The present State of Virginia, for the year IJ14, z<.iih respect to
the Coimtys in particular.
Accomack County.
Acres of Land. — 239,462. v
Tithables. — 1,055. '• ! i.Ki'.' vav , '^'•',. _•'•;,■• ' '.
Jv^^rz^— Ed w'^ Robins. i'. :,,:■.. A'i::)' Aitniv^-.^i S -;
Coroner. — Tully Robinson.
fustices of the Peace. — Wm. Custis, Edm'^ Scarbrugh, Tully
Robinson, Geo: Parker, Jn° Bradhurst, Hancock Custis, Jno.
Watts, Cha: Bailey.
Quorum. — Edw"^ Robins, Rich'^ Kitson, Hen: Scarbrugh, Ken:
Custis, Tho: Custis, Skinner Wallop, Wm. Burton.
Burgesses. — Tully Robinson, Rich/ Drumond.
Tobacco Agents. — Hen: Scarbrugh, James Kemp.
Number of Storehouses. — 2.
County Clerk. Snead.
Surveyor. — Cha: Bailey.
Parish. — Accomack, X Cf-'fi'-'": '■
Minister. — Mr. Black.
Charles City County.
Acres of Land. — 57,939.
Tithables. — 553. ,, Jr:' X.onv,.!:y.. f
Sheriff.— K\c\i^ Dennis.
Coroners. — Littleberry Epes, Jn" Stith.
Justices of the Peace. — Jno. Stith, Rich* Bradford, Drury
Stith, Jn" Epes, Sam' Harwood, Rich'^ Dennis.
Qicorum. — J as: Harwood, James Joyeux, Lewellin Epes, Geo:
Hunt, James Maunder.
Burgesses. — Littlebury Epes, Sam' Harwood.
Tobacco Agent. — Littlebury Epes.
Number of Storehouses. — i. ^ . • • .
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County Clerk. — Littlebury Epes. i ,,,,. . ;. v j ^,..
Surveyor-. — Rob' Boiling. ^ ,.> ,,.,,..;
Parishes. — Westover part, Weyanoke.
Minister. — Cha: Anderson.
' "" ' Eliza. City County.
Acres of Land. — 33,854.
Tithables. — 610. ■.•.,,_. \):^.\\^f:-:
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Coroner. — Wm. Armistead.
Justices of the Peace.— Jn'' Holloway, Wm. Lowry, Wm.
Armistead, Era: Ballard, Tho: Tabb, Anth" Armistead, Simon
Hoilier.
Quorum.— Wm. Bosvvell, John Bailey, John Moore, Tho:
Wyth, John King, Mark Johnson.
Burgesses. — Wm. Armistead, Rob' Armistead.
Tobacco Agent. — Rob' Armistead.
Number of Storehouses. — i.
County Clerk. — Cha' Jennings. . -,, K :.;.-•. (.-=■
Surveyor. — Wm. Lowry. ;:,>-■> ,.<-■. '.■■;. '.-.a-v:-
Parish. — Eliza. City,
Minister. — And"" Thomson. • v,
A.7^i ^;. :.cKi.-' Essex County.
Acres of Land. — 190,352.
Tithables. — 1,653.
5>^^rz/f".— Leo: Tarrent. FarUr. Ino. VVor-
Coro7iers. — ^Jno. Catlett, Law: Taliaferro.
Justices of the Peace.— K\z\i^ Covington, Jn" Lomax, Jas.
Smith, Hen: Robinson.
Quorum.— Wtc\. Woodford, Paul Micou, Wm. Daingerfeild,
Wm. Young, Leo: Tarrent. ^_ ,^^,^ ,, .^^
.5«r^<?j.y^.y.— Era: Gouldman,Jno. Hawkins.
Tobacco Age7its.—K\c\i^ Buckner, Rob' Beverley, Joseph
Smith.
Number of Storehouses. — 4.
Cou7ity Clerk. — Rich^ Buckner. -.iif ¥^'n\^ \\>tn.
Surveyor.— Aug' Smxih. ,eo.- Koeettson. Itto. r.>rion.
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Parishes. — South ffarnham, St. Anns, St. Marys,
Ministers. — Lewis Latane. Tho : Edwards. Owen Jones.
Gloucester County.
Acres of Land. — 133,544. .■^.- .>, ,a --.^^
Tithables. — 2,%o\. ;,.-.. •,. c,. / ; '
, Sheriff.— Y\{\\. ^mM\\. " ' -'
Coroners. — Tho: Buckner, Amb: Dudley.
Justices of the Peace. — Mordecai Cooke, Peter Kemp, Nath'
Burwell, Gab: Throckmorton, David Alexander.
Quorum. — Wm. Smith, Tho: Read, Phil: Smith, Hen: Armi-
stead, Henry Whiting. Aug' Smith, Cha: Tomkies, Wm. Kemp.
Biirgesses. — Peter Beverley, Mordecai Cooke.
Tobacco Agents. — Jno. Smith, Esq', Henry Whiting, Giles
Cooke.
Number of Storehouses. — 5. .., ' 1 ^ . ' 1 , ,. , , - ,.;
County Clerk. — Peter Beverley.
Surveyor. — Tho: Cooke.
Parishes. — Abbington, Petso, Ware. Kingston,
Ministers. — Guy Smith. Em: Jones. James Clack. Fra: Mylner.
y ' ' . • ' ' Henrico County.
Acres of Land. — 196,683. '' ' ^' ■
^ Tithables.—i.2)35- - : *:; ;''U.
•' Sheriff. — ^Jn" Worsham.
Coroner. — ffra: Epes.
Justices of the Peace. — Fra: Epes, Wm. Farrar, Jno. Wor-
sham, Jos: Royall, Jn" Boiling, Rich'^ Cocke, Tho: Jefferson.
Quoru7n. — Abra Salle, Isham Epes, Wm. Kennon, Tho: Ran-
dolph, Hen: Randolph, jun'', Jno: Archer, Jno: Redford.
Bitrgesses. — ^Jno. Boiling, ffra: Epes, jun^
Tobacco Agents. — Wm. Randolph, Fra: Epes, jun^ Wm.
Kennon.
Nuynber of Storehouses. — 6.
County Clerk. — Wm. Randolph.
Surveyor. — Fra: Epes, jun'.
Parishes. — Varina als Henrico, Bristoll part. King Wm.
Ministers. — Wm. Finnie. Geo: Robertson. Jno. Carion.
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Acres of Land. — 117.337. ..
Tithables. — 1,535.
Sheriff. — Wm. Marston.
" Coroners. — Tho : Cowles, Jno. Geddis, David Bray.
Justices of the Peace. — James Bray, Jn" Frayser, Hen: Soane,
jun^ Wm. Broadnax, Edw*^ Jaque'.in, Fred: Jones.
Quorum. — Vion^o Ing'.es, Arch: Blair, James Duke, David
Morce, Fra: Lighttbot, Wni. Marston.
Burgesses. — Geo: Marable, Henry Soane, jun\ Ed'^'^ Jacquelin,
for y^ City.
Tobacco Agent.— Henry Soane, jr.
Number of Storehoitses. — 3.
County Clerk. — Wm. Robertson.
Surveyor. — Simon Jeffrys.
Parishes. — Wallingford, Wilmington, James City, Eruton part.
Minister. — James Blair.
Isle of Wight County.
Acres of Land. — 168,026.
Tithables. — 1,223. • '. ---^ v^-.: •'"■ ' r't'^^^'-y'^
^■/z^rz^.—Nath' Ridley. ' - ' • - •"••••
Justices of the Peace. — Anth" Holladay, Arthur Smith, Tho:
Pitt, Wm. Bridger, Hen: Applewaite, Jos: Godwin, Tho: Hill,
Andrew Woodley.
Quorum. — Xath' Ridley, Tho: Walton, Geo: Norsworthy,
James Day, Burnaby Mackeny, Tho: Brewer. . :■. ^ -: ; 'lo.
Burgesses. — Wm. Bridger, Joseph Godwin. ''
Tobacco Agents. — Joseph Godwin. Wm. Bridger.
Number of Storehouses. — 2.
County Clerk. — Henry Lightfoot.
Surveyor. — J n° Allen. -
Parishes. — Warwick Creek, Newport,
Ministers. — Alex. Forbes. And' Monro.
King & Queen County.
Acres of Land. — 218,304.
Tithables. — 1,814. ■■.■■■
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Sheriff. — ^Jn° Madison.
Coroners. — Geo: Braxton, Tho. Pettit.
Justices of the Peace. — ^Jno. HoUoway, Rich'^ Anderson, \Vm.
Bird, James Taylor, Geo: Braxton, Tho: Pettit, Jn° Madison,
Law' Orill, Rob^ Pollard.
Quonofi. —SdiVTi- Mathews, Jer: Clowder, Rich"^ Johnson, Isaac
Hill, VVm. Southeriand, Gawin Corbin, Jno. Baylor, Tho: Walker,
Wm. Todd.
Burgesses. — Jno. Holloway, Wm. Bird.
Tobacco Age7its. — Rob' Beverley, Jno. Baylor.
Nmnber of Storehouses. — 4.
Coimty Clerk. — C. C. Thacker.
Surveyor. — Harry Beverley. I- V '.;:.: v.
Parishes. — St. Stephens, Stratton Major,
Miiiisters. — Ralph Bowker. Jno. Skaife.
■■ ^ 'Jj ■ KixG William County.
Acres of Land. — 14,600.
Tithables. — 1,226. " ''^ ^- --.r^ ■•^.-.^^ ■■•; M;,t]ii
Sheriff.— Wm. Smith. •' ^ - ■'•■ "' 1 ^'-m^:
Coroners. — ^Jno. Walker, Wm. Anderson.
Justices of the Peace. — Jno. Waller, Tho. West, Geo: Dabney,
Nath' West, Phil: Whitehead, Wm. Anderson, Jn° Butts, Augt.
Moore.
Quorum. — Tho. Johnson, Geo: Purchase, Jno. Chiles, Tho:
Carr.jun', Wm. Smith, Jn" Ouarles, Ralph Crawforth.
Burgesses. — ^Jn" Waller, Orlando Jones.
Tobacco Agents.— Jno. Waller, Wm. Aylett, Nat: West, Tho;
Carr, Tho: Butts.
JVumber 0/ Storehouses. — 7.
County Clerk. — Wm. Aylett.
Surveyor. — Harry Beverley. - -«. .
Parish. — St Johns,
Minister. — ^Jno. Monro.
Lancaster County.
: Acres of Land. — Proprietors.
Tithables. — 1,019.
Sheriff. — Tho: Lee.
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Coroners. — \Vm. Ball, Jn° Tubervile.
i Justices of the Peace.— Henry Fleet, Wm. Ball, Jno. Tuber-
vile, Rich'' Ball.Tho: Pinkard.
Quorum.— Tho: Carter, Rich^ Chichister, Row^'^ Lawson,
Hugh Brent, Geo: Heale, Rawleigh Chin, Jas: Ball, Tho: Lee.
Burgesses. — Wm. Ball, Edwin Conway.
Tobacco Agent. — Tho: Carter.
Nu7nber of Storehouses. — 2.
County Clerk. — ^Jos: Tayloe. (,;;, •, ,
/'^z;7".j//^.y.— Christ Church, White Chappell, r, ,. .,;..>
Minister.— Jno. Bell.
Middlesex- County.
Acres of Land. — 71,264.
Tithables. — 926.
Sheriff. — Jno. Vivion. .'nr ■fi,.isr.
Corojier. — iMatf" Kemp.
Justices of the Peace.— S' \Nm. Skipwith, Barronett, Mathew
Kemp, Jno. Smith, Ch' Robinson, Geo: Wortham, Rob' Danieil,
Jn° Smith, Sen'.
Ouonun. —Kogev Jones, Oliver Segar, Garrett Minor, James
Walker, Jn" Grymes, Jno. Price, Jno. Vivion, Jno. Wormley.
Burgesses. — ^Jno. Robinson. Chr. Robinson.
Tobacco Agent. — Jno. Robinson.
V Number of Storeho2ises. — i.
Cottnty Clerk. — Wm. Stanard.
Surveyor. — Tho: Cooke. L\rv
• /'arz.yi.— Christ Church,
■ Minister. — Earth" Yates.
Nansemond County.
Acres of Land. — 142,834.
Tithables. — 1,250.
Sheriff.— \Nm. Butler.
Coroners.— Tho: Jordan, Tho: Godwin, James Reddick.
fustices of the Peace.— Tho: Godwin, Tho: Milner, Cha:
Drury, Wm. Wright, Jn° Lear, Rob' Peale, Henry Baker, Jos :
Meredeth.
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Oicoriini. — Jn" Norsworthy, Tho: Jordan, jun"", Jn" Yeates, Wm.
Butler, Jno. Wright, Edw^ Hawstead, Gresham Coffeild, Tho:
Norfleet.
Burgesses. — Tho: Godwin, Wm. Wright.
Tobacco Agents. — Wm. Wright, Tho: Godwin. - ' .:
Number of SloreJioiises. — 5.
Coiaiiy Clerk. — Mich' Archer.
Surveyor — Tho: Milner.
Parishes. — Lower parish, Upper parish, Chuckatuck,
Ministers. — Mr. Ransford. Mr. Walhce.
Norfolk County.
Acres of Land. — 122,061^2. ' . '
Tiihables. — 891. ■, ■. :" i.t-- .,' k'.-\' \',^^',r ' r.n
Sheriff. — Jonas Holladay.
Coroners. — Tho. Willoughby, Sam' Boush.
Justices of the Peace. — Sam' Boush, Matl'' Godfrey, Wm.
Langley, James Wilson, Mati" Spivy.
Quorum. — Geo: Newton, Jonas Holladay, Jn" Hoisted, Wm.
Crawford.
Burgesses. — Geo: Newton, Wm. Crawford.
Tobacco Ageyit. — Sam' Boush. ,
Ntimber of Storehouses. — 2.
Cotoity Clerk. — Lem' Wilson. " .v /
Surveyor. — Lem' Newton.
New Kent County.
Acres of Land. — 200,649.
Tithables. — 1,852.
Sheriff. — Tho: Barbar.
Coroners. — ^Jas, Foster, Jn" Dibdale, Nich" Meriwether.
Justices of the Peace. — Joseph Foster, James Moss, John
Stanup, Nich" Meriwether, Geo: Keeling, Henry Chiles, Rich*
Littlepage, Roger Thompson.
Quorum. — ^Jn" Dibdale, Rob' Anderson, Jno. Scott, Tho: Butts,
Jno. Foster, Tho: Barbar, jun", Ale.x: Walker, Jn" Sclater.
Burgesses. — Nich" Meriwether, Jn" Stanup.
Tobacco Agents. — Tho: Carr, Tho: Butts, Rich* Littlepage.
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Nuviber of SioreJwiises. — 4.
Cou7ity Clerk. — ]v° Thornton.
Surveyor. — Val: Minge.
Parishes. — Blisland, St. Peters, St. Pauls,
Ministers. — Dan' Taylor. \Vm. Brodie. Tho: Sharp.
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Acres of La?id.—?vopnt{ov'i.
. Tithables. — 1,272.
Coroners. — Jn" Sanders, Edw"^ Sanders.
Justices of the Peace. — Peter Hack, Ch"" Xeale. Jn" Howson,
Peter Presley, Jn" Stepto, Jn" Claughton, Jn" Taylor, Jn" Ingram.
Wm. Jones.
Oiiornm.—^\c\\^ Lee, Griffin ffantleroy, Rich'^ Neale, Rich^
Span, Geo: Ball, Rich'^ Hull, Jn" Coppage, Tho: Hughlet.
Burgesses. — Ch"" Neale, Rich'^ Neale.
Tobacco Agents. — Rich'^ Neale. Geo: Eskridge.
Number of Storehouses. — 3.
Coimty Clerk. — Tho: Hobson.
Surveyor. — ^Jn" Coppage. ■..•-■; ./a
Parishes. — Fairieild, Wiccocomico.
Minister. — Mr. Spann.
Northampton County.
Acres of Land. — 103,840.
Tithables.— ?>2,i. ,.. ,
Sheriff.— ]v)r Powell.
Coroner. — Geo: Harmanson.
Justices of the Peace. — Benj' Nottingham, Hillary Stringer,
Jn° Harmanson, Jn° Powell, Wm. Kendall. Obedi: Johnson.
Quorum.— ]u° West, Wm. Kendall, jun', Jn° Marshall, Jn°
Savage, Henry Blair, Jn" Hunt.
Burgesses. — Wm. Waters, Cha:ffloyd.
County Clerk. — Rob' Howson.
Surveyor. — Cha: Bailey.
Parish. — Hungars, .. ...... ' . '
Minister. — Pat: Faulkner.
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Prinxess Ann County.
Acres of Land. — 106,639.
Tithables. — 921.'
Sheriff. — Jn° Cornick.
Coroners. — Edw^ Moseley, Jn° Moseley.
Justices of the Peace. — Edvv'^ Moseley, Soloman White, Henry
Spratt, Jn" Moseley, Horatio Woodhouse, Jn° Cornick, Hen:
Chapman.
Quorum. — Wm. Smith, Geo: Hancock, Cha: Saver, Tho:
Keeling, Samp. Trevethan, Edw^ Moseley,j'un', Tho: Corprew,
Edw'^ Lament, Jn° Bollitho.
Burgesses. — Max: Boush, Tho : Walke. .> i r .^^ •.. '■'■
Tobacco Agent. Walke. s; .
Number of Storehouses. — i. . jij
Co2cnty Clerk. — Ch' Cocke. . ;-,. r'wriv .-, vVV;
Surveyor. — Lem' Newton.
Parish. — Lynhaven,
Minister. — Mr. Tenant. .-v.- \\.
Prince George County.
Acres of Land, — 118,764. i . , /'.-f
Tithables. — 1,040.
Sheriff. — Samp: Meredeth.
Coroners. — Wm. Harrison, Henry Batt.
Justices of the Peace. — Cha: Goodrich, John Hamlyn, Jn" Poy-
thress, Peter Jones, Randle Piatt, Rob' Mumford, Rob' Hall,
Henry Duke.
Quorum. — Stith Boiling, Sampson Meredith, James Thweat,
Jn° Hatch, Rob' Boiling, Jn" Hardiman, Lewis Green, jun', Edw"
Wyatt, Jn° Peterson, Rich'* Hamlyn.
Burgesses. — Edw** Goodrich, Jn" Hamlyn.
Tobacco Agents. — Rob' Mumford, Jn" Hamlyn Rand. Piatt,
Jn" Simons.
Number of Storehouses. — *
County Clerk. Hamlyn.
Surveyor. — Rob' Boiling.
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Parishes.— BrestoU part, Martin Brandon.
Ministers. — Geo. Robertson. Jn" Worden.
Richmond County.
Acres of Land. — Proprietors,
Tithables. — 1,799.
Sheriff. — Cha' Barbar.
Coro7iers.—^d,\\^ Banow, Nich'^ Smith, Alex: Donaphan.
Justices of the Peace.— Wex: Donaphon, Jn' Tarpley, Cha:
Barbar, Edw^ Barrovv, Nich" Smith, Joseph Deeke, Wm. Wood-
bridge, Wm. Thornton.
Qiionim.—i:ho: GrirSn, Jno. Tayloe, Moore ffantleroy, Jon'
Gibson, Rich'^ Taliaferro, Aug' Brockeabrough.
B 7irg esses.— Wm. Robinson. Wm. Thornton.
Tobacco Agents.— W'xn. Robinson, Wm. Thornton, Wm.
Tayloe, Jno. Tarpley.
Nicmber of Storehouses. — 6.
Cotinty C/.?r/&.— Marm: Beckwith.
Surveyor. — Wm. Thornton.
Parishes. — St. Marys, Sittenborne, North ffarnham,
Ministers.— Mr. Bagg.[?] Peter Kippax.
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Acres of Land. — 146,302.
Tithables. — i ,320.
Coroner. — Wm. Edwards.
Justices of the Peace.— \Wm. Brown, Tho: Holt, Sam' Thom-
son, Wm. Edwa.-ds, Wm. Cocke, Waller Cocke, Etheld' Tay-
lor, Rob' Rutifin. Hen: Harrison.
Quorii?n.—]x\' Simons, Wm. Gray, Jn" Nickells, Walter ftlood,
Howell Edmonds, Jn" Holt, Wm. Rookins, Tho: Collyer, Wm.
Drew.
Burgesses.— \Wm. Gray, Jn" Simons.
Tobacco Age}>ts.—\Ym. Grdiy, In" S'xmons.
Number of Storehouses. — 3.
County C/(?r/^.— Jn" Allen.
Surveyor. — ^Jn' Allen.
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Parishes. — Southwark, Lyons Creek.
Minister. — Mr. Cargill. ,. .
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Acres of Land. — Proprietors. :-(...,
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Sheriff. — Geo: Mason, Jr. . '
Corojiers. — Jn" Waugh, ]n° West.
Justices of the Peace. — Geo: Mason, Rice Hooe, Jn^ Wash-
ington, Jos: Sumner, Dade iMassie,Jn'' West.
Quorum. — Geo: Anderson, Jn" Waugh, Geo: Mason, jun^
James Jameson, Hen: Fitzhugh, Tho: Lunn, Raw' Travis, Jn'
Mozey. •
Burgesses. — Henry Fitzhugh, Jno. Waugh.
Tobacco Agents. — ^Jn° Waugh, Hen: Fitzhugh.
Number of Storehouses. — 3.
County Clerk. — Tho: Fitzhugh.
Surveyor. — Tho: Gregg.
Parishes. — St. Pauls, Overworton.
Minister. — Mr. Scott.
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Acres of La?id. — 39,213. . '
Tiihables.—6oi^.
Coroner. — Tho: Merry.
Justices of the /'^a^r^'. — Miles Wills, Tho: Charles, Mathew
Jones, Tho: Haynes, Tho: Cary, Humph r Harwood.
Quorum. — Fra: Jones, Wm. Harwood. Nath' Hoggard, Wm.
Cole, Tho: Haynes, jun'', Henry Cary, jun^
Burgesses. — Miles Wills, Wm. Harwood.
Tobacco Agent. — Miles Wills.
Number of Storehouses. — 2.
County Clerk. — Miles Cary.
Surveyor. — Wm. Lowry.
Parishes. — Mulberry Island, Denby.
Minister. — Mr. Sclater.
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Westmorland County. •'•'
Acres of Land. — Proprietors.
Tithables. — i ,543.
Coroners. — Jn' Bushrod, Geo: Eskridge.
Justices of the Peace. — Will" Allerton, Jn" Harman, Benj'
Berryman, And'^ Monro.
Quorum. — Hen: Ashton, Jn' Bushrod, Burdit Ashton, Geo:
Eskridge, Dan' M=Carty, Tho: Bonam, Rich^ Watts, Jn° Chilton,
Ja' Baile.
Burgesses. — Will" Allerton, Geo. Eskridge.
Tobacco Agetits.—WWl" A.\\&non; Geo: Eskridge, Hen: Fitz-
hugh.
Number of Storehouses. — 4.
County Clerk. — Jn" Westcomb. ■''''.^'•
Siirveyor. — Thomas Thompson.
Parishes. — Cople, Washington.
Ministers. — Mr. Brechen. St. Jn° Shropshire.
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York County,
Acres of Layid. — 66,709.
Tithables. — i ,395.
Sheriff.— Tho: Nutting.
Coroners. — Henry Tyler, Wm. Barbar, Wm. Buchner, Th'
Nutting.
Justices of the Peace. — Tho: Barbar, Tho: Roberts, Wm.
Buckner, Hen: Tylor, Tho: Nutting, Law. Smith.
Quorum.— V^m. Barbar, Rich"* Bland, Jos. Walker, Tho:
Nelson.
Burgesses. — Wm. Buckner, Wm. Barbar,
Tobacco Agents. — Wm. Buckner, Edw"^ Jaquelin, Wm. Arme-
stead.
Number of Storehouses. — 4.
County Clerk.— PhW: Lightfoot.
Surveyor. — Wm. Buckner.
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Parishes. — Bruton part, 'N'orkhampton, Charles,
Mt7iisiers. — Ja: Blair. Mr. Goodwin. Mr. Sclater.
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Virginia.
List of the present Ot^cers, Ccc, in Virginia, A", 17:4.
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January 50th, 16S6-7.
Dear Brother
If the hearing of your health and welfare gave me such
sentiments as you perceived p my last, the receipt of yours this
year must be sure to admit of reciprocal joys, if you will not
admit them exceeded, your picture would have been mighty
acceptable, & pleasing to me in your absence, but your company,
that is the original according to your own expression, would be
infinitely more acceptable & pleasant, would opportunity and
business permit it, but at these years, & with no settleder fortune,
than we are both at present endued with, will not admit an
absence when opportunity or business calls for one's immediate
presence, for in my opinion none under the degree of a settled
annual income which can be advantageously managed in their
absence can give that Regency & power to fancy and delight as
to neglect Interest or their particular concerns, purposely for a
visit, I do not premise this either to deter or hinder yor. from
your intentions, and I am sure you cannot imagine I would
argue against my own heighth of pleasure & delight, which
would be certainly in the pleasant enjoyment of your most de-
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sired company, provided it would quadrate with your Interest &
conveniently suite your concerns. I heartily thank you for your
intended and your Lady's real presents to* my wife, son and
daughter, & that steel seal to myself, had she writ it, had been
our coat of arms, I should allowed the mistake not esteeming
her conversant in Heraldry or skilfull in Coats of Arms. & for
your writing it to be so, I must Impute it either to credulity or
mistake. I could wish with all my heart I were able to supply
your Necessity's or occasions, with twice the sum proposed
without putting you to the trouble or charge of Procuring or
bringing in servants in return thereof, but Tob" is this year so
low, that I cannot raise one penny of money from it, having now
near three hundred hhds by me, and if I would now let them go
all, to procure such a Sum as you propose, I believe I should be
hard put to it, to obtain it; Last year when Tob° was a com-
modity I should more easily have procured £ioo than this year
;^io. I understand by my Sister that your interest and friends
are great at Court, By which & and their means I might have the
opportunity of seeing you and vast advantage to your self by
your coming, if you could get to be Commander of one of the
King's Ships, that are appointed to attend here, all profits might
fairly be worth to you a thousand pounds sterling a year, with-
out being at two pence expense, these two that we have now,
Allen & Crofts, one is a Scot and the other is a fool, and yet they
clear better than ;!^5oo Sir. a year. One is already in disfavour
with one Governor, and the other is falling into it. If you
could lay hold of such an advantage or some that by my next I
shall propose to you, you would at once give me the joyfull
opportunity of seeing you & the most acceptable assurance of
your future gentile and comfortable being. I thank God I am
plentifully supplied with servants of all conditions, to serve me
in all my occasions, therefore would not have you put yourself
to the charge or trouble of procuring or sending me any in, well
knowing it lies out of the course of your business & concerns.
But again, as I said last year, I should be heartily glad of your
Picture and our Coat of Arms fairly and rightly drawn, not as
on the steel seal that came here, if you cannot find any advan-
tageous opportunity of shewing me the original. Since my last
God has been pleased to help me with one son which not long^
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 17
since was christen' d by the name ot" Henry. We live here very
plentifully without money, & now Tob" is low I shall be very
hard put to it, to purchase ^lo for to supply our Mother, which
fully resolved if possible to be procured but could hardily with
all my Tob" and any thing I could part with except Negroes
supply you with the Sum you proposed, which, had I it at com-
mand, should be as readily your's as it is mine. My wife gives
her due respects to your self & Lady, and assure yourselves both
of the same, from
" ' ' ■ D"" Brother your Wfr.
To Capt Henry Fitzhugh at the Pall Mall &c. - :;.; ,' >'
. • - ■ , June ist, 1685.
Mr. Jno Cooper
In my two former have given you account of the receipt of
your two letters this year, & there take notice that you have not
sent me any acco't of sales of my Tob" received, of my money
of Mrs. Bland, nor take any notice of those things, I sent for
last year, I hope next year you will mend it. I believe I shall
consign you next year thirty or forty hhd', most or all of it will
be Sweet-Scented, and of my own crops, but I desire you to
give me an account by the first, whether Orinoko or Sweet-
Scented yields the best price there, for accordingly I can order
my Shipping & my Sales here, for I shall have very good of
both sorts at my own Plantation. I expect to hear from you by
the first conveniency. I desire you to take care of the Delivery
of the inclosed. I have only in my former sent for loolb. of
Sundryed Sugar and about 60 or 80 lbs. of powdered Sugar. I
have no occasion to add farther now for I will take care for the
future, not to over burden my acco't but to Keep a due factor-
idge.
Sr. Your Wfif.
To Mr. Jno. Cooper Merch't in London.
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April 22nd, 1686.
Mr. Jno. Cooper
Sr. I received your several letters, that by Charles Partis with
the acco't of the barrel of Sugar and acco't current, which came
well to hand, also therein take notice of your care & kindness
of the Delivery of the enclosed letters to you last year together
w'" answer returned in yours this year, for which I heartily thank
you. Missing the conveniency of writing to you by Harris, I
take the first opportunity by way of Bristol to acquaint you that
my consignments if any will be very small this year. This late
Act scared us, & the goodness of the commodity, induced me
to sell in the country, having an allowance of 163 3d p. Cwt for
150 hhds and for what else I sold 133 6d p. Cwt in goods sort-
able, and well bought, by Captain Smith I shall be larger I do
hope if he makes another turn up this River with his Sloop this
voyage, to ship in him 10 or 12 hhds of very fair and bright
large Oronoko Tob", which from the beginning I design for ship-
ping, knowing it to be such Tob" as I might venture a market
upon, but my Plantation its made upon is so far above me &
consequently out of my Kenn, that they have not got it ready.
Here enclosed you'll find two bills of Exchange which please to
receive for my use. In my enclosed letter to my brother, which
I desire you to take care to deliver, I have ordered him to call
for such money of mine in your hands, without limitation, as
his occasions required, which please to let him have though it
be to the last penny of my former balance, & the money new
sent when received p Capt. Smith I shall send you duplicates of
these and I do think some other bills, wherein I shall be fuller,
as well in the Disposal of what money I shall then send as in
other concerns. And now Sir, have only to thank you for your
kindness & expense in drinking my health there, as your letter
indicates, for the first I must gratefully acknowledge the favour,
and for the latter desire you to take 20 shill: out of my money,
either to reimburse your former expenses, or else to drink out
with my brother when you see him next, and deliver him this
enclosed letter. Just now the weather promises a season, if so,
I shall certainly consign you Tob" p. Captain Smith, till whose
arrival I refer & conclude myself. Your Wff.
To Mr. Jno. Cooper Merchant in London.
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Jan. 30th, 1687.
Dear Mother
Your kind, religious letter came in the welcome company of
my dear Sister, the one gave me much satisfaction in seeing your
religious conduct Sc steadfast Patience in bearing up against the
storms of afflictions, that for this long have and do still impend
you and taking the right sense & measure of them, in esteeming
them to be God's rods, with which chastisements he means to
draw you nearest to himself. For afflictions mature and ripen
the soul for Heaven. The other, that is the Society of my
Sister, was and still is extremely pleasing & I hope to her Satis-
faction, for she shall want nothing that lyes in my power to Serve
her as long as she stays with me, and no manner of countenance
& encouragement, if any overtures happen of her advancement.
What entertainment she met with at her coming, receives here,
and is like to continue, she herself can best and most properly
tell you. I am sorry to hear so ill a character of so dear a
brother, & withall to find my expectations so soon disappointed,
not only in his own comfortable gentile subsistence, but in his
assisting you 'n your low and calamitous condition. I do de-
sign ^10, which by the next Ships, if I can possibly procure,
you may assuredly expect, & if can by any means be procured,
I will order it by way of Coz. Harrison or Coz. VVm. Fitzhugh,
the reason that I do not appoint it now, and the difficulty this
year to procure money and all other particulars I refer you to
my Sister's more particular relation.
The Great God of Heaven & Earth bless, preserve and keep
you is the daily prayers of
Your Wfif.
To Mrs. Mary Fitzhugh.
January 30th, 1686-7.
Most Kind Cousin
Your very acceptable letters came safe to my hands, the last
with the welcome of my Sister who had a very prosperous and
successful voyage. I truly condole yourself in the sudden death
of your two sweet Babes, which is easily & cheerfully born, if
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natural affection be laid aside and we truly consider as we ought,
that they have changed a troublesome and uncertain terrestrial
being, for a certain & happy celestial habitation, and you have
this happiness continually to joy you, that you have of your Off"-
spring in Heaven continually singing hallelujahs to the most
highest, their Regeneration in Baptism washing off all original
sin, and their fewness of years excusing them from all wilful &
obstinate Sins. I as heartily also congratulate the joyful welcome
of your new born Guest and wish that as he grows in years, he
may grow in Grace, truly to serve his God; and then without
Question you his parent will find him abound with all dutifull
observance & due obedience. S"" Your kind offer of friendship
& kindness, I heartily accept and thankfully acknowledge, and
must give this assurance, that I shall gladly receive, and readily
observe anything you shall propose in my power to serve you,
who am &c. Please give the enclosed to my Uncle Fitzhugh,
and my Aunt Porter a speedy conveyance.
Your Wff-.
To Mr. Wm. Fitzhugh, Stationer. .;.,..
■::-A'ry :■.: - January 30th, 16S6-7.
Cousin Harris
You"- extraordinary civility and kindness to all your wives
relations and particularly to my Sister, who is now with me, not
only invites but obliges me to return you my heartyest thanks,
& to desire as near an acquaintance and communication as
this Distance will admit for kind husbands may be sometimes
met with, but to meet with a concatenation of an Indulgent Hus-
band, an obliging nature and generous temper in one person is
very rare, all which continually circulate in all your actions and
proceedings, therefore I shall not only court your converse as a
Relation, but your Intimacy as a friend, & please to think of any
Service wherein I may demonstrate myself to be
Your Wff.
Pray give my kind respects to your good wife, my cousin.
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...■,, January 30th, 16S6-7.
Dear Aunt
My Sister's safe arrival to me, amongst other my relations,
more particularly mentions your most kind remembrance of me,
for which reason I take this opportunity to return you my hum-
ble thanks tor the same, & to assure you that if the Distance
would admit or business permit, I wou'd personally pay you
those respects your near Relation to me requires or your kind
remembrance of me commands. However please to accept the
tender of tny most due respects, to your self and good Hus-
band, from
; , „;, Your Wff.
To Mrs. Margaret Porter &c.
• ■ ■••-•■ * ■ January 30th 16S-6.
Most Worthy Uncle
Yours under cover of my Cousin Wm. Fitzhugh came safe
to my hand, which I joyfully received, having thereby a full and
sure confirmation, of your & my Aunt's health & wellfare, which
I pray God continue in it you give me the Satisfactory account,
although not of your wealthy, yet of your contented condition,
which in my opinion far exceeds the other, for its the ma.-k that
all drive at, from the Monarch on the Throne to the lowest Trades-
man, without which the riches of Croesus are not satisfactory,
and with it the lowest Degree passes his time away here pleas-
antly. S"" my condition here is in a very equal temper, I neither
abound nor want, as I live in, so I have a share of the Govern-
ment, having for these eight or nine year's last past served as the
Representative of our county in our Parliament here, with sound
Reputation in the House and a full content to my county I
served for. I have now been married this thirteen years in which
time God has blessed me with six dear Pledges of conjugall
affections, two sons, one daughter I am well assured are Angels
in Heaven & the same quantity and of like quality I now enjoy,
to my great comfort and satisfaction. My Sister Margaret hath
been dead these ten years, lived but poorly, hath left one Daugh-
ter behind her, who last year was with me about six months &
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then left me. I have been thus particular Sir in answer to yours,
in hopes it may invite you to write me again next year. There
is no greater satisfaction to me in this world than to hear and
receive letters from my relations & friends. I hope this will find
yourself and my Aunt in the same health, tranquility and content
as that trom yourself to me intimates, which assure yourself is
the hearty prayer of , • . . ; .
Your Wff.
To Mr. Robert Fitzhugh at the Greenhouse in Bedford.
•' ■.;,*•.; ^: ,!'• -•■;.. January 30th 16S6-7.
Worthy Sir,
Having before me your several kind & courteous letters by
way of Gloucester Penscix & Burnham, I am obliged to return
you my hearty thanks and acknowledgement for the one part,
and retribution for your trouble and charge on the other part &
do fully agree with you in your Philosophical sentiments of y'
simpaihy of absent friends, as you in Laconick expression aptly
deliver in your last, for which reason the first Inventer of letters
deserves eternal commendations, by whose means I have not
only the opportunity of the first acquaintance with so worthy &.
judicious a friend, but a continued communication and Society,
which I as readily enjoy whilst I am reading your most endear-
ing letters, or answering them, as if happily present with you.
S'' as I said last year am heartily glad o.'the continuance of your
purchase and earnestly wish you both profit & success therein,
and hope for an opportunity that I may do you service both in
the confirmac'n of your Title and Settlement upon the Same, as
yet I know of nothing done, your Brother Capt. Brent and Mr.
Massey told me of your desires of surveying, having a draught
of the said survey & settling upon two of the most convenient
places of the Dividend this I have been told of, but by none
consulted with, neither do I know the particular directions
therein, I should think myself unworthy and ungrateful, if I had
stuck at any trouble or stop at any reasonable charge. Would
you communicate your desire & intentions, having myself re-
ceived from you such obliging favours and been these two years
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not only chargeable but troublesome to you. And perhaps my
vicinity together with conveniency of my servants, always ready
al hand, may give me a greater opportunity of doing you ser-
vice therein, than any you have hitherto writ to you, I shall
hope and expect your commands, Which shall no sooner arrive,
than they shall be readily obeyed. Now S"" my experience in
concerns of this county, especially in building and settling plan-
tations, prompts me to ofTer my advice, having had sufficient
trial in those affairs at the expense of almost Three hundred
thousand pounds of Tob". I shall propose no other than what
I would follow myself, that is, if you design this land to Settle, a
child of your own or near kinsman, for whom it is supposed you
would build a very good house, not only for their comfortable
but their creditable accommodations; the best methods to be
pursued therein is to get a carpenter Sc Bricklayer servants, and
send them in here to serve 4 or five years, in which time of their
Service, they might reasonably build a substantial good house,
at least if not brick walls and well plaister'd, & earn money
enough besides, in their said time, at spare times from your
work, havinq- so long a time, to do it in, as would purchase plank,
nails and other materials, and supply them necessary's during
their servitude, or if you design to settle Tennants on it, as your
letter purports, in my opinion it's needless for you to be at the
charge of building for their accommodation, if you intend any
time, if it is but seven years, for there's several may be found,
that for a seven year's Lease, will build themselves a convenient
dwelling, & other necessary houses, and be obliged at the expi-
ration of their time to leave all in good repair, but if you at your
own charge should build an ordinary Virginia house it will be
some charge and no profit, and at the expiration of your Ten-
nant's time, the Plantation will not be in better order than the
way before proposed. But if you design only to let it from year
to year, not knowing how soon you may have occasion to make
use thereof, then I say it's necessary for you to build yourself,
because no Tennant will be obliged to build, that is but Tennant
at will or from year to year only. But should not advise to build
either a great or English framed house, for labour is so intolera-
bly dear, & workmen so idle, and negligent that the building of
a good house to you there will seem insupportable, for this I can
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assure you when I built my own house and agreed as cheap as I
could with workmen & as carefully and as diligently took care
that they followed their work notwithstanding we have timber for
nothing, but felling and getting in place, the frame of my house
stood me in more money in Tob^ (si S'shp Cwt than a frame of
the same Dimensions would cost in London by a third at least,
where every thing is bought and near three times as long pre-
paring. Your brother Joseph's building that shell of a house
without chimney or partition, & not one tittle of workmanship
about it more than a Tobacco house, work carry' d him into those
arrears with your self and his other Employers, as you found by
his acco" at his death. And which I pre-advised him before he
went about it, workmen of your own, as I at first proposed to you,
will take off much of those objections. Thus Sir with all can-
dour & Integrity, I have given you n.y sentiments r>bout build-
ing and settling your neighbouring Plantation either for the pres-
ent or future, and should be heartily glad not only of the Society
of the son of so worthy a friend, but should be ready by ail op-
portunity's I had of serving him, to demonstrate to the world
my grateful acknowledgement due to the father through the son.
S' I am sorry I missed the critical moment in my proposal of
exchange, indeed I had not then thought, had not Doct' Smith
not only encouraged me, but given me some assurance of its
promised effect. However am glad for the general good, that
so plenary and full satisfaction & assurance is given to all parties,
that they may sit safely under their own vines and fig trees, &
pray God to continue the same, though perhaps, it may not so
fully quadrate with my inteniions and desires, continuing the
same, to breathe my own Country air if it could be done with
that advantage and security. I propose therein, and could still
accept, though it were for sixty or eighty pounds a year, less
than I proposed in my former, your kindness gives me assur-
ance that if disaffections should again happen I'm ready pro-
vided of an Overture, and should gladly accept. Though in the
country where I am, I desire neither to be better seated, & am
plentifully provided and a Country that agrees well with my
Constitution & desires, being of a melancholy constitution and
desire privacy and retirement, these things being thus premised
it will seem strange to you that I am for a Remove to take off
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that strangeness, I'll give you the reall reasons. Our estates
here depend altogether upon contingency's and to prepare against
that, causes might exceed my Inclinations in worldly affairs, and
society that is good & ingenious is very scarce and seldom to be
come at except in Books. Good education of children is almost
impossible and better be never born than ill-bred. But that
which bears the greatest weight with me, tor now I look upon
myself to be in my declining age, is the want of spirituall helps
and comforts, of which this fertile country in every thing else,
is barren &. unfruitfull, which last consideration bears the greatest
weight in my Desires of Exchange, and removal, for I well know
that such an estate as I propose, especially now having cut off
sixty or eighty pounds a year, cannot their live with that great
plenty &c. as I can do here, nor gain the third part of the an-
nual profits as I can make here. Your Brother I suppose will
give you a particular account of Lewis, his Rascally actings,
how diligently it was searched into, and the measures taken
therein.
He was only suspiciously guilty, but the deligentists enquiry's
could bring nothing to light. Before I received your letter I
endeavoured to lay that suspicion so near and close to him, and
confined him close prisoner at least a month, but with this advice
to the Sheriff to give him all opportunity of light, in hopes the
charge laid so home to him & no less than an expectation of a
trial for his life would have induced (^having an opportunity) to
a flight that the country might be rid of such a villain, but he
hardened in wickedness, and not valuing his Reputation, staid
by it, & having no proof but circumstantial, and those not very
strong, we must Emerito Institiae discharge him. My proposals
of trade I have heard nothing of, neither from Liverpool nor
elsewhere. I suppose the lowness of Tob° gives a stop to those
proceedings, for as yet I neither hear nor know of any Liver-
pool man in the country & very few other Ships are yet arrived,
those that are here say the lowness of the commodity occasions
so few ships and no more are to be expected, but we are apt to
believe that bad weather and contrary winds keeps many out.
It would be of mighty advantage to any trader here if he could
have an account of what ships are bound to Virginia & Mary-
land, from the most considerable ports in England, for accord-
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ingly he might order his affairs to take the forward or latter
market. Concernitig my offers about the French I must neces-
sarily conclude of the consequences by your friendly hints and
a more perfect account of their offers of land in Carolina by
their own History which I have since read than you, I cannot
say its a true account of their country, but my proposals were as
low as any land here with us, is generally patented out at or lett
to Lease. S'' your great civilty and kindness to my Sister in
assisting her in her affairs in advising her to a good ship and
civil Master, commands my heartyest thanks, for by your means
& assistance thank God she is arrived safely here and happily to
both our contentment and satisfaction, and she doth believe and
I am well assured that your Influence on Mr. Burnham largely
contributed to his kind and civil usage and entertainment during
the whole voyage, for which she also gives you her cordial
thanks, & desires to have her humble service presented to your
self and good Lady. I thankfully take notice and longingly ex-
pect those choice Plants mentioned in your letter, and when they
arrive shall take gi eat care to plant them in proper places and
at seasonable times and doubt not their fliriving, but how to
compensate so great a kindness I know not otherwise than
furnishing your Plantation with a nursery of the same. S' I am
glad by you to hear of my Brothers health, which, if he drinks
so hard, he cannot long continue, and if his acquaintenance with
so worthy a friend as yourself, I must borrow from the latter
part of your letter, my excuse for not repeating your health so
often as my Inclinations lead me by assuring you that what is
wanting at Bacchus' Orgies shall be supplyl'd at Jove's Temple,
for your good fortune and successes neither my brain nor my
Constitution will admit me to go too far in those Bacchanalian
exercises. Since my last writing I have w" your Uncle Porteous,
once at James Town, and w" your Brother Sam severall times,
drank your health, but cannot long continue by it, for either of
them now exceed me more at that sort of exercise than your
letter intimates my brother exceeds you, & can sit as much
longer by it tho' not for the same reasons. Att Margaret
Broadrick's earnest Desire and Request, as you'll perceive by
her inclosed letter to her father, and as she told both me and my
Sister, her friends Desires and inclinations were that if it were
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possible she should go to Mr. Hammersly, who is her father's
countryman, Townsman and a far oft' relative. My Sister sold
her to the said Mr. Hammersly, but with condition to do no
country work, nor work without doors as by the conditions
here inclosed you'll see, for if he should offer to put her to
country work or to sell her, then I have liberty to seize her
again, notwithstanding the S:.le. Besides she did resolve that
neither threats nor persuasions, fair mean^ nor foul should make
do any thing if she might not be sold to Mr. Hammersly. If
her own Desires, the Desires of her friends, the condition for her
service to do no country work, &c., is not sufficient satisfaction
to her friends to take you from your obligations, then I iiave
agreed to have her again, for I would not for ten times her price
have my friends suffer, especially so kind an one as yourself.
S' In August last died a Near Neighbour of mine Mr. James
Ashton,=^ possess'd with two tracts of Land, both adjoining to
mine, one joining upon my back line & did contain about 20co
acres, but there is some parcels sold out of it, and loo more
given out to the quantity of 700 acres, and another parcel of 550
*Captain Peter Ashton patented 2000 acres in Westmoreland in 1658,
which was probably the land noticed in the text. He was a member
of the House of Burgesses for Charles City county in 1656, and for
Northumber: ind, 1659 and 1660; Sheriff of tiie county, 1658, and mem-
ber of Che "Committee of the Association of Northumberland. West-
moreland and Stafford," November, 1667, then having the title
" Colonel." He was doubtless of the family of Ashton, of Spalding,
Lincolnshire, descended from the Ashtons, of Chaderton, or Chatter-
ton, Lancashire (hence the name of his estate " Chatterton," now in
King George county, Virginia). He died in , leaving by his will,
dated 1669 (he died in or before 1671), gave his brother James Ashton!
of Kirby-Underwood, county Lincoln, England, his estate of " Chatter-
Ion," on the Potomac, and his brother John Ashton, of Lowth, county
Lincoln, 2000 acres adjoining " Chatterton."
His brother, xMr. James Ashton, was a justice of Stafford, 16S0, and
(as appears from the Northern Neck Land Book), owned in 1690 a
tract of land which he had inherited as the heir of his brother John
Ashton, and which had been patented by Col. Peter Ashton, 165S, and
by him bequeathed to the said John Ashton. It is evident that the pre-
sent Ashtons of Virginia are not descended from either of the brothers,
Peter, John or James Ashton; but, as the records show, from Captain
Charles Ashton, who was living in Northumberland as early as 1651.
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acres joining upon me up the river, as yours down the River,
which said Land he has given to two Gentlemen in England, that
part undisposed of the 2000 acres to his cousin John Ashton,
Habberdasher living in Russell st in Court Garden, that other
550 acres to his cousin John Foster, of Woodbridge, in the
county of Cambridge, Gent as p. copy of the said Will here
enclosed, you'll see which said land I believe those Gentlemen in
England will sell, and I would willingly become their Purchaser,
because of its conveniency to me, & desire the favour of you to
deal with them about it; S"" your repeated favours and kind-
nesses gives me the boldness, and the conveniency of the situa-
tion makes me earnest solicitious for the purchase and Draught
of the Survey here inclosed platted by Captain Brent in 16S1.
and now while I am writing, named by me for your clearer satis-
faction, together with a true copy of the Pattent, Coppy'd by
my self from the Original, also copy of Coll" Peter Ashton's
Will, the first Purchaser wherein you may see how he disposed
to his two Brothers the 2000 acres back land, to his brother John
Ashton and his heirs for ever, but with this limitation, if they
should not dispose there of in their life time, that then it shall
come and accrue to John Ashton, Habberdasher above mentioned
and his heirs forever, what disposition he made thereof appears
by his Will. The copy whereof I have sent you wherein he
makes his brother whole Executor, & the heirs of his body for-
ever, and if he died without heirs, then to his Cousin John Ash-
ton and to his heirs forever. I suppose he intended if he had
had wit to direct, or his writer skill or knowledge to have drawn
it, an Estate in special tail to his Brother, the remainder in fee to
his cousin, but for want of knowledge in the one and skill in the
other, I apprehend it undisposed by him, and so ought to descend
and come to John Ashton, Habberdasher, by virtue of Collo.
Ashton's Will, and Mr. James Ashton who esteemed his title
good, to the said 2000 Acres by virtue of the said Will of his
brother John's, hath by his will also given and bequeathed the
said land, what part thereof was by him in his life time undis-
posed, that is about 1300 Acres to his said Cousin John Ashton,
by which severall bequests, notwithstanding unskillfulness in the
one and uncertainty in another, he has a sure and certain title in
fee simple to the said Land, and therefore without much caution
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may be treated and concluded with upon the purchase, if he be
intended to see what it is, but it is but in an indifferent land &
hes back and consequently of low value, if it was here to be sold
at the best hand, would not yield above fifty or sixty sterling for
that 600 acres part thereof sold by Mr. Ashton in his lifetime,
was sold at 2000 lb. Tob*" p 100 Acres w'" uses not much more
than I before proposed and its well known to all dealers, the
difference betwi.xt buying p. parcel and by retail, &c., the other
Tract of 550 acres upon the River, which by Mr. Ashton's will
belongs to Jno. Foster, of Woodbridge, in Cambridgeshire,
though in its real value is worth more money, could the title be
made as clear as the former, but here is this doubt in it, whether
a Bequest by Will is such a disposition in his life time as shall
cut off John Ashton's, Habberdasher claim, seeing that a Will
has no force or effect before the death of the Testator, and so
consequently before his death the Estate not actually alienated
& if not conveyed and alienated by James Ashton in his lifetime,
then to descend and come to Jno. Ashton the cousin, which, in
my opinion, notwithstanding may give John Ashton a Colour to,
though not absolute title to that tract of land unless the first
Bequest to James Ashton shall be esteemed in fee, because it's
given to him and his heirs forever. And it's said in that clause
wherein Jno. Ashton's remainder is mentioned, if he do not dis-
pose thereof, which is a confirmation of this first title, and gives
him liberty to dispose of that which the former words in the
Will made an absolute fee, and after a fee simple there can be no
remainders or Reversions expectant. Thus S' I have clearly
stated the case to you about the other tract, and would willingly
give sixty or seventy pounds sterling for the same, Provided I
might have a sure title, which by the Joint Deeds of Foster and
Ashton together would be indisputable, for I would give Foster
forty pounds for his title without further warranty, and, stand
Tryal with John Ashton, but if Foster should stand upon high
terms, and will not take under sixty or seventy pounds for his
title, I shall be unwilling to give so much for a disputable title
as his is. But will venture to give John Ashton 15 or 20/ for
his title and stand a Trial with Foster for the Inheritance. In
the main I leave all to your discreet conduct and management,
and if you find it will not be performed without 10 or 15^ more
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than I have mentioned, I shall gladly reimburse that with the
other. But now S"" it may be reasonably ask'd after the desire
of laying out so much money, where this money is that must be
so laid out, and if the Purchase e.xceeds to that, I must beg you
to add this favour to all your former, to disburse so much money
for me as you shall see occasion & for your Security to answer
your principal and Interest together with all your charges and
trouble, I will bind over the purchase, and besides so much of
my own Estate, as shall be double the value of Recognizance
and Defeazance, till you are fully satisfy'd, and do also hope by
the next Ships to Send you some bills of Exchange, to answer
some part thereof, and if this that I have proposed seems not
sufficient security, make your own proposals, which I am sure
will be reasonable and I will readily comply with them. S' I
thought to have sent deeds ready drawn, but Considering I have
sent all the Wills and the Pattent, ana the ready way that is now
in practice, by Lease and Release, it may be as veil if not better
done there than here. Taking but this care, that to the Leases,
Releases, Letters of Attorney, &c.. Such witnesses be present as
will be here, viva voce, to attest the same. S"" As yet those
Gentleman not Knowing of their title to the said Land, for by
the will, you'll see that your Brother John Harvey and myself
are executors in trust in behalf of them in England, and we can-
not yet meet and prepare business effectually enough to give
them a satisfactory account till after our next court, which will
then be fully done by us all, but doubt that the personal Estate
will do little more if anything than clear the Engagements, for
in his Estate there was but two negroes (which upon the
appraisement I helped Mr. Hayword to, upon his request, so
that he has in that quality, doubled Mr. Stork).* Few servants,
and those few almost free, a pretty good stock of cattle, but of
household stuff there was hardly the value of ^lo; the old man
left a ruinous Estate and more ruinous plantation, for there is
not one good house upon either Plantation, perhaps the housing
and conveniencys upon the Plantation may be urged as an in-
crease of the purchase, but this I give you a full assurance of,
* Probably the son of William Storke. of Westmoreland, who, by his
will dated 1676, and proved in Westmoreland, May i6th, 1676, gave his
estate to his daughter Elizabeth Storke and his son Nehemiah Storke.
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that all the houses upon both Plantations are not worth £^, per-
haps it may be urged likewise to buy real and personal Estate
together, but there can be neither advantageous to buy nor
proper to sell, because it is not certain what personal Estate there
will be left. After all debts and legacies satisfy'dj & if any it
will be very inconsiderable, as by the next we will give them a
full account.
S' If you crave excuse for the length of your most endearing
& obliging letters which are filled with a pleasing Phrase and
happy expressions, what words must I use not only to excuse
my length but Impertinency's, not only my harshness of stile
but badness of expression, but a continued addition of my bold-
ness and trouble, since I cannot find words I beg one more
obligation to all your former, to grant a favourable construction
& generous pardon to Sir
Your WfT.
To Mr. Nich' Hayward &c.
February iSth, 16S7.
Honoured Sir
The first day of february I receiv'd your's dated 15th January
about ColP Jones "^ his aflTairs. Immediately upon the receipt
* Since the note on Cadwallader Jones, p. 254, was published,
a new volume of (copied) records of old Rappahannock county
has been received at the State Library, which contains a deed, dated
Rappahannock county, 16S1, from Cadwallader Jones, of Virginia,
son and heir of Richard Jones, late of London, merchant, deceased;
and John Jeffereys, of London, Esquire, conveying to Sir Robert Jeffe-
reys, Knight, Alderman of London, the lordship and manor of Ley, in
the parish of Beerferris, county of Devon, England, together with the
Capitol messuage or mansion house called Ley, and all the lands called
by the several names of Wallers, great Hancombe, little Hancombe,
Beau Alberston, and Basslack, lying in the precincts, territories and
fields of Ley; and two burgages in Tarmarton, Follyot, in said county
of Devon ; all that cottage, &c., at Hawcombe, in Devon, all that Cop-
pice containing about fifteen acres, in Beerferris ; and all other lands,
houses, &c., in said manor or parishes, wherein said Jones and Jeffereys
have or may have any estate of inheritance in fee simple or fee-taile.
In the same volume is a deed, 16S4, from John Griftin, of Gloucester
county, Virginia, Shipwright to Col. Cadwallader Jones, of Rappahan-
nock county, Gent; for a bark of '' fifty odd " tons, for a consideration
of ^150 sterling.
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thereof dispatch' d a messenger away to him to come to mv
house, where I apprehend I should have the freer and fuller
opportunity to discourse him in it, and to perswade him to the
payment of it, which letter he answered me with his company
about five days after, which was as soon as he came home from
Gloucester, where he had not only account of, but Duns for
several sums of the like nature protested. I used both my in-
terest and perswasion to get him to pay in Tob° for the money
and agreed to allow him tea Shillings p Cwt, and remit the
damages which he seemed willing to approve of, & would he said
use his endeavour to procure that Tob" and what Tob° he oued
me, which was about five thousand, for his own crops were
already disposed of in paying Neighbouring Debts and supply-
ing his Family's necessary's and with such intentions and some
assurances he went from my house and promised to be with me
again within four days at farthest, and did not question to bring
me a satisfactory answer, he was punctual to his word as to his
coming, but with tears in his eyes said he could not possibly
answer either yours or mine, for he said he had neither Tob" nor
efi!ects to procure it, I offered to buy two or three negroes of
him, he assured me they were already made over to the Alder-
man and his Ship Merchants, to whom he hath not yet paid one
penny, and therefore that way there was nothing to be expected.
And I have since heard that night he went away from my house,
he went into Maryland and so conclude he is clear gone.
Thus S' I have stated the case and given you my Sentiments of
the man. I refer to yourself to take such measures therein as
may be to advantage, his estate is so shattered and encumbered
with mortgages, conveyances, &c. , and his debts so m.any Sc
great, that without a veiy sudden course taken it will be impos-
sible ever to recover one penny. If I can be any way servicable
to you therein, I shall most acceptably and willingly receive your
commands and diligently therein manifest myself to be
Your Wff.
To the Hon^'^ Nich' Spencer.*
*Spen'cer, of Cople, Bedfordshire.— From the visitations of 1566
and 1634. with additions from wills of members of the family published
in Mr. H. F. Waters' " Gleaning^s," in New England Hist, and Gen.
Reg. (which are indicated by brackets).
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33
Dear Brother February 25th 1687.
John Simpson brought me your most acceptable letter, ill
Anns: Quarterly— i. Quarterly or and gules, in the second and
third quarters a fret of the first, on a bend sable three fleursde-lys
argent; for Spencer; 2. Argent, three pickaxes sable, for Peck; 3.
Sable, two lions passant; 4. Blank. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet
gules, a griffins head agent. Collared or. between two wings expanded,
of the third, charged on the head and on each wing with a fleur de-
!ys sable, and on the neck a crescent.
Robert Spencer=Anne, dau. & heire
of South Mylls in ' o\ Peck, of Cople
Com Bedford. in Co. Bedftbrd.
I
John Spencer=Anne, dau. & heire
of Pattenham, of Arnold of
in Com. Swcors, Com.
Bedford. Muntington.
Thomas Spencer=Anne, dau.
of Cople in Com. Robt. Buikley
Bedfford. of Bufgate in
. Com. South-
! ampton.
Joane
ux. Battele.
Alice ux. Thomas
Dickins. of Wils-
hampstead in Com.
Bedfford.
Elizabeth ux. Rose ux. ]ohn ^
John Slade Colbeck of Temfford
of Sucors. in Com. Bedfford.
Robert Spencer=Rhose, dau. of Elizabeih ux.
of Cople, Esqr. Cokain of William Pavis
Cokain Hatiey, of Ellington
Co. Bedf.
in Com. Hunt-
ington.
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!. William Jane ux.
Spencer. John ffear-
clough of
Weston in
Com. Hertford.
Nicholas Spencer=.Marv, dau.
of Cople. of Thomas
i Elmcs of
: Lylford.Co.
i Northampton.
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John. [Arnold.] [Cicely] [Dau. m.
[Edward] [Rose.] Gib-
[Margaret ] [George ] bins.]
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Alice, m. Gaius Nicholas Spencer=Mary, second Robert. Mary.
Squire, son of of Cople, Esq.; dau. of Sir Ed- Christian.
Roland. living in 1636. ward Gost- Rose.
wick, of Wil-
lington, in Co.
i Bedford, Knt.
and Bart.
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William Spencer,
oldest son and
heir apparent,
aged about two
years in 1634,
Nicholas. [.Michael.] [Robert.] [Edward.] [Mary.]
[The im-
migrant to
Virginia]
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weather at our appointed time, for our last court, hindered me of
the real enjoyment of your most desired company. The pur-
port of your letter, I will affectionately & fully answer, that is if
your desired piece of gold and what cravats &c. fashionable, I
have at present, to supply you with, could 'vish I had more, and
they should with the same alacrity and readiness be devoted to
your service. By his return from Cullenn & disappointment
there I was not only concerned but extremely troubled guessing
at your concerns and intentions there and Before your return a
full confirmation &c. In the carrying on all which Designs I
Know you would neither be beholding, nor appear to have occa-
sion thereof to any one in Maryland, therefore I have so far
straitened myself as to supply you with all my stock e.xcept one
piece of eight, which I hope may be enough lo carry on your
designs as I imagine there &c. or to supply your pocket expense
on your journey; which please to accept with the same freedom
as they are offered and sent. I hear Cullem designs out before
Col. Nicholas Spencer, the immigrant, appears to have been for a
time a merch ,.t in London, as there is recorded in Westmoreland a
power of attorney, dated 1659, from Nicholas Hayward, of London,
merchant, to Nicholas Spencer, of London, mercliant; which probably
shows the time of his coming to Virginia. -He settled in Westmoreland
(where the parish of Cople was named in honor of the home of his
family in England); was a member of the "Committee of the Associa-
tion " of the Northern Neck, 1667 {Northumberland records) ; member
of the House of Burgesses that conUnued from 1666 to 16-6 [HeniJig-
II, 250) ; March, i675-'6, appointed one of the Commissioners for em-
ploying friendly Indians in war against the hostiles {Hening II jjo) ;
appointed Secretary of State, 167S. again March 20th, 1680, and in 16S5
{Sainsbury Abstracts^, and as President of the Council; was acting
Governor, September, 1683 to April, 16S4 [Hening III S). He died
September 23d, 16S9 [Sainsbury Abstracts). As shown by various
deeds, he married before July 8, 1666, Frances, daughter of Colonel
John Mottrom, of Northumberland. " Madam Frances Spencer" she
is styled in the records, and left several sons, of whom the eldest,
Nicholas, inherited the family estates in England from his uncle William
Spencer (who was one of the intended Knights of the Royal Oak, with
an estimated estate of ^1000 a year), and in 1707, as " Nicholas Spencer.
of Cople, Bedfordshire, Esquire," makes a deed for 6000 acres in
Westmoreland. See pedigree of Spencer, of Cople, in Visitations of
Bedfordshire, 1566 and 1634, and wills published in " Waters' Glean-
ings," New Eng. Hist, and Gen. Reg., January, 1891.
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our court, therefore would have you send again before then, that
you may not be disappointed of your expected money, and if
you think that I may be any ways serviceable to you, please to
lay your commands and they shall be readily obeyed. Mr.
Newton now at my house informs me of abundance of Rum now
at Patuxent at 15'^ p. Gallon and under, please to do in that and
all other concerns as for youiielf. I have about 200 hhds now
by me the conveniency yourself knows. I sent by this mes-
senger I Guinia, 12 pieces of eight, one cravat, and rutlies &
cravat strmgs.
To Capt. George Brent * at Woodstock. " .
* We have been unable to ascertain how George Brent was Wm.
Fitzhugh's brother. According to the Brent Genealogy, which seems
to be confirmed by some mutilated epitaphs in Stafford Countv,
Captain George Brent married first a daughter of Captain Wm. Green,
and secondly a daughter of Colonel Henry Seawell. Perhaps he had
married Fitzhugh's sister, Margaret, who he says, in another letter in
this issue, had been " dead these ten years," (z. e. died in 1676).
The following is an abstract of the will of George Brent, now on
record at Stafford C. H., son of the person named in the text :
I George Brent, of Woodstock in Virginia &c. Give my brother Nich-
olas Brent all my lands and rights to lands in the Kingdom of Great
Britain, giveu me by my father; also my new dwellmg house, and all
the lands, tenements, a.id appurtenances thereto, according to my
father's will, and also 1000 acres in Nominie, in such manner as it was
bequeathed to me in my father's wi'! ; to my brother Robert Brent my
land at Quantico, 500 acres, bought by my father from Mr. Wm. Boame,
also 555 acres Called Cadgers (on which is a rent charge, by my father's
will, of 500 lbs. of tobacco per year, for three years, to Robt. King's
widow); to my brother Henry Brent 400 acres of my Hunting Creek
land; to brother Robt. Brent 400 acres of the same land; to brother
Nicholas the residue of said land; to sister Elizabeth who intermarried
with Mr. Thomas Longman 200 acres, near Budgens; to brother Robert
200 acres near Budgens; to brother Nicholas 400 acres near Budgens;
to sister Mary Brent 200 acres of the same land; to sister Martha Brent
200 acres of the same land As to my Brent towne land the first 2020
acres I leave to brother Nicholas, and also give him the 5000 acres of
Brent towne not disposed of. To brothers Nicholas and Robert two
negroes each ; to sister Elizabeth Longman if she come into this coun-
try again, one negro. As to my money in Bermudas and my share in
William Green's estate, I give it equally between the children Henry,
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March 14th 1686-7.
Mr. John Buckner
I three days since, received yourb of the yih March last, and
do as truly condole your present affliction & past losses therein
mentioned, as I heartily thank you for your Kindness and trou-
ble therein expressed both in the presenting Sir Robert's note
and the return of the three pound bills inclosed. I wish both
yourself & family perfect health and full Recovery. S"" the in-
closed protest will speak its own business. I have been already
so often troublesome to you, and yet continue, that I want ex-
pressions to beg pardon & have no other refuge left than to
assure you if any of your business lies this way, I shall court all
occasions to assure you I am sincerely
"'■'""- Your Wff.
<i,
. • The protested bill above mentioned is Edw'd Laples drawn
of Capt. Henry Fearns, assigned to me by Jam.es Davis. The
sum is ^4. 10. o.
Martha and Mary Brent; but Cousin Richard Brent, son of tny uncle
Robert Brent to have ^5. To picus u.ses ^ro sterling [this probably
was intended for masses]; to brother Robert /"lu sterling to buy him
two pieces of plate and desire him to put his coat of arms thereon and
keep them in my remembrance. To brother Nicholas all my plate, and
the gold ring which was my mother's wedding ring and my set of gold
buttons; to brother Robert my silver buckles, and black horse called
Turk, now in the woods ; to my cousin Thoi.ias Clifton my gray horse
called Fromine. Stocks of horses & cattle to be equally divided be-
tween brothers by my executors. Brother Thomas Longman and Dr.
Mathew Jackson a guinea each to buy a pair of black gloves. Brothers
Nicholas and Robert executors, who are to dispose of the remainder of
the personal estate. Dated Sept. ist 1700. Proved Stafford Co., Oct.
9, 1700. Thomas Clifton was a witness.
(to be continued.)
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Affairs in Virginia in 1626.
:, .. [S. P. O. Colo. Vol. 4, No. 10.]
Co7n77uuiication fro?ti the Governor of Virginia, May ij, 1626.
Right Honor.\ble*
According to your Lordships commands we have sent a
perticular of all the Lands, either graunted by Pattent here or
otherwise laid out and claymed, either by publique Societyes or
private persons"'" as far as we could by any meanes informe our-
selves; That Land should be taken upp to keep off others, and
bye wast, is a greate inconvenience, and besides those that are
unable to plant their ground wee find a greate parte either dead
or gon for England, and none here in any likelyhood to plant
them; for redress wher of if all such bee compelled either to
manure their L?nds within such reasonable tyme as your Lord-
ships shall thinke fitt, or otherwise to forfitt their right in that
perticular Land, we conceave it will be a notable meanes of peo-
pleing the country: And to moderate the excesive ingrossing of
Lands and to heipe in tyme towards the raising of a publique
Stocke, that course of reserving quit rents uppon the Pattents
wee conceave to have been well projected; and that to such as
shall have Land due by sending servants hereafter ther may be
reserved a peny uppon an acre.t for reserving lesse they will
arrise to no proportion considerable in so greate a worke.
Whoever shall take a reviewe of the managing of the affaires
of this plantation from the beginning untill this tyme, may easily
* Addressed to the Privy Council in England. This report describes
the condition of affairs in Virginia, subsequent to the period covered
by the Discourse of the Old Company printed in the first volume of
the Magazine.
tThis list will be found in an appendi.x to Burk's History of Virginia^
and also in Colonial Records of Virginia, State Senate Document,,
extra, 1874.
JThe established quit-rent was one shilling for every fifty acres.
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finde that the slow proceeding of the groeth thereof, is not so
much to bee attributed to the difficuhye in the worke it selfe
(though in ittselfe much subject to casuaUy and uncertainty) as
to the improper and preposterous courses that have been followed.
The maine reason whereof, as we conceave, hath bene that the
advises and informacon from the counsell here, have not had soe
much creditt with those in England, which supperintended the
affaires of Virginia, as the contrary misinformacons of privat
Planters, either out of ther perticuller ends or ignorance which
also have bene the better receaved partly by reason of the fac-
tions at home, partly because in soe greate a distance the con-
ceptions of them and those here are not always the same. But
since it hath pleased his most excellent Majestie to silence faction
and that your Lordshipps have pleased to command our advice
what are the directest waies for settling a firme plantation, which
gives no hope that wee shal be better believed then heretofore,
wee shall laye downe the cheife heads, w^hich the conference of
former opinions delivered uppon this point with the perpetual!
course of experience uppon the place (which is the most infalli-
ble guide) doe aprove and demonstrate, submitting our opinions
their in to your Lordshipps grave wisdomes.
We have found by experience since the rhassacre as wee alsoe
did then foresee and advertize, that being seated in the course
wee are in smale bodies, neither is it possible to prevent the sud-
daine incursions of the Salvager., nor secure any range for cat-
tle, which is a general! discouragement to the Planter, though
they out of their too much affection to their privat dividents,
have bene the cause of repossessing their quitted Plantations ;
for redress of which inconveniences wee know no other course,
then to secure the forrest by running a pallizade* from Marttin's
hundred to Kiskyack, which is not above six miles over, and
placeing houses at convenient distance, with sutificient gard of
men to secure the Necke whereby wee shall gaine free from pos-
* This Palisade was subsequently built by William Claiborne and Sam-
uel Matthews. (See Colonial Papers, Vol. 4, No. 10, IL British State
Paper Office; also, Sainsberry Abstracts, Virginia State Library, 1634,
page 72.) References to the site of this palisade will be found in York
County Records, Virginia State Library, Vol. 1631-1694, pages 65-75.
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sibilily of any annoyance by the Salvages, a rich ceramite of
ground contayneing h'ttle lesse the 300,000 acres of land, which
will feed such nombers of people, with plentiful! range for Cattle
as may bee able to defend the plantation against any enimy
whatsoever.
The readiest and certainest way for accomplishment ther of, is
to agree in certainety with some e.xperienced in the country, for
undertaking it which wil be ^^1200 in readie money, for the build-
ing of the pallizado and houses, and ^100 yearly for mainetayne-
ing them; and because untill this worke be effected all the rest is
to little purpose, wee have reduced the agreement to a certainety,
which wee here inclosed send your Lordshipps, humbly desiring
an answere by the first shipping: It wilbe necessary that within
that compase of ground, no greate proportion of Land be
graunted to any one man, because if hee dye or leave the coun-
try, the land must lye wast and uncultivated, especially the greate
quantities challenged by the Socyetie of Marttins hundred (bee-
ing neare a third of the Forrest) wil! make the worke fruitlesse,
e.xcepte they for soe general! a good, wilbe pleased to remitt a
part of their perticuller right and interest; when this is secured
it wilbe requisitt that it bee stocke imediately with Cattle, Horses
and Asses as the foundation of all other greate workes which are
in order of tyme necessary to follow this.
Provision being thus made for our heath and securitie the next
must bee to provide against farraigne invasion by building forts
and fortified towns at and neere the mouth of either river, for
which purpose it will be necessary to send over yearlie 200 men
at least with commanders and Ingeneers of skill and sufficiencye:
from the forrest soe stockt wilbe supplied meanes for carriage of
the materiails, and all necessaries for raysing of the works, and
plentifull dyett for the people, to incourage and strengthen them
in those heavy laboures which els will goe but slowly forward.
For souldiours to goe uppon the Indians their cannot bee lesse
then 200 and the nomber to bee keept full and furnished, with
all things requisite. By these forces v/ee shall have some revenge
uppon those fugitives for soe much bloud spilt of our country
men and by degree whoUie extripat them and better perswaide
the other salvages (not interested in the quarrel!), to desire our
friendship and protection, the first step to their convercon. But
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^ AFFAIRS IN VIRGINIA IN 1626. 53
that a running laboures much lesse their cattle, as hath bene gen-
erally fancied; or that it is possible to see any notable effects of
such an Armye untill from the forrest wee be furnished with
Horses and Asses to carry munition provisions and such men as
may be hurt or sicke, since wee must chase them within land,
hath no ground or probabillity.
The like we may saye for discoveryes by land, which are of
greate hope both for the riches of the mountaines and probabil-
leties of finding the passuage to the South Sea, which cannot bee
attempted without those necessary meanes mentioned, which
alwaies presuppose the wyning of the Forrest, therfore wee hum-
bly desire that those preparations may bee supplyed out of hand,
for bringing these workes to their due perfection; for incourage-
ment of Volunteers to people the country, nothing wilbe more
availeable then the safety and plentie that the forrest afords them
(not that all men should bee compelled to live their, but that such
as are able to defend their Plantacons may seate themselves
where they best like) by which meanes the country groweing
populous, divers staple comodities wilbe raised, since all neither
can nor must bee suffered to tend Tobacco: that all comodities
are not to be sec uppon as Adventures which are esteemed such
in populous countrys, but a choise must be made, as wyne, silke,
salt, fish and iron, and it were better seriously to apply ourselves
to the most hopefoll and beneficiall then to graspe all at once,
and those are rather to bee referred to the industries of privat
men, then the publique stocke to be expended uppon them, only
an extreordinary reward would be proposed to those that should
first bring them to perfection. In the meane tyme it is necessary
that the prise of Tobacco be upheld by prohibition of all other
but ours and the Sommer Islands. And because the rates of
comodities (notwithstanding the sole importacon of Tobacco)
are soe high and supplies uncertaine, wee humbly desire, if it
may soe stand with your Lordshipps approbations, that their
may bee a constant Magazin furnished yearely with all such
comodities as we shall from hence advertize, and wee doubt not
their wilbe found Adventurers that will furnish us at 25 p. centum
gaine, accepting our tobacco at 3s p. It), which alsoe wilbe a sin-
guler meanes to incourage men for settling themselves in this
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country, especially if the Magazin may furnish them with ser-
vants at reasonable prices.
We find that nothing hath hindred the proceedings of Artts
Manuall trades, and staple cotnodities more then the want of
mony amoungst us; which makes all men apply themselves to
Tobacco, because their is not Tobacco (which is our money) all
the yeare to paie workmen, and the recovery of debts at the
crope, is not without trouble, and the condition of what they
shall receave uncertaine. But the groundwork of all is, that their
bee a sufficient publique stock to goe through with soe greate a
worke which wee cannot compute to bee lesse then ^20000 a
yeare, certaine for some yeares: for by itt must bee mainetained
the Governer and counsell and other officers here, the forrest
wonne and stockt with cattle, fortifications raysed, a running
armye mainetayned, discoveries made by Sea and land, and all
othei things requisitt in soe mainefould a business. And be-
cause the charges formerly bestowed uppon this Plantacon have
not had the successe as might incourage a farther expense (which
though in greate part may bee attributed to the usuall difficul-
ties incident to new plantacons, yet as wee thinke it cannot bee
denyed, but that in the bestowing of the publique treasure, their
hath bene some tymes wilfuU abuses, some tymes errors and
mistakings, because it was not possible for them soe far off to
direct it to the best benefitt and advantage) wee humbly desire,
that a good proporcon thereof may bee whollie att the disposall
of the Governer, Counsell and general Assembly in Virginia,
for the eflfecting of such publique workes as your Lordshipps
shall appoint, not doubting (with God's assistance) by the accom-
plishment thereof to approve unto your Lordshipps our carefuU
endeavours and industries.
If we should have enlarged ourselves uppon every one of
these points, and have added such other perticulers as might bee
any waye considerable, wee should have too much presumed on
your Lordshipps patience. And we have bene the shorter in
regard of Sir Thomas Wyatt his returne by these shipps, whome
wee have ernestly desired by his more full relacon to informe
your Lordshipps what ever this may fall short in, whoe wee
doubt not will cleaire the objections that may bee made to the
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contrary of these our opinions. Thus hoping; that his most Ex-
cellent Majestie wilbe pleased to yeald his gratious supportance
to this worthie account, reserved by the devine providence to
bee perfected and consumate by his Royal hands: And beseech-
ing your Lordshipps that our humble advisements and requests
may receave a favorable acceptance and accomplishment. Wee
humbly take our leaves.
Your Lordshipps very humble servants.
James Cittie, the .n::',' a.i.
,_ 17th May 1626. (Signed.) .. . ,. , •• • ^
s;. Francis VVyatt, •
[om: -• ;;.v 1, Francis West, -'
a ' Roger Smyth,
Ralph Hamor,
Sam Mathewes,
WiLLM. Claytowne [Claybourne].
The First Legislative Assembly in America — Sitting
at Jamestown, Virginia, 1619.
A stranger visiting, for tlie first time, our Republic during this year
of grateful celebration of the discovery of America, cannot fail to be
struck with its millions of people who are educated, intelligent, and
prosperous, and who are not only contented with their form of govern-
ment, but devoted to it. If the visitor be of a philosophical cast of
mind, he will enquire for the vital principle which has sustained and
developed our civil institutions, and brought them»and our people into
such happy and prosperous relations. To such an inquiry, he will soon
find an answer. He will be informed that the principle which pervades
our institutions, and to which we owe our happiness, as a people, is the
right of the people to govern themselves, a right exercised through
their chosen representatives. The exercise of this right is based upon
and stimulates the growth of the intelligence and virtue 01 the people,
and as it involves the right of the majority to rule, i*- exempHfies the
Christian doctrine of the brotherhood of mankind, and of their equality
in the sight of God, who is no respecter of persons. It involves also
another great principle, namely, that rulers are but servants of the
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people; and this was also taught by the founder of Christianity, when
he said to his disciples : " Whosoever of you will be the chiefest. shall
be servant of all."
The Spaniards and French, who settled in America, brought with
them the impress of imperialism, which had cursed the countries from
whence they came. The English, on the contrary, who settled these
United States, brought with them the free institutions of England,
which had grown up under the lights and privileges of the House of
Commons, first firmly established in the reign uf Edward I. This great
monarch not only confirmed the great charter, which had been wrung
from the treacherous John at Runymede, but he converted into an
established law a privilege of which the people had previously only a
precarious enjoyment, namely, the sole and exclusive right of Parlia-
ment to levy taxes. The memorable words of this statute, which pur-
ports to be the language of the King, were: "Nullum tallagium vel
auxilium per nos, vel haeredes nostros in regno nostro, ponatur sue
levetur, sine voluntate et assensu archie piscoporum, episcoporum,
comitum, baronum, militum, burgensium, et aliorum. liberorum homi-
num de regno nostro." "A most important statute this," s^^ys DeLolme,
" which, in conjunction with Magna Charter, forms the basis of the
English Constitution. If from the latter, the English are to date the
origin of their liberty, from the former they are to date the establish-
ment of it; and as the Great Charter was the bulwark that protected
the freedom of individuals, so was the statute in question the engine
which protected the charter itself, and by the help of which the people
were thenceforth to make legal conquests over the authority of the
Crown." This powerful weapon of defence and offense was like the
sword of the Archangel, of which we are told :
***** ^ * "The sword
Of Michael from the armory of God
Was given him tempered so, that neither keen -
Nor solid might resist that edge." '
With It the English people, after many a stubborn conflict with the
Royal perogative, had, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, so
firmly established their political rights, that they were recognized as the
freest people upon the earth. Not that their struggle was entirely
ended, but so powerful had become the Commons, that usurping Kings
found themselves engaged in an unequal conflict, in which a Charles
lost his head, and a James his kingdom, and thenceforth the Kings of
England were forced to govern according to the provisions of the Bill
of Rights, under which the supremacy of Parliament was established.
The English Colonists who first settled in America brought with
them, by their charter, all the rights of Englishmen. But local self-
government was not accorded to the Virginians at first. They suflTered
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great hardships under what resembled a military government, until the
year 1619, when the Colony was deemed sufficiently grown to warrant
an Assembly. In that year Sir George Yeardley arrived with the
Commission of Governor-General from the London Company, which
had planted and governed the Colony. Among his instructions was
one. also called a commission, that brought joy to the hearts of the
Colonists. It was, as they described it, " that they might have a hande
in the governinge of themselves, it was granted that a general assem-
blie should be helde yearly once, wherat were to be present the Gov'r
and Counsel!, with two Burgesses from each plantation freely to be
elected by the inhabitants thereof; this Assembly to have power to
make and ordaine whatsoever laws and orders should by them be
thought good and proffittable for our subsistance."
This commission, the real Magna Charter of Virginia, was issued the
28th of November, 161 S. That night a flaming comet appeared in the
Heavens, which was considered then an ill omen, but which might more
properly have been taken as a heavenly recognition of the great boon
which had been bestowed on America. The comet was visible till the
26th of December, and the pervailing superstition prevented the sailing
of Governor Yeardley till it was safely departed. He, therefore, sailed
with his commission and instructions, the 29th of January, 1619, more
than a year before the sailing of the Pilgrims.
In accordance with this Commission, in June Governor Yeardley sent
his summons all over the country, as well to invite those of the Coun-
cil of State that were absent, as for the election of two Burgesses from
each of the plantations, to meet at Jamestown on the 30th of July, 1619
(O. S ). As Luis was the first Legislative Assembly which met in Amer-
ica, and was the beginning of the free institutions which we now enjoy,
I have thought it would be of interest to give some account of it, and
of its proceedings.
The place of meeting was the Episcopal Church, a wooden building
sixty feet long and twenty-four wide. Its Communion Table was of
black walnut; its pulpit, chancel, and pews, o.' cedar. It had hand-
some wide windows, also made of cedar, which could be shut and
opened, according to the weather. A green velvet chair was placed in
the choir, in which the Governor sat. The building was so constructed
as to be very light within, and we are told that the Governor caused it
to be kept " passing sweet and trimmed up with divers flowers." The
native Virginia flowers in season were doubtless used. There might
be seen festoons of the Trumpet creeper, with its splendid scarlet flower,
mingled with the sweet-smelling white honey-suckle, and clematis,
some of the latter with beautiful white clusters, and others with lovely
bell-shaped feathery flowers, cream colored, and touched with purple,
while the pulpit and Communion Table were decked with pink sweet-
briar and swamp roses, and red swamp lilies.
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On the memorable morning of the 3olh of July, 1619, the Governor
went in state to the Church. He was accompanied by the Councillors
and officers of the Colony, with a guard of Halberdiers dressed in the
Governor':; livery. Behind them walked, with becoming dignity, the
twenty-two newly-elccted Burgesses.
In the contemporaneous account sent to England by the Speaker, we
are told: "The most convenient place we could finde to sitt in was the
Quire of the Church, where Sir George Yeardley, the Governour, being
sett down in his accustomed place, those of the Counsel of Estate sate
ne.xte him on both handes, excepte only the Secretary, then appointed
Speaker, who sate right before him, John Twine, Gierke of the General
Assembly, being placed ne.xte the Speaker, and Thomas Pierse, the
Sergeant, standing at the barre, to be ready for any service the Assem-
bly should command him. But forasmuche as men's affaires doe little
prosper where God's service is neglected, all the Burgesses tooke their
places in the Quire till a prayer was said by Mr. Bucke, the minister,
that it would please God to guide and sanctifie all our proceedings to '
his owne glory, and the good of this plantation. Prayer being ended',
to the intente that as we had begun at God Almighty, so we might pro-
ceed with awful and due respecte towards the Lieutenant, our most
gratious and dread Soveraigne, all the Burgesses were intreated to re-
tyre themselves into the body of the Churche, which being done, before
they were freely admitted, they were called to order and by name, and
so every man (none staggering at it) tooke the oathe of Supremacy,
and then entered the Assembly."
And now that the Assembly has been duly constituted, let us look
upon the men who composed it. They are all Englishmen of a high
type, and following ancient custom, they sit with their hats on. Sir
George Yeardley was the first cousin of the step-father of John Har-
vard, founder of Harvard College. He had been educated to arms in
Holland, where he had fought for Protestantism in the cruel war waged
for its extermination by Spain He had been a subscriber to the Lon-
don Company under its Second Charter, and had come to Virginia with
Sir Thomas Gates in 1609, escaping the dangers of the famous wreck
on the Bermudas, which, it is said, suggested to Shakespeare "The
Tempest." He had acted as Governor for a year after the departure of
Sir Thomas Dale in 1616, and then, having married, he went to Eng-
land where he was commissioned as Governor on the iSth of Novem-
ber, 1618, to succeed the treacherous Argall. Upon his appointment,
he had been knighted by the King at x\ew Market, and was proud of
his newly-acquired honor. This he showed in his bearing. He was a
man of wealth, and of well-deserved influence. The Councillors, who
sat on his right and his left, were men of mark. Among them was
Captain Francis West, the son of Sir Thomas West, the Second Lord
De la Warr. He came to Virginia with Newport, in July, 1608, and was
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made a member of the Council the next year. He also subscribed un-
der the Second Charter. He had been put in command of the fort at
the Falls of James River (Richmond), and had been President of the
Council in 1612. He had settled at West Hundred, since known as
Westover, around which has centered so much of historic interest, both
during the Revolution and in the late war. Ke was subsequently to
become the Governor of Virginia. He was a direct descendant of
William, the Conqueror, and proved himself to be a man of nerve in
his resistance to the planting of Maryland by Lord Baltimore within
the limits of Virginia.
Captain Nathaniel Powell had come with the first colonists; had been
with Newport when he explored the York River, and with Smith when
he explored the Chesapeake Bay. He was a man of culture, and kept
an account of occurrences in the Colony, which was freely used by
Captain Smith in his History of Virginia. Both he and his wife were
afterwards among the victims of the Indian massacre, which occurred
March 22d, 1622.
John Rolfe had come to Virginia with Sir Thomas Gates, and had
been in the wreck upon the Bermudas. In 1612 he had introduced the
systematic culture of tobacco in Virginia. In 1614 he had married the
Princess Pocahontas, whom he carried to England in 1616. On their
way homeward the Princess had died at Gravesend, in March, 1617.
He was also a r.ian of cultivation, and had written one or more tracts
upon Virginia.
The Rev. Vv'illiam Wickham was of a prominent family, engaged in
the East India service. He added the dignity of the Clergy to the
Assembly in which he sat.
Captain Samuel Maycock was a Cambridge scholar, a gentleman of
birth, virtue, and industry, who was also doomed to fall in the Indian
massacre.
John Pory, Secretary of the Colony, sat as the Speaker of the Bur-
gesses. He had been educated at Cambridge, and was an accom-
plished scholar. He was a disciple of the celebrated Hackluyt, who
left the highest testimonial to his learning, He had been a great trav-
eller, and had published, in 1600, a Geographical History of Africa,
which contained a good account of Abyssinia, a map of Africa, and a
tracing of the Nile from an inland lake. Having served in Parliament
he was able to give order to their proceedings, and proper form to
their acts.
The names of John Twine, Clerk, and Thomas Pierse, Sergeant, sug-
gest at once the actors in a famous litigation, one of the leading cases
in English jurisprudence. It is known as Twine's case, and is re-
ported by Lord Coke. Pierse was indebted to Twine four hundred
pounds, and conveyed his property, valued at three hundred pounds, to
secure the debt. But the conveyance was declared to be void, as in
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contiict with the statute of 13 EHzabeth against fraudulent convey-
ances.
Turning now to the Burgesses, we find Captain \Vm. Powell and
Ensign William Spence sitting for Charles City. Captain Powell, a
subscriber under the Second Charter, came to Virginia with Gates in
i6ii,and was the gunner at Jamestown. He was one of the first to
whom the plot of the Indians for murdering the Colonists was revealed,
and was instrumental in giving warning to the plantations nearest
Jamestown. He became very active afterwards in taking revenge upon
the Indians for the massacre, and it is believed that he was killed by
them on the Chickahominy in January, 1623.
The representatives for Charles City were Samuel Sharp and Samuel
Jordan, names that have been honored in the subsequent history of
Virginia. Samuel Jordan came to Virginia at an early date. His
plantation was perhaps the first in Virginia to which an alliterative
name was given. It was called "Jordon's Journey.'' He survived the
Indian Massacre, and gathered some of the stragglers about him at a
place called " Beggar's Bush," where we are told "he fortified and
lived in despight of the enemy.'' Within a few weeks alter his death,
in 1623, his widow. Cicely, distinguished herself greatly by introducing
into the Colony the art of fiirting, an art which has been practiced
somewhat in Virginia ever since. It was alleged that she had accepted
two suitors, the Rev. Greville Pooley, and Mr. William Ferrar. Each
claimed her hand. Their hot dispute was carried before the Council.
That body, after solemn consideration, declared that the case was too
knotty for them, and referred it to the Council in London. W^e are not
informed as to their decision.
Thomas Dowse and John Polentine represented the City of Henricus,
located at what is now known as Dutch Gap. The first came to Vir-
ginia as early as 1608, and was one of the few of the early settlers that
survived. The second survived the Massacre, and visited England in
1626.
For Kiccowtan, Captain William Tucker and William Capp sat. The
first, a subscriber under the third Charter, after sending over two men
with Ralph Hamor in January, 1617, soon after came to Virginia him-
self. He was a merchant and trader, and made many voyages to
England. After 1719, he served for many years as a Councillor. He
was one of the most active and efficient in avenging upon the Indians
their cruel massacre of 1622.
William Capp was an ancient planter, and one of the first .settlers.
We find him surviving all the dangers of the Colony, and living as late
as 1630.
Captain Thomas Graves and Mr. Walter Shelley sat for Smythe's
Hundred. The first, a subscriber under the second Charter, had come
to Virginia in 1608. We find him soon after this Assembly living on the
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Eastern shore, and representing Accomac as a Burgess.' He was a
member of the first regular vestry of the parish 1635.
Walter Shelley, to whom doubtless the poet was related, was one of
the original subscribers to the London Company who afterwards came
to the Colony. On the third day of the Assembly, we find the follow-
ing brief but touching entry in the Journal : " Sunday, August the first ;
Mr. Shelley, one of the Burgesses, deceased."
The representatives for Martin's Hundred were John Boys and John
Jackson. The first was a victim of the Indian massacre of 1622. The
second, whose name seems some times to have been spelled Juxon, was
a kinsman of Bishop William Juxon, who attended Charles the First on
the scaffold, and to whom the King is said to have addressed his last
mysterious word, " Remember."
Captain Thomas Pawlett and Mr. Gourgaing represented Argall's
Guifte.
Capt. Pawlett was a brother of John Pawlett, who was elevated to the
Peerage in 1627, as Baron Pawlett of Hinton, St. George. In 1637
Capt. Pawlett owned Westover. which he leftat his death to his brother,
Lord Pawlett, whose son sold the property to Theodoric Bland in April,
1665. The tract then contained 1200 acres, and was sold for 170
pounds.
Flouer dieu Hundred was represented by Ensign Rosingham ('a
nephew of the Governor), and Mr. Jefferson, with whom the celebrated
Thomas Jefferson claimed relationship.
Capt. Christopher Lawne and Ensign Washer represented Captain
Lawne's Plantation, afterwards known as '' Isle of Wight Plantation."
Captain Lawne only lived a year after the meeting of the Assembly.
Captain Ward's Plantation was only commenced in 161S, and was
represented by Captain Warde himself and Lieutenant Gibbes.
Lieutenant Gibbes was doubtless a son of Thomas Gibbes, who was
a member of his Majesty's Council, for the Virginia Company in London.
Thomas Davis and Robert Stacy, who had been sent from Capt. John
Martin's Plantation, had been excluded from the Assembly.
The Rev. Richard Bucke,. the ofiiciating minister, was educated at
Oxford, and was an able and learned Divine. He came to Virginia in
1609, and was wrecked on the Bermudas, where he christened a child
of John Rolfe's, born on that Island. He married in Virginia, was the
minister at Jamestown, where in 1614 he performed the marriage cere-
mony between Rolfe and the Indian Princess Pocahontas. Rolfe de-
scribed him as " a verie good preacher." The Church in which the As-
sembly met had been built for him " wholly at the charge of the inhabi-
tants of James City." He was on intimate terms with Rolfe, and was
one of the witnesses to his will in .March, 1621.
After a session of five days, the body adjourned, " Being constrained,"
as they expressed it, " by the intemperature of the weather and the fall-
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ing sick of diverse of the Burgesses, to break up so abruptly — before
they had so much as putt their lawes to engrossing, this tliey wholly
coniited to the fidelity of their Speaker." During these five days, much
was accomplished. When we look at the acts of this body, we are
struck with their just conception of their rights as a new assembly.
They asserted the right to judge of the election and return of their
members, and, in its exercise, e.xcluded the delegates sent from the
Plantation of Cant. John Martin, because, by the terms of his patent, he
appeared to be exempt from the general form of government which
had been given the Colony ; and in addition tiiey petitioned the London
Company that they would e.Kamine the patent of Capt. Martin, and " in
case they shall finde anything in this, or in any other parte of his graunte
whereby that clause towardes the conclusion of the great charter fviz.,
that all grauntes as well of the one sorte as of the other, respectively,
be made with equal favour, and grauntes of like liberties and imunities
as neer as may be, to the ende that all complainte of partiality and in-
difTerency may be avoided) might in any sorte be contradicted, or the
uniformity and equality of lavves and orders extending over the whole
Colony might be impeached. That they would be pleased to remove
any such hindrance as may diverte out of the true course the free and
public current of Justice." Thus early did Virginia insist upon the
equality of her citizens before the law, a principle inserted in her Decla-
ration of Rights In 1776, when she became a State, in the provisions
"that no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate
emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of
public services "; and, "'that the people have a right to unit"orm govern-
ment, and therefore that no government separate from, or independent
of, the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established with-
in the limits thereof."
Having thus purged their roll, the Assembly proceeded, according to
their Speaker's report, as follows : " The Speaker, who a long time had
been extreame sickly, and therefore not able to passe through long
harangues, delivered in briefe to the whole assembly the occasions of
their meeting. Which done, he read unto them the commission for
establishing the counsell of estate, and the general assembly, wherein
their duties were described to the life. Having thus prepared them, he
read over unto them the great Charter, or commission of priviledges,
orders, and lawes, sent by Sir George Yeardley out of England ; which,
for the more ease of the committees, having divided into fower books,
he read the former two the same forenoon, for expeditions sake, a sec-
ond time over, and so they were referred to the perusall of two commit-
tees, which did reciprocally consider of either, and accordingly brought
in their opinions ■^********** in case we should find ought
not perfectly squaring with the state of this Colony, or any lawe which
did presse or binde too harde, that we might, by waye of humble peti-
THE FIRST LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY IN AMERICA. 63
tion, seeke to have it redressed, especially because this great Charter
is to binde us and our heyers forever."
Nothing can throw a clearer light on the state of the colony than the
acts of this assembly.
The committees, when they reported on the first two books, submit-
ted six petitions to be sent to the Virginia Company of London. They
were wisely framed in view of the needs of the Colony, and were agreed
to by the Assembly
The first was that the lands theretofore granted by patent to the
planters, be not taken from them in the allotments of lands to the Gov-
ernor, and his council, the officers of incorporations, and the members
of the London Company. 1 he second, that the London Company send,
with convenient speed, men to occupy their lands belonging to the four
corporations, and also tenants for the glebe land of the ministers of
these corporations. The third, that the planters who came before Sir
Thomas Dale's departure in 1616, be put upon the same footing with
those to whom land was granted afterwards, and that a single share
apiece be granted to the male children born in Virginia, and to their
wives, '■ because," they say, '• that in a newe plantation it is not known
whether man or woman be the more necessary." The importance of
this petition will appear when we remember that on the return of Dale
in July, 1616, the London Company determined to give the planters a
fixed property in the soil, and to confirm every man's portion " as a
state of inheritance to him and his heyers forever, with bounds and
limits under the Companies seale, to be holden of his Majestic as of his
Manour of East Greenwich, in socage tenure, and not in capite." The
fourth, that a sub-treasurer be appointed here to collect the rents of the
London Company, instead of requiring the impossibility of paying them
in England, "and that they would enjoine the said sub-treasurer not
precisely according to the letter of the Charter, to exacte money of us
(whereof we have none at all, as we have no minte) but the true value
of the rente in comodity."
The fifth, that " towards the erecting of the university and college,
they will sende, when they shall thinke it most convenient, workmen of
all sortes, fitt for that purpose." The si.xth, that the savage name of
Kiccowtan be changed and a new name be given to that incorporation.
This was done, and the place was named Hampton.
The purpose of establishing a university and college thus early mani-
fested by the Virgmians, was to be advanced by working-a large tract
of land granted for that purpose at Henrico, or Henricus, some twelve
miles below Richmond. The plantation unfortuately was broken up
by the Indian Massacre in 1622, and the establishment of the college
was thus postponed till the reign of William and .Mary, and then it was
located at Williamsburg, and named after the two sovereigns.
The Speaker's report continued as follows: "These petitions thus
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concluded on, those twor committees brought a reporte what they had
observed in the too latter bookes, which was nothing else but that the
perfection of them was such as that they could find nothing in them
subject to exception ****** at the same time there remaining no
farther scruple in the mindes of the Assembly touching the said great
Charter of Lawes, orders and privileges, the Speaker putt the same to
the question, and so it hath both a general assent and the applause of
the whole Assembly. ****** This being dispatched, we fell once
more debating of such instructions given by theCounsell in England to
several Governor's as might be converted into lawes."'
Of these enacted into laws, the first was fixing the value of tobacco
to be taken either for commodities, or for bills, at three shillings a
pound for the best, and eighteen pence a pound for the second quality.
Then followed laws against idleness, gaming, drunkenness, and excess
in apparel. The provision concerning apparel is interesting. It was,
"That every man be cessed (assessed) in the Churche for all publique
contributions ; if he be unmarried according to his owne apparell ; if he
be married, according to his owne and his wives, or either of their ap-
parell." It may be safely said, that had female suffrage existed in the
Colony, this Church tax would have been placed entirely on the unmar-
ried men.
Other of this class of laws related to intercourse with the Indians,
and to educating and Christianizing them, to the planting of corn, mul-
berry trees, silk-flax, hemp and grapevines, to the regulation of con-
tracts with trades people, tenants, and servants, and to the management
of the magazine or storehouse of the Colony.
On the 3ri of August the Assembly entered upon the consideration
of the third sort of laws. " Suche as might proceed out of every man's
private conceipt." They were referred to the two committees, and were
reported and adopted the next day. These allowed freemen to trade
with the Indians, but contained stringent enactments against selling or
giving them hoes, dogs, shot, powder, or fire arms. As to these three
last named the penalty was death. Fines were imposed on persons
going twenty miles from home, or absenting themselves seven days, or
visiting the Indians, without leave of the Governor, or of the Com-
mander of the place of their habitation. Provision was made for taking
a census of the inhabitants, and for record and report by the Ministers
of all christenings, burials, and marriages. The killing of neat cattle
and oxen, without leave of the Governor, was forbidden. The taking
of the boats, cars, and canoes of the neighbors, and thefts from the In-
dians, were made punishable. Ministers were required to conduct
worship according to the laws and orders of the Church of England,
and to catechise every Sunday afternoon those " not yet ripe to come
to the Communion." The Ministers and Church Wardens were required
to present all ungodly disorders, and a fine of five shillings for the use
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of the Church was imposed upon those who were guilty of swearing,
after thrice admonition. All persons were required to attend Divine
service on the Sabbath day; the men to come with their fire arms.
Persons trading in the Bay were required to give security that they
would not v.Tongthe Indians ; and the marriages and contracts of ser-
vants were regulated.
The Assembly sat as a Court in two matters brought before it. The
first was on the complaint of Captain \Vm. Powell against one Thomas
Gannett, his servant. The behavior of the servant had been so wicked
and obscene that he was condemned to have his ears nailed to the Pil-
lory for four days, and to be publicly whipped each day. This seem-
ingly harsh punishment should be viewed in the light of the age, which
had little of the humanitarian feeling of the present day; and beside,
the Colony was limited in the punishment it could employ.
The other case was that of Captain He.nry Spelman. Robert Poole,
the interpreter of the Indian language, charged him with speaking ir-
reverently and maliciously of the Governor, to Opechancano, the great
Indian Chief. Part of the words charged to have been spoken Spelman
confessed, but the greater part he denied. In view of this fact, the As-
sembly was unwilling to inflict the severest punishment on him, upon
the testimony of one witness. It was determined to degrade him from
his title and position as a Captnin, and require him to serve the Colony
for seven years as an interpreter to the Governor.
This Henry Spelman had a notable career. He was the third son of
the distinquished antiquarian, Sir Henry Spelman, ofConghan, Norfolk,
England. He was a wild boy. He came to Virginia in 1609, when
about twenty-one years of age, " beinge in displeasuer of my friendes,
and desirous to see other countryes," as he tells us. Soon after his
arrival he relates that Capt. John Smith, then President of the Colony,
carried him to the fall of James River, and sold him to the Indian Chief-
tain, Little Powhatan, for a town called Powhatan. Dr. Simons, how-
ever, states, in Smith's General History, that when Captain Sickelmore,
with some thirty others, were slain by Powhatan in 1609, Pocahontas
saved the life of Henry Spelman, and he lived many years afterwards
with the Indians. He afterward visited England, and on his return to
Virginia was made a Captain. He was sent with twenty-six men, in
1623, to trade in the River Potowmac and was surprised and slain, with
five of his men, by the Indians. He wrote an account of his observa-
tions while living with the Indians, which was discovered at the sale of
a library by James F. Hunniwell, Esq., who published it in 1872.
Every male above 16 was required to contribute one pound of tobacco
for compensation to the Speaker, Clerk, and Sergeant for their services.
The Session concluded with several petitions to tht London Com-
pany, the two last of which are in these words :
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Treasurer, counsel), and Company, that albeit it belongeth to them
onely to allowe or to abrogate any lawes which we shall here make,
and that it is their right so to doe yet tl-.at it would please them not to
take it in ill parte if these lawes which we have nowe brought to light,
do passe current and be of force till suche time as -ve may knowe their
farther pleasure out of Englande in, for otherwise, this people (who
now at length have gotten the raines of former servitude into their
own swindge) ..-ould in shcrte t'me grow so insolent, as they would shake
off all government, and there would be nc living among them. Their
last humble suite is, that the said Counsell and Company would be
pleased, so soon as they shall finde it convenient, to make good their
promise sett dov.-n at the conclusion of their commission, for establish-
ing the counsell of estate and the General Assembly, namely, that they
will give us power to allowe or disallowe of their orders of courts, as
his Majesty hath given them power to allowe or reject our lawes."
The question of the validity of the acts of the Assembly till they were
disallowed by the authorities in England, was one which was unsettled
in the year 175S, when the act passed which permitted debts contracted
to be paid in tobacco, to be solved in currency at a fixed rate; the re-
sistance to which, by the Clergy, gave rise to the famous " Parson's
cause." The power to disallow the orders of the London Company
was a great stride in the direction of independent local government,
and the promise of it by the London Company shows to what extent
the spirit of liberty was nourished in that celebrated body during the
arbitrary reign of James the First, a fact that excited his hatred of the
corporation, and caused him to take from it its Charter.
Hutchinson, the Tory historian, wrote: ''In 1619 a House of Bur-
gesses broke out at Jamestown." He evidently regarded it as if it had
been the plague, and a plague it was to all those who endeavored to
tyranize the colony. As early as 1623 the Assembly enacted, "That
the Governor Shall not lay any taxes or ympositions upon the Colony,
their lands or comodities, other way than by the authority of the Gen-
eral Assembly, to be levyed and ymployed as the said Assembly shall
appoynt." In 1631, they enacted that " the Governor and Council shall
not lay any taxes and ympositions, etc.," including in the prohibition
the Council with the Governor. In 1632 this latter act was re enacted
verbatim. The same thing occurred in 1642. In 1645, they enacted
that " no leavies be raised within the Colony but by a general
grand assembly." .In 1651, when they agreed with the Commis-
sioners sent out by Cromwell, one article was, " that Virginia shall
be free from all taxes, customes, and impositions, whatsoever, and
none to be imposed on them without consent of the Grand Assembly."
In 1666, upon the request of Governor Berkley " tnat two or more of
the Council might join with the house in granting and confirming the
levy," the house answered, " That they conceive it their privilege to lay
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the levy in the House, and that the House will admit nothing without
reference from the honorable Governour, unless it be before adjudged
and confirmed by act or order, and after passing in the House shall be
humbly presented to their honours for approbation or dissent." These
were not vain repetitions, but were earnest reiterations of the sole
right of the people to tax themselves through their representatives,
made during contests with the Executive power, and indicate a stub-
born determination to defend the great bulwark of English liberty. So
exasperated had the Burgesses become in these contests, that we find
them at length challenging the right of the Governor to veto their acts.
In i6S6, James the Second wrote a sharp letter, ordering the Assem-
bly to be dissolved, because the House of Burgesses " have presumed
so far as to raise contests touching the power of the negative voice,
wherewith our Governour is intrusted bv us." As a result of their strug-
gles, the Assembly enjoyed exclusively this great right of taxation un-
interruptedly until 1765, when Parliament undertook to tax Virginia
without the consent of her Assembly. We can well understand the
alarm which this attempt produced, and can appreciate the inherited
fortitude of the Burgesses of that year in adopting their famous reso-
liitions against the Stamp Act, in which they declared, "that the Gen-
eral Assembly of this Colony have the sole right and power to lay
taxes, and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony ; and that
every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons, whatsoever,
other than the General Assembly aforesaid, has a manifest tendency to
destroy British, as well as American freedom."
The publication of these resolves fired the Colonies (^they all having
continuously claimed the same right), and " set in motion the ball of the
Revolution," the glorious fruits of which we this day enjoy.
W. W. Henry.
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Virginia Land Patents.
(Prepared bv \V. G. Stanard.)
(59) Thomas Sulley, of Elizabeth City, planter, 94 acres lying to-
wards the head of Southampton River, due as part of his own personal
dividend, being an ancient planter; and 6 acres more in the Island of
James City. Granted by Francis West, Nov. 30, 162S,
(60) Martha Key, wife of Thomas Key [i], of Warwick River,
planter (as his personal dividend, being an ancient planter), 150 acres
lying on Warwicksqueake River, opposite the land of Captain Nathan-
iel Basse [2] and adjoining that of Rice Jones. Granted by F. West
Dec. 2d, 1626.
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NOTES.
[i] Thomas Key \.as member of the House of Burgesses for Den-
bigh 1629-30.
[2] Captain Nathaniel Basse, born 15S9, came to Virginia in 1622.
{Hotten). On June 2d, 1620, and January 30, 162 1-2, he, with his asso-
ciates. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. John Hobson, gent., and Captain
Christopher Lawne, agreed with the Virginia Company to transport 100
persons to Virginia, and received a confirmation of their old patent,
the plantation on which was to be called "the Isle of Wight's planta-
tion." {Proceedings of Virginia Company). The members of this
company were probably resident? of the English Isle of Wight (Sir
Richard Worsley certainly was), and the place of the settlemant gained
the name of Isle of Wight county. Captain Nathaniel Basse was mem-
ber of the House of Burgesses for Warrosquoiacke, March, 1623-4, and
October, 1629.
(61) Rice Jones, of Warwick River (as his first dividend), 50 acres,
due by virtue of his own transportation from Canada in \.\\q John and
Francis, in 1623 ; said land lying on the easterly side of Warwicks-
queake River. Granted by F. West, Dec. 2d, 1628.
(62) Phetliplace Clause [i].as his first personal dividend, 100 acres
on the east side of Warwicksqueake River. Said land is granted in
lieu of 100 acres on the upper part of the river, which was formerly
granted him in May, 1619, by Sir George Yeardley, Knight, and resigned
" in regard of the great danger of planting the same." Granted Dec.
2d, 1626, by F. West.
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NOTE.
[i] Phetliplace Clause settled in Virginia before 1619; was Burgess
for Mulberry Island October, 1629, and for " From Denbigh to Waters'
Creek ' in 1632.
(63) John Leydon [i], ancient planter (as his first personal dividend),
100 acres lying on the east side of the creek called Blunt Point Creek,
adjoining the land leased to William Cooksey, and the land now in the
tenant of Anthony Burrows and William Harris. Said land being in
lieu of 100 acres in the Island of Henrico [2], formerly granted to him
February 26th, 1619, and now resigned in regard of the great danger
in seating there. Granted Dec. 2d, 162S, by F. West-
NOTES.
[i] John Laydon (or Layton), born 15S0; came to Virginia in 1607
{Hoiien). His marriage with Ann Burras (born 1594, came to Virginia
in 160SJ, maid to Mrs. Forrest, was the first solemnized in the Colony
{Campbell 6^)- In 1624 they had four daughters— Virginia, Alice, Kath-
erine and Mary — all born in Virginia [Hotten). The first named, Vir-
ginia Layton, was the first child born of parents who were married in
Virginia.
[2] This place, long known as Farrar's Island, is in the county of
Henrico, and was a peninsula until cut off from the main by the Dutch
Gap canal. It was the site of the " town," or settlement, called Hen-
ricopolis, founded by Dale in 161 1 (see CampbelTs History of Virginia,
105, 106). s
(64) Robert Sweete, of Elizabeth City, gentleman (as his first per-
sonal dividend), 150 acres, lying below a creek called Waters' Creek
[now called Watts' Creek], and abutting westerly upon the land granted
to Robert Hutchins, mariner. Due for the transportation of himself,
who came in the Xeplune in 1618, of John Rutherford, who came in the
Warwicke in 1621, and of John Weaver, who cams in the John and
Francis \n 1623. Granted by John Pott, March 17, 1628.
(65) W^iLLiA.M Andrews, [i] of Accomack, planter (as his first divi-
dend), 100 acres on the Eastern Shore of the " Bay of Chesepeiake, "
abutting northerly on Captain William Epes' land, and extending to-
wards the persimmon ponds. Due for the transportation of Robert
Owles and John Holmes, who came in the Southampton in 1622, at the
charges of William Ferrar, Esq., who made over the rights to said An-
drews. Granted by John Pott, .March 14, 162S.
NOTE.
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1640 to 1655, and by his will, dated Feb. 20, 1654, and proved, North-
ampton county, Feb. 30, 1655, bequeathed his estate to his wife, Mary,
sons William, John, Robert, and Andrew, daughter Susannah, and
granddaughters Elisheba and Elizabeth Andrews, children of William
Andrews. On February 19, 1659, William Smart, John Stringer, Wil-
liam Andrews, and Thomas Harmanson gave bond in Northampton as
security to care properly for the persons and estates of the children of
Lieutenant-Colonel William Andrews. William Andrews, Jr., was
elected sherifl' of Northampton by the Council of State April 3d, 1655,
and was a member of the House of Burgesses for Northampton in
1663. In 1656, it appears from an entry in the Northampton records,
that Mr. William Smart had married the widow of "Mr. William An-
drews." Whether this referred to the father or the son the writer has no
information. William Andrews, Jr., married Dorothea, widow of Mount-
joy Evelyn, and daughter of Col. Obedfence Robins, of " Cherrystone."
(66) Captain Thomas Gr.wes [i], ancient planter (as his tirst divi-
dend), 200 acres on the Eastern Shore of the " Bay of Chesepeiake,"
abutting southerly on the land of Captain Henry Fleet [2]. Said land
due by virtue of an adventure of five and twenty pounds, paid by the
said Graves to Sir Thomas Smith, late Treasurer of the Company of
Virginia. Granted by John Pott, March 14th, 1628.
NOTES.
[i] Captain Thomas Graves came to Virginia in 1607; was at one
time made prisoner by the Indians, but was ransomed. Was commis-
sionioner [justice] for Accomac 1629, and Burgess for the same, 1632.
[2] The distinguished maternal ancestry of Henry Fleet should be
first noticed in a sketch of him and his family. Sir Henry Wyatt, of
Allington Castle, Kent, " was a prominent figure at the Court of Henry
VIII {1495-1509), and accompanied him to the Field of the Cloth of
Gold " {Encyc- Britl. ). His son, Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Poet, was born
1503, and died October nth, 1542. " Undoubtedly the leader and the
acknowledged master of 'the company of courtly makers,' who, in the
reign of Henry VIII, under Italian influence, transformed the character
of English poetry. He took bachelor's degree at Cambridge at 15;
was knighted in 1536, and was twice sent as ambassador to the Emperor
(Charles V), a strong proof of his repute as a statesman and diplo-
matist " {Encyc. Britl) He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Brooke, Lord Cobham, and had a son, Sir Thomas Wyatt, the
Rebel, born 1520, beheaded on Tower Hill, April nth, 1554. "From
1545 to 1550 he commanded at Boulogne, and in 1554 led the Kent-
ish (Protestant) insurgents in the Duke of Suffolk's conspiracy,
on occasion of the proposed marriage of Queen Mary with Philip
II." {Am. Encyc.) "A cry that the Spaniards were coming 'to
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conquer the relm ' (and restore England to the Pope) drew thou-
sands to Wyatt's standard. The ships in the Thames submitted to be
seized by the insurgents. A party of train bands of London, who
marched with the royal guard, under the old Duke of Norfolk, deserted
to the Rebels in a mass, with shouts of 'A Wyatt, a Wyatt. We are all
Englishmen.' " {Green's English People.) " He entered London at the
head of his followers, and, after a fight in the streets, he was captured,
February 7th, imprisoned in the Tower, and beheaded April 11, 1554-"
{Am. Encyc.) He married Jane, daughter of Sir Wm. Howt, and
had a daughter. Joan Wyatt, who married Charles Scott, son of
Sir Reginald Scott, of Scott's Hall, Kent, who " was captain of
the castles of Calais and Langette ; high sheriff of Kent, 1541-2;
was principally engaged abroad in military service; died Decem-
ber 16, 1554.. * * * Married (2) Mary, daughter of Sir Bryan Tuke,
secretary to Cardinal Wolsey, and had by her Mary, who mar-
ried Richard Argall, and Charles [named above], who married Jane
Wyatt." {Brozvn's Genesis and Berry's Kentish Pedigreesi. De-
borah, daughter of Charles and Jane Scott, married Willi.vm' Fleet,
gent., of Chatham, Kent, who was a member of the Virginia Company,
under the 3d charter, and subscribed and paid ^37 losh. They had
issue seven sons and four daughters. Four of the sons were among
the early emigrants to Virginia and Maryland, viz : i. Hetiry^; 2. Ed-
ward^ member of the Maryland Legislature in 163S ; 3. Reginold*,
member of the Maryland Legislature 1638 ; 4. John*, member ot the
Maryland Legislature 163S ; believed to have been the person of the
name who patented land atTindall's Point, Gloucester county, Virginia,
in 1662, and was living there in 1667.
I. Henry' Fleet, born probably 1595-1600, died about i66t ; came to
Virginia at an early date, was captured by the Indians on the Potomac
in 1623 ; remained a captive until 1627, during which time he acquired
a familiar knowledge of their language ; was ransomed, and in 1627
went to England. Becoming a partner and agent for several London
merchants, he was engaged for years in the Indian trade. He was an
interpreter, trader and legislator in Maryland, and finally settled at
Fleet's Bay, Lancaster county, Virginia. He was Burgess for Lancaster
in 1652, and engaged in an expedition against the Indians in 1660. His
opinions in regard to Indian affairs seem to have had much weight in
the colony. He wrote " A Brief Journal of a Voyage made in the Bark
Virginia, to Virginia and the other parts of the Continent of America,"
the MS of which is in the Lambeth Palace Library, London, and which
Neill published in his " Founders of Maryland." Streeter, in his
"Papers Relating to the Early History of Maryland," says of him : "'He
was an active man, a useful citizen, a shrewd leader, an excellent in-
terpreter, and contributed his full share towards laying the foundations
of the Colony of Maryland, and building up the Colony of Virginia."
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Captain Henry Fleet was a Justice of Lancaster 1653, and on the di-
vision of the county (when Rappahannock was formed) he was ap-
pointed^by the Assembly, December 13, 1656, a Justice of Lancaster
(of the quorum, and 2d in the commission), and lieutenant-colonel of
militia. (Lancaster Records). There is recorded in Northumberland
(the date is gone, but is about 1659), a deed from Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry Fleet, conveying 300 acres of land to Christopher Garlington.
Sarah, wife of Col. Fleet, joins in the deed. In 1650 he had a grant of
1,750 acres at Fleet's Bay, and received, in all, grants for 13,197 acres.
From a record in Lancaster, May S, 1661, it appears that Sarah Fleet
was widow of Lt. -Colonel Henry Fleet. She married ^bsequently
Col. John Walker, of Rappahannock county (and formerly of Glouces-
ter), member of the Council, and had by this marriage (as appears from
her will, recorded at Essex C. H.), several daughters, one of whom was
named Sarah. (It appears that Mr. Hayden was mistaken in his state-
ment in " Virginia Genealogies " that Edwin Conway married Sarah
Fleet. Her name was Sarah Walker, and hence the name of Walker
Conway). There is recorded in Lancaster, in 1715, and then acknowl-
edged by Henry Fleet, a deed from the said Henry Fleet, who, at the
time of making it, resided in Fairfield parish, Northumberland, convey-
ing, in consideration of /"r.ooo, all his title to 2,000 acres of land in
Cittenburne parish, which was granted to Col. Henry Fleet in 1657;
afterwards, in i66r, granted to Walter Granger, who assigned it to Col.
John Walker, and by Walker's will it was left to his (Walker's) daugh-
ter, Sarah, and had since been surveyed and divided by said Conway in
right of his wife, Sarah. There are also several deeds at Essex C. H.,
which speak of Sarah, wife of Edwin Conway, as one of the daughters
and co-heiresses of Col. John Walker.
Col. Henry^ and Sarah Fleet had issue : 5. Henry^.
5. Henry' Fleet (born ; died 1728), was a justice of Lancaster
1695. and sheriff 1718 and 1719. There are recorded in Lancaster the
following deeds: (i) Henry Fleet, of Northumberland county, gent., to
John Turbervile, of the same county, merchant, for 1S8 acres at Fleet's
Bay, Lancaster, Nov. 29, 16S9. (2) Henry Fleet, of Lancaster, to his
son Henry Fleet, Jr., of same, 500 acres, part of the land called Fleet's
Island, Feb. nth, 1718. (3) Henry Fleet to his son William Fleet, 300
acre.s, part of Fleet's Island, Feb. 11, 1718. Following is his will:
" In the name of God, amen ! I, Henry Fleet, of the county of Lan-
caster, being of sound memory, do make this my last will and testa-
ment in the manner following, viz : I bequeath my soul to God, my crea-
tor, and my body to the earth, its original, being fully assured the
sacrifice of Christ is a worthy expiator for all the sins of the faithful,
and therefore hope that my soul and body will have a joyful meeting at
the resurrection of the just by the merits, mediation, and intercession
of my complete Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I give to my son, Henry Fleet, the plantation tliat Patrick Muilin now
lives on and all the land thereunto belonging, from \Vm. Fleet's line
down to the mouth of the old house creek. The said land and appurte-
nances I give unto the said Henry Fleet and the heirs male of his body
lawfully begotten and for want of such issue to my son, William Fleet.
and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, and for want of such
male issue to my grandson, Harry Currell and his heirs forever. Item:
I give to my son, William Fleet, the plantation I now live on and ail the
land adjoining thereunto as far as the narrows, including the island
plantation and all the land thereunto belonging, which said plantations
and the land and appurtenances in the whole tract not before given I
give to my son, William, and the heirs male of his body lawfully be-
gotten, and for want of such issue to my grandson, Maior Brent, and his
heirs forever. Item: I give to my son, Henry Fleet, my best saddle
and all the furniture thereto belonging. Ttem : I give to my son, Wil-
liam Fleet, all my wearing apparel and also my sword and belt. Item :
I give to my loving wife for life the plantation whereon I now live with
as much land as she shall have occasion for, also the use and profits of
three negroes called Jack, Bess and Sampson, and after her decease I
give the said three negroes to my daughter, Elizabeth Currell, and her
heirs. Item : I give to my daughter, Elizabeth Currell, and her heirs four
negroes by name Saul, Lucy, Bess and boy called Jack Sneigrove, three
whereof she has already received. Item : I give to my granddaughter,
Ann Currell, and her heirs a negro girl called Winney and all her in-
crease. Item : I give to my daughter, Judith Hobson and her heirs
two negroes called Daniel and Pegg, now in her possession. Item : I give
to my said daughter, Judith, for life the use of three negroes named
Richard, Isaac and Hannah, and after her decease I give Hannah and
her increase and Isaac to my granddaughter, Sarah Hobson, and her
heirs and I give Richard to my granddaughter, Judith Hobson, and
bar heirs. Item: I give to my granddaughter, Mary Cox, and her
heirs two negroes called Newman and Nell, now in her possession.
Item: I give to my third daughter, Mary, for life the use of three ne-
groes, viz: a girl called Hannah and Sue and Anthony, and after her
decease I give said three negroes and their future increase to Fleet
Cox and his heirs. Item : I give to my granddaughter, Elizabeth How-
son, and her heirs two negroes that her father received of me called
Sary and Patty and their increase. Item : I give to my three grand-
sons, John Fleet, Maior Brent and Harry Currell, each a mourning suit
of twenty shilling price. Item : I give all the rest of my personal estate
to be equally divided amongst my wife and three daughters, Elizabeth,
Judith and Mary. Item: It is my will that my estate shall not be ap-
praised, unless desired by my executrix. Item: I appoint my son,
William Fleet, and my two daughters, Elizabeth Currell and Judith
Hobson, my executors.
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In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 31st
day of January, 172S.
[seal] Henry Fleet.
Signed and sealed and published in the presence of
Edwin Conway,
Ann Conway,
Edwin Conway, Jr."
He married Elizabeth (the will of Jane Wildey, widow, dated .A.pril
nth, 1701, and proved Northumberland, Dec. 19th, 1701, names her
daughter Elizabeth Fleet, and her son \Vm. Wildey) and had issue:
6. Henry^\ 7. IVilliam^ \ S. Elizabeth'' married Currell ; 9. Judith*
married \Vm. Hobson, of Northumberland — marriage bond dated June
28, 1723 {Lane. Records); 5. Margaret* (called .Mary in her father's
will), married Presley Cox, of Cople parish, Westmoreland — marriage
bond dated [Lane Records); 6. Ann* married Leonard Howson,
of Wiccomico, Northumberland — marriage bond dated June loth, 1722
{Lane. Records). 7. Dau. married Brent.
6. Henry Fleet* was sheriff of Lancaster 1729 and 1730, and died
unmarried in 1735- His will is as follows: _^
WILL OF henry fleet, JR., OF LANCASTER CO., VA., 1735-
In the name of God Amen : ^
I Henry Fleet of the parish of Christ Church, in the County of
Lancaster, Gentn. being sick in body, but of perfect sense and memory
do make this my last will and testament in manner as followeth, that is
to say first and principally I commend my soul to the Almightv God,
and my body to a decent burial. Item, my will is that my just debts be
fully paid and satistied. Item, I give and bequeath twenty pounds
current money to the poor of Christ Church parish aforesaid, to belaid
out or dist-ributed as the vestry of the said parish shall think conve-
nient. Item, I lend to ray mother, Mrs. Elizth. Fleet, my negro boy
cupid during her natural life, and after her decease I give the said
negro to Saml Hinton. Item, I give and bequeath to the said Saml.
Hinton my tract of land which I bought from Chas. Kelly, wiih its ap-
purtenances as also my term yet to come in the lands adjoining the
said tract, which I lately leased from the said Chas., to him the said
Saml. and his male heirs lawfully begotten forever. Item. I give and
bequeath to the aforesaid Saml. Hinton my two negro men Lewis and
Phill, also my horse Pompey, my still, my great looking glass and desk,
my silver hilted sword and belt, my trunk and all my clothes therein,
also my plank and framing stuff and other necessaries I have provided
for my building on the plantation where he lives. Item. I give and be-
queath to Rebecca Banton my dwelling plantation with its appurte-
nil itit*\ Ib-yf. hni; Luftfi -{fn Jsf; oJiiui'T-srf rj' ■'■ i i>i>i:>i!w /i^Minw nJ
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nances to contain two hundred and fifty acres contiguous, during her
natural life, and after her decease, I give the said plantation, land and
appurtenances unto my nephew, George P'leet and the heirs of his body
lawfully begotten forever. Item. I lend the use of my negroes here-
after named, viz. Bristow, Terry, Sally, Libby, Jenny. Kate, Joe and
Judy to the said Rebecca Banton during her natural life, and after her
decease J give the said negioes and their increase to the aforesaid
Saml. Hinton and his heirs male, and do then annex the said slaves to
the lands before by me given to him in this my last will and testament.
Item. My will is that my negro boy James serve the said Rebecca Baa
ton till he attains the age of twenty-four years, and that she then obtain
his freedom as the law requires. Item. I give and bequeath unto my
nephew George Fleet, my negroes, Charles, Dick, Ruby, Sarah, Win-
ney, Bess, \anny, Pegg and Daniel. Item I give unto my niece Mary
Ann Cox my negro girl Letty, which I had out of my father's estate
since his death. Item. I give to my nephew John Fleet my best saddle
and horses furniture. Item. I give to my godson Richd. Edwards, fif-
teen pound sterling to buy him a young negro. Item. I lend to Daniel
Pugh my negro girl Hannah during his term he now has in the planta-
tion, and afterwards I give the said negro girl to my nephew John Fleet.
Item. I give unto my tenant Thos. Edwards, the plantation he lives on
from the branch to the walnut tree, for twenty- one years next ensuing,
he weaving for Rebecca Banton, eighty yards of Virginia Cloth per
year. Item. I give unto the said Thos. Edwards one cow and calf and
my cloth coat I now wear, also what tobacco he is now indebted to
me. Item. I give to Wm. -Mugg my spaid mare. Item. I give to Re-
becca Banton my mares Conny and Jewel, and my horse Ball, and my
will is that she have the use of my still during her life without fee or
reward. Item. My desire is to be buried by my father, and that the
burying place be handsomely bricked in at the expense of my estate.
Item. I give to my lovmg friend Thos. Edwirds, ten pounds current
money to buy him a suit of mourning. Item. I give to Davy Pugh, my
Durry Vest and Breeches. Item. I give to William Mugg, my Durry
Coat. Item. I give to Saml. Hinton by black cloth suit of clothes.
Item. I give to my trustee and executors hereafter named each a mourn-
ing ring of twenty shillings price. Item. The half of all the rest and
residue of my estate, I give to the aforesaid Saml. Hinton. Item. The
other half of my said estate residue, I lend unto the said Rebecca Ban-
ton during her natural life, and after her decease, I give the same to
Saml. Hinton. Item. I desire my worthy friend, the Honorable John
Carter Esq , to be trustee of this my last will and testament.
Lastly. I do appoint my loving friend, Mr. Thos. Edwards and Saml.
Hinton Exes, of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all
other wills by me made. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 26th day of November, Anna Domini, 1735.
Henrv Fleet. [Seal ]
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7. William* Fleet, sheriff of Lancaster 1718 and 1719; married
Sarah, daugliter of Robert Jones, of Kin^- and Queen.
Issue : 10. Henry', b. Oct. loth, 1719, d.s.p. ; 11. Mary Ann^, b. May
i2th, 1722, m. (i) Robt. Dudley and had no issue; (2) Tebbs, and
had Robt., \Vm. and Henry; 12 JoJuv' ; 13. WilHam'; 13. EdwinS b.
Aug. 22d, 1729, d. um. Apl. 17th, 177S; 14. George, b. June 15th, 1731.
12. John' Fleet, b. Aug. 12th, 1724, m. Edwards, of Lancaster
County.
Issue: 15. Henry«; 16. Jobn«; 17. Pollys iS. Sally"; 19- Ann«; 20.
Elizabeth"; 21. Polly"; 22. Judith". From one of these probably de-
scended Col. Jno. Fleet, who lived in Lancaster in 1777.
13. William Fleet", born October 19, 1726, was probably the first
of the family who settled in King and Queen Co.; married u) Ann.
daughter of Joseph Temple, of King W'illiam, she d. May 7lh, 1754;
(2) Susanna, daughter of John Walker, of King and Queen.
Issue: 23. Wi/liam'; 24. John^ of King and Queen, served through
the Revolution as a lieutenant in the 2d Virginia regiment and Dab-
ney's Legion ; 25. EdwMi' ; 26. Baylor^: 27. Mary Ann^ ; 28. Elizabeth^
23. Captain William^ Fleet, of King and Queen, born December
18, 1757, died at " Goshen," King and Queen, April 11, 1S33 ; was a
member of the Convention of 178S; .married Mrs. Sarah Browne Tom-
lin, daughter ^ f Barrett Browne, of Esse.x, and his wife, Mary Hill.
Issue: 29. Col. A!e.xander^ born at "Rural Felicity," King and
Queen, April 26, 1798; was a Justice and member of the Legislature ;
married (i) Mrs. Hoomes (2) Mrs. Maria A. Butler, and had several
children ; 30. Benjamin'*— 'proha.hXy other children.
30. Dr. Benjamin'^ Fleet, of King and Queen ; born January 25,
1818, died March 8. 1865; married in 1842 .Maria Louisa Walker, of
King and Queen.
Issue : 31. Col. Ale.xander Frederick, born June 6, 1843; "'^'^v of the
Missouri Military Academy, Me.xico, Mo.; married Belle Seddon, of
"Snowden," Stafford county— and other children.
The compiler is aware that this is an imperfect account of the
descendants of Henry' Fleet, and hopes that those having data to sup-
ply the deficiencies will send such material to the Magazine for future
publication.
(67) Mary Flint, ancient planter, now the wife of Thomas Flint, of
Warwick River, gent, (as her first dividend), 100 acres in the Corpora-
tion of Elizabeth City, commonly called the Foxhill [r], abutting west-
erly on the creek parting the same from the land of Pomt Comfort Is-
land. Granted March 14, 1628, by John Pott.
note.
[i] There is a place in Elizabeth City county still called Foxhill.
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ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS. 77
(68) Zachariah Cripps [i], of Warwick River, icx> acres on the north
side of Warwick River, abutting southerly upon Saxon's Goa'.e [2],
and northerly towards the lands of Gilbert Peppett, deceased, and west-
erly upon a creek that parts the same from Colson's Island ; due for the
transportation of Thomas Dryhurst and Matthew Lybing, who came in
the Neptune in 1618. at the charges of Samual Matthews, Esq., who as-
signed his right to Cripps- Granted by John Pott, March 5, 1628.
NOTES.
[ij Zachariah Cripps came to Virginia in 1621, was Burgess for War-
wick River October, 1629, commissioner ^justice] of Warwick River
1631 ; Burgess for Stanley Hundred 1632-3 and 1639 {Robi?isons Notes
from Ceil I Ct. Records). He left 300 acres in Ware parish, Gloucester,
for the support of the minister {Hening).
[2] Saxon's Goale was a small island in James River, off Land's End,
Warwick county, still called "The Goale."
(69) Richard Atkins, of Mulberry Island, in Virginia, planter, 100
acres at tlie head of Kethe's Creek [ij ; due, 50 acres for his own per-
sonal adventure, who came in the Abigail in 1621, at the charges of
Captain Wm. Pierce, who assigned his right to said Atkins, and 50 acres
for said Atkins' wife, who came in the Tyger [2] in 1621, at her own
charge. Granted August 7th, 1632, by Sir John Harvy.
NOTES.
[i] Keith's Creek, which doubtless derived its name from Rev.
George Keith, a neghboring settler, has long been called Skiff's Creek.
[2J " Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger."
(70) Clement Dilke, of Accomack, gent., a lease of 20 acres be-
longing to the late Company, lying at Accomack, westerly upon the
main creek, easterly upon the ground now in occupation of Thomas
Powell, and southerly upon the ground now in the occupation o^^ Nich-
olas Fiskins ; the said 20 acres being lately in the occupation of Cap-
tain John Wilcocks [i]. Granted by Sir George Yeardley, February
6, 1626.
NOTE.
[1] Captain John Wilcox, or Wilcocks, came to Virginia in 1620, was
Burgess in 1623. The will (printed in the New Eng. Hist, and Gen.
Register) of Captain John Wilcocks, late of Plymouth, now Accomac,
intending to go in service against the Indians, is dated Elizabeth City,
September 10, 1622, and proved in England the last of June, 162S, names
his wife Temperence, his daughter in-law Grace Burgess, daughter of
his wife, and his sisters Katherine and Susanna Wilcocks. It is proba-
ble that he had sons, born after the date of the will, as there was a John
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VVilcocks who was Burgess for Northampton 1657-S. His will, dated May
7, 1662, proved in Northampton, May 25, 1662, gives his estate to his
wife for life, with reversion to his unborn child. In case the child died
he devised the estate to his wife's children, Edmund and Henry Yeard-
ley. and mentions his brother, Henry Wilcocks, and the Yeardley chil-
dren's uncle, John Custis. A John Wilcox was Burgess for Nansemond
in 1655.
(71) Lieutenant Thomas Flint, of Elizabeth City, a lease of 50
acres of land lately belonging to the Company— said land commonly
called the " Indian howse thickett "—being a neck of land lately in the
tenure and occupation of Captain Whitacres [i] on Southampton River.
Granted by Sir George Yeardley, February 23, 1626.
NOTE.
[i] This "Captain Whitacres" was, doubless, Captain Jabez Whita-
ker, of the Council, and of the House of Burgesses, 1623. He is be-
lieved to have been a brother of Rev. Alexander Whitaker, the early
minister, as his father, Rev. Wm. Whitaker, D. D., had, by his second
wife, a posthumous son named Jabez. Captain Whitaker married a
daughter of Sir Johh Bourchier. (See la. Hist. Magazine, January,
1894, p. 295 )
(72) DocTORis Christmas [i], of Elizabeth City, planter; 50 acres,
part of the Strawberry Banks, extending westerly along the bank of
the great river. Lease for 10 years at 50 lbs. tobacco a year. By Yeard-
ley, Aug. 24th, 1627.
NOTE.
[i] Ann Elizabeth Christmas was living in Virginia in 1623 {Hotlen).
The will of Doctoris Christmas, dated Dec 20, 1654, is recorded in York
county. He leaves all his estate to his wife and his friend Peter Starkey.
{73) Jonas Stockden [i], minister, 50 acres on the east side of
Southampton River, within the limits of the Company's lands at Eliza-
beth City ; separated by a creek from the land of Lieutenant Thomas
Flint, called the " Indian House thickett." Lease for 10 years at 50 lbs.
of tobacco yearly. By Yeardley, Sept. Sth, 1627.
NOTE.
[i] Rev. Jonas Stockden, born 1584 ; came to Virginia in 1620 [Hoi-
ten). He was the author of a letter, several times printed, which de-
nounces in emphatic language the carelessness of the Colonists in allow-
ing Indians to come freely among them, and declares that nothing could
be done to civilize or convert the latter until their head men were put
to death. He appears to have been an early exponent of the idea that
■'the only good Indian is a dead Indian."
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ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS. 79
The will of Wm. Stockton, parson of.Barkesuell, county of Warwick,
was dated March 2d, 1593, and proved June 19th, 1594, by his relict
Elizabeth. His legatees were his brothers Randolph and Ralph Stock-
ton ; the children of his cousin John Stockton, parson of Alcester; the
children of his cousin John Gervise, his son Jonas Stockton, eldest
daughter Debora Stockton, wife Elizabeth, and daughters Judith and
Abigail, cousins John Stockton, and Thomas Gervise and Thomas
Benyon. of Barkesvvell, yeomen, and John Mossame, of the City of
Coventry, clothworker, overseers. The James Stockton of the will was
probably the patentee, as it is also probable was Jonas Stockton of the
county of Warwick, gent, who matriculated at Rrasenose College, Ox-
ford, Feb. 2ist, i6o5-'6, aged 17.
{74) David Pole [i], of the Country of France, now inhabiting in
Elizabeth City, vigneror, 60 acres at Buck Roe [2], in the precincts of
Elizabeth City, lying eastward on a creek parting it from Point Comfort
Island. Granted to the said Pole tor the use of Master John Bonall, of
London, gentleman. Lease for 10 years at 60 lbs. tobacco yearly. By
F. West, Dec. 17th, 1627.
NOTES.
[i] He was doubtless one of the vinedressers brought over in Sir
Francis Wyatt's time {Henuig I, 115).
[2] Still the name of an estate near Old Point.
(75) John Arundel, gentleman, 12 acres (lease) at Buck Roe, ad-
joining the lands of David Poole and James Bonall, Frenchmen. By
F. West, Dec. 12th, 1627.
(76) John Webb, mariner, 50 acres in the plantation of Accomack,
adjoining the lands of Captain Clement Dilke and George .Medcalfe
("ease for 10 years). By F. West, Dec. 12th, 1627.
(77) James Bonall, vigneror (lease), 50 acres at Buck Roe, adjoining
the land of William Hampton, &c. By F. West, Dec. 12th, 1627.
(78) John Henry, planter, 150 acres at Buck Roe, adjoining the lands
of Wm. Hampton and Wm. Fowler. By F. West, Dec. 12th, 1627.
(79) William Ha.mpton [i], planter, 50 acres at Buck Roe (lease for
ID years). By F. West, Dec. loth, 1627.
note.
[i] William Hampton, born 1584, came to Virginia 1620. His wife
Joanna, born 1599, came to Virginia 1621 {Hotten). A Wm. Hampton
was minister of James City parish in 1646.
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(80) Richard Ball [i] (lease), 6 acres in Elizabeth City. By F.
West, Dec 10th, 1627.
NOTE.
[i] Henry Ball was Burgess for Elizabeth City in 1646 (Hening).
(81) Nicholas Hoskins [i], of Accomack, yeoman (lease), 20 acres.
By Yeardley, Feb. ist, 1626.
NOTE.
[i] Nicholas Hoskins, born 1589, came to Virginia in 1616. His wife
Temperance came in 1620. In 1624 they had a daughter Margaret, born
in Virginia (Hot (en).
(82) Robert Browne, of Accomack, planter (lease), 20 acres adjoin-
ing the land belonging to the place of Secretary, at Accomack, By F.
West, Sept. 20th, 1628.
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THE FLOURNOV FAMILY. 81
GENEALOGY.
THE FLOURXOY FAMILY.
Compiled by Flournoy Rivers, Esq., Pul.\ski, Tenn.
In the April number of the Magazine appeared some inquiries con-
cerning the F"iournoy family, made by Mr. Flournoy Rivers, of Pulaski,
Tenn., together with a statement that Mr. Rivers desired the co-opera-
tion of the various branches of the family in tracing all the lines of the
connexion back to at least the first settlement of the name in .\merica.
During the current year Mr. Rivers has devoted much time, labor and
expense to this matter, and has produced some interesting results, the
first installment of which is given in this issue.
While he has been materially aided by some members of the family,
both in Virginia and elsewhere, it is to be regretted that the co-opera-
tion has not been more universal, in order that the results might be
more full, accurate and satisfactory. Now that the matter has been
placed in so tangible a shape, it is not doubted that all persons con-
cerned will contribute to making the research complete, from an his-
torical standpoint down to the present time. — The Editor
L.vuRENT Flournoy; The Hugue.not.
Some years ago the compiler made some inquiries of the distinguished
writer on Huguenot history, the late Charles \V. Baird, concerning the
accuracy of the Huguenot traditions that have from time immemorial
obtained in the branches of the Flournoy family, and the answer v^-as
that the historian felt sure every Flournoy in America was descended
from Laurent Flournoy, who fled from Champagne to Geneva, Switzer-
land, after the Duke of Guise massacred the Protestants at Vassy in
1562, but that of the gradations of descent he was not informed.
Of Laurent Flournoy and his sons, Jean and Gideon, " Agnew's
French Protestant E.xiles," Vol. H, page 270, speaks as follows :
"The family of Flournois, or Flourneys, were early sufferers for their
scriptural faith. After the massacre at Vassy, in \^(i2, Laurent Flour-
nois took refuge in Geneva, and two families were founded by his sons
Gideon and Jeati — descendants of the offsprings of both sons are be-
lieved to still e.xist in America. The second son of Gideon was Jacques,
and the latter had four sons, of whom Pierre, settled in England. It is
probable that the parents of the refugee had again settled in the land
of their fathers. In the stream of French refugees from the dragon-
nades Peter Flourneys came to England, and he was naturalized 2Sth
June, 1682. He evidently proved himself to be an able and accomplished
man, and had obtained the approbation and esteem of the Earl of Sim-
derland, who, perhaps, employed him as tutor to his sons. This led to
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his appointment by King George I as tutor to his lordship's nephew. In
the Patent Rolls, under date of 17th March. 1715 His Majesty declares,
' We are graciously pleased to allow for and towards the maintenance
of the late Countess of Clancaity's children and for their education in
the Protestant religion, the annuity or yearly sum of £1,000, and the
same shall be paid to the hands of our trusty and well-beloved Peter
Flournoys, Esq., as from last Christmas during pleasure.'
"3d of September, 1715, the office of Taster of all wines and other
liquors imported into Ireland, and of Surveyor of the duties and defects
of the same, was granted to Peter Flournoys and Charles de la Farge,
Esqrs. At a later date he (Flournoy) received the office of Clerk of
the Robes and Wardrobes to his Majesty. He die J in 1719- I" his will
he remembers his pupils, Lord Muskery and his brother, .Mr. Justin
McCarty. He leaves books and pictures to his 'dear friend' Lord
Spencer (eldest son of the Earl of Sunderland). He mentions his
brothers Andrew Flournoy, with two sons and one daughter, and his
unmarried brother James and a sister Elizabeth, wife of Monsieur Yil-
lier, with two sons (Gaspard and John James) and three daughters."
It will be seen the name is spelled "Flournoy" and ' Flournois."
"The History of the French Protestant Refugees, from the Revoca-
tion of the Edict of Nantes to the Present Time, 1S24 (Blackwood &
Sons), by Charles Weiss, Professor of History at the Lycee Buonaparte ;
Hardman's Translation," page 482, mentions Jacques Flournoy as as-
sisting the refugees who poured into Geneva after the Revocation in
the autumn of 1685, together with his manuscript account of the emi-
gration.
"These entered Switzerland in too great numbers permanently. to
abide there. In a few weeks they thronged in. not only from Gex and
La Bresse, but from Dauphine and Lanquedoc, then successively from
all the provinces of France. Writers of that day inform us that already
in 16S5 hundreds arrived there daily. Under date of that year we read
in Jacques Flournoy's manuscript collection that 'a great number of
these poor people continue daily to arrive, and several thousands iiave
already passed in. Amongst others many French ministers ; and al-
though they stop but a few days, more than fifty have been seen there
at one time. The French purse is exhausted. On the 9th November,
two hundred and twenty eight, entirely from Gex, received assistance.
Up to the 15th November a thousand from that same country had been
thus aided.' "
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" It was especially in 16S7 that the flood of emigration rolled towards
the city of Calvin. We may judge of its magnitude by this passage
from Flournoy, dated 25th May, of that year : ' Every day there arrive
a surprising number of French, quitting the kingdom for their religion
It has been observed that scarcely any week passes without three hun
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THE KLOUKNOV FAMILY. 83
dred of them arriving, and that has gone on since the end of winter.
Some days there come in as many as one hundred and twenty in several
troops. Most of them are young artisans ; there are also persons of
quality.' " ^ * * * -^ •* * *
The statement is that the refugees passed through '' to the various
cantons, or to Holland, Brandenberg and England."
Evidently this Jacques Flournoy was the one born in 1657, father of
Jean Jacques, th2 Immigrant, and brother of Jacob the Immigrant, as
appears below.
Inquiry made at Geneva, through the Consular office of the United
States, developed that the name still exists there in the persons of the
gentlemen mentioned below. The Consul, Hon. B. H. Ridgley, was
exceedingly courteous and obliging.
Mr. Edmond Flournoy's Letter.
Before any reply was received to inquiries made of him came a letter
from Mr. Edmond Flournoy, written in French, which is rendered into
English, as follows :
Geneva,
12, quai des Eau.x-Vives,
April 2ist, 1S94.
Mr. Flournoy Rivers, Pulaski, Tennessee:
Sir, — I have sent you, at the request of the Consul of the United
States, an extract from our Genealogy. This genealogy, in manuscript,
was begun in 1732 by a Flournoy of Geneva, and has been continued.
There are at Geneva now three gentlemen bearing this name : Mr. The-
dore Flournoy. who is my brother, myself, and Mr. Charles Flournois,
who descends from another son of Laurent. I know that there is in
Chicago a Flournoy street. I also know that in (855 a Mr. Flournoy
desired to be Governor of Virginia, but that he was not elected.*
I am glad to know that you now bear the name. Even as in the last
century, the Flournoys of Geneva corresponded with those of Virginia;
we hope that you will send us information concerning yourself and
your ancestors. Please receive, sir, my very distinguished salutations.
E. Flournoy.
The genealogy transmitted through the Consul's office is as follows,
giving the English translation :
" The Genealogy of the Flournoy Family in A.merica."
" Laurent Flournoy left Champagne on the occasion of the massacre
at Vassy in 1562. He went to Geneva at the time of massacre of Saint
Bartholomew in 1572. He married Gabrielle Mellin, of Lyons. He
was the father of:
*The late Thomas Stanhope Flournoy. who was defeated by Henry A. Wise.
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"Jean Flournoy, born in 1574; married Frances Mussard. Fatherof:
"Jacques, born in 160b;; married Judith Pucrary. Father of:
"Jacques, born in 1657; married Juha Eyraud. Father of:
"Jean Jacques John James), born November 17th, 16S6 ; married in
Virginia, June 23d, 1720, to Elizabeth, daughter of James Williams;
born in Eng^land. in the Principality of Wales— Lawyer— and of Eliza-
beth Buckner, his wife, of Virginia; born December 25th, 1695; mar-
ried formerly to Drlando Jones, without children."*
"Their children (John James and Elizabeth) are :
(i) "Elizabeth Julia, born Dec'r 5. 1721 ; married Thomas Spencer,
of Virginia.
(2) "Gideon, born in Virginia Mch. 19th, 1723; married in Geneva in
I74<S, Jane Frances Sabowrin.
(3) "Samuel, born Oct. 4th, 1724; married April 9th, 1748. Elizabeth
Harris.
[Then follow Samuel's children. Omitted for the present. — F. R.]
(4) "John, born in \'irginia Dec'r 9th, 1726; married in Geneva, Sept.
2d, 1755, Camilla Ballexserd.
{5) "David, born Sept. 3d, 1728; died Oct. iSth, 1757, without having
been married. He was Captain and Judge in Virginia.
[First sheriff of Prince Edward county — F. R ]
(6) " Rachel, born Sept. 25th 1730; died Aug. 2Sth, 1741. Every one
called her ' Beautiful Rachel,' and it was said she was the most beauti-
ful girl in the country.
(7) " Mathew. born June 21st, 1732.
[Lived in Prince Edward county. Early emigrated to N. E. Kentucky ;
was killed by Indians, and left a very numerous progeny. His name is
spelled Mathew.s- by his descendants. — F. R.]
(8) Mary, born Feb'y 23d, 1735 ; married William Booker.
[Lived in Prince Edward county.— F. R ] ' *
(9) "One daughter, born November 25, 1736, after seven months;
died at the end of six weeks, without baptism — the fault of the minister.' '
(10) "Thomas, born Nov. 20th, 173S." [Ancestor of the Prince
Edward and Brunswick County Flournoys— F. R.]
"These ten children were all nourished by their mother, who during
eighteen years did not discontinue to bear children or to nourish them."
* Flournoy vs. Martin.
At a court held at Goochland Court House the third Tuesday in July, iSth, 1732, in an
'action of debt between John James Flournoy and Elizabeth, his wife, e.x'.f, &c., of
Orlando Jones, dec'd, pl't'fs, and Francis Martin, deft.'' Judgment was confessed by
the defendant for 'seven hundred and thirty pounds of sweet-scented tobacco in cash
convenient, and eighty-eight pounds of tobacco, and fifteen shiliings, curr't money.
Whereupon it is considered by the court that the pl't's do recover against the dePt the
said sums, together with the Costs of this Suit and a Lawyer's tfee. "— F . R.
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John James Flocrnov, The Immigrant.
" Jean Jacques Flournoy, their father, died March 23d, 1740, of a ma-
lignant fever, which prevailed in the country."
" His wife died one or two days later, and they were buried at the
same time, according to her desire e.xpressed after the death of her
husband. She wishing that his interment might be postponed as she
had a premonition that she would soon follow him, although she was
at the time entirely well."
" This was written to me Nov. 7th, 1740, by William Gay, one of the
Executors of my brother's will."
[The Flournoy in Geneva, who began the Genealogy in 1732, was
evidently a brother of John James.— F. R.]
Search has been made for the will books of Henrico county, covering
the year of Jean Jacques Flournoy's death, but neither the original
will nor the probated copy of it could be found. The will book, from
1737 to 1745 are lost.
The following entry, however, appears from the Order Book of that
period, page 102, April Court, 1740.
" William Gay and John Nash present the last will and testament of
John James Flournoy, deceased, upon oath, and prove the same by the
oath of John Price and John Hancock, two of the witnesses thereto>
which was ordered to be recorded, and certificate is granted the said
Executors for obtaining a probate thereon in due form."
At the May Court, 1740, the will of " Mary ffloronoy dec'd," was pro-
bated by William Gay and Jas. Nash, Executors. See page 107, same
book.
"Henrico County Court, July 7, 1740, an Inventory of the Estate of
John James Floronoy and Mary Floronoy, deceased, is presented by
John Nash and William Gay and ordered to be recorded." Page 113,
same book.
Jacob Flournoy, The Im.migrant. . ^^
From the Geneva Genealogy :
"Jacques Flournoy, as above, born in 1608, who married Judith Pu-
crary, was the father of:
"Jacob Flournoy. born Jan. 5th, 1663, and who married three times.
He went to Virginia in 1700, and established himself near Williamsburg-
Here is an extract from his letter to my father, written from his planta-
tion at Manakin Town, May i6th, 1704:
" It will soon be four years since he arrived with his family, which
then consisted of his second wife and his two sons, Francis and Jacques
(James), besides one daughter, named Jane Frances, born in Berlin.
She was, perhaps, the wife of Ashurst . That his daughter, Mary,
whom he brought from Geneva, died in London a month or six weeks
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before they embarked for Virginia. His young daughter by his second
wife died during tlie voyage, which took them fourteen weeks to make.
He with his family was sent to the end of all the English Plantations
to claim the land which the King had granted, being 50 acres of land
'a head.'
" His second wife died there, and he remained a widower with his
three children for two years and four months. He married the third
time Thursday, Dec gin, 1703. a Hollander, born at The Hague, like
himself about forty years of age, named Madeline Prodhom, the widow
of Moise Yerreuii, a French merchant at Rouen.
"The father of said wife was of the Canton of Berne, and her grand-
father was a minister of Lausanne. He had made the voyage with her
from England to Virginia."
"Jacob Flournoy had, according to the letters of John James Flour-
noy, of Virginia, of August 17th, 1737, and of August 3d, 1739, to his
brother, Gideon Flournoy, at Geneva, by his wife:
(i) ''Francis Flournoy and one daughter ; J.icques, who di^d in Vir-
ginia unmarried, and who was the godson of his uncle, Jacques Flour-
noy.
[Evidently the Jacques of 1657, father of J. J., and godfather by
proxy — F. R.J
"The aforesaid daughter married Robert Ashurst, and left him Jacob
Ashurst. She died about 1717.
" Francis Flournoy, aforesaid, married (?), and left the follow-
ing nine (9) children : .Mary, Jane, Jacob, Francis, James, Sarah, Martha>
Gideon, and William."
The will of Francis Flournoy, of date April T3th, 1770, appears of
record in Will Book No. 2, p. 262, Chesterfield C. H., and mentions all
the foregoing children, with the addition of his son Josiah, and several
grandsons, children of these sons. The probate was March 5th. 1773.
[Do the Chesterfield Flournoys descend from Francis ? — F. R.]
It is shown that Jacob, the immigrant of 1700, was the uncle of Jean
Jacques Flournoy, who came over a few years later. The exact date
of the arrival of John James Flournoy is not known. Mr. R. A. Brock,
of Richmond, Va., owns a book having in it his signature as made at
Geneva in 1717. He must have come to America between 1717 and
1720, when he married.
It is needless to refer to any of the well-known facts of Huguenot
history. The immense emigration that took place after the Revocation
of the Edict of Xantes, in the autumn of 1685, is a matter of history.
One colony was settled in Virginia — then Henrico — now Powhatan
county, at Man.ikin town, near where Huguenot post-office now stand'^
Says ''The Huguenot Emigration," page 9, " two hundred or more
settled at a spot some twenty miles above Richmond on the south side
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Bb VIJ THE FLOURNOY FAMILY
87
of James River (now in Powhatan countyi, where ten thousand acres
of land, which had been occupied by the extinct Manakin Tribe of
Indians, were given them."
They were constituted into King Wilham Parish.
Of this settlement the late Judge William Pope Dabney wrote in
" The Magazine of American History " for January, 18S2. page 31 :
" A large body of land extending along the south bank of the river.
one mile from it in depth, and twenty-hve miles in length, up the
stream, including all the islands in the river opposite them, was granted
to them by letters-patent. The southern line was chopped upon the
trees, and, for a hundred years after, was known as the French line.
The eastern boundary was Bernard's Creek, and the western was Salle's
Creek, whose names now recall the foreign birth of the new settlers,
as does the name of Sabot Island, whose shape resembles the wooden
shoe of the French peasantry."
This grant was divided into farms -■' all running down to the river in
narrow strips " — we are told.
Here Jacob Flournoy first setttled.
"The Huguenot Emigration to Virginia; Virginia Historical Society
Collections. Vol. V, New Series," includes among the "List of all ye
passengers from London to James River in Vi. ginia, being French Ref-
ugees, Imbarqued in ye Ship Peter and Anthony. Galley of London,
Daniel Perreau, commander." "Jacob Fleurnoir, sa femme, 2 garcons
and 2 fiUes; " page 15.
This compilation contains the state papers referring to the Hugue-
not settlement at Manakin, and the care of the refugees.
There are various references in it to Jacob, to Francis, to John James
Flournoy.
References to the will, deed and order books of Henrico, Chester-
field, Prince Edward, Goochland, Powhatan, Cumberland counties,
etc., etc.. confirm the data here given in ever-- respect.
From time to time, necessary extracts and data from them and from
other sources will be published as this inquiry proceeds.
It should be remembered that Henrico was one of the original coun-
ties of the Colony; that Chesterfield was formed from it in 1748; Gooch-
land in 1727; that Cumberland was taken from Goochland in 174S, and
Powhatan from Cumberland in 1777, and Prince Edward from Amelia
in 1753; Amelia from Prince George. 1734, and Prince George from
Charles City in 1702, this being one of the original counties established
in 1634.
The Geneva Flournoys.
The concluding extract of Mr. Edmond Flournoy's notes from the
genealogy of 1732, gives the descent of himself and his brother, as
follows :
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88 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. B^
"Jean Jacques Flournoy, above mentioned, born in 1686, was the
father of Gideon, above named, who was born in Virginia March 19th,
1723 ; married in Geneva, Jane Frances Sabourin." Father of:
Gideon, born in 1755; married lane Frances Delisle. Father of:
John Francis Gideon, born 1784; married Pernetta Elizabeth Covelle-
Father of :
Alexander Anthony, born 1S18; married Caroline Claparede. Father
of:
(i) Theodore, born August 15. 1854, Professor of Physiological Psy-
chology in the University of Geneva; mariied in 1S80, Helene-Marie
Bernice, nee Curstat, of Lausanne. They have five children.
(2) "Edmond, born January 2d. 1S63, geologist."
Mr. Charles Flournois descends from the other son of Laurent.
It cannot be stated at this writing when Gideon Flournoy returned to
Geneva.
There is of record at Cumberland C H., in the County Court Clerk's
office, a power of attorney, executed August 15th, 1753, by Gideon
Flournoy, described as '' Merchant in Virginia and Burgher of this city
of Geneva," empower'ng Thomas Turpin, David Flournoy and Mathew
Flournoy (these described as the grantor's brothers) to sell to his
brother, Samuel Flournoy, 300 acres of land on Jones' creek, together
with certain negroes, all in his brother Samuel's possession.
The instrun-.ent recites that it was "translated out of French." It
was executed at Geneva before "Mare E'tienne Masseron, Notary,''
and is witnessed by "Jacques Antoine MoUet, citizen, and Andre Bos-
quet, Burgher."
The character of Mr. " Mare Stephen Masseron " as " Notary Pub-
lick " is certified to under the seal of the "City and Repubiick of
Geneva," end the translation is made at London, September 4th. 1753.
by Abraham .Ogier, Notary Public, and his public character is certified
under the "seal of the office of the Mayoralty."
The instrument carefully safeguards that " If Samuel Flournoy should
not pay the price and money for which the said sale shall be made, im-
mediately on its being made over to him," they are to demand "suffi-
cient mortgages ■' for both principal and interest of the debt, and the
debt is to be a first mortgage on the land sold— the vendor's lien !
On September 22, 1755, Gideon Flournoy seems to have made a deed
to his brother Samuel conveying in person this same land, which is also
of record at Cumberland.
Jones Creek is now in Powhatan county, emptying just above the old
Manakin settlement, and Just below Jude's Ferry, into James River —
some fifteen or'twenty miles above Richmond.
Land Registry Books.
The books of the Virginia Land Office show that on March 29th,
ad< an WV <''l^'^' M! r»-»«^^^ h«.r!n> •'<•»"" -wiyiH''; vom'.""'''^ &"»Of*->ci ttfu^I ■'
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1705. Jacob Flournoy began to enter land. Book No. 10, page 2S5, 133
acres, Henrico county.
The first entry made by John James Flournoy was [an. 2d, 1723, 400
acres; Book No. 10, page 305, Henrico county.
Likewise Francis Flournoy, Gent., made his first entry Jan. 2d, 1723;
400 acres, Henrico county, Book No. 10, p. 307.
Many entries follow, made by John James or Francis, the last entry
being by John James Flournoy and Daniel Stoner, 200 acres, Goochland
county. Book No. 18, p. 38, July 20th, 173S
■"'■''''' Samuel Flournoy's Descendants.
Samuel Flournoy was the third child of Jean Jacques, as appears from
the genealogy. He was born Oct. 4th, 1724; married Elizabeth Har-
ris, April 9th, 174S.
The marriage bond together with the consent of her fiither, John
Harris, appear of record in Goochland Courty Court clerk's office.
The first is of date of April 2d, 174S, and the second of April ist, 174S.
According to the Geneva MSS., their children were : " Ursula, born
1749; Gideon, born Feb'y 20th, 1752; John, born April 29th, 1754;
Mary, : Samuel, born Dec. 9th, 1758, so named according to the
wishes of his (J. T.'s) wife, who thought she would bear no more
children."
However, she evidently was in error, as her husband's will records
several others, viz: David (born Ap'l 14th, 1761 ; died in Kentucky,
June 30th, 1831), Jordan, Thomas, Silas; also another daughter, Eliza-
beth Julia, who married Britton. Ursula married James Harris, of
Chesterfield county, her mother's kinsman.
His will is of record at Powhatan C. H. Book r. p. 66; probated
Dec'r 2ist, 1780
The will of his widow, Elizabeth, made May 15th, 17S9, was probated
by the oaths of William Sublett and Joseph Sallt, two of the subscrib-
ing witnesses, at court held at Scottsville, Powhatan county, May 19th,
1791. Her sons, David and Jordan, were her executors.
Her two youngest sons, Thomas and Silas, were her residuary lega-
tees. This will is now of record at Powhatan C. H.
By wav of identification, the compiler will state, without detail, the
gradations of his descent.
Silas Flournoy, born June 4th, 1774. married Martha Cannon, daugh-
ter of, William Cannon; sold his place, " Farmington," on Jones'
Creek, near Jude's Ferry, to his brother Jordan, and emigrated to the
(then) new State of Tennessee in 1S07; settled on Cumberland River,
in Davidson county, above Nashville; removed to Giles county in 1S17.
and died at his home, " Locust Hill," near Pulaski, Tenn, where he is
buried, on May iSth, 1822.
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He left a large family, among others William Cannon Flournoy ;
bormSoo ; called to the Bat 1822; married Martha Camp 182S; died
at his home in Pulaski 1S3S. Father of ( one son) and :
Julia Flournoy, born Feb'y iglh, 1S3S ; married William Rivers, Deer.
28, 1857; died at their home near Pulaski. Jan. 22d. 1882. Mother of:
(i) Flournoy Rivers, born Oct. 15th. 1S5S, called to the Bar, 1SS2 ; mar-
ried, Oct. 15th, 1891, Lidie Avirett of Birmingham, A'a., daughter of
John Alfred Avirett, dec'd, late Captain 52d Alabama Infantry, C. S. A.
Parents ot :
John Avirett Rivers, born March 22d, 1894, possibly the youngest de-
scendant Lawrent has in America.
(2) John Harper Rivers, born i860; died 1S64.
(3) Tyree Rodes Rivers, born May loth, 1S62. First Lieutenant,
Troop " E," 3rd U. S Cavalry.
(4) William Cannon Rivers, born Jan. i ith, 1S66. Second Lieutenant,
Troop " D," ist L'. S. Cavalry.
(5) Julian Rivers, born Dec. 23d, 1S68, Chief Clerk to the Treasurer of
Tennessee.
(6) Myra Rivers, born June 19th, 1871.
In the further progress of this inquiry the compiler will endeavor to
publish abstracts of the records herein referred to, as well as of many
others, and will also devote special attention to the accuracy of the de-
tails of the later descents, to the religious and political affiliations of
the Flournoy family ; to some account of whatever of civil or military
service any of them may have rendered, especially in either the Revo-
lutionary War or in the late Civil War. He hopes to be cordially aided.
He has asked Mr. Edmond Flournoy to join with him in the labor so
far as it relates to the European branch of the family, but owing to the
distance has as yet had no reply to his request.
In the next issue the descendants of the other sons of Jean Jacques
and of the descendants of Jacob will be traced more fully. The mem-
bers of this family seem to have yielded a very liberal obedience to the
command given Noah and his sons to " be fruitful and multiply and re-
plenish the earth."
They are now found in all sections of the Federal Union— e.xcept,
possibly, the Northeast— in the Southeast, South, Southwest, West,
Middle West, far Southwest, and far Northwest, to the shores of the
Pacific Ocean; all tracing back by Huguenot traditions, more or less
distinct, to the Valley of the James River, a prolific, and, generally
speaking, a short-lived race.
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Historical Notes and Queries.
List of Counties and Cities.
The following list of the counties of Virginia, ^vith the dates of their
creation and the names of the counties from which they were created,
when not among the original shires, was preppred by Mr. R. S. Thomas,
of Smithfield, Va. Mr Thomas' interesting and valuable contribution
on the ''Old Brick Church at Smithfield," which was published in Vol.
XI of the Collections of the Virginia Historical Society (New Series),
a paper which was read at the annual meeting held December 21-22.
1891. will be recaifed by many of our readers:
Accomack in 1672 from Northampton.- _
Albemarle in 1744, from Goochland.
Alleghany in 1S22, from Bath, Monroe and Botetourt.
Amelia in 1734, from Prince George.
Amherst in 1761, from Albemarle. . . ,,
Augusta in i7.rS, from Orange. " "' ' '
Bath in 1790, from Augusta, Botetourt and Greenbrier
Bedford in 1753. from Lunenburg.
Berkeley in 1772, from Frederick.
Botetourt in 1769, from Augusta.
Brooke in 1796, from Ohio.
Brunswick in 1720, from Surry and Isle of Wight.
Buckingham in 1761, from Albemarle.
Bra.xton in 1836, from Lewis, Kanawha and Nicholas.
Cabell in 1S09, from Kanawha.
Campbell in 1781, from Bedford
Caroline in 1727, from Esse.x. King and Queen and King William.
Charles City in 1764, from Lunenburg.
Chesterfield in 1748, from Henrico.
Culpeper in 1748, from Orange.
Clarke in 1836, from Frederick.
Carroll in 1S42, from Grayson.
Dinwiddie in 1752, from Prince George.
Elizabeth City in 1634, original Shire.
Essex in 1692, from Rappahonnock (old).
Fairfax in 1742, from Prince William.
Fauquier in 1759. from Prince William.
Fayette in 1831, from Logan, Greenbrier, Nicholas and Kanawha.
Floyd in 1831, from Montgomery.
Fluvanna in 1777, from Albemarle.
Franklin in 1785, from Bedford and Henry.
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Frederick in 173S, from Orange.
Giles in 1.S06, from Montgomery, Tazewell and .Monroe.
Gloucester in 1652, from .
Goochland in 1727, from Henrico. . .-• '\. . ., ,.^,-,.:
Grayson in 1792, from W'ythe.
Greenbrier in 1777, from. Botetourt and Montgomery.
Greensville in 17S0, from Brunswick.
Greene in 1S3S, from Orange.
Halifa.x in I7'i2, tVom Lunenburg.
Hampshire in 1753, from .-Vugusta and Frederick.
Hanover in 1720, from New Kent. ;,.
Hardy in 17S5. from Hampshire.
Harrison in 17S4, from .Monongalia. ■ .\:.-,r. ',,;.;•,.
Henrico in 1634, original Shire.
Henry in 1776, from Pittsylvania.
Isle of Wight in 1657, from Shire (Warrasquoycke).
Jackson in 1S31, from .Mason, Kanawha and Wood.
James City in 1634, original Shire.
Jefferson in iSoi, from Berkeley.
Kanawha in 17SS, from Greenbrier and .Montgomery-.
King George in 1720, from Richmond.
King William in 1701, from King & Queen.
King & Queen in 1691, from New Kent.
Lancaster in 1652, from
Lee in 1792, from Russell.
Lewis in 1816, from Harrison.
Logan in 1824, from Giles, Cabell, Tazewell, and Kanawha.
Loudoun in 1757, from Fairfa.x. .
Louisa in 1742, from Hanover.
Lunenburg in 1746, from Brunswick.
Madison in 1792, from Culpeper.
Mason in 1S04, from Kanawha. ^
Mathews in 1790, from Gloucester.
Mecklenburg in 1764, from Lunenburg.
Middlesex in 1675, f:om Lancaster.
Monongalia in 1676, from West Augusta.
Monroe in 1798, from Greenbrier and Botetourt.
Montgomery in 1776, from Fincastle, divided into Kentucky, Wash-
ington, and Montgomery.
Morgan in 1820, from Berkeley and Hampshire.
Marshall in 1S35, from Ohio.
Marion in 1S42, from .Monongalia and Harrison.
Mercer in 1S37, from Giles and Tazewell.
Nansemond in 1645, from Upper Norfolk.
Nelson in 1S07, from Amherst.
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New Kent in 1654, from York.
Nicholas in 1S18, from Kanawha, Greenbrier, and Randolph.
Norfolk County in 1691, from Lower Norfolk.
Northampton in 1645. from the original Shire of Accawmacke.
Northumberland in 164S. from Chicawane.
Nottoway in 17SS, from Amelia.
Ohio in 1776, from West Augusta. ''' '• ' ■'■ '■•''■'
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Page in 1831, from Shenandoah and Rockingham.
Patrick in 1790, from Henry.
Pendleton in 17S7, from Augusta, Hardy and Rockingham. ; i- -A
Pittsylvania in 1766, from Halifax.
Pocahontas in 1S21, from Bath, Pendleton, and Randolph.
Powhatan in 1777, from Cumberland. . :\,i
Preston in iSiS, from Monongalia. ' . *
Princess Anne in 1691, from Lower Norfolk.
Prince Edward in 1753, from Amelia. '••^
Prince George in 1702, from Charles City. ''^
Prince William in 1730, from Stafford and King George. - ' '•
Pulaski in 1839, from Montgomery and Wythe. • • ^■''■'''-••«
Randolph in 1786, from Harrison.
Richmond in 1692, from Rappahannock.
Rockbridge in 1777, from Augusta and Botetourt. ' ' -" y-i<T.Ki<K\
Rockingham in 1779, from Augusta.
Russell in 1786, from Washington. ., T,':..-tfr..A : ; : '
Rappahannock in 1833, from Culpeper.
Roanoke in 1838, from Botetourt. - ■ •
Scott in 1S14, from Lee, Russell, and Washington.
Shenandoah in 1772, changed from Dunmore.
Southampton in 1748, from Isle of Wight.
Spotsylvania in 1720, from Esse.x. y,
Stafford in 1675, from Westmoreland.
Surry in 1S52 (1652), from .
Susse.K in 1753, from Susse.x.
Smyth in 1632, from Washington and Wythe.
Tazewell in 1799, from Russell and Washington.
Tyler in 1814, from Ohio.
Warwick in 1634, original Shire.
Washington in 1796, from Fincastle.
Westmoreland in 1683.
Wood in 1798, from Harrison.
Wythe in 17S9, from Montgomery.
York in 1634, original Shire.
Richmond City 1742, incorporated in 17S2.
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Fredericksburg, incorporated in 1727.
Petersburg, incorporated in .
Lynchburg, incorporated in 17S5. -.
Norfolk Borough, in 1736.
Staunton, incorporated in 1761.
Winchester, incorporated in 1752.
Warren in 1S36, from Shenandoah and Frederick.
Wayne in 1S42, from Cabel!.
Williamsburg in 1669, directed to be built.
Thanks in General Orders to the Richmond Volunteers,
War of 1S12.
Washington, April 24, 1S94.
Editor of Virginia Magazine of History, &c.
Sir.. — I found to-day in one of General Wilkinson's Orderly Books
belonging to the files of the Adjutant Inspector General's office the
enclosed General Order about the Virginia troops in the War of 181 2.
I consider it a very remarkable document, and it is certainly without a
parallel in the military orders of this or any other country.
Respectfully,
A. C. Quisenberry.
Headquarters, Malone, 29th December, 1S13.
General Orders.
Captain Booker and the Richmond Volunteers have leave to return
to the capital of Virginia, from whence they marched in August last to
assert the cause of their country in the North. Major General Wilkin-
son wishes he possessed power to do justice to the merits of this Patri-
otic band, and to reward them for their services and sufferings; but
this belongs to their country, which best understands how to estimate
their worth, and to remunerate them for their sacrifices. W;t.h the
General it only remains to thank them, which he does with all his heart,
for the readiness with which they have performed every duty required
of them, and the patience and fortitude they have manifested under
the hardships and privations incident to a soldier's life whilst in cam-
paign. He hopes the names of this body of free citizens who volun-
tarily abandoned their houses, their homes, their friends and their
families, to offer their lives to the service of their country, may never
be forgotten; and to give to his wishes the fullest effect of this frail
record, he submits the following roll to the army and the country, com-
prehending the names of those who composed this company, which he
flatters will never be thought of but with respect :
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Captain Ricliard Booker,
ist. Lieut. J. W. Ellis.
2d. Lieut. Benj'n Hazlegrove,
Ensign Robt. Kennedy.
Sergeant Geo. Nicoison.
Chris. Branch.
Wm. B. Page.
" Sani'l Shepherd.
Corporal John Estill.
Reuben Turner.
Chas. Jones.
Wm. Giles.
Pru'ATEs:
Peter Alley,
Andrew Adkins,
Wm. F. Burton,
John Eullard,
P. B. Bell,
Geo. Brichard,
R. T. Booker.
Geo. Compton,
P. P. Courtney,
Richard Crouch,
Robt. Conner,
W. H. Curtin.
John Conner,
J. P. Carter,
Jas. Cooke,
^. Dearing,
Rich'd Elam,
J. T. Fleming,
Robt. French,
John Golden,
H. Gentry,
Jas. Ganes (Gaines (?)).
Wm. Hodge,
Thos. Herbert.
John Hanes (Haines (?)),
Wm. Herbert,
W. Hines,
J. Hipkins,
L. Hipkins, . -, ,j, ,
B. Johnson, ;■,;;■ ,, .
Wm. Jarvis, ,. , • > ;
Thos. King, ^;. ■: , ,
L. Minor, ..it r--
J. Moody,
P. Moore,
C. G. Maginnis,
P. Nickson (Nixon (?)).
G. Norwood,
A. Perry,
Wm. H. Perry,
J. Perry,
Wm. N. Perry,
J. C. Page, '■■''■'■
J. Pickett,
R. Roper, ' "";/
D. Reat, '' ' '
J. A. Russell,
John Ross.
Grif. Truly,
Seaton Taylor,
George Webb,
F. Kuhn,
Haws.
Captain Booker, in making the ne.xt muster will strike off the officers
and men at the time most convenient to them within the period of their
engagement ; and in making up his abstracts for pay he will allow the
usual milage to those actually discharged at this place ; all others to
continue enrolled until discharged at Richmond, whence they marched.
J. Wilkinson.
The following general order, which Mr. Quisenberry also sends, will
will be read with hardly less interest :
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War Dep't, Adj't & Insp. Genl's Records. Vol. 495.
Headquarters, Norfolk, May S, 1813.
General Orders.
The Major-General has found among the troops comprising the
requisitions from Virginia, sundry individuals (from the highest regi-
mental grade to the private in the ranks) whose duty as Representatives
requires their presence in Richmond at the meeting of the Legislature
on the inst. Honorable as are the duties of the civil appomtment,
scruples are entertained of asking furloughs to fulfil them. To remove
such, the General permits the Representatives, of whatever grade in
the Army, to retire for the purpose of meeting their civil duties when
they may think proper; and to return at their pleasure.
By order of Major-General Hampton.
Jas. Bankhead.
AssL Adft General.
A Virginian Challenge in the Seventeejcth Century.
The Editor, while examining the records of Lancaster county a few
weeks since, found in the volume covering the period from 1652 to 1657
the following challenge to fight a duel, with the proceedings of the
court with reference to it :
" Whereas Richard Denham sun-in-law to Captt. Thomas Hackett did
deliver a chalenge sent from his s'd fatiier-inlaw to Mr. Daniel ffox
duringe ye sitinge of ye court and beinge by the court questioned if he
knew what it was y't he had brought, replyed y't he knew it to be a
clialenge sent from his father to Mr. ffo.x and therefore desired Mr.
ffjx to returne his answere to his father what he intended to doo in it.
Whereupon Major Carter, reprovinge him and telling him y't he was
very peremptorye and saying y't hee knew not how his father would
acquit himself of an action of y't nature, w'h he s'd he would not be ye
owner of for a wo'id, the said Denham slightingly replied y't his father
would answer it well enough and for a great deale less than a 100^,
whereupon ve court conceivinge ye said Denham to be a partye w'th
his father-in-law in ve s'd crime by bringing and acknowledging it to be
a chalenge for deliveringe it to a member of ye court duringe ye court's
sitinge, and by his slytinge and lesseninge ye affense together w'th
his peremtory answers to ye court, have adjudged ye s'd Denham to
receave six stripes on his bare shoulder with a whip. The challenge
ordered to be recorded."
The challenge was as follows :
" Mr. Fox I wonder ye should so much degenerate from a gentleman
as to cast such an aspersion on me in open court making nothinge
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appeare but I know it to be out of malice and an evill disposition which
remains in yo. hart, therefore I desire ye if ye have anything of a gen-
tleman or of manhood in ye to meet me on Tewsday morning at ye
marked tree in ye valey which parts y'r land and mine about eight of
ye clock when I shall expect yo'r cominge to give me satisfaction, my
weapon is Rapier ye length I send ye by this bearer, not * ^- ^ at
present but yo'rs at ye time appointed,
"Thomas Hackiett.
"Y'r second bringe along w'th ye if y'r please, and I shall finde me
of ye like."
The court thus ordered as to Hackett :
" Whereas Captt. Thomas Hackett hath contrary to ye known laws of
England and peace of this country, sent a peremptory challenge to Mr.
David ffox to this court, w'h was delivered him by Richard Denham,
sun-in-law to ye s'd Hackett during ye sittinge of ye Court, the Court
therefore for p'vention of those evills and inconveniencies that might
ensue on an aeon of that nature have ordered y't ye Sheriff of this coun-
tye shall forthw'th seize and aprehend ye bodie of ye s'd Hackett and
may raise such power as maybe sufficient for effectinge thereof and
after such seizure and aprehension, him to detain in safe custodie
w'thout baiie or mainprize the ffo.x havinge desired ye same conceav-
inge himself not safe if he should goe under baiie) untill ye next Quarter
Court when and where he is to answer ye s'd crime before the gov't
and Counsell on ye 4th day of ye s'd court, whither ye sheriff is to see
him safely conveyed."
Orders & Deeds, Lancaster, 1652-1657, pp. 64, 65. •. ,r ; :. ,.t' ; -
Free Schools in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century.
The following will (16S01, copied by the Editor from the Lancaster
Records, will be read with interest as showing the spirit of the people
of Virginia in that age towards schools. The condition upon which
this free school was to be established probably never arose:
"In the name of God, amen, I Frances Pritchard the wife of Robert
Pritchard of the County of Lancaster Boatwright bemg sick and weake
in body but of sound minde and memory (praised be God) doe make
and declare my last will and testam't, as followeth, (vizt) I recommende
my soule into the hands of the Almighty who gave it mee, and my body
I comit to the earth, trusting it will p'take of that glorious resurrection
purchased by the merritts of my Saviour Jesus Christ; and for that estate
in land which is properly at my dispose, I devize the same as here in
after is expressed : whereas by a certain pattent there is granted unto
mee a certaine tract of land scituate in the saide county of Lancast'r
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the which I did convey by a certaine deed (under my hand and seale)
unto William Travers and John Stone of the county of Rapp'c gentl.
upon trust and considerate that they should stand seized of the saide
land to the use and behoofe of such p'sons to whome I should Limit
the same by my last Will and Testament. And thereupon I doe here-
by Limit and devize the same as followeth, that is to say, Impris one
hundred Acres of the said Land, bee the same more or less, that lyeth
and adjoyneth unto and touching along the Lyne of Joseph Ball, I give
and devize unto my sone-in-Law George Smith and Ann his wife and
to the successors of them, and after their decease to the heires male of
their bodies lawfully to bee begotten and for want of such yssue unto
Robetta ffinch their daughter, and the heires of her body lawfully to
bee begotten and for want of such yssue then to my grandchildren
Franciscus ffrissell, Mary ffrissell, Margaret ffrissell and Elizabeth ffinch
equelly between them, and the heirs of their bodies and the survivors
of them lawfully to be begotten, and in case of failure therein I devize
the saide Land for and towards the maintenance of a ffree Schoole in
the County of Lancaster aforesaid. Item one other p'cell of the saide
Lande called or comonly knovvne by the name of Monoddy Neck or
Harvey's Neck and alsoe one other neck of the saide land adjoyneing-
thereunto unto the said Franciscus ffrissell and the heirs of his body
lawfully to be begotten and for want of such yssue unto and among my
saide grande children, Mary and Margaret ffrissell, Robetta and Eliza-
beth Smith and the heires of their severall Bodies, to bee equally di-
vided, and for want of such yssue the use of a free schoole as aforesaid.
Item, the dwelling house now in the holding of the said George Smith
and one hundred Acres Land part whereon the same standeth and next
adjoyuing thereunto and all other houses thereupon buiU, I give and
devize unto the said Mary ffrissell and the heires of her body lawfully
to bee begotten and for want of such yssue then to and among my saide
Grand Children and the heires of their bodies equally to be divided
and for want of such yssue the use of such free school as afores'd.
Item, one hundred Acres of Land now in the occupacion of Oswald
Whalley with the housing thereupon, I give and devize unto the saide
Margaret ffrissell and the heires of her body lawfully to bee begotten
and for want of such yssue then to and among my saide grandchildren
and the heires of their bodies equally to bee divided ; and for want of
such yssue for the use of a free school as aforesaid. Item : One hun-
dred Acres of land lying and adjoining to the Roade on which, if God
p'mits, I intend to build and settle a plantation. I give and devize unto
the said Elizabeth Smith and the heirs of her body lawfully to bee be-
gotten, and for want of such yssue, to and among my saide grandchil-
dren and the heires of their bodyes equally to bee divided, and for
want of such yssue to the use of a free .school as aforesaid. And in case
there shall bee and remaine any part and p'cell of the saide land men-
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cioned in the saide pattent which is not before hereby devized, I give
and devize the same to and among all my saide grandchildren and the
heires of their several bodies, to be equally divided, and for want of
such yssue, to the use of a free schoole aforesaid.
IViiis Lancaster Co., i674-'S9, pp. 67, 68, 69. October, 1679 ; probated
1680.
The House of Burgesses, 1639.
As will be seen by reference to / Heiiing, 224, there is no printed
list of the members of the House of Burgesses, 1639. The following
list is from a copy made by the late Conway Robinson from the original
(now destroyed) in the oftice of the General Court. This original seems
to have been partiallv obliterated and addition of names, which seemed
probable, have been made in brackets. The persons named were mem-
bers at other sessions about the same time.
At a Grand Assembly, summoned the si.xth of January, 1639:
Present: Sir Francis Wyatt, Knight, Governor, &c.; Sir John Flarvey,
Knt. ; Capt. Sam'l Mathews, Capt. Wm. Peirce, Mr. Rich'd Kemp,
Secret'r; Mr. Roger Wingate, Treas'r : Mr. Argall Yeardley, Mr. George
Menefie, Capt. Thos. Willoughby, Capt. Henry Brown, Mr. Ambrose
Harmer, Mr. Rich'd Bennett, Members of the Council.
The names ot t'le Burgesses for the several plantations returned by
the Sheritfs being as followeth (viz ) :
//^wrzVo— Capt. Thos. Harris, Mr. Christopher Branch, Mr. Edward
Tonshall.
Charles O'/j'— Capt. Francis Eppes, Capt, Thos. Pavvlett, Mr. Edward
Hill, Mr. Joseph Johnson.
Jatnes City .
For Chicahominy Parish or the Upper Chippokes and Smith's Fork —
For the Lower Chippokes, Hogg- Island, Laiun Creek — Mr. .
For Martin's Hundred to Kethe's Creek — Mr. Thos. [Kingston, or
Fawcett].
For Farloes' Neck to Waroues' Ponds — Mr. Richard. *^''"* '
For Johnson' s Neck, Archard's Hope, and the Neck ofLand—}Ar. Da-
vid [Mansfield, or Mansell].
Warwick River — Capt. Thomas [Flint], Mr. Thomas [Harwood],
Mr. Thomas [Ceely], Mr. Zachary Crip.
Charles River — Mr. William , Mr. Hugh Gwyn, Mr. Peregrine
Bland.
Upper Norfolk— \\\x . Randall Crew, Mr. John Gookin, Mr. Tristram
Norsworthy.
Lower Norfolk— Qa.p\. John Sibsey, Mr. John Hill,
Isle of IVight— Capt. John Upton. Mr. Anthony Jones, Mr. John
Moone, Mr. James Tuke.
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Elizabeth O/v— Mr. Thomas Oldis, Mr. Sirafferton
Ackowmacke—ViX. Obedience Robins, Mr. John Xeale.
Huguenots in Stafford, 1702.— There is recorded in Stafford
county a paper entitled " French Men's Petition," from Eliene Rienbau,
Jean Borcheblau, jean Cosbelle, Lewis Direaubaun I?), Charles Perant,
Marie Remmonde, Here Rousan, Isaac Lafite, Abraham Michau, Piere
Batie, Guiliaime Blanc, Andoric Labornie, and Joan Colvert, stating
they have come into Stafford as strangers, reduced to extremity and
poverty, and praying to be e.\empted from county levies for what time
the Court shall think fit. Dated March, 1700.
An Early Gypsev. — Henrico county, Feb. ist, 1695: " Joane Scot
is discharged from ye p'sentm'ts of the Grand Jury, It being the opin-
ion of this Court that ye Act ag'st ffurnication does not touch her 'she)
being an Egyptian & noe Xtian woman."
This is the earliest known mention of Gypsies in Virginia records,
and is also curious as furnishing an e.xception to their boasted chastity .
'■■ Clerks of Middlese.x— Prepared by Mr. B. B. Chowning.
Feb. 2, 1673. John Lindsey resigned on account of ill-health.
Feb. 2, 1673. Joseph Chinn, continued to 1675. \
1675. James Blackmore, Jr., continued i year.
1676. Christopher Robinson, continued to 1694— iS years.
^ 1694. Edwin Thacker, continued to 1704—10 years.
1 1704. Will. Stanard, continued to 1732—28 years. y.
1732. Gray Skipwith, continued to 1740 — 8 years.
\ 1740. Thomas Price, continued to 1762 — 22 years.
;. 1762. Robert Elliott, continued to 1767 — 5 years.
1767. D. Ker. continued to 1772—5 years.
•: 1772. William Churchhill, continued 10 1799--27 years.
1799. O. Cosby, continued to 1806—7 years.
1806. Thos. Muse, continued to 1811— 5 years.
iSii. Geo. Healy, continued to 1837—26 years
1837. Richard N. Segar, died 1838— i year.
1838. G. T. R. Healey, continued to 1841— 3 years.
1S41. John Healey, continued to 1847—6 years.
1847. Robert N. Trice, continued to 1S52— 5 years.
1852. P.T.Woodward, continued to 1S92— 39years,6 mos., 2days.
Jan. 3, 1892, to Jan. 28, 1892, no clerk.
Jan, 28, 1892, B. B. Chowning appointed by Court, and elected clerk by
the people, May 26, 1893.
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rK '.■•>» "■-' '■,'■< Washington, D. C , April 14th, 1894.
Editor of iht- Jlrgiiiia ^Magazine of Historv, &c.
Sir : In the April number of the Virginia Magazine, Dr. A. G-
Grinnan, referring to the roster of troops in the F"rench and Indian Wars,
published in the January number, states that Lieutenant-Colonel
George Muse, as printed therein, is a mistake for Lieutenant-Colonel
George Morse, and gives his reason for so stating.
I have again examined the rosters of these troops, now forming a part
of the Washington papers on file in the State Department, and find the
name Lieutenant-Colonel George Muse once, and (in prior rolls) Major
George Muse twice, in Washington's own handwriting; and so plainly
and unmistakably Muse as to preclude the possibility of mistaking it
for Morse. Washington's well-known particularity would also pre-
clude the possibility of his makmg such a mistake in writing the name
of so prominent a man as the Major, and later, the Lieutenant-Colonel,
of a regiment of which he was himself first the Lieutenant-Colonel,
and afterwards the Colonel.
Lieutenant-Colonel Muse lived in Caroline county, and he and Wash-
ington had some land transactions in partnership, and a number of
letters passed between them. In his letters Mr. Muse invariably signs
his name Muse, and not Morse.
Muse is a good old Virginia and Maryland name The military
records of the Revolutionary War show the following:
Muse, Richard {W a..), 2d Lieutenant, 15th Va. Regiment, 2d December,
1776; ist Lieutenant, 20th March, 1777; regiment designated nth Vir-
ginia, 14th September, 1778 ; resigned 14th May, 1779.
Muse, Walker (Md.), ensign of Smallwood's .Maryland Regiment,
14th January, 1776; 2d Lieutenant, May, 1776; taken prisoner at Long
Island, 27th August, 1776; exchanged Sth December, 1776 ; ist Lieu-
tenant, ist ^Maryland Regiment, loth December, 1776; Captain, loth
June, 1777, and served as such to April, 1783.
Very Respectfully,
A. C. QUISENBERRV.
[We are also in receipt of a communication from Mr. Worthington
C. Ford, the distinguished editor of Washington's writings, ifi confir-
mation of Mr. Quisenberry's statement. It is only proper to say that
Dr. Grinnan wrote us a short time after the appearance of the April
number admitting that he had been in error in thinking that Muse had
been intended for Morse. — Ed ]
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FRONTIER FORTS IN BATH COUNTY.
Withers, in his Border Warfare, makes a statement, which is copied
by many writers on kindred topics, that when the settlements of the
white man had reached the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, all of that
part of Virginia which lies between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghany
Mountains was deserted by the Indians. Be that as it may, the country
which held such battlefields as that near Millborough Springs, and
which had furnished such sites for villages as that near Mountain Grove,
on Back creek ; that at the McCiintic place, on Jackson's river; and
that at Covington, was not left to the white man without vigorous pro-
test from the former owners. The visitor to the Flat Rock, just oppo-
site the Warm Springs, still has his attention turned to the prominent
peak some miles to the east, where, tradition says, a young Indian
maiden watched the terrible battle between two hostile tribes of In-
dians, in which her lover was engaged; and the flood of 1S77 brought
to light on the banks of the Cowpasture river, below Millborough
Springs, many evidences of that battle. The memory of living man
takes us back to the time when the trees from which the Indians stripped
bark for their huts, near Mountain Grove, still stood scarred. Relics
of the Indian town are still turned up by the plough on the McCiintic
place; and Mr. Frank Lyman, the recent owner, has in his New York
residence the many Indian relics excavated while digging the founda-
tion for the Covington Iron Furnace. Vacated by the Indians, when
the white man had reached the eastern base of the Blue Ridge, this
country may have been : but visited by the savages it still was, and
with a vengeance so swift and terrible that Governor Dinwiddle, in his
home at old Williamsburg, wrote his vigorous letters in vain to the
County Lieutenants, threatening to retake the lands in this section in
the name of the Crown unless the settlers would stay at home and beat
back the tide of Indian warfare.
As early as 1700 we find the House of Burgesses adopting provisions
for planting a colony in this region to serve as a barrier against Indian
incursions. Special directions are made for the erection of a fort on
every two hundred acres of land, to be armed by " able, warlike Chris-
tian men, equipped each with a well-fixt musquette or fuzee, a good
pistoll, sharp simeter, tomahauk, and five pounds of good clean pistol!
powder and twenty pounds of sizable leaden bulletts or swan or goose
shott." This etfort proved fruitless. It was probably as late as 1749 that
the first settlement in this county was made. This was on the river,
called by the Indians Wallawhatoola, but changed by the settlers to the
less musical name of the Cowpasture. Of necessity several families
came together, in order to afford mutual protection in case cf attack.
Whether they came with a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other we
do not know ; but that Dickerson's Fort was soon thereafter built sev-
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eral miles from Millborough Springs, while a log church was erected
near by, we do know; and we also know ihat in this church (now, in
its new site, called Windy Cove Presbyterian Church) the people wor-
shipped with gun in hand, while a sentinel paced before the church
door. About this time a small fort was built at Green Valley, ten miles
above this point, and still another at what was called F'ort Lewis, five
miles above Green Valley, the remains of which are still visible.
Burke, in his work on the Virginia Springs, states that the land upon
which the Warm Springs stands was patented to the Lewis Family in
1760. This date is certainly wrong. As early as 1740 we see, from
recitals in deeds recorded at Warm Springs, that Andrew Lewis had
laid claim to some lands along the Cowpasture river by virtue of
grants from the members of the Board or Council. As we have said,
settlements were made along the Cowpasture, only ten miles to the
east of Warm Springs, as early as 1749. We have an authentic state-
ment that people fled from the Warm Springs in 1755, after Braddock's
defeat. It has even been asserted, but, as we think, without any au-
thority, that there were guests at these Springs in 1755. Be that as it
may, there were certainly people living there in 1755. We can well
presume that the enterprising Lewis family did not wait until after that
event to lay patents on what is the best land in this valley.
But to return to the settlements along the Cowpasture : These settle-
ments were not left undisturbed. Soon after Braddock's defeat, in
1755. ^ party of Indians made a raid through this section and killed
some persons at the Green Valley Fort. The bodies of the victims
were buried a short distance west of where the present Green Valley
house (now occupied by one of the descendants of Col. Chas. Lewis)
stands, and the turnpike road leading from the Warm Springs to Har-
risonburg passes immediately over their graves. The settlers fled to
Eastern Augusta for better protection. Several years later they re-
turned, thinking themselves secure. Again the Indians made a raid,
and a family named Mayse were attacked at their home on the Cow-
pasture river. The mother and son and a white woman, whose name
I have been unable to learn, were carried off. A party of pursuers,
headed by that Col. Chas. Lewis who rendered such eminent service in
the French and Indian wars, ending in his noble death at Point Pleas-
ant, followed the party in their flight, and overtook them near Marhn-
ton, in what is now Pocahontas county. The boy was recaptured, but
the women were not, but were carried on to the banks of the Scioto
river, to pass through experiences scarcely surpassed by those which
befell Mrs. Mary Ingles. Through two hundred miles of unbroken
forests, over rocks and streams, these women were forced to walk.
After being kept by the Indians for some months, and having gained
their confidence, they took advantage of permission to gather berries,
and started to make their way home. Avoiding the many dangers.
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and after a weary trip, in which they passed through Pennsylvania,
these two women succeeded in reaching the Cowpasture river. Twenty
years later, this same .Mrs. Mayse, upon learning that this son was
wounded in the battle of Point Pleasant, journeyed alone through the
forests to that point and brought him home.
Such dangers as these could not deter such men as Lewis and Dick-
enson. Having built their forts, and left there their families they pushed
westward, spying out the land and laying patent rights to portions of
the best land in this section and along the Kanawha river. We have
already stated that the Lewis family must have patented the lands on
which the Warm Springs is located, prior to 1755, and the records of a
suit in Bath county show what tracts of land this Dickenson, afterwards
Colonel John Dickenson, laid claim to in Bath, Greenbrier, and Kana-
wha counties.
A recent article in the Southern States ^L^gazine has called attention
to the historical interest attaching to the Cowpasture river, "whose
banks for miles and miles were the scenes of heroism. American hero-
ism," whose annals would well bear comparison with those of the
lower James. Interestmg and important as are the personal items
which hang about the name of the Cowpasture and Jackson rivers, the
writer must leave them for another time, and present in this article only
those personal incidents which have heretofore remained unpublished.
For the time w ould fail me to tell of Chas. Lewis, and of John Dicken-
son, and of Charles Cameron, and of Jacob Warwick, and of Andrew
Lockridge, of George Poage, and Joseph Gwinn, and many others,
both officers and men, whose boyhood and manhood were but a con-
stant struggle with an enemy who knew no truce, and whose tenderest
mercies were blows from their tomahawks ; they repelled attacks upon
their homes, led in the hot and dangerous pursuits after such foes, to
rescue mothers, wives and children; pushed through the gaps of the
iiearer mountains; forced back the line of savage warfare in the deci-
sive battle at Point Pleasant ; employed their furloughs from the Revo-
lutionary service of fighting the British on the sea coast, in defending
their homes against the dusky ally of the British in the mountains.
Young maidens assisted in the defence of the forts ; women were
dra'gged from their homes to see their infants torn in pieces or dashed
to death by a foe who knew no sex; forced to march hundreds of miles
to a captivity which lasted for years; their daughters married to Indian
chiefs; their children separated from them forever; their husbands
murdered; and if perchance at last they did escape, waited for the
return of loved ones till death should end their waiting. Are not all
these things recorded ?
The exact date when a fort was built on Jackson's river, five miles
west of the Warm Springs, cannot be ascertained, but it was visited by
General (then Colonel) George Washington in the year 1755, who came
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from Fort Cumberland, through the mountains on a tour of inspection.
This fort was called at different times Dinwiddie's Fort, Warwick's
Fort, Hog's Fort, and Byrd's Fort, and it played a very considerable
part in the F"rench and Indian wars. The editor of the Ditizviddie Let-
ters, published by the Virginia Historical Society, in a note, says that
Fort Edward was situated on the Warm Springs mountain. This is
clearly a mistake. This fort is located by several writers as being on
Capon river, between Winchester and Romney. That these writers are
correct will be seen by examining the correspondence of Governor
Dinwiddie and Col. George Washuigton in the month of April, 1756.
But to return to Fort Dinwiddie.
This fort was built in the early part of the administration of Governor
Dinwiddie. It was located, and remnants of the old site may still be
seen, on the Erwin place on Jackson's river, about one mile above
where the Warm Springs and Huntersville turnpike crosses Jackson's
river, and opposite the gap through which said turnpike road passes
over Back Creek mountain. The records show that it was garrisoned
during the open months of the year from 1755 to 17S9. Capt. Peter
• Hog, the great friend of Governor Dinwiddie, was in command here
in 1756. Afterwards Capt. Audley Paul commanded. Later Captains
John Lewis, Robert McCreary, Thos. Hicklin, Andrew Lockridge.
George Poage and others. It was nearly twenty miles west of Fort
Dickenson, and only six miles from the eastern foot of the Alleghany
mountains. The structure of all these forts seem to have been nearly the
same— a stockade made of logs placed closely together endwise in the
ground. Within the enclosure thus made, there was a blockhouse. In
Fort Dinwiddie there was an underground passageway, covered with
logs, from the blockhouse to a spring within the stockade, sutficiently
high to allow a man to walk within and carry water without being fired
upon by the Indians. This underground passageway was only recently
filled up.
Fort Dinwiddie was one of the chain of forts which Governor Din-
widdie sought to have built as a protection to Virginia's frontiers, but
which afterwards proved so annoying in his efforts towage war upon
the Indians. Secured by such forts, the settlers preferred staying at
home and protecting their families to waging an aggressive warfare.
Governor Dinwiddie's heaviest criticisms fell on the shoulders of West
Augusta's men for this and other reasons fully set out in his letters to
Peter Hog. These forts were garrisoned only during the open months
of the year. The account which the writer has recently found spread
on the records of Pocahontas county court, of like character to those
published in the April number of the Virginia Magazine of History,
show the manner of services rendered by the soldiers placed in these
forts. Two men. provisioned for three or four days, were sent out in
each direction along the mountain. They were under strict orders not
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to build a fire in any event, and to return to the fort within the three or
four days, unless they had reports to make earlier. They had to watch
the gaps or low places in the mountain chains, and in some cases had to
cover a distance of thirty miles. As soon as these parties returned
other parties were sent in their places.
In their battles with Indians they seldom fought from the forts, but
leaving in these the women and weaker men, they fought their enemy
in ways which they had learned from them and had proved by expe-
rience; from behind logs and trees, lying in ambush when necessary.
It is said that, by lying in ambush, Jacob Warwick's company captured
fifteen of the party of Indians returning from one of the Kerr Creek
massacres. To such men, inured from childhood to dangers, and
taught by e.xperience and the instinct of self-preservation the best modes
of warfare. Governor Dinwiddle's letters of instructions as to the best
method of fighting their foes, written in his home at Williamsburg,
must have sounded most stupid, tie who will take notice of the suc-
cessful warfare, of the personal daring and the personal interest of
such men, will be more disposed to bear patiently with their shortcom-
ings, and their independence of the " rules of war " than was that nomi-
nal leader of the Virginia forces.
Frequent raids were made by the Indians through the section guarded
by Fort Dinwiddi?. During one of these raids, in 1757, the families
who usually sought protection there, were warned of the approaching
danger. The Byrds delayed their flight, and the older members of that
family were killed within sight of the fort— John Byrd, aged eight
years, and his sister were captured. Eight years later John Byrd was
recaptured. His sister was married to an Indian Chief and was never
seen again. When John Byrd was recaptured he wore a gold chain
suspended from his nobe and both ears. He twice tried to return to
the Indians, who had promised to uiake him a chief but was prevented.
He died in 1S36. This John Byrd was the grandfather of Hon. John T.
Byrd, recently a member of the Legislature from this district. At some
later date, but prior to 1777, a small fort, called Vance's Fort, was used
at Back creek, at the point called Mountain Grove. This fort was six
milds west of Fort Dinwiddie, and just at the foot of the slopes of the
Alleghany Mountains. It was garrisoned for a few months during that
year, but as to whether ever'so used again, the records are silent.
These are all the frontier forts within what is now the limits of Bath
county. As originally laid off (in 1790J it included a large part of what
is now Alleghany, Pocahontas, and Highland counties. In the first of
these, at Covington, there was Fort Young, which was built by Peter
Hog in 1756, who was ordered by Col. George Washington to leave
Lt. Bulletin command of Fort Dinwiddie and build a line of forts to
the southward from that point, twenty or thirty miles apart, according
to specification furnished by Col. Washington. Fort Young was to be
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another of the line of forts so devoutly sought after by Governor Din-
widdle. In Pocahontas county, there was one fort at Clover Lick,
another at Greenbank, and still another in the Levels. These were all
situated in Bath county in 1790. In Hig:hland county, within the origi-
nal limits of Bath, there was Wilson's Stockade. In addition to these,
there were such fortified houses as Carpenter's, near Covington, and
Moses Mann's Stockade, on Jackson's river.
IVartn Springs, Virginia^ April ^jd, iSg^.
J. T. McAllister.
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.Mangum. — The following are extracts from the register of Albemarle
Parish, Sussex county, Va., now in the possession of the Virginia His-
torical Society :
Arthur, son of \Vm. Mangum and Mary, his wife, born May 2d, 1743.
Lucy, daughter of James .Mangum and Mary, his wife, born July 26th,
1741.
William, son of James Mangum and Mary, his wife, born January 4th,
1746-7.
Henry, son of Wm. Mangum and Mary, his wife, born January 24th,
1773-
Rebeckah, daughter of John Mangum and Lydia, his wife, born .
William, son of Wm. Mangum and iMary, his wife, born May 16, 1736.
James, son of James Mangum and Mary, his wife, born January 22d,
1743-4.
James, son of Wm. Mangum, born January 2d, 1734. ;: . ;. ,-,
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Strcggle of Protestant Dissenters for Religious Tolera-
tion IN Virginia.— By Henry R. Mcllvvaine, Ph. D., Professor of
English and History, Hampden Sidney College, Va. Johns Hop-
kins Studies, Twelfth Series. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, April,
1894. Price, 50 cents.
One of the most interesting and valuable contributions which has
recently been made to the study of Virginia history is Prof. Mclhvaine's
monograph ' Struggle of Protestant Dissenters for Religious Toleration
in Virginia." He has gathered together a great mass of important
information on the subject, and has set it forth in a very clear and
attractive form. We propose to give a comparatively full summary of
the contents of the monograph, as the best means of showing our high
appreciation of the unusual merit of the work, and of enabling our
readers to obtain the most accurate idea of its scope.
Dr. Mcllvvaine declares in his introduction that the history of Pro-
testant Dissenters in Virginia may be divided into three periods:
" I. The first period extends from the early years of the settlement
of the colony to the year 1649. This is the period of the establishment
of the Church of England as the Church of Virginia; of the conflict
that arose between the Church of England party and the Puritan party
in Virginia, answering to the struggle between King Charles and his
Parliament in England; and of the consequent withdrawal of many of
the Puritans from Virginia into Maryland. The Church of England
was for a time triumphant."
The Puritans in Virginia and Maryland have been made the subject
of special study by Dr. Daniel R. Randale. His monograph, " A
Puritan Colony in .Maryland," is published in the Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity Studies in Historical and Political Science for 1SS6.
" II. The second period, beginning with the year 1649. extends to the
close of the French and Indian war. It embraces the rise of the
Quakers, and later of the Presbyterians ; and the efforts made by the
Dissenters looking toward their rights of toleration on the part of the
government."
" III. A*'ter the close of the French and Indian war came the strug-
gle of the Separate Baptists, the Revolutionary War, and the final
triumph of the Dissenters over the Established Church in the 'Act for
the Establishment of Religious Freedom' of 17S6. This period may
be called the Period of Struggle for Religious Freedom."
Dr. Mclhvaine's monograph is confined to a treatment of the second
of the three periods described — the Period of Struggle for Religious
Toleration. It is divided into four chapters: I. "The Established
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Church of Virginia"; II. " The Quakers " ; III. "The Huguenots and
the Germans"; IV. The Presbyterians."
The object of the first chapter is to give an exact view of the Church
in Virginia, to show clearly what was the real nature of the establish-
ment with which Dissenters come into conflict; for though the Church
of Virginia was in theory simply a part of the Church of England, it
was, in fact, far different from that church. The enactments of the
General Assembly of Colonial Virginia in reference to church affairs
are to be found scattered throughout the earlier volumes of Hening's
"Statutes at Large." But these do not tell the whole story. Laws
might be passed, but then followed questions of interpretation and
original jurisdiction that kept the Church in turmoil for years. And,
in addition to laws passed by the General Assembly, there were instruc-
tions from the King to the Royal Governors to be taken account of. and
instructions from the Bishop of London to his commissary. All these
added to the confusion.
In a general way, Virginia, as well as the other colonies, was em-
braced in the diocese of the Bishop of Lonaon. This dignitary, how-
ever, did not have the power to induct into livings. The very patent
which made him bishop of the colonies had left the right of in-
duction with the governors. Thus the commissary who represented
the Bishop of London in Virginia found himself shorn ot most of the
power usually attaching to such an officer. Nor, on the other hand,
would the people, who had been getting along for some time without a
commissary— the office had not been created till 16S9— submit to his
visitations. They were evidently afraid that visitations would lead to
other forms of ecclesiastical interference. For these reasons the com-
missaryship sank in a few years into comparative insignificance.
According to the theory of the governors, they as representatives ot
the King were patrons of all livings in the colony. This meant that
they could present to the livings. Added to their conceded right of
induction, this right of presentation would have enabled the governors
to impose upon the people any ministers whatever. But just here an
important difference of view developed itself. The people claimed that
they themselves were the patrons of the livings, and that the rights of
patronage v/ere to be exercised through their representatives, the ves-
tries. This claim was distinctly an American one. In England one
man might be the patron of a living, or two or three might be conjoint
patrons, but the idea that the people of a whole parish might be its
patrons was new. The law which the people claimed as recognizing
the justice of their contention was passed as early as the year 1643, t'Ut
it is probable that the full significance of the law was not at first appre-
ciated. At least, it was not generally acted upon for i.iany years. It is
of such importance in the ecclesiastical history of Virginia that ic is
here given in full. It is as follows :
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"That for the preservation of purity and unity of doctrine and dis-
cipline in the Church, and the right administration of the sacraments,
no minister be admitted to officiate in this country but such as shall
produce to the governor a testimonial that he hath received his ordina-
tion from some bishop in England, and shall then subscribe to be con-
formable to the orders and constitution of the Church of England, and
the laws there established ; upon which the governor is hereby re-
quested to induct the said minister into any parish that shall make pre-
sentation of him; and if any other person, pretending himself a minis-
ter, shall, contrary to this act, presume to teach publicly or privately,
the governor and council are hereby desired and empowered to suspend
and silence the person so offending ; and upon his obstinate persistence,
to compel him to depart the country with the first convenience."
This law was passed in order to silence the Puritan ministers who at
that time were preaching in Nansemond county. But the clause, " upon
which the governor is hereby requested to induct the said minister into
any parish that shall make presentation of him," formed the legal basis
of the popular claims as to the residence of power in the Church.
In the conflict that arose between the governors and the vestries the
latter came off victorious. The vestries were made up of the leading-
men in the community, men who were at the same time members,
probably, of the House of Burgesses. Upon their votes depended the
supplies of the government, and upon their good will depended, to a
large extent, even the stay of the governors in office. Therefore, they
were not to be lightly offended. For this reason even Spotswood, a
strong, resolute man, although he vehemently claimed all the rights set
forth above, never dared to e.xercise them. The vestries remained
masters of the situation, and in order to remain complete masters, they
seldom presented ministers for induction but made arrangements with
them year by year.
It will be seen from the foregoing that in church government the
Church of Virginia was not strictly Anglican. Nor was it strictly Ang-
lican in church services. Upon this point there is the testimony of the
Rev. Hugh Jones, who, in his " Present State of Virginia," published
in 1724, makes the tbllowing observations: " In several respects the
clergy are obliged to omit or alter some minute parts of the liturgy,
and deviate from the strict discipline and ceremonies of the church, to
avoid giving offense, through custom, or else to prevent absurdities and
inconsistencies. Thus surplices, denied them for a long time in most
churches, by bad example, carelessness and indulgence, are now begin-
ning to be brought in fashion, not without difficulty; and in some par-
ishes where the people have been used to receive the communion
in their seats (a custom introduced for opportunity for such as are in-
clined to Presbytery to receive the sacrament sitting), it is not an easy
matter to bring them to the Lord's table decently upon their knees."
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The reason for the existence of such irregularities becomes plain
when an examination is made of the different elements that composed
Virginia's population. In the first place, it should be remembered that
before the year 1662, when the Act of Uniformity was passed by the
"Cavalier" Parliament of Charles II, the struggle between the Puiitan
party (taking Puritan in a broad sense; and the Episcopal party went
on largely within the English Church itself. Thus many of tlie first
settlers of Virginia, though nominally churchmen, may have been more
or less tinctured with Puritanism. In the second place, the Virginia
Company of London, composed, to a large extent, of broad-minded
men like Sir Edwin Sandys and other leaders of the rising popular
party in England, can hardly be believed to have required of appli-
cants for patents a strict conformity to the Church at a time when
heaven and earth were moving to find colonists. It is known, in fact,
that many extreme Puritans (Independents) found their way into the
colony. These settled for the most part in Xansemond county and ad-
jacent counties in the southeastern section. In 1641, encouraged by
the state of affairs in England, these Puritans sent to New England for
ministers. The ministers who answered the call were met by the law
of 1643, given above, but the congregations remained for some time
longer in Virginia. In 1649, however, many members of the sect left
Virginia for Maryland, where they had obtained substantial privileges.
But many of them remained in their old homes. In addition to these
elements, there were the Scotch, who were always numerous in Vir-
ginia ; and from the earliest times there are traces of Germans, Poles,
French and Dutch, while in the latter part of the Seventeenth century
many Huguenots and Walloons came over to the colonv.
Thus it is shown that the Church of Virginia, made up as it was of
practically independent units in which there existed many irregularities
of worship, was well calculated to exhibit different degrees of severity
toward the Dissenters who came into contact with it.
Chapter II. " Tne Quakers."— This chapter brings out the tact that
though the laws passed against Quakers (who began to make their ap-
pearance in the colony about the year 1656) were severe in the extreme,
the number of cases of -\ctual persecution of members of this sect was
surprisingly small. In a few years, indeed, the extreme provisions of
the laws became dead letters, while it seems to have been only here
and there throughout the colony that fines for absence from church
were collected. The natural inclination toward severity of governors
like Sir William Berkeley seems to have been restrained by their in-
structions from the Crown, these instructions invariably enjoming a
toleration that would attract to the colony persons of " different persua-
sions in matters of religion." On the other hand, the people at large.
as they became acquainted with the real tenets of the Quakers, gradu-
ally lost the feeling of antagonism toward them which was at first very
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general. But it was in only one part of the colony that the Quakers
became numerous. This was the southeastern section, the old strong-
hold of the Puritans. It seems that when the Royalist party returned
to power in Virginia, after the days of tlie Provisional Government, a
large number of Puritans still continued to live in Nasemond county
and the vicinity. They, we may well believe, were not by any means
in an amicable frame of mind toward the Royalist government, and
would not hesitate to obstruct its measures. Thus tne Quakers were
befriended, and, indeed, many of the leading men of the section em-
braced Quaker principles.
It is shown further on in this chapter that the first Presbyterian con-
gregation in Virginia was situated in this same southeastern section.
Though this congregation was probably composed of emigrants from
the North of Ireland, it is not unlikely that the character of the popula-
tion of the northeastern section determined the location of the emigrants.
In 1692 the Rev. Josiah Mackin, having fulfilled all the requirements
of the English Toleration Act of 16S9, was formally given permission
to preach to this congregation by the county court of Norfolk county.
He is probably the first Dissenter who thus qualified himself to preach
in Virginia. The Toleration Act itself was not regularly incorporated
into the laws of Virginia till the year 1698, and the first Dissenting
minister after this to obtain permission to preach was the Rev. Francis
Makemie, who got his license in 1699 from the county court of Accomac.
But the passage of the Toleration Act in England and the recognition
of it on this side the Atlantic did not have an immediate and direct
effect in increasing the number of Dissenters in Virginia. Their later
increase was due rather to the policy of the authorities of Virginia in
reference to strengthening the frontiers. It is in this connection that
the Huguenot settlement at Manakin Town and that of the Germans at
Germanna became important, and the bearing of these settlements
upon the general question of toleration is given in Chapter III, of the
monograph. It is shown by quotations from contemporary documents
that the main reason for establishing the Huguenots at iManakin Town
(above the falls of James river) and the Germans at Germanna (on the
Rappahannock, above where Fredericksburg now stands) was in each
case that the frontier might thus be furnished with a guard against the
Indians. An examination of the church at Manakin Town reveals the
fact that it was simply a part of the regular Established Church of Vir-
ginia ; and the same statement may be made, but with somewhat less"
confidence, in regard to the church at Germanna. Both the French and
the Germans, however, became conformed to the establishment of Vir-
ginia voluntarily. When the government of Virginia settled them upon
the frontiers, they were Dissenters ; and in adopting this policy the
government established precedents that were in time followed in the
case of other Dissenters.
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Chapter IV. " The Presbyterians " is much the longest chapter of
the monograph. It opens with an account of the settlement of the
Valley of Virginia, and of the frontier territory of the colony to the
east of the Blue Ridge. This section was peopled mainly by Scotch-
Irish and Germans from Pennsylvania. The government, seeing in
them a substantial bulwark against the savages, welcomed them all.
For the especially numerous Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, the Synod of
Philadelphia took care in 1738 to obtain from Governor Gooch assur-
ances of protection in their right of toleration. These promises were
always well kept. The Presbyterians of the " back posts " of Virginia
had no cause to complain of the governor. But very shortly matters
became more complicated. The great revival movement that spread
over America about the year 1740 had the effect of splitting the Pres-
byterian Church into two divisions, and of carrying Presbyterianism
into Hanover county and other counties, the inhabitants of which were
originally Churchmen. Not only was Presbyterianism carried into
these counties, but also harsh criticisms of the Establishment. Gov-
ernor Gooch, himself a Scotchman, thoroughly understood the theories
of church government and order which at that time prevailed in his
native land. He recollected, also, his promises to the Presbyterians.
But here were men come without license of any kind to deliver inflam-
matory harangues in unlicensed houses. They were, then, in his eyes,
itinerants and schismatics whom it was his duty to suppress. Before
this time some of those who neglected the regular Church services for
these revival meetings, had been fined according to law. But now the
fight against Dissent began in earnest. At the April term of the Gen-
eral Court, 1745, the governor delivered an earnest charge to the grand
jury in reference to the matter. He was determined 10 carry out the
law against the " New Lights " as they were called, a resolve in which
he was strengthened by an address that he received from the old side
Synod of Philadelphia, which was not blow in disclaiming responsibility
for the conduct that had incensed the governor. But the tight was not
by any means one-sided. The Presbyterians kept steadily increasing
in numbers and influence, and of the several test cases that were tried
in the General Court only two were won by the king's attorney. The
reason for this small number of convictions seems to be that the petit
juries and the people at large uniformly sympathized with the Dis-
senters. In the two cases which went against the defendants the juries
'were called upon to decide simply the most evident matters of fact —
whether or not people met at certain times in certain houses. This
having been determined, the court decided that the meetings were un-
lawful, and fixed the penalty. The cases were not finally disposed of
till April. 1748. After this there were no more prosecutions in the
General Court. This court, made up of the governor and his council,
now thought it best to prevent the further spread of Dissent by strictly
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limiting the number of places at which a minister should be allowed to
preach. The court reasoned that damage done could not be cured,
but that, by putting its own construction upon the Toleration Act as a
law of Virginia, it could confine Dissent within the region to which it
had already unhappily spread. In England, according to the letter of
the Toleration Act, Dissenting ministers were licensed to preach by
the county courts; and it will be recalled that Mackie Sc Makemie had
been licensed by county courts in Virginia. But the General Court now
claimed entire jurisdiction in such cases. Their reasoning seems to
have been that in practice in Virginia ; the Toleration Act must be
brought into agreement with laws of the colony already e.xisting. and
that the law of 1643 made the governor of the colony judge of the qual-
ifications of ministers.
The Dissenters, on their part, claimed that the law should be e.xe-
cuted in Virginia just as it was executed in England, where not only
did the licensing of ministers lie with local courts, but any licensed
minister was permitted to preach at any registered place of meeting
whatever. The answer to this was that the latter practice had grown
up in England under the Toleration Act as enlarged by the act of the
loth of Queen Anne, which act had not been incorporated into the
laws of Virginia. The Toleration Act itself gave Dissenting ministers
permission to preach only in certain designated places.
Both parties soon applied for advice to England; the Church party
to the Bishop of London and the Lords Commissioners of Trade, and
the Presbyterians to leading Dissenting Divines in that country. It is
noticeable that the advice which came from the Lords Commissioners
of Trade was entirely favorable to a large measure of toleration, the
ground being that "a free e.xercise of religion is so valuable a branch
of true liberty, and so essential to the enriching and improving of a
trading nation." This sensible advice came in the latter part of 1750
or early in 1751, but it did not have the eiTect of changing the policy of
the General Court. About this time, however, the Church party evi-
dently came to the conclusion that the Dissenters had the law on their
side, if a reasonable construction were put upon it; for a bill whose
object was to put '-due restraint " upon the Dissenters was, in 1752,
introduced in the Assembly. The internal dissension of the Church
party, however, growing out of a dispute between the vestry of the
parish of Lunenburg, in Richmond county, and their minister, Mr. Kay,
and out of the candicacy of the Rev. Messrs. Smith and Dawson for
the position of commissary in 1752, did not allow this bill to pass. If
it had passed in Virginia, it would probably have been overruled in
England.
In November, 1753. the Rev. Samuel Davies, the leader of the Pres-
byterians in Virginia, went to England in the interests of the College
of New Jersey. While there he agreed with leading Dissenters upon a
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plan wliich would eventually bring the cause of the Virginia Presbyte-
rians before the King in Council. Fortunately, however, it did not
become necessary to put this plan into e.xecution. On Mr. Davies'
return to Virginia in 1755, he found the condition of affairs aKogether
changed. The French and Indian War had begun in 1754, and in the
common fear of the savages, and the common dread of the Roman
Catholicism which French victory threatened, Dissenters and Church-
men were drawn closer together. At such a time as this the spirit in
which the law in reference to Dissenters was administered, was bound
to become more liberal. The monograph, then, comes to the follow-
ing conclusion: "The statement, then, seems warranted that during
the French and Indian War, one phase of the struggle between the
Dissenters and the Established Church came to an end. After this,
indeed, the General Court still insisted upon keeping the matter of
licensing ministers and meeting-houses under its own supervision, but
the spirit in which the law was executed was changed. Applicants for
licenses could now go to the General Court with reasonable assurance
that their requests would be granted."
Memoirs of William Nelson Pendleton, Rector of Latimer Par-
ish, Lexington, Va., Brigadier General and Chief of Artillery, Army
of Northern Virginia. By his daughter, Susan P. Lee. Published by
J. B. Lippincott, & Co., Philadelphia, 1893.
Contemporaneous evidence is the best evidence, and the testimony of
those having the fullest opportunity of knowing the questions in issue
is the best testimony; provided, it be characterized by clearness of vis-
ion and impartiality of judgment.
The life of this soldier-priest was no ordinary one. From his father
and mother he inherited, along with his name and gentle blood, those
characteristics which had made their names potent in the history of Vir-
ginia. The traits which found expression in his handsome person were
integrity of character, clearness of mind, and sweetness of disposition.
Reared on a Virginia plantation in " the olden days," he had the ben-
efit of, and enjoyed to the full, that sweet life which has been so satis-
factorily described by his daughter. Though to many readers the most
interesting part of this book may be the war period, there will be found
in it much that will entertain and instruct the student of that ante-bel-
lum life in Virginia, all so different from the life of the present day.
After the experience of many another country boy in Virginia, young
Pendleton received the appointment to West Point, where he gradu-
ated with distinction, and made the acquaintance of those men whose
names have since been as household words in the annals of the coun-
try. Upon some of these men such an impression was made by him as
remained ever afterwards, and enabled them to rely upon him in time
of their country's need.
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One of the most interesting things in this book is the paper written
at the beginnins; of the war by Dr. Pendleton, giving the reasons which
impelled him to leave the charge of his parish and enter the army as a
soldier. No one who reads that paper can doubt its author's sincerity;
nor can one help feeling a satisfaction that the soldier should have been
spared to take his pulpit again after having encountered so many vicis-
situdes and dangers. From First Manassas, where Captain Pendleton
and the Rockbridge Artillery shared the glory which attached to the
name of a Stonewall Jackson, to Appomatiox, when, as one of the
commissioners of surrender, General Pendleton helped to support his
great commander, this book describes, in detail, the life of the Army of
Northern Virginia.
Original letters, written from the camp, on the march, at the front,
are here published, the Biographer, who is often rather the Editor, al-
lowing these valuable papers to tell their own story. Few Biographers
have had such valuable material from which to draw, and fewer still
have had a truer appreciation of what was required, or a m'nd better
equipped for the undertaking. The sentence from Pascal, upon the
title page, is justified throughout the work.
The criticisms of battles made by the writer of this book are worthy
of the best war writers. Her opportunities were good for the study of
military affairs. Her father, as we have seen, was Chief o( Artillery of
Lee's Army. Her husband and only brother were both on Stonewall
Jackson's staff, the former leaving that stafT to become the colonel of a
regiment, and rising to be a brigadier-general, and the latter remaining
upon the staft of the great soldier and his successor, to end his life
upon the fie! i of battle, at the age of twenty-four, having well merited
an inscription after that to Hoche at Versailles— student at 19; soldier
at 20; captain at 21; major at 22; lieutenant-colonel and adjutant of
the Second Corps at 23; dead at 24
In this book will be found an account of many of the interesting
personages and important events connected with the most eventful
period of our history, all detailed in so pleasing a way as to attract and
satisfy the attention of the reader. It is worthy of note that three of
the best biographies of recent date have been written by Southern
women, Mrs. Jackson's life of her husband, Mrs. Corbin's lite of Com-
modore Maury, and Mrs, Lee's life of General Pendleton.
William and Marv College Quarterly Historical Papers. —
Editor, Lyon G. Tyler. M. A. Volume I.
We are pleased to learn that the demand for this admirable, periodical
has been so great, that, all of the quarterly numbers having been dis-
posed of, President Tyler has determined to issue, and has now nearly
ready for publication, a reprint of the first four numbers. This reprint
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will not only contain all the matter in the original parts, but will have
considerable matter in addition and correction.
The William and Mary Quarterly has gained too strong a place in the
estimation of students of Virginia history and antiquities to require any
recommendation to those who have been its readers ; but to others a
brief resume of what the editor has collected may be of value.
The first number, that of July, 1S92, contained an article especially
interesting to tne Masonic fraternity, on the old Williamsburg Lodge.
In this number, also, was the first of a series of articles relating to the
religious history of the colony, in this instance giving a notice of the
first Roman Catholic priest mentioned in the county records.
In October was given an interesting article on the early Presidents of
William and Mary College, which has been followed by a verbatim
publication (not yet completed) of the journals of the faculty, whose
value is increased by numerous notes. In this issue, also, was begun
a series of original and hitherto unpublished letters from James Monroe,
John Tyler, Samuel Taylor, &c.
Some of the most interesting features of the Quarterly have been the
extracts from various county records. Among the counties included
have been Northumberland, Lower Norfolk (in regard to witchcraft),
Northampton, and Lancaster. Of the same character, and of exceed-
ing value to the genealogist, are the abstracts of marriage bonds re-
corded in York, Elizabeth City, Norfolk and Spotsylvania.
Pres't Tyler and his contributors deserve great credit for the very
thorough and critical manner in which they have compiled accounts of
greater or less e.xtent of the families of Digges, Chiles, Ludwell, Bur-
well, Woo 'house, McClurg and others. Another important feature for
the genealogist is the list of Virginia coats-of-arms which is greatly
more extensive than any heretofore published.
The first number included in the volume is perhaps of the greatest
interest, containing as it does an article presenting new information in
regard to John Washington, the immigrant ; a sketch of Virginia under
the commonwealth, based on contemporary county records, and an ac-
count of the Ohio Company by Miss Kate .Mason Rowland. Pres't Tyler
has shown great judgment in selection and editing, and is especially
fortunate in very e.xtensive acquaintance with the manuscript sources
of Virginia history.
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New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April, 1S94. Bos-
ton, Mass.
Publications ofthe Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, April,
1894, Providence, R. I.
Report of the President of Yale University for year ending Decem-
ber, 1S03, New Haven, Conn.
Patawomeke and Massawomeke, by William Wallace Tooker. Re-
published from American Anthropologist, April 1S94.
Proceedings of the New England Historical and Genealogical Soci-
ety at the annual meeting, January 3, 1894, Boston, Mass.
Bulletin of the Essex (Mass.) Institute, Volume XXV, Nos. 10,11,
Salem, Mass., 1S94.
Johns Hopkins University Studies, Twelfth Series, No. III. Constitu-
tional Beginnings of North Carolina, by John Spencer Bassett. Johns
Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md., March, 1S94.
Sermons for the Church, by Rev C. D. Bradlee, D. D, Boston, 1S93.
Capitol of Virginia and the Confederate States, Historical and De-
scriptive, by W. W. Scott and W. G. Stanard, Richmond, Va.. 1S94.
Virginia Coinage. Proof that it was by Legislative and Royal au-
thority, by Charle- T. Tatman, Worcester, Mass., 1894.
Iowa Historical Record, April. 1S94, Iowa City, Iowa.
Some Account of the Life and Services of William Blount, by Gen.
Marcus J. Wright, Washington, D. C, 1S84.
Proceedings of Massachusetts Historical Society, February and
March, 1S94.
Twenty-Fourth Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1S94.
The Scottish Antiquary, No. 32, April, 1894 Edinburgh, Scotland.
Massachusetts Historical Collections, Sixth Series, Vol. VII. Belcher
Papers, Part II.
Doggerel Ballads and some Social Distinctions at Harvard College.
An Address Delivered by Dr. S. A. Green before Massachusetts Histo-
rical Society, April 12, 1S94.
Essex (Mass.) County Historical and Genealogical Register, Ipswich, ,
Mass., January, 1894. ]
Southern Magazine, April, 1S94, Louisville, Ky.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, January, 1S94,
Worcester, Mass.
William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 4, April, 1S94, Williamsburg,
1894. ,
Rebellion Record, Series I, Vol. XLIV, Washington, D. C.
Constitution and By-Laws and List of Members of the Holland So-
ciety of New York, 1894.
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Series, Vol. VIII.
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April iSq4, published by Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadel-
phia, 1894.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the year
1592, Washington, D. C
National Magazine, April-May, 1S94, New York, N. Y.
Life and Services of James Jones White, an Address Delivered by
Hon. John Randolph Tucker, February, 1S94, in the Chapel of Wash-
ington and Lee University, Va., printed by order of the Board of Trus-
tees, Lexington, Va., 1S94,
Morton Memoranda — Memoranda Relating to Ancestry and Family
of Hon. Levi P. Morton, late Vice-President of United States, by J.
Granville Leach, LL. B , Cambridge, Mass., 1S94.
The Marble Border of Western New England ; Papers and Proceed-
ing of the Middleburg Historical Society, Vol. I, Part II, Middleburg,
Vt., Published by the Society, 1S35.
Illinois State Historical Library, Trustees' Reports, December 16,
1890, to December 10, 1892.
Transactions of the Meriden (Conn.) Association, Review of the year
1593, by the President, Rev. ]. T. Pettee, A. M.
Address to the Wingote Indigo Society of Georgetown, South Caro-
lina, 153d Anniversary, May 4, 1S94, by General H. D. Capers, of
Charleston, S. C. Richmond, Va., 1S94.
Southern Historical Magazine for June, 1894, Louisville, Ky., 1S94.
Bulletin of Esse.\ Institute, Volume XXVI, Nos. r, 2, 3 ; Volume
XXIX, October, November and December, 1892; Volume XXX, April,
May, June, 1893.
The Jerseyman, Volumes I, II, 1891, 1S93, a Quarterly Magazine of
Local History, Flemington, New Jersey.
Trinity Church, Bermuda, a Sketch of its History, Bermuda, 1886.
Pamunkey Indians of Virginia, by John Garland Pollard, Govern-
ment Press, Washington, D. C.
Some Account of George Washington's Library and MSS. Records,
and their dispersion from Mt. Vernon, with an excerpt of three months
from his diary in 1774, while attending the First Continental Congress,
by J. M. Toner, M. D., Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C,
1894.
Southern Magazine for March, 1894, Louisville, Ky., 1894.
Sewannee River, Quarterly Journal, for May, 1894, Sewannee, Tenn.,
1894.
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Vol. II. OCTOBER, 1894. No. 2.
Honored Si
Letters of Wm. Fitzhugh.
(CONTINUED.)
March 14th, 16S6-7.
A3 I v"-i<- in my last my thoughts of coli" Jones * his Depar-
ture, I fnid sir'^e absolutely true, but whither I can't yet learn,
but I imagine (by some Discourse he let fall at my house) it is
for England to get himself into his Majesty's Army, & since his
flight his wife (to whom its presumed he communicated his
thoughts) has carry'd out of this County all his Estate that is,
all his negroes, for stock of cattle hogs or horses he had none in
our county, &: has them now with her at Rappa" therefore there
is the place to attack them in.
My remoteness from their Judicial Place & unacquaintedness
with their ministerial Officers might I fear indanger a miscarri-
age of the whole proceedings therefore I have yet stop'd taking
♦According to an account of the Dade family by Langhorne Dade,
Jr., cited by Hayden in " Virginia Genealogies," Frances, widow of
Richard Townshend, member of the Virginia Council, and sister of
Robert Baldwin of London, and of William Baldwin of Glassthorne,
married, secondly, Jones, and had a son, Cadwallader Jones,
Colonel in the British service.
There is on record in York county a deed from Mrs. Frances Jones
to her sons Robert and Francis Townshend.
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out an attachment for fear of alarming them, till I had first ad-
vised w" your Honour, for which I have sent this messenger on
purpose to inform of the circumstances also to propose that an
Attachment might come immediately from my Lord, {propter
exccllentiatii) Directed to the Sheriff of Rappahannock, & that
you would either write to Mr. Spicei ^ or some other knowing &
interested person in that county to see the same duly executed,
& fully and discreetly prosecuted, & I will deliver your instruc-
tions and directions there in with my own hand, to the person
directed, »S: contribute what lies in my power to their assistance.
I wish you may secure your own, but for my Lord Culpepper's
I look upon it almost impossible to secure, I am sure improba-
ble, nor can't advise in any measures to be taken therein, for by
all that I can learn there's hardly Estate enough to answer your
debt, which is not particularly & by name bound over, besides a
great deal that is bound over in general terms.
Sir Four days since I received yours of the aSth february last
and I hope by this time its too late to condole your aftlicting
torment because as its seizure was in the (almost) conclusion of
the month, so do please myself with hopes and e.xpectation that
at least the violence terminated therewith & hope by this time
you are arrived to a full recovery.
Because Mr. his letter and encouragement from his
Excellency, was occasioned first from your Honours letter to
his Lordship, I advised him to send this letter & petition open
to your hand to crave your Honour's encouragement for if it be
true as Mr. saith, and can prove by his whole ship's com-
pany, it is not only bare Robbery, which is only forcing away
money from him without any pretence of authority, but it is Rob-
* Arthur Spicer, of Rappahannock, and afterwards of Richmond
county, appears frequently in the county records as a lawyer. His
will was dated September iS, 1699, and proved in Richmond, April 3d,
1700. His legatees were his son, John Spicer, Lidia, daughter of his
brother, John Spicer, of London, and Frances Robinson [wife of Wil-
liam Robinson of Richmond county], daughter of Samuel Bloomfield;
directs that his son, John, be sent to England for education, preferably,
to the Charter-house.
John Spicer was one of the first justices of King George county in
1721.
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bery heightened and aggravated, under colour of his Majesty's
Commission & authority, which if not timely prevented, will pre-
judice his Majesty in his customs by the Discouragement of trade
and Ruin of this country. And indeed it must needs appear to
the Merchants, owners & employers in England a foul imputation
and scandal to the government the consequence whereof I refer
to your most deserving Judgment.
God Almighty preserve your Honour in health & happiness
always prayer of
Sr your Wff.
To The Hon'ble Nich' Spencer Esq. . , ^ ,, , , ,, ,,,
March 22nd, 16S6-7.
Dear Brother:
Your full absolute and perfect assurance in your's fully, per-
fectly & absolutely pleases me and contents me, and gives me as
great if not greater satisfaction than the welcome full bags to the
most miserly usurer or the joyfuli and full harvest to the most
industrious & thrifty husbandman & do with the same earnest-
ness wish the consummation, zw/iat^-zV Ecclesiae \.o furnish you
with a full enjoyment and though the Distance will not admit at
that happy Day, I shall not then fail to sing in your remembrance.
Your treaty and conclusion with Coll" Diggs, discourse with
Phipperd & intentions with others therein mentioned on one
part shows not only your skill but Activity, on the other part a
continuance of your friendship & Kindness, by admitting me a
partner in your best offers, and greatest expectations. I have ad-
vice from York that Tob° is very plentifull, & consequently low,
therefore should advise to strike as soon as possible, doubting
when this market will be over, whether any more overtures may
happen for its general saying that abundance of Tob" will be left
in the country &c.
As you write in yours you have time enough this week to do
business in, so next week I hope you'll have business enough to
do, for as your stay is intended but short I am sure your service
both must & will be brisk. Your limited time is so short that to
be plain with you you cannot be wished for sooner.
Your Intimacy «& nearness to that good Lady emboldens me
124 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
though unknown to request i-he tender of my humble service to
her.
Your Wff.
To Capt. George Brent at &c.
April 5th, 16S7.
Dearest Brother :
In my last sub cover Mr. Hayvvard by Spenser, which by
this time I suppose is with you I gave you an account of the re-
ceipt of your two most acceptable letters, and therein a full an-
swer to each part therefore now shall not need repetition. In my
last I advised that if you intended in here ne.xt year, as you
semed to intimate in your letter, how I might have the happiness
of your good company, and you the profit of so long a voyage,
which was by your Interest at court, which I hear is considerable
to get to be commander of one of the King's Ships, that gives
their attendance here, by which place you might clear 1,000 /^
Sterling a year, pursuing such methods as my knowledge in the
country & acquaintance with trade and traders is able to dictate
to you and you might be assured of those that are here (viz:)
Allen & Crofts clear better than 500 £ a year apiece, though So-
briety is a stranger to the one and discretion not very intimate
with the other.
I also promised in my last, to propose another profitable meth-
od for your advantageous coming here, provided what I before
premised cannot be obtained, which is to get to be Keeper of the
Broad Seal of this Country, with the profits thereto appertaining,
for you must know before our present Governor the Lord How-
ard came over the Seal of the Collony was in the Secretary's
office; and all Pattents, Commissions Proclamations &c. , that
issued forth came out of this office and the fees thereof was very
small but since this Governor's time he has taken the Seal to
himself and makes 200 /!^ Tob° for every Commission, Proclama-
tion, Pattent, Commission of administration &c. , which amounts
to at least betwixt eighty and a hundred thousand pounds Tob"
p annum without fourty shillings charge or three days trouble in
the year, & in my opinion is not very difficult there to obtain it,
and after such a settled officer & office the profits would daily
increase and as at present you can obtain the place by no other
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name than Keeper of the great seal of the Collony, so in a short
time the Chancellor's Place and profits will fall into the same,
which will far exceed all the places in this country except the
Governor's both in Reputation and Profit.
I could also propose to you the farming the Virginia Duty 1
mean the two shillings p hhd which amounts annually to about
four thousand pound sterling clear paying all officers for collect-
ing the same, and I know of no other payments to be made out
of it, than 1,200 £ sterling to our Governor, 100 to the Auditor
in England, Mr. Blithwait and 300 to our Auditor or rather Dep-
uty Auditor Coll" Bacon -^ (who is very antient and in all proba-
*Roberti Bacon, of Drinkstone, Suffolk, (an account of whose ances-
try may be found in the New England Historical and Genealogical
Register, Vol. XXXVII, p. 1S9. &c.,) married Isabella, daughter of John
Cage, of Pakenham, Suffolk, and had issue: I. Thomas^ of Northaw,
Hertfordshire, d. s. p.\ II. Sir Nicholas^ Lord Keeper, father of Fran-
cis' Bacon, Lord Veruiam ; III. James^ Alderman of London, who died
June 15, 1573, and was buried in the Church of St Dunstan's in the East,
London. He married, secondly, Margaret, daughter of \Vm. Rawlins,
of London, and widow of Richard Gouldstone.
Their eldest son. Sir James^ Bacon, of Friston Hall, Suffolk, was
knighted at White Hal! in 1604, and dying at Finsbury, London, lanuary
17, 1618, was buried at St. Giles' Church. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Francis and Anne (Drury) Bacon, of Hessett, and had issue :
I. Nathaniel , of Friston, oldest son, born May 5, 1593, buried .August
7, 1644; married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Le Gros, of Crostwick,
Norfolk, Knight ; II. James*, Rector of Burgate, Suffolk, died August
25, 1670. He married, first, .Mar'.ha , and, secondly, Martha.
daughter of George Woodward, of Buckinghamshire. It is uncertain
as to which marriage his daughter, .Martha Smith, was from ; but his
son, Nathaniel, was by the first.
Nathaniel* and Anne (Le Gros) Bacon had issue: I. Thomas^, of
Friston, who, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert
Brooke, of Cockfield Hall, Suffolk, was the father of Nathaniel^ Bacon,
of Virginia, " The Rebel."'
Rev. James* Bacon had issue: I. Xathaniel^ baptized at St. Mary's,
Bury St. Edmund's, August 29, 1620. died March 16, 1692; traveled in
France in 1647. and was probably a graduate of Cambridge; came,
about 1650,10 Virginia, where his seat was at "King's Creek." York
county. He was chosen member of the Council in 165-, but held the
o{!ice only a year ; was Burgess for York, 165S and 1659, and reappointed
to the Council in 1660 {Hening) ; appointed Auditor-General, March
12, 1675, and resigned that position in December, 16S7 {Sainsbury) \ was
President of the Council, and, as such, Acting Governor in 1689. He
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bility cannot live long, by whose death there will be the vacancy
married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Kingsmill {Campbell, p. )
and widow of Colonel William Tayloe, member of the Council. They
left no issue; II. Martha^, married Anthony Smith, of Colchester, tan
ner, and had issue: Abigail* Smith, born March ii, 1656, died Novem
ber 12, 1692, who came to Virginia, married Lewis Burwell. of Glouces
ter county, and was bequeathed most of the estate of her uncle
Nathaniel Bacon; III. Elizabeth^ (eldest daughter), married at Burgate
September 16, 1647, Thomas Burrowes, Esq., of St. Mary's Parish, Bury
St. Edmund's; IV. Anne^ baptized at Burgate, married Mr. Wilkinson,
of Burgate.
The following are the arms and epitaph on the torub of Colonel Na-
thaniel Bacon, of King's Creek, York :
Arms: Quarterly; first and fourth, Gu. on a chief ar. two mullets
pierced, for Bacon ; second and third, Or two bars az., over all a bend
^u., for Quappelade [an old quartering of the Bacon arms].
"Here lieth interred ye body of Nathaniel .:'..: --.vi.
Bacon Esq whose descent was from the "K
'- Ancient House of ye Bacons (one of whom was
»' Chancellor Bacon & Lord Veralam^ who was ' ^'
* Auditor of Virginia & President of ye Honourable
" Council of State & Commander in chief for the
County of York, having been of the Councell
' for above 40 years & having always discharged ■'■>
' ye office in which he served with great - •' •''^'
'■ Fidelity and Loyalty to his Prince, who departed ■ '
'-' " this life ye 16 of March 1692 in ye 73d
'■ year of his Age."
His wife's tomb was formerly at King's Creek, but has now been
removed to St. Paul's Churchyard, Norfolk. It bears the following
arms and epitaph :
Arms: Ar. crucilly sa. a chev. ermines betrc. three millrinds of the
second, a chief of the third, for Kingsmill, impaling, Vert, a sword erect
or, beticeen two lions rampant endorsed ermine, for Tayloe [the arms of
her first husband].
" Here lyeth the Body of"
Elizabeth wife to the
Honorable Nathaniel
Bacon Esq'r who departed
this Life the Second Day of
November one Thou.sand
Six Hundred Ninety one in
the Sixty-Seventh Yeare
.of her age."
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 127
of a considerable profitable & easie managed place) and betwixt
The following abstract is derived from the (full) copy of the will of
Rev. James Bacon, printed in " Bury Wilis," published by the Camden
Society:
(With a long pious preamble.) I give tenn pounds to be equally de-
vided betueene such poore christians as are in want. Whereas I have
undertaken to pay the sume of five hundred pounds to Mr. Richard
Tornes, marchant of London, for Nathaniel Bacon, my sonne, who is
now in France, and have sold certaine lands lying in Sternfield, Suffolke,
to the said Richd Tornes tor four hundred pounds and paid him one
hundred pounds cVC— I have assured unto Martha, my wife, for her life,
my mannor of Pirleys, and divers lands Sec, in Sternfield, after her
death I give s.aid manor and lands to son Nathaniel, and daughters
Elizabeth, Martha, and Anne to be equally divided— Give to daughter
Martha all the lands and tenements I lately purchased of Anthony
Baker, gent., lying in Snape, and Friston, Sufl^olk— To daughter Anne
all my meadowe commonly called Sa.xmondham meadowe containing
five acres and one rood, and one little meadowe adjoining containing
one acre, which two meadowes were lately in the possession of Nathan-
iel Bacon, of Friston Esq— To wife Martha all my readie money, Jewells
and debts— all plate and other liousehold stufTe to be equally divided
into two parts, one for wife Martha & the other to daughters Martha
and Anne— To daughter Elizabeth, now the wife of Mr. Thonhas Bur-
rowes, my bookes of Mr, Perkins works — To the poore peeple of the
towne of Burgate six pounds — To the poore peeple of the six townes
next adjoining Burgate, six pounds — And now upon the great trust and
confidence which I have and doe repose upon the said Martha my wife
doe ordaine and make her the said Martha, my wife, my sole executrix,
acknowledging that I have found favour from the Lord, whoe in his
providence provide soe faithful! a companion, and soe fitt a helper for
me.
Dated September 24, 1647, proved January 23d, 1649
The will of Nathaniel Bacon is on record at York Court House. The
following is an exact copy :
" In the name of God, Amen. I Nathaniel Bacon, of the County of
York in Virginia being sick, and weak of Body but of perfect sense
and memory, do make this my last will and Testament as follows.
First I give my body to the Earth to be decently buried and my soul
to God that gave it me hoping for a joyful resurrection thro' the merits
of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and redeemer. As for that worldly
good it hath pleased God to help me with my will is — Impr. After my
just debts are paid I give to my loving Niece Abygall Burwell wife of
Lewis Burwell of Gloucester County in Virginia the Plantation wheron
I now reside and all other lands in Hampton and Bruton parishes in
P^F.mf.".' ••(',: r' Ij-;)(l/'iji-(i(q ' .rIj.V/ y> ^^i ' .-ji '..•t^u.^-.n ,i.(r>i:ll ;=-?rnr,| .vyM
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thirty and fourty pound a year to each councellor, whereof there's
York County by me purchased with all my rights or pretenses ot" rights
and after her death to her son Lewis Burwell Junior and his heirs for-
ever. Then I give to every one of Major Lewis Burwell's children now
living Fifty Pounds sterling to each of them Viz— Nathaniel. Lewis,
James, Joanna, Elizabeth, Lucy and Martha.
Item— I give unto my niece Elizabeth Sherey sister of aforesaid Abi-
gail Burwell Thirty Pounds sterling. Item— I give and bequeath all
my lands lying in Isle of Wight and Nancymond Countys in Virginia
to my nephew Lewis Burwell Junior and his wife Abigail Burwell and
after their decease to Nathaniel and James Burwell sons of the afore-
said Lewis Burw2ll and to their heirs forever. Item— I give unto my
Nephew Major Lewis Burwell all my lands lying and being in New
Kent County to be managed sold and disposed of to the best advan-
tage and the proper use and benefit of the said Lewis Burwell's four
daughters viz. Joanna, Elizabeth, Lucy and Martha now liv-ng. Item —
I give unto my brother in law Thomas Burras [Burrows] of Berry
[Bury St. Edmunds] in England Twenty Pounds Sterling. Item— I give
unto my brother in law Wilkynson in England Twenty Pounds Ster-
ling and Thirty Pounds to the said Wylkinson's wife. Item— I give to
Frances Lady Berkeley my riding horse Watt and Ten Pounds Sterling.
Item -I give to Colonel Philip Ludwell Ten Pounds Sterling. Item— I
give to the right Honorable the Lt Governor Francis Nicholson Esquire
Twenty Pounds Sterling. Item — I give to Mr. secretary Cole Ten
Pounds Sterling. Item — I give unto the Parish where I was born [St.
Marys, Bury] Twenty Pounds Sterling to be paid into the hands of my
brother Burrus and to be disposed of as he sees good. Item — I give
Hampton Parish in York County in Virginia Twenty Pounds Sterling
to be disposed of as the Vestry i.hall see fit. Item— I give the mulatto
Kate her freedom at my decease, it being formerly promised by my
deceased wife. It is my desire that Mr. William Bassett be forever ac-
quitted and discharged from the payment of any Bills, Bonds, Contracts
or Debts whatsoever that there shall be found due to my estate at my
decease, he giving my e.xecutors hereafter named a full discharge and
acquitance from all Debts and demands whatsoever he have or may
have against me as I was Guardian and Executor in Trust of his Estate,
he giving liberty to my Executor to remove what Estate shall be known
to be mine on his plantation called Mateheart. Item— My desire is
twenty pounds be laid out in Rings to be given to several friends accord-
ing to the direction of my executors hereafter named. Item — I give
unto Dr. Henry Powers as a legacy Five Pounds Sterling. Item. I
give unto Will Davis my Servant Ten Pounds Sterling per annum for
what time he has to serve after my decease to an assistant to my Exec-
utors. Item— I give unto my nephew Major Lewis Burwell and to my
v/ }v»-.r,
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 129
rarely above twelve, never above thirteen, which in the whole
amounts to not above 2000 or 2200 £ sterling- p'annum, which
Is little more than half the clear Income, and now of the rest as
I know of, (and I have some reason to know by reason I have
revised diligently Mr. Auditor's Book & accot') goes to his Ma-
loving niece Abygail Burwell wife of said Lewis Rurwell all my perso-
nal Estate and debts due to me either in England or Virginia or else-
where as also all my ready money. Ships or parts of ships and all my
goods and Chattels Whatsoever to me belonging in any part of the
world not already expressed in this Will to be disposed of by the said
Lewis Burwell and Abygail his wife to the real use and behoof of the
children lawfully begotten of the said Lewis Burwell and Abygail his
wife and to no other extent and purpose whatsoever and to be divided
between them according to the discretion of thei'- said father and
mother or the longest survivor of them Item— I do make Major Lewis
Burwell and his wife Abygaill Burwell sole Executors of this my last
Will and Testament, hereafter [?] revoking all other Wills and Testa-
ments whatsoever, to the true performance of which I here unto set
my hand and seal this 15th day of March 1691-2.
Nathaniel Bacon. Seal. ■
Memorandum —
That if Elizabeth Peters, daughter of Mr. Thomas Peters — if she shall
happen to live to the age of Twenty One Years or be married my will
is that she shall be possessed with a negro girl named Moll now about
ten years of age now living on the Plantation Tower belonging to the
said Peters.
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of us, the words Nancy-
tnond and sold first interlined. W' itness :
William Cole,
Stephen Fouace, '
Joseph Ring,
Hen. Powers.
York County March 24th 1691-2. Presented in Court by Major Lewis
Burwell one of the Executors of within written Will and was likewise
then and there proved by the oaths of the Hon'ble Colonel William
Cole and Joseph Ring two of the witnesses there unto and is ordered
to be admitted to the records which is accordingly performed.
William Sedgewick Clk."
For accounts of the Bacons of England and Virginia see New Eng-
land Historical and Genealogical Register, XXXVII, 189, &c., and
Keith's "Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison "
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jestie and I am sure not to the country's use, so that paying 500 £
p. annum to some court Pensioner & the Governor Auditor and
Council's Salary here there certainly might be cleared comtmoii-
bus ayinis 1000 or 1200 £ a year at least. But it must be sup-
posed that large security would be expected if it were obtained
by the way of farm which I am afraid would be difficult for you
to get but to have the handling and paying of this money to the
respective officers as well as the collection & Disposal of the
whole country's Ouitrents under the name and by the title and
office of Treasurer of Virginia could not be less worth than 500
or 600 ^sterling a year, & it is a place now vacant and wanting,
& I believe there might not be much difficulty to obtain it, using
this caution to inform yourself of My Lord Howard's interest &
friends at court before you may embark upon any of them, for
all my proposals are branches lopped from the tree of his Inter-
est, except that of being commander of the King's Ships, there-
fore it caimot be to my advantage to publish from whom you
receive this information.
What I have now farther to advise is a piece of news, that just
a month before the writing of this we sang Jo. Hymen at my
Sister's wedding, who I think is well matched, having married
an Ingenious Trader into this Country, a SkilfuU & quaint Sur-
geon, as h's particular operations here has sufficiently demon-
strated & one of considerable Reputation and Substance at
Bristol where he lives, but intends this year to transfer his whole
concerns hither & here settle; his name is Dr. Ralph Smith, the
person that I mentioned in my last years proposals of Exchange
and by whose conveyance this letter comes to your hand. As in
my last I intimated & desired your Picture and our Coat of Arms if
you could not get an advantageous opportunity of giving me
your own wished for company, so again I must repeat my for-
mer wishes and desires & wishes either to see you in person or
to see you truly personated by your lovely picture which would
largely contribute to the satisfaction of
Dearest Brother Your VVff.
To Capt. Henry Fitzhugh &c.
Apr. 5th, 1687.
Worthy Sir :
I have already been so large and troublesome by Pensux
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 131
which before this I hope is come safe to hand and expect to Du-
plicate with addition by Burnham that in this I shall only return
you my most hearty thanks for your many & continual favours
and expressions of kindness, & in answer to yours shall begin
with your last, which I the other day received by Mr.
wherein you sensibly condole of that report of your
Brothers Dissolution, from whom that report should arise or
upon what grounds I cannot imagine. Your Brother to this day
having not given any occasion by one hour's sickness or the
least indisposition & which by this time his letter from Town, I
am sure gives you plenary Satisfaction in, not only by his per-
fect health, but new acquisitions of his reputation, by serving as
a representative in our last Assembly with sufficient credit and
Satisfaction, considering his new Introducion into affairs of that
nature, and though that house came off with a special mark from
his Majesty & Disreputation from the Governor, yet he so evenly
ballanc'd himself that by all party's he was esteemed an honest
well meaning man. I speak Knowingly Sir though I did not
belong to the jliouse, yet was impeached formally by them and
all methods pursued as in an Impeachment by the House of Com-
mons in England but it proved like all the rest of their proceed-
ings ill grounded & worse managed, and in the end did me no
farther damage than the waiting upon them till my triall was
over. Keeping me so long (which was almost three weeks) from
my pleasant Retirement at my own house, in which business your
brother shew'd himself a true man in his station & a faithfull
fast friend. S"" This is in haste by Dr. Ralph Smith whom I last
year mentioned in my proposals of Exchange, who is now more
near related by means of my Sister (who gives you her humble
service) for about a month since that Gordian Knot was tyed
betwixt them, that nothing but death will separate and I believe
it not only is but will continue to both their satisfaction & con-
tent. In my last I advised that I continue the same in my incli-
nations and desires for exchange. & have only this now further
to add, that could the estate to be exchang'd for be procur'd in
Ireland or Scotland I shooW both like and approve the same.
With the enclosed note sir, I desire you to pay the arrearage
of Post money & what this now comes to, for really I blush when
I consider the trouble I continually put you to, and am wholly
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asham'd to add charge to the same reckoning. I shall within
these ten days write again by Burneham therefore now shall add
no further than sincerely to acknowledge myself
Sir Your Wff.
To Mr. Nicholas Hayward &c.
, .; .--, vv-K' April 5th, 1687. :■
Cousin Harris:
I have no farther to add now than what I formerly wrote p.
Pensu.x sub cover Mr. Hayward only to beg the favour of you
to deliver the inclosed letter to my mother, and the money in the
inclosed bill of exchange to receive & deliver to her, also to ac-
quaint you with mj^ Sisters good fortune in mating with a good
husband, the person to whom she is matched being a very inge-
nious & truly honest man and one of no mean fortUiie. I do
suppose my Sister herself has been more large with particular
circumstances, therefore refer to her letter. Pray remember my
kind respects to my cousin your good wife and accept the same
for yourself from ^
Your Wff.
To Mr. Thos. Harris, Haberdasher in &c.
Dear Mother :
In my last p. Pensux I promised to send you ^10 if to be
procured by this I have sent a bill of exchange to my cousin
Harris to receive ^3 and deliver it to you which please accept it
being all the money I can at present procure. I design to make
this up /^lo by the next if possibly to be procured, but Tob° is
now so extreamly cheap & low here that money cannot be pro-
cured therewith as my Sister I suppose will more fully inform
you in this affair, with what difficulty I got this money that I
now send, as also in her own affairs how suddenly fortunate she
has been in meeting with a very good match which will be to
her future comfortable subsistence and prosperity all which I
wholly refer to her particular relation & indeed all things else
that you desire to be informed of my particular concerns, I have
nothing more to add but Prayers to God Almighty for your
health and in his due time your comfort and prosperity.
I am Your Wff.
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April i8th, 16S7.
Brother Smith: ^ '
I hope this will find you safe arrived to Bristol and the in-
closed will shew you Mr. Francis Hammersley's care & honesty
in delivering- your bills of Exchange for the ^13 he owes which
he questions not but will be ready accepted and duly paid.
Thank God we are all in as good health as you left us, and one
in particular longingly expects your company. This is all the
needfull at present from
Sir your Wff.
,,,. ,,. . ,. 1^,,^. April i8th, 1687.
Mr. John Cooper :
Sir, I received your severall letters to my Sister, Captain
Martin, Harriss and Paine together with copy of your account
currant & also the protested bill in one of your inclosed, if I
could have got any t'reight this year; intended to have consigned
you twenty or thirty hhds Tob", but there was this year such
plenty of Tob" and scarcity of ships, that freight was hardly to
be procured on any terms, & I was not willing to give very high
for freight seeing that Tob' is at so low a rate in England, and
as the fullness of ships promises no very Rising Market, about
a fortnight ago I doubted I should have 200 hh"^^ lying upon my
hand but the greatness of the quantity and the conveniency of
it, did at last help me to a saving Market for the same as this
year goes for I had for it nine shillings and six pence p. cent
which I believe is as much if not more than I could have them
expected, though for this three years successively, the two tbr-
mer for the heigth of the Market & this latter for want of freight,
I have not consigned you any Tob° yet next year I believe I
shall and do intend to consign you some, if a rising Market gives
encouragement. I intend to write you once again this year and
hope to send inclosed some bills of Exchange & therefore shall
refer all further discourse till then and have now only to assure
you I am,
Sir Your Wff.
p. Capt. Burnham.
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Mr. Nicholas Hayward:
What's before is duplicate of my former p. Capt. Pensux the
inclosed letter to Mr. Ashton and Foster together with the
papers relating to the same will I presume deceive their expecta-
tions of a great Estate as they supposed their Cousin here to be
possessed with, which their this year's letters seemed to intimate
for besides all those judgments, there is considerable sums due
to us that are his e.xecutors, besides some in the country that
have not yet brought in their actions & Mr. Storke in England
to whom we imagine he was considerably indebted, and in this
Inventory was his whole estate except his stock of horses which
are of low value and could not be brought together to the ap-
praisement by which you will perceive what personall estate will
be left after all debts satisfy' d. Sr in my last by way of Bristol
I gave you account of your Brother's perfect health, and new
acquisitions at James Town, together with the signification of the
continuance of my Desires of Exchange though it were for an
Estate lying in Scotland or Ireland if it could not be had in
England provided it could be secure, for either of these answer
my reasons for removal as well as in England though it would
not be altogether as pleasing to me. Since the waiting of the
former I have received a letter from Mr. Clayton of Liverpool
who writes me that the lowness of Tob° will not answer to give
my settled price therein mentioned of i6. Sd but yet is mighty
willing & desirous to be concerned in a trade with me and highly
approve of the Dispatch desiring me to propose a lower price or
other methods which I have now done as p. the enclosed copy
of the letters sent him you'll perceive, and the reasons I send
the copy to you is because I continued my Designs (if he ap-
prove of any of the propositions therein mentioned) in lodging
what money I can conveniently spare in your hands and have
ordered Dr. Ralph Smith my brother in Law, by the marriage of
my Sister, as I informed you in my last to direct in the sorting of
the goods and ordering some of the money there to be deposited
in your hands.
In my last also I sent you a note from Mr. Sam' Hayward for
;^20 which I forgot to advise to pay this Postage and the former
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 135
arrears which I hope is come safe to your hand. I have now
only to beg this favour to pardon this trouble & therein you will
continue your obligations to
Sr. Your WflT.
To Mr. Nicholas Hayward Notary Public
near the Exchange London. ' '' '' ''■'-' •'
Mr. Jno. Ashton & Mr. Jno. Foster:
The inclosed will of your cousin Mr. James Ashton who
dyed in August last will give you the reason why this comes
from us, as being intrusted in your behalfs till you come or send,
therefore have taken this opportunity to acquaint you therewith
and also inclosed have sent you an Inventory of his whole estate
with the appraisements according to the order of court and pur-
suant to Law, togethe'- with an account of the Judgments already
obtained against ye estate, what horses and mares there are be-
longing to the estate are not in because they could not possibly
be got together to the appraisement. There is near upon twenty
thousand pouaas Tob° more due from him to us than the Judg-
ments and charges that we have been at in management of the
Same & paying Servants wages, which when you come or send
we shall be ready to give you an acco' of. We suppose your
best way will be to know of Mr. Thomas Storke what his debt
is, which we doubt is very considerable and make payment of
the same to him there otherwise that debt together with debts
already known and justly due, will sweep the whole personal
estate and yet wants effects to answer some debts, we know not
what farther to add, having sent you these inclosed Records,
which will speak their own business, but hoping to hear from
you or see you by the first next year we conclude and rest.
Gentlemen Your Wff.
April i8th, 1687.
May 13th, 1687. •
Mr. Nicholas Hayward:
In my former p. way of Bristol Pensux & Burneham I have
been so largely troublesome, that my endeavours shall be to con-
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tract my Discourse in a narrow room by only telling- you that all
your friends here are well & in good health and particularly your
brother Sam with whom about three days since we heartily and
merrily drank your health. Sir, I desire yon to receive & keep
for me the contents of the inclosed bill, and by the next which
I believe will be Sutton I expect to send you more bills to the
value of 40 or 50 £ sterling but am not certain. Sir, I have
had it in my thoughts to write a small treatise or History of Vir-
ginia describing its Situation, Temperature & fertility, nature of
its present inhabitants, with their method and manner of living,
the plenty of Iron mines almost every where in the Country, &
probable conjectures of the Discovery of others (more profitable
though perhaps not so usefull) together with the prodigious
quantity of wood to manage the same, the plenty of all sorts of
provisions the easie & profitable living of the people therein.
Its regular easie and even government in its several courts of
Justice together with their respective powers and methods of
proceeding, with divers other heads too many to be enumerated,
and to observe that brevity as I proposed in the first part of my
letter. I have only mentioned this to you Sir to desire your
opinion whether a business of this nature might be of any ad-
vantage for the perswading Inhabitants hither & might not be
prejudicial to me in my particular concerns, for I have some
rough materials towards the building such a work & could
quickly supply myself with the remainder and have reason &
conveniency to finish the same. Excuse haste.
Sir Your Wff.
To Mr. Nichs Hayward.
April 8th, 1687.
Mr. Thomas Clayton:
Sr. yours by Mr. Marshal I received (though have not seen
nor certainly heard where he is) so consequently not the oppor-
tunity of consulting him, nor indeed throughly to understand
your meaning, for I find you are willing to be concerned in a
Trade, and approve of the Dispatch, but withall give me a par-
ticular account of the lowness of Tob" & the severall great and
incident charges thereunto, from whence you conclude that un-
less Tob" be purchased very low here in the method of trade you
lis jfcfJl lioy.artiii-.:': vino yd muo-i v/nTf.a fc ni nc-jnoriKiCI vm Josu
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FIT/HUGH. 137
are now in, you cannot possibly advantageously continue the
same in all which I fully agree with you & must now plainly say
as in my last was intimated that your purchase had need be very
low here to make a profitable return to you there, when I con-
sider the length of your stay here, the charge your ships lie at,
the charges of storage and drinkage, the commissions you give
to your Factors or Agents, the uncertainty of a market when
you arrive here, the many debts necessarily contracted, the diffi-
culty afterwards of getting those debts when they are due from
responsible persons, and many of them never to be got nor any
possibility of getting, the hazard of sending in a careless or negli-
gent Factor of your own or of employing one here as great an
hazard of meeting with an honest or substantial person, or if
your Master has the management of the Merchandizing affairs
as well as the Ships, he must necessarily neglect the one or the
other for each of them requires a whole man so that if he be in-
dustrious on the cargoe's account, either the idleness or care-
lessness of his own crew will give_at least a month's stay in the
Ships concerns or if he neglect that, then want of employment
will hinder as much, all which considered makes me concur with
you in opinion, but the method in my last proposed took off all
those inconveniency's & all things considered I believe comes as
near of purchasing Tob° almost as cheap if not altogether as the
other way especially most years, tho' I must confess this year
the scarcity of ships and plenty of Tob° causes an alteration.
But I will according to your Desire this farther offer, that upon
the same terms and under the same circumstances, I will let you
have the quantity of Tob" at the times therein limited & men-
tioned at 12-6 p cent which considering the dispatch of the Ship,
& indeed the Ships cargo in her stay I estimate goes a great
many in your purchase and by this means she may as easily
make two voyages as one in the year & at both times after arrival
may be in continual and full employment, no arrears left behind
nor no hazard of negligence insufficiency or falsehood, being
you part neither with money nor goods, till you have a full Sat-
isfaction for the same. But if you are unwilling to give that
settled certain rate, then I will make another offer that is I will
make the Dispatch as I before mentioned, for your forward and
latter Ships loading allowing 2 sh. p cent more than the currant
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138 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
market price at the time of the Ship's arrival & 15 p. cent com-
mission bearing all charges myself and running the hazard of all
debts, every year sending you the full produce of your whole cargo
if yet you think that may be uncertain because of the rii,ing and
falling of the Market I will agree the market price to be 8-6 p
cent & accordingly will make you your Return yearly and this
way your Dispatch may be in a month or five weeks time at far-
thest & should be willing that each ship or the ship at each time
could carry 300 hh"' and could as easily dispatch her as the ship
of 200 or 250 hhds mentioned in my letter last year. If this
method still likes you not, I will once again propose that I will
fill you two ships, a forward & a latter one with the same celerity
and Dispatch as I mentioned in my former at 25 p cent commis-
sion & 30 £ sterling extraordinary for each 300 hhds and make
you full return according to the Market Price or settled price
before proposed of 8-6 p cent but you can expect no further ac-
count of sales from me than the Market price or settled price
mentioned because your first ships loading must be put on board
out of my own Tob" for before I have sold a penny worth of your
goods or indeed before I desire a penny worth of them in my
custody, according to my method in my last year's letter I must
have given notes for all if not the greatest part your first ships
whole loading so that the goods may be properly alter their ar-
rival accounted my purchase according to the Market rate, or
the prices their mentioned & not sold to procure the Tob°.
Upon this last proposal I'll make remark to you 10 p cent is the
ordinary & agreed allowance for receiving Tob', 5 p cent the
same for sales of goods. 3 p cent it comes to for storage, and I
am sure to deal with our Country planters, less than 2 p cent
will not afford drinkage insurance of the whole cannot reasona-
bly be accounted for less than 3 p cent and I believe I should
make no extravagant computation if I should reckon the Dis-
patch as I propose with the leaving not one pound of Tob" be-
hind, tho' in good sure hands, to be worth at least 7 p cent all
which reckoned together comes to more than I ask by 3 p cent
and better, reckoning the 30 £ extraordinary also. In my opinion
if you accept of this last proposal, the better way would be to let
your forward ships be of about 200 or 300 hhds & the latter ship
a good fly boat of about 600 hhds for these reasons.
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 139
First. Such a flight is sailed almost with the same charge as
one of your country ships, in the method you are now in are
because such ships are built rather for the profit of Merchants,
than the accommodations of Masters &c., being of a large hold
and little cabbin, and the only ships indeed for this Country
Trade.
Secondly. I had as lieve fill such a ship for a latter ship than
one of less burden, provided I had timely notice & assurance of
the same, and she might also be filled with the same speed and
ease too, provided sloops aud flats were provided beforehand
against her arrival, by which easie charge and great quantity of
Tob" carry' d your freight would be mighty low.
But I must thus caution you that I expect the goods bought
well and with ready money, and the custom and other incident
charges particularly mentioned and not an advancement of the
goods, to make up those charges as is in frequent use and prac-
tice. Sir according to your desire I have once again made you
other offertures, if you like any or either of them give but
timely and speedy notice to Doct^ Ralph Smith of Bristol, by
whom this is conveyed to your hand, and he will take effectual
care to give me timely acco' thereof, or if you doubt in any
thing, or every particular is not so full and plain as you desire, I
have given him full orders and Instructions to make every thing
plain & conclude the same with you as well as if I were there
myself but must desire you to write to him and subcover of him
to me timely to come with the first ships, though you like not
to accept of any of these proposals. If you accept of any of
these proposals and acquaint Doct' Smith therewith, he will in
my behalf and according to my Instructions given to him dircet
m the suiting of your cargoes and what quantity of money is
to be ordered for my use to Mr. Nicholas Hayward.
YourWff.
July i8th, 1687. ;
Mr. Nicholas Hayward:
Sir, I have been so large and troublesome in my severall
former this year that now I think it high time to leave off, only
desire to acquaint you that yesterday there was an Essay made
to Survey your land upon the finishing the first line whereof at
QZL .HO JHVTIT MAlJJrW JO fiMHTT^J
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140 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
your corner tree upon Potomack River, your brother Sam my-
self and some others drank your health, in Running the second
line either the unskilfullness of the Surveyor, or the badness of
his Instruments made us come away with the business re in facta,
the particular relation whereof I am sure you will hear from your
brother, with this assurance that the next attempt will Succeed
better, by reason Capt. Brent will effectually perform the same
& that I believe forthwith. Sir inclosed you'll find three biils of
Exchange one Duplicate of my former upon Capt. Crosman of
Liverpool for ^5. 2. 8, another of Mr. Smichs upon Perry &
Lane for £6 and a third of Capt. Zachary Taylor's upon his
wife for £2^. I expected these to be larger and some others
amounting in the whole to /^So but the lowness of Tob" has dis-
appointed my expectations. By this time I presume Sir you
Know whether those seats of Mr. Ashtons are to be disposed &
upon what terms if they or either of them sell then the above
money will make part of the payment and I must request your
kindness in depositing the remainder upon the terms & Security
as I proposed in my first letter, but if neither of them will sell
then please to lay out my money in the Plate under written.
Your last letter to Capt Brent gives us the welcome assurance of
your full certainty of your brother's health and welfare the con-
tinuance of which to you both is sincerely wish'd you. I have
charged a note upon you to Mr. Thomas Harris Habadasher ^5
sterling, if he comes with the note and you have so much money
of mine in your hands ready received or undispos'd, please
answer it.
The plate: A pair middle sized silver candlesticks.
A pair of snuflTers & snufT Dish Half a doz. of Trencher Salts
the remainder in a handsome Silver basin marked W F S.
Your WfT.
To Mr. Nicholas Hayward &c.
July i8th, 1687.
Dear Brother:
My former letters p. Burnham Pensax &c. I hope before this
time you have received, and if you still continue your desire &
my wishes of coming here I am assured you have been busie in
negotiating those proposals there mentioned for your advanta-
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 141
geous and credible voyage ana continued Interest. Tob' still
continues as low as ever and rather lower for which reason the
best of my endeavours cannot possibly procure the sum desired,
nor any thing equivalent to it, if I could I would have you assure
yourself neither will nor endeavour should be wanting to supply
your present occasions. Our Sister has had two or three tits of
a feaver and ague which nowe has left her & so consequently her
seasoning over and herself pretty hearty and well & only now
desires her own husband's company. She desires to have her
due respects presented to yourself & Lady. If you obtain any
of those places, I proposed in my former letter, and by that
means can give me the wish'd for enjoyment of your most desired
company you had best bring in an ordinary Calash with you
and I will find you horses to draw it with I suppose you may
easily procure one of some Gentleman of the horse to a person
of quality & by furnishing it with double gear, it would be a long
time serviceable and that way of procuring little chargeable, this
I only advise don't urge. I have nothing at present farther to
add than to assure you we are all well praised be God, and the
same is hoped for of you by
Dearest &c. Your WfT.
To Capt. Henry Fitzhugh &c. ,,..,',
July ist, 1687.
Mr. John Cooper:
Sir I have once by Burnham writ you already, the Scarce-
ness of freight this year would not admit me the opportunity of
consigning you any Tob" which I fully resolved upon & for that
little money the lowness of Tob" would give no opportunity of
procuring. I did not think it needfull to trouble you with the
receipt seeing it is there to be paid away by Mr. Nic' Hayward
and no goods or other things to be purchased with it, & there-
fore have desired him to receive it, for I do not love to create
trouble without profit, next year if the commodity gives encour-
agement you shall be sure early both to hear and receive con-
signm'ts from me therefore pray Sir, let me receive advise from
you by the first opportunity & therein you will oblige
Sir your VVff.
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142 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
July 1st, 1687.
Brother Smith : - _:' .
I take this last opportunity by way of London to acquaint
you that now praised be God we are all in good health, my Sis-
ter has had her Seasoning, if it may be so called, two or three
fits of a feaver & ague which almost a week since has left, but
yet she is a little indisposed to write and therefore by this desires
to have her true love and due respects presented to you. Sir I
hope you have taken care in that affair of Mr. Clayton's of Liv-
erpool, and crops this year will be very indifferent, the time of
planting according to act being now expired, & in no places of
the country full crops pitch' d and in most places not half crops,
make what profitable use you can of this advice, for I can assure
you it is very certain. Pray let me hear from you not only by
all but by the first opportunity with what advice, occurrence o(
affairs there offer and therein you will much oblige. Please to
mind the things Sent for by you, as also to add a large looking
glass with an olive wood frame & a pewter cistern.
Your Wff
To Doci' Ralph Smith &c.
July ist, 1687.
Cousin Harris:
I take this opportunity of resaluting yourself and good wife
only for an inclosure of his note upon Mr. Nicholas Hayward
for ;{^5 sterling which I presume he will pay upon sight the
money I would desire you to deliver to my mother to assist her
in her present occasions.
I suppose before this you have received the three pounds of
Mr. Storke & delivered it to her.
Please present my duty to her begging her pardon for not
writing to her at this time having already four times this year
written, health and prosperity is wisht to you & yours. Mr.
Nicholas Hayward. Pay or cause to be paid to Mr. Thos. Har-
ris Haberdasher or order five pounds sterling and place it to the
acct. of Wff.
To Mr. Thos. Harris Haberdasher.
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Instruction? to Governor Yeardley, 1618.
George Yeardley, after serving some time in the English forces in
the Low Countries, came to \'irginia in 1609, and was elected Gover-
nor by the Company in i6tS, being the first occupant of that office
who had had experience as a planter in the Colony. His administra-
tion marked an important change in the policy of the London Com-
pany, and he brought with him instructions to grant too acres of land to
each of the old settlers who had been in the country before and during the
time of Sir Thomas Dale, and fifty acres to each person w'ho should come
into Virginia with intent to settle. He was also instructed to summon
a legislative assembly, which, meeting in 1619, was the first assemblage
of representatives of the people ever held on the American continent.
The year of Yeardley's appointment, 161S, is notable for the deaths of
two persons intimately associated with the early settlement, Raleigh
and Powhatan. During Yeardley's administration the first importation
of negro slaves was made.
These Instructions are printed from the Randolph MSS now in pos-
session of the Virginia Historical Society.
The Treasurer ayid company of adventurers and Planters of the
city of Loyidoyi for the first Colony in Virgifda. To Captain
George Yeardley Elect Governor of Virginia and to the coini-
cil of state therein being or to be greeting.
Our former cares and endeavours have been chiefly bsnt to the
procuring and sending people to plant in V^irginia so to prepare
a way and to lay a foundation whereon a flourishing stale mij^ht
in process of time by the blessing of Almighty God be raised.
Now our trust being that under the government of you Captain
Yeardley with the advice and assistance of the said council of
state such publick Provisions of corn and cattle will again be
raised as may draw on those multitudes who in great abundance
from divers parts of the Realm were preparing to remove thither
if by the late decay of the said publick store their hopes had not
been made frustrate and their minds thereby clean discouraged.
We have thought good to bend our present cares and consulta-
tions according to the authority granted unto us from his majesty
under his great Seal to the settling thereof a laudable form of
Government by Magistracy and just laws for the Happy guiding
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INSTRUCTIONS TO GOVERNOR VEARDLEV. 155
and governing of the people there inhabiting hke as we have
already done for the well ordering of our own courts here and
. of our officers and actions for the behoof of that Plantation.
•. And because our intent is to ease all the Inhabitants of Virginia
! forever of all Taxes and publick burthens as may be and to take
away all occasion of oppression and corruption, we have thought
fit to begin (according to the laudable example of the most fa-
mous commonwealths both past and present) to alot and lay out
^ a convenient portion of publick lands for the maintainance and
support as well of Magistracy and officers as of other publick
charges both here and there from time to time arising. We
■ therefore the said Treasurer and company upon a solemn treaty
and resolution, and with the advice, consent, and assent with
his majesty's council here of Virginia being assembled in a great
and general court of the council and company of adventurers
for Virginia, require you the said governor and council of state
, there to put in Execution with all convenient speed a former or-
der of our courts (which had been commended also to Captain
; Argall at his making Deputy Governor) for the selling and lay-
ing out by bounds and metes of three thousand acres of Land
in the best and most convenient place of the Territories of James
Town in Virginia and near adjoining to the Said Town to be the
Land and Seat of the Governor of Virginia for the time being
and his successors and to be called by the name of the Gover-
nor's Land which Governor's Land shall be of the freed g'-ounds
^y the common Labour of the people sent thither at the Compa-
ny 's Charges and of the Lands formerly conquered or purchased
, of the Paspeheies and of other grounds next adjoining. In like
?,ort we require you to set and lay out by Bounds and metes
.other three thousand acres of good land within the Territory of
/James Town which shall be convenient. And in such Place or
Places as in your Discretions you shall find meet which latter
three thousand acres shall be and so called the company's Land.
And we Require you Captain Yeardley that immediately upon
your arrival you take unto you the guard assigned to Captain
Argal at his going Deputy Governor or since by him assum'd
^to be of your Guard for the better defence of your Government
and that as well the said Guard as also fifty other Persons now
sent and transported with you you place as tenants on the said
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governor's Land and that all other persons heretofore trans-
ported at the common charge of the company since the coming
away of Sir Thomas Dale Knight late Deputy Governor be
placed as Tenants on the Governor's and companie's lands shall
occupy the same to the half part of the profits of the said Lands
so as the one half to be and belong to the said Tenants them-
selves and the other half respectively to the said Governor and
to us the said Treasurer and company and our Successors.
And we further will and ordain that of the half profits arising
out of the said companies Lands and belonging to the said
Treasurer and company the one moiety be employed for the en-
tertainment of the said Councils of State there residing and of
other publick officers of the general Colony and Plantation
(besides the Governor) according to the proportion as hereafter
we shall express and in the mean time as you in your discretions
shall think meet. And the other moiety be carefully gathered
kept and shipped for England for the publick use of us the said
Treasurer and company and our successors. And we will and
ordain that out of the half profits of the said companies Lands
to us belonging one fifth part be deducted and allotted for the
wages of the Bailifis and other officers which shall have the over-
sight and government of the said Tenants and Lands and the
Dividing gathering keeping or shipping of the particular moiety
of the profits belonging Either to the said council and officer
there or to us the said Treasurer and company and our succes-
sors as aforesaid. Provided always that out of the said com-
panies Lands a sufficient part be exempted ar d reserved for the
securing and wintering of all sorts of Cattle which are or shall
bo the publick stock and store of the said company. And foras-
much as our intent is to establish our equal Plantations whereof
we shall speak afterwards be reduced into four cities or Boroughs
namely the chief city called James Town, Charles City, Henrico,
and the Borough of Kiccotan. And that in all those foresaid
cities or Boroughs the ancient adventurers and Planters which
were transported thither with Intent to Inhabit at their own costs
and charges before the coming away of Sir Thomas Dale, Knight,
and have so continued during the space of three years, shall have
upon a first Division to be afterwards by us augmented one
hundred acres of Land for their personal adventure and as much
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"l^"^ IxNSTRUCTIONS TO GOVERNOR YEARDLEY. 157
for every single share of twelve pounds ten shillings paid for
such share allotted and set out to be held by them their Heirs
and assigns forever.
And that tor all such planters as were brought tnither at the
Company's charge to Inhabit there before the coming away of
the said Sir Thomas Dale after the time of their service to the
Company on the common Land agreed shall be expired there be
set out one hundred acres of Land for each of their Personal
adventure to be held by them their Heirs and assigns for ever
paying for every fifty acres the yearly free Rent of one shilling to
the said Treasurer and company and their successors at one en-
tire payment on the feast day of Saint Michaels the Archangel
forever. And in regard that by the singular Industry and vir-
tue of the said Sir Thomas Dale the former Difficulties and
Dangers were in greatest part overcome to the great ease and
security of such as have been since that time transported thither.
we do therefore hereby ordain that all such persons as since the
coming away of the said Sir Thomas Dale have at their own
charges been transported thither to Inhabit and so continued as
aforesaid there be allotted and set out at first Division fifty acres
of Land to them and their Heirs forever for their Personal ad-
venture paying a free Rent of one shilling yearly in m.anner
aforesaid and that all persons which since the going away of
the said Sir Thomas Dale have been transported thither at the
company's charges or which hereafter shall be so transported
be placed as Tenants on the company's lands for the term of
seven years occupy the same to the half part of the profits as
is above said. We therefore will and ordain that other three
thousand acres of Land be set out in the fields and Territory of
Charles City and other three Thousand Acres of Land in the
fields and Territory of Henrico and other three Thousand Acres
of Land in the field and Territories of Kiccowtan all which to be
and be called the company's Lands and to be occupied by the
Company's Tenants for half profits as aforesaid and that the
profits belonging to the Company be disposed by their several
moieties in the same manner as is before set down touching the
company's Lands in the Territory of James Town with like
allowance to the BailifiTs and reservation of ground for the com-
mon store of cattle in those several places as is there set down.
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And our will is that such of the companies Tenants as all ready
inhabit in those several! cities or Burroughs be not removed to
any other city or Burrough, but placed on the companies Lands
belonging to those cities and Burroughs where they now Inhabit.
Provided always that it" any private person without fraud or
Injurious intent to the publick at his own charges have freed any
of the said lands formerly appointed to the Governor he may
Inhabit and continue there till a valuable recompense be made
him for his said charges and we do hereby ordain that the
Governors house in James Town first built by Sir Thomas
Gates Knight at the charges and by the Servants of the Com-
pany, and since Enlarged by others by the very same means,
be and continue lor ever the Governor's house any pretended
undue Grant made by misinformation and not in as general and
Quarter Court to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
And to the intent that Godly learned and painful Ministers may
be placed there for the Service of Almighty God and for the
Spiritual Benefit and Comfort of the people, we further will
and ordain that in every of those cities or Boroughs the several
Quantity of One Hundred Acres of Land be set out in Quality
of Glebe Land toward the maintainance of the Several ministers
of the Parishes to be there limitted. And for a further supply of
their maintenance there be raised a yearly standing and certain
contribution out of the profits growing or renewing within the
several farms of the said parish and so as to make the living of
every minister two hundred Pounds sterling per annum or more
as here after there shall be cause And for a further ease to the
Inhabitants of all taxes and contributions to support and for the
Entertainment of the particular magistrates and officers and of
all other charges to the said cities and Boroughs respectively
belonging.
We likewise will and ordain that within the precincts or Terri-
tories of the said cities and Boroughs shall be set out and aloted
the several Quantities of fifteen hundred Acres of Land to be
the common Land of the said city or Borough for the uses afore-
said and to be known and called by the name of the city's or
Borough's Land. And whereas by a special grant and license
from his majesty a general contribution over this Realm hath
been made for the building and planting of a college for the
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training- up of the children of those Infidels in true Religion
moral virtue and civility and for other Godly uses. We do there-
fore according to a former grant and order hereby ratify, confirm
and ordain that a convenient place be chosen and set out for the
planting of a University at the said Henrico in time to come, and
that in the mean time preparation be there made for the building
the said college for the children of the Infidels accordmg to such
Instructions as we shall deliver. And we will and ordain that
ten Thousand acres partly of the Lands they impaled and partly
of other Land within the territory of the said Henrico be allotted
and set out for the Endowing of the said University and college
with sufficient possessions.
Whereas also we have by order of court heretofore in consid-
eration of the long good and faithful service done by you Cap-
tain George Yeardley in our said colony and plantation of Vir-
ginia. And in reward thereof and also in regard of two single
shares in money paid into our Treasury granted unto you the
said Captain Yeardley all that parcel of Marsh Ground called
Weynock and also our other piece and parcel of Land adjoining
to the said Marsh called by the natives Konwan one parcel
whereof abutteth upon a creek there called Mapsock towards
the east and the other parcel thereof towards a creek there
called Queen's Creek on the West and extendeth in Breadth to
landward from the head of Said Creek called Mapsock up to the
head of the Said Creek called Queen's Creek (which Creek
called Queen's Creek is opposite to the point there which is now
called Tobacco point and abutteth South upon the River and
North to the Landward) all which Several Lands are or shall be
henceforward accounted to be lying within the Territory of the
said Charles City and exceed not the Quantity of two thousand
and two hundred acres. We therefore the Treasurer and com-
pany do hereby again grant, ratify and confirm unto you the
said Captain George Yeardley the said grounds and lands to you
the said Captain George Yeardley your Heirs and assigns for-
ever. And for the better encouragement of all sorts of neces-
sary and laudable trades to be set up and exercised within the
said your cities or Boroughs. We do hereby ordain that if any
artizan or Tradesman shall be desirous rather to follow his par-
ticular Art or Trade than to be employed in Husbandry or other
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rural business It shall be lawful for you the said governor and
council to alot and set out within any of the precincts aforesaid
one dwelling House with four acres of Land adjoining, and held
in fee simple to every said Tradesman his heirs and Assigns for-
ever upon condition that the said Tradesman his heirs and as-
signs do continue and exercise his Trade in the said House pay-
ing only the free rent of four pence per year at the feast of Saint
Michael the Archangel for ever, to us the said Treasurer and
company and our Successors. And touching all other particular
Plantations set out or like to be set out in convenient multitudes
either by divers of the ancient adventurers associating themselves
together (as the Society of Smiths Hundred and Martin's Hun-
dred) or by some ancient adventurer or Planter associating others
unto him (as the plantation of Captain Samuel Argall and cap-
tain John Martin and that by the late Lord Lawar advanced) or
by some new adventurers joining themselves under one head (as
the plantation of Christopher Lawne Gentleman and others now
in providing) our intent being according to the rules of Justice
and good government to alot unto every one his due yet so as
neither to breed disturbance to the right of others, nor to inter-
rupt the good form of government intended for the benefit of the
people and strength of the colony. We do therefore will and
ordain that of the said particular plantations none be placed within
five miles of the said former cities and Boroughs and that if any
man out of his own presumption or pleasure without special di-
rection from us hath heretofore done otherwise a convenient time
be assigned him and them by your direct'ons to remove to some
farther place by themselves to be chosen with the allowance and
assent of the governor for the time being and the council of State.
And that the Inhabitants of the said city or Borough too near
unto which he or they were placed make him or them a valuable
recompense for their charges and expence of time in freeing of
grounds and Building within those precincts. In like sort we
ordain that no latter particular plantation shall at any time here-
after be seated within ten miles of the former. We also will and
ordain that no particular plantation be or shall be placed strag-
lingly in the divers places to the weakening of them but be
united together in one seat and Territory that so also they may
be incorporated by us into one body corporate and live under
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equal and like law and orders with the rest of the colony. We
will and ordain also lor the preventing ot all fraud in abusing of
our grants contrary to the Intent and just meaning of them, That
all such persons as have procured or hereafter shall procure grants
from us in general words unto themselves and their associates or
to like effect shall within one year at"ter the date hereof deliver
up to us in writing under their hands and seals as also unto you
the said governor and council what be or were the names of
those their first associates. And if they be of the adventurers
of us the Company which have paid into our Treasury money
for their shares that then they Express in that their writing for
how many shares they join in the said particular Plantation to
the End a Due proportion of Land may be set out unto them,
and we the said Treasurer and company be not defrauded of our
Due. And if they be not of the adventurers of the company
which have paid into our Treasury money for their shares yet
are gone to inhabit there and so continue for three years, there
be allotted and set out fifty acres of Land for every such person
paying a free rent of twelve pence the year in manner aforesaid
all such persons having been planted there since the coming
away of Sir Thomas Dale.
And forasmuch as we understand that certain persons having
procured such grants in general words to themselves and their
associates or to like effect have corruptly of late endeavoured for
gain and worse respects to draw many of the Ancient Planters of
the said four Cities or Boroughs to take grants also of them and
thereby to become associated unto them with intent also by such
means to overstrengthen their party and thereupon have ad-
ventured on divers enormous courses tending to the great hurt
and hindrance of the Colony, Yea and have also made grants of
like association to Masters of Ships and mariners. never intended
there to Inhabit, thereby to defraud his majesty of the customs
due unto him. We to Remedy and prevent such unlawful and
greedy courses tending also directly to faction and sedition Do
hereby ordain that it shall not be lawful lor the Grantees of such
grants to associate any other unto them but such as were their
associates from the first time of the said Grants without the
express license of us the said Treasurer and company in a Great
General and Quarter Court under our Seal obtained. And that
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all such after and under grants of Association made or to be
made by the said Grantees shall be to all Intents and purposes
utterly void, and for as much as we understand that divers par-
ticular persons (not members of our Company) with their com-
panies have provided or are providing to remove into \''irginia
with intent (as appeareth) by way of Association to shroud
themselves under the general grants last aforesaid — which may
tend to the great disorder of our colony and hinderance of the
good government which we desire to establish. We do there-
fore hereby ordain that all such persons as of their own will and
authority shall remove into Virginia without any grant )rom us
in a great general and Quarter Court in writing under our Seal
be deemed (as they are) to be occupiers of our land that is to
say of the common Lands of us The Treasurer and company,
and shall yearly pay unto us for the said occupying of our land
one full fourth part of the profits thereof till such time as the
same shall be granted unto them by us in manner aforesaid, and
touching all such as shall be members of our Company and
adventurers by thei'- moneys into our Treasury, shall either in
their own persons or by their agents, Tenants or Servants set up
in Virginia any such particular plantation tho' with the privity of
us the said Treasurer and Company yet without any grant in
writing made in our said General Quarter Courts as is requisite.
We will and ordain that the said Adventurers and Planters Shall
within two year after the arrival of them or their company in
Virginia, procure our grant in writing to be made in our general
Quarter Court and under our seal of the Land by them possessed
and occupied, or from thence forth shall be deemed only occu-
piers of the Common Land.
As is aforesaid till such times as our said Grant we also not
more intending the reformation of the errors of the said
than for advancing of them into good courses, and therein to
assist them by all good means.
We further hereby ordain that to all such of the said particular
as shall truly fully observe the orders afore and here-
after specified there be alotted and set out over and above our
former Grants one Hundred Acres of Glebe Land for the minis-
ter of every and fifteen hundred acres of Borough Land
for the publick use of the said Plantation, not intending yet
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INSTRUCTIONS TO GOVERNOR VEARDLEV. 163
hereby either to abridge or enlarge such Grant of Glebe or com-
mon Land as shall be made in any of our grants in writing to
any of the said particular plantations. We also will and ordain
that the like proportion oi maintainance out of the and
profits of the Earth be made for the several ministers of the said
particular plantations as have been before set down for the
ministers of the said former cities and Boroughs.
VVe will and ordain that the governor for the time being and
the said Council of State do justly perform or cause to be per-
form all such grants, covenants and Articles as have and shall
be in writing in our great and General Quarter Courts to any of
the said particular plantations. Declaring all other grants of
Lands in Virginia not made in one of our great and General
Quarter Courts by force of his Majesty's Letters patents to be
void, and to the end aforesaid we will and ordain that all our
grants in writing under our Seal made in our great and general
Quarter Courts be entered into 3'our Records to be kept there in
Virginia. Yet directly forbidding that a charter of Land granted
to Captain Samuel Argall and his associates bearing Date the
twentieth of March. 1616, be entered in your Records or other-
wise at all respected for as much as the same was obtained by
slight and cunning and afterwards upon suffering him tq go
Governor of Virginia was by his own voluntary act left in our
custody to be cancelled upon grant of a new charter which
We do also hereby declare that heretofore in one of our said
general and Quarter Courts we have ordained and enacted and
in this present court have ratified and confirmed these orders
and Laws following. That all Grants of Lands priviledges and
Liberties in Virginia hereafter to be made be passed by Inden-
ture a counterpart whereof to be sealed by the and to
be kept the companies evidences and that the
Secretary of the Company have the Engrossing of all such
Indentures.
That no Patents or Indentures of Grants of Lands in Virginia
be made and sealed but in a full general and Quarter Court the
same having been first throughly perused and approved under
the hands of a select committee for that purpose.
That all grants of in Virginia to such adventurers
as have heretofore brought in their money here to the Treasury
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for their several shares being of Twelve Pound ten shillings the
share be of one hundred acres the sh:ire upon the first Division
and of as many more upon a Second Division when the Land of
the first Division shall be sufficiently peopled. And lor every
person which they shall transport thither within seven years after
midsummer day one thousand six hundred and eighteen, if
he continue there three years or die in the mean time after he is
shipped it be fifty acres the person upon the first division and
fifty more upon a second Division, the first being sufiiciently peo-
pled without paying any rent to the company for the one or the
other and that in all such grants the names of the said adventu-
rers and the several numbers ot each of their shares be expressed.
Provided always and it is ordained that if the said adventurers
or any of them do not truly and etTectually within one year next
after the sealing of the said grant pay or discharge all such sums
of money wherein by subscription (or otherwise upon notice
thereof given from the auditors) they stand indebted to the com-
pany, or if the said adventurers or any of them having not law-
ful Right either by purchase from the company or by assignment
from some other former adventurers within one year after the
said Grant or by special gift of the company upon merit preced-
ing in a full Quarter Court to so many shares as he or they pre-
tend, Do not within one year after the said grant satisfie and
pay to the said Treasurer and company for every Share so want-
ing after the rate of twelve pounds ten shillings the share that
then the said grant for so much as concerneth the Part
and all the shares ot the said persons so behind and not satisfy-
ing as aforesaid shall be utterly void.
Provided also and it is ordained that the Grantees shall from
time to time during the said seven years make a true certificate
to the said Treasurer council and company from the chief officer
or officers of the places respectively of the number names, ages.
Sex, Trades and conditions of every such persons so transported
or shipped to be entered by the Secretary into a Register Book
"for that purpose to be made. That for all persons not com-
prised in the order next before which during the next seven
years after Midsummer day, 1618, shall go into Virginia with
intent there to inhabit if they continue there three years or dye
after they are shipped, there shall be a Grant made of fifty acres
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IXSTRUCTIOXS TO GOVERNOR YEARDLEY. 165
for every person upon a first division and as many more upon a
second division (the first being peopled) which grants to be made
respectively to such persons and their Heirs at whose charges
the said persons going to inhabit in Virginia shall be transported
with reservation of Twelve pence yearly Rent for every fifty
acres to be answered to the said Treasurer and company, and
their Successors for ever after the first Seven Years of everv such
grant. In which Grants a provisoe to be incerted that the
grantees shall from time to time during the said seven years
make a true certificate to the said Treasurer Council and Com-
pany from the chief officer or officers of Places respectively of
the number, ages, names, sex, Trades and conditions of every
such person so transported or shipped to be entered by the
Secretary into a register Book for that purpose to be made that
all grants as well the one sort as the other respectively be made
with equal favours and grants of like Liberties and immunities
as near as may be to the End that all complaint of partiality
diflferencie may be prevented all which said orders and we
hereby will and ordain to be firmly and unviolably kept and ob-
served and thar the Inhabitants have notice of them for their
use and Benefit.
Lastly we do hereby require and authorize you the said Cap-
tain George Yeardley and the said Council of State, associating
with you such others as you shall there find meet to survey or
cause to be surveyed all the Lands and Territories in Virginia
above mentioned, and the same to set out by'Bounds and Metes
especially so as that the Territories of the said several cities and
Boroughs and other particular plantations may be conveniently
divided and known the one from the other. Each survey to be
set down distinctly in writing and returned to us under your
hands and Seals.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our common Seals
given in a great and general Court of the Council of the Com-
pany of adventurers of Virginia, held the eighteenth day of
November, 1618, and in the year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord James, by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland,
France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c. Vizt of England,
France and Ireland the Sixteenth and of Scotland the two and
fiftieth.
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Causes of Discontent in Virginia, 1676.
[On January 29th, 1677, there arrived in Virginia, which was still
in a state of great agitation following upon the collapse of the popular
movement, a conmiission, composed of Sir John Berry, who had come
over as admiral oi the t^eet, and Herbert Jeffreys and Francis Moryson,
who were in command of the regiment of English soldiers sent out to
put a summary ending to the insurrection. The three commissioners
brought over with them a full set of instructions to guide them in their
action. Of these instructions, which covered a wide ground, tiie fifth
opened as follows: "Yon shall intbrm yourselves of all Grievances
in Generall." In accord with this order, the commissioners " inquired
into and took the complaints at large of the respective Countyes of
Virginia in writing."' These " complaints " throw, perhaps, the clearest
light upon the mi.xed causes which led up to the uprising under the
leadership of Bacon, and are, therefore, of extraordinary historical
value. The appended paper contains the "Grievances" of Glou-
cester county, copy of the original, which is in the British State Paper
Office, Colonial Department, is among the Winder MSS, Va. State
Library. See Vol. TI, p. 44S.]
; ,- _ GLOSTER COUNTY. ;, ',, . .
I. Grievayices. — A complaint that the Imposicion of 2 s. p.
hogshead laid 17 years since on Tobacco shipt in this Country
is a Grievance, unlesse it may bee imployed to the uses pre-
tended when first rajsed.
1. Answer. — Wee humbly conceive it reasonable that an
account be render'd to the Assembly ( wch wee take to be the
Body representative of the Country) of the overplus of this Im-
posicion, above the 1000 £ p. annum to the Governor for the
tyme being: and we hold the continuance of this Law most fit
and necessary being made by the country and confirmed by his
majestie.
2. G. — They complain of the 60 lb., p. pole as a Pressure that
occasioned ye first Discontents among the people. They began
an account and Restitution.
2. A. — This has been fully answered not only to them selves
while wee were upon the place, but upon the frequent complaints
in the foregoing grievances.
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3. G. — A complaint that within 14 or 15 months past, there
hath beene neere 300 Christian persons barbarously murthered
by the Indians, and that the Forts erected and other provision
assygned was wholly insufficient to the end intended and that this
was occasion of the peoples rising in armes lor their own Pre-
servation without comand or pmission of their Superiors and
gave oportunity to the Rebell Bacon to head them, who being
among them reputed a witt was by the vulgar adhered to, and
having obtained and published his Forced comission to the seve-
rall countyes as freely granted him by the consent of the Grand
Assembly Many People were ignorantly deluded & drawn into
his Party that thought of noe other designe than the Indian
Warr onely most of which persons (though never soe Innocent)
were prosecuted with Regour, of which with the 111 Management
of this Warr, they complaine as Grievances.
3. ^-/.— This has reference to Our Generall Narrative and con-
firms some particulars of it. wherefore wee thought it necessary
to recite this article the more at large, and humbly refer the
same to his Majesties Royal consideration as being matter of
fact, of the Truth where of wee are well satisfied.
4. G. — That severall Grievances being presented to the June
Assembly (1676) upon which many good Lawes were consented
to by that Assembly before the Rebell Bacon came and inter-
rupted the same, they Beg those good and wholesome Lawes
may be confirmed.
4. A. — Those Lawes at that tyme Enacted are since annul'd
and order' d to be Repealed by his Majestie; however if any of
them be Lawes fitt to be revived for the Publique good they may
be again propounded to their Burgesses for reenacting.
5. G. — A complaint that in the time of the late Rebellion the
Rebells have plundered divers mens estates, they Pray that the
Assembly will take some course for restitution of what is to be
found in Specie.
5. A. — This was accordingly referred to the Assembly.
6. G. — A complaint that some particular persons neere ab'
the Governor having Commission to Plunder the late Rebells
have misemployed that Power' to Imprisonm't of the p'sons and
Rifling the Estates of divers of his Majesties good subjects;
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converting the same to their Ovvn private uses, in which they beg-
Redresse.
6. A. — This complaint is not untrue for in the time of the late
Rebellion, when all that were not with the Governor (but stay'd
at home at their own plantations to bee secure & quiet) were
accounted Rebells and treated as such. Especially those that
Kept any Guard at their houses though but for self Preservation
agt the Indians on the ffrontier parts, and comitted noe other
acts of hostility.
7. (r. — A complaint against Major Robert Beverly, that when
this country had (according to order) raised 60 armed men to
be an out-guard for the Governor: who not finding the Gover-
nor nor their appointed Commander they were by Beverly
commanded to goe to work, fall trees and mawl and toat railes,
which many of them refusing to doe, he presently disarmed them
and sent them home at a tyme when this Country .vere infested
by the Indians, who had but a little before cutt off 6 persons in
one family and attempted others. They beg Reparation ag' the
said Beverly at.d his Majesties and Governors Pardon for their
late defections.
7. A. — Wee conceive this dealing of Beverleys to be a noto-
rius abuse and Grievance to take away the peoples armes while
their famiiyes were cutt off by the Indians and that they deserved
just reparation herein.
S. G. — They desire the Grand Assembly to take Order that
the armes & ammunition sent over by his Mat'* to the Country
may bee proportionally distributed in each county into the hands
of Persons of trust for the use of the country ag' occasion that
they may not be lost as they complaine mens armes were for-
merly us'd to be.
8. A. — This is in the Assemblies care and a secure magazine
or storehouse will prevent and remedy the matter complaint of,
as to losse of armies &c.
9. G. — A complaint ag't too frequent Assemblyes and the
high Charges of Burgesses of Assembly.
9. A. — This remedyed in both particulars by his Majesties
Express Commands.
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CAUSES OF DISCONTENT IN VIRGINIA. 169
10. G. — A complaint of considerable sums of money collected
for Fort Duties now lying in private men's hands desiring the
same may be laid out for a Magazine for the good of the Pub-
lique.
ID. A. — Wee think it very reasonable, that the Assembly, take
the account, and doe therein, as is desired; which will answer
the 8th Article above written.
11. G. — A complaint that there is a Proclamation prohibiting
all masters of shipps and merchants from selling any Gunnes or
ammunitions to the Inhabitants of this Colony, the Indians then
making daylie Incursions upon them.
II. A. — This was only a Prohibition (pro tempore) during the
continuance of the late Rebellion, but wee now conceive they
have, or may have the Libertie desired as the> had formerly.
Besides there is now a peace with the Indians which answers the
conclusion of this Article.
LOWER NORFOLK COUNTY GRIEVANCES. '"-
(Winder ?apers, Virginia State Library, Vol. II, page 158)
I. G. — The desire a fort may bee erected at Point Comfort
as being the most convenient Place, &c.
1. A. — Wee are of opinion that a Fort at Point Comfort
would be very requisite if money and matterialls can be found,
and men to erect and keepe it. But wee think in our Judgments
that it is impracticall (when all is done) to build, man or main-
tain a good Fort there.
2. G. — A complaint that there has beene Tobacco paid to-
wards the raising of Magazines besides the Fort-duties taken for
that use, yet noe Provision made, or account thereof given by
those intrusted to collect the same.
2. A. — The Magazines are most necessary and the accounts
desired reasonable and fit to be given by the Collectors of the
Tobacco raised and paid for that publick use.
3. G. — A complaint of the 60'" of Tobacco p pole whereof
they desire an account.
3. A. — Answered in other Grievances.
4. G. — An humble Request that since those of this county
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have been greate sufferers by, and in no wise the cause of the late
Rebellion they may be exempt from all publick charge that hath
ariaen, or may there by arise.
4. A.—Wte think their is little notice to be taken of this Re-
quest by us but by the Assembly who are onely concern' d in
laying Ta.xes there being none imposed by his Ma'" on his ac-
count nor (as we humbly conceive) none like to be.
5. G.—A extravigant Request for Liberty to Transport their
Tobacco to any of his Majesties Plantations without Paying the
Impost, payable by Act of Parliament &c.
5. A. — This head is wholly mutinous to desire a thing con-
trary to his Ma"" Royall pleasure & benefitt and also against an
Act of Parliam'.
6. G. — A complaint that it has been the oomon practise of
this Country to putt persons that are mere strangers into Places
of great honor, profitt & trust who unduly officiating therein doe
abuse and wrong the People Sec. as hath been manifest in those
two grand Rebells Nath: Bacon and Giles Bland who bredd
great discords among the people: they Pray that for preventing
the like for time to come this may be Remedyed &c.
6. A. — This the last Assembly have Remedyed, by an act ag'
admitting any to bear any Publick Place or office that have not
been 3 years inhabitants in the country w'" answers the way pre-
scribed by this article of theirs.
7. G. — They desire that noe person within the Government of
Virginia doe sell any ammunition for warr to the Indians.
7. A. — This must be referr'd to the Articles of Peace as to
that clause which concerns the restraining or laying open the
Trade with them, and if Maryland 8cc. be left at liberty in the
particular and Virginia not, they will ingrosse the Beaver Trade
and those of Virginia be deprived of that benefit, and the In-
dians furnished with Powder in as plentifuU a manner as now.
SURRY COUNTY GRIEVANCES.
(Winder Papers, Vol. II, page 160, Virginia State Library.)
I. That ye last assembly continued many yeares and by their
ffrequent meeting being once every yeare hath been a continuall
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charge and burthen to the poor Inhabitants of this Collony; and
that the burgesses of the said s'^ Assembly had 150'*' tobacco p day
for each member they usually continueing three or 4 weekes to-
gither did arise to a great some, And that the said assembly did
give to severall gentlemen (for what service we know not) great
somes of tobacco, all which with the publique nessessary charge
did Raise the Levy to a very great & excessive heith.
2. That great quant'ties of tobacco was levyed upon ye poore
Inhabitants of this Collony for the building of houses at James-
City which were not habitable by reason y'^ were not finished.
3. That great quantityes of tobacco has been Raised for the
building of fforts & yett no place of defence in ye Country suffi-
cient to secure his Majesties poore subjects from the iTury of fTor-
aine Invaders.
4. That notwithstanding the great quantities of ammunition
by the shipps for ffort dutyes for the Countryes service & con-
siderable somes of tobacco raised to maintaine a magazine yett
upon all occations wee are forced to provide powder and shott
att o'' owne perticuler charge or else fyned;
5. That upon any fforraine Invation wee his Majestyes poore
subjects are called to James City a place of vast expence and
extortion upon his Majestyes service and the defence of his Ma-
jestyes Collony, in which service if wee bee maimed wee are
utterly ruined as to o*" ffurther subsistance, wee are forced not
onely to pay o' owne expences but ye expences of o"" Com-
mannders and thene allso for their service.
6. That the 2' per hhd Imposed by ye 128'^ act for the pay-
ment of his majestyes officers & other publique debts thereby to
ease his majestyes poore subjects of their great taxes: wee hum-
blely desire that an account may be given thereof.
7. That severall persons estates are seized and part of them
taken away before ye owner is convict of any crime notwith-
standing they laid hold of the honnorable Governor his Acts of
Indemnity and were admitted to take the oath of allegience to
his gratious majesty & fydelity to his majestyes Honnorable
Governor.
8. That by the assembly in June last wee were Injoyned (upon a
great penality) to send men armes & provision to that laste
rebell Nathaniel Bacon Jun' (The Honnorable Governor not con-
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tradicting itt a'uho itt was some tyme after the s^ Rebell has
Rebelliously fforced his Commission) to o'' great losse and dam-
mage: Wee humbly pray that as wee expect no redresse for o""
(obedience to the s*^ assembly) for o'' damage then reced, that
that assembly ma)' not Increase o'' sutTerings by being chargeable
to us.
9. That the erecting of fforts together with the slackness of
prosecuteing ye Indian warr as alsci the subtle Insinuations of
Nathaniel Bacon Juno'' his pretences has been the cheefe cause of
the late & unhappy warr.
10. That it has been the custome of County Courts att the
laying of the levy to withdraw into a private Roome by w'"
meanes the poore people not knowing for what they paid their
levy did allways admire how their taxes could be so high.
Wee most humbly pray that for .he future the County levy
may be laid publickly in the Court house.
11. That wee have been under great exactions of sherifs and
Clarkes ffees for these severall yeares. The assembly having
assertained but some fees and left the rest to the breast of the
County Co'" wee most humbly pray that for the future all clarkes
and sherifes fees may be assertained and a great penality laid
upon such as shall exact.
12. '^hat contrary to the lawes of England and this Country
high sheriffs have usually continued two yeares and under sheriffs
3 or 4 yeares together: wee humbly pray that for the future that
no person may continue she. iffe above one year.
13. That severall small debts bring in great profhtts to the
Clarkes Sc sheriffs by reason men are forced to sue for very small
debts to the some of 200'" tobacco to the great expence of the
poore debt"" and credito"". Wee humbly desire that a Justice of
peace of the Coram or who else may be thought fitt may have
power to grant order for any some under 450'" tobacco & caske
and likewise execution without further troble to the Court.
14. That we have not had liberty to choose vestrymen wee
humbly desire that the whoUe parish may have a free election.
15. That since his most Gratious Majesty hath been most merci-
fully pleased to pardon o"" late disloallty wee most earnestly and
humbly pray that this p''sent grand assembly would make an
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Act of Oblivion that no person may be Injured by the provok-
ing names of Rebell Traitor &. Rogue.
1 6. That the assembly did levy 60''' tobacco p poole for two
years together wee know not lor what advantage to us did so
heithen the levy that the poore people did sink under their bur-
dens not being able to pay their great taxes & utterly despairing
of any release from their Greeivous taxes and burthens for the
future have beene a long tyme much discontented and greeved,
but being Informed by the honnorable ffrancis Morrison Esq^ one
of his majestyes commissioners that his most gratious majesty
has been most gratiously pleased to returne us o' money againe
by the honnorable Mr. Secretary Ludwell, our greeved harts are
exceedingly rejoyced & Inlivened and' wee yield his most gra-
tious and sacred majesty all possible and humble and harty
thanks ffor his Royall mercyes Humbly praying the honnorable
Mr. Secretary may give a just account to the assembly of what
money is due to the country in his hands.
17. That reson of the late and unhappy warr the Inhabitants
of this County have not been able to ffollow their callings do
humblely desire that they may not be sued to the Co" nor laid
under execution but be forborne their p''sent debts till the next
Cropp.
18. That severall men are like to loose sevall somes of tobacco
v/"^ are just debts out of severall condemned persons & other
seazed estates.
Wee humbly pray that all just debts may be pay'^ out of the
said Estates so seazed.
19. That ye Indians taken in ye late warr may be made slaves.
Wee ye subscribed being chosen to p'"sent y'' Greevances of
Surry County do testifye that ye perticulers afforewritten are the
Greevances of the said County.
[signed] Tho: Busby, George Proctor.
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Two Wills of the Seventeenth Century.
Will of Richard Kemp, 1656.
The following is an exact copy of the will of Richard Kemp, Secre-
tary of State of Virginia, recently copied iVoin the original record at
Somerset House, London. He, it is almost certain, was a son of Rob-
ert Kemp, Esq., of Gissing. in Norfolk, England; came to Virginia in
1637, with the office of Secretary, which he states, in a letter printed in
Sainsbury's Calendar of Colonial State Papers. Vol. I, he obtained at
the instance of the Duke of Lenno.x and the Earl of Pembroke; held
that position and also a place as member of the Council until his death.
and was Acting-Governor of the Colony in 1644. His widow, Elizabeth,
married (II) Sir Thomas Lunsford, Baronet, and (III) Major-General
Robert Smith.
It does not appear how Richard Kemp was a nephew of Ralph
Wormeley, first of that name in Virginia, who died in 165 1. Robert
Kemp, of Gissing, certainly did not marry a Wormeley, so it seems
most probable that Richard Kemp's wife was a daughter of Christo-
pher Wormeley (brother of Ralph Wormeley), who was Governor of
Tortuga, 1632-5, and was appointed a member of the Virginia Council
in 1637.
The nephew, Edmond Kemp, liv-ed in the present Middlese.x county,
and was ancestor of the families of that name in Middlesex and Glou-
cester.
In the name of God An^en. I Richard Kempe of Rich-neck
in the Collonie of Virginia Esquire being sick and weake in bodie
but sound and perfect in minde and memorie (thanks be given to
God) doe make and declare this my last will and Testamente in
manner and forme foilowinge (that ts to say) first I give and be-
queath my soule into the handes of Almighty god that gave it
mee, And my bodie to be decently buried in my Orchard, and
for all my worldly Estate J give and bequeath as followeth, I
make my deare and careful! wife Elizabeth Kempe, and my
poore child Elizabeth Kempe my E.xecutryes of my whoale Es-
tate in Virginia and of all moneys due to mee in England which
will appeare by Accompte. and of all proceedes of Tob: which
is shiped or shalbe shipped this yeare, such Legacies Excepted
which hereafter followeth. And my will is that my unckle Ralph
Wormeley dureing the minority of my Child be Executor on her
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WILLS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURV. 175
behalfe, next my will is that my said Executrices doe with all
conveniency sell the Rich neck with all the Landes belongeinge
to it, And that if it please god in Callinge mee before it be done
that they make good a sale of three hundred acres of Land with
plantation on th' other side the creeke hee puttinge in securitie
according to his bargaine to pay ten thousand waight of Tob: in
Cash and paying for the survey to mee or my assignes, my will
is that my Executors doe graunte unto Geo. Reade fifty acres
in the barren Necke where he liveth for my plantation at Rappa-
hanocke I leave it to the discretion of my Executors and the
servants alsoe Either to sell the plantation or keepe it when or
how Longe they please, I desire that my Executors sell what
they can Elsewhere, And that my wife and child departe this
Cuntrey I desire that my parte of the house Att Towne be sould;
Master Richard Bennett is to make good the sale, I give unto
rny unckle Ralph VVormeley tenne poundes ster: to buy him a
Ringe, To my brother Mr. Edward Kempe five poundes ster.
To my nephew Edmund Kempe, one new servante, this yeare,
two cowes next yeare. and five hundred pounds of Tobacco to
bee payed him next yeare towards his buildinge. I give to my
beloved friend Richard Lee forty shillings to buy him a ringe to
bee fourthwith paid, Lastly I pray god to bless this Colony, And
I desire Sir William Berkeley to accepte of tenne poundes as a
poore Legacie to be paid next yeare desiringe his favoure and
freindshipp to my poore wife and child, and not to bee any Inter-
ruption to their departure out of the CoUonie that this my will
1 have hereunto set my hand and seale the foureth day of Janu-
ary Anno D'ni one thousand six hundred fortie nine.
Rich: Kempe.
Signed, sealed and published in presence of Richard Lee,
Edmund Kempe.
This will was proved at London the sixth day of December in
the yeare one thousand, six hundred fiftie six before the judges
for probate of wills and graunting Administrations Lawfully Au-
thorized by the oath of Elizabeth Lunsford alias Kempe the
Relict and one of the Executrices named in the said will To
whome was Committed Administration of all and singular the
goodes Chattells and Debtes of the said deceased, Elizabeth
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Kempe the daughter and Ralfe Wormley the other Executors
beinge both of them deceased as is alleadged, shee the said
Dame Elizabeth beinge first sworne truly to Administer the
same.
- ■■-.■{ •.. : .. Will of Rev. John Lawrenxe.
[Rev. John Lawrence was a clergyman, of English birth, who was
associated with the early history of Presbyterianism in America.]
Att Virginia In ye County of Lower norfolke In Little Creek
att y' house of nich" huggings I: John Lauarranse master of
arte being very Seirk and Weake of boddy: but blesed bee god
of Sound and p'fect memory, doe Revock all maner of former
wills by mee made; and doe Declare this onely Instrum' of
Writing to be my Last will and testam' in maner and forme as
followeth Imp' I give and bequeath my Soule to god that gave
It, and my Bode to ye Earth from whence It Came to be De-
cently & Cristianly hurried, and as for my Worley goods; give
and bequeath them as followeth Secondley I doe Declare that
I am the Eldest Lawful! Sone of Jno. & Dorrity Larrance and
was borne babtised att ye Wormlyberry house in ye p'ish of
VVormly in harford Shere and I am now posest of Six tenaments
Seitueate In ye p'ish of S: giles in ye fieles, in Church Lane w'°
I was Resolved to give to Cary Larrance the Eldest Sone of
Andrew Larrance, my Brother Son but now my Reselution is
altered, and Resolving w'" my Selle I thought fit to Come to
virg* to a Sister w''' I had Leving there. Expecting to find Com-
fort by her, but not finding that Enterta/m' w'" I did Expect, i
did not larry long w'*' her, but went and Lived In maryland
three yeares, where I preched the gospell to ye Comfort of many
thousands, but Could not bee Endured by ye Romand Catho-
licks, and afterwards I was p'Swaded to gone for Coralina w*""
p'Swattons I did Imbrase: and to that Effect I tooke a boate att
potomack River on purpose to transport my Selfe to Carolina
and Comeing to point Comfort I did meet w"" a good frend a bord
a Shipe bound for that Same place, where I was bound; a bord
of w*"" Ship I did put my Selfe w'" my Chest and Cloathes; but
I was soe weake and feble being taken w" ye griping of ye goots
being occaisconed by ye longe pashage of two weekes abord ye
the afore Sd boate being hardly In a Condition to Swim and
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meeting w'" this good freind by name Mrs. mary benson Wid"
who being of a tender hart had Compassion on mee the Ship
being full of pashengers Shee did lay mee pon her one bed and
In her one Cabin, and Did attend upon mee boath night and
Day for five moneths to ye Admiratio of all ye people that
heard or knew of it I being aged three Score & tifeten yeares,
and by gods good providence It was my good fortune to mete
w" this tender & Compassionated herted gen' Woman, after my
long pashage in ye Sd boate and my Said Sicknese occaisioned
thereby and being bound and obblidged in all Equity and Reason
to Recompence her soe for as possibley I am able I doe there-
fore alter my former Resulution & Doe leave the afor sd Six
tenam" to ye Sd Mrs. mary benson wid" her heyers Exeeketors
Adminis'' and assignes, and I doe hereby ordaine and apoint
them my full & Sole Exequtrix of this my last will and testam'
Revocking hereby all former deeds of gifts Joynters and all
other writs wills & testam'' made by mee, and I doe hereby
Lease to her and to her aforsaid all my Jewelly, Rings, gould
Silver and all whatsoev' I have, and also I apoint & ordaine ye
afore Sd mrs. mary benson wid" and her afor Saide to uplift and
Receave Seaven yeares Rent of ye Sd Six tenam" att 36 1
Sterling p yeare allowing 50 1 Sterling w"" I Rec'd by me, and it
is to be deducted out of ye afore Sd 7 years Rent, and I doe
Leave the Samyne to her heyers Exeexeters Adming" and
Assignes for Ever for Ever & for Ever and finally this I ordaine
to be my testam' and Latter will Invoiahle and for ye Confirm-
ing thereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and Scale this 26th
Day of Sept. And" Dom° 168-^.
John Laranse & Seale.
Signed Sealed & Delivered In ye p'sents of us
Jacob Johnson,*
Jno, Coe,
Geo. Smart.
Proved County Court of Lower norfolke the 15th octob 168^
by ye oaths of all ye Evidence.
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Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents.
(Prepared by W. G. Stanard.)
(83) John Howe [i], of Accomacke, gentleman (lease for ten years),
30 acres adjoining the land of Captain Clement Dilke [2], and the land
belonging to the place of Secretary. September 20th, 162S. By F.
West.
NOTES.
[i] John Howe was a Commissioner (justice) of Accomac in 1631,
and member of the House of Burgesses for the same county in 1632 and
1632-3. Captain Daniel Howe, of Northampton county, was alive, 1653.
It appears from the county records that John Howe was a commissioner
of Accomac from 1632 until his death, Commander-in-chief of the
county from July, 1637. In a deposition, January, 1636, he states his age
as 43, and he was dead before Jan. 2d, 1647, when the Court made an
order to his administ'-ators.
[2] From the manuscript records of the London Company, recently
recovered by the Virginia Historical Society, it appears that, Nov. 20th,
1622, a patent for land in Virginia was granted to "Mr. Dilke, of Cle-
ments Inn, Middlese.\, Gentleman." See Historical Society Magazine^
Vol. I, p. 443, for a note on Clement Dilke. ,
(84) William Harris, of Warwick River, planter (lease for ten
years), 100 acres about two miles below Blunt Point, adjoining the
land of Richard Tree and extending along the bank of the river fifty
poles. September 20, 162S. By F. West.
(85) Lieutenant Tho.mas Purfury (lease for ten years), 100 acres
in Elizabeth City, abutting westerly on a small creek dividing said land
from the fields called fort Henry [i], and running west to the land
granted to Christopher Calthropp, gentleman. September 20, 1628,
By F. West.
NOTE.
[i] This was doubtless a place afterwards called " The Fort Fields,"
which belonged to Col. Chas. Morrison (whose father, Capt. Richd.
Morrison, had been commander of the fort at Point Comfort), and
which were sold by his heirs to Robert Beverley {Eliza. City Records).
(86) William Co.x, of Elizabeth City, planter {lease for ten years),
100 acres in Elizabeth City. September 20, 1628. By F. West.
(87) Christopher Windmill, of Elizabeth City, planter (lease for
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VBU ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS. 179
ten yearsi, 60 acres in Elizabeth City, bounded southerly by the planta-
tion called "the Indian House thickett," formerly granted to Lieuten-
ant Thomas Flint, and on the northeast by the land granted to Jonas
Stockton, Minister, deceased, and on the w est by the Southampton
river. September 20. 162S. By F. West.
(S9) Walter Hevlev, ancient planter (lease for ten years), 50 acres
in Elizabeth City. September 20, 162S By F. West.
(90) Robert Marshall, planter (lease for ten years), 10 acres in the
Island of James City, abutting westerly on the lands of Mary Bayly,
easterly, on the lands of Thomas Passmore, Carpenter; southerly, on
the highway adjoining the marshes of Goosehill, and westerly, on the
highway that parts said land from that now in the occupation of Elmer
Phillips. September 20, 162S. By F. West.
(91) Lieutenant Edward Waters [iJ, of Elizabeth City (lease t'"or
ten years), 100 acres in Elizabeth City, being part of the Strawberry
banks, and abutting easterly on a creek " called Thomas his Creeke,"
towards the precincts of Buck Roe [2]. October 20, 162S. By F. West.
notes.
[i] .Mr. H. E Waters, in his " Gleanings," gives the following abstract
from the will on record at Somerset House, London. Will of Edward
Waters, of Elizabeth City, Virginia, gentleman; dated at Great Korn-
mead, Hertfordshire, England, August 20, 1630, proved Septem.ber iS,
1630. Leaves his son William his lands in \'irginia; directs that all
goods, &c., in England, Virginia, Ireland or elsewhere, shall be sold by
the adviceof his brother, John Waters, of Middleham, Yorkshire. Other
legatees are wife Mrs Grace Waters and daughter Margaret. The
Northampton records show that Wm. Waters is described, in 1646, as son
and heir of Edward Waters, of Elizabeth City, in 1646; that in 1652 his
mother was Mrs. Grace Robins; in or before 1652, he (William) had
married the widow of George Clarke; and March, 1652, was elected
high sheriff of Northampton by the people of that county, and in
March, 1656, was appointed by the Governor, Council and Burgesses
major of militia, and a justice (of the quorum) for Northampton. See
Hist. Soc. i\[iig.. Vol. I, p. 92, for note on Edward Waters.
[2] Samuel Selden, of Elizabeth City, the first of that family in Vir-
ginia, in his will dated .May 24, and proved July, 1720, gives the planta-
tion called Buckrow to his wife Rebecca for her life, remainder to his
right heirs.
(92) Christopher Windmill, of Elizabeth City, planter (lease for
ten years), 50 acres in Elizabeth City. Nov. 30, 162S. By F. West.
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(931 William Harris, of Warwick River, planter (lease for ten
years), 50 acres about two miles below Blunt Point. Nov. 20, 162S.
By F. West.
(94) William Cookesev, of Warwick River, planter (lease for ten
years), 150 acres on the east side of Blunt Point Creek, extending south
to the land of John Layden. December 2d, 162S. By F. West.
(95) Nicholas Roe, planter (lease for ten years), 40 acres in Eliza-
beth City, bounded on the east by Point Comfort Creek. December
ist, 162S. By F. West.
(96) Thomas Delamajor, ofJam.es City, Joyner (lease for ten years),
a small slip of land (3 acres) at Goose Hill, in the Island of James City,
abutting westerly upon the land of Dame Elizabeth Dale [i], and
easterly upon Goose Hill Marsh. March 14, 162S. By F. West.
NOTE. J
[i] Dame Elizabeth Dale was the widow of Sir Thomas Dale, Gov-
ernor of Virginia. She also owned land on the Eastern Shore of Vir-
ginia, and her will is recorded in Northampton County. An abstract
of it was printed in the William and Mary Quarterly.
(97) Roger Sau.vders [i], of Accomacke, mariner (lease for ten
years), 50 acres adjoining the land of John Blore. deceased, now in the
possession of said Saunders, and extending westerly on the waterside
to the land of Captain Henry Fleete. INIarch 14, 162S. By John Pott.
note.
[i] Roger Saunders was commissioner (justice) of Accomac, 1631,
and member of the House of Burgesses, 1631 -'2. It appears from the
county records ihat he died prior to February, 1633, and his widow
seems to have married Wm. Burdett, of Accomac.
(98) Eli.\s La Guard, vignerone, lease, 100 acres in Elizabeth City,
on the Western side of Harris his Creek. March 14, 1627. By John
Pott.
(99) W^illiam Smith [i], of Accomac, planter, lease, 100 acres in
Accomac, bounding southerly on the land of John Falwood, and ex-
tending westerly on Chesapeake Bay. October 15, 1629. By John
Pott.
NOTE.
[i] The will of W^illiam Smith, of Accomac, was dated April 23d,
1636, and proved September, 1636. He requests that Mr. Cotton make
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ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS. 181
his funeral sermon, and receive for it loo lbs. tobacco, and that 50 lbs.
be paid Garrett Andrews (carpenter) for making his coffin; legatees
are: Francis Millisent, Eliz. Harlowe. daughter of John Harlowe, his
servant Daniel Pighles, who is to be given a year of his time and all of
the testator's clothes; and appoints friends Nicholas Harvvood and
Walter Scott executors. Leaves small estate.
(100) Nicholas Browne [i], planter, lease, 50 acres in Elizabeth
City, bounded on the south by the land formerly granted to Walter
Heeley, and extending northerly towards the head of Southampton
River. June 6, 1635. By Sir John Harvey.
NOTE.
[i] Nicholas Browne was a vestryman of Hampton Parish, Eliza-
beth City, in 1646 (Meade).
(loi) ]acob Averie (lease for 21 years), 500 acres on Skiffs Creek
[Warwick county], extending northerly "towards the Creek towards
Martin's Hundred," S-^uthwest towards the land of Thomas Nowell,
and east towards the maine — beginning on the east side of a spring
called Jacob's Well. 1630. By Sir John Harvey.
(ro2) Thom.'.s Purifov [i], of Elizabeth City, Esquire, 500 acres
upon a point called Cross quarter, bounded southwest by the back
river, " and goeth down to a point called Willoughby's Neck," and also
lying along the river called Pocoson river. May 4, 1631. By Sir John
Harvey.
NOT2.
[i] See Virginia Historical Society Magazine, Vol. I, pp. 417 and
418.
(102) Captain Robert Felgate [r], gentleman, 350 acres at Kisky-
ocke [2J upon Pamunkey [3I River, abutting easterly upon the ground
of Captain John West [4], and extending westerly towards the maine
river. Due for the importation of himself, his son, and four servants,
who came in the William and John in 162S. April 25, 1632. By Harvey.
NOTES.
[i] Captain Robert Felgate was a commissioner (justice) of War-
wick River, 1632 {Hening), of York county, 1633, and many years later
{York Records), and burgess for ''the other side of the water," 1629
and 1629-30 [Heni?ig). His will was dated 1649, and proved 1655, and
his legatees were his wife, Sibilla, his brother, William Fellgate, of the
City of London, Skinner, grandchild, Thomas Newton, resident in
Holland, and grandchild, Thomas Bruton ( York Records). In a later
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patent to him his wife, Margaret (tsI wife), son, Erasmus, and daughter,
Judith are headrights. There is on record in York a bond, dated Jan-
uary 29, 1644, from Henry Lee and Richard Lee to indemnify " Mrs.
Sibella Felgate, the relict and late wife of Captain Robert Felgate gen-
tleman dec'ed," and referring to Captain Robert Felgate as '= having
married the mother of John Adkins, who was the brother of Marah,
wife of the above Henry Lee." One of his brothers, William Felgate,
referred to above, was living in York in 1653 and 1659 {York Records),
and in the latter year was a justice of the county {Henirtg). In this
year he stated, in a deposition, that he was about 47 years old. His
will, proved in York in 1660, left his estate to his wife, Mary Felgate, and
/20 to his daughter Mary "in case she came to Virginia in five years,"
also legacies to his [step] son, William Bassett, and daughter, Mary
Bassett. In 1655 Mary Bassett petitioned York court fori he lands of
Robert Felgate, deceased, claiming to be his heir. It appears from the
county record that Mary, widow of Thomas Bassett, married, secondly,
William Felgate, of Queen's Creek, York, and, thirdly, Captain John
Underbill. Jr., a native of the city of Worcester, England, who died in
1672, and fragments of whose tomb remain at Felgate's Creek in that
county. It does not appear how Mary Bassett could have been the heir
of Robert Felgate.
[2] Kiscoyacke, or Kiskiak, was a district in the present York county,
in the vicinity of Yorktown. It derived its name from a tribe of Indians
which inhabited it. See ist Hetiing for several early acts to encourage
plantmg and settlement there.
[3] Pamunkey was the original name of the river which was after-
wards calif d Charles and now York.
[4] See Virginia Historical Society ^^dgazine, Vol. I. 423 and 424.
(103) Captain Tobv Felgate [i], mariner, 150 acres at Kiskyacke,
upon Pamunkey River, adjoining the land of his brother. Captain
Robert Felgate. Due him as an adventurer into the Colony. April
25, 1632. By Harvey.
NOTE.
[i] As early as 1623 Captain Toby Felgate had made five voyages
to Virginia as mate and master {Proceedings of I'a. Company).
{104) Roger Saunders, gentleman, 300 acres in Accomack, com-
monly called the Indian Field; abutting southeast upon the creek that
runs up by the old plantation, and northeast upon the creek that runs
between this land and that of Mr. Harman [Harmar?] June iS, 1632.
By Harvey.
• (105) William Dawkes, planter, 250 acres in a neck of land com-
monly called the Verinas [i]; abutting easterly upon a creek known as
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two mile Creek, and thence extending westerly towards the land of
Thomas Parker. Due in right of his father Henry Dawkes, and his
uncle William Leigh, for their personal adventure, and tor a bill of
adventure, dated July 14, 160S. Patent dated June 30, 1632. By
Harvey.
NOTE.
[i] More commonly spelt Varina. It is said that the name was
given because the tobacco grown there resembled a Spanish tobacco
called Varinas. Varina was long the county seat of Henrico, and is
stated to have been for a time the residence of John Rolfe and Poca-
hontas, on land given them by Powhatan. Rev. William Stith lived
here when minister of Henrico Parish, and here dates the preface to
his history of Virginia. Richard Randolph (in the Southern Literary
Messenger) says that in his time the sites of the Glebe, Courthouse,
jail, tavern, and of John Rolfe's house, were pointed out. Under the
name of Akin's Landing it was well known, during the late war, as a
place of exchange o\ prisoners. Nearly all of Varina Neck at one time
belonged to the Randolph family.
;io6) Robert B.vrri.ngton [iJ, of James City, 250 acres in the
County of James City; bounded on the south by the back river, north-
east by Powhatan Swamp, and northwest by the great river. July 6,
1632. By Harvey.
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[ij Robert Barrington was Clerk of the Council, 1623, and member
of the House of Burgesses for James City, 1629-30.
(107) John Arundell, of the lower parish of Elizabeth City, gen-
tleman, 100 acres in Elizabeth City, upon the back river, extending
easterly towards the land now in the tenure of John Chandler. Due
for part of a bill of adventure of two hundred and eighty-seven pounds
ten shillings, dated October 14, 1617, and signed by David Watkins
Cashier. August rst, 1632. By Harvey.
(108) Thomas Harwood [i],ofSkiffes Creek, gentleman, 100 acres,
adjoining his own land on Skiffes Creek [Warwick Co.], granted in
the right of Sergeant Hugh Heywood. .September ist, 1632. By
Harvey.
note.
[i] Captain Thomas Harwood came to Virginia about 1620, and on
June 28 of that year he (described as " the Chief of .Martin's Hun-
dred ") was appointed member of the Council {Proceedings of Va.
Company). He was probably a relative of Sir Edward Harwood (a
distinguished soldier), who was a member of the Virginia Company,
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and in 1619 presented a petition to that body in behalf of the proprie-
tors of Martin's Hundred. An examination of Sir Edward's will,
however, shows no reference to him. On July 24, 162 1, he was again
appointed to the Council, but does not appear to have remained long a
member of that body, as he was Burgess for Mulberry Island, 1629, 1630,
1633 and 1642; for Warwick County, 1644, 1645, 164S and 1649 ; Speaker
of the House, i648-'9, and chosen member of the Council 1652 {Heft-
ing). He took an active part in the deposition of Governor Harvey.
and was sent to England in 1634 by the House of Burgesses to defend
their action in that affair. Immediately on arriving he was arrested,
and for a time kept a close prisoner in the Fleet prison; but was re-
leased aud returned to Virginia {Sainsbury Abstracts). He appears to
have been for many years one of the leading men of the Colony, and
had numerous descendants in Warwick (where some of the family still
reside) and York. It is also probable that those of the name in Charles
City and King William were descendants.
In 1652 Humphrey Harwood patented 2,070 acres 'n Warwick,
which had been granted to Captain Thomas Harwood in 1637, and had
now descended to the said Humphrey Harwood as his son and heir.
In the same year Mrs. Ann Harwood patented 150 acres adjoining this
grant. Captain Humphrey Harwood was Burgess for Warwick in 16S5,
and Major Humphrey Harwood (doubtless the same) Burgess in 1692
(Jonrnals). Humphrey Harwood, Sheriff of Warwick, 1710. William
Harwood, Sheriff of Warwick, 1721. Major William Harwood, of
Warwick, for many years Justice and Burgess, died June 2d, 1737 {Va-
Gazette). Colonel William Harwood was member of the House of
Burgesse... for Warwick, 1744, 174S, 1752, 1753, 1755, 1758, 1764. 1765,
1769, 1772, 1774 (and doubtless in other intervening years), member of
the County Committe of Safety in i775-'6, of the Convention of 1776,
and of the House of Delegates, 1776. Edward Harwood was a justice
of Warwick, 1770; County Lieutenant, 17S8 {Cat. of Va. State Papers),
and member of the House of Delegates, 1780. Humphrey Harwood,
of Williamsburg, was appointed in 1775 a lieutenant in the troops then
raised. He died November, 17S8. leaving a wife and six children {Va.
Gazette). Elizabeth, widow of William Harwood, died in Warwick
September 7, 1S34, aged sixty years, leaving four children [Nezispaper).
The first of the name who appear in Charles City County were Cap-
lain Joseph (alive 16S8) and Captain Samuel. The first named married
Agnes, daughter of Captain Thomas Cocke, Sr., of Henrico; and the
second married, in 1694, her sister, Temperence Cocke. Joseph Har-
wood was a justice of Charles City in 1705, and Captain Samuel in 1710.
Captain Thos. Cocke, Sr., in his will dated 16S9, names his grand-
children Thomas. Joseph, Agnes and Thomas Harwood. Samuel Har-
wood was Burgess for Charles City, 1723. Samuel Harwood, Jr., was
a justice of Charles City in 17 19, and appears to have been out of the
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commission for a time, as in 1723 the Governor and Council ordered
him to be restored to his former place. Samuel Harwood, probably
the same, was sheriff of the county, 1730, 1731 and 1737. Samuel Piar-
wood, Jr., "of Weyanoke," was appointed justice of Charles City in
1739- Samuel Harwood was member of the Charles City Committee of
Safety, 1775 and 1776. and of the Convention of 1776. Samuel Har-
wood was appointed major in the Virginia forces raised in 1775. Little-
berry Harwood was a soldier in the State Line during the Revolution.
William Harwood of Charles City (probably of " Weyanoke," as his
descendants own that estate), married Margaret Waldrop, and' had two
children: L Agnes, married in 17SS, Fielding Lewis, of Gloucester ; 11.
Nancy, married Thomas Lewis, of Gloucester. Captain William Har-
wood, of King and Queen, died September, 1773, aeed 39. Christo-
pher Harwood, of King and Queen, married Margaret, daughter of
Thomas Roane, and had issue : L Col. Archibald Roane, of " Xewing-
ton," King and Queen, member of the House of Delegates. 1S16, 1S22,
1823, 1S24, 1S32 and 1S34: died September iS, 1S37, aged 52 years!
married r^Iartha, daughter of Samuel G. Fauntleroy; 11. Thomas^
moved to Tennessee. A. R. and Martha (Fauntleroyi Harwood had
issue: L Samuel Fauntleroy, married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr.
Austin Brockenbrough; IL Priscella ; IIL >rary Susan; IV. Emily
Garnett ; V. Lucy, married Judge McPheeters, of New York ; VL
Sarah, married Robert Pollard; VIL Archibald A.; VIIL Thomas,"
married Brown, of Texas, and had six children; IX. Daughter,'
married ^\■inder.
Thomas Harwood, who was probably a younger son of Captain
Thomas Harwood, of Warwick, was a justice of York county in J653.
In York county there was a succession of three Thomas Harwoods,'
father, son and grandson, beginning with Thomas Harwood, who was
a justice in 1652.
(109) Thom.as H.\rwood, of Skiffes Creek, gentleman, 140 acres on
SkiflTes Creek abutting southerly on the land of Mrs. Avery. Due in
right of Hugh Heyward made over to him June 20, 1631. By Harvey,
September ist, 1632.
(no) John Pott, of Harrop, within the Corporation of James City,
doctor in Physick, 200 acres on Skiffes Creek, adjoining the lands of
Mr. Thomas Nowell and Mr. Jacob Avery. Due for the adventure of
four servants: John .Alilward, Randolph Holt, Ruth a maid Servant,
and Thomas Popkin. By Harvey, September ist, 1632.
(Ill) William Dawkes, of Verinas, in the Corporation of Charles
City, planter; son and heir apparent of Henry Dawkes deceased; 200
acres in Charles City on a creek called the two mile Creek, and adjoin-
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ing the land of Thomas Parker. Due loo acres for the personal adven-
ture of the said Henry Dawkes, an ancient planter, and loo for a bill of
adventure of /12. 10, in right of his father, Henry Daukes deceased,
dated July 14, 160S. By Harvey, September 17, 1632.
Appended is the following "bill of adventure," wiiich is given as an
example :
"Whereas Henry Dawkes now bound on the intended voyage to Vir-
ginia hath paid in ready money to S'r Thomas Smith K't, Treasurer for
Virginia, the sume of twelve pownds tenn shillings for his Adventure
in the voyage to Virginia, It is agreed y't for the sume the said Henry
Dawkes his heirs Executo'rs Adm'rs assigns shall have rateably accord-
ing to his Adventure full p'te of all such lands tenem'ts and heredi-
tm'ts as shall from time to time bee recovered planted and in habited,
And of all such Mines and Mineralls of Gould Silver and other mettalls
or Treasures pearles pretious stones or any kind of Wares or Merchan-
dize comodities or p'fitts whatsoever which shall bee obtained or got-
ten in the said voyage According to the portion of money by him im-
ployed to that use, In as large and ample manner as any other Adven-
turer therein shall receive for the like Sume. Written this fowerteenth
of July one Thousand six hundred and Eight.
Richard Atkinson.
Recorded the eighth of Septemb. one Thousand six hundred thirty
two.
Ben. Harrison" [Clerk of the Council].
(112) John Arundell, of the back river in Elizabeth City, gentle-
man, son and heir apparent to Peter Arundell, gentleman, deceased;
100 acres on back river, adjoining the land formerly granted to Barthol-
omew Hoskins, and extending easterly towards the land of Captain
Richard Stephens Esq., now in the tenure and occupation of John
Chandler, planter. Due in right of his father .or one share in a bill of
adventure of ^287. 10, dated October 4, 1617. By Harvey, September
7. 1632.
(113) Bartholomew Hoskins, of the back river, in Elizabeth City,
ancient planter, who came over to this country before the departure of
Sir Thomas Dale; 100 acres on the back river, due to him for his per-
sonal adventure and formerly granted* to him by Sir Francis Wyatt
November 3d, 1620. By Harvey, September 7, 1632.
(114) John Robins [i] the younger, of the back river in Elizabeth
City, planter, son and heir apparent of John Robins the elder, deceased;
300 acres on back river in Elizabeth city. Due him, in right of the said
John Robins the elder, for the transportation of six persons into this
country (vizt) of himself the said John Robins the elder, and John Rob-
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ins the younger his son, Henry West, Peter Asheley, Joseph Moore,
and William Davis his servants, who came in the Mar^arei (2f John in
1622. By Harvey, September 7, 1632.
NOTE.
[i] John* Robins, the elder, died on his voyage to Virginia {Hotten).
His son John'' Robins, tiie younger, settled in Elizabeth City county,
and patented several tracts of land in various parts of the Colony,
among them one (in 1642) of 2,000 acres in Gloucester county, where
he resided the last few years of his life, and where the place of his res-
idence acquired the name, " Robins' Xeck,'' n-hich it still retains. He
was a member of the House of Burgesses from Elizabeth City, 1646 and
1649 [Hefting), and a justice of that county in 1652 {y'ork Records). He
appears to have been twice married; tirst, to Dorothy , and,
secondly, in or before 1638, to Alice . According to an act passed
in 1734 for docking the entail on part of the lands inherited from him
{Hening IV, 461), "John Robins, late of Robins's Neck, in the county
of Gloucester, deceased, was in his life time, seised in fee simple, of
two thousand acres of land, with the appurtenances, lying and being in
Robins's Neck, aforesaid, between the rivers Ware and Severn, in the
parishes of Ware, and Abington, in the county aforesaid ; and of five
hundred acres of land, with the appurtenances, lying and being in the
parish of Elizabeth City, in the county of Elizabeth City, and so being
thereof seised, did make his last will and testament in writing, bearing
date the two and twentyeth day of November, in the year of our lord
one thousand six hundred and fifty-five."
From the same authority it is known that he had issue : I. Christo-
pher', eldest son, who left only two children, (i) Anne*, who married
Robert Freeman, and (2I Elizabeth*, married James Shackleford ; II.
William', second son, died without issue; III. Thomas^; IV. Daugh-
ter*; V. Daughter'.
Thomas' Robins, "chirurgeon" [surgeon] as he is several times
styled in the records of York county, where he appears to have prac-
ticed, was alive in 1674. In or before 1666, he married Mary, daughter
of Major John Hansford, of York, and issue, so far as known, one son,
John*. Mrs. Elizabeth Lockey, who had been the wife of Major John
Hansford, in her will, dated 1675, gives a legacy to her grandson, John
Robins.
John* Robins, of Gloucester county, married, prior to 1693, Jane ,
and had issue: I. Mary^ born Nov. 5, 1693 {Abingdon Parish Register);
II. William^
William^ Robins, born December 5, 17 15 {Abingdon Regis/er), died
1786. He married Elizabeth, whose surname, according to tradition,
was Dunbar (there was a family of the name then resident in Glouces-
ter), and had issue, as appears from his will, dated July 13, 17S2, and
proved in Gloucester, July 6, 1786: I. John*, born between 1737 and
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1741 {Abingdon Register — here defective); II. Thomas*', born 1745
{Abingdon Register); III. ll'ittiam^; 1V^ Rebecca^, married Isaac Sin-
gleton (and had issue : WiUiam', Isaac', Joshua', Thomas'. Elizabeth",
and Jane", named in their grandfather's will) ; V. Daughte^^ married
John Stubbs (and had issue: Thomas', William", SamueF, lames Col-
mau^, John", and Elizabeth^ named in their grandfather's uiil); VL
Daughter^ married Thomas Chamberlain Amory.
William® Robins, of Gloucester, was born 1749 {Abingdon Register),
and married Dorothy Boswell, of Gloucester. Had issue: I. U'iitiani';
II. Elizabeth^, married John Stevens; III. Anne*, married William
Wallington ; IV. Susanna", married Frank Stubbs; V. Rebecca^ mar-
ried James N. Stubbs, and was grandmother oi State Senator Stubbs,
of Gloucester. Professor T. J. Stubbs, of William and Mary, and Pro-
fessor W. C. Stubbs, of Louisiana.
William^ Robins, of "Level Green," Gloucester, born 1770, died
Dec. 22d, iS\6 {Rd. Enquirer); married three times, ; I) Whiting,
and had several children, none of whom left issue; (II) Juliana,
daughter of Christopher Pryor. of Gloucester. Her mother was a
Miss Clayton, most probably a daughter of Captain Jasper Clayton,
and granddaughter of John Clayton, the botanist; (Hi' Fleming,
no issue by last marriage. Issue (by 2d marriage ; I. William',
married Elizabeth Cary, and had Cary^, who married Thurston;
II. Augustine J{'arner'*; III. Emeline*, married Henry Davies ; TV.
Julia*, married Dr. Wm. Bernard Todd; V. John'^, married Thorn-
ton, and had (i) Richard^; (2) Martha^; (3) John W.* ; (4) Julia Pryor^;
VI. Catherine Clayton-, born 1S06, died 1847; married, in 1S27, Dr.
Joseph H. Robins; \TI. Elizabeth S.*, married, in 1S17, Christopher
Whiting, of Gloucester ; VIII. Maria-, married James R. Stubbs, of
Gloucester.
Augustine Warner* Robins, of " Level Green," Gloucester county,
born 1S09, died June 19, 1876 {Enquirer); member of the House of
Delegates from Gloucester, 1841, 1842 and 1S43; married (Ii Maria
Todd; (II) Elizabeth Todd. Issue (ist marriage): I. Willimn Todd^ ;
II. Mary^ married Dr. Thomas Latane, of King and Queen ; III. Ber-
nard^; IV. Bartlett Todd"*, married and died without issue; V.Archi-
bald Harwood'*, married Sinclair, and had two children; VI.
Joseph', married Bagby; VII. Maria^, married .Solomon Kemp;
VIII. Taylor'', married Sally Seawell, and had two children.
Colonel William Todd* Robins, of Gloucester and Richmond City,
entered C S. A. as a private in Lee's Rangers (cavalry), promoted to
lieutenant April, 1S62, captain Oct., 1862, lieutenant-colonel July, 1S63,
colonel 24th Virginia Cavalry Jan., 1S64, and served throughout the
war with distinguished gallantry; married (I) Martha Tabb, daughter of
Wm. Patterson and Marion (Morson) Smith, of Gloucester, and [II)
Sally Berkeley, daughter of Dr. Wilmer Nelson, of the same county.
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Issue: (1st m.), I Marion Seddon'"; (2d m.), II Ruth"^ ; III. Elizabeth'*';
IV. Warner'"; V. Nelson"'; VI. Sarah'^.
(115) William Spencer, of James Island, in the Corporation of
James City, yeoman, 250 acres on the west side of Lawnes Creek, at its
mouth [this is now in Surrey]. Due in right of James Tooke, who
came in the George in 1621, at the charges of said Spencer ; in right of
Hugh Wynn and Robert Latchett, who both came in the George in
1621, at the charges of Captain William Pierce (who has transferred bis
right to Spencer); of James Robinson, who came in the Charatie in
1622, at the cost of said Spencer, and also in right of Joseph Deane.
By Harvey, Sept. 29, 1632.
(ri6) Captain William Tucker, Esq. [i], of the Council of State.
100 acres in Elizabeth City, at the mouth of Broad Creek, and adjoin-
ing the land now in the tenure and occupation of Henry Southerne [2],
and that of Thomas Watts. Due for the transportation of Richard
Heale, and William Elberry in the Elianor in 1622. By Harvey.
Appended is a transfer of this land by William Tucker to Launcelot
Barnes [3]. Witnesses John Utye and Francis Bolton.
NOTES.
[i] In pedigree of Thompson, Visitation of London, , is entered
the name of Mary, daughter of Ralph Thompson, and wife of" William
Tucker, of London, merchant." See Hist. Society Magazine, I, 18S-9.
[2] Probably a kinsman of John Southerne, who was a member of
the House of Burgesses, 1623, and for James City Island, 1629-30.
[3] Member of the House of Burgesses for " the lower part of Eliza-
beth City," 1629-30.
(117) Elmer Phillips, of Elizabeth City, 100 acres on Poynt Com-
fort Creek. Head Rights: Elmer Phillips and his servant Daniel
French, who came in 1622. Granted by Harvey, June 5, 1633.
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190 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. '] 9 I
GENEALOGY.
THE FLOLRNOY FAMILY.
Compiled by Flournoy Rivers, Esq., Pulaski, Tenn.
Prefatory.
The compiler desires to call attention to the following requests as
to how the work of assisting this compilation should be done. This
circular letter is now being addressed to all members of this descent
of whose residence he is informed. The omitted part of the letter con-
tains a short statement of a few historical facts as a basis.
" Though so widely scattered throughout America, it is easily suscep-
tible of legal proof that all members of this family thus have a common
origin. The compiler therefore asks you to aid him in putting all of
them ' in touch ' with each other. This is a work of immense labor
and can only succeed by earnest and intelligent co-operation. The
compiler receives for it — and expects — no compensation ; he has, in-
stead, devoted to it much time and labor and money. You are there-
fore requested: (i) To furnish me the full name and P. O. address of
every person of Flournoy descent within your knowledge; (2) To lay
this matter before all such persons, requesting their co-operation; (3)
To furnish me an historical account, absolutely accurate and minute in
detail, not in the form of a running letter, but of a /a^«/a/c't/ statement —
of the descent of yourself and of the members of your branch. Start
as far back as possible and tabulate the statement down to and inclu-
ding the present, ready for priming, if need were.
"Please note as follows: Give full names; be absolutely accurate
and minute as to dates, civil, political, military or navai employment,
giving official records; note all collegiate graduations and authorships,
if any ; burn when and where ; aiarried when, to whom and by whom ;
lived where; occupation what; died when; buried where; religion
what; politics what. Consult family bibles, town records, county, State
and National records, tomb-stones, church records, will and deed
books, etc., etc., giving always book and page. If every Flournoy in
America will at once constitute himself or herself a committee of one
to aid this work on the lines laid down above, it can soon be accom-
plished."
Please remember that accurate dates are absolutely essential to cor-
rect history.
Errors and Corrections.
Since the July article was written the compiler has received from Mr.
Edmond Flournoy, at Geneva, a typewritten copy, bound, of their MS.
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genealogy, begun in 1733, by Gideon Flournoy, a brother of John
James, the immigrant, and continued by him till his death in 1760; con-
tinued ever since by some member of the family there.
The typewritten text shows that some errors were made in repro-
ducing some of the names from the MSS. outline first sent and printed.
The chief errors are as follows :
On page S4 the wife of "Jacques, born in 160S," should be "Judith
Puerari," or " Puerary," not " Pucrary " ; page 84, David Flournoy, son of
Jean Jacques, was not "First Sheriff of Prince Edward County," but
was in the first Commission of the Peace for Prince Edward county,
and sheriff in i~^6-j.
It is probably better to print in full the certified copy of the judg-
ment in Flournoy and wife vs. Martin, cited in the July Magazine as a
foot note to page 84 :
Flournoy ys. Martin: "At a Court held for Goochland County
the third Tuesday in July," "being the eighteenth day of the Month
Anno Domini MDCCXXXII."
"In the action of Debt between John J:imes Flournoy & Elizabeth
his wife, Ex'x &c. of Orlando Jones, dec'd. pltffs. and Francis Martin
Deft. Thomas Prosser appears on behalf of the Deft, and confesses a
Judgment to the pltffs. for Seven hundred and thirty pounds of sweet
scented tobacco in Cask convenient and eighty eight pounds of tobacco
and fifteen shillings Curr't money Whereupon it is considered by the
Court that the pits, do recover against the Deft, the said sums together
with the costs of this suit and a Lawyer's flee.
" By consent of the pits, Execution is to be stayed eleven months."
I, P. G. Miller, deputy clerk of the County Court of Goochland
county, Virginia, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an
order entered in Order Book No. 3, page tf6, filed as a record in the
clerk's oflice of said court. Given under my hand this 19th day of
March, 1894.
■ ':-'"■■ ■; ' ?. G. IIII.I.KR, Depuly C/erk.
The word " cask " was misprinted " cash."
On page 86 the name of Gibson Flournoy, son of Francis, is mis-
pelled " Gideon." The Geneva MS. spells it " Gibson," and the will
of Francis has it " Gipson."
On page 88 the maiden name of Mrs. Theodore Flournoy should be
" Helen Mary Burnier," born at Curtat, of Lausanne.
On page 90 the birthday of the compiler's mother, Julia Flournoy
Rivers, should be '' Feby. iSth, 1838," not Feby. 19th. "Liberal obe-
dience," on page 90. should be "' literal obedience."
The mmor typographical errors are easy of detection and correction.
The compiler is in receipt of letters from both Messrs. Theodore and
Edmond Flournoy, full of interesting personal details, and only lack of
rviol u :::.i:'ii'.d i. von:ao"'s r.r\^hti> vcl .t,'T'' >'" ■ ■ ' •' ^ •■'*
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space prevents their present reproduction. These gentlemen are much
interested, and are aiding by all means in their power. They likewise
send photographs.
So.ME Identifications.
Jacob Flournoy's Third Wife. — On page S6 of the July Magazine,
the statement is made, quoting from the Geneva Genealogy, that
Jacob Flournoy "married the third time, Thursday, Dec'r 9th, 1703, a
Hollander, born at The Hague, like himself about forty years of age,
named Madeline Prodhom, the widow of Moise Verreuil, a French
merchant at Rouen. The father of said wife was of the Canton of
Berne, and her grandfather was a minister of Lausanne. He had made
the voyage with her from England to Virginia."
Corroborative of this is "The Huguenot Emigration to Virginia,"
pages 16 and 24, where, as a part of the same " List of all ye Passengers
from London to James River, In Virginia, Being French Refugees Im-
barqued in the ship ye Peter and Anthony, Galley, of London, Daniel
Perreau, Commander (vizt.)," which contains "Jacob Fleurnoir, sa
femme, 2 garcons and 2 fille," appear " Moise Vermeil, sa femme et
cinq enfans." See also pages 2S and 59.
Both families appear in " A List of the Refugees who are to receive
of ye miller of Falling Cre^k Mill one bushel a head of Indian Meall
Monthly as Settled at or about King Williams Town To Begin in
FFeb. 1700 (1701)," pages 26-2S. The list was made out " this 4th of
ffeb'r. 1700 (1701)," by Olivier De La Muce.
This same work corroborates the statement from the Geneva Gene-
alogy, page 86 of the July Magazine, that Jacob Flournoy's "young
daughter, by his second wife, died during the voyage, which took them
fourteen weeks to make," for, while he " imbarqued " with four children,
the " Liste Des Personnes Du Second Convoy Qui Serent Toute
L'Annee a Manicanton," made " Ce i. X bre 1700. B. De Joux,
Ministre," contains only Jacob, "sa femme et trois enfans," page 23;
while he received "Indian Meall" for himself, "his wife and 3 chil-
dren," page 2S.
On page 59 Moise Verrueil appears as one of the signers of a petition
to Governor Nicholson.
Moise, J/oses.
The spelling of the name varies somewhat. It appears Verrueil and
Verreuil.
There were "four successive debarkations of these French Immi-
grants," " Huguenot Emigration to Virginia," pages viii, 16 and 55.
It would appear that Jacob Flournoy came in the second convoy,
page 23. Other interesting and curious corroborations will appear in
the publication of the full te.xt of the Geneva M5S., the reproduction of
which here would make this article too discursive.
It may be stated, however, that the two sons of Jean Jacques who
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returned to Geneva, Gideon and John, pa.2;es S4 and SS, July J\[aga-
zine, arrived there April nth, 1736.
From the Patent Books.
Flournoy, Jacob; No. 10, p. 2S5, 133 acres in Henrico county, Mch.
29th, 1705.
Flournoy, John James; No. 10, p. 305, 400 acres on the north side of
James Fiiver, in Henrico county, January 2d, 1723.
Flournoy, Francis; No. 10, p. 307, 400 acres on the north side of
James River, in Henrico county, January 2d, 1723.
Flournoy, Francis; No. 11, p. 307,. 400 acres on north side of Swift
Creek, Henrico county, Feb. 20th, 1723.
Flournoy, John James; No. 11, p. 306, 400 acres on the north side of
Swift Creek, in Henrico county, January 22d, 1723.
Flournoy, Francis, Gent.; No. 12, p. 17, 400 acres on the north side of
Swift Creek, in Henrico county, July 9th, 1724.
Flournoy, Francis, Gent.; No- 12. p. iS, 400 acres on north side of
Swift Creek, in Henrico county, July 9th, 1724.
Flournoy, Francis, Gent- ; No. 12, p. 19, 400 acres on the north side
of Swift Creek, in Henrico county, July 9, 1724.
Flournoy, John James & Dan'l Stoner; No. iS. p. 4, 400 acres in
Goochland county, June i6th, 173S.
Flournoy, John James & Dan'l Stoner; No. 18, p. 5, 300 acres in
Goochland county, June i6th, 173S.
Flournoy, John James & Dan'l Stoner; No. iS, p. 6, 400 acres in
Goochland county, June i6th, 173S.
Flournoy, John James & Dan'l Stoner; No. iS, p. 7, 400 acres in
Goochland county, June i6th, 173S.
Flournoy, John James & Dan'l Stoner; No. 18, p. 37, 227 acres in
Goochland county, June i6th, 173S.
Flournoy, John James & Dan'l Stoner; No. 18, p. 38, 200 acres in
Goochland county, July 20th, 1738.
John James Flournoy was surety on the marriage bond of Giles
Allegre, June 7, 1730, at Goochland, as follows:
" Know all men by these Presents that wee Giles Allegre & John
James Flournoy are holden and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lord
King George and to his Heirs & Successors in the Sum of fifty pounds
Curr't money to the payment of which will and truly to be made Wee
bind us and either of us Our and each of Our Heirs Executors &c.
Joyntly and severally firmly by these Presents.
"Sealed with our Seals and dated the twenty seventh day of June,
1730.
"The Condition of this obligation is such that if there is no lawfull
cause to obstruct a marriage intended to be had and solemnized be-
Sel ..Mi].'. A -I YnVi..i-K>.I^S Afli "
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tween the above bound Giles Allegre and Judith Cox then this Obliga-
tion to be void else in force."
(Signed)
Giles Allegre,
John James Flournov.
Sealed & delivered in presence of
Henry Wood.
I, P. G. Miller, deputy clerk of the County Court of the county of
Goochland, Virginia, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the
bond of Giles Allegre, for marriage license, executed before Henry
Wood, clerk of said court, June 7th, 1730; the original of which said
bond is filed as a record in the office of the clerk of said court.
Given under my hand this 13th day of July, 1S94.
P. G. Miller, Deputy Ckrk.
The ''Huguenot Emigration to Virginia," page 88, the register of
baptisms, '."the i8th December, 1732, was born Judith, daughter of
Giles Allegre." Other mention occurs, and a foot note on page So
tells us that Albert Gallatin married Sophia Allegre, a great grand-
daughter of Giles Allegre, April 23d, 1789, at Richmond, his first wife.
A list ot tithables,- King William's Parish, June, 1744, in the same
work, pages 112-114, spells Flournoy's name " Flornoir " and Flournoy
A conveyance from Mathew Agee, Planter, to John James Flournoy,
Gentleman, is as follows :
" This Indenture made the fifteenth day of ffebruary in the year of Our
Lord Christ One thousand Seven hundred & thirty one Between Mathew
Agee of Goochland planter of the one part and John James Flournoy
of Henrico County Gentleman of the other part Witnesseth that the
said Mathew Agee for «& in consideration of the sum of thirty five
pounds Curr't money of Virginia & the sum of thirty five pounds paid
in divers goods, wares & merchantize to the said Mathew by the said
John James Flournoy in hand paid the receipt whereof he doth hceby
acknowledge & himself therewith fully satisfied and paid and of every
part & parcel thereof doth hereby clearly acquit, exonerate and dis-
charge the said John James Flournoy his Heirs, Executors, Adminis-
trators and assigns forever, by these presents hath given, granted,
aliened & Bargained and sold, etifeoff and confirm'd unto the said
John James Flournoy his Heirs Executors Admr's and Assigns forever
One tract of land with the Appurtenances containing by Estimation
five hundred and seventy Acres it being the residue of Eight hundred
Acres of land which was granted to the said Mathew Agee by two
patents each bearing date the thirteenth day of January in the year
one thousand seven hundred & twenty-five. One hundred and thirty
acres of the said eight hundred acres was demised by the said Mathew
Agee to Peter Bruce & his assignes and is bounded Vizt Beginning at
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a Corner scrub oak standing on the South side of Jones Creek, etc.,
^•^c. * * * * adjoining the East side of Mathew's
Branch and Butting and Bounding on the Lands of Edward Ma.xey.
ffrancis James, Peter Fore & other lands of the said Mathevv Agee by a
line of marked trees."
I, P. G. Miller, deputy clerk of the County Court of Goochland
county, Virginia, do certify that the foregoing is a true extract from a
deed recorded in the clerk's office of said court on the 15th day of
February, 1731, in Deed Book No. i, page 300.
Given under my hand this 19th March, 1S94.
P. G. Miller, Deputy Clerk.
John James Flournov's Children.
Of the ten children of John James Flournoy, the Immigrant, men-
tioned on page S4, the July Magazine, we know as follows :
"Elizabeth Julia, born Deer. 5th, .1721, married Thomas Spencer of
Virginia. Their children are : Mary Spencer, born Oct. 20th, 1742; Sion
Spencer, born April 12th, 1744; John Spencer, born Dec. i6th. 1745;
Elizabeth Julia Spencer, born June i8th, 1747; Ann Spencer, born July
13th, 1749; Thomas Spencer, Martha Owen Spencer. Samuel wrote
me on Sept, 7th, 1757, that Spencer had eight children." Gideon
Flournoy in Geneva MSS.
The Immigrant's sons Gideon and John returned to Geneva. vj
Rachel and an unnamed infant died young.
Samuel founded the.fami'y in Powhatan county; while Mathews,
David, Thomis and .Mary lived in Prince Edward county, from which
Mathews emigrated to Northeast Kentucky.
The Prince Ed\v.\rd County Flournoys. ''■ •'^:*;*«
Minutes in Order Books, front ij^^ to iSoo.
Order Book, A, page r. County Court, Prince Edward County, Farm-
ville, Va.
At a meeting of the Justices appointed for the county of Prince Ed-
ward, the eighth day of January, Anno Domini, 1754.
"This commission of peass being first read and the commission of
Dedimus Potestatem, David Flournoy, and John Nash Junior adminis-
tered the oaths of Government, and the oath of a Justice of the Peace,
and the oath of a Justice of the Peace in Chancery to John Nash the
elder, George Walker, Joseph Morton, and James Wimbish, Gent., who
also read and subscribed the Test. Whereupon John Nash the elder
administered in like manner the aforesaid oaths to David Flournoy and
John Nash Jun'r, Gent., who also read and subscribed the Test."
"At a Court held for Prince Edward County, the twelveth day of
February, 1754. Present,
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John Nash, George Walker, Joseph Morton, James Wimbish, and
David Flournoy, Gentlemen, Justices.'"
David Flournoy served as a Justice continuously to the r3th day of
July. 1756.
August Court, 1756.
"David Flournoy, Gentleman, was commissioned Sheriff, which or-
der to wit: A commission from the Honorable Lieutenant Governor to
David Flournoy, Gent., to be Sheriff of this county during pleasure
was produced in Court by tne said David Flournoy, and thereupon he,
together with Robert Hastie and Peter Legrand, his securitys entered
into and acknowledged their bond in the sum of one thousand eight
hundred pounds current money; payable and conditioned as in the
said conditions is di.ected, and the said David Flournoy having first
taken the oaths appointed by Act of Parliament, instead of the oaths
of allegance and supremacy repeated and subscribed the Test., was
sworn Sherif of this county."
August Court, 1756.
Hugh Challes and John Nash Jun'r, acknowledged bond to David
Flournoy in the sum of five hundred Pounds for the said Challes' col-
lection &c. Whereupon the said Challes was sworn under Sherif and
by the court ordered to be recorded.
Nov'r. Court, 1756.
David Flournoy, Gent., Sheriff of this county, comes into court and
protests against the insufficiency of the prison.
January Court, 1757.
David Flournoy, Gent., Sheriff, acknowledged bond for the collection
of county levy with Philemon Holcomb, his security.
David Flournoy, Gent., Sherif, acknowledged bond with John Nash
Esqr., and Philemon Holcomb his securities for the collection of the
Pole Tax.
February Court, 1757.
Matthews Flournoy was allowed 25 lbs. Tobacco as a witness.
March Court, 1757.
Peter Legrand and Matthew Flournoy are appointed to receve the
Prison and to receive it when furnished.
April Court, 1757. um
Thomas Flournoy, took the oath to His majesties person and Gov-
ernment and the oath of an under-Sheriff of this county and repeated
and subscribed the Test. Peter Legrand and Matthew Fluurnoy re-
port that they have received the prison, and finding it 'veil done had
received it and the report is ordered to be recorded.
May Court, 1757.
Matthew Flournoy, et al., members of the Grand Jury ; Ten Indict-
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ments for profane swearing and drunkenness, nine for not attending
their Parish church. M. Venable Foreman.
Same court, May, David Flournoy, Gent., Sheriff led to the bar the
prisoners, Joseph & Tom.
July Court, 1757.
Richard Burks, on the motion of David Flournoy, Gent., Sherif of
this county, sworn and admitted his under-Sherif.
(Sheriff David died Oct. iSth, 1757. F. R.)
October Court, 1757.
James Wimbish was commissioned Sherif and subscribed the Test
and took the oath of a Sheriff of this county.
Nov'r Court, 1757.
Ordered that John Martin, Peter LeGrand, James Wimbish, and
James Tha.xton, any three of them being sworn do appraise the per-
sonal estate of David Flournoy, Dec'd, in current money and return
the same.
David Flournoy's Est. acct. order, il'\ 14s. 6d.
To David Flournoy's Estate for going to Wmsburg for a commission,
Oyer and Terminer trial Randolph's negro and LeGrand negro one
hundred and twenty -five, 336 O's mcht. Tobacco.
June Court, 1765. ' ' ,
Matthew Flournoy, Gent, pltff. vs. Xathl. Hoggatt, judgment for sglbs.
ris. 6d.
January Court, 1773.
Thomas Flournoy's ear mark (cattle mark) recorded. A cross in the
left ear, in the right ear.
Feby. Court. 1788.
Thomas Flowrnoury, Ptff, as late High Sherif.
April Court, 1790.
Same.
May Court, 1790.
Same, vs. his deputy John Holcomb, for collections 2429lbs,
I2S. iid. one farthing.
April Court, 1791.
Thomas Flournoy, 7iilbs. 19s. and i farthing with twenty per centum
per annum, making 854ibs. 5s.
February Court, 1792. >
Thomas Flournoy, late Sherif vs. John Clark, Sheriff, recovered 67lbs.
6s. 6d.
May Court, 1792.
Thomas Flournoy, late Sh'f, was allowed his delinquent tax returned.
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Nov'r Court, 1796.
Ann Flournoy, other wise called Nancy Flournoy, vs. Alexander
LeGrand, civil suit, recovered cost.
Thomas Flournoy often appears in the records as Plaintiff in suits,
both law and Chancery.
May Court, iSoo.
Thomas Flournoy was exempt from ta.x and levy on his negro, West.
The foregoing are from the order books of the years indicated.
Thomas Flournoy was Sheriff of Prince Edward county, Virginia,
in 17S6 and 17S7 {Calendar of Virginia State Papers), and member of
the House of Delegates, 17S0 [Journal). He was appointed County
Lieutenant (Commander m chief of Militia) of Prince Edward, in 17S3.
( Calendar).
This David Flournoy at his death devised and bequeathed his estate
as follows: - , . . . .: • ; ;,-
David Flournoy's Will.
I, David Flournoy, being in lowe and weake condition do make and
ordain this my Last Will and Testament. In the name of God, Amen.
First, I desire that al' my just debts may be paid by my executors
hereafter named; then I give my brother, Mathews Flournoy five
hundred acres of land, lying and being in the county of Prince Edward,
joining Jno. Martin, Abraham Baker, and Charles Anderson, to him
and his heirs fr rever. I likewise give to the said Matthews two hun-
dred acres of land in Chesterfield to him and to his heirs forever. I
likewise give the sd. Matthews Flournoy all the Profit of my Sheriff's
office, if any due, and fifty pounds to be raised out of my estate as
soone as possible by making crops to him and to his heirs forever.
Then I give my brother, Thomas Flournoy, my plantation whereon I
now live with six hundred and eighty acres land joining thereto to him
and to his heirs forever. I likewise give the said Thomas Flournoy,
f.ve negroes (viz) Will, Suckey, Patience, Lucy, and Frank, to him and
to His Heirs forever. I also give the sd. Thomas my stock of all kind
together with my household furniture and wearing apparel to him .=ind
to his heirs forever. Then I give to my sister, Mary Booker, one small
negro Girl Named Molly and her futur increase to her and to her
heirs forever.
And lastly, I do appoint Thomas Scott my hole and sole e.xecutor to
this my last Will and Testament.
In witness, I have set my hand and seal this 7th day Sept. 1757-
David Flournoy, (Seal).
Jacob Womack,
John Watkins,
William Bumpass.
A Copy — Teste :
H. R. Hooper, C. C.
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December Court, 1757.
An Inventory of David Flournoy's estate returned amount to three
hundred and thirty-five pounds, fifteen shillings, and ten pence half
penny, and was by the court ordered to be recorded.
An Inventory of the Estate of Danid Flovrnov, Dec'd
Dec'r. Court, 1757.
L. .s o. o. i^ o
I Bed and furniture, L 300 i Do. & fur. in her
I Table, 3 chests, and S chairs
I Saddle and Bridle, 35s. i Box Iron, 7s. 6d
I pair money scales, 9s. i Tea, 9s
1 Candle Stick, & 4s. 6d., i pair Broken Gold But.. .
iVz oz. Old Silver 7s. 6d., a parc'l earthenware
2 Punch Bowls, is. icd., is. 2d. i Doz. Pewter Plates
2 Diches, 3s. 3d. Plates los. 2d. Barows 5s
I Bible and Prayer Book 12s. 6d., i Gun 15s
I Old Iron Kettle and Pan 73. 6d. i Looking Glass
>2 Doz. Knives 5s. 2 Iron Potts 20s i
I Washing Tub 3 pales r Tubb
I Tub IS. I Horse Brush and Bottle Ink is. 6d. .
I Pr. Traces, Hames, Leather, (ic, 7s
3 Bits 6s. I Negro Fellow, West L60 60
I Negro Woman, Suckey L. 60; Negro Woman, Patience,
L. 60 J 20
I Negro Child, Molly L. 10. Do. Frank, L. 10 20
I Negro Gal, Lucy . 30
I Horse L. 12, i Do. L. 7, i Do. L. 7
1 do. L. 4 S. o. I Mare and Colt, L. 5
18 Head Cattle, L. 20, about 30 bushels Corn L. 16,
33 Old Hogs and 9 Pigs
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A Crop of Tobacco not yet finished.
" Pursuant to an order of Prince Edward Court, we the subscribers
Mitt. Being first sworn, according to law, apprais'd the above estate
of David Flournoy, Deceased, in current money.
" Given under our hands this 30th day December, 1757.
"Thom's Scott, Executor:'
"James W^imbish,"
"John Martin,"
"James Thackston.
A Copy— Teste :
H. R. Hooper, C. C.
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Mary Flournov (Booker): She was the Sth child of Jean Jacques
Flournoy, born Feby. 23d, 1735. Married William Booker, of Prince
Edward county. Died between Sept. Sth, 1798, the date of her will,
and April 21st, iSoo, the date of its record in the clerk's office at Farm-
ville, Va.
The will of \Vm. Booker, her husband, is dated Aug. 20th, 17S3, and
was recorded Oct. 20th, 17S3, in county court clerk's office, Farmville,
Va. This will nentions the following children: (i) Gideon Booker;
(2) Jane Davis Booker, the wife of Jacob Moi-ton; (3) Mary W. Booker;
(4) William Flournoy Booker; (5) John Booker; (6) Thomas Booker;
(7) Elizabeth Julia Booker; (S) Frances Booker; 19) Rebecca Booker;
(ro) Nancy Booker.
The will of Mary Booker, his widow, mentions the following children:
(i) Gideon Booker; (2) Jane Davis Morton; (3) Mary W. Booker; (4)
William Flournoy Booker; (5) John Booker; (6) Elizabeth Julia Green;
(7) Rebecca Smith.
Booker: The "Huguenot Emigration to \'irginia," page 4S, mentions
among those who came "In ye fourth Shipp," "John Leroy booker,
and his wife and one Child." It is reliably stated that "^ince 1757 the
Booker family has had representatives in Amelia and Prince Edward
counties.
Thomas Flournoy : Was the 6th son and youngest child of Jean
Jacques, born Nov. 28, 173S.
From this one of the brothers can be traced the descent of the pres-
ent generation of the Prince Edward-Brunswick Flournoys. He
married Ann Martin. Who she was or where she came from cannot
be ascertai -ed from the records.
Thomas Flournoy's will was recorded Feb. i6th, iSoi, in Will Book
3, page 204. From it it appears that his wife Ann survived him. They
were the parents of: 1 1) David Flournoy; (2) John James Flournoy;
(3) Elizabeth Julia Flournoy; (4) Mary Flournoy; (5) Ann Flournoy;
(6) Lucy Faris Flournoy; (7) Marcia Martin Flournoy, and possibly
another son. No copy of his will was furnished for publication.
The tracing of the descendants of these will be deferred for the pres-
ent, as the information is as yet too general and lacks minuteness in
many essentials.
For the greater part of the foregoing information concerning the
Prince Edward-Brunswick Flournoys, the compiler is indebted to Col.
J. P. Fitzgerald, of Farmville, Va., whose wife is of the descent. Col.
Fitzgerald is yet at work on this matter, and care will be taken to
compile with such minute accuracy as to dates, localities, etc., as will
obviate the confusion that would otherwise arise from the recurrence of
the same names, John James, David, Mathews, Julia, Josiah, Francis,
etc. The Brunswick county, Va., Flournoys are of the Prince Edward
branch.
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RELiGiors Predilections.— That the Flournoy who settled in the
city of Calvin was a Calvinist is true.
The immigrant Flournoys, in common with the other Huguenot
refugees, conformed to the Episcopal Church, as by law established in
the Colony, as the " Huguenot Emigration " shows.
The following e.xtracts from the records of Briery Presbyterian
Church, Prince Edward county, show that this branch early reverted
to a more stalwart form of Calvinism than was to be found within the
fold of the Established Church, and to this they have ever since adhered,
it is thought.
'A manual | For | the members of { The | Briery Presbyterian Church,
I Virginia. | Compiled By | James W. Douglas. | Printed by order of
the Session, | Derr., 1S2S."
" A Sketch of the History of Briery Presbyterian Church."
* * * "Between 1755 and 1760, most probably, the church of
Briery was organized by the Rev Robert Henry." Accounts of various
irregular supplies, then: ' In 1766, a plan was adopted for establishing a
permanent fund for the support of the Gospel. About three hundred
pounds was obtained by subscription, and appropriated to the purchase
of servants." (Evidently negro mechanics to hire out).
"In the appropriation of their funds many will think they erred, but
it was the error of the age in which they lived, and their names and
motives should be respected by their descendants."
Their narrius are as follows: " .Mathias Flournoy, * ^ each ^10;
Thomas Flournoy, ■' * each 5 pounds ; William Booker, ^ *
^3 each; William Rivers, Richard Rivers, * • ^i each."
In the account of the ministers, trustees, elders, etc., appears: " In
January, 182S, Mr. James W. Douglas began to preach, as stated sup-
ply, engaged for six months."
A list of the officers and private members of Briery Church:
" Ministers."
"Rev. Robert Henry settled about 1760, died about 1766."
The ninth minister is "James Walter Douglas, settled January i,
182S, served all the Sabbaths per month, died December 28th. 1S2S.''
Among the Trustees appears, " 6th William Booker, died " — no date.
Among the members is No. " 45 Matthews Flournoy, withdrew, died " —
no dates. No. " 46, Eliz. Flournoy, wife of Matthews, died " — no dates.
Evidently she died a member of that Church; he had withdrawn,
probably to go " West " to Kentucky. This coincides with the idea of
her death having occurred before he went west, as she did not sign the
deeds he made in selling his lands.
No. "64" is "Col. Thomas Flournoy, died" — no date. ''65, Anne
Flournoy, wife of Thomas, died June 1S14.''
No. "219, Ann C. Flournoy, wife of John J. 241. Received Apl. 181 r."
No. "241, John J. Flournoy, son of Thomas, received July 7th, 1822,
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removed Coll. (?) 1S2S." No. "329, Ann E. Flournoy, daughter of John
J., 241, received May 25. 1828."
No. 67 is "Mai. Jacob Morton," and Xo. "410, Thomas Flournoy,
grandson of Jacob Morton, 67," received Dec. 25, 182S. "411, Frances
M. Flouriioy, wife of Thomas, 410, received Deer. 25, 182S."
The names Morton, Spencer, Booker, etc., run all through the lists.
Mathews (the name appears as Mathew, Mathias, Matthews and
Mathews) Flournoy: Was the 5th son and 7th child of the Huguenot
Immigrant Jean Jacques. He was born June 21st, 1732. S&e July Mag-
azine, page 84. By deeds now of record at FarmviUe, Va., he con-
veyed his lands in Prince Edward county on May loth, 1757, Feby. 12th,
1760, and May 20th, 1765. He removed to Kentucky — the e.<:act date
of his emigration not being known — and while returning to Kentucky
from Virginia was killed by Indians. The locality of his death is
stated as Cumberland Gap, Ky., by the Kentucky t'-adition, and Crab
Orchard by the Virginia tradition. From the locality of the two places,
Cumberland Gap being en route, the Kentucky tradition is probably
correcL He left many descendants. It would seem he made many
trips to and fro before he met his death at the hands of the aborigines.
The tradition obtaming in the Northeast Kentucky branch of the
family concerning the death of their propositus, Mathews, is furnished
by John Flournoy Henry, Esq., 2d Vice-President of the Louisville Trust
Co., Louisville, Ky., his great grandson, as follows :
"Matthews Flournoy, returning from Virginia, was killed by the In-
dians near Cumberland Gap. He was with Whitney, a celebrated
Indian fighter, and others. Being attacked they sought the protection
of the forest trees. Soon Whitney called to Matthews Flournoy ' why
do you remain behind one tree.' Change from one to another or they
will kill you.' Flournoy replied, ' I cannot move, they have shot me
through the knee.' Just then Whitney saw a stalwart Indian with his
arrow drawn upon Flournoy. He raised his rifle, hoping to kill the
Indian before he had slain his friend, but the Indian was too quick.
His arrow pierced the heart of Flournoy almost at the same instant
that Whitney's rifle ball entered the vitals of the Indian. Whitney and
his companions were driven from the torest, but returned to carry off
the body of their companion, Flournoy, and found it so eaten by wolves
that they buried it on the spot where he was killed."
Mathews Flournoy's Family.
He married, according to Mr. Henry's narrative, about 1755, in Vir-
ginia, the widow of Charles Smith, formerly Miss Elizabeth Pryor,
daughter of William Pryor. Their children were as follows: (i) Rob-
ert Flournoy; (2] Samuel Flournoy; (3) David J. Flournoy; (4) John J.
Flournoy; (5) Francis Flournoy; (6) .Mathews, Jr., Flournoy; (7) Patsey
(who married Wells in Virginia); (8) Thomas; (9) Elizabeth Julia, who
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married Gen. William Henry, of Scott county, Kentucky, Oct. 12th,
17S6, and died in 1S13, aged 45 years, 6 months and 12 days.
Of these children, the two sons Robert (i) and Thomas (8), went to
Georgia and founded families.
The information is that Robert never went to Kentucky, but ran away
from his father in Virginia and went to Georgia, possibly about the
close of the Revolution, 17S0, perhaps. Was a land surveyor. The
county or place at which he settled has not been given. Thomas went
first to Kentucky and was then induced by his elder brother, Robert, to
go to Georgia; was aided by Robert in his legal studies, and became
prominent at Augusta, Georgia.
In a general way it may be stated that the descendants of Mathews.
Sen'r. (born 1732), settled in Northeast Kentucky, in "the Blue Grass,"
as follows:
David Flournoy lived in Woodford county, Kentucky, in 1785. Mat-
thews Flournoy (junior), was a member of the Kentucky House of Rep-
resentatives for Fayette county in 1826(1821 ?). and of the Kentucky State
Senate, i82i-'5. J. J. Flournoy was a member of the Kentucky House
of Representatives for Pendleton county in iSoo. David Flournoy, of
Scott county, was a member of the Kentucky State Senate, 1800-1804;
Representative, 1799. John Flournoy was a member of the Kentucky
House of Representatives from Scott county. 1796. M. Flournoy was
a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Shelby
county, 1805 (iSoi?). John J. Flournoy was a member of the Kentucky
House of Representatives from Boone county, 1814-15. (Collin's His-
tory of Kentucky); but volume and page not cited by my informant.
(Was not this same Mathews Flournoy a candidate in 183 — for the
Governorship of Kentucky as a Democrat? F. R.)
The Powhatan County Flournovs. . '-'
Samuel, third child and second son of Jean Jacques, was born Oct.
4th, 1724. He married Elizabeth Harris, Apl. 9th, 1748. The marriage
bond is of record at Goochland, Va., as is her father's written consent
that the clerk may issue the marriage license.
Consent of John Harris.
Sir. Aprill i, 1748.
I do hereby signifie my Consent that you grant a Certificate for Mr.
Samuel Flournoy to be married to my daughter Elizabeth.
Witness— John Harris.
James Harris,
William Harris.
Marriage Bond of Sa.ml. Flournoy. **
Know all men by these Presents that wee Samuel Flournoy and
Henry Wood are holden and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lord
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King George the Second and to his Heirs and Successors in the Sum
of fifty pounds Cinr't money to the payment of w'ch well and truly to
be made wee bind ourselves and either of us our and either of Our
Heirs Executors and Adm'rs Joyntiy and severally firmly by these Pres-
ents. Sealed with our Seals and dated this Second Day of April), 174S
The condition of this Obligation is such that if there be no lawfull
Cause to obstruct a Marriage intended to be had and solemnized be-
tween the above bound Samuel Fluurnoy and Elizabeth Harriss then
this obligation to be void else in force.
Sealed and delivered
in presence of ^.^ ; ,., . ,,. , ., Samuel Flolrnoy,
■ • H.Wood.
I, P. G. Miller, deputy clerk of the County Court of Goochland
county, Virginia, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the
marriage bond of Samuel Flournoy, dated April 2d, 1748. and, together
with the written consent of John Harris, thereto attached, filed as a
record in clerk's office of said Court.
Given under my hand this 19th day of March, 1S94.
P. G. Miller, Deputy Clerk.
It appears elsewhere herein that Mr. \\'ood uas the clerk of the
court. Hence it probably is that nobody "testes" his and Fiournoy's
signature to the bond.
Elizabeth Harris Flournov. — Her descent appears from the
'• Harris Genealogy," in the Records of the Virginia Historical Society,
which was recently compiled by W. G. Stanard, Esq., of Richmond,
Va., for Mrs. Virginia M. Harris Van Voast, wife of Col. James Van
Voast, U. S. Army, retired, 123 east Third Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Capt. Thomas Harris was a member of the Virginia Company,
1609; came to the Colony in 161 r, and settled in the present Henrico
county; received grants of land, i635-'S; was a member of the House
of Burgesses, 1623, 1639, 1646. Father of: Major William Harris, Jus-
tice of Henrico, member of the House of Burgesses, 1652, 1653, 1656
and i657-"S; appointed by the Assembly, Dec, 1656, Major of the Regi-
ment of Henrico and Charles City. Will probated in Henrico county
(Richmond), Feby. ist, 167S. Father of: Thomas Harris, of Henrico
county, will proved June, 1730. Father of: John Harris, will probated
at Cumberland C. H., 1751." Father of: Elizabeth Harris, who was
born Dec. 31st, 1729, married Samuel Flournoy, April 9th, 174S, whose
will, made May 15th, 17S9, probated May 19th, 1791, is of record in
Will Book, No. I, page 200, Powhatan C. H. (For her birth see
Geneva MSS).
John Harris, of Cumberland, in his will dated March 23d, M. D. C
C. X. L. J. X. L., gives his daughter, Elizabeth Flournoy, 250 pounds
"current money of Virginia," and 3 negroes, Phil, Dilcey and Hannah;
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and to his granddaughter, Ursley Flournoy, one negro, Magdalen, and
appoints Samuel Flournoy one of the executors. Probated .May Court,
1751. Sarah Harris, single, of Cumberland, in her will, dated .May 4th,
1754, gives her neice, Elizabeth flournoy, certain furniture.
S.A.MUEL FlOURNOY'S ChILDRE.N.
The children of Samuel Flournoy, as set out in the July Jfaj^azine,
page S9, are given again because of the reference to them in the docu-
ments printed below, and because of more accurate data concerning
some of them: (i) Ursula, born May 15th, 1749; (2) Gideon, born Feby.
20th, 1752; (3) John, born April 29th, i754; (4) ^lary ; (5) Samuel,
born Deer. 9th, 175S; (6) David, born April 14th, 1761 (died in Cald-
well county. West Ky., June 30th, 1S3T); {7) Jordan, born Sept. 20th,
1763; (S) Elizabeth Julia, born Xovr. 25th, 1765; Thomas ; Silas,
born June 4th, 1774 ; and the Parish Register of the Rev. William Doug-
las, of which more will be said below, gives also: .Martha, born Feby.
— , 1768; as no mention is made of her in her father's will, she proba-
bly died in childhood and before her father, as neither his will nor her
mother's mentions her.
"Full Abstract from the Parish Register of William Douglas, made by
Robert W. Lewis, of No. 2307 E. Franklin Street, Richmond, Va., who
now owns it:
" Note. — In ilie Register of Baptisms are two leaves torn out which
contained 200 Baptisms, viz: from Augt. 29th,- 1762, to Mch 31st, 1763.
Thirty clean leaves and five written ones were torn out while left at
Goochland C H. and at Tucker Woodson's by William Douglas. I
know not if the five leaves include the two leaves of Baptisms. From
Aug. 9th, 177S, the Register is left vacant until taken up in Louisa
county, April iSth, 1781.
"William Douglas was voted out of his Parish, Sept. 5th, 1777, and
rt tired to his farm in Louisa, where he continued his Register, making
his last entry July 24th, 1797, when within 10 days of 89 years of age.
"R. W. L."
Extracts.
The Flnurnoy Family; Marriages.
"Oct. 27, 1755. Jac Fleurnoy and Elizabeth Burner (or Bumer), in
Maniken Town, p. 2."
" May 26, 1769. James Harris and Ursley Flournoy, both in Maniken-
town, p. II."
Births and Christenings.
"Jan. 7, 1764. Samuel Flournoy and Elizabeth Harris, a son named
Jordan, born Sept. 20, 1763, p. 66."
"Mar. 8, 1766. Samuel Flournoy & Elizabeth Harris, a D. named
Eiiz. Julie, born Nov. 25, 1765, p. 73."
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"Apl. 2, 176S. Sam Fleurnoy and Eliz. Harris, a D. named Martha,
born Feby. , 176S, p. So.''
Of Rev. William Douglas and his ministrations, Bishop .Meade writes
as follows in "Old Churches, .Ministers and Families of Virginia,"
Vol. I, page 456. et seq. :
" In the year 1744 the Parish of St. James, Nurtham, was restricted
to the north side of the river, and that on the south side was called St.
James, Southam, both of them being in Goochland, which still lay on
both sides of the river, and e.xtended from the Louisa line to the Ap-
pomatto.x."
After the death of Rev. Anthony Gavin, an account of whose labors
is given, " the Rev. Mr. Douglas was chosen. He entered on his duties
in 17^0," with an account of his life, character and services.
" In the year 1777, after a ministry of twenty-seven years, he resigned
his charge and settled on a farm in Louisa, where he spent the re-
mainder of his years, which were not many. ••" * * He records one
thousand three hundred and eighty eight marriages, and four thousand
and si.xtynine baptisms." All this of St. James, Northam. Of the
Parish of King William, Manakin Town, Bishop Meade says, page 467,
" In the year 1739 the Rev. Mr. Gavin baptized in the parish. From
the year 1750 to 17S0, the Rev. Mr. Douglas, of Goochland, and other
ministers around, occasionally served it."
The Bishop says, " From the family of Dupuys I have gotten the old
church register, which, though rotten and torn in fragments, has been
kept so as to enable me to obtain the statistics given in this article."
(Who now owns it ? F. R.)
WILLS AND ADMINISTRATION'S.
The compiler is in possession of quite a mass of memoranda from
the deed books of Goochland, Cumberland and Powhatan counties,
which he hopes hereafter to publish, but at present, for lack of space,
he confines this abstract to wills chiefly.
S.AMUEL FlOURNOV'S WiLL
The will of Samuel Flournoy, son of Jean Jacques, dated Sept. 5th,
17S0, is of record in the clerk's office at Powhatan, Will Book I, page
66; probated Deer. 21st, 1780. Directs the payment of his debts.
Gives his son, Gideon, during life, the land he lives on, estimated at
four hundred and seventy-five acres, being the land purchased from
Joseph Bonderant, John Radford and Richard Epperson," but if my
s'd son Gideon should marry or reform his life so that it should appear
to my Exrs so that there was a probability of his not wasting his Es-
tate," his executors are directed to convev him the land in fee; also
gives Gideon six negroes, and the stock and feather bed now in his
possession ; gives son, John Flournoy. the land he lives on, 300 acres,
except 2S acres on the north side of Lockado's spring branch, and
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what the mill-pond overflows; also 200 acres adjoining this land, pur-
chased of James Lyle. and the eight negroes, the stock and feather
bed in his possession; to his son, Samuel, tract of 304 acres of land on
'' Appromattock river" in Chesterfield county, purchased of William
Harris, seven negroes, 15 head of black cattle, 10 sheep, 2 sows and pigs,
one year's provision of Pork, the use of a horse one year, one feather
bed and furniture; to his son, David, 260 acres of land, part of the land
purchased of testator's brother, Gideon, except 2 acres joining the mill-
dam, and the land overflowed by the mill-pond, " which s'd land lieth
on Agee's Creek; " directs how the division lines should be run, dividing
David and Thomas ; also gives David 100 acres of land purchased of
John and James Smith, six negroes, one feather bed and furniture; to
his son, Jordan, the 322-acre tract purchased of James Smith, 2S acres
adjoining the north side of Lockadoe's spring branch, two acres joining
the mill-dam, all the land that was overflowed by the mill-pond, seven
negroes, one feather bed and furniture; to his son, Thomas, 125 acres
in Powhatan county on "Joneses'" creek, purchased of Richard James,
160 acres, adjoining, purchased of Peter Bonderant, also 40 acres adjoin-
ing, being the remainder of the tract bought from the testator's brother,
Gideon, directs how the dividing line shall run, six negroes, one feather
bed and furniture; to his son, Silas '(after the death of my wife)," the
tract of land whereon I now live, 400 acres, six negroes, also " after the
death of my wife, my still, my silver watch, all my household and
kitchen furniture"; to my daughter, Ursula Harris, 5 negroes; to his
daughter, Elizabeth Julia Flournoy, eight negroes, one feather bed and
furniture; to his grandson, James Harris, one negro boy, Liba ; to his
grandson, Samuel Harris, 100 acres of land in Chesterfield, which " I
purchased of his father fames Harris," and '' my lot in Manchester
Town." Gives his wife his home place for life, with seven negroes,
with power to dispose of the negroes at her death as she sees fit; directs
that all the residue of his estate not disposed of be kept together by
his wife " for the better support, education and maintenance of my chil-
dren," if his wife should marry then the home place to be divided be-
tween her and Silas, and she to take a proportionate share with his chil-
dren then under age, of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, to dispose of as she
may see proper ; his sons David, Jordan and Thomas, and his daughter
Elizabeth Julia, to have their shares as they arrive at majority or marry ;
his sons Thomas and Silas to be well educated, but if not funds suffi-
cient, then his executors to sell the hundred acres of land which was
the widow Lansdon's, and his sorrel colt; if this land not sold then it is
to be divided between David and Jordan ; if James Bransford complys
with a certain written agreement his executors are to make Bransford
a deed to the Flat-rock land ; if David dies under age his land divided
between Jordan and Silas ; if Jordan dies under age his lands to be di-
vided between David and Silas ; if Thomas should die under age his
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land to be divided between David and Silas; if Silas dies under age
his lands to be divided between lordan and Thomas ; if Samuel ' should
die before he returns from the South," his lands to be divided between
Gideon and Jordan.
Appoints his brother Thomas Flournov and his friends William Har-
ris and Anthony Martin executors, "desiring my est. may not be ap-
praised."
Witnessed by Geo. Smith, Sim. bryan, James Martin, Wm. McKenzie.
When the will was probated, Dec. 21st, 17S0, by the e.xecutors named,
"Elizabeth Flournoy came into court and relinquished her right of
dower."
The executors qualified with Richard Crump, Gent., and Thomas
Harris, their sureties, the penalty being live hundred thousand pounds.
" Inventory of the Estate of Capt. Samuel Flovrnov, dec'd,
taken by the executors."
38 negroes, to-wit. Daniel, Phill, Will, Abraham, Joe, George, Isaac,
Pop, Cesar, Tim, York, Reuben, Jane, Sampson, Hampton. Pat, Phebe,
James, Nan, Suckey, Dorcus, Lucy, Annaky, Remer (?), Hannah, Patt,
Darby, Matt, Peter, Jacob, Shadrack, Kitt, Hannah, Ag:gy, Dilcey,
Amy, James and Sukey ; Seventeen horses, Sixty four head of cattle,
ninety sheep, fifty hogs, seven feather beds & furniture, five bedsteads,
one doz leather chairs & fifteen rush do. Six walnut tables, two pine
do, one desk, three trunks, four chests, one looking glass, one case &
eleven bottles, one silver watch, dozen tea spoons and one silver can,
Harvies Exp'anation on The Old and New Testament, a parcel of
religious books, half dozen china cups and saucers, one gun, cloth
brush, pr. tongs & shovel, three pr. andirons, four flat irons, one box
iron heaters, twelve Jugs, eight knives & forks, one walnut stand, one
loom, warping box and bars, one riding chair, one wagon & geers,
four flax wheels, four woolen do, one copper kettle, one brass do, four
pots, two iron pot racks, three mens saddles, one woman's do, pr.
money scales & weights, pr. steelyards, four salt cellars, two Razors,
pr. lancets, pr. silver tongs, one china sugar dish, three dozen pewter
plates, thirteen dishes, six basons, one large safe, three candle sticks,
one whip saw, one X cut do, one hand do, two augers, one broad-ax,
one foot adze, three chisels, one hammer, eight narrow axes, twelve
hoes, eight plow hoes, one dutch oven, one still & about three hundred
bushels of wheat in the straw, one hundred barrels of corn, five hhds-
Tobacco net inspected.
(Signed)
WiLL.AM Harris,
Ant'y Martin.
At a Court held for Powhatan County the twenty-first day of March,
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one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, this Inventory was pre-
sented to Court and ordered to be recorded. Wili Book, No. i, p. 72.
Test: Th Miller, Clk.
The settlement of the estate of Samuel Flournoy pended in the
court for some years, as inspection will show. Will Book, No. i, pages
322, 323, 324,325,326.
The following proceedings were finally had on the dales given below.
The account with the e.xecutors is voluminous.
"Agreeable to an order of the Worshipful Court of Powhatan, We
the Commissioners have settled the account of Anthonj Martin and
find the within to contain a just Settlement.
HOR TURPIN,
W. S. S.MITH,
Sa.m Pleasants,
John Harris. Jr.
I2th June, 1795.
" At a court held for Powhatan County, at Scottville, on the i6th day
of July, 1795. This Settlement of the Estate of Samuel Flournoy,
dec'd, with Anthony Martin the Executor was returned to Court and
ordered to be recorded.
Abner Crump, C P."
"A copy from Will Book, No. i, pages 322, 323, 324, 325, 326.
Teste: James A. Tilman, Clerk.''
Elizabeth Harris Flournoy's Will.
The will of the wife of Samuel Flournoy is of record in the county
court clerk's office, at Powhatan C. H., Va. Will Book, No. i, p. 200.
The date of this will is May 15, 17S9 The testatrix speaks of herself
as " of the County of Powhatan and Parish of King William."
After " Imprinium " commending her soul to God and her body to
the earth "in hopes of a joyful resurrection," she gives her "son
Gideon Flournoy," a negro slave, Daniel; to her son John Flournoy, a
negro woman slave, Pol; to her son Samuel Flournoy, a negro boy
named " Shederick "'; to her son David Flournoy, a negro girl named
Moriah ; to her son Jordan Flournoy, a negro man slave. Till; to her
son Thomas Plournoy. her negro woman named Hannah ; to her son
.Silas Flournoy, a negro man, Tom, and a negro girl named Hannah,
daughter of Hannah ; to her granddaughter Elizabeth Harris, daughter
of " Uasula " Harris, a negro girl named Biddy ; to her granddaughter
Mary Harris, daughter of ' Wisula " Harris, two black cattle and four
sheep; to her grandson William H. Britton, son of Elizabeth J. Brit-
ton, a negro girl named Pat; to her granddaughter Nancy M. P'lour-
noy, daughter of David, a negro girl, Rachel ; to her sons Thomas
and Silas, all the residue of her estate, to be equally divided " betwixt "
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them; her "beloved sons David and Jordan," appointed executors.
Witnessed by Peter F. Turpin, \Vm. Sublett and Joseph Sallee. Pro-
bated at a County Court held at Scottsville for Powhatan county,
Thursday, May 19th, 1791, by the oaths of William Sublett and Joseph
Sallee; executors qualified, si^'ing bond in penalty of one thousand
five hundred pounds, with William Bently surety.
Samuel Flournoy's son, Thomas, made his will as follows : *
Thomas Flournoy's Will.
The will of Thomas Flournoy, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Flour-
noy, was dated Mch. 14th, 1794, probated Sept. iSth, 1794, Will Book,
No. I, page 292, county clerk's office, Powhatan C. H. Directs that
his estate be kept together till all debts paid. Emancipates all his
slaves and directs his executors to procure certificates of emancipation
for them from County Court; the males under 21 years to be bound out
to some industrious mechanic to learn a trade until they reach age of
21; females under iS bound to some industrious person "to learn to
Spin, Sew and Weave," until 18 years old. " Forasmuch as it appears
to me that by nature all mankind has an equal claim to Freedom, it is
my desire to do them that justice which their situation has denied them,
and whereas I am called on by the dictates of humanity to liberate all
my slaves who are able to support themselves by honest industry,
so am I bound to provide for such as are by length of years and ser-
vice worn down in feeble old age."
He therefore gives to his brother Jordan his old negro woman,
Hannah, and to "enable him to indulge her in as much ease as
the nature of her health and situation may require," he also gives
Jordan his " Young Bay filly "; also " for good causes to me known "
fifty pounds ; to his brother Silas his large bay Mare ; to his brother
David ten acres of land adjoining his tract. If Hannah did not
" chuse " to belong to his brother Jordan, she should have the liberty
of "chusing" with which of his brothers she would live, and that
brother should have as compensation the bay filly or one equally as
good; his land sold, and furniture, stock, farming utensils, sold, on a
credit by his executors, and the monies arising from these sales equally
divided between Samuel, Jordan and " Sylas " Flournoy, his nephews
James Harris, William H. Britton. his neice " Polly Flournoy (daughter
of Gideon)" and " Pernitta E. Flournoy (daughter of David)." The
legacies of these last to be put at interest till they arrive at 21 or marry;
should either of these three die before arriving at 21, the father to have
that share ; to his sister Julia Britton, his "' riding Chair and Harness " ;
his brothers Jordan and Silas and his cousins John Harris, Jr., and Jor-
dan Harris, appointed executors. Witnessed by H. Turpin, Thomas
Harris, Rich. Mosby, John Harris, Jr.
Probated at Scottsville, at a court held for Powhatan cotintv, Thurs-
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day, Sept. iSth, 1794, by the - oathes " of Richard Mosby, John Harris,
Horatio Turpin; John Harris and Jordan Flournoy qiialihed as execu-
tors, with Thomas Harris and David Flournoy as sureties on their bond
for fifteen hundred dollars.
Gideon Flournoy, son of Samuel, made his will as follows:
..1 . , Gideon Flournoy's Will. '
Dated Dec. 20, 1S19; proven Feby. 15, 1S21. To my son Jno. James
Flournoy my land, e.vcept 100 acres which I wish sold to pay my Debts,
if necessary. To my grand-son James Edward Roberts, certain negros!
To my daughter Mary E. Woodtin ^5.00. To my daughter Martha Wood-
fin $5-oo. All my estate to remain together until my son John J. Flour-
noy is 21 years old. My executors shall sell my land in Pittsylvania Co.
I appoint my brother Jordan Flournoy, my Son-in-law [ohn Roberts
and my friend Jno. Maxey, Executors of my will.
Will Book, Xo. 6, p. 113.
William B. Flournoy, of Dorset P. O., is believed to be the only per-
son named " Flournoy " now living in Powhatan. He is the son of the
foregoing John James, son of Gideon.
Yet another son of Samuel Flournoy, Jordan, devised and be-
queathed as follows: . ,.
Jordan Flournoy's Will.
Dated 2ist June. 1833 ; proven Augt. 5, 1S33. To my son John James
Flournoy the land I now live on containing 750 acres more or less.
To my sons Gustavus & Thomas in trust for my son William, certain
slaves &c. To my daughter Lucy personal property & 52000 00,' on con-
dition that if none of her children are raised to maturity or marry, then
it shall return to my estate. To my grand-son Wm. Ball, one negro &
I500. To my grand-daughter Judith Elizabeth Ball, one negro & 5500.00.
To Robert Poor of the City of Richmond $300.00, which amount my late
wife, Sarah, requested I would leave to her brother, Robert Crouch,
who by his will devised the same to said Poore.
" And at the request of my late wife, Sarah, I give to Elizabeth Snead
and Mary Crouch, daughters of the late John Crouch of Goochland
county, Gabriella G. Anderson, formerly Gabriella G. Crouch, daugh-
ter of Richard Crouch, Jr., each, 5300. I appoint my sons George W.
and John James Flournoy, executors."
Will Book, No. 9, page 192. Powhatan C H., Va.
The Chesterfield Flolrnoys.
That the Flournoys of Chesterfield county descend from Francis, son
of Jacob, rhe Immigrant, is now certain. E. H. Flournoy, the present
circuit court clerk at Chesterfield C H., is the son of Samuel ; the son
of Josiah; the son of Francis; the son of Jacob.
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Richard \V. Flournoy, of Richmond, is at work on this line, being^
likewise a descendant of Josiah Flournoy.
The Fiournoys of Columbus. Ga., and Eufala, Ala., descend from
Gibson, another son of Francis. .Air. Robert Flournoy, of " Broken
Arrow" Plantation, Columbus, Ga., is interesting himself in this line.
All minuter details of descent will be hereafter given as fast as sup-
plied.
Some imperfect memoranda from Chesterfield C. H. are herewith
given as being of some possible service.
Will Books, Chesterfield Countv Court.
Francis Flournoy, to wife Mary, 4 negroes and use of Plantation,
etc.; at death, to children. Daughters, Mary, Jane, Sarah and Martha.
Sojis, Jacob (200 a), Francis (2co a , William 300 a), Gibson, James,
Josiah; Grandsons, Francis ison of Jacob), Jacob, Francis, [ames, Gib-
son, William and Josiah, 10 a each. Sons Jacob and Francis Extr's.
Will dated Apl. 13th, 1770. Probated Mch. 5th, 1773. No. 2, p 262.
James Flournoy, wife Keziah. Sons, Jacob, James; Daughters,
Martha Farrar, Lydia Dunnavent; other children, Forest, Rhoda,
Nancy, Peggy Jones, Seth Ward, Hannah, Nelson, Elizabeth, Jean
(John) (?), Francis, Polly. Nephews: Francis, son of William; sister
Mary VVooIdridge, and her son Edward Wooldridge. Brothers, Wm.
and John Flournoy, E.x'rs, dated January ist, 1795- Witnesses Peter
P., and Edward F. Flournoy, Book No. 5, page 446.
Francis Flournoy; proven Mar. 5th, 1773. James Flournoy; proven
Oct. i3lh, iSoo. John Flournoy; proven Aug. 12th, iSii.
Marriage Bonds and Marriages.
Lydia Flournoy and Francis Dunnavant, Sept. 22d, 1792.
John Flournoy and Sarah Labburine (or Labarrean ?), Jan. 3d, 17S4.
Wm. Flournoy and Edith Friend ; Wm. Flournoy and Phebe Farrar.
Two dates are given. Mar. 7th, 1776, and Dec. 21st, 1790; but to the
marriage with which wife which date relates the compiler cannot now
state.
Gibson Flournoy and Patsy Ashurst, July 17th. 1792.
John Flournoy and Martha Nunnally, May ist, 1797.
Judith Flournoy and Josiah Hatcher, Aug. iSth, 17S3.
Hannah Flournoy and William T. Hodgson, Feby. loth, 1794.
Mary Ann Flournoy and Peter Mahone, Feby, 6th, 17S4.
Sarah Flournoy and Richard Traylor (or Reuben Taylor?!', Oct. 27th,
1787.
Lawrence Flournoy, Inquisition of Lunacy on, Nov. loth. 17S5.
Deeds. — Mathew Flournoy to Humphrey Hill. &c., Jany. 22, i754-
David Flournoy to Jno. Weaver, May 3, 1754. David Flournoy to Jno.
Clay, May 3, 1754. Francis Flournoy to Jacob, Francis, Jr., & James
Flournoy, Dec, 1754. Francis Flournoy to Wm. Locket, Jr., Sept. 5, 1755.
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F'rancis Flournoy to Ed. Wooldrid^e ibis son-in law), July 29, 1749-
Matt. Flournoy to Jno. J. Trabue, Mar. 31, 175S. Jacob, Francis, Jr., &
Jas. Flournoy to Francis Flournoy (their father). June 5, 1761. Jno.
Flournoy to Saml. Flournoy Aug. 4, 1761. Jacob Flournoy to William
Akin, May 21, 1772. Josiah Flournoy to Jacob, Francis & Jas. Flournoy,
Jany. 6, 1775. Jacob Flournoy to Ro. Donald, Mar. 6, 1777. Lorance
Flournoy to Jno. Hill, June 5, 177S. las. Flournoy to David Moriset,
Dec. 4, 177S. Lawrence Flournoy to Jno. Farrar, May 4, 1779 Jacob
Flournoy to Jno. Hill, Xcv. 4, 1779. Jno. Flournoy to Mary Ann Labar-
rear (?), Nov. 12, 17S5. James Flournoy to Jacob Flournoy, his son,
Nov. 6, 1786. Jacob Flournoy to Jolm Flournoy, Dec. 7, 1793. Gibson
Flournoy to Edward Branch. Jan. 25. 1794. James Flournoy to Nelson
Flournoy, Sept. 7, 1794. Laurence Flournoy to \Vm. Roberts, Apl. 13,
1796. David Flournoy to Bernard Fowler, Jan. 29, 1795. Jacob Flour-
noy to Daniel Bates, May 5, 1798. Jacob Flournoy to F. W. Dunnavant,
Oct. 12, iSoi. Nelson Flournoy to Ro. Elam, .Mar. 2, 1S03. \Vm.
Flournoy to John Flournoy, June 15, 1S03. John B. Flournoy to Jas.
Flournoy, May 6, 1S04. Jacob Flournoy to J. Baugh, Sept. 2, 1S04.
Dan'l Flournoy and John T. Flournoy to Mat Farley, Nov. S, 1S05.
Gibson Flournoy to Dan'l Flournoy, Sept. S, 1S06. David Flournoy to
Dan'l Wooldridge, Jan. 31, 1S07. Jno. Flournoy to Geo. Blankenship,
May 30, 1S07. ' Jno Flournoy to Ezekiel Blankenship, May 30, 1S07.
W'm. Flournoy to Jno. Flournoy, Jany. 7, iSoS. Gibson Flournoy to
Jacob Flournoy (his son I, Jany. 3, 1809. Ann Flournoy, wife of Jacob,
to Jas. G., & Arch'd Flournoy, Nov. 7, iSoS. Josiah Flournoy & wife,
Ann Flournoy, Saml. Flournoy & his wife Phebe Flournoy to Abijah
Cheatham, Jany 10, iSro. William Flournoy to Edmund Locket, June
2, iSro. Nelson Flournoy to Jno. Ward, Feby. 11, iSii. Samuel Flour-
noy to Daniel Flournoy, Octo. 17, i8[2.
Ln Conclusion.
The compiler hopes to publish a translation of the fiill text of the
Geneva MSS. Genealogy of 1732 in the New Year's Number, Jan. ist,
1895. He asks that all omissions and errors heretofore made be pointed
out for correction.
The Revolutionary Soldier, the Civil War, and many interesting lines
are as yet untouched. Much yet remains to be done to reach and
arouse all the members of so extensive a connexion, though many
members of it are now at work.
Many things at present omitted for lack of space he hopes hereafter
to publish.
(To BE Continued )
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Historical Notes and Queries. .,.^^',1,].
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Errata.
The errata, page 453, number 4, volume I, says: on page 326, for
school read schools, and that the words Lower Norfolk county, on the
same page, should be omitted. It should be that the word school, on
line 13, page 326, should be schools, and the words Lower Norfolk
county, same line and page, should be omitted.
Letter of Colonel Lewis Willis.
Letter of Col. Lewis Willis, of Willis Hill, near Fredericksburg,
from Washington's Headquarters in New Jersey, in 1777, to Chas.
Gates, of Fredericksburg, Va. Contributed by Dr. A. G. Grinnan, of
Madison county, Va.
Headquarters, Middlebrook, 19 June. 1777.
My dear Friend, Your four letters of 7th and 27 of May and ist &
loth of June came safe to hand, for which I return you a thousand
thankj, and I hope and beg you to continue to write to me. Tiie letter
you enclosed from my wife, gave me a great deal of uneasiness, therein
she mentions being under inoculation for Small po.\. My acquaint-
ances had heard that she was extremely ill, and I was afraid to write
to her but wrote to you by Capt. Cobbs to be informed of particulars.
At the time uc were in great hurry and confusion, tents struck, every
thing packed, and we expected to attack the enemy in an hour or two,
being only five or Six Miles distant from each other.
I will endeavour to describe the Situation as well as I can, with Such
a pen, and lying flat on the ground on a blanket, as every thing I have
except one Suit of wearing apparel is in wagons to be sent out of the
way, and has been there since I wrote to you by Cobbs.
Our army, that is the one here immediately under Gen. Washington,
lies between two Mountains, high and rocky, the one behind the enemy
is remarkably so; there are four gaps and these are now thorongly
fortified.
Muhlenberg's Brigade is now stationed at Street's Gap, and is joined
by a great number of militia, who have turned out beyond our most
sanguine expectations. And it is the case not only here, but many
have joined Gen. Sullivan at Prince town, and have been in a small
action and behaved well. It is said that Gen. Mifflen will have seven
or eight thousand Pennsylvania Militia on the south side of the Dela-
ware to oppose the enemy if they make for Philadelphia. And I
understand we are to wait their motion, and fall on their rear. The
Brigades of Gen. Mifflen, Sullivan, Scott and Muhlenburg, and Col.
Morgans Riflemen, who are lying close about there day and night,, are
to be in the front.
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It is said that Putnam will join us soon from Peekskill, with three
or four thousand Yankeys. From Streets Gap you may see the
enemys waggons and tents stretched along upon the high ground just
above Somerset Court Piouse. I understand they have three encamp-
ments, Somerset, Brunswick and Midway between.
We have had no skirmishing here, but Morgans Riflemen have had
a couple of skirmishes, loosing a man and two wounded. Your friends
here are all well ; I have seen Gens. Woodford and Weedon since I
received your letter, and presented your compliments to them. For-
sythe and Day I have not seen yet. What I have wrote is mostly from
information, as my bounds are circumscribed to a very small compass.
I dare not go half a mile from Camp without a pass, from the Brigadier,
and it is the case with all Colonels through the line. I am more con-
fined than I was at school with your relation Parson Yates. * * *
(Signed) Lewis Willis.
Since writing the above the Jersey Militia has taken two British offi-
cers and twelve privates, and the enemy has returned from Somerset
Court House into Urunswick again, so I am in hope we shall get a
little rest, unless it be some manewvre of Howes to get dcwn towards
Philadelphia another day.
L. W.
Parishes of Norfolk County.
We are indebted to Mr. William A. Stewart, of Portsmouth, for the
following lists of the vestrymen of the three parishes of Norfolk
county, copied from a minute book of 1761, in the county court clerk's
office, of Ncfolk.
The act was passed by the General Assembly of Virginia in March,
1761, dividing the Parish of Elizabeth River, in the county of Norfolk,
into three distinct parishes, to be Elizabeth River Parish, St. Brides
Parish and Portsmouth Parish, and directing the sheriff to call an elec-
tion for the 8th day of June, 1761. The records of the Norfolk County
Court show that the vestrymen, elected pursuant to this act, appeared
in court, qualified and subscribed to the following oaths :
1ST Oath :
"I do declare that I do believe there is not any transubstantiation
in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper or in the elements of Bread and
Wine at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever."
2D Oath :
" I do declare that I will be conformable to the doctrine and dis-
cipline of the Church of England." June iSth, 1761.
Vestrymen for Elizabeth River Parish.
Mathew Godfrey, John Hutchings, Joshua Nicholson, Geo. Abyoon,
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Robert Tucker, W'm. Orange, Saunders Calvert, Chris Perkins, John
Tucker, Win. Guy, Seurs Hansford & Chas. Sweny.
Vestrvmem for Portsmouth Parish.
John Tatem, Thos. Creech, James Ives, John Ferebee, George Veale,
Thomas Veale, William Craford, Jeremiah Creech, Richard Carney,
Giles Randolph, John Herberts, Thomas Grimes. .,, ,,
Vestrymen for St. Brides Parish.
Samuel Happer, James Wilson, Henry Herbert, John Wilson, William
Happer, John Portlock, Joshua Corprevv, Wm. Smith, Tho. Nash,
Malachi Wilson, Jr., Robert Tucker, Jr., James Webb.
A List of White Persons & Houses in Princess
Anne (i), March, 1785."
The Different Precincts.'
Eastern Branch taken by William White, Gent
Little Creek do Jno. Thorogood. Gent.. . .
Upper Western Shore taken by Peter Singleton,
Gent .'
Lower Western Shore taken by Francis Land. Gent. .
Upper Eastern Shore (2) do Jno. Ackiss, Gent. . .
Middle Eastern Shore do Cason Moore, Gent .
Lower Eastern Shore do Lemuel Cornick, Gent
Black Water taken by G: D: Corprevv, Gent. .......
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Claiborne Genealogy.
Mrs. Augusta Sherwin Tatum sends us the following contribution to
be added to the Claiborne Genealogy published in Vol. I of the Maga-
zine:
"Arms:" Three chevrons interlaced in base sa. a chief of the last.
The name, in the days of William the Conqueror, was spelt CUberne.
and came from Normandy. Edmund Claiborne, of Westmoreland,
England, married Grace Bellingham about 1590-5. Their son IVilliayn,
came to this country in 1621, being first mentioned in history as coming
to Virginia in the party of Sir Thomas Wyatt, when he was appointed
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by King James I surveyor of the new country. In 1624 he was ap-
pointed member of the Colonial Council (August 26th of that yean,
and Secretary of Virginia, March 24, 1625. He was appointed by Par-
liament to reduce Virginia to the authority of the Commonwealth. He
became Treasurer of Virginia, but was subsequently deposed from that
office in favor of the Royalist, Colonel Norwood. There are on record
in the Virginia Land Office grants of land to the extent of more than
24,000 acres in the name of Colonel William Claiborne. His family
seat was " Romancoke " in King Vv'illiam county, five miles above West
Point, where is the tomb of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Claiborne.
He, William, had a son, Thomas, who married Miss Dandridge, daugh-
ter of John Dandridge, whose son, Thomas Claiborne, Jr., married
Anne Fox, who was a daughter of Henry Fox, who married Anne,
daughter of John West, who was son of Governor John West, the 12th
child of Thomas, 2d Lord de-la- Warr.
Thomas Claiborne, Jr., and his wife, An?ie Fox-, were the parents of
Daniel Claiborne-
Daniel Claiborne married Mary Maury, daughter of Matthe'v Maury
and his wife Mary Anne Fontaine.
Dorothea Claiborne, daughter of Daniel Claiborne and hiS wife Mary
Maury, married Henry Tatum, officer in the Revolutionary Army.
Henry Augustus Tatum, M D., son of Henry Tatum and Dorothea
Claiborne, married Amelia Shervvin Brooking, daughter of Colonel
Thomas Vivion Brooking (a great-grandson of General Thomas Viyion,
Royalist), and granddaughter of Elizabeth Randolph, doubly descended
from William Randolph, the Colonist.
Daniel had a brother, Augustine, who was grandfather of Elizabeth
Randolph Hr rrison, who married General Butts.
Daniel had a brother, Leonard, whose wife's tomb is at "Sweet
Hall," another family seat, a few miles above Romancoke, where are
also the tombs of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Claiborne, Jr., and his
son Thomas.
Daniel had a brother, Nathaniel, who was the grandfather of William
Charles Cole Claiborne, Governor of Louisiana; and of General Ferdi-
nand L. Claiborne, Governor of Mississippi.
Daniel had a sister who married General Phillips of B. A,
Daniel's brother, Augustine, married Mary Herbert, whose grandson
is Dr. John Herbert Claiborne, of Petersburg.
Daniel had a brother, William Dandridge Claiborne, whose daughter
Elizabeth Dandridge Claiborne, married Beverly Kennon.
Daniel is related to the Lewises, Washingtons, Parkes, &c., on ma-
ternal side.
I. 1621. — William Claiborne, Secretary and Treasure' of Virginia.
and member of Colonial Council, came from England in Sir Thomas
VVyatt's party, by order of James I. to survey the land.
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2. Thomas Claiborne, son of William, married daughter of John
Dandridge.
3. Thomas Claiborne, Jr., son of Thomas, married Anne Fox, great
great-granddaughter of Thomas, 2d Lord de-la-\Varr.
4. Daniel Claiborne, son of Thomas, Jr., and Anne Fox, married
Mary Maury, daughter of Matthew Maury and Mary Anne Fontaine.
5. Dorothea Claiborne, daughter of Daniel Claiborne and Mary
Maury, married Lieutenant Harry Tatum.
6. Dr. Henry Augustus Tatu.n married Amelia Sherwin Brooking,
daughter of Thomas \'^ivion Brooking (great-grandson of Genera!
Thomas Vivion, English Royalist), and granddaughter of Elizabeth
Randolph, who was doubly descended from William Randolph, the
Colonist.
Augusta Skerwin Tatu.m.
V' '_ ■•■ Formation of the Virginia Counties. --,.-
S?'ITHFIELD, Sept. I, 1894.
To the Editor of the Virginia Magazine of History, etc. :
Sir: I got my friend, the late N. B. Hayden, to copy for me. from
an old almanac, the list of counties and cities published in your July
number, page 91. He was, generally, so accurate I did not think it
necessary to revise the list. In the list, as published, there are some
errors. I have not been able to get hold of the almanac, and cannot
say whether those errors were the errors of the compiler or of the
copyist. I think they ought to be corrected, and so I have revised the
whole list. I correct the very few and the very glaring errors.
Accomack, original shire in 1634, changed to Northampton in 1642,
and formed from it in 1672.
Charles City, original shire in 1634.
Charlotte in 1764, from Lunenburg. .„ .. ,. . . ^
Gloucester in 1652, from York.
Isle of Wight, original shire as Warrosquoyacke in 1634, and name
changed to I. of W. in 1637.
Lunenburg in 1745, from Brunswick. . ...,-,, ..-.;—
Monongalia in 1776, from West Augusta.
Rappahannock in 1656, from Lancaster.
Stafford in 1666, from Westmoreland.
Surry in 1652, from Isle of Wight.
Sussex in 1753, from Surry.
Smyth in 1831, from Washington and Wythe.
Westmoreland in 1653, from Northumberland.
Very truly yours, &c.,
R. S. Thomas.
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\ ■•_■; -. ",•• .< 'it\y T; r. Richard Lee. ■' '■ ' ■ '•'
Philadelphia, Aug. i6, 1S94.
Editor of Virginia Magazine of History, etc.:
Sir: The following reference to one of the Lee family, whose name
is so interwoven with the history of Virginia and the United States, is
to be found in a scarce volume, entitled '■ An Essay to a more correct
Blason in Latine than formerly hath been used," Sec. By John Gibbon.
London, 1682. Octavo :
"A great part oi Anno 1659, till February the year following, I lived
in Virginia, being most hospitably entertained by the Honourable
Colonel Rich. Lee, sometimes Secretary of State there ; and who
after the Kings -Martyrdom hired a Dutch \''essel, freighted her himself,
went to Brussels, surrendered up Sir William Barcklaies old Commis-
sion (for the Government of that Province) and received a new one
from his present Majesty (a loyal action, and deserving my commemo-
ration'. Neither will I omit his Arms, being, Gul. a Fes Chequy Or,
Bl. between eight Billets Arg. being descended from the Lees of
Shropshire (who sometimes bore eight Billets, sometimes ten, and
sometimes the Fesse Contercompone as I have seen by our Office
Records). I will blason it thus /« Clypeo rutilo ; Fascia^n pluribus
quadratis auri cf cyani, alternis arquisq ; spaciis {ductu triplici positis)
confectant, & inter octo Plynthides arge?iteas coliocatam.'''
This should be well worth printing as a noteworthy incident in the
career of one who bore the illustrious name of Lee, in early Colonial
Virginia, and possessed the same high sense of honor and duty that
has characterized his descendants, who are so much better known to
the general readers of American history.
Neither .Mr. Gibbon's quaint orthography nor punctuation have been
altered.
Yours very truly,
F. E. Marshall.
An Old Original Deed.
Richmond, Va,, Aug. 23d, 1S94.
Editor of Virginia Magazine of History, etc :
Sir : Among some notes gathered from the rusty records of Henrico
County Court I found the following, which is a copy of the oldest orig-
inal deed, perhaps, that we have any record of in any of the original
States. There may be some older; if so, I have never seen one, viz:
To all to whom these presents shall come greeting in Our Lord God
Everlasting. Know yee that I George Veardly Knt. Gov'r & Capt
Gen'll of \'irg'a, by virtue of the Great Charter of Orders Con-
cluded Councill and for this first Southerne Colony of
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Virginia according to the authority granted them by his Ma'tie under
his great Seale. And by them dated at London the Eighteenth day of
November i6iS. And directed to my seh' & Council! of State here resi-
dent, doe (with the approbation & Consent of the same Council who
are joined in Commission with me to William Sharpe of
and to his ever, for parte of his first to be aug-
mented and enabled by the Company to him, his said heirs & assigns;
when he or they shall once thoroughly planted and peopled the same,
forty acres of land situate & being in Charles hundred, six & thirty
acres thereof bordering North upon the great River, South upon John
EUyson's house. East upon remaindes being foure acres border-
ing John Cowleys land South upon the land of Ensign Isaac Chaplin,
East upon the great River And West upon the main land : To have &
to hold the said forty acres of land with the appurtenances, & with his
one share of all mines & mineralls therein contained, & with all rights,
and priviledges of hunting, fishing, fowling, & others within the pre-
cincts upon the borders of the same land, to the sole & prop'r use ben-
efitt & behoof of him the said William sharpe his said heirs & assigns
forever.
In large & ample manner to all intents, & purposes, as is Ex-
pressed in the s'd great Charter, or by Consequence may Justly be col-
lected out of the same, or out of his maties letters Patents whereon it
is grounded ; yielding & paying to the sayd & to their successors
forever: year at the feast of St. Michael the Arch Angle for the said
forty acres of land, one shilling off fee rent, provided the said forty
acres doe extend in a right line along ye bancke of a great River, not
above twenty poles, at sixteen foote •& an Half the pole:
In witness whereof I presents set my hand & the Create .
Given at James City the first in the yeares of the reign of
& Ireland King and defender of the &c of England the
eighteenth, & of Scotland the foure & fiftieth.
In the year of our Lord God one thousanc six hundred Sc twenty.
And the fourteenth year of this plantation.
George Yardelly.
This patent before entered is imperfect, by reason it is very antient
and much defaced, and therefore the blanks therein left, are those
words w'h could not be read, and all those w'ch could be read, are
Carefully recorded and Examined at the request of Martin Elam.
Wm. Randolph, O Cur.
This deed was Recorded ist April, 1681.
This Wm. Randolph was appointed Clerk Henrico county, iSth Oct.,
1678, by Col. Danl. Parke, Secretary of State.
In 1683 Henry Randolph (a cousin of hisi was appointed Clerk of
said county.
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In "The Genesis of the U. S.," by Alexander Brown, Vol. II, p. 774,
is the following entry: "'Gth Mch. i6i6. A Bill of Adventure'of /12
JOS. granted to Simon Codrington being one share of land in Virginia.
From the Records in the Virginia Company. This is the first entry of
the kind which I have found. In 1617 and after, these shares began to
acquire a value, and were frequently bought and sold."
Mr. Brown's Abstract is from the original Records in London, I infer.
Mine purports to be the whole o'" what remains of the original, which
was recorded here. Mr. Brown thinks that the said Simon was the
great grandfather of Henningham Codrington, who married Dr. Paul
Carrington, of Barbadoes, West Indies.
P. R. Carrington.
Library of Dabnev Carr, 1773, with a Notice of the Carr
^ Family.*
^ In no instance in the political history of Virginia has a young man
made a deeper impression upon his contempcraries than Dabney Carr,
and never has an urttimely death been more lamented than that which
(the njan and the time seeming fitted) cut short what promised to be
so useful and brilliant a career.
Dabney Carr was born October 26th, 1743, and died May i6th, 1773,
when a member of the House of Burgesses from Louisa county'. He
received a thorough education at William and Mary College, and en-
tered the profession of the law, practicing at the same courts with
Patrick Henry, and proving a formidable rival to him. Though only a
short time in the House of Burgesses his talents and eloquence gained
the high esteem of his fellow members, and when (as the result of a
private meeting, at the Raleigh, of Henry, Jefferson, the Lees and a
few others) it was resolved to propose the establishment of inter-
colonial committees of correspondence, Carr was selected to move
the resolutions in the House, and did so in a speech "remarkable for
its force and eloquence." The plan was adopted, and he was appointed
a member of the first committee. Only thirty-five days after his speech
he died. Jefferson, from acquaintenance and warm friendship, and
Wirt, from the testimony of contemporaries, speak of his person,
character and intellect in terms of high admiration. As Randall, in
his life of Jefferson, says he must have been " an e.xtraordinary young
man." He married, July 20th, 1765, Martha, sister of Thomas Jeffer-
son, and left several children, an account of whom is given below.
For notices of Dabney Carr see RatidaWs Jefferson, Vol. I, pp. 82
83. 84.
Though representing Louisa, he appears to have lived in Goochland
* For most of the materia! of this article the compiler, -Mr. W. G. Stanard, is indebted
to Mr. W. M. Gary, of Baltimore. The land grants and the records of Louisa and
Goochland counties have also been examined.
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(residence was not compulsory), and the inventory of his personal
estate (together with his will) is recorded there. The inventory shows
that he was quite a wealthy man, and had a house well, and even ele-
gantly, furnished. It is thought that a list of his books, from the in-
ventory, will be of interest.
The first of the Carr family of whom we have information was
Thomasi Carr. of "Topping Castle" (first in King and Queen, and
afterwards in King William and Caroline), who received various grants
of land, among them one of 546 acres in St. John's Parish, King and
Queen. April 24lh, 1701. He was sheriff of King William. 170S and
x'oc^^ConiicU Journal), and married, according to the Minor genealogy,
a Miss Garland, and was alive 1724 («-hen "Thomas Carr" received a
grant). He had a son, Maior Thomas^ Carr, of " Bear Castle," Caro-
line county, born 1678. died May 29th. 1737 (Family Bible), who had
various grants, among them one, July 17th, 1718 (as "Thomas Carr, Jr.,
of King William county"), for 600 acres, about three miles above the
falls of Pamunkey rive'r, called Turkey Neck, beginning at the mouth
of "Topping Castle Swamp," &c.; and another of 1000 acres on the
south side of Xorthanna river, in Spotsylvania county, June 27th, 1726.^
He was sheriff of King William, 1722 and 1723 ; was appointed one of
the first justices of Caroline, 172S Council Journal), and, dying in
1737 (his will, dated May 29th. 1735; proved in Caroline county. July
14th, 1738^ left issue by his wife. Mary, daughter of Cornelius Dabney,
of King William county (born 16SS, married 1704. died Sept. 7th, 174S).
as follows :
I. Thomas, d. s. p., 1743 ('"^ ^vill dated July 5th, I743); "• Agnes,
married, in 1730, Col. John Waller, of Spotsylvania ; III. Sarah, born
Nov. 14th, 1714, died 1772, married Nov. 14th, 1752. John Minor; IV.
John, born Dec. 25. 1706; married, first, Mary (and had a son,
Thomas, ancestor of a large family, some of whom still reside near
North Garden, in Albemarle county; ; married, secondly, Barbara (born
April 2oth, 1720, married Dec. 27th, 1737. died Dec, 17941. daughter of
Captain James Overton, of Hanover county (who died June iS, 1749).
and his wife, Elizabeth (who died Nov. 19th, 1739)- ^I^s. Barbara Carr's
will was proved in Louisa in 1795.
There are recorded in Louisa county a deed, dated 1733, from Thos.
Carr, of Caroline, for land patented by him in 1727; a deed, July, 1745-
fromMary Carr, widow, Jno. Carr, Jno Waller, Jr., and Agnes, his wife,
and Jno. Minor and Sarah, his wife, heirs and executors of Major Thos.
Carr, deceased, containing land granted said Thos. Carr in 1727; a
deed, 1749, from Mary, widow of Thomas Carr, and a deed, 1755. Irom
Jno. Carr, John Waller and Agnes, his wife; and Sarah, relict of Jno.
Minor, surviving executors of Thomas Carr, deceased, conveying land
which was granted said Thos. Carr in 1751 and 1732.
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justice, 1742, &c., and sheriff; 1753; and in 1752 lived in Spotsylvania.
He, however, died in Louisa in 177S, and his will, dated July 22d, 1773,
was proved and recorded in that year. He had issue : I. Dabney*.
treated of above; II. Samuel*, lieutenant in 9th Virginia Regiment,
1776, aiterwards Captain of marines on the brigantine Northampton,
and died in service during the Revolutionary War, leaving no issue.
(Records in State Land Office). His will was dated March 6th, 1776,
and proved in Louisa, Oct. 13th, 1777; III. Garland*, married Mary
Winston ; IV. Overton*, named in fathers and mother's wills; V.
Elizabeth*, married Nathaniel Anderson, named in parents' wills, and
had Wm. and Overton Anderson, named in their grandfather's will;
VI. Mary, wife of James Minor, named in parents' wills.
Dabney and Martha ( Jefferson) Carr had issue : I. Jane Barbara, born
1766, married July 20th, 17S2, Wilson Gary, of " Richneck," and died in
1S40; II. Col. Samuel, of "Dunlora" (born Oct 9th, 1771, died July
25th, 1S55:, commanded cavalry at Norfolk, 1S12-15 {Rar.da/l's Jctfcr-
sofi), and was member of the House of Delegates from Albemarle,
1815, &c., and of the State Senate ; married, ist, in 1795, his hrst cousin
Barbara, daughter oi Overton Carr (she died June iSth, 1815); married
2d, Maria Dabney, daughter of Dabney and Sally Watson ; III. Dabney
(born April 27th. 1773, died Jan. 8th. 1S37) ; married, in iSoo. his first
cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Overton Carr and Anne Addison, his
wife (she was born Jan. ist, 17S0, and died May sSth, 1S3S). He was
Chancellor of the Winchester district, iSri-24, and judge of the Court
of Appeals, 1S24-37, when he died, leaving, says Kenneday. "the tame
of an upright and learned judge, and truly good man ; " IV. Lucy (born
1768, died 1S03), married, 1793, Richard Terrell, son of Richmond Ter-
rell and Nancy Overton (sister of .Mrs. Barbara Carr). They removed
to Kentucky, and had issue: (i) Martha, born 1796, married, in iSiS,
Dabney .Minor— his second wife; (2) Virginia, born 179S, died 1S60;
married, in 1815, Dr. Frank Carr, and their only child, Peter Carr, died
in Mo. in iS59.s-. /.; (3) Dabney Carr, born iSor, of. .y./»., in New Orleans,
August i6th, 1S27— A man of great talent; (4) Mary Jane, born 1S03.
married, 1S21, Prof. John A. C Davis, of the University of Virginia,
and left seven children; V Peter iborn Jan. 2d, 1770, died Feb. 17th,
1815); married, June 6th, 1797, Hetty ^born March 5th, 1767, died Nov.
I2th, 1834), youngest daughter of John Smith and .Alary Buchanan, of
Baltimore, and sister of General Samuel Smith (40 years Senator and
M. C. from Maryland), and of Robert Smith (Secretary of the Navy
under Jefferson).
Col. Samuel Carr had issue by ist marriage, with Barbara Carr: L
John (1801-1839), lieutenant, U. S. N.; married, about 1S29, Gay Fergu-
son, and had one son, Gay, who was killed in W. Va. during the late
war— unmarried ; II. Dabney Overton (1S06-41), unmarried; educated
at West Point, and was killed in battle in Me.xico; III. Martha (1S0S-16);
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IV. lames Lawrence i;iSi5-March 2d, 1S75), removed, in 1S35, to Ka-
nawha. W. Va.; major, C. S. A. ; married, 1S04, Sally Cooke (and had
Ellen, Sally, Laurence, and George ', issue by 2d marriage with Maria
D. Watson; V. George Watson (1S23-1SS—), educated at West Point,
resigned (when major) in 1S61, and served in C. S. A. as colonel; mar-
ried, ist, in iS6r, Elizabeth G. Watts, of Charlottesville, Virginia, and
2d, in 1S76, Finnic Laws, of Hampton, Virginia; VL Maria Jefferson
(born 1S26), married, in 1S42, Dr. Wm. Miller, of Jefferson county, Ky.;
Vn. Sally ( 1S2S-4S), married, in 1S47, Frank E. G. Carr, son of Dr.
Frank Carr, and grandson of Garland Carr, and left one son, George
Watson, born 1S4S, now living in Texas.
Judge Dabney and Elizabeth (Carr) Carr had issue: L Anne Addi-
son, born 1S27, married, , David Holmes Conrad (son of Dr. David
Conrad, of Martinsburg). and had two daughters and two sons, viz :
Holmes Addison, born 1S37. and Henry Tucker, born 1839, both killed
in Confederate service at the battle of Manassas, 1S61; IL Jane Cary
(1809-5S), married, 1S25, Rev. Peyton Harrison, of ''Clifton," Cumber-
land county; in. Dabney Jefferson (1S17-26).
Peter and Hetty (Smith) Carr had issue: I. Dabney S.. of Baltimore,
born March 5th. 1S02, died March 24th, 1854. married, April 22d, 1826,
his first cousin, Sidney S., daughter of Governoi Wilson Cary Nicholas,
of Virginia. He was for a long time the editor and proprietor of the
Republican and Argus, the leading Democratic paper of the day in
Baltimore; was naval officer of the port of Baltimore from iS29to 1S43.
when he was appointed, by President Tyler, Minister to Constantinople,
where he remained until 1850; II. Ellen Boucher, born Jan. loth, 1S06,
died Jan. 12th, 1S76, married, in 182S, Wm. B. Buchanan, of Baltimore;
IIL Jane Margaret, born March 15th, 1S09, married, Sept. i6th, 1830,
her cousin, Wilson Miles Cary, of " Carysbrook."
Dabney S. and Sidney S. (Nicholas) Carr, had issue : I. Wilson Cary
Nicholas (born Feb. iSth, 1827, died April 17th, 1SS6) ; Captain C. S. A.;
married, in 1S66, Susan Henderson, of Baltimore, and d. s.p.; II.
Maria Jefferson {1829-31); III. Samuel Smith (1S31-62), unmarried ; IV.
Cary Anne, married, in 1858, Col. Thomas G. Peyton, of Richmond ;
V. lohnSmith (1S36-60), unmarried; VI. Margaret (1843-73), unmarried:
VII. Dabney Jefferson (1S41-89), married, 1869. Anna, daughter of Dr.
Frank H. Deane, of Richmond, and had issue: (i) Dabney J.; 1.2)
Wilson, C. N. ; {y Wallace Deane; 14) Car\' Peyton; (5) Anna Deane.
Other members of the family were: Col. John Carr. of Albemarle
county, who died September 26th, 1S24, aged 60 years.
In 1S45 Peter Carr, of Charlottesville, married Lydia Louise, daugh-
ter of Nicholas H. Lewis, of Missouri (Enquirer'. Col. James L. Carr,
"nephew of President Jefferson, and at one time member of the State
Senate, died at Kanawha C. H., July 26th, 1S55 {Xeu-'spaper).
Wm. B. Carr, son of Walter Carr, was born in Albemarle county,
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Va., April 15th, 17S3; went to St. Louis, 1S04; was appointed Circuit
Judge of Mo., 1S26; died March 31SI, 1S51 ; married il) Anne, daughter
of Aaron Elliott, of St. Geneveve, and had three daughters ; married
(II) Dorcas, daughter of Silas Bent, Sr. . of St. Louis, and had sever?.!
children; the 5th daughter, Elizabeth B., married \Vm. H. Ashley,
Lieutenant-Governor of Mo., and M. C; the 6th daughter, Harriet,
married Capt James Deane, U. S. A.; and the 2d daughter, Virginia,
married Dr. E. Bathurst Smith, formerly of Virginia. Alfred \V. Carr
(nephew of \Vm. B. C), was born in Ky., 1S04 ; settled in Mo.. 1S2S;
was a lawyer, and died young; married a daughter of Major Graves,
of Ky.
There are recorded in Louisa deeds from \Vm. Carr, of Spotsylvania
county, Gent., 1751, to son-in-law. Mordecai Miller, and daughter, Sarah,
his wife; and to son-in-law, \Vm. Crenshaw, of Louisa, and daughter,
Susanna, his wife. \Vm Carr was probably a son of the first Thomas
Carr.
Following is the list of Dabney's Carr's library:
D.\BNEV Carr's Librarv,
5 vols. Bacon's Abridgement (/3 15), 3 Books, Laws of Virginia ( /"i
10), 3 vols. Peere Williams Reports {£2 5), 2 vols. Strange's Reports
(£1 10), Grounds of the Law (15 sh.), Jacob's Law Dictionary (i5sh.),
Wood's Institutes (i5sh.), 2 Books Acts of the Assembly (losh.;, 7 vols.
Sir Edward Coke's Reports {£2 2), i Book Vattel's Law of Nations
(10 sh.), 4 vols. Blackstone's Commentaries (/25,6vols. Exact Abridge-
ment of the Statutes (^i i) 3 vols. Modern Conveyances (losh. 6d.),
I Book Law of England Con'g Juries (3sh. 6d ). i Book Law Concern-
ing Estates Tail (3sh. 6d.), i Book Students Companion (25h. Sd.), i
Book Mercer's Abridgment (4sh.), i Book Lord Kaim's Law Tracks
{sic'\ (3sh. 6d.), i Book Covenants (3sh. 6d.) 2 vols, the Practising
Attorney (7sh.), i Book Office of Executors (35h. 6d.l, i Book, Law of
Evidence (3 sh.), i Book Nelson's Chancery Reports i.2sh. gd.) i Book
Hobart's Reports (rsh. 6d.), i Book Hobart's Reports (i2sh. 6d.), i vol.
Barnardeston's Reports 'i2sh. 6d.) Talbot's Cases of Equity, 2 vols.
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Crown (i5sh.), i Book Fitz Gibbon's Reports (Ssh ), i Book Maxims of
Equity (5sh.), 2 vols. Harrison's Chancery Practice (Ssh.j, 2 vols. Black-
stone's Law Tracks i6sh.), i Book Warden's Cystem (i5sh.), 6 vols.
Stakhouse's History of the Old and New Testament (^r 10), i Book
Hutchinson's Enquiry (3sh.), 7 vols. Yorreck's Sermons (i4sh.), 4 vols.
Shearlock's Sermons (6sh.), 2 vols. Langhorn's Sermons (4sh.), i Book
Battle on Truth (3sh. 6d. 1, 2 vols. Robertson's History of Scotland (Ssh.),
3 vols. Robertson's History of Charles 5th (6sh.), i Book Self Knowl-
edge (ish. 3d.), S vols. Livy's Roman History (.^r), 6 vols, in Lattin
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The following unpublished letter of Dabney Carr has been kindly
furnished by Mr. Cary :
Bear Castle, 16 of August, 1772.
Sir: If your letter, which I rec'd yesterday, had contain'd nothing
but the information you promis'd me relative to Winston's intelligence,
you would not have been troubled with this answer to it : but, since,
not satisfied with attempting to justify yourself, you have chosen to re-
peat your censure of my conduct, I must beg your attention to a few
observations upon the subject, and your patience, if I should say any-
thing that may seem offensive. Of that vulgar, indiscriminating ap-
plause, that is often acquired without merit, and lost without a fault, I
was never ambitious. I well know how truly it is a bubble — but the
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approbation ot the worthy and discerning is in some measure necessary
to my happiness. If my nature was capable of it, I am not tio:<.' in a
humour to Hatter you. I shall therefore e.xpect to be believed when I
assure you, that I had ranked you among those whose applause is fame.
Judge then what must have been my feelings, when I was well informed,
that upon a variety of occasions, not only to our common friends, but
in mi.xed companies, you had misrepresented my conduct, and admitt-
ing it to have been, as you said, had spoken of it with a virulence and
asperity of censure that could only belong to my worst enemy. I own
to you, sir, I was astonished, and, but for the veracity of my informer,
should have rejected the story as false. Was it candid? was it gene-
rous ? not to say friendly to take up with the first malicious tale you
heard, and to propagate and declaim upon it, with all the warmth of a
man certain that it was true? What will you say to those whom your
misrepresentations of this matter may have deceived? Will you say
that you were deceived yourself? It is indeed the only reply that can
be made, for I will not suppose you forged the falsehood; but in your
case, it cannot be received as an e.xcuse, for the man whom at random
you censured thus, you had called your friend. And this circumstance
it is, Sir, which has envenomed this sting. " For it is not an open ene-
my that hath done me this dishonour, for then I could have borne it;
but it was even thou, my companion, and mine own familiar friend."
Let us now suppose for a moment, that every thing you had heard was
most certainly true, and moreover that your judgment thereupon is as
infallibly right as you assume it to be. Is no indulgence due to human
error? Surely so severe a sentence will never pass from a man who
must be conscious that he has been souieiinies mistaken himself. But
was this one of those plain cases in which a man of common under-
standing could not mistake? If this be your opinion, and your insin-
uations certainly look that way, your language was improper when you
called my conduct erroneous. It would have been more ingenuous —
it would have been more manly, to have called it by its right name —
a wrong opinion given upon sinister motives. Ail explanation would
have been then at an end. But this is what I will not infer from insinu-
ations or hints. I will not receive it as your opinion but from your
express declaration. I have purposely avoided any defence of the
opinion you have chosen to censure, because I think you have forfeited
the right, which as one of my constituents, you had to be informed of
the reasons of my conduct. To the man, whoever he be, that makes
this enquiry properly, I am always ready to give satisfaction on this head.
You are pleased to say that you have been as much disappointed in me
as a representative, as I declare myself to have been in you as a friend.
Accept of this difference between us. .My conduct, supposing it wrong,
may have proceeded from an error in judgment ; yours can only have
proceeded from some degree of malevolence. If the compliment you
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pay to my understanding must be at the expense of my integrity, I beg
you to reserve it tor the wretch, whenever you can find him, who had
rather be thought a sensible, than an honest man. It is a justice, due
to your own character, to undeceive those who may have been imposed
upon by your misrepresentation of facts, and this I shall expect from
you. For the rest, I am willing it should sleep here, and let this be an
end of our altercation. Whenever you shall think proper to tell me
that you did not mean to impeach my integrity, in what you said of my
conduct in the House of Burgesses, I shall cease to think you have been
actuated by malevolence, and whenever you shall say you desire it. I
am ready to return to those sentiments of friendship for you, which I
have always entertained. In the meantime, as I am incapable of being
any man's friend by halves, I shall think myself discharged of any other
connections with you than those of common humanity and civility.
I am,
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Copy of letter from Dabney Carr, of Louisa, August i6, 1772, to his
former friend and constituent, Benjamin Lewis.
'^rZ'.nrJ.:/ QUERIES. :\,' - .T --^win'r . "";,;"^
Robert Martin, born in King and Queen county, 1738 (2), paternal
homestead on both sides of the Matapony river. Information relative
to his brothers and sisters and to his ancestors. Were George Martin
and Susanna West his parents?
Col. Richard Calloway, of the Bedford county Calloways. Who
were his ancestors, and the names of his children ?
Richard Kennon and his wife, Celia Ragland. In Chatham county,
N. C, after the Revolution— perhaps during it. Was this the Hills-
borough Richard? What relation did he bear to Will Kennon, the
Mecklenburg Signer? What was Richard's line of descent from the
'/irginia Kennons ? How was the name spelt before it appeared in
Virginia ? I wish Celia Ragland's line of descent.
Abraham Venables, the emigrant, and his wife, Mildred (?) Lewis.
What English branch produced this Abraham ?
John Holder, of Spotswood's 2d Virginia Regiment. His Virginia
ancestry and locality desired.
Correspondence on any of these matters most respectfully solicited.
Joseph J. Casey,
26 East 129th Street, New York.
Goss.— Charles Goss, of Chester county. Pa., first appears there in
1721, as "single man." He died there, 1732, leaving descendants.
Fifteen dollars will be given for information establishing his parentage.
■ J. G. Leach,
733 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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BOOK REVIEWS. »■/•.^. . 229
BOOK REVIEWS.
The Anxestry of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United
States of America, 1889-1893. — In chart form. Showing also the
descendants of William Henry Harrison, President of the United States
of America in 1841, and notes on the families named. By Charles
P. Keith, author of "The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania,
1733-1776," etc., Philadelphia, 1S93.
In form and matter this is one of the most noteworthy additions to
Virginia genealogy which has ever been made. The results of lengthy
and minute investigations among all authoritative sources of informa-
tion which could possibly bear on ihe subject have been embodied in a
very handsome specimen of bookmaking. Mr. Keith has not only care-
fully and critically examined all public and private records in Virginia
relating to the families treated of, but has pursued the same thorough
method in tracing the various lines of English ancestry, not even
accepting, without question, pedigrees found in the ordinary English
genealogical works. In that, too, as in this country, he has obtained
much information from manuscript records hitherto unknown to us.
The writer ha^ Iiad opportunity to know something of his methods and
how much careful study he gave, even in trying to establish an unknown
surname, or in an unsuccessful attempt to trace a pedigree further.
This book is not, as might be implied from the preceding remarks,
entirely devoted to President Harrison's Virginia ancestry, for it con-
tains accounts of the families of Irvin, McDowell, Ramsey, Symmes
and Tuthill , but as it is the Virginia pedigrees that we are most in-
terested in and acquainted with, we will confine our attention to them.
The Virginia families given are those of Armistead, Bacon, Bassett,
Burwell, Cary, Churchill, Harrison and Landon. The pedigree given
of the first named family is by far the fullest and most authentic yet
printed, and appears etTectually to explode a favorite myth,/. <f., that
Wm. Armistead, the inmiigrant, was originally named D'Amstadt,
came from Hesse DWmstadt, and that an old seat of the family in
Gloucester, "Hesse," was named in honor of his birthplace. The
name was not uncommon in England, and members of the Virginia
family before the Revolution, used a bookplate bearing the same arms
as the English one.
As Mr. Keith states, it is now almost impossible to compile a com-
plete genealogy of this very numerous race, which, a hundred and
twenty-five years ago, had spread into half a dozen counties. We note,
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on page iS, what seems to us an error: in the statement that Anne,
wife ol" Anthony Walke, was probably the daughter of Henry Armis-
tead. An old record of the Walkes shows that she was a daughter of
William Armistead and Anna Lee, his wife.
Of the branches of the family not included in the book before us, an
account, doubtless correct as far as it goes, of the descendants of John
Armistead and Lucy Baylor is given in the Richmond Staridard. A few-
notes which we have gathered may assist some future genealogist of
the family, and will at the same time show its wide diffusion :
Colonel John Armistead, of Gloucester, was sheriff in 1675. member
of the House of Burgesses, 16S5, appointed to the Council, 16S7, and,
refusing to take the oaths after the accession of William and Mary, retired
from that body, becoming what was called in England a "nonjuror."'
Isaac Allerton also retired from the Council at the same time and for
the same cause. In 1707 Wm. Armistead, of Gloucester, was included
in a list of gentlemen "of estate and standing," suitable for appoint-
ment to the Council when vacancies should occur. Henry Armistead
was a justice of Gloucester, 1723. John Armistead was sheriff of Glou-
cester, 1729. The "Carter Tree" gives the issue of Wm. Armistead,
of "Hesse," who married, about 1765, Maria, daughter of Charles Car-
ter, of "Cleve." We are informed that there is, in the possession of
descendants of this Wm. Armistead, a large and valuable collection of
family papers, letters, &c. Anthony Armistead was sheriff of Elizabeth
City, 16S4, and ourgess, 1699. Captain Wm. Armistead, burgess for
Elizabeth City, 1692 and 1710, Anthony Armistead sheriff Elizabeth
City, 1720 and 1727. Anthony Armistead, Jr., appointed justice of War-
wick, 1727, and sheriff, 1730, 1732. Wm. Armistead member of the
Elizabeth City Committee of Safety, 1775-6. Robert Armistead sher-
iff Elizabeth City, 1794. Wm. Armistead sheriff of Elizabeth City, 17S9.
Robert Armistead, Jr., sheriff Elizabeth City, 179S. Wm. Armistead
sheriff of Elizabeth City, 180S. Westwood S. Armistead clerk of Eliz-
abeth City, 1S10-1S4S. Wm. Armistead member of the House of Del-
egates from Elizabeth City, 1S04 and 1S17. John Armistead delegate
from Elizabeth City, 1S18-1S24. Robert A. Armistead sheriff of EliLa-
beth City, 1S52. Robert Armistead sheriff of York, 1730 and 1731. It
appears from the report of a suit in the Virginia Court of Appeals that
Armistead [John] had issue: I. John; II. William, of New Kent;
in. Gill, of New Kent, married Betsy [Allen], died in 1762, and had
issue: (1) William; {2) Betty, married Miles Selden [in i-j-ji,— Virginia
Ga=etle]\ (3) Susanna, married John Cary ; (4) Frances, married Am-
bler [John A., of "Jamestown"]; (5) Mary, married Burwell [in 1774,
Thacker Burwell— rVrfzVn'a Ga=eiie'\; (6) Martha. In the Journal of
the House of Burgesses, 1762, is an order for a new election to supply
the place of "Mr. Armistead," of New Kent, deceased. Doubtless
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this was Gill Armistead. Another court report shows that Lucy B.
Armistead, daughter of John Armistead (who died 17S0), and his wife,
Mary (who died 1792), became entitled on her mother's death to cer-
tain land and slaves in New Kent, and that she married, Dec. 24th,
iSoi, Aylett Walker. Her brother, Robert B. Armistead", who was her
guardian, died in iSii, leaving a son, John D. Armistead.
The wide distribution of the family is shown by the fact that of the
County Committees of Safety of 1775-6, Robert Armistead, of Louisa,
John Armistead, of Caroline, Henry Armistead, of Charles City, and
John Armistead, of New Kent, were members. William, Thomas, and
perhaps others were officers in the Revolution. Wm. Armistead was
a justice of Xew Kent, 17S9. John Armistead, of New Kent, was a
member of the State Senate, 1776, &c. Robert B. Armistead was a jus-
tice of New Kent, 1792. John Armistead appointed Justice of Fauquier,
1S04. Peter Armistead appointed a justice of Culpeper, 1807. Fran-
cis Armistead sheriff of Matthews, 1S02-5. Colonel Wm. Armistead,
of Amherst, was alive, 1817. Wm. Armistead, of King and Queen, was
member of the House of Delegates, 1S30, and of State Senate, 1S32,
&c. A number of the familv served gallantly as officers and privates
in the Confederate Army, and several were killed in battle.
The ancestry of President Nathaniel Bacon is thoroughly and satis-
factorily worked out. Some additional notices of the family, wills,
&c., are given elsewhere m this number of the Magazifie. Mr. Keith's
conjecture that George Lyddall, son of Sir Thomas, was the person
who lived in Virginia, seems very probable
Our author was the first to discover the parentage of Captain Wm.
Bassett, first of that family in Virginia, and a record in Vork county,
unknown to him, but since quoted by r^Ir. Lyon G. Tyler, fully con-
firms his statement. We do not agree, however, with Mr. Keith's
suggestion that Capt. Wm. Bassett had possibly been an officer in the
Parliamentary Army. It seems to us that his friendship with men like
Honey wood, Hammond and Moryson, who we know served in the
Royal Army, and who came to Virginia during the civil war, is strong
proof to the contrary. Mr. Keith does not notice the fact (shown by
Hening) that in 1665 Capt. Wm. Bassett was appointed to superintend
the erection of a fort at Jamestown.
Col. Wm. Bassett, of " Eltham," was Burgess for New Kent, 1692
and 1702; appointed to the Council, 1707; resigned and was reappointed
in 1711; appointed commander-in-chief (county-lieutenant) of New
Kent in 1707, and was county-lieutenant of New Kent and King Wil-
liam in 1715. His tomb, bearing arms and epitaph (which was printed
in the Richmond Standard), has been removed from " Eltham " to
Hollywood Cemetery. Mr. Keith inserts a query after the date of the
death of Wm.^ Bassett, i. <?., 1744; but the Journal of the Burgesses for
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the session i743-'4, contains an order for a new election in New Kent,
to fill the place of \Vm. Bassett, deceased. Burwell* Bassett, of
" Elthain," was Burgess for New Kent, 1762-1774; member of the
County Committee of Safety, i775-'6; of the Conventions of 1775, 1776
and 17SS; of the State Senate, 17S0 and 17S8; and of the House of
Delegates, 17S9, and probably other years. His son BurwelP Bassett,
of " Eltham," and of Williamsburg, was member of the House of Del-
egates from New Kent, 17S9; State Senate, 179S-99 and iSo2-'3; delegate
from James Cit> (where he lived for a time) in 1S19 and 1S20, and mem-
ber of Congress, 1S05-T3, 1S15-19 and 1821-31. He died Feb. 26th,
1841. John^ Bassett was a member of the House of Delegates from
New Kent, 17S7. Several letters, from and to Captain \Vm.^ Bassett,
referred to by .Mr. Keith, have since been published in the Magazine.
A discovery which probably interested the largest number of Mr.
Keith's Virginia readers was that of the ancestry of Major Lewis Bur-
well, the immigrant, who now has almost innumerable descendants
throughout the United States. It was not the intention of the author
to present a full genealogy of the family, which has been already quite
fully, and with a few exceptions, accurately done in the Richviond
Stajidard. A careful e.vamination of the evidences in 'he case leads
us to believe that Mr. Keith is right in his belief that Lewis Burwell,
of " Kingsmill," was a son of the second marriage of Lewis- Burwell
(with Martha Lear). One point in which there is some confusion in
the various published accounts of the family is. as to the descendants
of President Lewis Burwell. He was appointed to the Council during
the session of i743-'4 (when a burgess); became acting governor in
1750, and died in a short time. He certainly married (in 1736, it is said)
Mary, dau^-hter of Col. Francis Willis, and had, says Burke, the histo-
rian, three daughters, who married respectively: Peter Whiting,
Armistead Lightfoot and Jacqueline Ambler. The wife of the latter,
Rebecca Burwell (Jefferson's "' Belinda"), was born May 29th, 1746. It
is rather curious that ihe two brothers, Jacqueline and Edward Ambler
(who married Mary Cary) were the successful rivals of Jefferson and
Washington. President Burwell had certainly one son. Lewis Bur-
well, who studied law in the Inner Temple, where his name appears
matriculated as son of " Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester, Virginia, Es-
quire," and who was (as " Lewis Burwell, Jr.") sheriff of Gloucester in
1767; Burgess, 1769-74, and member of the Conventions of 1775 and
1776. His name appears frequently in the Gazette as having horses in
races, and he was probably the Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester, who is
announced by that paper, in the spring of 1779, to have died. The
" Carter Tree " has it that Nat. Burwell, who married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Robert Carter, was the father of " Lewis, of Whitemarsh," who
married Judith Page and had issue: (i) Alice, m. Williams; \2)
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Nathaniel; (3) Mann; (4) Lewis; (5) Rebecca, m. Jacqueline Ambler.
This is of course wrong. Nat. and P^lizabeth (Carter) Burwell were
certainly the parents of Lewis Burwell (President), but the latter mar-
ried, as has been stated, Mary Willis, and certainly had children, as
just stated above. In one of the early Virginia law reports is a case
in which it is stated that a Lewis Burwell married Judith, daughter of
Mann Page, and had Alice Grymes, who married \Vm. C. Williams,
and Judith Carter, who married George .Miles. There may have been
other children, but they were not interested in this suit. From this it
would appear almost certain that the Lewis Burwell, stated in the
" Carter Tree " to have married Judith Page, was Lewis, son of the
President, and that his issue given (with the e.xception, of course, of
Rebecca), is correct. It was probably his son. Nathaniel, who was
sheriff of Gloucester, 1S08-10, and also probable that the other son,
Lewis, was the same who married, in 17S9, Judith Kennon, and died
August 24th, 1S33, aged 70.
Of this family there were three members of the Council, Lewis,
Lewis, and Robert C; and at least six members of the House of Bur-
gesses: Nathaniel, James, Lewis, Carter, Lewis, and Lewis.
The Carys, of whom only one member in Virginia was an ancestor
of President Harrison, are briefly treated of in the notes, but the Eng-
lish ancestry, which had been traced by .Mr. Wilson Miles Cary, of Bal-
timore, is given in the chart and fully proved.
The account of the Harrison family, which has had the honor of fur-
nishing two Presidents of the United States, is given in this volume,
and in the addenda which have since been issued, very fully and accu-
rately as far as the Berkeley branch, from which the Presidents came,
is concerned. This is one of the instances in which we were acquainted,
during the progress of the work, with the very thorough and e.xhaust-
ive nature of Mr. Keith's investigations here and abroad. We can
make no addition or correction in the genealogical portion of the ac-
count of the family; but as Mr. Keith has largely confined himself to
the descents, some notes (gathered from various authentic sources) as
to offices held by various members may be of use to those who have
the book.
Benjamin^ Harrison was clerk of the Council, 1633. and Burgess, 1642.
Benjamin' Harrison, of "Wakefield," was a justice of Surry, 1671, sher-
iff, 1679, burgess, 16S0 and 16S2, and member of the Council from 1698
until his death. Benjamin' Harrison, of "Berkeley," was attorney-
general from 1697 to 1702, and speaker of the House of Burgesses. He
at one time intended to write a history of Virginia, and there is in the
Council Journal an order permitting him to make extracts from the
records for that purpose. Perhaps bad health preceding his early death
prevented the execution of his plan. Nathaniel' Harrison, of " Wake-
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field," was a burgess, 1706; appointed to the Council, 1713; appointed
county-lieutenant of Surry and Prince George in 1715, and was auditor-
general. Benjamin* Harrison, of " Berkeley," was a member of the
House of Burgesses when he died in 1744- Benjamin^ Harrison, of
"Berkeley," "the Signer," was also member of tiie House of Bur-
gesses, 1746-74; of the Conventions of 1775, 1776 and i73S; speaker of
the House of Delegates (17S0), and Governor of Virginia. His son,
Benjamin" Harrison, of " Berkeley," was a member of the Charles City
Committee of Safety, 1775-6, and served in the Revolutionary Army as
paymaster, with the rank of captain. A copy of his will, which was
filed when his heirs obtained the land bounty due for his services, is in
the Land Office. Nathaniel* Harrison, though at a very advanced age.
must have been the "Nathaniel Harri^^on, of Brandon," who was
elected member of the State Council in 1776, upon the resignation of
his son, Benjamin* Harrison, of " Brandon," who had been elected
member of the first Council of State. The latter was probably the
"Benj. Harrison, Jr.," who was delegate from Prince George in 1780
and 17S4, and the Benjamin Harrison delegate from Prince George,
1777. We cannot assert positively the identity of the Be.ijamin Harri-
son who was delegate from Prince George, iSoo 1S03-6, and 1816.
Henry' Harrison, of Surry county, was a burgess, 171S-23. and ap-
pointed to the Council, 1730. Edmund" Harrison was member of the
House of Delegates, 1787, 1790, 1793, 1S02-6 (and probably other years);
was speaker of the State Senate, and elected to the Council, i793-
Collier* Harrison was delegate from Charles City, 1793, 1798, 1799, and
iSoo. Carter H.= Harrison, of "Clifton." was member of the Cumber-
land Coun.y Committee of Safety, 1775-6. a"d of the House of Dele-
gates, 1784. Carter B." Harrison was member of the House of Dele-
gates, 1784 and 17S5, and M C, 1793-99. A Carter Harrison was also
delegate for Prince George in 1S05-6. George E. Harrison delegate
from Prince George, 1S25. Randolph Harrison delegate from Cumber-
land. William Harrison delegate from Sussex, iS23and 1S24. Nathan-
iel Harrison, who was member of the State Senate in 17S0, from Isle
of Wight, Surry, and Prince George, v,'as doubtless of "Wakefield."
He was probably the Nathaniel Harrison who was speaker of one of
the houses of the Assembly, about 17S4. William Harrison, who was
sheriff of Prince George in 1726 and 1727, was probably of a different
family. It may be of service to the genealogical investigators who
think that all persons of the name Harrison are of the family of which
Mr. Keith writes, to know that in nearly all of the southside counties,
Prince George, Brunswick, Susse.x. Isle of Wight, &c., the records
show numerous Harrisons, many of them named Benjamin, who it is
thought could not possibly have been descended from Benjamm Harri-
son, of Surry.
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Recently, while arranging the manuscripts of the Historical Society,
the secretary found a copy of the will of Benjamin Harrison, tather of
the "Signer." Its existence was before unknown, and deeming it to
be of interest a full copy will be published in a future number of the
Magazine. An account of the " Wakelield " and " Brandon " branches
of the family, and a fuller account of those at " Clifton " and '■ Elk Hill "
may be found in the Richmond Critic.
Mr. Keith does not attempt to give a genealogy of the Carters, which
has been fully done (as far as the descents) in the " Carter Tree." This,
like all other "trees," is unsatisfactory, as being the bare skeleton of a
family history, leaving out the things that make such a history of inter-
est. The account before us, however, shows clearly that John Carter,
the immigrant, was married five times, a fact which we believe; no
account of the family was given. The records of Lancaster county
contain very frequent mention of this Col. John Carter; as Major John
Carter, he was a justice of Lancaster, 1653, and on Dec. 13th. 1656, on
the formation of the present county, he was made presiding justice and
colonel commandant.
There are payments to him for services as a burgess in 165S and
1660. On Apl. Sth, 1659, Governor Matthews issued a warrant to the
sheriff of Lancaster to arrest Col. John Carter, charged with "Con-
tempt of the late commission of the Government set out by his high-
ness [Cromwell] and the lords of the Council," and bring him before
the Governor and Council at Jamestown. His will, at Lancaster C. H.,
was dated January 3d, 1669; but was not put on record until January
9th, 1722. The following is an abstract :
Give the land and houses where I dwell to my son John ; to son
Robert, 1000 acres of the patent deserted by Col. Matthews and taken
up by me, lying on a branch of Corratoman : if son John die without
male issue, his land to go to Robert, and if Robert die without male
issue and John have female issue, the land to go to such issue; and if
John have no issue whatsoever, then the land to go to Robert's female
issue, if he have no male. If neither son have issue then my land to
go to my daughter Elizabeth Utie. Personal Estate to be divided into
three equal parts, of which John and Robert are to have each one, and
the other third is to be divided as follows: my wife Elizabeth to be
paid /500. with remainder to her son (the said amount being due her
by contract) ; to her also, a negro boy, her necklace of pearl and
diamond [&c., &c., &c.]; to daughter Elizabeth Utie ^10 sterling she
having already had a considerable portion ; son Robert to have his
mother's hoop ring, and Crystall necklace; son John to have his
mother's hoop ring and the Elizabeth piece of gold [probably a medal],
also my seal ring, rapier, watch, and wearing apparell, and all my
books, only my son Robert to have one sixth part of them ; and my
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wife to have David's Tears, Byfields Treatise, the whole duty of man,
and her own books; my son Robert, in his minority is to be well edu-
cated for the use of his estate, and he is to have a man or youth servant
bought for him, that hath been brought up in the Latin School, and
that he (the servant) shall constantly tend upon him, not only to teach
him his books, either in English or Latin, according to his capacity (for
my will is that he shall learn both Latin and English, and to write),
and also to preserve him from harm and from doing evil. My execu-
tors to allow my wife for her son's education /lo per annum and in
case my wife put her son out apprentice his portion to bind him is to
be paid; son John is to allow my wife's son (whose name is intended
Charles) necessary clothes. Remainder of estate to be divided into
three equal parts between wife and sons John and Robert. Appoint
Mr. Thomas Haynes, Mr. Thomas Maidstard, Mr. Robert Griggs, and
Mr. David Miles executors. Codicel : My son Charles to have /12
instead of ^10 per annum [also gives several other legacies].
The inventory of the personal estate of Col. John Carter was re-
corded July 20th, 1670. Among numerous entries it included many
napkins and table cicths marked M. V., others marked S. V. P., F.
AC, E. C, and L C. : curtains, sheets, &c,, &c.; a number of beds and
bedsteads, no lbs. of the best sort of pewter, 60 lbs. of the middle
sort of pewter, 55 lbs. of old broken pewter, kitchen utensils, 15
" turkie work chairs," 21 old leather chairs, S turkie work cushions,
and 2 old cushions, 6 Spanish tables, 2 looking glasses, 2 chests of
drawers, 2 silver tankards (valued at /13), i large silver salt sellar, 2
silver porringers, 9 silver spoons, sheep, cattle, hogs and numerous
other articles; the whole appraisement being ^2250 10. 6.
It is not known for whom the initials (containing V.) stand. None of
John Cartel's wives had surnames beginning with V. Perhaps the
impalement three crosses crosslet on shield on Robt. Carter's tomb
represents this name.
The son Charles probably died young as his name does not appear
again except in his brother John's will. Robert, the second son, was
the well known " King Carter," whose will is not on record at Lancas-
ter C. H., but was probably proved in General Court. Of the eldest
son, John, little has been known, though the '' Carter Tree " states that
he married Elizabeth Wormeley, and had a daughter, Elizabeth, who
married Lloyd. He appears in the Lancaster records as Lt. -Colo-
nel Jno. Carter, a justice in 1676, and died in June, 1690, leaving a
daughter, Elizabeth, who married John Lloyd, of Richmond county,
Gentleman. An examination of the General Court records (one vol-
ume in the Society Library) and those of Lancaster, show that this
Col. John Carter, Junior, probably married, first, a daughter of \Vm.
Lloyd, as there is, dated June loth, 1690, a deed from Elizabeth, wife
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of Wm. Lloyd, Gent., one of the overseer's of Col. Jno. Carter [Jr'sj.
will, and grandmother of his daughter, Elizabeth, and that he married
secondly (as the records show), Elizabeth, daughter of Raleigh Travers,
of Lancaster county. She married, secondly. Col. Christopher Worme
ley, of Middlesex (who had himself been married twice before). The
number of times and the rapidity with which these old colonial people
married is astonishing. The Lancaster records prove beyond a doubt
that Elizabeth, the mother of Mrs Elizabeth (Travers) Carter, married,
(I) Thomas Stevens; (2) Raleigh Travers ; (3) Robert Beckingham ; (4)
Thomas Wilks ; (5) George Spencer, and probably a sixth time, as
there is mention, in 1697, of Wm. Man having married Elizabeth
Spencer, widow. It was not at all an unusual thing for a later husband
to submit for probate the will of his predecessor. They all seem to
have been to a man (and woman) devout believers in the precept that
it is not good for man to be alone, and got rid of this loneliness with a
speed which would almost make the funeral baked meats serve for the
wedding feast. It should be borne in mind, however, that the position
of a woman, alone in charge of an estate in a newly settled country,
surrounded by half savage negroes or convict servants, was a dis-
agreeable and trying one, and doubtless accounts a good deal for the
marriages.
The will of John Carter, Jr., dated June 4th, 1690, and proved in Lan-
caster, June nth, 1690, gives freedom to several negroes; to Edward
Herbert 20 shillings for a ring ; makes various provisions for his wife
(who is to have one-third of his books of divinity); his daughter, Eliz-
abeth, to have the other two-thirds of his books of divinity. Two-
thirds of his property (after the payment of his debts) is to go to his
daughter, Elizabeth, who is permitted to sell all the property in Virginia.
the money to be paid by good bills of exciiange to be sent home [the
common term for England] to Mr Lemon and Mr. Arthur Bailey, or
the survivor. His daughter to have her choice at 14 years, either to
stay in Virginia and live either with her grandmother, her molher
[step-mother?], or Mrs. Morrige, which she pleises, and to be allowed
/30 per annum, &c. See. ; or to go to England, and there to be allowed
/40 sterling per annum out of the said interest. His brother, Robert
Carter, to receive two-thirds of the property if Elizabeth died before
she came of age or married, and his brother Charles to have one-third
[one-third of the estate not provided for was of course the wife's
dowerj. Appoints his daughter, Elizabeth, his executor, and her grand-
mother, her "mother-in-law" [step-mother], his brother Robert, and
Mrs. Morrice, overseers. Also gives legacies to Mr. Jackson [Andrew
Jackson, minister of the parish], Mr. Morris and his wife, and Doctor
Innis. Gives to his brother Robert, all his law and Latin books, and
his sword, cane and periwig. There is recorded shortly afterwards
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238 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
an inventory of his personal property, which included 71 slaves, 63
titles of books, Latin, Greek, Spanish and French, and in English; di-
vinity, poetry, history, &c. &c. [The Eiken Basilike appears next to
Ovid, and the Basilikon Doron to Penn's " No Cross no Crown " — Bax-
ter seems to have been an especial favorite]. The articles in this inven-
tory are not appraised; but there is also what appears to be an addi-
tional inventory, amounting to ^1038 3 8. It is worth noting that
there was another I'amily of Carter in Lancaster, descended from .Major
Thomas Carter, justice in 1663.
In connection with the Carter pedigree .Mr. Keith has made careful
investigation in regard to the Landons.
Prefixed to the book is a large genealogical chart, tracing through
many lines a remote and distinguished European ancestry.
Mr. Keith's work throughout is so well done that it really precludes
any critical examination. All that can be said is to praise it. We have,
however, used it as an occasion to gather some additional notes that
may be useful to its readers. It was intended that a much earlier no-
tice should have been given, but unforeseen circumstances have pre-
vented.
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V PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 239
,; PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Manor of Philipsburgh, by Hon. T. Astley Atkins, Yonkers, N. Y.,
1S94.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1894.
Boston, 1S94.
New Hampshire Historical Society Publications, Vol. II, part ii, iii.
Concord, 1S94.
Virginia Exposition. A pamphlet published by the Virginia State
Agricultural and Mechanical Society, Richmond, 1S9}.
Society of the Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts, Celebration of Forefathers' Day, 1893. Boston, 1S94.
Iowa Historical Record. Published by Iowa Historical Society, July,
1894.
Archaeologist for January, 1894. Waterloo, Indiana, 1894.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, June, 1894. Phil-
adelphia, Pa., 1S94.
Pennsylvania .Magazine of History and Biography, No. 2, Vol. XVIII,
Philadelphia, Pa., 1S94.
Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, June, 1894. Madison, 1894.
John Howe Peyton. Ceremonies Attending the Presentation of his
Portrait. Staunton, Va., 1S94.
Alumni Bulletin. University of Virginia, July, 1894.
Bulletin of American Geographical Society for June, 1894. New
York, 1894.
Transactions of the Oneida Historical Society at Utica, 1892-1894.
Utica, N. Y., 1894.
Nebraska Historical Society Publications, Vol. I, No. i. New Series.
Lincoln, 1S94.
Annual Report of American Historical Association for the year, 1893.
Washington, D. C, 1S94. >
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Royal Society of Canada. Proceedings and Transactions, Vol. XI.
Ottawa, 1S94.
American Historical Register, Vol. I, No. i. Philadelphia, 1S94.
Southern Magazine tor Sept. 1894. Louisville, Ky.. 1S94.
Rebellion Record. Series I, Vols. 35, 36, 37, s^. 40.
Canadian Record of Science, No. S, Vol. V. Montreal, 1893.
Johns Hopkins University Studies, Twelfth Series, No. X. English
Institutions and the American Indian. Baltimore. Md., 1S94.
Report of American Bar Association, 1S93. Philadelphia, Pa., 1S93.
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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
Virginia Historical Society
AT ITS
,:. ,^^ ANNUAL MEETING
a lufi;- .■iv''.'J-..v:r-^.'-: ..-^ HELD IN THE .j /; ^ :;. et -v ..^
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1 LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY.
RICHMOND:
VVM. ELLIS JONES, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER.
1894.
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PROCEEDINGS
Virginia Historical Society
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Annua/ Meetiyig held Deceynber i8ih, i8g4.
The annual meeting of the Virginia Historical Society was
held Tuesday evenirg, December iSth, 1894, at the Society's
building, 707 east Franklin street, Richmond, Va. There was
a large attendance of members, and the audience also included
a number of ladies and strangers.
Mr. Joseph Bryan, President of the Society, called the meet-
ing to order, and submitted the following report of the Executive
Committee for the year 1894 :
To the Members of the Virginia Historical Society :
The Executive Committee of your Society have the honor
to submit the following as their annual report for the past year.
At the last annual report the membership of the Society con-
sisted of life members, fifty: annual members, six hundred and
two; total, six hundred and fifty-two. The present membership
is life members, fifty-nine; annual members, six hundred and
ninety-one; total, seven hundred and fifty. This number remains
after omitting the names of all who have resigned, and those
who have not paid their dues for two years, and also those who
we have good reason to believe will not pay their dues this year.
During the past year there were one hundred and eighty-
seven additions to our membership. When it is recalled that
two years ago our membership did not exceed two hundred and
aox I a 30 005^1^1
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IV VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
fifty, the Society may well feel gratified by these evidences of its
strength and progress.
The Treasurer's report is as follows:
On the 9th October, 1S93, the balance on hand in the
State Bank and certificates I'i>95i 09
Received since for annual dues and books 3.473 68
Endowment fund 235 00
Interest on certificates paid 61 09
For life members 500 00
Total 56,220 86
Paid out for printing and other expenses |2,6o2 84
Salaries 1,63200 ' •' \
Insurance 52 50
— 4.287 34
Balance 6th October, 1S94 |i.933 52
as per report to the Executive Committee of that date, consisting of
Balance in the State Bank of Virginia $ 33 52
And 4.^0 certificates i,9c»o 00
I1.933 52
It will be seen that the balance on hand the 9th October this
year is but S17.47 less than we had at the same period last year.
This we may justly regard as a most favorable exhibit, in view
of the general condition of our people.
In our last report we made special refeience to the aid which
had been rendered by other States of the Uniftn to their respec-
tive Historical Societies, and expressed the opinion that a pro-
pitious time had arrived for applying for State aid in our work.
Such an application was made to our Legislature in session last
winter, and a bill was prepared and presented to the proper com-
mittee appropriating $2,000. This sum was cut down by the
finance committee to $1,000, and for that amount the bill was
approved, but it failed of its passage and was not even reached
on the calendar. We shall renew this application at the next
Legislature, but meantime, our reliance is on our own member-
ship for the support of our work.
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Library.
The additions to the library for the eleven months ending De-
cember ist, were three hundred and five volumes, including
books and pamphlets. Many of these were special gifts from
friends of the Society, or from the authors themselves. Partic-
ular reference is gratefully made to the very valuable gift of the
Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia, who presented
the Society with a large number of books by Virginia authors
which formed a part of the collection exhibited in Chicago.
This was a very notable addition to the collection of books relat-
ing to Virginia, now in possession of the Society. Our Library
Committee are specially anxious to increase this collection with a
view of making it in time one of the most complete in the State.
At present, reliance has to be placed on the generosity of friends
of the Society to enlarge the collection, and it is hoped that all
"who are interested in the growth of the library will present to it
such books relaf'ng to Virginia history as they are willing to
give. The most important addition to our literary resources, as
they are among the most valuable in the United States, were the
two volumes of manuscript proceedings of the London Com-
pany, and one volume of miscellaneous manuscript notes from
the Colonial records, apparently compiled about 1740. It is
possible that these are the notes mentioned by Stith in his pre-
face as having been compiled under the direction of Sir John
Randolph, and used by Stith in preparing his history of Virginia.
These manuscripts were delivered to the Society by the heirs of
the late Conway Robinson, in accordance with his express
wishes, and were reserved by them until now, only because the
Society lacked a fire proof safe in which to deposit them. This
safe — a commodious one, but quite too small for all the manu-
script treasures of the Society — has been obtained, put in place,
and contains the most valuable of our manuscripts.
Publications.
The publications of the Society for the past year have been
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confined to its Quarterly Magazine. It is gratifying to know-
that this Magazine is held in high esteem by historical scholars
generally. It is, perhaps, not too much to claim for it the second
position among similar magazines issued in this country. There
has been a growing demand for the back numbers of it from all
parts of the United States. The Secretary printed and distri-
buted a full list of all the publications of the Society, and in
consequence the sales of such publications amounted, during
last year, to about $266.60. The Publication Committee make
an encouraging forecast of their work for the coming year. They
say it is their intention to conform very strictly to the policy
adopted for the Magazine in the beginning, and which has been
the true explanation of the attention which it has attracted among
American scholars, that is, to confine the matter appearing in it,
as far as practicable, to the priceless original materials for Vir-
ginian and American history which are now found in different
receptacles, public and private, in this State and in England.
Following upon this line it is proposed to continue, during the
coming year, the publication of such matter as the Fitzhugh
Letters, to be followed by the Byrd Letters, these being almost
the only material in existence of this special personal character
which throws light on the trade relations of this colony and the
mother country in the seventeenth century, besides being valu-
able from a genealogical point of view.' The publication of the
instructions to Governor Yeardley, in 1618, will, in the course of
1895, be followed by the publication of the instructions given
by the English Government to Harvey, Berkeley, Culpeper and
Howard. It is proposed to continue the series of Grievances
offered by the different counties of Virginia to the English Com-
missioners after the close of the Bacon Insurrection, to be fol-
lowed by the very valuable and interesting first report, never
before printed, which these Commissioners made to their Gov-
ernment as to the causes and events of the Insurrection.
In the October, 1894, number of the Magazine the publication
of the lists of Virginia soldiers engaged in the French and
Indian Wars, under Colonel Washington, was finished, and in the
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PROCEEDINGS. Vll
first number for 1S95 there will be begun the publication of the
Virginia officers and men in the Continental line, which it is pro-
posed to leave no means unemployed to make exhaustive.
It has been considered advisable to introduce a regular depart-
ment of Genealogy into the Magazine, in which the history as
well as the membership of the families treated will be given, and it
has been suggested by the Editor of the Magazine that this de-
partment shall be placed in charge of some genealogical expert
of distinction, so as to assure the most careful and accurate
results.
The Abstracts of the Virginia Land Patents will be continued
with full genealogical notes. These Abstracts and Notes are of
special importance for the light which they throw upon the char-
acter of the Emigration to Virginia from England in the Colonial
age. Every effort will be made to maintain the value and inte-
rest of the contributions to the Historical Notes and Review
Department.
Two years ago we had 4,494 volumes of the publications of
the Virginia Historical Society, beginning with the Letters of
Governor Nelson, published in 1S74. These volumes at the cur-
rent prices charged for them would be worth about $22,000.00,
but at a valuation reduced more than half the Society should
eventually receive not less than Sio.ooo.oo for their investment
in them.
Since our last annual meeting, a complete catalogue of books,
newspapers and pamphlets has been made and arranged alpha-
betically according to the card system. Additional shelf room
has been provided, which will be ample for several years. Your
Executive Committee have also ordered appropriate albums for
preserving photographs or drawings of portraits and other
objects of antiquarian and historical interest.
Ladies' Societies.
As was reported at the last annual meeting, the Society had
tendered the use of the rooms to the Association for the Preser-
vation of Virginia Antiquities, fo the Society of the Colonial
.rnarfl oi
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Vni VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Dames of America, and to the Old Dominion Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution. These organizations
have, from time to time, held their meetings in the rooms of the
Historical Society, and we have been gratified by the interest
that the ladies have taken in the objects of our Society and their
appreciation of its usefulness, which they have practically illus-
trated, not only by the presentation to the Society last year of
$902.60 in cash, but they now offer to furnish the upper rooms
of our building, and have made an appropriation for that pur-
pose, which will be expended under the direction of a committee
composed of representatives of those Societies and of this.
They further offer us for our reading-rooms the leading periodi-
cals and magazines of the day.
Assistant-Librarian. ...
For several months past your committee have caused the rooms
of the Society to be kept open from 9 A. M. until 10:30 P. M.
After 5 P. M., the rooms have been under the guardianship of Mrs.
Sallie Nelson Robins, the Assistant-Librarian, whose work in as-
sisting the Corresponding Secretary and Librarian about the cata-
logue of our books and the publication of our Magazine, as well as
in the perfoimance of all duties as Assistant-Librarian, the Secre-
tary and Librarian has specially recognized and acknowledged
to have been most intelligent and efficient. The rooms have
been visited by an increasing number of those interested in his-
torical research, and many strangers make a point of finding
their way to our building upon visiting the city. Some improve-
ment has been made in lighting the apartments, and although
their furniture is not luxurious, the rooms have been kept thor-
oughly comfortable. A cordial acknowledgement should be
made by the Society to its officers : Mr. Philip A. Bruce, Cor-
responding Secretary and Librarian, and his,assistant Mrs. Sallie
Nelson Robins, to the Recording Secretary, D. C. Richardson,
Esq., and to our Treasurer, R. T. Brooke, Esq., for their faith-
ful work and zealous interest to which so much of the prosperity
of the Society is due.
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Necrology.
Since our last meeting among the names which have by the
hand of death been stricken from our roll are those of Dr. C. G.
Barney, one of the oldest life members of the Society, whose
services in preserving our library during the war were specially
acknowledged in our last annual report. The Honorable R. C.
Winthrop, of Boston, an honorary member, full of honors as ot
years— a cordial friend of \'irginia — with the consciousness ot
having faithfully served his State in his day and generation, has
departed as one " who wraps the drapery of his couch about him
and lies down to pleasant dreams." A strong link between Mass-
achusetts and Virginia has been broken which we may in vain
look to see replaced.
But upon our own circle has the great leveler laid his resisdess
hand, and loving a shining mark, he has stricken down in the
perfection of his manhood, in the fullness of his usefulness, our
associate on this committee, Frank H. McGuire. The untimely
death of this "loyal and true-hearted" Virginian and zealous
member of this Society has been lamented by many, but by none
more than ourselves.
Conclusion.
Your committee are of the opinion that a great sphere of use-
fulness lies before the Society; that no argument is needed to
convince even the most thoughtless of the value of experience
as a teacher; that history presents the experience of nations, and
that it is as true now as it was in the days of Solomon, " That
the thing that hath been is that which shall be, and that which is
done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing
under the sun"; that at no period of our history has it ever
been more essential than now to hold fast to sound doctrine in
the conduct of the affairs of State, and that as no new principle
of government will be discovered, we have before us only the
choice of those that have been tried; that as a Society profess-
ing to investigate especially the history of Virginia, we have a
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field rich in material of greatest value for the instruction of both
citizen and statesman; that in no territory of like area, in no
lapse of time of the same length, in no population of equal num-
bers, in no part of the world, or any period of its history will
there be found as much to instruct and to elevate, to broaden
philanthropy and intensify patriotism, to add modesty to pros-
perity, and take humiliation and despair from deleat, and to
make men strong and true and brave, as may be found in the
history of the people of Virginia.
Jos. Bryan.
December iSih, 1894.
Upon the conclusion of the reading of the report, the com-
mittee appointed at the last meeting of the Executive Committee
to draft resolutions of respect to the memory of Mr. Francis H.
McGuire, a member of the Executive Committee, submitted the
following:
The Virginia Historical Society is called upon to mourn the death of
Francis H. McGuire, a member of its Executive Committee, and his
associates upon that Committee desire to commit to record a brief me-
morial of his usefulness, and the sense of their personal bereavement
in the loss of their highly esteemed co-official and friend.
The religious, benevolent, educational, and professional organizations
with which he was connected, have already, by appropriate action,
borne testimony to the high esteem in which he was held and the fidel-
ity with which he discharged his several trusts.
In his relations with the members of this Committee he exhibited the
same lovable yet manly qualities which endeared him to his associates
in rhose other organizations, and that faithfulness in the discharge of
of every duty which brought him merited distinction in all the walks
of life. Industry and perseverance were among the most prominent
features of his character.
To purity of heart and a high sense of honor he added a courtesy of
manner and forgetfulness of self which justly entitled him to the appel-
lation of "Virginia Gentleman." He was sprung tVom a stock always
in full sympathy with the institutions of the Commonwealth and the
genius of her people. In their lives and fortunes they but mirrored
the changes in her varied but ever glorious history. Thus connected
by lies of blood and association, the work of this Society was to him,
indeed, a labor of love. To collect and preserve in authentic form the
memorials which should declare, with unquestioned voice, the history
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of Virginia; to bring to her people such knowledge of her past as
would stimulate them to higher aspirations; all this he accounted patri-
otic effort, worthy of his best endeavors. To this great work he lent
his time and sympathy with unstinted energy. In his death the work
of historical research and preservation has lost a valued ally, and this
Society one of its loremost friends.
The President appointed the following gentlemen as a com-
mittee to report nominations of officers for the ensuing year :
Messrs. Henry S. Hutzler, S. S. P. Patteson, Jackson Guy and
Edward T. Crump.
After conferring together they reported the names of the fol-
lowing persons, and they were elected unanimously, Rev. Dr.
Wm. T. Richardson being instructed to cast the vote of the
Society:
President, Joseph Bryan, Richmond, Va.; Vice-Presidents, J.
L. M. Curry, Washington, D. C. ; Archer Anderson, Richmond,
Va. ; William P. Palmer, M. D., Richmond, \'a. ; Corresponding
Secretary and Librarian, Philip A. Bruce, Richmond, Va.; Re-
cording Secretary, D. C. Richardson, Richmond.Va. ; Treasurer,
Robert T. Brooke, Richmond.Va. ; Executive Committee, Lyon
G. Tyler, Williamsburg, Va. ; E. V. Valentine, Richmond, Va. ;
C. V. Meredith, Richmond, Va. ; B. W. Green, ^L D. , Richmond,
Va. ; William G. Stanard, Richmond, Va.; B. B. Munford, Rich-
mond, Va.; R. H. Gaines, Richmond, Va. ; Colonel W. H.
Palmer, Richmond, Va. ; Virginius Newton, Richmond, Va. ;
R. L. Traylor, Richmond, Va. ; Professor Charles W. Kent,
University of Virginia; E. C. Venable, Petersburg, Va.
Mr. R. H. Gaines, from the Committee on New Members,
submitted the following for membership, and they were elected:
G. Childers, Clarksville, Tenn.; John B. Atkinson, Earlington,
Ky. ; Mrs. Selden S. Wright, San Francisco, Cal. ; John Lewis
RoBarts, Hannibal, Mo.; Rev. C. E. Craik, Louisville, Ky.;
Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. ; W. W. Flournoy, Lake City,
Fla. ; Tucker C. Eggleston and Mrs. Franklin Stearns, Rich-
mond.Va.
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Stated that it had been expected that Judge W. W. Crump
would make the annual address, but was prevented from doing
so by illness. Professor Lyon G. Tyler, President of William
and Mary College, had been called upon instead and had readily
responded.
Mr. Bryan then introduced Professor Tyler, who read a very
interesting and valuable paper on " Elections in Colonial Vir-
ginia." The paper was a strong presentation of the Democratic
spirit that prevailed in the Colony.
Rev. Dr. Richardson made a few remarks about sulfrage in
Virginia after the establishment of the Commonwealth, and after
a vote of ^jianks to Professor Tyler, proposed by Mr. Henry S.
Hutzlef, the meeting adjourned.
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OFFICERS AND MEMBERS
OF THE
Virginia Historical Society,
JANUARY 1, 1895. .
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J. L. M. Curry, Washington, D. C.
I Archer An'^erson, Richmond, Va.
J William P. Palmer, M. D., Richmond, Va.
f.-«^n t'.'_> Corresponding Secretary and Librarian. V . ■
Philip A. Bruce, Richmond, Va.
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Treasurer.
» Robert T. Brooke, Richmond, Va, • '■'>
Executive Committee.
Lyon G. Tyler, Williamsburg, Va. R. H. Gaines, Richmond, Va.
E. V. Valentine, Richmond, Va. \Vm. H. Palmer, Richmond, Va.
C. V. Meredith, Richmond, Va. Virginius Newton, Richmond, Va.
B.W. Green, M. D., Richmond.Va. R. L. Traylor, Richmond. Va.
Wm. G. Stanard, Richmond, Va. Chas. VV. Kent, University of Va.
B. B. MuNFORD, Richmond, Va. E. C. Venable, Petersburg, Va.
and, ex-officio, the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries,
and Treasurer.
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LIST OF MEMBERS.
HONORARY MEMBERS.
Arber, Prof Edw'd, Birniinghain, Eng'd.
Brown, Alexander, Norwood, Va.
Gilbert, Hon. J. \V., New Vork, N. V.
Jones, Rev. John Wm.,D. D., Atlanta, Ga
Keane, Prof. A. H., London, Eng'd.
Sainsburi', W. Noel, Londoti, Eng'd.
Spofford, Hon A. R., Washington, D. C
Stewart, .Mrs. John, Brook Hill, Va.
Whitsitt, Rev. VV. H., D. D., Louisville, Ken-
tucky.
Winthrop, Hon. Robert C. (Dec), Boston,
Mass.
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
Adams, F. G , Topeka, Kansas.
Alrill, Chas. H., London, Eng'd.
Bacon, H. F., Bury St. Edmund, Eng'd.
Banks, Chas. E., M. D., Chelsea, Mass.
Barber, E. A., Philadelphia. Pa.
Bryant, H. \V , Portland, Me.
Campeau, Hon. F. R. E., Ottawa, Canada.
Carrington, Gen. H. B., .New York, N. V.
Champlin, J. D.. Jr., New York, N. Y.
Craig, Isaac, Alleghany, Pa.
Dean, John Ward, Boston, Mass.
Darling, Gen. C. W., Utica, N. Y.
Drake, Col. S. A., Kentiebunkport, Me.
Egle, VVm. H., M. D , Harrisburg, Pa.
Fernow, Berthold, Washington, D. C.
Graham, A. A., Columbus, O.
Green, Hon. S. A., M. D , Boston, Mass.
Hart, Chas. H., Philadelphia, Pa.
Hayden, Rev. H. E., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Hinsdale, Prof. B. A.. Ann Arbor, Mich.
Hoadly, Hon. C. J., Hartford, Conn.
Hoes, Rev. R. R , Washington, D. C.
Judah, George F., Spanish Town, Jamaica.
Lee, J. W. .M., Baltimore, Md.
Nicholson, Col. J. P., Philadelphia, Pa.
Perry, Hon. Amos, Providence, R. L
Peyster, Gen J. Watts de. New York, N. Y.
Phillimore, W. P. W., London, Eng'd.
Rose, Josiah, Lancaster, EngM.
Ross, Hon. D A., Quebec, Canada.
Stone, F. D., Philadelphia, Pa.
Thwing, E. P., Brooklyn. N. Y.
Wright, W. H. K , Plymouth, Eng'd.
LIFE MEMBERS.
Alexander, H. M., New York, N. Y.
Andrews, O., Baltimore, Md.
Astor Library, New York N. Y.
Bain, George ^L , Jr , Portsmouth, Va.
Barksdale. George A., Richmond, Va.
Barksdale, R , M. D , Petersburg, Va.
Barney, C. G., M. D.iDec.i, Richmond, Va.
Beverley, Col. R., The Plains, Va.
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, .Mass.
Brooks, P. C, Boston, Mass.
Bryan, Joseph, Richmond, Va.
Byrd, George H., New York, N. Y.
Cabell, J. .Alston, Richmond, Va.
California State Library, Sacramento, Cal.
Conway, M D , New York, N. Y.
Columbia College, New York, N V.
Cleburne, C. J.. M. D , U. S. Naval Hos-
pital, Boston, Mass.
Cottrell, James L., Richmond, Va.
Davenport, Isaac, Jr., Richmond, Va.
Deats, H. E., Flemington, N. J.
Ellis, Col. Thos. H.. Washington, D. C.
Gary, J. A., Baltimore, Md.
Gibbs, Mrs. Virginia B., New York, N. Y.
Grafflin, John C. Baltimore, Md.
Grandy, C. Wiley, Norfolk, Va.
Gratz, Simon, Philadelphia, Pa.
Grigsby, H. C , Smithville, Va.
HoUiday, Hon. F W. M., Winchester, Va.
Hughes, R. M., Norfolk, Va.
Ingalls, y\. E , Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jones, William Ellis, Richmond, \'a.
Keith, Charles P., Philadelphia, Penn.
Lee, Edmund J.. Philadelphia, Penn.
Lee, General G. W. C., Lexington, Va.
Lee, Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips, Silver
Springs, Sliiro, .Md.
Leiter, L. Z., Chicago, 111.
Logan, General T. NL, Richmond, Va.
Low, Hon. Seth, New York, N. Y.
Mallory, Hon. E. S., Jackson, Tenn.
Mather, Mrs. M. H., Bound Brook, N. J.
Minor, B. B., Richmond, Va.
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, Chicago, 111.
New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.
Price, Prof. Thos. R., Columbia College,
N. Y.
Purcell, John (Dec), Richmond, Va.
Richardson, D. C., Richi.^ond, Va.
Richeson, Col. Thos., St. Louis, Mo.
Rives, .Arthur L., Newport, R. I.
Rives, George Lockhart, New York, N. Y.
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Richmond, Va , College Library.
Talcott, Colonel T. M. R., Richmond, Va.
Traylor, R. L., Richmond, Va.
Van de Vyver, Rt. Rev. A., D. D., Rich-
mond, \'a
Walker, Major D. X., Richmond. Va.
Washington & Lee L'niv., Le.xington, \'a.
Whitehead, J. B , Norfolk, Va.
Wickham, Henry T., Richmond, \"a.
Williams, Thomas C, Richmond, \"a.
Woodhouse, James (Dec.i, Richmond, \'a.
ANNUAL MEMBERS.^
Adams, Walter, Fra: lingham, Mass.
Addison, E. B., Richmond, Va.
Addison, John, Richmond, Va.
Adelbert College, Cleveland. O.
Akers, M. L., Richmond, Va.
Aldrich, Hon. P. Emory, Worcester, Mass.
Alexander, Rev. H. C, D. D., Oakland,
Md. (Dec)
Alfriend, Thomas L., Richmond, \'a.
Alger, General Russell .\., Detroit, Mich.
Allison, James W. Richmond, \'a.
Anderson, Colonel Archer, Richmond, Va.
Anderson, Gen. Charles J , Richmond, Va.
Anderson, James Harper, Richmond, Va.
Anderson, James House Columbus, O.
Anderson, James Lewis, Richmond, Va.
Anderson, John F. T., Richmond, Va.
Anderson, W. A., Le.xington, Va.
Atkins, S. B., Richmond, Va.
Atkinson, J. B., Earlington, Ky.
Atkinson, Thomas, Richmond, Va.
Axtell, Decatur, Richmond, Va.
Avers, Hon. Rufus A., Big Stone Gap, Va.
Baker, R. H., Norfolk, Va.
Ball, Miss Anne Randolph, Washington,
D. C.
Ballou, Hosea Starr, Brookline, Mass.
Banister, Rev T. Lewis, Hartford, N. V.
Barton, R. T., Winchester, Va.
Baskervill, H. E. C, Richmond, Va.
Battle, K. P., Chapel, Hill, N. C
Baxter, W. H., Petersburg. Va.
Bayard, Hon. T. F., Wilmington, Del
Bayne, Howard R., New York, N. Y.
Bea-sley, J. B., Richmond, Va.
Beckwith, Thomas S.. Petersburg, Va.
Beer, George L., New York, N. Y.
Benet, Mrs. Gen L.V., Washington, D. C
Benney, James, Pittsburg, \'a.
Benson, Arthur P., Salem, Va.
Bien, Joseph, H., New York, !..'. Y.
Bird, Prof. H. S., Williamsburg, Va.
Blackford, Prof. L. .M., Alexandria, \'a.
Blackford, Charles M , Lynchburg, Va.
Blair, Lewis H., Richmond, Va.
Blanton, L. M., Richmond, Va.
Bliss, William Root, New York, N. Y
Bocock, Prui. Willis H., Athens, Ga.
Boisseau, P. H., Danville, Va.
Booth, E. G., M. D., Carter's Grove, Va.
Bosher, Charles G., Richmond, \'a.
Bosher, .Major Robert S., Richmond, Va.
Boston (Mass.) Public Library, Boston,
Mass.
Boulware, Aubin L., Richmond, Va
Bourguin, F., Philadelphia, Pa.
Bowler, Mrs. George W.. Bar Harbor, Me.
Boykin, Coljnel F". M., Richmond, Va.
Brackett, Jeffrey R., Baltim.ore, Md.
Bradford, Mrs. A. E. T., N-rfolk, Va.
Bradlee, Rev. C. D., D. D., Boston, Mass.
Branch, Major John P., Richmond, Va.
Brandt, Jackson, Richmond, Va.
Bridges, W. M., Richmond, Va.
Broadhead, Prof. G. C, Columbia, Mo.
Broadhead, Hon. J. O., St. Louis, Mo.
Brodhead, Lucas, Spring Station. Ky.
Brooke, Robert T., Richmond, Va.
Brooke, James V., Warrenton, Va.
Brooklyn Public Librarj-, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Brooks, Walter Frederick, Wor':ester,
Mass.
Broun, Major T. L., Charleston, W. Va .
Brown, J. Thompson, Brierfield, Va.
Brown University Librar\-, Providence, R. L
Brown, Prof. W. G., Lexington, \'a.
Bruce, Hon. Charles M., Phisnix, Arizona.
Bruce, Horalio W., Louisville, Ky.
Bruce, Prof. James D., Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Bruce, Philip A., Richmond, Va
Bruce, T. Seddon, Richmond, Va.
Bruce, William Cabell, Bakiniore, Md.
Bryan, Mrs. Joseph, Richmond, Va.
Bryan, J. Stewart, Richmond, Va.
Bryant, Lewis E., Harriman, Tenn.
Buchanan, Hon. John A., Abingdon, Va.
Buckner, Mrs. S. B.. Rio, Ky.
Bulfington, Colonel A. R.. U. S. A., Rock
Island. 111.
Buford, Colonel A. S., Kichmond, \'a.
Buford, Judge E. P., LawrencevUle, Va.
•This list also includes subscribers to the Magazine.
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Bullitt, \V. C . Philadelphia, Pa.
Burke, X. P. T., Alexandria. Va.
Burnett, H. C, Richmond, Va,
Burwell, P. L , Mount Savage. Md.
Burwell, Eilbeck Mason, Brooklyn, N. v.
Cabell, Rev P. B., Wilmington, Del.
Cabell, \V. D., Washington, D. C.
Caine, Paul, Louisville, Ky.
Callahan, G. C , Philadelphia, Pa.
Cameron, Alexander, Richmond, Va.
Carlisle, Calderon, Washington, D. C.
Came, Rev. R. L., Richmond, Va.
Carrington, Miss Ada B., Richmond, Va.
Carrington, Major P. R., Richmond, Va.
Carter, Prof. F., Williamstown, .Mass.
Carter, Col. Thos. H., Washington, D. C
Carothers, Thomas P., Newport, Ky.
Cary, Colonel J, B., Richmond, Va.
Cary, W. M., Baltimore, Md.
Casey, Prof Jos. J., Xe'w York. N. V.
Caskie, James. Richmond. Va.
Catlin, E. A , Richmond, Va.
Central Library, Syracuse, X. V.
Chamblin, John. Richmond, Va.
Chaney, Rev. G. L , Richmond, Va.
Chanler, Mrs. Amelie Rives, AlbemarIe,Va.
Channing, Prof. Edward, Cambridge, Mass.
Chappell, Philip E.. Kansas City, Mo.
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, III.
Chicago Public Library, Chicago, 111.
Childrey, John K. (Dec.i, Richmond, Va.
Childers, Gracey, Clarksville, Tenn.
Chase, W. T. (Dec), Chase's Wharf, Va.
Christian, A. H., Richmond, Va.
Christian, E. D., Richmond, Va.
Christian, Frank W.. Richmond, Va.
Christian, Judge Geo. L , Richmond, Va.
Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati O.
Claiborne, Herbert A , Richmond, Va.
Claiborne, John Herbert, M. D., Peters-
burg, \'a.
Clark, Clarence H., Philadelphia, Pa.
Clark, M A., Clarksville, Tenn.
Clarke, Arthur B., Richmond, Va.
Clarke, P. X., Louisville, Va.
Clyde, W. P., Xew Yoric, X. Y.
Cocke, Preston, Richmond, Va.
Cocke, Prof. Chas. H.. Columbus, Miss.
Coit, Rev. H. A., D. D., Concord, X. H.
Coke, Captain John A., Richmond, Va.
Cole, H. W., M. D., Danville, Va.
Coleman, Chas. W., Williamsburg, Va.
Collins, Holdridge O., Los Angeles, Cal.
Columbus Public School Library, Colum-
bus, Ohio.
Conrad, Major Holmes. Winchester, Va.
Constant, S. V., Xew York, X. Y.
Cornell University Library, Ithica, N. Y.
Corning, John Herbert, Washington, D. C.
Cottrell, James C. iDec). Richmond, Va.
Cottrell, O. L., Richmond, Va.
Cox, Edwin P., Richmond, Va
Craik, Rev. C. E., Louisville, Ky.
Cranz, Oscar, Richmond. Va.
Crenshaw, Jr., L. D., Richmond, Va.
Crenshaw, S. Dabney, Richmond, Va.
Crocker, Major J. F.. Portsmouth, Va..
Cropper, John, Washington, D. C.
Crump, Beverly T., Richmond, Va.
Crump, Ed'.vard T.. Richmond, Va.
Crump, Hon. W. W., Richmond. Va.
Culiingworth, J. X., Richmond, Va.
Cuilingworth, W. H., Richmond, Va.
Cunningham. F. W., Richmond, Va.
Curry, Hon. J L. M., Washington, D. C.
Cussons, Captain John. Glen .-Mien, Va.
Curtis, Mrs. H. W., Knoxville, Tenn.
Cutshaw, Colonel W. E., Richmond, Va.
Dabney, Prof. C. W., Jr., Knoxville, Tenn.
Dabney, Prof. R. H., University of Va.
Dabney, Prof W. C-, .M. D., (Dec ), Uni-
versity of Va.
Daniel, J R V., Richmond, Va.
Dartmouth College Library, Hanover X
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Davenport, Charles, Richmond, Va.
Davenport, G. A., Richmond, Va.
Davie, Pascal, Petersburg, Va.
Davies, W. G., Xew York, X. Y
Davis, Hon. J. C. B., Washington, D. C.
Dawes, Colonel E. C-, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Day, Colonel C F., Smithfield, Va.
Denham, Edward, Xew Bedford, Mass.
Denman, H. B.. Washington, D. C
Dennis, Judge J. Upshur, Baltimore, Md.
Denny, Prof. Geo H., Charlottesville, Va.
Detroit Public Library, Detroit, .Mich.
Dexter, Hon. Julius, Cincinnati, O.
Dickerson, J. E., .Asheville, N. C.
Dickerson, J. H., Jr., Richmond, Va.
Dickinson, Colonel A. G., .Vew York, N. Y.
Diggs, J. Singleton, Lynchburg, Va.
Dixon, .Mrs. Constance .M., .Alameda, Cal.
Dimmock, Captain M. J., Richmond, Va.
Doswell, Major J. T., Fredericksburg, Va.
Downey, M. (Dec.i, Richmond, Va.
Doyle, John T., .Menlo Park, Cal.
Drewry, Clay, Richmond, Va.
Dudley, Rt. Rev. Thomas U., D. D.,
Louisville, Ky.
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Va.
Duke, Judge R. T.W., Jr., Charlottesville,
Va.
Dunbar, J. B., Bloomfield, X.J.
Dunn, John, M. D., Richmond, Va.
Dupont, H. A., Wilmington, Del.
Durrett, Colonel R. T., Louisville, Ky.
Eaton, George G., Washington, D. C.
Edmunds, H. L., St. Louis, Mo.
Edsall, Thomas H., Colorado Springs,
Col.
Eggleston, Tucker C. Richmond, Va.
Ellett, John S , Richmond, Va.
Ellett, Hon. Tazewell, Richmond, Va.
EUinger, W^m., Crisfield, Md.
Ellyson, Hon. J. Taylor, Richmond, Va.
Endicott, Hon. William C, Salem, Mass.
English, Hon. Wm. H., Indianapolis, Ind.
Ewell, Judge John C, Millenbeck, Va.
Farragut, Loyall, New York, N. Y.
Farrar,J. B., Richmond, Va.
Fergusson, J. W., Richmond, Va.
Fishburne, John W., Charlottesville, Va.
Fiske, Prof. John, Cambridge, Mass.
Fitts, J. H., Tuscaloo-a, Alabama.
Fitzgerald, W. H., Richmond, Va.
Fitzhugh, Mrs. Wm. D.,Mt. Morris, New
York.
Fleet, Prof. A. A., Mexico, Missouri.
Fleming, Colonel R J., Washington, D. C.
Flournoy, Hon. H. W., Richmond, Va.
Flournoy, Josiah, Ocala, Fla.
Flournoy, Lafayette M., Spokane, Wash.
Flournoy, Mathew Wells, Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
Flournoy, M. W., Norborne, Missouri.
Flournoy, Robert, Columbus, Ga.
Flournoy, Major R. C. A , Sioux City,
Iowa.
Flournoy, R. T., St. Paul, Minn.
Flournoy, Richard W., Richmond, Va.
Flournoy, R. W., Fort Worth, Texas.
Flournoy, Rosalie C, Linneus, Missouri.
Flournoy, William, Victoria, La.
Flournoy, William H., Lake City, Fla.
Flournoy, William S., Kansas City, Mo.
Folk, Wm. L., Smithfield, Va.
Folsom, A. A., Brookline, Mass.
Force, General .M . F., Sandusky, Ohio.
Ford, Worthington C, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fo.Test, Rev. D. F., D. D., Clarksburg,
W. Va.
Fox, VV. F., Richmond, Va.
Freeman, John C, Richmond, Va.
French, Mrs James A., San .\ntonio, Tex.
French, Judge S. Bas?ett, Manchester, Va.
Frierson, G. F., Columbia, Tenn.
Frisbie, Rev. Wm. B.. Boston, .Mass. .
Fulkerson, S. V., Bristol, \'a.
Fulton, J. H., Wythevilie, Va.
Gaines, C. Carrington, Poughkeepsie
N. Y.
Gaines, Colonel Grenville, Wanenton,
Va.
Gaines, R. H., Richmond, Va.
Gaines, W. P., Austin, Texas.
Gardner, Rev. W. F., Dorsey, Md.
Garland, J. .A, New York, N. Y.
Garland, Spotswood, Wilmington, Del.
Garnett, Prof J. M., University of Virginia.
Garrett, Robert, Baltimore, Md.
Garrett, Prof Van F., M. D., Williamsburg,
Va.
General Theological Seminarv, New York,
N. Y.
George, Major J. P., Richmond, \'a.
Oilman, Prof. D. C, Baltimore. Md.
Ginter, Major Lewis, Richmond, Va.
Glennan, Colonel M , Norfolk, Va.
Goodale, VV. H., Baton Rouge, La.
Goode, Prof G. Brown, Washington, D.C
Goode, Hon. John, Washington, D. C.
Goddin, Charles W., Richmond, Va.
Godwin, .Miss M. H., Fincastle, Va.
Goodwin, Mrs. M. W., New York, N. Y.
Gordon, Hon. Basil B., Rappahannock, Va.
Gordon, Mrs. J. J., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Gordon, .M. K., Concord, N. H.
Gray, W. F., Richmond, Va.
Green, Andrew H., New \'ork, N. Y.
Green, Mrs. Anne S., Culpeper, Va.
Green, B. W., M. D., Richmond, Va.
Green, W. H., Washington, D. C.
Griffith, W. R.. Baltimore, Md.
Grinnan, Daniel, Richmond, Va.
Gunter, Hon. B. T., Accomac C. H., Va.
Guillardeu, W. L.. New York, N. Y.
Guy, Jackson. Richmond, Va.
Hall, Prof. J. Leslie, Williamsburg, Va.
Hall, P. P. G.. Philadelphia, Pa.
Hampton N. & A. Institute, Hampton, Va
Handley, Judge John, Scranton, Pa.
Harris, Hon. John T., Harrisonburg, Va.
Harrison, Hon. Benj., Indianapolis, Ind.
Harrison, Col. Burton N., New York, N. Y.
Harrison, Geo. T , M. D., New York, N. Y.
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Harrison, James P., Danville, \'a.
Harrison, Randolph, Lynchburg, \a.
Harrison, Robert L., New York, N. V.
Harvard University, Canibrid-j;e, Mass
Haskins, Colonel Meade, Richmond, Va.
Havemeyer, W. F., New York, N. Y.
Hawes, Horace, Richmond, Va.
Hawes, S. H., Richmond, Va.
Hawley, Hon. E. S., Buffalo, X. Y.
Heaton, A. G., Washington, D. C.
Heffelfinger, Jacob, Hampton, Va.
Henneman, Prof. J. B., Hampden-Sidney,
Va.
Henry, John F., Louisville, Ky.
Henry, R. R., Tazewell, Va.
Henry, Hon. \V. \V., Richmond, Va
Herbert, Colonel A., Alexandria, Va.
Hey], Coi. E. -\L, U. S. A., Chicago, 111.
Higham, \V. R., Richmond, Va.
Hill, \V. M , Richmond. Va.
Hoar, Hon. George F., Worcester, Mass.
Hobson, Henry W., Denver, Col.
Hoge, M. D., M. D , Jr., Richmond, Va.
Hooe, Captain James C , Ale.-candria, Va.
Hooe, P. B., Washington, D. C.
Hopkins, J. W. Richmond, \'a.
Howard, Maj. .McH., Baltimore, Md.
Hudson, John E., Boston, Mass.
Hughart, W. O., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Hughes, Charles J., Jr., Denver, Col.
Hughes, Hon. R. W., Norfolk, \'a.
Hume, Frank, Alexandria, Va.
Hunnewell, J. F., Charleston, Mass.
Hunt, Gaillard, Washington, D. C.
Hunter, Major John, Jr., Richmond, Va.
Hutzler, H. S., Richmond, Va.
Illinois State Library, Springfield, 111.
Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Ind.
Ingle, Edward, Washington, D. C.
Ingram, Judge John H., Richmond, Va.
Jackson, John, Richmond, Va.
Jadwin, Hon. C. C-, Honesdale, Pa.
James, Edward W., Richmond, Va.
Jenkins, John B., Norfolk, Va
Jenkins, Luther H., Richmond, Va.
Jenks, Rev. Henry F., Canton, Mass.
Johnson, Hon. Tom L., Washington, D. C.
Johnson, Capt Wm. R., Crescent, W. Va.
Jones, Col. Henry C. Richmond, Va.
Jones, Henley T., Williamsburg, Va.
Jones, Miss Mary Morris, Richmond, Va
Jones, Meriwether, Richmond, Va.
Jones, William Henry, Richmond, Va.
Jordan, Scott, Chicago, 111.
Joynes, Levin, Richmond, Va.
JCean, Colonel R. G. H , Lynchburg, \'a.
Keane, Rt. Rev. J. J., D. D , Washington,
D. C.
Keeling, Judge J. M , Princess Anne, C.
H., Va.
Kent, Prof. C. W., University of \'a.
Kilby, Judge Wilbur J., Suffolk, Va.
Kinsolving, Rev. A. B., Brooklyn, N. V.
Kirkman, Lieut. George W., U. S. A., Be-
nicia, Cal.
Knabe, William, Baltimore, Md
Lamb, Judge J. C, Richmond, Va.
Lamb, Col. William, Norfolk, Va.
Lancaster, R. A., Richmond, Va.
Lassiter, Major F. R.. Petersburg, \'a.
Lawton. W. P., Richmond, Va.
Leach, J. Granville, Philadelphia, Pa.
Leake, Judge Wm. Josiah, Richmond, Va.
Lee, Cazeiiove G., Washington, D. C
Lee, Captain R. E., Lexington, Va.
Leigh, Egbert G., Jr., Richmond, Va.
Leno.x Library, New York, N. Y.
Letcher, S. Houston, Lexington, Va.
Lewis, Mrs. Cassandra F., Frankfort, Ky.
Lewis, John H., Lynchburg, Va.
Lewis, Thomas, Roanoke, Va.
Levy, Jefferson M., Charlottesville, Va. .
Library Company, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lindsay, Rev. John 3 , D. D., Boston,
Mass.
Lipscomb, Andrew A., Washington, D. C.
Lodge, Hon. H. C, Nahant, .Mass. .^
Long, Hon. A. R., Lynchburg, Va.
Loyall, Captain, B. P., Norfolk, Va.
Lurty, Major W. S., Harrisonburg, Va.
Lyons, James, Richmond, Va.
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Maddox, Mrs Knox G., San Jose, Cal.
Maine State Libran-, .\ugusta. Me.
Mallory, Lt. J. S., U. S. A., Fort
Antonio, Tex.
Mackoy. William H., Covington, Ky.
Mann, Judge W. H., Nottoway, C H, Va.
Marshall, Colonel Charles, Baltimore, Md.
Martin, Hon. Thomas S., Scottsville, Va.
Marye, Hon. J. L., Fredericksburg, Va.
Mason, Edward G., Chicago, III.
Mason, of R. , John T , Baltimore, Md.
Massachusetts State Library, Boston, Mass.
Massie, Eugene C., Richmond, Va.
Maury, Colonel R. L., Richmond, Va.
.Maxwell, John W. C., San Francisco, Cal.
.Mayo. E. C, Richmond, Va.
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Mayo, G. \V., Richmond, Va.
Mayo, P. H., Richmond, Va-
Mercantile Library Association, New York
NY.
Mercer, Carroll, Washington, D. C.
Mercer, \Y. R., Doyiestown, Pa.
Meredith, Charles. V., Richmond, Va.
Meredith, W. R.,
Merrill, Prof. George F.,
Metropolitan Club. Washington, DC.
Miller, Thomas W., Roanoke, \'a.
Minneapolis .Athenxum, Minneapolis, Min.
Minor, Prof. J. B , I'niversity of Va.
Mitchell, Kirkwood, Richmond, Va.
Moncure, James D. M. D., Williams-
burg, Va.
Moncure, W. A., Richmond, \'a.
Montague, Hon. .\. J., Danville. Va.
Moon, Ellis .M., Richmond. Va.
Moore, Josiah S.,
Moore, Mrs. St. John, .Augusta. Ga.
Moore, Thomas J., M. D , Richmond. Va.
Moore, Warner, Richmond, \"a.
Morgan, Rev. Yelverton Peyton, St. Paul,
Minn.
Morse, Prof. A. D., Amherst, Mass.
Morton, F. W., Pulaski County, Va.
Morton, Waller, Richmond, Va.
Munford, B B .
Munford, R. B.,
Munford. Gen. T. T., Uniontown. .A.ia.
Mushbach, Geo. A., Alexandria, Va.
Myers, M^jor E. T. D., Richmond, Va.
Myers, Lilburn T., "
Mc.\dams, George B. , "
McAllister, J T. , Warm Springs, Va.
McCabe, Prof. W G., Petersburg, Va.
McCaw,J. B.,M. D., Richmond. Va.
McClelland, Miss .M. G.. Norwood, Va.
McClintock, A. H., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
McGuire, Edward, M. D., Richmond, Va.
McGuire, Frank H.,
McGuire, Hunter, M. D.,
McGuire, J. P.,
McGuire, J. P., Jr.,
Mcllwaine, W. B., Petersburg. Va.
M'Laughiin, Judge Win., Lexington, \'a.
McNary, HughF., M D , Princeton, Ky.
Nance, W. V., May Bun,-, W. Va.
Nash, F S., -M. D., Washington, DC.
Nash, H. .M., .M. D., Norfolk, Va.
Nav:.Department Libra'y, Washington, D.C .
Newton, Mrs. B T , Norfolk, Va.
Newton, Virginius. Richmond, Va.
Nicholson, John .A.., Dover, Del.
Nolting, W. Otto, Richmond, Va.
Norris, S. Henr\-, Philadelphia, Pa.
North Carolina State Libran-, Raleigh, N. C.
O'Fallon, Mrs. A. H, St. Louis, Mo.
Ohio State Librarv, Columbus, Ohio.
Old, Major W. W., Norfolk, Va.
Olcott, J H., Washington. D. C.
Ordway, General Albert, Washington, D. C.
Otis, Philo. A., Chicago, 111.
Ott, John, Roanoke, Va.
• Owen, Thomas N., Washington, D. C.
Pace, James B., Richmond. Va.
Page, Major Mann. Brandon, \a.
Page, R C. M.,M. D., New York, N Y.
Page, Rosewell, Richmond, \'a.
Page, Thomas Nelson. Washington. D. C.
Palmer, Col. Wm. H., Richmond, Va.
Palmer, W. P., M. D.,
Parks, Marshall, Norfolk, Va.
Parliament Library. Ottawa, Canada. ;
Parrish, R. L., Covington, Va.
Patteson.S. S. P., Richmond, Va.
Patterson, A. W..
Patton, .Mercer W., New Orleans, La.
Paxton, Lieut Robt. G., U. S. A., Fort
Custer, Montana.
Payne, Judge Barton, Chicago, 111.
Payne, General Wm. H., Warrenton, Va.
Pegram, John Combe, Providence, R. I.
Pell, F. A , New York. N. V.
Penn, Colonel John E., Roanoke, \'a.
Pennington, William C , Baltimore, Md.
Pennsylvania State Librarv, Harrisburg,
Pa.
Peoria Public Librarv-, Peoria, 111.
Peterkin, Mrs. Geo. VY.. Brook Hill, Va.
Peyton, Major Green, University of \'a.
Pickett, Thomas E., M. D., .Maysville, Ky.
Pickrell, John, Richmond, \'a .
Pleasants, James,
Pollard, H. R.,
Pope, John, "
Portland (O.) Librarv- Association, Port-
land, Oregon. .. ^....-.^
Potts. Allen, Richmond. Va.
Powell. John H., "
Pratt Free Library. Baltimore, Md.
Prentis, Judge R. R., Suffolk, Va.
Preston, W. C, Richmond. Va.
Pridemore, General A. L., Jonesville, Va.
Pryor, General Roger A., New York, N Y.
Pryor, Mrs. Roger A , New York, N. Y-
Quarles, Mann S., Richmond, Va.
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Quick, James M., Petersburg, Vs.
Quisenberry, A. C, Washington, D. C
Ramos, Manly B., Richmond, \'a.
Randolph, Rt. Rev. A. M.,D. D.Nor
folk, Va.
Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va
Randolph, Major X V., Richm-ond, Va.
Raymond, C. H., New York, X. V.
Reinhart. J. W., Netherwood, X. J.
Rennolds, Robert G., Richmond, Va.
Reynolds, Sheldon, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Rhodes, James F., Carabridse, Mass.
Richardson, Rev. \V. T., D. D., Rich
mond, \'a.
Riely, Major John VV., Houston, Va.
Rivers, Flournoy, Pulaski, Tenn.
Rivers, Miss Myra, Fort Riley, Kansas.
Rivers, Lieutenant Tyree Rodes, U. S. A.
Fort Riley, Kansas.
Rivers, Lieutenant William Cannon, U. S.
A., Fort Apache, Arizona.
RoBards, John Lewis, Hannibal. Mo.
Roberts, Rev. P G., St. Louis, Mo.
Robertson, A. F.. Staunton, Va.
Robertson, Capt. Harrison, Greenwood, Va.
Robins, William B., Richmond, Va.
Robinson, Capt. Leigh, Washington, D. C
Robinson, Mrs. Russell, Xorwood, Va.
Robinson, Rev. T V., Xew York, X. Y.
Rogers, Archibald, Hyde Park, X. Y.
Roller. Gen. John £., Harrisonburg, Va.
Roosevelt, Hon. Theodore. New York, X. V
Ropes, John C , Boston, .Mass
Rose, A. P., Geneva, X. Y
Rose. Edmund X., Branchport. X. Y.
Rosemary Library, Richmond, Va.
Rutherfurd, Frank,
Ryan, William,
Salisbur>-, Edward E., Xew Haven, Conn.
Salisbury, Stephen, Worcester, .Mass.
Sands, Hon. Conway R., Richmond, Va.
Sands, W- H., Richmond. Va.
Schoen, George, Richmond, Va
Schouler, Professor James, Boston, .Mass.
Scott, Hon. R. Taylor, Warren ton, Va.
Scott, W. W., Gordonsville, Va.
Seldner, A. B , Xorfolk, Va.
Semmes, Hon. Thos. J., Xew Orleans, La.
Sheffey, Judge, John P , Marion, Va.
Sheild, P B, Richmond, Va.
Sheild, W. H., M. D. (Dec), Williams-
burg, Va.
Sheppard, Miss Annie E., Richmond, Va.
Sheppard, W. L., Richmond, Va.
Sinton, R. B., Richmond, Va.
Sitterding, Fred.. Richmond, Va.
ShirrelTs, Reuben, Richmonii, Va.
Slaughter, ^^, .\tlanta, Ga.
• Smith, Charles E , Richmond. \a
Smith, Mrs. G. Herbert, Wilmington, X. C.
Smith, George P., Philadelphia. Pa
Smith, Willis B., Richmond, Va
Smith, Mrs. J. Morgan, Birmingham, Ala
Smith, Miss .Margaret V., Alexandria. Va
Smith, Lieutenant R. C, U. S. X., Xew-
port, R. L
Smitn, Judge Thomas, Warrenton, \'a.-
Sorrel, Francis, .M. D , Roanoke, Va.
Southall, S. v., Charlottesville. Va.
Spencer, Mrs. Samuei, Columbus, Ga.
Spotswood, W. F., Petersburg, Va.
Springtield City Librar\- .Association,
Springfield, Mass.
Stanard,W. G. , Richmond, Va.
Staples, Judge Waller R., Richmond, Va..
State Department Library, Washington,
D C.
Stearns, Mrs. Franklin, Richmond, Va
Stephenson, John W., Warm Springs, Va.
Stern, Colonei Jo Lane, Richmond, Va.
Stewart, Rev. J. C.. Richmond, Va.
Stewart, Miss Annie C, Brook Hill, Va.
Stewart, Miss E. Hope, "
Stewart, Miss Norma, "
Stewart, Miss Lucy W., "
Stevens, Byam K., Xew York, X. Y.
St. Louis Mercantile Library-, St. Louis,
Mo.
Stokes, William G., Richmond, Va.
Street, George L.,
Stringer, Thomas C, Baltimore, Md.
Stringfellow, .Maj. Chas. S.. Richmond, Va.
Stryker, General W. S., Trenton. X. J.
Stuart, Henry C. Saltville, Va.
Stubbs, Professor T J., Williamsburg. Va.
Stubbs, VY. C, Xew Orleans, La.
Sturdevant, Col. R., Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Sully, Major R. M., Richmond, Va.
Sumner, John O. , Cambridge, .Mass.
Summers, Col. John E., U. S. A., Omaha,
Xebraska
Swineford, H., Richmond, Va.
Talbott, .Vllan, Richmond, Va.
Talbott, \Y. H.,
Tarns, William P., Staunton, Va.
Tanner, C. W., Richmond, Va
Taylor, E. B.,
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Taylor, W. E , Norfolk, Va.
Tennant, VV. B., Richmond, \'a.
Terhune, Mrs. E. T., BrookUn, X. Y.
Thacker, H. C., Boston, Mass.
Thomas, Doug'as H , Baltimore, Md.
Thomas, Major R. S., Smithlield, Va.
Thomkins, H. C, Montgomery, Ala.
Thompson, Leonard, Wobum, .Mass.
Thorburn, Henry C, Baltimore, Md.
Thruston,R. C Ballard, Louisville, Ky.
Tilford, R J. , Louisville, Ky.
Todd, Charles H.,M. D. , Owensboro, Ky.
Todd. Charles L., Richmond, Va.
Todd, George D.. Louisville, Ky.
Travers, S. W., Richmond, Va
Traylor, John Henry, Dallas, Te.xas.
Trent, Prof. \V P., Sewanee, Tenn.
Trigg, Daniel, Abingdon, \'a
Trigg, V»'. R., Richmond, Va
Trinity College. Hartford, Conn.
Tucker, Rev. B. D., Norfolk, Va.
Tucker, J. D., South Boston, Va.
Tucker, Hon. JR., Le.xington, Va.
Tucker.J Ran., Jr. , Richmond, Va.
Tulane Universitv, New Orleans, La
Tunstall, Alex., M. D., Norfolk, Va.
Turabull, Judge N. S., Lawrenceville, Va.
Turner, Hon. S. S., Front Royal, Va.
Tumur, Lawrence, New York, N. Y.
Tyler, Hon. D. Gardiner, Sturgeon Point,
Va.
Tyler, Prof. Lyon G.. Williamsburg, Va.
Union Theological Seminary, Hampden-
Sydney, Va.
Union Theological Seminar.-, New York,
N. Y.
University of Michigan, Ann .Arbor, Mich.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
Upshur, Rear .\drairal John H , U S. N.,
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Upshur, T. T., Eastville, Va.
Valentine, E. P , Richmond, Va.
V^alentine, E. V.,
Valentine, G. G.,
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn
Van Deventer, Mrs. Letitia F , Kno.xville,
Tenn.
Van Voast, Mrs. Virginia H. .M., Cincin-
nati, O-
Vawter, Capt. C. E., Crozet, Va.
Venable, Hon. E. C, Petersburg, Va.
Venable, Samuel W., Petersburg, Va.
Venable, Prof. Charles S., Charlottesville,
Va.
Vermillion, John, Norfolk, Va.
N'irginia Military Institute, Lexington.
Waddell. J. A., Staunton, Va-
Waggener, B. P. .\tchison, Kan.
Walke, Frank A., M. D., Norfolk, Va.
Walke, Richard, Norfolk, Va.
Walker, Gustavus A., Richmond, Va.
Walker, Gen. James A., Wytheville, Va.
Walker, J. G., Richmond, Va.
Walker, W. James, Richmond, Va.
Ward, Col. John H., Louisville. Ky.
Warner, Charles Dudley, Hartford, Conn.
Washington, Miss Eliza S., Charlestown,
W. Va.
Washington, Wm. de H., New York,
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Watkins, A. Salle, Richmond, Va.
Waterman, W. H., New Bedford, Mass.
Watts, J. Allen, Roanoke, Va.
Watts, Judge, Legh R., Portsmouth, Va.
Welllord, Judge B. R., Richmond, Va.
Wellford, C E., Richmond, Va
Wellford, John S., M D., Richmond, Va.
Welch, Charles A., Cohassett, Mass
West, George M., Richmond, Va.
West, John R,
West. Montgomery, "
Wharton, Prof. S. B., D. D., Williams-
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Wheeler, Rev. H. L., Burlington. Vt.
White, Joseph A., .M. D., Richmond, Va.
White, Rev. W. C, Warm Springs, "
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Whiting, Henry Clay, Hampton, "
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Whitty, J. H.,
Whittle, Rt. Rev. F. M., D. D , Rich-
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Whittle, Judge Stafford G., Martinsville,
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Wickham, Col. W. p., Richmond, Va.
Wight, Prof. Charles C, Baltimore, .Md.
Williams, Adolphus, Richmond, Va.
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Williams, John Skelton. Richmond, Va.
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Vol. II. JANUARY, 1895. No. 3.
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Virginia Officers and Men in the Continental Line.
The records of the State of Virginia relating to the services of her
troops in the War of the Revolution, are preserved in several different
offices in the Capitol.
The most important are in the Land Office, where are three volumes
of land bounty warrants (indexed) to the officers and privates of the
Continental and State Lines and State Navy, beginning in 17S3. Many
of these warrants were issued to the heirs of persons serving in the
Revolution, and in such cases it was necessary to file vouchers proving
such services, and also what was called "proof of heirship," showing
how the heirs were related to the person under whom they claim. In
this connection are to be found many copies of wills, certificates of
courts and small charts, or "trees," showing the relationship. These
vouchers are preserved in a large press in the office; but, owing to
frequent overhauling by pension and bounty agents, in the past, are not
in very regular order.
There are also in the Land Office volumes showing where and when
these bounty warrants were located.
In the room, opening from the upper gallery of the library, which
contains the old executive archives, are bundles of Revolutionary mili-
tary land vouchers, for warrants issued between 17S3 and 1S46, and
containing the evidence of service laid before the Governor and Council
as authority for issuing the warrants. There are also in this room a
box containing papers relating to the Society of the Cincinnatti; another
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containing pay rolls, &c., of General Geo. Rogers Clarke's command
during the Northwestern Campaign; three books containing lists of
soldiers and seamen of \'irginia during the Revolution; a volume of .Mil-
itary Accounts, 1762-S3; three volumes Revolutionary Army Accounts;
volume of Revolutionary Paymasters Accounts; roster of officers of
Continental Line; roster of officers of State Line; two volumes con-
cerning the Revolutionary Army; list of Revolutionary Pensioners;
list of Revolutionary Bounties; volume of Revolutionary Claims; re-
port on Claims for Military Bounty Lands; return of Stores, 1779-S0;
account of Provisions, 17S0, &c. ; list of Certificates for Revolutionary
Bounties, i7S2-'3; Militia Returns, 1777-S4 (this is only settlements of
accounts by a portion of the militia officers of the State; but such as
it is, is the only militia list e.xtant); a number of volumes in regard to
Clarke's Northwestern Campaign, and also numerous trundles of let-
ters written to and from State officers and others during the war
(1775-83K These last have been printed in the "Calendar of Virginia
State Papers "; but the other books and documents in the archive room
are, at present, practically inaccessible to the public. When the move
to the new building is made they will, doubtless, be arranged, and made
subject to examination, under proper restrictions with regard to their
safety.
In the Library are manuscript journals of the Council for I'-jS-'j
(indexed) and 1781, and i7Si-'3 without inde.xes. There are also
various volumes relating to the State Navy and Committee of Safety.
All of these books contain much information in regard to Revolution-
ary officers.
In the Librarj', too, can be found the printed journals of the Conven-
tions of 1775 and 1776, and of the two Houses of Assembly during the
war. These, of course, contain likewise much Revolutionary matter.
In the printed volumes of documents of the Assembly from 1S33 to
1S38, are included the reports of John Hill Smith, who was appointed
a special commissioner on Revolutionary Clairis. These reports em-
brace lists of officers and privates who had obtained their bounty before
1833, and of those who were entitled, but had not applied for the same.
It should be borne in mind that all of these lists of various sorts, in
the various offices, relate to bounty claims, and that no person was
entitled to bounty who had not served three years, so it is improbable
that any record will be found in the Capitol where the person served
less than three years. It should also be remembered, that with the
exception given above, there are no militia lists preserved.
There is in the Library a manuscript list of all persons who (down to
about 1845) applied to the Executive for bounty warrants, with a refer-
ence to the Council Journal, where the matter was acted on, and a
statement when the claim was successful or rejected.
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time to time, of private individuals.
A list of Officers and men from Virginia who served in the
Continental Line.
George Washington, Conmander -in- Chief.
Major- Generals.
Horatio Gates, Adam Stephens.
Paymaster- General, Benjamin Harrison.
Brigadier- Generals.
Lawson, Robert, Scott, Charles,
Morgan, Daniel, Stevens, Edward,
Mulenburg, Peter, Weedon, George,
Mercer, Hugh, Woodford, William.
Colonels.
Anderson, Richard C,
Aylett, William,
Baylor, George,
Bland Theoderick,
Buford, Abraham,
Bowman, Abraham,
Bullett, Thomas,
Crawford, William,
Campbell, R.ichard,
Davis, William,
Elliott, Thomas,
Febiger, Christian,
Fleming, Thomas,
Finnic, William,
Green, John,
Gist, Nathaniel,
Gibson, John,
Grayson, William,
Heth, William,
Harrison, Charles,
Harrison, Robert H.
Innis, James,
Lewis, Charles,
Matthews, George,
M'Clanahan, Alex'r,
Munford, Wm. G.,
Neville, Presley,
Nevill, John,
Parker, Richard,
Parker, Josiah,
Russell, William,
Rickman, Wm., Dr.,
Read, Isaac,
Stephenson, Hugh,
Wood, James,
Hendricks, James,
Mason, David,
Thurston, Charles,
Taylor, Francis.
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Ball, Burgess.
Ballard, Robert,
Byrd, Otway,
Cabell, Sam'l J.,
Clarke, Jonathan,
Cropper, John,
Carrington, Edward,
Darke, William,
Eppes, Francis,
Fleming, Charles,
Gaskins, Thomas,
Hopkins, Samuel,
Hawes, Samuel,
Jamieson, John,
Johnson, George,
Joynes, Levin,
Lee, Henry,
Mead, Richard K.,
Belfield, John,
Bruin, Pete" B.,
Boykin, Francis, ^
Beall, Isaac,
Croghan, William,
Cunningham, William,
Call, Richard.
Dickerson, Edmund,
Eggleston, Joseph,
Finley, Samuel,
Fleming, John,
Fitzgerald, John,
Fauntleroy, Moore, ^- ^
Faulkner, Ralph,
Gilchrist. George,
Grimes, William,
Graves, John,
Lietitenant- Colonels.
Nelson, William,
Porterfield, Charier- R. ,
Posey, Thomas,
Powell, Levin,
Richeson, Holt,
Sims, Charles,
Sears, John,
Spotswood, Alexander,
Taylor, Richard,
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Taliaferro, William R.,
Temple, Benjamin,
Thornton, John,
Washington, William,
Wallace, Gustavus B.,
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White, Anthony W.,
Nicholas, George,
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Hill, Thomas,
Hays, John,
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Hopkins, David,
Helphinstine, Peter,
Johnston, James,
Knox, James,
Lewis William,
Lucas, James,
Leitch, Andrew,
Langbourne, William,
Merewether, Thos.,
Moseley, William,
Massey, Thomas,
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Poulson, John,
Peyton, Henry,
Porter, Benjamin,
Peers, Valentine,
Russell, Andrew,
Ridley, Thomas,
Rudulph, John,
Roberts, John,
Stephenson, David,
Snead, John,
Swan, John,
Slaughter, George,
Snead, Thomas,
Scruggs, Gross,
Stephenson, John,
Leete, Daniel,
Anderson, John,
Ashby, Stephen,
Armstrong, James,
Arbuckle, Matthew,
Apperson, Richard,
Avery, William Holy,
Blair, John,
Bentley, William,
Bowne, Thomas,
Booker, Samuel, ,ir'jt ,
Beale, Robert,
Butler, Lawrence,
Biggs, Benjamin,
Barbee, Thomas,
Bohannon, Ambrose, Capt.
Bedinger, Henry,
Bell, Thomas,
Blackwell, Joseph,
Bradford, Samuel K.,
Blackwell, John,
Taylor, Francis,
Taylor, William,
Taylor, John,
Terrill, Henry, '.-;'"•
Willis, John,
Willis, John W..
Waggoner, Andrew,
Woodson, Tarleton,
West, Charles,
Gibson, George,
- Hopkins, Daniel (or David),
Lyne, George,
Donovan, Matthew,
Mitchell, Nathaniel,
Thurmond, William,
Brig.-Maj., Quart. -Mast. & P. Mast.
Captains.
Brackenridge, Alex'r,
Baylor, Walker,
Bowyer, Thomas,
Brownlee, William, Capt.-Lt.
Beale, Robert,
Baytop, James,
Blackwell. Thomas,
Berry, George,
Baytop, Thomas,
Bowyer, Michael,
Burwell, Nath'l,
Barret, William,
Barret, Chiswell,
Buckner, Thomas,
Lt., Booker, Lewis,
Briscoe, Reuben,
Baldwin John,
Blackwell, William,
Brady, William,
Carrington, Mayo,
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Cowherd, Francis,
Carter, John C,
Clarke, John,
Calmes, Marquis,
Curry, James,
Cannon, Luke,
Casey, Benjamin,
Coleman, Whitehead,
Cattlett, Thomas,
Chilton, John,
Cuberton, James,
Cherry, William,
Craig-, James,
Craine, James,
Carnes, Patrick,
Coleman, Richard,
Cocke, Colin,
Cocke, Pleasant,
Cooper, Leonard, '
Cummins, Alex'r,
Calderwood, James,
Cole, John,
Claiborne, B-'Uer,
Conway, Henry,
Callis, William O.,
Chapman, Reuben,
Drew, Thomas H.,
Dandridge. John,
Dix, Thomas, Capt.- Lieut.
Denham, Archibald,
Dade, Francis, '-V- ^ j
Duvall, Daniel,
Dandridge, Alex. S.
Davenport, William,
Darvill, William,
Dunn, Peter,
Davis, Jesse,
Dillard, James,
Davis, James,
Dorsey, Richard,
Dogget, Richard,
Eddins, Samuel,
Eppes, William, Capt. -Lieut.
Edwards, Leroy,
Eustace, John,
Finn, Thomas, Capt. -Lieut.,
Fowler, William,
Fields, Reuben,
Fox, Thomas,
Fox, Nathaniel,
Fauntleroy, Henry,
Fitzgerald, John,
Foster, James,
Fauntleroy, Griffin,
Fitzhugh, Peregrine,
Forsyth, Robert,
Frayser, William,
Gray, George,
Gaines, William F. . ; . ,
Garland, Peter,
Gillison, John,
Gill, Erasmus,
Gamble, Robert,
George, William,
Gray, James,
Gill, Samuel,
Grymes, William,
Gallahue, Charles,
Gunn, James,
Grimes, William,
Grymes, Benjamin,
Green, Berry man,
Goodman, William,
Gregory, William,
Garland, Edward,
Gist, John,
Griffith, Philemon,
Holmes, Benjamin,
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Hoo;g-, Samuel,
Hill, Baylor,
Harrison, John P.,
Hite, Abraham,
Hoard, Thomas,
Holt, Thomas,
Halcomb, John,
Harrison, Valentine,
Higgins, Robert,
Heth, Henry,
Hawkiiis, John,
Hughes, John,
Harrison, Benjamin,
Harrison, Cuthbert,
Hawkins, Moses [Hankins?],
Hoard, James,
Hockaday, John,
Handy, George,
Hobson, Nicholas,
Hull, Edwin,
Hooper, Richard,
Hopper, Thomas,
Howard, Vachel D.,
Hook, James,
Jones Samuel,
Jones, Sirother,
Jones, Peter,
Jones, Churchill,
Jones, Cadwallader,
Jones, Lewelling,
Jonett, Matthew [Jouett ?],
Johnson, William,
Johnson, John B.,
Johnson, William,
Jordan, John,
Isreal, Isaac,
Jacqueth, Peter,
Kilpatrick, Abram,
Kendall, Custis,
Kilty, John,
Kennon, Richard,
Kirkwood, Robert,
Lovely, William L.,
Lind, Arthur,
Lewis, George,
Lapsley, Samuel,
Lewis, Addison,
Lindsay, William,
Long, Gabriel,
Lawson, Claiborne,
Lee, Philip R. F.,
Lucas, Nathaniel,
Lam me, Nathan,
Lewis, John,
Lyton, Robert,
Marks, John,
Marshall, John,
Mallory, Philip,
Miller, William, Capt.-Lieut.
Mabin, James,
Moss, Henry,
Morrow, Robert,
Morton, Hezekiah,
Minnis, Francis,
Muir, Francis,
Marks, Isa.ah,
Mercer, John F.,
IVIinnis, Holman,
Minnis, Callohill,
Meredith, William,
Martin, Thomas,
Morgan, Simon,
Mountjoy, William,
Moore, Cleon,
M' Adams, John,
Maupin, Gabriel,
Minor, Thomas,
Mountjoy, John,
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M'Kee, William,
Mason, David,
Moore, Andrew,
Moore, Thomas,
Morris, Nathl. G.
Moon, Archibald,
Madison, Rowland,
Mosby, William,
M'Craw, William,
M'Carmick, George,
Mosby, Littleberry,
M'Fadden, James,
Mason, James,
Nixon, Andrew,
Nelson, John,
Neal, Thomas,
Nicholas, John,
Oldham, Conway,
Overton, Thomas,
Overton, John,
O'Neal, Ferdinand,
Payne, Thomas,
Peyton. John,
Porterfield, Robert,
Pendleton, James,
Pryor, John,
Pemberton, Thomas,
Payne, Tarleton,
Parker, Thomas,
Parker, Alexander,
Parker, Thomas,
Powell, Robert,
Peyton, Valentine R.,
Pendleton, Nathaniel,
Poythress, William, Capt.-Lt.,
Pettus, John R., Capt.-Lt.,
Pierce, William, Tk.
Patterson, Thomas,
Page, Carter,
Purvis, James,
Payne, William,
Price, James,
Porterfield, Charles,
Porter, Thomas,
Parromore, Thomas,
Pollard, Benjamin,
Ragsdale, Drewry,
Read, Nathan,
Randolph, Robert,
Rice, George,
Rogers, Williams,
Renner, John,
Reddick, Jason,
Riddick, Willis,
Roy, Beverley,
Ransdall, Thomas,
Rose, Alexander,
Ruffin, Thomas,
Ray, Thomas,
Royall, William,
Rudulph, Michael,
Seth, John,
Shepard, Abraham,
Swearinger, Jos.,
Spotswood, John,
Smith, Larkin,
Smith, Matthew,
Smith, Joseph,
Smith, Arthur,
Steed, John,
Stribling, Sigismund,
Stubblefield, Bev'ly,
Stith, John,
Scott, Joseph,
Singleton, Anthony,
Shelton, Clough,
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Slaughter, Philip,
Springer, Uriah,
Sommers, Simon,
Sayers, Robert,
Spiller, Benjamin,
Scott, David,
Steele, David,
Sanford, William,
Settle, Strother G.,
Snead, Charles,
Spencer, Joseph,
Scott, William,
Sutton, John,
Stevens, Richard,
Thompkins, Robert,
Thornton, Presley,
Taylor, Reuben,
Tibbs. Thomas,
Thomas, Lewis,
Thweat, Thomas,
Teagle, Severn,
Turberville, Geo. L.
Triplett, William,
Triplett, Thomas,
Thomas, John,
Vance, Robert,
Vause, William,
White, Robert,
Williams, James,
Winston, John,
Warman, Thomas,
Walker, Jacob,
Willis. Henry,
Waters, Richard, Capt. -Lieut.,
White, Tarpley,
White, William,
Woodson, Hughes,
Watts, John,
Whiting, Henry,
Wright, James,
Wallace, Adam,
Wallace, Andrew,
White, William,
Woodson, Robert,
Walker, Thomas,
Wills, Thomas,
West, Thomas,
Woodson, Joseph,
Wills, Edward,
Washington, John,
Walker, Samuel,
White, Elisha,
Young, Henry,
Yancey, Leighton,
Yancey, Robert.
Captains.
Ashby, John, >rv,
Burnley, Garland,
Bernard, Peter,
Barrett, Robert,
Crockett, Joseph,
Carney (or Kerney), James,
Denny, Samuel,
Grant, Peter,
Gregory, John,
Henderson, William,
Hite, Mathias,
Heth, Andrew,
Helm, Thomas,
Harris, James,
Herndon, Ed., Capt. & A. C. G.
Johnston, John, Capt. & Paym.,
Laird, David,
Lemon, John,
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Langdon, Jonathan,
Micheaux, Joseph,
Meguire, John,
Mathews, Thomas.
Madison, Ambrose, Capt. and
Paymast.,
Muse, Richard,
M'llhaney, James,
Mitchell, Joseph,
Murray, William, Capt. Art.,
Morton, John,
Malcom, James,
Neal, Ferdinand,
Oglesby, John,
Archer, Joseph,
Archer, Peter F.,
Allen, David,
Allen, Edward,
Ashley, Benjamin,
Anderson, Nathaniel,
Archer, Ri'-hard,
Austice, John,
Arnold, Samuel,
Arthur, Barnabas,
Armstrong, Edward,
Brown, Jacob,
Baskerville, Sam'I,
Bowen, John,
Bernard. William,
Beck, John,
Barbour, James,
Burton, Hutchens,
Burfoot, Thomas,
Bowyer, Henry,
Breckenridge, Robert.
Blackmore, George,
Baylis, William,
Peyton, Henry,
Quarles, Henry,
Rice, Holman,
Robert, Cyrus, L.,
Stephens, Richard,
Symme, John,
Timberlake, Benjamin,
Thompson, William,
Warman, Thomas,
Westfall, Abell,
Woodson, Samuel,
Migginson, William,
Nelson, Thomas,
Lieutenants.
Bedinger, Daniel,
Bell, Henry,
Brooke, Francis,
Brooke, John,
Brooke, Edmund,
Ball, Daniel,
Baynham, John,
Berwick, James,
Bell, John,
Buchannon, John,
Bradford, Charles,
Bumberry, William,
Browing, Isaac,
Barnett, James,
Boulding, Wood,
Burton, James,
Boiling, Robert,
Britton, Joseph,
Backus, George,
Brady, Christopher,
Bennet, Caleb P.,
Campbell, Samuel,
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Craddock, Robert,
Crute, John,
Coleman, Jacob,
Crawford, John,
Clayton, Philip,
Carney, Martin,
Crittenden, John,
Coverley, Thomas,
Conway, Joseph,
Carrington, George,
Campbell, Arch'd,
Claiborne, Richard, ..
Cooper, Apollus,
Cunell, Nicholas, ,r-r.
Cobbs, Samuel,
Curtis, Thomas,
Canel, John,
Collier, Thomas,
Christian, William,
Carson, James,
Clarke, John.
Cameron, Charles,
Dawson, Henry,
Dandridge, Robert,
Dudley, Robert,
Tarby, Nathaniel,
Delapline, James,
Dye, Jonathan,
Drew, John,
Dent, John.
Drake, Thomas,
Demin, Brain Tim'y,
Drummond, James,
Diggs, Cole,
Ewing, Alexander,
Evans, William,
Eastin, Rich'd,
Eskridge, William,
Egleston, William,
Erskine, Charles,
Elliot, Robert,
Emmerson, John,
Foster, Robert,
Fitzhugh, William,
Frazer, Falvey,
Fuley, Timothy,
Field, Henry,
Foster, John,
Foster, Richard,
Foster, Peter,
Franklin, James,
Giles, John,
Green, John,
Gray, William,
Green, Robert,
Gratten, John,
Guthrey, George,
Gray, Francis,
Green, Gabriel,
Gordon, Ambrose,
Gordon, Arthur,
Glasscock, Thomas,
Gilliam, John,
Gregory, John,
Gilmore, James,
Gallov/ay, John,
Garnett, Benjamin,
Green way, George, \f,.
Gibbs, Harrod,
Garden, Alexander,
Homes, Thomas C,
Huffman, Philip,
Harrison, John,
Hackley, John,
Hamilton, James,
Higgins, Peter,
Holt, James,
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Heth, John,
Hockaday, Philip,
Humphries, John,
Harris, John,
Holland, George,
Harris, Jordan,
Hughes, Jasper,
Haney, Holbnd,
Harrison, James,
Harrison, Lawrence,
Harrison, Battle,
Hite, Isaac,
Hungerford, Thomas,
Hudson, William,
Higginbotham, William,
Hoh, VViUiani.
Higgins, James,
Hix, David,
Halloway, Jam.es,
Jones, Charles,
Jones, Abridgeton,
Jones, Wood,
Johnson, Peter,
Joliff, John,
Jonett, Robert,
Joynes, Reuben,
Kays, Robert,
Kirk, Robert,
King, Elisha,
Kennon, John,
Keeth, Isham,
Kieth, Alexander,
Lapsley, John,
Lewis, Andrew,
Lawson, Benjamin,
Ludeman, W. J.,
Langham, Elias,
Long, Reuben,
Linton, John,
Lewis, Stephen,
Lewis, Thomas,
Lovell, James,
Lucas, Thomas,
Lambert, George,
Morton, James,
Moseley, Benjamin,
Murray, Abraham,
Mills, John,
Miller, David,
Merewether, David,
M'Dowell, John,
Merewether, James,
Moseley, Benjamin,
Miller, Javan,
Moore, William,
Maguire, William,
Miller, Thomas,
Myers, Christopher,
Massenburg, Nich.,
Moore, William,
Mountjoy. Alvin,
M'Nutt, James,
Manning, Lawrence,
Moon, Jacob,
Meanly, John,
M'Kinley, John,
Mosby, Robert,
Maberry, Robert,
M' Reynolds, Thomas,
Norvell, Lipscomb,
Noland, Pierce,
Nelson, Roger,
Oldham, George,
Owen, Richard M.,
Pointer, William,
Porter, William,
Parker, Nicholas,
Powell, Pevton,
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Pearson, Thomas,
Peyton, Dade,
Peyton, Robert,
Payne, Joseph.
Perkins, Archelaus,
Penn, William,
Price, WilHam,
Petters, Samuel O.,
Pyle, William,
Parks, James,
Pullen, William,
Poyner, William,
Parrott, Joseph,
Pugh, Joseph,
Purcell, George,
Powell, William,
Quarles, Thomas,
Quarles, Robert,
Quarles, William P,,
Quarles. John,
Russell, Albert,
Robertson. William,
Rhea, Matthew,
Richeson, V/alker,
Robins, John,
Robinson, John,
Roney, John,
Rankins, Robert,
Ralp, Ephraim,
Reynolds, William,
Ricketts, Nicholas,
Rogers, Andrew,
Steel, John, .ry
Smith, Obadiah,
Smith, William,
Smith, Francis,
Smith, William S.,
Smith, Ballard,
Smith, William,
Smith, James, "
Smith, Edward,
Stokeley, Charles,
Stephens, Williams,
Southall, Stephen,
Selden, Samuel,
Stewart, Philip,
Sears, Thomas,
Starke, William,
Settle, Strother,
Starke, Richard,
Springer, Jacob,
Shackelford. Wm,
Scarborough, John,
Stephenson, Wm.,
Snowden, Jonathan,
Scott, John E.,
Slaughter, Robert,
Sturdivant, John, jr.,
Spencer, William,
Saunders, Robert H.,
Skarratt, Clement,
Tutt, Charles,
Thompkins, Robert,
Thompkins, Danl. R.,
Taliaferro, Benj.,
Trent, Lawrence,
Taliaferro, Nicholas,
Taylor, Thornton,
Taylor, Richard, v;
Townes, John,
Trabue, John,
Tannehill, Josiah,
Tyler, John,
Triplet, William,
Tibbs, John,
Thompson, James,
Tatum, Henry,
Thelabell, Robert,
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Triplett, Hedgman,
Terrill, William,
Teakle, Arthur,
Vandewall, Marks,
Vowles, Henry,
Wilson, W^illis,
Winston, Benjamin,
Williams. Edward,
White, John,
Wallace, William B.,
Williams, David,
White, John,
Winston, William,
Walker, David,
Whitaker, William,
Webb, Isaac,
Worsham, John,
Wallace, David,
Whiting, Francis,
Washington, George A.
Worsham, Richard,
Winlock, Joseph,
Worsham, William,
Warring, Henry,
Wilson, John,
Waples, Samuel,
Wishart, Thomas,
Winchester, George,
Wilmot, Robert,
Wilkerson, Young,
Withers, William,
W^ilkins, Nathaniel,
Woodson, William,
Woodson, Obadiah,
Yarborough, Charles,
Yates, Bartholomew,
Young, Robert.
Lie2itenants.
Ashby, Nathaniel,
Armand, Vogluson,
Berry, Thomas,
Blackwell, Joseph,
Bell, Samuel,
Baldwin, Francis,
Brock, John,
Butler, Reuben,
Buxton, James,
Baskerville, William,
Barnes, John, Lt. and Q. M.,
Baylor, John — Cavalry,
Byrne, John,
Calinees, George,
Camp, William,
Collier, Thomas, Lt. and Q. M.
Culp, Daniel,
Christian, William, .
Eskridge, George,
Field, Theophilus,
Guerrant, John,
Greenup. Christopher,
Green, Willis,
Harrison (or Harmon), Charles,
Hobson, Joseph,
Holt, Joseph,
Hill, Richard, Lt. Art.,
Hite, George,
HoUiday, Joseph,
Jones, Binns,
Jenkins, William,
Jones, Thomas,
Kincaid, William, Lt. & Adjt.,
Lucas, John,
Lawson, William,
Martin, Hudson, Lt. and Paym.,
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M'Gill, Charles,
Moore, Archelaus,
Mahon, John,
Oliver, Drury,
Pitts, (or Pettes), Samuel,
Pride, William,
Pettyjohn, James,
Perkins, Harden,
Reins, Giles,
Roult, Richard,
Reagan, Daniel,
Alexander, Geo. D.,
Alexander, Archibald,
Baldwin, Cornelius,
Brown, William,
Clements, Mace,
Christie, Thomas,
Carter, William, Sr. ,
Craik, James,
Davis, Joseph,
Duff, Edward,
Draper, George,
De Benneville, Dan'l,
Evans, George,
Fullerton, Humphrey,
Gait, Patrick,
Griffith, David,
Greer, Charles,
Gait, John M.,
Gay, Samuel,
Holmes, David, t-,
Irvine, Matthew,
Monroe, George,
M'Mechen, William,
Smith, John, Adjt.,
Tibbs, Willowby,
Thweat, William,
Tyree, James,
Thompson, Anderson,
White, Richard P.,
Wood, Bouldin,
Woodroof, John,
Hackley, James,
Heth, Andrew,
Elliott, Robert.
Surgeons.
Middleton, Basset,
Pelham, William,
Rose, Robert,
Ramsey, John,
. Smith, Samuel,
Skinner, Alexander,
Slaughter, Augustine,
Seigle, Frederick,
Trezvant, John,
Wallace, James,
Brown, Daniel,
Brown, Joseph,
Dixon, Anthony,
Gould, David,
Green, Charles,
Macky, Robert,
Pratt, Shuball,
Peyton, Valentine,
Quinlan, Joseph,
Rumney, William,
Taylor, Charles,
Julian, John,
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Surgeon - Jl/afe.
Brovvniey, John,
Colvert, Jonathan,
Knight, John,
King-, Miles,
McAdams, Joseph,
Smith, Nathan,
Mason, Littleberry,
Foreman, Robert,
Hughes, Thomas,
Graham, Stephen,
Day, Benjamin,
Fovvkes, Chandler,
Fowkes, John,
Perkins, Archibald,
Savage, Joseph,
Vaughan, Claiborne,
Yates, George,
Farish, Robert,
Johnston, William,
Martin, Hugh.
P. J/ [Pay?!ias/erf}
Randolph, Harrison,
Turner, Hezekiah,
Weed, Robert.
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Massey, William.
Hospital Stewards. ,•>„►:. ,:,
Watkins, John.
Adjutants. ''
Parker, Thomas,
Thompson, Robert,
Victor, John,
Weeden, George.
Siibalterns.
Bullock, Rice.
Barksdale, John,
Foster, John,
Goodwin, Dinwiddie,
Hill, George,
Hughes, Henry,
Howell, Virjcent,
Moxley. i<odam,
Payne, Josiah,
Porter, William,
Slaughter, John,
Scott, John,
Scott, John,
Thompkins, Chris.,
Throckmorton, Alb'n.
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Broadus, James,
Bunting, Wm. B.,
Berry, William,
Beeson, Edward,
Bowen, Rees,
Brownlee, Alexander,
Coleman, John,
Carrington, Clement,
Courtney, Philip,
Conner, William,
Davis, Thomas,
Foster, Sampson,
Fisher, John,
Gibson, John, jr.,
Green, Samuel B.,
Hite, Joseph,
Hargus, John,
Jeffries, Isaac,
Jopling, Ralph,
Lipscomb, Thomas,
Lanier, Thomas,
Morgan, Spencer,
Meade, William,
Morgan, John,
Menzies, George,
Moore, John,
Moore, Jacob,
Morgan, Jeremiah,
M'Con, Henry,
Pugh, Willis,
Philips, Samuel,
Peyton, George,
Reynolds, John,
Stubblefield, George,
Spitfathom, John,
Stewart, Charles,
Thompkins, Henry,
E7isig7is.
^ Vanmeter, Joseph,
Wallace, James,
Waller, Allen,
Whiting, Beverley,
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Waller, Allen,
Watkins, Robert,
Wren, Nathan, . ■ ^^^
■ Ball, William,
Barnes, Parker,
Cochran, James,
Foster, Simon,
Flournoy, Gid^^on,
1 Fauntleroy, Robert, ^''
Green, James,
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Hollinback, Daniel,
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Kay, John,
Kinley, Benjamin,
Kennedy, William,
Linton, William,
Meade, John,
Meriwether, Nicholas.
.f«'^""' Pope, John,
Paulett, Jesse, Quart' mast.
Pritchard, Rees,
Quirk, Thomas,
Rigger, Anthony,
Smith, Frederick,
Tyler, Charles,
Thomas, Thomas,
Turpin, Horatio,
Winston, John,
Westfall, Cornelius,
Weathers, Enoch K.,
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Burroughs, George,
Beale, Taverner,
Davis, Peter,
Fitzpatrick, John,
Foster, Achilles,
Hubbard, Thomas,
Henley, Henry,
Hembrough, (or Hansbor-
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Jackson, David,
Balmain, Alexander,
Griffitn, David,
Clarke, John,
Harrison, \Vm. B.,
Lunsford, William,
Nevill, George,
Perry, John,
Power, or Poor, Robert,
Smith, Joseph S.,
Moore, John,
Mann, Henry,
Parker, Alexander,
Sandridge, Austin,
Sprig, Edward. Brig. Qr.-Mast.
Steenberger, William,
Woolfork, Francis,
Woodrow, Andrew, Brig. Qr.-
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Hurt, John,
Cordell, (or Cordle), John,
Cornets.
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Scott, Charles,
Tinsley, Samuel,
Teas, William,
Woolfork, William,
Carrington, George,
Conner, Edward,
Sergeant- Majors.
Carter, Thomas, Davenport, Joseph,
Commissaries.
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Letters of Wm. Fitzhugh.
(CONTINUED.)
July 4th, 1687.
Hon'^ Sir: =5^
I just now received yours by your boy wherein you men-
tion you were pleased to hasten his Dispatch, for the sudden
Intelligence of the doutfuU Inroads of the Seneca Indians into
our Country in their Return with their spoils from James River
together with your directions to give notice to the Inhabitants to
be upon their Guards,- which order I shall readily obey & I dare
say the whole county will thank your Honor for your early and
timely advice and will accordingly pursue the Same, but what
measures to take if they be upon us further than Self preserva-
tion dictates & directs I know not there being one Militia officer
in commission in the whole county &. consequently people best
spared cannot be commanded into service and appointed to
guard the remotest most suspected and dangerous places. I
intend this day up to Capt. Brents & with him shall consult what
courses to take in this present exigence and accordingly pursue
the same. As your Honour has been thus early in your first
notice of the sudden and probable doubts of their Incursions, so
I am well assured upon farther Intimation of the approaching
dangers you will be pleased to give us sudden Knowledge but
assist us with your full advice, directions and authority in what
lawfuU posture we must stand in Defence, & if occasion be, op-
position to their ravenous spoils and barbarous Inhumanity,
In the mean time I shall take the best care I can not only to give
general notice but endeavour the best security for the safety of
the people in their lives and estates.
Your Honours most &c.
Wfr.
To the Hon"'* Nich* Spencer Esq.
*This letter seems to indicate that William Fitzhugh was then in
command of the militia of Stafford county. Land grants to him at this
time always style him Lieutenant-Colonel William Fitzhugh.
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KI- I t T17< v •• I ' J . ..1 /\ ». r
August loth, 1687.
Dear Brother:
The welcome news of all your healths, I received by Jno.
Simpson, which I heartily congratulate & wish therein continu-
ance, and rejoyce again with you not only in your wishes but
kind salute, with the presentation of our humble service to your
self and good lady. John Simpson & myself went down to see
the stcars in Mr. Ashton's pasture, but they could not be got in,
seventeen of them, there is full assurance that they are there,
having been five times seen and reckoned since your being here,
one I last year killed, but then did not remember that one that
was wanting when you were here cannot yet be found, when it
can it is at your service, to take or leave, so that there is at pres-
ent Seventeen to be charged at 600 p head. Twenty sheep he
will bring up with him, what measures we took in delivering the
second Jno. Simpson will give you a particular account of,
which are to be charged at 160 p. head; there needs no farther
or other writing as I know of in that affair. I have also sent
Mr, Cannon's book Sc thank your kindness in the loan thereof
to whom please give my humble service. I heartily thank your
mindfull care and your Lady's great kindness in those welcome
glasses which came well and safe to hand. I neither have seen
nor heard of Mr. Greenhalgh and if it be his ship that is come
up, conclude you will have the first opportunity of discoursing
affairs we last treated of, in which as in all other mutual concerns
'hall be willing & gladly referred to your most Judicious conduct.
Diar Sir
....... YourWff.
To Capt. George Brent at Woodstock.
August iSth, 1687.
Mr. Nicholas Hayward:
Sir, This comes only for cover of John Busford's bill of
Exchange for ^20, and letter of advice about the same, the
money became due for Tob° I paid for him here, to keep him out
of trouble, & he gives me the full assurance that it will be punc-
tually paid, which if so, please to receive it for me and keep it
in your hands till I shall farther order therein, but if it should be
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 261
protested and you cannot give me timely notice before his depar-
ture from hence I must then request your favour of prosecuting
the protest against him there for he intends from hence by the
first ships. We are now in daily expectation of hearing from
thence, of all your healths & welfare which is particularly wish'd
your self by
Sir Your Wff.
To Mr. Nichs. Hayvvard &c.
January iSth, 1687-8.
Hon^-* Sir:
I heartily thank your kind opinion and free and full advice
by Jno. Newton which agrees with mine from Mr. Jno. Cooper
in the lowness of Tob" & in expectancy of its rise. As to Hill,
Perry & Randolph, I have had an opportunity about five days
since of sending an Intelligent person to feel the pulse of their
Trade. I know you are too well practised in the Topicks of
Honour and generosity to render advice other than fair and can-
did & as you are not Yorkshire enough to set the course of your
advice by the compass of your Interest. Sir I shall always en-
deavour to manage those parts that God Almighty have given
me the use of, that the Devil may not have the application and
to be sure to keep honesty & integrity at the helm when I launch
out into any manner of concerns and not with North County
men thrust them under hatches. As you were pleased at first,
to offer me your advice & Intelligence I now beg the continu-
ance which will farther add to the obligations of
Worthy Sir, Your Wff.
To the Honble Coll' Richard Lee.
January iSth, 1687-7.
Honoured Sir:
Yesterday I received your letter about Mr. Storke and Mrs.
Meeses claims from Maj' Ashtons Estate* which claims we that
*There is recorded in Stafford county a deed, dated JanUc'-y 12th,
1705, from John Foster, of Wishback a/s Woodbridge, in the isle of
Ely, county of Cambridge, England, to Elisha James, of the City ''f
Bristol, mariner, conveying, for a consideration of /"iss sterling, a plan-
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are Executors here have long expected especially Mr. Storke's,
for Mr. Ashton in his life time acquainted me that he was largely-
indebted to Mr. Storke but did not mention Mrs. Meese. Since the
receipt of your letter, I also have overlook'd all the letters and
acco" between him & Mr. Storke and the last letter & acco' be-
twixt and Mrs. Meese by which said last mentioned letters and
accots I find him indebted to Mrs. Meese for Balance ^22. 7. 7.
which said debt Mr. S'lOrke by his letter promises payment of,
if Mr. Ashton desire, by letter dated 15 Dec"" 1682 in answer to
which Mr. Ashton does desire payment by him to be made by
letter dated May 17th following; ^20 part thereof was formerly
paid by Meese for which Mr. Ashton was to have a receipt from
his Sister which receipt could not be found as p. Mr. Storkes 19
January 16S5, these are all the papers or letters relating to this
whole matter as I can find which said letters & papers I have
also sent for your view therefore can object nothing upon the
whole matter against their Intercourse of letters that Mrs. Meese's
ballance should be included in Mr. Storke's debt but upon farther
consideration viewing Mr. Storke's accot (which I also send here-
with) I cannot find Mr. Ashton's debited for any such article and
therefore conclude that the receipt for the /^20 suspended the
payment and so consequently the ballances may still be due to
Mrs. Meese. Sir considering the trust reposed in us by the de-
ceased in behalf of his friends in England to manage the charge
imposed on us, with all diligence & honesty, also well weighing
our duty as executors, in the first place to discharge all claims &
dues according to law and justice and believing upon considera-
tion of these papers & accots that iho e debts are justly due yet
cannot legally be paid (according to the method and courses of
proceedings in this country) without judgm't first had & obtained
for the same and being also as equally unwilling to retard the
knowledge as to shave off the payment of all just dues, in an-
tation of 550 acres in Stafford county, commonly called Chatterton,
which was devised by Peter Ashton to James Ashton, of Virginia, and
by him devised to the said John Foster; and also a statement that Mr.
John As^con, a co-legatee of Chatterton, had renounced his claim.
Th^i-e is also a power of attorney from John Foster to Elisha James,
r*" j5ristol, mariner, and Charles James, of the county of Dorset [sic],
m Virginia, gentleman.
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svver to your's have sent this messenger on purpose, with this &
the papers inclosed, to assure you that we shall be ready to make
punctual payments in Tob" according to law for the said debts so
soon as judgment is obtained for the same (and if your Honour
enters the actions in your name as the Attorney) shall take no
juris, no punctilios, no exceptions to the letters of Attorney, entry
of Actions or Declarations, or any other matter, but shall hold our-
selves clearly to the justice and merits of the cause & accordingly
submit to such judgment as the court shall give, immediately
upon its first call at our next court, which is this day three weeks
viz february 8th. And lest that time should seem too long to
stay without Tob" in this busie time of Dispatch I will immedi-
ately lodge 12830 lb Tob" in your Honour's hands which comes
to both their debts at 10 shilling p cent according to lav/ which
your receiver may come forthwith up and receive or this bearer
would gladly obey your commands & gladly receive it who has
honestly acquitted himself in that affair to me both in the time of
his service and now since his freedom. The Tob" I shall order
by Capt. Brent whose letter I have also enclosed sent you, that
you may see his intentions, both for the goodness and conveni-
ency of payment.
This claim goes near the whole appraisement therefore expe-
dition is necessary for fear of others or future claims. If you
know Sir of any other or surer way wherein we may be service-
able to you & you oblige your friends, keeping the integrity of
your trust, the Duty of our places, and the security of ourselves,
we should be all ready to obey your just commands in particular.
Sir your Hon' &
Wff.
To the Hon'''' Nich' Spencer Esq. &c. &c.
February i6th, 1687-8,
Hon"' Sir;
Herewith comes the Examination about the late Indian mur-
ther taken according to my Lord's & your Directions, with the
assistance of the rest of the Justices and in the full view & hear-
ing of the whole county together with Capt. Brents particular
sentiments and Judicious contrivance for a full and plenary satis-
faction to all Interests & pretences in so dark and obscure a
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264 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
matter which appears in probability a surer way for quieting
their jealousies and appeasing;' their future revenge (it being to
be acted according to their Laws) and concurrent with their
knowledge and understanding than a legall and (according to
the best evidence to be gotten) inetTectual tryal. We have also
sent to his Excellency, as your Honour will likewise see, an ac-
count of the number ot our Free holders and Inhabitants, capa-
ble of maintaining a Standing Militia of Horse and foot in our
county as we conceive pursuant to the Honourable Boards order
conceiving that a full number with a soldier like appearance is
far more suitable & commendable than a far greater number pre-
senting themselves in the field with clubs and staves, rather like
a rabble rout than a well disciplined Militia. We humbly beg
your Honours favour in aiding our defects where you perceive
the Deficiency and in the true representation of our (which is a
Standing .Militia) to his E.xcellency. We have also promised
his Lordship an industrious care for the providing Drums, Trum-
pets, colours & other Military ornaments but promise an eftect-
ual performance because of the hazard of the voyage & indeed
more minutely and particularly, because of the uncertainty and
at present lowness of our most despicable commodity; which we
assure ourselves your Honour in our behalfs will favourably
recommend to his Excellency. Sir, Capt. Brent has got judg-
ment for Mr. Storke and Mrs. Meese against the Executors in
trust of Mr. Ashton for their respective debts to expect payment
in money I believe will not be performed, but if in Tob° I have
taken care to make it ready by lodging so much in Capt. Brent's
hands which is always ready when your Honour in their behalfs
shall require the same, if this year be shipped the Executors
will come in & consequently our trust ceases it will be of them
altogether as difficult to get money and perhaps difficult to get
Tob°. I submit all to your Honour's Judgment and subscribe
myself
Sir Your Wff.
To the Hon"'^ Nicholas Spencer &c.
May loth, 1688.
Mr. John Cooper:
I received your several fair and kind letters this year
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 265
wherein you candidly give me an account of the lowness of Tob'
& the probability of its continuance upon which fair advice I
desisted from my intentions and indeed Inclinations & of ship-
ping off and consigning- to you 300 or 400 hh"'. However since
the market would not give me encouragement for that corre-
spondence this year I shall not fail (according to your notions
and my own desires; of a continued and friendly conversation
by letters and hope the same from you and if there should be
war as it is rumoured wiih us here I desire you to take me freight
for 20 hhd" certain 50 uncertain for if war's, freight will be diffi-
cult to be obtained here & Tob' will be a worse commodity here
than it is now, though it is now at the lowest as ever I knew it,
Crops hardly furnishing the Servants with cloaths and working
tools that make it. Sir I allow of your Act & thank your kind-
ness in supplying my mother with /;s in her present exigence
which she herself gave me an account of. Here inclosed I have
sent you three bills of Exchange, one of Capt. Norrington's &
Mr. Vincent Goddard's upon Mr. Richard Park's of London for
^229 sterling one other of Mr. Jno. Buckner's upon Alderman
Jefferies for ^4 and one other of William Smiths for £=,. 15
upon Perry & Lane all which I would have you receive & keep
for my use till my farther order that of Norrington's & God-
dard's is the poor produce of almost 200 hhds Tob° which I
consider although very low was something and if shipp'd of
might have been lower or perhaps brought me in debt. S' If
my Mother be living and you see her yourself which I much
doubt because I have neither heard from herself nor by any other
hand since the first Ships, pay her ^10 sterling upon my accot
and make no other payments except by my particular order nor
this except you deliver it to her yourself. I desire you also to
pay to Mr. Nich' Hayward Notary Publick. upon my accot /So
sterling if he comes to demand the same my next will give you
the reason of my ordering him that together with full direc-
tions, for the disposing of that and the remainder in your hands
or the greatest part thereof
I desire you next year to be full and timely in your advice.
Mr. Nev/ton has I suppose this year taken care to Satisfie you
for your former trouble in his business and made you some small
consignments. The above is copy of my former I refer still to
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the next for more full orders and directions only now send you
Duplicate of the above both which I am sure you will take care
of for
Your Wff.
To Mr. John Cooper ]
Merch' in London. J
May loth, i688.
Mr. Nich' Hay ward:
Sir, I am in too much haste now to give you a particular
answer to your severall most endearing letters which by my next
I shall endeavour to do. I hurry this away in haste together
with one to Mr. Cooper to whom I sent bills of Exchange for
^£'238, 17 sterling which in case of Mortality, &c., I desire you
to take into your custody for my use. I have also ordered him to
pay you ^80 sterling upon my account if he demand the same,
part thereof, which trouble I give for these two reasons one that
upon accident or casualities, which all men are subject to being
my Agent & thereupon the spot may serve me, the other is one
of ilie bills of Exchange being for ^229 sterling is drawn here
by two persons (the copy of which bill together with copy of
Judgment I have also sent you) Mr. Vincent Goddard and
Capt. VVm. Norrington,- Capt. Norrington will be in England,
Goddard here; if the money should not be answered, I believe
it would be a safe course to prosecute Norrington there, which
perhaps Mr. Cooper might not be so forward in because their
interest and intimacy as I am informed is great & being also his
chief principall owner for if it should happen to be protested, of
which I hope I have no cause to doubt by that method against
Norrington, the business here will be facilitated and eased if
Goddard who is here should be insolvent. By my next also
do intend to send you an Originall bill with like endorsement as
to Cooper in this by which means if the money be paid you have
no more to do but burn it, if it be not paid but protested you
will be better enabled to see it prosecuted effectually, if it be not
paid nor protested you will then bee strengthened to proceed in
such a method which in your Judgment shall seem best for my
security. Sir, By my next I shall be more full and take care both
to give you and Mr. Cooper an account how I would have the
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 267
money disposed of. I have it now in my intentions, for all or
three fourths at least to be laid out in plate but yet have not fully
resolved nor time to particularize.
Sir I must beg your pardon for this last, which will admit me
now to add no further but an assurance you shall always readily
find me.
Pray if Mr. Darrell become to you yet, Remember me kindly
to him and if a callash would not cost above £ six or seven
pounds I mean an ordinary one but strong and well geared that
may be drawn with one horse and Mr. Darrell could bring it in
freight free I could be very well contented provided my money
be paid, to be at the charge of one and I am sure Mr. Darrell
would not refuse the care and trouble all which concurring I
desire to have one brought.
Wff.
To Mr. Nicholas Hayward, &c.
May i8, i6S8.
Mr. Nich' Hayward: •'
Sir, The above is copy of my former, who by this have sent
you the Originall bill endorsed according to my promise in my
former and for those reasons there mentioned also for the callash
if it cost no more than is there mentioned I would have it sent,
though it could not be brought freight free provided it be de-
livered directly at my Landing. As in my former I referred to
my next so in this I must do the Same, this being only the pro-
duce of a sudden opportunity for Duplication of the former, <&c.
I shall in the next be largely thankfuU and thankfully large to
which I refer. I am secure in Maryland.
Wff.
To Mr. Nich' Hayward, &c.
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June ist, 1688.
Dear Mother:
Having received but two letters from you last year and both
of these in one ship, & in both of them the unwelcome news of
your indisposition and weakness with your own doubts of your
continuance in the land of the living which makes me mournfully
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doubt the worst but yet hoping- that God in his Mercy has by
this time restored you to your former health I take this oppor-
tunity to assure you that my wife, Sister and all our family are
in good health and with the continuance of the same to you, I
have also ordered Mr. Cooper to pay you ;^io sterling which
please kindly accept from
Wff.
June ist, i6SS.
Dearest Brother:
I longingly expected every day this last Winter especially by
every ship the welcome receipt of a letter from you, wherein I
might from yourself have the joyfull satisfaction of your good
health, I must confess I never doubted your continued and con-
stant love and affection, neither do I still, notwithstanding this
omission which I was afraid was occasioned by indisposition till
Mr. Hayward gave me the welcome assurance of the contrary.
I please myself with the hopes of early receiving a line from you
this next year to make satisfaction for this year's failure which
will most joyfully welcome to Dear Brother
Your Wff.
To Capt. Henry Fitzhugh, &c.
June ist, i6S8.
Mr. John Cooper:
Sir, I was so full in two l?st by Capt. Bowman and Capt.
Conway that now I shall have little to say only to give orders
aoout the disposal of the money sent home to you, which I
would have all laid out in plate by you and Mr. Hayward, be-
cause I have ordered him part of the money which by a particu-
lar letter directed to both here inclosed I shall give full Instruc-
tions in and therefore have no more to say than to assure you I am
Your Wff.
To Mr. John Cooper.
June ist, 1688.
Mr. John Cooper & Mr. Nich' Hayward:
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in my last particular letter I acquainted you that I would have
what I had not there expressly dispos'd of laid out for my use
in plate, after having paid your selves the full balance of your
acc'ts the plate that I would have bought pray let it be plain and
strong being in these particulars following, if my money will
reach to it, but rather leave some out than bring me a penny in
Debt. One dozen Silver hafted Knives, i doz. silver forks.
One dozen silver spoons large and strong, i set castors. One
3 quart tankard. A pair silver candlesticks less than them sent
last year by Mr. Hayward but more substantial. One silver
salvator plate. Four silver porringers 2 indifferent, 2 small
ones. A small silver bason, i doz. silver plates. Four silver
dishes 2 pretty large for a good joint of meat and two of a
smaller sort; if my money falls short let it be wanting in the
Dishes; ii there be any remaining at the Overplus be what it will
laid out in silver plates & let it all be thus marked VVFS and that
coat of arms put upon all pieces that are proper, especially the
Dishes plates and tankards &c. that I have sent inclosed and
blazoned in a letter to Mr. Hayward. Pray let it be sent by the
first conveniency and by bill Loading delivered at my Landing.
Gentlemen Your Wff.
• To Mr. Nich' Hayward
& Mr. John Cooper.
June ist, 1688.
Mr. Nicholas Hayward:
I have now before me your severall most obliging letters &
continued offers of favour and friendship, more especially those
by your Cousin Foote * and Capt. Madge wherein you give me
*This "cousin," or nephew, Richard Foote, as George Fitzhugh,
writing in De Bow's Reviezv, states him to be, came to Virginia as an
agent for Nicholas Hayward, and settled in that part of Stafford which
is now Prince William county. One of his descendants, Richard Foote,
was a justice of Stafford in 1745. A Richard Foote, of Prince William,
possibly the same, married Margaret (who married, secondly,
John Thornton Fitzhugh), and died in 1778, leaving two sons, Richard
and William Hayward, both very young at the time of their father's
death. Another descendant, Richard Foote, married Jane, daughter of
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the whole particulars of your unweary'd endeavour in negoti-
ating my affairs about Ashton's purchase and former Exchange
as also the Return of my money in the plate sent for for all which
I sincerely and heartily thank you and do really wish for occa-
sions to demonstrate my gratitude as well as barely to acknow-
ledge the obligations. Your Cousin Mr. Foote since his arrival
has not given me the honour of his good company nor the hap-
piness of any the least of his Commands nor indeed the least
knowledge of his sentiments or intentions whereby I might
have the minutest opportunity of serving or advising him which
his near relation to you not only oblige but commands and when
ever required or in the least but intimated shall be gladly receiv'd
and readily obeyed. As to the building a small house for the
settlement of a Plantation backv/ard upon your neighbouring
tract I shall be always ready to assist Mr. Hayward as also in pre-
paring for and planting an Orchard upon either or both and do
intend upon your first advice this year of the continuance of your
Intentions for that Settlement, to give you the building of such
a house though in my apprehensions cannot see the present
profit nor future advantage of such an undertaking, the Tract
being two small for so many Scituations in the methods our coun-
try now stands unless the Design were for a Quarter to settle
hands upon for the larger support of River Side plantation. I
cannot understand by your brother that there is any Defect in
your Purchase and consequently no need of farther advice for the
firmer settlement out thereof If ever I perceive the least Defect
in that kind shall immediately undergo my best services and
utmost endeavours to the closing such a breach.
I thank your kindness in Mr. Durand's book, and must agree
with you as well as I can understand it, that its a most weak
unpolite piece, having neither the Rules of History nor method
of description & taking it only as a private Gentleman's Journal,
'tis as barren and defective there too; when I come out in print
Rev. William Stuart, of King George county, and was ancestor of U.
S. Senator Henry Stuart Foote. A Richard Foote married, after 1816,
Lucy, widow of William Thornton Alexander. Richard H. Foote was
appointed a justice of Fauquier in iSoi, and married Frances, daughter
of George W. Grayson, of that county. In the Stafford records, March,
1758, is a deposition of Richard Foote, gentleman, aged fifty-four years.
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do intend to appear more regular and therefore as yet am not
provided for such an undertaking. S' I am glad to hear by you
of my Brother's health which I would favourably think indispo-
sition or multiplicity of business has hinder'd him from acquaint-
ing me with for I tind by yours that large glassing does not take
up so much of his time now. I have sent by Capt. Sutton
directed to you a skin which is esteemed a Lions with us here,
killed upon your Town Tract which I would desire you to pre-
sent in my behalf to him. I have in my two former given you
an account of money sent to Mr. Cooper with relation to your-
self in taking part and assistance in laying out the same which
now upon second thought I wholly design for an additional sup-
ply (except /5 I have charged payable to Brother Smith which
according to the tenour thereof at sight I desire you to pay
and lo /^ I have ordered Mr. Cooper to pay & the Callash if
you purchase it w" the freight thereof) for now my building
finished, my plantations well settled and largely stocked with
Slaves, having added about five more than when I gave you an
account thereof and purchased at least three plantations more
than is there mentioned and being sufficiently stored with goods
of all sorts I esteem it as well politic as reputable to furnish my-
self with an handsome cupboard of plate which gives myself the
present use and credit is a sure friend at a dead lift without much
loss or is a certain portion for a child after my decease and there-
fore last year I had a small quantity from you and about a like
quantity from Bristol & did expect some from Plymouth but that
miscarry'd.
By thus discovering my thoughts and intentions to you, you
may perceive that what plate I design to have purchased would
be strong and plain as being less subject to bruise, more service-
able and less out for the fashions which I assure my self you will
supply me with, as what you sent me last year was excepf in the
candlesticks. Brother and Sister Smith gives you their humble
services and please to accept of the Same from S'. The Inclosed
is'Impression of my seal and coat of arms, the Seal is lost there-
fore I request your favour to supply use with another steel one.
Your Wff.
To Mr. Nicholas Hayward &c.
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Mr. Nicholas Hayward:
Sir, The above is copy of my former the inclosed speaks its
own business and is only Duplicate of what I sent to'Mr. Cooper
in my former. Suppose this together with my severall former
letters will afford you the reason of my joining you in the
trouble with Mr. Cooper & now have only to beg your pardon
for all the troubles given you. In my last I sent you the Im-
pression of my lost seal desiring you to get me one more cut,
having no more of those Impressions by me and that but by
accident. I have in this sent you the Coat blazoned w"' I de-
sired you to get fair cut in Steel and for fear of loss again I
believe it would not be much amiss to send me another large
one upon an Ivory Stand it is thus blazoned, viz: A field azure
three chevronels traced in the base of es cuchion & a chief or.
>» Your Wfr.
To Mr. Nicholas Hayward. .-'-•;.•■..,. '■: ..sr^ '.,
'' "" •'•■-=. April ist, 16S9.
Mr. Nich' Hayward:
I have received your severall particular and kind letters this
year and congratulate your new acquisition of part of Mr. Ash-
ton's back tract though I cannot agree with you according to
the Piatt that it lyes so very contiguous to you and remote from
me — but this can assure you that it is a bargain really worth
your money, if it be as cheap as Mr. Darrell represents it. I
also thank your kindness in sending me so much of my Plate
sent for, nay more than I could have expected singly frorrl your-
self without the mortality or resignation of Mr. Cooper, which is
safely come into the country and has been this month, but is not
yet arrived at my house neither the letters — above four days
since; what the reason is that .Mr. Cooper did not join with you
in buying the whole as far as my money reached nor lay out the
money in his hands for the remainder according to my directions,
I cant imagine without the closeness of his nature made my de-
signs seem extravagant in which point I have sufficiently writ to
him & with all signify' d to him that he is my Factor not my
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Adviser because to him I pay commission. Now Sir to you to
whom I pay no commission and by that means under no obhga-
lion further than your generous and free nature obhges I must
beg excuse that I want expressions throughly to acknowledge
my gratitude. Sir, The inclosed is copy of my Proposals to
Mr. Secretary which he gives me assurance will take with my
Lord Culpepper therefore beg your favour to negotiate in my
behalf with his Lordship, and to get a confirmation in England
though the drawing deeds, consulting counsel and inrolment in
chancery cost twelve or fifteen guineas. Your own purchase of
Brenton with the Rent charge thereof gives you the manner and
method.
Your late acquisition assures me of your ability's, and your
continued kindness emboldens me to request this as also another
that you would please to make a piece of plate of ten guineas
price from me acceptable to your Lady by your kind represen-
tation thereof, for your consummation of the same. Perhaps
my Lord Culpepper may object that the quantity of land, men-
tioned within those Bounds (which I have also sent you inclosed
to perfect the business there if it be possible) may be more, but
the Rent roll which Mr. Secretary has diligently searched makes
that fully appear, also that the Purchase is too low for so great a
quantity of Land considering that you gave as much or rather
more ratably, for your tract of 30000 Acres, which lyes remote; •
to that it is easily answered your's is a new acquisition & conse-
quently lyable to the Rents in specie, as my Lord put it, but
this whole Purchase that I make is of Land taken up betore the
Originall Grant to the first Proprietors of this Northern Neck
and there fore stands under the conditions upon the first settle-
ment of the Country & not my Lord's condition now to be
made upon new Purch'\ses and consequently neither by his Lord-
ship himself or any other, to be inhansed or advanced without a
generall Disturbance to the People: Also what's now to be taken
up it lyes in his Lordship's power to put what terms upon the
Rent and in what specie he pleases, therefore 1000 acres of Land,
taken up since my Lord's acquirement, is more worth for annuall
advantage or immediate sale of a Rent charge than 50CO Acres
antiently taken up and all that I propose to purchase within the
bounds mentioned has been considerable time taken up before
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his Lordship's Right. And this I dare affirm that if his Lord-
ship was to be Governor himself he would not be able w'' the
greatest Industry assisted by power to clear from my intended
Purchase ^20 ster a year & if he wants that power his utmost
endeavour will never bring it to above half that sum, for all the
Tennants upon the whole Tract three excepted are not able to
pay their Rent in money being poor needy men and then the
refuge must be by Distress & nothing will be found to Distrain
but cows & horses and those to be valued by those that look
upon themselves to be under the same mischief and from thence
the Valua^n may be judged. I must assure you S' that if I
make this Purchase, I have not the e.xpectation of receiving one
penny in money for Rent but being placed in the middle of the
Purchase & Tob" my method of Dealing, Tob" will answer my ends
and suit my conveniency and perhaps in time reimburse me and
my Posterity for the money laid out. Thus S' I have given you
some reasons of my Proposal which when duely considered
may be conducive to perswade his Lordship to sell, which if I
would not have you stick upon ten or twenty pounds extra ordi-
nary in the Purchase, therefore in generall terms shall desire you
to act in this affair for me as for your self & whatever you do
shall be thankfully acknowledged. Mr. Cooper intimated to me
that the money in his hands was ready at your call which I de-
sire you to take into your custody and I shall endeavour to send
more by the latter ships & what my money falls short if the Pur-
chase goes forward please to propose your own security for the
payment thereof with Interest & I shall take effectual and satis-
factory care to answer it; but if the Purchase should not go on,
I still continue my resolutions of purchasing the same Pieces of
plate & particularly the knives which I have already forks for
when they come to hand, which I desire you'll please to purchase
for me according to my last years direction with the addition of a
Silver ladle and send it in by the first Ships. Capt. Brent who is
now at my house has the same designs but waits the issue of this
for the purchase of almost as great a quantity above Oquoquan
and intends to propose it in partnership which will be a far more
profitable Purchase, by reason little Land is already Pattented
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knows what he does & the advantage thereby and therefore to
his relation I refer. Sir What encouragement my poor Endea-
vours or Interest can give to your pleasing Establishment at
Brenton and a sudden commotion we have had (under the pre-
tended expectation of Indians in which Capt. Brent has given
you a full just and clear relation) gives me the present opportu-
nity not only to assure the people but also to satisfie ihe Govern-
ment that were full encouragement given & Immunity granted
to that Town which might be conducive to draw Inhabitants
thither, the county would be indifferent secure from future alarms
and it would be a sure Bulwark against reall dangers, because
either by them or within them must be the Indian Road; a good
company of Men there settled would be immediately called,
either to keep off the Enemy at his first approach or cut him
short in his Return.
S'' This sudden turn of times in England may perhaps at pre-
sent give a check to the Increment of Brenton from your French
expectation but I believe may be additionally supply'ed by those
methods. Capt. Brent intimates though not plainly expresses, by
being a Refuge and Sanctuary for Roman Catholicks and I dare
say let it be increased by whom it will, our government will give
it all the Indulgences that can be reasonably required by reason
of its convenient Scituation for a Watch and Defence ag" In-
dian Depr:?dations and Excursions; neither do I believe that per-
swasion will be hindered from settling any where in this country,
especially there where being Christians they may secure us
against the Heathen. I hope to have another opportunity to
write to you again this year, therefore have now only to beg
your pardon for this and all former troubles with this assurance
you shall always find me thankfully acknowledge myself. S""
The inclosed is a bill of Exchange of Mr. Warner's upon Mrs.
Thornbush which I desire you to receive for ^^5.
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Will of William Fitzhugh,
And Other Extracts From the Records of Stafford County.
The following is an abstract of the will of Colonel William Fitzhugh,
on record at Stafford Courthouse :
" I, William Fitzhugh, of Stafford County, gentleman, now bound for
England. Dated April 9th, 1700. To eldest son William all that tract
called Vaulx land, in Westmoreland, containing 6,000 acres; a tract on
Nominy in Westmoreland containing 475 acres; another tract adjoining
Vaulx land at the head of Pope's Creek, containing 250 acres, also one
half of a tract of 21,996 acres in Stafford, patented by me, lying above
Occoquan; also to William the land I live on in Stafford, 1,000 acres,
reserving one half of this land to my wife for her life.
To son Henry one half of the said 21,996 acres; a tract above Occo-
quan; also 600 acres called the Quarter land; also a tract of 6,000
acres in Stafford at the head of Potomac Creek, called Wilkinson's
patent.
To son Thomas the land I bought of William Waugh, being 400
acres on Rappahannock River, also 1.090 acres, bought of Parson
Waugh, in the forest between the Rappahannock River and Potomac
Creek, nigh the head thereof, also 350 acres on Rappahannock, also
1,248 acres in Rappahannock forest, also 1,246 acres in the same.
To son George 2,100 acres on Acquia and Chappawamsic Creeks in
Stafford, also the first choice of 400 acres (out of a dividend of 6.000
acres patented by Mr. Carey's father and mother), also 500 acres on
Quantico Creek, also half of Soo acres near Quantico; also half of 2,150
acres at the head of Quantico; also a tract of i.oco acres lying near
the falls of Occoquan (where a tanyard wis made by Mr. Rice Hooe's
father); also a tract, 500 acres, between Hollowing Point and Diggs's
Island, within two miles of Col. Mason's.
To son John, 200 acres in Paspetanzy, bought of Dr. Richard Bryant,
and now leased to the said Bryant ; also 150 acres lying back of my
dwelling plantation ; also 200 acres near Chotank ; also 548 acres lying
upon Paspetanzy forest ; also 400 acres lying near Machodick Dam, a
little distance from my dwelling plantation ; also another tract of 100
acres ; another of 175 acres between Rappahannock and Potomac ;
also 400 acres upon Mathodick Dam, a little distance from my dwelling
house ; also 100 acres.
To wife Sarah one half of the plantation I live on for her life, and
the use and benefit of the still thereon (in lieu of dower); but if she
refuses is to have her thirds.
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All Other lands in Virginia, and rights or pretensions to lands in
England or Maryland, to son William.
To wife seven negroes, one silver bason, three silver plates, one of
the lesser silver candlesticks, half the silver spoons in the house, the
second best silver tankard, a silver porringer, a large silver ladle, the
great silver tumbler, and desires that she should leave this silver to his
youngest son John.
To his son William, eight negroes, two silver dishes, six silver plates
of those that came in last year from Mr. Mason, one large silver salver
Jappon, one small silver bread plate, one heavier, one krger silver salt,
one silver porringer of the largest sort, a pair of large silver candle-
sticks, with snuffers, snuff dish and extinguisher, the great silver tank-
ard, and a set of silver castors.
To his son Henry, seven negroes, two silver dishes, of those that
came in last year from Mr. Mason, a small silver bread plate, one silver
trencher salt, one silver porringer of the largest sort, and a silver
candlestick with snuffers and stand.
To his son Thomas, seven negroes, and (after his elder brothers are
served) one silver dish, three silver plates, a silver porringer, a silver
salt, and a silver candlestick.
To son George, seven negroes, and (after his elder brothers are
served) one silver dish, three silver plates, one silver porringer (if one
is left), a silver salt, a silver candlestick, and the smallest silver candle-
stick.
To his son John, seven negroes, one silver bason, three silver plates,
a silver saL, a small silver tumbler, and six silver spoons.
To eldest son William, two large silver dishes that are novv coming
in from England, on condition that he pay each of my other four sons
^lo sterling, and if he does not said dishes are to be equally divided
among my five sons.
To son William /■200 sterling out of my money in England ; to wife
Sarah £120, and to each of sons Henry, Thomas, George and John
/120 sterling to be paid to said sons when they reach the age of six-
teen; and what may remain of my money in England to be equally
divided between my sons William, and Henry.
Give my riding horse Tickler to my wife, and all other horses to son
William, who is to provide each of the younger sons with a good young
horse.
Beds, furniture, &c., to be divided between wife and son William.
Give to son William my own and my wife's pictures, the other six
pictures of my relations, and the large map in my study.
Give my study of books to William and Henry, and the remainder of
my pictures and maps to my wife.
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As to goods and merchandize — I have two stores; provision therefrom
for use of the family for two years, and give the remainder to WiiUam,
on condition that he pay each younger son ^'50 sterling.
To sons Henry and Thomas, the stocks of sheep, cattle, and hogs,
at the Church Quarter plantation, and to wife and son William the re-
mainder of stock.
Codicil, Oct. 20, i-oi : Son William to have charge of the four
younger sons and their estates until they are eighteen years of age.
Codicil (2d). To servants John Nicholson, Henry the Carpenter,
and Thomas the glazier, the time remaining due by their mdentures.
To my cousin David Abbott the time due by his indentures, being
seven years; to Mrs. Ann O'Donnell two stuff gowns and petticoats; to
mother [probably wife's mother] certain sheets and flannel; and (at the
request of my wife) a negro woman [named], for a particular respect
she has to her, is to be e.xempted from working in the ground.
To wife Sarah and son William, both m.y coaches, horses, and gear ;
To Mr. John Clark ^5 for a ring; to Mr. Andrew Clark ^5 for a ring;
to Dr. Spence ^5 for a ring; to Dr. Spence's wife 20 shillings for a ring;
to sons George and John, a dozen silver spoons, I brought out of Eng-
land with me; to son Henry, my silver Manteeth [?j I brought out of
England ; to son Thomas a silver chocolate pot I brought out of Eng-
land.
Proved in Stafford, December loth, 1701.
On Nov. iSth, 1701, Mrs. Sarah Fitzhugh, widow and relict of Colo-
nel William Fitzhugh, late deceased, relinquishes her right of dower.
The inventory of Colonel William Fitzhugh's estate includes 51 ne-
groes and mulattoes, and 6 English servants.
The inventory of the personal estate of Henry Fitzhugh, Esquire,
deceased, son of William, and grandson of William Fitzhugh, the im-
migrant, recorded in Stafford, March 2d, i7-)2-3, shows a very large and
valuable estate. Articles are named as being in the parlor chamber,
the hall chamber, the porch chamber, the study chamber, the garrett,
the back room, the hall closet (which contained, among other things,
a silver-hilted cutlass and belt, a silver-hilted small dress sword, a spy-
glass, a drum, a case containing a German and an English flute with
an "8 do 12," a backgammon table and boxes, a cane and sword belt,
two powder horns, &c. 1; the chamber back room ('containing, among
other things, S yards of "Virginia Demmety "), "The Chamber," the
study, the chamber closet, the hall (which contained, among other
things, a book-case valued at £^, a set of silver knee buckles, a pair of
gold studs, a silver watch, a family seal, a reading glass, a nocturnal, a
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universal dial, twelve silver spoons, twelve ivory knives, six tea spoons,
tongs, &c.. a soup ladle, two pair of silver candlesticks, snuffers and
pan, six silver plates, a silver teapot, engraved, a parcel ot old silver
(valued at /6. 15. 11J2), new silver plate (valued at ^11. 17. 9), six sil-
ver plates (valued at £2>5- o- 1°). o"^ large two-handled silver cup
(valued at /52. 10, " ,^"25 sterling of this cup belongs to Mrs. Fitzhugh "),
china, glass, wine glasses, a silver punch ladle, &c.); hooks, per a cata-
logue [not given], valued at /■25S. 7. 9; in the kitchen, in the dairy, in
the new store-house, in the old store-house, in the cellar, in the new
house, and in the meat-house.
One inventory contains 52 slaves and 3 white servants; another
"Mulatto Peter's estate," ro slaves ; another "at Aaron's Quarter," 16
slaves, and another " at Miles Quarter," 15 slaves.
[Colonel Henry Fitzhugh, of " Eagle's Nest," whose estate is here
described, was the only son of William Fitzhugh, of the same place —
who v.-as appointed member of the Council in 1711, and died about
January, i7i3-'4— was educated at the University of Oxford, where he
matriculated at Christ Church, October 20th, 1722, at the age of fifteen;
was long a member of the House of Burgesses, and once an unsuccess-
ful candidate for Speaker; married Lucy, daughter of Robt. Carter, of
" Corotoman," and left — besides a daughter Elizabeth, who married
Benjamin Grymes, and was the grandmother of Bishop Meade — an
only son. William Fitzhugh, of "Chatham," Stafford county, who was
a member of the House of Burgesses, of the Revolutionary Conven-
tions, and of Congress, 1779-S0. The last named married Miss Ran-
dolph, of " Chatsworth," Henrico county, and had two daughters, Mrs.
Craig and Mrs. G. W. P. Custis— the mother of Mrs. R. E. Lee— and
an only son, William H. Fitzhugh, of " Ravensworth," Fairfax county,
a young man of great talent, who was a member of the Virginia
Legislature, and Convention of 1829, and v. ho, dying without issue,
ended the male line of the eldest branch of the Fitzhughs].
By an order of Stafford County Court, Feb. 15, 1748, there was set
apart, out of the estate of Col. Henry Fitzhugh, in St. Paul's parish,
Mrs. Lucy Harrison's dower, and thirds of slaves, stocks. &c., and
under an agreement with Col. Nathaniel Harrison [of "Brandon"],
and Lucy, his wife [late the widow of Henry Fitzhugh], there was
assigned to her 732 acres out of the "home house tract" (the whole
containing 1.797 acres) and 27 slaves.
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280 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. 118I
Major William Fitzhugh [Jr.], in 1701; appointed clerk of the county
July iSth, 1701.
There is recorded in Stafford a long deed, dated March Sth, 1759,
from William Fitzhugh, of Calvert county, Md., Esquire, to Bailey
Washington, of Stafford county, Va., gentleman, reciting that Richard
Gary and George Seaton ootained a patent, in 1662, for 6,000 acres on
the Potomac, in Westmoreland, which had been granted in 1659 to Mr.
Hugh Gywnne, who sold it to said Seaton and Thomas Morris ; that
Morris and Mary, his wife, sold their share to the said Gary, who by
his will, dated Nov. 29th, 16S2, left 400 acres of said land to his wife
(who afterwards married Samuel Aldred and sold her share to George
Brent), and that said Gary, by his will, also gave 250 acres of said tract
to his son, Richard, in tail, and the remainder of said land to his sons
John and Richard, in fee; but providing that if the heirs of said Seaton
(who was then dead) should on coming of age. shofld repay /60
which said Gary had expended in sowing and seating said land, then
they should have a moiety of it; and that Richard Gary, the son, by
deed dated Nov., 169S, sold his interest to William Fitzhugh, grand-
father of the said William Fitzhugh (party to the deed), conveying
2,100 acres, and that the said William Fitzhugh, the elder, by will, gave
said land to his son, George Fitzhugh, who died about 1722, intestate,
leaving issue, George, his eldest son (who is since dead without issue)
and the said Wm. Fitzhugh, party to the deed; and also that John
Gary, Jr., of the Gounty of Gloucester, gentleman, entered into part of
said lar i (1,000 acres) in tail, under the will of Richard Gary, the first
named, and by deed, dated October, 1752, sold said 1,000 acres to Wm.
Fitzhugh, party to this deed, the entail being docked by an act of the
Assembly; and said Wm. Fit.'hugh now conveys 1,664 acres to said
Bailey Washington.
In the index to wills is found, between 1729-4S, the will of John
Fitzhugh; but the will book is one of those stolen or destroyed during
the late war.
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INSTRUCTIONS TO BERKELEY. 281
Instructions to Berkeley, 1642.^
[MacDonal.d Papers, Va. State Library, Pages 376-3S8.]
Instructions to Sir William Berkeley, IC?ct., One of the Gentle-
men of our Privy Chamber, Governor of Virginia, a?id to
the Council of State there :
That in the first place you be careful! Almighty God may be
duly and daily served according to the Form of Religion es-
tablished in the church of England both by yourself and all the
people under your charge, which may draw down a blessing on
all your endeavours. And let every congregation that hath an
able minister build for him a convenient Parsonage House, to
which for his better maintenance over and above the usual pen-
sion you lay 200 acres of Gleable lands, for the clearing of that
ground every of his Parishoners for three years shall give some
days labours of themselves and their Servants, and see that you
have a special care that the Glebe Land be sett as neare the Par-
sonage Hou=e as may be and that it be of the best conditioned
Land. Sufter no invasion in matters of Religion and be careful
to appoint sufficient and conformable Ministers to each congre-
gation, that you chatechise and instruct them in the grounds
and principles of Religion.
2. That you administer the Oaths of Allegiance and Suprem-
acy to all such as come thither with intention to plant themselves
in the country, which if he shall refuse he is to be returned and
shipped from thence home and certificate made to the Lords of
the Councill, the same oath is to be administered to all other
persons when you shall see it fitt as Mariners, Merchants &c. to
prevent any danger of spyes.
3. That Justice be equally administered to all his Majesty's
subjects there residing and as neere as may bee after the forme
of this Realm of England and vigilant care to be had to prevent
corruption in officers tending to the delay or perverting of Justice.
4. That you and the Councellors as formerly once a year or
oftener, if urgent occasion shall require, Do summon the Bur-
* Berkeley was appointed Governor August 9th, 1641, but did not
assume the government until February, 1642,
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gesses of all and singler Plantations there, which together with
the Governor and Councill makes the Grand Assembly, and
shall have Power to make Acts and Laws for the Government of
that Plantation correspondent, as near as may be, to the Laws of
England, in which assembly the Governor is to have a negative
voice, as formerly.
That you and the Councill assembled are to sett down the
fittest Months of the Quarterly meeting of the Councill of State,
whereas they are to give their attendance for one and consult
upon matter of Councill and State and to decide and determine
such Causes as shall come before them, and that free access be
admitted to all Suitors to make known their particular griev-
ances, being against what persons So ever wherein the Governor
for the time being, as formerly, is to have but a casting voyce if
the number of the councellors should be equally divided in
opinion, besides the Quarterly Meeting of the Council it shall
be lawful for you to summon, from time to time, Extraordinary
meetings of the Councill according to emergent occasions.
6. In cas^ there shall be necessary cause to pr'ceed against
any of the Councill for their own persons they are in such cases
to be summoned by you, the Governor, to appear at the next
Sessions of the Councill, holden there to abide their Sensure or
othervJse, if you shall think it may concern either the Safety or
quiet of that State to proceed more speedily with such an
offender. It shall be lawful to summon a councill extraordinary
where at six of the councill at least are to be present with you,
and by the Major part if their voyces comit my councillors to
safe custody or upon Bayle to abide the order of the next quarter
councill. •
7. For the ease of the Country and quicker despatch of Busi-
ness you, the Governor and Councill, may appoint in places
convenient Inferior Courts of Justice and Commissioners for the
Same, to determine of suits not exceeding the value of Ten
Pounds and for the punishments of such offences as you and the
Councill shall think fitt to give them the power to hear and de-
termine.
8. The Governor shall appoint officers of sealing of writts and
subponas and such officers as shall be thought necessary for the
execution orders.
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And — also the acts and Laws of the General! Assembly and
for punishing any neglect or contempt of the Said Orders, Acts
or Laws respectively. And shall nominate and appoint all other
publique officers under the degree of the councill, the Captain of
the Fort, Master and Surveyor General! excepted.
9. That since the Councill attend his Majesties Service and the
publique business to the great hindrance of the private, that they
and ten servants for every Councellor be exempted from all pub-
lique charges and contributions assessed and levved by the
General! Assembly (a Warr defensive, assistance towards the
Building of a Town or churches or the ministers' dues excepted).
10. To avoid all questions concerning the Estates of Persons
dying in Virginia, it shall be lawfull as it hath been used hereto-
fore to make probates of Wills, and default of a Will to grant
Letters of Administration in ye Colony: Provided always that
such to whom Administration is granted do put in sufficient
security to be accomptable to such persons in England or else-
where unto whom of right those Estates shall belong. And
that such Probate of Wills and Letters of Administration shall
be and abide in full force and virtue to all intents and purposes.
11. To the end the country may be the better served against
all Hostil Invasions it is requisite that all persons from the age
of 16 to 60 be armed with arms, both offensive and defensive.
And if any person be defective in this kind, wee strictly charge
you to command them to provide themselves of sufficient arms
within one year or sooner if possible it may be done, and if any
shall fail! to be armed at the end of the Term limited we will
that you punish them severely.
12. And for that Arms without the Knowledge of the use of
them are of no effect wee ordain that there be one Muster Master
General!, appointed by us for the Colony, who shall 4 times in
the year and oftener (if cause be) not only view the arms, am-
munition and furniture of every Person in the Colony, but also
train and exercise the people, touching the use and order of
arms and shall also certify the defects if any be either of appear-
ance or otherwise to you the Governor and Councill. And
being informed that the place is vacant by the death of George
Dunn we do nominate and appoint our trusty and beloved John
West, Esq., being recommended unto us for his sufficiency and
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long experience in the country, to be Muster Master of the said
Colony. And for his competent maintenance we will that you,
the Governor and Councill, so order the business at a General
Assembly that every Plantation be rated equally according- to
the number of persons, wherein you are to follow the course
practised in the Realm of England.
13. That you cause likewise 10 Guarders to be maintained for
the Port at Point Comfort. And that you take course that ye
Capt° of ye said Port have a competent allowance for his services
there. Also that the said ftbrt be well kept in Reparation and
provided with ammunition.
14. That new Comers be e.xempted the ist yeare from going
in p'son or contributing to the wars Save only in defence of the
place where they shall inhabit and that only when the enemies
shall assail them, but all others in the Colony shall go or be rated
to the maintenance of the war proportionately to their abilitys,
neither shall any man be priviledged for going to the warr that
is above 16 years old and under 60, respect being had to the
quality of the person, that officers be not forced to go as private
soldiers or in places inferior to their Degrees, unless in case of
supreme necessity.
15. That you may better avoid and prevent the treachery of
the savages we strictly forbid all persons whatsoever to receive
into their houses the person of any Indian or to converse or
trade with them without the especiall license and warr' given to
that purpose according to the commissioner inflicting severe
punishment upon the offenders.
16. For preventing of all surprizes as well as of the treach-
erous savages as of any fforaine enemy we require you to erect
Beacons in severall partes of ye Countries by firing whereof the
country may take notice of their attempts of their Beacons or
their watching them to beare the charge of the country as
shall be determined by a Generall Assembly or otherwise by the
shooting off 3 Pieces whereby they may take the Alarum as
shall be found most convenient.
17. That for raising of towns every one ye have and shall have
a grant of 500 acres of land, shall, within a convenient time,
build a convenient house of brick of 24 feet long and 16 feet
broad with a cel'ar to it and so proportionately for Grants of
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larger or lesser quantity. And the grounds and platforms for
the towns to be laid out in sucli form and order as the Governor
and Councill shall appoint. And that you cause at ye publick
charge of ye country a convenient house to be built where you
and the councill may meet and sitt for the dispatching of publick
affairs and hearing of causes. And because the buildings at
Jamestown are for the most part decayed and the place found to
be unhealthy and inconvenient in many respects. It shall be in
the power of you and the council, with the advice of ye Generall
Assembly, to choose such other seate for your chiefe Town and
Residence of the Governor as by them shall be judged most
convenient, retaining the ancient name of James Town.
i8. That you shall have power to grant Patents and to assign
such Proportion of Land to all adventurers and Planters as have
been useful heretofore in the like cases, either for adventurers of
money, Transportation of people thither according to the orders
of the late company and since allowed by his Majesty.
And that there likewise be the same proportion of Fifty acres
of land granted and assigned for every p'son transported thither
since Midsummer, 1625. And that you continue ye same course
to all persons transported thither untill it shall be otherwise de-
termined by his Maj'^.
19. Whereas the greatest part of the Land on James River
hath been formerly granted unto particular persons or public
society but being by them either not planted at all or for many
years deserted, divers planters have by orders and leave of the
Governor and Councill of Virg-nia set down upon these lands or
some part of them which was absolutely necessary for the de-
fence and security of the Colony against the Indians, that the
Governor confirm those Lands unto the present Planters and
Possessors thereof. And that the like course be taken for Plant-
ing new Patents in any other places so unplanted and deserted
as aforesaid where it shall be found necessary. And in case
former proprietors make their claims thereunto that there be
assigned to them the like quantities in any other part of the
Colony not actually possessed where they shall make choice.
20. That you call for the Charter Parties that Masters of Ships
bring along with and strictly examine whether ttiey have truly
p'formed the condicons of their contracts. And further, dih-
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v\, gently to inquire and examine whether they have given sufficient
p and wholesome food and drink with convenient room to the pas-
/\ sengers during the voyage. And that no Servants be discharged
r, the Ships and turned ashore as formerly untill their Masters have
notice and sufficient time to send for them. And that upon com-
.|. plaint in any of these particulars you give such redress as justice
(, shall require.
^ 21. That in regard you may daily e.xpect the coming of a
J fforaign enemy, Wee require you soon after the first landing
,, that you publish by proclamation throughout the Colony that no
person whatsoever upon the arrival of any ships shall dare to go
on board without ye express warr' from you the Governor and
councill, least by the means they be surprized to the great pre-
^ judice if not the overthrow of the Plantation.
.. 22. And to avoid that intolerable abuse of Ingrossing comodi-
ties of forestalling ye iMarket, That you require all Masters of
Ships not to break Bulk until they arrive of Saint James City or
.. otherwise without speciall orders from ye the Governor and
^; ' Councill, and that care be taken that there be sufficient Store-
- houses and Warehouses for the same and convenient laying of
their goods as they shall arrive.
,^ 23. That you endeavour by severe punishment to suppress
drunkenness, And that you be carefull ye great quantity of wine
V and strong waters be not sold into the hands of those that be
„i likeliest to abuse it, but that so near as you can it may be equally
, disposed of for the reHef of ye whole Plantation. And if any
Merchant or other for private Lucre shall bring in any corrupt
.;. or unwholesome wines, waters or any other Liquors, such as
may endanger the health of the people and shall so be found
upon the oaths of sufficient p'sons appointed for the Tryall that
the vessel be staved.
24. That especiall care be taken for ye preservacon of neat
cattle and that the ffemales be not killed up as formerly, whereby
,^ the Colony will in short time have such plenty of victualls, yt
h- much people may come thither for the setting up of iron works
^ and other staple commodities. That you cause the People to
plant great store of corne, as there may be one whole years pro-
^ vision before hand in the Colony least in relying upon one single
p Harvest, Drought, Blasting or otherwise they fall into such
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wants or Famine as formerly they have endured. And that the
Plow may go and English be sowed in all places convenient.
And that no Corne nor Cattle be sold out of the Plantation with-
out leave from the Governor and Councill.
25. That they apply themselves to the Impaling of Orchards
and gardens for Roots and Fruits w'ch that country is so proper
for, & that every Planter be compelled for every 500 acres
granted unto him to Inclose and sufficiently ffence either with
Pales or Ouicksett and Dikes, and so from time to time to pre-
serve, enclosed and ffenced a quarter of an acre of Ground in ye
most convenient place near his Dwelling House for Orchards
and gardens.
26. That whereas yo' Tobacco falleth every day more and
more unto a baser price, that it be stinted into a far less propor-
tion then hath been made in ye last year 1637, not only to be
accounted by the plants but by the quantity when 'tis cured.
And because of Great Debts of the Planter in Tobacco, occa-
sioned by the excessive rates of commodities have been the
stinting thereof, so hard to be put into execution that the course
commanded by his Majesty in his letter of the 22nd of April, in
ye 13th year of His Reign for regulating ye debts of ye Colony
be duly observed. And also not to suffer men to build slight
cottages as heretofore hath been there used. And to remove
from place to place, only to plant Tobacco. That Trademen
and Handy Crafts be compelled to follow their severall Trades
and occupations, and that ye draw you into Towns.
27. We require you to use yo"" best endeav' to cause ye people
there to apply themselves to the raising of more staple commo-
dities as Hemp and Flax, Rope, Seed and Madder, Pitch & Tarr
for Tanning of Hides and Leather. Likewise every Plantation
to plant a proportion of Vines, answerable to their numbers, and
to plant white Mulberry Trees, and attend Silk Worms.
28. That the Merchant be not constrained to take Tobacco at
any Price, in Exchange for his wares. But that it be lawfull for
him to make his own Bargain for his goods he so changeth not-
withstanding any Proclamation here published to the contrary.
29. That no merchant shall be suffered to bring in Ten pounds
worth of wine or strong waters that brings not one hundred
pounds worth of necessary commodities and so rateably. And
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that every Merchant that deserveth a Warr' for the recovery of
his Debt shall bring in a bill of Parcells with the Rates of the
several! Commodities, whereby ye certainty of the Debt and ye
comodities thereof may ye better appeare.
30. That whereas many ships laden with Tobacco and other
merchandize from thence, carry ye same immed'^ into fforraine
countries, whereby his iMaj'-" loseth ye custom and Duties there-
upon due, nothing being answered in Virginia, You bee very
carefull that no ship or other vessell whatsoever depart from
thence, fraighted with Tobacco or other commodities w'' that
country shall afford, before Bond w*" sufficient sureties be taken
to Ma''" use to bring the same directly unto his Maj"'' Domin-
ions and not else where, and to bring a Bill of Lading from
home that the staple of those comodities may be made here,
whereby his Maj"^ after so great expence upon that Plantation
and so many of his subjects Transported thither, may not be de-
frauded of what shall be justly due unto him for custom and
other duties upon those goods'. These Bonds to be transmitted
to ye Councill here, and from thence to ye Exchequer, that ye
Delinquent may be proceeded with according to due course of
Law.
31. Next that you strictly and resolutely forbid all Trade or
Trucking for any Merchandize whatsoever w"" any ship other
then His Maj'-^'^ subjects, that shall either purposely or casually
come to any of y^ plantations. And that if, upon some unex-
pected occasions and necessity, the Governor and Councill shall
think fitt to admitt such intercourse, w'^ we admitt not but upon
some extremity, That good caution and Bond be taken, both
of the Master and also the owner of the said Tobacco or other
comodities so laden that they shall (Damages of the Sea Ex-
cepted) be brought to our Port of London, there to pay unto us
such duties as are due upon the same.
And to conclude, That in all things accordingly to y' best
understanding ye endeavour the extirpation of vice and encour-
agement of Religion, virtue and goodness.
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Causes of Discontent in Virginia, 1676.
[Winder Papers, Vol. II, pp. 169 to 173, Va. State Liprarv.]
(continued.)
NORTHAMPTON GRIEVANCES.
The Agreevances of ye Inhabitants in Gen" to say Hous-
keepers and ft'reeholders of Northamp' County committed unto
theire Burgesses to p' sent unto yo' Right Hon^'^ Gov" his coun-
cell and Burgesses humbly —
' . ■■ •" Petitioning for Redress.
1. Whereas our county som yeares since was, contrary to our
expectation, divided into two counties to our great Detriment
and Loss notwithstanding ye great advantage Coll. Scarborough,
y' made and p' cured to ye county of Accomack ag" Leut"'
Coll. Waters y" his ffellow Burgess ; ye premises dewly consid-
ered Desire (as we humbly conceive) but Reasonable, y' our
County may be answerably Inlarged as theirs. ;.,
2. That we may have Liberty graunted us to choose a new
vestery, and y' every three yeares a new vestery may be chosen.
3. That ye act concerning paying for killing of Wolves,
Beares, Wilde Cats & Crows, or ye Like, may be Repealed
since no man but will, for his own good & security, Indevour to
ye utmost to destroy all possably he can.
4. That any houskeepers may have a coppy at any time of ye
clerk of ye Lists of Tithables, and by ye s'd clerk attested, pay-
ing Reasonably for ye same.
5. That no p'son may be sett Tax ffree but by a full board,
and not by any magistrates p'ticular favor to ye great opression
of other poore p'sons.
6. That it may be graunted us to make a free choyse of six
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housekeepers, w"" out Interposing of any over Ruling Majis-
tratre, and to continue yt Numb"" who may be admited and
authorized to sitt, vote, assess and examine ye Lists of Tithables
yearely at ye Laying of ye county Leavy, giving them Lawfull
Notice of ye same to prevent future opressions and abuses, as
we humbly susspect and conclude to have Received heretofore,
w'" Reasonable Request, if deny'd us, must and will submit.
Then crave (by ye Reason) we have a court of Brothers ; Prive-
ledge may be granted us and confirmed (^if they continue) to
have our choyce of ye s'd foure Brothers, two of them only to
sitt at our s'd yearly assessing ye County Leavy.
7. That our County Records may bee free open for every man
to search and Require coppies as theire occasions, from time to
time, shall and may Require at ye apoynted place and office,
paying ye Clerk his just fees.
8. That courtJ may be kept more duly according to Act of
Assembly, w"' out often Reseuringment at pleasure, without ap-
perent just cause to ye great charge & detriment of ye People,
as allso sitting at ye apoynted hours ; ye contrary forcing peop.,
Espeschaliy in Winter, to Return home and to Comitt theire
business unto others to theire Loss and Dissatisfaction, or els
expose themselves to trouble and be Bourthensome to theire
Neighbours housen, w'ch possable may be prevented by early-
sitting.
9. That we may have Liberty to appeale, in any Dubius case,
though depending upon a far smaller value than Three Thousand
pounds of Tobacco w"" would not heretofore be p'mitted.
10. That no Drink may be sold w'^in a mile of ye Courthouse
at any of ye court sitting days, Considering ye Detraction of
time and ye Rudeness of people where Drink is sold at courts,
neglecting theire business, spending and wasting theire Estates,
abusing themselves and Authority, Quarreling and fighting w'"
all Imagenary inconveniences, and evill concequences thereby
accruing.
11. That no ordinary, or petty Tipling house may be allowed
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CAUSES OF DISCONTENT IN VIRGINIA. 291
in our county; a means to keep young freemen and others from
Running into Maryland. . ,■; r.«. ;i.,.. ?h,i"i
12. That there may be a considerable fine and stricter Injunc-
tion Inserted or added to the act concerning ye court to examine
theire orders in open court and not any pticular Majestrate to
presume ye same Private at his house w"''' ye clerk contrary to
the true Tenure of Law (in torce) when often yt Majestrate so
doing is not prsnt at half of ye orders entered, whereby possable
many 111 conveniences may arise and corruption practised as "
heretofore on our Eastern Shore.
13. The mooving case of ye s'd act, as upon Just complaint,
that Sheriffs and clerks may be ordered to dOe something ex
officio as well as magistrates and other officers, as for intending
ye orphants court when often none or few accompts be brought
in; and usually done at the county court time. Ditto as to
orders and coppy of orders; so constables, survayers of high-
ways summoning ye People to choose Burgesses, Returning
them, summonsing of Juries before need, when often times in 3
or 4 courts not one cause is put to a Jury, or at Least to mode-
rate theire fees, w*" by those means and ye Like they Raise often
unreasonable sums and allowed them.
14. That ye Indians of ye Eastern shore in Virginia may be
obliged to kill a certaine Numb"" of wolves yearly, having a dayly
opportunity by Ranging ye woods; for Such Satisfact" as may
be thought fit w'" out ye p'fit of p'ticular men.
15. That no Sheriflf may officiate two yeares together.
16. That no p'son may be admitted to beare any office until!
he hath bin an Inhabeitant five years in ye Place where he shall
officiate, and yt all those not of that continuance may be Dis-
missed untill further Tryall of theire Fidelity & Trust.
17. That whereas our shore is Incom.passed w"' Sholes Inso-
much yt no ships but of small burden can come to Trade and
those yt come but few and Inconsiderable. It may be tacken in
consideration and accordingly ordered yt no psons in our coun-
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try may be suffered to Ingross any commodaties (as formerly)
to ye great prjudice of ye communtry; to say yt no man shall
within six weeks or wt time may be thought conven' after ye
ships or vessell moveing in ye creek Buy more than his own crop
, doth amount unto at any store.
^ Wee, ye Inhabitants of Northampt County, In Virginia, hav-
], ing given in our agrievances to our Burgases do make choyce of
I. of these tenn men as Trustees to draw our agreevances in a ffull
.A and Ample man'. To be by them Dilivered to our Lawfull Bur-
'r> gassess.
r ' Signed, Jno. Michael, Seny'',
■■ -..•..•. Tho: Harm ANSON,
-,.^- ^...-i . .:i •■. -; i.i. ; John Waterson,
^.'■-■'^ ■■■ ■ .'• - -■ ' Richard Lamby,
■'■'■ ' ' ■' ' ' " ■ , Thomas Huntt,
';. .,, ' .':,'■■ . ; Will Spencer,
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,' '-. ^ .-.,..., Argoll Yardley,
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,-( ' ,; .,,;-. ;-^„ .' Arthur A Apsher,
<» J .;•••_ i"-'.-''' . ■ -.-^ :_ The marke of
i-: Wm. W Slaiting.
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^^i RACING IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA.
Racing in Colonial Virginia.
The Colony and State of Virginia so long had a pre-eminent renown
for fine horses and the fondness of its people for racing, that there
can be no doubt that a history of the subject by one thoroughly in-
formed could be made most interesting. This sketch will be only a
collection of various notes made from time to time, and may possibly
be of use to whoever may prepare such a work as that just referred to.
And there is one gentleman, above all others in Virginia, who, from
his long interest in, and deep knowledge of race-horses and racing,
and his abilities as a writer, would be able to give value to a book on
the subject. Of course a learned Judge will be suggested to every one-
As far back as the twelfth century there were regular races in Eng-
land, and if we may believe a contemporary, Fitzstephen, jockeying
was even then practiced to a considerable extent. In the reign of
James I annual races were established at several places in the kingdom,
and racing became a favorite sport of the people.
The immigrants to \' irginia brought with them, and their descendants
retained, all the love for in and out door sports, which characterized
that portion of " Merry England " which was not clouded by the gloom
of religious fan£.ticism, or which was not drawn by an earnestness,
which could see but one object, away from the lesser and lighter busi-
ness of life. Our Colonists liked cards and dancing, could not see that
damnation was incurred by the celebration of Christmas or lurked in
a mince pie, and entertained a strong partiality for fox-hunting, and
above all, racing.
Horses increased in number rapidly after their introduction, and the
settlers became a race of unsurpassed riders, the ownership of a good
horse being not only a necessity, but a matter of pleasure and pride.
All of the early writers in Virginia speak of the quality of the horses,
and of the fondness of the people for riding.
Every horseman, in every country, has a desire to test the speed of
his favorite mount, and there can be no doubt that from the tirst im-
portation of horses there were informal and impromptu trials of speed.
These would naturally lead to wagers and to fixed times and places
for the contests, and so regular racing would be originated. Exactly
how soon regular racing began in the colony cannot be ascertained, —
certainly it is believed, no horses were kept especially for racing until
the eighteenth century— perhaps about 1730.
The earliest notices of racing we have, occur in the county records,
when disputes arose which had to be settled in court. The writer has
had an opportunity to make a careful search for such notices only in
one county, Henrico, where the records begin in 1677; but from a
general acquaintance with the records of a number of other counties
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and the information of other persons, it may be stated that there was,
in the seventeenth century, much more racing in Henrico than in any
other county, or else the supporters of the turf here were much more
Htigious than elsewhere.
The earliest notice of racing, however, is in a quaint order made by
the court of York county, on September coth, 1674.
"James BuUocke, a Taylor, haveing made a race for his mare to runn
w'th a horse belonging to Mr. Mathevv Siader for twoe thousand
pounds of tobacco and caske, it being contrary to Law for a Labourer
to make a race, being a sport only for Gentlemen, is fined for the same
one hundred pounds of tobacco and caske.
" Whereas Mr. Mathew Siader & James Bullocke, by condition under
the hand and seale of the said Siader, that his horse should runn out
of the way that Bullock's mare might win, w'ch is an apparent cheate,
is ord'ed to be putt in the stocks & there sitt the space of one houre."
The worthy court, whose zeal for purifying the turf deserves applause,
evidently were believers in the statement that racing is the '' sport of
kings." And th's is probably the only instance where a man was so
imprudent as to give a written agreement to have his horse pulled.
With the exception of a suit about a race in Westmoreland county in
the latter part of the century, all the other early notices of racing
which the writer has seen are in Henrico county, which seems to have
been the " race-horse region " of the day. It should be remembered
that it then included Chesterfield and an indefinite tract of country to
the west.
Extracts from the records themselves will probably give a better
notion of the racing of that day than any description could do. Several
are given in chronological order :
"Henrico Records, 1677-92, p. 65. - <'- - -•-
"Bartholomew Roberts, aged 40 years or thereabouts, Deposeth
That July last yo'r Deponent being at Bermuda Hundred, there being
a horse race run betweene Mr. Abraham Womock & Mr. Rich'd Ligon.
Capt. Tho: Chamberlaine being at ye end of ye race he asked whether
both horses were ready to run, young Tho: Cocke saying yes, and that
Abraham Childers being ordered to start the horses he bid them goe.
Tho: Cocke's horse went about 4 or 5 lengths from ye starting place,
run out of ye way, and Tho: Cocke rained him in and cryed it was
not a faire start & Capt. Chamberlaine calling ye other young man
backe, Joseph Tanner made answer ye start is faire, onely one horse
run out of ye way and further yo'r Deponent saith not.
His marke
Oct., 1678. Bartholomew B. R. Roberts."
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RACING IX COLONIAL VIRGINIA. 295
"Philip Jones, aged 17 years or thereabouts, Deposeth : That this
summer this deponent was at ye Hundred and saw Abraham Womecke
and Rich'd Ligon there, and afterwards saw Mr. Chamberlaine's boy
upon Abraham W'omeck's horse, and Thos: Cocke upon another horse,
and ye s'd Cocke told ye other boy that if he did not come in at a word
he would leave him behinde, and ye said boy answered him againe
that if he did not at a word he would leave him, they being then at ye
starting place, or going to ye starting place (which the deponent can-
not certainly tell) to run a race, there being a man ordered to start
them, who gave a word, at which Mr. Chamberlayne's went, and Tho:
Cocke saved it was not a faire start.
And further sayth not,
Phillip Jones."
"Oct., 167S."
At June Court, 1679, Edward Stratton and John Milner, testified that
some time in the last summer a race was made up at Col. Eppes' store-
between the horses of Richard Lygon and Abraham Womecke for 300
lbs. tobacco, and that Col. Eppes was security for both for the payment
of the tobacco, and that the race took place.
The ne.xt race noticed was some years later. In October, 16S3, tes-
timony was given in regard to a race arranged between Edward Hat-
cher and Andrew Martin, the winner to have the other's horse, each to
ride his own; but when they went to the place for the race, Richard
Ligon stated that the horse Edward Hatcher was to ride was his
(Ligon's) and refused to allow him to run, whereupon "Andrew Mar-
tin ridd away upon his horse, and after some while came riding back
again and said he had been over the race, and said that he had left his
knife there, and bidd them goe and see if they would," and then
claimed the other horse.
At April Court, 16S7, another race dispute came to trial :
"Richard Blande, aged about 21 years, Deposeth: That in the race
run between Mr. John Brodna.x and Capt. William Soane, now in
tryall, the horse belonging to Henry Randolph, on w'ch Capt. Soane
layed came, after the Start first between the Poles agreed on for their
comeing in."
And in August of the same year still another case came before the
court:
Records of Henrico Co., 1677-92, p. 466.
"Christopher Branch, aged about 29 years, Deposeth: That being at
a Race at Varina [the County C. H.] was present at ye making of
another Race between Hugh Liggon & Stephen Cocke, and did hear
say they would run fair horseman's play, w'th severall other words
confirming the same.
Christop'r Branch."
"Aug. ist, 1687."
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Henrico Records, 16SS-97, p. 74.
"William Randolph, ag:ed about 38 years, Deposeth : That about
Saturday last was a fortnight this depon't was at a race at Mawvern
hills [Malvern Hill] at w'ch time Mr. Wm. Epes and Mr. Stephen
Cocke came to this depon't and desired him to take notice of ye agree-
m't : w'ch was That ye horse of yes'd Epes and the horse of Mr. Wm. Sut-
ton was to run that Race for ten Shillings on each side, and each horse
was to keep his path, they not being to crosse unlesse Stephen Cocke
could gett the other Riders Path at ye start at two or three Jumps (to
ye best of this dep'ts knowledge) and also that they were not to touch
neither man nor horse, and they further desired this dep't to start the
Horses, w'ch this dep't did and to ye best of this dep'ts Judgm't they
had a fair start, & Mr. Cocke endeavored to gett the other rider's path
as afores'd according to ye agreem't, but to ye best of this depi's
Judgm't he did not gett it at two or three Jumps nor many more, upon
w'ch they Josselled upon Mr. Epes horse's path all most part of the
race.
And further saith not,
W.M. Randolph."
"August rst, 16S9."
Other testimony was given by Godfrey Spruill, William Lewis, and
Joshua Wynne, who stated that they had been present at the race at
Malvern hills, that they saw the horses as they were coming in "Jossell-
ing for the path," and that .Mr. Wnl. Sutton's horse, on which Stephen
Cocke laid, won. .Mr. Wynne stated that he started them '' and as soon
as they were oft'Wm. Cocke closed in w'th ye boy and bore upon the
boy's path, going about sixty yards in that manner."
Wni. Randolph, who appears to have been an ardent supporter of
the turf, was again a witness in August, 1690. Captain Soane had made
an agreement to run his horse against one belonging to -Mr. Littleberry
Epes, which was backed by Mr. Robert Napier, ^10 a side. Mr.
Napier did not produce his horse at the appointed time, and the suit
was for the amount of the stake, as an agreement had been made that
the horse which did not appear should forfeit the whole amount.
The next instance will give an idea of how seriously people of that
day went into racing :
Henrico Records, 1677-99, P- iSi.
"At a Court held at Varina, Ap'l ist, 169S, Richard Ward complains
against John Stewart, Jun'r, in a plea of debt for that, that is to say
the s'd plaintiff & defendant did on the 12th day of June Last, cove-
nant and agree in the following words :
"It is Covenanted and agreed this 12th day o{ June, 1697, Between
Mr. Richard Ward of the one part, in Hen'co Co'ty, & John Steward,
Jun'r, of ye other part in ye same Co'ty : Witnesseth, that the aforesaid
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Mr. Richard Ward doth hereby covenant, promise & agree to run a
mare named Bony, belonging to Thomas Jefferson, Jun'r [Grandfather
of the President], ag'st a horse now belonging to Mr. John Hardiman,
named Watt, the said horse & mare to Run at the race-place com-
monly called ye Ware, to run one quarter of a mile. And ye said John
Steward, Jun'r. doth hereby Coven't Sz agree to Run a horse now
belonging to Mr. Jno. Hardiman, of Cha : City Co'ty, the said horse
named Watt to Run ag'st a mare belonging to Thomas Jeffeison,
Jun'r, named Bony. The s'd horse to give the s'd mare five horse
Lengths, Vizt : that is to say ten yards. And it is further agreed upon
by the parties above s'd, that the s'd horse & mare are to Run on the
first day of July next Ensuing the date hereof. And it is further agreed
upon by the parties above s'd that if the s'd mare doth com.e within
five Lengths of the fores'd Horse, the fores'd John Steward to pay unto
Mr. Rich'd Ward the sum of five pounds Sterling on Demand, & the
s'd Richard Ward doth oblige himself that if tht; afores'd horse doth
come before s'd mare five Lengths, then to pay unto the afores'd John
Steward, Jun'r, the sum of six pounds Sterling on Demand. It is fur-
ther agreed by the p'ties aforesaid, that there be fair Rideing & the
Riders to weigh about one hundred & thirty Weight, to the true
p'formance of all & singular the p'misses, the p'ties above s'd have
hereunto set their hands the day and year above written."
"And the plaintifi' in fact saith, That pursuant to the afores'd agree-
ment, The s'd horse & mare, to-wit : The horse named Watt, belong-
ing to Mr. John Hardiman, & the mare named Bonny, belonging to Mr.
Tho. Jefferson, Jun'r, were by the s'd pl't'f & Def'd't brought upon the
afores'd Ground to Run upon the first day of July, and the word being
given by the person who was appointed to start the s'd horse & mare.
The afores'd mare, with her Rider who weighed about one hundred &
thirty weight. Did Leap off, and out running the afores'd horse came
in first between the poles which were placed at the comeing in of the
s'd Race, commonly called the Ware, one quarter of a mile distance
from the starting place appointed; and was by the s'd mare, with her
Rider of about one hund'd & thirty weight as afores'd, fairly Run.
"Wherefore the afores'd pl't'f saith that the afores'd Mare, Bony, with
fair Running & Rideing, according to agreement. Did beat the s'd
horse Watt, and that according to the true meaning of the s'd
agreem't he, the s'd plaintitT, hath Woon the wager, to-witt: the sum
of five pounds sterling of the afores'd John Steward. And thereupon
he brings suit ag'st the afores'd John Steward, Jun'r, & demands
Judgem't for the afores'd sum of five p'ds Sterl., with Co'ts, &c. To
which the Defend't, by .Mr. Bartholomew Fowler, his aUorney, appears
and upon oyer of the plaintiff" declaracon pleads that he oweth nothing
by the covenants, &c., and thereof puts himself upon ye country & ye
pl't'f likewise.
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"Whereupon, it is ordered that a jury be impanelled & sworn to try
the issue, To-witt: Thomas Edwards, \Vm. Ballard, Phill Chllders,
John Watson, Edward Bowman, Will Hatcher, Amos Ladd, John Wil-
son, Phill. Jones, Edw'd Good, John Bowman.
"Who Returned this Verdict: We find for the plaintiff. Upon the
motion of the plaintiffs' attorney the s'd Verdict is Recorded, &
Judgment is awarded the s'd pl't'f against the Def'd't for the sum of
five pounds Sterling, to be p'd with Costs, als E.x'o."
The latest instance of a suit of the kind in Henrico, which has been
noticed, is one in which it is stated that Thos. Chamberlayne and
Richard Ligon had agreed to run their horses over "the race path " at
Conecock, Henrico, for 40 shillings a side and a gallon of rum for the
company, and Chamberlayne's horse had won.
We can gather from these notes, from the Henrico records, that there
were at this early period several regular " race paths " or tracks in the
county, that they had starters and judges, and agreed on certain
weights to be carried. It seems highly probable that the "quarter
races " of a later day were simply survivals of these early contests.
The old writers of travels in Virginia almost all speak of racing and
of the excellence of the horses. Following are extracts from some of
them:
From "A Perfect Description of Virginia," London, 1649 p. i.
"That there are [in Virginia] of an excellent raise [race] about two
hundred Horses and Mares.''
From Beverley's History of Virginia, London, 1705, section 94:
"There is yet another kind of sport, which the young people take
great delight in, and that is, the hunting of wild horses; which they
pursue sometimes with dogs, and sometimes without. You must know
they have many horses foaled in the woods of the uplands, that never
were in hand, and are as shy as any savage creature. These having
no mark upon them, belong to him that first takes them. However,
the captor commonly purchases these horses very dear, by spoiling
better in the pursuit; in which case he has little to make himself
amends, besides the pleasure of the chase. And very often this is all
he has for it; for the wild horses are so swift, that tis difficult to catch
them; and when they are taken 'tis odds, but their grease is melted, or
else being old, they are so sullen that they can't be tamed."
From "The Present State of Virginia," by Hugh Jones, London,
1724, p. 48 :
"The common Planters leading easy lives don't much admire
Labour, or any manly Exercise except Horse racing.'' "The Saddle-
Horses, though not very large, are hardy, strong, and fleet; and will
pace naturally and pleasantly at a prodigious Rate. They are such
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lovers of Riding, that almost every ordinary Person keeps a Horse;
and I have known some spend the morning in ranging several miles in
the Woods to find and catch their Horses only to ride two or three
miles to Church, to the Court House, or to a Horse-Race. "
From "Travels Through The Middle Settlements of North America,
in 1759 and 1760," by Rev. Andrew Burnaby. London, 1775.
"The horses [of Virginia] are fleet and beautiful; and the gentle-
men of Virginia, who are exceedingly for.d of horse-racing, have
spared no expense or trouble to improve the breed of them by import-
ing great numbers from England."
From "A Tour in the United States of America," By J. F. D. Smyth.
London, 1787. [Smith travelled in America in 1772.]
"There are races at Williamsburg twice a year; that is, every spring
and fall, or autumn. Adjoining to the town is a very excellent course,
for either two, three or four mile heats. Their purses are generally
raised by subscription, and are gained by the horse that wins two four-
mile heats out of three ; they amount to an hundred pounds each for
the first days runing, and fifty pounds each every day after; the races
commonly continueing for a week. There are also matches and sweep-
stakes very often, for considerable sums. Besides these at Williams-
burg, there are races established annually, almost at every town and
considerable place in Virginia; and frequent matches, on which large
sums of money depend ; the inhabitants, almost to a man, being quite
devoted to the division of horse-racing.
" Very capital horses are started here, such as would make no despi-
cable figure at Newmarket; nor is their speed, bottom, or blood inferior
to their appearance; the gentlemen of Virginia sparring no pains,
trouble or expence in importing the best stock, and improving the ex-
cellence of the breed by proper and judicious crossing.
"Indeed, nothing can be more elegant and beautiful than the horses
had here, either for the turf, the field, the road, or the coach ; and they
have always fine, long, full, flowing tails; but their carriage horses
seldom are possessed of that weight and power, which distinguish
those of the same kind in England.
" Their stock is from old Cade, old Crab, old Partner, Regulus, Babra-
ham, Bosphorus, Devonshire Childers, the Cullen Arabian, &c., in
England ; and a horse from Arabia, which was imported into America,
and IS now in existance.
" In the southern part o( the colony, and in North Carolina, they are
much attached to quarter-racing, which is always a match between two
horses, to run one quarter of a mile straight out, being merely an exer-
tion of speed; and they have a breed that perform it with astonishing
velocity, beating every other for that distance, with great ease ; but
they have no bottom. However, I am confident that there is not a
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horse in England, nor perhaps the whole world, that can excel them in
rapid speed: and these likewise make excellent saddle-horses for the
road. The Virginians, of all ranks and denominations, are excessively
fond of horses, and especially those of the race breed. The gentlemen
of fortune expend great sums on their studs, generally keeping hand-
some carriages, and several elegant sets of horses, as well as others
for the race and road ; even the most indigent person has his saddle-
horse, which he rides to every place, and on every occasion ; for in this
country nobody walks on foot the smallest distance, except when
hunting; indeed a man will frequently go five miles to catch a horse to
ride only one mile upon afterwards. In short, their horses are their
pleasure and their pride."
The Virginia Gazette throughout contains much information about
racing and race horses. When the first advertisement of imported
horses appeared, it is impossible, on account of the destruction o\ the
files of the paper, to say; but there were none in 1736-40, years which
are extant. In the paper of Nov. 26, 1736, it is stated that on St.
Andrew's day a hunting saddle, iScc, will be run for, one quarter of a
mile, in fianover County; and on July ist, 1737, it is announced: " We
hear there is to be horse-racing every Saturday till October, at the
Race Ground near this City."
On Dec 9th, 1737, it is stated that on St. Andrew's day in that year, at
Capt. Jno. Bickerton's, in Hanover, a race was run, and won by a bay
horse belonging to one Tyas, of Caroline; "but it is said Mr. James
Littlepage is to have it."
The next report is nearer home :
"Williamsburg, Dec 14, 1739- Last Wednesday the Fair began in
this City and held three days. * * *
"The prizes were all contended for. There was a Horse Race,
round the Mile Course, the First Day, for a Saddle of Forty Shillings
Value. Eight Horses started, by Sound of Trumpet, and Col. Chis-
well's Horse, Edgcomb, came in First, and won the Saddle; .Mr. Cocke's
Horse, Sing'd Cat, came in Second, and won the Bridle, of 12 Shillings
Value; and .Mr. Drummond's Horse, , came in Third, and won
the Whip.
"The Second Day, a Silver Soop Ladle, of 45 Shillings Value, was
run for, the same Ground ; and was won by Mr. Coke's Horse ; Mr.
Gooch's Horse, Top, came in Second, and won the Bridle, of 12 Shill-
. ings Value; and Mr. Stanhope's Horse won the Whip.
"The Third day, a Saddle and Bridle, of about 40 Shillings Value,
were run for, the same Ground; Mr. Gooch's Horse, Top, came in
First, and won the Saddle and Bridle; Mr. Drummond's. Horse came in
Second, and won the Bridle, of 12 Shillings value; and Mr. Booker's
Horse, Tail, won the Whip."
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Notice, That there uil! be run for, at Mr. Joseph Seawall's, in Glouces-
ter County, on the First Thursday in April next, a Purse of Thirty
Pistoles, by any Horse, Mare, or Gelding; all siz'd Horses to carry 140
lbs., and Galloways to be allowed Weight for Inches; to pay One Pistole
Entrance if a Subsciiber, if not. Two; and the Entrance money to go
to the Second Horse, &c. And on the Day following, on the same
Course, there will be a Saddle, Bridle, and Housing, of Five Pounds
Value, to be run for by any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, that never won
a Prize of that Value Four Miles before; each Horse, &c., to pay Five
Shillings Entrance, and that to go to the Horse that comes in Second.
And on the Day following, there is to be run for, by Horses not ex-
ceeding 13 Hands, a Hunting Saddle, Bridie and Whip; each Horse to
pay Two Shillings and Six Pence at Entrance, to be given to the Horse
that comes in Second. Happy is he that can get the lighest Rider.
" N. B. The Gentlemen that are Subscribers for the Purse, are de-
sired to pay their money to Mr. William Nelson, at York, or to Mr.
Ralph Wormeley, of Middlesex."
About this time was commenced the importation of horses of the
English racing stock, which came to be called blooded, or thorough-
bred, and about this time, also, were probably commenced the breed
ing and keeping of horses especially for racing. Between 1740 and
1775, are recorded the names of at least fifty horses and thirty mares
imported into Virginia (and there were probably many others), many
of them being ancestors of horses on the turf at the present day.
Among the noted names in these importations were: Aristotle, Babra-
ham, Bolton, Childers, Dabster, Dottrell, Fearnaught, Jolly Roger,
Juniper, Justice, Merry Tom, Sober [ohn. Vampire, Whittington, Janus,
Sterling, Valiant, &c. An interesting memorial of these importations
is the bill of sale of Fearnaught to Col. John Baylor, which is still pre-
served by Dr. John R. Baylor, of "Newmarket." The prize was
1,000 guineas. Among the gentlemen who by these importations laid
the foundations of our breed of thoroughbred horses, or who were
interested m breeding and the turf, were: William Smalley, Mr. Mac-
lin, Captain Wm. Evans, James Gibson, Wm. Lightfoot, of "Sandy
Point"; Col. John Tayloe, of " Mt. Airy" (members of whose family
for several generations were active and successful turfmen), Mr., after-
wards General, Alexander Spotswood, Colonel John Bavlor, of '' New-
market" ; Col. John Syme, of Hanover county; Nathaniel Harrison,
of "Brandon"; Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, of Richmond county; Col
Francis Thornton, of "Society Hill," King George; Col. William
Byrd, of " Westover " ; Mordecai Booth, of Gloucester ; Daniel McCarty,
of " Pope's Creek " ; William Fitzhugh, of " Chatham " ; William Brent,
of " Richland " ; Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester; Ralph Wormeley, of
" Rosegill "; Richard Lee. James Balfour, of Brunswick county; Cap-
Littleberry Hardyman, of " Indian Fields," Charles City; Armistead
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Lightfoot, Roger Gregory, William Churchill, of "Wilton"; Edward
Ambler, of "Jamestown " ; Col Thomas N. Randolph, of " Tuckahoe;"
Col. John Willis, of Brunswick ; Capt. Henry Harrison, of Sussex;
Thomson Mason, John Fleming, of Cumberland; Nathaniel Walthoe,
Samuel Du Val, Col. John Mercer, of "Marlborough"; Francis Whit-
ing, George Nicholas, Philip L. Lee, of " Stratford " ; George Baylor,
Landon Carter, John Banister, of " Battersea " ; Mann Page, of " Rose-
well"; Moore Fauntleroy, Maxamilian Robinson, of Richmond county;
Wm. Hardyman, James Parke Farley, Robert Goode, of " Whitby " ;
Benjamin Grymes, Walker Taliaferro, Robert Slaughter, Col. Presley
Thornton, of " Northumberland House," and his son, Peter Presley
Thornton, Peter Conway, of Lancaster county; John Baird, of " Halls-
neld," Prince George; Thomas Minor, of Spotsylvania; George B.
Poindexter, of New Kent; Wm. O. Winston, of Hanover, and finally
Col., afterwards President, George Washington, who is stated by the
Turf Register to have been a steward of the Alexandria Jockey Club,
and to have run his own horses there and at Annapolis. These names,
and many others occur in the papers of the period as breeders or
owners of race horses. Indeed, it may be said that every planter of
means in Virginia was the owner of more or less "blooded" stock,
used either for the saddle, harness, or racing. Those at all familiar
with Virginia names will know that the list just given is full of repre-
sentatives of the best property, social standing, and political influence
in the colony.
There remain, unfortunately, no volumes of the Virginia Gazette for
the period from 1740 to 1766; but there is every reason to believe that
the turf steadily increased in favor, and that race horses equally im-
proved in quality. This period (1740-1766) was one of rapid growth of
the colony in general, and of the material prosperity of the people; but
along with this prosperity came an increased taste for luxuries, and
much greater expenditure and more costly manner of living, which re-
sulted (in the years immediately precedi ig the Revolution) in the bank-
ruptcy of many of the best estates of Virginia. The advertising
columns of the Gazette, and the private acts given in Hening, bear
full evidence of this. Racing doubtless contributed its full share,
together with gambling and extravagant habits of living, to produce
this result. But this is a diversion.
Though the Virginia Gazette is missing, yet the Maryland paper of
the same name gives an account of what was, perhaps, the first great
race run in Virginia, one that doubtless attracted as much interest in
that day, as the later struggles of Henry and Eclipse, or Boston and
Fashion. Colonel Wm. Byrd (3d of the name) had issued a challenge
to run his Chestnut horse, Tryall, against any, for 500 pistoles. (About
|i,8oo.) The race was run. December 5, 1752, at "Gloucester race
ground," and was won by the famous mare Selima, belonging to Col.
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Tasker, of Maryland ; Tryall second, Col. Thornton's grey mare third,
Col. Tayloe's bay mare, Jenny Cameron, fourth, and his Childers dis-
tanced.
It appears from subsequent notices, that about 1765 Col. Tayloe's
Yorick and Traveller were among the leading horses of the day.
For many years a purse of ;Cioo. four-mile heats, was run for at Wil-
liamsburg, each spring and fall. On April 24, 1766. Hon. John Tay-
loe's Traveller, won with ease, beating Col. Lewis Burwell's (of Glou-
cester) John Dismal, and Mr. Francis Whiting's Janus. On October
9th, of the same year, Col. Jno. Tayloe's Hero won the same purse,
beating Col. Byrd's Tryall Valiant, and Mr. Richard Lee's Mark An-
thony. Race tracks had now become numerous, and we find in the
Gazette, May i6th, a notice that "On Thursday, was run for at Pride's
race ground [Perhaps the Newmarket of later days], near Petersburg,
a purse of /loo, by Col. Lewis Burwell's, of Gloucester b. h. Janus,
who won the ist heat, Mr. Thos. Randolph's b. h. who was 2d in the
first heat, and Mr. Geo. Nicholas' b. m. who was distanced. Mr. Ran-
dolph's horse won the 2d and 3d heats, and it was judged that the
course was run swifter than it ever was before."
And on September 12th, of the same year, is the following adver-
tisement: " On Thursday, Oct. 9th, a purse of /20 will be run for at
Fredericksburg, by any horse, mare or gelding, not more than one-
quarter blooded, best [2] of 3 four-mile heats; and on Friday a purse
of £10. two-mile heats, for any which have no mi.xture of English or
foreign blood. Weights: 9 stone for horses of 14 hands, and 7 lbs. to
the inch, above and below."
This is evidently intended to encourage the breeding of the native
horse, whicl. doubtless had many good qualities to commend him as a
riding animal, being described, by the old writers, as small, active, fleet
and enduring. In size, however, they did not vary from that of the
early English racehorse, the im-nediate descendent of the A.rab.
Youatt says " Cartouch, Young Cartouch, Silverleg, Champion and
Teazer, the two last named contemporaries and antagonists of Regu-
lus. were only between thirteen and fourteen Lands high. Marske, the
sire of Eclipse, did not e.xceed fifteen hands."
In the Spring of 1768 the Williamsburg purse was won by Captain
Littleberry Hardyman's horse. Partner, beating Col. Richard Lee's
Mark Anthony (who won the first heat, but broke down the second),
Col. Lewis Burwell's, of Gloucester. Remus, and Armistead Lightfoot's
Molly. In the fall Col. Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester, won the purse
with Remus, beating with ease Mr. Roger Gregory's Dimple. In the
Spring of the ne.xt year. Captain Littleberry Hardyman again won the
purse, with Mark Anthony (who was defeated the year before), beating
Hon. John Tayloe's Nonpariel, and Nathaniel Walthoe's, Esqr., Fanny
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In 1771 the advertisements give an idea of the number of thorough-
bred horses in Virginia. There are notices of the sale, at Blandford,
by Augustine Willis, of " about twenty likely blooded horses, mares
and colts," the property of the estate of Col. John Willis, deceased, ol'
Brunswick ; and on the 7th of October, at Indian Fields, Charles City,
of a number of blooded horses, mares and colts, belonging to the
estate of Littleberry Hardyman, deceased, including Partner and half
interest in Aristotle ; and in this or one of the years immediately fol-
lowing are offered for sale fifty head of thoroughbreds, composing the
stud of Col. John Baylor, deceased, of Newmarket, Caroline.
Racing during the Colonial period ended with a most successful
year in 1774. On April 7th the Gazette states, that on Monday pre-
ceding, a match for 200 guineas was run tor at Fredericksburg between
Mann Page's, Esq., of Gloucester, horse Damon, and Moore Fauntleroy's
mare. Miss Sprightly, and was won with great ease by the former. On
May 2d is an advertisement signed, " Richard Graham," requesting the
members of the Dumfries Jockey Club to meet on June nth. On April
aSth, it is stated that Kitty Fisher, belonging to William Fitzhugh,
Esq , of Chatham, won a subscription purse, and a sweepstakes at the
last Annapolis races. (From an early period racing was successfully
carried on in Maryland, especially at Annapolis and Upper Marlborough.
The Maryland papers show a number of Virginia horses; Col, Tayloe's
Traveller and Juniper; Wm. Fitzhugh's Regulus, Brilliant and Kitty
Fisher; Daniel McCarty's Silverlegs (afterwards belonging to Mr. Fitz-
hugh), and Volunteer; Theoderick Bland's Brunswick; Col. Francis
Thorntons Merryman; Mr. Spotswood's Apollo, and others, running
there, with various success; in April is an account of a match for 100
pistoles, run at Fredericksburg on the 15th of that month between
Maxamillian Robinson's, Esqr., horse Roundhead, and Moore Fauntle-
roy's, Esqr., mare, Miss Sprightly, " the heat was doubtful for the first
two miles, but on the third the horse took the lead, and won hollow."'
On May 26lh the " Printer" says, "We l.ear from Port Royal that on
the 17th inst. a purse of 50 guineas was won by Moore Fauntleroy
Esqr's Miss Alsop." A little later it is noticed that "The subscription
purse, ^75, was run for at Richmond, on the 12th inst., that being Fair
day, and was won with ease by Mr. Wm. Hardyman's sorrel mare,
beating J. P. Farley, Esqr's, mare, and Mr. Halcott Price's mare." The
"Fair" mentioned was the English "Fair," for the sale of horses, cat-
tle, &c. On June 9th, the Gazette says: "The May Fair purse, /50,
was run for at Fredericksburg on the 29th ult., and was won in two 4
mile heats, by Moore Fauntleroy, Esqr's, b. m., Miss Alsop, beating
Wm. Fitzhugh, Esq., of Chatham's, gr. m., Kitty Fisher; and on the
next day Alex. Spotswood, Esqr's, Fearnaught, beat, in three heats,
Mr. Procter's mare, who won the first." The weights advertised for
these races, at Fredericksburg, were : 3 years, 96 lbs. ; 4 years, 108 lbs,;
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5 years, 120 lbs.; 6 years, 132 lbs.; aged, 140 lbs. On Sept. 22d an
account is given of a race for the purse of 100 guineas, at Portsmouth,
the Tuesday before, which was won, after a hard struggle, by Moore
Fauntleroy, Esqr's, Miss Alsop.
The political prospect had now become so dark that many persons
thought that racing should be discontinued. A correspondent of the
Gazelle, July 21st, signing "A Virginian," recommends that the
Fredericksburg and Portsmouth Jockey Clubs suspend their meetings
during the present troubles, and contribute the purses to the people of
Boston. The former held their meeting during the fall; but after this
racing seems to have been generally given up, and this is the last re-
cord of it, which appears before the Revolution. It is likewise the first
in which summaries appear in regular form. The first days, "Jockey
Club Plate," 100 guineas, open to members only, was won by Wm.
Fitzhugh's Regulus, 140 lbs., who won the second and third heats (4
miles), beating Alexander Spotswood's Eclipse, 108 lbs., who won the
first heat; Mann Page's Damon, 108 lbs.. Wm. Brent's Figure, 122 lbs.;
Wm. Fitzhugh's .Master Stephen, 132 lbs., and Moore Fauntleroy's
Faithful Shepherdess. On the 2d day, a purse of £^0, d, mile heats,
was won by John Tayloe's Single Peeper, 122 lbs., beating Benj.
Grymes' Miss Spot, Walker Taliaferro's Valiant, Spotswood's Fear-
naught, Chas. Jones' Regulus, Procter's Jenny Bottom, Robt. Slaugh-
ter's Ariel, and Peter Presley Thornton's Ariel. On the third day the
" Town Purse," 4 mile heats, was won by Wm. Fitzhugh's Kitty Fisher,
who won the 2d and 3d, beating .Mann Page's Damon, who won the ist;
Procter's Whitefoot, Fauntleroy's Shepherdess, and Wm. Smith's Why
Not. On the fourth day was the ''Town and Country Purse," 4 mile
heats, of which a copy of the summary is given :
"William Fitzhugh, Esq., of Chathams, ch. g. Volunteer,
140 lbs 4. 4. I. I.
Peter Conway, Esq's, gr. m. Mary Gray. 122 lbs 1.3. dis.
Alex. Spotswood, Esq's, ch. g. Sterling, 122 lbs 3. i. 2. 2.
Thos. .Minor, Esq's, s. h. Fearnaught, 140 lbs 2.2.2. dis.
Robt. Slaughter, Esq's, bl. h. Ariel, 132 lbs dis."
There can be no doubt that there were, during the period 1740-74,
very many races which were never reported in the Gazelle. Indeed,
sometimes the Williamsburg races were omitted.
The Virginia thoroughbred horse soon afterwards became distin-
guished in a different field— by service in the cavalry, and received
full appreciation and praise from critics in the hostile forces. During
the war there were great Io?s and dispersion of valuable stock; but
sufficient remained to make Virginia, for many years after 1783, par
excellence, the "race-horse region" of America.
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IPrepared by W. G. Stanard.)
(ii8) Jeremiah Clements [i] son and heir apparent of Elizabeth
Clements, deceased, 350 acres on the east side of Upper Chippooks
Creek, and extending east along the main river; due in right of the
said Elizabeth Clements, his mother, for the adventure of seven per-
sons into the county, viz: the said Elizabeth Clements, Jeremiah Cle-
ments, Nicholas Clements, and Ezechiell Clements, her sons, Elizabeth
Clements, her daughter, and Dorothy Greene and Jefferie Hull, her
servants, who all came in the George, 161 1. Granted by Harvey,
August 26, 1633.
NOTE.
[i] It appears from another patent that Mrs. Elizabeth Clements
married, secondly, in or before 1624, Captain Ralph Hamor. The fol-
lowing notices of the family are trom the records of Surry County,
where there may be much more in relation to them; deed. INIarch irih,
1657, from Captain Henry Perry, Esq., who married the " he.'-etri.v; '^ of
Jeremiah Clements, of Upper Chippoaks. conveying 350 acres to Ed-
ward Oliver; Francis Clements appointed justice of Surry 1692, and
was a Burgess in 1693 ; power of attorney, January 3d, 1692-3, from
Nicholas Meriwether, of James City County, to his brother Francis
Clements, of Surry ; deed May 9th, 1693, from Nicholas Meriwether,
of New Kent County (and Elizabeth his wife), conveying to Francis
Clements 650 acres in Surry, called the Indian Spring ; on April 2:st,
1695, Captain Francis Clements and Elizabeth, bis wife, and Nicholas
Meriwether were granted administration on the estate of William Men-
wether, deceased; in 1695 Francis Clements sold several tracts of land
in Surry, which he had bought in 16SS, from Godfrey Lee, of Doctors
Commons [London] gentleman; John Clements appointed an ensign
in the Surry militia. 16S7 ; will of Francis Clements, dated April Sth,
1721, proved June 21st, 1721; gives to the vestry of South wark parish,
the land called the Indian Spring. 650 acres, for a glebe, the same having
been bought of Major Nicholas Meriwether " by my father Francis
Clements, deceased," provided the church wardens and vestry paid
testator's Uncle Captain William Browne, ^'lo; legatees: Uncles Major
Nicholas Meriwether and Captain William Browne; Cousins William,
David, Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah and Mary Meriwether, children of ^L''.Jor
Nicholas Meriwether; Ann, wife of Thomas Johnson; lane Walker;
Mary, Elizabeth and Anne Browne ; brother Benjamin Clements ;
brother Thomas Clements, cousins Henry Browne, and William Browne,
Jr. — mentions mother-in-law [step-mother?], Lydia Clements.
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(119) John Smith, of Warwicksqueake, planter, 150 acres on the
southward shore over against Maries Mount [r] near the mouth of
Nanzemond river, and abutting to the eastward, upon a cedar island ;
Due, 100 acres for his personal adventure, who came in the Starr, at
the first coming of Sir Thomas Dale, and the other 50 for the transpor-
tation of a servant, named Reginald Griffin, in the Bona Nova in 1621.
Granted by Harvey, August 26th. 163.^.
NOTE.
[r] Maries Mount, on James river, in Warwick county, was the plan-
tation of Daniel Gookin, who brought here a number of settlers from
Ireland, and afterwards removed to New England.
(120) John Moone [i], of Warwicksqueake, planter, 200 acres in
Warwicksqueake, on the easter[y side of Warwicksqueake creek, and
northerly on a small creek, known as X'irgoes creek [2], and extending
easterly towards a small creek called Pagan Point creek, [3] — due for the
transportation of four persons (viz), himself, the said John Moone, and
George Martin, Julian Hollier, and Clement Thrush, who came in the
Kaiherine of London, 1623. Granted by Harvey, March 6th, 1633.
NOTES.
[i] Captain John Moone was a member of the House of Burgesses
from Isle of Wight, 1652 and 1654.
[2] Virgoes Creek, now called Jones', is an affluent of Pagan Creek.
[3] Now called Pagan Creek, a navigable stream on which the town
of Smithfield is situated.
(121) Thomas Davis, of Warwicksqueake, planter, son and heir
apparent unto James Davis, late of Henrico, in Virginia, gentleman,
deceased ; 300 acres in Warwicksqueake, on Warwicksqueake Creek; due
100 acres in right of the said James Davis, his father, an ancient planter,
for his personal dividend ; 100 acres in right of said James Davis, for
the transportation of two servants into the Country (vizi George
Cooke and Alice Mulleins, who came in the Georg in 1617, and 100
acres in right of Rachel Davis, wife of the said James Davis, for her
personal dividend as an ancient planter. Granted by Harvey, March
6, 1633.
(122) Roger Race, Walter Floyd, Thomas Smith, Silvester
Talman, carpenters, 400 acres in Martin's Hundred, and on Skiffe's
Creek. Granted by Harvey, with advice of Council, " for the encourag
ing of artificers in their professions and callings," April 24th, 1632.
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(123) Henry Coney [i] gentleman, lease of 100 acres at the head of
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Archer's Hope Creek, "for his extraordinary charges and labors in
building and clearing at a place called Cone}- borough.'' Granted by
Harvey, July 25th, 1632.
NOTE.
[i] Henry Coney was a burgess for Archer's Hope and the Glebe
Land, 1629-30, 1632, and 1632-3. Persons of the name lived in York
county in the latter half of the century.
(124) Robert Martin, lease of 30 acres for same cause, and also at
Coney borough. By Harvey, July 24th, 1632.
(125) John Milnehowse, lease of 40 acres at same place and for
same cause. By Harvey, July 24th, 1632.
(126) James Knott [i] of Accomack, planter, who is 'desirous to
keep a house of entertainment at the mouth of Hampton river in Eliz-
abeth City County " whereby strangers and others may be well accom-
modated w'th great ease to the inhabitants in those parts," is granted
50 acres at the mouth of Hampton river, bounded southerly by a Creek
which parteth the same from the land of Captain Francis West [2],
and northerly upon the Glebe Land, together with the house, "com-
monly called the great howse," [3] and all other houses &c. thereon.
By Harvey, March 12th, 1632.
notes.
[i] It appears from the first volume of the records of old Accomac
(the only one which has been copied for the State Library) that James
Knott lived in that county in 1632-35, and that his wife was named
Eleanor.
[2] Francis West, born October 2Sth, 15S6, was a son of the second
Lord Delaware, and brother of Thomas, third Lord Delaware, and of
Captain John West, Governors of Virginia. He was a member of the
Virginia Company; came to the Colony with Newport about July,
1608, and was elected to the Council in August, 1609. In January-, 1610,
he returned to England ; but came bactc to Virginia in the latter part
of the same year, and succeeded Percey, when he left, as Commander
at Jamestown, an office he held many years, as he also did that of
member of the Council, to which body he belonged from 1619 to 1633.
On March 22d, 1622, the Indians killed two men on his plantation " at
Westover, about a mile from Berkeley Hundred." In November, 1622,
he was commissioned Admiral of New England ; went there in May
or June, and again in August. He was in New England in September;
but appears not to have remained long, as he was back in Virginia in
February, 1624, when he was living at " West and Shirley Hundred
Island." In the ne.xt year he was living in Elizabeth City, where the
widow of his brother, Nathaniel West, and her infant son lived with
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him. About November, 1627, he was elected Governor of Virginia,
and continued in office until March 5th, 1629, when, having been chosen
to go to England as the agent of the Colony, Dr. John Pott was elected
in his stead. During his stay in England he resisted the planting of
Lord Baltimore's proposed Colony within the limits of Virginia. He
returned to Virginia prior to December, 1631, and was present at a
meeting of the Council February, 1633, after which date there is no
mention of him in the records. He probably died about that time.
(127) Assignment from Doctoris Christmas, of Elizabeth City, planter,
to Lyonell Roulston [i] of the same, gentleman, all his title in a lease
of 50 acres. Granted by Yeardley in 1627. Witnesses Willi. Clayborne
and Edward Cage, September 29th, 162S.
Assignment by Lyonell Roulston, of Keskyacke, gentleman, of the
same lease, to his " loveing friend John Neale," January 14th, 1630.
Witnesses Henry Hill and Henry Pennry.
NOTE. ,.^:. ;.;: ■ , . . -..:♦■. I
[i] This name appears as Coulston, Goulston and Roulston, the
latter appearing to be the correct form. The patentee was member of
the House of Burgesses from Elizabeth City in 1629, and for York, 1632,
and i632-'3.
(128) John Neale, merchant [i], lease of 50 acres at the Strawberry
banks, in Elizabeth City, bounded on the east by the land granted to
Edward Waters, and now in the occupation of George Downes, gentle-
man [2], which said land was leased by Yeardley to Doctoris Christ-
mas, and by a " deed under the hand and seal " of said Christmas con-
veyed to Lyonell Roulston, and by said Roulston conveyed to Neale.
Now confirmed by Harvey, February 12th, 1632.
NOTES.
[i] John Neale appears, from the Accomac record mentioned above,
to have lived on the Eastern Shore, and done a large business as a
merchant between 1632 aad 1639; in 1636 he makes a deposition, and
states he was then aged about forty years; was a vestryman May, 1636;
recommended for appointment as sheriff in 1636 and 1639; elected a
Burgess on October 21st, 1639, and was a commissioner (justice) in the
same year.
[2] George Downes was a member of the House of Burgesses for
"the lower parrish of Elizabeth Citty," February, i63i-'2. and ap-
pointed a commissioner (justice) for the county at the same session.
He was again Burgess for the same place in September, 1632.
(129) William Hampton, planter [i], lease of 50 acres at Buck Roe,
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in Elizabeth City, and adjoining the land granted by lease unto John
Hayney, planter, and also the creek dividing said land from Point Com-
fort Island By Harvey, March 12th, 1632.
NOTE.
[1] In Waters' Gleamings, New Eng. H. and G. Reg., April, 1S94, is
an abstract of the will of Lawrence Hampton, of London, tailor, dated
9th Nov., 1627, proved 12th Feb., 1627; he gives to the poor of Twirk-
enham, Middlesex, 20 shillings; to sister Philadelphia Hampton 20
pounds; brother \Vm. Hampton 10 pounds, when he returns from
Virginia, but if he dies abroad, the money to the sister; to father-in-
law, Thos. Garrett, 20 shillings, &c., &c. ; all of these legacies to bt
paid out of his lands at Twickenham; to brother-in-law, Henry Rand,
citizen and joiner, of London, and testators sister Anne, his wife, all
lands, tenements, &c., at Twickenham.
(130) Thomas Savadge, carpenter [i], 100 acres on Old Plantation
creek, at Accomacke, abutting westerly on the land granted Roger
Saunders, and thence east towards a creek called the Second creek.
By Harvey, March 14th, 1632,
NOTE.
[i] It appears from the records of Accomac that there were at this
time two persons named Thos. Savadge living in the county, viz : En-
sign Thos. Savage, and Thos. Savage, carpenter.
(131) Bridgett Lowther, of Pashbehays, in James City, widow,
lease of 250 acres on the west side of Chickahominy river, opposite the
land granted to Bridges Freeman [i], gentleman. By Harvey, March
i6th, 1632.
NOTE.
[i] Captain Bridges Freeman was Burgess for Pashbehay i629-'30,
for Chickahominy 1632, and for James City 1647.
Bridges Freeman was justice of James City County in 16S0.
(132) William Dawkes, of Verina, in the corporation of Charles
City, planter, lease of 50 acres in Charles City, on the west side of the
land granted him in 1632, and adjoining the land of Thomas Parker.
By Harvey, March 15th, 1632.
(133) James Bonall, vignerour, lease of 50 acres at Buck Roe, in
Elizabeth City. By Harvey, May Sth, 1633.
(134) Elias la Guard, vignerour, lease of 100 acres on the western
side of Harris' creek [in Elizabeth City]. By Harvey, May Sth^ 1633.
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(135) Elias LA Glard, lease of 12 acres at Buck Roe, in Elizabeth
City, adjoining the land of William Croney and of James Bonall,
Frenchman, which land was granted by Francis West, Esq-, to John
Arundell, gentleman, and assigned by him to said Elias la Guard, Jan-
uary 20th, 1629. Confirmed by Harvey, April 12th, 1633.
Annexed is the deed from "John Arundell, of Hampton river."
(136) Thomas Harvey, of James City, taylor, lease of 50 acres near
the "Swan Howse creeke neare unto Chickahominy." By Harvey,
April i2lh, 1633,
(135) Launcelot Barnes, gentleman [i], lease of 100 acres in Eliza-
beth City, commonly known as the Indian Thickett, 50 acres whereof
was lately in the occupation of Samuel Bennett, and 50 in the occupa-
tion of William Warren. By Harvey, April 12th, 1633.
NOTE.
[i] Launcelot Barnes was Burgess for the lower parish of Elizabeth
City, 1629-30.
(136) Daniell Shirley, of the neck of land [ij in Charles City,
planter, lease of 50 acres adjoining the land of William Dawkes. By
Harvey, April 12th, 1633.
NOTE.
[i] It appears from this, and other patents, that this " Neck of Land "
was Varina Neck, now in Henrico.
(137) Jacob Averie, gentleman lease of 500 acres on Skiffes Creek,
250 thereof stretching northerly towards the creek towards Martin's
Hundred, Southwe-^t towards the lands of Thomas Nowell, &c. (one
of the line marks named is a spring called Jacob's Well), and the other
250 lying at the head of said Creek. By Harvey, February 2d, 1630
[sic].
(138) Joseph Hatfield, of Elizabeth City, planter, lease of 50 acres,
formerly leased to Christopher Windmill in 1628, and assigned to said
Hatfield by Francis Hough in 1632. Confirmed by Harvey, October
31st, 1633.
(139) Leonard Moore, of the Neck of Land, in the upper parts,
planter, lease of 100 acres on the west side of Four Mile Creek, at its
mouth, and extending westerly towards Three Mile Creek. By Har-
vey, March 21st, 1633.
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(140) John Ward, of Varinas, planter, lease of 25 acres adjoining his
own land at the plantation of Varina. By Harvey, March 21st, 1633.
(141) Henry Coleman, of Elizabeth City, planter, lease of 60 acres
in Elizabeth City adjoining the plantation called the Indian Thickett;
also adjoining the ground .e:ranted to James Stockton, minister, de-
ceased, and the Southampton River; said land was formerly granted to
Christopher Windmill, deceased, and was assigned to said Coleman by
Francis Hough, who married the relict of said Windmill. By Harvey,
May 30th, 1634.
Annexed is the deed from Francis Hough, January 3rd, 1633; wit-
nesses: John Robins, Richd Rutherfoord.
(142) Seth Ward [i], of Verina, in the upper parts, planter, lease
of 50 acres in Henrico, adjoining the land of Daniel Shurley, and ex-
tending easterly towards a tree called Powhatan tree, and also abutting
southerly upon the three mile swamp. By Harvey, May 30th, 1634.
NOTE.
[i] Seth' Ward, the patentee, was probably a kinsman of Bishop
Seth Ward ; but was certainly not his son. He married , and
had a son, Richard^ Ward, of Henrico, who was a justice of that
county in 1666, married Elizabeth , and died in 16S2, having
issue: I. Captain Seth', of "Sheffield," on James river (in the present
Chesterfield), where he was living in 1691. He was born in 1661, and
married ; II. Richard^ married Sarah Blackman, and had at
least one son, Richard*, who removed to Cataret county, N. C, in or
before 1746 ; III. Edward'', married , daughter of Gilbert Elam,
Sr.; IV. John', married Hannah ; V. Elizabeth'.
Captain Seth' and ( ) Ward had issue: I. Benjamin*, of "Shef-
field," married Anne, daughter of Henry Anderson, and died in 1732 ;
II. Seth*, married Martha, daughter of Captain John Worsham, and
died 1734.
Issue of Benjamin* and Anne (Anderson) Ward: I. Col. Seth*, of
"Sheffield," and " Wintopock," justice of Henrico, 1745, of Chester-
field, 1749, sheriff of Chesterfield and member of the House of Bur-
gesses for that county ; married , and died about 1769; II. Ben-
jamin^; III. Henrys of Amelia county, alive 1746; IV. Rowland^.
Issue of Col. Seth^and ( ) Ward: I. Setli^, of "Sheffield"; died
1774; married Mary Goode, and had (i) Seth^ alive 1772; (2) Lucy',
married in 175S, Henry Randolph; II. Benjamin®, of " Wintopock,"
Chesterfield, married Mary , and died 1703; III. Mary", born
1749, died June 24tli, 17S7; married ist, William Brodnax ; 2d, Roger
Gregory-; IV. Martha^, married James Murray; V. Anne*.
Issue of Benjamin* and Mary ( ) Ward: I. Seth'; II. Maria',
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born 17S4, died 1S26 ; married Peyton Randolph. She is remembered
in the social tradition of Virginia as the object of John Randolph of
Roanoke's only love.
Issue of Setli* and Martha (Worsham) Ward; I. Seth^ ; II. Martha^
III. Elizabeths
There were other members of the family in Chesterfield, whose de-
scent I have not been able to trace. Leonard Ward, of Chesterfield.
died in 1772. He mentions in his will his wife. Anne, his sister, Sarah
Walker, brothers Seth, John and William Ward, sister Anne Ligon and
brother Joseph.
In Goode's " Virginia Cousins" is an account of the descendants of
Seth and Mary (Goode) Ward.
Several members of the family removed from Chesterfield and Hen-
rico to Amelia, and for a number of years their descendants were large
landholders there. William Ward, and perhaps others, removed from
Amelia to Kentucky.
(143) Thomas Watts, planter, lease of 50 acres in Elizabeth City, on
a Creek called the Broad Creek and adjoining the lands of Launcelot
Barnes and Owen Dawson. By Harvey, May 30th, 1634.
(144) John Tyas. lease of 50 acres on the east side of Chickahominy
River, adjoining the land of Bridges Freeman. By Harvey, May 30th,
1634.
'- (145) Mathew S.mallwood, merchant, lease of 500 acres on Bick-
nes bay. in Charles City County, bounded on the east by the land
granted by patent to Captain Nathaniel Powell [i], deceased, now in
the possession of William Barber, mariner, and thence extending west
to a Creek which divides it from the land called Chaplin^s Choice [2],
and abutting northerly on the main river. By Harvey, March 30th, 1634.
notes.
[i] Captain Nathaniel Powell, who was. says a contemporary, "born
a gentleman and bred a soldier." He married a daughter of William
Tracy (who brought a party oi colonists to Virginia in 1620.., came to
the Colony in 1607, was appointed to the Council in 1621, and was, for
a short time. Governor. With all his family he was killed by the In-
dians in the massacre of 1622. In 1626, Thomas Powell, his elder
brother, and other brothers and sisters, all in England, petitioned
the government in regard to his estate. They stated that William
Powell, who had gotten possession of all of it in Virginia, was no re-
lation.
[2] Chaplin's Choice, in the present county of Prince George, was a
plantation settled by Isaac Chaplin ; was afterwards, as appears by a
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later patent, bought by Anthony Wyatt. member of the House of Bur-
gesses for Charles City county, and was, about 1690, owned by his son,
John Wyatt.
(146) William Conner, of Elizabeth City, planter, lease of 60 acres
on the back river in said county, about two miles within the narrow of
said river, on the eastern side of "a damm commonly called the litt'e
Otter damm," and thence e.xtending easterlv towards the land of
Thomas Thornbury [i]. By Harvey, Aug. 13th, 1634.
NOTE.
[i] Thomas Thornbury, born 1604, came to Virginia in 1616, was a
servant in 1625, lived a few years in Maryland, and was a member of
Assembly there in 1649, and was burgess for Elizabeth City, July 1653.
(147) William Hampton, of Elizabeth City, planter, lease of 100
acres on the east side of Harris' Creek, in said county. By Harvey,
Aug. 13th, 1634.
(14S) Abraham Roote, of Hogg Island in the county of James City,
planter, 50 acres at a place commonly called "The Rocks " in James
City County. By Harvey, August 13th, 1634.
(149) William Stafford [i], of Kethe's Creek, in the county of
Warwick River, planter, lease of 100 acres on the west side of Kethe's
;, Creek, about a mile and a half upwards from the mouth, over against
J. the land now in the possession of William Robinett, and adjoining the
land of Francis Rookbill. By Harvey, August 20th, 1634.
NOTE.
[i] William Stafford afterwards removed to York county. There is
on record there, dated March 3rd, 1644, the inventory and appraisement
' of the personal estate of William Stafford, " late deceased," which was
at Chiskiack in the possession of John Cluverius, clerk, valued at
30,681 lbs. tobacco, and including 8 negroes. William Stafford was
born in 1607, and his wife was named Rebena [Hotter.]. Among the
head-rights to a grant to him in 1635 is Christopher Stafford. Febru-
ary 2d, 1657, it is Slated in the York records that Joseph Watkins was
guardian of Humphrey Stafford, son and heir of Christopher Stafford,
deceased, having married his mother, Elizabeth. In the General Court
records, 1675. there is mention that Mrs. Beazley, of lames City county.
in her will, dated 1664, left a negro to her cousin, Mr. Humphrey Staf-
ford, of Virginia. On September 30th, i68r, Humphrey and John
Gwyn, in their own right, and as attorneys of Humphrey Stafford, pe-
titioned the General Court, claiming that they (the three 1 were the
nearest allied to Colonel [ohn Burnham, deceased of Middlese.x, and
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ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS.
315
asked to be allowed to bring proof. Another entry in the General
Court records. July 20th, 1671, shows that Robert Ruffin was guardian
of the orphans of Benedict Stafford.
(150) Christopher Branch [i], planter, of Arrowhattocks [2],
within the county of Henrico, lease of 100 acres adjoining the land
granied to John Griffin and John Sheffield, and abutting easterlie on
the main river. By Harvey, October 2olh, 1634.
NOTES.
[i] Christopher Branch was a member of the House of Burgesses
from Henrico, 1639 {Robi?iso}i's Noies). and was the first patentee of
" Kingsland," in the present Chesterfield county, an estate which was
owned by many generations of his descendants. An account of the
family, derived from the records cf Henrico and Chesterfield, &c., <S:c.,
was published in the Richmond Critic.
[2] Arrowhattocks is laid down on Smith's map as being on the
north bank of the river, immediately above the present Dutch Gap
canal. There was afterwards, as appears from the records in Henrico,
a farm named "Arrowhattocks," owned by members of the Cox
family, which is believed to be the same as that of the late Mr. Henry
Cox.
{151) Gilbert Svmonds, of Elizabeth City, planter, lease of 100
acres on the old Pocoson river, adjoining the land of John Radon [or
Rhadonl. By Harvey, October 20th, 1634.
(152) NiCHOL.^s Harwood [i], cooper, lease of 50 acres on the
■eastern shore in the county of Accomac. adjoining the land granted to
William Blore (now in the tenure of William Burdett [2]), being the
land granted to Roger Saunders, deceased, in 1628, and assigned to
said Harwood by George Traveller [3]. Confirmed by Harvey, Oct.
2Qth, 1634.
NOTES.
[i] The will of Nicholas Harwood, dated April ist, 1639, and proved
April 2Sth, 1639, is recorded in the first volume of the old "Accomac "
records at Northampton C H. He directs that all his debts to Mr.
Stringer for physic, and Goodman Granger for dyett, &c., shall be paid;
leaves 500 lbs. of tobacco to his godson, Nicholas Granger, to buy him
a cow calf; his clothes to Jo. Parke and Jo. Webster; crop of tobacco
and crop tools to "my boy Stephen;" friend Jo. Tomkin executor;
Mr. Cotton to make a sermon ; " and soe I leave this Worlde desiringe
all good people to pray for my Soule's health."
[2] "Mr. William Burdett" was a commissioner (justice) of Acco-
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mac, 1634-1643, vestryman 1639, member of the House of Burgesses
1639 {Accomac Records). In April, 1639, a certificate for 1,050 acres of
land was granted him. The will of William Burdett, gentleman, dated
July 22d. and proved August 7th. 1643, is recorded at Northampton
Court House; legatees: only son Thomas Burdett, wife Alice (she had
been the widow of George Traveller) and friend Jane Jackson ; ^,"5 to
the lower parish of Northampton for a communion cup and plate, o'
cup only; son Thomas to have a dozen silver spoons, and his name is
to be engraved on them; legacies to wife's son George Traveller and
her daughter Elizabeth. If his brother Richard Burdett should come
into this country, the overseers of the will are to be helpful to him out
of the estate. Mr. John Rozier [minister], Captain William Stone
[afterwards Governor of Maryland] and Mr. Thomas Johnson to take
especial care of the education of " my tender sonn " Thos. Burdett,
the son, was alive 1652. The will of Frances Burdett was proved in
Accomac 1640 or 1641.
[3] In 1635 George Traveller was granted a certificate by Accomack
court of the importation of four persons. He had bought from Blore
the land sold to Harwood.
ADDENDA " '
To Note i. Patent No. 114.
Au:':rt;
Thomas^ Robins, of "Point Lookout," in Robins Neck, Gloucester
county, born 1745, married first Elizabeth Stubbs ; secondly Elizabeth
Lee Hoomes. Issue: (ist. marriage) i. Tkonias'^ ; 2. James", married
and had issue ; 3. Armistead^ of King William county; married Susan
H. Pemberton, and had issue; 4. Elizabeth^ married G. Chandler ; 5.
Fanny', married J. Borum? 6. Mary'', married Jno. Williams; (2d mar-
riage) 7. Dr. Joseph Hoomes' ; 8. Benjamin Thomas Claiborne'^.
I. Thomas Robins', of " Point Lookout^" married Hudson, and
had issue. 9. William D. S}; 10. Thomas ColemaTi^; 11. Robert C.', mar-
ried Thruston, and had no issue; 12. Benjamin Franklin*, died
unmarried; 12a. Ann B. married Robt. S. Heywood, of Gloucester;
13a. Virginia E. E.*, married Garrett; 2d. Luke; 14a. Emil\*
married ist, Rootes (and had Thos. R. and Sarah Anne); 2d,
Hagey ; 15. Virginia, married R. A. Stubblefield.
7. Dr. Joseph Hoomes' Robins, who lived at various times in North
Carolina, King William county, Va., and Washington, D. C, married
(I) Catherine Clayton, daughter of William Robins; (II) Louisa,
daughter of A. Ashton, of Washington. Issue (ist marriage): 13.
Russell', died young; 14. Julian Pryor', died without issue; 14. Thos.
Van Buren^ died without issue, Jan. 20th, 1S76; 15. Dr. William H.%
removed to Arkansas, married and had issue; 16. Elizabeth Lee', mar-
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ried Rev. John Bailey; 17. Fedora C.^, married Anderson of King
and Queen County.
8. Benjamin Thomas Claiborne' Robins, married first Elizabeth Tal-
iaferro Broaddus, daughter of William Broaddus, and great-grand-
daughter of Edward Broaddus, who came to Virginia from Wales ;
and secondly Sarah Jane Maddox, of Charles City county. Issue (ist.
marriage): iS. Lalla Rookh*. married Benj. E. Wright, of Essex; 19.
William Broaddus% of Richmond, married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev.
Alexander .Mebane, of North Carolina, and his wife Emma Pleasants,
of Richmond, and had issue: (i) Mary Giles', married H. P. Taylor, of
Richmond; (2) Wm. Randolph'; (3) Dr. Charles RusselP ; (4) Frank
Gordon'; 20. Benj. Claiborne Thomas*, died 1S62, without issue ; 21.
Albert Harleigh^ married Jane F., daughter of Robt. S. Heywcod, and
had issue: (i) Bunyan', (2) Percis', {3) Claiborne', (4) Harleigh' ; 22.
Lucella Ruth', married E. T. Winston, now of St. Paul, Minn. (2d.
marriage); 23. Joseph Hoomes*; 24. Walter Raleigh*; 25. Elizabeth
Lee-; 26. Benjamin- ; 27. Read Waring*; 2S. Mary Ivy.*
9. William D. S." Robins, married first Elizabeth Ellett (and had one
child, Sarah', who married Thomas Cooke, of Gloucester); married
secondly Gary, and had issue; 29. Benjamin F.' had no issue;
30. Thomas', married and had issue : 31. Logan', married and had
no issue: 31a. William, married and had issue.
10. Thomas Coleman- Robins, of ''Point Lookout," married Amelia
Armistead. ana had issue: 32. Thomas Armistead', Captain 34th Vir-
ginia Infantry, C. S. A.; killed near Petersburg in 1S64 ; married Par-
gaud, of Petersburg; t,2,. Wm. Augustus', married Flora E. Harwood,
of Gloucester, and had issue ; 34. Robert Coleman', married Lelia W.
Buford, of Brunswick, and had (i) Lucy Armistead'"; (2) Margaret
Buford^"; (3) Fanny Coleman; 35. Mary Ann', married John M. Thrus-
ton, of Gloucester ; 36. Amelia Emeline, married Thos. S. Stubblefield,
of Gloucester.
Page 187, line 3 from bottom, another account states that William'
Robins married Elizabeth Coleman of Caroline county. Page 1S8 line
7, Jane^ Robins married T. C. Amory. Page iSS, line ir, for Walling-
ton read Watlington. Page iSS, line 24, John^^ Robins married (accord-
ing to another account) Elizabeth Thruston, of Gloucester. Page 188,
line 30, all of the children of Augustine W.* Robins, except Wm. T.',
were by the second marriage. Page 1S8, line 2 from bottom, for
"(Morson)" read "(Seddon)." Page 189, line i, for " Seddon " read
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GENEALOGY. '^'^ •
THE FLOURNOY FAMILY. ' ''"'''
Compiled by Flournoy Rivers, Esq., Pulaski, Tenn.
Corrections and Corroborations. — The old Manakin Parish
Register referred to by Bishop Meade— page 206, October Magazine —
is now owned by R. A. Brock, Richmond, and is the same printed in
"The Huguenot Emigration."
The Will-Book containing Samuel Flournoy's will — same page— is
No. I— Not "I," Powhatan C. H.; Thomas, of Prince Edward, was
born Novenber 20th, 173S, not November aSth— page 200; Rev. Robert
Henry, who founded Briery Church. Prince Edward county, page 201,
was the great grandfather of the John Flournoy Henry, page 202;
Sheriff David's will, page 198, is set out in Will-Book "A," page 14,
Farmville, Va.; Robert, son of Matthews, who ran away from his
father and went to Georgia— page 203— settled in Jefferson county.
In the record in John James Flournoy and wife vs. Martin, set out
in the July and October Magazines, she is designated as " Elizabeth."
So she is named in the Geneva Flournoy Genealogy. The order of
probate of her will— July Magazine, page S5— speaks of her as "Mary,"
and in Galiffe's Genealogy she is called " Mary," though the other
designations agree, viz : Her maiden name " Williams " and '' widow of
Orlando Jones," as in the Flournoy family-book. Perhaps her name
was " Mary Elizabeth." The probate of Jean Jacques Flournoy's will,
at Richmond, shows he never removed from Henrico county.
The Land-Office Records.
So grossly inaccurate is page 193 of the October Magazine that the
Land-Office records are reprinted.
Jacob Florenoy, Henrico county, March 23, 1715, 133 acres, South
side of James River.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, Feb. 20, 1723, 400 acres, North
side of Swift Creek.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, July 9, 1724, 400 acres. North side
of Swift Creek.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, July 9, 1724, 400 acres, North side
of Swift Creek.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, July 9, 1724, 400 acres. North side
of Swift Creek.
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Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, Sept. 20, 1745, 120 acres, North
side of Tomahawk.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, Sept. 20, 1745, 198 acres, West
side of Tomahawk.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, Sept. 20, 1745, 1,821 acres, But-
ternwood Road and Otter Branch.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, Sept. 20, 1745, 181 acres, East side
of Trabue's Branch.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, March 20, 1745,400 acres. Between
the lines of Edward Hill, said Flournoy & John Moore.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, Aug. 20, 1747, 391 acres, South
side of James River.
Francis Flournoy, Henrico county, Aug. 5, 1751, 120 acres, West
Branch of Dry Creek.
John James Flournoy, Henrico county, Jan. 22, 1723, 400 acres. North
side of Swift Creek.
John James Flournoy, Henrico county, Jan'y 3, 1725, 1,600 acres,
North side of Swift Creek.
Daniel Stoner & John James Flournoy, Goochland county. June 16,
1738, 400 acres. Both sides of Polecat Branch.
Daniel Stoner & John James Flournoy, Goochland county, June 16,
1738, 300 acres, Adjacent to the North side of Swift Creek.
Daniel Stoner & John James Flournoy, Goochland county, June 16,
173S, 400 acres. At head of Steep Branch of Swift Creek.
Daniel Stoner & John James Flournoy, Goochland county, June 16,
1738, 400 acres. Both sides of Lower Manacan Creek.
Daniel Stoner & John James Flournoy, Goochland county, June 16,
1738, 400 acres, North Branches of Swift Creek.
Daniel Stoner & John James Flournoy, Goochland county, July 20,
1738, 229 acres. North Branches of Swift Creek.
Daniel Stoner & John James Flournoy, Goochland county, July 20,
1738, 200 acres. Both sides of Lower Manacan Creek.
Daniel Stoner & John James Flournoy, Goochland county, July 20,
173S, 400 acres, Both sides of Steep Branch of Swift Creek.
Daniel Stoner Sc John James Flournoy, Goochland county, July 20,
1738, 400 acres, South branch of Dittoy's Branch of Upper Manacan
Creek.
David Flournoy & Philoman Halcomb (Sheriff David of Prince
Edward ? F. R.), Amelia county, Aug. 16, 1756, 1,000 acres, North side of
Bryer River.
Land Office, Richmond, Va.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the records of
this office. Witness my hand and seal of office this 30th Novb., 1894
W. R. Gaines,
. ^ Reg'r of Land Office.
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The Chesterfield Flournovs.
"Some imperfect memoranda from Chesterfield Court-house" are
given on page 212, October Magazine. The abstract of Francis
Flournoy's will is, like the Land-Office record on page 193, grossly
inaccurate. The other will, marriages, etc., etc., are correct except
for some omitted deeds, especially in books 5, 12, 13, 14, 15. and
17— not especially valuable. Deed-Book 5 shows that by six deeds, of
date June :S, 1765, Franci"^ Flournoy gave 200 acres each, to his sons
Francis, Jr., William, Gipson, Josiah, Jacob and James.
"An Inquisition taken on Laurence Flournoy being ret'd and it appear-
ing that the said Laurence is a Lunatic and incapable of taking care
either of his person or Estate : Ordered that \Vm. Flournoy, Jr., Ed-
ward Moseley and Edward Friend do take charge of the said Laurence
and his Estate and account for the same agreeable to law." Decem-
ber Court, 17S5.
This was Lorance, son of Francis, Jr. He suffered from a recurrent
dementia, as deeds in 1796 show he transacted business, but in Fayette
county, Kentucky, he was again adjudged lunatic in 1809.^
Jno. F. Flournoy and Mary Ashurst, of Chesterfield county, married,
1787, by Rev. Geo. Smith.
Francis Flornoy's Will.
(Will-Book, No. 2, page 262, Chesterfield C. H.)
This is a methodical document of fourteen "items," with an intro-
duction " In the Name of God Amen, this Thirteenth Day of April, in
the year of our Lord Christ One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Seventy, I, Francis Flournoy, of Chesterfield County, being weak in
Body but of Perfect Mind and Memory, Do make and ordain this my
last Will and Testament in manner and form following " " Imprimis "—
lor use and Maintenance of beloved wife Mary, four negroes, Jenn,
Sukey, Bett and Sail— all his Personal Estate and use of Plantation he
lives on Dureing her Life ; after her Deceise Personal Estate except
negroes, equally between Children and their Heirs ; To daughter Mary
first child. " Born from my wench Bett after the Date of these Presents
that lives to be a year old."
The same to daughter Jean (Jane) "from my wench Sail"; to son
Jacob, Two Hundred Acres adjoining what he had already Deeded to
him. Bounded by Tomahawk, Jenetooe Road, Crossing the Hundred
Road, adjoining brother Frank's line to my back line and to son Wm's
line, on it back to Tomahawk, negro boy Hall and negro wench Jenn
* The inquisition shows that Lorance Flournoy owned 570 acres of land, 25 negroes.
valued at ^1,807, nine head of horses, sixteen head of cattle, thirty head of sheep and
eighty hogs.
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after his mother's Deceise, also Half of Hundred Acres held in Swamp
adjoining Swift and Deep Creeks, half of Six Acres near Warwick,
adjoining Colo. Byrd's, also Hundred Acres west side Tomahawk
adjoining Trent. To son Francis, Two Acres adjoining land already
Deeded him, and Jacob's, Trabue's, also Half the Hundred Acres in
the Swamp, half of the Six acres adjoining Colo. Byrd's. To son Wil-
liam,Three Hundred Acres on Otter Branch including Plantation John
Tlllotson now lives on adjoining James, Gipson and Josiah, Negro Boy
Ned ; to son Gipson, 300 acres south Side Otter Branch including
Plantation McFarlin lives on " bounded by lines adjoining son James
and William as by me made,'' Negro Boy Jemboy ; to son James, 350
acres adjoining lines of Ashurst, Wooldridge Ellison and son Gip-
son—Negro Jack, and after wife's Deceise " One Half the whole value
of my wench Sukey"; to Josiah, 300 acres including Plantation on
both sides Jenetoo Road adjoining William, Two Negroes Caesar and
Sail " E.xcepting as is above E.xcepted"; To use and Benefit of Daugh-
ter Sarah one Negro Rachall Dureing her life, at her Deceise Rachall
and her Increase equally divided between Sarah's Children, also after
wife's Deceise one-fourth Part of the Valuation of Wench Sukey ; To
Benefit and maintenance of Daughter Martha, Two Negroes Jenn and
Bett, which Negroes and their Increase, " Excepting as is above Ex-
cepted," at her Deceise equally divided between her children — as
above, to Martha after Deceise of her Mother one-fourth Valuation of
Wench Sukey; Five Hundred acres on the Heads of Otter Branch
adjoining Josiah Flournoy, Basses Elams, Gipsons and Ashurst equally
divided in quantity between sons James, Gipson, William and Josiah;
to Grandson Francis, son of Jacob, one Slave, Amee; to Grandson
Lorance, son of Francis, Two hundred and fifty acres on Heads of
Horsepen and Spring Branch of Tomahawk; To Grandson James, son
of James, One Negro Girl Fanny; to sons Jacob, Francis, James, Gip-
son, William and Josiah Ten acres adjoining the Rocks Cal'd the
Dumpiins on both sides Nut tree Road " with all Priviiedges of making
•what advantages they shall think fitt in and to a supposed Mine." Di-
rects no appraisement taken of his estate, appoints sons Jacob and
Francis Executors, revokes all former wills. " In witness," etc., the day
and " yeare " above written.
francis flornoy.
"Signed, sealed, pu'olished and declared in presents of Edward
Friend, Edmond Wooldridge, Francis Dickenson."'
The will of Josiah Flournoy, son of Francis, Sr., dated May 25, 1S16,
Will-Book No. 9, page 209, Chesterfield C. H., Virginia, mentions nine
children: John, F'rancis, Obadiah, Samuel, Mary Baugh, Susanna Simp-
son, Tabitha Sneilings, Judith Flournoy, and Ann Winfree. Among
other bequests, the mine tract, alluded to in the will of Francis, is given
to Samuel Flournoy.
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[Note— Tiiis proved to be a silver mine, probably of very little
value. R. W. F.]
The following is obtained from an old Family Bible in possession of
Rev. Parke P. Flonrnoy, Bethesda, Maryland:
Josiah Flournoy, born Sept. 3. 1741, married Ann , Feb. 24,
1763. died July 15, 1S19.
His son Samuel, born May 17, 1778, married Phebe , Aug. 16,
1804. died June 15, 182S.
Children o{ 6'a;;/?^i?/ Flournoy : James Francis, Richard W., Mary A.,
Samuel A., Eliza T, Josiah, John E., Robert D., William G., Phebe E.,
and Edmund H., the Circuit Court clerk at Chesterfield C. H.
1. James F"rancis FlournoV was born June lo, 1805, and married Julia
A. P Bass, March 28, 1836.
2. Richard \V. Piournoy, Sr., was born Nov. 16, 1806, married Sarah
Parke Poindexter, June 2, 1S36, and died Nov. 29, 1S57. Their children
are Parke Poinde.xter, Richard W., Eliza A, James Francis, Samuel L.,
A. Ellen, and two who died in infancy.
(This ends Family Bible record, but much data given of this line will
be used hereafter )
The Flournoy Arms.
Mr. Edward Flournoy has sent from Geneva both the ancient and
the modern coat of arms.
It was at first hoped that the full text of the Geneva Genealogy, as
compiled by Gideon, the brother of Jean Jacques, during the years
1732 to 1760, mig'it be printed, but investigation shows it, with its
accompanying documents to be entirely too voluminous for the pres-
ent publication. However, the dates of birth and death, marriage and
baptism, etc., etc., of the ascending line should not be lost, as they
constitute a record.
Hereafter a way may, perhaps, be found to print it by private effort.
Mr. Edmond Flournoy suggests that instead of their voluminous pri-
vate record, the outline genealogy, prepared by a celebrated Genevan
genealogist, J. A. Galiffe, be printed.
The title of the work is "Some Genealogical Accounts of Genevan
Families, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day; by J. A.
Galiffe, C G.; Volume III, Geneva, 1836," see pages 213-222. He sends
Volume III.
After a preliminary statement that " Flournois or Flournoy is a vil-
lage of 30 households in Champagne, between Joinville and St.
Dizier," GaliflTe gives the arms which follow.
Being ignorant of the technical terms, the compiler has not ventured
to render a translation, but submits the original French.
Armes: d'azur au chevron d'argent, accompagne en chef de deux
fleurs, ou chatons de noyer, et en pointe d'une noix pendante, du meme.
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Un M. Flournois etabli en Angleterre en i703,portait le chevron accom-
pagne de trois noix tig^es et feuillees.
Le premier Flournoy connu d Gentve portait le chevron accompagne
de deux chatons tiges et feuillos en chef, et d'une croisette tichee en
pointe, avec un chef charge d'une semblable ct-oisette entre deux
chatons tiges et feuilles.
The first reference is evidently to the Peter Flournoy mentioned in
"Agnevv's Exiles "—in the July Magazine, pages 81-2, whose descent is
traced in the genealogy; the second is to Laurent.
With the MS. genealogy Mr. Edmond Flournoy sends drawings of
the arms, ancient and modern.
"Ancirunes Armes, portees en France ; D'Azur, a, 3 chatons de
noyer d'or, poses en pal ; au chef d'argent."
" NouvELLEs Armes; ordinairement portees a Geneve ; D'Azur, au
chevron d'argent, accompagne en chef de 2 chatons de noyer, et en pal
d'une noix pendante du meme."
The device on the scroll under each plate is " Ex Flore Fructus."
He writes that he has something to add in a future letter concerning
the ancient arms. He likewise sends drawings of the arms said to have
been removed from the house of the Flournoys at Attancourt, Cham-
pagne, which house, with the lands, was sold after Laurent's flight.
The opening sentence of the Geneva Genealogy is " The lands which
Laurent Flourno" owned near Vassy in Champagne, and which he
abandoned because of the massacres on account of religion, are situated
in four jurisdictions, known as the jurisdictions of Attancourt, Mag-
neux, Brousseval and Fiornoy, each about a league from each other."
The name appears "Fleurnoy," " Flournoy," " Flournois," ''Fiornoy."
The use of the words " fleur," "' noyer "' and " noi.x " shews the original
derivation and meaning of the name. Laurent had older brothers,
Claude, Nicholas and a sister, name unknown — all remained Romanists
but him. From Nicholas — it is supposed from the parish record at
Joinville— descends Anne Ernestine, married to Joseph Phillipe, resi-
dent in the village of ' Fiornoy ' when Mr. Edmond Flournoy visited the
hamlet in iSSS. Mr. Louis Fiornoy, a naval outfitter at Nantes, is
thought to be of this descent likewise. Mr. Flournoy sends a map of
these villages, photographic views taken in the village and at Vassy,
the locality of the massacre, a picture of it, etc., etc. The names of
the villages appear as Alaincourt, Bronzeval, Flournoy in Galiffe.
Some Cumberland-Powhatan Data.
Leave is given Samuel Flournoy, Peter Salley & Daniel Perro to lay
open a railing road from the said Flournoy's house into the Buckingham
road by Thomas Smith's, and they are discharged from working on the
road this year. Order-Book, No. i, page 174, Nov'r Court, Cumberland
County, 1750.
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Flournoy's Will.
I, James Smith, being proprietor of the land on said Samuel Flour-
noy's mill-pond, I, the said Smith, doth give the said Flournoy and his
heirs free liberty to raise his dam to any height that he or his heirs
shall think proper, provided they don't drown my spring that I now
use, and at any time I do oblige myself, my heirs and assigns in the
sum of /"ao, to be paid by the person who shall hinder the said Flour-
noy from raising his dam as above mentioned.
I grant this liberty for value received.
Given under my hand this 4th day of Feb'y, 1762.
(Signed) James Smith.
Recorded in Cumberland County Court, Clerk's Office, June 2Sth.
1762, in D. B. 3, page 2S7.
Is this Woodberry or Winfree's mill now ? The late Judge Dabney, of
Powhatan C. H., thought Woodberry's mill was meant, but later infor-
mation is that it is Winfree's mill, owned now by Peter A. Sublett, of
Richmond.
Did Jean Jacques establish the mill ?
It has been stated that some fifteen years ago, when Winfree's mill
was repaired, the iron stamp, "J.J. Flournoy," used as a trade mark,
was found.
Many references to the mill and mill-pond occur in the deeds.
Samuel Flournoy's executors, viz: Wm. Harris and Anthony Martin
of Powhatan Co. & Thomas Flournoy of Prince Edward Co., to Gid-
eon Flournoy of Powhatan Co. — whereas, Saml. Flournoy by his will
devised to his son Gideon a tract of land containing 475 acres during
his life, and empowered his e.xecutors to make him title in fee simple
provided said Gideon should marry and so demean himself that there
should not be probability of his wasting his estate etc. — therefore they
convey said land to said Gideon. January 20, 17S5. D. B. i, p. 670,
Powhatan C. H.
Silas Flournoy recommended as Ensign in the Seventh Company
District (Militia) by the County Court of Powhatan— April Term, 1796.
David Flournoy petitions the Powhatan County Court at the June
Term, 1796, for leave to erect a mill on Jones' Creek and Mathews'
branch. Petition granted. (Is this Woodberry or Winfree's mill now ?
F. R.)
Ish'am Britton, of Halifax county, executed bond for license to marry
Elizabeth Julia, daughter of Samuel Flournoy, of Powhatan, May r, 1786.
Jacob Flournoy, Sen'r, of Chesterfield county, to his son Henry Flour-
noy, 150 acres in Powhatan county, adjoining Isaac Sallee etc. April
15. ^795- Deed-Book 2, page 12S.
Henry Flournoy executed bond for license to marry Elizabeth Wat-
kins, daughter of Edward Watkins, Dec. 5, 1796. Married Dec'r 10,
1796, by Rev. George Smith.
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Henry Flournoy, dec'd, his estate divided and dower assigned to
Mrs. Elizabeth Lane, his widow. Feb. 24th, 1S06. Will-Book Xo. 3,
page 2S0.
George Flournoy & Henry Flournoy, orphans ot" Henry Fiournoy,
deceased, their guardian's bond. Sept. 19, iSoi. Will-Book Xo. 2, p.
297.
Jordan Flournoy and Judith Farrar were married by Rev. Charles
Hopkins, April ist, 1792.
Evidently his first wife, as his will refers to " my late. wife, Sarah."
Moreover, David Flournoy and Elizabeth, his wife, and Jordan Flour-
noy and Sarah, his wife, made a deed to Joseph Haywood, 200 acres in
Powhatan county, near the canal of the Powhatan Cotton Factory, Aug.
16, 1S21. Who was this wife and when were they married ?
His descendants removed to Western Kentucky, Paducah, etc.
Jordan Flournoy and Jno. Harris ex'rs of Thomas Flournoy, dec'd,
in conformity with his will emancipate certain slaves. March 19, iSoo.
D. B. 2, p. 642.
Thomas Flournoy, dec'd ex'rs ace. Sept. 16, iSor. Will-Book Xo.
I, p. — .
Marriage bond executed by Benj. Layne for license to marry Elizabeth
Flournoy. Powhatan C. H., Feb'y 7th, 1S04
Thomas B. Bowles and Rebecca Fieurnoy were married July 12, 1815,
by Rev'd John Wooldridge.
Samuel H. Fieurnoy and Maria Harris were married Sept. 6th, 1S12,
by Rev. Jno. Wooldridge.
Peter Dupuy, and Margaret his wife, David Flournoy, Jordan Harris,
T. P. Bowles and Christopher Bates. Articles forming a company for
the purpose of erecting suitable buildings and necessary machinery for
carrying on the spinning business on a parcel of land on Jones Creek
containing 13 acres. June 19, 1S16. D. B. 5, p. 511.
John Flournoy of Powhatan Co. to James Thompson of Garrard Co.,
Kentucky. Power of Attorney to sell his (John's) lands in Kentucky,
held by virtue of Treasury Warrants Xo. 740S and 7409. Feb'y ist,
1816. D. B. 5, p. 393.
List of Warrants Issued from the Land Office of Virginia,
FROM Military Records.
Jacob Flournoy, book i, page 143, Warrant 696, May 31, 1783, 100
acres, Private in State Artillery for three years.
Samuel Flournoy, book i, page 300 Warrant 1574, Aug. 15, 17S3, 200
acres, Sergeant in the Continental Line for three years.
Land Office, Richmond, Va.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the records of
this ofRce. Witness my hand and seal of office this 30th Xovember,
1894. W. R: Gaines, Register Land Office.
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326 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Virginia Public Documents, published by authority, 1S35 ; No. 43 is
"A List of Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia
State Line; Non-Commissioned Officers and Seamen and Marines
of the State Navy, whose names are on the Army Register, and who
have not received Bounty Land for Revolutionary services."
On page S appears this entry : ;;
" Samuel Flournoy — Seargent — Infantry."
No. 44 is "A list of non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the
Virginia State Line on Continental Establishment, whose names ap-
pear on the Army Register, and who have not received Bounty Land."
On page 17 appears :
" John Flournoy — Soldier — Infantry."
Judge Dabney, in his "Huguenots" heretofore quoted, mentions the
murder of one La Prade, of Huguenot descent, in Powhatan. J. E.
La Prade in 18S0 made a map of Powhatan " by order of the
County Court." By a curious transformation " Sallee's Creek," is
spelled '• Sally's " Creek on this map.
Middle Tennessee Flocrno/s.
Silas Flournoy & Martha, his wife, of Powhatan Co., to Jordan
Flournoy, 400 acres land in Powhatan Co., on Jones' Creek, adjoining
said Jordan Flournoy, David Flournoy, etc. It being the land & planta-
tion wherein Samuel Flournoy, father of said Silas & Jordan, lived.
April 25th, 1799. D. B. 2, p. 583, County Court, Clerk's Office, Powha-
tan. C. H
This place is yet entered as " Farmington " on La Prade's map — as
fornjerly. Here Samuel Flournoy, son of Jean Jacques, is probably
buried, as there are on the place two burying grounds with many
graves, but no gravestones. When Silas Flournoy married Martha
Cannon is not known. She was the daughter of the William Cannon,
of Buckingham county, set out on page 195, "Huguenot Emigration,"
though not of that Cocke marriage. Her mother was Cannon's first
wife, Sarah Mosby, daughter of Col. Llttleberry Mosby— his Netherland
marriage — sometime of Fort Hill plantation, Powhatan. The state-
ment, page 195, that Cannon's two sons of his second marriage " emi-
grated to the West," is true. He and they came to Tennessee with
Flournoy after his second wife's death. He removed to Caldwell
county, Ky., about 1S20, and soon died ; is buried in a rural burying
ground on the "Catlett" or "Bennett" place — an unmarked grave-
C. C. Cannon, of Rush, and W. W. Cannon, of Bridgeport, Texas, de-
scend from his son John J. William was his other son.
The Buckingham records were destroyed by fire. Silas Flournoy
may have sojourned there before gomg " west." The records in the
office of Register of Deeds of Davidson county at Nashville, Tenn.,
show that on March 4, 1S07, Williams conveyed to him as Silas Flour-
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noy of " Buckingham County, Va.," sggjz acres, south side of the
Cumberland, near the mouth of Stone's River fur 53.07I-56, Deed-
Book "G," page 328.
May 26, iSio, he was still " of Davidson County," Deed-Book " I,"
page 18, as he was on May 20, 1S17, when he sold his first purchase to
Sims for $9,000 cash, Deed-Book " L," page 235, and on Aug't 13, 1817,
he was of the " county of Giles (this), State of Tennessee." Deed- Book
" H," page 292, Nashville. Deed-Book " E," pages 72-75 at Pulaski,
show purchase in 181S-1S19, and a plateau, " Locust Hill." 2 miles N. E.
of Pulaski, now on the Cornersville Pike— desiring the elevation
because of an asthmatic disease that caused him to sell his bottom-
lands on Cumberland River. In politics he was an ardent "Jackson
man" — lived close to the Hermitage; and in religion an Episcopalian
as, may be said generally speaking, is his line. It is not supposed he
made a will (our will-books were destroyed by the Civil War), Deed-
Book " E " shows many gifts to his children during his last months, of
negroes, personalty, etc. He died May iS, 1822. and is b'lried there
with several of his family. He lost his wife in Davidson county, and
she is buried on that farm.
Silas Flournoy's children were: (i) Eliza, born Nov. iS, 1794. married
Alfred M. Harris, of the Pulaski Bar, who was the first judge of this
(then 6thj Circuit when the same was created in 1817. She died Ap'i
16, 1829. Judge Harris died Feb'y 21, 1S28, and of their 3 children
Martha m. Jerome Pillow, died childless ; Alfred H , married Martha
Jones, killed— childless — at Shreveport, La.; Eliza went to Shreveport,
La., with her uncle, married there Watson, and left children.
12) AlfreJ married Miss Martha Moore, who died childless in 1834,
at Pulaski ; married 2d, Mrs. Maria Ward Yerger, born Camp, daughter
of Dr. John Hamlin Camp, of Giles county, Speaker of the Tennessee
House of Representatives, 1827, died 1829. Removed to Caddo Par-
ish, N. W. La., about 183 — , died there 1S73. His children
Martha, married McCrane; Rachel Jackson, married Wilson; Alonzo,
married Mary Patteson ; William, married Bettie Armstrong, James,
married Helena Sibley; Alfred, married Theo. Jones; David killed,
as a youth, by a horse ; Charles, married ; Mary Camp, married
Sibley; Pattie, married Suratt. He served in the War of 1812 as 3d
Lieutenant 44th Regiment Infantry, U. S. A., Col. G. T. Ross, from
November 2d, 1814, to May 17th, 1815. He joined this regiment in
Louisiana, having left home as an aide to his tather's neighbor and
friend. General Andrew Jackson. He lost a leg at Pensacola, and after-
wards studied medicine. The P. O. of " Flournoy," Caddo Parish,
La , is named for him.
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328 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Necrology of Virginia Historical Society, 1894.
Robert Charles Winthrop was born in Boston, May 12th. 1809,
a year famous for the birth of Lincoln, Holmes and Gladstone. Hered-
ity, as a potential influence over individuals, may not be so readily
recognized as over races and nations. Mr. Winthrop vvas the si.xth in
descent from John Winthrop, the first Governor of the Massachusetts
Colony. John Winthrop, Jr., and Fitz John Winthrop, his son, of the
same family, were Colonial Governors of Connecticut. Thomas Lin-
dall Winthrop, the father of the subject of this sketch, among other
positions of honor, was Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts from
1S26 to 1832. The grandmother of .Mr. Winthrop was the daughter of
Sir John Temple and the granddaughter of James Bowdoin. a Revolu-
tionary patriot, and the second Governor of the Commonwealth.
From such an honored ancestry came Robert C, who was distinguished,
during life, by his intense loyalty to his native State, and his devotion
to her honor and welfare. After leaving the Boston Latin School he
entered Harvard College, and was graduated at the age of nineteen as
one of the three highest in scholarship. The college of which he was
for many years an overseer, conferred on him the degree of LL.D., an
honor also awarded by Bowdoin College and Cambridge University in
England. After graduation, he read law in the office of Daniel Web-
ster, was admitted to the bar, but never practiced his profession.
Equipped with the best academic and collegiate training, endowed
with rare social advantages, stimulated by descent from a noble stock,
he soon entered politics and became an ardent advocate of the meas-
ures and principles and a trusted leader of the old historic Whig party.
In that organization, at that day, were jurists, statesmen and writers
of preeminent intelligence ^nd patriotism. In the Legislature, to
which he vvas elected when a young man, by tongue and pen he took
such prominence, that he was chosen three times as Speaker of the
House. In 1S40, from the city of Boston, then, as now, distinguished
for wealth, progressive enterprise, culture and scholarship, he was
chosen as Representative in Congress, and in the discussions on ail
the great questions which divided parties and invited legislation, he
participated with remarkable sagacity and ability. In 1S47 he was
elected .Speaker. There have been a large number of able men with
peculiar fitness called to the Speakership, but no one of these was
superior to Mr. Winthrop. He was noted for his urbanity, courtesy,
firmness, impartiality, knowledge of parliamentary law, and for up-
holding the rights and prerogatives of the House as the special guard-
ian of the liberties of the people.
When Mr. Webster became Secretary of State, that staunch old
patriot, Governor Briggs, appointed Mr. Winthrop United States Sena-
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tor. By a coalition of Free SoilL-rs and Democrats, the Whigs were
thrown into a minority, and Charles Sumner, in 1851, became the
Senator from Massachusetts. .Mr. Winthrop then withdrew from pub-
lic life and refused thereafter to be a candidate for, or to accept, any
political ofiice. In all his connection with questions of gravest im-
port he had decided convictions, never compromised with wrong,
never took a position hostile to tiie union or good government, or
deviated a hair's breadth from the line of strictest personal purity or
political integrity. He said and did nothing to be apologized for, re-
tracted or expunged. During the war between the States, he gave a
consistent and cordial support to the Government of the Union, but in
1864 he warmly supported General .McClellan for the Presidency, and
subsequently in national elections voted with the Democratic party.
Separation from politics opened to him a wider career of usfulness,
and in private life he gave abundant proof of what virtues and
attainments can accomplish for the public good. His beneficent
influence can hardlv be equaled, and his was a noble e.xample of the
service a private citizen can render to his country. When engaged in
national matters he never lost interest in other things. When no
longer embarrassed by public duties, he gave his growing powers to
the carrying out of schemes for the development of a nobler civiliza-
tion. There was no e.xaltation of a single idea, no absorption in one
enterprise, but he was many-sided in his sympathies and attainments,
and his name became synonymous with broad charity, high and noble
aims, purposes and desires.
For many years he presided over theAIassauchusetts Historical
Society ana was one of its most valuable contributors. He was
elected an honorary member of the Virginia Historical Society, read
its papers and proceedings with care and attention, and preserved an
undiminished interest in its succesj. A favorite theme for letter and
conversation was the sustaining efforts of Massachusetts and Virginia
in making the Revolution a success, and binding the States into a per-
manent constitutional Union. P'or several years, he and Mr. Hugh
Blair Grigsby interchanged letters on every 4th of July to keep fresh
the memory of the union of the ancient Commonwealths, and when
Mr. Grigsby died, the honor of the correspondence was transferred to
another member of our Historical Society. Mr. Winthrop was one of
the earliest promoters of a public library in Boston, and made the
first gift of books. He was a friend of universal education, and was
deeply interested in fitting the suddenly-emancipated negroes for the
duties and rights of the citizenship, so prematurely thrust upon them.
In the great gift to the South, matured and revealed under his roof, Mr.
Peabody consulted him and wrote of him as his valued friend to whom
he was so much indebted for cordial sympathy, careful consideration
and wise counsel, and appointed him chairman of the board of eminent
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men who were selected to organize and administer the munificent
trust. Perhaps, alter his Church, no object commanded more of Mr.
VV'inthrop's thought and personal labor than the work of the Peabody
Education Fund, of which he was the guiding spirit. The General
Agents had his unceasing sympathy and counsel, and nothing pleased
him more than to be fully acquainted with the minutest matters, and to
be assured of the hearty co-operation of the South in executing the
far-reaching purposes of the benefaction.
No man attained, in the United States, such a reputation as a speaker
on great national occasions. Massachusetts, other States, and the
United States commanded his unsurpassed powers. Celebrations like
the centennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and of
the Battle of Vorktown, unveiling of statures, laying corner stones, and
dedicating monuments, on completion, like the Washington Monument,
and numerous other occasions called forth one hundred and twenty
addresses. These are not dry recitals of chronological and historical
data, but they are enlivened by a clear analysis of the underlying
causes of great events, graphic portraitures of the principal actors,
enriched by a wealth of apposite illustration and graceful fancy, and
irradiated by a style of perfect English. His intimate acquaintance
with men of highest distinction of the Old and the New World, in
church, in politics, m literature, in science, in discovery, his thoughtful
and generous and refined hospitality, his marvellous memory, his full
familiarity with literature and history, his genial companionship and
largeheartedness, made conversation and address the vehicle of the
most varied, useful and attractive information. Besides political
speeches, literary addresses, reminiscences incorporated in his intro-
ductory remarks before the Historical Society and the Peabody Trus-
tees, and orations which will remain classics in American Literature
and History, he wrote several memoirs, and published the Life and
Letters of John Winthrop.
Few men have lived in this country who can be cherished more
proudly, as fitting representative of our institutions, as connecting
more honorably the present with the better days of our Republic, as
furnishing a more stimulating model for youth, or a loftier character
for perpetual inspiration. Knowing him in unreserved intimacy, enjoy-
ing his trustful confidence, having received from his graceful pen more
than a hundred letters, I never heard or read a word from him, which
was not in harmony with the purest and most exalted patriotism and
Christianity. To have had his companionship was a benediction ; to
have had his affection was an unspeakable privilege, an unending
inspiration to a nobler life.
J. L. ^L CURRV."
•This discriminating sketch of Mr. Winthrop's life and character was prepared by
Dr. Curry at our request — Ed.
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NECROLOGY. ' 331
John Pl-rcell, of Richmond, Va.. was the son of Charles Purcell,
of the city of Limerick, Ireland, who, having- inherited property in
Richmond, by the death of his uncle of the same name, settled there
in iSi6. dying eight years afterwards. Mr. John Purcell was born in the
latter city, May 31st, tSij. He was educated in the schools of Burke
and Rennolds, so well known in Richmond at that day, and at the age
of fifteen, entered the drug store of Mr. Thompkins. While engaged
here, he attracted the attention of Mr. Alexander Duval, the leading
wholesale druggist of the time. In 1S40, although a very young man,
he was offered an interest in Mr. Duval's business, the firm being
Duval & F'nrcell. After some seven or eight years, he left Mr. Duval,
and formed the partnership of Purcell, Ladd & Co., of which he was
the head until his death.
He married, in 1S43. -"^li^s Martha Webb, of Norfolk, \'a., whose
father was Commodore Thomas Tarlton Webb, of the county of New
Kent, and a distinguished officer of the United States Navy. At the
breaking out of the late war, he entered mobt heartily into the cause of
the South, and devoted his means and talents to its advancement.
He went to Louisville, Ky., foreseeing the needs of the South for med-
icine, and, through his acquaintance with chemists, procured, on his
own account, over ^loo, 000 worth of medical supplies, which he turned
over to the Confederate Government without profit to himself. He
also equipped the battery of artillery which bore his name during the
war. The affection and esteem shown him by the survivors of this bat-
tery attest the service he rendered them. He served also as a member
of the Ambulance Corps, composed of gentlemen of Richmond, who,
out of thei. own means, maintained, and by their own work, succored
so many sick and wounded soldiers.
He was one of the first members of the Chamber of Commerce, an
originator of the Liverpool & Richmond Packet Co., which built at
Richmond the fine packet ships for direct trade between that port and
England, and was one of the projectors of the Virginia Steamship Co.
between New York and Richmond. He took great interest in railroad
development, and was a director and vice president of the Richmond
& York River R. R. Co., and also of the Richmond & Mecklenburg R.
R. Co., and was largely interested in and greatly promoted the build-
ing of the Virginia & Tennessee R. R.
Mr. Purcell was, essentially, a merchant of the old school, and took
keen delight in the advancement of commercial dignity and probity.
His labors were mainly directed in this channel. If any of his virtues
stood out more prominently than another, it was his high sense of jus-
tice. He had broad and liberal views in all things, and, while firm and
courageous in maintaining his own, he was equally tolerant of the
views of others. Mr. Purcell died June 29, 1894.
Rev. Henry Carrington Alexander, D.D., was born of Virginian
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parents in Princeton, N. J., on the 27th day of Sept., 1S35, and died in the
city of New York June 25th, 1S94, in the fifty-ninth year of his agti.
He was the son of the Rev. Dr. James \V. Alexander, at one time pas-
tor of Village Church, at Charlotte C. H., Virginia, afterwards Professor
of Belles Lettres in Princeton College; then pastor of the Duane
Street Church, New York ; then Professor of Church History and
Polity in Princeton Seminary; then pastor of the Fifth Avenue Pres-
byterian Church, New \ork, in which position he died. His mother
was a daughter of Dr. George Cabell, of Richmond, and a niece of
Judge and Governor William Cabell of the same city, and of Mr.
Joseph C. Cabell, the friend of Thomas Jefferson and his co-laborer in
founding the University of Virginia, and of the distinguished Dr. James
L. Cabell, for fifty years ProJessor in the Medical Department of the
University of Virginia. His grandfather was the Rev. Dr. Archibald
Alexander, the theologian and author, who was at one time President
of Hampden Sidney College, afterwards pastor in the city of Philadel-
phia, and one of the two founders of Princeton Theological Seminary,
where the great work of his life was done. His grandmother, .Mrs.
Archibald Alexander, was the daughter of Rev. James Waddell, widely
known as the blind preacher, whose eloquence has been described in
The British Spy by William Wirt. His paternal grandparents were
both of Scotch-Irish extraction, whose ancestors emigrated first to
Pennsylvania and then to Rockbridge county, Va.
Young Alexander graduated from Princeton College in the class of
1S54, in the nineteenth year of his age, and from Princeton Seminary
in 1858. Having been licensed by the Presbytery of New York, he
he s, ent a year in that city doing missionary work, and in 1S59 took
charge of Village Church, Charlotte, C H., where both his father and
grandfather had labored betbre him. Here he was ordained and in-
stalled as pastor in 1861. He continued in this relation until January.
1870, when, having been elected Professor of Biblical Literature and
New Testament Interpretation in Union Theological Seminary, Vir-
ginia, he entered on this chair, which he filled until his peremptory
resignation in 1891. He then took charge of the churches of Oakland,
Md., and Terra Alta, West Virginia, where he continued to labor until
his death. Dr. Alexander was a man of great learning, of the kindliest
sympathies and of charming manners.
WiLLiA.M Cecil D.abnev, M. D., late Professor of the Practice of
Medicine and Obstetrics in the University of Virginia, was born at
Dunlora, Albemarle county, Virginia, July 4, 1849. His early education
was received at home t'ro.m private tutors. He entered the University
of Virginia in 1S66, and pursued the study of medicine for two years,
graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1S6S. His first
service was as resident physician in a hospital in Eialtimore for a year,
la 1869 he married Miss Jane Belle Minor, daughter of .Mr. William W.
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Minor, of Albemarle county, and soon afterwards entered upon the
practice of his profession at Big Lick, now Roanoke, Virginia, where
he remained about twelve months. On account of his health, he then
returned to Albemarle county and engaged in farming for over two
years, when he resumed the practice of medicine in Charlottesville.
His first medical essay, which brought him more prominently before
the public, was on " The Value of Chemistry to the Medical Practi-
tioner," a small book, for which he received the Boylston prize from
Harvard Univeisity in 1S73. This was the first of a long series of
essays on medical subjects published in various journals of this country,
which made him widely known. In 1S78, for the restoration of his
health, he spent some time in foreign travel, making a voyage to Japan,
and on his return resided several months in San Diego, California.
This voyage and residence apparently stayed the progress of the pul-
monary trouble from which he suffered. When the Medical examining
Board of Virginia was organized in 1885, he was appointed its first
President. He had actively interested himself in the organization of
this Board for the regulation of the practice of medicine in the State.
In 1S86 he was chosen Professor of the Practice of Medicine and Ob-
stetrics in the University of Virginia, which chair he filled with great
credit to himself and with signal benefit to the University He was a
prominent member of the Medical Society of Virginia, of the American
I\Iedical Association, and of the Association of American Physicians.
Dr. Dabney was an indefatigable student of his profession, and his
contributions to medical journals were numerous. Besides some forty
or fifty original articles, he made over one hundred translations from
the French and German. In a brief sketch of his life, it is impossible
to give the titles of his various writings, but he was a contributor to
the American Journal of Medical Sciences, the Medical News, Phila-
delphia, the Medical Journals of Virgmia, North Carolina, and New
York, the New York Medical Record, and the Transactions of the
Medical Societies of Virginia and North Carolina, and of the American
Medical Association. A notable article maybe mentioned, the chapter
on "Maternal Impressions," contributed to Keating's " Cyclopedia of
the Diseases of Children," Vol. I., 1SS9. He was the author of "An
Abstract of a Course of Lectures on the Practice of Medicine,"' used
in his University lectures, and of a Syllabus of Lectures on Obstetrics,
and one on Medical Jurisprudence. He wrote also a pamphlet on
" The Physiological Action and Therapeutic Uses of the Water of the
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia," published originally
in Gaillard's Medical Journal for April, 1890. Dr. Dabney died Aug.
20, 1894. During the last five years of his life he was the resident phy-
sician at the White Sulphur Springs every summer.*
*\Ve are indebted for the particulars in this sketch of Dr. Dabney's life, to the minute
entered upon the records of the University of Virginia at the time of Dr. Dabney's
death.
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334 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. *'"*''
James Woodhouse was born in Princess Anne county, Va., in 1S14,
and on the death of his parents, which occurred while he was quite
young, was employed in a book store in Norfolk, where he remained
several years. About the year 1S40. he went to Petersburg, and there
formed a partnership with E. P. Nash, then, and for many years after-
wards, a prominent and successful bookseller of that city.
In 1844 they established a branch house in Richmond, under the
name of Xash and Woodhouse, Mr. Woodhouse being the resident
partner, which continued until Mr. Nash retired in 1856, when he be-
came sole owner, and this continued until 185S, when B. M. Parham,
who had been in his employment since 1S51, was admitted as partner.
The business was conducted under the name of James Woodhouse &
Co., until 1S65, when it was changed to Woodhouse & Parham, and so
remained until 1SS2, when Mr. Woodhouse retired, and a new partner-
ship was formed.
In 1840 Mr. Woodhouse was married to Miss Susan G. Harward, of
Norfolk, who lived only a few years. While actively engaged in a
congenial calling for si.xty-five years, ard absorbed in i^s duties, he yet
found time to cultivate his taste for reading, and was well informed in
general literature, and especially familiar with the liistory of Virginia.
Mr. Woodhouse was a man of gentle manners, but of great firmness of
character. He died June 23d, 1894, in his eightieth year.
WiLLiA.M Tell Chase, of Chases' Wharf, Va., was sprung from
New England stock, being a son of Peter Chase and Ann Hazard
Bushvion, of Newport, R. I., who, in 1825, settled at Carter's Creek,
Lancaster county, Va. Mr. Chase was born August 19th, 1S32. He
was educated at a private school, and for several years after leaving
school he was occupied in teaching. For many years he was engaged
in mercantile life, having a large store on the estate where he resided.
Mr. Chase married, December 15th, 1S59. Miss Rebecca Virginia Sea-
bury, daughter of Captain Francis and Rebecca Allan Seabury, of
Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Chase dying in 1S71, Mr. Chase married Miss
Fannie Lee Becker, of Washington county, Md. Mr. Chase entered
the Confederate Army on April, 1861, as First Lieutenant of the 40th
Virginia Regiment, and was elected Captain of his company in the
spring of 1862. He was wounded at Gaines' Mill and also at Gettys-
burg. He was retired in 1864 on account of physical disability, and
was assigned to enrolling duty for the counties of Westmoreland, Rich-
mond, Northumberland and Lancaster. Mr. Chase died of dropsy
January 14th, 1894. He was warden of Grace Church, Episcopal, of
his native county.
John Kerr Childrev was the son of Stephen Childrey and Susan
Fletcher, and was born December 23rd, 1832, in Richmond, Va. He
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was educated in the schools of Henrico county and at the Mechanics'
Institute. In 1S49 he entered the tobacco business. During the late
war he was a member of the Governor's Mounted Guard, and also
served in the Naval Department. At the close of the contest he re-
turned to the tobacco business, in which he was engaged until 188S.
He succeeded the late William Barrett, and carried on, for many years,
a large and remunerative trade. At a later period he was a partner of
A. M. Lyon & Co. He was elected to the office of City Treasurer in
1888, and filled it conscientiously and acceptably to the people until
the day of his death, March i6th, 1S94. Mr. Childrey married, in 1S57,
Miss Kate T. Lyon.
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James C. Cottrell, of Richmond, Va., was born November 4th,
1855, and was the son of Samuel S. and Rebecca Baker Cottrell. Mr.
Cottrell married Miss Georgia Little, of Norfolk, and left two children,
James L. and Marie A. Cottrell. After reaching manhood he was asso-
ciated with his lather in business. He died in Richmond, February
20th, 1S94.
Charles Gorham Barney, M. D., was the eldest son of Charles Gor-
ham and Avis Macy Barney. He was born June 24th, 1S14, in Nan-
tucket, Massachusetts, and was a lineal descendant of John Carver,
the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony, 1620. His early life was
spent in New York. About the age of eighteen he travelled exten-
sively in England and on the Continent.
After returning to New York he began the studv of medicine in that
city and graduated at a comparatively early age, and was appointed
resident physician to a large hospital on BlackwelTs Island. After-
wards he was, in turn, physician to the insane asylum and the small-
pox hospital near New York city. Owing to reverses in his father's
business, he gave up the active prosecution of his profession and en-
gaged with his father in the old established house of Barnev & Sons,
Mobile, Ala.
In 1S50 he married, in the city of Richmond, Va.. Miss Mary Walker,
daughter of David and Amanda Walker. They made their home in
Mobile, but five years after marriage returned to Richmond, where
they resided permanently.
During the war Dr. Barney was an active and faithful member of the
Ambulance Committee, and at the time of his death was one of the
few surviving members of the organization. He was actively engaged
in the insurance business for many years, and was employed in his
work up to the very time of his death. For years he was a vestryman
in Holy Trinity (Moore Memorial! Protestant Episcopal Church. Dr.
Barney died September 15th, 1894.
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Mark Downey was born at Bear Haven, Ireland, December i6th,
iSi6, and died in Richmond. Va., May 20th, 1S94. Mr. Downey first
resided in New York after coming to this country, but in the winter of
1S39-40 removed to Riclimond, where he engaged in the feed and gro-
cery business, in which he accumulated a large fortune, a very consid-
erable part of which at his death he distributed among charitable
institutions.
Francis Howe McGuire was born in Mecklenburg county, Vir-
ginia, on the 4th of June, 1S50, and died October 30th, 1S94. His
father was Rev. Francis H. McGuire, the youngest of the three sons of
Colonel William McGuire, of Winchester, all of whom were ministers
in the Protestant Episcopal Church. His mother was Mary Willing
Harrison, daughter of Benjamin Harrison, of Berkeley, grandson of
Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence. His
grandfather, William McGuire, entered the army of the Revolution at
thirteen, was disabled at Eutaw Springs at eighteen years of age, being
then a lieutenant of artillery. Subsequently he was a member of the
Virginia Legislature and the first Chief-Justice of the Mississippi
Territory.
His father's death and the financial ruin produced by the late war
left Mr. McGuire to complete his education as he could. He was able
to finish his academic and professional courses at Randolph-Macon
College and the University of Virginia, by teaching in the intervals
between the periods of study, displaying as a boy that unflinching self-
denial, that untiring energy and perseverence which distinguished him
as a man.
He came to the bar in Richmond in 1S75, encountering, in the begin-
ning, the delays and disappointments that ordinarily beset the young
practitioner. With rare manliness, concealing all trials from those who
knew him best, he bore everything with unwavering resolution and
with a singular devotion to the high principles of his profession. In
due time he was recognized by his asssociates at the bar, and by the
community in general, as a man destined to exhibit, in his own person,
the highest type of the learned and honorable lawyer.
He died at forty-four, having been at the bar in Richmond nineteen
years. No lawyer in recent years has, in so short a period, won a more
honorable position, as shown by the extraordinary tribute paid to his
memory by the Bar Association of Richmond at the time of his death.
Had he lived the very highest honors of his profession would have
sought him. Already he had frequently been urged to accept judicial
office, which his conception of duty compelled him to decline.
Mr. McGuire not only kept his own escutcheon clean, but he was
jealous for his brethren. In order that the ranks of the profession in
his own State might contain no unworthy member, he proposed and
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prosecuted the organization of the Bar Association of Virginia. His
brother lawyers testify that this now flourishing and influential body
owes its existence to his foresight, energy, persuasive tact, and rare
executive ability.
The estimate in which he was held by the community in general is
shown by his position in the Howitzer Association, the Chamber of
Commerce, the Society of the Alumni of the University of Virginia,
the Virginia State Insurance Co., the Board of the Male Orphan Asy-
lum, the Incorporators of the P. E. Church Home, the Directors of
Peterkin Memorial Association, as Treasurer of the Church Fund of
the Diocese, and in the Historical Society of Virginia.
On the 5th of November, iSS6. Mr. McGuire married Miss Helen
Nolting, daughter of the late Mr. E. O. Nolting, an honored citizen of
Richmond and valued member of this Society. His wife and one daugh-
ter survive him ; a brother in Halifax county and a brother and sister
in Clarke are also living.
For years Mr. McGuire was a prominent member of the vestry of
St. James' Church in Richmond, rendering the most conspicuous ser-
vice, always modest, yet always ready with wise suggestion when
called, and abundant in most effective labors in pursuance of plans
devised for the advancement of the cause; highly esteemed. in the
general Council of the Diocese where he was repeatedly sent as her
selected delegate ; a faithful teacher in her Sunday-school, seeking the
g:ood of his class not only on the Sabbath but on other days as well;
a most valuable officer in her Brotherhood of St. Andrew :— he was
busy in every department of church work in which a layman could be
employed.
[Note— At the time the Magazine went to press we had been unable
to obtain perfectly accurate details as to the life of Dr. William Henry
Shield. A sketch of him will appear in the April number. Ed.]
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333 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Historical Notes and Queries.
Note. — In the notice of the Harris Genealogy, Vol. I, page 359. it
should have been stated that the pamphlet was prepared at the instance
of Mrs. Anna Harris O'Fallon, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Van Voast.
Erratum. — In the present number of the Magazine, the parenthesis
on page 304, beginning with the word "From," should end with the
word " success."
In Vol. I, page 424, the name of the wife of Col. John West, Jr.,
should be Unity instead of Ursula Croshaw.
An Act to Incorporate the Virginia Historical and
Philosophical Society.
■\Ve publish by request the Act of Incorporation of the Virginia His-
torical Society which, as will be seen, was incorporated as the Historical
and Philosophical Society. It was passed March 10, 1834:
" Whereas, sundry citizens of this Commonwealth have formed them-
selves into a society by the name and title of the " Virginia Historical
and Philosophical Society," the objects of which, as declared in the
second Article of the Constitution adopted by the said Society, are to
discover, procure and preserve whatever may relate to the natural,
civil and literary history of this State, and to patronize and advance all
those sciences which have a direct tendency to promote the best inter-
ests of our citizens; and whereas, it is represented to the General
Assembly that the members of the said Society are desirous of obtam-
ing a charter of incorporation —
1. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That the mem-
bers of the aforesaid Society, together with such others as they shall
hereafter associate with them, and their successors, are hereby consti-
tuted, ordained and created a body corporate, and politic, by the name
of '"The Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society," and
by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be, and are
hereby made able and capable in law as a body corporate, to have,
hold, and enjov goods, chattels, lands and tenements, and the same at
all times may dispose of in their discretion. The said Society may
have a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded;
and may do, act and transact all matters and things whatsoever, proper
for bodies corporate to do, act and transact ; and may establish and
enact such a constitution and such by-laws, rules and regulations as
shall be deemed necessary and expedient, and which shall not be re-
pugnant to the laws of this State, or of the United States.
2, Be it further enacted. That the said corporation be further author-
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ized and empowered to elect and qualify such officers as may by them
be deemed necessary to be chosen at such time, and to hold their offi-
ces for such period as the constitution of said corporation shall pre-
scribe; and to appoint and hold such meetings as shall bethought
proper.
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
session 1833-4, chapter 201, page 253.
Letter of John Bexger, 1762, in Regard to the Bravne Estate
IN England.
The following letter relating to English property belonging to Mrs.
Governor Spotswood and her sister. Mrs. Benger, is published through
the courtesy of a descendant in Richmond, who has a copy of the
original. It is not known whether any of the estates was ever re-
covered: ■ • ■
"Virginia, Sept. 8th, 1762.
"Capt. William Fox:
Sir,— Herewith you'l receive a letter of Attorney to Capt. William
Johnston and yourself jointly & severally, by which you are empowered
and hereby desired to make enquiry in the first place after the follow-
ing lands & estate lying in Sheire m the County of Sussex— viz— 2
meadows containing - acres lying between Gumshal! Marsh on the
North & the highway leading from Hoe to Gumshall Hill on the East,
and the way leading from Tower Hill to Sheire on the South. A Close
called the Gravel close containing 2 acres lying near the Gravil pitts, 2
closes containing 4 acres lying together in Gumshall common field. A
parcel of land, called the longlands, containing 5 acres, lying in the
same fields. A close containing 7 acres, lying at Dyehill. A close
called the new close, containing 3 acres. A meadow containing 3
acres, lying in Gumshall, adjoining Gumshall Marsh on the South. A
close containing 2'2 acres called the Downside. A close containing i
acre called the C/ay Croff, lying in Frannasco croft. A close contain-
ing 2 acres, called the Hally croft. 5/< acres lying in Gumshall fields,
heretofore enclosed, ii'i acres of land lying in Gumshall, purchased
of John Chennell. A honse, orchard & garden, lying in Gumshall, &c.
One-half an acre of meadow thereto adjoining. A close of Pasture,
containing 2 acres, lying on the east of the highway from Gumshall to
Hoe. 2)2 acres of land lying in Gumshall fields. A House, tan yard,
orchard. Garden, & i;;' acres of land thereto belonging lying in Gum-
shall in Franncisco Croft. A parcel of land called Houghton, pur-
chased of John Yatton. A medow called Mill Jfead, adjoining the
Mill, containing 3 acres. The common field, containing 7 acres, lying
near the foot way going to Shire Church, near to the land, lately
Thomas Gallons'. 3 acres land lying in Sheire, between the lands of
Mr. Rich'd Evelyn, East & West.
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340 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
You will please to observe, these several lands, &r., were settled by
Deed bearing date, 29th April, 1691, by Anne Bignold, Rich'd Brayne,*
and Anne, his wife (subject to a mortgage for /"soo) upon Anne Big-
nold, for life— remainder to Brayne, and his wile, and to the heirs ot
body. The mortgage is, I suppose, long since paid off. Mrs. Bignold,
Brayne and his wife, are all dead, and Mrs. Brayne's issue was 4 daugh-
ters, named Anne, Diana, Dorothy & Butler. Dorothy, intermarried
with Elliott Benger, Gent., and with her husband is since dead and
I am her son & heir. Butler intermarried with Major Gen'l Spolswood,
whom she survived, and afterwards married John Thompson (Cl'k)
who survived her. She is dead, and Alexander Spotswood, an Infant
is her Grandson and heir. He is now in England. Anne & Diana,
the other 2 daughters, remained in England, never married. They re-
ceived the Rents of this Estate, and regularly remitted to their sisters
m in Virginia, their parts of it, until 4 or 5 years ago, since which I have
"-"^ * Butler Brayne married, as stated in the letter, first, Governor Spots-
^•'' wood, and, secondiv, Rev. John Thompson. Her sister, Dorothea
*;« Brayne (the "Miss Thecky"of Byrd's Trip to the Mines), married
<^-' Elliott^ Benger (probably the same who was at one time deputy post-
master-general for North America), and had issue: I. John^ II. Anne^
John' Benger married Elizabeth Johnston, and had issue: I. Anne^;
II. Dorothea Brayne.^
Anne^ Benger married Dr. George French, and had issue: I. James*,
married Miss Chew and had no issue; II. William.*
William* French married Miss Barton, and had issue: I. Robert^
died in the West Indies; II. John^, unmarried in 1836; III. George^
married, first, Miss Barron, daughter of Commodore Earron, and, sec-
ondly. Miss Lively, of Hampton; IV. Ann= married Thomas R. Rootes, (
of Gloucester county; V. Mary^ married John Mortimer; VI. Eliza- i
beth*, married Robert S. Chew.
Dorothea Brayne' Benger married, first, Colonel William McWilliams
(and had a daughter, Elizabeth*, married Garrett Minor, of Louisa
county), and, secondly, George Buckner, of " Braynfield," Caroline
county.
Anne- Benger married, first, Robert Brooke, and, secondly, Richard
Hipkins.
Robert and Anne^ (Benger) Brooke had one son, John^ Brooke, who
married Miss Thornton, and had issue: I. William*, married Miss Bay-
lor; II. Anne*, married Richard Baylor (his second wife), who was the
father of her brother's wife.
Richard and AnneM Benger) had issue: I. Robert', married, first.
Miss Butler, of "Bleak Hill," Westmoreland, and had no issue; sec-
ondly, Miss Ball, and had six children ; II. William^ married Miss Mar-
tin and had two children ; III. Thomas, died unmarried.
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NOTES AXD QUERIES. 341
not heard from them, nor any part of the rents, and am apt to beUeve
they have stopped payment on account of a dispute, whether Mr.
Thompson, or young Mr. Spotswood, is entitled to my Aunt Butler's
part. You'll please therefore to enquire tor these two ladies, who lived
in Shelton (or Shalton) grounds Westminster, and if they or either of
them be living they will be kind enough to give you full information,
not only to this estate (but as to that hereafter mentioned), and will
pay you the arrears of rent due to me, if in their hands, or if not, will
direct you where you may come at it. You will observe, that if one of
my Aunts is dead, my right is then encreased to one-third, and if both
are dead, to a moitie. But if both are dead you must enquire in whose
hands the arrears of rent are, and proceed accordingly. Be pleased
also to view the several Tenements, enquire the present names of them,
of the present tenants and what rents they severall pay, of which make
memorandum.
You will further observe that Thomas Courtaman, of Strand on the
Green, Parish of Chiswick in the county of Middlesex, Distiller by his
Will, of which you have a copy, dated May 2nd, 1745, devises to trus-
tees—His moiety of the Manor of Farme or Feme, and all his Farm,
called Farme or Feme lands, and all his freehold lands thereto belong-
ing, commonly called Vinehall or Vinal. Also his lands called Bor-
ders, Winders, or Boyan Dunks little Farm in the Parrish of Wash-
ington (illegible line, paper torn) the North field and the Windmill field
therewith let,— all which where in the County of Sussex. And all his
other freehold and copyhold lands in the County of Susse.x.
In Trust for the use of his cousins Diana & Anna Brayne (before
mentioned) and to the survivor for life, and at the death of the survivor
to Dorothy (my mother) and the heirs of her body, (the remaining Es-
tate for life to Thomas Masters being revoked by the codicil) subject to
three annuities of /"lo each, payable to Elizabeth Clements, Thomas
Masters and Elizabeth Masters for life.
He charges his estate, called "Johns Cross" with the payment of all
his debts and legacies, and directed his trustees to sell or mortgage
that estate, for that purpose, and directed that the surplus of the
money, arising by the sale or mortgage should be laid out in Stocks,
Lands, Houses, or other securities, which arise, to go to the same uses.
Now if my aunts, or either of them be living — as in that case, I have
no present right to this estate — you have nothing to do with it, but re-
quest them to inform you whether the estate called Johns Cross was
sold or mortgage. What sum remained after paying the debts and
legacies and in what security the same was laid out, that I may the
more readily come at my right at their deaths. As my Aunts have also
the original Title Deeds for these Estates, in their possession, which
may be perloyned or Kept from me. in case of their deaths, they would
much oblige me and not hurt themselves, if they would consent to
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lodge these deeds, in the hands of some faithful third person, to be
chosen by them and you. who may keep them during their lives, and
then deliver them to me. Or if that is disagreeable, that you may take
copies of these deeds to be properly attested. I would also if they are
alive, substitute some person there, to take possession of the estate for
me, at their deaths, which may prevent intrusion.
But if my Aunts are both dead, you will please get all the necessary
papers gc upon the land*^, and get the tenants to attorn, or become ten-
ants to me, take an account of rents and if any arrears that I am
entitled, to receive them. If my Aunts are dead enquire if they died
with or without wills and whether any thing is coming to me or my sis-
ters, and in whose hands it is. If any thing, not here particularly men-
tioned, should occur, in which you can be serviceable to me, you are
fully empowered, and hereby desired to transact it in the best manner,
for Sir your obt
Servant ■ .>.'■'"'
John Benger.
Archives Relating to the War of the Re\olution.
The Sons of the Revolution of the State of California have issued
the following address to Congress, which omitting the one word
"Rebellion"' as historically incorrect, and substituting for it "War
between the States," we heartily unite in:
"To the Honorable the Senators and Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress Assembled :
" Your petitioners respectfully represent that the unpublished archives
of the United States government, relating to the War of the Revolu-
tion, have never been assembled into one collection, but they are now-
distributed throughout the several Public Departments and, owing to
past neglect and present lack of proper care, many valuable documents
have been mutilated and destroyed, ?nd those remaining are rapidly
becoming illegible.
" Never before, in the liistory of the Nation has there prevailed so
universal and eager a desire to know the contents of these records,
which contain information not elsewhere to be found, but which, in
their present condition, are of no practical use to the country.
"The necessity for absolute accuracy in the history of that heroic
struggle for freedom, as well as justice to those who, in what capacity
soever gave their ail for the cause of liberty, require that the story of
their sacrifices and their patriotism, shall no longer be kept among the
inaccessible Archives of the government, but that it shall become the
official basis for a history of that period, more complete than has yet
been written.
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343
"Wherefore your Petitioners pray that laws may be passed by Con-
gress, which will provide for the publication of all the Archives of the
government relating to the War of the Revolution, in a manner similar
to that of the Official Records of the War of ihe Rebellion; that
measures be adopted for including in such publication transcripts
from the records of the original Thirteen States relating particularly to
Muster Rolls of Officers, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines not embraced
in the government collection, and also for the gathering of such his-
torical matter now contained in the various libraries of the country as
may be necessary for this purpose.
"Given from the Hall of our Society, in the City of Los Angeles,
this third day of September, 1S94,
"THE SOCIETY,
[SEAL.] ■. , " Sofis of the Revolution,
., ' • " In the State of California.
"By HoLDRiDGE O. Collins, P.esident.
"Attest :
"Arthur B. Benton, Secretary." ■..,.•
...w The Will of Thomas Marshall.
The following, contributed by Mr. A. C. Ouisenberry, of Washington,
D. C. , is a copy of the will of Thomas Marshall, the great-grandiather
of Chief Justice John Marshall, viz :
In the name of God, amen. I, Thomas Marshall, of the county of
Westmoreland, of Washington parish, carpenter, being very weak, but
of perfect memory, thanks be to God for it, doth ordain this as my last
will and testament, in manner and .'orm following: first I give and be-
queath my soule mto the hands of my blessed Creator and redeemer,
hoping through merritts of my blessed Savior to receive full pardon
and remission of all my sins, and my body to the Earth to be decently
buryed, according to the discretion of my executri.x, which hereafter
shall be named.
Imps., I make and ordain my well beloved wife Martha Marshall to
be my full and whole Executri.x.
Item. I will that my estate shall remain in the hands of my wife as
long as she may remain single, but in case she marries then she is to
have the lawful part, and the rest to be taken out of her hands, to be
equally divided among my children.
Item. I will that if my wife marry, that David Brown, Sen'r, and John
Brown to be guardians over my children, and to take the estate into
their hands, bringing it to appraisement, giving in good security to
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what it is valued, and to pay my children their dues as they shall con-.e
to age.
Item. I will that Elizabeth Rosser is to have a heifer delivered by
my wife, called White-belly, to be delivered as soon as I am deceast.
I will that my son William Marshall shall have my plantacion as soon
as he comes to age, to him and his heirs forever ; but in case that my
son William die before he comes to age, or die without issue, then my
plantacioii is to fall to the next heir apparent at law.
Thomas Marshall.
Teste: Edw: Taylor, John Hearford, John Taylor. '
Westmoreland, S. S. — At a court held for the said county the 31st
day of May, 1704, the last will and testament of Thomas Marshall.
within written, was proved by the oaths of John Oxford and John Tay-
lor, two of the witnesses thereto subscribed, and a Probat thereof
granted to Martha Marshall, his relict and Executrix therein named.
Teste : Ja: Westcomb, Cler: Com: Ped.
Recordat Sixto die July, 1704, per Eundum Clerum.
Note. — This Thomas Marshall was the first of his race in America,
and the fo"nder of a distinguished line of jurists, statesmen and orators.
His son, William, to whom he left his plantation, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Lewis Markham, of Westmoreland ; and their son, Thomas,
a colonel in the Revolutionary Army, was the father of the great Chief
Justice.
Extracts from Princess Anne County Records.
(Communicated by Edward W. James.)
Princess Ann : ss. — Att a Court held the 7th Decemb'r, 1704.
Present Mr. Beno. Burrough, Coll. Ed; Mosley, Mr. Solomon White,
Capt. Horatio Woodhouse, Capt. Joim Moseley, Capt. Hen : Chap-
man—Justices.
Doct. Rich'd Bollon, Compt. in Chancery Shewing John Bonney for
cureing him of the paines of the limbs for ye paym't of 600 pound of
tobacco to w'ch the respondent by his answer & oath not owning any-
thing due by that bill for that he was not in the least anything the
better for the meanes he received, it is therefore ord'red the Suite bee
dismist.
Princess Ann: ss.— -At A Court held ye 7th June, Ann Dom., 1714.
Present: Colo. Edw. Moseley, Cap'n Horatio Woodhouse, Mr. John
Richason, Cap'n John Moseley, Cap'tn Henry Chapman, Cap'n George
Hancock, Mr. Edw. Moseley, Mr. John Bolithoe.
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Ordered that Giles Collins an Orphant of Giles Collins Dec'd be
bound to ffrancis Theleball till he Come to 21 years being Eleven in
December last ye s'd tfrancis to learn him ye art or trade of a Shipp
Carpenter & to read & write & that he Carry him to ye office to have
Indentures for that purpose.
At a Court held June 1716:
Whereas Colo. Edw : .Moseley this Day presented to this Court one
John Burton Indenture Dated 11 Day of August 1-14 & then made
Oath on ye holy Evangelist of almighty God yt the S'd John was his
Indentured Serv't & Listed in ye Service of South Carolina ab't ye iSth
July ijij at w'ch time he had three Years & About three months to
Serve of his time & also that he have not received any manner Of Sat-
isfaction for ye s'd Serv't or of his time e.xpired or Yet to Expire nor ye
Servant Returned & it is ordered that ye Clerk Certifie ye Same.
Princess Ann— At a Court held ye first of .May ano : Dom : 1717.
Present: Coll: Edward Moseley, .Mr. John Cornick. Mr. John Boli-
thoe, Mr. Anthony Walke, Capt. Horatio Woodhouse, Mr. Henry Wood-
house— Justices.
Ordered that ye Sheriff Sumons George Smyth to the next Court to
answere the Complaint of his apprentice Rich'd williams & Shew ye
court reasons why he does not Teach him to read as by Indenture he
is oblig'd.
At a Court held June 5th 1717:
George Smyth being Som'd to this Court to answere ye complaint of
his apprentice Richard Williams : & upon his appearing & promising
to put ye said apprentice forthwith to Schoole & to doe his true En-
deavour to teach him his trade ye Court doe order ye s'd Rich'd home
to live with his master ye remaining part of his time as by Indenture.
An Address by Washington, 1756.
The following address by Col. George Washington to the troops
under his command, made on the declaration by England against
France, of the war which resulted in the overthrow of the power of
the latter in America, is copied from the Virginia Gazette of August
27th, 1756. The paper, of which only two copies are known to be in
existence, is now in the possession of Mr. W. G. Stanard, having been
presented to him by Mr. P. G. Miller, of Goochland, C. H:
" Extract of a Letter from Winchester, dated August ijth, i~j6.
" On Sunday Colonel IVashington having received his .Majestey's
Declaration of Wsr against the French King, with the Governor's
Commands to proclaim it in the most solemn Manner, he ordered the
three Companies of the Virginia Regiment at this Place to appear
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under Arms on the grand Parade at three o'CIock, on the Evening of
the next Day; when attended by the principal Gentlemen ot this Town,
they marched in regular Order to Fort London, where the Soldiery
being properly drawn up. the Declaration was read aloud; His Majes-
^ ley's, and many other loyal Healths were drank. Success to his Ma-
,^ jesty's Arms, and a total Extirpation of the French out of America,
p. under a triple Discharge of the Artillery, and three Rounds of Mus-
^ . quetry, with loud Acclamations of the People. After this they marched
^ in regular Order round the Town, proclaimed it at the Cross Streets,
y. and being returned to the grand Parade, it was again read, and the
;-j Men dismissed by Colonel Washington with the following Exhortation :
V 'You see. Gentlemen Soldiers, that it hath pleased our most gracious
Sovereign to declare War in Form against the French King, and (for
divers good Causes, but more particularly for their ambitious Usurpa-
tions and Encroachments on his American Dominions) to pronoi'nce
all the said French King, Subjects and Vassals, to be Enemies to his
Crown and Dignity, and hath willed and required all his Subjects and
People, and in a more especial Manner commanded his Captain Gene-
ral of his Forces, his Governors, and all other his Commanders and
Officers to do and execute all Acts of Hostility in the Prosecution of
this just and honorable War; and though our utmost Endeavours can
contribute but little to the Advancement of his Majesty's Honor, and
'" the interest of his Governments, yet let us show our willing Obedience
to the best of Kings, and by strict Attachment to his royal Commands,
demonstrate the Love and Loyalty we bear to his sacred Person ; let us
by Rules ot unerring Bravery strive to merit his royal Favor, and a
better Establishment as a Reward for our Services.'
'''Expresses were immediately dispatched by the Colonel to Fort Cum-
berland, and all our other Garrisons, with Orders to proclaim it there
at the Head of the Troops.
"On the nth Instant, as two men were going up to their Farms in
Cacapebon, they were fired upon about Sunset by an Indian lying in
Ambush, and the foremost of them shot through the Thigh, but they
happily escaped, and about eight o'clock next Day brought an account
of it to Winchester, upon which Colonel Washington immediately
ordered out a Party of brisk, active Men and Captain Lieutenant
M'Neil to the Roads contiguous to that Place, with Orders to divide his
'■ Party, and to lie in Secret upon the most suspected paths for three or
four Days, which he accordingly did, but returned without making any
further Discovery than two Hogs being shot and ripped open, but
otherwise untouched, supposed to be done about two Days before he
got there, and by some other trifling Circumstances, he imagined the
Party had made towards the Alliganys : No Mischief has been done
since."
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Capt. Colley Chew.
He was the son of Col. Thos. Chew, one of the earliest Magistrates
o( Orange county (1734) and a wealthy planter. Col. Chew was of the
Chew family which settled so early in Virginia, and afterwards moved
to Maryland, some members of it returning to Virginia. Capt. Chew's
mother was Martha Taylor, born in 1702. and of the Taylor family of
Orange Co. The names of his brothers and sisters are given by Hay-
den in his Virginia genealogies, who erroneously states that he was
killed before Fort Duquesne in 1755 ; there was no skirmish or battle
before the Fort in that year. Capt- Chew was probably killed before
the Fort in 175S, in what is known as "Grant's defeat." In that year
Gen. Forbes, an English officer, advanced with British troops and the
Virginia regiment under Washington to capture the Fort, and when
near there Major Grant, with the British Highlanders and a detachment
of the Virginia regiment. Soo strong in all, were sent ahead to recon-
noitre, and strange to say, after Braddock's experience, were ambus-
caded near the Fort, and cut to pieces. When the main body arrived
it was feared that the place was abandoned and the Fort blown up. As
no mention is made of Capt. Chew after this, it is probable that here
and then he met his fate.
In 1750 he was with Thos. Walker's party in their famous adventu-
rous trip through Kentucky; in 1757 he is named in Washington's re-
port of his regiment as an ensign, and soon after, in Washington's let-
ters, he is styled Captain Chew, and must have been promoted. He
was very brave and daring; his memory was held in reverence by his
Taylor rela'ions, for a grandson of Col. George Taylor was named for
him. I am indebted to Mr. John M. Green, of Kentucky, for much of
the above information.
A. G. Grinnan, M. D.
X QUERIES.
Bottles Belonging to the Custis Family.
Philadelphia, October 23d. 1S94.
Editor of the Virginia Magazine of History, ofc:
Sir: I understand that some years ago, when the old Custis home-
stead in Northampton county was torn down, or when the remains of
the old chimney and foundations were removed, several old black
(blown) glass rum bottles, with the letters "J C " blown on the sides,
were found. I am led to believe they were the property of old John
Custis, the inn keeper of Rotterdam.
Do you know of the e.xistence of any of these bottles on the Eastern
Shore or elsewhere t
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For any suggestions as to the best means of locating one of these
bottles I will be obliged.
Yours truly,
G. O. Callahan,
750 Bullett Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
Claypool Genealogy.— My grandfather Levi Claypool, of Hardy
Co., W. Va., left a paper from which I cret the following items: "James
Claypool came to Lost River, Hardy Co., now in W. Va , from Rocking-
ham Co. many years before the Revolutionary War, he was born F"eb. 14,
1701, died Oct., 17S9." " His sons were James, John, Joseph, William,
George and Jessee." "James died iSir, aged Si years." "John lived
to be 90 years old, died at Lost River." "Joseph died at a very early
day, leaving a wife and one child." " William was killed by the Indians
at a very early day, leaving a wife, &c. He had beefi in a fort for some
time and rode out to his farm, the Indians shot three balls through his
body, took the scalp off his head and stuck a tomahawk in his head.
He was buried in an old grave-yard near the fatal spot." "George
remained on Lost River until he died (Sept. 24, 1S29), aged 82 years,
leaving a wife and one son, Levi (the above-mentioned)." " Jesse re-
moved to the State of Ky., Bourbon Co. He had a large family of sons
and daughters, their name not known to me."
From another source I learn that in ''Augusta Co., Va.. M'ch 16,
1758, Martha Claypole was appointed administratrix of Wm. Claypole,
deceased."
What forts were in that vicinity at that time? How and where can I
find records of deeds, wills, marriages, &c., for the territory covering
what is now Rockingham, Hardy and Augusta counties from 1740 to
1780?
I am gathering data for a Genealogy of the Claypool family, and want
addresses of all descendants of the family, would like particularly to
get trace of descendants of Jesse.
E. A. Claypool,
* Nashport, Muskingum. Co., Ohio.
Christian Family.— Gilbert Christian removed from Scotland into
Ireland, 1702; married there Margaret Richardson; they came to Penn-
sylvania, 1726, with three sons, John, Robert. William, and a daughter,
Mary; removed to Augusta county, Va., 1732. Mary Christian, married
first, 1732, John Moffett, of Augusta county, who died about 1744 ; they
had, Colonel George, John, William, Kitty and Robert Moffett. born
March 17th, 1743. Augusta county, Va.; died in Woodford county. Ky.,
June, 1816, married, about 1763, Mary McDowell, born in Virginia,
November 25th, 1743, died in Woodford county, Ky., March iSth, 1814.
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Was Mary McDowell a daughter of James McDowell, son of the
immigrant, Ephraim McDowell ?
Who were Gilbert Christian's parents, and was he descended from
the Christians of the Isle of Man ?
Pedigree or any information concerning the Christian-Moffett and
McDowell families is requested.
Scott Jordan,
Is
4gg Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, III.
Chicago, III., October 19th, 1894.
BoLLiNG Familv. — Robert Boiling, born 16S2, died 1749, married
Anne Cocke, 1706. What were the names of Anne Cocke's parents,
and when did the family come to Virginia ?
Robert Boiling, born 1646, died 1709, married Anne Stith, i68r. The
names of Anne Stith's parents also, when they settled in Virginia, is
desired.
Did Mary Walke, or Mary Walker, marry, 1756, Charles Carter, of
Shirley, Virginia ?
E. xM. Heyl,
Colonel U. S. Army, Room 401, Pullman Building, Chicago, III.
Walkers and Maurys.— The writer would be glad to receive any
information pertaining to the antecedents of Miss Walker, married to
Rev. James illanry. Miss Walker is supposed to have been the neice
of Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle Hill — also, the antecedents of Miss
Grymes, married to the Rev. Walker Maury. The parentage of either
of the above will greatly aid in completing a genealogical tree, which
will prove of great interest to the descendants of a long line of Vir-
ginia families.
Any authentic information will be thankfully received.
Joseph Leidy,
233 South 13th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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Education of the Negroes Since iS6o. By J. L. M. Curry, LL.D..
Secretary of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund. Svo., pp. 37.
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry, who, after winning so much distinction in other
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Funds, identified his name so honorably and usefully with public educa-
tion in the South has, in the pamphlet under review, presented in a
very clear, succinct and interesting form, a history of the Education of
Southern Negroes since 1S60. No one is more fam.iliar with this history
than himself, or is more competent to set forth its leading particulars.
Beginning with the establishment of the School for " Contrabands of
War," under the shadow of Fortress Monroe in iS6r. he completes the
sketch with a brief exposition of the purposes which Mr. Slater had in
view in the erection of the Fund which bears his name- A bare sum-
mary of the main details which he gives is as follows: The Opening of
the School at Fortress Monroe in 1S61 ; the Extension of Schools to
Washington, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Newport News and the Port Royal
Islands; Establishment of Schools in 1S63, by General Banks, in the
Department of the Gulf; ihe Issuance of General Order. No. 38, by
General Banks, which constituted a Board of Education for the rudi-
mental instruction of freedmen in that Department; the Opening of
schools in 1862 in the Department of Tennessee and Arkansas, under
the supervision of Col. John Eaton; and finally, the Erection of the
Freedman's Bureau by Act of Congress, March 3, 1865, which author-
ized the seizure of all property in buildings and lands held by the late
Confederate States to be devoted to the education of the freed people.
The work of benevolent or religious associations has been most impor-
tant, beginning with that of the American Missionary Association,
which has now 12,609 pupils under its control or support, and which
has expended $11,610,000. Almost as important has been the work of
the Methodist Freedmen's Aid and Southern Society and the Baptist
Home Mission Society. The gift of George Peabody. in 1S67, of
|2,ooo,ooo in trust, embraced both races, while that of Mr. Slater of
$1,000,000 was confined to the negroes. The Bureau of Education,
established in 1S67, has also been a powerful agency in promoting the
cause of education among the freedmen. Referring to the work of the
State School Systems of the South, Dr. Curry expresses himself in the
following terms :
"All the States of the South, as soon as they recovered their govern-
ments, put in operation systems of public schools which gave equal
opportunities and privileges to both races. It would be singularly
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unjust not to consider the difficulties, social, political and pecuniary,
which embarrassed the South in the efforts to inaugurate free educa-
tion. It required unusual heroism to adapt to the new conditions, but
she was equal in fidelity and energy to what was demanded for the re-
construction of society and civil institutions. The complete enfran-
chisement of the negroes and their new political relations, as the result
of the war and the new amendments to the Constitution, necessitated
an entire reorganization of the systems of public education. To realize
what has been accomplished is difficult, at best— impossible, unless we
estimate sufficiently the obstacles and compare the facilities of to-day
with the ignorance and bondage of a generation ago, when some
statutes made it an indictable offence to teach a slave or free person of
color. Comparisons with densely populated sections are misleading,
for in the South the sparseness and poverty of the population are
almost a preventive of good schools. Still the results have been mar-
vellous. Out of 44S cities in the United States, with a population each
of 8,000 and over, only 73 are in the South. Of 28, with a population
from 100,000 to 1,500,000, only 2 iSt. Louis being e.xcluded) are in the
South. Of 96, with a population between 25.000 and 100,000, 17 are in
the South. The urban population is comparatively small, and agricul-
ture is the chief occupation. Of 858,000 negroes in Georgia. 130,000
are in cities and towns, and 728,000 in the country ; in Mississippi,
urban colored population, 42,000, rural, 700,000; in South Carolina,
urban, 74.000, rural, 615,000; in North Carolina, urban, 66,000, against
498,000 rural ; in Alabama, 65,000 against 613,000; in Louisiana, 93,000
against 466,000. The schools for colored children are maintained on
an average S9.2 days in a year, and for white children 98. 6, but the pre-
ponderance of the white over the black race, in towns and cities, helps
in part to explain the difference. While the colored population sup-
plies less than its due proportion of pupils to the public schools, and
the regularity of attendance is less than with the white, yet the differ-
ence in length of school term in schools for white and schools for black
children is trifling. In the same grades the wages of teachers are
about the same. The annual State school revenue is apportioned im-
partially among white and black children, so much per capita to each
child. In the rural districts the colored people are dependent chiefly
upon the State apportionment, which is by law devoted mainly to.the
payment of teachers' salaries. Hence, the school-houses and other
conveniences in the country for the negroes are inferior, but in the
cities the appropriation for schools is general and is allotted to white
and colored, according to the needs of each. A small proportion of
the school fund comes from colored sources. All the States do not
discriminate in assessments of taxable property, but in Georgia, where
the ownership is ascertained, the negroes returned, in 1892, $14,869,575
of taxable property against 5448883,959 returned by white owners.
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The amount of property listed for taxation in North Carolina in 1S91
was, by white citizens, ^234, 109,568 ; by colored citizens, 58,018,446.
To an inquiry for official data, the .Auditor of the State of Virginia says:
'The taxes collected in 1891, from white citizens, were $2,991,646.24,
and from the colored, I163, 175 67. The amount paid for public schools
for whites, 5588,564.87; for negroes, 5309,364.15. Add 515,000 for col-
ored normal and 580,000 for colored lunatic asylum. Apportioning the
criminal expenses between the white and the colored people in the
ratio of convicts of each race received into the penitentiary in 1891,
and it shows that the criminal expenses put upon the State annually by
the whites are 555.749-57, and by the negroes 5204,018.99.' "
Dr. W. T. Harris, the able Commissioner of Education, estimates
that the Southern States since the war have from their own treasuries
expended 575,000,000 in the education of the negro.
Hayne's Speech. Edited by Prof. James M. Garnett. i2mo., pp. 76.
iMaynard, Merrill & Co., New York.
This is the speech delivered by Hon. Robert Y. Hayne, of South
Carolina, on January 21st, 1830, in the Senate of the United States. Its
reputation in the popular mind is chiefly due to the fact that it called
forth the celebrated reply of Mr. Webster, in which he made his great
argument in support of the doctrines held by those who looked upon
the Union of the States as a consolidated government. There are few
person- who are familiar with Mr. Webster's reply who have read the
speech of Mr. Hayne. In order to furnish this speech in a convenient
form to those who are interested in the life of Mr. Webster, or in the
general subject of the debate, or in the noblest examples of American
eloquence, the publishers have issued this little volume, with a biog-
raphy and explanatory notes by Prof. James M. Garnett, one of the
most distinguished members of the faculty of the University of Vir-
ginia. The work of the editor is marked by learning and good taste,
the introductory biography giving many interesting details in the life
of Mr. Hayne, as well as the exalted tributes which were paid to his
memory by contemporaries who had been associated with him in the
public service. The speech itself, apart from the justness of its views
of the Constitution in its original form, is one of the most admirable
e.xamples in the history of American Statesmen of direct, nervous and
powerful eloquence. It is as lucid as a mountain stream, keen as the
edge of a rapier, and yet marked by a spirit of great fairness and cour-
tesy. There is no finer evidence of the lofty patriotism and the unsel-
fish public feeling which animated the Southern Statesmen of the old
School than Mr. Hayne's speech. It has been hidden by the blaze of
Mr. Webster's reply, not so much because that reply was a more mem-
orable display of intellectual power, as because all the inherent forces
of a nation expanding enormously in wealth and population have been
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working irresistibly in favor of a consolidated government. The outer
framework of the Constitution has been burst asunder like the shell of
the growing cicada by the outward pressure of forces within. The
argument of Mr. Hayne belongs, for all practical purposes, to history
alone, while the argument of Mr. Webster has been confirmed by the
march of events and in the light of the ever increasing consolidation
of the States, brought about both by more rapid intercommunication
and closer identity of interests in all parts of the Union, has a present
and living significance. The history of our Constitution has always
been to us one of the most striking proofs of the wisdom of the English
people in having an unwritten Constitution, which " broadens down
from precedent to precedent." Our Constitution was simply a compro-
mise, with all the dangerous weaknesses of a compromise. The blood
and treasure poured out in the late war were but a melancholy com-
mentary upon an instrument which has been spoken of as the greatest
ever struck off by man in a given length of time.
Hon. Peter Sterling and What People Thought of Hol By
Paul Leicester Ford. Svo., pp. 417. Henry Holt and Co., New York,
1894.
Mr. Paul Leicester Ford, who is known to all American historical
students as the accomplished editor of Jefferson's writings, has, in the
Hon. Peter Sterling, ventured into a field of literary work which we
believe he has not before entered. There can be no question as to the
success of the experiment, if an experiment it can be called, when the
hand of the author exhibits such skill and firmness. The Hon. Peter
Sterling is a book of unmistakable power. It is highly interesting as
a love story; it is still more interesting as a political study. The char-
acter of the hero is distinctly original, and produces the same impres-
sion upon the reader which he is represented as making upon his
friends. He is honest, courageous, incorruptible, slow, influencing
men rather by his moral qualities than by his intellectual abilities.
All things in the form of worldly success come to him easily, perhaps
too easily to be strictly consistent, but there is no finer scene in the
book than the scene in which Mr. Sterling's friends analyze the causes
of his great advancement in life. He begins as the son of an obscure
mill owner in a Massachusetts town, is educated at Harvard, where, in
spite of his taciturnity and provincial ways, he is drawn into the most
conspicuous set, settles as a young lawyer in New York, where he
makes his first professional stroke by appearing as the prosecutor of a
dispenser of milk which had been obtained from cows fed on the swill
of a distillery, is drawn by the publication of the details of the trial
into association with one of the female leaders of the Four Hundred,
which signifies his social success ; becomes interested in the politics of
the ward in which he resides, which ends in his acquiring a complete
ascendancy there ; rises to distinction in the general political life of the
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State, is nominated for Governor and elected. In the meanwhile he
has had an unlucky affair of the heart, which keeps him single until he
Is near his fortieth year, when he meets the daughter of his old flame,
falls in love with her, and though twenty years older, marries her.
Such is a very meagre outline of this remarkable story.
The dramatic power of some of the scenes in which Sterling takes
J part verges here and there upon sensationalism, but it is impossible
\ not to recognize the great and legitimate force with which certain epi-
sodes in the political life of the hero are presented, more particularly
i those which occur in the course of his early connection with the poli-
tics of his ward. We can recall no work of American fiction which
; has seized upon the political aspects of life in a great American city
with more graphic power, and, on the whole, in a spirit more free from
that disposition to exaggerate and caricature which a less skillful hand
would be so apt, under the circumstances, to show. The impression of
New York life in general, left upon the mind by Mr. Ford's work, is
more agreeable than might have been expected. The style of the
book IS clear and trenchant, while almost every page is lighted up by
witty or humorous touches which sustain the attention of the reader
with unflagging interest.
The Capitol of Virginia .\nd of the Confederate .States.
Svo., pp. 23. James E. Goode, Richmond, Va., 1S94. Price, 25 cents.
Messrs. W. \V. Scott and W. G. Stanard have prepared a handsome
pamphlet, having the above title, with the object of giving a historical
and descriptive account of the Capitol, and of the portraits and curios
which it contains, and the statuary on the square. They have shown
much care and research in the details which they have gathered. The
results are very gratifying to all who take an interest in the persons
and incidents that constitute so large a part of Virginia's history. We
can cordially commend their work to th; public as accurate, interesting
and instructive.
Virginia 1492-1S92. A brief review of the Discovery of the Continent
of North America, with A History of the Executives of the Colony
and the Commonwealth of Virginia. In two parts. By Margaret
Vowell Smith. Washington : W. H Lowdermilk & Co. 1S93.
A carefully prepared and attractively written collection of biographies
of the Governors of Virginia must necessarily be of value and interest
to the historical student. Miss Smith's book fully merits this descrip-
tion, and deserves much commendation. Beginning with Raleigh, and
concluding with McKinney, she gives a series of sketches, containing
all essential information in regard to the various persons who filled the
Executive Chair, yet not extended to an undue length. The most im-
portant authorities have been consulted, and the value of the book is
increased by frequent quotations from historical and legal publications
relating to the history of Virginia. The volume contains that very
essential element, a good index.
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General Joseph Martin and the War of the Revolution in the West.
Reprint from American Historical .■\ssociation. By Prof. Stephen B.
Weeks. Washington, D. C, 1S94.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. October, 1894.
Philadelphia, Pa., 1S94.
Brief Memoir of the Life of John F. Slater. By Rev. S. H. Howe,
D. D. Baltimore, Md., 1S94.
List of officers, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, List of Members
of the American Historical Association. Washington, D. C, 1S94.
Iowa Historical Record. October, 1894. Iowa City, Iowa, 1894.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register. October, 1894.
Boston, Mass., 1894.
New York Nation. October 11, 18, 25, November i. New York,
1894.
New York Critic. October 13, 20, 27, November 5.
The Collector for October and November, 1S94. New York, 1894.
Johns Hopkins University Studies. 12 series. No. 10. English Insti-
tutions and American Indian.
Baptist Gneral Association, Virginia, 1893. Richmond, Va., 1893.
Presbyterian Historical Society; E.xecutive Council Reports. 1892,
1893, 1894.
Memorial Address on Hon. Henry G. Pearson. By Edwin L. God-
kin. New York, 1S94.
Memoir of John Howe Peyton. By J. Lewis Peyton. Staunton, Va.,
1894.
United Coast Survey Reports, 1S92. Washington, D. C, 1S94.
Bulletins of U. S. Geological Survey. Washington, D. C, 1894.
The South, the Constitution and Resulting Union. By Hon. J. L. M.
Curry. New York, 1894.
Scottish Antiquary, October, 1S94. Edinburgh, 1894.
American Geographical Society Bulletin, for September, 1S94. New
York, 1894.
Protestant Episcopal Church Council Journal. Richmond, Va., 1894.
American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, April 25th, 1894. Wor-
chester, Mass., 1894.
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Kentucky Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Louis-
ville, Ky., 1S94.
Consular Reports for October and November. Washington, D. C,
1S94.
The Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia-
Richmond, Va., 1S94.
Education of the Negro since 1S60; John F. Slater Fund Papers. By
Hon. J. L. M. Curry. Baltimore, Md., 1S94.
Bibliography of Papers and Reports of the American Historical
Association. Washington, D. C, 1S94.
Annals of the American Academy, November, 1S94. Philadelphia,
Pa., 1S94.
Woman's Progress Magazine, October, 1S94. Philadelphia, Pa., 1S94.
In Memoriam Wm C. Dabney, M. D., University of Virginia, 1S94.
Political Club of Danville, Ky., 1786-1790. Filson Club Publication
No. 9.
Spirit of the Revoluuon of 1676, October, 1S94. Philadelphia, Pa.,
1894.
Anacostia, meaning of the name. W. W. Tooker. Reprint from the
American Anthropologist.
Records of the State of Connecticut, i Vol. Hartford, Conn., 1S94.
Catalogue of Randolph-Macon College and Academy, 1893-94.
Richmond, Va., 1S94.
Collections of New Brunswick Historical Society, Vol. I. St. John's,
New Brunswick, 1894.
Collections and Proceedings of Maine Historical Society, October,
1S94. Portland, Maine, 1894.
William and Mary College Quarterly, October, 1894. Richmond, Va.,
1894.
American Historical Register, October, November, and December,
1894. Philadelphia, Pa., 1894.
Memoirs of National Academy of Sciences, Vol. V. Philadelphia,
Pa., 1S94.
Rebellion Records, Series I, Vol. XXXIX. Washington. D. C, 1894.
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Vol. II.
APRIL, 1895.
No. 4.
[Doc. 30, 32, 34, House of Delegates, 1833-34.]
Officers of the State Line During the Revolutionary
Period.
(continued.) ,r
Brigadier- Generals.
Campbell, William, Clark, George Rogers,
Steuben, Baron.
Commissary- General, John Peyton.
Paymaster- General, James Quarles.
Colonels.
Brent, William,
Dabney, Charles,
Gibson, George,
Marshall, Thomas,
Allison, John,
Crocket, Joseph,
Cocke, Nathaniel,
Edmunds, Elias,
Muter, George,
Morgan, Haynes,
Rogers, David,
Smith, Gregory.
Lieutenant- Colonels.
Montgomery, John,
Matthews, Thomas,
Slaughter, George,
Warneck, Fred'k,
Wilson, George.
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Majors.
Bowman, Joseph,
Crittenden, John, Brig. -Maj.,
Dick, Alexander,
DeKlavvnan, Charles,
Forsyth, Robert,
Lee, John.
Magill, Charles,
Mazarett, John,
M'Lane, Allen,
Nelson, John,
Powell, Robert,
Quirk, Thomas,
Walls, George,
Waller, Edward.
Captains.
Armstead, Thomas,
Armstead. William,
Allen, John,
Arrel, David,
Boswell, Macken,
Blackwell, Samuel,
Bradley, James.
Brashear, Rich'd,
Bailey, John,
Bressic [e?], Thomas,
Bressic [e?]. William,
Booker. Richard,
Bond, Hance,
Campbell, Wm.,
Crump, Abner,
Chapman, John,
Clay, Thomas,
Cleverius, James, Capt.-Lieut.,*
Chandler, Thomas,
Crawley, Samuel,
Collier, Charles,
Crump, Richard,
Cherry, William,
Crockett, Anthony,
Catlett, George,
Cahett, James.
Collins, Bartlett,
Drew, Thomas H.,
Dudley, Henry,
Dudley, Ambrose,
Diggs, Edward,
Delaporte. Decrime,
Edmunds, Thomas,
Ewell, Charles,
Ewell, Thomas,
Evans, Jessee,
Firer, Charles,
Field, Benjamin,
Graham, Walter, Capt.-Lieut.
Gerault, John,
George, Robert,
Gooseley, George,
•^ An officer with the rank of captain and pay of a lieutenant, com-
manding a company or troop. The first or colonel's company ot in-
fantry, was commanded by a captain-lieutenant.
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Garnett, Henry,
House, Lawrence,
Holt, John Hunter,
Heftier, William,
Hudson, John,
Healey, Martin,
Hamilton, Thomas,
Helm, Leonard,
Jones, Gabriel,
Johnson, Gideon,
Jennings, William,
Kelly, Thaddy,
Kemp, Peter, "
Kerney, John,
Kinley, Benjamin,
Kellar, Abraham.,
De Klawman, Charles,
Lipscomb, Bernard,
Lipscomb, Reuben,
Lipscomb, Yancey, Capt.-Lieut.
Long, William,
Lewis, John,
Moody, Edward,
Marshall, Thomas, Jr.,
Marshall, Humphrey,
M'llaney, John,
Moody, James,
Moore, Peter,
M'Carty, Richard,
Marshall, James,
Miller, John,
Moody, James,
Oliver, Wm., Capt.-Lieut.,
Perault, Michael,
Pannill, David,
Porter, Wm., Capt.-Lieut.,
Quarles, James,
Quarles, Henry,
Quarles, John,
Roane, Christopher,
Read, Edmund,
Rucker, Angus,
Rogers, John,
Roberts, Benjamin,
Robinson, TuUy,
Scott, John, Capt.-Lieut.,
Shield, John,
Spiller, William,
Thompson, William,
Tabb, Augustine,
Taylor, Isaac,
Todd. Robert,
Terry, Nathaniel,
Tipton, Abraham,
Thomas, Mark, ■:
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Taliaferro, Philip,
Turnbull, Stephen,
Timpson, Samuel,
Upshaw, Thomas,
Upshaw, James,
Vogluson, Armand,
Valentine, Edward,
Vowles, Henry,
Vowles, Walter,
Valentine, Jacob, .;
Welch, Nathaniel,
Woodson, Frederick,
Worthington, John,
Wright, Patrick,
Wyatt, Cary, Capt.-Lieut.
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Ballard. William.
Baytop, John,
Brown, Robert,
Butler, Samuel,
Bert, John,
Brent, George P.,
Broadus, William,
Cowne, Robert,
Cowne, Augustine,
Gary, Samuel,
Coleman, Wyatt,
Galvert, Joseph,
Glarke, William,
Chaplin, Abraham,
Clarke, Richard,
Carney, Richard,
Chew, Robert B.,
Diggs, Dudley,
Davenport, Opie, .^- ■
Davies, John R.,
Dandridge, Robert,
Dalton, Thomas Val.,
Edmundson, Benj'n,
Fleet, John,
Field, Stephen,
Gibbs, Churchill,
Graves, Ralph,
Hardyman, John,
Harper, James,
Hughes, Pratt,
Hayes, Thomas,
Holmes, Isaac,
Harrison, Richard,
Heth, Andrew,
Hogg, Richard,
Kennaday, James,
Lovell, Robert,
Lipscomb, Daniel,
Mann, David,
Marston, John,
Merewether, James,
Marshall, James M.,
Montgomery, James,
M'Gavock, Hugh,
Moore, Alexander,
Monbruin, Timothy B.
Norris, Martin,
Powell, Thomas,
Piper, John,
Parsons, Thomas,
Quarles, Wharton,
Russell, John,
Russell, Charles,
Robertson, James,
Read, Clement,
Rice, Nathaniel,
Rudd, Epaphrod's,
Rucker, Elliott,
Ramsay, Joseph,
Ravenscroft, Thomas,
Smith, Jonathan,
Scott, Walter,
Spencer, William,
Slaughter, William,
Savage, Nathaniel,
Slaughter, Lawrence,
Spencer, John,
Saunders. Joseph,
Selden, Joseph,
Spencer, Gideon,
Scott, John,
Slaughter, James,
Slaughter, Joseph,
Scott, William,
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Turner, John,
Thompson, George,
Thruston, Robert,
Triplet, George,
Triplet, Roger,
Taylor, James,
Vaughan, John,
Vawter, William,
Vowles, Charles,
Valentine, Josiah,
Brodie, Lodovick,
Carter, Thomas,
Dixon, Anthony F.
Gould, David,
Green, Charles,
Hay, Joseph,
Calvert, Jonathan,
Asher, William,
Bullock, Rice,
Daring, Henry,
Green, Robert,
Kemp, James,
Broadus, William,
Boush, Robert,
Bradley, Chris'r,
Bartis, Henry,
Graves, William,
Jordan, John,
Nicholson, Henry,
White. Thomas,
Walker, Levin,
Williams, Jarratt, i ..
Walker, Levin,
Wilson, Thomas,
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Withers, James, or Weathers,
Wadlington, John,
Yates, John,
Yarborough, Charles.
Surgeons.
Hamm, Valentine,
M'Clurg, James,
Pope, Matthew,
Roberts, John,
Ray, Andre,
Selden, Wilson C.
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Kent, Daniel,
Robinson, Cole,
Roberts, William,
Rose, Philip,
Smith, Granville.
Subalterns.
Boyce, William,
Riverere, Wyatt,
Tatem, Zachariah.
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Tinsly, Samuel,
Thruston, John,
White. William.
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Chaplains.
Andrews, Robert, Braidfoote, John,
Cordell (or Cordle), John.
Sergeants ajid Quartermasters.
Ballard, Bland, Rogers, John,
Foster, Richard, Qr. mast. Slaughter, Thomas.
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Hawkins, Moses,
Kennon, Richard,
Marks, Isaiah,
Nixon, Andrew,
Trant, Lawrence,
Warman, Thomas,
Colonels.
Gist, Nathaniel. ^
Majors.
Holmer, Christian.
Captains.
Butler, Lawrence,
Hogg, Samuel,
Hankins, Moses,
Long, William,
O'Neal, Ferdinand,
Spiller, William.
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Bradford, Charles,
Brown, Jacob R.,
Ball, James,
Carnes, Patrick,
Cannon, John,
Erskine, Charles,
Groomes, Levi,
Gray, William,
Harris, John,
Hudson, William,
Holloway, James,
Hamilton, James,
Settle, Strother,
Massey, John,
Ashby, James,
Champe, John,
Heath, Henry,
Mason, James,
Newton, William,
Reddy, Dennis,
Simmons, Spratley,
Willoughby, James,
Atchison, David,
Applegate, William,
Ludiman, John W.,
Linton, John,
Lind, Arthur,
Moseley, Benjamin,
Miller, David,
Miller, Javan,
Rudder, Epaphroditus,
Rea, Matthew,
Rankins, Robert,
Washington, George A.
Wallace, James,
Yarborough, Charles.
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Altop, Thomas,
Alexander, John,
Armstrong, Jesse,
Avery, Samuel,
Aiken, Joel,
Abner, Paul,
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Boyles, David,
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Brooks, Reuben,
Barker, William,
Benjamin, Joseph, Trumpeter,
Bird, Isaac,
Broach, Charles,
Brantum, Timothy,
Bates, James,
Bowers, Thomas,
Bowers, Morris,
Bowers, Philemon,
Bowers, James,
Bowers, George,
Batchelder, Henry,
Bowden, Thomas,
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Bailey, Lacker,
Baffin, John,
Bailey, Southey,
Crummy, Joseph,
Coker, Joseph,
Coxen, William,
Crawford, Robert,
Carter, Richard,
Carter, Nicholas,
Cunningham, James,
Craig, William,
Cloyd, William,
Connelly, William,
Cyrus, Bartholomew,
Cunady, John,
Crewson, Benjamin,
Cose, William,
Curie, Richard,
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Coppinger, Higgins,
Cruise, William,
Chapman, Thomas,
Clayton, Joseph,
Cook, William,
Chandler, Thomas,
Challis, or Callis, William,
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Colgan, William,
Cardwell, William,
Drummond, John,
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Denniston, Joseph,
Dennis, William,
Denny, Henry,
Deinor, Jacob,
Dell, Joseph, _ r>;,r.
Dennis, Henry,
Davidson, David,
Dicks, George,
Dillard, John,
Dickerson, Robert,
Dailey, John,
Dobbins, Charles,
Drewry, Matthew,
Day, John,
Dishman. James,
Dishman, William,
Daniel, John,
Dean, Daniel,
Dodd, John,
Davis, Nicholas,
Davis, Charles,
Deane, Ellis,
Drewry, James.
Davis, William,
Diggs, Western,
Didlake, William,
Ewbywine, Daniel,
Evans, Stephen,
Etter, John,
Edwards, John,
Emanuel, Henry,
English, Charles,
Ewell, Thomas,
Elliott, James.
Everett, Henry,
Everett, W^illiam,
Ellerson, David,
Fortune, Nathan,
Fowler, Joseph,
Frazier, Alexander,
Fengler, William,
Fengan, John,
Fisher, Thomas,
Filby, George,
Faithall, Edward,
Fromageot, Romain,
Floyd, Perry,
Fitzgerald, James,
Fleace, John,
Friskin, Robert,
Francher, Isaac.
Freeman, Isaac,
Foster, William,
Fear, Jacob,
Freeman, Stephen,
Field, Abraham,
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Fans, Larkin, •
Ferguson, William, Wagoner,
Fishback, Jacob,
Fowler, John, j
Gore, Jacob,
Govvran, Bryan,
Gossett, John,
Gunvvill, William,
Gillen, Hugle,
Green, William,
Glass, Isaac,
Goatley, John,
Gray, James,
Groves, Thomas,
Gilbert, Joseph,
Graves, William,
Green, John,
Grimes, George,
Griffith, Joseph,
Grimes, William,
Gates, William,
Gibbs, John,
Holmes, Bartlett,
Hinds, John,
Haley, Thomas,
Herbert, William,
Hawthorn, Philip,
Hasling, James,
Hunt, William,
Harris, William,
Humphries, George,
Kadon, Anthony,
Hawkins, James,
Hudson, Rush,
Haley, William,
Haines, Griffith,
Hopingstock, Christopher,
Hubbard, James.
Hipkinstall, James,
Hancock, Bennett,
Hanson, Shadrack,
Haden, Jeremiah,
Harrison, Alexander,
Holderby, William,
Holbert, William,
Hull, Beechum,
Harman, George,
Hines, George,
Hobbes, Frederick,
Hodges, William,
Hackett, James,
Hughes, Joseph,
Hutts, Jacob,
Hoyden, Matthew,
Hughes, John,
Hill, Thomas,
Hulls, Leonard,
Hilliard, Joseph,
Holdman, Furdy,
Haynes, Dunston,
Harris, John,
Halley, Rawley,
Havert, William,
Harris, Walter,
Harris, William,
Hankins, Joseph,
Hammentree, Harris,
Hill, James,
Harrison, James,
Harrison, Robert,
Harrison, John,
Hdgan, Thomas,
Howell, Heath,
Hinman, Benedict,
Hendley, Charles,
Hedgworth, Moses,
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Henderson, John,
Hill, James,
Jackson, Thomas,
Johnson, James,
Jones, Thomas,
Jones, Samuel,
Jenkins, John,
Jackson, John,
Jones, Samuel,
Jones, James,
Jones, Frederick,
Jones, Briton,
Jenkins, John,
Kelly, William,
Kenton, Mark,
Kenny, Richard,
Kempin, William,
King, Francis,
Kid, Benjamin, •
Key, George,
Knewitt, Taylor,
Kidd, William,
Lovell, Henry,
Langsden, Daniel,
Littlepage, John,
Langford, Peter,
Lambright, Nicholas,
Lawrence, John,
Lattimore, Henry.
Linn, Jacob,
Lansman, Vincent,
Langley, William,
Lane, Larkin,
Landrum, Thomas, '
Lynn, John,
Lynn, James,
Leach, George,
Laws, John,
Levy, Judas, '
Leonard, Joseph,
Leonard, Coleman,
Leonard, John,
Langston (or Sangston) Timothy
Lawrence, William,
Lawrence, John,
Lasseter, Benjamin,
Lasseter, Dempsey,
Murray, Daniel,
Moxley, George,
M'Dowell, John,
M'Lane, Laughlin,
M'Cartney, Peter,
Morrison, John,
Murphy, Michael, . .
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Martin, Thomas,'
Menter, Barker,
M' Laughlin, Thomas,
M'Clure. William,
Moore, Nicholas,
Michell, Reaps,
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M'Cargo, Stephen,
Middleton, John,
Murphey, Patrick,
Morgan, David, •«
Martin, William,
M'Lemare, Timothy,
M'Kenley, John,
M'Chanahan, Elijah,
M'Mahon, Daniel,
Mosby, William,
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M'Coy, Samuel,
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Miller, Robert,
Michael, Chaney,
M'Clenner, Thomas,
M'Claren, Daniel,
Miller, James,
Moore, William,
Miller, Robert,
M'Intosh, Thomas,
March, John,
Motley, David,
Moses, Benjamin,
M'Coy, Samuel,
Murphey, Samuel,
Maffitt, William,
Morgan, William.
M'Doeman, Daniel, Matross,
Neil, Nicholas,
Newland, Mathew,
Nichols, John,
Neal, Charles,
Nunn, James,
Nunn, Richard,
Newcome, James,
Overline, William,
Oliver, Moses,
Oliver, John,
Obery, Henry^
Philips, John,
Parlor, James,
Powell, Eleven,
Pritchard, Thomas,
Parker, Warren,
Pair, George,
Powell, Benjamin,
Pace, Williamson,
Price, Ebenezer,
Pearman, Grief,
Prior, Jacob,
Pickett, Francis,
Pitts, William,
Panott, John,
Pope, Thomas,
Peebles, Andrew,
Pennybaker, Conrad, Fife Major,
Pitt, William,
Parker, Robert,
Parnell, Joseph,
Quarles, Moses,
Rogers, John,
Rodgers, John,
Ritchney, John.
Ready, Dennis,
Ross, John,
Robertson, Green,
Renn, Alexander,
Rice, Basbel,
Rice, George,
Rust, Jeremiah,
Ross, Valentine, ' .
Ryland, John,
Rodden, John,
Rock, John,
Rawlins, Thomas,
Read, Henry,
Reynolds. Jesse,
Revelle, Holliday,
Rinker, Edward,
Robert, Mourning,
Redmon, Aaron,
Radford, William.
Redman, Martin,
Richey, John,
Ramsay, James,
Son, Anthony,
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Simpkins, Reuben,
Suddoth, John,
Stratton, Seth,
Self, Larkin,
Smith, William,
Shannon, William,
Smithers, Stephen,
Smith, Charles,
Simmons, Joshua,
Scott, William,
Simms, Isaac,
Simmons, Williamson,
Simmons. James,
Stokes, Robert,
Smith, James,
Spung, David,
Shires, Nicholas,
Sutherland, William,
Stewart, James,
Spillman, George,
Spalden, Charles,
Smith, Littleberry,
Scruggs, James,
Scruggs, John,
Smith, Charles,
Smith, John.
Slate, John,
Stark, Robert,
Spiceley, James,
Speed, John.
Saunders, Thomas,
Spickard, James,
Spickard. George,
Stanley. Joshua,
Selby, Taylor,
Strickling. Alexander,
Timberlake, Joseph,
Trotter, John,
Tannehill, Thomas,
Townsend, John,
Tarrant, Manlove,
Tillery, John,
Tool, Joseph,
Tinsley, Jonathan,
Travice, George,
Thompson, Robert,
Timm, John,
Taylor, Archibald,
Turner, Richard,
Tate, James,
Thompson, Flanders,
Turner, George,
Turner, Simon,
Travis, James,
Turner, William,
True, William, ''''
Thomas, John J.,
Thorp, Jonathan,
Ullum, Joseph,
Violet, John,
Vaden, Braddock,
Vincent, John,
Verony, Joseph,
Vaughan, Jesse,
Van Sickle, Abraham,
Willis, George,
Winters, Stephen,
Waterfield. John,
Weaver, John,
Walker, Richard,
Walker, John,
Wright, Thomas,
Welch, Robert,
Wilkin, Thomas,
Wilson, Stacy,
White, Caleb,
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Wood, Alexander,
VVarmock, William,
Wood, Benjamin,
Walls, Martin,
Wilkins, Thomas, .
Wooten, Thomas,
Waters, Isaac,
Wall, George,
Wale, William,
Wood, Timothy,
Wooster, John,
West, Randolph,
Wooden, Mathias, Fifer,
Ward, James,
Willard, John,
Willoughby, William,
Wall, William,
Wissells, John,
Walkinson, James,
Walkinson, William,
Warrington, John,
Wilber, James,
White, Ambrose,
Wayne, Benjamin.
Letters of Wm. Fitzhugh.
(CONTINUED.)
Proposals to the Honourable Nicholas Spencer, Esqr., Agent,
&c.. Attorney in Virginia for the Right Honourable the Lord
Culpepper. To purchase 100,000 Acres of Land at ten years
Purchase of the rent thus to be deduced 100, oco Acres at 120
lbs. Tob" p. thousand comes to 12,000 lb. Tob° out of which
must be deducted 20 p. cent at least for receiving & reducing it
into hh*^ which is 2,400, then remains 9,800 & 20 p. hh^'
allowed, estimating each hh^ at 400, make twenty-four hh^' and
half which comes to 725 again deducted out of 9,800 makes the
clear Tob° 9,065, which at 5 sh. p. cwt. the utmost value that
can be e.xpected, for Tob" so scattering and remote in best of
times, amounts to ^22, 13. at ten years purchase is £2:2.6, losh..
but because as in the severall Rent roles appeared, there is not
above 84 or at most 86 Thousand Acres in our county already
taken up and Seated, and some thousand acres part of that
above Oquoquan & from Oquoquan downwards, fully taken up
and almost all seated, and it might be doubt.^ul to my Lord's In-
terest to go beyond these bounds, because part is there taken up
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«& greater part lies stil! in his Lordship's Grant, therefore to take
off those scruples and objections I am willing to become a Pur-
chaser from the head of Ohoquan to Machodock, the extent of
our county downwards, not exceeding five miles in the woods
from the nearest Landing, that I may be far enough clear from
Brenton purchase and without my Lord's suspicion of getting
any considerable quantity of land already ta'iien up, the said
land from Oquoquan downwards according as the county runs
and five miles backwards where the county will admit it which
will nowhere do it till you come to the head of Potomack creek,
& from thence in some places upwards, which said proposed
tract, according to the severall P,.ent rolls, may amount to about
sixty or seventy thousand acres, but because there may be some
surplusage, I am willing to allow it 80,000 Acres and pay ac-
cordingly, comes to ^177, 10. sterling, which I will give for that
tract and immediately pay down the money upon his Lordship's
order to your Hon' for passing me the said estate over in fee
under these circumstances to have within the P. Tract all bene-
fits of any Escheat if they fall and all other Priviledges as his
Lordship has by virtue of the first Purchase or last Grant in
168S, except the benefit of all mines and minerals w'^" I wholly
refer to his Lordship under the yearly Rent of an ear of Indian
corn, if lawfully demanded to be paid at the feast of the Nativity,
& withall that I may have priviledge to take out Pattents or
Deeds in my own name (paying the officers fees according to the
constitution of the office here) for any part greater or smaller or
as many as I please within the before granted Premises and the
Rent to Respective Pattents to be a grain of Indian Corn. The
reason for taking out new Pattents or Deeds are first. For Es-
cheats that I may have a right from his Lordship as well as a
Possession if any fall. Secondly, to get the advantage of pre-
tended Rights if any such to be met with, and thirdly, to get as
much as I can in my own particular name to avoid future Quo
Warrantos. That I may have farther or other deeds and as-
surances as council learned shall advise either by Deeds drawn
in England and inrolled in the high Court of Chancery there or
otherwise, &c., being at my own particular costs and charges.
That I may have all the immediate Rents and arrearages. But
if his Lordship opposes the Arrearages rather than break off I
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■'will Desist. The Land is thus bounded (viz): Beginning at or
/ near some of the lalls of Oquoquan Run ten miles from, the
mouth of said River & en the South West side thereof and ex-
tending by a line drawn South West and by West, crossing the
Runs and Branches of the severall Creeks that Run into the
Potomack River, to-wit, Neapsco, Yeasocomico alias Powel's
Creek, Quanticutt, Chappawamsick, Aquia and Potomack Creeks,
until the said South West by west line shall have included the
branches of Potomack Creek, within the limits of Stafford
County, when the branches that Run into Rappahannock River
meet and render it the bounds of that county, and that conse-
quently this South West and by West line by and betwixt the
branches of both the Rivers of Rappahannock and Potomack,
that is now the known bounds of Stafford and Rappahannock
countys, and from that place a point of Intersection along the
said line of Devision until it reach the most Southern and Eastern
parts of Stafford County, inclusive, bounded on the South by
the head of Machodock River, and so to the mouth thereof and
from thence up along Potomack River according to the severall
courres thereof to the mouth of Oquoquan River first mentioned
and from thence up the said River ten miles to the first begin-
ning.
Mr. Nich' Hayward, S', When I made these proposals to Mr.
Secretary did not think to have given you the trouble as you
may see, but upon second thought have thought it my best way if I
can make a purchase to be as quick with it as I can. that I may have
the more time to make a firm establishment thereof, & considering
also that you bad made a Purchase of the like nature and conse-
quently experiencedlv knowing in the consummation of this, if
his Lordship agrees to it, as I have fully writ you in my letter.
I have also got Mr. Brent to lay me down the bounds so that
there's nothing wanted to make a perfect Deed in England.
But if these new troubles & the great oppressions that from
thence we may guess will fall upon the Roman Catholicks in
England should incline them to remove any place in Virginia,
& Brenton I esteem a good Sanctuary for them, I could still be
contented to continue my proposed exchange though I have
added almost a third in land, negroes, &c., more than when I
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writ you and then had rather let alone this purchase for it is not
worth two pence to any one that is not actually upon the spot.
^'""' ' ■ ''■ April i8th, 16S9.
Mr, John Cooper:
S' I received your two letters this year, one by Gutteridge,
the other by Harris, in the first you send me no acco't current
and charge me very high for receiving money & therein promise
that my money shall be laid out according to order, when it is
received, when in the same letter you acknowledge yourself the
pay master by taking Norrington's & Goddard's bargain ott" their
hands, and consequently yourself to be Pay master, in your last
you give me acco' of the receipt of my money that is to say.
yourself was then willing to pay it but withall nothing that I
sent for nor no provision therein perhaps esteeming that I had
been extravagant in sending for those things, and you by your
great judgment would moderate by for bearing to send. I must
tell Mr. Cooper it is a Factor that I require, not a Director or
Superadviser, & expect one to follow orders not to dispute the
necessity or Inconvenience of them, especially considering it was
my own money to be disposed & neither desired nor Requested
to run in debt for a farthing. I must acknowledge my employ
small and inconsiderable to a Gentleman in your method & cir-
cumstances, therefore if you are willing to decline please to sig-
nifie the same, for as long as I keep clear of debt I reckon to
have a due observance of orders as if I was the greatest mer-
chant.
S' Before I had received your letters, especially your last
(v/hich but two days ago came to hand, though the ship has been
in the county this two months) I advised & persuaded two Gen-
tlemen Mr. Hayward and Mr. Sampson Darrell, to make their
consignments to your self, and when it is worth while should be
able also to persuade others, assuring them of your true honesty
& Integrity which yet I am unwilling to question, from whom
by this ship you'll have some consignments and by the next may
expect more, as also I have sent a little by this ship to say seven
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hh'^' as by the bill of Loading you'll see, which I desire you to
dispose for my best advantage. S' you write me also in your
last that the money in your hands is ready for Mr. Hayward
when he calls for it, which please to deliver him that I may have
it disposed by him according to my Directions. I do think by
the next ship to consign you more Tob° and then shall advise
what I will have done with the proceeds, that comes from both
parcels.
Your Wff.
To Mr. John Cooper. ' ;-:'•■
; - May 6th, 16S9.
Mr. John Cooper:
S' In my last by Donnan, I gave my statements for not sen<i-
■ ing my plate according to order and therefore have acquainted
you that I have desired Mr. Hayward this year to send me it in
according to last years Directions, giving him an acco' that you
N will pay the byllance of my Accompt in your hands for him to
lay out in Plate for me accordmg to my particular desires and
directions to him this year. I have also by the said ship con-
A signed you seven hh^' Tob° which I desired you to dispose to mv
f best advantage & promised you in this to acquaint how I would
have that money disposed of that the Tob' produced, which I
i' would have paid to my Mother if she be living, as far as ten
}: pounds goes, if the Tob" will reach but if it should yield more
T please to keep it in your hand till my further order. In my last
U I also acquainted that Mr. Darrell and Mr. Hayward had each
> of them consigned you Tob° by the said ship & I believe by
Burnham you may expect a quarter parcell from Mr. Hayward
and perhaps from myself too, I am not yet resolved. I hope
'< to hear timely from you this year and if I could have news it
would be very welcome, especially some abatement upon this
«< great Tob" custom & I should be encouraged to make a hand-
k some consignment, but as 'tis, there's so many required for clean-
ing Tob° and the commission for paying and receiving such a
considerable sum of money, so high, though it should happen
to be in our hands, I mean yourself to be purchasers as it hap-
pened to you last year, that it is more uncertain for a Planter to
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 375
get money by consigned Tob° than to get a prize in a lottery,
there being twenty chances for one chance.
Your Wff.
To Mr. John Cooper Mer''" in London. ■■ - • ' •" *•
July 22d, 1689.
Mr. Jno. Cooper:
S' In my last I gave you an account of my consigning you
seven hh*^' by Donnan and how I would have the money disposed
that it raised as far as ten pounds went, if it should rise so high
and therefore told you I thought I might consign you some more
by Burnham which I have also done & herewith send you a bill
of Loading which please to dispose to my best advantage. Mr.
Sam Hayward has also consigned you some before and some
now by Burnham, the neat proceeds whereof he desires you to
give my Acco\ credit for which said money what ever it be I
desire you to pay to his brother Mr. Nich' Hayward when he
presents you with a bill of mine, payable him, for £2^, 10. Sterl-
ing, as also to pay the ballance of the proceeds of my Tob° now
& formerly consigned after payment of £10 to my mother if
anything shall then remain, which I much doubt by reason of
the extre.me lowness of Tob°, but if my Tob" should not arise to
_j^io, whatever it arises to please let my Mother have it, but be
sure bring me not in debt. If Mr. Hayward should upon the
presenting the said bill only require his brother's money out of
your hands because it is money only lent his brother, and per-
haps he'll answer for the remainder himself & my Tob° should
yield above £\o before ordered, please send me in those things
or any part of them my money in your hands will purchase
(viz) A home Shagged Saddle, two suits of child bed linnen,
shoes and stockings for the remainder, though I assure you I
expect nothing of them. We have had so extreme and low
and scarce Market for our Tob° here that it is but three days
ago I disposed of my Tob° abroad and at a very mean rate too.
I have now by me of my own crops above 100 hh'^ Orinoko but
freight being high and Tob° light and no promising encourage-
ment, I durst not venture to ship it, therefore have this year
planted at several Quarters sweet scented, not that I expect that
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will bear a much better price, but for that it will weigh heavier
and therefore better answer freight and keep better and so not so
great damage or loss, if want of freight or a market make one
keep it by him. I hope to hear timely from you, who am
Your Vv'tf.
May 6th, 16S9.
Mr. Nich' Hay ward:
S' I intended to have Duplicated my last by Donnan, es-
pecially about the purchase from my Lord Culpepper but since
hearing certainly from yourself in Capt. Brent's letter that he is
dead, I did not apprehend a probability of making the proposed
Purchase and therefore desist, well knowing you being upon
the Place can best tell whether any thing be in prospect to be
negotiated in that affair, if those letters come safely to your
hands also since the writing thereof have been informed by Mr.
Darrell that you esteemed me a jealous pated fool and gave
these two instances, the one of the purchase of Mr. Ashton's
tract and the other for the set price of the Callash, farther add-
ing that you did not care for being concerned for such a person,
neither would you advance the limited price a penny, whatever
the prospect of advantage might be thereby both which do
bring me right in your Esteem though I'll promise you not In-
troductive of a farther trouble, which I acknowledge I have
already sufficiently given you. and will promise you for the
future to clear in that nature my self of farther guilt) I will
clear as to the first Mr. Ashton's Purchase, I proposed as much
as the Land was intrinsically worth and I had rather be without
than give more what ever representations may be made thereof,
& I am sure it is /^20 better to me than any Purchaser else
because of the vicinity. As to the second, the purchase of the
Callash, it was only a recreative project, and if for that sura
proposed, it could be procured, I could willingly have spared it
for the fancy of my present Recreation, but did not think it
reasonable to give my fancy an unlimited allowance. S' In my
last I sent to you to purchase the Remainder of the plate left
behind this year of my Designs last year which I have again
desired you to purchase for me, my resolutions still continuing
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the same for that supply, and would also desire you to send it in
by Capt. Gutteridge in the Spencer who is a careful Master and
in a good ship and will be early, but if he should not come away
early then I desire you to send it in the first good ship that
comes for this River or Rappahannock, the money Mr. Cooper
has sent me he is always ready to pay, though I last year men-
tioned the plate yet now I think it convenient to mention it
again (viz) Two Silver Dishes weighing 50 oz. apiece or there-
abouts, two Ditto weighing 70 oz. apiece or thereabouts, a Sett
of Castors that is to say for Sugar, Pepper and Mustard about
24 or 25 oz., a basin betwixt 40 & 45 oz. , a Salver about 30 oz. ,
a pair of Candle sticks about 30 oz. , a ladle about 10 oz., a case
containing a dozen silver hafted knives and a dozen silver hafted
forks answerable, what remains if any, let it be laid out in a
large Salt and what else you think convenient. I must again
repeat and request you to send me the said plate by the first
ship comes out for Rappahannock or Potomack if Capt. Gutte-
ridge be not as forward as any for his bringing it will very suit
my conveniency. The Ship is just ready to sail that I send this
by and therefore beg pardon that I cannot enlarge about your
neighbouring Plantation and your delighted Brenton, which by
my next by Capt. Burnham (who is now at my house while I am
writing this) I shall be full of. S' I must return you my hearty
thanks and due acknowledgements for your continuall and con-
tinued favours, & particularly for your last year's kindness in
the purchasing of that parcell of plate sent me and received.
S"" the ballance of your account last year ish. lod If I had time
I would for your satisfaction have sent you copy thereof.
I am with great sincerity
Your VVfif.
To Mr. Nicholas Hayward, &c.
July 22nd, 1689.
Mr. Nicholas Hay ward:
I have already writ you thrice this year wherein I gave you
an account of the delivery of my plate with many thanks for
your care & trouble in the purchase and conveyance thereof
which this convenience by Burnham gives me the opportunity
r.'i i: bn^r: OJ f-'iv •ii'i?.'>h oala biuf.v bnt: ,
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378 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
thankfully to repeat. In my last I desired you to call for money
of Mr. Cooper and to lay it out in plate for me according to direc-
tion there given which was pursuant to my advice last year only in
my last which I question not but before is come to hand. I
advised more particularly & nominated the Method for its com-
ing in (which I will so far transcribe as relates thereto) & would
desire you to send it by Capt. Gutteridge in the Spencer who is
a careful Master & in a good ship & will be early, but if he
should not come away early then I desire you to send it in the
first good ship that comes for this River or Rappa'" the money
Mr. Cooper has writ me he is always ready to pay you though
I last year inventoried the plate yet now I think it convenient
to mention it again (viz.) 2 Silver Dishes weighing 50 oz. apiece
or thereabouts, 2 ditto weighing 70 ounces apiece or thereabouts,
a sett of castors that is to say for mustard Pepper & Sugar
about 24 or 26 oz., a bason betwixt 40 & 45 oz., a salver about
30 oz., a pair of candle sticks about 3 oz., a ladle of 20 oz., a
case containing a doz. silver hafted knives & a doz. silver hafted
forks answerable, what remains if any let it be laid out in a large
Salt & what else you think convenient which I believe before I
can reasonably expect your receipt of this you will have shipped
of. S' I mine last year I assured you that my carpenter should
build you a small house upon the clear ground in your Neigh-
bouring if you continued your resolutions of settling there which
before this should have been but that I had not nails of my own
to spare & could purchase none, but the other day your brother
promis'd to supply me with nails for that purpose & next month
I intend to set my man to work upon it which shall be forthwith
finished. In my first this year I gave you the assurance as also
I have done to Capt. Brent here that if I could do Brenion any
service by due commendations to particular persons or any en-
couragement from the county or from the publick, if ever I
come to be concerned there you might fully assure your selves
of & still do & shall continue the Same. S' Herewith will come
to your hands from your brother a bill of Exchange for ^25, 10.
drawn upon Mr. Cooper which he desired me to send him to
pay for the Smith. He spoke to me so late that I believe you
will have disposed my money before this will come to your hand.
I advised him to write to you to charge him in his acco' debtor
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LETTERS OF WILLIAM FITZHUGH. 379
for the said sum which I told him I did assuredly believe would
be fully satisfactory to you, but he, with some trouble & concern
was unwilling thereto because he apprehends you esteem him
negligent in his business tS: careless in contriving you payment
for the ballance of his debt already contracted & so is ashamed
to offer a further debt till this be first cleared which really trou-
bles him & he is resolved to take effectual care forthwith fully to
answer it & towards payment of this has ordered me what mon-
ey his Tob" produces that he has consigned to Mr. Cooper which
I have also ordered Mr. Cooper to pay you together with what
money of mine he has in his hands if any, for Tob° is so dull a
commodity that I look but for a small produce of that little Tob'
I have this year shipt & consigned to Mr. Cooper & if my money
should be already laid out as I imagine before this comes it will
be & consequently but a small part of that bill paid I would
desire you not to protest it & next year Mr. Hayward and myself
will take due care that the whole remainder be answered if you
do not think it more advisable & friendly to charge it to his
proper accompt & by that means give him the assurance of your
continued kindness & assistance to him. I cant tell what his
debt is already to you, but can give you this assurance that if it
be not extraordinary great his Estate will be largely solvent,
fully to answer it, together with what remains unpaid of this, he
having four good slaves with some other English servants, a
large stock of good Tob", his house well furnished, a good stock
of cattle, horses, hogs, sheep, & his stock of debts every day
increasing by his clerk's place and Smith's work, together with
the addition of his crops in his own hand & I dare say not a
pound of Tob" nor a penny of money in debt in this country
except you reckon this to me. Now S"' Having given you this
account of your brother I heartily request the favour of you, to
give me some account of mine, for he will not be so kind as to
give me one line, nor indeed can I learn from any one, any thing
of his circumstance which I would gladly hear of; as I have been
thus free with you about yo' own bro' and troublesome ab' mine,
please to think of some service wherein I may desire your con-
tinued favours and you shall find no one more ready to contri-
bute than
Sir Your Wff
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Causes of Discontent in Virginia, 1676.
[McDonald Papers, Vol. I, Virginla. State Library.]
(continued.)
ISLE OF WIGHT GRIEVANCES.
Wee have seen the declaratione from his Majesties Hon'^'"
Commissioners to the poore yet his Ma- ' most Loyall subjects of
the Isle of Wi^ht countie wee have presumed to return this to
your Honors that wee have cause to behve ther are many per-
sons who have endeavored to infuse into you verry sinister opin-
ions of our proceedings in relation to the disturbance which was
in this country the which to the outmost of our knowledges and
intents wee will declare. Wee haveing a long time layen under
great oppressions, and evrie year being more and more opprest
with great taxes, and still doe load us with greater and un-
necessarie burdens; it was enacted by the Gov' and assem.bly for
the building of forts back in the woods upon severall great m.ens
Lands, under pretence of securitie for us against the Indians,
which we perceaving and verrie well knowing that ther pretence
was no securitie for us, but rather a ruine to the countre, which
was the cause of our riseing with intents to have our taxes
Lowered, not that we rose in any wayes of Rebellion against our
most dreed Soveraigne Lord the King as by our actiorts may
appeare, for wee noe sooner rose but wee sent in a petitione and
our agrievances to S' Wm. Berkeley, Knt. , who was not at home
but the Ladie Berkeley promised that shee would acquent his
Hon' with our business, and by her request or comand, wee
evrie man returned home, and as for our being in armes wee was
commanded thereto by one act of Gov", Counseil and Assembly.
2ly. After this it was the Governor's pleasure to send an order
for a new election of Burgesses which was in May last, to the
best of our remembrance, the which was done according to his
order, which priviledge wee had not in twelve years before, soe
wee all expected redress from this Assembly, but nothing
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CAUSES OF DISCONTENT IN VIRGINIA. 381
answered but only to the Indian warr, ther was fifty seven men
Leavied for to goe out of the Isle of Wight County under the
comand of Nathaniel Bacon, a person whom we knew not nor
till that tyme never herd of, though notwithstanding in reference
to the command of the Gov' and Assembly our men was raised
and sent with two months provisione at which tyme, when as
our men was gone and under the comand of Squire Bacon, S'
Wm. Berkeley was raising of men against them in Gloster to the
quantitie of fower or five hundred men, as wee are credibly in-
formed, whom when they understood upon what account they
wer raised told his Hon' to fight against thee county men, neigh-
bours and friends, they would not, upon which the Gov' went
away and all the great men whither wee know not and left us
as sheep without a shepherd to the mercy of the heathen, yet
under the comand of Nathaniel Bacone and this as much as wee
can say of this disturbance.
3ly. As to our oppressions where as Col" Joseph Bridger *
* Colonel Joseph Bridger, of " Whitemarsh," Isle of Wight County,
was, according to tradition, the son of Joseph Bridger, who superin-
tended the building of the old brick church in that county, in 1632.
He was born 162S, Burgess for Isle of Wight 1657 and 1663; in 1664 a
commissioner to adjust the boundary line with .Maryland; in 1666 com-
missioner t-- confer with Maryland and North Carolina in regard to
tobacco; in 1666 was again Burgess, and was Adjutant-General of the
colony; in 1680 was Commander-in-chief of the horse of Isle of Wight,
Surry, Nansemond. and Lower Norfolk Counties; in 1670 he was ap-
pointed member of the Council. He died April 15th, 16S6, possessed
of a large personal estate, 12,000 acres in Isle of Wight, besides other
lands in Surry, James City, and Maryland. His lengthy epitaph has
been printed in the Virginia Historical Society Publications, Vol. XI,
page 142, so need not be reproduced here. His wife survived him,
and appears to have become a Quaker, as the will of Colonel John
Lear was proved in 1698 by the "affirmation of Madam Elizabeth
Bridger," one of the witnesses. Colonel Bridger's will is on record in
Isle of Wight, and in it he mentions his brick house on his White-
marsh farm. From an act passed 1752 to dock the entail on certain
land that had belonged to him, it appears that he had issue : I. James'^
IL William', married , and died 1704; IIL Lieutenant-Colonel
Samuel, justice of Isle of Wight 1691, died in 1713, s. />.; IV. Martha^
married Godwin; V. Mary^; VI. Elizabeth; VII. Hester.
William* and Bridger had issue: I. James^; II. WiIliam^ Burgess
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for intertaining of Col" Wm. Coole.j Col" Charles Morison.^
for Isle of Wight 1718, married . Their eldest son, Joseph'
Bridger, was the owner of " Whitemarsh " in 1752. He was doubtless
the Joseph Bridger who was Burgess for Isle of Wight 1757, 175S, 1762,
1762-3 (in which year he vacated his seat by accepting the office of
sheriff), 1763. 1769, and probably- other years. Mr. R. S. Thomas, in his
history of the "Old Brick Church," says that William Bridger, grand-
son of Colonel Joseph Bridger, was a vestryman, 1729-30; Major Joseph
Bridger, another grandson, vestryman, 1735-47, and that Joseph Bridger,
who was a vestryman, 1747-49, and Colonel Josepvh Bridger, vestryman,
I757~69, were great grandsons. A James Bridger was a vestryman,
1766-77. Mr. Thomas also states that Colonel Joseph Bridger had a
son, Joseph, who died in 1712. James Bridger was Burgess 175S, 1765,
and 176S, in which year he retired from the House. Joseph Bridger
was Sheriff of Isle of Wight, 1732. Colonel Joseph* Bridger died intes-
tate in 1769, leaving a widow, Mary Peirce (sister of Thomas Peirce,
who was member of the Convention of 17SS from Isle of Wight', who
married, secondly, June, 1773, Colonel Josiah Parker, of " Macclesfield,"
Isle of Wight, who was a distinguished officer in the Revolution, and
M. C., and had two daughters, Judith, who married Richard Baker.
and Catherine, who married Blake Baker, sons of Benjamin Baker, of
Nansemond County. The former was the father of Richard H. Baker,
of Norfolk (17SS-1S71), who was for thirty-seven years judge of the
Circuit Court.
Elizabeth Bridger, who died in 17.17, names in her will her daughter
Patience Milner, and grandchildren Elizabeth and Maria Xorsworthy,
children of her daughter Elizabeth, who married George Xorsworthy.
t Colonel William Cole, of " Bolthorpe," W^arwick County (,who may
have been the son of William Cole, who was born 1597, came to Vir-
ginia in 1618, and was Burgess for Nutmeg Quarter in 1629), was born,
according to his epitaph, in 163S, and died March '4th, 1694. He was
appointed member of the Council March ist, 1674-5 [Sninsbury Papers),
and Secretary of State 16S9. In 16S0 he was commander of VVarwick
County, and in 16S5 he was collector of Lower James River. The epi-
taph on his tomb at " BoIthor(5e," which also bears his arms — Ar. a
cross lozengz — crest : out of a coronet, a dexter hand, holding a wand,
with two serpents twined around it, has been printed in the William
and Mary Quarterly, Vol. I, page 142. Colonel Cole was married three
times; first, to , who died before 1674; second, Ann, daughter
of Governor Edward Digges ; third, Martha, daughter of Colonel John
Lear, of Nansemond County.
The tomb of the second wife is at " Bolthorpe," with the Digges
arms, and the following epitaph :
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CAUSES OF DISCOXTENT IN VIRGINIA. o8o
Col" Lambe [Lemuel] Masone,§ two or three dayes in dividing
" Here lyeth the Body of Ann the
Wife of WilHani Cole of Warwick
County Esq'r, one of the Daughters of
Edward Digges Esq'r son of
S'r Dudley Digges, Master
of the Rolls to King Charles
the First. She Departed this life
the 22d day of November i6S6
In ye 29th year of her Age.
Near also to this Place lyeth
the Bodys of Edward Cole
and Digges Cole two
Children of the said Ann."
By the third wife he had several children, who are commemorated
by a tomb at " Bolthorpe," which bears the same arms as the tomb of
Colonel Cole, and the following inscription:
" Here lyeth the Body of Martha the ' '
Daughter of William Cole & Martha ' '' "' '
his wife (Daughter of John Lear Esq'r)
Snee departed this life the 19th Day of
April 169S in ye Eighth year of her age.
near also to this place ye bodyes of
John Cole & Mary Cole two children of
the said William and Martha."
Colonel William Cole was doubtless the father of Colonel William
Cole, of Warwick, who was a Burgess 1718, visitor of William and
Mary 1723, and sheriflF 1726-27. According to a case in one of the early
reports of the Court of Appeals of Virginia (the exact reference has
been mislaid) he married Mary , and his will was dated 1729.
Their children were: I. William, who had a son, William, born June,
1744; II. Mary, married (ist) West, (2d) Ferdinand Leigh; III.
Jane, married ^ist) Colonel Nathaniel Claiborne, of "Sweet Hall," (2d)
Stephen Bingham, (3d) Colonel Francis West. It is believed that Wil-
liam Cole, who lived at " Swin-yards," Charles City, shortly before
the Revolution, was of this family. He has descendants.
Roscoe Cole, of Williamsburg, who was alive 1830, and had an only
child, Ann E., who married William F. Hamilton, of New York, and
Roscoe Cole, living in Gloucester 1740, are believed to have been of
this family. William James Roscow, son of Major William J. Cole,
died at Wilmington, Fluvanna, October loth, 1832, aged two years
t Thomas Moryson (died 1591}, of Cadeby, Lincolnshire, M. P. for
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of the Counties had between forteen or fifteen thousands pounds
Great Grimsby 1572, 15S4, 15S6, and 15SS-90, married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Thomas Moigne, of Willingham, Lincolnsiiire, and was the father
of: I. Fynes Moryson (1566-1612 ?). M. A. of Peterhouse, Cambridge,
1587, who traveled extensively in Europe and Asia; in 1600 was ap-
pointed Chief Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, and not long
after was wounded in action there. Wrote an " Itinerary " of his trav-
els, which was published in 1617; II. Sir Richard Moryson (1571?-
1628), served as a lieutenant and captain in the English troops in France
and the Low Countries, was a lieutenant-colonel in the " Island Voy-
age," and went to Ireland as colonel in Essex's army. Here he served
actively; was governor of Waterford and Wexford in 1604, and in 1609
was vice-president of Munster; M. P. for Bandon in 1614, and left Ire-
land in 1615, after fifteen years honorable service. In that year he was
appointed lieutenant-general of the ordnance in England, and settling
at Tooley Park, Leicestershire, was chosen .M. P. for Leicester, January
8th, 1620-1. Pie married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Harrington
(Dictionary of National Biography). They had issue : I. Sir Henry,
knighted at Whitehall, October 8th, 1627, and died s. p. Ben Jonson
has commemorated in an ode the intimate friendship between Moryson
and Lord Falkland, two of his most cherished "sons." II. Major
Richard, settled in Virginia at an early date; was appointed comman-
der of the fort at Point Comfort March 20th, 1638, and in February.
1641, was appointed member of the Council, in room of Roger Win-
gate, deceased. On April 17th, 1641, the Council made an order that
Captain Richard Morrison, captain of his Majesty's fort at Point Com-
fort, petitioning for leave to go to England on important occasions, and
promising to return by the next shipping, it was allowed, his brother,
Mr. Robert Morrison, engaging himself for him [Robinson's Notes).
He married Winifred . In 1651 she patented 400 acres on Horn
Harbor, with Major Richard Morrison as one of the head-rights, and
in 1656, as Mrs. Winifred Morrison, v.idow, she patented 300 acres on
Town Harbor and Pepper Creek, with Major Francis Morrison (twice)
as one of the head-rights. They appear to have had only one .son,
Colonel Charles Morrison, who in 16S0 was colonel of the militia, and
presiding justice of Elizabeth City County. In 1665 Major Francis
Moryson, writing to Lord Clarendon, asks that " Yo'r Lo'pp will be
pleased that my nephew Charles Morrison may have the command [of
the fort at Pt. Comfort] a Youth every way (if my neereness to -him
doth not make me misstake) capable of the place, my Lord ifawkland
gott it for his ffather, the onely compensation any of us had, tor the
Lieutenantship of the Ordnance purchased by my ffather and settled
on my elder Brother, by composition w'th S"r Edward Villiers for Mas-
ter, and disposed of by his Ma'tie to S'r William Heydon w'th a prom-
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CAUSES OF DISC0XT:-.NT in VIRGINIA. 385
of tobacco from our countrie which wee humbly conceave is on
great oppression.
iseto conferre upon my Brother a place of equal Vallew." Charles
Morrison appears to have married Rebecca, widow of Colonel Leonard
Yeo, of Elizabeth City County, for in the General Court, June, 1670.
was a suit by John Cooper, son of Jonn Cooper, deceased, vs Mr'.
Charles Morrison, who married the executrix of Colonel Yeo. and in
Elizabeth City records. 1693, is mention of Colonel John Lear (of Nan-
semond). and his wife. Rebecca, administratrix of Colonel Charles Mor-
rison, deceased. In the same connection it is stated that Colonel Mor-
rison's mother was Winifred Morrison. Colonel .Morrison died without
issue, about 1692, at Plymouth, England, when about to return to Vir-
ginia. III. Colonel Francis, served, apparently as a major, in the
King's army during the civil war in England ; came to Virginia' in 1649,
was Speaker of the House of Burgesses .March, 1655-6, and December.
1656; governor of the colony from April 30th, i66r, to between Sep-
tember and November, 1662. In September, 1674, " Colonel Francis
Moryson. Mr. Secretary Ludwell, and .Major General Robert Smith "
were appointed agents for Virginia in England to endeavor to secure
a repeal of the grant of the Northern Neck to Arlington and Culpeper,
and to obtain a new charter. In their negotiations on the last subject
they state that they "conceive it to be the right of Virginians, as well
as all other Englishmen, which is not to be taxed but by their consent,
expressed by their representatives." Though unsuccessful, the agents
exhibited great firmness and zeal, and as Hening says: "The right of
the inhabitants of Virginia to be exempted from taxation except by
their own consent, is insisted on with a degree of zeal and ability,
which would do honor to statesmen of any age." (//em'nj^ II. 518-
542.) In 1676 Moryson was appointed one of the commissioners sent
to Virginia to suppress Bacon's Rebellion, and showed a decided incli-
nation to be lenient. In the next year he returned to England, and
probably never was in Virginia again. In 1698 his eldest son, Henry,
was lieutenant-colonel in Lord Cutts' Regiment of foot-guards. IV^
Captain Robert, lieutenant of the fort at Point Comfort 1645 [Hetiing
1,320), died s. p.; V. Fynes ; VI. Letitia, married the celebrated Lu-
cius Cary, Lord Falkland. After the death of Colonel Charles Morrison,
there were recorded in Elizabeth City, June 19, 1699, various deposi-
tions from Rachel. Viscountess Dowager Falkland, Edward Morryson,
and the inhabitants of Bishop's Waliham, Southampton, England, set'-
ting forth the relationship of Colonel .Morrison to the other members
of the family, and showing that Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Morrison, of
Cutts' regiment, was his heir-at-law.
§ Lieutenant Francis Mason, of Lower Norfolk, came to Virginia in
1613, with his wife, .Mary, and daughter, Anne. The first wife died
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4ly. That Col'' Bridger had fined severall men for not coming
to trouping or else where which were fined some one hundred,
200, 300, pounds of tobacco, all the which wee desire to know
to what use it is put and that it may be produced for a publiqe
good it amounting to severall thousands of tobacco, the which
as wee doe suppose Col" Bridger makes use to his own private
Interest.
5ly. Whereas formerly it was accounted a great leavie that
was 40 or 50 pounds of tobacco per each when we wer not half
probably between 1623-25, as at the latter date his wife was named
Alice (she came in 1622). He was sheriff of the county in 1646, and
commissioner (justice) from its formation to August 15th, 1648. Ad-
ministration on his estate was granted November 15th, 1648, to his
widow, Alice, and son, Lemuel. tUs son, Francis (by the first wife)
and daughter. Anne, probably died young and unmarried (though it
may be that Francis was ancestor of the Masons of Surry county). His
daughter, Elizabeth, married James Thelaball, a Huguenot immigrant.
In 1637, Lieutenant Francis Mason stated in an affidavit that he was
forty-two years old.
The son. Colonel Lemuel Mason, of Lower Norfolk, was born in
Virgina after 1625; was justice from 1649; sheriff, 1664 and 166S ; m.em-
ber of the House of Burgesses, 1654, '57, '58, '59, '60, '63, '75, '85, '92,
and probably other years. In 16S0, he was presiding justice, and
colonel of the militia of Lower Norfolk, and in 1699 held the same
positions in Norfolk county. His will, dated June 17th, 1695, proved
September 15th, 1702, mentions his father, Francis Mason, deceased,
his wife, Anne (daughter of Henry Sewell, merchant), sons Thomas,
Lemuell and George, brother-in-law James Thelaball, daughter Fran-
ces, wife of George Newton, Alice, wife of Samuel Boush, and widow
of Wm. Porten ; Elizabeth, wife of T. Cocke, Margaret, wife of
(will torn), Ann, wife of (torn), Mary, wife of Walter Gee, and
Dinah, and sister Elizabeth Thelaball. The will of the widow, Ann
Mason, gentlewoman, dated October 30th, proved March 15th, 1705,
names her daughters, Frances Sayer (after the death of George New-
ton, she had married Major Francis Sayer), Alice Boush, Mary Cocke
and Dinah Thoroughgood, and sons Thomas, Lemuel and George.
There was also a daughter, Abigail, who married George Carford (or
Craford), and is named in a deed dated 1690.
Of the sons, Thomas Mason was a justice of Norfolk, 1699, and
George and Lemuell in 1702 and 1714.
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soe many tithables and a continuall warr to be maintained, and
now wee know noe occasione extraordinarie, yet wee paying
neer two hundred a head yearly, but for what we know not.
6ly. That great quantities of Tobacco that was Leavied upon
the poor people to the building of houses at James town, which
was not made habitable but fell down again befor they were
finished. . ^
7ly. That notwithstanding the great quantities of amunitione
payd by shipes for fort duties for the countries service and con-
siderable summes of tobacco raised to maintain a magazine yet
upon all occasions wee are forced to provide powder and shott
at our proper charges or else fined. ' .
Sly. That wee have been compelled to buy ourselves gunnes,
Pistolls and other armes to maintaine severall of our comanders
Hon" and keep our ourselves from fineing haveing been severall
tymes threaten befor wee could procure them which some of us
bought it at a dear rate of them have now taken them away from
us, the which wee desire to be restored to us again.
gly. The more to encourage the Indians against us they have
sent severall of them out armed to look after our Christian
Neighbours who are gone some where to secure themselves.
loly. That severall p'sons estates are ceased and part taken
away befor the owners is convicted of any crime, notwithstanding
they layed hold of the hon*"" Gov' act of indemnitie and have
taken the oath of Allegiance to his gracious Ma- and fidelitie to
his Ma-^ Gov'.
Illy. Wee desire you our Burgesses to give none of our es-
tates away as formerly ye have done, but if ye must give such
great summes dispose of your own.
12. Whereas it was formerly a custom for Sheriflfs to remaine
in ther place but one year, now it is altered, for they doe find
such a great benefit by it, that they will buy the office, and hold
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388 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZIXE.
it two yeares soe that they predominate over the poor comen-
trie, whereas the sheriffs are allowed ten pound for evrie hundred
that a hogshead containes besides his sellarie, he allowes us but
thirtie the which wee desire he may be taken off from it or allow
us as much.
13. Also wee desire that ther may be a continuall warr with
the Indians that we may have once have done with them.
14. Wee desire wee may have libertie to choose our Vestries
once in three year and that their may noe member of the Court
be therein.
15. That no Counseller may sit in any inferior Court.
16. Also wee desire that evrie man may be taxed according
to the tracko of Land they hold.
17. That Major Powell had a hundred pounds of tobacco a
day, for goeing along with the Gentlemen who divided the
counties, being as wee conceave nothing concerned.
18. And more to exact he had twelve pounds of tobacco per
poole to buy as amonitione, the which we never had.
19. Wee desire you our Burgesses to call to accompt and ex-
amine the collectors for the collecting of the 2S and 2d a hogs-
head, which hath been this many yeares receaved but to what
use it is put wee the poor, ignorant inhabitants knows, nor how
disposed off being sensible that the Marchant exhaust the same
in selling his goods and that wee pay it, and how and by what
power and law the collector demands 2d a hogshead for what we
doe requist to know and if not Legall to dissanull it for the
futur wee do humbly conceave that the 2s a hogshead was raised
for to discharge our countrie taxes, therefor we desire our Bur-
gesses to admitt our hon''" Gov' to have his just dew out of it,
which is 12 hundred pounds a year and the remainder to assist
us the poor inhabitants towards these great burdens and taxes
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CAUSES OF DISCONTENT IN VIRGINIA. 389
which wee groan under this many yeares being not further able
to bear it.
20. That by a late Act of the Grand Assembly to load us
with further taxes hath enacted forts to be built in severall places
of this Collonie, which is as wee humbly conceave for nothing
else, but for the private use of some particular persons and not
att all for the commons good neither to our certaine knowledge
any wayes, a defence for us, against our most Barbarous enemies
who are as wee humbly conceave to much favoured, emboldened
and encouraged, to warr with us but not wee with them, being
bound absolutely to the peace as our aprehensione tells us, by
that Act. Wee therefore desire that wee may not be burdened
by the building of the fors'd forts nor that wee have any built
and that they may be quite taken off and quitted from all and
evrie one of the pretended charges that may or shall be pre-
sented by any, let them be of what nature and qualitie soever
they may be, pretended as ane order to the erecting of the afors*
forts wee not being able to undergoe soe chargeable a compul-
sion wherein ther is nether securitie nor defence.
21, Wee doe also desire to know for what purpose or use the
late publique leavies of 50 pounds of tobacco and cask per poll
and the 12 pound per polle is for and what benefit wee are to
have for it, which if it be for our, or our children's good and that
it doth plainly appear soe wee are willing to the payment thereof,
but otherways those that have receaved our tobacco to return it
us again to the relief of our selves and poor families being verrie
unable to pay it.
22, Wee desire to know for what wee doe pay our Leavies
evrie year and that it may noe more be layd in private but that
wee may have free libertie to hier and see evrie particular for
what it is raised and that ther may noe more lifts be given to noe
particular person or persons what soeever nether in publick or
by private which hath been only means to make us poore and
miserable.
23, Whereas formerly it was the custome of Master of Shipes
^Idc lajtim/! JOfr ^gnisd asifi^x x"^^ 8'*^' labnu xuso-i^
^nj5C' K;r! ;c'0 ^.u riif u tis-.v o.i .bts'^jaiuooir* but.
-..•^ U-H? -lOfj c'-o't b-^:oi ■i>i\} lo xniiiKud 9fl) V(i
. • :;•!> bfiiVt-L> f.^fJci -iUis:: :.'C! vf;'"'; \'jflj 34.t[5 I>r:(>
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bni;
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390 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
to pay the Castle deuties in powder and shott which was a saftie
for this Collony alt all tymes, and at war against our Indian
enemie or others which should assault us, now it is as wee under-
stand converted and that dewly altered by paying it in shoes,
stockens, linnen and other merchantable goods as the Collectors
pleaseth, and disposed of to ther own advantages, being noe
profit or care to country or people, nor noe ease to our intoller-
able taxes therefor we desire yor Hon" to have ana account of
this great bank of mony and where it lys that it may be pro-
duced for the countrys good and for the futur that it may be
payed in Powder and shott as formerly and remaine as a Maga-
zine for the service of Countrie.
24. Whereas ther is one act that burdens the Countrie with
Amercements in the Generall and countie Courts to know what
it is for and to what use it is put and who hath pocketed it which
is against all resone, for many an honest and good pay Master
may be sued by too rigid a creditor for what he is willing to pay
it if he had it and it is enough to have judgement for his debet
and this Amercement exhaust from him beside which is too much
to the ruine of the debtor. \ .
25. Whereas ther are some great persons both in honor rich
in Estat and have severall wayes of gaines and profitts are ex-
empted from paying Leavies and the poorest inhabitant being
compelled to pay the great taxes which we are burdened with
having a hogshead or two of tobacco to pay for rent and near
two hundred yearly for Leavies having a wife and two or three
children to maintain whither our taxes or not the greater by such
favour and priviledges granted them which wee desire to be
easd of by ther paying of Leavies as well as wee, they having
noe necessitie from being so exempted.
26. And as for the oath that was sent down to us by Nath:
Bacone was first concluded by severall of the militia officers
Leftenant Col", Arthure Smith * being the chief in our countie,
*The first of this family of whom anything is known was Arthur
Smith, who was a Burgess for Isle of Wight 1644-5. By his will, dated
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^\-)'I CAUSES OF DISCONTENT IN VIRGINIA. 391
who was with Squire Bacone at the middle plantation and ther
receded the oath yet see as Saving our aleagiance to the King.
Whereas ther are several! clerks in county courts hath enacted
ther fees on severall persons and especially upon widdows and
orphans to both ther ruins, wee desire that a certaine rate may
be put upon the administration And all other fees thereunto be-
longing.
Wee alsoe desire you who are his Majesties Commissioners
for to take a vew or cause to be taken of the forts that we have
hier made which have cost the country many hundred thousands
pounds of tobacco and that wee conceave that one fortt at Point
Comfort had been better and more securer for the King and
country, for had ther been a fort ther by all mens relatione the
October ist, 1645 (he died soon afterwards), he left a tract of 2,275
acres to his children, Thomas, Richard, Jane and George (who all died
without issue), and Arthur. The last named was a justice of Isle of
Wight in 1675 and 16S0, colonel of the militia in the latter year, and
Burgess in 1685. By his will, dated December 2d, 1696 (soon after
which he died), he left his estate to his sons, George and Thomas (who
both died without issue), and Arthur, and reversion to daughters, Jane,
Sarah, and Mary, and if they died without issue, to the parish of New-
port for a free school. Arthur Smith, 3d, was justice of Isle of Wight
1702-14, and perhaps later, and died before 1752, leaving Arthur Smith,
4th, his eldest son and heir. In 1752 the town of Smithfield was estab-
lished on his land, and in the same year an act was passed, docking
the entail on that portion. From this act {Hening VI, 30S) the descent
above given has been taken. Mr. R. S. Thomas, in his account of the
Old Brick Church, says that Arthur, 3d, died in 1755, and left his estate
to a nephew, Thomas Smith, who was the father of Colonel Arthur
Smith, M. C., while another informant states that Arthur, 3d, married
Lewis, and was the father of Arthur Smith, 4th, who died about
iSoo, leaving issue: I. 'Elizabeth, married , and had a daughter,
Elizabeth, who married Lieutenant William Cocke, U. S. N.; II. Sally,
married Isham Jordan; III. Fanny, married Robert West; IV. Lelia,
married Joseph B. Whitehead; V. Arthur, born about 1792, captain in
war of 1S12, colonel of the militia, member of the House of Delegates
1S18, 1819-20, 1837, and 183S, of the Council 1814, M. C. 1823-26. and
declined re election, and was, for forty years, the most popular man in
the county. He died unmarried. A correct account, in regard to the
discrepancy stated above, is requested.
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Dutch had never attempted to a come up the river and burned
see many slupes as they did.
[Signed]
''*>»'•''- Richard Penny,
,, ' A very busy man in these tymes.
Ye.i!'.1 -r •. s-tTd:;-: <- m ;>■, a
I ir;jir.eJ -^ : John Marshall.
Richard Sharpe.
Richard Jorden, Senior,
One of Bacon's Representatives.
Edward iMiller,
~ A harmless poor man.
. ., -. John t Davis,
^ His mark.
; . V ;urv ti. 1< Q^^ ^^^^ ^^^Yi bin in armes ag' ye Governm't.
' ' ■'■ '■^" ■'"' ^'. Antho ffulgham,*
A Busy p'°° that brought this paper to the rest
to subscribe which was written by Marshall's
Serv't att the desire of the subscribers hereof.
[Indorsed]
Isle of Wight Grievances
Brought March 5
For the Burgesses
To bee purused and Return' d
ji...,. To His Ma" ' Com".
[Signed] S^ Wiseman.
[In pencil 5 March,]
1676-7.
* Captain Anthony Fulgham patented land in Isle of Wight, 1665.
His will was dated October 14th, 1678, and proved December 9th, 1678,
and his legatees were his mother, brothers Nicholas and Michael Fulg-
ham, brother Jno. Fulgham 's son, Anthony, the female children of
brother Nicholas, "kinswoman" Martha, daughter of brother Michael.
Nicholas Fulgham patented in Isle of Wight, 1706.
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Instructions to Yeardley, 1626.
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[McDonald Papers, Vol. I, Virginia State Library.]
[Yeardley's second term as Governor began May 17th, 1626, and ex-
tended to November 14th, 1627.]
Instructions from the Lords of His Ma"'' Most Hon"^ Privy
Council!, To Sir George Yardly, Knt., Governor of Virginia,
and to the Hon''" Councill of State there:
Ye 19th day of April, 1626,
1. That you, ye s'^ Sir George Yardly, do use your best en-
deavours to be ready with such ships and vessels, Men and
Provisions as ye have furnished for ye purpose upon ye first fair
wind and weather, to put to sea, and to sail directly for Virginia,
unless ye shall find it requisite for ye good of ye Plantacon and
peoples to touch at ye Summer Islands by ye way. When after
ye have refreshed ye shall proceed to Virginia, and upon yo'
arrival there according to your commission granted by His Most
Xtian Maj'-'^ under ye great Seal, take upon you ye present gov-
ernment of the Colony.
2. That in the first place you be carefull that Almighty God
may be duly and daily served, both by yourself and all the
people under yo' charge, w"" may draw down a blessing upon
all your Endeavours.
3. That you faile not by the first Ship to send us a list of all
the severall plantacons, ye places where they are planted, the dis-
tance between the Plantations, the number of people in every
Plantation distinguished by their sexes, ages, Professions and
Condition, and also by ye place of every ones birth, and the
manner of their Patents here in England. What arms, Ammu-
nition, Boats or Ships, Dwelling Houses and other Buildings?
What unpaled ground ? Provision of Food or store of Tame
Cattle in every of ye s*^ Plantations.
4. That you diligently and particularly enquire by oath and
all other lawfull means what Lands, Woods, Serv'°, Tenern",
Houses, Boats, Ships were in November, 1623, belonging unto
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394 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
ye late Company. How and to whom they have been disposed ?
By what order and authority they have been so disposed and
what ye shall find remaining to reserve to the public use. All
which you are to certify under ye Hands and Seale of the
Colony.
5. That all new comers be well entertained and lodged in
houses by the old Planters untill they can lodge themselves, that
they be not suffered to sit down stragling, but enjoyned to live
by those already planted or in sufficient number by themselves.
And if be unprovided of Land fit to manure, then to be per-
mitted to sit down upon the Company's Land upon the conditions
expressed in the Treas^ and Councills Letter sent immediately
after the Massacre in August, 1623.
6. That all new comers be exempted ye ist year from going
in p'"" or contributing to the war save only in defence of the
place where they shall inhabit, and that only when the enemy
shall assail it. But all others in the colony shall be rated to ye
maintenance of ye warrs proportionally to their abilities. Nei-
ther shall any man be priviledged from going to the wars that
is above seventeen years old and under 60. Respect being had
to the quality of the persons, that otffcers be not forced to go
as private soldiers, or in places inferior to their degrees, unless
in cases of extream necessity.
7. That the merchants be not constrained to take Tobacco at
3. p. Pound in exchange for his wares, but that it be lawfull for
him to make his own bargain for his goods be so changable
notwithstanding any Proclamation published there to the con-
trary.
8. That ye call for ye charter parties that the Masters of ships
bring along with them and straighdy examine whether they have
truly performed ye condicon of their contracts, especially to en-
quire whether they have not pestred their ships with passengers,
and whether they have given sufficient and wholesom food and
drink during ye voyage, and as ye find to certify ye Lords of
his Maj'^' privy councill or ye comm" of Virginia.
9. That ye be carefull that the good ship the Annie wherein
ye are to embarque yourself and the James that goeth in con-
cert w'" you be not pestred with passengers and y' ye Masters of
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INSTRUCTIONS TO VEARDLEY. 395
ye same ships do give the Passengers sufficient and wholesom
food and drink during the voyage.
ID. That in regard ye may daily expect ye coming of a
fforaign Enemy, Wee require you after your first landing that
you pubHsh by Proclamation through the Colony that no person
whatsoever upon ye arrivall of any Ship or Ships shall dare to
go aboard without express warrant from you ye Gove"" and
Councill, least by that means they be surprised to the great
prejudice if not overthrow of the Plantacon.
11. To avoid that intollerable abuse of Ingrossing comodities
and forestalling ye Market, That you require all Masters of ships
not to break Bulk till their arrivall at James City, or other wise
without special order from you ye Governor and Councill.
12. That you endeavour by severe punishment to suppress
drunkeness and that you be carefull that great Quantities of
Wine and strong Drink be not sold into the hands of those who
are likeliest to abuse it, but that as near as you can, it may be
equally disposed of for the comfort and reliefe of ye whole Plan-
tacon. And if any Merc''' or any other for private lucre shall
bring in any rotten and unwholesome wines or strong drink,
such as may endanger ye health of ye people, That ye suffer it
not to be sold there, but do cause them to ship it back again.
13. That whereas the Tobacco falleth every day more and
more to a baser price, We require you to use your best En-
deavours to cause ye people there to aoply themselves more to
ye raising of more staple comodities as likewise to ye impaling
of Gardens and Orchards and enclosing of Grounds for all man-
ner of Cattle, whereby the Hire of the Country may be ad-
vanced in abundance.
14. That you cause ye people to plant such store of corn as
there may be a whole year's provision before hand in ye Colony,
least relying upon ye Single Harvest by Drought, blasting or
other waies they fall into such wants & fammines as formerly
they have endured.
15. That you may the better avoid the Treachery of ye Savages
and prevent such Dangers as heretofore have fallen upon the
Country, you strictly forbid all persons whatsoever to receive
into their Houses any of ye Indians, or to parly, converse or
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trade with them without especiall License and warrant given to
that purpose, according to y"" Commission, inflicting severe
Punishment upon ye Offenders.
i6. That whereas by y" last Letters from Virginia, wee are
given to understand that of those who are now nominated lor
Councellors there, some are Dead and others are coming home.
Wee do authorize you ye Gov "" to make choice of such as you
in y"' Judgment shall think most fitt to supply their places, and
to administer to them an oath as you are directed by y' Com-
mission that so in these dangerous times there may not be want-
ing a sufficient number to assist in ye Government of the affairs
of that Colony.
As also to administer the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy
to all such as come hither w^ an intention to plant & reside there,
which if they shall refuse he is to be returned or shipped from
thence home. The same oath to be administered to all other
p''" when ye shall see it fitt, as Mariners, Merch", &c., to pre-
vent danger by Spyes.
17. And to conclude. That in all things according to your best
endeavour, you endeavour the extirpating of vice and the en-
couragement of virtue and goodness.
Thos. Coventry, C,
Marlbrugh,
WORSTER,
, _ ; ;^ Pembroke &
Montgomery,
E. COMBY,
J. Edmonds,
J. Suckling,
D. Charleton,
John Cook,
Humphrey May,
C. R.
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INDIAN WARS IN AUGUSTA COUNTY. 39"
Indian Wars in Augusta County, Virginia.
The following is a copy of one of the collections of the late
Lyman C. Draper, which are preserved by the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin. As is well known, Dr. Draper was inde-
fatigable in his researches. From 1835 to 1870, he traveled
thousands of miles, visiting the residences of descendants of
early setders, and ransacking barrels, boxes, drawers and pigeon-
holes. He called this paper "The Preston Register," possibly
because he attributed the authorship to Colonel William Pres-
ton. There are, however, some errors in the list, particularly
in regard to names, which Colonel Preston would net have com-
mitted.
The Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society writes that
the original paper has the appearance of an ancient manuscript,
and as far as he knows has never been printed.
The number of people killed, wounded or captured by Indians,
in Augusta county, from the beginning of the war till May, 1758,
was, according to this Register, 307. Many more fell victims to
Indian barbarity from May, 1758, to the fall of 1764, when the
war ended.
It must be remembered that Augusta county covered a much
larger territory in 1754-8 than it does now. Monongalia, Hol-
ston River, New River and South Branch are remote from the
present county limits.
The Register fixes the dates and places of various occurrences
of more or less historical interest, in regard to which tradition
was silent or uncertain. July Sth, 1755, has heretofore been
given as the day on which Colonel James Patton was killed and
Mrs. Ingles (not English) and others were captured; the Regis-
ter, however, gives the date as July 30th.
The descendants of Captain John Smith have been under the
impression that he was captured at a fort on James River, where
Pattonsburg now stands, but could give no date. The Register
states that it was on June 25th, 1756, and at Fort Vause. This
fort (so called) was on the head waters of Roanoke River, about
ten miles from where Christiansburg now stands. The name
was variously written Vass. Voss, Vaux and Vause.
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Captain Smith was the ancestor of the late Judge Daniel Smith,
of Rockingham, Colonel Benjamin H. Smith, of Kanawha, and
Joseph Smith, of Augusta. He came to Augusta County from
Ireland, by way of Philadelphia, in 1739, or early in 1740, and
"proved his importation," with the view of taking up public
land, at Orange County Court, June 26th, 1740, no court then
sitting in the new county of Augusta. His children, born in
Ireland, were Abraham, Henry, Daniel, John and Joseph. On
June 24th, 1742, he qualified at Orange Court, as captain of
Augusta militia. In the fall of that year, ten years after the first
settlement, there were twelve organized militia companies in the
county, each composed of about fifty men. William Beverley
(although he did not live in the county) was county-lieutenant
or commander-in-chief, and James Patton was colonel. Among
the captains, besides John Smith, were Andrew Lewis, John
Buchanan, John Willson and John McDowell. Buchanan was
the son-in-law of Colonel Patton, and grandfather of the first
Governor Floyd. Willson represented Augusta in the House of
Burgesses for twenty-seven consecutive years, from 1745 to his
death, in 1772. McDowell was the ancestor of the McDowells
of Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. He and eight of his men
were killed by Indians December 21st, 1742.
The settled part ot Augusta then embraced the present county,
and parts of Rockbridge, Rockingham and Bath. The inhabi-
tants were few and far between, the total population being about
2,400. In 1744, Peter Scholl, one of the captains, lived thirty
miles from a public road.
Captain John Smith commanded a company in the disastrous
Sandy Creek expedition, early in 1756. It would seem that after
his return he was stationed at Fort Vause, a rude stockade, and
had two of his sons with him, John and Joseph, the former a
lieutenant. The family tradition is that the place was invested
by a large body of French and Indians, and ammunition being
exhausted, the small garrison gave up the place upon a promise
of being permitted to retire. When the men came out, the
enemy, enraged on account of the small number that had withstood
them, slaughtered some and carried off others as prisoners.
John Smith, Jr., was killed, while Captain Smith and his son Jos-
eph were held as captives. The prisoners were taken down the
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Mississippi River to New Orleans, and several of them, includ-
ing Captain Smith, were shipped to France. Joseph Smith died
on the way to New Orleans. Captain Smith was detained as a
prisoner for two years, and his pay during that time was pro-
vided for by an act of Assembly found in Hening. After his
return, probably in impaired health, he seems to have taken no
active part in military affairs. He survived till the Revolution-
ary War began, and then, his military spirit having revived, he
applied for a commission, and was greatly offended by a refusal
on account of his age. His sons, Abraham and Daniel, were
prominent in the Indian war, and his son-in-law, Hugh Bowen,
was killed at the battle of King's Mountain. Abraham Smith's
son, John, was an ensign at Point Pleasant, in 1774. Three of
Daniel Smith's sons participated in the siege of Yorktovvn. He
was colonel of Rockingham militia after the organization of that
county, and lost his life at a military celebration of the victory
of Yorktovvn. His horse, taking fright at the firing, sprung
aside and sprained his rider's back, causing his death in a few
days.
Joseph A. Waddell,
Staunto7i, July 13th, 18^4.
A Register of the Persons who have been either Killed,
Wounded, or taken Prisoners by the Enemy, in Augusta
County, as also such as h.a.ve M.a.de their Escape.
1754. Robt. Foyles, his wife & 5 children, Monongalia, killed.
Octob'r— Steren Lyon, Holston River, killed.
John Goldman, Holston River, killed.
Benjamin Harrison, Holston River, killed.
1755. Burk, Holston River, prisoner, escaped.
May 3 — Mary Baker, Holston River, wounded.
June 18 — Sam'l Stalnacker, Holston River, prisoner, escaped.
Samuel Hydon, Holston River, prisoner.
Adam Stalnacker, Holston River, killed.
Mrs. Stalnacker, Holston River, killed.
A servant man, Holston River, killed.
Mathias Counie, Holston River, killed.
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June 19— Michael Houck, Holston River, killed. '''*''"
July 3— James McFarland, New River, killed.
John Bingeman, New River, killed.
"■' Mrs. Bingeman, New River, killed. ■" " '
Adam Bingeman, New River, killed.
John Cook, New River, killed.
Henry Lin, New River, killed.
A young child. New River, killed,
Nathaniel VVelshire, New River, wounded.
Dutch Jacob, New River, wounded.
His wife, New River, prisoner, escaped.
Frederick Stern, New River, wounded.
Mrs. Bingman, jr., New River, wounded.
Mrs. Davies, New River, wounded.
Isaac Freeland, his wife and 5 children, New River,
prisoners.
Bridgeman's son and daughter and a stranger. New
River, prisoners.
July 12— Lieut. Wright & 2 Soldiers, Reed Creek, killed.
30— Col. James Patton, New River, killed.
Caspa Barrier, New River, killed. ''^"
Mrs. Draper & one child, New River, killed.
James Cull, New River, wounded.
Mrs. English & her two children, New River, prison-
ers, escaped.
Mrs. Draper, jr., New River, prisoner.
Henry Leonard, New River, prisoner.
Aug. 12— Morris Griffith, Vause's Fort, prisoner, escaped.
Henry Boughman, Greenbrier, killed.
John Cousi & his father-in-law, Greenbrier, killed.
Walter Fishpough, Greenbrier, killed.
George White, Greenbrier, killed.
Old Christopher, Greenbrier, killed.
Mrs. Cousler, Greenbrier, killed.
An old man, his wife and a school-master, Greenbrier
killed.
Sept. —John Thomas, Greenbrier, killed.
Mrs. Fishpough & 5 children, Greenbrier, prisoners.
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Cousler's daughter & Mrs. Ineny, Greenbrier, prison-
ers.
Corporal Bennet, Greenbrier, killed.
1756. Two girls named Landsixo, South Branch, prisoners.
Feb. — Rob't Looney & a Dutchman, Reed Creek, killed.
March —John Lee, Reed Creek, killed.
Michael Motes. Reed Creek, killed.
Patrick Smith, Reed Creek, killed.
Moses Man, Reed Creek, prisoner.
Vallentine Harman, New River, killed.
Jacob Harman & one son, New River, killed.
Andrew Moses, New River, killed.
Thomas Daries, Roanoke, prisoner, escaped.
June 25— Capt. John Smith, Fort Vaiise, prisoner, returned.
Peter Looney, Fort Vause, prisoner, escaped.
Wm. Bratton, Fort Vause, prisoner, returned.
Joseph Smith, Fort Vause, prisoner.
Wm. Pepper, Fort Vause, prisoner.
Mrs. Vause & two daughters, a negro & 2 young In-
dians, and a servant-man. Fort Vause, prisoners.
Ivan Medley & 2 daughters. Fort Vause, prisoners.
James Bell, Fort Vause, prisoner.
Christopher Hicks, Fort Vause, prisoner.
Cole, Fort Vause, prisoner.
Graham, Fort Vause, prisoner.
Benj. Daries, Fort Vause, prisoner.
Lieut. John Smith, Fort Vause, killed.
John Tracey, Fort Vause, killed.
John English. Fort Vause, killed.
Mrs. Mary English, Fort Vause, prisoner.
Wm. Robinson, Fort Vause, wounded.
Tho. Robinson, Fort Vause, wounded.
Sam'I Robinson, Fort V^ause, wounded.
Robt. Pepper, Fort Vause, wounded.
Sept. II— Ensign Madison, Jackson's River, killed.
12 13 14— Nicholas Carpenter, Jackson's River, killed.
Steren Sowel, Jackson's River, killed.
James Mais, Jackson's River, killed.
James Montgomery, Jackson's River, killed.
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Nicholas Nut, Jackson's River, killed. v.'
John Bird, Jackson's River, killed.
George Kinkead, Jackson's River, killed.
Fry, Jackson's River, killed.
Mrs. Boyl. Jackson's River, killed.
3 children named Parsinger, Jackson's River, killed.
Joseph Swobs, Jackson's River, wounded.
VVillson, Jackson's River, wounded.
5 children of Chas. Boyl, Jackson's River, prisoners.
David Gallaway, Jackson's River, prisoner, escaped.
Mrs. McConell, Jackson's River, prisoner, escaped.
Joseph Carpenter, Jackson's River, prisoner, escaped.
Mrs. Bird & 6 children, Jackson's River, prisoners.
Mrs. Kinkead & 3 children, Jackson's River, prisoners.
Mrs. Parsinger & 2 children, Jackson's River, prison-
ers.
■. > 5 children called Carpenter, Jackson's River, prisoners.
Sam'l Brown, a boy, Jackson's River, prisoner.
Swobs, a boy, Jackson's River, prisoner.
John Robinson, Fort Vause, killed.
1857. John Walker, Fort Vause, prisoner.
Feb. —Jacob Peters lost 6 children. South Branch, prisoners, i
escaped.
March — Wm. Bradshaw and son, Craig's Creek, prisoners.
May 14— And. Arnold, Jackson's River, killed.
Henry Lawless, Jackson's River, killed,.
16— John Moon, Cow pasture, killed. ' '•;"
Mrs. Moor and 5 children. Cow pasture, prisoners.
George Neese and 2 sons. South Branch, prisoners.
Sudie, South Branch, killed.
Henry Lawrence, South Branch, killed.
Michael Freeze & wife, South Branch, killed.
July —Mark Tallet, Jackson's River, killed.
A servant man, Jackson's River, prisoner.
James Allen, Jackson's River, wounded.
Swobs, Jackson's River, wounded.
25 — Robert Renick, Forks of James River, killed.
Thos. Moon, Forks of James River, killed.
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Mrs. Renick and 7 children, Forks of James River,
prisoners.
Mrs. Denis, Forks of James River, prisoner.
John Crawford, jr., Craig's Creek, killed.
Jno. Alex. Crawford, Craig's Creek, wounded.
Sept. — Serj. Henry, Forf. Dinwiddie, killed.
James Stuart, Cow pasture, killed.
James Stuart, jr., Cow pasture, prisoner.
James McClung and 2 children named Cantuell, Cow
pasture, prisoners.
Oct. — ^James McFerrin, Catawba, killed.
Wm. McFerrin, Catawba, prisoner.
Nov. — 3 Dutch people, Brock's Gap, i killed, 2 prisoners.
John States, Brock's Gap, killed.
1758. Abm. Merchant, Brock's Gap, killed.
Jan. — Wm. Ward, a boy, Fort Dinwiddie, prisoner.
A Soldier of Capt. Woodward, Roanoke, killed. '•'■;.
A Servant of Bryan's, Roanoke, killed.
Mch. 19 — Wm. Clepole, Brock's Gap, killed.
Peter Moser, South Branch, killed. ' '*. .. ;;
Nicholas Frank, South Branch, killed.
John Coonrad, South Branch, killed.
John Cunningham 6>: 2 others (names forgotten). South
Branch, prisoners.
George Moses, South Branch, wounded.
Adam Harper, South Branch, wounded.
A servant- man killed, and maid and i child prisoners,
Cow pasture.
20 — ^James Gatlire, Roanoke, killed.
Joseph Love, Roanoke, killed.
Wm. Love, Roanoke, killed.
A servant maid & child, Roanoke, prisoners.
Snodgrass, a girl, Catawba, prisoner.
Ap'l 24 — ^John McCreary, Cow pasture, prisoner.
Wm. McCreary, Cow pasture, prisoner.
Capt. James Dunlap, South Branch, killed.
Josiah Willson, South Branch, killed.
John Hutchinson, South Branch, killed.
. Thomas Caddon, South Branch, killed.
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Henry McCullam, South Branch, killed.
John Wright, South Branch, killed.
Thomas Smith, South Branch, killed.
! 1758. Robert McNulIy, South Branch, killed. -
Wm. Elliott, South Branch, killed.
Ap'l 27 — Mrs. Elliott, South Branch, killed.
Ludwick Falck and wife. South Branch, killed.
Adam Little, South Branch, killed.
>f '. : Brock, South Branch, killed.
>r - John Ramsey, South Branch, killed.
Wm. Burk, South Branch, killed.
Rooney, South Branch, killed.
Wm. Woods, South Branch, killed. . ^.
John McCulley, South Branch, killed.
iv?:./ Thomas Searl, South Branch, killed.
James Gill, South Branch, killed.
John Guy and a stranger, South Branch, killed.
28 — Capt. Sylest and 16 persons not known. South Fork,
prisoners.
24 persons at same place missing, South Fork, prison-
ers.
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ROBERT BEVERLEY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 405
Major Robert Beverley and His Descendants.
Bv W. G. Stanard.
The family of Beverley was an old and respectable one in the county
of York, England. At the time of the Reformation a member was
one of the commissioners for suppressing the northern monastaries,
and received some grants of church lands. The family became di-
vided into two branches, resident at Beverley (town), and at Selby and
Great Smeaton. According to the account which has been handed
down in Virginia, and also that given by Burke's Landed Gentry,
Robert Beverley, the immigrant to Virginia, was from the town of
Beverley. Burke also states that his Yorkshire estate was sold to the
Pennyman family (whose seat, Beverley Park, was near Beverley). It
is probable that Major Robert Beverley, of Virginia, was a near rela-
tive of Major John Beverley, of Yorkshire,- who was a Royalist, and
was one of the intended knights of the Royal Oak {Burke's Com-
tnoners). Robert Beverley, himself, says that his heart had been filled
from his youth up with loyalty to his King [Hejiing III, 258).
He came to Virginia about 1663 [Ibid, 259), and settled in Middlesex
county, of which he was a justice in 1673, and perhaps earlier. Elected
Clerk of the House of Burgesses in 1670, he soon obtained great influ-
ence with that body, and became one of the leading men of the colony,
standing as high in the good opinion of the Governor as of the House.
From the outbreak of Bacon's Rebellion he was a hearty supporter of
Berkeley, and one of Bacon's early proclamations included Beverley
among the " wicked and pernitious Councellors, aiders and Assistors
(of Berkeley) against the Commonalty in these our Cruell Commo-
tions." He went with the Governor to the Eastern Shore ; but was
sent back across the bay with a force of twenty or thirty men to do
what he could towards suppressing the insurgents. In this he was very
active and successful, and even his bitterest enemies seem to have
acknowledged, that, as his son says : " one Major Robert Beverley was
the most active and successful commander on Berkeley's side " (iS'^z^'-
erley's History of Virgifiia). On November 3d, 1676, Berkeley gave
him a commission (addressed to officers of all ships in Virginia) as a
"faithful and principall soldier," and on November 13th, gave him
another, appointing him commander of all his (Berkeley's) forces. It
begins: "Whereas by many frequent and successful services to his
Sacred Majesty, this Countrey, and me, his Majesties Governor of it ;
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Major Robert Beverley hath approved himself to be most loyall, cir-
cumspect, and curagioiis in his Majesties service for the good of his
countrey, and the suppressing this late horrid Rebellion, began by
Bacon, and continued since his death by Ingram, Lawrence, Hansford
and others, the last of which he, the said Robert Beverley, with
courage and admirable conduct, never to be forgotten, this day brought
to me." {Hening III, 567).
Among the leading rebels captured by Beverley were Harris, Wils-
ford and Hansford. Of the capture of the latter, the author of "In-
gram's Proceedings" (Forces Tracts), says: "Which accordingly he
(the Governor) effected under the command of Major Beverly: a person
calculated to the Latitude of the servis, which required discretion,
curage, and celerity, as qualitys wholly subserviant to military affaires :
And all though he returned not with an Olive branch in his mouth, the
Hyrogliph of peace, yet he went back with the laurell upon his browes,
the emblim of conquest and triumph, haveing snapt up one Coll: Hans-
ford, and his party, who kep garde at the Howse where Coll: Reade
once did live. ^ * * [The writer then goes on to state that another
party of Baconites whom Berkeley wished to capture were stationed at
one Mr. Howard's, in Gloucester]. For the accomplishment of which
piece of servis, he very secretly dispatched away a select number under
the conduct of Major Beverly, who very nimbly performed the same."
Berkeley also made him a member of his Council.
Major Beverley seems to have believed in the principle of making
war support war. and there was loud complaint of plundering done by
his force. The "Grievances of Gloucester County," submitted to the
commissioners Moryson, Jeffreys, and Berry, sent from England to sup-
press the rebellion, states in one article: "A Complaint against Major
Robert Beverly that when the country had (according to Order) raised
60 armed men to be an Out-guard for the Governor— who not finding
the Governor nor their appointed Comander they were by Beverly
comanded to goe to work, fall trees and maule and toat railes, which
many of them refusing to doe, he presently disbanded them & sent
them home at a tyme when the countrey were infested by the Indians,
who had a little before cut off six persons in one family, and attempted
others. They beg reparation ag't the said Beverly and his Majesties
and Governors Pardon for their late defection " The commissioners
reply: " Wee conceive this dealing of Beverly's to be a notorious abuse
and Grievance, to take away the peoples armes while ther famalies
were cutt off by the Indians, and they deserve just reparation here."
On the other hand, the House of Burgesses, in February, 1677, reply-
ing to this same Gloucester grievance, says: "To the complaynt ag't
Mas'tr Robert Beverly in Gloster Agrievances. Answered, He justi-
fies himselfe and it is layd downe. doth say it is not true. Concerning
which the governor being sent to by the house, did declare that what
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ROBERT BEVERLEY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 407
Major Beverly did was by his order, and further declared that if any
of the armes so received were properly belonging to Gloster Countyes
people that they should have them returned upon demand." The rails
were probably intended for some sort of fortification (as it was too far
from Beverley's home for him to have made any private use of them),
and there doubtless appeared to him so much discontent among the
Gloucester men under his command that it would be folly to leave
arms in the hands of people who might in a few days be in the insur-
gent army.
It seems evident that the English commissioners soon acquired, if
they did not bring with them, a bitter hatred to Berkeley and his
friends, and particularly towards Robert Beverley, to whose influence
was largely due the hearty and constant support given by the House
of Burgesses to the Governor. Though the latter, of course, deserves
great censure for his excessive cruelty, yet his friends Beverley, Lud-
well, Ballard, and others maintained, after his death, a contest for the
lawful independence of the colony against the corrupt tribe of crea-
tures of Charles and James, and on this account are entitled to respect.
The commissioners long continued their attacks on Beverley. In
their report to the King of the " .Most worthy persons whose suflferings
and services by the late Rebellion have been reported," they say : " Major
Robert Beverly clerk of the Assembly a person being active and ser-
viceable in surprizing and beating up Quarters and small Guards about
the Country, and as himselfe sayes, and we have no reason to believe
[otherwise?] the onely person that got by the unhappy Troubles, in
Plundering (without distinction of honest [i. e. loyal] men's estates
from others) as will be found when accounts are adjusted, and was one
that had the confidence to say in the hearing of Mr. Wiseman our
Gierke hee had not Plundered enough, soe that the Rebellion ended
too soone for his purpose. Besides wee ourselves have observed him
to have been the Evil Instrument that fom ^nted the ill humours be-
tweene the two Governors ther on the Place, and was a great occasion
for their clashing and Difference." {Sainsbury Abstracts.) The " two
governors" were Berkeley and Jeflireys, the first strongly objecting to
resign his authority to the latter. Colonel Francis .Moryson seems to
have been especially rancorous towards Philip Llidwell and Beverley.
Writing to Thbmas Ludwell, he says that his brother, Philip Ludwell,
and Robert Beverley were the chief causes of the rebellion.
When Governor Berkeley returned to England his adherents, always
supported by the Burgesses, continued the contest with Governor Jef-
freys and the commissioners. In April, 1677, the latter directed Bever-
ley to give them the journals of the House. This he refused to do
without the consent of that body, whereupon the commissioners seized
the books by force, against which the House passed a resolution of
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remonstrance, which was sent to England, and which excited the indig-
nation of the King. Late in 1677, Berry and Moryson. having then
returned to England, furnished, at the request of the Committee of
Trade and Plantations, a list of the Virginia Council, with their "char-
acters." On the receipt of this the Board decided to remove Beverley
and Colonel Edward Hill. In December, 1677, Jeffreys writes to Mory-
son of the " Impudent conduct of Robert Beverley since his (Moryson's)
departure, in denying the authority of the commission and calling
their proceedings unjust and illegal." {SaiTisbury Abstracts.) On
the receipt of this letter Moryson wrote to Wiseman : " I send you Col.
Jeffrey's Letter wherein you will find that Beverley and Ludwell still
continue the same mutineers, as wee left them, and will never be other,
but will undoubtedly cause new disturbances in the country as soon as
the soldiers are gone." He also says Governor Jeffreys will probably
send them to England for trial {Sainsbury Abstracts). William Sher-
wood, writing from Jamestown, August Sth 167S, to Secretary William-
son, says that Governor Jeffreys was actively opposed by Secretary
Ludwell, Lady Berkeley, Colonel Philip Ludwell, Thomas Ballard,
Colonel Edward Hill, and Major Robert Beverley.
Major Beverley's support of Governor Berkeley and his refusal to
surrender the journals of the House, now brought down the vengeance
of government on him. The English Privy Council, on February lotli,
167S-9, ordered that Beverley and Hill, both "of evil fame," should
be put out of all of their offices {Sainsbury Abstracts). In June, 1680,
he had not been removed, however, and was Clerk of the House at
the session held at that time [Hejiing II, 4S9). Lord Culpeper on com-
ing in as governor, apparently had none of the prejudice towards
Berkeley's friends that Jeffreys had (indeed he was a relative of Lady
Berkeley, who had been a Miss Culpeper), and decided to withhold
Beverley's and Hill's removal from office. He wrote that the House
of Burgesses, which met June Sth, 16S0, had elected Robert Beverley
their clerk, 7ieyn con, and that to have denied him the office Vv'ould
have disobliged the whole country. He recommended that the order
against them should be rescinded, and stated he considered them
honest and loyal men {Sainsbury Abstracts). For the high opinion
of Robert Beverley, expressed at this time by the House of Burgesses
and Council, see Hening III, 570, 571. The English Government ac-
cordingly ordered his reinstatement.
In the spring of 1S62, the people being much distressed by the low-
price of tobacco, and by a recent act compelling all goods for shipping
to be sent to certain towns (which only existed on paper), there was a
general feeling of disaffection in the colony. Various counties peti-
tioned the Governor (Chichley) to call an assembly, which he did ;
but after a fruitless session it was dissolved. The people having had
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their hopes highly raised by the expectation that the Assembly would
order a cessation of tobacco culture, and thus raise its price; and in-
tensely disappointed at failing to attain this much desired end, a num-
ber of persons assembled riotously in Gloucester and New Kent, and
proceeded to cut down tobacco plants, not confining themselves to their
own plantations; but indiscriminately. A force of militia under Colonel
Matthew Kemp, commander of Gloucester county, soon suppressed
the plant cutters, and made a number of arrests. Robert Beverley,
who had been active in securing petitions lor the call of the Assembly
and in urging the necessity of a "Cessation," was charged by the
government (thoroughly frightened by any popular rising— all such
seeming to them to contain possibilities of another " Bacon's Rebel-
lion ") with having incited the plant cutting, and was arrested by order
of the Council, May 9th, 16S2, and confined on a ship in the Rappa-
hannock (Heni?ig III, 543;. Nicholas Spencer, writing to Secretary
Jenkins, May 8th, 1682, says the late assembly, "influenced by the over
active Clerk of the House of Burgesses, I\!ajor Robert Beverley, de-
sired time to carry on other imaginations, the principal part of which
were a cessation." {Sainsbury Abstracts). Writing to the same per-
son. May 30th, he says : " Major Robert Beverley, suspected of being
the prime actor (in instigating the plant cutting), was by order taken
into custody, and confined prisoner on board ship — a great check to
the mutineers, whose spirits immediately sunk, and their numbers
dwindled." {Sainsbury Abstracts.) On June 14th, 16S2, the English
Committee for Trade and Plantations state that letters from Virginia
related that tobacco had been cut down on nearly 200 plantations in
Glouceste., "of which tumult Major Beverley, Clerk of the Assembly,
had been a chief promoter." They recommend that the former order
for putting Robert Beverley out of all public offices and places of trust
be renewed and put in execution. Accordingly, on June 17th, the King,
in council, gave order that Lord Culpeper, on his arrival in Virginia (he
had been on a visit to England), cause Robert Beverley to be immedi-
ately put out of all his employments [Sainsbury Abstracts). Of these
public employments we have an account by Beverley himself, as "get-
ting his livelihood (as formerly he did to a considerable anuall value,
not less than three hundred pounds sterling per an.) by pleading as an
attorney and practizing the mistery of a surveyor, besides the loss of
his Clerk's place in the Assembly, worth (to him) about one hundred
pounds sterling per an., and that of Deputie under the Auditor Gene-
rail for which he had }'early paid him twenty-five pounds sterling."
(Hening III, 565.) This income — ^425 a year (exclusive of the product
of his large landed estate), was a considerable one for the time.
Lieutenant-Governor Sir Henry Chichley, writing to Secretary Jen-
kins, August loth, 16S2, in justification of his calling the Assembly (for
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which he had been blamed by the English authorities), says that he
called ,t at the bare advice of Major Beverley one that is clapt up
upon suspicion or being an instigator of the Plant Cutting. - - *
They resolve to keep him close confined till my Lord'^ arrival " but
states that m his opinion there is nothing material against him-' '"but
some Idle words should fall from him in his cups, which when so taken
he IS not compos mentis." He also refers to Beverley's past services
[Sainsbury Abstracts). Probably the convivial Major had been " in his
cups when he made the before-mentioned speech about plundering.
On June 15th Beverley was ordered to be sent a prisoner to the East-
ern Shore ; but on June 19th is another order stating that he had escaped
from the custody of the sheriff of York, who was conveying him to
Northampton, had been again taken at his own house in Middlesex
and was directed to be brought to James City, where, on the 24th he
was once more directed to be sent to Northampton On September
25th Beverley petitioned, by his counsel, William Fitzhugh, for a habeas
corpus; but this was denied on account of " the whole proceeding bein-
transmitted to his majesty, and his pleasure not vet known." He
, seems to have been a hard man to keep in prison (perhaps his custo-
dians sympathized with him), for on November nth, the Council stated
that he was again at large, and a few days later committed him to the
sheriff of York. On December 2d, 1682, he gave bond in sum of
^2^0 sterling, with Abraham Weeks and Christopher Robinson of
. iMiddlese.x, and Henry Whiting and John Buckner, of Gloucester as
J securities, to be of good behavior, not to exercise anv office and not
to go out of the bounds of Middlesex and Gloucester, and was then
T 'f ^^'^^ (Hening III. 543-54; , it is very evident that Beverley's pop-
ularity and influence with the people had made him many enemies
, among men in power in Virginia, and in Januarv, 1682-3. they trumped
, up other charges against him, viz: that he had broken open letters
^ directed to the Secretary's office, containing writs for calling the Assem-
.. bly of April, 16S2 had made up the journal of the House, and inserted
; in It the King's letter, though this letter had been transmitted to them
after their prorogation, and finally (what had most weight probably in
England), "that he refused copies of the journal of the house of bur-
gesses 16S2, to the heut. governor and council; saying he might not
do It, without leave of his masters " [the Burgesses] [Henin<r III 547.8)
The paltry and frivolous character of the malicious charges is 'shown
by the testimony of Governor Chichley's clerk, printed in Hcning III,
561, &c. In fact of this the prosecutors (the Council) seemed aware'
for on April 25th, 1683. Major Beverley was called into court, "was by
his Excellencie [Chichley] admonished of his ill behavior." his former
bond discharged, and merely required to give bond for good behavior
Jor a year and a day. and should appear before the Council when or-
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ROBERT BEVERLEY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 411
dered, in penalty of ^2,000 sterling. This he did, with Christopher
Robinson, of Middlese.x, and John Armistead and John Smith of Glou-
cester, as securities. All this time he had never been charged in court
with any crime; but in May, 16S3, he was summoned before the Coun-
cil and ercammed as to opening the writs of election, and entirely
cleared himself {Hening III, 561-2). A few days later Lord Culpeper
issued a proclamation pardoning the plant-cutters, but excepting by
name Beverley and several others.
For a year Major Beverley appears to have been allowed to lead a
quiet life ; but, under date May 9th, 16S4, a record of the Council states
that " Robert Beverley, being (formerly) found guilty of high misde-
meanors upon an information of the attorney general, his judgement
being respited, and now asking pardon on his bended knees, his crime
is remitted, giving security for his good behaviour." Persecution and
sickness seem to have broken his independent spirit, and his apology
is in the most humble terms [Hefting III, 548-9). This was immediately
after the arrival of Governor Lord Howard, of Effingham, who had
been instructed by the King to examine into Beverley's case, and to
proceed against him if there be proof, or to release him \Sainsbiiry
Abstracts).
The House of Burgesses appears to have immediately re-elected him
as their clerk, as the copies of the journals of the session of October
1st, 1685, were transmitted to England by " Robert Beverley, Clerk of
the Assembly," and he was also clerk of the session of October, 16S6
{Hening \\\, 2)9)- With this session his troubles began again. Effing-
ham endeavored to get the Plouse of Burgesses to authorize him and
the Council to lay a tax. This illegal demand the Burgesses stoutly
refused, and in turn not only raised doubts as to the Governor's right
to act; but, Effingham charges, " rudely and boldly disputed the Kings
authoritj." We may be sure that in this defence of the liberties of
Virginia, Robert Beverley took an active part, and again became an
object of royal and governmental ill will. James II, in a letter to Ef?.ng-
ham, dated August ist, 1686, denounced the action of the Assembly;
ordered him to dissolve it, and says: " Whereas Robert Beverley, Clerk
of the house of burgesses, appears to have cheifly occasioned and pro-
moted those disputes and contests. Our will and pleasure is that he be
declared incapable of any office or public employment within our
Collony of Virginia, and that he be prosecuted according to the utmost
seventy of the law for altering the records of the Assembly, if you
shall see cause.'' "Altering the records" doubtless referred to the
former charge of copying the King's letter in the journal, after a pro-
rogation. Though he lost his various places, one of his friends was
able to keep one office in the family, for Nicholas Spencer, writing,
February 22d, i6S6-'7, to the Lords of Trade and Plantation, complains
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that Colonel Philip Ludwell, deputy surveyor-general, had given Bev-
erley's surveyor's place, " the best in the country," to Beverley's son,
" Not that I have anything to allege against his son, but only the con-
clusion."
Within about a month afterwards Beverley's varied and eventful life
ended, he dying about March i6th, 1687. Thus closes the record of a
man loyal to the King, yet an ardent supporter of the liberties of the
colony of Virginia, and of the House of Burgesses, of which he was
long a faithful and useful officer; a courageous and active soldier; a
true and staunch friend, and the possessor of very general popularity
and influence among the people.
Major Robert Beverley lived in Middlesex county I'but not, as has
been stated, at " Brandon." for this was the residence of Major-General
Robert Smith, whose granddaughter, and eventual heiress, Elizabeth
Smith, married Harry Beverley, son of Major Robert Beverley>, and
owned large landed estates in various counties. The land books show
that he was granted over 50,000 acres of land.
He married twice, his first wife being named Mary. Her surname is
not positively known ; but it seems probable that she was the widow of
"Mr. George Keeble," who was a justice of Lancaster (then including
Middlesex), in 1659 and 1660; vestryman of Pianketank parish, or pre-
cinct, 1657 and died July, 1665 or 1666. \Vm. Whitby, of Middlesex,
by will dated July nth, 1676, gave ^100 to Major Robert Beverley and
^100 and half his land on Potomac Creek to " Mrs. Mary Keeble " (she
was probably the daughter of George Keeble). There is recorded in
Lancaster, September 22d, 1666, a receipt from Robert Beverley, for
certain hogs, the property of his " daughter-in-law " ''stepdaughter)
Mary Keeble. And this Mary Keeble, who afterwards married, men-
tions in her will her "father-in-law," Robert Beverley. George
Keeble, by his nuncupative .vill, gave his whole estate to his wife Mary.
Charles Campbell, in the introduction to his edition of Beverley's His-
tory, states that the first wife of Robert Beverly was the daughter of a
merchant of Hull, England.
His second wife was Catherine, daughter of Major Theophilus Hone,
of James City county. She married, secondly, Christopher Robinson,
of " Hewich," .^fiddlesex (a nephew of John Robinson, Bishop of Lon-
don), who was appointed member of the Council, 1691; Secretary of
State, 1692, and died February 13th, 16973 {Sainsbuty Absiracls).
There is recorded in .Middlese.x an account, dated July 7th, 1690, by
Christopher Robinson and Catherine, his wife, executrix of Major
Robert Beverley, "as well of and for soe much of ye goods and Chat-
tels of ye s'd decedant's as came to their hands, as well as for ye
payments and disbursments out of the same (vizt) The accomptants
charge them selves with all and singular the goods and chattels of ye
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ROBERT BEVERLEY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 413
Deceased specified in an inventory thereof made and exhibited in the
Registrey of ye s'd County Court, amounting, as by ye said Inventory
appeareth, to ye summe of ^^1383 5. 3'i; also Tobacco due to ye s'd
deceased, Rec'd by ye s'd Acco'pts of ye several persons following (the
names here follow): 62617 lbs.=/'i520. 6. !!><; Credits 32592 lbs.
tobacco=^ii4i. 12. 5I2 ; Balance on debts 30026 lbs.^;^376. 14. 6."
Among the Credits to the e.xecutri.x were payments: to Dr. Walter
Whitaker for acc't of Physich ^26. 3. 6; Charges in entertaining the
appraisers £5; to Dr. David Alexander; Henry Winchester " scooling
and boarding:" William Beverley, 1440 lbs. tobacco; Mrs. Perrott for
nursing Christopher Beverley 1650 lbs. tobacco. There is also on
record in Middlesex, a petition dated September 3d, 1694, from Captain
Peter Beverley and Mr. Robert Beverley, administrators de bonis non
of Major Robert Beverley, in which they state that Major Beverley died
about March i6th, i6S6-'7, that his personal estate was valued at iTisgi.
4. 10, and the debts due him amounted to 331,469 lbs. of tobacco, and
(in addition) ^Soi. 11. 6 in money, according to his inventory. Under
an order of Middlesex court, September 3d, 1694, the executors of
Christopher Robinson, the administrator de bonis non of Major Robert
Beverley, reported ^251. 2 in money, and 60,598 lbs. of tobacco as due
from Robinson's estate to Beverley's, and claim (among others; as a
credit to Robinson, "an article of ;!^4o. paid Mr. Micajah Perry and
Thomas Lane ! merchants in London), for entertaining and accommo-
dating Major Robert Beverley's sons, Harry, John and Robert Bever-
ley."
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'*-• Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents.
(Prepared by \V. G. Stanard.)
(153) Captain Hugh Bullocke [i], 2,550 acres of land extending
from " the runn that falleth down by the Eastern side of a piece of land
known by the name of the woodyard," along the side of Pocoson, a
great otter pond so called, &c., <S:c. By Harvey, March 12th, 1634.
NOTE.
[i] There is recorded in York county a deed dated July 8th, 1637,
from Hugh Bullock, of London, gentleman, to his son, William Bullock,
of London, gentleman, conveying his corn mill, saw-mill and planta-
tion in Virginia. Hugh Bullock's wife, Mary, is mentioned. In Gene-
ral Court Records. April, 1672, is entry of a suit by Robert Bullock,
son and heir of William Bullock, who was son and heir of Hugh Bul-
lock, vs. Colonel Peter Jenings, guardian of John Matthews, orphan of
Colonel Matthews, deceased, in regard to a parcel of land in Warwick
county, containing 5,500 acres. There can hardly be a doubt that the
William Bullock here mentioned was the person who wrote the well-
known tract on Mrginia. He states that both his father and himself
had owned land here.
(15.^) Mr. Thomas E.\ton [i], 250 acres at the head of the back
river, within a mile of the wading place, joining to the beaver dams.
By Harvey, March nth, 1634, " Exmd Richard Kemp."
NOTE.
[i] He is believed to have been the person who founded "Eaton's
Charity School," in Elizabeth City county.
(155) Mr. Adam Thorowgood, gentleman, 200 acres (purchased from
Captain Stephens) on Back river, adjoining his own land and that of
John Robinson and William Capps [i], which said land was due Ste-
phens as an adventurer to this country. By Harvey, March 21st, 1634.
NOTE.
[i] William Capps was Burgess for Kicotan in 1619 ; in 1623 wrote a
" vigorous but grumbling letter " to deputy Ferrar, which is printed in
Neill's " Virginia Vetusta."' In 1627 he was on a visit to England, and
again, in 1629, left Virginia for England, without the consent of the
Governor and Council. He was also member of the Council.
(156) Mr. Adam Thorowgood [i], gentleman, 200 acres on Back
river, in Elizabeth City, due him as an adventurer into this country-.
NOTE.
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A-BSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS.
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The arms and crest were confirmed to William, son of John, 24th
March, 1620.
John Thorogood of Chelston Temple, com. Hertford=
Thonras Thorogood of Chelston Temple^
Nicholas Thorogood—
of Chelston Temple. I
John Thorogood, younger^
brother of Nicholas.
Roger Thorogood of
Chelston lemple.
John Thorogood of Felsted— dau of
in com. Esse.x. I Luckin.
Mary, \vidow=\Vill. Thorogood of Grimston=Anne da.
to Dodge.j official within the Diocesse of of Ed-
Norwich. His 3d wife was wards of
Alice, relict of Holbeach. \V. Norwich.
T. was Coymnissary of the
Bishop of Norzuich.
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Thomas
Thorogood
mar. dau.of
— Flower.
Ro. Thorogood,
late Mayor, and Captaiji of
King's lynne in Norfolk.
Laurence of Ston-
ham Parva con. suff.
mar. dau. of Mont-
joye.
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Sir Edward= Sir John Thorogood, Kt.=Frances, dau.
Thorogood J one of the Pentioners to of Thomas
I his Matie; of Kensington; M e a u t i s, of
I gentleman pensioner in
Frances ordinary to Charles I;
Thorogood. knighted by him at the
Coronation in Scotland,
and was gentleman of the
Privy Chambers extra-
ordinary to Chas. II.
Westham. Es-
se.x, Esq.
3i
Thos. Thoro-
good, of
Grifnston, m. ,
, dau. of:
Thos. Wind-
ham, Esq.
Was bachelor
of divini ty ,
and twice ^
clerk of Con-
vocation. '
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Edmund Thorogood
m. to Fran. Smith.
dau of Edwd.Smith,
of Chelston Temple,
was of Markham,
Norfolk.
5 1 6t
William Thoro-
good m. .Mary.
Mordant Thoro-
good died at the
siege of Breda.
Adam Thoro-
good m Susan
[Sarah] dau. of
Ofriey, of
London ; "'jus-
tice of the peace
and Captain and
of the Council iti
Virgifiia.'"
Adam Thoroughgood=
Frances, mar.
to Ro. Griffith
of Ca e r na r-
von.
dau. of
Yard ley,
Esq.
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416 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
(From Essex Pedigrees, undated, published by Harleian Society, with
additions in italics from the Visitation of Middlesex, 1669.)
Captain Adam Thoroughgood, or Thorowgood, as the name was
then more usually spelt, was born in 1602, and came to Virginia in 1621
{Hotten), and settled at Kicotan (Hampton). His brother, Sir John
Thoroughgood, was knighted about 1630; had been Secretary of the
Earl of Pembroke, and- in the service of the Duke of Buckingham.
Though he was in the service of Charles I, yet, during the civil wars,
he took an active part in favor of Parliament.
Adam Thoroughgood acquired by patent large tracts of land, one of
them of 5,200 acres, stated to be granted to him "at the espetiall
recommendation of him from their Lordships and others of his Maj-
esty's Most Hon'ble privie Councell." He was Commissioner and
Burgess for Elizabeth City, 1629, and Burgess again in 1630. About
1634 he removed to Lynnhaven Bay, in the present county of Princess
Anne; was a member of the Council in 1637, and in the same year
presiding justice of the County Court of Lower Norfolk, and died in
the spring of 1640. He married Sarah Offley, of London. His will,
dated 17th February, 1639-40, and proved April 27th, 1640, is on record
at Portsmouth. After bequeathing his soul to God and his body to be
buried in the parish church of Lynnhaven, near his children, he gives
1,000 lbs. of tobacco to that church for the purchase of some necessary
and decent ornament, and the following legacies : to his beloved brother.
Mr. Edward Windham perhaps the brother of his sister-in-law), one
cow, calfe and one goat; brother Robert Hayes, one goat; the three
children of Robert Hayes, one goat each ; godson Adam Keeling, one
goat ; Jean Wheeler, a goat and a shoat; to wife, a mare and foal, one
of the best cows in the pen, half a dozen goats, four sows, and part of
the plantation at Lynnhaven, for life, '•' all which I give her as a memo-
rial of my love — not any ways intending to cut her off from an equal
share in my estate with my children; " io son Adam, all rest of houses
and lands in Virginia. All remainder of horses, cows, goats, sheep,
hogs, servants, crop and other estate, to be equally divided between
wife, Sarah, and children, Adam, Ann, Sarah and Elizabeth. Wife
executrix, and friends Capt. Thomas Willoughbie and Mr. Henry
Seawell, here in Virginia, and brother, Sir John Thorowgood, of Kin-
sington, near London, and Mr. Alexander Harris, " my wife's uncle,"
living on Tower Hill ( London 1, overseers of the will.
At a Quarter Court held at James City, April 15th, 1641, is recorded
the inventory of the things reserved for .Mrs. Thorowgood's chamber :
"Imprimis : one bed, with blankets, rug and the furniture thereunto
belonging, two pair of sheets and pillow cases ; one table with carpet ;
table cloth and napkins, knives and forks; one cupboard and cupboard
cloths ; two (illegible 1 one linen, one woolen ; six chairs, six stools, six
cushions, six pictures hanging in the chamber, one pewter basin and
ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS. 417
ewer, one warming pan, one bed pan, one pair of andirons in the
chimney, one pair tongs, one fire shovel, one chair of wicker for a child.
Plate for the cupboard : one salt cellar, one bowl, one tankard, one
wine cup, one dozen spoons (which I claim as a gift as e.xprest in the
inventory).
The above mentioned are conceived to be a fit allowance for furnish-
ing Mrs. Gookin's chamber, the said Mrs. Gookin being the relict and
widow of Captain Adam Thorowgood, deceased.
Teste: Rich.\rd Lee, C. C."
Mrs. Sarah Thorowgood married, secondly. Captain John Gookin,
and thirdly, Colonel Francis Veardley. Many years ago her epitaph,
from a tomb in the old Lynnhaven churchyard, was printed in the
Richmond Enquirer. The person who sent it stated that the tomb
bore also a coat of arms. I'he epitaph is as follows :
" Here lieth ye body of Capt. John Cooking & also
Ye body of Mrs. Sarah Yardley, who was wife to
Capt. Adam Thorowgood first, Capt. John
Cooking & CoUonell Francis Yardley who ' , - i
deceased August, 1657."
Captain Adam' and Sarah (Offley) Thoroughgood, had issue: 2.
Adam^\ 3. Ann^; 4. Sarah-; 5. Elizabeth', married Jacob Chandler,
member of the Maryland Council.
2. Lieutenant Colonel Adam' Thoroughgood was Burgess for Lower
Norfolk. i6'S6; justice and sheriff of the county, 1669; married ,
daughter of Col. Argall Yeardley, oi Northampton county. Issue: 6.
ArgalP; 7. John^\ 8. Colonel Adam', justice of Princess Anne county;
Burgess, 1702; married Mary Moseley, and d. s. p. in 1719; 9 Robert^,
died 1755 [?] ; married Blandinah , and had a son, Robert*; 10.
Captain WilIiam^ died 1723; married Patience , and had issue:
Argall*, Mary* and Adam*; 11. Fra^cis^ d'ed February 14th, 1740;
married Amy , and had issue : John*, Lovell*, born November
30th, 1734; Adam*, born April i6th, 1736, and Ann*, born January 31st,
1740; 12. Ann*, married William Smith (justice of Princess Anne,
1705-ro).
6. Argall' Thoroughgood, died 1700; married Ann Church, and had
issue: 13. Argall^; 14. William*; 15. Adam*; 16. Frances*; 17. Eliza-
beth*.
7. Col. John* Thoroughgood, justice of Princess Anne; sheriff, 1699;
died 1702; married Margaret Lawson (probably daughter of Anthony
Lawson). Issue: 18. Anthony*; ig. /o/in*.
13. Argall* Thoroughgood, died 1754; married Elizabeth Keeling, and
had issue: 20. Elizabeth^ born March 19th, 1750-1, married James
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Nimmo. of " Shenstone Green," Princess Anne; 21. William*, married
Elizabeth, daughter of \Vm. Ximmo, of "Shenstone Green," and d. s.
p. 17S0.
15. Adam* Thoroughgood, married , and had issue: 22. Lemuel^,
married Sarah , and d. s. p., 17S5; 23. William', died uyimarried,
17SS; 24. Elizabeth^ married Henry Haynes ; 25. Mary^ married
Wilson ; 24. Anne*.
19. John* Thoroughg')od, died 1719; married Pembroke, daughter of
Charles Sayer, and had issue: 25. Johiv'; 26. Margaret*.
25. John* Thoroughgood, died 1757; married Mary , and had
issue: 26. Joh?i^ ; 27. Thomas^ justice of Princess Anne, married Mary
, and died 1726; 2S. iMary Sandford^; 29. Margaret^; 30. Pem-
broke^
26. John* Thoroughgood, married Margaret ; died 1763, and had
issue: 31. John", member, from Princess Anne, of the Convention of
1776, and of the House of Delegates, 1777, 177S, 17S0, 17S3 and 17S6;
married Mary , and died 1S04; 32. Thomas Scarborough', born
June 29th, 1755, died unmarried, 17SS; ^z- Mitchell', born April 13th,
1757, d. s. p.; 34. William''; 35. Argall"; 36. Pembroke^ married Niel
Jamieson, merchant, of Norfolk ; 37. Sally Scarborough', born August
2Sth, 1762.
34. William' Thoroughgood, married Jacmine Harper, and had issue:
38. John Harper*, died nmnarried, 1796; 39. Amy^, married
Moseley ; 40. Mary*; 41. Frances*; 42. Elizabeth*.
31. John' Thoroughgood, married , and had issue: 42. John
Wainhouse-, married Frances, daughter of Wm. Thoroughgood, and d.
s. p., 1804 ; 43. Adam* ; 44. Susan*, married her cousin. James Thorough-
good (who served in the State troops in the War of 1S12, as Captain
4th Virginia Cavalry), and had issue : (i) Susan Wainhouse', married
Singleton; (2) James'; (3) Captain John, of "Church Point,"
justice of Princess Anne, married Susan , and had an only child,
Susan'", who married James Granberry McPheeters, of N. C.
This account of the Thoroughgoods in Virginia is compiled from a
number of extracts from the county records, published some years ago
in the Richmond Standard. It is believed to be correct ; but it is pos-
sible that it may contain errors, due to deficiency of information, or to
the constant repetition of the same names in the family. It is hoped
that any one who, from an examination of the records at Portsmouth,
may be able to make corrections or additions, will send them to the
Magazine.
(157) Thomas Causey [2], 150 acres in the county of Charles City,
in the Indian field, commonly so called, bounded due north by Jor-
don's Journey [i], south by Chaplin's Choice, and due east by the mam
river. By Harvey, April i8th, 1635.
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NOTES.
[i] Jordon's Journey was an early settlement, now in the county of
Prince George. It was the residence of Samuel Jordon, and was first
called Beg:gar's Bush (the name of a play of Fletcher's), and is now
called Jordon's Point. It was long the residence of the Blands.
[2] This Causey may have been a son of Nathaniel Causey, who
came to Virginia in 1607, and his wife, Thomasine, who came in 1609.
Nathaniel Causey was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1623,
and lived at a place in the present Prince George, called Causey's
Cave or Care. It is believed to have been the same as the present
"Cawsons," formerly a seat of the Blands, and the birth-place of John
Randolph, of Roanoke.
(15S) Captaix Thomas Pi:rifie [Purefoy], 2,000 acres, r,ooo thereof
beginning at a point on the Pocoson river, called Willoughby Point,
and stretching along the back river to a point called cross quarter, and
from thence to a point called Topgallant quarter, thence to Broad creek,
which land is now called by the name of Drayton [i]; 500 acres of the
remainder lying on thi« side the dams, adjoining John Leydon's ground,
and 500 adjoining the dams upon the main creek. By Harvey, April
iSth, 1635.
NOTE.
[ij Drayton -vas the name of a seat of the Purefoy family in Leices-
tershire, England.
(159) Tho.mas Seawell, 400 acres, of which 350 lies at the head of
old Pocoson river, on the south side, joining onto a ridge of land com-
monly called the great ridge, and runs up the side of the great otter
dams, and 50 acres lies between the lands of Thomas Boulding, and
adjoins a marsh " called Benjamin Syms [i], his marsh." By Harvey,
April 2oth, 1635.
NOTE.
[i] Benjamin Syms, of Elizabeth City county, founded a free school
there in 1632. In 1647, it is stated that there was in the county "a free
school with 200 acres of land appurtenant, forty milch cows, and other
accommodations. It was endowed by Mr. Benjamin Symms " (Caw/'-
beWs History of Fa., p. 209). It has been proved to have been in
operation in 1724, and in [753 the Assembly passed an act for its better
management.
(160) Mr. Francis Towers. 200 acres on the westward branch of
Elizabeth river, one mile up. By Harvey, April 20th, 1635.
(161) John Hill [i], 350 acres at a point of land about four miles
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up the westward branch of Elizabeth river, and on creeks, called Clark's
creek and Brown's bay. By Harvey, April 20th, 1635.
NOTE.
[i] There is on record in Norfolk county a statement, made in 164.7,
by John Hill, then between fifty and sixty years of age, that he had
continued in Virginia twenty-six years and upwards, and that he had
formerly been a book-binder in the University of Oxford, and was the
son of Stephen Hill, of Oxford, fletcher. John Hill was Burgess for
Lower Norfolk in 1639 (Robinsoji's Noies) and 1642.
^(162) Richard Robinson, 100 acres, 50 of which abut on the nortti
side of the great Pocoson river, and 50 on the south side, and next to
the neck of land called Monnach neck. By Harvey, April 20th, 1635.
(163) Martin Baker [i], 600 acres of land extend'ing from the land
of Robert Eue to Captain Martur's [2] land. By Harvey, April 20th,
1635-
NOTES.
[i] Martin Baker, of Plymouth, England, merchant, owned, before
the date of this patent, land in the same neighborhood, for there is on
record in York county, a lease, in 163^. from him to Thomas Trotter
and others, of a tract of land in York plantation. In 1646 the land
granted in this patent was regranted to George Ludlow, who had prob-
ably purchased from Baker. It formed a part of the estate afterwards
called "'The Moore House" or "Temple Farm," near Yorktown.
[2] Captain Nicholas Martain.
(164) John Slaughter, 200 acres on a creek called Wright's creek,
and adjoining Mr. Thomias Wright's land. Due for the transportation
of four servants into the colony, viz: Robert Benne'.t, William. Dicken-
son, Adam Stavely and Jon. Day. By Captain John West, May 30tb,
1635. \l\. is believed that the abbreviation Jon. so frequently found in
these grants, is an abbreviation of the name John. It occurs too fre-
quently to represent Jonathan.]
(165) John Parrott, 750 acres lying northerly upon the river of Nan-
semund, and westerly upon a great bay running from Paroketo point.
Due for the transportation of nine persons whose names appear below.
By West. May 24th. 1635.
John Parrott, Priscilla Parrott, his wife, John Bodin, James Traneere,
John Morgan, Thomas Banton. Georg Clarke. Georg Heele, Thomas
Cottle.
(166) Thomas Lambert [i], 100 acres on the east side of the bay of
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Elizabeth river. Due for the transportation of two servants. By West,
June ist, 1635.
NOTE.
[i] Thomas Lambert is said to have been the first person to intro-
duce the method of drying tobacco on lines or sticks instead of in
heaps. He was Sheriff of Lower Norfolk, 1643; Burgess for that
county in 1649, 1652 (with the title of major), and 1661, and was a jus-
tice of the same in 1661, when he was entitled Lieutenant-Colonel
Thomas Lambert. Lambert's Point, near Norfolk, i.= believed to have
been named for him, and perhaps this very grant was for the place.
{167) Mr. John Sipsev, 1,500 acres on the westernmost branch of
Elizabeth river. Due for the transportation of 30 servants. By West,
June ist, 1635.
(16S) Mr. John Sipsey, 1.500 acres adjoining the land of Mr. Francis
Towers, bounding south on the main river, and east, as far as the west-
ernmost "pting" [?] of an island "called Craine poynt." By West,
June ist, 1635.
(169) Capt.ain John L^xve, Esq. [i], one of the Council of State,
1,250 acres at the head of a creek on Charles river, called Utye's Creek.
Due for the transportation of 25 persons. By West, June 20th, 1635.
NOTE.
[i] See Vol. I, pp. 90 and 420. Captain Uty resided on the land
granted by this patent, and named it "Utimaria." The early courts of
York county were frequently held here.
(170) Hanniball Fletcher, 150 acres on Lower Chippoakes Creek,
between the two creeks, adjoining the land of John Russell, and run-
ning from the lower little creek toward thj great creek, called Chip-
poaks Creek; said land being due as follows: 50 acres for the personal
adventure of his wife, Elizabeth Fletcher, in this colony, and 100 acres
for the transportation of two servants, whose names appear below. By
West, June 24th, 1635.
Elizabeth Fletcher came over into this countrey, 1634, in the ship
Primrose, of London ; Thomas Owen came in the Susan, of London,
1632; Francis Francklin, came in the ship Revejige, 1634.
(171) John Russell, 250 acres in Lower Chippoaks Creek, due, 50
acres, for his own personal adventure, and 200 for the importation of
four persons: Richard Deane, Jon. Asley, Johti Webber, Willi. Exton.
By West, 1634.
(172) Captain Adam Thorogood, 5,350 acres, bounded on the north
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422 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
by the Chesapeake bay (in the present Princess Anne county), "granted
unto him at the espetiall recomendation of him from their Lordshipps
and others, his Ma'ties most Hon'ble privie Councell to the Governor
and Councell of State for Virginia," and also due for the importation
of one hundred and five persons (whose names appear below). By
West, June 24th. 1635.
Adam T^horoughgood, Thomas Thoroughgood, Francis Newton [i],
Sarah Thoroughgood, James Leading, Stephen Bernard, Jon. Newarke.
Edward Pitts, Richard Jenerie, William Edwards, Dennis Russell, Jon.
Barnards, Jon. Walters, John Leacke, Thomas Johnson, Jon. Bradston,
Richard Jego, Thomas Brooks, Jon. Mayse, John Penton, Edward
Parish, Thomas Melton, Augustine Warner [2], Thomas Chandler,
Andrew Chant, John Percie, Edward Wallis, Thomas Boulton, Robert
Heasoll, Richard Johnson, Margaret Bilbie, James Prosser, James
Westerfield, Ann Spark, Susan Colson (in ye HopeiveU, 162S), John
Harris, John Locke, Andrew Bowyer (in ye Truelove, 162S), Thomas
Keeling [3], Rachell Lane (in ye Hope, 162S), Wm. Hinds, Edward
Reynolds, Edward Palmer, Edward Jones, John Dyer (in ye french Ship,
1629 — qu. ? Friendship), E. Traford, Cassander Underwood, Mournful!
Holley, Ann Long, Dorothy Wheeler, Ann Alleson (in ye Africa), Eliz.
Gosman (in ye Christopher & Mary). Francis Brannly (in ye Ark), John
Huitt, Wm. Faune, Wm. Was, Georg Mee, Gilbert Gye, John Enies,
James Wilsonn, Danell Hatton, Wm. Gastrock, Wm. Speed (in ye Hope-
well, 1633), Jon. Reynolds, Jon. Waterfield, James Belly, Robert Bla-
cock, Stephen Swane, John Cowes, Ann Boulton (in ye Bona Adven-
ture), Han. Fletcher (in ye JMiddleton, 1634), Robt. Wastwell (in ye
jVerchants Hope, 1634), Robt. Spring (in ye IVtn. & Dorothy), Adam
Thoroughgood, Edward Windam [4], Cob. Howell, Thos. Creasor,
Henry Hill, Roger Ward, Jon. Withers, Wm. Holtcn, Wm. Kempe [5].
Humphrey Heyward, Jon. Alporte, Symon Stanfield, Robt. Gannil,
Thomas Smith, George Whitehead, Henry Franklin, Jon. Hill, Joseph
Sedgwick, Arthur Eggleston, Richard Poole, Jon. Holton, Stephen
Withers, Christopher Newgent, Jon. Brewton, Thomas Altmore. Mary
Hill, Henry Wood (in ye Jon. & Dorothy, 1634), Wm. Burroughs, Ann
Burroughs, Amee Whileteone, Eliz. Creason, Eliz. Curtisse, Mary Hill
Junior, Wm. Atkins.
NOTES.
[i] There is a record in Surrv county which recites that Mrs. Mary
Ewan gave a power of attorney, dated June 30th, 1659, to Mr. Francis
Newton, or his substitute, to take possession of a plantation, &c-, in
Virginia, belonging to the said .Mrs. Ewan, and that Francis Newton
substituted his brother, Nicholas Newton fsince deceased) and Richard
Hopkins, as his attorneys, by an instrument dated June 30th, 1659.
Mrs. Ewan owned in Virginia seven negroes, 50 head of cattle, 15 hogs,
.avri'SAOAM JADiaOTSIH AlVIiOHlV £2*
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ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS. 423
and other personal property. Of course it can not be asserted that this
Francis Newton was the one named in the patent.
[2] Colonel Augustine^ Warner, probably came to Virginia in 1628.
He was born about November 2Sth, 16 10. and died December 24th.
1674. (Epitaph printed in ll'm. and Mary Quay terly, Apn\, 1S94.) He
settled in York county, where, as Captain Augustine Warner, he was a
justice in 1652, and finally in Gloucester, where he held the same office
in 1656; was a Burgess for York in 1652, and for Gloucester, 165S, and
member of the Council from 1659 until his death {Hening I, 526).' He
acquired large estates in Gloucester county (though the story of his
being granted 33.333V; acres there is fabulous), and named his home
" Warner Hall." He married Mary (born May 15th, 1614. died
August nth, 1662— d'/ZAz;*/;), and had issue: I Col. Augustine-', of " War-
ner Hall," born July 3d, 1642, died June 19th. 16S1 {epitaph); but'according
to the books of Merchant Taylor's School, London, where he was
entered as "the eldest son of Augustine Warner, gentleman, of Vir-
ginia," was born October 20th, 1643 He was Speaker of the House of
Burgesses at the sessions of March, i675-'6, and February, 1676-7
{Hening), and was also a member of the Council {Sainsbnry Abstracts).
Either he or his father gave a handsome service of communion plate
to Abingdon parish {Meade). His portrait, a handsome face, is now
in the State Library. He married Mildred, daughter of Col. George
Reade, of Gloucester county (a member of the Council) (Hening) ; H.
Sarah-, married Lawrence Tonr\\&\ (Hening), and through the o'rymes
family was an ancestor of General R. E. Lee.
Col. Augustine^ and Mildred (Reade) Warner had issue: L Augus-
tine', born January 17th, 1666. died March 17th, i6S6-'7; IL George'
born 1677, and ^. s. p.; III. Mildred', married (i) Lawrence Washing-
ton, of Westmoreland county, and was grandmother of George Wash-
ington, and (2) George Gale. She died in England, and was buried
January, 1700-'!, in St. Nicholas' Church, Whitehaven ; IV. Elizabeth*'
born at Chesecake (Gloucester), November 24th, 1672. and died February
5th, 1719-20; married Colonel John Lewis, of the Council, and inner-
ited "Warner Hall;" VI. Mar>'', married. February 17th,' 16S0, John
Smith, of "Purton," Gloucester, and died November 13th, 1700 {Family
Bibte of Smiths). The arms of the family, from old silver, which is
in possession of descendants, were "or a cross engrailed vert," but
this was probably a mistake in engraving, for "vert, a cross engrailed
or." For notices of the family, see {Hening, Vol. — ).
[3] Thomas Keeling was probably a brother or son of Adam Keel-
ing, of Lower Norfolk (1639}, who was ancestor of the family of the
name in that section.
[4] Edward Windham was Burgess for Lower Norfolk 1642 and
1642-3. Adami Thoroughgood calls him in his will " brother-in-law."
It will be seen from the English pedigree (ante) that a brother of
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Adam'' married a Windham, and as terms of relationship were then
employed very loosely and generally, it seems probable that Edward
\\'indham was a brother of this brother's wife.
[5] William Kempe was living in Virginia in 1624, with his wife, Mar-
garet, and son, Anthony, born December 12th, 1623. He was Commis-
sioner (J. P.) for Elizabeth City 162S, and Burgess for the upper parish
of that county 1629-30.
(173) WiLLi.\M Andrews, 100 acres in the county of Accomack on
the old Plantation creek, and extending towards King's creek and the
land of John Bloare. Due for the importation of two persons, Richard
Evans and Katherine Turner. By West, June 25th, 1635.
(174) William Andrews, 200 acres in Accomack on the north side
of the mouth of Hungar"s creek; 50 due for the personal adventure of
his wife, Susanna Andrews, and 150 for the transportation of three per-
sons, Robert Johnson, Andrew Sims and James Little John. By West,
June 25th, 1635.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
To Patents Formerly Printed. ' *"*•*'>■
No. 46, Vol I, page 313, William Claybourne. A misapprehension
of the memoranda of the late Captain David Claiborne lead to an error
in stating the descent of the branch of the family in Tennessee. On
page 322 it was stated that Thomas'* Claiborne {son of Colonel Augus-
tine'^ Claiborne), who was born in 1749, and who married a Miss Scott,
was the M. C, and father of Dr. John and Thomas Claiborne, both
members of Congress. A recent letter from a member of the Tennes-
see family shows this to be incorrect. The writer states that a Miss
James, daughter of Cary James, of Brunswick county, Va., emigrated
to Tennessee, and died a few years ago at the" age of 100. She remem-
bered Rev. Devereux Jarratt, and said that the great grandfather of my
informant was named " Burnell Claiborne," and married Martha
Ravenscroft. This is doubtless the same person of " Bernard'' Clai-
borne " (of Captain D. Claiborne's notes), who is stated (page 31S) to
have married Mrs. Poythress nee Ravenscroft, and to have been the
father of Mrs. Jarrett and Mrs. Phillips. According to my correspon-
dent, Burnell or Bernard Claiborne and his wife, Martha Ravenscroft,
had issue: t. .Martha,'' married Rev. Devereux Jarratt: 2. Sally,'' mar-
ried Captain Phillips, of the English army. 3. Thomas,'- of Brunswick
county, M. C. 1793-99 and 1.801-5. He married Mary Clayton, and had
issue: i. Philip,'* a lawyer, married, first, Sally Sims (and had issue:
L John,^" married , and had a son, who. died young, and two
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ABSTRACTS OF VIRGINIA LAND PATENTS. -i'lb
daughters, Virginia" and . One of these married James, son of
her uncle, George Claiborne, and removed to Arkansas; II. Lucy;'''
III. Emma, ^° married John Gregory Claiborne; IV. Martha,^" married
Philip Claiborne); 2. Thomas,'* removed to Tennessee about 1806, and
was M. C. from that State 1S17-1S; married, first, Hannah Hicks, and
had no issue; secondly, Mrs. Sarah Martin King, daughter of Joel
Lewis; 3. George,** married Nancy, daughter of Burwell Robinson,
of Roanoke river, N. C. ; 4. Augustine,'* a lawyer, married (and
had issue: I. Helen,^*' married Somervilie; II. Fenton,^" mar-
ried , and had a son, Fenton,^' killed during the late war; III.
James, ^ married , and had a son, Dr. Augustine [?] Claiborne);
5. Dr. John,'* of Brunswick county, born 1777, and .M. C. from 1S05 to
his death, October 9th, 1S08, married Tempe Hill, and had one son,
James;'"' 6 James,'* died young; 7. Devereu-x Jarratt,'* married five
times; by his second wife, his cousin, Jones, he had issue: I.
Algernon Sidney;^" by his third wife, Harriett Edmunds, had issue: II.
Mar>';^ III. Adelaide;^" by his fourth wife, Mrs. Lewis nee Claiborne,
and fifth, Mrs. Taylor, he had no issue. Algernon S.-" Claiborne mar-
ried Emeline, daughter of John Topp, of Davidson county, Tenn., and
had issue: i. Calista ; 2. George, died unmarried; 3. Jesse, married
Miss Markham.
Thomas'* and Sarah M. K. (Lewis) Claiborne had issue: i. Mary
Clayton,'" married John Ramage, and had (with other issue) a son,
Henry, killed in battle at Kennesaw Mountain ; 2. John,-** major C S.
A., died unmarried; 3. Henrv Laurens,^" married Lucy Steele, of Ky.,
and had seven children. Those who reached the age of twenty-one
were Willi m,^' Lucy," married John Barron, Harry," married Miss
Keenan, and Ried,-' unmarried; 4. Charlotte,^" died single; 5. Anas-
tasia T. T.,^" died single; 6. James,-" died single; 7. Duncan Rose,-"
died single ; 8. Thomas,''-' of "Evandale," near Nashville, Tenn., cap-
tain U. S. A. (see pag2 439), and colonel C. S. A., being in the two ser-
vices nearly twenty years ; married Ann A. Ma.xwell, granddaughter of
George'* Claiborne.
George'* and Nancy (Robinson) Claiborne had issue: i. Thomas,^"
married Mary Ma.xwell, and had issue: I. William B.," who married
Johnson, of Tenn. (and had Annie," married Harvey,
-Mary," married Mann, two other daughters and two sons); II.
Ann;-' III. Thomas'-' killed in the late war; 2. .NIartha,-'- married Jesse
Ma.xwell; 3. Devereux;™ 4. Alexander;2o 5. John Clayton;^'' 6. Philip;2o
7. James ;=« 8. Mary. 2"
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426 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Historical Notes and Queries.
Formation of Counties.
Warm Springs, Va., January ist, 1S95.
Editor of Virginia Magazine of History, ofc :
Sir: In the number of the Magazine for July, 1S94, Mr. R. S.
Thomas gives what is intended as a list of the counties of Virginia,
with the dates of their creation and the names of the counties from
which they were created, when not among the original shires.
He prints the names of many counties now m West Virginia, and
omits many Virginia counties, and makes some errors as to the Vir-
ginia counties given.
I submit the following additions and corrections to the list as revised
by him. Those omitted by Mr. Thomas in both articles were :
Alexandria county, originally a part of Fairfax, was ceded to Genera!
Government as a portion of District of Columbia, and retroceded to
Virginia in 1S46. Formed into county by Act of March 13th, 1S47.
Appomatto.x, formed into county by Act February Sth, 1S45, from
Prince Edward, Charlotte and Campbell.
Bland, formed from Wythe, Tazewell and Giles, by Act March 30th,
1861.
Buchanan, from Russell and Tazewell, Act February i.-,th, 185S.
Craig, from Botetourt, Roanoke, Giles and Monroe, Act March 21st,
1851.
Cumberland, in 174S, from Goochland.
Dickenson, from Russell, Wise and Buchanan, Act March 3d, 18S0.
Highland, from Pendleton and Bath, Act March 19th, 1847.
Wise, from Lee, Scott and Russell, Act February i6th, 1856.
As to Augusta county, an Act was passed by the General Assembly
in 173S, establishing the county, but it was not fully organized until the
30th of October, 1745.
Tazewell was formed from Russell and Wythe (not Russell and
Washington), Act December 19th, 1799
Rockingham was formed from Augusta in 1777 (not 1779). Was or-
ganized in 177S.
Spotsylvania was formed in 1720, from Esse.x, King William and King
and Queen, not from Essex alone.
Gloucester was formed from York in 1642, not 1652.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. 427
Stafford was formed from Westmoreland in 1675, not 1666.
Washington was formed from Fincastle m 1776, not 1796.
J. T. McAllister.
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WlLLI.\M FiTZHUGH.
i\^\ Washington, D. C, January 20th, 1S95.
Editor of Virginia Magazine of History, dfc :
Sir : The first clause of the will of William Fitzhugh, as published
in the January (1S95) Virginia Magazine, recites that he gave to his eld-
est son, William Fitzhugh, " all that tract called Vaulx land, in West-
moreland, containing 6,000 acres." In connection with this, the enclosed
deposition, taken in 1707, when the boundaries of Vaulx land were in
question, may be of interest. The deposition was copied by me a year
or so ago from the records of Westmoreland county.
A. C. QUISENBERRV.
Westmoreland County, Virginia: Ss— John Quisenberry, aged
eighty years, or thereabouts, being examined and sworn upon the Holy
Evangelist of God, doth say that about fifty years ago Mrs. Wingate, a
nigh relation to old Mrs. Vaulx, her husband (that first took up the
said land called " Vaulxland ") being in England, came up to the said
Wingate's with surveyors, and seated the plantation now called "Vaulx
Quarter." Your deponent desired the said Wingate to speak to Mrs.
Vaulx to sell him part of the said land, who seemed to be willing, and
sent up the pattent with orders to Mr William Horton to lay out the
same, who did forthwith lay out the same at the time aforesaid ; and
your deponent went with the said surveyor in the laying out the said
land, and well remembers y't y'r deponent did help to make the line
next to Potomac River, or part thereof, which took in the plantation of
Vaulx Quarter, and likewise the line of fifteen hundred poles, and the
next line, next to Rappahannock River, which included a plantation
formerly seated by one Mr. Lane, since Allen Mounjoy ; and further
saith not.
John Quisenberry.
In obedience to an order of the Westmoreland Countv Court, have
taken the above deposition at the place and time appointed in the said
order, this 31st day of January, 1707.
Lewis Markham,
Caleb Butler,
Andr. Monroe.
Recorded February 25th, 1707, per
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^^ The Will of Lewis Markham.
The following will is of interest, as being that of one of the ancestors
of the famous Chief Justice Marshall. It is contributed to our pages
x; by Mr. A. C. Quisenberr>', of Washington, D. C :
In the name of God, amen ! I Lewis Markham, of Washington par-
ish, in the County of Westmoreland, being sick and weak but of perfect
sences and memory, and calling to mind the transitory state of this life,
doe comend my soule to God my maker, hopeing to purchase pardon
for all my past sins and offences through the meritorious death and
passion of his blessed Son and my Saviour Jesus Christ, into whose
-*- hands I comend my spirit.
Imprimis : my will is my body be decently buryed and that all my
"' just debts be duly paid by my Ext'.x and Ex'r.
Item : my will is that my whole estate be appraised in money, and
^^ that it be equally divided among my eight children, and that my wife
have her due part, according to law.
Item : my will is that my wife have my plantation in .Mattox dureing
^^ her natural lif", and after her decease then to goe to m.y son William
and his heirs forever.
Item : my will is that my children have their due parts of my estate
when they shall come to age, or at the day of marriage.
Item : my will is that my wife have the management of all my estate
f'^' for the good of herselfe and children dureing her widdowhood, and if
it should soe happen that shee should alter her condition before my
children come of age or married, that she give good security to the
Courts for their parts of the estate.
C< Item: my will is that all my Tobacco on my plantations be sold to
^ the best advantage, and all my family to [be] furnished with what is
needful for their use for this present yeare, and the remainder to be
managed for the good of my wife and children, as aforesaid.
Item : my will is that Joseph Bayly and Ann Bayly his wife have a
mourning ring.
Item : my will is that my loving wife Elizabeth Markham and Joseph
>' Bayly be the Ext'x and Ex'r of this my last will and testament. As
witness my hand this 15th of March, i7|f.
Lewis Markham. (Seal).
Test : Henry Williams, Ann Bayly.
Westmoreland, ss.— At a court held for the said county the 24th
day of June, 1713, the last will and testament of Lewis .Markham,
Gentleman, dec'd, was presented into Court by Eliza'h his relict, whoe
made oath thereto, and being proved by the oath of Henry Williams,
one of the witnesses thereto, is admitt to record, and upon mocon of
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the said Eliza'h, and her performing what is usual in such cases, cer-
tificate is granted her for obtaining a probat in due form.
Test: Tho: Sorrell, D. C C.
Recordat tricessimo die Junij, 1713, per cundam Clerum.
Negro Education in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century.
(Communicated by Edward W.James.)
"Princess Ann : At a Court held the third of ffebruary, 1719.
Coll : Edward Moseley, Capt. George Hancock, Mr. Anthonv Walke.
Mr. Hillary .Moseley, Mr. ffran's Land.
Upon the petition of John Jameson its ordered that ned anderson a
free negro boy be bound to him till he Comes to age & that he teach
him to read and the trade of a Tanner & carry him to (worn) office to
have Indentures for that purpose."
" Princess Ann : At a Court held the fifth day of July, 1727.
pr's2nt— Col : Edward Moseley, Capt. Henry Chapman, Mr. Christo'r
Burrough, Capt. fifrancis Land, Justices.
Ordered that David James a free negro be bound to Mr. James Isdel
who is to teach him to read ye bible distinctly also ye Trade of a gun
Smith that he Carry him to ye Clark's office & take Indentures to that
purpose."
Letter of Colonel Willis.
Dr. A. G. Grinnan sends us the following copy of a letter written by
Colonel Lewis Willis from Morristown during the Revolutionary War:
To Mr. Chas. Yates, Fredericksburg, Va.
Morris Town, July loth, 1777.
My Worthy Friend : As our army is now encamped at this place,
waiting to hear what course the enemy will take now, no doubt you
will ere this have heard of their evacuating New Jersey altogether; and
it is conjectured by most people that they intend going up North River
to effect a junction of their two armies (meaning with Burgoyne). How-
ever an express arrived here a few days ago from General Schuyler,
informing our General that Carleton had attempted to storm a fortress
of ours some little distance below Ticonderoga, and had failed.
It is now thought that he will begin a regular seige. How strong
Schuyler is or whether any part of this army will march to his assis-
tance is not yet known. We I understand are to watch Howe's mo-
tions, who is now on Staten Island, but is preparing to embark .some-
where, and where he moves we shall move, which keeps us eternally
on the watch, and everything packed in wagons, and this occasions us
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to live extremely poor, as we dare not send a servant into the country
to procure vegetables, milk or anything, for fear we should be called
off in his absence. I was present when Major Day (Benjamin Day)
wrote to you the other day, and make no doubt he gave you an account
of a Skirmish Lord Stirling had with the enemy a day or two before
their departure. His Lordship lost three pieces of cannon and thirty
men, but from the best accounts I have, and if we can believe deser-
ters, the enemy suffered greatly. Several declare that at one discharge
of our cannon with cannister shot, we thereby killed six men upon the
spot.
Gen. Scott has Since passed over the spot where this affair happened,
and discovered that they had buried a great many men and others were
lying out unburied. The evening al'ter this engagement I was ordered
by Gen. Wcedon (Weedon) to take four light horse, and proceed down
to Brunswick Piscataway, and Scout the Country there about to dis-
cover, if possible, where was the enemy, and what route they had
taken.
Accordingly I set out badly mounted, and got intelligence on the
way, that they were in or about Bonum Town. I made for that place.
You may depend I kept a close watch ; found the enemy had passed
through towards Amboy. precisely two hours before my arrival, as a
good Whig lady informed me. She advised me to return the way I
came or run a chance of falling into the hands of the enemy. By this
time the light horse and my own were so fatigued that I put about, and
with difficulty reached the encampment by Sunset. I could not raise
more than a walk.
A horse, a horse, my pocket book and its contents for a good one
that can play a light pair of heels, and I should delight in reconnoiter-
ing. But these Jersey jades will not do, an English light horse might
give one a mile the start in this open country, and pick them up in
two. My friend I am afraid you have forgotten me. Three posts and
no letter — consider sir. If I do not write as often as you may expect, I
ought to be excused, my time is not my own, and as to conveniences,
my writing utensils are in the waggons and not to be got at. My back
is just broke writing in this little tent upon my knee, so I must conclude
by wishing you every happiness in this world and in the next.
(Signed) Lewis Willis.
The Landon Family.
(Communicated by Chas. P. Keith, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Thomas Landon, father of "King" Carter's second wife, was the
same Thomas who was son of Silvanus.
During my preparation of the Harrison ancestry. Rev. C. Landon, of
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Barnstaple. England, wrote me, February 22d, 1S92, that Silvanus
Landon was probably son of John Landon, yeoman, of wine cellar
to James I and Charles I. Silvanus married tirst Anne, and by her had
a son, Thomas, who succeeded him at Credeuhill. Silvanus" will
gives "to my son, Thomas Landon, the remaining part of the term of
years in the tenement wherein Mr. Le Feaver, apothecary, now lives,
and after his decease, then the rest of the term to his wife ; if she die,
then to the use of Silvanus Landon, -Mary Landon and Anne Landcn.
If said son refuse the several legacies given to him, his wife and chil-
dren, and refuse to give to my ex'rs a general release of all claims, said
legacies shall be void ? " The will also gives residue to Frances, " my
now wife, the relict of Sr. Anthony St. Leger." The date, July 30th,
1681; probated August 15th, i6Sr. John Minor's statement that Betty
Carter's mother was a St. Leger, perhaps based on her having a bro-
ther, St. Leger Landon, I can not verify : of course mother and daugh-
ter may have married father and son. I can not identify which Sr.
Anthony St. Leger was the former husband of said Frances.
Thomas Landon, father of Betty Carter, in his will found in Middle-
sex C. H., dated November 9th, 1700, probated February 3d, ijoo-'i,
mentions that his father left him the reversion of a lease in Pall Mall,
London, and in case of his death, to his wife, Mary. Said Thomas was
eldest groom of the King's buttery when his cousin, Thomas, wrote his
will, February 6th, 1679. He may have lost the office at the Revolu-
tion, 168S, and therefore removed to Virginia. His children were:
L William, to whom said cousin Thomas left in tail male house ect.
in Burghill parish, county Hereford, February 6th, 1679.
IL Thomas, remainderman in case of failure of William's male is-
sue, also god son of cousin Thomas, and cousin Thomas left him rent
ic>/ 13s. .Vd. out of Wiidmarsh Moor near Hereford.
IlL Roger, remainderman on failure of Thomas' male issue.
IV. Silvanus, remainderman on failure of Roger's male issue.
V. John, remainderman on failure of Silvanus' male issue.
VL Mary, named in will of cousin Thomas.
VIL Ann, named in will of cousin Thomas.
VIIL St. Leger, named in will of Thomas (his father), but evidently
not born at date of Thomas' father Silvanus' will, July 30th, 16S1, pos-
sibly born after Betty. Betty, or Elizabeth, called on her tombstone,
" youngest dau. of Thomas * * and Mar>' his wife."
Rev. C. Landon writes me: William Landon, Esq., heir of Creden-
hill, married Anne Jones, of Pixley, county Hereford. Roger died at
Lugwardine, county Hereford. Silvanus lived at Madras Patnam, East
Indies, and died at Bath in 1706. John was a minister at Madras Patnam;
the Madras branch continued there until about iSoo. " Mary married a
London Rector," says Rev. C. Landon. Rev. C. Landon's grandfather
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432 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
(Dean of Exeter) had an uncle who was last of Credenhill, was unmar-
ried, and sold it in 1764.
The will of Thomas Landon, of Middlesex county, Va., is dated No-
vember 9th, 1700, and speaks of son-in-law Richard Willis, who is
called "Captain Richard Willis," in power of attorney from his father-
in-law, Thomas Landon, March, 1697. In the power of attorney the
other son-in-law is called " Mr. John Jones." He is not named in the
will, but testator's " dau. Mary Jones," is. Testator also mentions " son
Saint Leger Landon," and testator's '' wife Mary."
Mary, daughter of testator, married John Jones, as aforesaid, and
afterwards Alexander Swan, whose will, dated March 14th, 1709, was
probated in Lancaster county. Va., May loth, 1710. It says : " that if his
wife, Mary, shall go for England to recover her part of her brother
Silvanus* estate." The widow Mary Swan made a nuncupative will Jan-
uary 2oth, 1721-2 ; mentions Lucy Carter, Mary Carter, " three cousins "
(apparently three nieces, for a by-stander said : " Vou have remembered
the three maidens, but have forgot Mr. George," and testatrix an-
swered: " I will not forget George Carter "), &c.
The will of Silvanus Landon, late President of the English company
at Baudjarmassingh, made at Batavia, December ist, 1704, makes as
his heirs universal, his brother, Rev. John Landon, of Madras Patnam,
and his sister, Anne Landon, wife of Mr. William Ryfort, of London.
Will was probated July 13th, 170S, styling the testator '' of parish of St.
Alban's, Woodstreet, London," stating that he died at Bath, and that
letters granted in December, 1706, to his mother, Mary Landon, had
expired. On March 5th, 1728, there issued a commission to Anne, wife
of R-^v. Thomas Wheatland, as surviving legatee, she evidently being
the sister who "married a London Rector," instead of " Mary," as Rev.
C. Landon wrote. So Ann married, first, William Ryfort, of London,
and afterwards Rev. Thomas Wheatland.
It would seem that after Silvanus Landon's death at Bath, letters of
adm. were granted to his mother in the absence of a will. On such
will arrivmg in England, quere was the mother dead ? or was the grant
of letters to her simply such as would expire by finding a will ? If the
latter was the case, Mary Landon, whose letter to Sir Hans Sloane I
quote, may have been identical with the mother. A full copy of the
extract I possess from her letter is literatim :
" Honoured Sir. I design to spend my days in ye service of God and
in ye study of philosophy w'ch I have made a little progress in not
anufe to lay before your Genious ; but anufe to satisfy a simple woman
w'ch I must own myself to be or else I had never refused ye happiness
of living in your family."
Betty, " yougest daughter of Thomas Landon, Esq., and Mi^ry, his
wife, of Grednal {sic in Bishop Meade's copy of her tombstone inscrip-
tion), in the county of Hereford, the ancient seat of the family and place
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NOTES AND QUERIES. 433
of her nativity, died July 3d, 1710 (sic in Bishop Meade, but evidently
1719), in the thirty-sixth year of her age and nineteenth of her marri-
age " with Robert Carter. She had married first, Richard Willis, before
named, and took out letters on his estate, February 3d, 1700 (1700-'! ?).
On April 9th, 1701, Robert Carter gives bond in view of his intended
marriage with her, and on January 30th, 1701-2, speaks of debts due
his wife as administratrix of Richard Willis, her former husband.
" She bore to her husband," z. e., her second husband, "ten children,
five sons and five daughters, three of whom — Sarah, Betty and Lud-
low— died before her, and are buried near her." Comparing this in-
scription with the list of Carter's children, given by Bishop Meade, it
will be seen that Betty's ten children were: Anne, who married Benj.
Harrison (and who is generally said to have been child of the first
wife). Robert, of Nomini, married Priscilla Churchill (Bishop Meade
says Miss Bladen), and was father of Councillor Carter. Sarah, died
before the mother ; Betty, died before the mother ; Ludlow, died before
the mother; Charles; Landon, of Sabine Hall; Mary, never married;
Lucy and George.
The following letter from A. Swan, found am.ong papers of the Car-
ter family, was evidently addressed to "King" Carter:
Aug'st ye 17, 1709.
Sr : This Comes w'th Hearty prayers for y'rs & famillyes healths as
alsoe to give yo an acco't y't my ffitts has left mee & hope I am in a
faire way of recovery, my poore wife remaines not well but wee are in
hopes (? — letter is torn). Sister is on recovery w'th y'r Children, w^ee
should be very (?) Glad to see poore Nanny here, in hopes ye Change
of ayre may doe her Good, yesterday we heard Gunns & believe there
is a Shipp come Inn please to Signify ye meaning of them & dispatch
ye Boy to S'r
-: v. -r . Y'r most afifectionate Broth'r
A. Swan.
Ye did not well to Baulk my Expectation on Sunday Last. '^'•
The " Nannie " in the letter was, of course, Anne, who married Benj.
Harrison.
J QUERIES.
Lee Family.
Ralph Lee appears as a witness in a deed recorded in Chester county.
Pa., Book E, page 55, dated September 2d, 1727, executed in London
by Elizabeth Green, wife of John Green, of London, e^. a/., and ac-
knowledged by Ralph Lee October 15th, 173 1, before Jeremiah Lang-
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434 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
horn, Register and Recorder of Bucks county, Pa., which appears to
show that Ralph Lee was in London in 1727, and in Bucks county, Pa.,
in 1731- It would, therefore, seem probable that he is a relative, per-
,, haps father or brother, of William Lee, who tirst appeared in Bucks
g county, Pa., in 1725, was married there in 1727, and had a son named
Ralph Lee.
Wanted record of any Lee family through any will or pedigree
record, probably \'irginia, or London, England, or other English Lee
lines, having in the family a Ralph Lee and a William Lee, living dur-
ing the above-mentioned years,
h Edward Clinton Lee,
^ Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A.
b
Anthony West. — Who was Anthony West, gent., and who was his
wife, Anne, or Mary Anne? A.nthony was at West and Sherlowe Hun-
dred, on James river, 1623. He died 1651, and soon after his widow
married (November, 1653), Col. Stephen Charlton. The Coat of Arms
was apparently the same as that of the Lords De La Warr, as shown
by tombstone of Major Charles West at Onancock— which has the Fesse
daus Cettie, and the Leopard Head emerging out of lillies.
T. T. Upshur.
Helm Family.
I desire all information I can get and invite correspondence concern-
ing the ancestry and relations of Meredith Helm, who was born in
Virginia in 1750, married Sarah Hunter, May Sth, 1769, and Polly Mer-
rill, April 3d, 17S9; moved to Kentucky and died in Mason county,
1S17.
Thos. P. Carothers,
5 and 6 Journal Building, Newport, Ky.
The January number of the Southern Literary Messenger, for the
year i86r, is wanted to complete the set of ^Messengers in the Virginia
Historical Society Library. Any one having the number will please
advise the Society.
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A!*« NECROLOGY. 435
Necrology of Virginia Historical Society. •
[At the time the Magazine for January went to press we were unable
to obtain the details of Dr. William H. Sheild's life, which we now
give.]
Dr. William Henry Sheild, Assistant Superintendent of the East-
ern State Hospital, died at Williamsburg, on the 22d of October, 1894.
He was born on York river, in the county of York, in the year 1S34.
His father was Dr. William Henry Sheild, and his mother Anna Byrd
Corbin. Among his ancestors was Rev. Samuel Sheild, an eminent
Episcopal clergyman of his time, who was a close competitor with
Bishop Madison for the Diocese of Virginia.
He entered the Contederate army as a private in artillery; very soon
he was made assistant-surgeon, and was assigned to an Alabama regi-
ment of infantry. From that position he was transferred, as surgeon,
to the Thirty-second Virginia Infantry, a regiment mostly made up from
the Peninsula. Then he became brigade surgeon. At the end of the
war he settled in Yorktown, where he practiced medicine with great
success for many years. Previous to his death Dr. Sheild occupied the
position of Assistant Superintendent of the Eastern State Hospital.
He was never married.
While he was an accomplished master of his profession, he was also
a literary man of fine tastes and tine attainments, and large range of
reading in the field of letters. He was exceptionally brilliant in con-
versation, and as a writer he had rare merit. He was a man possessing
many qualities which gave him a strong hold upon the affection, re-
spect and admiration of those who were associated with him.
Mark Downey.— To the very brief account of the life of Mr. Mark
Downey, appearing in the January number, the following, contributed
by one who knew him well, can be appropriately added :
" Mr. Downey had an interesting career, and a character notable for
sincerity and vigor. Born at Bear Haven in Ireland, in 1S16, he was
reared and schooled by his grandfather. After the death of this rela-
tive and the consequent changes this entailed, he set sail for America,
landed in New York, where, by the frankness that characterized him
through life, he soon made friends, and where he remained some years.
Learning that he had a sister living in Richmond, he visited her, and
charmed with the South and the Southern spirit and hospitality, he lo-
cated there, and became identified with all its interests. Without capi-
tal, by thrift and abounding energy, he succeeded in establishing him-
self in business, and succeeded in this beyond every anticipation.
" If an qualities of his de.'^.erve especial mention, they were his
strongly pronounced principles and his infle.xible integrity. He was a
Democrat at a time when it required much courage and strong convic-
tions in a young merchant to enlist in the ranks of Democracy in a
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436 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Whig stronghold like Richmond. Active in these days and earnest in
his political work, yet his fair dealing and honesty of purpose secured
him the patronage and friendship of political opponents as well as
political friends. With him died the last one of the old members of
the once famous Democratic Club founded early in the forties.
" In 1S52 he incurred some adverse criticism on account of the promi-
nent part he took in his endeavor to secure the pardon of Reed, who
was convicted of piracy, and whom he believed to be innocent. Reed
had been a school-fellow of his, and Reed's father had been his friend
in childhood. Convinced of his innocence and urged by a fine sense
of gratitude and good fellowship, he used every honest method in his
power, and employed every energy to stay the execution of a sentence
that he held to be unfair and unjust.
"Virginian by adoption as he was, Virginian in sentiment, when the
war broke out he did all he could in the service of the cause. Too old
for actual field service, he joined the reserves, doing his part in civic
duties and ready at all times when called out in defence of Richmond.
It is well known that he furnished provisions and equipments to vari-
ous bodies of troops, and rendered other valuable aid as far as the op-
portunity allowed.
" All during the years of the war, his three clerks, who enlisted in
the ranks, received from him their salaries, as if the war had not inter-
ferred with business, and during all the years that have since inter-
vened, no one ever heard him mention the fact even in the most casual
manner.
" Mr. Downey was a man of remarkable judgment and of vigorous
mind. He was a close observer and a great reader. His memory was
clear and retentive, and filled with interesting details. He was partic-
ularly fond of watching the course of current affairs, and kept pace
with the doings of the times, but perhaps he was more sincerely at-
tracted by the historical adventures and episodes of the past. Irish
history and French history — especially of the Napoleonic Epoch — in
boch of which he was e.xceedingly well versed, appealed most naturally
to his fancy. •
" Rather austere and rather exclusive m manners, and apt to be blunt
in speech, he was, in point of fact, to those he admitted to his intimacy,
extremely genial and sympathetic. Resolute and honest, firm and ag-
gressive from youth, he was tolerant only of any display of opposite
characteristics. A man of strong opinion and unyielding in his esti-
mate of characters and events, he was yet, for that very reason, enter-
taining and engaging in his conversation, and crisp and clear, if not
always convincing, in his arguments. During a long life, he lost by
death, three generations of friends, but others took the place of the
old ones, and valued and esteemed him on account of the rare quali-
ities they discovered in private intercourse— such qualities as his liberal-
ity to the poor, his excellent judgment and his scrupulous integrity."
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';'"* THE FLOURNOY FAMILY. .' ' 437
GENEALOGY.
THE FLOURNOY FAMILY.
Compiled by Flournoy Rivers, Esq., Pulaski, Tenn.
Corrections and Corroborations.— The following are the typo-
graphical errors in the text of the January installment of Flournoy
history, viz: "Edward" Flournoy. of Geneva, should be "Edmond,"
page 322; "ceoisette" should be " croisette " — a little cross — in the
statement of Laurent's arms, page 323; "Ancirunes " armes should
be "Anciennes " armes, ancient arms, page 323 ; "■ railing " road should
be "milling" road, page 323; Flournoy's "ll'iir' should be Flournoy's
"Mill,'" page 324; Littleberry Mosby's plantation was "■ Font" Hill, not
" Fort " Hill, page 326 ; " Rush," Texas, should be " Rusk," page 326 ;
Deed-Book " E," at Pulaski, "shows purchases on a plateau," etc., not
" show purchase and a plateau," page 327.
From Francis Flournoy's signature to his will, the original will
having been found at Chesterfield C. H., erroneously placed among
the wills of 1818; probated, VV'ill-Book No. 2, page 262.
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From John James Flournoy's signature to the Allegre marriage bond,
June 27th, 1730, Goochland C. H. See October Magazine, 1S94, page
193-4 (June 27 not "7." — F. R.)
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From a tracing of his signature to the original deed made by him
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138 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
and Stoner to Isaac David, January i6th, 173S, recorded in Deed Book
No. 3, page 176, Goochland C. H.
Cuts of the Coats of Arms will appear in the ne.xt issue, if possible.
Through the instrumentality of Prof. Lyon G. Tyler. President of
William and Mary, there has recently been found at Yorktovvn a deed
from "iVary Jones, widow of Orlando Jones, of the county of York,
Gent., deceased," to "John James Flournoy, of Williamsburgh, watch-
maker," "Lotts 16 & 17," Williamsburgh, for "one hundred pounds
current money and one hundred pounds sterling, secured, etc., etc"
Made January i6th, 1719, recorded .March 31st, i~^^
She conveyed as sole e.xecutrix of Orlando Jones; Baldwin Mathews,
her co-executor, having renounced the trust. The deed recites her
power under his will to convey. Francis Flournoy was one witness,
and Louis Contesse, probably the one named on pages xiii and xiv,
" Huguenot Emigration to Virginia," as owning lands adjoining John
James and Francis, 1725, was another; John Harris a third.
John James married the widow on June 23d, 1720, as heretofore pub-
lished.
Prof. Tyler thinks that possibly Dr. Contesse, from whom he de-
scends, and the Flournoys were related. He says Orlando Jones was
son of Rev, Roland Jones, mentioned by Bishop Meade, Vol. I, pages
i94-5> as first pastor of Bruton parish, Williamsburg ; lived near Wil-
liamsburg, in Timson's Neck, on York river; born December 31st,
1681, died June I2ch, 1719, will probated in York County Court, Novem-
ber i6th, 1719, and mentions his wife, J/ary, also his two children of
first marriage, with Martha Macon; his tombstone states his last wife,
Afary, was daughter of James Williams, King and Queen county. The
Flournoy family-book states he was a widower when he married Wil-
liams' daughter, also.
"Jacob Flournoy, of ye City of Williamsburgh, Goldsmith," made a
deed to Allen, January nth, 1712; and on February i6th, 1712, '' Mag-
delene Flournoy, wife of ye Jacob Flournoy," executed a bond to
Allen — all from York records; corroborating as to her name, page 192,
October Magazine, 1S94.
As the Land Registry records and all later entries append to their
names, the more ambitious English territorial designation " Gent.,"
wherever residence is named, this earlier record is important. Accord-
ing to the Flournoy family-book they were a race of watchmakers,
lapidaries, goldsmiths, jewelers, etc.
Laurent was a lapidary, and Jacques, father of John James, "a gold-
smith, lapidary and merchant jeweler," as was Jacques, his father, who
was also the father of Jacob, the immigrant. The words '' orfevre,"
" lapidaire," " horloger " and " marchand jcaillier," run all through the
records cited, of admission as burgesses of the city and to the Council.
Pleasant letters have come from Mr. Charles Flouniois, who is a civil
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THE FLOURNOY FAMILY. 439
engineer at Geneva, and Mr. Albert Pozzv, director of the docks,
Trieste, Austria, a first cousin of Theodore and Edmond.
Mr. Charles Flournois descends from Laurent's son. Gideon, as does
the writer, Jacques, cited erroneously to the line of John, July .Maga-
zine, 1S94, page 83.
The following is the declaration in the suit of Flournoy and wife vs.
Martin, heretofore cited in this compilation, filed July i8th, 1730:
Declaration, Flournoy et ux ys. Martin.
(Filed in Goochland County Court, July iSth, 1730.)
" Goochland Set:
John James Flournoy and Eliza, his wife Ex &c., of Orlando Jones,
deceased, complain against Francis Martin for that at a Court held for
the County of King William the 17th day of Aug't, 1721, they obtained
a Judgm't against the said Francis for 73olbs. of Sweet Scented tob'o
in Cask Convenient &S81bs. of tob'o & fifteen Shillings Curr't money
being the Costs of the said Suit, yet the said Francis hath not yet paid
the same to the damage of the Pits, ten pounds Curr't money whereof
they bring Suit, Sec."
Another declaration of record at Goochland is John James Flournoy
vs. Martin, as follows :
FlouRxNoy ys. Martin. ' '
" Goochland Sst:
John James Flournoy complains against Francis Martin for that the
said Francis .Martin being indebted unto him fifteen hundred and sixty
pounds of Sweet Scented tob'o & Cask convenient as by a note here in
Court dated Janry 13 1721 may appear, yet the said Francis refuseth
payment thereof wherefore the Pit. hath brought Suit, &c."
(Note filed in suit Flournoy vs. Martin.)
" I Francis Martin of King Wm. County, do hereby oblige my self
my heirs &c., to pay to John James Flournoy or Order, Fifteen Hun-
dred & Sixty pounds of Sweet Scented tobaco & Cask conven't in ye
sd. County on ye six & twenty of december of this year, one thousand
seven hundred & twenty one.
Wittness my hand Jannaury ye 13 Anno Dom 1721."
(Signed) "Francis Martin.
Tess.
"Jean La Bariere,
"Jno. Harris."
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(Letter filed in suit Flournoy vs. Martin.)
" King W.m. County, March 13, 1723.
"Mr. John James Florony I Have Rec'd a few Lines from you and I
am verry Sorry I Cant pay you this year for I have no Tob'o Left. It
has been a very Sorry year for Crops with us this year, but if you will
Please to Stay for the Tob'o while another year I Will Give you suffi-
cient securety Iff you Desire It. I have paid to Maj Aylet upon your
accompt one hundred and two pounds of Tob'o and Likewise am he
that Wishes I had the Rest to pay you.
This is from your friend Francis Martin.
(Endorsed) To Mr.
John James Florony Living
att Williamsburgh."
Aylet's p. O. now exists in King William county.
(Evidently the legend about " the good old times," which one hears
so often, is a mvth ! F. R.)
John James, the immigrant, afterwards removed to Henrico, where
he lived and died, as heretofore shown. When ? Why ?
The Gideon Flournoy, ensign in the Revolutionary army, page 257,
January Magazine, 1S95, must have been Gideon, son of Samuel, of
Powhatan, set out in October and January numbers.
The Middle Tennessee Flournovs.
(Continued from page 327, January number.)
Note — The statement in Goode's " Virginia Cousins," page 220, et
seq., that Silas Flournoy married Sal/y Cannon, daughter of William
Cannon, of "Mount Ida," near New Canton Post-Office, Buckingham
county, is error. He married the Martha Cannon named there, as here-
tofore shown. Sally died here, an old maid— buried at " Locust Hill."
See April number, XS94, page 469.
Silas Flournoy's son, Alfred Flournoy, lost his leg at Pensacola, war
of 1812. While he qualified as a physician, he never practiced. He was
the Jackson Elector of this district in 1828. He was born at " Farming-
ton." Manikin Town, Powhatan county, Dec. 3d, 1796, grew to manhood
in Middle Tennessee, and died at Greenwood, Caddo Parish, Louisiana,
October 29th, 1873, where he settled in 1838. His descendants now
live in Louisiana and Texas. He married, first, Martha Moore (daugh-
ter of Somerset Moore ?), in Giles county, 1S19. She was born Decem-
ber 25th, 1803, and died September 13th, 1834; is buried at " Locust
Hill."
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Instead of dying childless, she bore him 7 children: (r) Alonzo, b.
Dec. 24th, 1S20; m. Mary Anderson Patteson, in Giles county, Aug.
24th, 184S, d. in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, Nov. 6, 1SS6; left (i) James
Patteson F., b. Aug. 25th, 1S53, m. Georgia Elizabeth Martin Oct. 5th,
1875; of their 7 children 6 are living, Greenwood, La. (2) Sallie Pat-
teson F., b. Oct. nth, 1S51, m. James H. McRady March 29th, 1S71; of
4 children, one daughter, Genevieve, survives at Rockport, Te.xas.
Alonzo F.'s daughters, Belle and Theo., died in childhood.
William Flournoy, son of A. F., b. Oct. iSth, 1823 (also stated as
Oct. 10, 1822), d. Sept., 1873, m. Nov. loth, 1S46, Bettie Morrison Arm-
strong, d. of Gen. Robert Armstrong, of Nashville, Teiin., for whom
see Magazine of Tennessee History and Biography, Feb., 1S95. Shed.
Aug. 23, 1867; of their 12 children 5 survive; Margaret Nickol F., b.
Aug. 15, 1847, m. April 6th, 1S69, George L. Kouns, who d. May i6th,
i88r, leaving 4 daug. of whom 3 are living; William F , b. May 12th,
1853, m. Dec. 30th, 18S6, Florence Lambert, of New Orleans, lives at
Victoria, La.; Alfred F., b. Aug. 28th, 1854, m. March 4th, 1SS4, Kate
L. Glenn, 4 children; Lucien F., b. Feby. 22d, i86r, m. Clara Green-
lea, 1892; she died 1S94. This William Flournoy served in 1S46 as
lieutenant in Grain's company, 5th Louisiana Regiment Volunteers,
May to August, and captain in 2d Louisiana Regiment, C. S. A.
Rachel Jackson F., dau. of A. F., b. 1S24, m. Thomas D. Wilson,
Caddo Parish, and d. in 1S57, leaving 7 children, Laura W., m. Thomas
Bell, Bryan, Texas, left one daughter, .Mary, who m. Ed. Gleason, Dal-
las, Texas, and has 2 children ; Ruth Wilson, m. B. H. Davis, left 3
girls, of whom one is dead. Family at El Paso, Texas.
Alfred F. Wilson, b. 1S47, lives at Hearne, Texas, m, Ella Branch;
m. 2d time, Sammie Gleaves, 3 children ; Pattie W.. m. Col. M. W.
Sims, Bryan, Texas, 1870, four children, of whom Rachel Jackson
Flournoy Sims, born 1872. m. Charles Mills, Corsicana, Texas; Laura
S., b. 1873, m. J. Fred. Smith, Dallas, Texas; Milton, b. 1876, and
Bartlett, b. 1878.
Mary W., m. Napoleon Davis, 2 children, with mother in Louisville,
Ky.
Alice W., m. Charles Davis, 3 children, but 2 living, Bryan, Texas.
Thomas D. W., d. at Bryan Texas.
Martha Moore F., daughter of Alfred F., b. Giles county, Tenn., July
22d, 1826, d. in Shreveport, 1846, m. Capl. Lawrence P. Grain, and son
d. an infant.
Eliza F., d. of A. F., d. an infant of 8 months, 1829; buried at " Locust
Hill," Giles county, Tenn.
James Sil.is F., son of A. F., b. Sept. ist (also stated Sept 21st). 1830,
d. Jan. ist, 1887; educated at Western Military Institute, Frankfort,
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Ky.; State Senator, 1S59; m. Helena Sibley, 1S59, eight children, four
living, with mother at Shreveport, La.
Alfred F., son of A. F., born Sept. 22d (or Sept. 2 ?), 1S32, served as
1st Lieut. Greenwood Guards, 2d La. Regt., C. S. A., and on Gen.
Sibley's Staff; sheriff of Caddo Parish, 1S73-4, m. April, 1853, Theo-
■' dosia Eubanks Jones, 12 children, of whom 4 survive; Mary Patteson
F , b. April 24th, 1S66, m. J. D. Fields, Oct., 1S92, Fort Worth, Texas;
Bettie Armstrong F., b. March 9th, 1S6S; Thomas Wilson F., b. Feb.
2ist, 1S75 ; Spencer Alston F., b. Aug., 1879.
Of this family, Rachel Jackson m. David H. Haynes, Jackson, Tenn.,
' and left children.
After the death of his wife, Martha Moore Flournoy, Alfred Flour-
noy m. Mrs. Maria Ward Verger, daughter of John Hamlin Camp,
Giles CO. Of this marriage, Maria and Indiana d. infants, near Green-
wood, La.; David, b. 1S42, killed by kick from horse, 1S56; Charle? F.,
son of A. F., b. 1S44, m. Maggie McMillan, reared large family. Long
Leaf, San Augustine co., Te.^as ; Mary Camp F., d. of A. F., b. 1S46, m.
S. H. Sibley, lives with family near Shreveport; Pattie F., d. of A. F.,
b. 1848, m. Rev. S. B. Surratt, 4 children, 3 living, in St. Louis, Mo.
^ William Cannon Flournoy (I), 3d child of Silas, b. April 5th, iSco,
^' licensed here as a lawyer, Aug. 27th, 1S22, m. Martha Camp, d. of John
Hamlin Camp, Nov. 4th, 1S2S; she was b. Nov. 2d, 1810; made his will
Sept. 13th, 183S. d. Sept. 23d, 1838, buried at " Locust Hill," partner of
John H. Rivers; two sons died infants, 1S29 and 1833, and then son
William Cannon F. (II). b. Sept. 9th, 1S36, educated Western Military
Institute, Frankfort, Ky., served as Lt. and Capt. Co. " K," ist Tenn.
Inft., C. S. A., m. Ella Ezell. d. Sunday, July 2Sth. 1S78, four days be-
fore the election wherein he was candidate for County Court Clerk.
Buried Tuesday, July 30th, 1S78, whereupon his friends brought out
and elected his father-in law. Left Mary Lou, b. Oct. 22d, 1S70, wife of
N. A. Crockett, Pulaski; Wm. Cannon (III), b. April Sth, 1872; John
Walker, b. Jan. 24th, 1874; Martha Julia, b. Sept. 13th, 1875; Ezell, b.
Dec. 9th, 1878.
Julia F., d. of Wm. Cannon F. (I), b. Feb. i8th, 1S3S, graduated from
Nashville Female Academy, June 28th, 1854; m. William Rivers, son of
J. H. R., Dec. 28th, 1857; W. R., b. June 19th, 1831, and d. Dec 26th,
1S91.
Julia F. R., d-.Jan. 22d, 1882, leaving (a) Flournoy R., b. Oct. 15th,
1858, licensed as lawyer Aug, 27th, 1882; State Representative, e.xtra
session, 18S5 ; District Elector (Dem.) iSSS; State Senator, 1S91 ; m.,
Oct. 15th, 1891, Lidie, d. of Capt. John Alfred Avirett, dec'd, 52d Ala.
Inf., C. S. A., and their son, John Avirett Rivers, b. March 22d, 1894.
(b) John Harper R., b. Jan. 9th, i860, d. July 17th, 1864.
(c) Tyree Rodes R., b. May loth, 1862, U. S. Military Academy, class
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1S83, ist Lieutenant 3d U. S. Cavalry, Fort Riley, Kansas, m. Sept. 25th,
1S94, Katharine Fenlon, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
(d) William Cannon R., b. Jan. nth, 1S66, West Point, class of 18S7,
1st Lieut. 3d U. S. Cavalry, Fort Apache, Arizona.
(e) Julian R., b. Dec. 23d, 1S68, chief clerk to Tennessee Treasurer.
(f) Myra, b. June 19th, 1871, m. Nov. 28th, 1894, Lieut. T. N'. Horn, 2d
U. S. Artillery, Fort Riley, Kansas (West Point, class of 1891J.
Martha Flournoy, wife of foregoing W. C. F. (I), m. Oct., 1S45, Judge
A. J. Marchbanks, McMinnville, Tenn., and d. Apl. 13. 1S75, at Pulaski.
Martha Flournoy, d. of S. F., b. Jan. i3tli 1802, m. Joseph Trotter,
d. May 25th, 1S22. one son, S. F.T., d. at Rio Janeiro, 1S5 — .
Louisa Ann F.,d.ofS. F., m. Tryon Milton Yancey, Alumnus Univer-
sity of N. C, class 1814; lawyer at Pulaski, removed to Holly Springs,
Miss. Children: Joseph Y., never married; Laura Ann, m. Leroy P.
Black, and their only surviving child is Mrs. Laura Ann Lester, Pros-
pect, Giles CO., Tenn., who has children; Bolivar never m.; Tryon AL,
present sheriff Tuolumne county, Cal.; Keziah, d. unmarried; Mary
Julia, m. Roberts; Flournoy, m. ; Thomas Leroy, m. .
Mary Amanda F., d. of S. F., b. April 23d, 1806, m. Wm. Hume
Feild, lawyer at Pulaski, State Senator 1831, emigrated to Little Rock,
Ark., in 1843. She d. April 23d, i860. He was Judge 5th Judicial Cir-
cuit, d. May loth, 1S61. He was b. in Brunswick county, Va., 1796.
They left JaiiiL-s Ale.xander F., b. May 30th, 1823, d. ; Mary Eliza
Feild, b. July ist, 1825; ist, m. in Little Rock (i) Wm. P. Officer; 2d,
m. Gilbert Knapp, March 14th, 1857; William Hume F., b. July i6th,
1827; Louisa Dan Dudley, b. July loth, 1829, m. .March 7th, 1S50.
Charles A. Caldwell; Silas Flournoy F., b. Sept. 23d, i8ji, m. Jane
Marshall Talbot: Henrietta, d. infant, 1S33; Margaret Julia F., b. Nov.
6lh, 1836, m. Samuel H. Lenox, d. 1863; Julian Clarence F., b. July
i6th, 1841, surgeon, Denison, Te.xas, m. Bettie McLain, 1874; all above
born in Giles county. Florence Huntley, b. Oct. 15th, 1843, Little
Rock, m. S. H. Leno.x — above. All have families.
Madison F., 7th, and Sarah, loth child of S. F., died young.
Julia Ann F., d. of S. F., b. January loth, 1811, m. Dr. Edward Rex
Feild, Pulaski, d. Aug. 5th, 1873. Left Hume R. F., colonel ist Tenn.
Infantry, C- S. A , m. Valeria Rose, lives at Troy, Tenn., has large fam-
ily; Mildred, m. Dr. Wm. Batte, died, left son E. F. Batte ; Julia, m.
Capt. W. R. Garrett, Nashville, Tenn., both with families, and Mildred
d. unmarried.
Silas Flournoy, s. of S F., b. 1815, in Tenn., killed Oct. 31st, 1844,
accidentally in wolf hunt, Caddo Parish, La., m. Elizabeth Wall Camp,
d. of John Hamlin Camp. She died March, 1853, left Silas F., b. 1835,
d. 1862, m. Kate Wilson, left Lizzie, m. John Woody, with family, and
Silas P.; Lucien, b. 1837, d. 1S70, graduated West Military Institute,
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Frankfort, Ky., 3d Lieut. Greenwood Guards, 2d La. Regiment, C. S.
A., and on Gen. Gray's Staff; m. April 17th, 1S66, Lizzie C. Tebault.
left d. Caroline, m. Goodman; Mary, m. James W. Rivers, of Giles
county, Tenn., Dec. 27th, 1S5S, captain nth Tenn. Cavalry. C. S. A., has
family, James P., Lizzie, Mary. William W., Silas F., Martha; Camp F.,
b. 1841, d. May, 1S94, Lieut. -Captain and Major 19th La. Regiment, C.
S. A., m. Louisa Wise, 1871, and left six children. Family in Caddo
Parish, La.; Lizzie, b. 1843. d. June 13th, 1877, m. James Wallace
Duncan, of Shreveport bar, left Maude, m. George Smith, Jan. 3d,
1895, and an infant died 1876.
The West Kentucky Flournoys.
The Flournoys of Caldwell and McCracken counties — Princeton and
Paducah— descend from David and Jordan, sons of Samuel, of Pou-
hatan, and data of both have recently appeared.
David's Line.— David Flournoy, born at Farmington, Manikin Town,
Powhatan county, Va.. April 14th, 1731. Sold his plantation, "Liberty
Hill," as it is yet marked on La Prade's map, and emigrated to Caldwell
county, Ky., 1S2 — , where he died, June 30th, 1831. Married Elizabeth
Mills Brittan, d. of Anderson Brittan. She was b. Oct. 17th, 1760, d. June
30th, 1830. Their children: ist. Ann Mills, b. Dec. 2i5t, 17S7, d. Jan.
2d, 1863, Princeton, unmarried. 2d. Samuel, b. Oct, 24th, 1789, d. July
nth, 1S28, Caldwell county, Ky.; m. in Virginia, Maria Turpin Hr.rri.s,
d. of Major Jordan Harris, b. Dec. 15th, 1793. Children : Elizabeth
Matilda, born Aug. 22d, 1813, in Va., m. Dec. 15th, 1830, James L.
Dallam, of Princeton, Ky., d. Feb. 17th, 1850; buried in the graveyard
known as the " Mack Philips' graveyard," near Old Salem, in Living-
ston county, of which county her husband was Clerk, of both County
and Circuit Courts. Children were :
Maria Jordon Dallam, b. Oct. 5th, 1831, in Caldwell county, Kv., m.
June loth, 1S56, to H. Clay King, d. Dec. 24, 1856, without issue.
2d. Samuel D., b. March 31st, 1834, at Salem, Ky., d. April 9th, 1856,
never married.
3d. Herbert Shackelford D , b. Dec. ist. 1836, a graduate of Cum-
berland College. Ky , and of the Albany Law School; d. June 14th,
1862, at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, a prisoner of war, captured at
Fort Henry in Confederate service. Was Major of Com. Dept. on
Gen. Lloyd Tilghman's staff; was in 3d Regiment Kentucky troops:
buried in " Mack Philips' graveyard," near Salem, Ky.
4th. Walter Scott D., b. Aug. loth, 1839, d. Jan. loth, 1841.
5th. Lucy James D., b. Dec. 15th, 1841, has never married, is living
and teaching in Paris, Texas-
6th. Sarah Frances D., the youngest, b. Oct. 6th, 1845, at Smithland,
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Ky., m. John .Martin, of Paris, Texas, son of John and Eliza Lenoir
Martin, of Tenn., is still living and has several children, viz : John
Lenoir Martin, b. Aug. ist, 1870, d. in infancy; Herbert Dallam Martin,
b. Nov. nth, 1S71, living in New Orleans; Hugh Martin, b. May nth,
1S74, Cornell College, class 1S94, living in N. Y.; James Avery .Martin,
b. Oct. nth, 1876, now at University of Va.; Fanny Inman Martin, b.
Aug. . 1879. d. the following year.
7th. Chas. Blair Dallam, b. Sept. 17th, 1S47. d. Oct. 15th, 1S48; Rosa
F., 2d child of Samuel, m. Mortimer Jackson, d. in 1S55. leaving Chas.
Jackson, living in Caldwell county, Ky.; John Hyrcanus, Samuel's
child, living in Princeton, Ky , aged about 70 years, several children
by second marriage, Samuel, John James and Percy; two last live in
Chicago. Other children born to Samuel, Adilene, Laura and Virginia,
but were never married, and died long ago ; Prunetta, 3d child of David
Flournoy, b. in Virginia, d. in Ballard county, Ky., m. John Roberts ;
children: Thomas, living in Wickliffe, Ky., Fayette, living in Wickliffe,
Ky., Elizabeth Ann, m. Yeiser, aged 67, Wickliffe, Ky., and
Louisa, m. Williams, one son, living in the West; she died long
ago; Mildred, 4th child of David F., b. in Va.,d. there, m. Col. Leonard
Straw ; no children. Col. Straw subsequently married her cousin, Lucy
W., daughter of Jordan Flournoy; Rebecca, 5Lh child of David F., b.
in Va. Dec. 24th 1793, m. Anderson Bowles in Va., d. at the home of
Dr. McNary, in Princeton, July 7th, 1S45; two children, .Mary E. and
Mildred; .Mary Elizabeth, b. May 7th, 1820, m. James C. Calhoun, of
Paducah, Feb. 3d, 1S42, d. in Paducah Jan. 26th, 1880; children: Elea-
nor R., b. April 5th, 1S43, d- Jan. 3d, 1844; Eliza, b. Feb. 15th, 1845, d.
April 13th, 1S45; John C, b. April 24th, 1846. d. Dec. i8th, 18S0;
Patrick E., b. Sept. 26th, 1848; Anderson B., b. March 17th. 1851 ;
James C, b. Jan. i6th, 1855, d. July 9th, 1856; Hilary L,, b. Oct. 26th,
1857, married; Thomas T., b. April 3d, i860, married; Oreta T., b.
July nth, 1862, married.
Of the remaining children of David and Elizabeth Mills Flournoy,
only three survived to maturity and left issue. These were:
6th. Julia, m. Richard Allen. Both died long ago, and nothing is
known by the writer of their issue.
7th. Thomas Jefferson, b. in Powhatan county, Va., Jan. 15th, 1800,
d. in Clinton. Iowa, Oct. 23d, 1S82, m. ist, Elizabeth Crockett Mont-
gomery, Nov. 14th, 1819. She was b. in Wythe county, Va., May 17th,
1804, d. Aug. 26th. 1S26, buried at Princeton, Ky. From this marriage :
Lafayette .Montgomery, b. in Powhatan county, Va., Sept. 19th, 1820;
living at Spokane, Washington; Receiver of the U- S. Land Office; m.
ist, Elizabeth Clark Anderson, Oct. 3rst, 1850. For her descent see
page 61, '■'■Register Sons of Revoluliort, District of Columbia,'' 1893.
Children: R. C A. Flournoy, Sioux City, Iowa, b. July i6th, 1S52, m.
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Mary Helen Gage, May nth. 1SS7; David, son of L. M. F., b. Aug. 5th,
1856, d. May 12th, 1S57; L. M. F., m. 2d time, Alice Louise Smith; 4
daughters: Henrietta, b. 1S71, Alice Louisa, b. 1S73, Elise, b. 1S79.
Blanche, b. 1SS2 ; Thos. J. F.'s 2d child was David Flournoy, b. in
Wythe county, V'a.. Jan. 6th, 1822, d. without issue, Nov. 22d, 1S54, and
his 3d, Marcella Elizabeth, b. in Wythe county, Va., june 20th, 1S23,
now living with her sister, Mrs. James VanDeventer, at Kno.wille,
Tenn. Never married. Thos. J. F. m. 2d, Maria Ann Dallam (b. in
Christian county, Ky., Aug. 4th, iSro), m. Sept. 28th, 1830, d. Dec.
8th, 1848. Of this marriage: 4. Samuel Smith F., b. Nov. 12th, 1S31.
d. an infant. 5. Letitia Flournoy, b. Oct. 26th, 1S34, m. Dec. loth, iS6r,
James VanDeventer, at Clinton. Iowa, now residing at Kno.wille, Tenn.
Col. VanDeventer, son of Major Christopher V., who graduated from
West Point, comm.issioned in the 2d Artillery, 180S; was made Deputy
Quartermaster-General of the army on conclusion of the War of 1812 ;
resigned about iSiS, and died in Washington in 1S38. Col. VanDeven-
ter was appointed by President Lincoln Commissary of Subs, of Vols.,
with the rank of captain, on Sept. iSth. iS6r ; breveted major, lieut.-
colonel and colonel during the civil war; resigned in August, 1865.
Children of this marriage: i. James Flournoy, b. Sept. loth, 1S62, d.
March 22d, 18S6, unmarried. 2. Thomas Lenox, b. Dec. loth, 1S63.
d. Nov. 5th, 1894, unmarried. 3. Horace, b. July 22d, 1S67. 4. Hugh
Flournoy, b. Aug. 20th, 1S70. 5. Fayette Flournoy, b. Aug. 17th, 1S72.
6. Christopher, b. July ist, 1874.
Sarah Jane, the 6th of Thos. J. F., b. Dec. 15th, 1S36, d. March 23d.
187S, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa., m. Major Wm. Ragan, in Oct., 1867. He
served in Iowa 2d Regiment Infantry and 15th Regiment of Iowa
Vols., during the Civil War. Their children are: Maria Louisa, b. July
24th, 1S68; Marcella Flournoy, b. Nov. 14th, 1870; William Flournoy,
b. June 19th, 1876; Letitia Flournoy, b Feb. 19th, 1S7S ; Silas, 7th child
of Thomas J. F., b. Dec. 3d, 183S, never married ; now living near
Greenville, Tenn.; served through the civil war in the 2d Regiment
of Iowa Vols.; Charles Henry, 8th child, b. Oct. ist, 1841, m. ; living
in Kno.xville, Tenn.; five children, two sons and three daughters,
Camille, Katherine, Anne, John and James; Thomas Jefferson, 9th child
of Thos. J. F., b. Aug. 7th, 1842, unmarried, Paducah, Ky.; Maria
Ann, b. Aug. 7th, 1842, twin of the last named, died in infancy; John
James, b. Feb. 27th, 1845, d. in Clinton, Iowa, April 14th, 1S81; m.
Agnes Adams in Clinton, Iowa, in 1S74. Their children, two sons
and one daughter, now living with their mother in Clinton, Iowa;
Rosalie Dallam, b. Jan. 13th, 1848.
Maria Louisa, Sth child of David and Eliz. Mills Flournoy, b. July
nth, iSn, in Powhatan county, Va., m. May i6th, 1833, to Dr. Thomas
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Logan McNary, who d. May 20th, 1874; d. June 8th. 1892. in Caldwell
county, Ky.; eight children, 3 d. in infancy. The others were :
1. Hugh Flournoy, b. Jan. 15th, 1S39, at Princeton, Ky., practicing
medicine there, never married. Graduated from Cumberland College
in 1853, and from Harvard Medical College, Mass., in March, 1863.
Served in the Medical Department of the U. S. A. during the Civil
War. Assistant physican to the Western Lunauc Asylum of Ky. for
two years.
2. Ann Elizabeth McNary, b Feb., 1840, at Princeton, Ky., lives with
her brother, Dr. Hugh F. McNary; never married.
3. Maria Louisa McNary, b. Feb. i6th, 1S42, m. Patrick Henry
Darby, Solicitor of C. O. & S. W. R. R., Dec. 21st, 1869, lives in Louis-
ville, Ky.; three daughters now living: Marie Louise, b. Feb. 2d, 1872;
Nanny Flournoy. b. Nov. 8th, 1874; Lucy Kearney, b. April i6th. 1880.
One son, Thos. McNary, b. Nov. 6th, 1870, d. Feb. 9th, 1S7S; one
daughter, Elizabeth Logan, b. June 26th, 1S76, d. Dec. 2d, 1877.
4. Lucy McNary, b. July 31st, 1846, m. Oct. 9th, 1866, Gen. John Watts
Kearney, son of Majo' General Phil. Kearney, U. S. A., resides now
in the city of New York; have four children living: John Watts Kear-
ney, b. July 4th, 1S67; Lucy, b. Sept. 17th, 1871, d. Dec. 6th, 1879;
Mary, b. Sept. 23d, 1874; Philip, b. Aug. 4th, 1876; Thos. McNary, b.
March 6th, 187S; Lucy Colden, b. in Dresden, Germany, Nov. 8th. 1882.
5. Walter Scott McNary, b. April 22d, 1848, m. Mrs. Ann Tee Thorn-
berry, d. May 5th, 1891, aged 42, without issue.
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BOOK REVIEWS.
A History of the United States for Schools.— By John Fiske,
Litt. D., LL.D. Svo., pp. 474. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston,
Mass., 1894.
This beautiful volume, beautiful noc only in its profuse illustrations,
but in its type and general get up, is the work of one of America's
most distinguished historians. Dr. Fiske has an attractive, indeed a
charming style, and is a very full man on historical subjects, especially
those relating to America. His volume has had an immense sale, and
although only published in the summer of 1S94, has already run
through four editions. This remarkable success is due, not alone to
the delightful style and great reputation of the author, it is largely,
if not mostly, due to the admirable grouping of events, showing how
one event naturally results from those preceding, and also to the mani-
fest desire of the author to deal fairly with all sections of the country.
The book is very popular at the South, because the South appreciates
the effort of a Northern historian to do her justice, a thing not even
attempted by many Northern historical writers heretofore. Southern-
ers are induced to hope that this is the beginning of the end of the
bitterness engendered between the two sections by the civil war, and
the events which led to and followed it; that the days of reckless
crimination and recrimination will, after a while, cease, and our great
country will, at some time in the future, take equal pride in the heroism
displayed by the Confederate, as in that shown by the Federal soldier,
in the great civil war. We surely will not fall behind Great Britain in
such a matter, and we know that now the memory of Cromwell is
honored as that of one of England's greatest soldiers and rulers, and
a motion to place his statue in Westminster Abbey has been made in
Parliament, and will pass sooner or later. It will not be two and a
half centuries before the statues of Lee, of Johnston and of Jackson,
will adorn the Federal Capital, and the nation w'ill honor them as
among the greatest of its soldiers, if indeed, their names will not stand
at che head of the military captains which have made glorious her his-
tory. Before that period arrives, we may be sure the motives which
led the South to attempt secession from the Federal Union will be
appreciated, and the problem of the colored brother will, we hope, be
solved without serious injury to our free institutions.
The difficulty of compressing a history of North America for 300
years into a volume of 300 pages, has been fully appreciated by the
author, who tells us in his preface that he has attempted, by proper
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grouping, to keep up the interest which would attach to a fuller narra-
tive of details. This groupino:, as to the facts given, has been well
done; but in condensing his material, the author has not always kept
in mind the caution of Horace, "Brevis esse laboro obsciirus jio." He
has sometimes failed to give the correct impression by omitting the
necessary details in the matters related; take for instance the foliowing
passage, found at page 234: " In 177S, Col. Hamilton, the British com-
mander at Detroit, tried to stir up all the western tribes to a concerted
attack upon the frontier. A young Virginian, George Rogers Clark,
hearing of this, undertook to carry the war into the enemy's country.
In two romantic and masterly campaigns, in lyyS-'g, he defeated and
captured Hamilton at Vincennes, and ended by conquering and holding
the whole country north of the Ohio river, from the Alleghanies to the
]Mississippi."
The reader of this, not otherwise familiar with this celebrated and
most important conquest, would never know that Virginia claimed the
territory north of the Ohio under her charter of 1609, and that her
Governor sent out Clark with men raised on her own soil, who made
the conquest for her. Indeed the author conveys the impression that
Clark, of his own volition, with men, whom in some way he induced to
go with him, conquered this vast territory for himself. As Virginia
made good her charter rights to this territory, by conquest with her
own soldiers, and thus secured the Mississippi as her western boundary,
and afterwards deeded it to the United States on condition that they
adopt the articles of confederation, events of supreme importance to
the nation, one would think that children, for the first tirrfe learning
American history, should have had the facts plainly stated. So far from
giving a distinct idea of Virginia's part in this important matter, how-
ever, the author has misstated her claim under her charter of 1699. At
page 66 he represents the grant to her by that charter as stretching
across the continent in a straight strip or zone. The words of that
grant are: "All those lands, countries and territories, situate, lying,
and being in that part of America called Virginia, from the point of
land called Cape or Point Comfort, all along the sea coast, to the north-
ward two hundred miles, and from the said point of Cape Comfort, all
along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that
space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct afore-
said, up into the land throughout, from sea to sea, west and north-
west." Under this grant Virginia claimed that while her southern
line was due west, her northern line was northwest, and upon this and
on her driving the British out, she based her claim to the territory be-
tween the Ohio and the great lakes, which claim prevailed in the
negotiations for peace that closed the Revolution, and thereby the
United States was first extended to the Mississippi; fi.xed as the western
boundary of the Colonies by the treaty between England and France,
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in 1763, and afterwards found the way open to extend to the Pacific.
In showing the logical connection of these great events, surely the
charter claim of Virginia should have been the starting point.
Another instance of misleading statement is found at page 200, where
it is stated in reference to the action of Virginia in organizing the
Revolutionary movement in 1773, that " Dabney Carr provided for com-
mittees of correspondence between the several Colonies." ' This gives
the whole credit of the movement to Dabney Carr, while he only acted
the part assigned him by the most advanced patriots in the Virginia
Assembly, in introducing the resolution already agreed on by them
in conference. This we learn from Mr. Jefferson's statement, who says
that it was at his solicitation that his connection, Dabney Carr was
allowed to introduce the resolution, and in doing so, to make his debut
as a new member.
Still another statement at page 24S must be contested. Writing of the
period between the end of the Revolution and the framing of the Fed-
eral Constitution, the author states that "A party at the South was in
favor of a separate Southern Confederacy." In his volume entitled
" Civil Government in the United States," at page 255. the author
makes the charge more definite, and says: "In Virginia there was a
party in favor of a separate Southern Confederacy." I know of no evi-
dence to sustain this statement, unless indeed it be the suspicions of
Madison and Edward Carrington, appearing in their letters to Jefferson,
in which they attempted to account for the opposition of Patrick Henry
to the adoption of the unamended constitution by Virginia by suggest-
ing such a* motive to him. This suspicion had no ground on which to
rest, and the fact was explicitly denied by Mr. Henry on the floor of the
Virginia Convention. On the contrary, the design to divide the Union
existed at the North at this period, as is stated by an author in his
"Critical Period of American History," at page 211. (See also letter
of James Monroe to Patrick Henry, "Henry's Patrick Henry," Volume
II, page 297.)
I have said that the author has evidently endeavored to do justice to
the South, but I trust that the South may be excused if, like Oliver
Twist, it asks for more. The failure to do the South full justice may
be properly designated as a sin of omission rather than a sin of co.m-
mission. Some examples will be noted.
At page 71 the author states that criminals and others were sent from
England to Virginia, and sold as indentured servants, bound to service
for a limited time. The reader would conclude that this practice was
confined to Virginia, as no mention is made as to its prevalence in the
Northern colonies. The truth is that the Act of Parliament for the
deportation of criminals applied to all the American colonies, and
there were many indentured servants north.
Coming down to the period of the civil war, while the author does
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not go fully into its causes, he gives a very lair account of them so far
as he gives them at all. And in writing of the Southern generals he
is not disposed to depreciate their abilities. But it is a striking fact
that he seldom gives the number of soldiers engaged in the battles,
except in the aggregate, and thus the disproportion of the armies en-
gaged is not shown. Only two exceptions appear to this mode of stat-
ing facts. They are the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville, in
which the Confederate forces are put at half of the Federal. The
omission of relative losses also is found in the notices of all the battles.
These omissions prevent the reader from appreciating the great supe-
riority of the Southern generals and soldiers over their opponents.
But, not to further point out faults, it must be confessed that it is
very refreshing to a Southerner, so accustomed to disparagement, to
read in a history by a Northern writer of eminence the following sum-
ming up of the great strife: "The war had been an honest and honor-
able contest, in which each side had been true to its convictions, and
after making allowance for a certain amount of wrongful suffering inevi-
table in all wars, neither side had anything to be ashamed ot."
Dr. Frank A. Hill, of Boston, has contributed to the vo'ume very full
questions and lists of books fit for collateral reading, and these go far
to make up any deficiency in the text.
William Wirt Henry.
Some Old Historical Landmarks of Virginia and ^Iaryland.
By W. H. Snowden. Svc, pp. 71. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia,
Pa.
This handsome volume contains a storehouse of information about
the celebrated localities in the general vicinity of Mt. Vernon, as well
as about Mt Vernon itself. Beginning with Alexandria, Mr. Snowden
takes us to Broad Creek and Fort Washington, in Maryland, Belvoir,
Pohick Church and Gunston Hall, and finally to Mt. Vernon itself, and
to all the various places of interest en that historic estate. It is not
merely a description of what is to be seen. Mr. Snowden has given a
very full account of the history of each spot, and of the lives of the
persons associated with it. Among the most interesting pages in the
book are those devoted to Belvoir, the home of the Fairfaxes. Here
Mr. Snowden has written with great feeling. Indeed, the sympathy of
the writer breathes throughout the work, giving it a personal charm,
which it would not otherwise possess. Visions of a past age flit through
the mind of the reader as he turns over the pages, and some of its
beauty and spirit is caught. This impression is increased by the inter-
esting series of pictures which illustrate the book; such as Hollin
Hall, Mt. Eagle. Belvoir, Woodlawn, the home of Nelly Custis, and
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Gunston Hall. We are pleased to hear that a library edition of Mr.
Snowden's interesting volume, of greater compass and with many more
subjects and illustrations, will soon be published.
Heraldry in America. By Eugene Zuber. 8vo., pp. 42S. Bailey,
Buntor and Biddle Co., Philadelphia.
" Heraldry in America " is a very handsome specimen of book-mak-
ing, both in typography and illustration. The volume was designed to
meet a want which has long been growing in America. The writer
has succeeded in grouping all that is really necessary to enable the
student correctly to interpret and apply the various laws relating to
arms. In addition to a great mass of compiled matter, there is a very
valuable collection of material gathered from the use of royal and
other seals upon Colonial documents, and individual coats of arms
upon old tombstones, hatchments, tablets, family plate, wills, deeds, etc.
It also presents a view of the present practical application of heraldry
in the United States, particularly to the use of offi'^ial, corporate and
personal seals, and insignia of orders and societies. The work contains
over nine hundred and fifty illustrations.
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Iowa Historical Record for January, 1S95. Iowa City. Iowa.
Collections of Maine Historical Society, January, 1895. Portland,
Maine, 1S95.
William and Mary College Quarterly for January, 1S95.
Huguenot Society of London Publications, Vol. V, Part II.
Pennsylvania Magazine for January, 1S95.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By Prof. Stephen B. Weeks. Boston,
Mass., 1S95.
An Account of John Burbeen. By J. B. Walker. Concord, X. H.,
1895.
Missouri Historical Society Collections. St. Louis, Mo., 1S94.
American Geographical Society Bulletin for December, 1S94.
Nebraska Historical Society Proceedings, Vol. X, No. 2.
Scotch Antiquary for January, 1S95.
Southern Magazine for January, 1S95.
Memorial Biographies of the New England Historical Genealogical
Register. Boston, Mass., 1S95.
Some Old Historical Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland. By W.
H. Snowden. Philadelphia. Pa., 1S95.
History of Edmund Poole and his Descendants. By Murray H.
Poole. Ithaca, N. Y.
Proceedings of American Philosophical Society for May, 1S94.
Montana Historical Society Reports, 1S93-1S94. Butte, Montana,
1895-
Merriam, Puffer, Badcock Sawyer Families. By W. S. Appleton.
Boston, Mass., 1891.
Esse.x (Mass.) Historical Collections. Salem, Mass., 1S93.
Sources of the Mississippi. By James H. Baker. St. Paul, 1S94.
Putnam's Monthly and Ancestral Chart. Salem, Mass., 1S95.
Minnesota Historical Collections for 1894.
ERRATA. — Attention is called to the following errors in the printing
of Mr. Henry's review of Prof. Fiske's ''History of the United States.'
On page 449, charter of 1699, should be charter of 1609. On page 450,
'• an '' author of the critical of American History, should be " our " au-
thor.
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GENERAL INDEX.
Note.— This Index does not include the names in the Rolls of the
Virginia Troops in French and Indian Wars (pp. 102, 143), and in the
Continental Line (pp. 24:, 357).
Aaron's Quarter, 279.
Abbott, David, 278.
Abigail, ship, 77.
Abingdon Parish, 1S7, iSS, 423.
Abstracts of Virginia Land Pat-
ents, 6S, 178, 306, 414.
Abyoon, 215.
Abyssinia, 59.
Accomac County, 6t, 70, 77, So,
100, 1 78, iSo et seq, 308, 309,
310,315,316.
Ackers, 216.
Acquia, 276, 372.
Acres of Land, 3 ei seq.
Adams, Agnes, 446.
Addison, Anne, 223. -.
Adkins, 95.
Adkins, John, 1S2.
Affairs in Virginia in 1626, 50.
Africa, ship, 422.
Africa, 59.
Agee, Mathew, 194.
Agents, 137.
Akin's Landing, 1S3.
Akin, William, 213.
Albemarle County, 222 ei seq, 332.
Albemarle Parish, io3.
Aldred. Samuel, 2S0.
Alexander, Colonel, 76.
Alexander, David, 413.
Alexander, Henry Carringtou, 331
ei seq.
Alexander, William Thornton, 270.
Alexandria city, 451. ;
Alexandria County, 426.
Alexandria Jockey Club, 302. ,
Allegre, 193, 437- I
Alleghanies, 449. j
Allen, Richard, 445. I
Allerton, Isaac, 230. i
Alleson, 422.
Alley, 95.
Alporte, 422.
Altmore. 422.
Ambler, Edward, 232.
I Ambler, Jacqueline, 232 ei seq.
Amboy, 430.
i Amelia County, SS, 313, 319.
j Amherst County, 231.
Amory, 317.
Amory, Thomas, 1S8.
I Anderson, 317.
I Anderson, Archer, January Maga-
zine, XI ; April .^lagazine, i.
Anderson, Charles, iqS.
Anderson, Elizabeth C., 445.
! Anderson, Gabriella, 211.
j Anderson, Henry, 312.
i Anderson. Nathaniel, 223.
I Anderson, Overton, 223.
j Anderson, William, 223.
I Andrews Family, 70.
Andrews, Garrett,' 181 -
Andrews, William, 69, 424.
Annapolis, 302, 304.
Annie, ship, 394.
j Anthony, ship', S7.
I Antietam, 451.
; Appomattox, 117, 426. ■:."• ■'-.
: Appleton. Wm. S., 453.
' Apsher (Upshur;, 292.
Archer's Hope Creek, 99, 308,
Archives, 342.
Argall's Gift, 6r.
Argall, Richard, 71.
Argall, Samuel, 58, 155 ei seq, 160.
Arkansas. 425.
Armistead, Amelia, 317.
Armistead, 316, 317.
Armistead, John, 411.
Arms, 283.
Armstrong, 229 ei seq, 327, 441.
Arnold, 2>o
Arrahattocks, 315.
Arundell, Tno.. 79, 1S3, 1S6. 311.
Arundell, Peter, 186.
Ashby, John, 152.
J^shely, Peter, 187.
Asheley, Wm. H., 225.
Ashurst Paraily, 86.
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Ashurst, Mary. 320. j
Asley, John, 421.
Ashton, 27, 2S, 29, 134, 260, 262 et .
St''/. 316, 376. i
Ashton, James, 27.
Ashton, John, 2S, 135, 262.
Ashton, Peter, 262.
Ashurst. 212.
Assembly, General, 16S.
Association tor Preservation of Va.
Antiquities, April Magazine,
ii ; January Magazine, vii.
Atkins, 422.
Atkins, Richard, 77.
Atkins. T. .A.stley, 239.
Atkinson, John B., January Maga-
zine, xi.
Atkinson, Richard, 1S6.
Attancourt, 323.
Augusta County, ic6, 34S, 397.398.
426.
Averie, Jacob, iSi, 1S5, 311.
Avirett, 90, 442.
Axtell, Mrs. Decatur, April Maga-
zine, ii.
Aylett, 440.
Back River, 414. i
Bacon Arms, 126.
Bacon Family, 125 ei seq, 229, 405
ei set/.
Bacon, Nathaniel, 166, 2S9, 381 £•/
seq, 231, 390 ei set/.
Bacon's Rebellion, 385, 406 et seq.
Badcock Family, 453.
Bagby, iSS.
Bailey, 317.
Baird, Charles \V., Si.
Baird, John, 302.
Baker, '127.
Baker, Abraham, 198.
Baker Family. 3S2, 420.
Baldwin Family, 121.
Balfour, James, 301.
Ball, 340.
Ball Family, So.
Ball, Joseph, 9S.
Ball, Judith, 211.
Ballard, Thos., 408.
Ballard, \Vm., 29S.
Ballexserd, Camilla, S4.
Baltimore, 332.
Baltimore, Lord, 59, 309.
Bankhead, Jas., 96.
Banister. 302.
Banton. 24, 420.
Baptists, 109.
Barber, \Vm., 313.
Earcklaies, \Vm., 219.
Barley, Arthur, 237.
Barnards, 422.
Barnes, Launcelot, 1S9, 311, 313.
Barney, Charles G., January Maga-
zine, ix, 335.
Barnstaple, England. 431.
Barrington, Robert, 1S3.
Barron, 340.
Barron, John, 425.
Barton, 340.
Bason, 269, 277.
Bass, Julia A.. 322.
Basse, Nathaniel, 68.
Bassett, 227.
Bassett. Burwell, 232.
Bassett Family, 232.
Bassett, John Spencer, 119.
Bassett, "Mary, 1S2,
Bassett, Thomas, 1S2.
Bassett, \Vm., :2S, 1S2, 231, 33.5.
Batavia, 432.
Bates, Christopher, 325.
Bates, Daniel, 213.
Bath County, lo^, 426, 432.
Baugh, 213.
Baylor, 340.
Baylor, John, 301, 304.
Baylor, Lucy, 230.
Baylor, George. 302.
Bayly, Ann, 42S.
Bayly, Mary, 179.
Beacons, 2S4.
Bear Castle, 222.
Bear Haven. Ireland, 336, 435.
Bears, 2S9.
Beazley, 314.
Becker, 334-
Beckingham, Robert, 237.
Beckwith, 301.
Eedt'ordshire, 32.
Beggar's Bush. 60, 419.
Bell. 95-
Bell, Thos., 441.
Bell. Capt. David, 39.
Bellin^ham, Grace, 216.
Belly, 422.
Belvoir, 451.
Banger Family, 340.
Bennett, 326.
Bennett, Richard, 99, 175.
Bennett, Robt., 420.
Bennett, Sam'l. 311.
Benson, Mrs. Mary, 177.
Bent, Silas, 225.
: Bently, William, 210.
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Benton, Arthur B., 343.
Benyor, 79.
Berkeley, Instructions to, 1642, 281.
Berkeley Hundred, 30S.
Berkeley, Lady, 12^, 3S0 et seq,
40S et see/.
Berkeley, Sir \Vm., 66, 112, 175.
233, 234, 2S1, 3S0 et seq, 405 et
seq, January Magazine, vi.
Bermuda, 35, 59, 120.
Bermuda Hundred, 294.
Bernard, 422.
Bernard's Creek, S7.
Bernice, Helene-Marie, SS.
Berry, 166, 406, 40S et seq.
Beverley, 29S.
Beverley, Robert, 16S, 178, 405-413.
Bickerton, John, 300.
Bignold, Anne, 340.
Bilbie. 422.
Bill of Adventure, 1S6.
Bills of Exchange, 30, 133, 140, 237.
265 268, 271. 375-
Bill, Thomas, 100.
Binger, John, 33S.
Bingham, 3S3
Bishop's Waltham, i^i.
Blackman, Sarah, 312.
Blacksmith, 378.
Blackmore, 100. ■ ■ •- ';
Blackwell's Island, 335.
Blacock, 422.
Bladen, 433.
Blaithwait, 125.
Bland, 419.
Bland County, 426.
Bland, Giles, 170.
Bland, Mrs. Giles, 17.
Bland, Peregrine, 99.
Bland, Richard, 295.
Bland. Theodoric, 304.
Blandford, 304. i
Blankenship, George, 213.
Bloomfield, Samuel, 122.
Blore, 316.
Blore or Bloare, John, iSo, 424.
Blore, William, 315.
Blount, William, 119.
Blunt Point, 178, iSo.
Blunt Point Creek, 69.
Boame, William, 35. ,
Boatwright. 97. i
Bodham, Madeline, 86. '
Bodin, John, 420.
Boehoe, John, 344, 345. I
Boiling Family, 349. j
Bolthorpe, 382 et seq. 1
I Bolton, Francis, 1S9.
Bona Adventure, ship, 422.
Bona Nova, ship. 307.
Bonall, James, 310, 311.
, Honall, John. 79
Bonderant, Joseph, 206.
Bondurant Peter, 207. „.
Bonney, jno., 344.
, Bonum Town, 430.
' Borum, 316.
Booker, 94, 95, 300.
Booker, Wm., 84, 200.
Booker, Mary, 198.
Book Plates. 229.
Book Reviews. 109, 229, 350,
Books, 208. 225, 226, 236^ 23;
^77. 279-
Boone County, 203.
Booth, Mordecai, 301.
Boroughs, \~^\etseq.
Bosquet, 88.
Boswell, Dorothy, 18S. ,,
Botetourt County, 426.
Bottles, 347.
Botton, Richard, 344.
Boulone';, Thomas, 419.
Boulogne. 70.
Boulton, 422.
Bourchier, Sir John, 78.
Boush, Sam'l, 386.
Bovvdoin College, 328.
Bowdoin, Jas., 328.
Bowen, Hugh, 399.
Bowles, 325.
Bowman, Capt.. 268.
Bowman, Edward, 298.
Bowman, John, 29S.
Bowyer, 422.
Boys, John, 61.
Braddock, 104, 347.
Bradlee, C. D., 119.
Bradston, 422.
Branch, 95, 441.
Branch, Christopher, 99, 295,
Branch, Edward, 213.
Brandon, 234, 279, 412.
Brannly 422.
Bransford, jas.. 207.
Brasenose College, 79.
Brayne Estate, 339.
Brayne Family, 340 et seq.
Bravne, Richard, 340.
Breda, 4:5.
Brent, 22. 28, 35, 36, 73, 74.
372 et seq.
Brent, George, 35. 124, 260.
Brent. Nicholas, 35.
44S.
, 238.
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Brent, Roht., 35.
Brent, \Vm., 301, 305.
Brenton, 422.
Brichard, 95.
Bricks, 75, 284.
Bricklayer, 23
Briery Church, 201, 31S.
Bridger Family. 3S1 et seq.
Bridger, Joseph, 3S1-3S2 et seq.
Briggb, Governor, 328.
Bristol, iS, 261, 262.
Brittan, Elizabeth Mills, 444.
Britton, SS.
Britton, Isham, 324.
Britton, William H., 209, 210.
Broad Creek, 1S9, 313, 451.
Broaddus, 317.
Broadnax, John, 295.
Broadnax, \\'m., 312.
Broadrick, Margaret, 26.
Brock, R. A., S6, 31S.
Brock's Gap, 403.
Brockenbrough, Austin, 185.
Broken Arrow, 212.
Bronaugh, William, 145.
Brooke Family, 125, 340.
Brooke, Robt., 340.
Brooke. R. T., January Magazine,
viii, xi; April Magazine, i.
Brooking, Amelia Sherwin, 217.
Brooks, 422.
Brown, 1S5.
Brown. Alexander. 221.
Brown's Bay. 420.
Brown, David, 343.
Brown, Henry, 99.
Brown, John, 343.
Brown, S., loi.
Browne Family. 306.
Browne, Barrett, 76.
Browne, Nicholas, iSr.
Browne, Robert, So.
Brown, Wm , 306.
Bruce, Peter, 194.
Bruce, Philip A., April Magazine,
i ; January Magazine, vii, xi.
Brunswick County, 200, 234, 301,
443.
Bruton Parish, 127, 438.
Bruton, Thomas, iSi.
Bryan, Joseph, January Magazine,
i, xi, xii; April Magazine, i.
Bryan, Sim, 208.
Bryant, Richard, 276.
Br>'er River, 319.
Buchanan, 223. 39S, 426.
Buck Roe, 79, 17^, 309, 310, 311.
Buckingham, 326, 327, 440 et seq.
Bucke, 58.
Bucke, Rev. Richard, 6x.
Buckner, 340.
Buckner, Elizabeth, 84.
Buckrier, John, 36, 265, 410.
Bucks County, Pa., 434.
I Budgens, 35.
Bue, Robert, 420.
Buford, 317.
Bulkley, 33.
Bullet, 107.
; Bullock Family, 414.
BuUocke, James, 294.
Bumpass, 19S.
Burbeen, 453.
Burdette, Richard, 316.
Burdette, Thomas, 316.
Burdette, William. 180, 315, 316
Burgesses, 3 et seq, 34, 57, 67, 103,
387 etseq.
Burgess, Grace, 77.
Burghill Parish, 431.
Burke, 331.
Burks, Richard, 197.
Burnaby, Andrew, 299
Burner, or Bumer, 205.
Burnham, 22, 26, 131, 133 et seq,
375 <fr seq.
Burnham, Jno., 314.
Bernice, Helen Mary, 191.
Burras, Ann, 69.
Burrough, 344. 422, j.29.
Burrows, Anthonv, 69.
Burrowes, Thomas, 126.
Burton. 95.
Burwell, 118, 126, 229,230,232,303.
Burwell, Lewis, 303.
Burwell. Rebecca, 232.
Busby, Thomas, 173.
Bushvion, 334. • •
Butler, 340.
Butler, Capt., 427.
Butler, xMaria A., 76.
Butts, 217.
Byrd, Wm.. 107, 301, 340.
Byrd, Col., 321.
Cabell Family, 332.
Cacapeton, 346. ■ .
Cadebv, 3S3.
Caernarvon, 415.
Caddo Pa'ish, 327.
Cadgers, 35.
Cage, Edward, 309.
Cage Family, 125.
Caldwell, Charles A., 443.
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459
Calhoun, 445.
California, 342.
Callahan, G- O* 34S.
Calloway, Richard, 22S.
Calthropp. Christopher, 17S.
Calvert, Saunders, 216.
Calvinists, 201.
Cambridge, England, 59, 384.
Cambridge Shire, 28.
Cameron, Charles, 105.
Camp, 327, 442, 443-
Camp, Martha, 90.
Campbell, Cliarles, 412.
Campbell County, 426.
Campbell, General William, 35.8.
Candle-sticks, 269, 277, 279.
Canada, 6S.
Cannon Family, 89, 326,440 et seq.
Cannon, William. 443.
Capers, General H. D., 120.
Capitol of Virginia, 354.
Captains in the Continental Line,
35S, 362.
Capps, William, 60, 4:4.
Cards, 293.
Carey, 276.
Carford, 386.
Carleton, 429.
Carney, 216.
Caroline County, 102, 222, 231, 300
et seq.
Carpenter, 23, 179, 27S, 307, 310,
343-
Carr Family, 221.
Carr, Dabney, 221, 225, 226, 450.
Carriage, loi, 267, 27S, 376.
Carriiigton, Paul, 221.
Carrington, Peyton R., 221.
Carter Coat of Arms, 236.
Carter Family, 95, 230, 430 et seq.
Carter, Charles, 349, 430 et seq.
Carter's Creek, 334.
Carter, John, 75.
Carter, Landon, 302.
Carter, Lucy. 279.
Carter, Major, 96.
Carter. Robert, 232, 236, 237, 279,
Carver, John, 335.
Gary, 229.
Gary, Elizabeth. 188.
Gary, John W., 280.
Cary, Mary, 232.
Cary, Richard, 280.
Cary, Wilson, 223.
Gary, Wilson Miles, 221, 224.
Gasey, Joseph J., 22S.
Gastle Duties, 390.
Castors, 269.
Catawba, 403.
Catlett, 326.
Cattle, 36. 52, 64, loi, 154 et seq,
197. 199. 2qS, 209, 260. ;^74, 278,
286, 315.379. 395.422.
Cats, 289.
Causes of Discontent in Virginia,
166, 2S9, 380-392.
Causey Family, 41S
Causey, Thomas, 418
Causon's, 419.
Cedar Rapids, 446.
Ceely, Thomas, 99. -'
Challes. Hugh, 196.
Chamberlaine, 294 et seq.
Charaberlaine, Thomas, 294 et seq.
Chancellorsville, 451.
Chandler, 316, 417, 4.^2.
Chandler, Jacob, 417.
Chandler, Jno., 183, 1S6.
Chant, 422.
j Chaplains in Continental Line, 362.
: Chaplin's Choice. 313, 41S.
! Chaplin, Isaac, 220 313.
I Chapman, Plenry, 344, 429.
I Chappawamsick, 372 et seq
I Chappavvansic Creek, 276.
, Charles City County, 3, 27, 60, 87,
99, 157 et seq. 184 et seq. 231,
297, 304, 310, 313, 314, 383, 418
et seq
Charles, King, 407, 415.
Charles River, 421.
Charleton, 396, 434.
, Charlotte County, 332, 426.
Charter House, 122
\ Charter Parties, 2S5.
; Chase, Peter. 334.
Chase, W. T., 334.
; Chatsworth, 279.
j Chatterton, 27, 262.
Cheatham, Abijah, 213.
1 Chelston Temple, 415.
I Chesapeake Bay, 59, 69, 70, iSo.
Cherrystone, 70.
Chesterfield County 87 et seq, 19S,
: 294 et seq, 312, 315, 320 et seq,
I 337. 437 et seq.
I Chew, 340, 347.
: Chew, Colley. 347.
Chickahominy River, 60, 99, 310,
311^/ seq.
Chicheley. 40S et seq.
Childus, Abraham. 294.
Childus, G., January Magazine, xi.
Ghildus. Philip, 298.
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Chites, ilS.
Childrey, John K., 334.
Childrey, Stephen, 334.
China, 279.
Chinn, Joseph, 100. ' (
Chiswell, 300.
Chiswick Parish, 341.
Chiskiack, iSi, 1S2, 314, 423, See
A'zsiyaci.
Chippokes, 99, 316.
Chippokes Creek, 421.
Chotank, 276.
Chowning, B. B., 100.
Christ Church Parish, 74.
Christian Family, 78, 34S.
Christmas, Doctoris, 7S, 307.
Christopher & Mary, ship, 422.
Church, 5S, 281.
Churchhiil, 100, 229.
Churchill, Priscilla, 433.
Churchill. William, 302.
Church Quarter, 27S.
Church Tax, 64.
Cincinnati, Soc'ety of, 241.
Claiborne Family. 3S3, 424.
Claiborne, fohn Herbert, 217.
Claiborne Genealogy, 216.
Claiborne, William, 51.
Claparide, Caroline, 88.
Clarendon 3S4.
Clark, Andrew, 27S.
Clarke County, 337.
Clark's Creek, 420.
Clark, John, 27S.
Clarke, George, 179, 420.
Clark, George Rogers, 242, 357,
449-
Clayborne, William, 55, 308.
Clapool Genealogy, 34S.
Clay Croft, 339.
Clayton, 134, 136, 142, iSS, 424.
Clayton, Jaspar, iSS.
Clayton, Thomas, 136.
Clause, Phetliplace, 68, 69.
Clements Family, 306.
Clergy, 59. 66.
Clerk of County, 3 et seq.
Clerk's Fees, 172.
Clifton, 235.
Clifton, Thomas, 36.
Clothing, 278.
Clover Lick, 108.
Cluverius, John. 314.
Coats of Arms, 16,33, 1'S, 126, 219,
236, 272, 322, 414, 434, 437.
Cobbs, 214.
Cobham, Lord, 70.
Cocke, 184,386.
Cocke, Anne, 349
Cocke, Captain William, 37, 391.
Cocke, Stephen, 296.
Cocke, Thomas, 1S4, 204 et seq.
Cockfield Hall, 125.
Codrington, Henningham, 221.
i Codrington, Simon, 221.
Coe, John, 177.
Cokain, n.
Coke, 59, 300.
Collick John, -^-x,.
Cole, 128.
Cole Family, 3S2 el seq.
Cole, William, 129, 382.
Coleman, Henry, 312.
I Collectors, 2 ei seq, 390.
I Collins, Holdridge O., 343.
I Collins, Giles, 345.
j Colonels in Continental Line, 362.
j Colonial Dames of America, April
Magazine, ii; January Maga-
I zine, vii.
! Colson, 422.
! Colson's Island, 77.
' Comby, 396.
! Commissioners, 124.
1 Committees of Safety, 184.
' Compton, 95.
I Conecock, 298.
! Coney, Henry, 307 et seq.
1 Conner, 95.
I Connor, C, lor.
; Conner, Wm., 314.
Conrad, David H., 224.
Contesse, Louis, 43S.
1 Continental Line, 241,357.
! Constitution, 353.
! Conway, 74.
I Conway, Capt.. 268.
i Conway, Edwin, 72.
j Conway, Peter, 302, 305.
1 Cook, 396.
; Cooke, 95, 224, 317.
; Cooke, Geo., 307.
j Cooksey, William, 69, iSo.
i Cooper, John, 17, 18, 133 et seq,
j 261 et seq, 264 et seq, 373.
: Cople, 32, 33, 34.
I Corbin, 117.
i Corbin, Anna Byrd, 435.
; Corn, 154 et seq, 286, 371.
Cornick, John, 345.
Cornick, Lemuel, 216.
Coroners, 3 ei seq.
] Corotoman, 235.
i Corprew, 216.
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461
Cosby, loo.
Cotton, 315.
Cotton, iSo.
Cotton Factory, 325.
Cottle, Thomas, 420.
Cottrell Family, 335.
Cottrell, James C, 335.
Council, I, 54.
Counties, Date of Formation, 91-
94. 218,426.
County Lieutenants, 1S4.
Country Planters, 13S.
Courtaman, 341.
Courtney, 95-
Courts ot' Justice, 2S2.
Covelle, Pernetta Elizabeth, SS.
Coventry, 396.
Covington, 103.
Cowleys, John, 220.
Cowpasture River, 103 et seq, 402.
Cox, 73, 74, 75.
Cox Family, 315.
Cox, William. 178.
Crab Orchard, 202.
Craford, 216.
Craig, 279.
Craig County. 426.
Craig's Creek, 40:.
Craik, C E., January Magazine, xi.
Crain, 441.
Craine Poynt, 421.
Creasor, J22.
Credenhill. 431.
Creech. 216.
Crenshaw, Wm., 225.
Crew, Randall, 99.
Cripp, Zachariah, 77, 99.
Crockett. 442.
Cromwell, 66.
Croshaw, Unity, 33S.
Crosman, 140.
Cross Quarter, i8r.
Crouch Family, 95, 211.
Crows, 2S7.
Crump, Abner, 209.
Crump, Edward T., January Mag-
azine, xi.
Crump, Richard, 20S.
Crump, \V. \V., January Maga-
zine, xii.
Culpeper Co., 231, 273. 376 et seq.
Culpeper, Gov., January Maga-
zine, vi.
Culpepper, Lord, 122, 408 ei seq.
Culpepper, Miss, loS.
Cumberland County, 87 ei seq, 89,
202, 324 et seq, 426.
I Currell, 73, 74-
I Curry, J. L. M., January Maaazine,
xi, 330, 350, 355; April'Maga-
zine, i.
I Curtin, 95.
i Curtisse, 422.
' Custis, 347
Custis, Mrs G. \V. P., 279.
; Custis, John, 78, 292.
I Custis, Nelly, 451.
1 Cutts, 3S5.
I Dabney, Cornelius, 222.
I Dabney's Lynn, 76.
' Dabney, Maria, 223.
I Dabney, William C., 337, 356.
Dabney, William Pope, 87, 324, 326.
Dade Family, 121.
Dale, Elizabeth, iSo.
Dale, Sir Thomas, 58, 63, 154 et seq,
I So, 186,307.
i Dallam Family, 44s-
: Dallam, Maria Jordan, 444.
Dancing, 293.
i Dandridge, 217.
, Daniel, 96.
■ Darby, 447.
Darrell, 267, 272, 373 et seq.
Daughters of American Revolu-
tion, January Magazine, viii;
April Magazine, ii.
' Davids, Slieriti", 318.
Davidson County, 327.
\ Davies, Henry, iSS.
Davis, Samuel. 115.
' Davis, 441.
Davis, Charles. 441.
: Davis, John, 392.
\ Davis, John A G., 223.
' Davis Family, 307.
Davis, Napoleon, 441.
Davis, Rachel, 307.
Davis, Thomas, 61, 307.
: Davis Will, 12S.
i Davis, William, 187
Dawson, 115. .
Dawson, Owen, 313.
Dawkes, Henry, 1S3, 1S6.
Dawkes, William. ib2, 1S5, 310, 311.
Day, Benjamin, 430.
Day, John, 420.
Deane. Anna, 224.
Deane, Frank H., 224.
Deane, James. 225. v
Deane, Joseph. 1S9.
Deane, Richard, 421.
Dearing, 95.
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Delamajor, Thomas, iSo.
Delaware, 454.
Delaware, Lord, 58, 160, 217, 218,
308.
Delaware River, 214.
Delisle, Jane Frances, SS.
Delolme, 56.
Denbigh, 68-69.
Denham, Richard, 96 et seq.
Devonshire, 31.
Dickenson, 321.
Dickenson County, 426.
Dickenson, fohn, 105.
Dickenson, \Vm., 420.
Dickins, n.
Digges, iiS, 123, 3S2 et seq.
Digges Anns, 3S2.
Digges, Edward. 3S2.
Digi;es Island, 276.
Dikes, 2S7.
Dllke, Clement, 77. 79, 17S.
Dimity. 27S.
Dinwiddie, Gov., 103, 106 et seq.
Dishes, 269, 277.
Dissenters, 113 et seq.
Dodge. 415.
Donald, 213.
Donnan, -76.
Dorset County, 262.
Douglas, James Walter, 201.
Douglas, W'm., 205.
Dorrety, Lawrence, 176.
Downes, George, 309.
Dov, ney, .Mark, 336. 435.
Dowse, Thomas, 60.
Draper, Lyman C., 397.
Drayton, 419.
Drinkstone, 125.
Drummond, 300.
Drunkenness, 2S6, 290.
Dry Creek. 319.
Dryhurst, Thomas, 77.
Dudley Family, 76.
Dudley, Louisa, 443.
Dumfries Jockey Club, 304.
Dunbar, 1S7.
Duncan, Jas. \V., 444.
Dunlora, 223, 332.
Dunn, George, 2S3.
Dunnavant, 212, 213.
Dupeuy, 206, 325.
Durand, 270
Dutch Gap. 60. 69, 315.
Duval, 302, 331.
Dyehill, 339.
Dyer, 422.
Eagle's Nest, 279.
Eastern Shore of Virginia, iSo et
seq, 410.
Eaton's Charity School, 414.
Eaton, John, 350.
Eaton, Thomas, 414.
j Edmunds, 396, 425.
j Education, 25, 97, 236, 316, 345,
350, 351. 391; 396, 414, 419.
I Edward, Richard, 74.
j Edwards, 76, J22.
I Edwards, Thomas, 29S.
I Eggleston, Arthur, 422.
j Eggleston, Tucker C, January
i Magazine, .xi.
I Elam, 95.
j Elam, Gilbert, 312.
Elam, Robert, 213.
Elberry. William, 189.
Eleanor, ship. 1S9.
Elizabeth City County, i. 68 et seq,
76, 78, 100, iiS, 178 et seq, 30S
et seq, 314, 3S4 et seq, 414, 4:6
et seq, 420 et seq, 424.
Elizabeth River, loi.
Elizabeth River Parish, 215.
Elk Hill, 235.
Ellett, Elizabeth. 317.
Elliott, Aaron, 225.
Elliott, Robert, 100.
Ellis, 95.
EUyson, John, 220.
Elmer, Thomas, 33.
Eltham, 231.
Emigration, French, 26.
England, 51, 308.
Enies, 422.
j Epes, Littleberry, 296.
Epes, William 69
Episcopal Church, 57, 201.
Eppes, 296.
Eppes, Colonel. 295.
I Epperson, Richard, 206.
] Erwin, 106.
j Escheators, 2.
' Essex County, 4, 426.
! Estill, 95.
Eutaw Springs, 336.
Evandale. 425.
Evans, Richard, 424.
' Evans, William. 301.
■ Evelyn, Dorothea, 70.
Evelyn, Mo'-mjoy, 70.
I Evelyn, Richard, 339.
I Ewan, Mary, 422.
Extor, 421.
I Eyrand, Julia, 84.
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463
Ezell, 442.
Factors, 137.
Fairfax Family, 426, 451.
Fairfax County, 279.
Falkland, 3S4, 3S5.
Falling Creek .Mill, 192.
Farley. 304.
Farley, James Parke, 302.
Farloe's Neck, 99.
Farmington. 326.
Farrar's Island, 69.
Farrer. 212, 213. See Ferrar.
Faune, 422.
Fauntleroy Family, 1S5.
Fauntleroy, Moore, 302, 304.
Fauntleroy, Samut-i, 1S5.
Fearclough, 2,3-
Fewins, Capt. Henry, 36.
Feild Family, 443.
Fellgate Family, 181 et seq.
Felgate, Robt. iSi.
Felsted, 415.
Fenton, Katharine, 443.
Ferebee, 216.
Ferguson, Gay, 223
Ferrar, William. See also Farrar,
60, 69, 414.
Fever and Ague, 141.
Fields, 442.
Fincastle County, 427.
Finch, Robetta, gS.
First Legislative Assembly in
Amenc ., 55.
Fiske, John, 449 et seq.
Fiskins, Nicholas, 77.
Fitzgerald, J. P., 200.
Fitzhugh, Letters of W'm., 15-36,
121-142, 259-275,370-379.
Fitzhugh, Geo., 269, 2S0.
Fitzhugh, Pienry, 17, 130, 141, 26S,
278, 279.
Fitzhugh, John. 2S0.
Fitzhugh, John T., 269.
Fitzhugh, Margaret, 21, 35.
i*itzhugh, Mary, 19.
Fitzhugh, Robert, 22.
Fitzhugh, William. 20, 136, 279,
301, 304, 3^-5. 410, 427.
Fitzhugh, Wm., Jr., 280.
Fitzhugh, Wni. H.. 279.
Fitzhugh, Wm., of Eng., 19, 21.
Fitzhugh Coat of Arms, 33, 272.
Fitzhugh. William. Will of, 276.
Fitz, Stephen, 293.
Flax, 20S, 2S7.
Fleet Family, 71, 76.
I Fleet, Henry, 70.
I Fleet, William, 71, 76.
I Fleet's Bay, 71.
1 Fletcher, 421, 422.
I Fletcher, Hanniball, 421.
\ Fletcher, Susan, 334.
I Flete, Henry. iSo.
i Fleming, 95. 1S8.
; Fleming, John, 302.
: Fleur de Hundred, 6r.
I Flint Fr.inily, 76.
! Flint, Thomas, 78, 99, 179.
Flournoy Coat of Arms. 322, 437.
Flournoy Family, S1-90, 190-213,
31S-327, 437 V/j^^.
Flournoys, ot Kentucky, 444 et
seq.
; Flournoy, R. W. , 322.
' Flournoy, W. W., January .Maga-
zine, xi.
Flournoy Will, 437.
Flower, 415.
Floyd, 317, 39S.
Fluvanna County, 3S3.
Fontaine, 217 ^/ ,ji?^.
Font Hill, 437-
Foote, 269.
Foote, Henry Stuart, 270.
Foote, Richard H., 270.
'[ Forbes, General, 347.
Ford, Paul Liecester, 353.
Ford. Worthington C, 102.
Forks 269.
Formation of the Virginia Coun-
ties, 91, 21S, 426.
Forrest, 69.
Forts, lo-^ et seq, 172, 2S4, 346,
347. 348.
Fort Apache, ^43.
Fort Dinwiddle, 403.
; Fort Fields, 178
1 Fort Riley, 443.
Fort Washington. 451.
Foster, John, 28, 134, n5, 261,
262.
Fouace, Stephen. 129.
Four .Mile Creek, 311.
Fox, 96.
Fox, Anne. 21S.
Fox Familv, 217.
Fox Hill, 76.
Fox, Wm.. 339.
Fowler, Bartholomew, 297.
Fowler, Bernard, 213.
Fowler, Wm.. 79.
France. 322. 399.
Franklin, 422. '
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Franklin, Francis, 421.
Frederick, Col Alexander, 76.
Fredericksburg, 214, 304, 305.
Freeholders, 289.
Free Schools, 97, 391,414, 419. See
Education.
Freeman, Benedict. 310.
Freeman, Robert, 187.
Freeman, Bridges, 313.
Freight, 376.
French in Stafford, 100.
French and Indian Wars, 102, 143.
French Family, 56, 95, 340.
French, Daniel, 1S9.
French, George, 340.
-Fnend, Edith, 212.
Friend, P^d^ard, 320, 321.
Friendship, ship, 422.
Frissell family, 9S.
Friston Hall, 125.
Fulgham, 392.
Furniture, 199, 20S, 236, 277.
Gage, Mary Helen, 446.
Gaines, 95.
Gaines' Mill, 334.
Gaines, R. H . January Magazine,
xi; Ap-il Magazine, i.
Gaines, \V. R.,319, 325.
Gale, George, 423.
, Galiffe's Genealogy, 31S.
Gallatin, Albert, 194-
Galton, Thomas, 339.
Gani.el, 422.
Gardens, 395.
Garland, 222.
Garlington, Christopher, 72.
Garnett. James M., 352.
Garnett, Thomas, 65, 310.
Garrett, 316.
Garrett, \V. R., 443.
Gary, 317.
Gastrock. 422.
Gates, 60.
Gates, Charles, 214.
Gates, Sir Thomas, 57. 5S, 15S.
Gavin, Rev. Anthony, 206.
General Assembly, 2.
General Court, 2
Geneva, 81 et seq, 190 ei seq, 322 et
seq, 437 ei seq.
Gentry, 95.
Georgia, 203, 318
George, ship, 306, 307.
Germanna, 113.
Gervise, Thomas, 79.
Gettysburg, 334.
Gibbes, Thomas, 61.
Gibbins, 33.
Gibson, John, 219, 301.
Giles, 87, 95, 426, 441.
Gissing, 174.
Gist, Capt. Christopher, 44, as, 46.
Glazier, 27S.
Gleason, 441.
Gleaver, 441.
Glebe, 15S, 162 ei seq, 183, 28;.
Glenn. 441.
Gloucester County. 5. 31, 32, 77,
I 127, 166, 174, 187. 280, 302, 317.
340, 381 ei seq, 406 et seq, 423.
' 426.
Goats, 416
Goddard, 373 ei seq.
Goddard, Vincent, 265 ei seq.
Godfrey, 215.
Godwin, 3S1.
Golden, 95.
Goldsmiths, jewellers, &c., 438.
Gooch. 114, 300.
Goochland County, 71, 87, 191 ei
seq, 221, 319 et seq, 426, 437 et
seq.
Good, Edward. 29S.
Goode, 440.
Goode, James E., 354.
Goode, Mary, 312.
Goode, Richard, 302.
Goodman, 444.
Gookin, 417.
Gookin, Daniel, 307. "*
Gookin. John, 99.
Goosehill, 179, iSo.
Goshen residence, 76.
Gosman, 422.
Goss, Charles, 22S.
Gostwick, Sir Edward. 33.
Gouldstone, Richard, 125.
Gourgaing. 6r.
Graham, Richard, 304.
Grant, 347.
Granger, Goodman. 315.
Granger, Xich's, 315.
Granger. Walter, 72.
Gravesend, 59.
Graves, Major, 225.
Graves, Thomas, 60, 70.
Gray, Gen., 444-
Grayson, Geo. W., 270.
Great Grimsby, 3S4.
Great Smeaton, 405.
Grednal. 432.
Greenbank, 108.
. Greenbrier, 400 et seq .
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Green, B. W., January Magazine,
xi.
Green, Elizabeth, 433.
Green, Elizabeth Jufia, 200.
Green, John, j.],;;,.
Green, John >I., 317, 433.
Green, Samuel A., 119.
Green, Capt. \Vm., 35.
Greene, Dorothy, 306.
Greenhalgh, 260.
Greenuich, England, 63.
Greenwood Guards, 444.
Gregory, Roger, 302, 312.
Griftin, John, 31. 315.
Griffin. Reginald. 307.
Gritiith, 415.
Griggs, 236.
Grigsby, Hugh B., 329.
Grimes, Thomas, 216.
Grimston, 415.
Grinnan, A. G., 102, 214, 347, 429.
Grymes, 305.
Grymes, Alice, 233.
Grymes, Benjamin, 279, 302.
Grymes Family, 423.
Gumshall Marsh, 339.
Gunsmith, 429.
Gunston Hall, 432.
Guy, Jackson, January Magazine,
xi.
Guy, \Vm., S5, 216.
Gutteridge, 373, 377 et scq.
Gye, 422.
Gypsies. 100.
Gu-inn, Joseph, 105.
Gwyn, John, 314.
Gwyn, Hugh, 99, 2S0.
Habeas Corpus, 410.
Hackett, Thomas, 96, 97.
Hackluyt, 59.
Halcomb, 319.
Halitax County, 337.
Hammersly, 27. " -'.
Hamilton. 3S3.
Hamor, Ralph, 55. 60, 306.
Hamilton, Colonel, 449.
Hammersley, 133.
Hammond. 231.
Hampden-Sidney College, 109, 332.
Hampton. 63, 416 et seq.
Hampton Family. 310.
Hampton, General. 96.
Hampton (\'a.j Institute, January
Magazine, xi.
Hampton, Lawrence, 310.
Hampton Parish, 127, 12S. iSi et
seq.
Hampton River, 306, 311.
Hampton, William, 79, 309, 314.
Hancombe, 31.
Hancock. George, 344, 429.
Hancock, John, S5.
Hanover County. 222, 300 et seq.
Hansford, 216, 406.
Hansford, John, 1S7.
Hansford, Mary, 1S7.
Happer, 216.
Hardman. John, 297.
Hardy County, 34S.
Hardyman. 302, 304.
Hardyman, Litrlebury, 301.
Hardyman. W'm., 304.
Harlowe, Elizabeth, iSr.
Harmanson, 292.
Harmanson, John, 70.
Harmar, 1S2."
Harmer, Ambrose, 99.
Harper, Jacmine. 4rS. >-
Harrington, 3S4.
Harris, 133, 207. 406, 422. ■•
Harris, Alexander, 416.
Harris, A. M.. 327.
Harris creek. 3:0, 314.
Harris, Elizabeth. S4, 89. 203, 206,
209.
Harris Familv, 204, 207 et seq.
Harris Genealogy, 33S.
Harris, James, S9, 210.
Harris. John, 203, 209, 325, 43S,
459
Harris, Maria Turpm, 444.
Harris, Mary, 209. •
Harris, Thomas, 99, 132, 140, 142.
Harris, Ursula, 209.
Harris, \\ . T., 352.
Harris, William, 69, 17S, iSo, 20S, -
324-
Harrison, Benjamin, 43. 129, [86.
Harrison, Benj., Sr., 336.
Harrison, Benjamin, ancestry of,
229.431.
Harrison, Elizabeth. 217.
Harrison, Henry. 47, 4S, 302.
Harrison, Lucy, 279.
Harrison, Nathaniel, 279. 301.
Harrison, Peyton, 224.
Harrop. 185.
Hastie, Robert, 196.
Hatcher, 212.
Hatcher. Edward, 295. . - .
Hatcher, William. 29S- *
Hatfield, Joseph, 311.
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• ■ Hatton, 422.
Harvard College, 5S, 306 et seq,
32S, III, 353.
Harvard, John, 30, 5S, 77, 99, 181
ct seq.
Harvey, 306 et seq, 414, 425.
Harvey, January Magazine, vi.
Harvey, John, 30, 77, 99, 181,311.
Harvey's Neck, 98.
Harward, Susan G , 334.
Harwood, 316, 317.
Harwood, Archibald, iSS.
Harwood, Edward, 183.
Harwood Family, x^^ct seq.
Harwood, Nicholas, isr, 315,372
et seq.
Harwood, Thomas, 99. 1S3.
Haws, 95.
Hayden, 121.
Hayden, Rev. Horace E. 72.
,{ Hayden, N. B , 21S.
: ; Hayes, Robert, 416.
Hayne, Robert Y., 352.
Haynes, 442.
Haynes, Henry, 41 8.
Haynes, Thomas, 236.
Hayney, John, 310.
Hayward, See Heyzvood and Hey-
ward, 124.
Haywcircl, Samuel, 134, 375.
Haward, Nicholas, 31, 32, 34, 132,
135. 13^. 139. 140, 260 et seq.
Hayward, William, 269.
Haywood, 30. I
Haywood, Joseph, 325.
Hazlegrove, 95. \
Heale, Richard, 1S9. j
Healey or Healy, 100. ;
Healy, George, 100. I
Hearford, John. 344.
Heasoll, 422.
Heele, 420. i
Heeley, Walter, iSi.
Heitman, 243. ,
Helm Family, 434.
Hemp, 2S7.
Henderson, Susan, 224.
Henrico County, 5, 87 et seq, 99,
100, 156, 1S3, 193 et seq, 293 ei
seq,iii.2>is,liSetseq,2,i^.
Henrico Parish, 183
iP^; Henrico Records, 295 ^/ c^y.
Henricopolis, 60, 63', 69,
Henry VIII, 70.
Henry Fort. 178.
Henry, John, 79.
Henry, John F., 202.
I Henry, Patrick, 221, 450.
Henry, Robert. 201, 318.
Henry, Gen. Wm., 203.
j Henry. Wm. Wirt, 67, 451, 453.
i Heraldry in America, 452.
\ Herbert, 95.
' Herbert, Henry, 216.
Herbert. .Mary, 217.
I Hereford, 432.
< Herefordshire, 176.
Hesse, 229.
Heydon, Wm., 384.
Heyl, Col. E. M., 349.
Heyley, Walter, 179.
Heyvvard, 422. See Hayward and
Haywood.
Heyward, Hugh, 183, 1S5.
I Heywood.316. See Hayward and
I Haywood.
: Hewick, 412.
Hicklow, Thos., ro6.
Hicks, Hannah, 425.
j Highland County, loS, 426.
1 Hill, 212, 261,422.
1 Hill, Edward. 319, 40S.
Hill, Frank A., 451.
Hill, Henry, 309, 422.
Hill, John. 99, 213, 419 et seq, 422.
Hill, Stephen, 420.
Hill, Temple, 425. .• . , ,
Hinds, 422.
Hines, 95.
Hinton, Samuel, 74.
Hipkins, 95.
Historical Notes and Queries, 91,
214, 338, 426 ,f/ JcfJ.
Hobson, 68, 73.
Hoche, 117.
Hodge, 95.
Hodgson, 212.
Hogs, 199, 208, 278,
Hog Island, 314.
Hog, Peter, 106.
Hoggatt, 197.
Hoggings, Nicholas, 176.
Holbeach, 415.
Holcomb, John, 197.
Holcomb, Philemon, 196.
Holder. John, 228.
Holland, 58, 154, 181, 192.
Holley, 422.
Hollier, 307.
Hollin Hail, 451.
Holly Springs, 443.
Holmes, John, 69.
Holston River, 399.
Holt. Henry, 353.
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Holt, Randolph, 1S5.
Holton, 422.
Hone, Theophilus, 412.
Honeywood, 231.
Hooe, Richard, 276.
Hoomes, 76, 316.
Hooper, H. R., 19S.
Hopewell, ship, 422.
Hopkins, Rev. Charles, 325.
Hopkins, Johns, 109, 355.
Hopkins, Richard, 422.
Horn Harbor, 3S4.
Horses, 36, 52. 53, 75, lor, 135, 199,
20S, 274, 27S. 293 et seq, 416.
Horton, William, 427.
Hoskins, Bartholomew, iS5.
Hoskins Family, So.
Hough, Francis, 311, 312.
Houses, 27S 2S5.
House 13uiiding, 23, 270.
Housekeepers, 2S9.
Howard, Lord, 130, 411, January
Magazine, vi.
Howe, Daniel, 17S.
Howe, John, 17S. '
Howe, S. H., 355.
Howitzer Association, 337.
Howson, Leonard, 74.
Howt, 71.
Hudson, 316.
Huguenots, ri2, 192, 326, 3S6.
Huguenot Emigration, 31S, 43S ei
seq.
Huguenot Emigration, History, Sx,
Huguenots in Stafford County, 100
Huitt, 422.
Hull, 412.
Hull. Jefferie, 306.
Hungar's, Creek. 424.
Hunniwell, James F., 65.
Hunter, Sarah, 434.
Hunting Creek, 35.
Huntt, 292.
Husbandry, 159.
Hatchings, 215.
Hutchinson, 66.
Hutchis, Robert, 69.
Hutzler, Henry S., January Maga-
zine, xi, xii.
Indians, 34, 52, 60, 64. 70, 77, 7S,
120, 163 et seq, 167 ei seq, 173,
202, 258, 275, 2S4, 2S5. 313, 346,
3-;8.-3S7, 39S.
Indian Thickett, 311.
Indian Spring, 306.
1 Indian Wars in Augusta county,
I Va., 397.
I Ingram, 406.
I Ingrossing, 395.
[ Instructions to Yeardley, 161S, 154.
, Instructions to Yeardley, 1626, 393.
j Inventories, 199, 20S, 236.
j Ireland, 336, 3S4, 39S.
I Irvin, 229, 237.
i Isdel, James, 429.
j Isle of Wight. 6, 61, 68, 99, 234,
' 307, 3S0, 391, 392.
Ives, 216.
Jackson, Andrew, 327.
Jackson, Jane, 316.
' Jackson, John, 6r.
Jackson river, 103 ef seq, 401.
'. Jackson, Stonewall, 117, 448.
Jacobs Well, iSr, 311.
James, Cary, 424.
James, E^avid, 429.
; James, Edward \V., lor, 216, 344.
j James, Elisha, 261.
I James, Francis, 195.
I James I and II, 67, 165.
j James City, 61, 171, 179, 286, 306,
j 310, 3ir, 314, 410, 412. See
I Jaynestown.
1 James City County, r, 68, 79, 99.
1S3.
; James City Island, 68.
; James City Parish, 79.
i James River, 285.
' Jamestown, 26. 55, 60, 66, 134, 155,
I 156,285. S*i(t James Ciiy.
Jameson, John, 429.
Jamieson, Neil, 41S.
: Jarratt, Devereux, 424.
Jarvis, 95.
, Jefferson, Thomas, 61, 221, 297,
; 450.
; Jeffreys, 31, 406.
Jeffreys, Herbert, 166.
i Jeffries, John, 31.
Jego, 422.
Jenings, Peter, 414.
Jenkins, 409.
Jersey Militia, 215.
Jewelry, 235, 27S.
John and Dorothy, ship, 422.
[ohn and Francis, ship, 68, 69.
John's Cross, 341.
Johnson, 95, 422, 424, 425.
Johnson, Jacob, 177.
Johnson, Richard, 422.
Johnson, Thomas, 306, 316, -
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Johnson's Neck, oq.
lohnston, General Jos. E., 44S.
Johnston, \Vm., 339.
Joiners, iSo.
Jones, 21, 31, 95, 327, 422, 425.
Jones. Anne, 431.
Jones, Anthony, 99.
Jones, Caduallader, 31.
Jones, Charles, 305.
Jones' Creek, SS, S9.
Jones, Hugh, 29S.
Jones, John, 432.
Jones, Mary, 438.
Jones, Orlando. S4, 191, 43S, 439.
Jones, Philip, 295, 29S.
Jones, Rice, 6S.
Jones, Robert and Sarah, 76.
Jones. Roland, 43S.
Jones, Theodocia, a42.
Jonson, Ben. 3S4.
Jordan, Isham, 391.
Jordan, Richard, 392.
Jordan, 'Samuel, 60, 419.
Jordan, Scott, 349.
Judes Creek, S9 et seq.
Judes Ferry. SS
Justices of the Peace, 3 et seq.
Katharine, ship, 307.
Kearney, 447.
Kecoughtan, 60, 63, 156 et seq, 414,
416 et seq.
Keeble, George, 412.
Keeling, 422.
Keeling. Adam, 416.
Keeling, Elizabeth, 417.
Keeling. Thomas, 423.
Keenan, 425.
Keith, 129
Keith, Chas., 229 et seq.
Keith, George, 77.
Keith's Creek, 77, 314.
Kelly, Charles, 74.
Kemp, Edmond, 174, 175.
Kemp, Elizabeth, 174.
Kemp, Richard, 99, 174, iSS, 414.
Kempe, \Vm., 422, 424.
Kennedy. 95.
Kenne-!,a\v Mountain, 425.
Kennon. 22S
Kennon, Beverley, 217.
Kennon, Judith, 233.
Kennon, Richard, 22S.
Kensington, 415.
Kent, Prof. Charles \V., January
Magazine, xi; April Magazine, i
Kentucky, 201, 313, 34S.
Kerr Creek, 107.
Ker, D., 100.
Key Familv, 6S.
King, 95, 425.
king's Creek, 125.
King George County, 27, 122, 204.
King, Robert, 35.
King William County, 7, 76, 1S4 et
seq, 222, 316. 426.
King William Parish, 19;. 209.
King and Queen County, 76. 1S5,
222, 22S, 426.
■ Kingsland, 315.
King's Mill Family, 126.
Kiskyack, 51, 309. See also Chis-
kiack.
Knights oi the Royal Oak, 34.
Knives, 269.
Knott, James, 30S.
Kuhn, 95.
La Bariere, Jean, 439.
La Guard. Elias, iSo, 310, 311.
Labbarine. 212.
Ladd, 29S, 331.
Lambert, 441.
Lambert. Thos., 420 et seq.
Lambert's Point. 421.
Lamby, 292.
Lancester County, 7 et seq, 71, -2,
75, 96, 97, iiS, 235, 236, 237,
334, 432-
Land, 216.
Land Office, 241.
Landon, 207, 224, 238.
Landon Family, 430 et seq.
Lane, 422, 427.
Lane, Elizabeth, 325.
Lane, Thomas, 413.
La Prade, 326.
Latane, Thos.. iSS.
Latchett, Robert, 1S9.
Lawrent Arms, 437.
Lawne. Christopher. 61, 6S, 160 et
seq.
Lawne's Creek, 159.
Lawrence, 406.
Lawrence, Cary. 176.
Lawrence Family, 176 et seq.
Lawrence, James, 224.
Lawrence, Rev. John, 176.
Laws. Pinnie, 224.
Lawson, 417.
Layden, John, iSo. See also Ley-
don
Lavton Family, 69.
Leach, J. Granville. 120, 22S.
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Leacke, 422.
Leading, 422. '
Leak Family, 383.
Lear. Col. John, 3S1, 3S2.
Lear, Martiia. 232.
Leases, 78, 17S, iSo, 308, 310, 311.
Leather, 2S7.
Lee Coat of Arms, 219
Lee County, 426
Lee Family, 219.
Lee, Edward Clinton, 434.
Lee, Godfrey, 306.
Lee, Henry, 1S2.
Lee, Philip, 302.
Lee, Richard, 175, 219, 261, 301,
417.
Lee, Genera] Robert E., 423, 448.
Lee, Mrs. Robert E., 279,
Lee. Mrs Susan P., 116.
Le Feaver, 431.
Legrand Alexander, 19S.
Legrand, Peter, 196
Le Gros. Thomas, 125.
Leicestershire, 3S4.
Ltridv, Joseph, 349.
Leigh, 3S3.
.Leigh, William, 183.
Lemon, 237.
Lenox, Samuel H., 443.
Lennox, Duke of, 174.
Lester, Laura Ann, 4^3,
Level Green, iSS.
Levy, 389 et seq.
Lewis Family, 104 et seq, 1S5, 217,
232, 391, 425.
Lewis. Andrew, 39S. 424.
Lewis, Benjamin, 22S.
Lewis, Captain Charles, 43, 44.
Lewis, Fielding, 1S5.
Lewis, Joel, 425.
Lewis, John, 106. 423.
Lewis, Captain Joshua, 41.
Lewis. Nicholas H., 224.
Lewis, Robert \V.. 205.
Lewis. William, 296.
Ley, England, 31.
Leydon. John, 69, 419. See also
Laydon.
Lindsey. John, 100.
Lieutenants. 360, 363.
Lieutenant-Colonels in Revolution-
ary Period, 357.
Lightfoot, Armistead, 232, 302.
Lightfoot, William, 301.
Ligon, see Lyyon.
Limerick. Ireland. 331.
Lincolnshire, 27, 383, 384.
! Little, Georgia, 335.
' Little-John, James, 424.
Lively, 340.
Liverpool, 25, 142.
Lloyd, 236.
Locke, 422.
Locket, Edmund, 213.
I Locket, William, 212.
i Lockey, Elizabeth, 187.
! Lockridge, 106.
Lockridge. Andrew. 105.
' Locust Hill. 327.
London, 24, 174.
London Company, 57, 63, 66, 68,
154
et seq, 17S, 184, 204.
Long, 422.
I Long Island. 102.
: Longman, Thomas, 35.
: Lost River, 34S.
Louisa County, 205, 221.
' Louisiana, 327, 440 et seq.
I Louisville, 202
\ Lower Norfolk County, 99, 118,
\ 169, 176, 177, 310, 354, 381, 3S6,
I ^xi et seq, 421 et seq.
\ Lowther, Bridgett, 310.
( Ludlow, George, 420.
Ludwell, iiS, 173, 385.
Ludwell, Philip, 12S, 407 et seq.
Ludwell, Thomas, 407 etseq.
Lunenburg Pari.--h, 115.
Lunsford, Elizabeth, 175.
Lunsford, Sir Thomas, 174.
Lybing, Mathew, 77.
Lyddale, George, 231.
Lygon, Richard, 294, 295.
Lyle, James, 207. ■ '
Lyman, Frank, 103.
Lyme, John. 301.
Lynnhaven Bay, ^\6 et seq.
Lynnhaven Churchyard, 417.
Lyon, A. .M.. 335.
Lyon, Kate T., 335.
Machodick. 276, 371.
IMackie, 115.
Mackin, Josiah. 113.
Macon, Martha, 43^.
Macy, Avis, 335.
Madras Patnam, 431.
Madder, 287.
Maddox, 317.
Madge, 269
Madison, Bishop, 435.
Madison, Thomas, 450.
Magazine, 53, 54.
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Maginnis, 95.
Magna Charta, 56.
Mahone, 212.
Maidstard, 236.
.Major Robert Beverley and his De-
scendants, 405 et seq.
Majors in Revolutionary Period,
35S. 362.
Makemie, 115.
Mallet, So.
Malvern Hill, 296.
Manacon Creek, 319.
Manakin Parish, 31S.
Manakin Town, 85, 113 et seq, 205,
444 et seq.
Mangum Family, loS.
Mann, \Vm , 237.
Mansfield, David, 99.
Manufactures, Virginia cloth, 75.
Mapsock, 159
Marchbanks, 443.
Margaret & John, ship, 1S7.
Marie's Mount, 307.
Marlebro, 396.
Markham, 425.
Markham. Lewis, 344, 427, 428.
Marshal, 136, 392.
Marshall Familv, 343.
Marshall, F. E ', 219.
Marshall, John, 42S.
Marshall, .^Ia^tha, 343.
Marshall, Robert. 179.
Marshall, Thomas, 343.
Mar- hall Will. 343.
Martain, Nicholas, 420.
Martin, 133. 191, 307, 318, 340, 439,
445-
Martin. Andrew, 295.
Martin, Ann, 200.
Martin. Anthony, 20S, 209.
Martin, Francis, 84.
Martin, George. 22S.
Martin, Georgia. 441.
Martin, John, 62, \^~ etseq.
Martin, James, 20S, 355.
Martin, Robert, 22S, 30S.
Martins Hundred, 51, 52, 61, 99,
i8r, 183, 184.311-
Maryland. 25. 32, 59, 71, 109, 170,
176, 267, 277, 2S0, 291, 302, 314,
322.381.
Mason, 276, 277.
Mason Family, 3S5 et seq.
Mason, Moses, loS.
Mason, Lemuel. 3S3 et seq.
Mason, Thomas, 302.
Massachusetts, 329, 353.
Massacre. 60.
Massacre 1622, 394.
Masseron, 88.
Massey, 22.
Masters, 341.
Masters oi Ships. 3S9.
Mathews, Samuel, 51, 55, 77, 99.
i 128, 195, 228, 231. 235, 414, 428,
i 438-
I Maury Family, 217 et seq, 349.
j Maury, Mary, 217.
Maycock, Samuel, 59.
Mayse, 105, 422.
.Ma.xwell. .125.
i Ma.xey, Edward, 195.
i Maxey, John, 211.
' Meade, 206.
Meade, Bishop, 279, 31S, 433, 438.
Mebane, 317.
Mechanics. 287.
Mee, 422.
Mellin. Gabrielle, S3.
Meneiie. George, 99.
Mercer, 261 et seq.
Mercer, John, 302.
Mercer Captain, 147.
Merchant, 3SS.
Merchants Hope, j.22.
Meredith, C. V , January Maga-
zine, xi; April Magazine, i.
Meriwethe.-, .Major Nicholas, 306.
' Meriwether. \Vm., 306.
■ Merrian, 4=;3.
I Merrill. Polly, 434.
Midcaife, George, 79.
: Michael, 292.
! Middlesex County, S, 100, 174. 237.
301, 310, 314, 405. 432.
Middlesex, England, 341.
' Middleton, ship, 422.
'• MifBen, Gen., 214.
' Millborough Springs, 103 ei seq.
' Miles, 236.
Miles, George, 233.
Miles Quarter. 279.
Militia, 259, 264.
Miller, Edward. 392.
Miller, P. G , 191, 194, 195, 204, 395.
Miller. Thomas, 207.
Miller, Wm.. 224-
, Miller, Mordecai, 225.
• Millisent, Francis, 181.
' Milnehouse John, 308.
Milner, John. 295.
Milner, Patience. 3S2.
Mills. Chas., 441.
Milton, 422.
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471
Milward, John, 1S5.
Ministers of the Gospel, 3 et seq,
64, 2S1.
Minor, 95, 222.
Minor, Dabney, 223.
Minor, Garnett, 340.
Minor, fas., 223.
Minor, Jane Belle, 332.
Minor, John, 222, 431.
Minor, Thos., ^02, ^05.
Minor. W. \V..^33.^
Mississippi, 336.
Mobile City. 335.
Moffett Family, 34S.
Moigne Family, 3S4.
Monnach Xeck, 420.
Monoddy Neck, 9S.
Monroe, Andrew, 427.
Monroe County. 426.
Monroe, Jas., iiS, 450.
Montgomery, Eliz. C., 445.
Moody, 95.
Moone, John, 99, 306.
Moore, 95, 216, 327.
Moore House, 420.
Moore, John. 319.
Moore, Joseph, 187.
Moore, Leonard, 311.
Moore, Martha, 440. ' •
Morgan, Gen'!, 214.
Morgan, John, 420.
Moriset, David, 213.
Morrice, 237.
Morris, Mary, 2S0.
Morris, Thos., 2S0.
Morrison Family, 3S4 et seq.
Morrison, Charles, 17S.
Morrison, Francis, 173.
Morrison, Richard, 17S.
Morse Family, 102.
Morson, 317.
Mortimer, 340.
Morton, Major Jacob, 202.
Morton, Jane Davis, 200.
Morton. Levi P.. 120
Moryson, Francis, x66, 231, 406 et
seq
Moryson, Thomas, 3S3.
Mosby, Littleberry, 437.
Mosby, Richard, 210.
Moseley, Edward, 320, 344, 345,
429.
Moseley, John, 344.
Moseley, Hillary, 429.
Moseiey, Mary, 417.
Mossame, John, 79.
Mottrom, John, 34.
Mount Eagle, 451.
Mount \'ernon, 451.
Mountjoy, 427.
Muce, 192.
Muhlenberg, General, 214.
Mugg, William. 75.
Mulberry Lsland, 69, 77, 1S4 ft seq.
Mulberry Trees, 2S7.
Mulleins, Alice, 307.
Muse Family, 102.
Muse, Thos., 100.
Munford, B. B., January Magazine,
xi; April Magazine, i.
Mussard, Frances, S4.
Muster, 2S3.
McAllister, J. T., 108, 427.
McCain, Betiie, 443.
McCarty, Daniel, 301, 304 et seq.
McCarty, Justin, 82.
McClellan, General, 329.
McClintic Place, 103.
McCrane, 327.
McCreary. Robert, 106.
McDowell Family, 229, 34S, 349.
McDowell, John, 39S.
McDowell. 'Mary, 34S.
McGuire Family, 336.
McGuire, Frank H., January Mag-
azine, i.x, .\, 336.
Mcllwaine, Henry R., 109.
iMcKenney, 354.
i McKenzie, VVilliam, 208.
I McMillan, 442.
McNary, 445 et seq.
McNeil, 346.
McPheeters, Judge, 1S5.
I McPheeters, Jam^es G., 41S.
j McRady, 441.
I McSin, 3c [.
i Nansemond County, S. 78, 11^, 381,
I 420.
i Nansemond, River. 306.
1 Napier. Robert, 296.
i Nash, E. P., 334.
Nash, F, loi.
Nash, John, 85, 195.
Nash, Thomas, 216.
Nashville, 89.
Neale, John. 309. - • -
Neapsco, 372.
Necrology of Virginia Historical
Society. 328,435.
: Negroes, 73, 74. 75. loi, 17S. 197,
j 1 98, 199, 204, 206, 207, 208, 23 ^,
] 237, 238, 277> 278, 279, 314, 326,
i 321, 350. 429.
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Nelson f'amily, iSS.
Nelson, Sally, i8S.
Nelson, William, 301.
Neptune, ship, 69, 77.
Newark, 422.
Newell, Thomas, 1S5.
New England, 307, 30S.
Newgeni, 422.
New Jersey, College of, 115.
New Kent County, 9, 12b, 231, 306,
409.
Newmarket, 299, 301, 304.
New Orleans, La.. 223, 399, 441.
Newport, 5S, 30S.
Newport, R. I., 334.
New River, 400.
Newton, 265.
Newton, Francis, 422.
Newton, George, 3S6.
Newton, John. 261.
Newton, Nicholas, 422.
Newton, Thomas, 181.
Newton, Virginias, January Mag-
azine, xi; April Magazine, i.
New York City, 332, 354-
Nicholas, Geo., 75, 95, 302, 303.
Nicholson, Gov., 12S, 192.
Nicholson, John, 27S.
Nicholson. Joshua, 215.
Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 224.
Nile, 59.
Nine Mile Creek, 311.
Nixon, 95.
NoliingrE. O., 337.
Nolting, Helen, 337.
Nomini, 433
Norfolk City, 126, 334.
Norfolk County, 9, loi, 118, 215.
Norfolk County Parishes, 215.
Norfolk, Duke of, 71.
Norfolk, England, 125, 174.
Norfolk, Lower, See Lower Nor-
folk.
Norfolk, T'pper, 99
Norrington, Capt., 265 ei seq, 373.
Norsworthy, 97, 382.
Northampton County, 10. 69, 70,
78. 118, 178, 292,' 315 347, 410
et seq
Northampton Grievances, 2S9.
Northanna, 222.
North Carolina, 299, 316, 352, 381.
Northern Neck, 34, 273, 274, 385.
Northumberland, 10, 27, 71, 72,
iiS, 334
Norwich. 415.
Norwood, Colonel, 95, 217.
I Nowell, Thos.. 181, 311.
{ Nunnally. 212.
' Nutmeg Quarter, 3S2.
i Oakland, 332.
! Ocquoquan, 274, 276 ei seq, x-o et
\ seq.
I O'Donnell, Ann, 27S.
O'Fallon, Anna Harris, 338-
Officers oi State Line in Revolu-
tionary Period, 357.
Officer, Wm. P., 443.
Offley, 415-
Ogier, 88.
Ohio, 449.
Ohio Comp^nv, iiS.
Old Brick Church, 3S2, 391.
Oldis, Thomas, looT
Oliver, Edward, 306.
Onancock, 434.
Opechancanough, 65.
Orange, 216
Orange County, 347, 398.
Orchards, 270, 2S7, 395.
Orinoko, 17, 375 etseq.
Otter Branch, 319 c-ZjcY-
Otter Dam, 314.
Oven, 208.
Overton, Dabney, 223.
Overton, Jas., 222.
Owen, Thos., 421.
Owles, Robert, 69.
Oxford, John, 344.
Pagan Point Creek, 307.
Page, 95.
Page, Judith, 232.
Page, ^lann, 302, 304 et seq, 305.
Paine, 133.
Palisade, 51, 52.
Palmer, ^22.
Palmer, William H., January Mag-
azine, xi ; April Magazine, i.
Palmer, Wm. P., fanuary Maga-
zine, xi ; April Magazine, i.
Pamunkey River. 181, 222.
Paniher, 271.
Parham, 334.
Parish, 158.
Parishes, 3 et seq, 422. See Naiv.es
of Counties.
Park, Richard, 265.
Parke, Dan-'el, 220.
Parke, John, 315.
Parker, Josiah, 382.
Parker, Thomas, 186, 310, 420.
Parrott Family, 420.
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Partis, Charles, i8.
Pasbehav, 310.
Paspetanzy 276.
Passmore, Thomas, 179.
Patents, 50, 124. 219, 220, 285,306.
See Abstracts of Virginia
Land Patents.
Patteson, 327. 441.
Patteson, S. S. P., January Maga-
zine, xi.
Patton, 398.
Patton, Jas., 397.
Paul, Audley, 106.
Pavis, 33.
Pawlett, John.
Pauiett, Capt. Thomas L., 61.
Peabody, Gee, 329, 350.
Peachey, William. 145.
Pearson, Henrv G., 355.
Peekskill, 215.'
Pembroke, 396, 416.
Pembroke, Earl of, 174.
Pemberton, 316.
Pendleton County, 426.
Pendleton, \Vm. Nelson, 116.
Penney, Richard, 392.
Penney, Henry, 309.
Pennsylvania, 214, 34S.
Pennyman Family, 405.
Pensacola, 327, 440.
Pensux, 132.
Penton, 422.
Peppett, Gilbert, 77.
Percy, 30S, 422.
Perkins, 127, 216.
Perreau, Daniel, 87, 323.
Perrott, 413.
Perry, 95 261.
Perry. Henry, 306.
Perry, Micajah, 413.
Perry & Lane. 265.
Peterhouse, 3S4.
Peters Family, 129.
Peter & Anthony, ship, 192.
Peter, ship, 87.
Petersburg:. 334.
Pettee, J. T., 120.
Pewter, 208.
Peyton, John. 357.
Peyton, John Howe, 239, 355.
Peyton, J. Lewis. 355.
Peyton, Thomas G , 224.
Philips, Mack, 444.
Phillips, 424.
Phillips, Elmer, 179, 1S7.
Phillips, General. 217.
Philadephia, 114, 398.
Physic, 413
Physicians, 315,413. See Surgeons.
Piankitank, 412
Pickett, 95.
Pictures, 277.
Pierce, Capt. Wni., 77.
Pierce Family 382.
Pierce, VV'm., 99, 189.
Pierse. Thomas, 58, 59.
Pighles, Daniel, jSi.
Pillory, 65.
Pillow, Jerome, 327.
Piscalaway, 430.
Pitch, 287.
Pitts. 422.
Plank. 74.
Planters, 394 et seq.
Plant Cutting, 410.
Planters, 2S5.
Plate, Silver, 140, 208. 268, 269, 270.
272, 277, 278, 279, 316. See
Silver.
Plates, 199.
Pleasants, 209, w].
Plows. 20S.
Plymouth, 420.
Poage, George. 105, 106. • , .
Pocahontas, 59. 61, 183.
Pocahontas County, 106 et seq.
Pocoson River, 118, 419, 420 et
seq
Pohick, 451.
Poindexter, George B , 302.
Poindexter. Sarah Parke, 322.
Point Comforc, 76, 79, 105, 169, 176,
1 78, 189, 2S4. 354- 449-
Point Comlort Creek, iSo.
Pole, David, 79.
Polenline. Jolin, 60.
Pollard, John Garland, 120.
Pollard, Robert. 185.
Poole, 422.
Poole, Murray H., 453.
Poole, Robert. 65.
Pooley, Rev. Greville, 60.
Poor, Gifts to, 127.
Poor, Robert, 211.
Pope's Creek, 276.
Popkin, Thomas, 1S5.
Porringers. 269, 277.
Porteus, 26.
Portsmouth, loi.
Portsmouth Jockey Club, 305.
Portsmouth Parish, 215.
Porter, Mrs. Margaret, 25.
Portiock, 216.
Pory, John, 59.
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Potoumac, 27, 65, 372 et seq.
Potomac Creek, 276.
Potomac River, 140, 427.
Pott, JoiTn, 69 et seq, iSo et seq,
1S5, 309.
Powell, 3SS.
Powell. Nathaniel, 59, 313.
Powell, Thomas, 77.
Powell, William 60, 65.
Pouel's Creek, 372.
Powers, Henry, 12S, 129.
Powhatan. 65,' 154, 444.
Powhatan County, 86, S9, 195, 203,
l\^,\\oet seq.
Powhatan Swamp. 1S3.
Powhatan tree, 312.
Poythress, 424
Pozzy, 439
Presbyterians, 109 et seq, 177, 201.
Preston Register, 397.
Preston, Wm., 397.
Price, HaIcott,"304.
Price. John S5.
Primrose, ship, 421.
Prince Edward County. S7, 191,
195. 31S et seq, 426. '
Prince George County, 11, S7, 234,
313-
Prince William County, 269.
Princess Anne County, 11, 216, 334,
416 et seq, 429.
Princess Anne County Records,
344
Princeton. X. T., 214, 332.
Pritchard, Frances and Robert. 97
98.
Privy Council. 50. ,
Proclamations, 124.
Procter, 173. 304. 305.
Prodhom, 5la"de!ine, 192.
Prosser, 191, 422.
Pryor, 316.
Pryor, Christopher. iSS.
Pryor. Elizabeth, 202.
Pryor, William, 202.
Publications, 119, 199, 239, 355,
419. 453-
Public Officers in Virginia, 1702,
1714. I. 15-
Purcell, Chas ,331.
Purcell, John. 331.
Puerary, Judith, S4, 191.
Puffer Family, 453.
Pugh, Davy. 75.
Pulaski, S9, 327.
Purfury, Thomas, 17S.
Purifoy, Thomas, 181.
I Puritans. 109 et seq.
Purton. 423.
Putnam, 215.
I Quakers, no et seq, z'^i.
Quantico, 35, 276 et seq, 372.
Quarles. James, 357.
Queen's Creek, 159, 1S2.
Quisenberry, 102.
Quisenberry, A. C, 94, 343. 427.
_ 42S.
Quisenberry. lohn, 427.
Quitrents, 50. "130. 165. See Refits.
Race, Roger, 307.
Racing in Colonial Virginia. 293.
Radford, John, 206.
Randolph" .Macon College, 356.
Ragland, Cella, 22S.
Raleigh, 154.
Ramsey, 229.
Rand, Henry, 310.
Randale, Daniel R., 109.
Randolph, 261, 279.
Randolph Family.' 2 17.
Randolph. Giles, 216.
Randolph, John, 313, 419, January
Magazine, v.
Randolph, Henry, 220, 205, 312.
Randolph, Peyton, 313
Randolph, Richard. 183.
Randolph, Thcs. X., 302, 303.
Randolph, Wm., 220," 796."
Radon, John, 315.
Rape Seed, 2S7.
Rappahannock County, 31, 72 et
seq.
Rappahannock River, 276. 372 et
seq, 427.
Ravensworth, 279, 424.
Rawlins. 125.
Reade, Col., 406. '■
Reade, George, 175, 423.
Reade. Mildred. 42^3.
Reed Creek, 401.
Religion, 393.
Rennolds. 331.
Rent, 05, 273, 370. See Quitrents.
Revenge ship, 421.
Revolution, Sons of, 342
Revolutionary Records, 242.
Reynolds, 422.
Richard. 99.
Richardson. 348.
Richardson, D. C, January Maga-
zine, viii, xi; April Magazine, i.
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Richardson, Rev. Wm.T., January
Magazine, xi, xii.
Richason, John, 344.
Richmond City, 205, 304, 318, 331,
356, 435-
Richmond City X'olunteers, 94.
Richmond County, 12, 115,334.
Richmond Critic, 315
Rich Neck, 174 et stq.
Ridgley. B. H . S3.
Riding Chair, 210.
Ring, Joseph, 129.
Rings, 27S.
Rivers Familv, 90. 442.
Rivers. Flournoy, Si, 190, 191, 31S,
437 et seq.
Rivers, John H , 442.
Rivers, Richard, 201.
Rivers, William, 90, 201, 442.
Roane Family, 1S5
Roanoke, 333. 401, 426.
Roanoke. N. C, 423.
Robins Family, 1S6 et seq, 316.
Robins, Grace, 179.
Robins, John, 312.
Robins' Neck, iSi.
Robins, Obedience, 70, 100.
Robins, Mrs. Sally Nelson, Janu-
ary Magazine, viii.
RoBarts, Jo ^-.1 Lewis, January xi.
Roberts, Bartholomew, 294.
Roberts, James Edward, 211.
Roberts, William, 213
Robinett, William, 314.
Robinson, 304.
Robinson, Burwell, 425.
Robinson, Conway, 99, January
Magazine, v.
Robinson, Christopher, 100, 410 et
seq.
Robinson Family, 122.
Robinson, James, 1S9.
Robinson, John, 412. 414.
Robinson, .Maxamilian, 302.
Robinson, Richard, 420.
Rockingham County, 332, 34S, 426.
Rocks, 314.
Roe, Nicholas, 180.
Rolfe, John, 59, 6r, 1S3.
Roman Catholic, 118. 176, 275,372.
Roman Catholicism, 116.
Romancoke, 2:7.
Roote, Abraham, 314, 316. 340.
Rookbili. Francis, 314.
Roper, 95.
Rosingham, 61.
Rosser. Elizabeth, 344.
Ross, G. T., 327.
Ross, 95. . .
Rotterdam, 347.
Roulston, Lyonell, 309.
Rouen, 192.
Rowland, Kate Mason, iiS.
Rozier, John, 316. .
Ruffin, Robert, 315.
Rural Felicity, 76.
Rush, Texas, 437.
Russell, 95, 422.
Russell County, 426.
Russell, John, 421.
Rutherfoord. Richard, 312.
Rutherford, John, 69.
Ryfort, Wm., 432.
Sabine Hall, 433. ... ^ .7
Sabot Island, 87.
Sabourin, Frances, 88.
Sabourin, Jane, 84.
Saffell, 242- : -J
Salle, Joseph, 89, 210.
Salle's Creek, 87.
Salle, Peter, 323. t. ■ . :_; .•
Sally's Creek, 326.
Sanford, D., loi.
Sandford, >iary. 41S. - •
Sandy Creek, 39S.
Sandy's Edward, 112.
Saunders. Roger. 180, 182,310, 315.
Savadge, Thomas, 310.
Savages, 395. .|..^»
Sawyer Family, 453.
Saxon's Goale, 77.
Sayer, Charles, 3S6, 41S.
Scarborough, 2S9, 41S
Scholl, Peter, 39S.
School, See Education and free
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Schuyler, 429.
Scot, Joane, 100.
Scott, 71, 214. 354, 424, 430-
Scott County, 203, 426.
Scott, Thomas. 198, 199.
Scott, Walter, 181.
Scott, W. W., XI 9.
Scottsville, 210.
Seabury, 334.
Seal, 124
Seaton. George. 2S0.
Seawell, 188, 419.
Seawell, Henry, 35, 416 et seq.
Seddon, 76, 317.
Sedgwick, 422.
Sedgwick, Wm., 129.
Selby. 405.
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Selden, Miles, 230.
Selden, Rebecca, 179.
Selden, Samuel, 179
Servants. 236, 237, 27S, 379, 416.
Sevvell, Henry, 3S6.
Shackelford, Herbert, 444.
Shackelford, Jas., 1S7.
Shakespeare, 5S
Sharp, Samuel, 60.
Sharpe, Richard, 392.
Sharpe, William, 220.
Sheep, 209, 260, 278, 416.
Sheffield, 312.
Sheffield, John, 315.
Shield, Sam'l, 435.
Shelley, Walter, 60, 6r.
Shenstone Green, 41S.
Sheppard. 95.
Sherey, Elizabeth, 12S.
Sheriffs, 3 ei seq, 191, 291, 3S7.
Sherwood, Wm , 40S et seq.
Shield, Dr. W. H., 337, 435-
Ship, ownership in, 129.
Ships, 124, 291.
Shipping, 2^.
Shipwright, 31.
Shirley Hundred, 30S, 434.
Shirley Residence, 349.
Shurlev, Dan'l, 311, 312.
Sibley, 327, 442.
Sibsey Family, 421.
Sibsey, John, 99.
Sickelmore, 65.
Silk Worms, 287.
Silver, 199, 236, 268, 269, 277, 278,
279,316, 377^/ -r^^, 417.
Silver Mine, 322.
Simons, Dr., 65.
Simpson, 260.
Sims, 441.
Sims, Sally, 424.
Sinclair, x83.
Singleton, 18S, 2x6,418.
Skipp'5 Creek, 77, iSi, 1S3, 185.
Skipwith, Gray, 100.
Skinner, 181.
Slade, John, 33.
Siader, Mathew, 294.
Slater Fund, 350.
Slater, John V., 120, 355.
Slaughter, John, 420.
Slaughter, "Robert, 302, 305.
Slaves, lor, 128, 157, 209, 210, 279,
379. See Negroes.
Sloane, Sir Hans, 432.
Snowden, 76.
Snowden, \V. H., 451.
I Small Po.x, 214.
I Smalley, William, 301.
{ Smallwood, 102.
j Smallwood. Mathew, 313.
I Smart, George, 177.
j Smart, William, 70.
} Smith, 98, 115, 140, iSS, 390 ei seq,
I 39S, 399-
I Smith, Abigail and Anthony, 126.
I Smith, Alice L., 446.
j Smith, Arthur, 390 e( seq.
j Smith, Bathurst, 225.
i Smith, Captain, iS, 59.
! Smith, Charles, 20?.
i Smith, Edward, 415
I Smith, George, 20S, 320, 324.
Smith, James. 324.
I Smith, lohn, 65, 207, 223, 307, 399,
411,423.
.Smith, J. F., 44r.
Smith. John Hill, 242.
Smith, Margaret Y'owell, 354.
Smith, Marion Mason, 1S8.
Smith, Martha, 125.
, Smith, Ralph, 130, 131, i^i^et seq,
142.
: Smith, Rebecca, 200.
; Smith, Robert, 174, 223, 385, 412.
: Smith, Roger, 55.
, Smith, Samue[, 223.
! Smith, Thos., 186, 307, 323, 422.
: Smith, Sir Thomas, 70.
\ Smith, Wm., 180, 216, 265, 305, 417.
: Smith, W. S., 209
Smithfield, 91, 307.
i Smyth. Geo., 345-
Smyth, J. F. D., 299
. Smythe's Hundred 60.
I South Carolina, 352.
i Southampton, England, 3S5.
' Southampton River. 68 ei seq, 78,
: 179.312
South Branch, 402 et seq.
Southerne, Henry, 1S9.
Southerne, John, 1S9.
i South Fork, 404
: Soane, 296.
Soane, William, 295.
Somerset House, 174, 179.
Sommerville, 425.
Sorrell, Thos., 429.
South Sea, 53.
Southwark Parish, 306.
Spaniard, 56, 70.
Spark, 422.
1 Speed, 422.
I Spelman, Henry, 65.
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Spence, 27S.
Spence, William. 60.
Spencer, 124, 292.
Spencer Family, 33, 34, 195.
Spencer, Frances, 34.
Spencer, George, 237.
Spencer, Nicholas, 123. 259 et seq,
370, 409 et seq.
Spencer, Thomas, 84.
Spencer. William, 34, 1S9.
Spicer Family, 122.
Spoons, 269, 277.
Spots wood, 339.
Spots wood, Alex., 301, 304, 305,
340 et seq.
Spotswood, Robert, 143.
Spotsylvania County, irS, 222,426.
Spotsylvania River, 222.
Spring, 422.
Spruill, Godfrey, 296.
Squire. Gains, 33.
St. Alban's Parish, 432.
St. Anthonv. St. Leger, 431.
St. Bride's Parish. loi, 215.
St. Dunstan's Church, 125.
St. Paul's Parish. 279.
Stacy, Robert, 61.
Stafford, Family, 314.
Stafford County, 13, 27, 35, 100,
17S, 259, 209, 276, 278, 279, 314,
427.
Stafford Court, 372.
Stamp Act, 67.
Stanard, William, 100.
Stanard, W. G., 68, 119, 204, 221,
306. 345. 354. 405, 414; January
Magazine, .xi; April Magazine,
i.
Stanfield, 422.
Stanhope, 200.
Stanley Hundred, 77.
Starkey, Peter, 78.
Starling, 292.
Staten Island, 429.
Staunton. 399.
Stavely, Adam. 420.
Stearns, Mrs. Franklin, January
Magazine, xi.
Steele, Lucy, 425.
Stephen, Colonel, 40.
Stephens, 414.
Stephens, Richard, 186.
Sterling, Peter, 353.
Sternfield, 127 et seq.
Steuben, Baron, 358.
Stevens, 237.
Stewart, John, 296 et seq.
Stewart, Captain Robert, 38.
Stewart, William A , 215.
Stirling, 430.
Stith, January Magazine, v.
Stith, Anne, 247.
Stith, William, 1S3.
Stockden Family, 78, 79.
Stockden, Jonas, 78.
Stockton, James, 312.
Stockton. Jonas, 179.
Stone, John, 98.
Stone, William, 316.
Stoner, 89, 43S.
Stoner, Daniel, 193 et seq, 319.
Storke, 134, 261 et seq.
Storke Family, 30
Storke, Thomas, 135.
Stonham, 415.
Stratton, Edward, 295.
Straw. 445.
Strawberry Banks, 78, 179, 309.
Streeter, 71.
Stringer, 315
Stringer, John 70.
Stuart, Jane, 270.
Stuart, William, 270.
Stubblefield. 316, 317
Stubbs Family, 1S8, 316.
Stubbs, fohn, iSS.
Stubbs, T. J., 1S8.
Stubbs, Wm. Carter, 18S.
Sublett, Peter A , 324.
Sublett, W'm., 89, 210.
Suffolk, Duke of, 70.
Suffolk, England, 125.
Sugar, 17, iS.
Sulley, Thomas, 68.
Sullivan, Gen.", 214.
Summer, 329.
Summer Islands, 53, 393.
Sunderland, Earl of. 81.
Surgeons, 187. 435. See Physicians.
Surgeons in Continental Line, 36r.
Surratt, 327, 442.
Surry County, 12, 170, 189, 234, 306,
381. 422 et seq.
Surry County Grievances, 170.
Surveying, 140.
Surveyor. 3 et seq.
Susan, ship, 421.
Sussex County, roS, 234.
Sussex, England, 339, 341.
Sutton, 136, 271. 296.
Swan, Alex., 432.
Swan Family, 432.
Swan House Creek, 311.
Swane, 422.
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Sweet Hall. 3S3.
Sweete, Robert, 69.
Sweny, 216.
Swift Creek, 193. 31S et seq.
Swinyards. 3S3
Switzerland, S2.
Symmes, 229
Syms, Benjamin, 419.
Tabb, Martha, iSS.
Tailors. 294, 311.
Talbot, Jane M , 443.
Taliaferro Walker. 302, 305.
Talmaii, Silvcrton. 307.
Talwood, John, iSo.
Tankards, 269. 277.
Tanner, Joseph, 294.
Tar, 2S7. ,
Tatem. John, 216.
Tatman. Charles T., 119.
Tatum, Augusta S., 21S
Tatum Family, 216 et seq.
Tax, 155, 196. 2S9
Taxable Property, loi,
Tayloe, 126.
Tayloe, John, 301, 303, 305.
T.iylor, William, 126.
Taylor, 95, 344, 425.
Taylor, Edward, 344.
Taylor Familv, -^47.
Taylor, H. P.', .3^17.
'laylor. John 344.
Taylor, Robert, loi.
Taylor, Samuel, iiS.
Taylor, Zachary, 140.
Tazewell County, 426.
Tebault, 444.
Tebbs Family, 76. ' ^
Temple Farm, 420.
Temple, John, 32S.
Temple, Joseph, 76.
Tenants, 23, 15S. 274.
Tennessee, 326 424
Terra Alta, 332.
Terrell, Richard and Richmond,
223.
Thacker, Edwm, 100.
Thackston, James. 19S.
Thaxton, James, 197.
Theckey, 340
Thelaball, 34s, 386.
Thomas. 99.
Thomas' Creek, 179.
Thomas, R. S., 91, 21S. 3S2, 391,
426
Thompkins. 331.
Thompson Family, 189, 325.
Thompson, John, 340.
Thornberry, 447.
Thornberry, Thos., 314.
Thornbush, 275.
Thornton, iSS, 340.
Thornton, Francis, 301, 304 et seq.
Thornton, Peter P., 305.
Thornton, Presly. 302.
Thoroffood, John, 216.
Thoroughgood Family, 414 et seq,
422 et seq
Thoroughgood Coats of Arms,
414-
Thoroughgood, Adam, 421 et seq.
Thoroughgood, Dinah 3S6.
Thrush, 307.
Thurston, iSS, 316.
Ticonderoga, 429.
Tiger, ship, 77.
Tilghman, Lloyd, 444.
Tillottson, John 321.
Tilman. James A , 209.
Timson's Creek. 43S.
Tindall's Point, 71.
Tipling House, 290.
Tithables, 3, 2S9 et seq, 3S7.
Tobacco, 3 et seq, 16. 17, iS, 23.
24. 26, 32, 53, 54, 65, 124, 137,
13S, 166, 169, 171, 1S3, 191, 26r.
265, 274, 2S7. 2SS, 290, 370, 379,
3S7, 394 et seq, 413, 421".
Todd Family, iSS.
Todd, William, Bernard, and Julia,
iSS.
Tomahawk Creek, 319.
Tomkin, John, 315.
Tomlin, Sarah, 76.
Toner, }. M., 120.
Tonshall. Edward, 99.
Tooker, William Wallace, 119, 356.
Tooke, James, 1S9.
Tooley Park, 3S4.
Topp Family, 425.
Topping Castle, 222
Top Gallant Quarter. 419.
Tornes, Richard, 127.
Tortuga, 174.
Towers, Francis, 419. 421.
Town Harbor, 3.S4.
Towns, 2S4.
Townley, Lawrence, 423.
Townshead, Richard, 121.
Trabue, 213, 321.
Trabue's Branch, 319 et seq.
Tracy, William, 313.
Trades. 159 et seq.
Traford, 422.
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Trancere, 420.
Traveller. Geo., 315. 316.
Travers, Raleigh, 237.
Travers, Wm., 9S.
Traylor, R. L.. January Magazine,
xi; April Magazine, i.
Traylor. Richard, 212,
Tree, Richard, 17S.
Trice, R. M., 100.
Trotter, Joseph, 443.
Trotter, Thos., 420.
True Love, ship, 422.
Truly, 95.
Tucker, 216.
Tucker, John Randolph, 120.
Tucker, Robert, 216.
Tucker, Wm., 189.
Tucker, Captain Wm., 60.
Tugles, Mrs. Mary, 104.
Tuke, Sir Bryan, 71.
Tuke, James. 99.
Turberville, John, 72.
Turkey Neck, 222.
Turner, 95.
Turner. Kate, 424.
Turpin, 210.
Turpin, H., 209, 210.
Turpin, Thomas, SS.
Tuthill, 229.
Tuxon. William. 61.
Twickenham, 310.
Twine, John. 5S, 59.
Two Mile Creek, 1S6.
Tyas, John, 313.
Tyger, ship,>7.
Tyler, iiS, 224.
Tyler, Lyon G., 117, 231, 43S, Janu-
ary Magazine, xi, xii; April
Magazine, i.
Underbill, John, 1S2.
Underwood. 422.
Upper Marlborough, 304.
Upper Norfolk. See Norfolk Up-
per.
Upshur. See Apsher.
Upshur, T. T.. 434.
Upton, John, 99.
Utie, Elizabeth, 235.
Utimaria, 421
Utye, John, 1S9, 421.
Valentine, E. V., January Maga-
zine, xi, April, i.
Van Deventer, James. 446.
Van Voast, \irginia M., 204, 33S.
Varina, 183, 1S5, 296, 310, 311'^ 312.
Vass, 397.
Vaulx Tract, 427. *
Vause, 397.
Vause, Fort, 398, 401 et seq.
Veale, Geo. and Thos., 216.
Venable, 197.
Venable, Abraham, 22S.
Venable, Edward C, January ^Lag-
azine, xi ; April Magazine, i.
V^erinas, 1S2.
Verreuil, Morse, 86, 192.
Verulam, 125.
Vigneroons, iSo. ■"
Villiers, 3S4, '
Virginia, 71, 277; Affairs in, 1626,
50; Causes of Discontent, 1676.
166, 2S9, 380, 392; Continental
Line, 241, 357; Troops in
French and Indian Wars. 37.
143 ; Formation of Counties,
90, 21S. 426; House Building
in, 23; Public Officers, 1703,
1714, I et seq ; Negro Educa-
tion. 429; Assembly of, 1619,
55; Manufactures. 75,278,325;
Revolutionary Records, 242 ;
Religious Toleration, 109 et
seq; Population, 112; Duel-
ing, 96 ; Militia, 259,264; Rac-
ing, 293; Indian Wars in
Augusta, 397 et seq ; Capitol,
354; State Library, 242 ; Land-
marks, 451; for Land Patents.
see Abstracts of Land Patents.
Virginia Historical Society, 338.
435, April Magazine, i, ii; Ne-
crology, 32S, 435, January Mag-
azine, ix; .Membership, Janu-
ary Magazine, iii, XV ; Publi-
cations, January Magazine, v
et seq ; Library. January Mag-
azine, v, viii; Treasurer's Re-
port, January Magazine, iv.
Virginia Gazette. 300, 302.
Virginia Regiments, 102.
Virginia, ship, 71.
Virginia, University, 352.
Virginia, Valley of, 114.
Virgoes Creek. 317.
Vivian, General Thos., 217.
Waddell, James, 332.
Waddell, Joreph A., 399.
Wainhouse, John, 41S.
Wakefield, 235.
Waldrop, Margaret, 1S5.
Walke, 345.
Waike, Anthony, 429.
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Walke Family, 230 et seq.
Walke, Mary, 349.
Walker, 72.
Walker, Aylett, 231.
Walker Family, 335 349.
Walker, George, 195.
Walker, Jane, 306.
Walker, John. 72, 76. 442.
Walker. Sarah, 313
Walker. Thomas, 347.
Wallawhatoola, 103.
Waller, 31.
Waliis, 422.
Walloons. 112.
Waller, 422.
Waller, John, 222.
Walthoe, Nathaniel, 302, :i,o2,.
Ward. 61.
Ward Family, 312.
Ward, John, 312.
Ward, Richard, 2g<^ et seq.
Ward, Roger, 422.
Warehou.ses, -^ ei seq, 2S6.
Ware Parish, 1S7.
Warm Springs, 426.
Warner, 275.
Warner, Augustine, iSS, 422 ei seq.
Warner Family, 423.
Warner Hall, 423.
Warren. William, 311.
Warwic!; County, 13, 1S4, 3S2 dY^i?^.
Warwick, Jacob, 105, 107.
Warwick River County, 99, 17S.
Warwick River, 68.
Warwicke, ship. 69
Warwicksqueake, 307
Warrosquake, 6S.
Washington, Bailey, 280.
Washington City, 316.
Washington County. 427.
Washington, Fort, 4.51.
Washineton, Geo., January Maga-
zine, vi; 102 105, 120. 146, 214,
243, 302, 345. 340, 423-
Washington, Lawrence, 422.
Washington Parish, 343.
Washer, 61.
Wastwell, 422.
Waterheld, 422.
Waters, 2S9.
Waters Creek, 69
Waters, Edward, 179, 309.
Waters' Gleanings. 34.
Waters, H. E , 179.
Waters, H. F., 32.
Waterson, 292.
Watkins, David, 183.
Watkins, Edward. 324.
Watkins, John, 19S.
Watkins, Joseph, 314.
Watlington, 317.
I Watson, 327.
I Watson, George. 224.
I Watson, }ohn, 29S.
I Watson, Sally, 223.
I Watson, Maria D.. 224.
! Watt's Creek, 69.
I Watts, Elizabeth, 224.
I Watts, Thos. 1S9, 313.
! Waugh, William, 276. v
S Weaver, John, 69, 212.
I Weaving, 210.
Webb,95, 331-
Webb, Jas , 216
Webb. John, 79.
Webb, Martha, 331.
I Webber, John, 421.
\ Webster, 315.
' Webster, Dan'l, 32S, 352.
Weedon. Gen'l. 215. 430.
Weeks, Abraham. 410.
Weeks, Stephen B , 355.
We^ss. Charles, 82.
Wells, 202.
West, 383, 30S et seq.
West, Anthony, 434.
West Coat of Arms. 434.
West, Francis, 55, 5S, 68 et seq, 79,
178, 308, et seq.
■ West Hundred, 59 434-
West, Henry, 1S7
I West, John, 217, 2S3, 309 et seq,
\ 420.
I West, John, Jr., 338.
• West Point, X. Y-, 117-
1 West, Robert, 391.
': West, Sir Thomas, 58
j West, Susan, 228.
I Westcomb, 344, 427.
Westertield, 422.
Westham, 415.
' Westmoreland County, 14, 27, 34.
I 276 et seq, 280, 294, et seq, 334.
i 340, 343. 344. 423- 427-
I Westover, 59. 61. 308.
Weyanoke, or Wyanoke, 1S5.
Weynock, 159.
Wheatland. Thomas, 432.
Wheeler, 422.
Wheeler, Jean, 416.
Whitacres', 78.
Whitaker, Family, 78.
Whitaker, Walter, 413.
Whitby, 302.
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hitby, \Vm., 412.
hite, James Jones, 120.
hite, Solomon, 344.
hite, Wm., 216.
hite Hall, 125.
hitehaven, 423.
hitehcad, 391.
hitehead, George, 422.
hitemarsh, 3S1.
hitestone. 422.
hite Sulphur Sorings, 333.
hiting, ii?S. - ---^
hititig. Francis, 302.
hiling, Henry. 410.
hiting, Peter, 232.
hitney. 202.
ickham, Rev. William, 59.
icomico, 74.
igs, 237.
ilcocks. Captain John, 77.
ilcox Family, 77.
ildey, Jane, 74
ilkinson, 94, 126.
ilks, Thomas, 237.
ilkynson, 12S.
illiam and Dorothy, ship, 422.
illiam and John, ship, iSi.
iiliams, Henry, 42S
illiam and Mary College, 63, 221,
43S et seq.
illiam and Mary College Quar-
terly, 117, iiS iSo, 356.
illiams, 232. 445.
iiliams, Elizabeth, 84.
illiams, James, 43S.
illiams, John, 316.
illiams, Richard, 345.
illiams, William C, 233.
illiamsburg, 63, S5, 103, 1S4, 299,
300 e( seq, 305. 383, 435. 440,
438
illingham, 3S4.
iilis, Augustine, 304.
illis, Francis 232.
iilis, John, 302.
illis, Lewis, 214, 429, 430.
illis, Mary, 233.
illis, Richard. 432 et seq.
illoughby, 416 et seq.
illoughby, }., lor.
illoughby Point, 419.
illoughby, Thomas, 99.
ills of the Seventeenth Century,
174.
illson. John, 39S.
'ilmington, 383.
ilson, 327, 422.
Wilson, James, 216.
Wilson, John, 29S
Wilson, M., loi.
Wilson. Thomas, 441
Wimbish, 195 et seq.
Winchester, Henry, 413.
Winchester, Va. 345.
Windam, 422.
Winder, 1S5.
Windham, Edward, 416.
; Windham, Thomas, 415, 423 et seq.
j Windmill, Christopher, ij'i et seq.
j 3", 312.
I Wine, 2S6, 395
, Wingate. 99, 427. .
Winston, 317.
' Winston, Mary, 223.
I Winston, Wm. O., 302.
Winthrop Family, 32S et seq.
Winthrop, Robert C, January Mag-
azine, ix ; 32S et seq.
Wintopock, 312.
Wirt, William, 332.
' Wisconsin, 397.
Wise, Barton H, April Magazine, i.
Wise County, 426.
Wise, Louisa, 444.
Wiseman, 392.
Withers, 422.
I Wolsey, Cardinal, 71.
' Wolves, 2S9. 29:.
. Wood, Henry, 203 204, 422.
j Woodfin, 211.
Woodford County, Ky., 203.
j Woodford, Gen.. 215.
I Woodhouse, iiS.
Wood house, James, 334.
Woodhouse, Henry, 345
Woodhouse, Horatio, 344, 345.
Woodlawn, 451.
Woodstock, 35, 260
Woodson, Tucker, 205.
Woodward Family, 125.
W^oodward, Capt. Henry,
Woodward, Henry, 145,
152-
Woodward, P. T., 100.
Womack, 19S.
Womock. Abraham, 294 et seq.
Wool, 208
Wooldridge, Family, 212.
Wooldridge, Daniel, 213.
Wooldridge, Edmond, 321.
Woolridge, John, 325.
; World's Fair Managers,
I Magazine, v.
j Wormeley, 236.
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Virginia Historical Society,
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HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY
No, 707 East Franklin St.
1894.
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Presidejit,
Joseph Bryan, Richmond, X'irginia.
Vice-Presidents,
J. L. M. Curry, Washington, D. C.
Archer Axdersox, Richmond, Va. "■ ■■"
William P. Palmer, M. D., Richmond, Va.
Corresponding Secretary and Librarian,
Philip A. Bruce, Richmond, Va.
• ■•' ■ *• Recording Secretary.
D. C. Richardson, Richmond, Va.
Treasurer, ,1
Robert T. Brooke, Richmond, Va.
Executive Committee,
LvoN G. Tyler, Williamsburg, Va. R. H. Gaines, Richmond, Va.
E. V. Valentine, Richmond, Va. Rosewell Page, Richmond, \'a.
C. V. Meredith, Richmond, Va Virginius Xewtox, Richmond, Va.
Dr. B. \V. Green, Richmond, Va. Ro : Lee Traylor, Richmond, Va-
F. H. McGuire, Richmond. Va. R. H. Dabney, University of \'a.
B. B. MuNFORD, Richmond, Va. Robert M. Hughes, Norfolk, Va.
and, ex-officio, the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries,
and Treasurer.
Subcommittees:
On Finance,
Messrs. Bryan {Chairman)., Newton, Valentine, and .Mcnford.
On Publications,
Messrs. Anderson (Chairman), Tvler, Page, Green, and Meredith.
On Library,
Messrs. Curry (Chairman), Traylor, Dabney, Hughes, and Bruce.
On Membership,
Messrs. Palmer (Chairma7i), Gaines, McGuire, and Richardson.
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1. Collections i of the | Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society, I to
which is prefixed | An Address, 1 Spoken before the Society i at an
Adjourned Anniversary Meeting, | held in the Hall of | the House of
Delegates, | on | Monday, Feb. 4, 1S33 : i By Jonathan P. Gushing A.
M. I President of Hampden Sidney College. 1 Vol. I. | Published by a
resolution of the Socitty, under the direction of the | Standing Com-
mittee. I Richmond: | Printed by T. W. White, opposite the Bell
Tavern. | 1S33.
Octavo, pp. S;. Contains, preface, giving an account of the organization of the Society,
29th December, iS^t ; Constitution: Cushing's Address; Stuart's Memoir of Indian Wars:
Record of Grace Sherwood's Trial for Witchcraft ; Lists of Donat;ons, Officers, and Members,
and Table of Contents.
2. An Account | of | Discoveries in the West until 1519, 1 and of ] Voyages |
to and along the ! Atlantic Coast of North America | From 1520 to
1573- I Prepared for | the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society |
By Conway Robinson, j Chairman of its Executive Committee I and
published by the Society. | Richmond : i Printed by Shepherd and
Colin. I 1S4S.
Octavo, cloth, pp. XV-491. The preface contains a brief account of the Society, and states
that this is the preliminary \olume of a series to be entitled "Annals of Virgmia," which how-
ever did not further materialize.
3. The I Virginia Historical Register, i Edited by | William Maxwell | Vols.
I-VI. 1 Richmond, i Macfarlane & Fergusson | 1S4S-1S53.
Issued quarterly. Six volumes, 12 mo. pp. iv-iv-200 ; iv-236; iv-iv-240 ; iv-ii-240; iv-ii-240,
and iv-ii-240. Contains proceedings of annual meetings of the Society 1S48-53, and much
exceedingly valuable origmal historical material not previously published and not to be found
elsewhere. Vols. I. and II. have the sub-title " Literary Advertiser" : III. and iV. " Literar;--
Note Book," and V. and VI. " Literary Companion."
4. The I Virginia Historical Reporter i Conducted by the | Executive Com-
mittee I of the ! Virginia Historical Society, | Vol. I., Parts I-III., |
J854-1856 I and I Vol- II., part I. | 1S60.
Four parts, 12 mo. pp. 12-104; 12-48: 12-63, and S7. Contains proceedings of annual meet-
ings of the Society, 1554-59; the addresses of Grigsby, Hunter and Holcombe ; George F.
Holmes' address on the Virginia Colony, and Wyndham Robertson's paper on the marriage of
Pocahontas.
5. An Address j on the j Life, Character and Public Services, | of the late |
Hon. Benjamin Watkins Leigh, i delivered before { the Virginia His-
torical Society. | at its late annual meeting. | By \Vm. H. Macfarland,
Esq.. ! Published by the Society : January. 1S51. | Richmond: i Macfar-
lane & Fergusson. j 1S51.
12 mo. pp. 12.
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6. The Virginia Constitution of 1776. | A Discourse | delivered before the |
Virginia Historical Society | at their | Annual Meeting | January 17th,
1852 I By H. A. Washington i Published by the Society | Richmond : |
Macfariane & Fergusson. ! 1S52.
12 mo. pp. 51.
7. The Virginia Convention of 1829-30. \ A Discourse | delivered before |
the Virginia Historical Society | at their j Annual Meeting I held in the
Athenaeum in the city of Richmond, | December 15th, 1853, j By Hugh
' ■ B. Grigsby. | Published by the Society. | Richmond: i Macfariane &
Fergusson \ 1S54.
12 mo. pp. 104. ^-■
8. Observations on the History of Virginia: | A Discourse | delivered before
the i Virginia Historical Society | at their 1 Eighth Annual Meeting, 1
.. , December 14th, 1S54. | By Hon. R. M. T. Hunter | Published by the
Society. | Richmond : | Clemmitt & Fore, Printers | 1S55.
12 mo. pp. 4S.
9. Sketches | of the j Political Issues and Controversies | of the Revolu-
tion: I A Discourse | delivered before the j Virginia Hi>^torical Society |
■ at their | Ninth Annual Meeting | January 17th, 1S56. | By James P. Hol-
combe. | Published by the Society | Richmond : \ William H. Clemmitt,
: Printer i 1S56.
12 mo. pp. 63.
10. The I Diary | of | George Washington, | From 17S9 to 1791 ; j Embracmg
I the Opening of the First Congress ! and | his Tours through New
England, Long Island | and the Southern States. | Together with his
Journal of a Tour to the Ohio, | in 1753. | Edited by Benson J. Lossing. |
Richmond : j Press of the Historical Society ] 1S61.
Octavo, cloth, pp. 24S. The Journal of the Tour to the Ohio has introduction and notes by-
John G. Shea.
ir. Letters | of ! Thomas Nelson, Jr., | Governor of Virginia, | Richmond :
Virginia Historical Society, j Anno MDCCCLXXIV.
4 to pp. 71.
12. Organization | of the | Virginia Historical Society; | Officers and Mem-
bers: I with a I List of its Publications j (Seal) 1 Richmond, \'a | Pub-
" lished by the Virginia Historical Society | MDCCCLXXXI.
Octavo, pp. 25.
13. Proceedings | of the | Virginia Historical Society j at the | Annual Meet-
ing, February 24, 1SS2, ! with I the Address | of | William Wirt Henry; 1
The Settlement at Jamestown, with particular | reference to the late
attacks upon Cap- | tain John Smith, Pocahontas, and John Rolfe. |
(Seal) I Richmond, Virginia, i Published by the Society ! MDCCCLXX-
XII.
Octavo, pp. 63.
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New Series.
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"Collections | of the | Virginia Historical Society. | New Series. |
Edited by ) R. A. Brock, [ Corresponding Secretary and Librarian
of the Society, [ (Seal) | Richmond, Va. | Published by the Society."
Eleven annual volumes, uniform. Svo., cloth, issued 1SS2-92, care-
fully indexed, as follows:
14. The I Official Letters \ of ■ Alexander Spotswood, | Lieutenant-Gover-
nor of the Colony j of Virginia, 17 10-1722. \ Now first printed from the
manuscript | in the Collections of the | Virginia Historical Society, | with
an introduction and notes | Vols. I and IL | MDCCCLXXXII and
MDCCCLXXXV.
Two volumes. Portrait and .A.rms. pp xxi-179 and vii-368.
15. The 1 Official Records | of | Robert Dinwiddie, | Lieutenant-Governor of
the Colony | of Virginia, 1751-1758- I >^ovv first printed from the manu-
script I in the Collections of the | Virginia Historical Society, \ with an
introduction and notes I Vols I and II. j MDCCCLXXXIII and MDCC-
CLXXXIV.
Two volumes, pp. l.\i\-52S and xviii-76S. Portraits, fac simile of letter of presentation from
VV. \V. Corcoran, cut of Mace of Borough of Norfolk. Va„ and reproduction of the Map of
Virginia, Mar\Iand, Delaware and Pennsylvania, engraved tor Jel^ersons Notes on N'irginia
17S7.
16. Documents, | Chiefly Unpublished, | Relating to the [ Huguenot Emigra-
tion ! to Virginia | and to the | Settlement at Manakin Town. | with an |
Appendi.x of Genealogies, j presenting data of the | Fontaine, Maury,
Dupuy, Trabue, -Marye, Chastain, | Cocke, and other Families. I MDC-
CCLXXXVI
Pages xxi-247. Contains fac-sinule o{ plan of " King William's Town."
17. Miscellaneous Papers, j 1672-1S65, | Now first printed from the manu-
script I in the Collections of the | Virginia Historical Society. | Com-
prising i Charter of the | Royal African Co., 1672; \ Report on the
Huguenot Settlement -i-joo; \ Papers of George Gilmer of " Pen Park,"
1775-78; I Orderly Book of Capt. George Stubbiefield, 1776; j Career of
the Iron-clad Virginia. 1S62, | Memorial of Johnson's Island, 1S62-4: |
Beale's | Cav. Brigade Parole, 1S65. | MDCCCLXXXVII.
Pages viii-374.
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i8. Abstract | of the | Proceedings of the | Virginia Company of London, |
16191624, I Prepared from the | Records in the Libraryof Congress 1 by t
Conway Robinson | with an introduction and notes. | Vols. I. and II. |
MDCCCLXXXVIII and MDCCCLXXXIX.
Two volumes. Pages xlvii 21$ and 300. The introduction contains a valuable critical essay
on the sources ol" information for the student of \irginia History.
19. The History | of the | Virginia Federal Convention ] of | 17S8. | with
some account of the Eminent Virginians of | that era who were Mem-
■' bers of the Body 1 by | Hugh Blair Grigsby, L.L.D., | With a Biograph-
ical Sketch of the Author I and illustrative notes. ] Vols. I. and II.
MDCCCXC. and MDCCCXCI.
Two volumes. Pages xxvii-372 and 411
20. Proceedings | of the | Virginia Historical Society \ at the | Annual Meet-
ing I held I December 21-22, 1S91 \ with \ Historical Papers | read on the
occasion [ and others. [ .MDCCCXCII.
Pages xix-386. Contains papers on the Virginia Committee of Correspondence and the Call
for the First Congress; Historic Elements in Virginia Education and Literary Effort ; Notes
on Recent Work in Southern History ; Ancient Epitaphs and Descriptions in York and James
City Counties: Washington's First Election to the House of Burgesses ; Smithfield Church,
built in 1632 ; Richmond's First Academy : Facts from the .Accomac County Records, relating
to Bacon's Rebellion : Thomas Hansford, First Martyr to American Liberty ; Journal of Cap-
tain Charles Lewis in Washington's Expedition against the French in 1755; Orderly Books of
Major Wm. Heth, 1777, and Capt. Robert Gamble 1779, and Memoir of General John Cropper.
21. Proceedings | of the | Virginia Historical Society j at its | Annual Meet-
ing I held in the | House of Delegates December 21-22, iSgt, | with
the I Constitution and List of Officers and | Members ;of the Society. !
Richmond, Va: | Wm. Ellis Jones, Steam Printer 1 1S92.
Octavo, pp. 15. ■._•._ ,.;....
22. By-Laws | of the | Virginia Historical Society | Richmond, Va. | Rich-
mond: I Wm. Ellis Jones, Printer | 1893.
16 mo. pp. 16. . V XI I..
23. Proceedings | of the | Virginia Historical Society | at its | Annual Meet-
ing I held in the | Society's Building December 14th, 1S93, | with the
Constitution and List of Officers | and Members of the Society | Rich-
mond, Va: 1 Wm. Ellis Jones, Book and Job Printer, j 1893.
Octavo, pp. XXVI, contains interesting and valuable report o( President Joseph Bryan.
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24. The I Virginia Magazine | of | History and Biography, | (Seal)
I Published Quarterly | by the | Virginia Historical Society, ]
For I the Year ending June, 1S94. | \'olume I. | Richmond,
Va: I House of the Society, | Xo. 707 East Franklin, St.
Octavo, pp., 4S4-viii-xx\i-.\\xii Edited by Phiiip A. Eruce. Corresponding Secretan- and
Librarian of the Society.
Contains cut of the Society's Building, accounts of the proceedings and transactions of the
Society for the year 1893, and many exceedingly valuable, original historical documents and
papers which have never before appeared in print. Among others may be mentioned, Dis-
course of the Londoa Company on its administration of Virginia affairs, 1607-1624 : Abstracts
of Colonial Patents in the Register of the \'irginia Land Office, beginning m 1624, with full
genealogical notes and an extended Geneal.igy of the Claiborne Family; The Mutiny in
Virginia in 1635,— Samuel Matthews' Letter and Sir John Har^-ey's Declaration : Speech of
Governor Berkeley and Declaration of the Assem.bly with reference to the change of Govern-
ment in England and the passage of the First Navigation Act of 1651 : Petition of the Planters
of Virginia and Mar\-land in opposition to the Navigation Act of i66r: Bacon's Rebeilion, 1676,
His three proclamations. Letters of Sherwood an J Ludwell, Proposals of Smith and Ludweil,
and Thomas Bacon's Petition: Letters 01 William Fitzhugh 11650-17011, a Leading Lawyer
and Planter of \'irginia, \\ ith a genealogical account of the Fitzhughs in England : Lists of
Public Officers in the various Counties in \"irginia late in the 17th and early in the iSth
centuries: Roster of Soldiers in the French and Indian Wars under Colonel Washington:
Officers. Seamen and .Marines in the \'irginia Na\-\- of the Revolution : Roll ot the 4th \'irginia
Regiment in the Revolution : Diary of Captain John Davis of the Pennsylvania Line in the
Vorktown Campaign : General George Rogers Clark, — Roll of the Illinois and Crockett's
Regiments and the Expedition to \'incennes : Department of " Historical Notes and Queries, "
containing contributions by Hon Wm. Win Henn,-. and man\- other items of value: Depart-
ment of " Book Reviews, '■ etc., carefully edited, copiously annotated and well inde.xed.
The editions of nearly all of the earlier publications of the Society
have been for many years exhausted, and occasional copies com-
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The Librarian can supply a few copies only of Nos. ii and 13.
Of the eleven 8vo. volumes. " New Series, — Collections of the So-
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of complete sets, or odd volumes to fill up the sets of new members,
collectors or libraries.
A few copies of the first volume (four quarterly numbers), of the
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3. Virginia Troops in French and Indian Wars 37 \
4. Affairs in Virginia in 1626 - 50 I
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CONTENTS.
Proceedings of the Virginia Historical Society i-xxiv
1. Virginia Officers and Men in the Continental Line. 24^1
2. Letters of Wm. Fitzhugh 259
3. Will of Wm. Fitzhugh, &c 276
4. Instructions to Berkeley 281
5. Causes of Discontent in Virginia, 1676 289
6. Racing in Colonial Virginia 293
7. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents 306
8. Genealog}-— The Flournoy Family 318 .
9. Necrology 328 i
10. Historical Notes and Queries 338 |
11. Book Reviews , 350 |
12. Publications Received 355
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