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ANCESTRAL RECORDS 
 AND PORTRAITS 
 
 VOLUME I 
 
This medallion commemorates the destruction by the Indians of the 
 First University in America, at Henrico, Virginia, A. D. 1619. 
 
 Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of America, caused it to be designed 
 for the Johns Hopkins University, which bestows a replica from time to 
 time upon an alumnus, or a graduate student, for work of especial excel- 
 lence in early American history. 
 
.„■ urf^ailion coi ti.orat.- the destruction by the Indians of the 
 
 ; r!ii*er»)ty in Amiiic.. at Henric-o, Virginia, A. D. ^H19. 
 
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ANCESTRAL RECORDS 
 AND PORTRAITS 
 
 A COMPILATION FROM THE 
 
 ARCHIVES OF CHAPTER L, 
 
 THE COLONIAL DAMES OF 
 
 AMERICA 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION 
 OF THE |PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 
 BY THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT ' ' 
 
 OF THE GRAFTON PRESS 
 
 VOLUME I 
 
 THE GRAFTON PRESS 
 
 PUBLISHERS NEW YORK 
 

 
 COPTMGHT, 1910, Bt 
 
 THE GRAFTON PRESS 
 
To 
 
 Our fellow laborers whom we have 
 lost, in recognition of their loyal de- 
 votion to the welfare of this Soci- 
 ety and the services that ended only 
 with their lives, this tribute is dedi- 
 cated in affectionate remembrance by 
 
 Chaptek I., 
 The Coloniai, Dames of America 
 
PREFACE 
 
 These two volumes contain a compilation of the 
 more important and interesting portions of the records 
 which have been collected during the past nineteen 
 years by the members of Chapter I., The Colonial 
 Dames of America. When it is understood that herein 
 is represented only one of the Chapters, the great his- 
 torical value of the work of the entire Society may be 
 somewhat appreciated. 
 
 It is especially interesting to notice how closely his- 
 toric events have linked the lives of the descendants 
 of the Mayflower and other New England Families, 
 with the Huguenot and the Colonists of the Southern 
 States, by proving their common ancestry. 
 
 For many years the records of this Chapter have 
 been preserved in fire-proof vaults, and while they 
 were there safe from destruction by fire they were also 
 difiicult of reference. The wish to put them into con- 
 venient form for the use of our scattered kinsmen, and 
 to preserve them for posterity, resulted in the publica- 
 tion of these volumes. 
 
 The arrangement of the book has been made as sim- 
 ple as possible. The records are given in alphabetical 
 order according to the name of the member contrib- 
 uting them. While the Society accepts membership 
 claims for lineal ancestors only, and these are treated 
 quite fully, the Committee has, so far as space per- 
 mitted, allowed the addition of the record of such col- 
 lateral ancestors as were distinguished in the early his- 
 tory of the country. 
 
 The names of the claim ancestors are indicated by 
 
Pbeface 
 
 the use of capital letters, and are thus distinguished 
 from other lineal ancestors, whose names are printed in 
 italic type. There are many foot-note references to 
 the Authorities for the statements given, and dates 
 especially have been carefully verified. 
 
 At the end of the second volimie wiU he found a 
 reproduction of the badge of the Society. Each Chap- 
 ter determines the requisite qualifications of a claim 
 ancestor because, in different sections of the country, 
 the same office may represent various degrees of serv- 
 ice. Gold bars inscribed with the name of the claim 
 ancestors may be observed on the ribbon, their use being 
 optional and not obligatory. To safeguard these bars, 
 a majority vote of the Board of Managers in favor of 
 granting each one, and signed by the Treasurer, is the 
 required certificate giving the maker authority to de- 
 liver them. 
 
 The Chapter committed their data and other material 
 to The Grafton Press, of New York, giving it author- 
 ity to edit and publish them according to the judgment 
 of its president, Mr. F. H. Hitchcock. This has proved 
 no small task, and the vast amount of material fur- 
 nished will account for the omission of much that might 
 have been included to amplify the pedigrees and con- 
 tribute interest to the story of our ancestors. 
 
 The Committee on Pxjblication : 
 
 Eliza W- Wilson, Mary B. Ames, 
 
 Mary F. Jacobs, Mary Gkundy Mukbay, 
 
 Emma Elliott Johnstone^ 
 
 Mary Washington Keysee, Chairman. 
 
 Members of Chapter I., 
 
 The Colonial Dames of America. 
 
The Book Plate of The Colonial Dames of America 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 The Heneico Medallion Frontispiece 
 
 Facing page 
 The Book Plate op the Colonial Dames op Ameeica . viii 
 Benjamin Colman and his wife, Hannah Pembeeton . 4 
 Governor Stephen Decatur Miller. Burwell Boykin. 
 
 David R. Williams and his wife, Sarah Power . 10 
 Colonel John Chesnut and his wife, Sarah Cantey . 24 
 Colonel James Chesnut and his wipe, Mary Cox . . 30 
 
 General James Chesnut and his wife, Mary Boykin 
 
 Miller. Colonel James Chesnut 40 
 
 John Greene. The Henry Bull House. The Rodman 
 
 Mansion House at South Kensington, R. I. . . 92 
 
 Colonel Fielding Lewis and his wipe, Betty Washing- 
 ton 130 
 
 Frances Fielding Lewis. Howell Lewis and his wife, 
 
 Ellen Hackley Pollard 140 
 
 "ROCKBURN," THE RESIDENCE OF DaNIEL MuRRAY. ThE 
 
 Chestertown Residence of Dr. William Murray I. 144 
 George Calvert. Charles, Fifth Lord Baltimore . 162 
 
 Aertselaer and Cleydael. "Riversdale," the Home of 
 
 George Calvert 164 
 
 Edward Tatnall. James Edward Price. James Lea. 
 
 Joseph Tatnall ITO 
 
 Petrus Tronberg. Elizabeth Tronberg Parlin. James 
 
 Price and his wipe, Margaret Tatnall . . . 182 
 
 Residence op John Conant, B.D. Rev. John Conant, 
 
 B.D 200 
 
 Hon. Kensey Johns III and his wife, Anne Van Dyke. 
 
 Kensey Johns I and his wife, Elizabeth Chew . 218 
 
Illustrations 
 
 Facing page 
 Sampiek, Embroidered Bag and Two Fans which be- 
 longed TO Lavinia Montgomery Johns. Wedding 
 Gown, Bead Bag, Suppers and Fan which be- 
 longed TO Fidelia Rogerson Montgomery . . 220 
 
 Colonel William Montgomery. Henry Van Dyke 
 Johns II. Colonel William Montgomery. Mary 
 Carpenter Reigert Montgomery 224 
 
 Elizabeth Parker. The Van Cortlandt House, New 
 
 York 228 
 
 Sarah Montgomery Harris. The Somerville Silver . 244 
 
 Autographs of Seven Generations of the Gilman 
 
 Family 262 
 
 Daniel Coit Gilman. The Home op Major John 
 
 Gilman 264 
 
 The Eppes Family Residence near City Point, Virginia. 
 Bond Signed by Francis Eppes and Thomas Jef- 
 ferson 276 
 
 Jacob Hite. Ambrose Robert Hite Ranson. James 
 
 Lackland Ranson. Robert Rutherford . . . 282 
 
 Frances Elizabeth Beverly Frame Ranson. Frances 
 Perrin Lowndes Frame 
 
 Robert Gilmor. Washington SauARE, Baltimore, 
 showing the Gilmor House. Isaac Smith II and 
 his wife, Elizabeth Custis Teackle. Robert 
 Gilmor. William Gilmor 
 
 Robert Gilmor. Ellen Ward, wife of Robert Gil- 
 mor, Jr 290 
 
 Judge Lucas Powell Thompson. Judith Wood Baker. 
 
 Sarah Coles Hull Trowbridge 314 
 
 Robert Hull and his wife, Susanna Rebecca Thomp- 
 son. Old Clock with picture of the Indians 
 meeting Governor Winthrop. Old Pitcher with 
 portrait of Captain Isaac Hull and Frigate 
 "Constitution" 316 
 
 Major John Swan and his wife, Elizabeth Maxwell. 
 
 James Swan and his wife, Elizabeth Donnell . 330 
 
Illustrations 
 
 Pacing page 
 
 George Maxwell. Thoroughgood Smith. Dr. Charles 
 
 Sloan. John Frick 332 
 
 John Donnell and his wife, Ann Teackle Smith . . 334 
 
 Major John Swan's Certificate of Membership in the 
 
 Society of the Cincinnati 335 
 
 Judge William Frick and his wife, Mart Sloan. Peter 
 
 Frick and his wife, Barbara Breidenhart . . . 348 
 
 William Frederick Frick and his wife, Anne Eliza- 
 beth Swan 350 
 
 Francis Key. John Ross. Hon. John Tayloe I and his 
 
 WIFE, Elizabeth Gwyn 352 
 
 "Wye House," Talbot Co., Md. "Mt. Airy," Richmond 
 
 Co., Va 354 
 
 Hon. Henry Corbin. Elizabeth Tayloe, wife of Rich- 
 ard CORBIN 358 
 
 Home of Governor George Wyllys, Hartford, Conn. 
 Mabel Harlekenden Haynes. Arms of Governor 
 George Wyllys 362 
 
 William Johnstone. Andrew Johnstone. Colonel 
 
 William Rhett. John Rutledge 368 
 
 Phoebe Waight Elliott. Mary Rutledge Smith and 
 
 her son Edward 374 
 
 Colonel John Gibbes and his wife, Mary Woodward . 382 
 
 "Annandale," the Plantation House of Andrew John- 
 stone. Water Front, Beaufort, S. C 404 
 
ANCESTRAL RECORDS 
 AND PORTRAITS 
 
PENHALLOW 
 
 Chief Justice Samuel Penhallow, of the Colony 
 of New Hampshire, was horn in England, and married 
 Mary Cutt, July 1, 1687. Mary Cutt's grandfather 
 was Richard Cutt, a Member of Oliver Cromwell's Par- 
 liament in the year 1654. Chief Justice Penhallow 
 held many offices of trust under the Colonial govern- 
 ment of New Hampshire, extending over a period of 
 twenty-two years, and was successively CounciQor, 
 Judge of the Superior Court, Chief Justice of the Su- 
 preme Court. He is also widely known through his 
 History of the Indian Wars. The Penhallow house, 
 an old colonial building, is still standing in Portsmouth, 
 N. H., and was the first brick dwelling erected in the 
 town. It contains an interesting collection of relics of 
 the past, and is still owned and occupied by the widow of 
 a Penhallow. Hannah, the daughter of Samuel and 
 Mary (Cutt) Penhallow, married James Pemberton. 
 
 PEMBERTON 
 
 The Court House in Boston was erected upon the site 
 of the family residence of the Pembertons, and Pem- 
 berton Square, in which it stands, takes its name from 
 them. Also the Pemberton Savings Bank, opposite 
 the Court House. Doctor Thomas Pemberton was 
 born February 17, 1652, and died July 26, 1693. He 
 was a distinguished surgeon, accompanying the expedi- 
 tion against Quebec, in the war waged between the Col- 
 onies and Canada in the year 1690. He married Han- 
 
4 Ancesteal Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 nah Phillips, daughter of Nicholas Phillips and Hannah 
 Salter, his wife. 
 
 Their son James married Hannah Penhallow. They 
 had three children, Hannah, Mary, and Samuel, the two 
 former known far and wide for theu" beauty and accom- 
 plishments. The portrait of the son, Samuel Pember- 
 ton, painted when at the age of fourteen by Blackburn, 
 in the year 1736, has been called "the handsomest of 
 all boy portraits of Colonial days." ^ 
 
 The eldest daughter, Hannah Pemherton, married 
 Benjamin Colman, of Boston. 
 
 Their daughter^ Mary Colman, married Reverend 
 Ephraim Ward. 
 
 Their daughter, Mary Ward, married Thomas, the 
 son of Thomas and Abigail (Blodgett) Stickney; the 
 elder Thomas Stickney was the son of John and Abi- 
 gail (Wingate) Stickney. 
 
 WINGATE 
 
 Colonel Joshua Wingate was born at Hampton, 
 N. H., February 2, 1679, married Mary Limt Novem- 
 ber 9, 1702, and died February 9, 1769. He was dis- 
 tinguished for public and private virtues, according to 
 the quaint chronicle, held many offices, civic and mili- 
 tary, and commanded a company at the taking of Louis- 
 biu-g in the year 1645. Many interesting traits of Col- 
 onel Joshua Wingate are recorded in the genealogy of 
 the Wingate family, edited and published in book form 
 about ten yearsi ago by Mr. Charles Wingate, The 
 Colonel had ntmierous descendants, one of whom, Mary 
 Ingalls, of HaverhiU, Mass., married Comte Fran9ois 
 de Vepart, at a period when " international marriages " 
 were an exception, and has had her memory embalmed 
 in some graceful verses by Whittier entitled: 
 
 1 Alice Morse Earle, " Child Life in Colonial Vayi." 
 
Ancestuai, Records and Poktkaits 
 
 THE COUNTESS 
 
 An exile from the Gascon land 
 
 Found refuge here and rest. 
 And loved of all the milage hand 
 
 Its fairest and its best. 
 
 For her his rank aside he laid; ' 
 
 He took the hue and tone 
 Of lowly life and toil, and made 
 
 Her simple ways his own. 
 
 Ah! life is brief, thoiugh love be long; 
 
 The altar and the bier. 
 The burial hymn and bridal song 
 
 Were both in one short year. 
 
 Her rest is quiet on the hill. 
 
 Beneath the locust's bloom; 
 Far off her lover sleeps as still 
 
 Within his scutcheoned tomb. 
 
 The Gascon lord, the village maid. 
 In death stUl clasp their hands; 
 The love that levels rank and grade 
 Unites their severed lands. 
 
 The daughter of Colonel Joshua and Mary (Lunt) 
 Wingate, Abigail Wingate, married John Stickney. 
 
 Their son, Thomas Stickney, of " Mount Pleasant," 
 Leicester, married Abigail, daughter of Hon. Samuel 
 Blodgett, 
 
 Their son, Thomas Stickney, married Mary Ward. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Ward Stickney, married 
 Thomas William Hall, of Culpeper, Va. Their 
 daughters are: 
 
 Bertha Ellen Hall Ahrens, 
 
 Annie Amelia Hall, 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
11 
 
 WILLIAMS 
 
 The Williams family, associated with Society Hill, 
 S. C, are descended from a family in Isle of Wight 
 Comity, Va., but the name of the colonist who settled 
 there is not known. Some of the family crossed into 
 Northampton County, N. C, and from thence found 
 their way to South Carolina. 
 
 The earliest individual to have a definite record, 
 George WiUiams, was born in Isle of Wight County, 
 Va., and went to Northampton County, N. C, where 
 his wiU, dated January 6, was proved in the May Court 
 of 1750. .This document shows him to have been a man 
 of wealth. No light has been thrown upon his personal 
 history further than that his wife's name was " Sarah," 
 that she survived him, and that their family nvunbered 
 nine children, viz.: ^Robert, George, Samuel, Jacob, 
 William, Sarah, Mildrfed, Elizabeth, and Ann. 
 
 The eldest son, Robert WiUiams, was born in North- 
 ampton Coimty. His removal to the Peedee District, 
 S. C, about the year 1748, and his settlement "on the 
 west side of the river opposite to the lower part of 
 Welch Neck," places the history of the family there- 
 after, for the most part, within the State of South Caro- 
 lina. He had abundant means, and a large landed 
 property (most of which has been kept by his descend- 
 ants). He lived and died on his plantation, called 
 " Millwood," now called " The Mill," his house being 
 a brick structure, which was torn doAvn early in the 
 nineteenth century. 
 
 In 1752 he was ordained minister of the Welch Neck 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Poeteaits 7 
 
 Baptist Church. In the sermon preached at his funeral, 
 it was said of him: "He was kind to the poor, and re- 
 markably so to the afflicted ; a man of excellent natural 
 parts, and a minister who preached the Gk)spel to the 
 edification and comfort of souls, as many have testified 
 to me." His official connection with the Welch Neck 
 Church was of short duration. Owing to a disagreement 
 over questions of discipline, he withdrew from the 
 church, and on declining to return, was formally sus- 
 pended and afterwards excommunicated. The differ- 
 ences were healed later, but he never resumed his duties 
 as minister. His death occurred in the spring of 1768. 
 His wife was a daughter of Francis Boykin, but her 
 given name is not known. She died between 1761 and 
 1766. According to "The Old Cheraws," they had 
 issue, two sons and two daughters: 
 
 John; there is on record a grant to him of one hun- 
 dred acres on the Peedee, adjoining land of Robert 
 Williams. 
 
 Anne. 
 
 Mary, married Arthur Hart, a prominent man of 
 St. David's Parish, who married, second, Miss Irby. 
 Had issue by second, but not by first, marriage. 
 
 David Williams^ the youngest son, was born in Pee- 
 dee, Cheraw District, S. C, February 1, 1739. The 
 Charleston Association of Baptist Churches appointed 
 him in 1772 one of a committee to draw up a System of 
 Discipline, which was adopted 1773. He was ap- 
 pointed one of the Committee of Observation of St. 
 David's Parish, June 22, 1775. His premature death, 
 January 1, 1776, removed him from a career of patriotic 
 usefulness. " Cut off in his thirty-seventh year, his loss 
 was one that his country could ill afford." He received 
 his education in Charleston, where he met his future 
 
8 Ancestral Rkcoeds and Poktraits 
 
 wife, Anne Rogerson, an English lady, who was there 
 on a visit to her relations. They were married on Eas- 
 ter day, 1763. 
 
 After her husband's death, Mrs. Williams continued 
 to live at " The Mill " plantation imtil the close of the 
 Revolution, when, having means of her own, she moved 
 to Charleston. Here she met and married a Mr. Brown 
 of Providence, R. I., who was wealthy and came to 
 Charleston in connection with his business. They 
 moved to Providence ; several children were born, but aU 
 died young. Later, she returned to South Carolina, 
 and lived there until her death in 1812, at "Centre 
 Hall, " Society Hill, a plantation belonging to her son, 
 .David and Anne (Rogerson) WUliams had issue: 
 
 Mary Ann, born April 16, 1772, and died December 
 18, 1834 ; married John Edwards Mclver. 
 
 David Rogerson. 
 
 While living in Providence, after his mother's sec- 
 ond marriage, David Rogerson Williams, born at Rob- 
 bia's Neck, S. C, March 8, 1776, entered Brown Uni- 
 versity, but did not graduate. In 1801, however, he 
 was- given an honorary degree. While in college the 
 remittances from his plantations failed him, and he 
 went to South Carolina to investigate the cause, but 
 returned to Providence, where he had known the beauti- 
 ful Sarah Powers and their marriage occurred August 
 14, 1796. She was the eldest daughter of Nicholas and 
 Rebecca (Corey) Power, of Providence. 
 
 Leaving college then, he went south with his wife to 
 his plantations. . In 1797, after the birth of their first 
 child, Mrs. Williams' health compelled a return to her 
 native climate, and they lived in Providence, while he 
 studied law, and practised his profession for three years. 
 Business interests required his return to South Caro- 
 
Ancesteal Records and Portraits 9 
 
 lina, and taking possession of his plantation, he built 
 there the house now known as " Centre Hall." Cap- 
 tain Power, his father-in-law, when visiting them, sug- 
 gested the embankment of his river lands at Robbin's 
 Neck, the first work of the kind ever done in the State. 
 With the invention of the cotton gin, his plantations be- 
 came very profitable. He moved to Charleston later, 
 where he lost his wife, February, 1803. He became the 
 pubhsher of the South Carolina Gazette and Advertiser, 
 later merged in the Charleston Courier^ of which his 
 brother-in-law, John E. Mclver, was the editor. 
 
 Shortly afterwards, he returned to Society Hill, and 
 in November, 1809, married, second, Elizabeth, the 
 daughter of John and Mary (Conn) Witherspoon, of 
 Peedee. Entering public life, he was a member of 
 the U. S. House of Representatives from 1805 to 1809, 
 and again from 1811 to 1813. He was most promi- 
 nent in the debates which formed part of the prelimina- 
 ries to the War of 1812. He was Chairman of the 
 Committee of Military Affairs, and many references 
 to his ability and activity are made in Adams' History 
 of the United States. 
 
 On the breaking out of the War of 1812, President 
 Madison appointed eight brigadier-generals, one of 
 whom was David Rogerson Williams. This was on 
 July 9, 1813. He was assigned to the Seventh District, 
 including Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, but 
 soon was moved to the North. He served for only a 
 year, being invalided home immediately before the bat- 
 tle of Limdy's Lane, and resigned April 6, 1814. On 
 recovering his health to some degree, he was given charge 
 of preparing plans for the coast defense of South Caro- 
 lina; and his drawings for the fortifications are now in 
 the possession of his family. In 1814 he was elected 
 
10 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Governor of the State of South Carolina, and held office 
 for the term of two years. After the expiration of his 
 term as Governor, he represented his district for several 
 terms in the State Senate, and was also trustee of the 
 South Carolina College for many years. 
 
 In the industrial development of South Carolina, Mr. 
 Williams' part, that of a pioneer, was vastly important. 
 The first planter in the State to guard his fields against 
 the floods, by banking the river, he also built, about the 
 year 1812, a five-story frame cotton-mill, some two hun- 
 dred feet in length, and established shoe and hat facto- 
 ries. In 1829 he erected a machine for the manufacture 
 of cotton seed oil, and he made hemp cordage. His 
 interest in building good roads was also active. His 
 home near Society Hill, which was burned in 1873, was 
 called " The Factory." His plantation at " Millwood " 
 covered ten thousand acres and he had several other 
 plantations. He had a house at Rocky River Springs, 
 where his family lived in the hot weather. 
 
 Mrs. Williams owned a ferry across Lynch's Creek 
 on the Georgetown road, about fifty miles from Society 
 Hill, which had belonged to her uncle, Robert Wither- 
 spoon. General Williams determined to improve the 
 facilities for crossing, by bridging this. In personally 
 directing the work of erecting the trestles, which were 
 to make the land approach, the timbers fell, he was caught 
 by them and fatally hurt. Heroically he insisted that 
 the negro workmen, also caught by the falling beams, 
 should first be cared for. He died the next day, No- 
 vember 17, 1830. His interment was in the family 
 cemetery four miles below Society Hill. 
 
 His most marked characteristics were fearless hon- 
 esty, mental and physical vigor, and untiring energy. 
 There are two portraits of him; one in the possession of 
 
BuRWEtL BoTKisr 
 
 Gov. STEPi-iEif Decatuk Miller 
 
 David R. Williams 
 
 Sarah Power 
 
 Wife of David R. Williams 
 
 From a miniature by Malbone 
 
Ancestbal Records and Portraits 11 
 
 his great-grandson, David R. Williams, III. ; the other 
 is in the Library of the University of South Carolina 
 at Columbia. The inscription on the back of the latter 
 portrait reads: "This portrait of David R. Williams, 
 late Governor and Commander over this State, Presi- 
 dent of the Board of Trustees of Columbia College, and 
 now Major General of the Militia of the State, was 
 painted and presented to the Legislature thro' His Ex- 
 cellency, Andrew Pickens, to be suspended in the 
 Library of the College, — ^by John S. Cogdell, on the 
 27th November, 1817." 
 
 His second wife, born 1784, died November 17, 1840 ; 
 she was devoted to the church at Society Hill, as shown 
 by the Historical Sketch of this church in which are 
 many references to her. Her portrait, painted by 
 David R. Williams, II., is owned by the family. Issue, 
 first wife: 
 
 John Nicholas. 
 
 George Frederick, was born 1799, and died Decem- 
 ber, 1812. 
 
 POWER 
 
 Arms: Or, a chief embattled sable. 
 
 CiteST: An antelope's head erased, the neck transfixed by a spear 
 all ppr. 
 
 " The Powers of Rhode Island ^ are descended from 
 the family of the same name in Ireland; but by what 
 line is not known. Tradition says that a Power went 
 with Raleigh to Guiana in South America; and it is 
 apparently certain that the Power family of Provi- 
 dence owned plantations there. The family of Poer is 
 of Breton origin. They were settled at Poer-Hays 
 
 2 Austin's Oen. Diet, of R. I. Austin's Narragansett Hist. Beg., 
 Vol. vii, No. 1, p. 17. 
 
12 AlfCESTEAL ReCOBDS AND PORTRAITS 
 
 in the parish of Budleigh, South Devon, where Sir Wal- 
 ter Raleigh was bom. The first of the name there was 
 Sir Bartholemy Le Poer; then Sir John Le Poer and 
 Sir Roger Le Poer, whose daughter Cecilia carried 
 Poer-Hays to John Duke of the adjoining parish. 
 The estate passed to the Hayes family. A grandson of 
 Sir Bartholemy, Robert Le Poer, was a marshal in the 
 English army in the invasion of Ireland with Henry 
 the Second of England; and the King in 1177 gave him 
 ' a grant of Desies, or the entire County of Waterford, 
 together with the city.' The Le Poers later became 
 Earls of Tyrone. In O' Hart's Irish Pedigrees (second 
 series), pp. 345-349, there is an interesting sketch of 
 the Power family." 
 
 Nicholas Power I., was one of the earliest settlers 
 of Providence, R. I. Traditions concerning him are 
 nimaerous, but most of them are false. His signature 
 upon the compact of 1640 for civil government drawn 
 up in Providence, is the first mention of him in the rec- 
 ords. The distin-bed conditions in Rhode Island, result- 
 ing partly from controversies between those known as 
 " Gortonists " and the authorities in Massachusetts (who 
 called the Providence Plantations " a nest of pestilential 
 heretics"), brought many a good settler into trouble. 
 Nicholas Power was one of these. He joined Gorton 
 and his followers in the piarchase of Indian lands at 
 Shawomet (Shawmut), afterwards Warwick, on the 
 west side of Narragansett Bay. The Gortonists were 
 besieged and captured, and Power, with others, was 
 taken to Boston for trial. Power was finally dismissed 
 with "an admonition" and returned to Providence. 
 His home was directly south of the present Power 
 Street. He was Freeman 1655, Constable 1649, Sur- 
 veyor of Highways 1656, and repeatedly chosen a Jury- 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 13 
 
 man and Commissioner. He died intestate August 25, 
 1657, and ten years later the Town Council disposed 
 of his estate. His wife Jane, died 1667. Issue: 
 
 Hope, horn 1650, married Rev. James Clarke, of 
 Newport, who was born 1649, and died December 1, 
 1736. 
 
 Nicholas II., born in Providence. 
 
 "In 1672 he {Nicholas II.) and Thomas Field were 
 fined £40 each at a meeting of the GJovernor and Coun- 
 cil at Newport, for refusing to testify against Harris, 
 accused of contempt of court in saying, ' Your Honors 
 are wise ' ! " 
 
 He served as Constable of Providenge 1671, and as a 
 member of the jury 1673. He was killed December 
 19, 1675, in the Great Swamp Fight at Narragansett, 
 a shot from one of his companions in the rear, taking 
 fatal effect. His wife was Rebecca, the daughter of 
 Zachariah and Joanna (Arnold) Rhodes. Issue: 
 Hope, who died young; and an only son: 
 
 Nicholas Power III., born 1673, and died May 
 18, 1734, was Deputy five years, from 1704 to 1730; 
 a Member of the Town Council four years, between 
 1713 and 1730, and Assistant to the Governor, 1720 
 to 1721, 1724 to 1729, 1731, 1732, and 1733. As shown 
 by the inventory of his estate, which was valued at 
 £1,751, 13s, 3d, he was a prosperous merchant, and is 
 referred to in the colonial records as Captain and later 
 as Colonel. 
 
 He married, first, Mary Haile; second, Mercy, the 
 daughter of Rev. Pardon and Lydia (Taber) Tilling- 
 hast; she died November 13, 1769, in her ninety-first 
 year. A petition in the name of Nicholas Power, was 
 made to the Town Council on December 13, 1708, for 
 a piece of land between "my Ffather William his land 
 
14 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 and mine." ^ This may imply that Mary Haile's father 
 was named William. Issue, first wife: 
 
 Mary, married Daniel Cooke, of Saybrook, Conn. 
 
 Issue, second wife: 
 
 Hope, married James Brown, Jr. 
 
 John married Martha 
 
 Joseph, married Jane Diana . 
 
 Anne, married, first, John Stewart; second, George 
 Laws. 
 
 Sarah, married William Burrough. 
 
 Nicholas IF. 
 
 Lydia, married, Carr, of Newport. 
 
 Mercy, married Hezekiah, the son of Colonel Heze- 
 kiah Sabin. 
 
 The seventh child, Nicholas Power, IV., was born in 
 Providence, and died in Paramaribo, Surinam (Dutch 
 Guiana) , February 28, 1744, where he had gone to su- 
 perintend the settlement of his estates.* On October 
 31, 1734, he married his first cousin Anne, the daugh- 
 ter of Philip and Martha (Holmes) Tillinghast, born 
 April 13, 1713, and died 1770. Issue: 
 
 Elizabeth, married Joseph, the son of James Brown, 
 Jr., and his wife, Hope Power. 
 
 Anne, died unmarried. 
 
 Mary, died unmarried. 
 
 Nicholas, Power V., bom in Providence, R. I., 
 April 5, 1742, and died January 6, 1808, was Captain 
 in the Rhode Island Militia before the Revolution,* 
 and appointed, December 17, 1774, as a member of the 
 Committee of Inspection, to carry into effect the Asso- 
 ciation entered into by the Continental Congress. At 
 
 3 Early Records of Providence, xvil, p. 248. 
 
 4 R. I. Tracts, Nb. 15, p. 174, gives his death as February 27, 1743. 
 
 5 Field's State of R. I. and Providence Plantations at the End of 
 the Century, Vol. i, p. 444. 
 
Ancestbal Records and Portbaits 15 
 
 the town meeting in Providence, July 31, 1775, he was 
 placed in charge of the construction of the town forti- 
 fications. 1784 to 1789 he was a Representative in the 
 General Assemhly. 
 
 He married, April 20, 1766, Rebecca^ the daughter 
 of William and Mary (Akin) Corey, who was born 
 1747, and died October 29, 1825. She and her husband 
 are interred in the north burial ground in Providence. 
 Issue: 
 
 Nicholas VI., married Anna Marsh, the daughter of 
 Daniel and Susannah (Wilkinson) Marsih. 
 
 Sarah, married David Bogerson Williams. 
 
 Mary Ann, married Colonel William Blodget, Jr., 
 thesonof Major WiEiam and AmphiUis (Chace) Blod- 
 get. 
 
 Rebecca, married, first, Charles James Air, of South 
 Carolina; second, Hon. Joseph Leonard Tillinghast, of 
 Providence. 
 
 RHODES 
 
 Zachariah Rhodes, born 1603, in England, was 
 drowned " off' Pawtuxet Shoare," Rhode Island, 1665. 
 He settled in Rehoboth, but moved to Providence, 
 finally going to Pawtuxet, where he remained. He held 
 many public offices, being commissioner foul years be- 
 tween 1659 and 1663, Constable 1660, Deputy 1664 
 and 1665, and Town Treasurer 1665,® besides other 
 positions of public trust. He married Joanna, the 
 daughter of William and Christian (Peak) Arnold, 
 born February 27, 1617, and died later than 1692. 
 Their daughter Rebecca married Nicholas Power II. 
 
 ARNOLD 
 
 William Arnold, of Dorset County, England, was 
 
 6 Austin's loc. cit.^ p. 364. 
 
16 ANCESTEAIi ReCOKDS AND PoETRAITS 
 
 baptized there Jime 24, 1587. He "sett sayle ffrom 
 Dartmouth in Old England the first of May, friday, 
 and Arrived In New England June 24, Ano 1635," 
 making his first home in Hingham, Mass. He became 
 one of " the thirteen original proprietors " of Provi- 
 dence, going there April 20, 1636. He was one of 
 four to foimd Pawtuxet in the year 1638. He again 
 changed his residence 1651, moving this time to New- 
 port. His part in the early history of Rhode Island 
 was important, and he held many offices.'' 
 
 His wife was Christian Peak. The distinguished Gov- 
 ernor Benedict Arnold was their son (see p. 112), and 
 their daughter Joanna married Zachabiah Rhodes. 
 
 TILLINGHAST 
 
 Pakdon Tillinghast was born at Seven CUfFs, Sus- 
 sex, Eng., 1622, and died at Providence, R. I., Janu- 
 ary 29, 1718. He was the most prominent merchant 
 of his day, and a very useful citizen, being Deputy 
 six years, and Overseer of the Poor, a member of the 
 Town Council, etc. In 1681 he became the pastor of 
 the First Baptist Church, the building for which, as 
 weU as the land, he is said to have given.^ 
 
 He married Lydia, the daughter of Philip and Lydia 
 (Masters) Taber, on April 16, 1664, and died 1718. 
 Issue, among others: 
 
 Mercy, who married Nicholas Power III., and a 
 son: 
 
 Philip Tillinghast, born at Providence, R. I., 
 October, 1669, and died March 14, 1732, was a wealthy 
 merchant, and took part actively in public life. He 
 
 iN. E. Hist. ^ Gen. Beg., Vol. xxxiii, pp. 437-438. Arnold's Hist, 
 of tC. I., VoL i. Austin's toe. cit. 
 1 Austin's toe. cit., p. 303. 
 
AxCESTBAIi ReCOEDS AND P0KTB.AITS 17 
 
 joined Captain Gallup's expedition against Canada, 
 1690; was a Deputy for twelve terms, Assistant to the 
 Governor 1714, and a member of the Town Comicil 
 for eleven years.* 
 
 His wife was Martha, the daughter of Jonathan and 
 Sarah (Borden) Holmes, and they were married May 
 3, 1692. She was bom 1675, and died March 10, 1729. 
 Their daughter Anne, married her cousin, Nicholas 
 POWEK IV. 
 
 TABER 
 
 Philip Taber, bom in England 1605, and died at 
 Providence 1672, was a Deputy 1639 and 1640, and a 
 Commissioner on, many occasions.^ He married Lydia, 
 the daughter of John and Jane Masters. Issue: 
 
 Lydm, married Pardon Tillinghast. 
 
 Philip, Jr./ married Mary, the daughter of John and 
 Sarah (Warren) Cooke. Their daughter Sarah mar- 
 ried Thomas, the son of William and Mary (Earle) 
 Corey. 
 
 One of the earliest of the settlers of Watertown, 
 Mass., John Masters, was admitted a Freeman 1631. 
 He was " chosen to advise with the Governor and As- 
 sistants" about the raising of public stock in 1632.'* 
 
 He died December 21, 1639. 
 
 HOLMES 
 
 Obadiah Holmes was bom in Preston, Eng., 1607, 
 and died at Newport, R. I., October 15, 1682. He re- 
 sided first in Massachusetts, but went to Newport in 
 1650. He was the leader of the Baptist church, and 
 on one occasion severely whipped on Governor Endi- 
 
 =" Austin, p. 303. 
 s Austin, p. 195. 
 * Prince's Chronology, Vol. ii. 
 
18 Ancestral Recobos and Poetbaits 
 
 cott's orders.® He held several public offices, and was 
 one of the original patentees of Monmouth, N. J.' He 
 married Catherine . 
 
 Jonathan Holmes, their son, who died 1713, passed 
 his later hfe in Newport, after living for a time in 
 Middletown, N. J., being elected Deputy 1668. He 
 was a Deputy in Newport for ten years, and Speaker 
 of the House for seven years. 
 
 He married Sarah, the daughter of Richard and Joan 
 Borden. She was bom May, 1644, and died 1705. 
 Their daughter Martha married Philip Tillinghast. 
 
 BORDEN 
 
 RiCHAED Borden, bom 1601, died in Portsmouth, 
 
 R. I., May 25, 1671; married Joan . He was 
 
 Assistant to the Governor 1653 to 1654; the next year 
 he was General Treasurer, and Deputy in 1667 and 
 1670. He purchased land in Monmouth County, N. J., 
 from the Indians in 1665, and many of his descendants 
 settled there.'. 
 
 Their daughter Sarah married Jonathan Holmes. 
 
 COREY 
 
 William Coeey/ admitted a Freeman 1658 in Ports- 
 mouth, served as' deputy three years, 1678 to 1680, and 
 was First Lieutenant and then Captain in the Militia. 
 His death occurred in 1682. He married Mary, the 
 daughter of Ralph and Joan (Savage) Earle. She 
 died March 22, 1718. 
 
 Their fifth child, Thomas Corey (1670-1738), inher- 
 
 3 Arnold's Hist, of B. I., Vol. i, pp. 224, 225. 
 « Austin's loc. cit., p. 103. 
 
 7 Arnold's loc. cit., Vol. i, pp. 350, 252, 255. Austin's loc. cit., p. -23. 
 N. J. Arch., First Series, Vol. xxiv, p. 651. 
 
 8 Austin's loc. cit., p. 56. 
 
Ancestrai,. Recobds and Portraits 19 
 
 ited large estates at Tiverton, R. I. He is said to have 
 been educated in England. His first wife was Sarah, 
 the daughter of Philip, Jr., and Mary (Cooke) Taber, 
 born 1671. {PhiUp Taber, Jr., was a brother of Lydia 
 Taber, who married Pardon Tillinghast.) 
 
 The eldest son of Thomas Corey, by first wife, Wil- 
 liam Corey, born 1693, and died April 13, 1779, was 
 educated in England. He married, third, Mary, the 
 daughter of James and Eliphal (Sanford) Akin. A 
 sampler worked by Mary Akin is in the possession of 
 a descendant. Their daughter Rebecca married Nich- 
 olas Power V. 
 
 EARLE 
 
 Ralph Earle was an early settler of Aquidneck, be- 
 ing admitted in 1638, where he held many places of 
 ofiicial trust.* He joined the first Rhode Island Troop 
 of Horse in 1667, becoming Captain of the company. 
 Captain Earle died 1678, his wife, who was Joan Sav- 
 age, dying two years later. / 
 
 His daughter Mary married William Corey. 
 
 COOKE 
 
 Francis Cooke (1597-1663) was one of the. signers 
 of the " Mayflower Compact." Esther, his wife, came 
 oyer later on the ship Anne, with her daughters. Their 
 son: 
 
 John Cooke came with his father on the Mayflower, 
 and had the distinction of surviving all the passengers 
 of that ship, dying 1695. For many years he lived at 
 Plymouth, being one of the Military Company. Tak- 
 ing part in the purchase of Dartmouth, he moved there 
 and was Selectman, also Representative to the General 
 
 9 Tlie Descendants of Batph Earle, by Pliny Earle. 
 
20 Ancesteal Recobds and Poeteaits 
 
 Court for over twenty years. Sarah, the daughter of 
 RiCHABD Waeeen, another signer of the " Compact " 
 (see p. 122), was his wife. 
 
 Their daughter, Mary Cooke, married Philip Tdber, 
 Jr. She was in the third generation from two of the 
 adult passengers of the May/lower. 
 
 Their daughter, Sarah Taber, married Thomas Corey. 
 
 SANFORD 
 
 John Sanfobd; who died 1653, was an early settler 
 of Boston. He was cannoneer of Boston and Surveyor 
 of Arms there for several years. Removing to Rhode 
 Island, he was Constable, Lieutenant, Assistant to the 
 Governor, and in 1653, President of Portsmouth and 
 Newport, having gone to Portsmouth at the time of 
 Mrs. Hutchinson's banishment from Boston, in 1638. 
 
 His first wife was Elizabeth Webb; his second was 
 Bridget Hutchinson, the daughter of William and Anne 
 (Marbury) Hutchinson. His eldest son by first wife: 
 
 John Sanfoed II., born Jime 4, 1633, and died 
 1687, was General Treasurer, General Recorder and 
 Attorney-General between the years 1655 and 1671, 
 holding each ofiice a number of terms. For sixteen 
 years he acted as Deputy, three years as Assistant and 
 was a member of the Council.^ He married, second, 
 April 17, 1663, Mary, the daughter of Samuel Goe- 
 TON ^ and the widow of Peter Greene. She died in 
 1688. 
 
 Their daughter, Eliphal, was born February 20, 1666, 
 and died 1726. She married James Akin. 
 
 Their daughter, Mary AJdn, married William 
 
 COEEY. 
 
 1 Austin's loc. cit., p. 171. Arnold's loc. dt.. Vol. i. 
 ^Life and Times of Samuel Oorton, by Adelos Gorton. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 21 
 
 GORTON 
 
 Akhs: Gules, ten billets or, a chief indented of the second. 
 
 Samuel Gorton, bom at Grortoii, Lancaster Comity, 
 England, in 1592, where his family had lived for sev- 
 eral generations, was a clothier in London. With his 
 wife and children he emigrated to New England 1637, 
 arriving in March of that year. In 1639 he signed the 
 Portsmouth Compact; was at Proyidence 1640, and at 
 Pawtucket 1641, when he became the leader of the 
 company who bought the Warwick lands, and one of 
 the corporators of the Government, now Rhode Island, 
 under its first charter, 1644. Owing to religious dif- 
 ferences, he had much trouble with Massachusetts, and 
 in November, 1643, he was sentenced at Charlestown, 
 Mass., but released the following March, when he was 
 banished from Massachusetts and Warwick. The de- 
 tails of this controversy are fully set forth in the first 
 volume of Arnold's History of Rhode Island. The 
 same year he returned to England (being forced to 
 sail from New York), to obtain redress from the at- 
 tacks of the Bay Colony upon the Rhode Island settle- 
 ment. Returning to Boston in May, 1648, he brought 
 with him a letter of protection from the Earl of War- 
 wick, and had won his cause, because the Commissioners 
 of Plantations had given orders previously to Massa- 
 chusetts, to allow him and his followers to hve quietly 
 on their lands at Warwick. 
 
 After this he held many public offices, being Assist- 
 ant to the Governor 1649; Commissioner in the years 
 1651, 1656 to 1660, and 1663; President (or Governor) 
 of Providence and Warwick from October, 1651, to 
 May, 1652, and Deputy 1664, 1665, 1666 and 1670, 
 
22 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 dying in 1677. He was the author of several books, 
 including Simplicity's Defence against Seven Headed 
 Policy, which was published while he was in London, 
 1646; and was energetic in his disavowal of the belief 
 in witches, and the earliest of slavery abolitionists. 
 
 His wife was Mary, the daughter of John and Mary 
 Maplett, and a sister of Dr. John Maplett, physician 
 to King Charles II. They had nine children; the fifth, 
 Mary, who died 1688, married, first, Peter Greene, and 
 had issue eight children; second, John Sanford II. 
 
 WILLIAMS (Continued) 
 
 The only son of David Rogerson and Sarah (Power) 
 Williams, Colonel John Nicholas Williams, born at 
 "Centre Hall," Society Hill, S. C, July 2, 1797, 
 was graduated in 1816 from the South Carolina Col- 
 lege. In 1832 was a member of the State Legislature, 
 but declined to be a candidate for re-election. He 
 held a very influential place in the social and political 
 life of the "middle country," as one of the largest 
 planters in the State, living at " The Factory " at Soci- 
 ety Hill. As Colonel of the Darlington Troop, he was 
 in command when it acted as escort to General Lafay- 
 ette, passing through the State to Camden in 1825. 
 His father. General WiUiams, rode in a coach drawn 
 by four horses, with Lafayette beside him. 
 
 He married, first, December 3, 1820, Esther Serena, 
 the daughter of Colonel James and Mary (Cox) 
 Chesnut, of " Mulberry," Camden, S. C. ; she was born 
 September 29, 1797, and died October 27, 1822; mar- 
 ried, second, September 29, 1831, Sarah Cantey, the 
 daughter of John Dick and Elizabeth (Boykin) With- 
 erspoon; she was born November 19, 1810, and died 
 August 16, 1907, and was the sister of John Wither- 
 
Ancestbal Records and Poetkaj^s 23 
 
 spoon, who married Colonel WiUiams' eldest daughter. 
 Issue, first wife: 
 
 Mary Serena Chesnut, born November, 1821; died 
 1884; married, February 18, 1840, John Witherspoon, 
 of Society HiU. 
 
 David Rogerson II. 
 
 Issue, second wife: 
 
 Serena, born July 18, 1832; married, June 26, 1855, 
 James Douglas Kirkpatrick. 
 
 Elizabeth W., born 1833; died May 29, 1836. 
 
 John Witherspoon. 
 
 George Frederick, bom May 6, 1836; died December 
 21, 1861 ; married, June 1, 1858, Frances Virginia Mc- 
 Iver. 
 
 Alice, born April 20, 1838; died November 6, 1898; 
 married, June 9, 1859, Thomas Frost. 
 
 Constance, born January 14, 1841; married, Feb- 
 ruary 21, 1865, William Wood Finney. 
 
 Sarah Power, born March 14, 1843; married, June 
 15, 1864, Richard Henry Henderson. 
 
 CHESNUT 
 
 At an early age James Chesnut, who was born in 
 Ireland, went to Virginia with his parents, where they 
 settled in the valley of the Shenandoah. It is a tradi- 
 tion in the family that the name in Ireland was " Sars- 
 field." After his marriage and the birth of three chil- 
 dren, he was killed in a border warfare with the Indians, 
 Mrs. Chesnut married Jasper Sutton and had three 
 children. The family moved to South Carolina and 
 settled at Knight's Hill, near Camden, then called 
 " Pine Tree Hill." Issue: 
 
 John. 
 
 James, died unmarried; was the owner of "Mul- 
 berry" plantation. 
 
24 Ancestrai. Records and Porteaits 
 
 Margaret, married Alexander Irvin, 
 
 Colonel John Chesnut, the eldest son, was born 
 in the Shenandoah Valley, June 18, 1743, being thirteen 
 years old when he went to South Carolina. Soon after 
 he entered the mercantile house of Colonel John Ker- 
 shaw, in Camden, as an apprentice, beginning his career 
 as a merchant at the expiration of his apprenticeship. 
 By 1766 he was a member of the firm which had exten- 
 sive and progressive branch stores throughout the State. 
 In 1765 he was appointed Inquirer and Collector for 
 St. Mark's. By the time of the Revolution his landed 
 estates were very large. 
 
 A Delegate to the first Provincial Congress, which 
 met in Charleston, January 11, 1775, and again on June 
 1 of the same year, he was later elected to the Commit- 
 tee of Continental Association. "He was appointed 
 ' Justice of the Quorum ' for Orangeburg District 1775, 
 Justice of the Peace April, 1776," and was Paymaster, 
 with the rank of Captain, in the Third South Carolina 
 Regiment at the beginning of the Revolution, but a 
 severe attack of rheumatism compelled him to resign. 
 Recovering in about six months, he obtained a com- 
 mand in the mihtia, and served during the Georgia 
 campaign. He was taken prisoner at the evacua- 
 tion of Charleston, 1780, and was paroled to his plan- 
 tation at Knight's Hill. Here his family remained 
 during the war, and here his wife's mother, Mrs. Cantey, 
 died and was the first to be buried in what is now the 
 Chesnut family burying-ground. When the American 
 army approached, August, 1780, Lord Rawdon, the 
 British commander in Camden, called upon the inhabit- 
 ants to take up arms against their countrymen. Many 
 refused, among them Colonel Chesnut. He was put 
 
so 
 
 5 o 
 
Ancestral, Records and Portraits 25 
 
 in prison and chained to the floor. To his grave he bore 
 the marks of these irons. 
 
 The war over, he was prominent in polities, and in 
 1788 a member of the Convention to frame the Con- 
 stitution. He went to the State Senate twice, and was 
 among the first selection of trustees for the new 
 South Carolina College. His intimate friends were 
 leaders of their day, and among them were General 
 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Governor John Rutledge, 
 and Colonel Wade Hampton. When General Wash- 
 ington visited the South in 1791, he was entertained by 
 Colonel Chesnut at Camden. 
 
 Gilbert Stuart painted the portrait of Colonel Ches- 
 nut, now owned by his great-grandson, David Rogerson 
 Williams III. A very rich man, he lived in great state 
 at his different houses, giving a weekly ball and sup- 
 per, which pleased the young people of the community. 
 " He often travelled Avith coach and four to Charleston 
 or Columbia in the winter ; and rarely missed a visit to 
 Virginia and Philadelphia or New York during the 
 summer, travelling with his servants and horses, taking 
 at least a month to make the journey. He was well- 
 educated and had a fine library." 
 
 He married, in 1770, Sarah, the daughter of Captain 
 John and Mary (McGirtt) Cantey, of Camden. She 
 was bom at " Salt Lake " on the Wateree, February 15, 
 1753, and died February 12, 1786. Colonel Chesnut's 
 death occurred April 1, 1813, and he was placed be- 
 side his wife in the family burial place at Knight's 
 Hill. Issue : 
 
 Mary, married Duncan McRae. 
 
 James. 
 
 Sarah Cantey, married John Taylor. 
 
26 Ancestral Recobds and Poeteaits 
 
 Harriet, lived as a recluse for many years, never leav- 
 ing the house, because her father refused his consent to 
 a marriage which he considered imdesirablcu 
 
 Rebecca, died an infant. 
 
 John, died of yellow fever in Charleston, 1799, when 
 about sixteen years of age. 
 
 Margaret Rebecca, married James Sutherland Deas. 
 
 The eldest son, James Chesnut, was born in Cam- 
 den, S. C, February 19, 1773. As a boy of seven he 
 accompanied his father on horseback to Charleston, and 
 did many things for him when he was thrown into prison 
 there after the surrender. He was educated at Prince- 
 ton University, matriculating in 1788. A Member of 
 the State Legislature in 1802, 1804, and 1808, In- 
 tendant of Camden 1806 to 1807, and a member of 
 the State Senate, 1832, he was prominent in all the 
 social and political life of Camden. His plantations 
 near Camden were more than five miles square. 
 
 He married Mary, the daughter of Colonel John and 
 Esther (Bowes) Cox, of Philadelphia, September 20, 
 1796. His portrait, as well as that of his wife, by Gil- 
 bert Stuart, belong to David Rogerson Williams III. 
 Mrs. Chesnut said that when she met her future hus- 
 band at Princeton, he was known as " The young 
 Prince." On their bridal journey from Philadelphia to 
 Camden, they drove a cream-colored coach with four 
 horses and outriders. "Mulberry House," two miles 
 south of Camden, was finished in 1820. Until then they 
 lived at Camden. 
 
 Born at Trenton, N. J., March 22, 1775, Mary (Cox) 
 Chesnut, as a girl of fourteen, was one who strewed 
 flowers before General Washington at the reception 
 given him by the people of New Jersey at Trenton 
 Bridge, just before he was made President, April 21, 
 
Ancestbal Recobds and Portraits 27 
 
 1789. She was appointed the first vice-regent for 
 South Carolina of the Mount Vernon Associaton, April, 
 1860. She died at " Bloomsbury," March 13, 1864, and 
 her husband survived her only two years, dying Febru- 
 ary 17, 1866. 
 
 A most pathetic account of James Chesnut's life 
 after the death of his wife is given in a Diary from 
 Diode, written by his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mary Boy- 
 kin (Miller) Chesnut. "Bloomsbury" in Camden, 
 the house which James Chesnut had built for his daugh- 
 ter Sally, called after Colonel Cox's house on the Dela- 
 ware, was his last residence. The family moved there 
 from " Mulberry " at the beginning of the Civil War. 
 Mr. Chesnut and his wife were laid to rest at Knight's 
 Hill. Issue, fourteen children, of whom seven died in 
 infancy. The survivors were : 
 
 Esther Serena, married John Nicholas Williams. 
 
 John, married Charlotte Ellen Whitaker. 
 
 Mary Cox, married Dr. George Reynolds. 
 . Harriet Serena, married William Joshua Grant. 
 
 Emma, was unmarried. 
 
 Sarah ( Sally) , did not marry, devoting her life to the 
 care of her parents. Her home was " Bloomsbury." 
 
 Gen. James, Jr., married Mary Boykin Miller, the 
 daughter of Governor Stephen D. and Mary (Boykin) 
 Miller. He was a United States Senator, Brigadier- 
 General, C. S. A., and led an active, useful Ufe. 
 
 CANTEY 
 
 George Cantey, the earliest colonist of the name 
 to come to this country, " in the first fleet " saiKng 
 from the Barbadoes, reached South Carolina in 1670. 
 His father and mother, Teige and Elizabeth Cantey, 
 came to him at Charleston, from the Barbadoes, before 
 
28 Ancestral Bjecobds and Portraits 
 
 August 20, 1672, which is the date of a land grant to 
 the elder Cantey, whose will, dated September 21, 1678, 
 describes him as of Ashley River. The inventory of 
 his estate was filed May 7, 1679. In the report of his 
 executors the following items occur and bear witness 
 to his Irish ancestry: Funeral expenses. To three gal. 
 Wine . . 9s ; to three gal. & half of Rum . . 14s ; For board 
 for Coffin. .3s; Total £l, 6s." 
 
 A freeholder 1670 to 1671, George Cantey's name is 
 recorded the next year as one who might be called upon 
 for military service, " with two men able to bear arms." 
 At the first settlement on the west bank of the Ashley, 
 and at the new settlement where now is the city of 
 Charleston, he received allotments of land. Also grants 
 in Berkely County, on the north side of the Ashley 
 River; one, February 8, 1704, of one thousand acres. 
 For a residence on these plantations, he very early for- 
 sook the new town. From 1703 to 1704, he was a mem- 
 ber of the Commons of Berkely, and in the first named 
 lyear, was an Assessor for the north side of the Ashley. 
 In 1707, he was a Vestryman of St. James's, Goose 
 Creek. The last record of him is his deed of gift to 
 his granddaughter, Martha Ladson, 1714. His wife, 
 according to a number of deeds, was named Martha. 
 Issue : 
 
 John, born 1671, was twice married. 
 
 William. 
 
 Sendiniah, married James Boswood. 
 
 Elizabeth, married Thomas Elmes. 
 
 The second child, William Cantey, who died in 1729, 
 is always referred to in the early grants as' William Can- 
 tey, Jr., or later, as of Craven. He died intestate, and 
 his estate was administered October, 1729. In 1715 he 
 was Commissioner of Taxes for " English Santee." He 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 29 
 
 aided to defend Charleston againist the French and 
 Spaniards in the year 1706. 
 
 He married, before 1703, Arabella, the daughter of 
 Joseph Oldys, who " was Deputy-Secretary of the 
 Province of South Carolina 1688, and likewise Deputy 
 Register. ' ' * Issue : 
 
 Josiah, married, first, Elizabeth Boswood; second, 
 Susannah 
 
 Mary, the only daughter, married General Richard 
 Richardson. 
 
 William, Jr. 
 
 John. 
 
 Captain John Cantey is first mentioned in the rec- 
 ords as of "Pine Tree Hill," or of Craven County. 
 The first reference is February, 1749 to 1750, when he 
 is named as an executor of the will of Richard Middle- 
 ton with William Cantey. At " Pine Tree Hill," which 
 is now Camden, he was granted land as early as 1752, 
 and owned extensive plantations. He was Captain of a 
 company in Colonel Richardson's regiment, Littleton's 
 expedition against the Cherokees, from October 8, 1759, 
 to January 10, 1760. His official positions were as fol- 
 lows: 1762 and 1765, Commissioner for Roads and for 
 the Wateree River, respectively; 1765, 1767 and 1769, 
 one John Cantey was a Justice of the Peace for Craven 
 County; "Inquirer and Collector" for the Waterees, 
 1767 and 1785; a member of the Grand Jury at Cam- 
 den, December, 1774. Dying intestate, his sons James 
 and Zachariah were appointed administrators of his es- 
 tate, October 16, 1792, and the inventory was filed by 
 them February 27, 1793. His wife was Mary, the 
 daughter of Colonel James and Priscilla (Davison) 
 McGirtt. Issue: 
 
 8 So. Car. Hist. Mag., Vol. v, p. 337. 
 
30 Ancestbal Recobds and Portraits 
 
 Mary, married Eli Kershaw. 
 Sarahj married Colonel John Chesnut. 
 James, married Martha Whitaker. 
 Zachariah, married Sarah Boykin. 
 
 McGIRTT 
 
 Colonel James McGirtt^ an early settler of South 
 Carolina, was a cultivated man, with property, and is 
 said to have had the best hbrary in the colony. He was 
 Commissioner for foimding St. Mark's Parish, 1757, 
 and a Lieutenant-Colonel in General Richardson's 
 regiment of Provincial Militia, 1760. He was married 
 October 12, 1732, to Prisdlla Davison, and their daugh- 
 ter Mary married Captain John Cantey. 
 
 COX 
 
 Asms: Or, three bars, az.; on a canton, arg., a lion's head erased, gu. 
 Cbest: An antelopes head erased pTpr., pierced through the neck by 
 a spear. 
 
 "Copy of seal in ring belonging to John Cox and 
 given to his grandson, James Chesnut, by Mary (Cox) 
 Chesnut, daughter of John' Cox, now in the possession 
 of the great-great-grandson of John Cox, David R. 
 WiUiams, of Camden, S. C." 
 
 Thomas Cox,* originally from Hertfordshire, Eng., 
 came to America and founded the Monmouth County, 
 N". J., family. First, he went to Marspath Kills, at 
 the head of Newtown Creek, Long Island, and from 
 there to New Jersey. In the year 1665 he settled at 
 Middletown. He was a founder of the Baptist church 
 in the settlement there, and one of the leading men in 
 aU affairs of interest in the community. Overseer for 
 many years, he was also a Deputy and Town Agent. 
 
 *StiUwell's Hist. ^ Oen. Miscellany, VoL u. 
 
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 W-^ -^ 1 
 
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Ancestbal Records and Portraits 31 
 
 His wife was Elizabeth Blashford and they married 
 April 21, 1665. After his death, she married Thomas 
 Ingham. The will of Thomas Cox mentions six chil- 
 dren: Thomas, John, James, Joseph, Samuel, and Wil- 
 liam. The records of the day give only five sons. 
 
 Judging from family traditions and land records, the 
 sixth child in this family was' William Cox. He is 
 found living at Middlesex in 1721, but New Bruns- 
 wick was his later residence, where he was the owner of 
 plantations, and saw and grist mills. These were 
 offered for sale in 1745, and he moved to Shrewsbury, 
 where he died, 1752. His will, which was signed Janu- 
 ary 3, 1750, was probated May 5, 1752. It mentions 
 property left him by his "kinsman, Walter Cox, of 
 Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire." Shrewsbury Church- 
 yard was his place of burial, March 22, 1752. He mar- 
 ried Catherine, the daughter of Cornelius and Mary 
 (Greenland) Longfield. Issue: 
 
 William. 
 
 Thomas, married Mrs. Elizabeth Curhs (Corlies) ; 
 (issue, Thomas). 
 
 Longfield, married Anne Sears, of Shrewsbury (is- 
 sue, William). 
 
 John. 
 
 Samuel. 
 
 Cornelius. 
 
 Mary, married Richard Allen. 
 
 Sarah, married Christopher Beekman (issue, Wil- 
 liam) . 
 
 Colonel John Cox^ the fourth son of William and 
 Catherine (Longfield) Cox, was born in New Bruns- 
 wick, 1732, and died at Philadelphia, April 28, 1793. 
 There are numerous recorded references to him as a 
 Philadelphia merchant, as owning a house in Burling- 
 
32 ANCESTRAIi ReCOBDS AND PORTRAITS 
 
 ton, N. J., and being the " Proprietor and Conductor " 
 of the furnaces at Batsto, BurKngton County, and the 
 forge and rolling miU at Mount Holly .^ These sup- 
 plied the Continental army and navy with cannon-shot 
 and camp-kettles, as well as castings for the salt-works', 
 so the workmen were exempt from mihtary duty. An 
 act of the General Assembly of New Jersey, 1776, pro- 
 vided for the organization of a company of iron- workers, 
 not exceeding fifty, imder the command of a Captain 
 and two Lieutenants to be named by John Cox and com- 
 missioned by the Governor of New Jersey. February 
 8, 1775, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the 
 counties of Burlington and Gloucester. Previous to 
 the Revolution he was very prominent in public life. 
 The Provincial Convention of Pennsylvania was held 
 1774, and he was elected a Deputy July 15, and again 
 on June 23, 1775. He was appointed a Major in the 
 Second Battalion of the Pennsylvania Associated Mili- 
 tia 1775, the Commander being Colonel Roberdeau. In 
 the campaign of Washington, both before and after the 
 army crossed the Delaware at Trenton, he was very 
 active. In 1777, General Greene writes : " I hope the 
 Committee of Congress will not lose sight of Colonel 
 Cox; there is no man will serve their purpose better." ' 
 General Greene accepted the position of Quarter- 
 master-General of the Continental army only on con- 
 dition that Colonel Cox should be apnointed Assistant 
 Quartermaster-General, which was done by Congress 
 March 2, 1778. This was the beginning of intimate 
 relations between the two men. 
 
 5 iV. J. Archives, vii, 543; xii, 250, 330, 480; xix, 440, 479, 567; xviii, 
 525; 2d Series, I, 98; 409. 
 
 ^ Life of General Nathaniel Oreene, by G. W. Greene. Johnson's 
 Sketches of the lAfe of General Greene. 
 
Ancesteai, Recobbs and Portraits 33 
 
 His first wife was Sarah Edgil, the widow of William 
 Edgil, and they were married June 10, 1756,. in Christ 
 Church, Philadelphia. Legend says that Colonel Cox's 
 brother William was engaged to Mrs. Edgil, who was a 
 lady celebrated for her beauty and wealth. " The lovers 
 quarrelled; John Cox tried to pacify them, and heal the 
 breach, but to no purpose; they separated, and in time 
 the unsuccessful peacemaker and the widow were united 
 in marriage." She Hved a year, and died, leaving all 
 her fortune to her husband. There are still in the fami- 
 lies of Colonel Cox's descendants many pieces of silver 
 marked ' W. S. E.,' i. e., WilKam and Sarah Edgil. By 
 this marriage there were no children." 
 
 The second wife of John Cox was Esther^ the daugh- 
 ter of Francis and Rachel (Le Chevalier) Bowes, whom 
 he married November 16, 1760, in Christ Church, Phila- 
 delphia. She was born January 6, 1740, and died Feb- 
 ruary 4, 1814. On the death of her father and the re- 
 marriage of her mother, she made her home with her 
 aunts, her mother's sisters, the Miles. Le Chevalier. 
 She was well educated, played on the spinnet and organ, 
 and was the only lady of the day who had mastered thor- 
 ough bass. 
 
 " Colonel Cox never allowed his wife to do anything 
 but fancy work, and to be well dressed, daily in her 
 parlor. . . . During the Revolutionary War the 
 French had their headquarters at Colonel Cox's, he be- 
 ing Assistant Quartermaster under Major Nathaniel 
 Greene. Lafayette, Rochambeau and others were 
 there. Their table was beautifully laid out. After 
 each meal the silver was packed in their camp bag." 
 
 Such surroundings, however, did not protect against 
 many discomforts. In 1777, commerce was entirely 
 
34 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 destroyed, and it was practically impossible to procure 
 many of the conveniences of life. There was much in- 
 genuity displayed in substituting unusual things for 
 those that were missed in the daily economy. There 
 were no pins, thorns were used; no candles, pine knots 
 became the fashion. Mrs. Cox spun her own flax and 
 wool, and all were dressed in linsey woolsey. To relieve 
 the plainness of attire, hair was' elaborately dressed high, 
 on top of the head; coarse net, flowers and feathers were 
 worn. On one occasion a bat found a refuge in Rachel 
 Cox's headdress without her becoming aware of it. 
 General Greene and Colonel Cox were intimate friends, 
 and the General, in a letter to his wife, speaks of a let- 
 ter from Mrs. Cox to her husband, and adds, "she 
 desires him to prepare you to see an old-fashioned, plain 
 woman, marked with age and rusticity among the pines. 
 I believe there is no necessity, for everybody agrees she 
 is one of the finest women of the age." On the occasion 
 of the famous reception to General Washington at 
 Trenton Bridge, April 21, 1789, Mrs. Cox was one of 
 the matrons who, with their daughters,- welcomed him. 
 
 Until her death, February 10, 1814, she wrote letters 
 at re^lar intervals describing her life in Philadelphia, 
 to her daughter Mary, who had married Colonel James 
 Chesnut, of Camden, S. C. These letters are still in 
 the possession of the family. Mrs. Mary B. Ames, a 
 great-granddaughter, has in her possession a Negusi 
 glass which once belonged to Esther Bowes. It is 
 marked on one side, " Suckcess to ye two Frinds, 
 J.E.L.K." On the other, " 1785 E.B." The history 
 of it is not known, Mrs. Esther (Bowes) Cox gave it 
 to her granddaughter, Miss SaUy Chesnut, who in turn 
 gave it to her great-niece, Mary Boykin Williams, now 
 Mrs. Ames, the granddaughter of her eldest sister. It 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Porteaits 35 
 
 evidently was senf back to Mrs. Cox from Europe by 
 some of the foreign officers of the Revolution. 
 
 It was at "Bloomsbury Court," Colonel Cox's home 
 on the Delaware near Trenton, that Count de Rocham- 
 beau was entertained, the house being given up to him 
 by Colonel Cox, as was the courteous custom of the 
 time. He presented Colonel Cox "with a chaste and 
 beautiful snuif-box, blue enamel, lined and mounted 
 with gold." The snuff-box was left by Colonel Cox 
 to his daughter, Sarah Coxe, who in turn left it to her 
 son, Edward Jenner Coxe ; the wife of the latter, Mary 
 Louisa Coxe, leaving it to her son, John Redman Coxe, 
 in 1891. "Bloomsbury" was at different times the 
 headquarters of the French officers and of Genieral 
 Washington and General Greene. A delightful ac- 
 count of the life at "Bloomsbury the Beautiful," as 
 " Bloomsbury Court " was called in the days of Colonel 
 Cox's ownership, is given in Mills' Historic House of 
 New Jersey. The house is described, the box-wood 
 hedges, and the hundreds of roses tended by the 
 " Demoiselles Chevalier, the French aunts of Mrs. John 
 Cox." Another account says : " ' Bloomisbury Court ' 
 during the Cox regime was a republican Hotel de Ram- 
 bouillet in miniature." It was a stone house with large 
 rooms, having an avenue of cherry trees leading to it. 
 It was here that Colonel Cox retired after the Revolu- 
 tion. He remained only until 1790, when on account 
 of failing health he moved to Philadelphia, where he 
 died April 28, 1793. He was interred in Christ Church 
 Yard. Issue : 
 
 Rachel, married John Stevens, of Castle Point, Hobo- 
 .ken. 
 
 Catherine, married, first, Samuel Witham Stockton, 
 and second. Rev. Nathaniel Harris. 
 
36 ANCESTEAli ReCOBDS AND PoETRAITS 
 
 Esther, married Matthias Barton^ the son of Rev. 
 Thomas and Esther (Rittenhouse) Barton, of Lancas- 
 ter County, Pa. 
 
 John Bowes, died in infancy. 
 
 Mary, married James Chesnut. 
 
 Sarah, married John Redman Coxe, M. D. 
 
 Elizabeth, married Horace Binney. 
 
 LONGFIELD-GREENLAND 
 
 An early settler of New Amsterdam,, Cornelius van 
 Langevelt (the name becoming Longfield in the next 
 generation) , came from St. Laurens in Flanders. He 
 married, January 19, 1658, Marytze Jans, and died in 
 the winter of 1662-63. 
 
 Cornelius Longpieud, their son, was born in New 
 Amsterdam, 1658; baptized December 4 of that year, 
 and died in New Jersey, where his will was dated Feb- 
 ruary 5, 1733. He was in the House of Deputies 1698 
 and again in 1710, and was recommended for the Coun- 
 cil by Lord Combury, 1708.'^ 
 
 He married in the old Dutch church of New York, 
 
 September 16, 1680, Mary Greenland, " of London, but 
 living up Kill Katway"; the daughter of Captain 
 Henry Greenland. Issue, Catherine, married JVil- 
 Ham Cox. 
 
 Captain Henry Greenland is first heard of at 
 Newbury, Mass., 1662 ; later in Kittery, Me., and Pis- 
 cattaway, N. J. He was an officer of the troops, Over- 
 seer, Justice, member of the House of Deputies, etc. 
 He died in December, 1694.® 
 
 BOWES 
 
 Francis Bowes, a prominent citizen of Trenton, 
 
 IN. J. Archs., Vol. ii, 340; xiii, S37 & 426. 
 
 8 Whitehead's Contribittiong to E. Jersey Hist, p. 402 ; N. J. Archs., 
 Vol. i, pp. 300, 320, 364; xxi, pp. 192, 220. 
 
Ancestrai. Recoeds and Portraits 37 
 
 N. J„ was Justice in 1728, member of the Court 1739 ' 
 moving later to Philadelphia. In his will he speaks of 
 himself as' a merchant and of " the many governments 
 wherein I have lived." He died in Philadelphia, De- 
 cember 3, 1749. 
 
 His third wife was Rachel, the daughter of Jean and 
 Marie (de la Plaine) Le Chevalier, of New York, and 
 their daughter Esther married John Cox. 
 
 LE CHEVALIER 
 
 Aems: Or, an owl perched on a sword gules placed fessways in 
 chief vert charged with a stalk of lilies proper. 
 
 The colonist, Jean Le ChevaUer, was the son of Jean, 
 and both men were naturalized in England. The 
 younger emigrated to New York, where he was a " joy- 
 ner," and was admitted a freeman October 12, 1695. 
 
 He married Marie, the daughter of Nicholas and 
 Susanna (Cresson) de la Plaine, and their wedding 
 hcense was dated June 27, 1692. She was born in New 
 York and baptized November 14, 1668. Her father, 
 Nicholas de la Plaine, was a Huguenot "van Beers- 
 weer in Vranckryck," and was registered as a " small 
 burgher" at New York, April 14, 1657. He 
 married, September, 1658, Susanna, the daugh- 
 ter of Pierre and Rachel (Cloos) Cresson. Susanna 
 was born in Ryswyck, Holland. Her father, Pierre 
 Cresson, was born in Picardy, France. His Huguenot 
 affiliations sent him to Holland, and later he emigrated 
 to America. One of the founders of Harlem,^ he was 
 appointed, August 16, 1660, one of the three "sche- 
 pens," and June, 1663, took command of the first com- 
 pany raised to repel Indian attacks. 
 
 aSnelVs Hist, of Hunterdon Co., N. J., pp. 203, 238. 
 1 Riker's Hist, of Harlem. 
 
38 Ancestkal Records and Portbaits 
 
 The daughter of Jean and Marie (de la Plaine) Le 
 Chevalier, Rachel, married Francis Bowes, and their 
 daughter Esther married John Cox. 
 
 WILLIAMS {Continued) 
 
 The only son of John Nicholas and Esther Serena 
 (Chesnut) Williams, David Bogerson Williams II., 
 was bom in Society HiU, S. C, October 3, 1822, and 
 died in Camden, S. C, November 24, 1907. He was 
 brought up at the home of his grandfather, because of 
 the death of his mother when he was but a few weeks 
 old. His father's second marriage, in 1831, brought him 
 back to his home at " The Factory," but he afterward 
 paid long visits to his grandfather's widow and to " Mul- 
 berry," the home of his mother's parents, near Camden. 
 
 In 1843 he was graduated from the South Carolina 
 College, and shortly after built his house, called " BeUe- 
 vue," on a hill near " The Factory." He owned exten- 
 sive plantations on the river nearby; and these, as well 
 as his house, he sold to his half-brother, George Freder- 
 ick, in the year 1858, and moved to Florida, where he 
 had previously bought plantations,, near Gainesville, 
 Alachua County, which were called " Serenola." He 
 took his family, during the summer months', to Flat 
 Rock, Henderson County, N. C, where he built a house 
 in 1861. When the Civil War came he joined the army 
 of the Confederacy in the 2d Florida Regiment, Com- 
 pany C, Fennigan's Brigade, His family went to their 
 home, in Flat Rock. His marked skill in drawing caused 
 him to be detailed to the Tooographical Department, 
 where he spent most of the time of his service. On the 
 death of his mother's brother. General James Chesnut, 
 in 1886, David Rogerson Williams II. inherited "Mul- 
 
Ancestbal Recobds and Poeteaits 39 
 
 berry," and a large portion of the Chesnut plantation 
 near Camden. 
 
 He married, December 22, 1846, Katherine Boyhin, 
 the daughter of Stephen Decatur and Mary (Boykin) 
 Miller. She was born May 24, 1827, and died in Rom- 
 ney, W. Va., April 17, 1876. After the death of her 
 father, which occurred in her eleventh year, she lived 
 near Camden, with her mother, until her marriage. 
 Many charming references to her may be found in A 
 Diary from Dixie (written by her sister, Mrs. James 
 Chesnut). Issue: 
 
 Serena Chesnut, who died in 1876. 
 
 Mary Boykin. 
 
 Stephen Miller. 
 
 David Rogerson, married Ellen Clarke Manning. 
 
 Katherine Miller, married James Douglas Kirk- 
 patrick. 
 
 George Frederick, died in 1875, in his seventh year. 
 
 A son of John Nicholas and Sarah Cantey (With- 
 erspoon) Williams, John Witherspoon Williams^ 
 born at Society Hill, S. C, June 26, 1834, was a 
 planter near Society Hill until after the Civil War, when 
 he moved to Baltimore. He married January 10, 
 1861, Augusta Rebecca, the daughter of Major Rich- 
 ard Lewis and Rebecca Augusta (Stockton) Howell 
 of Philadelphia. Issue, six children, three of whom 
 lived to maturity, viz.: 
 
 Alice Stockton. 
 
 John Nicholas. 
 
 George. 
 
 MILLER 
 
 Little of the early history of the Miller family of 
 Lancaster County, S. C, is known, except what is given 
 in a letter of Governor S. D. Miller, of date July 23, 
 
40 Ancestbal Records and Poetraits 
 
 1835, to his daughter Mary, who later became the wife 
 of General James Chesnut. In this, he says, the an- 
 cestor of the family landed in Boston; and the family 
 came south to Lancaster, S. C, by way of Maryland. 
 
 The earliest known member of the family in South 
 Carolina is Charles Miller. There are land grants to 
 him as early as 1772, and he was living in 1793, in which 
 year, calling himself Charles MiUer, St., he deeds to 
 his daughter Priscilla certain tracts of land. His wife 
 was Miss Lucas, the daughter of John Lucas, of Mas- 
 sachusetts, and, according to the letter referred to, he 
 had issue, seven children, viz. (not arranged in order of 
 birth) : 
 
 Ebenezer, moved to Kentucky before 1790. 
 
 Jerome. 
 
 Stephen, married Hannah Webb. 
 
 William. 
 
 Jesse, through whom this line is descended. 
 
 Priscilla, married Andrew Kennedy, of York County, 
 and moved to Tennessee; no issue. 
 
 Daughter, married Theodore Webb. 
 
 The fifth son, Jesse Miller, went to South Carolina 
 with his father. He married Margaret, the daughter of 
 William and Sarah White. Issue : 
 
 William, married Catherine Foster; she married 
 again. 
 
 Priscilla, married William Hart. 
 
 Charles, married Margaret Miller. 
 
 Sarah, married John Porter; one daughter. 
 
 Hugh, died unmarried. 
 
 John Lucas, married Mary Simpson Doby. 
 
 Margaret Mary, married James Moore Harris. 
 
 Governor Stephen Decatur Miller was born in 
 

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 the Waxhaws Settlement, S. C, 1788. His father died 
 when he was quite young-, and three slaves which he 
 inherited were sold to provide for his education. He 
 was prepared for college by the Rev. Mr. Conser, of 
 Lancaster, and was well drilled in the classics and the 
 Bible, ^ being able to quote long passages. He entered 
 the South Carolina College in 1804 and was graduated 
 in 1808. He excelled in feats of strength and endur- 
 ance, and was famed for skill in jumping. He assumed 
 the additional name Decatur, and was always known 
 as Stephen Decatur Miller. 
 
 On leaving college he studied law with John S. Rich- 
 ardson, of Sumter, and in 1811 was admitted to the 
 bar. Richardson became attorney-general very soon, 
 and moved to Charleston. Mir. Miller thus succeeded al- 
 most at once to this practice, and he had a large law busi- 
 ness also in Camden, settling, however, in Stateburg, 
 where the Smnter District records were kepii. Entering 
 the political field, Mr. Miller was elected to Congress in 
 1816 by an overwhelming vote. Owing to his wife's 
 illness, he declined to stand for re-election. In 1822 
 he re-entered politics, and was elected to the State Sen- 
 ate, and at this term he introduced "the resolutions 
 which first laid the foundations of the States Right 
 Party." His colleague in the House, William Smith, 
 joining with him, the two were largely responsible for 
 this principle, which soon ruled in the State. He was 
 Chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate, 
 and continued to serve in that body until he was elected 
 Governor, 1828. As Governor he was the leader in the 
 Nullification movement and his speeches and debates 
 shaped public opinion. Not eligible for re-election as 
 Governor in 1830, he was elected to the United States 
 Senate. Poor health compelled him to resign as Sena- 
 
42 ANCESTEAIi ReCOEDS AND PORTRAITS 
 
 tor in November, 1833. During his two years of serv- 
 ice, however, he highly distinguished himself. 
 
 In 1828 he removed to " Plane Hill," now called " The 
 Terraces," only a short distance from " Pleasant Hill," 
 the home of Burwell Boykin, a few miles south of 
 Camden. He bought a plantation in the State of Mis- 
 sissippi in 1855, moving there with his family and a large 
 number of slaves. He showed as a planter the same en- 
 ergy and ability that he had displayed at the bar and in 
 pohtics. But his life was nearly closed, for he died at the 
 home of his nephew. Major Charles Hart, Raymond, 
 Miss., on March 8, 1838. At this time, unfortunately, 
 his family were in Camden, on a visit. 
 
 His portrait, painted after his health was impaired, 
 is in the possession of his grandson, Stephen Miller Wil- 
 liams. There is also a letter written July 23, 1835, to 
 his daughter Mary, giving a sketch of his family. 
 Numerous quotations from it have been made in this 
 article. 
 
 He was twice married, first, 1814, to Elizabeth Dick, 
 of Sumter, who died 1819; second, May 9, 1821, to 
 Mary, the daughter of Burwell and Mary (Whitaker) 
 Boykin, who was born March 3, 1804, and died Feb- 
 ruary 9, 1885. She was one of a large family of at 
 least sixteen children, the favorite sister, and the dearly 
 beloved aunt of the next generation. Issue, first wife : 
 
 Elias Dick, who died in 1832 in his sophomore year at 
 college ; John Richardson, and William Smith, who both 
 died young. 
 
 Issue, second wife: 
 
 Mary Boykin, married General James Chesnut, the 
 son and heir of Colonel James Chesnut. No children. 
 During the Civil War she kept a journal, parts of which 
 have been published under the title, A Diary from 
 
Ancestbal Records and Portkaits 43 
 
 Dixie. She adopted David Rogerson Williams III., 
 her nephew, who inherited the personal effects of Col- 
 onel and General Chesnut. 
 
 Stephen Decatur, Jr., married Martha Whitaker 
 Boykin. 
 
 Katherine Boykin Miller^ married David Rogerson 
 Williams II. 
 
 Sarah Amelia, married Thomas Edward Boykin, the 
 son of Samuel and Fitzgerald (Ross) Boykin. 
 
 WHITE 
 
 The colonists, Moses White, Mary Campbell his 
 wife, and their son William, came from the North of 
 Ireland to Lancaster County, Pa., and were the pro- 
 genitors of the White family of Lancaster County, 
 S. C.^ Originally from the west of Scotland, the family 
 was one of many with similar descent, who came to 
 America, not far from the middle of the eighteenth 
 century. They were all strict Presbyterians. Moses 
 White had a patent of land in Lancaster County, Pa., 
 1741. 
 
 As early as 1722 one Hugh White lived in Lancaster 
 County, and was a man of note. There were also 
 Moses, John, and Alexander White. Other White 
 families moved south about 1750; some remained in 
 North Carolina, and others passed over into South 
 Carolina. Lancaster County, in this State, received its 
 name because of the many settlers who came from the 
 same county in Pennsylvania. The upper part of this 
 southern State owed much to the White family, who 
 were most active in regard to its settlement and who 
 proved to be excellent men of affairs and noteworthy 
 in their day. 
 
 2 William and Mary College Quar., Vol. vi, p. 52. 
 
44 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 So far as is known, there were six children of Moses 
 White, all sons, William, Joseph, Moses, Henry, Hugh, 
 and Stephen, the youngest, who went to the western 
 part of North Carolina and had a large family. 
 
 The eldest child of the family, William White, had a 
 grant of land in Lancaster County, which he sold in 
 1749. He then moved to the Waxhaws, S. C, and died 
 
 there. He married Sarah . Ramsey's History of 
 
 South Carolina says she died in 1806, at the age of 
 ninety. But Governor Stephen Decatur Miller, who 
 was bom in 1788, says that she lived until he was about 
 ten years of age. Issue: 
 
 Jean, married Major Robert Crawford of Revolu- 
 tionary fame. 
 
 Hugh, married Mary, the daughter of Joseph White. 
 
 Margaret, married Jesse Miller, and they were the 
 parents of Governor Stephen Decatur Miller. 
 
 Isabella, married Andrew Foster. 
 
 Christiana, married James Crawford, Jr., a first 
 cousin of Andrew Jackson, who persuaded them to 
 move to Tennessee, where they left a large family. 
 
 John, married, first, Nancy Ann Foster; second, Mar- 
 garet Harper. 
 
 Moses married Jane Miller. 
 
 , a daughter, married Captain John McClure; 
 
 killed at Hanging Rock, 1780. 
 
 BOYKIN 
 
 The first of the Boyldns in America, Edward Boy- 
 kin, received a grant of land in Isle of Wight County, 
 Va., 1685, this portion now being called Southampton 
 County. In 1713, 1715, and 1724, he received other 
 grants of land in the same locaKty. Edward Boykin 
 died about 1728, leaving a wife named Ann, a son 
 
Ancestrai^ Recouds and Portraits 45 
 
 John, and "other children." His will was written 
 January 4, 1725-26, and was probated May 27, 1728, 
 his wife Ann and his son John being appointed exe- 
 cutors. John died early in 1729, his inventoiy being 
 filed on May 5. A report of Edward's estate was filed 
 September 28, 1730, by his executor (not named) ; and 
 the estate was closed on February 22, 1730-31, by Ed- 
 ward Boykin, Sr. {i. e., Edward Boykin, of North Caro- 
 lina) . In various deeds Edward refers to his sons Wil- 
 liam and Thomas. Issue, as far as known: John, 
 through whom this line descends; Edward; Thomas; 
 William, and possibly others. 
 
 The eldest son, John Boykin, whose inventory was 
 filed May 5, 1729, died in Isle of Wight County, intes- 
 tate, and therefore the names of his children are not 
 known. The evidence of wills, land transfers, etc., 
 shows that he had issue (probably among others) : 
 
 Francis, through whom this line descends. 
 
 Edward, married Mary (issue: Jesse, who mar- 
 ried Sarah , and was living in Edgecomb County, 
 
 N. C, in 1769) . 
 
 The eldest known son, Francis Boykin, was bom in 
 Isle of Wight County, Va., and lived and died in 
 Northampton County, N. C, where his will is dated 
 August 1, and recorded in September, 1761. On Au- 
 gust 3, 1727, he bought two hundred and forty acres on 
 the south side of the Meherrin River in North Carolina 
 from James Turner, and probably moved there soon 
 after. There are numerous deeds to him. and by him, 
 and his wife Sarah; several of these last are to Richard 
 and Arthur Wall. Sarah was the second wife of Fran- 
 cis Boykin, as there is on record a deed in Northampton 
 County, 1748, in which Francis Boykin and Millicent, 
 his wife, deed to John Boykin two hundred and ninety 
 
46 Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 acres, which had been granted Simon Bryant Novem- 
 ber, 1723 ; William BoyKin being a witness to the deed. 
 In the will of Francis Boykin he refers to "wife and 
 four children," son Jphn Boykin, daughter MUdred 
 Wall, son-in-law William Pace, and grandsons Samuel 
 and Francis Boykin. Further, on December 13, 1766, 
 "Robert Willjams, of Craven County, and William 
 Pace and Selah Pace and Richard Wall and Mildred 
 Wall, of the Province of North Carolina, and of North- 
 ampton County," for " the true love and natural affec- 
 tion " which they bore John Boykin, deeded to him their 
 parts of two tracts of land, one of old patent taken up 
 by James Turner, the other of new patent taken up by 
 Francis Boykin, "on the south side of the Cypress 
 swamp in North Carolina and Northampton County." 
 It is known that WiUiam Boykin, who moved to South 
 Carolina about 1755, had a son Samuel and that there 
 was a Francis (later major in the Revolution) living 
 at this time. The latter's father was probably Francis 
 Boykin, Jr. The issue, therefore, of Francis Boykin 
 is as follows: 
 
 Francis, Jt. 
 
 John, married Sarah Wall ( ?) . 
 
 WiEiam, through whom this line descends. 
 
 Mildred, married Richard Wall. 
 
 Selah (Celia?), married WilUam Pace. 
 
 A daughter, married Robert Williams. 
 
 The third son, William Boykin, was born in North- 
 ampton County, N. C, and died in Camden, S. C, be- 
 fore 1761. He married Elizabeth Bryant. Issue: 
 
 Samuel /^ whose granddaughter married John Nicho- 
 las Williams). 
 
 BURWEIX. 
 
 Francis, married Catherine Whitaker. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 47 
 
 William. 
 
 Amelia, married Thomas Pace, and moved to Georgia 
 with her brother Francis, and died there at an advanced 
 age. Her name was originally Mildred, 
 
 John, married, first, Starke; second, Frances 
 
 Inman. 
 
 The eldest son, Samuel Boykin, was a man of great 
 strength and size, as well as of sterling character. He 
 took an active part in the pubhc hfe of Camden, after 
 the Revolution. Before the war, he had been one of 
 the " Regulators," and a leader among them, who were 
 administering justice in the days when there were no 
 courts outside of Charleston. He went as a Delegate 
 to the Provincial Congress of 1775, and belonged to 
 the committee who were to carry into execution the Con- 
 tinental Association. In 1776 he was Justice of the 
 Peace for the Orangeburg District, and Commissioner 
 of Elections October, 1778. He commanded a com- 
 pany of Catawba Indians in the Revolution " and did 
 notable service."^ When this company disbanded, as 
 it did at times. Captain Boykin served under Taylor 
 and Sumter. He was a Commissioner for clearing the 
 Wateree and an inspector and collector for the district 
 " to the eastward of the Wateree 1784," and Commis- 
 sioner to open and improve the Wateree 1791. He pre- 
 sided as one of the judges at the first session of the 
 County Court, February 28, 1791. December of that 
 year he was injured by blows from some ruffians who 
 encamped on his land, and died in consequence. His 
 
 wife was Elizabeth, the daughter of John and _ 
 
 (Bryan) Inman, of Virginia. (She married, second, 
 Thomas Brown.) Issue: 
 
 s There are numerous references to this in the Minutes of the Coun- 
 cil of Safety. See Historic Camden, pp. 116-130. 
 
48 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Burwell, died in college, aged eighteen. 
 
 Sarah, married General Zachariah Cantey. 
 
 Elizabeth, married John Dick Witherspoon, and their 
 daughter married John Nicholas Williams. 
 
 Mary, burnt to death in childhood. 
 
 Burwell Boykin, the second son of William, was 
 bom 1752. In 1775 he was appointed on the " Com- 
 mittee of Observation" for St David's Parish,* and 
 took an active part in the Revolution, serving under 
 Marion, Sumter, and others, and, according to his 
 daughter Charlotte, was a Lieutenant in his brother 
 Francis' Company of Militia. In 1777 he was a Com- 
 missoner of roads on the east side of the Wateree. In 
 1790 burwell Boykin was a Member of the State Legis- 
 lature. He was a most successful planter, and acquired 
 an immense area of land south of Camden. In his will 
 he says : " On no pretext whatever . . . must any 
 portion of my land be sold.'' A great deal of his prop- 
 erty is still in the possession of his grandsons. In 1812 
 he built his house at Pleasant Hill, still the home of his 
 descendants. His nephew, Dr. Edward M. Boykin, in 
 his sketch, A Record of the BoyMns, describes the Hfe 
 at Pleasant Hill : " The stables full of horses, kennels 
 filled with hounds, rooms filled with guests." In 1774 
 he was a Vestryman of St. David's Parish. 
 
 In 1782 he married Elizabeth Whitaker, born Sep- 
 tember 7, 1760, and died October 2, 1787, the daughter 
 of William Whitaker; and after her death he married, 
 1792, her sister, Mary Whitaker, born December 5, 
 1776, and died October 7, 1838. She is said to have 
 been a strikingly handsome woman, tall and slender, of 
 a strong character and marked influence. After her 
 husband's death, in 1817, she maintained his house at 
 
 * Gregg's Old Cheraws, p. 227. 
 
Ancestual Recobds and Poetkaits 49 
 
 Pleasant Hill as a home for her family, and a centre of 
 hospitality. Burwell Boykin's tombstone says, "He 
 was the father of eleven sons and seven daughters." 
 Of this large family, the names of sixteen are known. 
 Issue, first wife: 
 
 BurweU. 
 
 Francis, married Mary James. 
 
 Elizabeth, married Henry Starke Hunter. 
 
 Issue, second wife: 
 
 Katherine, married William Wyly Lang. 
 
 Samuel, married Fitzgerald Glover Ross. 
 
 Jiohn, died unmarried; he was graduated from the 
 South Carolina College in 1814; at his own expense 
 he built the present Baptist church at Boykin, near 
 Camden; he died on his knees in the church, and is bvu-ied 
 in front of it under a large oak tree. 
 
 Thomas, married, first, EKza Boykin, and second, 
 Amanda Starke. 
 
 Lemuel Whitaker, married Mary Enghsh Hopkins. 
 
 Amelia, married Dr. John McCaa. 
 
 Mary, married Stephen Decatur Miller. 
 
 Sarah, married WiUiam Claiborne Clifton. 
 
 Elizabeth TunstaU, married Thomas Jefferson With- 
 ers. 
 
 Burwell, Jr., married Sally Wyly Lang. 
 
 William Whitaker, married Martha Whitaker Rives. 
 
 Alexander Hamilton, married Sarah Jones DeSaus- 
 sure. 
 
 Charlotte, married James Madison Taylor. 
 
 WHITAKER 
 
 AaMa: Sable, three mascles, argent. 
 
 Crest: Art arm in mail armour, the hand grasjnnff a flaming sword, 
 proper. 
 
 The Whitaker family, associated with the Jamestown 
 
50 Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 
 
 settlement in Virginia, is descended from the Rev. Wil- 
 liam Whitaker, who was master of St. John College, 
 Cambridge. He was born 1548, and died December 4, 
 1595; married first, Miss Culverwell; second, the widow 
 of Dudley Fenner. The most famous puritan divine 
 in the Church of England of his day, he was distin- 
 guished as a scholar and preacher. His library was so 
 large and well selected that at his death Queen Eliza- 
 beth desired to purchase it.^ He belonged to the family 
 of Whitaker of Holme, Lancashire. His pedigree is 
 as follows : 
 
 Thomas Whitaker, of Holme, 1431. 
 
 Robert Whitaker, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Quitacre, aged thirty-four in 1492 ; died 1529. 
 
 Richard Whitacre, of Hohne, living at Burnley 1543. 
 
 Thomas Whitaker, buried August 22, 1598; married 
 1530, Elizabeth Nowell (buried October 18, 1606), 
 daughter of John Nowell, of Read, Esq., and Eliza- 
 beth Kay. 
 
 Their third son, the Rev. WiUiam Whitaker, a sketch 
 of whom has already been given, had issue (order of 
 birth not known) : 
 
 Alexander, unmarried; called "The Apostle to the 
 Indians," and was minister at Bermuda Hundred, Va., 
 etc. 
 
 William. 
 
 Richard, a learned bookseller and printer of London. 
 
 Samuel. 
 
 Susanna, married Lothrup. 
 
 Marie, married Clarke. 
 
 Frances. 
 
 5 An excellent sketch of his life is given in History of the Original 
 Parish of Whalley, p. 467, London, 1806, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, 
 and also in the National Dictionary of Biography. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 51 
 
 Jabez Whitaker, from whom this line is descended, 
 born shortly after his father's death, which occurred 
 December 4, 1595, married Mary, the daughter of Sir 
 John Bourchier.* "He emigrated to the Jamestown 
 colony, Va. In the records of the Virginia Company 
 for 1620 and 1621 there are interesting references to 
 him. Thus, under date of June 23, 1620: 
 
 " Hee haveinge receaved notice of the good carriage 6f 
 some psonns in Virginia was specially to recomend unto 
 them one m' labez Whittakers Leivetennat of the Com- 
 panies men who had given a good Accoumpt of the trust 
 reposed in him."^ And again: "Ffor so much as itt 
 appeared y* m' Whittakers had obeyed the Companies 
 orders in buildinge a Guesthouse for entertaynment of 
 Sicke psonns and for y' releife and comforte of such 
 cases as came weake from Sea and had aUso begunn to 
 plant vines, Corne and such good Comodities and rayled 
 in 100 Acres of ground, itt was moved y' the Court 
 would please to bestowe some reward oppon him for his 
 better encourragment in soe good a course. Where- 
 oppo itt was agreed and ordered that hee should have 
 two boyes sent him when the Comp* shalbe able and 
 that the reward of Tobacco allowed him by the Gov- 
 ernor of Virginia shall be confirmed onto him." ® 
 
 Bruce ® says that this reference to Jabez Whitaker's 
 railed land is the first evidence of the use of the " rail 
 fence" now so well known. He was a Member of the 
 House of Burgesses, which met March 5, 1623-1624, 
 
 8 P. O. C. Admen. Act. Book, 1626. " 5 April, 1626, commission 
 granted to Mary Bourchier, alias Whitaker, wife of Jabez Whitaker, 
 daughter of Sir John Bourchier, late of the Parish of Lambeth, County 
 Surrey, deceased, to administer the goods of the said deceased. Dame 
 Elizabeth Bourchier, relict of the said deceased having renounced." 
 
 ■! Recs. of the Va. Co., Vol. i, p. 370. 
 
 «Ibid, pp. S08, 513. 
 
 » Economic Hist of Va., Vol. i, p. 316. 
 
52 Ancestral Records and Poetbaits 
 
 and a member of the Council 1626. He had at least 
 one child, as is shown by the following quotation: ^ 
 June 19, 1622, " Sir John Bourchier's request by let- 
 ter for his Sonn Whittakers returne f or England who 
 (as he saith) intendeth not to staye here any longer 
 from his wife and child, whome he means to leave be- 
 hinde him, than he can furnish himselfe with neces- 
 saries.'"' Issue, as far as known, one son: 
 
 Captain William Whitaker, born in England, 
 and died in Virginia after 1662.* His name first ap- 
 pears as " Viewer of Tobacco Crops," Warwick River 
 County, 1639. From 1649 to 1659 he was a member of 
 the House of Burgesses at all its meetings from James 
 City County. He served on several of its most impor- 
 tant committees. In 1659 he was a member of the 
 Council. He is referred to as Lieutenant-Colonel, 1655, 
 and as Captain 1658, and later.* There are land-grants 
 to him in James City County, June 5, 1656,, ninety 
 acres ; and March 16, 1662, ninety acres. He is referred 
 to as an early resident of Martin's Hundred, and as 
 sponsor for Edward Thruston's son, December, 1668. 
 A William Whitaker is granted four hundred acres, 
 part in James City County and part in York Count5% 
 April 20, 1680. Issue, as far as known, one son: 
 
 Richard Whitaker, who received a grant of land 
 in James City County, one hundred and thirty-five 
 acres, October 28, 1666, and stood " Sponsor (for an- 
 other) for Edward Thruston's son, December, 1668, in 
 company of William Whitaker." He held many pub- 
 lic ofiices', being a member of the House of Burgesses, 
 
 iBecs. of Va. Co., Vol. il, p. SO. 
 
 2 Neill's Va. Co. of London, p. SsSl. Stith's Hist, of Va., Sabin's Be- 
 print, p. 205. 
 
 3 Stanard's Ool. Va. Bees. 
 
 4 Ibid, and Bering's Statutes, Vol. i. 
 
Ancesteal Recoeds and Poetraits 53 
 
 November, 1685, 1688; April, 1691, and September, 
 1696, from Warwick County; a civil and military •offi- 
 cer of Warwick Ck)unty, 1680, and Sheriff of Warwick 
 County, 1696. In 1676 he was denounced by Nathaniel 
 Bacon as being one of the supporters of Governor 
 Berkeley. 
 
 As far as known, Richard Whitaker had but one 
 child, Jolm Whitaker, who lived with his family in 
 Warwick County, where he died before 1750, as in that 
 year his widow, Martha (Gough) Whitaker, married 
 John Drewry. About this time John Whitaker's seven 
 sons aU moved to North CaroUna. The order of their 
 birth is unknown.^ 
 
 Richard, married Elizabeth Oary. 
 
 Gough, married Martha Gary. 
 
 John, married Olive Taylor. 
 
 Robert, married Sarah . 
 
 James, married Mary . 
 
 William. 
 
 Dudley. 
 
 Martha, married Thomas Cary, Jr. 
 
 The sixth child of this family, William Whitaker, 
 was bom in Warwick County. He went to North 
 Carolina, and later to South Carolina, where he obtained 
 some large land grants north of the city of Camden. 
 His will was recorded September 18, 1789, and he must 
 have died before May 19, 1789, when " power to admin- 
 ister oath to executors was granted," these being his 
 sons Thomas and Lemuel, and his nephews, Willis and 
 
 B " In a, deed to Dudley Whdtaker (who was living in 1791), the order 
 of the brothers' names is: Richard, John, William, James, Gough, Rob- 
 ert, but in a letter of Mrs. Sands, a granddaughter of Richard, she gives 
 the names in the following order: John, Robert, Richard. W5Uiam, 
 Gough, James, Dudley." 
 
54 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 James Whitaker. His large estate included forty ne- 
 groes 
 
 His will names a wife " Mary," and therefore he must 
 have been married twice, for the mother of most of his 
 thirteen children was Catherine, the daughter of John 
 and Catherine (Baker) Wiggins. John Wiggins was 
 bom in Surrey County, Va., but moved to HaUfax 
 County, N. C. His wife Catherine, whom he married 
 before 1720, was a daughter of Henry Baker and his 
 wife, Angelica Bray. Issue of William Whitaker: 
 
 Bythel. 
 
 William, died unmarried. 
 
 Richard, died. 
 
 Martha, married Colonel John Blanton. 
 
 Elizabeth, married Burwell Boykin. 
 
 Thomas, married Mary Williams. 
 
 Catherine Baker, married Alexander Irvin. 
 
 Robert, died early. 
 
 Margaret. 
 
 Lemuel, married Elizabeth Brown. 
 
 Winifred, married Morse ( ?) . 
 
 Edward, died young. 
 
 Mary, married Burwell Boykin, as his second wife; 
 their daughter Mary married Stephen Decatur MUler, 
 whose second daughter, Katharine Boykin, married 
 David Bogerson Williams II. 
 
 BAKER 
 
 Lieutenant- Colonel Henry Baker, of Isle of 
 Wight County, Va., had a prominent career between the 
 years 1685 and 1705; a member of the House of Bur- 
 gesses, Justice, Major of Militia and Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel. His will was probated in the summer of 1712. He 
 was the son of Henry Baker, of Surrey County, who 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 55 
 
 was a leading citizen and espoused the cause of Bacon. 
 The elder Baker's will was probated in 1700. Colonel 
 Baker's son: 
 
 Henry Baker, Sheriff at Nansemond, and a mem- 
 ber of the House of Burgesses, married Angelica Bray. 
 Their daughter Catherine married John Wiggins, whose 
 daughter Catherine married William Whitdker. 
 
 WILLIAMS {Continued) 
 
 Mary Boykin, the daughter of David Rogerson and 
 Katharine Boykin (Miller) Williams, was born May 
 18, 1851. She married, first, November 16, 1869, 
 Thomas Bullitt Harrison; second, September 14, 1899, 
 Joseph Sweetman Ames. Her daughter by her first 
 husband, Katharine Williams, married, first, Gough 
 Winn Thompson; second, Frank GambriU Baldwin. 
 
 The third child and eldest son of David Rogerson 
 Williams, Stephen Miller Williams, was bom January 
 29, 1853. He married, first, February 25, 1878, Jane 
 North Pettigrew; second, October 29, 1895, Mrs. Annie 
 Caroline (Randolph) Rozier. Issue, first wife: Se- 
 rena Chesnut, born February 7, 1879; married, No- 
 vember 23, 1909, Robert Mickle Miles. 
 
 The eldest child of John Witherspoon and Augusta 
 Rebecca (Howell) Williams, Alice Stockton Williams, 
 was born December 18, 1861. She married, in April, 
 1885, Charles D. Gaither. Their daughter is Nina 
 Williams Gaither. 
 
 Mary Boykin Williams Ames. 
 
 Katharine Williams Harrison Baldwin. 
 
 Serena Chesnut Williams Miles. 
 
 Nina Williams Gaither. 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
56 Ancesteal Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 III 
 HARRISON 
 
 The Harrisons of Dorchester County, Md., are 
 descended from Christopher Harrison, of Appleby, 
 Eng., whose wife, Mary, the daughter of John CaUe, 
 of England, was born October 7, 1716, and died Au- 
 gust 2, 1782. He was born November 17, 1717, died 
 February 6, 1799, and is buried with his wife, in St. 
 Lawrence church, Appleby. He was the son of Chris- 
 topher and Jan? (Gilpin?) Harrison. The elder Chris- 
 topher died 1733. Although it cannot be substantiated, 
 it is thought he was the grandson of Mr. Christopher 
 Harrison, by whom there is an inscription on a choir 
 seat, in the parish church at Brough.^ 
 
 Two of the sons of Christopher and Mary (Caile) 
 Harrison, Robert^ and John Caile Harrison, came to 
 Maryland shortly after 1750, and settled in Cambridge, 
 where their uncle, John Caile, was already living. 
 Governor Sharpe, under date of March, 1755,* men- 
 tions having received a letter from Mr. Hanbury in 
 London, by the hand of Robert Harrison. The latter 
 brought with him letters from Sir Thomas Abdy, and 
 others in authority, asking Governor Sharpe to appoint 
 him to office " on account of his alhance." The only 
 office in Dorchester County at the disposal of the Gov- 
 ernor in 1760, when this request was renewed, was that 
 of sheriff, and he could not appoint Mr. Harrison to 
 this, because John Caile already held the office. 
 
 1 Mr. Chrisr. Harrison Parochuset Rectoriae Primarius S. S. fieri 
 fecit Deo O. M., etc., 1682." 
 
 2 Jones' Hist. Dorchester County, 
 
 3 Correspondence, Vol. I, p. 185. 
 
Ancesteal Records and Portraits 57 
 
 Finally, in March, 1767, the Governor appointed 
 " Mr. Robert Harrison, Merchant, of Cambridge," to 
 succeed to the office of sheriff at Martinmass of that 
 year. Robert Harrison was a delegate to the Conven- 
 tion of June, 1774, a member of the " Association of 
 Freemen of Maryland," in July, 1775; a Justice 1777 
 to 1781, and 1783; Judge of the Fourth Judicial Dis- 
 trict 1791 ; Colonel in the Continental Army, appointed 
 May 20, 1778, and reappointed in February, 1781, and 
 a Trustee of the poor 1785. He died in 1802, aged 
 sixty-two. His wife, Milcah, the daughter of George 
 and Elizabeth (Airey) Gale, was born June 20, 1751, 
 dying in 1780. Their son, Christopher Harrison, was 
 the first Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana. One of his 
 daughters, Elizabeth, married Andrew Skinner, of 
 " Fair View," Talbot County, Md., from whom are 
 descended the families of Henry C. Tilghman, and 
 Henry R. Wilson, of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 
 
 John Caile Harrison^ another son of Christopher 
 and Mary (Caile) Harrison, who came to Maryland 
 with his brother, was born September 3, 1747, and died 
 November 8, 1780. He was Register of Wills for 
 some years, and then became Clerk of the Court of 
 Dorchester County, from 1777 to 1780. At the begin- 
 ning of the Revolution, on the organization of the Com- 
 mittee of Observation of the county, he was one of its 
 members, and elected to be its clerk. In September, 
 1776, he was appointed an Ensign in one of the com- 
 panies of the 19th Battalion. According to family 
 traditions, he was so incapacitated by the hardships of 
 the campaign, ending in the winter at Valley Forge, 
 that he was invalided home, and soon after died. 
 
 He married, November 18, 1773, his first cousin, 
 Mary ("Polly"), the daughter of Hall and Elizabeth 
 
58 ANCESTRAL ReCOKDS AND POKTEAITS 
 
 (Haskins) Caile. She was born September 10, 1756, 
 and died February 24, 1812. (She married, second, 
 Thomas James Bullitt, who died November ,25, 1840, 
 aged seventy-seven. She had three children by her 
 second marriage, Thomas, d. s. p.; Elizabeth Haskins, 
 married William' Hayward, and Alexander C, who 
 married Mary Dennison.) John Caile and Mary Har- 
 rison had three children: 
 
 Hall 
 
 Hannah, born ISTovember 20, 1777; died, vmmarried, 
 November 4, 1799. 
 
 William, born July 7, 1780; died November 29, 1827. 
 
 CAILE 
 
 The Caile family, once so prominent, in Dorchester 
 County, Md., but where thtf name is now extinct, was 
 of Swiss origin, it is said, and descended from John 
 Caile of Howgate Foot, Westmoreland County, Eng.* 
 He had nine children, of whom: three were connected 
 with families in Ajmerica, viz.: 
 
 Haix. 
 
 Mary, married Christopher Harrison. 
 
 John, Jr., came to Cambridge, Md., where he was 
 clerk of the court from 1745 until his death in 1767. 
 He married Rebecca, the daughter of Henry and Mary 
 (Hooper) Ennalls.' She was born July 26, 1717, and 
 died August 28, 1750. 
 
 Hall Caile was born May 28, 1733, in England, 
 
 * The will of "John Caile; Gent," was written Sept. 27, 1T46, and proved 
 in May, 1747. The will of his wife Margaret (Hall?) was written Mar. 
 17, 1746-7, and proved May 37, 1747. 
 
 5 For a history of the Ennalls family see Baltimore S«n, issue of May 
 6, 1906. 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Poetraits 59 
 
 and died January 3, 1761. He was High Sheriff of 
 Dorchester County, Md., from 1758 until his death. 
 He married, Jvme 2, 1754, Elizabeth, the daughter of 
 Thomas and Mary (Loockerman) Haskins. She was 
 bom May 25, 1733, and died November 3, 1805. They 
 had three children: 
 
 Mary, married John Caile Harrison. 
 
 Margaret Hall, was born March 15, 1759, and died 
 July 2, 1826 ; she married, February 16, 1777, Gustavus 
 Scott. 
 
 John Hall, was born August 14, 1761 ; died February 
 14, 1783.« 
 
 LOOCKERMAN, OR LOCKERMAN 
 
 This family was represented in New Amsterdam by 
 three brothers, Jacob, Pieter and Gotert, a sister Anne- 
 ker, and Balthus, who was possibly a cousin.''. 
 
 The elder, Jacob, married Tryntje , and settled 
 
 where now is the city of Albany, as early as 1657- 
 Pieter was at New Amsterdam in 1642, but in 1656 he 
 was living at Albany. Anneker probably came to New 
 Amsterdam in November, 1641, with her brother Gov- 
 ert, on his return to America. She married, February 
 26, 1642, Oloff Stephenszen van Cortlandt, the progeni- 
 tor of that well-known family. She died May 14, 1684. 
 Balthus married, about 1660, Engeltje Hendricks. 
 
 GovERT LoocKERMANS was born in Turnhout, a vil- 
 lage about twenty-five miles from Antwerp, about the 
 year 1616. He came to New Amsterdam in April, 
 1633, sailing from Holland with the Director-General, 
 Wouter Van Twiller, in the ship Souther g (Salt Moun- 
 
 « Jones' Hittory of Dorchester Covnty. 
 
 T iV. T. Hist, and Biog. Beg. VIII, pp. 11-16. The Dupuy Family. 
 
60 Ancesteai, Records and Portraits 
 
 tain), but on the voyage they captured a Spanish cara- 
 vel, the St. Martin, to which Loockermans was trans- 
 ferred and on which he reached New Amsterdam. 
 Upon his arrival, he was taken into the service of the 
 West India Company, but soon left and engaged in 
 business for himself. He returned to Holland 1640, 
 where he married in Amsterdam, February 26, 1641, 
 Ariaentje Jans. They returned to New Amsterdam, 
 on the ship Conick Davit (King David) , by way of St. 
 Christopher, arriving November 29, 1641. Their eld- 
 est daughter, Maria, was born on the voyage. 
 
 He bought the bark Good Hope, in 1642, and en- 
 gaged in trade up the Hudson, along the Sound, and as 
 far as the Delaware River. He held many offices in 
 the colony, and was selected for many dangerous duties. 
 Thus, on the night of February 27, 1643, he and Maryn 
 Adriaensen, by order of Governor Kieft, led the at- 
 tack of a company of citizens upon a party of Indians, 
 which resulted in the massacre of the Indians. He was 
 on the board of " Nine Men," from. 1647 to 1650; In- 
 dian interpreter 1653; fire warden 1655; on the Council 
 of Schepens from 1657 to 1661; orphan master 1663 
 and 1664; a member of spepial commissions frequently, 
 and in July, 1670, Lieutenant of a Company of Foot. 
 He was deputed, with two others, in 1664, to arrange a 
 treaty of peace with the Mohawks, and at one time he 
 was in command of an armed vessel. He took a lead- 
 ing part in politics, was banished three times and as 
 often recalled. He carried on an extensive commerce 
 with Europe as his trading and shipping operations 
 grew. The site of his house was on the present Han- 
 over Square. 
 
 " He possessed a superior education for the times in 
 which he lived. Bold, adventurous, enterprising, not 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 61 
 
 much troubled with scruples either in his trading inter- 
 course with the Indians or the more extensive traffic in 
 which he afterwards engaged with the Netherlands, he 
 amassed a large fortune, and was, at his death, probably 
 the weathiest citizen in New York." 
 
 It is recorded that Govert Aertsen, a small trader, 
 was obliged to carry, in 1648, for his better protection 
 when visiting the Connecticut settlements, a certificate 
 from the magistrates of New Amsterdam, that he was 
 not Govert Loockermans, for the latter " was a thorn 
 to the English, who hated him for his influence over 
 the Indians and his success among them." 
 
 His wife dying, he married, second, July 11, 1649, 
 Marritje Jansen, the daughter of TVyn Jansen, and 
 sister of Anneke Jans (of Trinity church fame) .® He 
 was her third husband, and in 1666, when he became a 
 resident of Long Island, living near New Utrecht, his 
 wife remained in New Amsterdam, where she kept a 
 shop, a custom not uncommon with the prosperous 
 Dutch settlers. He died in the fall of 1670. His 
 Bible is now in the possession of the American Bible 
 Society. He had two children by first wife, viz.: 
 
 Marritje, born November 3, 1641 (baptized Dec. 1), 
 married, November 12, 1664, Balthazar Bayard, son of 
 Samuel Bayard and Anna Stuyvesant. 
 
 Jannetie, born September 23, 1643 (baptized Sep- 
 tember 27), married, February 12, 1667, Dr. Hans 
 Kierstede, the son of Dr. Hans and Sara (Roelofs) 
 Kierstede. 
 
 Issue, second wife, an only child: 
 
 Jacob Loockerman^ who was born in New Amster- 
 dam 1652, being baptized March 17. In 1678, he was 
 
 8 See Anneke Jans Borgachis and her Farm, Harper's Monthly Mag. 
 Vol. LXX, p. 836; or Schuyler's Colonial New York. 
 
62 Akcestral Records and Poeteaits 
 
 obliged to leave New Amsterdam, on account of politi- 
 cal difficulties. He applied to the General Assembly 
 of Maryland for naturalization, and evidently lived 
 for some time in St. Mary's County, but about 1681, he 
 moved to Dorchester County, where he lived until his 
 death.® He was educated as a physician, but appar- 
 ently gave himself almost entirely to public life. He 
 was a Commissioner of lands 1683, 1686 and 1706; 
 Justice, 1685 to 1688, 1690, 1691, and 1702 to 1709; 
 High Sheriif from 1694 to 1696; a member of the 
 Assembly 1689, 1692, and from 1698 to 1704; a mili- 
 tary officer 1696, and later, being in succession Major, 
 Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel. He married, Janu- 
 ary 29, 1677-78, Helena Ketin. She died about 1699, 
 and he married, second, one whom he named " Dorathy," 
 in his will. Issue, seven children, the two elder being 
 Jacob and Govert. 
 
 The eldest son, Jacob Loockerman, Jr., was the clerk 
 of various committees of the General Assembly, 1699 
 to 1701, High Sheriff 1701, Justice 1709, etc. One 
 Jacob Loockerman was also a Justice in V710, from 1712 
 to 1718, 1721, 1723, 1724 and 1725; and a Jacob Lock- 
 erman, "son of Jacob Lockerman," was Sheriff from 
 1728 to 1730. 
 
 Govert Loockerman II., was born in Dor- 
 chester County, Md., about 1681, and died before 
 July, 1729. He was High Sheriff of Dorchester 
 County, 1707 and 1708; Clerk of the Court 1710, and 
 from 1716 to 1720; Commissioner of public schools; on 
 the board of visitors of King William school at Annap- 
 olis (later St. John's College), and a member of the 
 Assembly, from 1712 to 1714. He married Sarah, the 
 
 9 Jones' History of Dorchester County. In Vincent's History of Dela- 
 ■ware, this is given as Aug. 17, 1730. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 63 
 
 daughter of Roger and Mary (Denwood) Woolford. 
 She was bom March 8, 1672. There were five children: 
 Govert, Jacob, Sarah, Elizabeth and Mary. 
 
 The youngest daughter, Mary, was twice married; 
 first in 1728 to Thomas Haskins (1699-1739?), who 
 came to America from Bristol, Eng.; and second, to 
 Joseph, the son of Henry and Mary (Hooper) Ennalls, 
 who was bom July 19, 1709, and died in October, 1756. 
 Issue, first husband: William, Joseph, and Elizabeth, 
 who married Hall Caile. Issue, second marriage, 
 six children. 
 
 WOOLFORD 
 
 Roger Woolford came from England to the East- 
 ern Shore of Virginia about the middle of the seven- 
 teenth century, and soon after moved to Maryland. 
 His seat was " Manokin," Somerset County. He was 
 a Justice of his county, 1676, 1680, 1689, and 1694, and 
 a member of the Assembly 1671, 1674, 1675, 1678,1681, 
 and 1682. He died in 1701. 
 
 He married, March 1, 1661, in Hungars Parish, Va., 
 Mary, the daughter of Levin Denwood, Sr. (living 
 in Virginia before 1633, and dying some time after 
 1665), and his wife Mary. (See p. 149 for Den- 
 wood line.) Issue, seven children: Elizabeth, Rosanna, 
 Roger, Sarah, who married Govert Loockerman II., 
 Ann, James and Levin." 
 
 HARRISON (Continued) 
 
 The eldest son of John Caile and Mary (Caile) Har- 
 rison, Hall Harrison, was born in Cambridge, Md., 
 October 13, 1774, and died in Baltimore, September 3, 
 
 10 Jones' History of Dorchester County. 
 
64 Ancestbal Records and Portraits 
 
 1830, being biiried in St. Paul's cemetery. When a 
 youth he came to Baltimore and was apprenticed to 
 George Grundy as clerk, and was brought up in the 
 dry goods business. He lived in Mr. Grundy's family 
 imtU his majority, when he went to England, and vis- 
 ited relatives for two or three years. He returned to 
 America, married and lived in Baltimore iintil 1802 
 or 1803, when he moved to the Eastern Shore, and later 
 was elected cashier of the bank at Easton, Md. In 
 1810 he returned to Baltimore, and formed a partner- 
 ship with Govert Haskins in the iron business, on Bow- 
 ley's wharf. This was dissolved the next year, and 
 he formed a new one with Major Thomas Yates. On 
 the death of Major Yates, after a year or two, he en- 
 tered into business with Samuel Sterrett, under the 
 name " Harrison & Sterrett, Vendue Merchants." 
 
 He married, March 17, 1800, Elizabeth, the daugh- 
 ter of Robert and Elizabeth (Thompson) Gait, of Col- 
 eraine, Ireland. She was bom April 18, 1776, and 
 died March 2, 1863. She had come to America on a 
 visit to her uncle, Hugh Thompson, and was a lady of 
 means and high position.; Of! their twelve children, 
 four died in infancy. The surviving eight were as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 William Gilpin, married Anne Elizabeth Ross. 
 
 Thomas Bulhtt, died unmarried. 
 
 Mary Caile, married Thomas Oliver. 
 
 Hugh Thompson, married Eliza Catherine Thomp- 
 son. 
 
 John Caile. 
 
 Margaret Sprigg, died unmarried. 
 
 Samuel Thompson (1815-1857), a planter in Louis- 
 iana, married Emily, the daughter of Charles and Ehz- 
 abeth Hestia (Yard) Kuhn, of Philadelphia. They 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 65 
 
 had a daughter Emily, and a son Charles. The latter 
 married Louisa Triplett, the daughter of Boiling 
 Walker and Anne (Triplett) Haxall. Of their twelve 
 children, Anne Triplett Harbison, a Colonial 'Dame, 
 married George Somerville Jackson. ( See Haxall and 
 Triplett families.) 
 
 George Law, married first Jeannette Bathurst; sec- 
 ond, Helen Troup Davidge. 
 
 The fourth surviving son of Hall and Elizabeth 
 (Gait) Harrison, John Caile Harrison, was born March 
 3, 1812, and died June 9, 1859. He was a commission 
 merchant with his brothers, having their head office in 
 Baltimore, and branches in New Orleans and Vera 
 Cruz. For many years he was in charge of the New 
 Orleans branch, and while living there he married Sarah, 
 the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Hazard) Bar- 
 ker, and their five children were : John Caile, Thomas 
 Bullitt, Jacob Barker, William Gilpin, and Hall. 
 
 BARKER 
 
 This family, of Duxbury, Mass.," was founded in 
 America by Robert Barker, who was living in Massa- 
 chusetts before January 20, 1632, on which date "Rob- 
 ert Barker, servt. of John Thorp, complayned of his 
 Mr. for want of clothes. The complaint being found 
 just, it was ordered that Thorp should either foorth- 
 with apparell him or else make over his time to some 
 other that was able to provide for him." He was later 
 bound out as a carpenter's apprentice, and, as his time 
 was out in April, 1637, he was probably born 1616. In 
 1641, he with others, bought a ferry and some land at 
 Marshfield, and in 1643 he was a member of Lieutenant 
 
 11 Barker Family. By Barker Newhall, Ph.D. 
 
66 AKCESTRAii Records and Poktbaits 
 
 Nathaniel Thomas' military company in that town. He 
 was surveyor in Marshfield, 1645 and 1648, a constable 
 1646, and admitted Freeman 1654. About 1650 or 
 1655, he moved to Duxbury, where he was siuT^eyor for 
 many years. There is a tradition in the family that 
 he passed the first winter in Duxbury in a dugout, but 
 he prospered and left at his death, in 1691, an estate of 
 over £142. 
 
 He married Lucy Wilhams. The house he built 
 about 1650 at Pembroke, was standing until recently. 
 " The earliest portion of the structure was a single 
 room built of flat stones laid, in clay, and covered with a 
 shed roof. It was about twenty feet square, and only 
 six feet high, wjth a huge fireplace that took fully a 
 third of the side wall." It served as a garrison house 
 during King Philip's War, and for several generations 
 was a sort of tavern. Issue, five children: Robert, Jr., 
 Francis, Isaac, Abigail and Rebecca. 
 
 The third son, Isaac Barker, lived and died in Dux- 
 bury, where he was surveyor 1674, and constable 1687- 
 He married, December 28, 1665, Judith, the daughter 
 of Governor Thomas Prince (Prence) of Plymouth, 
 and his wife, Mary Collier. Issue, eleven children. 
 
 The eldest chUd of this family, Samuel Barker, was 
 born September 2, 1667, and died February 1, 1738-39. 
 He hved in Duxbury, where he was constable 1693, 
 but in 1714 he moved to Sandwich. He married first, 
 November 22, 1711, Deborah, the daughter, of John 
 and Mary (Perry) Wing, of Sandwich; second, Jan- 
 uary 21, 1718, Bethidh, the daughter of John and Mary 
 (Barnard) Folger of Nantucket. She was bom 1692 
 and died 1774. Issue, first wife, one daughter De- 
 borah; his second wife, had four children: Judith, 
 Robert, Samuel and Josiah. 
 
An CESTEAL Records and Portraits 67 
 
 The eldest son of this family, Robert Barker, was 
 born in Sandwich, Mass., February 23, 1722-3, and died 
 April 26, 1780, at sea. He Hved on Nantucket Island, 
 but seeing the Revolution was imminent, moved his 
 family, in 1772, to Swan Island, in the Kennebec River. 
 They were all Quakers, and they have been described 
 as " averse to change of place, fond of society and good 
 cheer, and attentive to woman, who from the beginning 
 had equal rights and privileges, and shared not only in 
 the property but in the opportunities of improvement 
 at home and abroad." 
 
 He married first, February 16, 1744, Jedidah, the 
 daughter of James and Rachel (Brown) Chase, of 
 Nantucket, bom 1723, and died 1762 ; second, in April, 
 1763, Sarah, the daughter of Abishai and Dinah ( Cof- 
 fin) Folger, of Nantucket, and widow of Hezekiah 
 Gardner. She was born October 16, 1739, and died 
 March 24, 1833. His first wife had eight children, 
 and the second wife also had eight children. 
 
 The youngest of this second family, Jacob Barker, 
 was bom on Swan Island, December 17, 1779, and died 
 in Philadelphia, December 26, 1871. He moved to 
 New York when a mere boy, and began at once his 
 wonderfully successful business career. By the time he 
 was twenty-one, he was engaged for himself in the com- 
 mission business, and owned five vessels. He became 
 ultimately the second largest ship owner in the United 
 States, employing chiefly Nantucket captains for his 
 vessels. When Fulton built his first steamboat, Jacob 
 Barker imported for him his engine, and advanced a 
 large amount of money to enable him to complete his 
 boat. 
 
 During the War of 1812, the British captured all of 
 his ships, but in spite of these enormous losses he raised 
 
68 AifCESTRAL Records and Portraits 
 
 nearly $8,000,000 for the government, saying, " If the 
 country breaks I want to break with it." He was never 
 reimbursed for the money he advanced. In 1815 he 
 founded the Exchange Bank, established a newspaper, 
 and was among the first to urge the construction of the 
 Erie Canal. He was a careful student of political econ- 
 omy, and a successful lawyer and pohtician, (He was 
 an original member of Tammany Hall.) His strict 
 honesty and unyielding nature caused him many law- 
 suits in New York, in which he defended himself with 
 great brilliancy. In 1834, he moved to New Orleans, 
 where he was admitted to the bar, and later engaged 
 in banking. He opposed the secession of Louisiana, 
 and in 1865, he was elected to Congress, but was not 
 allowed to take his seat. Having lost his large fortune 
 by the Civil War, he came to Philadelphia, and lived 
 with his son Abraham. 
 
 He married, August 27, 1801, Elizabeth, the daugh- 
 ter of Thomas and Anna (Rodman) Hazard, of New 
 Bedford. She was bom December 2, 1873, and died 
 September 18, 1861. Of their twelve children, the 
 ninth, Sarah, married first, John Caile Harrison, and 
 second, January 2, 1866, William H. Hunt, of New 
 Orleans. 
 
 PRINCE-COLLIER 
 
 Governor Thomas Prince (Prence), was born in 
 ^''iltshire, England, and died in Plymouth, Mass., 1673. 
 He came to America 1621, on the ship Fortune. He 
 was Governor of the colony for the years 1635, 1638 
 and 1658, and was also an Assistant for many years. 
 He married three times, his second wife being Mary, 
 the daughter of William Collier. Their daughter Ju- 
 dith, married Isaac Barker. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 69 
 
 William Collier, of Duxbury, Mass., died 1670. 
 He was a merchant of London, and for many years one 
 of the Plymouth "Adventurers," but not content with 
 making profit by the enterprise of the Pilgrims, unless 
 he shared their hardships, he came to Massachusetts in 
 1633. He was an Assistant twenty-eight years, between 
 1634 and 1665, and at the first meeting of the Congress 
 of the United Colonies, 1643, he was one of the two 
 Plenipotentiaries' from Plymouth. In the alarms of 
 1642 and 1643-44, he was a member of the Council of 
 War. His daughter Mary became the second wife of 
 Governor Thomas Prince, whose daughter, Judith, 
 married Isaac Barker.^^ 
 
 FOLGER 
 
 The colonial ancestor of the Folgers of Nantucket, 
 Mass.,^^ was John Folger, who emigrated from Nor- 
 wich, England, in 1635, "aged about eighteen." He 
 acttled in Watertown, Mass., but about 1641, moved to 
 Martha's Vineyard where he died some twenty years 
 later. The name of his wife is not known. 
 
 His son Peter Folger, lived for some years in Mar- 
 tha's Vineyard, where he was surveyor and taught 
 school, and where he learned to speak the Indian lan- 
 guage fluently. About 1663, soon after his father's 
 death, he moved to Nantucket, having been invited to 
 come there to act as miller, weaver and interpreter. As 
 a proper encouragement, a grant of land was made him. 
 In 1667, he took charge of the first mill ou the island, 
 and in July, 1673, he was elected Clerk of Courts, an 
 office which he held for many years. A poem written 
 
 12 Savage's Oeneal. Diet. 
 
 13 N. E. Hist, and Oeneal. Beg. Vol. XVI. 
 
70 AyCESTBAT. ReCOBDS AND PoKTKAITS 
 
 by him occasioned by King Philip's War, and called 
 " A Looking-glass for the Times, or the Former Spirit 
 of New England, in this generation," which was " writ- 
 ten April 23, 1676," has been preserved. He married, 
 1644, Mary Morrill, who died 1704. Among other chil- 
 dren were Eleazer, John, and a daughter, Abiah, who 
 was born August 15, 1667, and married Josiah Frank- 
 lin, of Boston. They were the parents of Benjamin 
 Franklin. 
 
 The first named of these three children, Eleazer Fol- 
 ger, was bom 1648, and died in Boston 1716. He moved 
 to Nantucket with his father, and for at least one term 
 was a Representative in the Legislature. He married, 
 in 1671, Sarah, the daughter of Richard and Sarah 
 (Shattuck) Gardner. She was bom 1651, and died 
 October 19, 1729. 
 
 One of their children, Nathan Folger, was bom 1678, 
 and died September 2, 1747. He lived on Nantucket, 
 and married, December 29, 1699, Sarah, the daughter 
 of John and Abigail (Severance) Church. 
 
 The eldest child of Nathan and Sarah, Abishai 
 Folger, was born September 27, 1700, on the Island 
 of Nantucket, and died January 22, 1788. He married, 
 at Hudson, N. Y., in September, 1735, Dinah, the 
 daughter of Stephen Coffin, Jr.; she was the widow of 
 Benjamin Starbuck, and was born July 23, 1713, and 
 died September 1, 1793. Their daughter, Sarah, 
 married Robert Barker. 
 
 Another son of Peter and Mary (Morrill) Folger, 
 John Folger, was born 1659, and died October 23, 1732. 
 He was a miUer and farmer of Nantucket, and a mem- 
 ber of the Society of Friends. He married Mary, the 
 daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Barnard) Barnard, 
 of Nantucket. She was born February 24, 1667, and 
 
Ancestral Records and Poeteaits 71 
 
 died October 6, 1737. Among their children was Bethiah, 
 who married Samuel Barker. 
 
 GARDNER 
 
 The Gardners of Salem and Nantucket, Mass., were 
 descended from Thomas Gardner, who came to America 
 in 1624, from Dorsetshire, Eng., settling at Gloucester, 
 on Cape Ann, where he was overseer of the plantation. 
 In 1626 he moved to Salem, Mass., where he died " 10th 
 mo. 29, 1674." He was a prosperous merchant, a mem- 
 ber of the General Court, 1637, and the holder of many 
 town oflBces. He was married twice ; first, to Margaret, 
 the mother of aU his children; second, to Mrs. Damaris 
 Shattuck. His son: 
 
 Richard Gardner, who died January 23, 1689, was 
 living in Salem 1643, but moved to Nantucket 1667. 
 On April 15, 1673, he was commissioned Chief Magis- 
 trate of the island. He married Sarah Shattuck, and 
 their daughter Sarah, married Eleazer Folger.^* 
 
 CHURCH-SEVERANCE 
 
 One of the early settlers of Dover, N. H., was John 
 Church, active in many Indian fights, who was captured 
 in the war of 1689, but escaped. He was finally killed 
 by Indians near his own door, May 7, 1696. He married, 
 November 29, 1664, Abigail Severance, who was born 
 May 25, 1643. 
 
 John Severance^ who died April 9, 1682, was one 
 of the original proprietors of Salisbury, Mass., and at 
 one time Cornet of the Troop. His wife was Abigail 
 Kimball, the daughter of Richard and Ursula (Scott) 
 Kimball, of Ipswich. Their daughter Abigail, married 
 
 " N. E. Hist and Cfeneal. Reg. XXV, p. 48. 
 
72 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 John Church, whose daughter Sarah, married Nathan 
 Folger. 
 
 COFFIN 
 
 Tristram Coffin, the colonist, was the son of Peter 
 Coffin of Brixton Parish, Devon, Eng., and his wife, 
 Joan Thember (?). From them the family of Nan- 
 tucket is descended. (See pp. 262-263.) 
 
 One of Tristram's sons, Stephen Coffin, was born in 
 Newbury, Mass., May 11, 1652, and died on Nantucket, 
 May 18, 1734. He married Mary, the daughter of 
 George and Jane (Godfrey) Bunker. She was born in 
 1652 and died 1724. Her father and mother died in 
 1658 and 1662, respectively. She was the granddaughter 
 of William Bunker, of a Huguenot family living in 
 England. The name was originally spelled " Bon 
 Coeur." 
 
 Their son, Stephen Coffin, Jr., was born on Nan- 
 tucket February 20, 1676, and died 1725. He married, 
 November 21, 1693, Experience, the daiighter of 
 Thomas and Elizabeth (Bunker) Look. She was born 
 November 22, 1672. Her father was born in 1646, and 
 her mother was a daughter of George and Jane (God- 
 frey) Bunker. 
 
 Their daughter, Dinah Cofp,n, married for her second 
 husband, Ahishai Folger .^^ 
 
 HAZARD 
 
 Thomas Hazard (1610-1680), the ancestor of this 
 numerous family in America,^® and one of the founders 
 of Newport, was twice married. By his first wife, 
 Martha, he had several children. 
 
 15 JV. E. Hist, and Geneal. Beg. Vol. XXIV. 
 
 18 The Hazard Family of Rhode Island, by Caroline E. Robinson. 
 
Ancestral Recoebs and Portraits 73 
 
 Robert Hazard (1635-1710) , his son, married Mary, 
 the daughter of Thomas Brownell. ( See pp. 100-102 
 for Hazard family, and p. 102 for Browtnell family.) 
 They had eight children, the eldest of whom was 
 Thomas, and the third son, Stephen (from whom de- 
 scends Miss Sarah Rodman Baldwin) . 
 
 A large landholder, Thomas Hazard was bom 1660, 
 and died 1746. His property, amounting to nearly four 
 thousand acres, was situated in what is called " Boston 
 Neck," near Kingston, R. I. His wife's name was 
 Susanna, and they had ten children. 
 
 Their third child and eldest son, Robert Hazard, was 
 born May 23, 1689, and died May 20, 1762. He lived 
 in South Kingston, and it is said that his farms were 
 the most extensive in New England. He married 
 Sarah, the daughter of Richard and Innocent ( Wodell) 
 Borden, of Tiverton, R. I., and they had six children; 
 she was born July 31, 1694. 
 
 Their eldest son, Thomas Hazard, was bom Septem- 
 ber 15, 1720, and died August 26, 1798. He entered 
 Yale College, but did not graduate, owing to his reli- 
 gious scruples — as a Quaker — concerning " degrees." 
 He was always called in the family " College Tom " to 
 distinguish him from his numerous namesakes. He was 
 one of the original " Fellows of Rhode Island College," 
 now Brown University. In 1748, he was clerk of the 
 Council, and for forty years was a preacher of the 
 Society of Friends. He married. May 27, 1742, Eliza- 
 beth, the daughter of William and Martha (Potter) 
 Robinson. She was bom June 16, 1724, and died Feb- 
 ruary 8, 1804. 
 
 Their son, Thomas Hazard, was bom November 15, 
 1758, and died July 24, 1828. Soon after his marriage, 
 Thomas Hazard moved to New Bedford, and amassed 
 
74 AxcESTKAii Records and Poeteaits 
 
 a fortune. He took an active part in politics, being 
 Postmaster, and in 1812, State Senator. Later, he 
 moved to New York, where he engaged in many lines 
 of business. He married, September 6, 1780, Anna, 
 the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Borden) Rodman. 
 She was born June 24, 1762, and died June 14, 1845, 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth^ married Jacob Barker. 
 
 BORDEN 
 
 RicHAKD Borden, married Joan . They had 
 
 issue, among others Matthew^ John and Sarah. 
 
 The first named, Matthew Borden, was born in May, 
 1638, and died July 5, 1708. He was the first Enghsh 
 child born in Rhode Island, and lived in Portsmouth, 
 R. I.; he married Sarah Clayton, bom 1654, and died 
 April 19, 1735. 
 
 Their son, Abraham, was bom March 29, 1690, and 
 married Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah 
 (Freeborn) Wanton; she was born January 5, 1691. 
 Their daughter, Mary, married Thomas Rodman. 
 
 John Borden, another son of Richard and Joan Bor- 
 den, was born in September, 1640, and died June 4, 
 1716. He lived in Portsmouth, and was a Deputy in 
 1673, 1680, 1700, 1704, 1705, and 1708. He married 
 Mary, the daughter of William and Mary (Walker) 
 Earle. 
 
 Their son, Richard Borden, married Innocent, the 
 daughter of Gershom and Mary (Tripp) Wodell. Their 
 daughter, Sarah, married Robert Hazard II. 
 
 A daughter of Richard and Joan Borden, Sarah Bor- 
 den, married Jonathan Holmes. ( See p. 18 for Bor- 
 den, and pp. 17-18 for Holmes.) 
 
 WANTON-FREEBORN. 
 A ship-builder of Tiverton, R. I., Joseph Wanton 
 
Ancesteal Records and Portraits 75 
 
 was born May 1, 1664, and died March 3, 1754. His 
 father, Edward Wanton, of Scituate, Mass., was also a 
 ship-builder. Joseph married Sarah, the daughter of 
 Gideon and Sarah (Brownell) Freeborn; she was born 
 January 14, 1667, and died July 10, 1737. Their 
 daughter, Elizabeth, married Abraham Borden. 
 
 William Freeborn, one of the founders of Ports- 
 mouth, R. I., was born 1594, and died April 28, 1670. 
 His son: 
 
 Gideon Freeborn, a Deputy from Portsmouth for 
 the years 1675, 1690, 1703-04 and 1713, died February 
 28, 1720. He married Sarah, the daughter of Thomas 
 Brownell, of Portsmouth. (See p. 102.) She died 
 September 16, 1676. Their daughter Sarah, married 
 Joseph Wanton, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married 
 Abraham Borden. 
 
 EARLE 
 
 Captain Ralph Earle married Joan Savage. (See 
 p. 19.) Their son: 
 
 William Earle, died January 15, 1715. He lived 
 in Portsmouth, and was' a Deputy in the years 1693, 
 1704 and 1706. He married Mary, the daughter of 
 John Walker, of Boston and Portsmouth; he died 
 1647. Their daughter Mary, married John Borden. 
 
 WODELL-TRIPP 
 
 William Wodell, of Boston and Tiverton, Mass., 
 who died 1693, was a follower of Gorton, and imprisoned 
 by the government of Massachusetts. He was twice 
 Commissioner, and a Deputy for sixteen l^erms, between 
 1664 and 1686, and was elected Assistant 1684, but 
 declined. 
 
76 An-cesteal Recokds and Porteaits 
 
 His son, Gershom Wodell, who was bom July 14, 
 1642, and died before 1683, was of Portsmouth, R. I. 
 He married Mary, the daughter of John and Mary 
 (Paine) Tripp. She was bom about 1646, and died 
 1716. Their daughter, Innocent, married Richard Bor- 
 den. 
 
 John Tkipp (1610-1678), was of Portsmouth, R. I. 
 He was Deputy for thirteen terms, between 1648, and 
 1672, and Assistant for 1670, 1673, 1674 and 1675. He 
 was repeatedly a member of the Town Council. His 
 wife, Mary, the daughter of Anthony Paine, died Feb- 
 ruary 12, 1687. Their daughter Mary, married Gershom 
 Wodell, whose daughter Innocent, married Richard 
 Borden. 
 
 ROBINSON 
 
 The colonist, Rowland Robinson,'^'^ was born in Cimi- 
 berland, Eng., 1654, and came to America 1675, set- 
 tling in Rhode Island, where he was one of the largest 
 landowners in New England, dying in 1716. He 
 served the colony in many ways, and was Deputy 1705. 
 He married 1676, Mary, the daughter of John and 
 Elizabeth (Bacon) Allen of Newport. She was born 
 February 4, 1653, and died after 1716. 
 
 William Robinson^ their son, was born January 
 26, 1693, and died September 19, 1751. He lived in 
 " King's Town," R. I., and was elected to many offices 
 of honor. He was Deputy ten terms between 1724 
 and 1742; Speaker of the House, 1735, 1736, 1741 
 and 1742 ; and in 1745 and 1748, he was Deputy-Gov- 
 ernor. He married Martha, the daughter of John and 
 Sarah (Wilson) Potter, and their daughter Elizabeth, 
 married Thomas Hazard (College Tom). 
 
 17 Austin's Qeneal. Diet, of E. I. 
 
The Henrt Bull House 
 
 John Greene 
 
 The Rodman Mansion House at South Kensington, R. I. 
 
Ancesteal Records and Portraits 77 
 
 POTTER-WILSON 
 
 The Potters were very early represented in Rhode 
 Island by Nathaniel Potter, (who died 1676), and his 
 wife Dorothy, whose son, Ichabod, married Martha, 
 the daughter of the first Thomas Hazard. 
 
 Their son, John, (1665-1715), was of "King's 
 Town," R. I., and married Sarah, the daughter of Sam- 
 uel and Tabitha (Tefft) Wilson, who was born 1666, 
 and died after 1739. Tabitha Tefft was the daughter 
 of John Teflft of Portsmouth, R. I., who died 1676. 
 
 Their daughter, Martha Potter, married William 
 Robinson. 
 
 RODMAN 
 
 The Rodman line of Rhode Island is descended 
 from John Rodman who died in Barbadoes, 1686, 
 where he went from Ireland. 
 
 His son. Dr. Thomas Rodman, (1640-1728), lead- 
 ing physician of Newport, R. I., was born in Barba- 
 does. He married, November 26, 1691, Hannah, the 
 daughter of Governor Walter and Hannah (Scott) 
 Clarke; she was born October 28, 1667, and died Octo- 
 ber 22, 1732. (See pp. 93-96 for Rodman family.^") 
 
 Their son, Samuel Rodman, was born in Newport, 
 July 23, 1703, and died there February 27, 1749. The 
 only public office he held was that of Justice of the 
 Peace 1739. He married, May 16, 1723, Mary, the 
 daughter of Colonel Thomas and Helena (Stoothoof) 
 Willett, of Flushing, L. I.; she died May 21, 1756. 
 
 Their son, Thomas Rodman, was born February 29, 
 1724, and died at sea, off Newport, November 16, 1766. 
 According to one family tradition he was returning 
 
 18 The Rodman Fannily. Austin's Oeneal. Diet, of iS. I. 
 
78 AirCESTKAL ReCOBDS AND PoETRAITS 
 
 from England, where he had been to collect a large 
 sum of money due him, and when his vessel was wrecked 
 he could not save himself, being rendered helpless by 
 an attack of gout. He married, April 5, 1750, Mary, 
 the daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Wanton) 
 Borden; she was bom in May, 1729, and died February 
 18, 1798. As the Revolution approached, Mrs. Rod- 
 man became alarmed and moved with her family to 
 Leicester, Mass., iti 1770, where they remained until 
 peace was declared. Her daughters were famous for 
 their beauty and grace. One of them, Anna, married 
 Thomas Hazard, whose daughter Elizabeth, married 
 Jacob Barker. 
 
 CLARKE 
 
 Jeremiah Clarke came to America, after his mar- 
 riage to Frances Latham. He was Lieutenant 1642, 
 and later Captain. Treasurer of Portsmouth, R. I., 
 1644 to 1647, he was also Treasurer of the colony, 1647 
 to 1649, and Assistant and Acting-Governor 1648. 
 
 Governor Walter CiiARKE^ his son, was born 1640, 
 and died May 23, 1714. He was Deputy in Rhode 
 Island four terms; Assistant four years; Governor 
 1676, 1677, 1686, 1697, 1698; Deputy-Governor from 
 1679 to 1686, and from 1700 to 1714; also a member 
 of the Council 1686. His wife, Hannah, the daughter 
 of Richard and Catherine (Marbury) Scott, was born 
 1642, and died July 24, 1681. Richard Scott was the 
 first Quaker in Providence, and his wife, "an ancient 
 woman," was imprisoned and whipped at Boston, for 
 diffusing her opinions. Governor Clarke's daughter, 
 Hannah, married Dr. Thomas Rodman. 
 
 WILLETT-STOOTHOOF 
 
 Colonel Thomas Willett, the son of Thomas and 
 
AifCESTRAL Records and Portraits 79 
 
 Sarah (Cornell) Willett, was born 1645, being baptized 
 November 26, and died in September, 1722. He lived 
 in Flushing, L. I., where he was Sheriff from 1676 to 
 1678, and from 1683 to 1689, and for many years in 
 command of Queen's County militia; also a Judge 
 from 1702 to 1710. In the years 1690 to 1698, he was 
 a member of the Council. He married Helena, the 
 daughter of Elbert Elbertse Stoothoof. Their daugh- 
 ter Mary, married Samuel Rodman. 
 
 Elbert Elbertse Stoothoof^ of New Amsterdam, 
 was one of the " Nine men " in 1649, a Magistrate for 
 eight years, a member of the Convention of 1653 and 
 1664, and of the first Assembly, held in April, 1664. 
 In 1670 he is referred to as " Captain." His first wife 
 was Aeltje Comelis, the widow of Garret Wolphertsz; 
 and his second, by whom he had no is^ue, was Sara 
 Roeloffse. His daughter, Helena, married Thomas 
 Willett. 
 
 HARRISON {Continued) 
 
 The second son of John Caile and Sarah (Barker) 
 Harrison, Thoirms Bullitt Harrison, married Mary 
 BoYKiN Williams. Their daughter, Katharine 
 Williams^ married first, Gough Wynn Thompson; 
 second, Frank Gambrill Baldwin. (See pp. 6-55 for 
 Williams, Boykin, Miller, Cantey, Chesnut, Cox and 
 connecting lines.) 
 
 Katharine Williams Harrison Baldwin^ 
 Member of Chapter I, The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
80 
 
 Ancesteal Recobds and Pohtkaits 
 
 IV 
 BALDWIN 
 
 Asms: Argent a chevron, ermines between three hazel sprigs vert.^ 
 Crest: A squirrel sejamt or, holding a hazel sprig vert. 
 Motto: Je N'Oubli4rais Pas. 
 
 The AU-Hallows Parish Register mentions Henry 
 Baldwin, born in 1700, who died intestate, without in- 
 ventory or administration aecomit; also his wife Mary, 
 who survived him, and their issue: Mary, Henry, Jr., 
 and Edward, the eldest son. The latter was a planter 
 of AU-HaUows Parish, Anne Arundel County, Md.; 
 born 1725, " 10th month, 5th day," and died 1759, " 8th 
 month and 26th day." He was Grand Juror, 1756. In 
 1753, " 9th month and 20th day," he purchased for £l20, 
 
 1 See arms granted Dec. 19, 1662, to Edward Baldwin of Wilton. 
 Baldwin Gen., p. 47 (Tomb of Samuel Baldwin in St. Leonard's). 
 
Ancestral, Records and Portraits 81 
 
 of Charles Worthington, two hundred and forty-four 
 acres, part of "Howard's First Choice, Howard's and 
 Porter's Range and Howard's Addition." Edward 
 acquired negroes and other personality, 1756 to 1758. 
 He married, 1749, Deborah Weeks, who died, 1757. 
 His will, probated September 10, 1759,^ devised £70 
 sterling to each of his two daughters, and the lands 
 herewith mentioned,^ to his eldest son James and his 
 youngest son: 
 
 Lieutenant Henry Baldwin, born in Anne Arun- 
 del County, 1754, and died 1792-93. He served in the 
 American Revolution,* five years and five months, until 
 the dissolution of the army, and was a Member of the 
 Society of the Cincinnati from Maryland, and of the 
 South River Club.^ 
 
 He married, 1790, " 1st month and 25th day," Maria 
 Graham, the daughter of William Garrett and Dinah 
 (Warfield) Woodward, who died in 1835. Issue: 
 Eliza, and William Henry (see p. 84). Mrs. Maria 
 Woodward Baldwin married, second, Augustine Gam- 
 brill. 
 
 WOODWARD 
 
 Akms: Two bars azv/re over all three bucks' heads caboshed or. 
 Cb£8t: On » ducal coronet a boar's head couped argent. 
 Motto: Virtus semper viret. 
 
 The colonist, William Woodward, a goldsmith of the 
 Guild of London (1700-1774), was the son of Henry 
 Woodward, of Newington, Butts County, Surrey, 
 Eng., and his wife Mary, the daughter of James and 
 Sarah Garrett. William Woodward came to Annapo- 
 
 2 Fol. 763, No. Ub. B. T., No. 3, 1755-1760. 
 
 3 Md. Arch., p. 519. 
 *Ibid, p. 84. 
 
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Ancestral Records and Portraits 99 
 
 Abiah Carpenter, born April 9, 1643, died 1703, 
 was of Rehoboth, Mass., and Warwick, R. I. In 
 October, 1652, his father bought land in Warwick of 
 Benedict Arnold, upon which Abiah subsequently set- 
 tled. April 1, 1669, he was living in Warwick, and was 
 Deputy, 1682, and on the Grand Jury, 1687. 
 
 His son, Solomon Carpenter, (1678-1750), was living 
 in "Kings Towne" May, 1705, when he exchanged 
 lands with Ephraim BuU. His will was proved 
 October 8, 1750. He married, March 18, 1703, 
 Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth 
 (Jenckes) Tefft; she died in 1750. 
 
 Their son, Daniel Carpenter, was born December 28, 
 1712, and married, iVP"l> 29, 1733, Renewed, the 
 daughter of Ephraim and Margaret Smith. 
 
 Their daughter, Margaret Carpenter, married Robert 
 Rodman, 'Sr., whose son, Robert Rodman, married 
 Elizabeth Hazard. 
 
 JENCKES 
 
 Joseph Jenckes, born 1632, and died January 4, 
 1717, was of Lynn, Mass., also of Providence R. I., 
 where he bought land and aljso received a grant 
 October 10, 1671. A Freeman 1677, he was a Deputy, 
 1679 to 1680, and 1691, and Assistant thirteen years 
 in the period from 1680 to 1698. He was chosen by 
 the Assembly to run the eastern line of the Colony, July 
 2, 1695. He married Esther, the daughter of William 
 and Elizabeth Ballard. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth, (1658-1740), married 
 Samuel, son of John and Mary Tefft of Boston, whose 
 daughter, Elizabeth, married Solomon Carpenter. 
 
100 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 HAZARD 
 
 Abms: Azure two ban argent on a chief or three escalhpi gulei. 
 Crest: An escallop gules. 
 Motto: Smeeritus. 
 
 Thomas Hazard^ (1610-1680) , the progenitor of the 
 Hazard family in the United States, is first recorded in 
 Boston, Mass., 1635, where he was admitted Freeman, 
 March 25, 1638. Two years later he was Freeman of 
 Portsmouth, R. I. April 28, 1639, he signed, with 
 eight others, the compact which was drawn up prepara- 
 tory to the settlement of Newport, R. I. iHe married 
 
 first, Martha , who died 1669, and second, Martha, 
 
 (widow of Thomas Sheriff), who died 1691. His son: 
 
 Robert Hazard, (1635-1710), was admitted Free- 
 man of Portsmouth, R. I., in 1665. He sold all his in- 
 terest in Canonicut (now called Jamestown) and Dutch 
 Island in Narragansett Bay, to John Roome of Ports- 
 mouth, 1658. The Court of Plymouth in 1667 ordered, 
 with reference to a controversy between the English 
 and the Indians about bounds, that if Robert Hazard 
 could be secured, he should run the lines. He was Jury- 
 man in 1670. 
 
 He bought, 1671, five hundred acres of land in Kings- 
 ton, of the Pettaquamscutt purchasers. He buUt hjs 
 house in Moorsfield, South Kingston. In 1695 he gave 
 to his son George the larger part of the Pettaquamscutt 
 purchase, and in 1710' sold the remaining part of the 
 farm, with the manor-house, to his son Robert, for £300, 
 current money, who gave it by will to his son Robert, 
 three Roberts thus owning and occupying the place in 
 succession. Previous to the deed of gift to George, he 
 had given his son Stephen rights and interest in land 
 belonging to Point Judith Neck, "being ye seventh 
 part of ye same, excepting one hundred acres, so-called 
 
Ancestrat, Records and Portraits 101 
 
 Boston Neck." His son, Jeremiah, also received two 
 hundred acres in Tiverton. These deeds to his sons 
 show the ownership of more than a thousand acres of 
 land. He served the government on various commit- 
 tees and was Commissioner to the Court of Commis- 
 sioners, 1662-1670, and Deputy five years,^' 1664, 1665, 
 1667, 1670, 1671. Robert Hazard married Mary, 
 daughter of Thomas and Ann Brownell.^" In an old 
 copy of the Boston Gazette, dated February 12, 1739, is 
 the following: 
 
 " Newport, February 9th, Mrs. Mary Hazard, widow 
 of Mr. Robert Hazard of South Kingston, and Grand- 
 mother to the deceased George Hazard, Esq., late 
 Deputy-Governor of Rhode Island departed this life 
 28th day of January last, in the Hundredth year of 
 her age." 
 
 Stephen Hazard, their son, born 1660, and died 
 September 20, 1727, was admitted Freeman in the 
 Colony 1696, but was taxed in 1687 at Kingston. He 
 was Deputy five years between 1702 and 1715, and 
 Assistant for five years between 1707 and 1722; was 
 Justice of the Peace for Kingston 1707, which office 
 gave him the title of Judge, and he is thus known by 
 his djCScendants. Very early in the century he saw 
 the possibilities for water power in North Kingston, 
 and bought large tracts of land so situated as to control 
 the power near Bissell's Mills. This in addition to the 
 land received from his father, about three hundred 
 acres, made him a large land owner. Stephen Hazard, 
 married Elizabeth, daughter of Rouse and Mary 
 Hehne. She was born 1671, and died 1727. Stephen 
 Hazard gave to his sons Stephen and Robert, three 
 
 25 R, I. Col. Bees., Vols, i and ii. 
 
 26 See line of George, one of their sons, p. 111. 
 
102 Ancestkal Records and Portbaits 
 
 hundred acres, by his will; Samuel, two hundred acres, 
 and Thomas, three hundred acres, in North Kingston. 
 
 His son, Thomas Hazard^ was bom July 28, 1707, 
 and died 1741; admitted Freeman 1730; in 1741 he 
 moved to South Kingston. He married, February 22, 
 1727, Hannah, the daughter of Samuel and Hannah 
 (Carr) Slocum, bom April 5, 1710, and died January 
 24, 1737. 
 
 Their son, Stephen Hazard, was bom May 10, 1730 ; 
 died October 24, 1804. He adhered to the cause of the 
 Crown during the war of the Revolution. 
 
 He married, 1760, Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and 
 Renewed (Smith) Carpenter. Their daughter, 
 Elizabeth, married Robert Rodman, II. 
 
 BROWNELL 
 
 Thomas Brownell of Portsmouth, R. I., was a 
 Freeman 1665; a Commissioner 1661, 1662 and 1663, 
 
 and a Deputy 1664. His wife was Ann . Their 
 
 daughter, Mary, married Robert Hazard. 
 
 SLOCUM 
 
 One of the purchasers of the territory which was in- 
 corporated March 3, 1639, under the name of Taun- 
 ton, in New Plymouth, Anthony Slocum, had married 
 
 before he left England Harvey, sister of William 
 
 Harvey, Giles Slocum^'' was born in Somersetshire, 
 England, and died in Portsmouth, R. I., 1682. He 
 married Joan , who died June, 1679. Their son: 
 
 Ebenezeb Slocum,^* born March 25, 1650, and 
 died 1715, married Mary, daughter of Edward and 
 
 27 J. O. Austin. 
 
 28 Nevirport Hist. Soc. 
 
Ancestrat. Records and Portraits 103 
 
 Elizabeth (Mott) Thurston, born February 1, 1657, 
 and died November 16, 1752. Their son: 
 
 Samuel Slocum, born March 2, 1684, and died in 
 1741, married January, 1708, Hannah, daughter of 
 Edward and Hannah (Stanton) Carr, who was born 
 October 13, 1691. (She married second; Samu.el Wat- 
 son). Their daughter, Hannah, married Thomas 
 Haxaed. 
 
 THURSTON-MOTT 
 
 Edward THxmsTor, bom 1617, in England, and 
 died at Newport, R. I., March 1, 1707, was a Free- 
 man 1655, Deputy for Newport and Governor's As- 
 sistant, holding each office several years, in the period 
 between 1667 and 1691. He signed an address, with 
 others, from the Quakers of Rhode Island to the King, 
 on August 26, 1686. His marriage to Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Adam Mott, took place in June, 1647. 
 She was bom 1629, in Newport, R. I., and died Septem- 
 ber 2, 1694. Adam Mott was born in Cambridge, 
 Eng., 1596, and his will was dated and proved 1661. 
 He was a sailor and came as a passenger in the ship 
 Defense, July 2, 1635. Became a Freeman and a mem- 
 ber of the First Church in Roxbury, and then removed 
 to Hingham, where he had a grant of land. In 1638 
 he was in Portsmouth, R. I., and a Freeman there 1641. 
 He was clerk of the Military Company 1642. Mary, 
 daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Mott) Thurston, 
 married Ebenezer Slocum. 
 
 CARR 
 
 The Carr coat of arms is a copy of the original rvhich 
 was brought to this country by George Carr 1620, and 
 
104 Aktcesteal Records and Poetkaits 
 
 has been handed down in his line. It bears the partly- 
 obliterated signature of one of the Carrs of the house of 
 Somerset. Its exact counterpart was brought over by 
 Wilham Carr, a brother of George,. 1621, and has come 
 down through his line to the present time.^® 
 
 In the year 1635 two orphan boys came to their uncle, 
 William Carr, who lived at Bristol, R. I., and after- 
 wards at Newport. They were Robert and Caleb 
 CaeRj minors, the sons of Benjamin and Martha 
 (Hardington) Carr of London, Eng., deceased. They 
 sailed on the ship Elizabeth Ann commanded by Cap- 
 tain Roger Cooper, May 9, 1635. 
 
 Goveknoe Caleb Caee^ second son of Benjamin and 
 Martha Carr of London, Eng., was born 1624, and died 
 December 17, 1695, by drowning; will proved January 
 6, 1696. He lived in Newport, R. I., and was Free- 
 man 1655; Commissioner 1654, 1658, 1659, 1660, 1661, 
 1662; General Treasurer, 1661, 1662; Deputy, twelve 
 years between 1664 and 1690; Assistant ten years be- 
 tween 1679 and 1691; Justice of General Quarter Ses- 
 sion and Inferior Court of Common Pleas; Governor 
 from May, 1695, to December 17, 1695. He was 
 buried with his first wife in the family burial-ground. 
 He married first, Mercy Vaughn, who was born 1631, 
 and died September 21, 1675, Their son: 
 
 Edward Caee. was born 1667, and died October 
 14, 1711. He lived in Jamestown and was a Free- 
 man 1698, and a Deputy from 1699 to 1702, and 
 for five years afterward. He was on a committee to 
 audit the accounts of the Colony. His will, dated 
 December 22, 1711, was proved January 22, 1712. 
 Edward Carr married October 6, 1686, Hannah, 
 daughter of John and Mary (Harndel) Stanton. She 
 
 29 Carr Family Records. 
 
Ancestrax Records and Portraits 105 
 
 was born November 7, 1670. Their daughter, Hannah, 
 married Samuel Slocum. 
 
 STANTON 
 
 Robert Stanton^ born 1599, and died August 29, 
 1672, was admitted, with others, inhabitants of the 
 Island of Aquidneck, 1638, He was a Freeman of 
 Newport, March 16, 1641; Sergeant Junior 1642; Ser- 
 geant 1644; Freeman 1655; Deputy 1670, and Jury- 
 man 1671. He married Avis Almy. 
 
 John Stanton, their son, born August, 1645, and 
 died October 3, 1713, lived in Newport. He was Free- 
 man 1666, and Deputy 1696. He married first, Mary, 
 daughter of John Harndel, and their dajighter Hannah 
 married Edward Carr. 
 
 PECKHAM 
 
 " The family from which the colonist, John Peckham 
 came, have borne the same arms in Kent and Sussex 
 Counties from the time of Archbishop John Peckham 
 of Canterbury, 13th century, to the present time."*" 
 James "Peckham, Esq., "dyed Anno. 1500. Buried 
 at Wretham in Kent where is ye tombstone."*^ He 
 married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Burgoine of 
 Portiper in Kent. Their son, James, of Galden in 
 Wretham in Kent, "dyed 1532; buried at Wretham." 
 He married Anne, daughter of Thomas Ifley. Two 
 John Peckhams were ancestors of Edward Peckham, 
 Lord of the Manor of East Hampnett in Sussex near 
 Chichester, who married Grace Lamburne of Berk- 
 shire. Their son, Henry, of the same Manor, married 
 
 so The Herald's College Records concerning the confirming of the orig- 
 inal grant of Arms borne by the Peckhams of Nyton, which was the es- 
 tate last owned by the Peckhams of Kent and Sussex. 
 
 81 From Monumental Brass. 
 
106 Ancestral Recohds and Poetraits 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Badger of Winchester. 
 The second son of this marriage, John, Captain to 
 the Earl of Hertford, was baptized April 8, 1595. 
 John's elder brother, Henry, was a member of Parlia- 
 ment for Chichester from 1654 to 1659 and was in 
 possession of the Manor of East Hampnett in 1634. 
 At Tmibridge are the ruins of the Castle of Tunbridge 
 of which Hugo de Peckham was constable in 1199. At 
 Wartham in St. George's Church are several memorial 
 brasses to Peckhams. At Uckfield lives Harry J. 
 Peckham, who has the portraits of the nieces of John 
 Peckham, the colonist, — Mary and Elizabeth — in very 
 exaggerated ruffs, and in a beautiful state of preserva- 
 tion, painted by the Dutch artist, Daniel Myrtens, in 
 1570. At Chichester, in the Council Chamber, is a 
 portrait of Sir Thomas Peckham (who built the Peck- 
 ham house at Chichester) by Romney, and one of his 
 son, Robert, (who died in 1742, aged 25), by Holbein. 
 Abstracts of wills and chancery suits in Suffolk 
 County, Eng., led to the identification of John Peck- 
 ham, the colonist, as belonging to the Sussex family. 
 He was among the first settlers of the Island of 
 Aquidneck, in 1638. There, on May 20, 1638, his 
 name is on a list of those who were admitted as inhabi- 
 tants of Newport. In 1640, the bounds of his land, 
 thirty-six acres, were established. March 16, 1641, he 
 was admitted a Freeman and he was one of the ten male 
 members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, in 
 full communion, 1648. Soon after the first settlement 
 of Rhode Island the Peckhams bought a tract of land 
 one mile square at Little Compton, on which they built 
 a house in 1640, which stood two hundred years, and in 
 which six generations of Peckhams were born. Their 
 purchases also extended into Dartmouth, Mass., to the 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 107 
 
 Acushnet River, where a part of the city of New Bed- 
 ford now stands. John Peckham married Mary- 
 Clarke, born 1607. 
 
 Their son, John Peckham II, (1645-1712), lived on 
 the Peckham estate at Little Compton and was one of 
 the original proprietors of East Greenvdch, R. I. He 
 married, 1667, Sarah Newport. 
 
 Their son, Benjamin Peckham, was born in New- 
 port June 9, 1684; will recorded Jtme 21, 1769. He 
 married 1708, Mary, the daughter of Caleb and Phil- 
 lippa (Greene) Carr and the grand-daughter of 
 Governor John Greene; she was born 1687. Issue 
 among others: 
 
 Benjamin Peckham^ Jr.^ born March 22, 1715, 
 and died February 27, 1792, settled at South Kings- 
 ton, R. I., and had extensive landed estates which 
 he cultivated in a large way. He was town clerk 
 from 1736 to 1743; member of the Legislature 1768; 
 on a Committee of Correspondence, 1774, and Modera- 
 tor of the South Kingston Convention 1784. He mar- 
 ried, June 2, 1737, Mary, the daughter of Lieutenant- 
 Governor George and Sarah (Carder) Hazard, born 
 July 16, 1722, and died April, 1805. Issue, seven 
 children recorded; a daughter, Mary, married into the 
 Perry family from which sprang Commodore Oliver 
 Hazard Perry. 
 
 A son, George Hazard Peckham, named for his 
 maternal grandfather, was born April 14, 1739 and 
 died November 29, 1799; married January 7, 1763, 
 Sarah, the daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Cogge- 
 shall) Taylor; she was born 1747, and died June 16, 
 1795. 
 
 Their son, Benjamin Taylor Peckham, was bom 
 October 27, 1773, and died December 16, 1853; married 
 
108 AsrcESTKAL Records and Portraits 
 
 January 28, 1799, Abigail, the daughter of Benedict 
 and Elizabeth (Ladd) Oatley, who was born July 7, 
 1767, and died November 9, 1821. Abigail Oatley was 
 descended from several families of colonial importance, 
 among them the Churches, Bulls, and Warrens. 
 
 Their daughter, Mary Pechham, married Samuel 
 Rodman. 
 
 GREENE 
 
 Abms: Aznire, three bucks trippant or. 
 Crest: A buchfs head or. 
 Motto: Nee tvmeo, nee sperno. 
 
 The Arms which were borne by this ancient family 
 are still used by the descendants. In King's Chapel 
 burial ground, Boston, Mass., they are to be found on a 
 family tombstone, Gardiner Greene, (1635-1753), 
 used these arms as a book-plate. There are two crests ; 
 the one used by the New England Greenes is a Buck's 
 head erased. 
 
 " The family of Greene, originally written ' de la 
 Greene', derive their name from their ancient posses- 
 sions in Northamptonshire where they were ' seated ' " 
 in the time of Edward I. In 1320 Thomas de Greene 
 succeeded to the estates and was Lord of the Manor of 
 Boughton and Norton, afterwards Greene's Norton, 
 from whence branches of the family went out into sur- 
 rounding counties. One of these branches ^^ was " seat- 
 ed" in Dorsetshire in the early days of Henry VIII, 
 "when Robert Greene of Gillingham, from whom an 
 unbroken line of descent is traced, was assessed to that 
 King's subsidy." ^* He had three sons and two daugh- 
 ters. His son Richard, heir to the estate of Bowridge 
 
 32 Verified by the similarity of arms recorded in the Herald's College. 
 
 33 Rolls of the Exchequer, 1545. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 109 
 
 Hall, had two children. One, also called Richard, had 
 five sons, of whom: 
 
 John Greene (1597-1658), came from Salisbury- 
 County, Wilts, the -first of the name in New England. 
 He sailed from Southampton, April 6, 1635, in the ship 
 James and reached Boston June 3, 1635, with his wife 
 and seven children. He was a surgeon in Sahsbury, 
 Eng., where he married his first Avife, Jean Tattersale, 
 November 4, 1619. For a short time John Greene 
 lived at Salem, Mass. August 1, 1637, he (then called 
 of New Providence) was charged with speaking con- 
 temptuously of the authorities in Massachusetts and 
 was fined and "enjoined not to come into the jurisdic- 
 tion of Massachusetts." 
 
 From his refuge in Rhode Island, he wrote a letter 
 to the court at Massachusetts charging them "with 
 usurping the power of Christ and the Chm-ches and 
 Men's Consciences," etc. He was one of twelve, to 
 whom Roger Williams deeded land bought of " Canoni- 
 cus " and " Miantonomie " ; also one of the twelve origi- 
 nal members of the First Baptist Church. In 1642, 
 John Greene bought land called " Occupassuatuxet " of 
 Miantonomie. This land remained in the family until 
 sold to John Browne, and now is owned by the Browne 
 family. January 12, 1644, John Greene and ten others 
 bought of the Indians for one hundred and forty-four 
 fathoms of Wampum the present town of Warwick. 
 September 12, 1643, he with others of Warwick were 
 ordered to appear at Boston on complaint of some In- 
 dians. They aU refused to obey, and in consequence, 
 soldiers besieged the settlers in a fortified house, and 
 several men were taken prisoners. AU were carried to 
 Boston for trial, except John Greene, who escaped. He 
 was one of the thirteen original proprietors of Provi- 
 
110 AisrcESTRAT. Recobds and Portraits 
 
 dence Plantations; went as Commissioner to England 
 in 1644; to the Court of Commissioners from Warwick 
 for a period of five years, 1652 to 1657, and was Magis- 
 trate at the General Court of Trials, 1655 to 1656. 
 One of his sons: 
 
 John Greene, Jr. (1620-1708), was Commissioner 
 for Warwick to the Court of Commissioners for twelve 
 years, 1652 to 1663; General Recorder three years, 
 1652 to 1654; Attorney-General four years, 1657 to 
 1660; Deputy four years, between 1664 and 1677; As- 
 sistant twenty-five years, between 1660 and 1690; Major 
 for the Main seven years, between 1683 and 1696, and 
 Deputy-Governor for ten years, 1690 to 1699, which 
 appears to have been his last public service. He was 
 one of those named in the Royal Charter granted by 
 King Charles II., 1663. He was sent on a special mis- 
 sion to England in 1670 with John Clarke; was one of 
 the council of Governor Sir Edmund Andros, 1686, and 
 took a leading part in aU the important affairs of the 
 colony, sitting on a council 1676, with Benedict Arnold, 
 etc. 
 
 He married, 1648, Anne or Annis (1627-1709), the 
 daughter of William and Audrey Almy. Their daugh- 
 ter Phillippa, who was born October 7, 1658, and died 
 after 1708 (another record says 1690), married Caleb, 
 son of Robert Carr, the immigrant brother of Governor 
 Caleb Carr. Robert was a Freeman of Newport, 1641, 
 and one of the original purchasers of the Island of Ca- 
 nonicut. He gave by will (probated October 4, 1681) 
 all his land on the Island to his son, Caleb Carr. The 
 latter's will was probated March 30, 1690, and names 
 therein his wife "Phillis," four sons and daughter 
 Mary, who married Benjamin Peckham, Sr. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 111 
 
 ALMY 
 
 William Almy, the American ancestor of all who 
 bear the name, was bom in Belinden Parish, Kent, Eng., 
 1601. He came to New England with John Winthrop 
 and his associates, but made two journeys back to Eng- 
 land before he brought over his wife Audrey and their 
 son Christopher and daughter Annis, in 1635. He lived 
 in Sandwich, 1637, but sold his property there to Ed- 
 mund Freeman in 1642. He had a grant of land at 
 Portsmouth, R. I., 1644; was a Juryman, 1656; Com- 
 missioner, 1656, 1657, 1663; and Foreman of Jury, 
 1668. He was a member of the Society of Friends, 
 and died in Portsmouth, February 28, 1677, his wife 
 having died earlier. Their daughter Anne or Annis, 
 married John Greene, Jr. 
 
 HAZARD 
 
 Colonel George Hazard (1662-1743), a grandson 
 of the American progenitor, Thomas Hazard, and the 
 son of Robert and Mary (Brownell) Hazard (see p. 
 100) , was first admitted a Freeman of the Rhode Island 
 Colony in 1696; was Deputy 1703 and 1704, Assistant 
 1713, and one of a committee appointed by the Assem- 
 bly to make public roads throughout the colony. In 
 1719 he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Militia for the 
 main. Through inheritance and purchase he came into 
 possession of the original Pettaquamscutt purchase of 
 his father, and the manor house in Moorsfield, South 
 Kingston, where he kept a large establishment until his 
 death. In the inventory of his personal estate there 
 are seventeen slaves. He was interested in the first wool- 
 len mill of South Kingston, giving land for the same. 
 His wife was Penelope, daughter of Caleb and Abi- 
 gail (Wilbur) Arnold, and they were married in 1688. 
 
112 Ancestral Recobds and Poktbaits 
 
 She was born August 3, 1669, and died in 1742. Their 
 son: 
 
 George Hazard^ born October 9, 1700, died June 
 24, 1738, was Freeman, 1721 ; Deputy, 1729 to 1735 ; 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1733; 
 Deputy-Governor, 1734, and re-elected four successive 
 years, dying in office. He married Sarah, the daugh- 
 ter of James and Mary (Whipple) Carder. Their 
 daughter Mary married Benjamin Peckham, Jr. 
 
 ARNOLD 
 
 Governor Benedict Arnold, son of William 
 Arnold, the colonist (see p. 15) , was born December 21, 
 1615, and died June 10, 1678. He signed the agree- 
 ment of 1640 for a form of government. Removed to 
 Newport November 19, 1651, and was made Freeman 
 of that town; was a Commissioner, 1654 to 1663; As- 
 sistant, 1655 to 1656, 1660 to 1661 ; President of the 
 four towns, 1657 to 1660, 1662 to 1663, and the first 
 Royal Governor of Rhode Island, 1663 to 1666, 1669 
 to 1672, and 1677 to 1678. He was on a council with 
 fifteen others, appointed by the General Assembly, to 
 advise with the Assembly. In the will of Benedict 
 Arnold, probated in Newport in 1677, the testator 
 says : " I devise that my body shall be buried near the 
 path leading from my dwelling house to my stone wind- 
 mill in the town of Newport, and that the lot shall for- 
 ever be reserved for my kindred." He left the stone 
 windmill to his wife, with lands and mansion house, for 
 fife. At Governor Arnold's funeral nearly a thousand 
 persons were present. He married, December 17, 
 1640, DamariSj the daughter of Stukeley Westcott, of 
 Warwick; she died 1678. 
 
 Their son, Caleb Arnold, was born December 19, 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 113 
 
 1644, and died February 9, 1719. In 1671 and 1680 
 he was Deputy. August 24, 1676, was of the court-mar- 
 tial at Newport for the trial of certain Indians charged 
 with being engaged in King Philip's designs. He was 
 at this time called Captain, having served through the 
 Indian war of 1676. In 1684 he was elected Deputy 
 from Portsmouth, but refused to serve on accotmt of 
 his profession (physician), and another was elected in 
 his place. In 1707 .he was again elected from Ports- 
 mouth, which established his residence in that place. 
 He styled himself "Practitioner of Physic." In old 
 public documents he is called "Doctor." At the time 
 of his death he had considera,ble landed estate. His 
 father left him one-fourth of all his land in Newport 
 and one hundred and sixty acres in Canonicut to be held 
 until his eldest son was of age, when he should possess it. 
 His marriage to Abigail^ the daughter of Samuel 
 and Hannah (Porter) Wilbur, took place June 10, 
 1666. She died November 17, 1730. Their daughter 
 Penelope, to whom in his will he left a silver tankard 
 and ten shillings, married George Hazard I. 
 
 WESTCOTT 
 
 Stukeuey Westcott, died at Portsmouth, R. I., 
 January 12, 1677, aged eighty-five years. He was Free- 
 man at Salem, Mass., 1636; Providence, R. I., 1638; 
 Warwick, 1648, and later at Portsmouth, where he 
 signed the agreement of 1640 for a civil government. 
 He was Commissioner, 1651 to 1653, 1655 and 1660; 
 Surveyor of Highways, 1652 to 1656, and etc.; As- 
 sistant, 1653; Freeman, 1655; Deputy, 1671. His 
 daughter Damaris married Governor Benedict 
 Arnold. 
 
114 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 WILBUR-PORTER 
 
 Samuel Wilbur, died September 29, 1656, He 
 lived in Boston, Mass., Portsmouth, R. I., and later in 
 Taunton. He was Freeman March 4, 1633, and ad- 
 mitted to the church with his wife Abn, December 1, 
 1633. He went to Rhode Island in consequence of his 
 sympathy with Wheelwright, and was at Portsmouth by 
 1638, He was clerk of the train-band that year and 
 Constable 1639; was a Freeman again, 1641, and Ser- 
 geant, 1644. He returned to Boston, but was again at 
 Portsmouth in 1655. His will was dated at Taunton, 
 April 30, and proved November 1, 1656. His son: 
 
 Samuel Wilbur, Jr., was Freeman of Portsmouth, 
 1655; Juryman, 1656; Commissioner six years, between 
 1656 and 1663; Deputy four years, between 1664 and 
 1670; Assistant, 1665 to 1669, 1677 to 1678. He en- 
 hsted in the Troop of Horse, August 10, 1667, and 
 was Captain, 1676. His will was proved November 7, 
 1679. He married Hannah, daughter of John and 
 Margaret Porter, and their daughter Abigail married 
 Caleb Arnold. 
 
 John Porter, was one of seven purchasers of a large 
 tract of land in Narragansett County, called the " Pet- 
 tasguansett Purchase." His wife was Margaret Od- 
 ding, a widow. 
 
 CARDER 
 
 Richard Carder, of Boston, Mass., Portsmouth and 
 Warwick, R. I., was one of the eighteen original pro- 
 prietors of Aquidneck, who settled Pocasset (after- 
 wards Portsmouth) , in 1638. He was one of the twelve 
 purchasers of Warwick in 1642, and Commissioner to 
 the Court of Commissioners for that place for three 
 years, 1659 to 1663; also Deputy eleven years, 1664 to 
 
Ancesteal Recobds and Portraits 115 
 
 1674 inclusive. He died in 1676, and his second wife, 
 
 Mary , in 1691. His son: 
 
 Jaaies Carder, born May 2, 1655, and died April 25, 
 1714, married Mary, the daughter of John and Mary 
 (Olney) Whipple, who was bom March 4, 1665, and 
 died October, 1721. James Carder was Freeman in 
 1678; Constable, 1688, and Deputy four years. Their 
 daughter Sarah married Governor George Hazard. 
 
 WHIPPLE 
 
 John Whipple, died May 16, 1685. He was of 
 Dorchester, Mass., and Providence, R. I., and received 
 as a purchaser at Providence, July 27, 1659, where he 
 was Deputy for eight years, between 1666 and 1677. 
 " He was one of those who ' staid and went not away ' 
 in King Philip's War." His will was proved May 27, 
 1685, and he was buried on his own land, with his wife, 
 
 Sarah (1624-1666), whom he married in 1639, 
 
 Subsequently, their bodies were removed to the north 
 burial-ground. Their son: 
 
 John Whipple,, Jr., was born 1640, and died De- 
 cember 15, 1700. Mary, daughter of Thomas and 
 Mary (Small) Olney, was his first wife, and their mar- 
 riage occurred December 4, 1663. He was Town 
 Treasurer of Providence, 1668; Town Clerk, 1670 to 
 1672, 1678 and 1681 ; Deputy six years, between 1670 
 and 1690, and one of the Town Council four years, be- 
 tween 1674 and 1687. His will being declared void by 
 the Town Council, the estate was divided among the 
 heirs in 1701. 
 
 His daughter Mary married James Carder, and 
 their daughter, Sarah Carder, married Governor 
 George Hazard. 
 
116 ANCESTEAIi ReCOBDS AND POETEAITS 
 
 OLNEY 
 
 Thomas Olney (1600-1682), born in St. Albans, 
 Hertford County, Eng., embarked with his family in the 
 ship Planter from London, April 2, 1635, bound for 
 New England. His age was called thirty-five, and he 
 had two young children, and a wife, Mary Small, 
 whom he had married in England, born 1605. Thomas 
 Olney was one of the thirteen original proprietors of 
 Providence Plantations, and Town Treasurer from 
 1638 to 1669, signed the agreement of 1640 for a 
 form of government, and acted as Assistant for nine 
 years, between 1649 and 1667; was Commissioner for 
 Providence to the Court of Commissioners for six yearSj 
 between 1656 and 1663, and Deputy for four years, be- 
 tween 1665 and 1671. He was' one of those named in 
 the Royal Charter granted by King Charles II., in 
 1663. 
 
 His daughter Mary married John Whippm:, Jr., 
 and their granddaughter, Sarah Carder^ married Gov- 
 EENOK George Hazaed. 
 
 TAYLOR 
 
 The colonist, Robert Taylor, was a Scotchman, born 
 1688, and died at Newport, R. I., November 26, 1762. 
 He was associated with Ralph Chapman as master ship- 
 wright on what is now known as Commercial Wharf. 
 He represented Jamestown in the General Assembly, 
 1720. In 1730 he engaged in the West India trade 
 with Daniel Ayrault, Jr. Much of the elegant furni- 
 ture owned by the Taylors is stiU to be found in the 
 homes of his descendants. 
 
 Sarah Rodman Baldwin, a lineal descendant of Rob- 
 ert Taylor through his daughter Sarah, inherited a clock 
 
Ancesteajl Recoeds and Poetbaits 117 
 
 which belonged to the Taylor family. The frame is of 
 teakwood, with Japanese figures in old lacquer work, of 
 which the art of making is said to be lost. The old key 
 handle is of ebony. 
 
 Between 1721 and 1747, Robert Taylor bought of 
 Godfrey Malbone a large tract of land on the " Neck " 
 in Newport, comprising a part of the original grant by 
 the town in 1641 to Thomas Braun. This land, called 
 in Taylor's will his " farm," he gave to his sons Nicholas 
 and Joseph. It was rented until about 1827, when a 
 yellow ochre was found there which gave the modem 
 name of " Ochre Point " to the former Taylor's Point. 
 Robert Taylor married first. Patience, the daughter of 
 Oliver and Phoebe (Cook) Arnold, and second, in 
 1740, Elizabeth, the daughter of John and Elizabeth 
 (Clarke) Stanton, who was bom in 1714, and died Au- 
 gust 21, 1742; and third, Rebecca, daughter of Benja- 
 min and Sarah (Easton) Coggeshall, who was bom 
 December 14. 1721, and died April 15, 1782. Robert 
 Taylor's wiU was dated August 30, 1758. In it he 
 leaves, among other things, £2000 to be put at interest 
 for his fourteen-year-old daughter, Sarah (by his third 
 marriage), the principal to be paid on her eighteenth 
 birthday, or at her marriage. She married George 
 Hazard Peckham. 
 
 COGGESHALL 
 
 Aems: Argent a cross between four escallops sa. 
 Crest: A stag lodged sable attired or. 
 Motto: Nee sppmo, nee timeo. 
 
 " The arms ^* here given are taken from a seal affi:jfed 
 to a letter written by John Coggeshall, Secretary of 
 the Colony of Rhode Island (1677). . . . They are 
 
 34 Burke's Oen. Armory; Austin's B. I. Oen. Diet., 1886; Heraldic 
 Journal, ii, 4S; Newport, B. I., Hist. Mag. 
 
118 ANCESTEAIi ReCOEDS AND PORTRAITS 
 
 the same as those used by the family of ' Cockshall,' of 
 Essex, Eng., the Coggeshalls, of Milton and Bengali, 
 County Suffolk, Eng,, descendants of a younger 
 brother of Sir John de Coggeshall, of the manor of 
 Codham, Wethersfield, Essex, knighted by Edward, 
 the Black Prince, in 1337. The common ancestor. Sir 
 Thomas de Coggeshall, held the manor of Little Cog- 
 geshall Hall, Essex County, in the reign of King 
 Stephen." 
 
 John Coggeshall, the colonist, born 1591, in Essex 
 County, Eng., died in Newport, November 27, 1647. 
 •He was the son of John Coggeshall, Gent., who was 
 bom July 24, 1576, and his wife Ann of Castile, Hed- 
 ingham (her will has been found in England, dated 
 1648), and grandson of John Coggeshall, who died in 
 England 1600. John, the colonist, with thirty-two 
 others, signed the oath of allegiance before leaving Eng- 
 land. His wife, Mary (born 1604, died Novem- 
 ber 8, 1684), and three children, John, Joshua and 
 Ann, came with him. They arrived in Boston on the 
 ship Lyon, September 26, 1632. He was admitted 
 Freeman April 20, 1634; was a member of the First 
 Church, and afterwards a deacon. One of the original 
 proprietors of Aquidneck, who settled Pocasset (later 
 Portsmouth) , 1638, he was also one of the three elders 
 of Aquidneck, and one of the nine who settled Newport, 
 1639. For four years he acted as Deputy, 1634 to 1639; 
 Assistant five years, 1640 to 1644, and was President of 
 the colony under the patent of 1647. He had three 
 hundred and eighty-nine acres recorded in Newport 
 by 1640, and was buried on his own land, now Cogges- 
 hall Avenue, in his fifty-sixth year. " With his labors 
 and fortune he had assisted in founding two States. 
 He had lived to see Rhode Island, the child of his heart. 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 119 
 
 a corporate power under a Parliamentary charter, and 
 a regularly organized government of which he stood at 
 the head. . , ." 
 
 Major John Coggeshall, his son, born in England 
 1618, and died October 1, 1708, was already beginning 
 to take an active interest in the colony at the time of 
 his ^^ father's death. Later he became General Treas- 
 urer for Portsmouth and Newport two years, 1653 to 
 1654 ; General Treasurer for Providence and Warwick, 
 1654; General Treasurer for four towns nine years, 
 1664 to 1672; one of those named in the Royal Charter 
 granted by King Charles II,, 1663; Assistant ten years, 
 between 1663 and 1686; General Recorder four years, 
 between 1676 and 1692; Major for the Island two 
 years, 1683 to 1684; and Deputy-Governor three years, 
 1686, 1689 and 1690. His father left him a portion of 
 his farm at the southeast of Newport, where he con- 
 tinued to reside until his death. His house with its 
 stone chimney was standing early in the present cen- 
 tury, but was pulled down to give place to a modem 
 villa. He held a large amount of real estate at the 
 time of his death. An inventory taken by order of 
 the court shows him to have owned five hundred and 
 ten acres of land, a portion of which embraced the 
 well known "Portsmouth Grove." The point at the 
 northern part is now known as " Coggeshall Point." 
 
 He married, first, June 16, 1647, Elizabeth, daugh- 
 ter of William and Charlotte Baulstone ; second, Decem- 
 ber 2, 1665, Patience^ daughter of John Throckmorten, 
 born 1640, died September 7, 1676; and third, Mary 
 
 , who was mentioned in his will. Issue, second 
 
 wife, among others: 
 
 Lieutenant Benjamin Coggeshaix, born in New- 
 
 SB B. I. Bi»t. Mag., Vol. v, No. 3. 
 
120 Ancestral Recobds and Portkaits 
 
 port, July 27, 1672, and died in East Greenwich, April 
 16, 1739, was admitted Freeman for Newport 1707; 
 and was Deputy in the General Assembly, as such be- 
 ing called "Lieutenant." 
 
 He married, December 22, 1709, Sarah, daughter of 
 James and Miriam (AUen) Easton; she was born Sep- 
 tember 29, 1689, and died 1726. Rebecca, their fourth 
 child, married Robert Taylor, whose daughter Sarah 
 married George Hazard Peckham. 
 
 THROCKMORTEN 
 
 John Throckmorten, embarked at Bristol, Eng., 
 in the ship Lyon, and arrived at Boston, M^s., Feb- 
 ruary 5, 1631, soon going to Salem. His wife's name 
 is unknown. May 18, 1631, he was Freeman. He 
 was in Providence, R. I., October 8, 1638, where he was 
 Moderator, 1652; Freeman, 1655; and Deputy between 
 1664 and 1675, for ten years. He took the oath of 
 allegiance May 31, 1666; was on the town council, 1667, 
 and Town Treasurer, 1677. He died in Middleton, 
 R. I., where he is buried, and where some of his chil- 
 dren lived, in 1687. His daughter Patience married 
 Major John Coggeshall. 
 
 EASTON 
 
 Governor John Easton, born 1624, and died De- 
 cember 12, 1705, was Attorney-General for Ports- 
 mouth and Newport, R. I., 1653 and 1654; Commis- 
 sioner eight years, from 1654 to 1663; Freeman, 1655; 
 Attorney-General for the colony sixteen years, between 
 1656 and 1674; deputy four years, between 1665 and 
 1672; Assistant during the period from 1666 to 1690; 
 Deputy-Governor, 1674 to 1676, inclusive; Governor, 
 1690 to and including 1695. He was buried in the 
 
Ancestbal Records and Porteaits 121 
 
 Coddington Burial Ground. He married, first, Janu- 
 ary 4, 1661, Mehitable, the daughter of Peter Gaunt. 
 
 Their son, James Easton, bom February 23, 1662, 
 and died March 23, 1697, married Miriam, the daughter 
 of Mathew and Sarah (Kirby) Allen. Their daugh- 
 ter Sarah married Benjamin Coggeshall. 
 
 1 
 GRAY 
 
 Edward Gray, with his brother Thomas, came to 
 Plymouth, Mass., in 1643. His baptism, April 15, 
 1623, is recorded in Stapleford, Tawney, Eng. He was 
 Freeman May 29, 1670; on the Grand Jury, 1671; 
 Deputy four years, 1676 to 1679, inclusive. The oldest 
 stone on Burial Hill reads as follows: 
 
 " Here lyeth ye body of Edward Gray, Gent, aged 
 about 52 years, and departed this life ye last of June, 
 1681." 
 
 This stone is roughly made of a common blue native 
 slate, rudely cut and carved. It does not give his age 
 in harmony with the recorded baptismal date. 
 
 He married, second, Dorothy, the daughter of 
 Thomas and Ann Lettice. 
 
 Their son, Samuel Gray, died March 23, 1712; will 
 dated March 20, and proved April 7, 1712. He mar- 
 ried, July 13, 1699, Deborah, the daughter of Joseph 
 and Mary (Tucker) Church. Their daughter Lydia 
 married Joseph, the son of William and Elizabeth 
 (Tompkins) Ladd. 
 
 CHURCH 
 
 Joseph Church, was bom 1638, died March 5, will 
 proved March 11, 1711; the son of Richard and Eliza- 
 beth (Warren) Church, who were also the parents of 
 the Indian fighter, Colonel Benjamin Church. Rich- 
 
122 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 ard was a Sergeant in the Pequod War. Joseph was 
 on the Grand Jury at Little Compton, R. I., and he 
 took the oath of fidelity June 1, 1680; was Freeman, 
 June 6, 1682; Selectman, 1683 to 1686; Ensign, June 
 4, 1686; authorized to solemnize marriages, October 2, 
 1689; Deputy, 1690; Court Associate, 1690 to 1691. 
 
 He married Mary, daughter of John Tucker, bom 
 1641, and died March 21, 1710. Their daughter Be- 
 borah married, first, Samuel Gray. 
 
 WARREN 
 
 Richard Waeren, who came to New England in the 
 Mayflower, married in England Elizabeth Marsh; he 
 died 1628. His short career in the colony was " marked 
 by great usefulness." Issue: 
 
 Nathaniel. 
 
 Joseph, married Priscilla Faunce. 
 
 Mary,, married Robert Bartlett. 
 
 Ann, married Thomas Little. 
 
 Sarah, married John Cooke. 
 
 Elizabeth, married Richard Church. She came in the 
 ship Anne with her mother. 
 
 Abigail, married Anthony Snow. 
 
 BULL 
 
 GoTERNOR Henry Bull, bom in England 1610, 
 died in Newport, R. I., January 22, 1694, was one 
 of the eighteen original proprietors of Aquidneck, who 
 settled Pocasset (later Portsmouth), 1638; joined in 
 the settlfement of Newport, 1639, and was Commissioner 
 for Newport to the Court of Commissioners, 1655 to 
 1657. He was Deputy for Newport eight years, be- 
 tween 1666 and 1690; Governor's Assistant, 1674 and 
 1675; (Governor of Rhode Island, 1685, 1686, and 1690. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 123 
 
 The Friends' records make the following mention of 
 his death: 
 
 "Henry BuU aged about eighty-four years, he de- 
 parted this life at his own house in Newport (he being 
 the last man of the first settlers of this Rhode Island) , 
 ye 22, 11 mo. 1693-4." He was buried in the Codding- 
 ton ground. 
 
 He joined the church at Roxbury in 1636, with his 
 wife Elizabeth. He married, second, March 28, 1677, 
 Ann, the widow of Governor Nicholas Easton. 
 
 A daughter of Governor Bull's first marriage, Eliz- 
 abeth^ born 1635, married John Allen, October 14, 
 1650. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Allen, was bom July, 1651, 
 and died March 24, 1714; she married, June 15, 1671. 
 Nathaniel Tompkins, who died in 1724. 
 
 One of their daughters, Elizabeth Tompkins (1675- 
 1729) , married, February 17, 1696, William Ladd, born 
 1670, in Portsmouth, R. I.; wUl probated October 21, 
 1729. 
 
 Their son^, Joseph Ladd, was born October 19, 1701, 
 and married, August 25, 1731, Lydia Gray, who was 
 born October 16, 1707, the daughter of Samuel and De- 
 borah (Church) Gray. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Ladd, born July 9, 1735, 
 at Little Compton, R. I., and died November 27 (or 
 21), 1814, married, in 1755, Benedict, the son of Jona- 
 than and Deliverance (Cleveland) Oatley, who was 
 born December 25, 1732, and died in South Kingston, 
 R, I., August 1, 1821. 
 
 Their daughter, Abigail Oatley, was born July 7, 
 1767 (or 1768) J and died November 9, 1831; she mar- 
 ried, January 28, 1799,*® Benjamin Taylor Peckham. 
 
 '8 These dates are taken from the Oatley Bible, bought from Thomas 
 Hemish, September 36, 1734. 
 
124 AnCESTEAL ReCOBDS and POKTBAITS 
 
 Their daughter^ Mary Peckham, married Samuel 
 Rodman, whose daughter, Mary Peckham Rodman, 
 married William Henry Baldwin, Jr.; their daughters 
 are: 
 
 Sakah Rodman Baij)win, 
 Maria Woodwabd Bauowin BLamill, 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
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Ancestral Recoeds and Poetkaits 125 
 
 V 
 
 BAXTER 
 
 It is known that several Baxter families came from 
 Shropshire, Eng., to Massachusetts, in 1631, were ex- 
 communicated with John Throckmorton, and went with 
 him to Rhode Island, and when he removed to West- 
 chester, N. Y., two of these families went with him, in 
 1643, One branch of Baxters moved to Bucks County, 
 Pa.,^ 1682. 
 
 John Baxtee, born 1702, moved to North Carolina 
 from Pennsylvania. His son: 
 
 Majoe Andeew Baxtee (1725-1781), Lieutenant 
 and Captain in the Provincial troops, lived in the sec- 
 tion called the "New Acquisition," near Fort Mills, 
 in 1781. This section was part of North Carolina 
 until 1762, when it was adjudicated to South Caro- 
 lina. The inhabitants were constantly engaged in par- 
 tisan warfare, and Andrew Baxter was killed on the 
 porch of his own house, 1781, tradition says by Corn- 
 wallis' men, but probably by Tories, He married 
 Frances . 
 
 Their son, Andrew Baxter II., was bom December 
 21, 1759. Shortly after the Revolution he moved to 
 Greene County, Ga., where he died October 4, 1816. 
 In 1784, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and 
 EKzabeth (Thomp»son) Harris, born 1764 and died 
 1844. 
 
 Their son, Thomas W. Baxter, was born in Decem- 
 ber, 1781, and died August, 1844, He removed to 
 
 T. From iV. Y. Oen. Beg., January, 1905, p. 33. 
 
126 Ancesteal Records and Porteaits 
 
 Athens, Ga., in 1831, and married Mary, the daughter 
 of Moses and Ann (Jack) Wiley, who was bom Novem- 
 ber 25, 1798, and died March 27, 1869. Their daugh- 
 ter, Sarah C, married, February 24, 1848, William 
 Edgeworth, the son of James Wilson and Frances Pa- 
 mela (Casey) Bird. 
 
 Their son, Wilson Edgeworth Bird, married, Feb- 
 ruary 8, 1877, Imogen, the daughter of Andrew and 
 Fanny Brooke (Gwathmey) Reid, who was bom Oc- 
 tober 3, 1854, in Baltimore. Satj.ie Bird, their daugh- 
 ter, was born June 23, 1885. (See pp. 129-141.) 
 
 Saida Bird, their daughter, married Victor Smith. 
 (See pp. 650-660.) 
 
 HARRIS 
 
 John Harris^ emigrated to Pennsylvania 1719, and 
 lived on the site of the present city of Harrisburg. He 
 died 1748, in which year he was captain of the Pennsyl- 
 vania troops. 
 
 His son, Charles Harris, died in 1776, having moved 
 to North Carolina. He married a widow, Elizabeth, 
 the daughter of the Rev. John Thompson, and the 
 
 widow of Baker. Her father was bom in Ireland, 
 
 and was licensed by the Donegal Presbytery; came to 
 New York in 1715 with his family, moving to the Val- 
 ley of Virginia, 1744, and that year was sent by the 
 Presbytery of Philadelphia as missionary to North 
 Carolina. In 1751 he settled near his daughter, Mrs. 
 Baker, in Mecklenburg County, where he died, and was 
 "buried in Baker's graveyard, one of the oldest in that 
 region. His daughter's first husband died a few years 
 later. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Harris, married Andrew 
 
 Baxter II. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 127 
 
 ALEXANDER-SHELBY-WILEY 
 
 Adam Alexander, was Sheriff of Mecklenburg 
 County, N. C, before 1771, and Captain of the North 
 Carolina troops, 1771. His wife Mary was the daugh- 
 ter of Evan Shelby, who was Captain of the Raiigers, 
 1772. 
 
 Their daughter, Susan Alexander, married James 
 Wiley II., the grandson of David Wiley, who died in 
 Scotland (his widow coming to Pennsylvania with their 
 children, one of whom, James Wiley, went to Virginia) . 
 
 Their son, Moses Wiley, was born in Mecklenburg 
 County, 1768, and married, 1789, Anny the daughter 
 of John and Mary (Barnett) Jack, born February, 
 1774, and died 1858. They moved to Bibb County, 
 Ga. 
 
 Their daughter, Mary Wiley, married Thomas W. 
 Baxter. 
 
 JACK 
 
 Patrick Jack^ a grandson of William Jack, a Pres- 
 byterian minister of Ireland, was born there, emigrat- 
 ing to Pennsylvania. He moved to North Carolina 
 shortly after 1763, and settled in Mecklenburg Coimty, 
 dying in 1780. He was Lieutenant in the third Lan- 
 caster Battalion. His wife was Lillis McAdoo. Issue, 
 two sons, James and John. Captain James Jack car- 
 ried the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, 
 May 20, 1775, from Charlotte, N. C, to the Continental 
 Congress in Philadelphia, on horseback through a 
 country infested with tories. 
 
 The yoimger son, John Jack, married Mary, the 
 daughter of John and Ann (Spratt) Barnett, and 
 moved to Wilkes County, Ga., soon after the Revolu- 
 tion. 
 
128 Ancestbal Recoeds and Poeteaits 
 Their daughter. Aim, married Moses Wiley. 
 
 BARNETT-SPRATT 
 
 The father of Mary (Bamett) Jack, John Barnett, 
 was born in Virginia 1720, and moved to Mecklenburg 
 Coimty, He married Ann, born 1725, the daughter of 
 Thomas Spratt, one of the earliest settlers of Mecklen- 
 burg County, going there from Virginia 1724, and was 
 still living in 1770. The first Court in Mecklenburg 
 County was held at his house about two miles from 
 the present city of Charlotte. His daughter, Ann 
 Spratt, was the first white child born between the Yad- 
 kin and the Catawba rivers. She married John Bar- 
 nett, and their daughter, Mary, married John Jack. 
 
 Their daughter, Ann Jack, married Moses Wiley, 
 whose daughter, Mary, married Thomas W. Baxter. 
 Their daughter was Saeah C. 
 
 Saeah C. Baxtee Bied, 
 
 Saida Bied Smith, 
 
 Sallie Bied, 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
Ancestral Records and Poeteaits 129 
 
 VI 
 LEWIS 
 
 Robert Lewis I. settled in Gloucester County, Va., 
 early in the seventeenth century and received a large 
 grant of land. Family tradition says he was a native 
 of Brecon, Wales. 
 
 John Lewis I. settled on Pametank River in Vii'- 
 ginia, 1653, Authorities differ as to whether he was 
 the son of Robert or his brother. He married Lydia 
 
 John Lewis II., a son of either Robert or John, 
 I.,^ was Captain of New Kent Horse 1680, and mar- 
 ried Isabella Their son: 
 
 John Lewis III. was born November 30, 1669, and 
 died November 14, 1725 ; married Elizabeth^ the daugh- 
 ter of Colonel Augustine and Mildred (Reade) 
 Warner. She was bom November 24, 1672 and died 
 1719. Issue, fourteen children; of these John IV, 
 
 1 The Telationship of these three men has not been determined. 
 
130 Ancesteal Recobds and Portraits 
 
 Robert and Charles Lewis founded important branches 
 of the family. 
 
 Collateral Lines of Robert and Charles Lewis 
 
 The eldest of theso brothers, Robert Lewis, settled 
 at " Belvoir," Albemarle County, Va,, and married 
 Jane Merriwether. Among his descendants was the 
 distinguished explorer. Captain Merriwether Lewis 
 (1774-1809). 
 
 The younger brother, Charles Lewis, settled upon the 
 " Byrd," a small stream in Goochland County, Va., and 
 married Mary, the daughter of John Howell of King 
 and Queen County. From him are descended the 
 families of HoweU, Lewis, Cobb, Kennon, Taylor, 
 Worsham and others in North Carolina and Georgia. 
 
 WARNER-READE-MARTIAN 
 
 Captain Augustine Warner, bom October 9, 1611, 
 died December 24, 1674; came to America before 1630. 
 His son: 
 
 Colonel Augustine Warner of "Warner HaU" 
 born October 20, 1643, and died June 10, 1681, mar- 
 ried Mildred, the daughter of Colonel George and 
 Elizabeth (Martian) Reade. His daughter Mildred 
 married Major Lawrence Washington, and his 
 youngest daughter Elizabeth married John Lewis III. 
 
 Colonel George Reade (1600-1671), was son of 
 Robert Reade, Secretary of State, England, who mar- 
 ried Mildred Windebank. George Reade came to Vir- 
 ginia 1637, and married Elizabeth, the daughter of 
 Captain Nicholas Martian. Their daughter, Mildred, 
 married Colonel Augustine Warner. 
 
 Captain Nicholas Martian settled in York 
 County, His daughter, Elizabeth, married Colonel 
 George Reade. (See pp. 436-440.) 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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 LEWIS (Continued) 
 
 The eldest son of John III and Elizabeth (Warner) 
 Lewis, John Lewis IV, was born in 1694 (some say 
 1702), and died January 17, 1754. He resided in 
 Spottsylvania County, Va., and was a lawyer of dis- 
 tinction and a member of the Council in 1748. He 
 owned part of the land on which Fredericksburg was 
 built, and with Colonel Willis laid out that city in 1727. 
 He married Frances, the daughter of Henry Field- 
 ing. She died in 1731. Their son was Col.onel 
 Fielding Lewis. 
 
 Henry Fielding^ of King and Queen County, Va., 
 was the son of Madame Frances Fielding. He mar- 
 ried a widow, Mrs. Howell. His will, proved in 1712, 
 mentions two Howell children. 
 
 Colonel Fielding Lewis^ third son of John IV 
 and Frances (Fielding) Lewis, was born July 7, 1725, 
 and died December, 1781 (or January, 1782), and was 
 buried in the vestibule of St. George's Church. An 
 active citizen of Fredericksburg, the official annals 
 show that he owned nearly half the place. Commis- 
 sioned county Lieutenant 1758; Commander-in-chief 
 of the Militia of Spottsylvania County, 1761, and a 
 Burgess from Spottsylvania 1773. During the Revo- 
 lution (being unable to enter the army because of a 
 defect in his eyes), he advanced a considerable por- 
 tion of his large fortune in the manufacture of arms 
 at the "Gunnery," established by the State at Fred- 
 ericksburg. For this outlay he was never repaid ex- 
 cept in depreciated money ,^ with which he bought largely 
 of Western lands in the hope of offsetting his losses. 
 
 He married first, Catherine, the daughter of Major 
 
 2 Value 6 pence in the pound ; letter of General Washington to Cap- 
 tain Fielding Lewis. 
 
132 ANCESTRAIi ReCOEDS AND PORTRAITS 
 
 John Washington ; she died February, 1749-50. Issue : 
 
 John, bom 1747. 
 
 Frances, born 1748, died s. p. 
 
 Warner, born 1749, died young. 
 
 He married second. May 7, 1750, Betty, the daughter 
 of Augustine and Mary (Ball ) Washington, and sister 
 of General Washington; she was born June 20, 1733, 
 and died March 31, 1797. Her husband built a resi- 
 dence for her in Fredericksburg, which was named 
 "Kenmore" by a later owner. Colonel Lewis' will, 
 which was proved January, 1782, gave to his wife, for 
 hfe, the use of all his land ia Spottsylvania County, 
 except certain rented tracts. 
 
 . The Washington ancestry of Betty (Washington) 
 Lewis was as follows: 
 
 John Washington of Whitfield, England. 
 
 Robert Washington of Wharton, England. 
 
 John of Wharton, son of Robert, married Margaret 
 Kitson. 
 
 Lawrence, son of John Washington, Gentleman, 
 married Aimee Pargiter. 
 
 Robert, son of Lawrence, married Elizabeth Lighte. 
 
 Lawrence of Sulgrave, son of Robert, married Mar- 
 garet Butler. 
 
 Rev. Lawrence, son of Lawrence of Sulgrave, mar- 
 ried Amphillis Roades. 
 
 John, the emigrant, son of Rev. Lawrence, married 
 Ann Pope, of Virginia. (See p. 435.) 
 
 Lattrence, son of John, married Mildred Warner, 
 of Warner Hall. (See pp. 436-437.) 
 
 Augustine L, son of Lawrence, married second. 
 Mary Ball. (See p. 137.) 
 
 Betty, daughter Augustine I. and Mary Ball, married 
 Colonel Fielding Lewis^ of Fredericksbiu-g. 
 
Ancesteax Records and Poetraits 133 
 
 (For the Washington family see pp. 407-435.) 
 What is known of Betty , the only sister of George 
 Washington, is of a fragmentary character. She is 
 said to have been so strikingly like her brother that it 
 was a matter of jest for the younger people to throw a 
 cloak about her and place a military cap upon her head. 
 She was domestic in her tastes, and after her husband's 
 death capably managed his estates. When her husband 
 died, in her fiftieth year, she went to live with her daugh- 
 ter Betty, (who had married Charles Carter) at " West- 
 ern View," Culpeper County, Va. The following 
 letter was written by her to her brother George, June 
 5, 1796: 
 
 "My Dear Brother: I expected your coming threw 
 Baltimore that you would ascertain Mr. Park's fortune, 
 tho' I believe he would not tell anything false on the 
 occasion. Harriot's brother wrote her a letter from 
 Baltimore and likewise one to Mr. Parks congratulat- 
 ing them on their intended union. M^y love to you and 
 to my sister Washington concludes me your affectionate 
 sister Betty Lewis." 
 
 " We can infer that General Washington's inquiries 
 were as satisfactory as they were diplomatic for 'my 
 niece Harriet Parks ' appears in his will. She was the 
 daughter of Samuel Washington." 
 
 Colonel Fielding and Betty (Washington) Lewis 
 had issue: 
 
 Fielding, born February 14, 1751. 
 
 Augustine, born January 22, 1752, died in infancy. 
 
 Warner, born June 24, 1755, died in infancy. 
 
 George, born March 14, 1757. 
 
 Mary, born April 22, 1759. 
 
 Charles, born October 8, 1760. 
 
 Samuel, born 1763, died in infancy. 
 
134 Ancestral, Recobds and Poetbaits 
 
 Betty, bom February 23, 1765, married Charles 
 Carter. 
 
 Lawrence, born April 4, 1767, married Washington's 
 adopted daughter, who left them two thousand acres 
 of land, in his will, including part of Mt. Vernon. 
 
 Robert, born June 25 l769. 
 
 Howell, born December 12, 1771. 
 
 POPE 
 
 Colonel Nathaniel Pope settled in Westmoreland 
 County and took up large tracts of land on the stream 
 named for him, "Pope'si CreekL" He represented 
 Virginia during the troubles with Maryland in 1645 
 over Kent Island, and was agent to that Island 1647. 
 His daughter, Ann, married Colonel John Washing- 
 ton. (See p. 435.) 
 
 BALL^ 
 
 Abms: Argent, a lion passant sable, on a chief of the second three 
 mullets of the first. 
 
 Crest: Out of the clouds, ppr., a demi Hon rampant, sable, powdered 
 with etoiles, arg. holding a globe or. 
 
 Motto: Coehi/mqw tueri. 
 
 Colonel Willlam Ball of "MiUenbeck," Lan- 
 caster County, Va., bom 1615 in England, emigrated to 
 ■ Virginia about 1650, and died November, 1680, in Lan- 
 caster County. He married Hannah Atherold in Lon- 
 don. He was the fifth William Ball in succession. With 
 him came his wife and three children, William, Joseph 
 and Hannah. In March 1675-6, "Coll Wilham 
 Ball and Lieut-Coll John Carter, or either of 
 them, in the County of Lancaster " were empowered by 
 the Virginia Assembly to raise soldiers for the defence 
 of the County against the Indians. His title of Colonel 
 
 s Wm. and Mary Quar., Vol. i, p. 114. Prior to 1776. Ball original 
 parchment copy. Hayden's Oen., Vol. Iv, p. 178. Lee of Va., p. 546. 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 135 
 
 BALL 
 
 at that time would indicate his being County Lieuten- 
 ant, or commanding the forces in active operation. 
 The following is the original wording: 
 
 " Att a committy (by order of ye Grand Assembly) 
 for laying Levy in the Northern Neck for ye charge in 
 raisinge ye forces thereof for suppressing ye late rebel- 
 lion mett at Capt. Beales ye 14th of August 1677, be- 
 ing present: Coll. Wm. BaU. Coll. Jno. Washington 
 and others. 
 
 " Itt is by them ordered, y' ye Coimty of Rapp'' and 
 Westmoreland, pay for 802 tythabls at 31'" of Tob° and 
 poll 25025"" (sic) Tob° to ye sev'all psons hereinafter 
 pticularly menconed."* 
 
 For the transportation of his wife, children and other 
 persons, Colonel Ball received sixteen hundred acres 
 of land. Captain William Ball, the eldest son, was 
 three times married and left a large family. 
 
 Colonel Joseph Ball^ the second son of the immi- 
 grant, born in England 24th of May 1649, died at his 
 
 * Wm. and Mary Quar., Vol. ii, p. 48. 
 
136 Ancesteax Records and Poetbaits 
 
 estate "Epping Forest," Lancaster Coiinty, June 1711. 
 This estate had its name from the English home. He 
 received a grant of land. In 1702, his name is on the list 
 of Burgesses for Lancaster County. In 1704, was a 
 Vestryman of his parish and was Lieutenant-Colonel 
 of the County, being commissioned by Governor Alex- 
 ander Spotswood under the royal authority. 
 
 Among the letters written to George Washington 
 we find the following from Joseph Ball, Jr., Esq. : 
 
 Stratford 5th Septr. 1755. 
 
 It is a Sensible Pleasure to me to hear you have be- 
 haved your Self with such a martial Spirit in all your 
 Engagements with the French nigh Ohio. Go on as 
 you have begun ; and God prosper you. We have heard 
 of General Braddock's Defeat. Every Body Blames 
 his Rash Conduct. Every Body Commends the Cour- 
 age of the Virginia and Carolina men: which is very 
 Agreeable to me. I desire you, as you may from time 
 to time have opporttmity, to give me a short account 
 how you proceed. As I am your Mother's Brother, I 
 hope you can't deny my Request. There is no War 
 Declared yet, either by the French or us; though it is 
 expected there soon will. The King is not returned 
 from Hanover yet; but is looked for very soon. The 
 Yachts are gone for him. I heartily wish you Good 
 Success, and am 
 
 Y' Loving Uncle, 
 
 Jos. Ball. 
 
 Please to direct to me Stratford by Bow nigh London. 
 
 Since the writing the Letter above, there are six more 
 French vessels brought in. Though they pretended to 
 be bound to the West Indies, they are really bound we 
 found to Louisburgh. 
 
 Please deliver the Inclosed to your Mother. — 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 137 
 
 To Major George Washington at the falls of Rapp'' 
 River or Elsewhere in Virginia. 
 
 By favour of Mr. Butler.** 
 
 Joseph Ball's second wife was Mrs. Mary Johnson, 
 of Lancaster County, Va., whose daughter, Mary Ball, 
 married Augustine Washington. They were the par- 
 ents of George Washington, his three brothers, and his 
 sister Betty, (Mrs. Fielding Lewis) . 
 
 Little is known of the early life of Mary, the daugh- 
 ter of Joseph Ball by his second marriage. She was 
 born 1708 and died August 25, 1789, aged eighty-two 
 years. An interesting word picture of her is given 
 in a letter dated in the year 1722 : 
 
 "Mama thinks Molly, (Mary Ball), the comliest 
 maiden she knows. She is about sixteen years old, 
 taller than me, very sensible, modest and loving, her 
 hair is like unto flax, her eyes the color of yours, her 
 cheeks like May blossoms." 
 
 When she married Augustine Washington they lived 
 at "Wakefield," the Washington Homestead on 
 Bridge's Creek, and occupied with the cares of a Vir- 
 ginian matron upon a large plantation of a thousand 
 acres, she led a busy life. She was a widow for more 
 than forty years, living in Fredericksburg from the year 
 1770 until her death. In 1833, the corner-stone of a 
 monument over her grave was laid with great ceremony, 
 by the President of the United States, but il remained 
 unfinished for more than half a century, when a society 
 of patriotic ladies completed it. 
 
 LEWIS {Continued) 
 The youngest son of Fielding and Betty (Washing- 
 ton) Lewis, Howell Lewis, was born December 11, 1771 
 in Culpepper County, Va. He married September 26, 
 
 tLetten to Washington, Vol. i, p. 85. 
 
138 Ancestbal Records and Poeteaits 
 
 1795, Ellen Hackley, the daughter of Robert Pollard 
 of Richmond, Va. She was born December 7, 1776, 
 her mother being Jael, a daughter of William and Ellen 
 (Hackley) Underwood. Robert Pollard belonged to 
 the business firm of Pickett, Pollard and Johnston, who 
 acted as financial agents of the State of Virginia in the 
 early part of the nineteenth century. He went to 
 Richmond from Culpeper County and was a vestry- 
 man of St. John's church. Too young to take even a 
 subordinate part in the military career of his uncle, or 
 in all his political career, yet, as he approached his 
 majority, Howell Lewis received this gratifying evi- 
 dence of General Washington's confidence and esteem 
 sent through his mother's hands: 
 
 "Phladelphia, April 8, 1792. 
 
 " My Dear Sister, 
 
 "If yoiu" son Howell is living with you and not 
 especially employed in your own affairs, and should in- 
 chne to spend a few months with me as a writer in my 
 office, if he is fit for it, I will allow him the rate of $300. 
 a year, provided he is diligent in discharging the duties 
 of it, from breakfast until dinner, Sundays excepted. 
 This sum will be punctually paid him, and I am par- 
 ticular in declaring beforehand what I require, and what 
 he may expect, that there may be no disappointment or 
 false expectations on either side. He will live in the 
 family in the same manner his brother Robert did; if* the 
 offer is accepted he must hold himself in readiness to 
 come on immediately on my giving him notice. . . . 
 Mrs. Washington unites with me in best wishes and love 
 for you and yovirs, and I am» my dear sister, your most 
 affec. Brother, G. Washington." 
 
 This letter was written dm-ing the last year of Wash- 
 ington's first term as President, when he was residing 
 
Ancestbal Recokds and Portraits 139 
 
 (1792) in the only house then obtainable in Philadel- 
 phia, which was considered a suitable residence for the 
 first President. It was situated on High street, one 
 door east of the southeast corner of High and Sixth 
 streets. On April 24, 1792 (not by return mail), 
 Howell Lewis sent this answer to his uncle's letter: 
 " Fredericksburg, April 24, 1792. 
 
 " Dear Uncle, 
 
 " I should have done myself the pleasure of replying 
 to your letter on its receipt, but was at that time en- 
 gaged in business in Frederick. I consider myself ex- 
 tremely favored by your proposal of a berth in your 
 family, and shall accept it provided my probation is 
 deemed satisfactory. I lament that I have not been 
 more attentive to the improvement of my writing tho' 
 I hope that I shall soon be qualified to do the business 
 for which you mean to employ me. With best wishes 
 to my Aunt, I remain most respectfully yours, 
 
 Howell Lewis." 
 
 In 1812 he took possession of a tract of land of thir- 
 teen hundred acres, left him by General Washington, 
 in West Virginia, on the Kanawha River in Mason 
 County, near the mouth of " Big Buffalo " Creek. He 
 carried with him twelve male and six female slaves: and 
 their children. He had also inherited a half interest 
 in twenty thousand acres of land in Kentucky, and 
 other land from his father. He died in Kanawha 
 December 26, 1822, and was buried there. His widow 
 lived in Kanawha six years after his death when she 
 moved to Marietta, O., where she resided until her death, 
 Jime 15, 1859, with her daughter Betty, who had mar- 
 ried Joseph Lovell in 1818. 
 
 The fifth child of Howell Lewis, Frances) Fielding, 
 married Humphrey Brooke CrWathmeyj and their 
 
140 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 daughter, Fanny Brooke Gwaihmey, married Andrew 
 Reid. (SeeReid). 
 
 GWATHMEY 
 
 The colonist, Owen Gwathmey, of Wales, came to 
 Virginia between 1680 and 1690, and settled in Glou- 
 cester Coimty. He married there a resident of the 
 County, Mrs. Clevins. Their son, Richard, mar- 
 ried Moore, between 1720 and 1724. 
 
 Their son, Owen, was born between 1725 and 1730, 
 and married Hannah, the daughter of Joseph and Ann 
 (Arnold) Temple. 
 
 Their son. Temple, married Ann, the daughter of 
 Robert and Molly (Brooke) Baylor. 
 
 Their, son, Humphrey Brooke, was born March 29, 
 1794, in Canterbury, King and Queen County, Va., and 
 died October 22, 1852. He married, June 27, 1822, in 
 Richmond Va,, Frances Fielding, the daughter of 
 Howell and Ellen Hackley (Pollard) Lewis. She was 
 born February 11, 1805 and died May 28, 1888. 
 
 Their daughter, Fanny Brooke Gtoathmey, married 
 Andrew Reid. 
 
 TEMPLE-BAYLOR 
 
 Joseph Temple, a Captain of the Rangers, in 1758, 
 and also a member of the Committee of Safety in 1774, 
 married Ann Arnold, and was the father of ten children, 
 among them Hannah, who married Owen Gwathmey, 
 II., whose son. Temple, married Ann Baylor. 
 
 John Baylor^ born 1650, was Burgess of Glouces- 
 ter, afterwards moving to Essex County. Issue: 
 
 Robert, who had issue Robert II, who married before 
 1746, Molly, the daughter of Humphrey and Elizabeth 
 (Brayton) Brooke. Their daughter Ann married 
 Temple Gwathmey. 
 
Fkances P'ielding Lewis 
 Wife of Humphrey Brooke Gwathmey 
 
 Ei-i-EN Hacki.ey Pollard 
 Wife of Howell Lewis 
 
 Howell Lewis 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 141 
 
 BROOKE-BRA YTON 
 
 Robert Brooke of Essex County, married Kaiher- 
 ine, daughter of Humphrey Booth. Their son: 
 
 Humphrey Brooke married Elizabeth Brayton. 
 Robert Brooke, Jr., a brother of Hmnphrey, was a 
 Knight of the Golden Horseshoe. (See Brooke line 
 pp. 553-558.) Issue: Molly Brooke, who married Rob- 
 ert Baylor II. 
 
 George Brayton (1677-1746) was a Burgess from 
 King and Queen County 1720 to 1722, and the father of 
 George Brayton the Signer. Also of Elizabeth, who 
 married Humphrey Brooke. 
 
 REID 
 
 A native of Scotland, George Reid came to Virginia, 
 and settled in Norfolk 1801, where he died 1849. He 
 was the son of William Reid of Farf ar, Scotland. The 
 old mansion of the Reid famUy in Farfar, is one of the 
 residences of the Earl of Grey. George Reid married 
 Elizabeth, the daughter of John Taylor of Scotland, 
 and his wife Margaret Carr, who was of Aberdeen. 
 Elizabeth Reid was bom April 12, 1777, and died, in 
 Baltimore 1862. 
 
 Their son Andrew Reid, was born October 28, 1818, 
 and died in Baltimore, Md., January 4, 1896. He mar- 
 ried in Richmond, Va., December 8, 1853, Fanny 
 Brooke, the daughter of Humphrey Brooke and 
 Frances Fielding (Lewis) Gwathmey; she was bom 
 September 8, 1835, in Norfolk, Va. Thedr daughter is: 
 
 Imogen Reid Bird, whose daughter is: 
 
 Sallie Bird, 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
142 
 
 Ancesteal Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 VII 
 
 MURRAY 
 
 Of Tullibardine and Stormont 
 
 MANSFIELD 
 
 The Murrays of Tullibardine and Stormont, trace 
 their ancestry to one of the most ancient and loyal 
 houses of Scotland. In the reign of David II., 1330- 
 1370, there was granted a charter of the lands of Tulli- 
 bardine etc., to Sir Walter Murray, who died 1390, 
 leaving a son David, who was knighted in 1424 by King 
 James I.^ 
 
 Sir William Murray I., of Tullibardine, was a favor- 
 ite of King James III. and James IV., and employed 
 by the latter king in concluding a treaty with England 
 in 1495. His son. Sir William II., of Tullibardine, 
 married Margaret, the daughter of John, Earl of Athole 
 or AthoU ; he had also a second son, Sir Andrew Mur- 
 ray, from whom descend the "Viscounts Stormonts" 
 
 1 Burke's Peerage. Md. Heraldry. By E. E. Lantz, who quotes Mar- 
 tin's Geneal. Coll. and MacFarlane. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 143 
 
 and " Earls of Mansfield." Sir William Murray was 
 created Earl of TuUibardine, 1606, by King James 
 VI., and died 1609, leaving three sons. Eleven baron- 
 etcies have belonged to the powerful " clan of the Mur- 
 rays." 
 
 The colonist, James Murray, who was said to be the 
 son of the Marquis of TuUibardine, born in Elgenshire, 
 Scotland, was banished, 1715, and his estates confiscated 
 in consequence of his loyalty to the house of Stuart. 
 He fled to Barbadoes with his wife, Sarah (Thomas?), 
 and three children, where he lived " with considerable 
 reputation," for some years. 
 
 Doctor William Murray I., (1708-1769), their 
 son, after the death of his parents, settled with his sis- 
 ter,'' who married Mr. Calder, in Chestertown, Md. 
 Having received his education at the University of 
 Edinburgh, he took up the practice of medicine, in' 
 Chestertown, and was most successful. He was Jus- 
 tice of Kent County Court, 1750. His death is thus 
 recorded in the family Bible: " The most affectionate 
 of Husbands, the most indulgent of Fathers, and the 
 best of Friends." He married, 1740, Anne, the daugh- 
 ter of James and Anne (Hynson) Smith. She was 
 born 1720, and died 1807. They had three daughters 
 and three sons, one of whom was James. 
 
 SMITH 
 
 Captain James Smith^ of Chestertown, Md., who 
 died 1760, was Justice of Kent County, Md., 1697, 
 Burgess, 1719-1721, and 1728, and Clerk of the Court 
 
 2 Her granddaughter, named Banning, married Benjamin Chew, of 
 Philadelphia. A younger brother of Dr. Murray, Alexander Murray, 
 returned to England, married into a noble family, and was supposed to 
 have died soon after, as they never heard of him again. 
 
144 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 for many years. He married Sarah, the daughter of 
 Colonel John and Ann Hynson.* Their daughter 
 Anne, married Dr. William Murray. 
 
 HINSON 
 
 Arms: Axnire; a chevron between three suns or, and. a borchire 
 ermine. 
 
 Ceest: a fleur-de-Us, per pale azure. 
 
 In the twenty-third year of the reign of Henry VI., 
 William Hinson, of Fordham, at the Damside, is regis- 
 tered as living there, in the County of Cambridge, Eng. 
 
 These arms were granted in 1644 to Thomas Hinson, 
 a descendant of William, by Ulster, King at Arms in 
 Ireland, for services done in that kingdom, which pat- 
 ent is registered in the Herald office, London. 
 
 Lieutenant Thomas Hinson (1620-1667), a cadet 
 of the family of Fordham, arrived in the Province of 
 Maryland 1650-51, accompanied by his wife Grace and 
 three children, Thomas, John and Charles. He was 
 promptly appointed to one of the most important of- 
 fices, that of Clerk of Isle of Kent County, 1652, and 
 in a few years was High Sheriff " for ye county " 1655, 
 and Burgess 1654 to 1660.* He was a lawyer by profes- 
 sion, and a man of means, and bore the same arms 
 as those of his English forbears. 
 
 Colonel John Hynson^ his son, who died 1705, 
 remained in Kent. The spelling of the name with the 
 letter " y " instead of " i " was purely a Maryland 
 method, as the Fordham family and the emigrant wrote 
 the name with an "i." Colonel John was Justice of 
 
 ^8ide lights of Md. Heraldry. By Mrs. H. Dorsey Richardson. Md. 
 State Colonial Dames. 
 
 * Md. Society of Colonial Darnies of America. Mrs. H. Dorsey Rich- 
 ardson. 
 
"ROCKBUKN," THE RESIDENCE OF DaNTIEL MuKRAY 
 
 The Chestertown Residence or Dk. William Murray I 
 
Ancestrai- Records and Portraits 145 
 
 Kent, 1674, Burgess 1681 to 1683, 1694 to 1697, and 
 High Sheriif 1670. His wife's name was Ann. Their 
 daughter Sarah, married James Smith, whose daugh- 
 ter Arme married William Murray. 
 
 MURRAY {Continued) 
 The eldest son of William and Ann (Smith) Mur- 
 ray, Dr. James Murray, of Annapolis (1741-1820), 
 was born in Chestertown, Md. In 1755 he went to 
 Edinburgh to be educated and study medicine. After 
 graduating in 1769, he returned and settled in Annap- 
 olis. He married Sarah Ennalls, the daughter of the 
 Rev. Daniel and Mary (Murray) Maynadier, and the 
 widow of John Rider Nevitt. Their son was Daniel. 
 
 Collateral Lines of 
 William and Alexander Murray 
 
 The second son of William and Ann (Smith) Mur- 
 ray, was Dr. Wilham Murray II. (1752-1842), of 
 Woodstock, West River, Md. He married Harriet, 
 the daughter of Henry and Mary (Young) Wood- 
 ward, and the widow of James Brice, of Annapolis. A 
 letter has recently been discovered which was written by 
 a daughter of Dr. William Murray of Woodstock, to 
 her cousin, Mrs. Mason, a daughter of James Murray 
 of Annapolis, in which she says: 
 
 " My father tells me that the ' Arms ' of our Grand- 
 father are the same as borne by Viscovmt Stormont® 
 (the Scotch Murrays) , but owing to a mistake of Mr. 
 James Burke in England (when yr. dear Father sent 
 to him for the Family Arms) he sent out those of Lord 
 Elibank (the Irish Murrays)."® 
 
 5 For arms see Earl of Mansfield, Burke's Peerage. 
 • Nat. Gazette Biog. Notes. 
 
146 Antcesteai, Records and Poetbaits 
 
 A brother of William Murray II., Commodore Alex- 
 ander Murray (1755-1821), was of the United States 
 Navy. He was in command of the Montezuma and the 
 Constellation, in the war between the United States 
 and Tripoli, and at the time of his death was in com- 
 mand of the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, where the 
 grief displayed at the time of his decease, showed the 
 esteem in which he was held by those under his com- 
 mand. 
 
 He married Mary, the daughter of Magnus 
 MiUer. 
 
 MAYNADIER 
 
 After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Rev. 
 Daniel Maynadier, a French Huguenot, fled from Lan- 
 guedoc in the south of France, first to England, and 
 thence to this country, landing in Annapolis in 1686. 
 He finally settled in Talbot County, Md., and became 
 Rector of White Marsh parish. He married a widow, 
 Mrs. Parrott, of Talbot County.'' 
 
 Their son. Rev, Daniel Maynadier II. (1725-1774), 
 studied and practiced law, but finally, in accordance 
 with his father's wishes, went to England, and took 
 holy orders. On his return, he settled in Cambridge, 
 Md., and was Rector of Great Choptank parish, for 
 many years, until his death. He married. May 11, 
 1746, Mary, the daughter of William Vans and Sarah 
 (Ennalls) Murray, and their daughter, Sarah Ennalls, 
 married first, John Rider Nevitt, and second, James 
 Murray, of Annapolis.® 
 
 T Jones' Hist, of Dorchester Co., Md., p. 304. 
 8 Family Recs. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 147 
 
 MURRAY 
 
 Of the House of Athol 
 
 Doctor William Vans Murray (1692-1759), the 
 son of William and Mary (Vans) Murray, born at 
 Castle TuUebardine, 
 Perthshire, Scot., was 
 of the House of Mur- 
 ray, Earl of that es- 
 tate.' 
 
 He was the youngest 
 of seventeen children, 
 and being implicated 
 with his family in the 
 trouble which arose 
 about the succession to 
 the throne of Scotland 
 in 1715, he was obliged 
 
 _ ' , . ,.„ „ JAMES MURRAY'S BOOK plate 10 
 
 to fly tor his iiie. He 
 
 escaped to France, and from there emigrated to Mary- 
 land, finally removing to Cambridge, Md., 1739. On 
 his arrival he had but fifty guineas in his pocket. He 
 purchased from the original patentee of Lord Balti- 
 more, one-third of the land forming the present site of 
 Cambridge. By this means he accumulated a large 
 fortune. A practitioner of medicine until his death, 
 he enjoyed the love and respect of the entire commu- 
 nity. He was cousin and ward of the Duke of Athol 
 of his day, chief of the Murray clan, and his sister 
 Marguerita, a widow, who came with him to Maryland, 
 
 Family Bees. 
 
 10 The arms bear the name of James Murray, who was the ancestor of 
 William Vans Murray. They were engraved upon the book plate shown 
 above, carried by the Murrays of Cambridge since their colonization in 
 Maryland. 
 
148 AlfCESTKAl, ReCOBDS AND PORTRAITS 
 
 was a member of that household." He married Sarah. 
 the daughter of Colonel Henry and Mary (Hooper) 
 Ennalls. Their daughter, Mary, married Rev. Daniel 
 Maynadier II. 
 
 ENNALLS 
 
 It is said that this family was of Dutch origin, emi- 
 grated to Scotland in the. sixteenth century, and from 
 there went to Suffolk, Eng. 
 
 Bartholomew Ennalls (1643-1688), the first of 
 the name to arrive in Maryland, came from York 
 County, Va., between 1660 and 1669, with his wife 
 Mary, the widow of Francis Hayward. He purchased 
 two thousand acres on • Transquaking River, Md.^^ 
 There is a patent from Charles "the absolute Lord 
 Proprietor of the province of Maryland and Avalon, 
 Lord Baron of Baltimore," etc., -confirming a grant of 
 his father, Cecillus, etc., dated June 10, 1671, to Bar- 
 thqlomew Ennalls, East side of the Chesapeake Bay, 
 in which place he lived and died. He was Conmiis- 
 sioner in Dorchester County, Md., 1676, member of the 
 Maryland Assembly, and " Gentleman Justice " 1682 
 to 1688. His son: 
 
 Colonel Henry Ennalls (1675-1734), his son, 
 was Burgess for Dorchester Coxmty, 1712 to 1713; 
 Justice 1726. He married Mary, the daughter of 
 Henry and Elizabeth (Denwood) Hooper, and grand- 
 dau"ghter of Levin Denwood. She was born 1674, 
 and died 1745. Their daughter, Sarah, married Dr. 
 William Vans Murray^ and their daughter, Mary 
 Murray, married Rev. Daniel Maynadier II. 
 
 HOOPER 
 
 Captain Henry Hooper^ who died 1676, came to 
 
 11 Jones' Dorchester County, Md., p. 393. 
 
 12 Jones' History of Dorchester County, Md. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 149 
 
 Maryland 1651, and settled on the Patuxent River, in 
 what is now Calvert County, with his wife Sarah. He 
 was Justice 1658, and commissioned Captain June 3, 
 1658/' His son: 
 
 Henry Hooper II., was born 1645, and came with 
 his parents to Maryland. He was Justice of Dor- 
 chester County, 1669 to 1689, and Burgess for " Old 
 Kent," 1664. He married, July 4, 1669, Elizabeth, the 
 daughter of Levin Denwood. Their daughter Mary, 
 married Henry Ennalls. 
 
 DENWOOD 
 
 LrvEiNGE Denwood (or Levin as it is now usually 
 called) was an early resident of the Eastern shore of 
 Virginia, first appearing in the records of Northhamp- 
 ton County, 1633, the name always being given as Live- 
 inge.^** There are two traditions concerning this name. 
 One that his mother was a Huguenot maiden, named 
 Le Vigue, the other that he was the thirteenth child, 
 twelve of whom had died, and upon his birth he was 
 promptly named " Liveinge." He was appointed 
 Commissioner of Northampton County, Va. 1654. He 
 married Mary Cutting (?). 
 
 Among their children were Elizabeth, who married 
 Henry Hooper II., and Levin II., who married Mary, 
 
 , whose daughter Mary, married Henry Hill, the 
 
 son of Captain Richard Hill. 
 
 MURRAY {Continued) 
 
 The son of James and Sarah Ennalls (Maynadier) 
 Murray, Daniel Murray (1778-1842), was educated at 
 
 isjfd. Arch. Vol. Ill, p. 344, 347. Jones' Dorchester County, Md., pp. 
 330, 331, 323. 
 m- Ancestry of Rosalie Morris Johnson, by R. Winder Johnson, p. ST. 
 
150 Ancesteal Recoeds and Poetraits 
 
 St. John's College, Annapolis, and then entered the 
 United States Navy where, in 1797, he received his 
 commission from Thomas Jefferson. He resigned a 
 few years after his marriage, and went to live at Mel- 
 rose, West River, and in 1822 removed to Rockburn, 
 Howard County, Md., where he passed the remainder 
 of his days. He was the intimate friend of Francis 
 Scott Key, and of Commodore Perry. He married 
 Mary, the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Dor- 
 sey) Dorsey.^* Their son was Francis Key Murray. 
 
 DORSET 
 
 The colonist, Edward Dorsey, of Hockley, Essex 
 County, Eng., came to this country with or before his 
 three sons, John^ Edward and Joshua. It is said that 
 the name was originally D'Arcy, and that they went 
 from Normandy to Ireland, and thence to England.*® 
 
 Colonel John Doesey, who died in 1714, was Bur- 
 gess 1692, 1700, 1703; a Justice of Anne Arundel 
 County, Md. 1694, and a member of the Council, 1710 
 to 1714. He married Pleasance Ely. 
 
 Their son, Caleh Dorsey I., of Hockley, was born 
 1685, and married Eleanor, the daughter of Richard 
 and Elinor (Browne) Warfield; she was born 1683. 
 
 Their son, Caleh 11., of Behnont (1710-1772), mar- 
 ried 1735-36, Priscilla, the daughter of Henry and 
 Mary (Denwood) Hill, granddaughter of Captain 
 Richard Hill. 
 
 Theif son, Edward, of Belmont (1758-1799), mar- 
 ried his cousin Elizabeth, the daughter of John and 
 Mary (Hammond) Dorsey. Their daughter, Mary, 
 married Daniel Murray. 
 
 1* Family Bees. 
 
 IS Ibid. Md. Arch.. Md. Society of Colonial Dames. 
 
Ancestral Records and Poktraits 151 
 
 The parents of John Dorsey, the father of Elizabeth, 
 were Edward and Sarah (Todd) Dorsey, and he was 
 a grandson of Colonel John Dorsey. 
 
 WARFIELD 
 
 The family of Warfield had been one of consequence 
 in England from the time of the Norman Conquest. 
 Pagen de Waxfield, a Norman gentleman of the ret- 
 inue of William the Conqueror, won a knight's fee and 
 the estate of Warfield Walk, at the battle of Hastings, 
 1066, in consideration of his services to the king on that 
 eventful occasion." 
 
 Captain Richard WarfielDj emigrated from Berk- 
 shire, Eng. 1662, and married Elinor Browne (See 
 p. 82.) 
 
 Their daughter Eleanor, married Caleb Dorsey of 
 Hockley. 
 
 HILL 
 
 Captain Richard Hill, bom in 1650, married 
 Milcah He was a member of the House of Bur- 
 gesses, Anne Arundel County, Md., 1681 to 1689, 
 1694 to 1699, and Chief Judge of the Cbunty Court, 
 1686. He was also Captain of the Militia 1689. 
 
 His son, Henry Hill (1672-1738-39) , married, , 
 
 Mary, the daughter of Levin Denwood. Their daugh- 
 ter, Priscilla, married Caleb Dorsey II., of Behnont, 
 grandson of Colonel John Dorsey. 
 
 HAMMOND 
 
 Major-General John Hammond, was born 1643, 
 and died 1707. He was Burgess for Anne Arundel 
 County, Md., 1692 ; Justice of the Provincial Court, and 
 
 i9 3fd. Heraldry. 
 
152 Ancestbal Records and Portraits 
 
 member of the Council, 1698 to 1707; commissioned 
 Colonel October 4, 1699; Judge of the Vice- Admiralty 
 1702, and Major-General of the Western Shore. He 
 married Mary Howard. Their son: 
 
 Colonel William Hammond, was born 1711, and 
 died 1752. He was the Commissioner appointed to lay 
 out Baltimore Town, 1729; High Sheriff, 1736, and 
 Colonel of Militia. He married Mary Todd. Their 
 daughter, Mary, married John Dorsey. 
 
 MURRAY (Continued) 
 
 The son of Lieutenant Daniel and Mary (Dorsey) 
 Murray, Francis Key Murray, of Rockburn, was born 
 in 1820. He entered the navy 1836, and was graduated 
 1842, serving through the Mexican War, and also the 
 Florida Indian War, His friend and classmate Gen. 
 Edward Beale, says of him: 
 
 "... .During that frightful disaster which resulted 
 after days of dreadful suspense in the loss of the San 
 Francisco, his cool and even temper enabled him to 
 control the most disorderly of the soldiers aiad sailors 
 of that ill-fated ship, and to calm the wildest terrors of 
 the helpless women and children — ^they looked to him and 
 as long as they could see his calm and cheerful face, they 
 felt that they were to be saved. Afterwards, when his 
 own ship seemed sinking under him, and the men were 
 clamorous to save themselves by the boats, he stood knee 
 deep in water on the deck, and with the same wonderful 
 influence his example always carried, without force or 
 menace, calmed their uneasy fears, and carried his ship 
 into port, through hazards it seemed impossible to 
 escape." 
 
 He married Anna Maria, the daughter of Thomas 
 
Ancestral Recokds and Poetraits 153 
 
 Willing and Caroline (Calvert) Morris. Their daugh- 
 ter, Julia Moe»is, married Henry J. Bowdoin. 
 
 MORRIS 
 
 The first known membter of this family, Anthony 
 Morris I, was born in 1600. He was at one time a resi- 
 dent of Reading, Great Britain, and subsequently of 
 Barbadoes. 
 
 His son, Anthony Morris II., married Elizabeth 
 Semoij about 1653. He was styled "mariner" and 
 made voyages between London and Barbadoes. His 
 only child: 
 
 Anthony Morris III, (1654-1721), removed to 
 Philadelphia 1685 or 1686, and soon became prominent 
 in afi'airs. He was appointed one of the first six alder- 
 men of that city 1691; commissioned Justice of Peace 
 and Courts, 1692; recommissioned 1693, when he was 
 appointed Presiding Justice of the Court of Common 
 Pleas, and again recommissioned in 1697. During the 
 years, 1694 to 1698, he was 'Justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the province. Was a member of the Provincial 
 Coimcil of Pennsylvania, and from 1698 to 1704 repre- 
 sented Philadelphia in the Assembly." In the year 
 1703 he was chosen Mayor of the city. The first of his 
 four marriages occurred January 30, 1676, to Mary 
 Jones, who died 1688. Their son: 
 
 Anthony Morris IV- (1682-1763), was a member 
 of the Council of Philadelphia, 1715, and served for 
 many years ; represented that city in the Assembly 1721 
 to 1726, and was elected Mayor in 1738, serving one 
 year. Some years later, he was again appointed for that 
 
 IT Penn. Arch. 2d series. Vol. IX, pp. 62S, 630, 701, 728. 
 
154 Ancestral Recobbs and Poutbaits 
 
 office/® He married, 1685, Phoebe, the daughter of 
 George and Alice Guest. 
 
 Their son, Anthony Morris V. (1705-1780), was one 
 of those who established in 1748, the popular social 
 club known as the " Colony on Schuylkill," an organiza- 
 tion still in existence. He married, as his second wife, 
 Elizabeth, the daughter of William and Jane (Evans) 
 Hudson, (1721-1783) . She was a highly esteemed min- 
 ister in the Society of Friends. Their son : 
 
 Captain Luke Morris (1760-1802), was commis- 
 sioned Captain in the Fifth Battalion of the Philadel- 
 phia militia 1785, and in 1789, Lieutenant of Delaware 
 County.^® He married. May 9, 1788, Ann, the daughter 
 of Charles and Elizabeth H. (Carrington) Willing. 
 
 Their son, Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline 
 Maria, the daughter of George and Rosalie Eugenia 
 (Stier) Calvert, and their daughter, Anna Maria, mar- 
 ried Francs Key Murray. 
 
 HUDSON 
 
 The records of the " Friends " in England, show that 
 William Hudson, who died 1713, resided in York, and 
 married three times. His first wife, whom he married 
 , was Mary Head (Heads). 
 
 William Hudson, Jr., their son, was born in Eng- 
 land , and emigrated to Philadelphia about 1686. 
 
 He was a member of the Common Council of Philadel- 
 phia 1701, and of the Provincial Assembly 1706. In 
 1715, he became an Alderman and associate Judge of the 
 City Court, and was chosen Mayor of Philadelphia 
 1725.^° He married first, 1688, Mary, the daughter of 
 Samuel and Elhnor Richardson; she was born 1675, and 
 died 1708. 
 
 18 J6ii. pp. 719, 729, 731. w Ibid, Vol. XIV, p. 687 
 
 20 Jbid, Vol. IX, pp. 739, 730, 738. 
 
Ancesteal Recoeds and Portraits 155 
 
 Their son William Hudson III., married Jane Evans, 
 and their daughter, Elizabeth, married Anthony Morris 
 
 r. 
 
 RICHARDSON 
 
 Samuel Richardson, who died 1719, came to Phila- 
 delphia from Jamaica 1686, driven from England to the 
 West Indies as is supposed, and thence to Pennsylvania, 
 by the persecution that followed the sect of Friends. He 
 purchased five thousand eight hundred acres of land, 
 also two large lots on High Street (now Market), in 
 the city of Philadelphia, for £340. He was Judge of 
 the County Court 1688 to 1704; a member of the Pro- 
 vincial Council 1691 to 1694, 1695 and 1709; and elected 
 Alderman in 1705, which position he held until his 
 death.^* He married, Elhnor (first wife) . 
 
 Their daughter, Mary, married William Hudson, 
 Jr., whose son, William Hudson III., married Jane 
 Evans. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Anthony 
 MoTvis v., and their son, Luke Morris, married Ann 
 Willing. 
 
 WILLING 
 
 This well-known colonial family was descended from 
 Michael Willing, through his son, John, and grandson, 
 Joseph Willing I., (who married Mary ) , to great- 
 grandson, Joseph Willing II., who married Ava Lowle, 
 
 Their son, Thomas Willing, of Bristol, Eng., (1679- 
 1760), married, 1704, Ann, the daughter of Charles 
 Harrison, and granddaughter, of both Major-General 
 Thomas Harrison and Simon Mayne, who are said to 
 have been members of the Court which condemned 
 Charles I. 
 
 2176W, pp. 716, 716, 717. 734. 
 
156 Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 Charles Willing I., (1710-1754), their son, was 
 born in England, and died in Philadelphia. He married, 
 1730, Ann, the daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Gross) 
 Shippen (1710-1791) . Charles Willing came to Phila- 
 delphia 1728, and was Captain of the Associated Regi- 
 ment of Foot of Philadelphia 1747, member of the Com- 
 mon Council 1743, Associated Justice of the City Court 
 1747, Mayor of the city 1748, and again 1754. He died 
 of ship-fever, contracted while in discharge of his official 
 duties.^* 
 
 Their son, Charles Willing II., married Elizabeth 
 Hannah, the daughter of Paul Carrington (1706-1756), 
 (the son of Doctor Paul Carrington, of Barbadoes, and 
 his second wife Henningham Codrington; she died 
 1744-45). 
 
 Their daughter Ann, married Luke Morris, whose 
 son Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline Maria 
 Calvert, and their daughter, Anna Maria, married Fran- 
 cis Key Murray. 
 
 SHIPPEN 
 
 In Yorkshire, Eng., William Shippen, was born, at 
 Hillam, a hamlet in the parish of Monk Fryston, in the 
 West Riding, where the family is said to have been 
 seated since the thirteenth century; he died 1681.^' In 
 1626, he married, Mary, the daughter of John and 
 EfFam (Crosfield) Nunes, of Methley, Yorkshire. 
 
 Edward Shippen (1639-1712), their son, eimgrated 
 from England to Boston, 1668, and was a member of 
 the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of that 
 city. His" first wife was Elizabeth Ly brand, of Boston. 
 
 22 Martin's Betich and Bar, p. 61. Perm. Arch., 2d series. Vol. ix, p. 
 729. 
 
 28 Ancestry of B. M. Johnson by R. Winder Johnson. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 157 
 
 It is probable that his marriage to a Quakeress led him 
 to become a " Friend," and as a member of this Society, 
 he experienced severe persecution, being twice "pub- 
 lickly whipped." Subjected to great annoyances in 
 various ways,*he finally, about 1693 or 1694, removed 
 to Philadelphia. 
 
 In this latter city his wealth, fine personal appearance, 
 and home on Second Street, styled a " Princely Man- 
 sion," together with his talent and high character, 
 obtained for him such position and influence that he was 
 elected Speaker of the Assembly, on July 9, 1695. He 
 was chosen one of the Provincial Council^* by popular 
 vote, in 1696, and was returned every year at the fresh 
 elections. He was also Presiding Justice of the Court 
 of Common Pleas, 1699. William Perm called him to 
 the Council in 1700, and he was named the first Mayor 
 of the city of Philadelphia, under Penn's Charter of 
 
 1701, and was the first named in the Commission issued 
 by the Proprietary 1701. Also President of the Coimcil, 
 1702 to 1704, and upon the death of Penn's Deputy, in 
 1703, became the head of the government until the 
 arrival of John Evans. 
 
 His son, Joseph Shippen, was born 1678-79, and died 
 1741. He removed from Philadelphia to Boston 1704, 
 and later to Germantown. He was among the men of 
 science of his day and in 1727 joined Dr. Franklin in 
 founding the " Junto " which was the forerunner of the 
 "American Philosophical Society." He married first, 
 
 1702, Abigail, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth 
 Gross. 
 
 Their daughter, Ann, married Charles Willing, 
 and their son, Charles Willing II., married Elizabeth 
 Hannah Carrington, whose daughter, Ann, married 
 
 24 Provincial Councillors, p. 47-48. 
 
158 Ancestral Recoeds and Portkaits 
 
 Luke Morris. Their son, Thomas Willing Morris, 
 married Caroline Maria Calvert, whose daughter, Anna 
 Maria, married Francis Key Murray. 
 
 CALVERT 
 
 In or near the town of Danby Wiske, Yorkshire, 
 Eng., Leonard Calvert, the son of John, was living in 
 the time of Elizabeth. He was a country gentleman, 
 apparently in easy circumstances, who owned land and 
 raised cattle, a fact which, at a later time, gave an enemy 
 of George Calvert an opportunity to sneer at him as 
 the " son of a grazier." ^^ 
 
 (See p. 562.) His son: 
 
 Sir George Calvert (1580-1631) , at the early age of 
 fourteen entered Trinity College, Oxford, as a Com- 
 moner, and took his degree 1597. In 1605 he received 
 his first Master's degree at Oxford, and became Cecil's 
 private.secretary, and was appointed by King James I., 
 Clerk of the Crown and of Assize in County Clare, Ire- 
 land, an office resembling that of an Attorney-General. 
 In 1617 he received the order of knighthood, and two 
 years later was raised to the office of the principal Secre- 
 tary of State. On February 18, 1621, the King granted 
 him a manor of twenty-three thousand acres in County 
 Longford, Ireland. The Longford estates were then 
 erected into the Manor of Baltimore, from which he took 
 his title. He had a seat in Parliament 1624, and later 
 announced to the king his conversion to the faith of the 
 church of Rome, and asked to be allowed to resign his 
 secretaryship. The King, however, retained him in the 
 Privy Council, and in 1625 elevated him to the Irish 
 
 25 Ancestry of Rosalie Morris Johnson, by R. Winder Johnson, p. 9, 
 who quotes from Wm. Hand Browne's Qeorge ^ Gecilius Calvert. The 
 Calvert Pa'pers. The Lords Baltimore, by John G. Morris. 
 
ANCESTEAIi ReCOBDS AND PoETKAITS 
 
 159 
 
 peerage as Baron Baltimore, of Baltimore. Although 
 Charles I. wished to retain him in the Council, Lord 
 Baltimore was firm in his resolution to retire from official 
 life. 
 
 As early as 1609, he had been a member of the second 
 Virginia Company, 
 and one of the Pro- 
 visional Council for 
 that colony, and one 
 of the eiffhteen 
 Councillors of the 
 New England 
 Company, 16 2 2, 
 and in that year he 
 applied for a pat- 
 ent and received a 
 grant for the whole 
 of Newfoundland. 
 This was super- 
 seded by a re-grant 
 in March, 1623, 
 conveying to him 
 the south-east pen- 
 insula, which was erected into the province of Avalon by 
 a Royal Charter, in which Lord Baltimore was given a 
 palatinate or quasi royal authority over the province. 
 He visited Avalon 1627, but tJ'e discomforts of life 
 there seem to have been too much for Lady Baltimore, 
 as she sailed to Virginia 1628, remaining for sometime 
 at Jamestown. Lord Baltimore followed her 1629. The 
 Virginians received him coldly as it was within the 
 boimds of possibility, as well as of law, that the king 
 might give him a charter for the whole of Virginia. He 
 was tendered the oath of supremacy, which he could not 
 
 CALVERT 
 
160 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 take, on account of his religious faith, though he offered 
 to take a modified form of it; but to this they would 
 not agree, and he departed for England. There he 
 found that his grant would be delayed, and before the 
 patent for Maryland had passed the " Great Seal," he 
 died. 
 
 He is ranked among the "Makers of America," 
 although the colony he founded was almost a failure, 
 and he did not live to see the beginnings of the colony 
 which succeeded. His portrait by Mytens, court painter 
 to James I., is owned by the present Earl of Verulam. 
 The late John W. Garrett presented a fine copy of this 
 portrait to the State of Maryland, and it hangs in the 
 State House, Annapolis. Lord Baltimore was buried 
 in the church of St. Dunstan, Fleet Street, London, 
 which was destroyed by fire. He married first, Anne, 
 the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Wroth) Mynne, 
 who died 1613. Elizabeth Wroth was the daughter of 
 Sir Thomas, of Durance, in Enfield, Middlesex. 
 
 Their son, Cecilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore 
 (1606-1671), entered Trinity College, Oxford, 1621. 
 The charter for the Province of Maryland, which had 
 been promised to his father, was issued^® in 1632 to 
 Cecilius, and he appointed his brother, Leonard Calvert, 
 as Governor, and sent out colonists and continued to 
 promote the interest of that colony until his death. ( See 
 pp. 562-565 for Leonard Calvert.) He married, 1629, 
 Anne, the daughter of Thomas, Lord Arundel, of 
 Wardour, and his second wife, Anne Philipson. Their 
 son: 
 
 Charles Calvert, third Lord Baltimore (1630- 
 1714-15), was appointed Governor of Maryland in 
 
 20 The Lords Baltimore and Md. Palatinate, by C. C. Hall, p. 39. 
 Oeorge and Cecilius Cahiert, by Wm. Hand Browne, p. 46. 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Porteaits 161 
 
 1661, by his father, and continued as such until the 
 boundary disputes with Penn made his presence in Eng- 
 land necessary. Embarking in 1684, he appointed his 
 infant son, Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor with 
 a board of Deputies, of which George Talbot was presi- 
 dent. Thi'ough Talbot's indiscretion, an insurrection 
 was raised and the members of the Council were forced 
 to resign. In 1691, King William appointed the Gov- 
 ernor, and ther,eafter the Governors were appointed by 
 the Crown until 1715. The authority of the Lords 
 Baltimore was thus in abeyance, being no longer abso- 
 lute Lords as prescribed in the charter of Maryland, but 
 they remained Proprietaries in the sense that they were 
 "Lords of the Soil." After 1684, the third Lord 
 Baltimore did not return to the colony.^^ Charles Cal- 
 vert, married first, Jane, the daughter of Vincent Lowe, 
 and the widow of Henry Sewall (who had been Secre- 
 tary of the Province of Maryland) . 
 
 Their son, Benedict Leonard Calvert, fourth Lord 
 Baltimore, (1678-79-1715) , was elected member of Par- 
 liament for Harwich in Essex, during the last years of 
 his life, and succeeded to the Baltimore title upon the 
 death of his father, a few weeks before his own decease. 
 In 1713 he had renounced the Catholic faith, and 
 attached himself to the Church of England. This dis- 
 pleased his father, who withdrew his allo-wance of £450. 
 Benedict applied to Queen Anne, who granted him a 
 pension of £300 during his father's lifetime, and at 
 Benedict's request, appointed John Hart Governor of 
 Maryland. The news of the successon of Benedict 
 Leonard Calvert as Proprietary, had hardly been re- 
 ceived in Maryland, before it was followed by the an- 
 nouncement of his death. There is no record of his acts 
 
 27 Hall's Baltimore, p. 123, etc. 
 
162 Ancestbal Records and Portraits 
 
 as Proprietary, Hart continued Governor until 1720.^* 
 He married, January 2, 1698-99, Lady Charlotte 
 Lee, the daughter of Edward Henry Lee, first Earl of 
 Litchfield, and his wife. Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, the 
 daughter of the Duchess of Cleveland, and Charles II., 
 of England. 
 
 Their son, Charles Calvert, fifth Lord Baltmore, 
 (1699-1751), succeeded to the title in 1715, and as the 
 Maryland charter still stood firm, the proprietary gov- 
 ernment being only suspended by the Crown on the 
 pretext that it was unsafe in Catholic hands, the acces- 
 sion of this Protestant Charles Calvert, made the pre- 
 text no longer tenable. The government was restored 
 to the Proprietary after twenty-three years abeyance.^® 
 Charles Calvert was a FeUow of the Royal Society, and 
 a member of Parliament. He was Lord of the Admir- 
 alty six years from 1741, Cofferer to the Prince of 
 Wales, and Surveyor-Gkneral of his land in Cornwall. 
 His principal residence was at Woodcote. Surrey, and 
 his London residence was Roslyn House, corner of Rus- 
 sell Square and Guilford Street, where he died. He 
 married, July 20, 1730, Mary, the daughter of Sir Theo- 
 dore Jensen of Wimbleton, Surrey, and his wife, Wil- 
 liamza, the daughter of Sir Robert Henley, of the 
 Grange, in Hampton. Lady Baltimore died 1748. Their 
 son: 
 
 Benedict Calvert, of Mt. Airey, Md., died 1788. 
 He was sent to Maryland in charge of Captain Vernon 
 to Dr. George Stuart, of Annapolis, with a private 
 tutor. Through the influence of his father he was 
 appointed Collector of Customs at Patuxent, November 
 16, 1744. In the Maryland Gazette, Annapolis, March 
 9, 1744-45, appears the following: 
 
 28 Ibid, p. ISl. 29 lUd, p. 144. 
 
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Ancestral Records and Portraits 163 
 
 "Yesterday . . . was appointed Benedict Calvert, 
 Esq., Collector of his Majesties Customs for Patuxent, 
 to be one of his Lordship's Honorable Council of the 
 Province." 
 
 He married, April 21, 1748, Elizabeth, the daughter 
 of Captain Charles and Rebecca (Gerrard) Calvert. 
 
 A descendant writes : 
 
 "Benedict Calvert was buried under the chancel of 
 St. Thomas Chiu-ch at Croome, Prince George's County, 
 Md. My great-grandmother, Eleanor Custis Stuart, 
 the daughter of Benedict, was the last person buried 
 under the church. The Vestry had forbidden such burials 
 but the body was carried to the church at night and 
 buried. In digging the grave, after taking up the floor, 
 the gold coffin plate of Benedict Calvert was uncov- 
 ered." 
 
 His death is thus noticed : 
 
 " A few days ago in an advanced Age at his Seat in 
 Prince George's Coimty, in this State, Hon. Benedict 
 Calvert, Esq., a Gentleman, whose Benevolence of 
 Heart and many other exalted Virtues, justly endeared 
 him to his Relations, and a numerous and respectable 
 Acquaintance, who have sustained an irreparable Loss 
 by his Death." ^» 
 
 His son, George Calvert, of Riversdale, Md., married 
 Rosalie Eugenia Stier. 
 
 Captain Charles Calvert, (uncle of Benedict Cal- 
 vert, of Mt. Arey, and father of Elizabeth, his wife) 
 died 1734. In 1720, Lord Guilford, the guardian of 
 Charles, fifth Lord Baltimore, removed John Hart, the 
 Governor of Maryland, and applied to the King and 
 Council for permission to appoint in his stead, Captain 
 
 i" Md. Journal and Advertiser, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1788. 
 
164 
 
 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Charles Calvert, of the First Foot Guards, and uncle 
 of Lord Baltimore. This being acceded, the new Gov- 
 ernor at once sailed for Maryland. He continued in 
 office until 1727, when Benedict Leonard Calvert, 
 brother of Lord Baltimore, succeeded him, and Charles 
 was appointed Commissary General.®^ Charles Calvert 
 married, 1722, Rebecca, the daughter of John and Eliza- 
 beth Gerrard, of Prince George's County,. Md., and 
 their daughter, Elizabeth, married Benedict Calvert, of 
 Mt. Airey. Md. 
 
 Their son, George Calvert, Esq., of Riversdale, Md., 
 married Rosalie Eugenia, the daughter of Henri Joseph 
 and Marie Louise (Peeters) Stier, and their daughter, 
 Caroline Maria, married Thomas Willing Morris, 
 whose daughter, Anna Maria, married Francis Key 
 Murray. 
 
 STIER 
 The Stiers are traced to Albert Stier (1629-1676), 
 
 of Amsterdam, who 
 ^ married, 1658, Cath- 
 erine Ryser, whose 
 son, Henri (1673- 
 1744), married, 
 1701, Cornelia Nico- 
 lette Van Tetz. 
 
 Their son, Albert 
 Jean (1701-1759), 
 married, 1736, Isa- 
 belle Helene, the 
 daughter of Jean 
 Baptiste de la Bis- 
 trate. Lord of Laer 
 and Neerwinde, and his wife, Helene Fran^oise, the 
 
 31 Ibid, p, ISl. 
 

 Aektselaek axd Ci.eydaei. 
 
 "RiVERSDALE," THE HojIE OF GeORGE CaLVEET 
 
 Built by the Lord of Aertselaer 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 165 
 
 daughter of Jacques Jean de Mont de Brialmont, de- 
 scended from the Rubens family. 
 
 Their son, Henri Joseph, Lord of Aertselaer and 
 Cleydael, was born 1743, and died 1767. He fled from 
 Antwerp 1749, with his wife and three children, just 
 before the French occupied the city, taldng with him 
 what property he could, arriving in Philadelphia Octo- 
 ber 1, 1794. There he continued to live until Decem- 
 ber, 1795, when he removed to Alexandria, Va. After 
 the French Revolution he returned to France in order 
 to hasten the settlement of his aiFairs, and took the oath 
 of fidelity at Versailles, July 19, 1802. Directly after 
 he sailed for America, but in November of that year he 
 once more returned to Antwerp with his family, with 
 the exception of his daughter. He married Marie Louise 
 Peeters, and their daughter Rosalie Eugenia, married 
 George Calvert, Esq. 
 
 RUBENS 
 
 The only child of his parents, John Rubens, who 
 died 1587, was lawyer, sheriff. Councillor and Alder- 
 man of Antwerp, Germany.^^ He married, 1561, 
 Marie Pypelinex, a lady of good position, distinguished 
 for beauty, intelligence and elevation of character. 
 
 Their son, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), was ap- 
 pointed court painter to Archduke Albert in Antwerp, 
 and shortly after his first marriage in 1609, to Isabella 
 Brandt, he bought a house with spacious grounds, and 
 garden, on the street which now bears his name, and 
 built a palatial abode. A separate compartment for 
 works of art was arranged, which was placed beyond 
 the court-yard in the form of a capacious rotunda, 
 lighted from the top. This residence is still standing. 
 
 32 Ancestry of Rosalie Morris Johnson, by R. Windsor Johnson. 
 
166 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Inscribed on the monument in the chapel of the church 
 of St. James, Antwerp, where he is buried, is the fol- 
 lowing : 
 
 " Here lies Peter Paul Rubens, Knight, and Lord of 
 Steen, son of John Rubens a senator of this city. Gifted 
 with marvelous talents, versed in ancient history, a mas- 
 ter of the hberal arts, and of the elegancies of hfe, de- 
 served to be called the ' Apelles of his age ' and of all 
 ages. He won for himself the good will of monarchs 
 and princely men, etc." 
 
 Some of his descendants, through his son, Nicholas 
 Rubens, Lord of Ramey, who was born 1618, died 1655, 
 and married, 1640, Constance Hellman, are as follows: 
 
 Helene Fran9oise Rubens, daughter of Nicholas, 
 married, 1660, Jean Baptiste Lu^iden. 
 
 Jeanne Catherine Limden, married, 1686, Jacques 
 Jean de Mont de Brialmont. 
 
 Helene Fran^oise de Mont de Brialmont, married, 
 I'TOO, Jean Baptiste de la Bistrate, Lord of Laer and 
 Neerwinde. 
 
 Isabelle Helene de la Bistrate, married Albert Jean 
 Stier, whose granddaughter Rosalie Eugenia, married 
 George Calvert, Esq., of Riversdale, Md. 
 
 Their daughter, Caroline Maria Calvert, married 
 Thomas Willing Morris, whose daughter, Anna Maria, 
 married Francis Key Murray. Their daughter is : 
 
 Julia Morris Murray Bowdoin, 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Poetkaits 
 
 167 
 
 VIII 
 
 PRICE (Ap Rhys) 
 
 The first of the name recorded in this country, Wil- 
 liam Price, came from Wales early in the seventeenth 
 century, and settled in Kent County, Md., with two 
 sons, William and Thomas. 
 
 " The Dividings," a tract of 
 six hundred acres, on the east 
 side of the Elk River, was 
 bought by these three men May ^ 
 27, 1661. "Price's Venture," 
 on the west side of the Elk, 
 " Price's Forest," and " Wood- 
 lawn Neck," were also bought 
 by them. 
 
 The eldest son, William II., 
 was born 1626. He married 
 Margaret , and sold 
 
 PRICE 
 
 "Price's Forest." 
 
 His son, William III., a 
 church warden of St. Stephen's 
 Church, Cecil Coimty, Md., 1709, married Mary, the 
 daughter of John and Mary (Dorrington) Hyland. 
 Issue: Richard, William, Andrew, Hyland, John and 
 Rebecca. 
 
 HYLAND 
 
 In October, 1677, " John and Mary's Hyland," con- 
 sisting of ten hundred and fifty acres on the west side 
 of the Elk River, was surveyed for Colonel John Hy- 
 
168 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 land, of Labadeen, Eng., who settled at Elk Neck, Cecil 
 County, Md. He also owned " Arundell," " Triumph," 
 ^ a tract of six hundred acres, 
 
 k<^^ and " The Hylands," contain- 
 
 \^^^^ ing over two thousand acres. 
 
 ^^^m^^!" This and " John and Mary's 
 
 ^^^^ffl^ Hyland " were part of " St. 
 
 JHV John's Manor," Elk Neck. 
 
 ^ ^jp^il^ ^ He married Mary Dorring- 
 
 ^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ton, and died January 17, 1695, 
 g!!^^L ^ ^^^^^^^ ^ leaving two sons, John and 
 HYLAND CREST Nicholas, and his daughter 
 
 Mary, who married William Price III. 
 PRICE (Continued) 
 
 The third son of William III. and Mary (Hyland) 
 Price, Andrew Price, was horn November 17, 1704; 
 married, in June, 1725, Elizabeth Perry. 
 
 Their son, John Hyland Price, born April 22, 1744, 
 married Rachel, the daughter of Nicholas and Rachel 
 (Bruff) Benson. Issue: Hyland, Benson, Benjamin, 
 Isaac, James, Spencer, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Rachel. 
 
 The fifth son, James Price, was born in Kent 
 County, Md., and died in Wilmington, Del., June 10, 
 1840. He was the first president of the Union Bank, 
 of Delaware, 1839, and second president of the Phila- 
 delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad), 1837. 
 
 He married, June 12, 1802, Margaret, the daughter 
 of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lea) Tatnall. She was born 
 August 23, 1767, and died March 21, 1841. Issue: 
 Joseph, John, and James Edward. 
 TATNALL 
 
 The widow and five of the seven children of Robert 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 169 
 
 Tatnall, a native of Leicestershire, Eng., who died there 
 1715, sailed from Bristol, Eng., 1725, and settled in 
 Darby, Pa. One of the daughters married William 
 Shipley, who came from England with them, and they 
 lived in Chester County and Wilmington. 
 
 Edward Tatnaix, the eldest son, was born in Eng- 
 land, 1704, and died January 7, 1790. He came to 
 America, 1725, and was one of the founders of Wil- 
 mington, Del., where he went to reside after his mar- 
 riage, and was Assistant Burgess, 1763 to 1765.^ He 
 married, April 11, 1735, at London Grove Friends' 
 Meeting House, Chester County,^ Elizabeth, the daugh- 
 ter of Joseph and Mary (Levis) Pennock. 
 
 Their son, Joseph Tatnall, one of the original own- 
 ers of the flour mills at Brandywine Village, was bom 
 September 6, 1740, and died August 3, 1813, in Brandy- 
 wine Village. 
 
 For nearly a century these mills did a large export- 
 ing business to the West Indies and South America, of 
 flour and cornmeal, loading their ships in the Delaware. 
 Oliver Canby's mill was probably the first one of any 
 importance, built in 1742. To that mill, the Swedes and 
 early settlers, on both sides of the Delaware, brought 
 their grist in rowboats. Canby died in 1755, and the 
 mill became the property of Thomas Shipley, who, in 
 1762, built the " Old Shipley Mill." Other mills were 
 soon after built upon the south side, and attention was 
 then turned to the north side, which had not been im- 
 proved before on account of the masses of rocks jutting 
 out into the stream. In 1770, the Marshalls contracted 
 to make improvements on the north side of the river, 
 and build a mill, which they abandoned, and sold the con- 
 
 1 Hist, of Del., by Thomas Scharf, p. 638. 
 
 2 Recs. of New Oarden Monthly Meeting. 
 
170 AifCESTRAL Records and Portraits 
 
 tract to Joseph Tatnall, who, with his son-in-law, 
 Thomas Lea, huilt on the north side. The old hooks 
 show that in 1780 wheat was hought for £24 a bushel, 
 and that three hundred barrels of flour sold for £21,000. 
 Several of the mills on the south side were bought by 
 James Price, from his father-in-law, Joseph Tatnall, 
 and he left them to his three sons, hereinbefore men- 
 tioned. As the war progressed, the demands on the 
 several States for supplies of all kinds were incessant, 
 owing to the suiferings and privations the patriots were 
 compelled to encounter. In the winter of 1779, Gen- 
 eral Washington wrote Cassar Rodney as follows: 
 
 " The situation of the army with respect to supplies 
 is beyond description, and we have not more than three 
 days' bread, at a third allowance, on hand, nor any- 
 where within reach. . . . We have never experienced a 
 like extremity at any period of the war. . . . Unless 
 some extraordinary and immediate exertions be made by 
 the State from which we draw our supplies, there is 
 every appearance that the army will infallibly disband 
 in a fortnight." 
 
 Through Mr. Robert Morris, Commissioner of Fi- 
 nance, and in co-operation with him, Joseph Tatnall 
 furnished large supplies of flour to be forwarded, to the 
 famishing troops, at the risk of having his valuable 
 property destroyed by the British commander, should 
 he appear in the vicinity. 
 
 Shortly before the Battle of Brandywine, General 
 Washington issued a military order, directing that the 
 several mills in northern Delaware should be dismantled, 
 from fear that they would fall into the possession of the 
 British army. The order directed that the utmost 
 secrecy should be observed in the removal of the " run- 
 ners or upper millstones." The work was duly accom- 
 plished, and the " runners " were dragged by yokes of 
 
Edwakd Tatnall 
 
 James Edward Prtce 
 
 James Lea 
 
 Joseph Tatnall 
 
Ancestbal Records and Porteaits 171 
 
 oxen over the hills, and secreted in the forest, one ac- 
 count says in Chester County, Pa., from which place of 
 concealment they were ultimately recovered. 
 
 The house built by Joseph Tatnall in 1770, near the 
 Brandywine bridge and the mills, now known as No. 
 1803 Market Street, sheltered General Washington as 
 a guest more than once, and there also General Lafay- 
 ette was entertained. It was given to the commander- 
 in-chief for his headquarters just before the Battle of 
 Brandywine. At one time General Wayne had his 
 headquarters there, and for many years the front door 
 jamb bore the mark of a missile hurled at him by a Tory, 
 when he was standing in the doorway. On these several 
 occasions the room used as a "council chamber" was 
 the back parlor. British officers took possession of the 
 house and enjoyed its comforts when Wilmington was 
 captured by them. 
 
 It is related of Joseph Tatnall, that being in company 
 with the commander-in-chief, the latter, in a spirit of 
 great despondency, alluded to the necessities of his 
 troops, when Mr. Tatnall, observing his distress, and 
 wishing to assure him of his sympathy, said : 
 
 " George, I cannot fight for thee, but I will tell thee 
 what I will do. I will feed thee." 
 
 When Washington was President, while passing 
 through the village of Brandywine from Philadelphia, 
 then the seat of government, to his home at Mount Ver- 
 non, he called at the Tatnall residence, and being told 
 that his friend was at his covmting-room, he left his 
 chaise at the door, and walked down the hill to find him 
 at the mill. They then returned to the house, tradition 
 says, a^rm in arm. 
 
 As the first president of the Bank of Delaware, Jo- 
 seph Tatnall signed the first bank-note issued by it. 
 
172 Ancesteal Records and Portraits 
 
 which is still preserved, hearing date of August 17, 
 1795. The following letter is of interest: 
 
 " Brandywine Bridge, 5th month, 1798. 
 " Friends and Fellow Citizens : 
 
 "Having for years past apprehended a great con- 
 venience might derive to the inhabitants of this borough 
 by having a commodious time-piece erected in the cen- 
 tral part of the town; in the first place, it would accel- 
 erate the punctual meeting of the different religiously 
 disposed, at their several places of worship; secondly, 
 it will be of service to those who think themselves not 
 of ability to purchase time-pieces; and the last but not 
 least consideration is, it would be some ornament to the 
 place of my nativity. Therefore, I have procured from 
 Europe a large and complete town clock of excellent 
 workmanship, which I now present to you for the use 
 of the town, with a sum of money not exceeding two 
 hundred pounds, to be laid out in a large complete and 
 good bell, to serve the clock, as well as the town hall 
 now erecting, which I beg you to accept. Yoiu- friend, 
 
 " Joseph Tatnaix." ^ 
 
 He died before General Lafayette returned to Amer- 
 ica, in 1824, but when the General passed through the 
 village and the people showed their respect for the hero 
 by a heart-felt demonstration, the General asked that 
 the procession might be delayed at the Tatnall mansion, 
 while he paid his respects to the family of his deceased 
 friend. 
 
 According to the custom among the Friends, before 
 a young man and woman could marry, it was necessary 
 to declare their intention in the public meeting either 
 two or three times. Then some of the elder Friends 
 
 8 From the papers of Miss Montgomery, author of Reminiscences of 
 Wilmington. The bell remained in place until 1866. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 173 
 
 were appointed to examine into the case, to see that they 
 were not too nearly related, etc., and if no good reason 
 was found for objecting, they were "allowed to pro- 
 ceed," and the marriage usually took place soon after 
 they had " passed meeting." 
 
 The marriage of Joseph Tatnall and Elizabeth, the 
 daughter of James and Margaret (Marshall) Lea, oc- 
 curred in the Friends' Meeting, January 31, 1765. She 
 was born January 15, 1744-45. 
 
 Their daughter Margaret married, first, Isaac Starr, 
 of Philadelphia, and second, James Price. 
 
 PENNOCK 
 
 The first military officer of the English army to emi- 
 grate to America, according to history, was Christopher 
 Pennock, who had served under William of Orange. 
 After coming to Chester County, Pa., in 1685, where he 
 had a large grant of land, he was ordered to return to 
 England, to join the campaign of William of Orange 
 against James II. After the Battle of Boyne, 1690, 
 Christopher Pennock returned to Chester County, 
 finally removing to Philadelphia, where he died 1701.* 
 He married Mary, the daughter of George CoUett, of 
 Clonmell, Ire., who died in Chester County, Pa., 1687. 
 Their son: 
 
 Joseph Pennock, was born in Clonmell, Ire. At the 
 age of twenty he had crossed the ocean four times. 
 Once his vessel was captured by a French ship-of-war, 
 and he was taken to France and held a prisoner for 
 nearly a year, suffering great hardships from the 
 French prison officials. He represented the County of 
 Chester for twelve years in the Provincial Assembly; 
 
 * Authority: Mrs. WUliam H. Miller (n6e Pennock), Media, Penn.; 
 also Family Tree, compiled by Mrs. Caspar Wistar. 
 
174 ANCESTRAii Records and Poktbaits 
 
 first elected 1716. He built a large house, called 
 "Primitive Hall," in West Marlborough. When he 
 first ptu-chased his tract of land in Marlborough, the 
 country was a wilderness and a favorite resort for a 
 band of Lenape Indians. Pennock, by making peace- 
 ful negotiations with them, laid out his ground and 
 erected his house without any molestation on their part. 
 The Pennock family, at night, always left plenty of 
 food in an outhouse for the Indians, who never failed to 
 appease their appetites there. He married Mary, the 
 daughter of Samuel and Ehzabeth (Clator) Levis, be- 
 fore two justices of the court in 1701. She was bom 
 August 9, 1685, and died January 2, 1747. Their 
 daughter Elizabeth married Edward Tattst at.t, . 
 
 LEVIS 
 
 Arms: A chevron ermine between three dolphins, coronet, French 
 viscounty. 
 
 Cbest: a dolphin transfixed by a spear.s 
 
 The original name of this family was De Levi, and 
 they were French Protestants. One, Richard Levis, 
 had a son Richard, Jr., who was baptized April 11, 1585, 
 at Beeston, County Nottingham, Eng. 
 
 His son, Christopher Levis, was baptized September 
 20, 1621. at Beeston, and died in England, 1677. He 
 married, 1648, Mary Nede. Their son: 
 
 Samuel Levis, bom " 7th month, 30th day," 1649, 
 in Harley, Leicestershire, Eng., came to America 1682, 
 and died 1734. He married "3rd month, 4th day," 
 1680, Elizabeth, the daughter of William Clator, of 
 Elton, Nottinghamshire, Eng., a Friend who suffered 
 for his religion. She came to America 1684. 
 
 Their daughter Mary married Joseph Pennock.® 
 
 5 C. E. Gildersome Dickenson. 6 Family Records. 
 
Ancestkal Records and Portraits 175 
 
 LEA 
 
 In Bisley, Gloucester, Eng,, Baldwyn Ley was taxed 
 in 1543. Baldwyn Lea, who was church warden of 
 Dauntsey, County Wilts, Eng., in 1609^ (1550-1622), 
 
 may have been his son. The latter ^ 
 
 married Elynor, the daughter of 
 Thomas. and Elizabeth (Knight) 
 Denchjof Longdon, County Worces- 
 ter. 
 
 Two of her brothers were set- 
 tled at Leigh de la Mere, not far 
 from Dauntsey, at this period. Her 
 sister. Fortune Dench, married, 
 1586, William Nicholson, of Christian Malford, Gent. 
 
 Baldwyn Lea's widow, Elynor, was buried at Calne, 
 July 10, 1622. Issue: Elynor, Katherine, Thomas, 
 Symon, Joane and George. 
 
 ■ The third son, George Lea, of Christian Malford 
 (1599-1640), on October 6, 1625, administered on the 
 estate of his niece, Audrey Hoare, and sealed his bond 
 on that occasion with the arms of the Lion Rampant. 
 He married, February 7, 1621, at Seagry, Wiltshire, 
 
 Sarah, the daughter of John and Agnes ( ) Welden, 
 
 of that place. He was living May 19, 1640, and his 
 wife was alive in 1642. Issue: John, Samuel, Priscilla, 
 and George. 
 
 The eldest son, John Lea, was of Christian Malford, 
 and buried there March 7, 1685. His marriage to 
 
 Joane occurred before 1654. Issue: Sarah, 
 
 George, John, Daniel, and Lucy. 
 
 The third child, John Lea II., was the American col- 
 onist, who was baptized July 12, 1674. He removed 
 to Gloucester, became a Quaker, and married February 
 
 T Ancestry and Posterity of John Lea, etc. 
 
176 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 1, 1697, at Friends Meeting, Gloucester, Hannah, the 
 widow of Joseph Webb, of Ashleworth, Gloucestershire, 
 and the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Whitcomb) 
 Hopton, of Painswick. They removed to Pennsyl- 
 vania, receiving from the Nailsworth Quarterly Meet- 
 ing the usual removal certificate. (After a few months' 
 residence in Philadelphia, they settled in Concord. Ches- 
 ter County, on land purchased of the Proprietary, as 
 we learn from a warrant signed and sealed by William 
 Penn, dated "3d Month, 16th, 1701," the tract con- 
 taining one hundred and thirty-six acres and one hun- 
 dred and fifty-two perches, lying to the south and west 
 of the Concord Meeting House. Both John and Han- 
 nah Lea were noted and valued preachers, " Public 
 Friends," or " Ministering Friends," as they were called. 
 In 1718, " Fifth Month, 28th,^' John Lea was appointed 
 to revise the book of discipline at Chester Monthly 
 Meeting. He died in Springfield, " 10th Month, 27th, 
 1726." Issue: Isaac, John, Hannah, and Rachel. 
 
 The eldest son, Isaac Lea, was bom January 15, 
 1699, in Gloucester, Eng., and accompanied his parents 
 to Pennsylvania. He resided at Darby, Pa., was taxed 
 1721, his valuation being £9, and again in 1735. He 
 was appointed of Chester County, October 4, 1746, and 
 resigned 1750, to move to Delaware. 
 
 He married, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Decem- 
 ber 29, 1721, Sarah, the daughter of Walter and Re- 
 becca (Fearne) Fawcett, of Chester, born May 10, 
 1702, and died 1800, at the age of ninety-eight, in Wil- 
 mington, Del. Issue: James, Elizabeth, John, Re- 
 becca, Hannah, Susannah, Mary, Ann, George, Sarah, 
 Rachel. 
 
 James Lea, was bom in Darby, Pa., March 26, 1723. 
 He lived in Wilmington, where he was Assistant Bur- 
 
Ancestbal Recobds and Porteaits 177 
 
 gess of the Borough, 1757-1762, and 1766; Chief Bur- 
 gess 1768 and 1769, and Town Treasurer, 1773 to 1775. 
 He had property on Market Street, and was a member in 
 good standing of the Society of Friends. His residence 
 stood next the City Hall, and there he died, October 2, 
 1798, of yellow fever. His will was dated May 16, 
 1796, and proved November 19, 1798. 
 
 He married, in Darby, June 24, 1741, Margaret, the 
 daughter of John and Joanna (Pascall) Marshall of 
 that place. She was born "11th Month, 31st, 1723- 
 24." Issue: Sarah, Frances, Elizabeth, who married 
 Joseph Tatnall, Isaac, Margaret, Sarah, Abraham, 
 Frances, James, and John. 
 
 BENCH 
 
 Abms: Sable, a chevron between three Towers triple towered argent. 
 
 The Dench family* (also spelled Dunch) is traced 
 back to the time of Henry VIII. at Longdon, Worces- 
 tershire County, Eng., and there John Dench was 
 buried, March 15, 1542, and his wife Sibbil August 13, 
 1551. Issue: Jocosa, Ellen, Elizabeth, John, and 
 Thomas. 
 
 The will of Thomas Dench, dated August 22, 1593, 
 was probated April 11, 1594. Thomas was buried De- 
 cember 24, 1593. He married Elizabeth Knight, who 
 was buried August 25, 1598. Issue : Giles, Jone, John, 
 Thomas, Thomas, Henry, William, Elynor, who mar- 
 ried Baldwyn Lea II., Robert, Fortune, Stephen. 
 
 HOPTON 
 
 The pedigrees of this ancient English family be- 
 
 « Ancestry and Posterity of John Lea^ p. 409. 
 
178 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 gin with Walter de Hopton, who was living in 1223. 
 There were two principal families of the name; one of 
 Hopton Castle, in Salop, and one of Canon Frome, in 
 Hereford, and the arms of both are similar. 
 
 In Bisley, three generations of Hoptons are traced 
 in the sixteenth century, WilUam, Richard, and Wil- 
 liam. 
 
 'The connection of the last named William with Rich- 
 ard Hopton, who was buried at Stroud, August 2, 1660, 
 rests on a probability, and it is therefore not assured 
 that Richard was the son of William. His wife was 
 Jane , who was buried December 3, 1658. 
 
 Their son, Samuel Hopton, baptized at Stroud, 
 February 1, 1628, was of Painswick, Gloucestershire, 
 where he was buried February 25, 1677. He married, 
 at St. Mary's de Crypt, Gloucester, May 25, 1663, 
 Mary, the daughter of William and Mary (Pincke) 
 Whitcomb, of St. Owens, Gloucester, and the grand- 
 daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Devias) Whit- 
 comb.* She was buried at St. John Baptist, Glouces- 
 ter, December 22, 1679. Issue : Mary, Hannah, Sam- 
 uel, Richard, Daniel, and William. 
 
 The second child, Hannah Hopton (called Anna in 
 her mother's will) , married, first, Joseph Webb, of Ash- 
 leworth, Gloucester County, when she was nineteen; 
 married, second, John Lea II. 
 
 FAWCETT 
 
 Walter Fawcett, resided in Haverale Park, an ex- 
 tra parochial region, between Hampsthwaite and Fen- 
 ston, and Orkley, in the County of Yorkshire, West 
 Riding, Eng. The names of his parents have not been 
 ascertained. He emigrated to Chester County, Pa., 
 
 9 Lea Book, p. 406. 
 
Ancesteal Recobds and Poktbaits 179 
 
 1684, where he was a peace maker that year, and a 
 member of the Pemisylvania Legislature in 1695. He 
 died in Ridley, Pa., January 29, 1704-05. His will, 
 dated " 7th month, 2, 1703," was probated July 8, 1704. 
 He married, second, June 14, 1694, Rebecca, the 
 daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Egginton) Fearne. 
 She died November 15, 1756. Issue: Rebecca, Mary, 
 Sarah, Sarah, who married Isaac Lea, and Elizabeth. 
 
 FEARNE 
 
 The widow of Robert Fearne brought his children to 
 America. He was the son of Henry and the grandson 
 of another Henry Fearne, of Pole Hall, in Hartington 
 parish. County Derby, who died before 1617. Henry 
 Fearne II., of Kniveton and Bonsall, County Derby, 
 was a yeoman, and a considerable land-owner. 
 
 One of his younger sons, Robert Fearne, was baptized 
 at Hartington, May 2, 1630. When he made his decla- 
 ration of intention to marry at Bakewell, Derby, he was 
 of Bonsall. He appears to have joined the Quakers, as 
 he was buried in the Friends* Ground at Chesterfield, 
 " 8th month, 10th, 1680." 
 
 He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Eg- 
 ginton, of Ible, in Wirksworth, His widow came to 
 Pennsylvania in 1682, with her son Joshua and daugh- 
 ters Elizabeth, Sarah, and Rebecca, bringing a certificate 
 from Derby Quarterly Meeting for herself and chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Their daughter Rebecca married Walter Fawcett^ 
 whose daughter Sarah married Isaac Lea. 
 
 MARSHALL 
 
 In the sixteenth century, the family of Marshall ap- 
 pears in records in Youlgrave parish, Eng., but no 
 
180 Ancestral Recobds and Poktuaits 
 
 continuity of descent is shown until Edmund Marshall, 
 of that parish, is reached, who occurs there from 1559 
 to 1571. Issue: Humphrey, Thomas, John, Edmund, 
 and Margaret. 
 
 The eldest son, Humphrey, was baptized October 30, 
 1559; he was of Gratton, in Youlgrave. Issue: seven 
 children. 
 
 One of the sons, John, was baptized February 2, 
 
 1603. He married Mary . Their son, John II., 
 
 married Mary . Issue: Sarah, Abraham, Ann, 
 
 Jonathan, and John III. 
 
 The youngest child, John Marshall III, baptized 
 at Youlgrave, May 12, 1661, was of Elton, in the 
 parish of Youlgrave, and a cousin of Abraham Mar- 
 shall, of Pennsylvania, and eight years his senior. John 
 Marshall came to America in the ship Desire^ James 
 Cock, Master, and landed at Philadelphia, June 23, 
 1686. He seems to have brought no certificate with 
 him. 
 
 He married in Darby, Pa., Monthly Meeting, " the 
 19th of the 10th month, 1688," Sarah Smith (the sister 
 of Thomas, of Croxton Keyrial, Leicestershire, and 
 also the sister of John, of Darby, in said county, who 
 was in Pennsylvania by 1684) . Their wedding was the 
 first solemnized in the Darby Meeting House. Sarah 
 died "16th of 5th Month, 1749," and John died at 
 Darby, " 13th of 9th Month, 1729." Issue : John, Wil- 
 liam, and Thomas. 
 
 The eldest son, John Marshall IV., was born in 
 Darby, Pa., " 16th of 6th Month, 1690 "; married there, 
 first, 1715, Joanna, the daughter of Thomas and Mar- 
 garet (Jenkins) Paschall; married, second, 1730, Elea- 
 nor Shenton. He died "14th of 8th Month, 1749." 
 Issue, first wife: Thomas, Sarah, Abraham, Margaret, 
 
Ancesteai, Records and Portraits ' 181 
 
 who married James Lea, Joanna, John, Susanna, and 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 PASCALL, OR PASCHALL 
 
 The most notable family of Pascall is that which pur- 
 chased a manor at Great Baddow, Essex, Eng., in the 
 time of Edward VI., or earlier, in which place they had 
 been yeomen. They were granted arms, and appear in 
 the Visitations of Esseos, as gentry for a century after. 
 
 Before 1634, Thomas Pascall, of Wrington, Somer- 
 setshire (occurring there 1609-1622), removed to 
 Churchill. He died January 26, 1638; will probated 
 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, November 10, 
 
 1639. He married Mary , who survived him, and 
 
 died at the house of her son in the parish of St. John the 
 Baptist, Bristol, and was buried there January 18, 1669. 
 Issue : William, Margaret, Joan, Thomas, John, Mary, 
 Elizabeth, Agnes, Sara. 
 
 Their eldest son, William PascaU, married, first, 
 Johanna Collins, at Bath Abbey, June 25, 1632. Is- 
 sue: Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary, Joseph. His wife died 
 before 1640, and he married again three times. 
 
 Thomas Pascaix, was bom September 3, 1634; died 
 August 13; will proved September 18, 1718. He pur- 
 chased, before 1682, five hundred acres of land in Penn- 
 sylvania from William Perm, and later came to Phila- 
 delphia, where he was elected a Member of the Provin- 
 cial Assembly, 1685 and 1689; a Member of the Phila- 
 delphia Common CouncU, 1701 to 1704, and one of a 
 committee to divide the city into wards, 1705. He mar- 
 ried in England, before 1665, Joanna Sloper, who was 
 born November 2, 1634; died at Philadelphia, Septem- 
 ber 2, 1707. Issue: William, Thomas, Elizabeth, Jo- 
 seph, Mary, Joseph, and Francis. 
 
182 Ancestral Recokds and Portraits 
 
 The second son, Thomas Paacall, was born 1668, and 
 came with his parents to Philadelphia; married at Rad- 
 nor, Pa., in the Monthly Meeting, November 15, 1692, 
 Margaret, the daughter of William and Elizabeth 
 (Griffith) Jenkins, of Tenby, County Pembroke, 
 Wales. Issue: Thomas, Joanna, William, Joseph, 
 Benjamin, Abigail, John, Benjamin, Samuel, Stephen, 
 Jonathan, Mary. 
 
 The second child, Joanna Pascall, married John Mar- 
 shall IV., whose daughter Margaret married James 
 Lea. 
 
 JENKINS 
 
 William Jenkins, came to America from Tenby, 
 Pembroke County, Wales, and settled in Haverford 
 township, Delaware County, Pa. ; purchased a thousand 
 acres of land before leaving England. Jenkintown, 
 near Philadelphia, bears the name of this family. He 
 was one of the Justices of the Court of Chester County, 
 1691, and a Member of the Assembly, 1690 to 1695,'* 
 He is also called a Justice of. the Peace, 1691 to 1692, 
 and is said to have been in the Council, 1703.^' 
 
 He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Lewis Grif- 
 fith, in 1673. Their daughter Margaret married 
 Thomas Pascall. 
 
 GORDON 
 
 The first of this family recorded is James Gordon, of 
 Kent County, Del., who died in 1740. 
 
 His son, Griffith Gordon, died in Kent County, 1762. 
 
 CoE Gordon, his son, died in 1789; married, Febru- 
 ary 19, 1777, Sarah, the daughter of Nimrod and Eliza- 
 
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 1761. (Seep. 489.) 
 
 Their son, John Gordon, born Jtine 7, 1782, and died 
 in Wilmington, Del., Jxily 10, 1847, married Decem- 
 ber 20, 1804, when she was but sixteen years of age, 
 Anne Catherine, the daughter of William and Anne 
 Catharine (Parlin) Sharpe, who was descended from 
 the Rudman, Tronberg, and Parlin famihes. Issue: 
 Sydney Ann, Charles, William, Louisa, Sarah Matilda, 
 Elizabeth, Catharine, who married James Edward Price, 
 Helen, and George. 
 
 RUDMAN 
 
 In answer to the requests of the Swedish Colony in 
 America, the Bang of Sweden, Charles XI., and the 
 Archbishop, as Provost or Bishop of the Colony, sent 
 to them the Rev. Andreas Rudman, Ph. D., of the 
 Upsala University, Gevalia, Province of Gertrickland, 
 Sweden. He was bom 1668, and died September 17, 
 1708. He journeyed to England and thence to Amer- 
 ica, reaching Annapolis, June 19, 1697, where he re- 
 mained four days at Governor Nicholson's house, thence 
 to Philadelphia. Holy Trinity Church, Christina (Wil- 
 mington), was dedicated Trinity Sunday, 1698, Dr. 
 Rudman preaching. He was the founder of the Gloria 
 Dei Church, in Philadelphia, 1700, and was buried un- 
 der the chancel. In 1701 he went to New York, and 
 officiated at the Oxford English Church until his death 
 in 1708." 
 
 He married Gertmde Mattson. Their daughter, 
 Anna Katrina, married the Rev. Petrus Tronberg. 
 
 12 Clay's Annals. Records of Eric Bjork. Records of Old Swedes 
 Church, Wilmington. 
 
184 Ancestbal, Recoeds and Poeteaits 
 
 TRONBERG 
 
 Another clergyman, the Rev, Petrus Tronberg, was 
 sent to America by the King of Sweden, in 1726. He 
 became Rector of the church at Christina (Wihning- 
 ton), known as " Old Swedes," in 
 1742. His seal ring, bearing his 
 arms, about two hundred and fifty 
 years old, is owned by the family. 
 He built the first brick house in 
 Wilmington, with bricks imported 
 from England. 
 
 " The workmanship was so supe- 
 TRONBERG ^^^^ ^j^^^^ people came from New 
 
 York and Philadelphia to see it, and his descendants 
 occupied it to the fifth generation. ... A beautiful 
 garden joined one belonging to the parsonage. . . ."" 
 
 He married Anna Katrina, the daughter of the Rev. 
 Andrea Rudman, and died November 8, 1748, His 
 tomb is in front of the chancel of the church, and has a 
 lengthy inscription. The venerable Bible, presented to 
 the church by Queen Anne in 1712, is still preserved, 
 and the silver chalice and plate, presented by the miners 
 of Sweden, to the Rev. Mr. Byork, are still in use. 
 
 Their daughter Ehzabeth married the Rev. Olaf Par- 
 lin. 
 
 PARLIN 
 
 Another Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Wilming- 
 ton, came from Sweden, the Rev. Olaf Parlin. He was 
 born there 1716, ordained 1745, and arrived in America 
 by the Speedwell, July 7, 1750. He married, October 
 
 13 Reminiscences of Wilmington, by Miss Montgomery. 
 
Ancestbal Records and Poeteaits 185 
 
 31, 1751, Elizabeth, the daughter of Petrus and Anna 
 Katrina (Rudman) Tronberg, who died September 29, 
 1802. They lived with Mrs. Tronberg (Anna Katrina 
 Rudman) in the house built by her husband, while Olaf 
 Parlin remained Rector of Holy Trinity Church. 
 Afterwards they went to Philadelphia, where he was 
 Rector of Gloria Dei Church. He died December 22, 
 1757, and was buried in the chancel of Gloria Dei, where 
 a stone with an inscription of some length commemo- 
 rates his life and service. 
 
 One of his daughters married Colonel Benzell, sta- 
 tioned on Lake Champlain in colonial times, and after- 
 wards at Crown Point. His portrait in its scarlet uni- 
 form hung on the walls of the Tronberg mansion, and 
 protected the old home during the war, at the time of 
 the British possession, as one of the English colonels, 
 seeing the portrait, ordered his men to protect the house. 
 
 The youngest daughter of Olaf and Elizabeth (Tron- 
 berg) Parlin, Anne Catharine Parlin, was born about 
 1752, and died May, 1800; buried in Old Swedes Church 
 Yard. She married, *1782, William Sharpe, from Eng- 
 land, who died at New Orleans in 1800, of yellow fever, 
 and the same scourge carried off herself and her 
 mother, leaving of the family only a son and daughter. 
 William Sharpe was engaged in an extensive commer- 
 cial business which took him to all parts of the world. 
 After the death of his wife, their son settled in Canada. 
 
 Their daughter, Anne Catharine Sharpe, was born 
 March 1, 1787, and died May 26, 1869. At the death 
 of her parents she went to live with her guardian, Mr. 
 Lea, of Wilmington. She had inherited the family 
 portraits with the Tronberg house, which remained 
 closed for several years, and when reopened it was found 
 that most of the portraits had been stolen. Fortunately, 
 
186 AifCESTEAii Records and Porteaits 
 
 the portrait of her great-grandfather, Petrus Tronberg, 
 had been sent to the parsonage for safe-keeping, as well 
 as that of his predecessor, Acrelius. 
 
 She married John Gordon, of Delaware. Their 
 daughter, Catharine Gordon, married James Edward 
 Price. 
 
 PRICE {Continued) 
 
 The yomigest son of James and Margaret (Tatnall) 
 Price, James Edward Price, was bom August 8, 1809, 
 and died July 25, 1898. He married, November 5, 
 1833, Catharine, the daughter of John and Anne Catha- 
 rine (Sharpe) Gordon, who was born Jime 5, 1810, and 
 died July 20, 1885. Issue: Anne Gordon, Margaret, 
 William Gordon, Mary, James, Edward, Katharine 
 Gordon^ who married WUliam Graham Bowdoin, and 
 Sydney. 
 
 Katharine Gordon Price Bowdoin, 
 
 Sydney Price, 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
Ancestrai. Recoeds and Pokteaits 187 
 
 IX 
 
 MALLETT 
 
 One of the Huguenots of La Roehelle, France, David 
 Mallet, went to England with his family, after the Rev- 
 ocation of the Edict of Nantes. 
 
 His son, John Mallet, died in Fairfield, Conn., 1745. 
 He married Johanna Lyon. 
 
 Their son, Peter Mallet, born March 31, 1712, and 
 died June 18, 1760, in Fairfield, Conn., married 
 Naomi ■. 
 
 Peter Mallett^ their son, born November 14, 1744, 
 and died February 2, 1805, married, 1780, Sarah (1765- 
 1836), the daughter of Robinson and Sarah (Coit) 
 Mumford. 
 
 Their son, Edward Jones Mallett, born in Fayette- 
 ville, N. C, May 1, 1797, and died August 20, 1883, 
 married, September 11, 1820, Sarah, the daughter of 
 James and Sarah ( Jencks) Fenner; she was born May 
 13, 1797, and died May 17, 1841. Sarah Fenner, their 
 daughter, married Stephen States Lee. 
 
 MUMFORD 
 
 The Mumfords of Connecticut descend from James 
 Mumford, who was born February 7, 1715, and died 
 1773. He married Sarah, the daughter of Richard and 
 Elizabeth (Saltoristall) Christophers, baptized Decem- 
 ber 6, 1719. 
 
 Their son, Robinson Mumford, also of Connecticut, 
 married February, 1761, Sarah Coit. Sarah, their 
 daughter, married Petee Mallett. 
 
188 Akcestral Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 CHRISTOPHERS 
 
 One of the early colonists, Richard Christophe rs, bo rn 
 July 15, 1662, and died June 9, 1726, married, June 26^ 
 1681, Lucretia, the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth 
 (Brewster) Bradley; she was born August 16, 1661, 
 and died 1691. 
 
 Their son, Richard Christopherg II, born August 
 18, 1685, and died 1736, married, August 16, 1710, 
 Ehzabeth, the daughter of Gurdon and Jerusha (Rich- 
 ards) Saltonstall; she was bom May 11, 1690. Sarah, 
 their daughter, married James Mumf ord. 
 
 BREWSTER 
 
 Elder William Brewster, born 1560, and died 
 April 10, 1644, came to America with his wife Mary. 
 
 Their son, Jonathan Brewster, born in England, Au- 
 gust 12, 1593, and died in Connecticut, May 7, 1659, 
 married, April 15, 1624, Lucretia Oldham. 
 
 Their daughter Elizabeth, born May 1, 1637, and 
 died in 1708, married September 7, 1653, Peter Bradley, 
 who died April 3, 1682; and their daughter, Lucretia, 
 married Richard Christophers I, whose son Richard 
 married Elizabeth Saltonstall. (See pp. 740-743.) 
 
 SALTONSTALL 
 
 One of the grantees of the Massachusetts Company, 
 Sir Richard Saltonstall (1586-1658), married Grace 
 Kay. 
 
 Their son, Richard Saltonstall, born 1610, and died 
 April 29, 1694, married, 1633, Muriel Gurdon. 
 
 Their son, Nathaniel Saltonstall, born 1639, and died 
 May 21, 1707, married, December 28, 1663, Elizabeth 
 Ward. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 189 
 
 Their son, Gurdon Saltonstall, born March 27, 1666, 
 and died September 20, 1724, married Jerusha Rich- 
 ards. 
 
 Their daughter, Ehzabeth Saltonstall, married Rich- 
 ard Christophers IIj, whose daughter Sarah, married 
 James Mumford. 
 
 FENNER 
 
 Arthur Fenner I, the son of Thomas Fenner, of 
 Branford, Conn., bom in September, 1622, and died 
 October 16, 1703, married Mehitable, the daughter of 
 Richard TVaterman (1590-1673) ; she died 1684. 
 
 Thomas Fenner^ their son, born in September 1652, 
 and died February 27, 1718, married, July 26, 1682, 
 Dinah, the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Harris) 
 Borden. 
 
 Their son, Arthur Fenner II, bom October 17, 1699, 
 and died February 2, 1788, married, Jime 2, 1723, 
 Mary, the daughter of James and Hallelujah 
 (Brown) Olney; she was born September 30, 
 1704, and died March, 18, 1756. James, their 
 son, married Freelove Whipple, and Freelove, their 
 daughter, married Silvanus Jenches. Another son: 
 
 Governor Arthur Fenner III., bom December 10, 
 1745, and died October 15, 1805, married Amy, the 
 daughter of Gideon Comstock; she died September 2, 
 1825. 
 
 Their son, James Fenner, born January 22, 1771. 
 and died April 17, 1840, married, in November, 1792, 
 Sarah, the daughter of Silvanus and Freelove (Fenner) 
 Jenckes. 
 
 Their daughter, Sarah Fenner, married Edward 
 Jones Mallett, whose daughter, Sarah Fenner, mar- 
 ried Stephen States Lee. 
 
190 Ancesteal Records and Poeteaits 
 BORDEN-HARRIS 
 
 Richard Boeden^ born 1601, and died May 25, 1671, 
 married Joan, who died July 15 1688, aged eighty- 
 four. 
 
 Their son, Thomas Borden, who died November 25, 
 1676, married Mary Harris, and Dinah, their daughter, 
 married Thomas Fenner. 
 
 William Harris (1610-1681), married Susannah 
 
 , who died 1682, and their daughter Mary married 
 
 Thomas Borden. 
 
 JENCKES 
 
 Joseph Jenckes^ born 1622, and died January 4, 
 1717, married Esther Ballard, who died 1717. 
 
 Governor Joseph Jenckes^ their son, who died June 
 15, 1740, married Martha, the daughter of John Brown 
 (1630-1706), and his wife, Mary Hohnes. 
 
 Their son, Obadiah Jenckes, who died 1763, married. 
 May 21, 1713, Alice, the daughter of Zachariah and 
 Mercy (Baker) Eddy; she was born January 5, 1694, 
 and died 1770. (Her father, Zachariah, the son of 
 Zachariah and the grandson of Samuel Eddy, born 
 April 10, 1664, and died April 12, 1737, married Mercy 
 Baker, February 13, 1683.) 
 
 Their son, Ebenezer Jenckes, married Alice , 
 
 whose son Silvanus, bom May 22, 1746, and died May 
 25, 1781, married, July 7, 1772, Freelove, the daugh- 
 ter of James and Freelove (Whipple) Fenner. Sarah, 
 their daughter, married James, the son of Goveenoe 
 Aethur Fennee. 
 
 Sarah Fenner married Edward Jones Mallett. 
 
 Sarah Fenner MaJJett married Stephen States Lee. 
 
Ancestbal Records and Porteaits 191 
 
 OLNEY-BROWN 
 
 Thomas Olney (1606-1681), married Mary Small 
 (1605-1679). 
 
 Their son, Epenetus Olney ^ born 1634, and died June 
 3, 1698, married Mary, the daughter of John and Sarah 
 Whipple. 
 
 Their son, James Olney , bom November 9, 1670, and 
 died October 6, 1744, married, August 31, 1702, Halle- 
 lujah, the daughter of David Brown. 
 
 Their daughter, Mary Olney, married Arthur Fenner 
 II. 
 
 Chad Brown, died in 1650. His wife's name was 
 Elizabeth, and their son David, who died 1710, married, 
 1669, Alice, the daughter of Benjamin Hearnden (died 
 1685), whose wife Elizabeth was the daughter of Wil- 
 liam White. 
 
 Their daughter. Hallelujah Brown, married James 
 Olney, whose daughter^ Mary, married Arthur Fenner 
 II. 
 
 WHIPPLE 
 
 John Whipple, bom 1617, and died May 16, 1685, 
 married Sarah , who was born 1624. 
 
 Joseph Whipple^ their son, was bom 1662, and 
 died April 28, 1746, married Alice, the daughter of 
 Edward Smith and Amphilis Angel, the daughter of 
 Thomas Angel (1618-1694) , whose wife Alice, died in 
 1695. 
 
 Their son, John Whipple, born May 18, 1685, and 
 died May 18, 1765, married Abigail, the daughter of 
 Joseph and Sarah (Pray) Brown. 
 
 Their daughter, Freelove Whipple, bom December 
 24, 1728, and died August 21, 1751, married, January 
 10, 1750, James, the son of Arthur and Mary (Olney). 
 
192 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Fenner (and the brother of Governor Arthur Fen- 
 ner) ; he was bom February 9, 1730, and died October 
 25, 1751. Freelove, their daughter, married Silvanus 
 Jenckes. 
 
 COMSTOCK-PRAY 
 
 Samuel Comstock, the son of Samuel, who died 
 1660, was born May 27, 1637; he married, November 
 23, 1678, Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Arnold 
 (1599-1674), and his wife, Phebe Parkhurst, who died 
 1688. 
 
 Their son, Hazadidh Comstock, born April 16, 1682, 
 and died February 21, 1764, married Catherine, the 
 daughter of John Pray. 
 
 Their son, Gideon Comstock, born November 4, 1709, 
 
 and died 1801, married Amy , whose daughter 
 
 Amy, married Governor Arthur Fenner III, and 
 died September 2, 1825. 
 
 The colonist, Richard Pray (1630-1695), married 
 May , who died in 1686. 
 
 Their son, John Pray, died October 9, 1733 ; his wife 
 Sarah, the daughter of John Brown (1630-1706), died 
 1735 ; her mother was Mary Holmes. Their daughter, 
 Catherine Pray, married Hazadidh Comstock. 
 
 LEE 
 
 The descendants of Francis Lee of Barbadoes, and 
 Mary, his wife, are as follows: 
 
 Thomas Lee, born February 6, 1710, and died Au- 
 gust 8, 1769, married in Charlestown, S. C, Mary 
 Giles. 
 
 Stephen Lee, born January 21, 1750, in Charleston, 
 married Dorothea Alison, the widow of Rev. Hugh Ali- 
 son. 
 
Ancesteal Recohds and Portraits 193 
 
 Paul S. H. Lee, born September 22, 1784, and died 
 April 20, 1852, married in Charleston, January 10, 1809, 
 Jane Elizabeth, the daughter of Jacob Martin, of 
 Charleston, and his wife, Rebecca Murray, who was 
 born October 7, 1755, and died May, 1840, The father 
 of Jacob was the Rev. John Nicholas Martin (1725- 
 1795), of Charleston. 
 
 Stephen States Lee, of Baltimore, bom November 8, 
 1812, and died August 22, 1892, married, April 30, 
 1840, Sarah Fenner Mallett, born August 14, 1821. 
 Issue, among others: 
 
 Hillyard Cameron Lee. 
 
 JuUan Henry Lee. 
 
 Amabel Lee, married John Cowman George. 
 
 GEORGE 
 
 The pedigree of John Cowman George is as follows: 
 
 Samuel Knox George, married : Findley. 
 
 Archibald George, married Henrietta Duckett Cow- 
 man. 
 
 John Cowman George, married Amabel Lee. Issue: 
 Stephen Lee, Amabel Lee, who married, June 28, 1905, 
 Heyward E. Boyce; Henrietta Cowman and Sarah 
 Fenner. 
 
 Amabel Lee George Boyce, 
 
 Sarah Fenner George, 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
194 Ancesteal Records and Portraits 
 
 X 
 
 BRANDT 
 
 Abms: D'argent a v/ti brandon de sa, 
 alVume en ha/at. 
 
 Cbest: Le brandon. 
 
 LAMBSEauiK: D'argent and sable.^ 
 
 posh sur une terrasse de sin et 
 
 Captain Randolph Brandt^ who came to Maryland 
 from the Island of Barbadoes in the year 1674, was a 
 descendant of the Brandts of Hamburg, Ger. He was 
 the son of Marcus Brandt, of London, who was the sec- 
 ond son of Daniel Brandt, of Hamburg, Ger. Marcus 
 Brandt was a merchant prince and sea commander, who 
 was twice entrusted by Charles II. with diplomatic com- 
 missions in connection with the Dutch treaty in Suri- 
 
 1 Arms of the old Baronial House of Brand-Brandt of Hamburg, 
 Germany, as given by Reiststap in his Artnorial General. The same arms 
 ■are shown in the Herald's Visitation of London, 1633-34, VoL xv, Hap- 
 leian Soc. Pub., p. 99. 
 
Ancestrai, Records and Portraits 195 
 
 nam.'* He died in the Island of Barbadoes, where he 
 settled. Captain Brandt brought with him to Mary- 
 land his wife Mary, daughters Mary and Judith, and son 
 Randolph II. From his wUl, we learn that a son Mar- 
 cus remained in Barbadoes, and a son Charles was born 
 in Maryland. 
 
 In the year 1678 Captain Brandt was commanding 
 a troop of horse in Charles County, Md. He perpetu- 
 ated the former places of residence of his father and 
 himself in England and Barbadoes, in the names given 
 to his patents of land, which descended for generations ; 
 these were, " Hammersmith," " Barbadoes," " Green- 
 wich," etc. He enjoyed the friendship of the third 
 Lord Baltimore, and the confidence of General Thomas 
 Notley. On August 20, 1678, General Notley sent in- 
 structions to Randolph Brandt regarding a reconnoiter- 
 ing expedition of great importance to be made by him 
 in connection with the Indian uprisings.* From that 
 time until 1681 he was active in Indian warfare. 
 
 Lord Baltimore's correspondence with Captain 
 Brandt forms a volimiinous part of the oificial records 
 from 1680 to 1682. Brandt inaugurated the "Post," 
 a pubhc official carrier of letters being ordered the day 
 after the receipt of his letter by Lord Baltimore and the 
 Council, dated May 21, 1680, in which he says: 
 
 " If your Lordship thinks fitt to employ a Post for 
 our County it will be much better for the people is much 
 dissatisfied to have their horses pressed from them." 
 
 In June, 1681, Brandt is empowered by Lord Balti- 
 more to make a treaty of peace with the Northern In- 
 
 2 Annapolis Land Warrants Liber xv, fol. 506. Calendar of State 
 Papers of Great Britain, Col. Series, 1675-76, p. 167. 
 lArchs. of Md., Vol. xv, p. 106. 
 
196 Ancesteai. Records and Porteaits 
 
 dians, for which a special commission was issued, as fol- 
 lows :* 
 
 " Whereas, greate Troopes of the Northern Indians 
 have and doe daily make inroads and incursions into 
 this our 'Province to the greate terror and confusion of 
 the Inhabitants thereof, and highly to be suspected upon 
 noe good designe, we haveing already had some murders 
 lately committed by strange Indians upon severall good 
 people of this Province We doe therefore by and with 
 the advice and consent of our Coxmcill hereby authorize 
 and empower as' also strictly Charge and Command you 
 Capt. Randolph Brandt Commander of a troope of 
 horse in our said county (Charles) to range with your 
 troope or such and so many men thereof well mounted 
 and armed as you shall from time to time think necessary 
 for the discovery of the said Indians with whom you are 
 to endeavor by all f aire waies and means possible to come 
 to a treaty according to the Instructions from us and 
 our Councill this day to you Directed, And in case you 
 or any of your Troope shall be assaulted by any the said 
 Indians or other enemys, or that they by any waies or 
 means oifer to breake peace, by open violence or pri- 
 vately contriving and conspiring to sett upon or betray 
 you or any of you or any English Plantation or people 
 You are to the best of your skill knowledge and en- 
 deavour, and to the utmost of your might and power, 
 to fall upon, pursue, fight, take, kill, vanquish and de- 
 stroy all such enemys, or otherwise if you be at any time 
 overpowered, you are to contrive and make what honble 
 retreate possibly you cann with your Company for such 
 further aid and assistance as shall be Deemed necessary 
 for your Recruite with regard had to the number and 
 power of your Enemy according to the tenor of your 
 
 * Council Proc. Archs. of Md., Vol. xv, pp. 384-85. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 197 
 
 said Instructions; ffor all of which this shall be your 
 sufficient power. Given under our hand and scale at 
 Armes this first day of July in the sixth yeare of our 
 Dominion &c Annoq Domini 1681." ® 
 
 The Northern Indians were compelled by Captain 
 Brandt to refrain from exterminating the peaceful 
 tribes in southern Maryland. So constantly were his 
 troopers in the saddle and away from home in the public 
 service, that they could not make crops to feed their 
 families. Most of them got into debt and had to be 
 protected from arrest by the Government. 
 
 The strenuous summer of 1681 over, the northern 
 Indians pacified and friendly, Captain Brandt was once 
 more enrolled a Member of Assembly at the Seplember 
 term, 1681 (he having been a member at the October 
 session, 1678), and was a bearer of important messages 
 to the upper house, with others from the lower house.* 
 March 10, 1684, Brandt is instructed, as Deputy Sur- 
 veyor, to lav out towns and ports in Charles County.'' 
 He was again in the field, March, 1686, an ardent sup- 
 porter of Lord Baltimore in the Protestant Revolution, 
 in which Coode and Fendall were the conspicuous lead- 
 ers in Maryland. Brandt was active in quelling the 
 rebellion, and although tempted by his lieutenant to 
 become the leader against his Lordship, he remained 
 faithful, and frustrating the plans of Fendall's party 
 to take him unawares when at church, to tie him and 
 put Fendall in his place, he succeeded in bringing his 
 traitorous lieutenant to iust'ce.* 
 
 The youngest son, Charles Brandt, is mentioned in 
 his father's will, dated 1697: 
 
 Jbid, Vol. xvii, pp. 12, 13, IS, 27 and 28. 
 
 6 Md. Arch... Vol. 7, pp. 23, 163, 178, 180, 212, 329, 266. 
 
 Tibid, Vol. xvii, fol. 359. 
 
 »Ibid, Vol XV, p. 402 (1688). 
 
198 Ancesteal Records and Poeteaits 
 
 "To my son Charles the moiety one half of land 
 where I reside, West side of ' Piceawaxen Creek ' con- 
 taining four hundred and fifty (450) acres, also the 
 moiety of two hundred (200) acres on the Potomac 
 River called 'Green Weigh.' . . . Sons Charles 
 and Jacob to be brought up in the Cathohc Faith. . . ." 
 
 The absence of any record of the marriage of Charles 
 Brandt in the parish j-egisters of the Sjtate can be ac- 
 counted for by the fact that he was a Catholic. His 
 will was proved March 10, 1714.* He married Eliza- 
 beth, the daughter of John and the granddaughter of 
 Colonel John Douglas. She married, second, Thomas 
 Howard." 
 
 In his will Charles bequeathed "to his son Jacob, 
 . . . a gold seal ring, saddle, holsters, pistols, sword, 
 belt and young horse; two silver spoons to daughter 
 Elizabeth ; daughter Sarah, leather chairs, pewter, etc. ; " 
 no land mentioned, that going by law of entail to his son, 
 Charles Brandt. It is recorded ^^ that Thonms Howard 
 and Elizabeth, his wife, executrix of Charles Brandt, 
 late of Prince George County, administered on his 
 estate. 
 
 DOUGLAS 
 
 One of the leading military figures of Colonial Mary- 
 land, Colonel John Douglas, arrived in the Province 
 1659, as that year he demanded land for transporting 
 himself into the colony. In his will, he bequeathed 
 "Cold Spring Manor," in Charles County, a tract of 
 over a thousand acres; also "Blithwood," and other 
 tracts aggregating fully two thousand acres. Colonel 
 Douglas has not been identified with the earlier and dis- 
 
 » Annapolis Wills, Liber, W. B. No. 5, p. 692. 
 
 10 The Douglasses were doubly related to the Howards, a brother of 
 Elizabeth also marrying one of that family. 
 
 11 Prerogative Court Records, Liber, B., xxxvi, fol. 97. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 199 
 
 tinguished family of Virginia, or with any branch of 
 the house of Douglas in Great Britain, but his records, 
 both civil and military, are recorded." John Douglas 
 died in the year 1678, and his wife married twice after- 
 wards. His son was John, whose daughter Elizabeth, 
 married Charles Brandt. 
 
 BRANDT (Continued) 
 
 No record of the marriage of Jacob Brandt has been 
 found. His will was probated March 13, 1750.^* In 
 this he mentions his wife Mary, sons Charles and Ed- 
 ward, and daughter Ann. Neither Jacob nor his father 
 Charles, held office in the Province, as both lived after 
 Maryland was under the rule of the Protestants, when 
 Catholics were not permitted to hold office. Jacob was 
 Grand Juror at the November term of court, 1748.^* 
 This is the only mention of him in the court records. 
 His wife Mary married, second, John Wood. 
 
 "The final account filed under the estate of Jacob 
 Brandt by John Wood and Mary, his wife, executrix of 
 Jacob Brandt, deceased," is recorded " under date of 
 November 30, 1754. 
 
 The eldest son, Charles Brandt, a minor at the time 
 of his father's death, was left to the guardianship of his 
 mother. He lived on the estate which descended to him 
 by law of primogeniture, from his great-grandfather. 
 Captain Randolph Brandt, of Charles Comity. The 
 proof of Charles' marriage to Martha Wood, the daugh- 
 ter of James Greenfield Wood, of Charles County, is 
 in the wiU ^* of that gentleman where he bequeaths her 
 
 12 Archs. of Md., Vol. xv, pp. 56, 71, 72, 99, 124, 172. 
 
 13 Av/aapoUs With, D. D., No. 7, p. 29. 
 
 i< Charles County Records, Annapolis, Liber 42, p. 509. 
 1^ Annapolis Land Office,, Balances, No. i, p. 120. 
 16 Charles County Wills, Liber, B, No. 1, p. 282. 
 
200 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 " three negroes " and directs the balance of the estate to 
 be divided between wife and daughter, Martha Brandt. 
 Charles Brandt was joint executor of this will with the 
 widow Margaret Wood. 
 
 One of the sons, Jacob Brandt II., married Ann 
 Mankin. 
 
 Their son, Jacob Brandt III.^ was born January 22, 
 1812, and died January 12, 1882. He married, June 
 26, 1851, Miriam, the daughter of Daniel and Letitia 
 (Mankin) Dodge, born September 7, 1832, and died 
 Nov ember 5, 1894. 
 
 Their daughters are : Miriam, and Lenita, who mar- 
 ried Commander Poundstone, U. S. N". 
 
 DODGE 
 
 John Dodge," the son of Richard I. and his wife, 
 Edith Dodge, and the brother of Richard Dodge II., 
 was born at East Coker, Somersetshire County, Eng., 
 1631, and died 1711. He was Deputy to the General 
 Court from Beverly, 1676, 1678, 1679; representative 
 to the General Court at Boston, 1683, 1689, 1690. He 
 married Sarah 
 
 Their son, Josiah Dodge, married Sarah Fiske. 
 
 Their son, Josiah Dodge II., married Prudence Fair- 
 field Dodge. 
 
 Lieutenant Wili.iam Dodge, was the son of Rich- 
 ard II. and Mary (Eaton) Dodge, and the grandson of 
 Richard Dodge I. He married Prudence Fairfield. 
 
 Their daughter. Prudence Fairfield, married Josiah 
 Dodge II. 
 
 Their son, Josiah Dodge III., married Susannah 
 Knowlton. 
 
 Their son, Josiah Dodge IV., was born September 8, 
 1740, and married, November 8, 1761, Hannah, the 
 
 IT Recs. ot Beverly, Mass. ; Mass. Bees., "Viol. v. 
 
Residence of John Conant, B.D. 
 In close of Salisbury 
 
 1 . •«« 
 
 fir - 
 
 
 
 1 ' ""_^^H'!?'''?^£i 
 
 
 ^B^iB 
 
 
 %' . ' ' i' '■. 
 
 
 ■ I 
 
 
 Rev. John Conant, B.D. 
 
Ancesteal Records and Portraits 201 
 
 daughter of Ebenezer and Ruth (Pierce) Conant. She 
 was born February 12, 1740, and died 1810. 
 
 Their son, the Rev. Daniel Dodge, born December 
 1, 1775, and died May, 1852, married, February 2^ 
 1831, Letitia Mankin, born 1793, and died in Septem- 
 ber, 1878. 
 
 Their daughter Miriam married Jacob Brandt III. 
 
 EATOlSr 
 
 GoYERNOR THEOPHrLus Eaton,^® born 1591, died 
 January 7, 1657, came to America in the year 1637, 
 and was a founder of the city of New Haven, 1637 to 
 1638, and the first Governor of the New Haven Colony, 
 1638 to 1657. He married the daughter of the Bishop 
 of Chester. 
 
 Their daughter Mary married Richard Dodge II. 
 
 CONANT 
 
 Arus: Oules, ten billets, or four, three, two, one. 
 Ciiest: a stag, holding loith the dexter foot an escutcheon of the 
 Arms. 
 
 Mono: Conanti dabitor. 
 
 Roger Conant," first Governor of the Cape Anne 
 Colony, in Massachusetts, was born April 15, 1591, and 
 died November 19, 1679. He married, November 11, 
 1618, Sarah Horton. 
 
 " He was appointed under the Charter of Lord Shef- 
 field, 1624, and remained at the head of the Colony until 
 1628, when he was succeeded by John Endicott. Dur- 
 'ing this time he occupied the 'great white house' at 
 Cape Ann. This was built in 1624 and was afterwards 
 moved to Salem and occupied by succeeding Governors. 
 
 18 Allan's Biog. Diet. 
 
 18 Authorities: Savage Gen. Diet, of N. E.; Allan's Am. Biog. Diet.; 
 Hubbard, pp. 109, 110 1 Landing at Cape Arm, by I. W. Thornton; Felt's 
 Bist of Mass. 
 
202 
 
 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 It still stands after nearly three centuries. Governor 
 Conant discovered the site and founded the town of 
 Salem and his son was the first child born in Salem. 
 Soon after the removal of the Colony to Salem there 
 was danger of its abandonment through an invitation 
 to their minister, the Rev. John Lyford, to settle in 
 Virginia, and the decision of most of the colonists to 
 accompany him. They tried to induce Governor 
 Conant to go with them, but Felt's History says : ' He 
 
 conant 
 
 had taken his position and pledged his faith though 
 perils from savages and hardships of a new settlement 
 clustered around him.' The success of the Massachu- . 
 setts Colony rested on his decision. He was frequently 
 called to offices of honor and trust by his fellow towns- 
 men. In 1634 he was chosen as Representative to the 
 General Court at Boston, May 14. This was the sec- 
 ond representative Assembly which met in this country, 
 that of Virginia being first. He was deputy from 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 203 
 
 Salem and thus assisted in laying the foundation of that 
 form of Government which remains to-day our noblest 
 heritage. Governor Roger Conant was instrumental 
 in settling a quarrel between Captain Miles Standish 
 and Captain Hewes. This is memorialized by a stained 
 glass window in a church in Dudley Centre, Massachu- 
 setts. In Hawthorne's description of Main street, 
 Salem, he speaks of Conant as follows : ' Roger Conant, 
 the first settler of Naumkeag, has built his dwelling on 
 the border of the forest path, and at this moment he 
 comes Eastward through the vista of woods, with his 
 gun over his shoulder, bringing home the choice portions 
 of a deer. Roger Conant is of that class of men who 
 do not merely find but make their place in the system of 
 human affairs. A man of thoughtful strength, he has 
 planted the germ of a city,' " 
 
 One of Governor Conant's sons. Lot, was born 1624, 
 and died September 29, 1674. He married Elizabeth 
 Walton. 
 
 A son, Roger II., was born March 10, 1668-1669, and 
 died 1745 ; married, April 25, 1698, Mary, the daughter 
 of Captain Thomas and Mary Raymond. Captain Ray- 
 mond was bom , in Salem, Mass., and died 1735.^" 
 
 One of the sons of Roger Conant II., was Ebenezer, 
 born December 20, 1698, and died October 24, 1794. 
 He married, Ruth, the daughter of John Pierce II., 
 and his wife, Patience Dobson, who died November 19, 
 1797; their daughter, Hannah Conant, married Josiah 
 Dodge IV. 
 
 PIERCE 
 
 Captain Michael Pierce,* "^ was the son of John 
 
 20 Oen. Dodge Family, p. 61. 
 
 21 Allan's Am. Biog. Diet.; Savage's Hiat., pp. 431, 630; Oen. Beg^ 
 VoL xUi, p. 365. 
 
204 AjfCESTEAL Records and Poetbaits 
 
 Pierce I, (who came in the Mary and John, 1630-81, 
 and died August 19, 1661). Captain Pierce lived at 
 Hingham, Mass., from the year 1646 until March 26, 
 1676, when he was killed in the battle of Pawtucket. 
 He was Captain from 1669 to 1675. 
 
 His son, John Pierce II., married Patience Dobson, 
 whose daughter, Ruth, married Ehenezer Conant. 
 
 Their daughter, Hannah Conant, married Josiah 
 Dodge IV., whose son, the Rev. Daniel Dodge, mar- 
 ried Letitia Mankin. 
 
 Their daughter, Miriam Dodge, married Jacob 
 Brandt III, whose daughters are: 
 
 Miriam Brandt, 
 
 Lenita Brandt Poundstone, 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. • 
 
Ancesteai, Recobds and Portkaits 205 
 
 XI 
 
 STRONG 
 
 Elder John Strong/ son of Richard Strong (1561- 
 1613), was born in Taunton, Eng., 1605, and died 
 April 14, 1699. He removed to London and after- 
 wards to Plymouth. In 1630 he came to America in 
 the ship Mary and John, settUng first at Dorchester, 
 Mass. After having assisted in founding and develop- 
 ing the town of Dorchester, in 1635, he removed to 
 Hingham, and took the freeman's oath at Boston, 
 March 9, 1636. His stay at Hingham was short, as 
 December 4, 1638, he was an inhabitant and proprietor 
 of Taunton, Mass., and was made a freeman of Ply- 
 mouth Colony that year. He remained at Taunton 
 as late as 1645, and was Deputy from that place to 
 the General Court in Plymouth 1641, 1643, and 1644. 
 From Taunton he removed to Windsor, Conn., where 
 he was appointed with four others " to superintend and 
 bring forward the settlement of that place." In 1659, 
 he removed from Windsor to Northampton, Mass., 
 of which town he was one of the first and most active 
 founders. There he lived for forty years and was a 
 leading man in the affairs of the town and church. He 
 was a man of means, a tanner, and a large land owner 
 as appears from the records of the county clerk's office. 
 The church records show that he was the " Ruling El- 
 der," 1663." He was twice married, his first wife dying 
 on the voyage to America; his second wife was Abigail 
 
 1 Matthew's Am. Armoury and Blue Book, Addenda, p. 72. 
 
 2 Hist, of the Strong Family; Stiles' Hist. Windsor, Vol. II, p. 743. 
 
206 Ancestbal Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 Ford, and they were married December, 1630. She 
 died July 6, 1688, aged about eighty years. Issue, 
 first wife, two children, viz: 
 
 JohUj Jr. 
 
 Infant who died 1630. 
 
 Issue, second wife, sixteen children, viz: 
 
 Thomas, died October 3, 1689, in Northampton, 
 Mass.; married Mary, the daughter of Rev. Ephraim 
 Hewitt of Windsor. 
 
 Jedediah, born May 7, 1637, died May 22, 1733; 
 married first, November 18, 1662, Freedom, the daugh- 
 ter of Henry Woodward; second, December 19, 1681, 
 Abigail, the daughter of John Stebbins; third, January 
 5, 1661-62, Mrs. Mary (Hart) Lee, the daughter of 
 Stephen Hart. 
 
 Josiah, born about ,1639, died young. 
 
 Return, born 1640-41, died April 9, 1726; married 
 May 11, 1664, Sarah, the daughter of Rev. John War- 
 ham. 
 
 Ebenezer, bom 1643, died February 11, 1729; mar- 
 ried October 14, 1668, Hannah, the daughter of Nicho- 
 las Clapp. 
 
 Abigail, born about 1645, died April 15, 1704; mar- 
 ried, first, November 12, 1673, Rev. Nathaniel, the son 
 of Rev. Charles Chauncey, President of Harvard Uni- 
 versity; second, September 8, 1686, Medad, the son of 
 Edward Pomeroy. 
 
 Elizabeth, born February 24, 1647, died May 12, 
 1736; married Joseph, the son of Joseph Parsons. 
 
 Experience, born August 4, 1650; married May 27, 
 1669, Zerubbabel, the son of Lieutenant Walter Filer. 
 
 Samuel, born August 5, 1652, died October 29, 1732 ; 
 married June 19, 1684, Esther, the daughter of Deacon 
 Edward Clapp. 
 
Ancestrax, Records and Portraits 207 
 
 Joseph, twin to Samuel, died young. 
 
 Mary, born October 26, 1654, died December 8, 1738; 
 married March 20, 1679, Deacon John, the son of Lieu- 
 tenant William Clark. 
 
 Sarah, born 1656, died February 10, 1733; married 
 December 19, 1675, Joseph, the son of Francis B9.r- 
 nard. 
 
 Hannah, born May 30, 1659, died April 23, 1748; 
 married July 15, 1680, Captain WiUiam, the son of 
 Lieutenant WiUiam Clark. 
 
 Hester, born Jime 7, 1661, died March 4, 1726-27; 
 married October 15, 1678, Thomas, the son of Thomas 
 BisseU. X 
 
 Thankful, born July 25, 1663, married Baldwin, 
 
 of Milf ord. Conn. 
 
 Jerijah, born December 12, 1665, died April 24, 
 1754; married July 18, 1700, Thankful, the daughter 
 of John Stebbins. 
 
 The eldest child of Elder Strong and his first wife, 
 John Strong, Jr., was born in England, 1626, and died 
 in Windsor, Conn., February 20, 1698, where he spent 
 his Hfe, and was a man of prominence in aif airs. He 
 came with his parents to America. He married first, 
 November 26, 1656, Mary, the daughter of Joseph 
 Clark, of Windsor; she was baptized September 30, 
 1638, and died April 28, 1663; second, 1664, Elizabeth 
 Warriner, who died June 7, 1684. Issue first wife, 
 two children, viz: 
 
 Mary, born April 22, 1658, died November 22, 1676; 
 married Timothy Stanley. 
 
 Hannah, born August 11, 1660, died November, 
 1745; married Stephen, the son of Stephen Hopkins. 
 
 Issue second wife, four children, viz: 
 
 John III. 
 
208 Ancestbal Records and Portraits 
 
 Jacob, born April 8, 1673, died 1750; married No- 
 vember 10, 1698, Abigail, the daughter of Nathaniel 
 Bissell. 
 
 Josiah, born January 11, 1678, died May 29, 1749; 
 married, January 5, 1698, Joanna, the daughter of Jo- 
 siah Gillett. 
 
 Ehzabeth, born about 1684, died April 18, 1720; 
 married Thomas, the son of Thomas Burnham. 
 
 The eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Warriner) 
 Strong, John Strong III.^ was born in Windsor, Conn., 
 December 25, 1665, and resided there where he died. 
 May 29, 1749; married November 26, 1686, Hannah, 
 the daughter of Deacon John Trumbull, of Suffield, 
 Conn., who was the immigrant ancestor of Governor 
 Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut. There were nine 
 children, viz: 
 
 Mary, born May 24, 1688, died December 12, 1718. 
 
 Elizabeth, born September 21, 1689, died young. 
 
 Jonathan. 
 
 Esther, born April 12, 1699. 
 
 Abigail, born May 11, 1701; married January 1, 
 1729, Nathaniel, the son of Sergeant Thomas Ells- 
 worth. 
 
 David, bom December 15, 1704, died January 25, 
 1801 ; married Thankful, the daughter of Moses Loo- 
 mis. 
 
 John Warham, bom September 30, 1706, die^ Sep- 
 tember 25, 1752; married November 30, 1727, Abigail, 
 the daughter of Captain Timothy Thrall. 
 
 John, born July 14, 1707, died October 1, 1793; 
 married Hepzibah, the daughter of Governor Roger. 
 Wolcott. 
 
 Elizabeth, born August 13, 1708, 
 
 The eldest son of John and Hannah (Trmnbuliy 
 
Ajs^cestkax, Records and Portbaits 209 
 
 Strong, Deacon Jonathan Strong, was bom in Wind- 
 sor, Conn., April 22, 1694, and died July 16, 1763. 
 He removed to Bolton. Conn,, 1721, where he was one 
 of the original proprietors of the town. He married 
 Hannah, the daughter of Captain Job and Mary 
 (Trumbull) Ellswori;h, of Windsor; she was born Feb- 
 ruary 10, 1700, and died October 9, 1762. Her father, 
 Captain Job, was the son of Josiah and Elizabeth (Hol- 
 combe) Ellsworth, and his maternal grandfather was 
 Thomas Holcombe, who was in Dorchester, Mass., 
 1634, and went to Windsor 1635. They had three 
 children, viz: 
 
 Jonathan, Jr. 
 
 Charles, born April 14, 1728, died March 5, 1810; 
 married first, January 16, 1755, Prudence Talcott; 
 second. May 2, 1776, Desire Lyman. 
 
 Job, born January 13, 1730, died May 16, 1800; mar- 
 ried 176-, Damaris, the daughter of Aaron Strong. 
 
 The eldest son of Deacon Jonathan and Mary (Ells- 
 worth) Strong, Deacon Jonathan Strong, Jr., was born 
 in Bolton, Conn., May 19, 1725, and died September 
 17, 1807. He removed to Orford, N. H. 1772, of 
 which town he was one of the first settlers, and where 
 he was elected deacon May 17, 1799. He married, 
 June 28, 1750, Mary, the daughter of Ebenezer and 
 Mary (Glover) Northam, of Colchester, Conn. She 
 was born March 13, 1725, and died December 20, 1817. 
 Issue, six children, viz.: 
 
 Hannah, born July 15, 1751 ; married Edward Saw- 
 yer. 
 
 Mary, Tjorn November 25, 1752 ; married Abel Saw- 
 yer. 
 
 Sarah, born December 29, 1755, died May 21, 1742; 
 married Captain Jonathan Derby. 
 
210 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Esther, born November 3, 1758; married Ichabod 
 Pabner. 
 
 Alexander, born January 15, 1761, died November 
 25, 1836; married October 7, 1784, Amelia, the daugh- 
 ter of Daniel Tillotson. 
 
 Jonathan. 
 
 The youngest child of Deacon Jonathan and Mary 
 (Northam) Strong, Rev. Jonathan Strong, D. D., was 
 born in Bolton, Conn., September 4, 1764, and died in 
 Randolph. Mass., November 9, 1814. He went with his 
 parents to Orford, N. H., 1772; was graduated from 
 Dartmouth College 1786, and ordained as pastor of the 
 church at Randolph, January 28, 1789. He married, 
 November 3, 1790, Joanna, the daughter of Deacon 
 Thomas and Joanna (Oilman) Odiorne, of Exeter, 
 N. H. She was born February 6, 1771, and died in 
 Brookline, Mass., December 23, 1845. Joanna GUman 
 was the daughter of Major John Gilman, Issue, nine 
 children, viz: 
 
 George Odiome, born November 6, 1791, died Feb- 
 ruary 8, 1867; married Sophia, the daughter of John 
 Mann, Jr. 
 
 Jonathan, born November 18, 1793, died June 14, 
 1794. 
 
 Eliza Ann, born August 22, 1795, died January 5, 
 1838; married Luther, the son of Luther Thayer. 
 
 Joanna, born April 21, 1797, died March 31, 1857; 
 married November 11, 1818, Rev. William, the son of 
 Dr. William Cogswell. 
 
 Mary, born February 13, 1799, died December 17, 
 1814. 
 
 Caroline, born December 2, and died December 23, 
 1800. 
 
 Jonathan, born July 9, 1802, married May 10, 1832, 
 
Ancjestrat. Recoeds and Poeteaits 211 
 
 Salome Saxton, the daughter of Joseph Warren Gil- 
 man. 
 
 Caroline, horn October 21, 1804, died February 18, 
 1805. 
 
 Alexander. 
 
 The descendants of Elder John Strong are connected 
 by marriage with the leading families of western New 
 England. Among them, the Dwights, Trumbulls and 
 Lymans. A large number performed important military' 
 service in the several wars in which the country has been 
 engaged. There have been several Governors of states, 
 among them Governor Caleb Strong of Massachusetts, 
 several members of the Continental Congress, several 
 United States Senators, many members of Congress, 
 Judges and men of eminence in the academic and lit- 
 erary life of the country. 
 
 ODIORNE 
 
 The colonist, John Odiorne, of Portsmouth, N. H., 
 was born in England 1627, and came to Newcastle, N. 
 H., 1660. He married Mary Johnson, and their son. 
 Deacon John Odiorne, Jr., was born 1675. His son. 
 Captain Ebenezer Odiorne, (1704-1745) , married Cath- 
 erine, the daughter of Captain John and Hannah (Jack- 
 son) Sherburne. 
 
 Their son, Deacon Thomas Odiorne, was born De- 
 cember 1, 1733, and died April 29, 1819. He was one 
 of the signers of the protest against the Stamp Act at 
 Exeter, N. H., November 15, 1765, and was also one of 
 a committee December 26, 1774, to see that " the associa- 
 tion agreement," or " non-importation agrement," deter- 
 mined on by the Continental Congress, be strictly 
 adhered to. He was the first manufacturer of cotton 
 
212 AifCESTEAii Records and Poktraits 
 
 duck in America, beginning in 1790.^ He married, Jan- 
 uary 31, 1762, Joanna, the daughter of Major John and 
 Jane (Deane) Gihnan, and their daughter Joanna, 
 married Rev. Jonathan Strong, D. D. 
 
 SHERBURNE 
 
 In 1632, Henry Sherburne* (1612-1680), came 
 to Portsmouth, N. H., in the ship James. He was 
 Associate Judge of the Court at Strawberry Bank, 1651 
 and 1652; Town Clerk and Treasurer 1656; Commis- 
 sioner 1658; and Deputy to the Massachusetts General 
 Court 1660. He married, November 18, 1637, Rebecca, 
 the daughter of Ambrose Gibbons who came to Ports- 
 mouth 1630; was Deputy-Governor of New Hampshire 
 1640; Selectman, Magistrate, Commissioner 1641, 1642, 
 1646; Captain of the Portsmouth Alarm 1643, and a 
 factor of the Laconia Company, Piscataqua, 1657.^ 
 
 The son of Henry and Rebecca (Gibbons) Sherburne, 
 Captain John Sherburne, was born April 3, 1647, and 
 died 1702. He was King's Councillor 1699, and signer 
 of test and association papers. He married Mary, the 
 daughter of Edward Cowell. 
 
 Their son. Captain John Sherburne II., was bom 
 January 19, 1676-77, and died in Newcastle, N. H., 
 1747. He married Hannah, the daughter of Thomas 
 and Hannah (Johnson) Jackson, and grand-daughter 
 of James Johnson, and their daughter Catharine, mar- 
 ried Captain Ebenezer Odiorne. 
 
 3 Hist, of Bajeter, pp. 79, 80; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. Vol. IV, pp. 94, 339. 
 
 * Savage's Geneal. Diet., Vol. iv, p. 77. Reg. N. H. Soc. Col. Dames, 
 p. 84. 
 
 5 Be jr. N. H. Soc. Dcrnies, p. 63; Beg. Oncers and Members Soc. Col. 
 Wars, N. Y., Jan. 1898. State Papers, N. H., Vol. i. Vol. xxix, 1896. 
 
Ancestbal Recoeds and Poetbaits 213 
 
 GILMAN 
 
 John Gilman,* son of Edward Gilman, the colonist, 
 married Elizabeth, the daughter of James and Eliza- 
 beth (Shapleigh) Treworgie, and the grand-daughter of 
 Alexander Shapleigh. 
 
 Captain John Gilman II., their son, married Eliza- 
 beth, the daughter of Peter Coffin, whose son: 
 
 Majoe John Gilman^ III.,'' married Jane, the 
 daughter of Dr. Thomas and Deborah (Clarke) 
 Deane ; descended from the Rev. John Clarke, the Bev. 
 Benjamin Woodbridge, and Goteenoe Thomas Dud- 
 ley.® Their daughter, Joanna Gilman, married Dea- 
 con Thomas Odiorne. ( See pp. 260-275. ) 
 
 COFFIN 
 
 Petee Coffin,* son of Tristram^" and Dionis 
 (Stevens) Coffin, married Abigail, the daughter of 
 Edward and Catharine (Reynolds) Starbuck. Their 
 daughter Elizabeth, married Captain John Gilman 
 II. (See pp. 262-264.) 
 
 The colonist, Edward Starbuck, born in Derbyshire, 
 Eng., 1604, died December 4, 1690, came to Dover, N. 
 H., with his wife, Catharine Reynolds, of Wales, about 
 1635." He was representative to the General Court 
 1643 and 1646, and an elder in the church. He had 
 grants' of land at different times, the first June 30, 1643, 
 settling in Nantucket 1659. 
 
 8 nist. Exeter, p. 351. 
 
 7 Ibid, pp. 325, 235, 237, 423. 
 
 8 Tear Book Mass. Soc. Col. Dam,es, p. 101 ; Savage's Oen. Diet. Vol. II. 
 
 9 Year Book Mass. Soc. Col Dames, p. 101; Savage's Oen. Diet. Vol. I, 
 p. 419. 
 
 10 Early Settlers of Nantucket, pp. 24, 25 ; Year Book Mass. Soc. Col. 
 Dames, p. 101. 
 
 11 Austin's 160 Allied Families, pp. 220, 222; N. E. Hist, and Oen. Beg. 
 Vol. VIII, p. 68; Early Settlers of Nantucket, pp. 21, 23. 
 
214 Ancesteal Records and Pokteaits 
 
 WOODBRIDGE-DUDLEY-WARD 
 
 The colonist, Rev. John Woodbridge,^^ married 
 Mercy, the daughter of Governor Thomas and Dorothy 
 (Yorke) Dudley, of Massachusetts. He was the son of 
 Rev. John and Sarah (Parker) Woodbridge of Stanton^ 
 Wiltshire, Eng. Sarah Parker was the daughter of Rev. 
 Robert Parker. 
 
 Their son, Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge, married 
 Mary, the daughter of Rev. John Ward ^^ (who was the 
 son of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward) ," and his wife Alice, 
 the daughter of Nicholas Edmunds. ( See pp. 266, 269, 
 362-365, 366.) 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Woodbridge, married Rev. 
 John Clarke, the son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth ( Som- 
 erby) Clark. (Elizabeth Somerby was the daughter of 
 Henry Somerby.) 
 
 Through their daughter, Deborah Clark, who married 
 Dr. Thomas Deane, the son of Thomas and his wife, 
 Jane Scammond (the daughter of Richard), the line 
 descends to the Strong family, as follows : 
 
 Jane Deane, married Major John Gilman III. 
 
 Joanna Gilman, married Deacon Thomas Odiorne. 
 
 Joanna Odiorne, married Rev. Jonathan Strong, 
 D.D. 
 
 WALDRON 
 
 In 1687, William Waldron,^'' the son of William 
 Waldron, of Alcester, Warwick County, Eng., came 
 to America. He was baptized October 18, 1601, and 
 was drowned at Kennebimk, Me., September, 1646. A 
 
 12 Woodbridge Geneal. 7 to 9; Savage's Oen. Diet.; Year Boftk Mass. 
 8oc. Col. Dames, p. 1S4. 
 18 Savage's Gen. Diet. Vol. IV, p. 408. 
 1* Ibid, p. 410. 
 IB Savage's Oen. Diet. Vol. IV, p. 331 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 215 
 
 Freeman in Massachusetts, May 19, 1642, he was 
 Representative for Dover, Mass., the same year; made 
 Recorder for the Province of Maine, by Sir Ferdinando 
 Gorges, and Recorder for Dover by the power of the 
 Massachusetts Colony, 1646. His daughter Prudence, 
 married Richard Scammond, and their daughter, Jane 
 married Thomas Deane. 
 
 STRONG (Continued) 
 
 The youngest of the nine children of Rev. Jonathan 
 and Joanna (Odiome) Strong, Alexander Strong, was 
 born in Randolph, Mass., November 25, 1807, and died 
 June 6, 1881. He married first, June 11, 1832, Cath- 
 erine, the daughter of Jesse and Susanna (Plympton) 
 Goodenow; she was bom in Boxford, Mass., February 
 14, 1809, and died in Boston, May 8, 1864; second, Feb- 
 ruary 11, 1868, Mary Elizabeth, the daughter of Shad- 
 rach Robinson. Issue, first wife, two children, viz: 
 
 Helen Corneha, born June 30, 1833, died November 
 5, 1884, married first, June 2, 1853, John Dorr, the son 
 of Charles Hayward; second, 1874, Lucius J. Knowles, 
 
 Edward Alexander. 
 
 GOODENOW-PLYMPTON 
 
 The ship Confidence, in 1638, brought Captain 
 Edmund Goodenow ^® to America from Dunhead, in 
 Wilts, Eng., when twenty-seven years of age, accom- 
 panied by his wife Ann, two sons, John and Thomas, 
 and his servant Richard Sanger. He took the freeman's 
 oath May 13, 1640, and was Deputy to the General 
 Court from Sudbury, Mass., 1645, 1649, 1650, 1660, 
 1673, 1674, 1679 and 1680. He was appointed Ensign 
 
 18 Year Book Mass. 8oc. Col. Dames, p. 113; Savage's Oen. Diet., Vol. 
 II, p. 371. 
 
216 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 August 12, 1645; Captain of Foot Company at Sud- 
 bury, May 27, 1674, and is mentioned in Johnson's 
 " Wonder Working Providence " as leader of the militia. 
 He was also appointed by the General Court to lay out 
 Sudbury. 
 
 One of his sons, Joseph, married Patience . Their 
 
 son Daniel, married Ruth, whose son, Daniel, Jr., mar- 
 ried Catherine Moore. In the fifth generation from 
 the colonist, was Jesse, who married Susanna, the 
 daughter of Ebenezer and Susanna (Ruggles) Plymp- 
 ton. 
 
 A settler of Sudbury, Mass., 1643, Thomas Plympton 
 died in the Sudbury fight, April 21, 1676. He married 
 Abigail, the daughter of Peter Noyes. Their son, Peter, 
 was born January 4, 1667, and married November 8, 
 1720, Abigail Thompson, who died September 14, 1743; 
 whose son, Thomas, bom April 17, 1723, served in the 
 Revolution. His son, Ebenezer, married Susanna Rug- 
 gles, and their daughter, Susan (Susanna), married 
 Jesse Goodenow, whose daughter Catherine, married 
 Alexander Strong. 
 
 STRONG {Continued) 
 
 The only son of Alexander and Catherine (Goode- 
 now) Strong, Edward Alexander Strong, is a retired 
 merchant living in Boston. He was born in Boston, 
 Mass., December 10, 1834, and was graduated from 
 Amherst College in the class of 1855. He married, June 
 10, 1858, Marion Hubbard, the daughter of Clinton and 
 Eunice Bradbury (Whitney) Clarke, of Boston. She 
 was bom March 16, 1834, and died April 7, 1909. 
 (Eunice Bradbury Whitney (1801-1881), was the 
 daughter of Jesse, and Mary (Sawyer) Whitney and 
 the grand-daughter of David Sawyer, of Saco, Me., the^ 
 
Ancestbal Records and Poetraits 217 
 
 son of Ephraim Sawyer, whose mother was Prudence 
 Standish, (the great granddaughter of Captain Miles 
 Standish.) They had two children, viz: 
 
 George Alexander, born May 23, 1859, married 
 November 22, 1887, Margaret PhiUips, the daughter of 
 Dr. John Philhps Reynolds. 
 
 El,len Clarke, born in Boston, Mass., June 1, 1863 ; 
 married, October 12, 1892, William Bullock, the son of 
 Barna Atherton Clark. He is Professor of Geology, 
 Johns Hopkins University. They have four children, 
 viz: Edward Strong, born April 16, 1894; Helen, born 
 August 13, 1896; Atherton, born May 29, 1899, and 
 Marion, born December 14, 1903. 
 
 Ellen Clarke Strong Clark, 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
218 
 
 Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 XII 
 JOHNS 
 
 Aem3:i Argent, a chevron sable between three ravens proper, a bordure 
 
 bezanty invected gules. 
 Cbxst: Two battle axes saltierwise sable. 
 Motto: Deus pascit Corvos, 
 
 The colonist, Richard Johnes (Johns) of the Johnes 
 family of Dolau Cothy Hall, Albemarles, Carmarthen, 
 Wales, was bom in Bristol, Eng., 1645, and died Oc- 
 tober 10, 1717. He came to Mary- 
 land, about 1660, and settled at 
 The Cliffs, Calvert County. The 
 Friends' records say of Richard 
 Johns that he was a man of integ- 
 rity and influence in the commu- 
 nity, and greatly beloved. The 
 early meetings of the Society of 
 Friends took place at his house, 
 where George Fox staid while first 
 itotus/^ ^^^'^°^ in this country. Elected a Bur- 
 ^ Vasc.V ^ gesg^ September 21, 1694, on ac- 
 JOHNS count of his membership in the 
 
 Society of Friends, he refused to take the oath.^ He 
 married. May 7, 1676, Elizabeth, the daughter of Hugh 
 and Margaret Kensey, of England. 
 
 Their son, Kensey Johns, a planter, bom July 5, 
 1689, and died February 2, 1729, married Elizabeth, 
 the daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Benson) 
 Chew. 
 
 1 Arms of the Johnes family of DoIau Cothy Hall, Albemarles, Car- 
 marthen, Wales, and of Maryland and Delaware, according to Burke's 
 Landed Gentry. 
 
 »Md. Arch., "Vol. XIX, p. 29. 
 
AjfNE Van Dyke 
 Wife of Hon. Kensey Johns III 
 
 Hon. Kensey Johns HI 
 Chancellor of Delaware 
 
 Kensey Johns I 
 
 Elizabeth Chew 
 Wife of Kensey Johns I 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Poeteaits 219 
 
 CHEW 
 
 Colonel John Chetv^ baptized 1600.. and died about 
 1668, came to "James citie," Va., and was Burgess 
 1623, 1624, 1629, 1642 to 1644; Justice of York County, 
 Va., 1634 to 1652; (apparently dead 1668).' 
 
 Colonel Samuel Chew^ their son, resided in Mary- 
 land as early as 1648, and died March 15, 1676. At the 
 date of Truman's impeachment trial in 1676 he is de- 
 scribed as " Colonel Samuel Chew, Chancellor and 
 Secretary." He married Anne, the daughter of 
 William Ayres. (See pp. 249, 499-501.)* 
 
 Their son^ Benjamin Chew (1671-1700), married 
 Elizabeth Benson. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Chew, married Kensey 
 Johns, the son of Richard and Elizabeth (Kensey) 
 Johns. 
 
 JOHNS {Continued) 
 
 The son of Kensey and Elizabeth (Chew) Johns, 
 Kensey Johns II, a planter, married Susannah, the 
 daughter of Richard and Mary (Paca) Galloway. 
 Their son was Chancellor Kensey Johns III. 
 
 PACA 
 
 Captain Aquh^a Paca/ the son of John Paca, the 
 brother of the signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
 ence, was Captain of the Second Battalion of Flying 
 Camp in Maryland, 1776. His daughter, Mary, mar- 
 ried Richard Galloway. 
 
 3 Henings Stats., Vol. I, pp. 129, 138, 239. 
 
 Va. Hist. Mag., Vol. I, p. 89. 
 
 Thomas' Oeneal. Notes. 
 
 William Gary, Genealogist. 
 * Thomas' Geneal. Notes. 
 s McSherry's Hist, of MaryUmd. 
 
220 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 JOHNS (Continued) 
 
 Chancellor Kensey Johns" III, the son of Kensey 
 and Susannah (Galloway) Johns, was bom June 14, 
 1749, at West River, and died in New Castle, Del., 
 December 21, 1840. Elected to the State Constitu- 
 tional Convention 1776 and appointed Associate Judge 
 of the Supreme Court of Delaware 1779, he succeeded 
 in March 1794, U. S. Senator George Read, resigned, 
 but the Senate on a technicality, refused to admit him. 
 He became Chief Justice of Delaware 1798, retaining 
 the office three years, and Chancellor of the state, 1828, 
 holding that post until the change of the constitution in 
 1832. He married, 1784, Ann, the daughter of Nicholas 
 and Elizabeth (Nixon) Van Dyke. Ann Van Dyke 
 was a great beauty. General Washington and General 
 Lafayette were both at her wedding, and General 
 Washington told the groom that he should be a very 
 happy man, as he had married one of the most beautiful 
 women in the country. Their son was Kensey Johns 
 
 ir. 
 
 VAN DYKE 
 
 Governor Nicholas Van Dyke, born 1738, was a 
 signer of the articles of Confederation and one of the 
 delegates that ratified them. He attained the rank of 
 Major in the Militia; was one of the Committee of Cor- 
 respondence to communicate with the other colonies, 
 in regard to the Boston Port BUI 1774; a Deputy from 
 his county to the state convention, July 1776, which 
 framed the first constitution of Delaware; elected to 
 the Continental Congress February 22, 1777, serving 
 until 1783; appointed Judge of the Admiralty 1777; 
 one of the Coimcil of Delaware, and Speaker 1779, 
 and Congress appointed him, 1781, one of a committee 
 
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 of five to confer with the people of New Hampshire, 
 relative to the admission of the colony into the Federal 
 Union of these states. He was elected President of the 
 state of Delaware 1783, holding the office until 1786.' 
 He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Nixon 
 II, who was born July 1, 1745, in Dover, Del., and 
 died January 2, 1770. (His son, Nicholas Van Dyke 
 II, was Senator of Delaware, 1815, and went to the 
 United States Senate 1817, holding that office until 
 1826). Their daughter, Ann, married Chanceixor 
 Kensey Johns III. 
 
 The Nixon family descended from Thomas and his 
 wife Ann (Manlove) Nixon, whose son, Nicholas, mar- 
 ried Elizabeth , and died 1735. Their son was 
 
 Thomas Nixon II. 
 
 MANLO VE-MOLE STON 
 
 Hon. George Manlove^ (the son of Mark Man- 
 love, who married in England, , Elizabeth ) , 
 
 was born September 24, 1660, and died February 16, 
 1695. He was one of the Assembly from Kent County, 
 Del., 1692, He married Anne . 
 
 Their son, Jonathan Manlove (1681-1727), married 
 Hannah, the daughter of Henry Moleston, who was 
 one of the Governor's Council of Sussex, Del., in 1700, 
 and the son of Axexander Moleston * of Sussex, one 
 of the Assembly 1683. Their daughter, Ann Manlove, 
 born 1715, married, December 25, 1736, Thomas Nixon 
 I, whose son, Nicholas, was the father of Thomas Nixon 
 
 8 Scharfs Hist, of Del, Vol. I, p. 218; Appleton's Oycl. Am. Biog., Vol. 
 VI, p. 246; Penn. Gazette, July 6, 1774; Penn. Jour, of Commercial Ad- 
 vertising, July 6, 1774. 
 
 r Peim. Arch., 2d series. Vol. IX, p. 660. 
 
 8 Proud's Hist, of Penn., Vol. I, pp. 236-375; 406-416. . 
 
222 Ancestkal Records and Portbaits 
 
 II, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married Nicholas Van 
 Dyke. 
 
 JOHN'S (Continued) 
 
 The son of Kensey and Ann (Van Dyke) Johns, 
 Kensey Johns IV, was Chancellor after his father, the 
 two holding the position fifty years. 
 
 His son. Rev. Henry Van DyJce Johns, D. D., born 
 October 23, 1803, and died April 22, 1859, was Rector of 
 Old Christ Church, and the first Rector of Emmanuel 
 Church of Baltimore, Md. Ten thousand people at- 
 tended his funeral on foot," for he was greatly beloved. 
 He married, 1827, Lavinia, the daughter of Colonel 
 William Montgomery and his wife Fidelia Rogerson, 
 a niece of John Rogerson Montgomery and Mary Car- 
 penter Reigert, his wife. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, OR MONTGOMERIE 
 
 Abms: Quarterly -first and fourth azure, three fleur de Us or for Mont- 
 gomery second and third gules. Three anmilets, or, stoned, azure 
 for EgUnton, all urithin a border of the second charged with a 
 double tressure of the third. 
 
 Crest: For Montgomery an arm emhowed in armxtr, the hamd grasping a 
 broken spear, head drooping, all ppr. 
 
 Motto: Honeur sans Bepos. 
 
 The first Earl of Eglinton, Hugh Montgomerie, 
 third Lord Montgomerie, died 1545, having married 
 Lady Helen, the daughter of Colin, the first Earl of 
 Argyll. 
 
 Their third son, Sir Neil Montgomery, married about 
 1500, Margaret, the daughter and heiress of Quintin 
 Mure, Laird of Skeldon. 
 
 Their son, Sir Neil Montgomery II, of Lainshaw, 
 
 8 Mrs. Charles Ridgely, of Hampton, erected in his memory and that of 
 her brother, the memorial church, corner of Lafayette Avenue and Bolton 
 Street, Baltimore. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 223 
 
 married Jean, the daughter of John and Grisel (Be- 
 toun) Montgomery, 
 
 Their son. Major Hugh Montgomery, was killed in 
 the battle of the Boyne, 1690. 
 
 His son. Major John Montgomery, born 1665, and 
 died 1721, fought with his father in the battle of the 
 Boyne, and succeeded him as Major, He married Mar- 
 garet, the daughter of Sir 
 WiUiam Dunbar of Moch- 
 rum, County Galloway, Ire. 
 Their son, Alexander 
 Montgomery, came to this 
 country from Ireland about 
 1720, He married Mary 
 McCullock of Ardmaugh, 
 Ire, 
 
 Their son, Thomas Mont- 
 gomery, born 1734, and died 
 August 3, 1816, married 
 Miss Nevins, 
 
 Colonel William 
 Montgomery^ their son, 
 born in Little Britain, Lancaster County^ Penn,, 1756, 
 and died January 4, 1822, ranked as one of the leading 
 lawyers of the state. He left Princeton College in his 
 senior year to join the army of Washington with a com- 
 pany of students of which he was Captain and his father 
 Major-General, He took part in the battles of Tren- 
 ton and Princeton, and afterwards served as Colonel of 
 a company of Light Horse, He married, 1791, Fidelia 
 Rogerson, and their daughter Lavinia, married Rev. 
 Henry Fan Dyke Johns, D. D. 
 
 The wife of Sir Neil Montgomery II,, of Lainshaw, 
 Jean Montgomery, had the following line of descent: 
 
224 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 The third Lord Lyle, Robert Montgomery, died 
 1511. He married Mariot Lindsay, of the House of 
 Dunrod." 
 
 The fourth Lord Lyle, John Montgomery (1495- 
 1540), married Grisel, the daughter of Sir David 
 Betoun. 
 
 Their daughter, Jean Montgomery, married Sir Neil 
 Montgomery II, of Lainshaw, whose line of descent is 
 hereinbefore given. 
 
 JOHNS (Continued) 
 The son of Rev. Henry Van Dyke Johns, D. D. and 
 his wife, Lavinia Montgomery, Henry Van Dyke 
 Johns II, was bom in Baltimore, Md., October 22, 
 1832, and died September 11, 1897. He married, Jan- 
 uary 3, 1867, Annie E., the daughter of Colonel George 
 and Mary J. (Perkins) Davis; she was born May 16, 
 1843, and died May 24, 1892. Their daughter, Edyth, 
 married, first, Jesse Tyson; second, Bruce Gotten. 
 
 DAVIS 
 
 The Davises descend from Thomas Davis, who mar- 
 ried, November, 1670, Judith Bost. 
 
 Judge Jehu Davis, their son, an officer of the Dela- 
 ware Militia during the Revolutionary War, was also 
 one of the Committee of Public Safety. He afterwards 
 represented the county in the General Assembly, and 
 for many years presided as Speaker of the House, in 
 which capacity he acted as Governor of the State for a 
 time. He also served as Judge of the board of prop- 
 erty, and for many years was Judge of the Court of 
 Common Pleas for Kent County, Del." 
 
 10 From here back to Roger de Mtontgomerie, Count of Montgom'erie be- 
 fore the coming of Rollo in 912, see a genealogical History of the Family 
 ot Montffomery, by Thomas Harrison Montgomery, of Philadelphia, Penn. 
 
 ti Hist, and Biog. Eneycl. of Del., p. 256 j Scharfs Hist, of Del., p. 324. 
 
Col. William Montgomery 
 At the age of 23 
 
 Henby Van Dyke Johns II 
 
 CoL. William Montgomery 
 At the age of SO 
 
 Mary Carpenter Reigert 
 Wife of John Rogerson Montgomery 
 
Ancestral, Records and Portraits 225 
 
 His son, Judge Isaac Davis, 'bom 1765, was elected 
 one of the Assembly 1793, and of the senate 1794; 
 Speaker in 1799, and also Register of Wills. He was 
 appointed Associate Judge 1814, and continued on the 
 bench until the revision of the Constitution in 1831." 
 He married Mary Johnson KiUen, the niece of Chan- 
 cellor Killen of Delaware. 
 
 Their son, Colonel George Davis, bom January 1, 
 1806, and died April 12, 1877, married Mary J., the 
 daughter of Dr. John Day and Elizabeth (Bradshaw) 
 Perkins, and their daughter, Annie E., married Henry 
 Van Dyke Johns II. 
 
 PERKINS, OR PEARKINS 
 
 A branch of this ancient family of Ufton Court, Berk- 
 shire, Eng., begins with George Pearkins ^* of Abbotts 
 Lalford, Warwick County, whose son WiUiam, was 
 born January 1, 1579. 
 
 A son of the latter, William Pearkins II, of London, 
 Eng., bom August 25, 1607, and died May 21, 1682, 
 came to Ipswich, Mass., and with John Winthrop set- 
 tled that place. In 1640 he represented Weymouth, 
 Mass,, in the General Court. A good historian has said 
 of him: " He was probably the most accomplished per- 
 son of the toAvn; a scholar, a man of business, clergy- 
 man, soldier, and legislator, and in each relation bore 
 himself with ability and discretion." 
 
 His son, Daniel Perkins, who died 1744, came from 
 Norwich, Conn., to Kent County, Md., in 1700. He 
 married first, 1682, Dolinda, the daughter of Thomas 
 Bliss, and second, Susannah Starton, and their son, 
 Daniel Perkins II, married Susannah . 
 
 12 Scharf s Hist, of Del. Bar and Bench, p. 537. 
 
 13 Hilt, of Ufton Court, by A. Mary Sharp. 
 
226 Ancestral Recokds and Poetraits 
 
 Their son, Thomas Perkins, bom January 14, 1762, 
 and died December 22, 1832, married, July 20, 1786, 
 Mary Kittridge, the daughter of John Thomas and 
 iMiary (Fergueson) Maulden; she was born September 
 18, 1761, and died November 25, 1837. (John Thomas 
 Maulden, came from England and settled at Bohemia 
 Manor, Cecil County, Md. He married Mary Fergue- 
 son, who was bom 1722, and died 1802.) 
 
 Their son. Dr. John Day Perkins, bom August 27, 
 1790, and died August 13, 1860, married, February 22, 
 1813, Ehzabeth (1792-1858), the daughter of James 
 Bradshaw, and the great-great-granddaughter of John 
 Bradshaw (1602-1659) , who was President of the High 
 Court of Justice which tried, convicted and condemned 
 Charles I of England; President of the Council of 
 State 1649 to 1652 ; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- 
 caster, and Attorney-General of Cheshire and North 
 Wales 1649." 
 
 Their daughter, Mary J. Perkins, married Colonel 
 George Davis, whose daughter, Armie E.^ married 
 Henry Van Dyke Johns II. Their daughter is : 
 
 Edyth Johns Cotten, 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
 14 Cent. Diet., p. 177. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 227 
 
 XIII 
 PARKER 
 
 Elisha Parker I., yeoman of Woodbridge, who died 
 in 1700, received his first grant of land April 19, 1675. 
 In November, 1694, he was appointed High SheriiF of 
 Middlesex County, in the province of East Jersey/ He 
 married, July 15, 1657, Elizabeth, the daughter of 
 Samuel Hinckley, of Yenterden, Kent County, Eng., a 
 settler in Scituate, Mass. She was the sister of Thomas 
 Hinckley, Governor of Plymouth, Mass., 1681-1692. 
 
 Elisha Parker II. (1660-1717), their son, repre- 
 sented Middlesex County in the Provincial Assembly of 
 New Jersey for two years, 1708 to 1710, and was later 
 a member of Governor Hunter's Council, 1713 to 1717. 
 He was also Captain of the Provincial Troops of 
 Middlesex County, 1707.^ He married Hannah Rolfe. 
 
 John Parker, their son, was born November 10, 
 1692, and died in September, 1732. He built the stone 
 part of the old Parker house, familiarly called the 
 " Castle," which is still standing, and owned by the 
 family, and until lately the residence of a great-grand- 
 son of John. He was Captain of the Provincial Troops 
 of Middlesex County 1715, and one of the Judges in a 
 special Court to try pirates, 1718. Also one of the 
 King's Council of the Province 1718 to 1732. In 1726, 
 he was Mayor of Perth Amboy, N. J. He was chair- 
 man of a committee to prepare an ordinance for regulat- 
 
 liV. J. Arch. Vol. IV, p. 326. Whitehead's Contributions to E. Jersey 
 His., pp. 128-129. N. T. Gen. and Biog. Bees. Vol. XXIX, p. 192. 
 
 2N. J. Arch., Vol. Iv, pp. 153, 171, 182, 326; Vol. xiii, pp. 308, 353, 414, 
 495, 562, 563; Vol. XIV, pp. 1, 7, 29, 70. Whitehead's Cont. to E. Jersey 
 HUt. pp, 129, 130. N. Y. Oen. and Biog. Bees. Vol. XXIX, 192. 
 
228 Ancestkal Records and Poeteaits 
 
 ing the courts of the judicature, and several times chair- 
 man of a committee to regulate the expenditures of the 
 public money.* He married, September 16, 1721, Janet, 
 the daughter of Dr. John Johnstone. Their son was 
 James Parker. 
 
 JOHNSTONE 
 
 Abms: Argeid,, a saltire, so. On a chief, gu., three cushions, ar. 
 Chest: A winged spar, ar. 
 Motto: Nuquam non parates. 
 
 Dr. John Johnstone came to the province of East 
 Jersey in 1685, from Scotland, where he had been a 
 druggist in Edinburgh. The ship, Henry S^ Francis, 
 on which he sailed, met with many difficulties of storm 
 and disease. On the death of the captain, George Scot, 
 Laird of Pittoclive, the direction of the voyage devolved 
 on Johnstone, who was betrothed to Scot's daughter, 
 Eupham, whom he married shortly after their arrival in 
 this country. They were given a grant of land in Mon- 
 mouth County, N. J., " in consideration of ye great loss 
 they did suifer by importing ye Sd people upon ye 
 propre incouragement & wh has contributed very much 
 to ye good of this province." Doctor Johnstone settled 
 first in New York, but removed to Perth Amboy some- 
 time prior to 1709. He was a member of the King's 
 Council in the province of East Jersey, 1686 to 1688, 
 and 1704 to 1726; a member of the Provincial Assembly, 
 1709, 1710, 1720-1732, and Speaker 1720 to 1732; 
 Mayor of New York, 1714 to 1718 ; member of the Gov- ' 
 ernor's Council, 1716 to 1722 ; and of the boundary com- 
 
 3 N. J. Arch. Vol. IV, pp. 333, 334, 363, 373, 374, 394; Vol. V, pp. 3, 34, 
 156, 301; Vol. XIV, pp. 77, 110, 137, ISO, 210, 243, 269, 279, 314, 325, 
 393, 40S, 407, 455, 465. Whitehead's Cont., p. 130. Rep. of N. 7. State 
 Hist. Vol. I, p. 526. N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Bee. Vol. XXIX, p. 192. 
 
Elizabeth Parker 
 
 The Van Cohtlandt House, New York 
 
Ancesteal Recoeds and Poeteaits 229 
 
 mittee for East Jersey, 1719-1720.* The following 
 notice of his death appeared in the Philadelphia Weekly 
 Mercury: 
 
 " Perth Amboy, Sept. 19th, 1732. On the 7th inst. 
 died here in the 71st year of his age, E^octor Johnstone, 
 very much lamented by all who knew him, and to the 
 inexpressible loss of the poor, who were always his par- 
 ticular ,care, etc." 
 
 In writing to Governor Hunter, James Alexander, 
 who was warmly attached to Dr. Johnstone, said: 
 
 "Dr. Johnstone died on the 7th of this month, being 
 spent with age and fatigue in going about to serve those 
 who wanted his assistance." 
 
 His daughter, Janet, married John Paekee. 
 
 PARKER {Continued) 
 
 James Paekee, the son of John and Janet (John- 
 stone) Parker, was Captain of the Provincial Troops 
 in 1746, and filled a vacancy in Governor Franklin's 
 Council in October, 1764. He was Mayor of Perth 
 Amboy in 1771, and appointed Delegate to the Pro- 
 vincial Congress 1775, but did not serve. During the 
 Revolution, he was neutral. He was invited to be a 
 candidate for Congress in 1789, but withheld his con- 
 sent until too late. He married, in 1763, Gertrude, the 
 daughter of William and Ehzabeth (van Cortlandfl 
 Skinner, who was born in 1737, and died in 1811. Their 
 son was James Parker II. 
 
 SKINNER 
 
 The colonist of this name, the Rev. William Skinner 
 
 •» Whitehead's Cont. p. 69. Record of Governor's Council of E. Jersey, 
 pp. 134, 144, 394; N. J. Arch., Vol. Ill, pp. 51, 335; IV, pp. 56, 68, 119. 
 129. 132, 394; V, pp. 55, 62, 263; XIII, pp. 161, 174, 185. 
 
230 
 
 Ancestral, Recobds and Portraits 
 
 (1687-1758), was said to be a Scotchman named Mc- 
 Gregor who, being compromised in Scotland during the 
 rebellion of 1715, fled to this country under the name 
 of Skinner, and settled first in Philadelphia,. Later, he 
 went to London and took orders, and on his return to 
 the colonies settled in Perth Amboy, N. J., where he 
 became the first pastor of St. Peter's Church. He mar- 
 ried, June 8, 1726, EUzabeth. the daughter of Stephanus 
 and Gertrude (Schuyler) van Cortlandt, whose daugh- 
 ter, Gertrude, married James Parker I. 
 
 VAN CORTLANDT 
 
 Arms: Argent the four winffg of a windmill conjoined saltireine sable 
 voided gules, between five mullets plctced crosswise of the last. 
 
 Cbest: a star gules between two wings displayed the dexter argent, 
 the sinister sable. 
 
 Motto: Virtus sit meu/m. 
 
 Oloef Stevense Van Cortlandt, was born in 1600, 
 at Wisk, near Ultrect, in Holland. He came to New 
 
 Amsterdam, New Nether- 
 ( lands, in 1637, attached to a 
 military company of the West 
 India Company. He was a 
 man of good education, and 
 his seal, bearing the van 
 Cortlandt arms, still in the 
 possession of his descendants, 
 and articles of Dutch plate, 
 marked with the same arms, 
 also preserved, indicate that 
 his position was that of a gentleman. In the summer 
 of 1637 he was transferred to the civil service, as a 
 commissary of cargoes, and in 1643 was made keeper 
 of the stores of the West India Company. In 1648 
 he resigned from the company and became a Freeman 
 
 van cortlandt 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Porteaits 231 
 
 of the city, a merchant and brewer, and died April 4, 
 1684, leaving a very, large fortune for that time. 
 
 His public career began in 1645, when he was chosen 
 one of the " Eight Men," a body representative of the 
 citizens at large ; became president of the " Nine Men " 
 in 1650, and while holding that position was one of the 
 signers of the remonstrance transmitted to Holland 
 against the maladministration of Director Kieft, and 
 the obnoxious measures of Director Stuyvesant. The 
 latter retaliated by turning the " Nine Men " out of 
 their pews in the church and tearing up the seats. In 
 1654, he was elected a Schepen of the city of New 
 Amsterdam, and was appointed Burgomeister 1655, 
 which office he held almost uninterruptedly until the 
 close of the Dutch government, covering the years 1655- 
 1656, 1658-1660 and 1662-1663. He was a special 
 Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1645, Colonel of the 
 Burgher Corps 1649, Commissioner of boundaries 1663, 
 and one of the Governor's Council of New York, 1674.* 
 
 A portion of his property was a plot on the west side 
 of Broadway, extending to the North River, and adja- 
 cent to the present Cortlandt Street. His place of resi- 
 dence was the Brouwer Straat, now Stone Street. He 
 married Annatje Loockermans, February 26, 1642. 
 
 Stephanus Van Cortlandt, their eldest son, was 
 born in New Netherlands, May 7, 1643. In the public 
 service, under the English rule, he filled every promi- 
 nent office in the province, except that of Governor. At 
 the early age of thirty-four he became the first native 
 
 6 Bolton's Hist, of Westchester Co., N. Y. Vol. I, p. 99. 
 N. Y. Civil List, pp. 59, 61, 62. 
 
 O'Callaghan's New NetherUmd Beg., pp. 14, 54, 56, 59, 60. 
 O'Callaghan's Dutch Mss., pp. 254, 304. 
 Appleton's Bioff. Enc. Vol. VI, p. 236. 
 Schuyler's Colonial New York, Vol. I, p. 190. 
 Albamy Recs., Vol. II, pp. 57, 61, 83, 99, 132. 
 
232 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 American Mayor of the city of New York, and held 
 that position from the year 1677, when he was Lord of 
 Cortlandt Manor, until his death, November 25, 1700. 
 In 1678 he was first Judge of the Court of Admiralty; 
 member of the Governor's Council, Province of New 
 York, 1680 to 1688, and 1691 to 1700; Secretary of the 
 Province, 1688 ; Chancellor of the Province, 1696 ; Re- 
 ceiver-General, 1687 to 1698, and Chief-Justice of the 
 Province, 1700. He began his military career in 1668, 
 as an Ensign in the King's County regiment, then be- 
 came Captain, and later Colonel of the regiment. 
 
 On the death of the husband of his sister Maria, Jere- 
 mias van Rensselaer, in 1675, Stephanus assisted in the 
 administration of the affairs of Rensselaerwyck, during 
 the minority of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the son, who 
 was but twelve years of age at the death of his father. 
 
 In the present counties of Westchester, Putnam and 
 Dutchess, Stephanus van Cortlandt purchased, in 1683, 
 large tracts of land from the Indians, and obtained for 
 them a patent from Governor Dongan, two years later. 
 This was afterwards called the Manor of Cortlandt, 
 and Stephanus was the first and only Lord of the 
 Manor.® He married, September 10, 1671, Gertrude, 
 the daughter of Philip Pieterse and Margaritta (van 
 Slichtenhorst) Schuyler, and their daughter, Elizabeth, 
 married Rev. William Skinner. 
 
 SCHUYLER 
 
 Arms: Vert issmng from a cloud proper, a cubit arm in fess, vested, 
 az., holdmg on the hand a falcon,, close; all ppr. 
 Crest: A hawk close; ppr. 
 
 Philip Pieterse Schuyler was born 1625 or 1628, 
 
 6 N. Y. Civil List, pp. 173, 180, 327, 330, 343, 363, 560. 
 Scharf s Hist. W-estchester Co., Vol. I, p. 24. 
 Bolton's Hist. Westchester Co., Vol. I, pp. 9-78, 101. 
 Albany Bees. Vol. II, pp. 57, 61, 83, 99, 132. 
 
Ancestrai. Recobds and Portraits 233 
 
 and emigrated from Holland to America. Nothing is 
 known of his life previous to his marriage, December 
 12, 1650, with Margaritta, the daughter of Brand 
 Arentse Slichtenhorst. She appears to have been a 
 woman of unusual strength of character and business 
 ability. 
 
 For seven years, Philip Pieterse Schuyler held the 
 position of Vice-Director at Fort Orange, appointed 
 thereto in 1655, by Governor Stuyvesant. He was re- 
 appointed by Governor NichoUs, and retained the place 
 almost without interruption until near the close of his 
 life. November 1, 1667, he was commissioned Captain 
 of a " Company of Ffoote " at Albany, and two years 
 later was Captain of a company at Schenectady, thus 
 being in command of all the militia of Albany and vi- 
 cinity. He was acting Indian Commissioner from 1655 
 to 1658, 1659 to 1662, and 1666 to 1679.'' His arms 
 are painted on a window of the Dutch church in Al- 
 bany. His daughter, Gertrude, married Stephanus 
 Van Cortlandt, whose daughter Elizabeth, married 
 William Skinner; their daughter Gertrude, married 
 James Parker. 
 
 VAN SLICHTENHORST 
 
 Brant Arentse Van Slichtenhorst was the owner 
 of an estate in Holland called the Gijse Westphalinx 
 estate on de Slichtenhorst, and came to Beverwyck, 
 from Nykerk in Gelduland. In 1648, after the resig- 
 nation of van Curler, he was appointed Resident Di- 
 
 7 O'Callaghan's Eng. Mss., p. 5. 
 N. Y. Civil lAst, p. 220. 
 New Netherland Beg., pp. 68, 69, 70. 
 Report N. T. State Historian, Vol. I, p. 377. 
 Schuyler's Colonial New York, Vol. I, pp. 108-109. 
 
234 ANCESTEAii Records and Portraits 
 
 rector of the colony of Rensselaerwyck, also Chief 
 Magistrate and Superintendent, as the Patroon was a 
 minor. As principal officer of the West India Com- 
 pany, his authority extended over the whole province, 
 including the manors. He opposed Stuyvesant's at- 
 tempts to interfere in certain colonial matters at Rens- 
 selaerwyck, on the ground that the property belonged 
 to the minor Patroon, and was not under the company's 
 jurisdiction. Finally, Stuyvesant had him arrested, and 
 taken to New Amsterdam, where he was detained until 
 he made his escape and forfeited his bond. He spent 
 his time in the IVew Netherlands entirely in the interest 
 of his principals, making no attempt to acquire a pri- 
 vate fortune through his position. The only other office 
 he held was that of acting Indian Commissioner, under 
 Dutch rule, in New Netherlands. After his death, the 
 company confessed that he was right in the Stuyvesant 
 affair. 
 
 His wife had died before .he left Holland, and he 
 returned there alone pror to 1660, his son, and daughter 
 Margaritta, who married Philip Pietekse Schuyxek, 
 having settled in the colony .* 
 
 PARKER [Continued) 
 
 The son of James and Gertrude (Skinner) Parker, 
 James Parher II., was a Commissioner to settle the 
 boundary line between New York and New Jersey, and 
 was also a member of the State Legislature, and later 
 of Congress. He married Penelope, the daughter of 
 Anthony Butler, of Philadelphia. 
 
 Their son, Judge James Parker, married, 1831, 
 Anna, the daughter of Cleaveland Alexander and Su- 
 
 8 Vocwments relating to Col. Hist., N. T., Vol. I, p. 4S6. 
 Schuyler's Col. N. T., Vol. VII, pp. 171-176. 
 
ANCESTEAIi ReCOEDS AND PoETRAITS 235 
 
 san (Foster) Forbes. After their marriage they went 
 West, and James Parker became a Judge in Cincin- 
 nati, dying in July, 1861. The family then returned 
 to the East, and lived in Bay Ridge, L. I. 
 
 Their daughter, Anrm Forbes, married Cleaveland 
 Forbes Dunderdale. 
 
 FORBES 
 
 Aems: Azure three bears' heads cowped argent, muzzled gules. 
 
 Chest: A stag's head attired proper. 
 
 SuppoETEHs: Two greyhounds argent, collared gules. 
 
 Motto ! Grace me guide. 
 
 The fourth Lord of Forbes, Alexander Forbes, of 
 Pitslogo County, Aberdeen, Scotland, was the founder 
 of the present family of Forbes, Earls of Granard. 
 
 His son, Timothy Forbes, of Dublin, Ireland, was 
 the father of Captain Alexander Forbes, an officer in 
 the British army, who va&YY\e.^ Abigail, the daughter of 
 Joseph and Mary (Townley) Lawrence and descended 
 from RicHAKD Smith. 
 
 Their son. Captain Alexander Forbes II., also of the 
 British army, married Susan Giff ord, of Newark, N. J., 
 and had many children. The descendants of a son and 
 daughter of this family, Cleaveland Alexander, and 
 Maria Susannah (see Dunderdale), united the two 
 family lines in marriage. 
 
 The son, Captain Cleaveland Alexander Forbes, was 
 a captain in the American mercantile marines. He set- 
 tled in Perth Amboy, N. J., and married Susan Foster, 
 of Piscataway, N. J. Their daughter, Anna, married 
 Judge James Parker, whose daughter, Anna Forbes, 
 married, in 1868, Cleaveland Forbes Dunderdale. 
 
 DUNDERDALE 
 
 The daughter of Captain Alexander and Susan (Gif- 
 
236 Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 
 
 ford) Forbes, Maria Susannah Forbes, married Joseph 
 Dunderdale, of Leeds, Yorkshire, England. 
 
 Their son, John Dv/nderdale, was born in Leeds, 
 1805, and came to America at the age of twenty-one. 
 He married in New York, 1833, Emily, the daughter 
 of Thomas . Hewitt, of Thorpe Hall, Chester, near 
 Liverpool, also of New York City, and Philadelphia, in 
 which latter city he is buried. 
 
 Their son, Cleaveland Forbes Dunderdale, married 
 Anna Forbes, the daughter of Judge James and Anna 
 (Forbes) Parker. 
 
 Beatrice, their youngest daughter, was born in 
 Kingston, N. Y. She married, October, 1900, at St. 
 Peter's Church, Perth Amboy, N. J., Dr. George W. 
 Dobbin, of Baltimore. 
 
 LAWRENCE 
 
 Arms: Argent a cross raguly giiles. 
 
 Ceest: a deminturbot in pale gules, the tail upwards. 
 
 MoTTOs: (1) In cruce sahts, (2) Quaero irveemo. 
 
 William Lawrence came to New Netherlands in 
 1645, having emigrated from England some years ear- 
 lier with his brother John and sister Maria, coming 
 from Great St. Albans in Hertfordshire. Political 
 troubles prior to the death of Charles I., caused them 
 to leave England, and they settled at first in New Eng- 
 land. They claimed to be descendants of Sir Robert 
 Lawrence, of Ashton Hall, in Lancastershire, who was 
 a Crusader with Richard Coeur-de-Lion, by whom he 
 was knighted. The wills of both WilUam and John have 
 the Laurens coat-of-arms on the seals, and it also ap- 
 pears on some of the old plate still possessed by some 
 of their descendants, William Lawrence resided in 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 237 
 
 Flushing, L. I., where he was bne of the patentees, and 
 where he served as magistrate, 1655, 1658, and 1661, 
 under the Dutch. Under the English, he held' both 
 civil and military offices on Long Island, being a Cap- 
 tain of the Burgher Corps 1655, and Commander of the 
 Flushing troops 1673. Energy and decision of charac- 
 ter, as well as a liberal education and a superior mind, 
 are shown in a letter to Stuyvesant and his Council, 
 written 1662-1663. His death occurred in 1680, and the 
 inventory on file in New York shows that his personal 
 estate, which included a sword and some plate, amounted 
 to £4,432 sterling.'" 
 
 He married, 1664, Elizabeth, the daughter of Rich- 
 ard *and Sarah (Folger) Smith, and their son, Joseph 
 Lawrence, married Mary Townley, of Elizabethtown, 
 Essex County, N. J. (now Union County), whose 
 daughter Abigail married Captain Alexander Forbes I. 
 
 SMITH 
 
 Richard Smith, for whom Smithtown, L. I., is 
 named, was the son of Richard Smith, of Gloucester- 
 shire, England, with whom he came to Boston, Mass., 
 in 1630. The younger Richard purchased a tract of 
 about thirty thousand acres of land from the Narra- 
 gansett Sachems, in 1641. He erected a house for 
 trade, and gave free entertainment to travellers, it being 
 the great road of the country. Smith's was the first 
 house built in what is now North Kingston, and was 
 
 10 O'Callaghan's Eng. Mss., p. 68. 
 
 Docwments rel. to Col. Hist, of N. Y., Vol. XIV, pp. 653, 697. 
 Walter's Hist, of Flushing, N. T., pp. 16, SS, 56. 
 Riker's Atmals of Newtown, pp. 281-290. 
 Thompson's Hist, of Long Islamd, Vol.^ II, pp. 362, 367. 
 N. Y. Oen. ^ Biog. Bee, Vol. Ill, p. 125; Vol. Vll, p. 89. 
 The Thomes Book, p. 413. 
 
238 Ancestkal Recobds and Portbaits 
 
 probably a block house. In 1659, he leased an enor- 
 mous tract from the Indians for a thousand years, which 
 gave rise to so many disputes, that it was the final cause 
 of his leaving Narragansett and settling Smithtown. 
 Richard Smith became very influential with the Indians. 
 
 He negotiated and signed the treaty for Connecticut, 
 and several times made peace between the Narragan- 
 setts and the Massachusetts colonies. His eastern 
 neighbors became jealous of his power, had him indicted 
 in their court, and carried to Newport for trial. They 
 tried to prevent his release, which caused Roger WU- 
 liams to interfere in his behalf, and to write a very com- 
 plimentary letter concerning him to King Charles II. 
 Smith became so incensed with his neighbors' behavior 
 that he purchased land on Long Island from Lion Gar- 
 diner, removed there, and left his Narragansett prop- 
 erty with his relatives. The Long Island property was 
 given to Lion Gardiner by an Indian chief, Wyandauch, 
 as a ransom for the chief's daughter, who was taken 
 captive during the war between the Ninigrets and the 
 Long Island Indians. The princess spent her captivity 
 at Smith's house, which was the rendezvous of the whites 
 during all the Indian wars. The patents for Smithtown 
 were dated March 25, 1677. He had been one of the 
 " Eight Men," 1645, and was a member of the Gover- 
 nor's Council, Province of New York, in 1688. His 
 wife, whom he married in England, was Sarah Folger.- 
 He died 1691, leaving his town on Long Island to his 
 seven children, in equal shares. 
 
 His daughter, Elizabeth, married, first, William 
 Laweence; and, second. Sir Philip Carteret, the first 
 Governor of New Jersey, who named the town Eliza- 
 beth, for her. A son of her first marriage, Joseph Law- 
 rence, married Mary Townley, and their daughter, Abi- 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 239 
 
 gail, married Captain Alexander Forbes I., whose de- 
 scendant, Anna Forbes Parker, married Cleaveland 
 Forbes Dunderdale. Their daughter is: 
 
 Beatrice Dunderdale Dobbin, 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
240 
 
 Ancestral Recokds and Poetkaits 
 
 XIV 
 
 MONTGOMERY 
 
 Colonel John Montgomery, the first of the Scotch- 
 Irish branch of this powerful Normandy family to come 
 to America, was born at the Manor House, near Lon- 
 donderry, which is still owned and lived in by his family. 
 
 He brought with him 
 a young nephew, 
 Charles Montgomery, 
 and settled in Cum- 
 berland Valley, Pa., 
 1718. The valley was 
 called Kittecktinny, 
 at that time, by the 
 Indians, who ranged 
 from the Potomac to 
 the Susquehanna. 
 They were the six 
 tribes who, in 1736, 
 ceded their claim to 
 the Proprietory Gov- 
 ernment, butf continued savagely hostile to the settlers. 
 To insure safety^ a stockade fort, two acres square, was 
 built by the settlers, with a block house in each corner, 
 to which they fled in times of danger. Many massa- 
 cres and horrible atrocities are recorded, together with 
 deeds of heroism, by these brave men and women. The 
 settlers were men of prayer and action, who loved their 
 Bibles, hated tyranny, and at the first collision between 
 the Royal and Colonial governments, made ready to 
 maintain the right, and were one in spirit with the men 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 241 
 
 of the " Mechlenburg Convention." From the first con- 
 stant vigilance was necessary, and men worked, ate and 
 worshipped with guns in their hands. The first pastor 
 in the log church, built on the lands of the Conodo- 
 guinet, commonly called the " fighting parson," was the 
 Rev. John Steele, captain of the Provincial troops, who 
 preached with a gun at his side.* Through John Mont- 
 gomery, who in 1757 was one of the founders of Car- 
 lisle, Penn., Dickinson College and the First Presby- 
 terian Church of Carlisle, Penn., were established. He 
 was Colonel of the third Battalion against the Indians 
 and Fort Duquesne, 1758 ; a member of the Assembly 
 of Pennsylvania, 1763 to 1775 ; in the Provincial Coun- 
 cil, held in Philadelphia, January 23-28, 1775 ; a mem- 
 ber of the Convention, held in Philadelphia, July 15, 
 and continued until September, 1776, and was continu- 
 ously re-elected to the Committee of Safety, of which 
 Dr. Benjamin Franklin was president. From 1767 to 
 1776 he served as Treasurer of Cxmaberland County, 
 and in the latter year Congress sent him to treat with 
 the Indians at Fort Pitt. The next year, 1777, he be- 
 came a member of the Continental Congress, and served 
 until 1784. At the time of his death, which occurred 
 in Carlisle, 1806, he was Judge of the County. From 
 the beginning of the resistance to Great Britain, he de- 
 voted his energy, ability and money to the cause of 
 liberty. 
 
 The first wife of Colonel Montgomery was Sidney, 
 the daughter of Samuel and Sidney (Gamble) Smith." 
 (Her father emigrated to America 1728, and settled in 
 Pennsylvania.) He married, second, 1778, Sarah, the 
 daughter of James Diemer, and the widow of Hon. 
 
 t Pamily Mas. verified. 
 i Family Bible. 
 
242 Ancestbal Recobds and Portraits 
 
 James Ralph. Issue, first wife, seven children, viz.: 
 
 William, an officer in the Continental army. 
 
 Samuel Smith, a captain in the Revolutionary army 
 and member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 
 
 John, Jr., was member of Congress and second 
 Mayor of Baltimore. Married, first, Mary Harris, and 
 second, Maria Nicholson. 
 
 Esther, married Colonel James Morrison, of the Con- 
 tinental army. 
 
 Jane, married Colonel Edmiston, of the Continental 
 army. 
 
 Mary, died unmarried. 
 
 Sidney, knew intimately many of the men who made 
 history before and after the Revolution. 
 
 Issue, second wife, four children, viz.: 
 
 Sarah, married David Harris. 
 
 Margaret (1781-1807) ; married the Rev. Dr. David- 
 son II., President of Dickinson College, Penn., and 
 pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of CarUsle. 
 
 Thomas, was a Major in the United States army, in 
 the War of 1812 ; in command at Fort Stephen, MobUe, 
 1819; died unmarried. 
 
 James, married Eliza Virginia Smoot, of Washing- 
 ton, D. C, and had one son, John James, of Mobile. 
 
 DIEMER 
 
 An ofiicer in the British army, James Diemer, of 
 Huguenot descent, served through the horrors of the 
 French and Indian wars. He was born 1713, and died 
 a Tory, having settled in Lancaster, Penn. He was a 
 linguist, speaking French, English and German; was 
 highly musical, and his portrait, in scarlet and gold, is 
 that of a handsome man. He educated his sons and 
 daughters equally, to the unusual advantage of the lat- 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 243 
 
 ter, in those days. He married Rachel , and 
 
 died many years before her, who lived to a great age. 
 Issue, three children: James (1733-1820), for many 
 years a practicing physician in Reading, Penn.; Mary 
 and Sarah. 
 
 Mary, married Judge Bard, of Bardstown, Ky. ; their 
 daughter married Judge Buchanan. 
 
 Sarah, born 1744, married, first, 1762, Hon. James 
 Ralph, a Captain in the British army, and son of a 
 younger daughter of the Duke of Bedford; second. 
 Colonel John Montgomery. In 1769, James Ralph 
 was commissioned Major in command at Carlisle, com- 
 mission signed by John Penn. A year or two later he 
 went to England and died. Issue, first husband : Mary 
 and Anne, to whom gifts were sent on their birth from 
 the Earl of Aylesbury, god-father of Captain Ralph, 
 and from his son. Lord Bruce, an intimate friend. The 
 second daughter, Anne, married James Somerville, a 
 wealthy Scotchman (a cousin of Colonel Montgomery) , 
 who did a large importing business between Baltimore 
 and foreign countries. Issue, second husband: Sarah 
 Montgomery, who married David Harris. 
 
 HARRIS 
 
 The father of William Harris, who was born near 
 Belfast, Ireland, was a landed proprietor, and the fam- 
 ily still lives in and around the old home.* WiUiam 
 came to America 1768, and bought a house on Market 
 Street, Baltimore, and a tract of land on Federal Hill, 
 the direction in which the city was expected to grow. 
 Shortly after this he left Baltimore, and bought land 
 near Germantown, Penn. An agent, whom he trusted, 
 advised the sale of the Federal Hill property, as being 
 
 8 Family letters and Bibles. 
 
244 ANCESTEAIi ReCOBDS AND POETBAITS 
 
 a poor investment. The .purchaser afterward proved to 
 be the agent himself, who paid a trifling smn for the 
 property, and laid the foundation for a fortune now 
 enjoyed by his descendants. In the struggle with Great 
 Britain, William Harris became deeply involved, and 
 his house was burnt by the British. He then moved 
 near York, Perm., and bought another place, to which 
 he gave the name of " Springfield," which was that of 
 his last home. Here he lived many years, and after- 
 ward in a house which is now the German Theological 
 Seminary. He was an author, a poet of wit and ver- 
 satility, and possessed of great patriotism, giving large 
 svmis to the country in its hour of need. He married 
 in Ireland (where his daughters were born), Sarah Mc- 
 Killup, and brought his family to America in his own 
 vessel. Issue, eight children, viz. : 
 
 Jane, who married (third wife) Robert Davidson, 
 D. D., President of Dickinson College, Penn., and Pro- 
 fessor of Belles-Lettres. He became President of the 
 college at the death of its first, President, Dr. Nesbit, 
 and also pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. He 
 was master of eight languages, an astronomer, inventor 
 of the cohmosphere, and very musical. His second wife 
 was Margaret Montgomery, and they had a son Rob- 
 ert, whose descendants live in New York. 
 
 Sarah, died 1842, immarried. 
 
 David, married Sarah Montgomery. 
 
 Esther Montgomery, 1808-1877, was unmarried. 
 
 John Montgomery, married and died without issue. 
 
 George W., married EUen Reed Mcllvaine, of Phil- 
 adelphia, widow of a physician of Berkley, Va. ; issue, 
 six children. 
 
 David Caldwell, married EUen George. 
 
 Thomas, died an infant. 
 
Sahah Montgomery 
 Wife of David Harris 
 
 The S0MERVILI.E Silver 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 245 
 
 James Morrison (1815-1898), a lawyer and a man of 
 rare attainment, was one of the founders of the Mary- 
 land Historical Society. He was the inspirer and one 
 of the founders of the Mercantile Library of Baltimore, 
 starting it with books from his father's library. He 
 served three terms in Congress, 1855 to 1859, from 
 which he resigned after making an impassioned speech 
 against the declaration of war. He married, in Octo- 
 ber, 1852, Sidney Calhoun, the daughter of Benedict 
 William Hall, of Baltimore; issue, William, who mar- 
 ried Alice, the daughter of Henry Patterson, of Balti- 
 more, and has four children. 
 
 MONTGOMERY (Continued) 
 The eldest daughter of John and Sarah (Diemer) 
 Montgomery, Sarah Montgomery, was born 1779, and 
 married, 1803, David, son of William Harris, who was 
 born 1770. David Harris was one of the volunteers to 
 put down the Whiskey Rebellion in the West, 1794, and 
 as Colonel in the War of 1812 he behaved with great 
 bravery, both during 'the campaigns, and in putting 
 down the mob in Baltimore, 1812. He declined the 
 rank of General after the war. He met with serious 
 business reverses, and never fully recovered from an 
 attack of cholera in 1832. His death occurred in Vir- 
 ginia, 1844, when he was seventy-four years of age. 
 Issue, eight children, of whom: 
 
 The second daughter, Anne Somerville (1806-1880), 
 was adopted by her aunt and uncle, Anne and James 
 Somerville. She married, first, Stephen Stewart Wil- 
 son, who died after two years, leaving no issue ; second, 
 John Barnett Hammond, the son of Robert and Mar- 
 garet Templeman (Browne) Fulton, who was bom 
 July 14, 1808, and died in July, 1876. 
 
246 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 The ancestor of the Browne family, Sir Edwin 
 Browne, came to America with Captain John Smith, 
 and settled in present Westmoreland County, Va. 
 William Browne (1737-1818), in the sixth generation 
 from Sir Edwin, married, 1768, Margaret Templeman. 
 Their daughter, Margaret Templeman (1783-1836), 
 married Robert Fulton (1781-1839). Their son, John 
 Barnett Hammond Fulton, and his wife, Anne Somer- 
 ville Harris, had issue, seven children, viz. : 
 
 Sarah Montgomery. 
 
 Somerville, died 1860, unmarried. 
 
 Margaret Templeman, died an infant. 
 
 William and Jane Purviance, also died in infancy. 
 
 Mary Esther. 
 
 George Harris, died 1897. 
 
 Mary Esther Fulton, 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
Ancesteai. Recobds and Portraits 247 
 
 XV 
 
 GAITHER 
 
 The colonist, John Gaither, was born in England, 
 February 16, 1604, and died 1652. He married, 1631, 
 Jane Morley, and emigrated to America, where he was 
 one of the founders of the First Parish Church at 
 Sewall's Point, Md.. 1640. 
 
 His son, John Gaither II. (1635-1703), settled on 
 South River, Anne Arundel County, Md., and mar- 
 ied, 1675, Ruth, the daughter of Richard and Rachel 
 (Robins) Beard. Their son was Benjamin Gaither. 
 
 BEARD 
 
 Richard Beard, of South River, Md., Anne Arun- 
 del County, came up from Virginia, with his brother- 
 in-law, Edward Burgess. He took up " Beard's Habi- 
 tation," on Beard's Creek, and built a mill, which also 
 bore his name. He was a member of the Provincial 
 Assembly of Maryland,^ 1662 and 1663. His death 
 occurred in 1675. He married Rachel, the daughter 
 of Edward Robins, of Northampton County, Va. 
 Their daughter, Ruth, married John Gaither II. 
 
 GAITHER [Continued) 
 
 The son of John and Ruth (Beard) Gaither, Benja- 
 min Gaither, was born February 2, 1681, and died 
 1741. He settled upon the Patuxent River, on 
 " Gaither's Fancy," and became a large land owner. 
 He was most active in establishing Queen Caroline 
 
 ' Warfield's Anne Arundel County, p. 69. 
 
248 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Parish, in 1728. He married, 1709, Sarah, the daugh- 
 ter of Edward and Sarah (Chew) Burgess, who died 
 1750. A son was Henry Gaither. 
 
 BURGESS 
 
 Colonel William Burgess (1622-1686), settled 
 first in Northampton County, Va., but followed Gov- 
 ernor William Stone to Maryland, and settled on South 
 River, bringing there a company of one hundred and 
 fifty " adventurers." In 1661, he was in command of 
 the South River Rangers ; in 1664, he was High Sheriff 
 of Anne Arundel Coimty, and in 1665 he was Com- 
 mander-in-chief of all the forces of the five western 
 shore counties. He was a member of the Council of 
 the State of Maryland, a Justice of the Provincial 
 Court, and a Deputy-Governor from 1678 to 1683.^ 
 He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward Robins, 
 who was born in England 1602, and came to Virginia 
 1615, in the bark Thomas; he lived in Northampton 
 and Accomac Counties, and built "Newport House," 
 now Eyreville. 
 
 Edward Burgess (1651-1703), went to Maryland 
 with his father. Colonel William, and was a Justice of 
 the Provincial Court of Anne Arundel County, and 
 one of the Quorum 1685; also " Captain of the Foote." 
 He married Sarah, the daughter of Samuel and Anne 
 (Ayres) Chew. Their daughter, Sarah, married Ben- 
 jamin Gaither. 
 
 CHEW 
 
 John Chew, of " Chewtown," Somersetshire, Eng., 
 came to America, and settled at James City, Va., where 
 
 ^Arch. of Md. 
 
Ancestkal Records and Portraits 249 
 
 he built a house, and was a merchant until 1649, when 
 he moved to Maryland with his wife Sarah and two 
 sons, Samuel and Joseph. He was Burgess from 
 James City. 
 
 Colonel Samuel Ohew^ was born 1625, and died 
 1676. He laid out Herrington, on Herring Creek, 
 Anne Arundel County, Md., a grant being issued to 
 him 1650. He was Keeper of the Seal, a Justice of 
 Chancery of the Provincial Courts of Maryland; 
 member of the Council of State, 1669 to 1676, and Dele- 
 gate to the General Assembly 1660; Chancellor' and 
 Colonel in 1675. He married, Anne, "the Quakeress 
 daughter" of William Ayres, of Nansemond, Va. 
 Their daughter, Sarah, married Edward Burgess. 
 
 GAITHER {Continued) 
 
 A son of Benjamin and Sarah (Burgess) Gaither, 
 Henry Gaither (1724-1773) , married, 1746, Martha, the 
 daughter of William and Elizabeth (Duvall) Ridgely. 
 Their only son was Daniel Gaither. 
 
 RIDGELY 
 
 Robert RmGELY, of St. Inigoes, emigrated early to 
 Maryland and died 1681. He was Keeper of the Great 
 Seal, June 16, 1674, and Secretary of the Province of 
 Maryland under Lord Baltimore.* He married Mar- 
 tha His only daughter, Martha, married Lewis 
 
 Duvall, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married her cousin, 
 'William Ridgely. 
 
 The second son, Charles Ridgely I., who died 1705, 
 married Deborah, the daughter of John Dorsey. Two 
 of -their sons were William and Charles II. 
 
 8 Ihid. * Ibid. 
 
250 Ancestral, Recoeds and Poktbaits 
 
 The elder of these, William Ridgely, married Eliza- 
 beth, the daughter of Lewis and Martha (Ridgely) 
 Duvall. Issue, among others, Martha, who married 
 Henry Gaither. 
 
 Colonel Chaeljes Ridgely II., a younger son of 
 Charles Ridgely I., died 1772. He was a Colonel of 
 the Colonial Militia, a Commissioner of his county, a 
 memher of the Assembly from 1751 to 1754, etc. He 
 married Rachel Howard in 1721. 
 
 Their daughter, Achsah, married John Carnan. By 
 the will of his uncle. Captain Charles Ridgely, of 
 " Hampton," he took the name of " Ridgely," and was 
 placed at the head of the entail of " Hampton." 
 
 Their son. Governor Charles Ridgely, was born De- 
 cember 6, 1762, and died July 17, 1829. From 1815 
 to 1818, he was Governor of Maryland. He married, 
 October 7, 1787, Priscilla, the daughter of Caleb and 
 Priscilla (Hill) Dorsey (1762-1814), One of their 
 daughters, Mary Pue, married Charles S. W. Dorsey, 
 whose daughter, Rebecca Hanson, married George 
 Riggs Gaither II. 
 
 DORSEY 
 
 Hon. John Dorsey^ of Hockley, a son of the emi- 
 grant, Edward Dorsey, died 1714. He was a member 
 of the Provincial Assembly of Maryland for several 
 terms, and a member of the Council 1710-1714. He 
 married Pleasance Ely in 1683. 
 
 His daughter, Deborah, married Charles Ridgely I. 
 
 Through a son of John Dorsey are the two following 
 lines of descent: 
 
 FiEST Line. 
 Caleb Dorsey I., of Hockley, bom 1686, married in 
 
Ancesteai. Records and Portraits 251 
 
 1704, Eleanor, the daughter of Benjamin, the son of 
 Captaj^t Richard Warfeeld. 
 
 Caleb Dorsey II., of Behnont, born July 18, 1710, 
 died June 28, 1772; married Priscilla, the daughter of 
 Henry and Mary (Denwood) Hill, the granddaughter 
 of Captain Richard Hill^ and the great-granddaugh- 
 ter of Levin Denwood I. 
 
 Priscilla Dorsey, born July 12, 1762, died April 30, 
 1814 ; married Governor Charles Ridgely. 
 
 Mary Pue Ridgely married Charles S. W. Dorsey. 
 
 Rebecca Hanson Dorsey, married George Riggs 
 Gaiiher II. 
 
 Second Line. 
 
 Caleb Dorsey I., of Hockley, married Eleanor War- 
 field. 
 
 Thomas Beale Dorsey, married Anne Worthington. 
 
 Colonel John Worthington Dorsey, married 
 Comfort, the daughter of Samuel and Mary (ToUey) 
 Worthington. 
 
 Charles S. W. Dorsey, married Mary Pue Ridgely. 
 
 Rebecca Hanson Dorsey, married George Riggs 
 Gaiiher II. 
 
 A third line descends through another son of Ed- 
 ward, the emigrant, viz. : 
 
 Colonel Edward Dorsey, of Anne Arundel 
 County, Md., who married Sarah, the daughter of 
 Nicholas Wyatt. (See pp. 150, 568.) 
 
 Their son, Joshua Dorsey, married Ann, the daugh- 
 ter of Henry and Catherine (Greenberry) Ridgely. 
 
 Their son, Philemon Dorsey (1713-1755), married 
 Catherine, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth 
 (Warfield) Ridgely, whose daughter, Amelia (1749- 
 1807), married Samuel Riggs; their daughter, Henri- 
 etta Riggs, married Daniel Gaither. 
 
252 Ancesteai, Records and Portbaits 
 
 DUVALL 
 
 A celebrated Huguenot, Mareen Duvall, emigrated 
 from Nantes, under Colonel William Burgess, in the 
 middle of the seventeenth century, settling in Anne 
 Arundel County, Md., where he became a prosperous 
 merchant and planter. His name is found in Colonel 
 Greenberry's letter to Governor Copley, as one of the 
 Jacobin party, whose mysterious meetings he could not 
 solve. His will was probated 1694. He was married 
 three times, and one of his wives was Elizabeth. 
 
 A son, Lewis Duvall, married, 1699, Martha, the only 
 daughter of Robert Ridgely^ the colonist of St. Ini- 
 goes, and their daughter, Elizabeth, married her cousin, 
 William Bidgely, w'hose daughter, Martha, married 
 Henry Gaither. Their son, Daniel, married Henrietta 
 Riggs. 
 
 Captain John Duvall^ another son of Mareen Du- 
 vall, died 1711. He was Captain in the Maryland mili- 
 tia 1696. He married, 1686, Elizabeth, the daughter 
 of William Jones, St., a Justice of Anne Arundel 
 County, Md., 1676. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth, married Benjamin, the 
 youngest son of Captain Richard WarfielDj and 
 their daughter, Eleanor, married Caleb Horsey I. 
 
 WORTHINGTON 
 
 Captain John Worthington, was bom 1650, and 
 died April 6, 1701. As early as 1675 he was living on 
 the Severn River, near Annapolis, and in 1686 he bought 
 " Greenberry Forest," from Colonel Nicholas Green- 
 berry. He was Justice from 1692 to 1696, Captain 
 of the Horse, 1694, and member of the Assembly 1699. 
 He married, 1688, Sarah, the daughter of Matthew 
 Howard. 
 
Ancestrai, Recobds and Portraits 253 
 
 A son, John Worthington, was born 1689. He in- 
 herited from his father the home plantation of four hun- 
 dred acres on the Severn River, and became a prosper- 
 ous merchant and planter. In his will he left to his 
 children sixteen different plantations, besides several 
 thousand acres. He married Helen, the daughter of 
 Thomas and Mary (Heath) Hammond. 
 
 Their son, Samuel Worthington, married, 1759, 
 Mary, the daughter of Walter and Mary (Garretson) 
 ToUey, and their daughter. Comfort, married John 
 Worthington Dorsey. 
 
 GAITHER {Continued) 
 The son of Henry and Martha (Ridgely) Gaither, 
 Daniel Gaither (1769-1804), married, 1791, Henrietta, 
 the daughter of Samuel and Amelia (Dorsey) Riggs. 
 She was born December 22, 1769, and died April, 1854. 
 Their son was George Biggs Gaither I. 
 
 RIGGS-DAVIS 
 
 The colonist, John Riggs, was born 1687, and died 
 August 17, 1762, the son of John Riggs, born in Lon- 
 don, and Jane Warden, his wife. The home of John 
 Riggs II. was " Rigg's Hills," east of Laurel, Md. He 
 married, 1721, Mary, the daughter of Thomas Davis. 
 
 Samuel Riggs, their son, was born October 6, 1740, 
 and died May 25, 1814. During the Revolution, he 
 was Second-Lieutenant in the Montgomery County 
 Militia, under Colonel Zadock Magruder.^ On his mar- 
 riage to Amelia, the daughter of Philemon and Cather- 
 ine (Ridgely) Dorsey, he moved to " Bordley's Choice," 
 in Montgomery County, and built the homestead which 
 still stands on a hill near Brookeville. His wife was 
 
 5 Md. Arch. 
 
254 AjSTCESTRAIi ReCOBDS AND PORTRAITS 
 
 born August 23, 1749, and died August 6, 1807. Their 
 daughter, Henrietta, married 'Daniel Gaither. 
 
 The father of Mary Davis, the wife of John Riggs 
 II., was Thomas Davis. He was one of the Virginia 
 settlers of Herring Creek, He is supposed to have 
 been the grandson of Sir Thomas Davis, one of the 
 London Company, who came to James City in 1619, 
 on The Margaret, and that same year was in the Vir- 
 ginia Assembly from " Martin's Brandon." His wife 
 was Mary, the daughter of Henry Pierpont. 
 
 HAMMOND 
 
 Major-Generajl John Hammond^ was born 1643, 
 and died November 29, 1707. He lived near Annapo- 
 lis, on the Severn River, and was for many years one 
 of the vestry of St. Ann's Church, and one of the Com- 
 missioners to lay out the town of Annapolis. He mar- 
 ried Mary Howard. (See pp. 151-152.) 
 
 A son, Thomas Hammond, inherited the plantation 
 called Mt. Airey Neck, as well as a house in Annapolis. 
 He married Mary, the daughter of Thomas Heath, 
 and their daughter^ Helen, married John Worthington. 
 
 TOLLEY 
 
 Thomas Tolley, was Burgess for Baltimore County 
 1721-1731; Justice of the Provincial Court; Commis- 
 sioner to lay out Joppa 1724, and Commissioner to lay 
 out Baltimore 1729. He died 1732. 
 
 Colonel Walter Tolley, his son, was Burgess for 
 Baltimore County and Justice, 1754; a member of the 
 Maryland Convention 1774 to 1776, and a Colonel In 
 the Revolution 1776, dying in 1782. He married 
 Mary Garretson. Their daughter, Mary, married Sam- 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 255 
 
 uel Worthington, whose daughter. Comfort, married 
 John Worthington Dorsey. 
 
 RIDGELY 
 
 Colonel Henry Ridgley, was born in England 
 1645, and died 1710. He was a member of the Pro- 
 vincial Assembly of Maryland, 1692 to 1695; Justice 
 of Anne Arundel County, Md., 1676 to 1695; Colonel 
 in the Militia 1669. He married, second, Sarah War- 
 ner. 
 
 Their son, Henry Ridgely II., married Catherine, 
 the daughter of Colonel Nicholas Greenberry. Is- 
 sue, among others: Ami and Henry III. Ann mar- 
 ried Joshua Dorsey, whose son, Philemon, married his 
 cousin, Catherine, the daughter of Henry and Eliza- 
 beth (Warfield) Ridgely. 
 
 Colonel Henry Ridgely III. (1690-1750), mar- 
 ried, 1702, Elizabeth Warfield. He was a Colonel in 
 the Militia from 1726 to 1740. Catherine, their daugh- 
 ter, married Philemon Dorsey, whose daughter, Amelia, 
 married Samuel Riggs^ and their daughter, Henrietta, 
 married Daniel Gaither. 
 
 GREENBERRY 
 
 Colonel Nicholas Greenberry (1627-1699), emi- 
 grated from England in 1674, with his wife Anne, 
 He was commissioned Justice of the Provincial Court, 
 April 16, 1691. Upon the death of Colonel Lionel 
 Copley, he became Acting-Governor from September 
 9 to September 25, 1693. Prior to this he was Keeper 
 of the Great Seal, May 17, 1693. He was sworn in 
 as Judge of the Vice- Admiralty Court, and was Judge 
 of the Provincial Court of Maryland, Judge of the 
 High Court of Chancery, December 17, 1697, and 
 
256 Ancestbal Recobds and Poetbaits 
 
 President of the Provincial Court, 1693. His daugh- 
 ter, Catherine J married Henrjf Ridgely II. 
 
 GAITHER (Continued) 
 
 The son of Daniel and Henrietta (Riggs) Gaither, 
 George Biggs Gaither, was born in Baltimore, April 
 28, 1796, and died September 13, 1875. He married, 
 1822, Hannah, the daughter of Abraham and Hannah 
 (Smith) Bradley. She was bom in Georgetown, 
 D. C, May 1, 1800, and died June 27, 1873. Their 
 eldest son was George Biggs Gaither, II. 
 
 BRADLEY 
 
 Lieutenant Stephen Bradley, was born 1642. 
 He was a Delegate from GuUford, Conn., to the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of Connecticut, 1692, imtil his death, 
 which occurred January 20, 1701. He married Han- 
 nah Smith in 1663. 
 
 Lieutenant Abraham Bradley, their son, was born 
 1674, and died April 20, 1721. He was a Lieutenant 
 in the Mihtia from 1714 to 1721. He married, 1697, 
 Jane Leaming. 
 
 Their son, Abraham Bradley II. (1702-1771), mar- 
 ried Reliance Howe, who died 1757. 
 
 Captain Abraham Bradley III., their son, was 
 born December 11, 1731. He was a Captain in the 
 Connecticut line of the Revolutionary Army. He mar- 
 ried Hannah Baldwin (1737-1804). 
 
 Their son, Abraham Bradley IV., was born Febru- 
 ary 21, 1767, and died May 8, 1838. He married Han- 
 nah Smith, and their daughter, Hannah Bradley, mar- 
 ried George Biggs Gaither. 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 257 
 
 GAITHER (Continued) 
 
 The son of George Riggs and Hannah (Bradley) 
 Gaither, George Riggs GcdtTier II., was born in Balti- 
 more, Md., January 25, 1831, and died May 10, 1899. 
 He was Captain in the Maryland line C. S. A., and 
 served during the war. He married, August 6, 1851, 
 Rebecca Hanson, the daughter of Charles S. W. and 
 Mary Pue (Ridgely) Dorsey, born May 15, 1833. 
 
 Their son, Charles Dorsey Gaither, was born Novem- 
 ber 27, I860. He married, April 25, 1885, AUce Stock- 
 ton Williams, the daughter of John Witherspoon and 
 Augusta Rebecca (Howell) Williams, who was born 
 December 18, 1861. Their daughter is Nina Wil- 
 liams Gaither. 
 
 HOWELL 
 
 Hon. Richard Howell (1752-1802), was Captain 
 and later Major in the New Jersey Continental line, in 
 the Revolution. After the war, he was Governor of 
 New Jersey for thirteen years. His father, Ebenezer 
 Howell, founded Newark, Del. He married Keziah 
 Burr. 
 
 Their son. Major Richard Lewis Howell (1793- 
 1815), married Rebecca Augusta, the daughter of Lu- 
 cius Witham and Elizabeth Augusta (Coxe) Stockton, 
 born 1798, died 1877. 
 
 Their daughter, Augusta Rebecca, married John 
 Witherspoon, the son of John Nicholas and Sarah Can- 
 tey (Witherspoon) Williams. (See pp. 6-55 for the 
 Williams family and its connections). 
 
 STOCKTON 
 
 Hon. John Stockton, was bom 1701. He was the 
 Son of Richard and Susannah, and the grandson of 
 
258 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Richard and Abigail Stockton. The first Richard was 
 bom 1606, and the second Richard died 1709. John 
 Stockton was Presiding Judge of the Court of Common 
 Pleas of New Jersey, from 1734 to 1739. His wife 
 was Abigail Phillips. They had several sons, one of 
 whom, Richard, was a Signer of the Declaration of In- 
 dependence. 
 
 Another son, Bev. Philip Stockton (1746-1792) , mar- 
 ried Catherine Cummings. 
 
 Their son, Lucius Witham Stockton, married Eliza- 
 beth Augusta Coxe. 
 
 Their daughter, Rebecca Augusta Stockton (1798- 
 1877) , married Major Richard Lewis, the son of Rich- 
 ard HowELLj and their daughter, Augusta Rebecca, 
 married John Witherspoon Williams, whose daughter, 
 Alice Stockton, married Charles Dorsey Gaither. 
 
 WITHERSPOON 
 
 In 1734, John, the son of David Witherspoon, emi- 
 grated to South Carolina, where he had a grant of 
 twenty-nine riiiles square from the king. The land was 
 called Williamsburg, in honor of the kinsr, and they 
 founded a town called King's Tree. He married his 
 cousin Janet, the aunt of Dr. John Witherspoon, later 
 President of Princeton College, and a Signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
 Their son, Gavin Witherspoon (1712-1773), mar- 
 ried Jane James. Their son: 
 
 Gavin Witherspoon (1748-1834), married Eliza- 
 beth Dick, of Sumter. He was Captain in General 
 Francis Marion's Brigade in the Revolution and was 
 a notable scout, of whose bravery many tales are told in 
 Simms' " Life of Marion." 
 
 Their son, John Dick Witherspoon, was born March 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 259 
 
 17, 1778, and died AprQ 2, 1860. He married, 1808, 
 Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel Boykin^ whose 
 wife was Elizabeth Inman. 
 
 Their daughter, Sarah Cantey, married John Nicho- 
 las, the son of David Rogerson and Sarah (Power) 
 Williams, of Society Hill, S. C. (See pp. 6-55 for 
 Williams, Boykin, Miller, Cantey, Chesnut, Gax, 
 Power, and connecting lines.) Their son, John With- 
 erspoon, married Augusta Bebecca Howell, and their 
 daughter, Alice Stockton, married Charles Dorsey 
 Gaither, whose daughter is: 
 
 Nina Williams Gaither^ 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
260 Ancestbal Records and Poeteaits 
 
 XVI 
 OILMAN 
 
 Arms: Sable, a man't leg couped at the thigh in pale argent. 
 Motto: 8% Deui quis contra. 
 
 The Gilmans^ of America trace their hneage hack 
 directly only to Edward Gilman, of Caston, Norfolk, 
 Eng. Church records were not kept at Caston before 
 1539, but there are earlier Gilmans ia Norfolk and other 
 parts of England who bear the same coat of arms. The 
 name was variously spelt, Gylmyn, Gilmyn or Gihnan. 
 Edward was married at Caston June 26,. 1550 to Rose 
 Rysse. She survived him, and his will was proved by 
 her, July 7, 1573. 
 
 % The authorities used in the preparation of these sketches were: 
 The Gilman Family, by Arthur GUman (Albany, N. Y., 1869) ; The Oitt- 
 man or Oilman Family, by Alexander W. Gilman (London, 1895) ; Noyet- 
 Gilman Ancestry, by Charles P. Noyes (St. Paul, Minn^ 1907) ; Ameri- 
 can Armory and Blue Book, by John Matthews. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 261 
 
 Their third son, Robert, was baptized July 10, 1559. 
 He married Mary , and they both died at Gas- 
 ton, she in 1618, and he March 6, 1631. 
 
 Their son Edward was born 1587; married, June 3, 
 1614, Mary Clark, at Hingham, a small market town 
 about five and a half miles from Caston, and near Nor- 
 wich. The English branch of the family continued to 
 live there until 1860, and have frequently been visited 
 by the American Gilmans. The rector of the parish 
 at Hingham, the Rev. Robert Peck, "a man of very 
 violent schimatic spirit," having provoked his Bishop to 
 prosecution, sailed from Gravesend, April 26, 1638, 
 in the ship Diligent^ -vyith a party of one hundred and 
 thirty-three persons, some of whom had sold their es- 
 tates for half their value, and arrived at Boston, August 
 10, 1638. In the company were Edward Gihnan, 
 his wife, three sons, two daughters and three servants. 
 They settled with their companions, at Hingham, Mass., 
 and he was admitted Freeman there, December 16, 
 1638. In 1641 the Plymouth Colony granted him a 
 tract of land eight miles square called " Seekonk," and 
 he is later at Ipswich, and then at Exeter, N. H., which 
 became the family home for generations. He died June 
 22, 1681. One of his sons: 
 
 John Gilman^ was baptized at Hingham, Eng., 
 May 23, 1626 ; died July 24, 1708. He was engaged in 
 the lumber and milling business, and his name is on 
 the records as Selectman and as receiving grants of 
 land. When New Hampshire was separated from 
 Massachusetts io 1680, he was made Councillor and held 
 that office three years; was Judge of the Court of Pleas 
 1682; member of the Provincial Assembly of New 
 Hampshire from 1693 to 1697; elected Speaker 1693. 
 
 He married, June 20, 1657, Elizabeth, the daughter 
 
262 Ancestbal Recobds and Pokteaits 
 
 of James Treworgye, bom 1639, and died September 
 8, 1719. One of her chairs is still in the possession of 
 her descendants. The genealogist quaintly says that 
 John Gilman lived to see his family circle very greatly 
 increased, fourteen having been added by marriage to 
 the original sixteen. Two of the sons, John, and 
 Nicholas, continue this Gihnan line. 
 
 The eleventh child, John Gilman II., was born Janu- 
 ary 19, 1676, and died between 1738 and 1742. The 
 government of New Hampshire sent out scouting ex- 
 peditions against the Indians 1703-04, and Captain 
 John Gilman commanded one of the two Exeter com- 
 panies. They went on snow shoes in quest of the sav- 
 ages, but, though they did not find them, the Council 
 declared it to be honorable service and ordered gratuities 
 to the ofiicers. He went on similar service in 1710 to 
 pursue the Indians who had killed Colonel Hilton. In 
 1709 the town voted to give "all the right the town 
 have in the stream and island to Captain John Gilman, 
 where the said Giknan's cormmll now stands, with 
 privilege for a bridge to go on the island; and the above 
 said John Gilman doth oblige himself to grind the in- 
 habitants' corn when wanted for two quarts in every 
 bushel." He was one of the grantees of Gihnanton, 
 N. H., and was mentioned in the Charter as chairman 
 of the first Board of Selectmen. He was Moderator 
 of the first meeting of the Proprietors and was called 
 both Major and Colonel. 
 
 He married, June 5, 1698, Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Peter Coffin, born January 27, 1680, and died July 4, 
 1720. Their fifth child was John Gilman III. 
 
 COFFIN 
 
 The residence of Nicholas Cofiin was in Brixton, 
 
1587 
 
 0^^*^ ^'i0U>^c^^ 
 
 1626 ^^ {^-^^Tnan. 
 
 1676 
 
 1795 .-^$;_^ t:^.^^ 
 
 1831 "O-t^^Pt^i.^t^ O.yt^An^^ 
 
 1681 
 
 1708 
 
 J^"^^ (^frU^ 1738 
 
 1752 3<fT^ ^^Ayt O/n, 
 
 1763 ^^S^ ,' ^,f'^^^ a^ 1835 
 
 .=6^ 1863 
 
 .^ 
 
 1908 
 
 Autographs of Seven GEwEBATioirs of the 
 Oilman Family 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 263 
 
 Devon, Eng., and he was buried there October 8, 1613; 
 his will being proved the following third of Novem- 
 ber.* He married Joan . 
 
 His eldest son, Peter Coflfin, evidently succeeded to 
 his father's estate. He was Church Warden at Brixton, 
 and in 1604, married Joan Thember. 
 
 /His will was proved March 13, 1628, providing that 
 his wife should have a life tenure of his land, and that 
 it should then go to his son Tristram, "who is to be 
 proArided for according to his degree and calling." 
 
 Tristram Coffin, of Brixton Parish, was baptized 
 there March 11, 1609-10. He married Dionis, the 
 daughter of Robert Stevens. He was a Church Warden. 
 At the beginning of the Civil War in 1642, he left his 
 property and friends in England, and, accompanied by 
 his mother, wife, five little children, and two unmar- 
 ried sisters came to America. 
 
 He lived at various places in Massachusetts and went 
 to Nantucket, 1659, on a tour of observation, having 
 with him as interpreter, Peter Folger, a grandfather 
 of Benjamin Franklin. July 2, 1659, he and eight 
 other men bought the Island of Nantucket, from Gov- 
 ernor Mayhew, who retained one-twentieth interest him- 
 self; the consideration was "thirty pounds and also two 
 Beaver Hatts, one for myself and one for my wife." 
 
 Tristram moved his family to Nantucket and in 
 1671 was appointed Chief Magistrate of the island. 
 He and the Chief Magistrate of Martha's Vineyard, 
 with two assistants, constituted the General Court 
 over both islands. This court at its first sitting " en- 
 acted a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks 
 to Indians," probably the first prohibitory liquor law 
 
 2 A copy of the Cofiin Coat of Arms and Crest can be found in Mat- 
 thews' American Armoury and Blue Book, Armorial Addenda, p. 22. 
 
264 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 on record. He died in Nantucket 1681. The eldest 
 son: 
 
 Peter Coffin^ was baptized in Brixton, Eng., July 
 18, 1630, and died March 21, 1715. He emigrated 
 with his father, and was Chief Justice of the Superior 
 Court of New Hampshire, and Councilor of the State. 
 
 He married Abigail, the daughter of Edward Star- 
 buck, and their daughter, Elizabeth, married John Gil- 
 man II. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth, married John Gilman II. , 
 
 GILMAN (Continued) 
 
 Major John Oilman III, son of John and Eliza- 
 beth (Coffin) Gilmah, was born October 25, 1712. He 
 was a Major at Fort Edward, and in 1757 was sent to 
 Fort William Henry with reinforcements, arrived just 
 after the capitulation, was captured by Montcalm's In- 
 dian allies, stripped, and with great difficulty escaped. 
 He married, 1738, Jane, the daughter of Dr. Thomas 
 and Deborah (Clarke) Deane, born June 20, 1721, and 
 died 1786, and their son was Benjamin Clarke Gilman. 
 
 The daughter of John and EUzabeth (Woodbridge) 
 Clarke, Deborah Clarke (1696-1735), was descended 
 on her father's side, from Edmund Greenleaf, and on 
 her mother's side, from Governor Thomas Dudley. 
 
 One of the proprietors of Gilmanton, N. H., Dr. 
 Thomas Deane (1694-1768), was a physician, and also 
 a captain in the militia. 
 
 GREENLEAF 
 
 Edmund Greenleaf^ a silk dyer, was the son of John 
 and Margaret Greenleaf of the Parish of Ipswich, Suf- 
 
Daniel Coit Gii.man' 
 
 The Home of Major John Gilsian 
 At Exeter, N. H., photographed in 1891 
 
Ancestkal Records and Portiiaits 265 
 
 folkshire, Eng., where he was baptized at St. Mary's- 
 La-Tour, January 2, 1573-74, and died in Massachu- 
 setts, March 24, 1671. The name Greenleaf is only 
 found in this Parish. 
 
 He must have come to America by 1638, when accord- 
 ing to the records, he was appointed, with three other 
 men, to direct the defence of the church in Newbury, 
 Mass., against the Indians, during worship. Edmund 
 Greenleaf 's name is foutid in the first division of home 
 lots, and his house was near the old " Towne Bridge." 
 He was freeman and ensign 1639, and Lieutenant of 
 the Massachusetts' Provincial Forces, 1642 ; he was said 
 in 1644, to be "an ancient and experienced lieutenant 
 and head of the MUitia," under Captain William Ger- 
 rish. He applied for and was granted his discharge 
 from military service, 1647, when he was seventy-three 
 years old. In 1639, he was permitted to keep a house 
 of entertainment, but removed to Boston in 1650. 
 
 He married Sarah Dole, and the baptisms of his nine 
 children are recorded at the Parish church in Ipswich. 
 Sarah, died in 1663, and he married, second, Mrs. Hill, 
 who had been twice widowed. Edmund Greenleaf, in 
 his will, tried to rectify the troubles arising from a com- 
 plicated family relationship, as follows : 
 
 " When I married my wife, I kept her Grand Child as 
 I best remember, 3 yeare to scooling Dyet & apparell, 
 and William Hill, her son had a bond of six pound a 
 yeare whereof I receiued no more than a barrell of 
 porke of £3. 0. 0., of that £6. 0. 0. a yere to pay mee & I 
 sent to her son Ignatius Hill, to the Barbadoes, in 
 Mackrell, Sider & bred & pease, as much as come to 
 twenty pound I neuer receaued one penny of itt; his 
 Aunt gaue to the three Brothers £50 apiece — I know not 
 whether they receaued it or noe but I haue not receaued, 
 
266 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 any pt of it. Witness my hand Edmund Grepnleaf. 
 Beside — when I married my wife, she brought mee a 
 siluer bowle a siluer porringer a siluer spon — she lent or 
 gaue them to her son James Hill without my consent."' 
 
 The daughter of Edmund Greenleaf, Judith Green- 
 leaf, (1625-1705), married Henry Somerby (1612- 
 1652), who was from little Bytham, Lincolnshire; 
 having come to Boston in the ship Jonathan 1639. He 
 went at once to Newbury; was admitted Freeman 1642, 
 established himself as a merchant-tailor, and was licensed 
 1650 " to keep an ordinary instead of Mr. Greenleaf," 
 his father-in-law. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Somerby, was born No- 
 vember 1, 1646, and died March 15, 1716. She married, 
 November 23, 1663, Nathaniel Clarke, a merchant of 
 Newbury (1644-1690). He was Constable 1667 and 
 1668, Selectman 1682 and 1688; made Naval Officer 
 for the ports of l^Tewbury and Salisbury 1684, and was 
 promoted from Sergeant to Ensign 1685. His will was 
 probated September 30, 1690, and his estate was inven- 
 toried at £714, 9s. 
 
 Their son, the Rev. John Clarke (1670-1705), was 
 graduated from Harvard College 1690, and' became 
 the third minister of Exeter 1698. He married »iEZi^a- 
 bethj the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin and Mary 
 (Ward) Woodbridge (1673-1729). 
 
 Their daughter, Deborah, married Thomas Dean, 
 whose daughter Jane married John Gilman III. 
 
 DUDLEY-WOODBRIDGE 
 
 Governor Thomas Dudley, son of Captain Roger 
 
 8 The Greenleaf Genealogy says that he came from Brixou, Devon, ■ 
 England. 
 
Ancesteal Records and Poetbaits 
 
 267 
 
 and (NicoUs) Dudley, was born in Northamp- 
 ton, Eng., 1576. His education was gained in a 
 Latin school. Toward the close of the sixteenth cen- 
 tury, he was the leader of a company of volunteers, to 
 aid Henry of Navarre, in France, but was not called 
 into active service. 
 After his return, he 
 studied law under 
 Judge Augustine 
 Nicholls, a Faxton 
 kinsman. Having 
 been appointed Dep- 
 uty- Governor of 
 Massachusetts in 
 1630, he came to New 
 England on the ship 
 Arhella, with Gov- 
 ernor John Winthrop, 
 and others, who were 
 to play an important 
 part in the history of 
 the colony. Dudley was Governor 1634, 1640, 1645 and 
 1650. He was Deputy-Governor thirteen years, and 
 Assistant five years in the Colony of Massachusetts 
 Bay. In March, 1644, he became Sergeant Major- 
 General. Dudley was a member of the Court which 
 condemned Anne Hutchinson, in 1637, ex-communicat- 
 ing and banishing her from the colony, and was 
 one of the signers of the Charter of Harvard College. 
 Among his descendants are to be noted, William Ellery 
 Channing, Richard Henry Dana, Wendell PhilUps, 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes and Donald G. Mitchell, In 
 1639, Dudley purchased land at Roxbury and lived 
 there until his death, July 31, 1652-53. His wife was 
 
 DUDLEY 
 
268 Ancestrajl Records and Poeteaits 
 
 Dorothy , and their daughters were Mercy, 
 
 and Anne the poetess, who married Governor Brad- 
 street. 
 
 The elder daughter, Mercy Dudley, married 1639, the 
 Rev. John Woodbridge, of Andover, Mass.. the son 
 of the Rev. John and Sarah (Parker) Woodbridge, 
 his father being the Rector of Stanton, Wiltshire, 
 Eng. He had studied at Oxford, and came to New 
 England in 1643, with his uncle, the Rev. Thomas 
 Parker, and from 1634 to 1638 was Town Clerk 
 of Newbury; Surveyor of Arms, 1637; and taught 
 school in Boston 1643. He was one who negoti- 
 ated the purchase of the land on which Andover, N. H., 
 is built, from the Indians ; was first minister of that place, 
 being one of the earliest ministers ordained in New 
 England. He returned to England in 1647, but came 
 back and served as assistant to his uncle Thomas Parker ; 
 in consequence of dissensions in the church, however, he 
 was dismissed from that ofiice. Later he held local 
 offices, and 1683 to 1684 was an Assistant of Massachu- 
 setts Colony. Cotton Mather mentions him in the 
 Magnolia, and Woodbridge Island, near the mouth of 
 the Merrimac river, was named for him. John Wood- 
 bridge died in Newbury July 1, 1691. 
 
 His son, the Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge, (1645- 
 1710) , of Bristol and Kittery, Me., wrote the ingenious 
 lines for Cotton Mather's tomb. He married, 1672, 
 Mary, the daughter of the Rev. John Ward (1649- 
 1685). 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Woodbridge, married the 
 Ttev. John Clarke, whose granddaughter, Jane Deane, 
 married John Gilman III.* 
 
 * Authorities: Appleton's Cycl. of Am. Biog.; Lamb's Biog. Diet, of 
 the C. 8.; Noyes-Gilman Ancestry. 
 
Ancestral Recoils and Poetraits 269 
 
 WARD 
 
 A famous Puritan minister, the Rev. John Ward, was 
 of Haverhill and Bury St. Edmonds. 
 
 His son, the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, was graduated 
 from Cambridge 1603, educated for the law, and admit- 
 ted an outer barrister. He travelled extensively 
 abroad, and during his travels was induced by the cele- 
 brated writer, David Parens, to leave the profession of 
 the law, and enter that of the ministry. On returning 
 .to England he lectured in London, and became the 
 rector of Stondon, Massey. "Brought before Laud, and 
 deprived of his living in 1633, on account of his Puri- 
 tan faith, he sailed for America in 1634. He returned 
 to England, and was the minister of the church at Shen- 
 field, where he died in 1652. 
 
 In America he was assistant to the Rev. Thomas 
 Parker, in Ipswich, Mass.; compiled the first code of 
 laws established in New Enerland, and was the author of 
 the well known work. The SimjUe Cobler of Aggawan 
 in America. 
 
 His son, the Rev. John Ward, Rector of Hadleigh, 
 Essex, Eng., settled in Haverhill; his daughter Mary, 
 married the Rev. Benjamin Woodhridge. 
 
 OILMAN ( Continued ) 
 The ninth child of John and Elizabeth (Treworgye) 
 Gilman, Judge Nicholas Oilman, was born at Ex- 
 eter, N. H., December 26, 1672. He was a member of 
 the church and subscribed to the Confession of Faith 
 and Covenant with his father, September 21, 1698. 
 The Indians were very hostile at this period and the 
 Exeter men formed a militia and in 1695 Nicholas was 
 among the men trained for service. He was Captain 
 of one of the scouting parties 1710, also in command of 
 
270 Ancesteai, Records and Portraits 
 
 part of the garrison, and went with his brother John in 
 pursuit of the murderer of Colonel Hilton. When the 
 province of New Hampshire issued £15,000 sterling of 
 paper money in 1717, to be lent to the people in smaU 
 sums on land, he was one of a committee of five for 
 Exeter to superintend the loan there, and to appraise 
 the land offered as security. When a new meeting- 
 house was built 1730, eleven of the thirty-two pews were 
 bought by Gihnans, Nicholas paying £21 for his pew. 
 The town of Gilmanton was granted to one hundred and 
 seventy-seven persons in 1727, as compensation for serv- 
 ices rendered in defence of the country. Nicholas is 
 first on the list, and there were twenty-three other Gil- 
 mans among the number. He became Justice of the 
 Court of Common Pleas in Exeter for one year 1729, 
 and Judge of the Superior Court 1732 to 1740, when 
 he retired. Judge Gilman died at Exeter in 1749. 
 His estate was valued at £33,931, 7s, lOd. The inven- 
 tory includes, " the Pew in the old meating house, £100 
 
 th G^nelogy in the Parler 100, one Negro 
 
 man named Tom, £260, and a Melater woman named 
 Jenee and her child, £280." He married, June 10, 
 1697, Sarah, the daughter of Nathaniel Clarke. 
 
 Their fifth son, Nicholas Gilman II, was born in Ex- 
 eter, January 18, 1707, and died April 13, 1748. He 
 went to the Latin school at Newburyport at the age of 
 eight, and was graduated at Harvard College, class of 
 1724, when but seventeen years old, and began immedi- 
 ately to teach school at Stratham. He preached his first 
 sermon at Kingston, N. H., October 30, 1727, but did 
 not accept a permanent pastorate mitil March 3, 1742, 
 when he was ordained at Dvirham, N. H. Among his 
 papers is a " Carnal Scheme," giving the details of his 
 salary: — 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 271 
 
 " Pork 500 lbs. . . . Beef 600 lbs. that is well 
 fatted . . . Candles, Winter Rye and other 
 grains. Molasses, Malt for Beer . . . Cyder 10 
 Barrells . . . Rum . . . gallons or Wine 
 . . . Apples and Turnips . . . Pasturing & 
 Wintering 4 cows & an horse, etc. . . . Wood 
 40 Cord, If I should need so much for firewood, to 
 be hauled to my door in 4 foot length . . . 110 
 pounds pr, year for this first year and then the addi- 
 tions of 10 pounds per year for four years & yn 150£ 
 per year to be paid in payable Bills of Credit in this 
 province, &c." 
 
 In the extracts from the Rev. Nicholas Oilman's 
 diary, kept from 1722 to 1738, we have varying entries, 
 for instance : 
 
 " 1723, March 17. Came to Cambridge. 
 
 March 27. Analyzed Matthew 21st in the hall. 
 
 June 18. Being grieviously exercised with the head- 
 ache, I cut off my hair. 
 
 1725, May 3. I began to keep school at Exeter. 
 June 11. Took a violent emetic. 
 
 1726, June 9. Exercised with the mumps." 
 
 In the controversy about Whitefield, Nicholas' Gil- 
 man, who was his friend, wrote in his defence to the 
 ministers who were opposed to Whitefield's mission to 
 New England. His books were inventoried at the time 
 of his death at £392. In the library of Harvard Uni- 
 versity there is preserved an early catalogue of that in- 
 stitution, once the property of Nicholas, interleaved 
 with brief annotations about the early graduates, now 
 very valuable. The Master's address at the Harvard 
 Commencement of 1727, was delivered by him. 
 
 He married, October 22, 1730, Mary, daughter of 
 Bartholomew Thing. She was born January 11, 1713, 
 
272 Ancesteai. Records and Portraits 
 
 and died February 22, 1789. A son was Judge Joseph 
 Oilman (1738-1806), and his commission as Judge of 
 the Northwest Territory, signed by George Washing- 
 ton, is own by Benjamin Ives Gilman of Boston. 
 
 Their fifth child Josiah Gilman, was born September 
 2, 1740, and died February 8, 1801. He was commis- 
 sioned by Governor John Wentworth, January 31, 
 1771, as " Captain of the Third Company of Foot in the 
 Fourth Regiment of Militia in the Province of New 
 Hampshire aforesaid."* In 1800 Josiah was commis- 
 sioned Justice of the Peace for the County of Rocking- 
 ham, N. H., by Governor John Taylor Gilman, for the 
 " term of five years from the date hereof, provided you 
 are of good behavior during said term."' Josiah was 
 town clerk of Exeter. A patriotic document printed 
 in an Exeter paper, dated November 15, 1765, two 
 weeks after the Stamp Act had gone into effect, is 
 signed by nine Gilmans, including Josiah: 
 
 " It has often been remarked that the success of our 
 Revolutionary contest is to be attributed, in some meas- 
 ure, to the excellent government prevailing through- 
 out the towns in New England — a government at times 
 altogether voluntary, and neither imposed or sustained 
 by any superior authority. The following is an 
 example of this species of social compact : 
 
 Whereas^ many Evil minded Persons Have, on ac- 
 count of the Stamp Act, Concluded that All the Laws 
 of this Province, and the Execution of the same. Are 
 at an End : and that Crimes against the Publick Peace 
 and Private Property May be Committed with Impu- 
 nity, Which opinion will render it imsaf e for the Peace 
 Officers to Exert themselves in the Execution of their 
 Ofiices. 
 
 s These commissions are in the possession of the family. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 273 
 
 Therefore, We the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the 
 Town of Exeter, to prevent, as much as in us lies, The 
 Evils Naturally Consequent Upon Such an opinion, 
 And for preserving the Peace and Good Order of the 
 Community and of our own Properties, Do Hereby 
 Combine, Promise and Engage to Assemble ourselves 
 together when and Where Need requires. In aid of the 
 Peace Officers, and to Stand by and Defend them in the 
 Execution of their respective offices, And Each other 
 In our respective Properties and Persons, to the utmost. 
 Against all Disturbers of the Publick Peace and In- 
 vaders of Private Property." 
 
 The wife of Josiah Gilman was Sarah, the daughter 
 of Samuel Gilman. She was born June 17, 1745, and 
 died July 26, 1785. 
 
 Their third child, Mary Thing Gilman, born May 
 10, 1768, and died December 7, 1841, married Benja- 
 min Clarke Gilman, a merchant of Exeter, N. H., born 
 July 8, 1763, and died there October 13, 1835. Two 
 lines of Gilman, descended from Edward and Rose 
 (Rhysse) Gilman, were united by this marriage. 
 
 Their third son, William Charles, was born May 2, 
 1795. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter. 
 When thirteen years of age, however, he went to Boston 
 as a clerk, and at his majority engaged in business at 
 Norwich. In 1844 he moved to New York, and died 
 there June 6, 1863, 
 
 He married, at Norwich, May 2, 1820, Eliza, the 
 daughter of Daniel Lathrop and Elizabeth (Bill) Coit. 
 She was born August 23, 1796, and died March 16, 
 1868. Her mother, Elizabeth BUI, was descended from 
 Simon Huntington II. William Charles and Eliza 
 (Coit) Gilman had issue nine children, the fifth being 
 Daniel Coit CHlman. 
 
274 Ancestral Records and Porteaits 
 
 •HUNTINGTON 
 
 The colonist, Simon Huntington, of Norwich, Eng., 
 died of smallpox on the voyage to America, in 1633. 
 His wife was Margaret, the daughter of Christopher 
 Baret, Mayor of Norwich, 1634 and 1648. Their son: 
 
 Deacon Simon Hxjntington, was horn in England, 
 1629, and died at Norwich, Conn., 1706, where he was 
 one of the founders. He came there from Massachu- 
 setts, with his mother, in 1659-60, and his home lot is 
 described in the first book of records of Norwich. He 
 was Constable, Townsman, Deputy, and deacon in Mr. 
 Fitch's church. In 1695 he was appointed by the town 
 " to keep an ordinary or house of publique entertayne- 
 ment." The inventory of his books is dreary reading ;^ 
 among them Thomas Hooker's Dovbtkig Christian, the 
 Bound Book of Mr. Fitch and John Rogers, and the 
 Day of Doom. He married Sarah Clarke. The grave- 
 stones of Simon and his wife are in the Norwich town 
 burying-ground. His estate was valued at £275. 
 
 Their son, Simon II, (1659-1736), came to Norwich 
 from Saybrook when he was a year old. He married, 
 1683, Lydia Gager (1663-1736) , both are buried in Nor- 
 wich. 
 
 Their son, Joshua, was bom 1698, and died 1745. 
 He was a noted merchant and married 1718, Hannah 
 Perkins (1701-1789). 
 
 Their daughter, Lydia (1727-1798) , married Captain 
 Ephraim BiU, iq 1746, who had served in the battery at 
 Waterman's Point, was also on the ship-of-war De- 
 fence, and a member of an association to protest against 
 illicit traffic with the enemy. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Bill (1767-1846), married 
 Daniel Lathrop Coit, who was bom September 20, 
 1754, and died November 27, 1833. His diary (1783), 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Portkaits 275 
 
 kept when he went to Europe on business, is most in- 
 teresting. In Paris he saw the first successful balloon 
 ascension. He became an original subscriber of the 
 Connecticut Land Company for the Western Reserve 
 in Ohio, 1796, but never resided there, although he made 
 five journeys thither, the first on horseback. He lived 
 in New York, but spent his last years at Norwich. 
 
 Their daughter, Eliza Coitj married William Charles 
 Gilman. 
 
 OILMAN {Continued) 
 
 The fifth son of William Charles and Eliza (Coit) 
 Giknan, Daniel Coit Gilman, was born in Norwich, 
 Conn,, July 6, 1831. He was graduated from Yale 
 College 1852, and served his alma mater as librarian and 
 professor until 1872, when he became President of the 
 University of California, until 1875. The first Presi- 
 dent of Johns Hopkins University, and first director 
 of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he served as President 
 of the University for twenty-five years. He then be- 
 came first President of the Carnegie Institution of 
 Washington, for three years. 
 
 He married, 1861, Mary, daughter of Tredwell 
 Ketcham. She died October 25, 1869. In 1877 he 
 married Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey. His death oc- 
 curred October 13, 1908.* Issue, first wife: 
 
 Elizabeth Oilman^ 
 
 Alice Gilman Wheelek^ wife of Everett P. 
 Wheeler, 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dairies of 
 America. 
 
 8 Authorities : Perkins ; Old House of the Ancient Town of Norwich ; 
 Memoir of Daniel Lathrop Coit (privately printed, Norwich, 1907). 
 
276 
 
 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 XVII 
 
 EPPES 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Eppes obtained a 
 grant of land August 26, 1636, for the transportation 
 of himself, his three sons, and some thirty servants into 
 the Virginia Colony, and in 1635 settled there on the 
 
 south shore of the James 
 River, near the mouth of the 
 Appomattox. This river 
 formed the boundary line be- 
 tween the southern halves of 
 the counties of Henrico and 
 Charles City, which then lay 
 on both sides of the James 
 River; and as Colonel Eppes 
 subsequently acquired very 
 extensive estates in both 
 counties, he was returned to 
 the House of Burgesses in- 
 differently from either. Some 
 time previous to his death, 
 which occurred 1655, he be- 
 came a member of the Colo- 
 nial Council. Four of his 
 descendants in hneal succes< 
 sion, each bearing the name of " Francis " and three 
 of them distinguished by the title of " Colonel," all 
 county officials and members of the House of Bur- 
 gesses, enjoyed in tail male the large landed estates the 
 first Francis had secured in that part of the County of 
 Henrico, which was' subsequently erected into Chester- 
 
 EPP^S 
 
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 Bond Sigxed by Francis Eppes and Thomas Jefferson 
 
Ancestrai. Recohds and Poetbaits 277 
 
 field. ^ The lands in and around City Point, which 
 were granted in 1636, are still owned by the Eppes 
 family, after a lapse of over two hundred and seventy 
 years. It is said that no other tract of land in America 
 has been so long in unbroken possession of one family. 
 Francis Eppes was Lieutenant- Colonel of the county, 
 member of the House of Burgesses, 1625 to 1632, Com- 
 missioner, 1631 to 1689, Member of the Council, April 
 30,1652.=' His son: 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Francis Eppes II of Hen- 
 rico County, Va., was born 1628 and died 1678. He 
 was Lieutenant-Colonel of the County Militia® and in 
 1677 was Commissioner. He married Elizabeth the 
 widow of William Worsham. Issue, among others: 
 Francis III, Mary, who married Lieutenant Colonel 
 John Hardiman, and Littlebury. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Littlebury Eppes was of 
 Charles City Coimty, Va., and died in 1743. He was 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of the Coimty Militia, a Commis- 
 sioner 1699, Member of the House of Bbrgesses 1710 
 and 1714, and Clerk of the County, 1710.* He married 
 Llewellyn. 
 
 Llewellyn Eppes, their son, was of Charles City 
 County, and died 1758. He was Justice High Sheriff 
 1721, and Clerk of the County, 1731 to 1752.^ He mar- 
 ried Angelica 
 
 Their son, Peter Eppes, who died in 1773, married 
 Elizabeth, the daughter of Lieutenant- Colonel John 
 Hardiman. 
 
 i Scribner's Mag., November, 1904. By W. M. Gary, of Batimore. 
 2 Charles City Co, Beg.; Virginia Mag. of Hist. §• Biog., Vol. ill, p. 
 mi. 
 
 : Henrico Co. Bees.; Virginia Mag. of Hist. ^ Biog., Vol. iii, p. 393. 
 
 * Charles City County Becs.j Va. Mag. of Hist. ^ Biog., Vol. iii, p. 394. 
 
 Ibid. Ibid, p. 397. 
 
278 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Eppes, married Little- 
 bury Hardiman. Jr. 
 
 Collateral Line of Francis Eppes III 
 The grandfather of Martha Eppes, who married 
 John Wayles, was Francis Eppes III, and their daugh- 
 ter, Martha Wayles, as the widow of Bathurst Skelton, 
 became the second wife of Thomas Jefferson. Their 
 daughter, Maria Jefferson, married her first cousin, 
 John Wayles Eppes, Jefferson's favorite son-in-law, 
 and a Member of the House of Representatives and 
 Senate of the United States. After her death, he mar- 
 ried Martha, daughter of Honorable Wyhe Jones of 
 North Carolina, from whose family the naval hero, John 
 Paul Jones, took his name. 
 
 " One of the interesting features in tracing genealogy 
 is to note how often the lines diverge to come together 
 again in succeeding generations. Colonel Francis 
 Eppes III, brother to Colonel Littlebury Eppes, mar- 
 ried Anne Isham, and their daughter Ehzabeth married 
 Henry Randolph, both being collateral branches of Eliz- 
 abeth Southall Clarke (the Colonial Dame of this 
 paper), and her husband, Douglas H. Gordon, Jr., the 
 lines uniting in their children." 
 
 HARDYMAN, OR HARDIMAN 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel John Hardiman of Charles 
 City County, Va., died before 1713. He was Commis- 
 sioner (justice) of the county, 1699 to 1702, also lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel of the County Militia.* He married 
 Mary, the daughter of Colonel Francis II and Mary 
 Worsham Eppes. Their son: 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hardiman of 
 Charles City County, died 1741. He was Burgess for 
 that county 1718, Justice 1737 to 1738, also Lieutenant- 
 
 8 Ih%A, p. 293. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 279 
 
 Colonel for the County Militia/ He married Sarah, 
 the daughter of Captain John Taylor^ of Charles 
 City County, who was Burgess for that county, 1692 
 to 1693, and Captain in the County Militia.* Two of 
 their sons were John and Littlebury. 
 
 Captain Littlebury Hardiman, the younger of 
 these two sons of Francis Hardiman, was of Westover 
 Parish, Charles City County, and died in 1771. He 
 was Captain in the County Militia 1762 ; Commissioner 
 (justice) , 1753, 1760 and 1762.® He married Susanna, 
 the daughter of Richard Bassett Lightfoot. 
 
 Their son, Littlebury Hardiman II, married Eliza- 
 beth, the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Hardiman) 
 Eppes. 
 
 Their daughter Susan married John Southall, whose 
 son Norborne married a descendant of the Bland family. 
 
 A Collateral Intermarriage 
 The elder of the two sons of Francis Hardiman, 
 Lieutenant-Colonel John Hardiman, died in 1771. He 
 was Commissioner (justice) of Charles City County, 
 1742, 1747, 1748 and 1750; High Sheriff, 1747, and 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of the County Militia, 1756.'° 
 
 His daughter, Elizabeth Hardiman, married Peter, 
 the son of Llewellin Eppes. As shown by these rec- 
 ords, the two families frequently intermarried. 
 
 BLAND 
 The Blands are descended from WilUam de Bland 
 who lived in the reign of Edward III. Roger Bland, 
 time of Jlenry VIII, lived in Devon County, West- 
 moreland, and his son, Adam Bland, was Sergeant Pel- 
 lectier of Queen Elizabeth in 1563. His wife was Joan, 
 daughter of William Altryus of St. Gregory's London." 
 
 T Col. Va. Beg., p. 101 ; Charles Co. Bees. 
 
 « Ibid; Virginia Mag. of Hist. §■ Biog., Vol. v, p. 138. 
 
 • Charles City Co. Bees. lolbid. 
 
 " Appendix to the Bland papers, published in Petersburg, Va., 1840. 
 
280 
 
 Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 John Bland, of Sythe Lane, a Hamburg merchant, 
 their son, was a Captain of St. Gregory's, 1572,** and 
 
 came to America, 
 where he was granted 
 four shares of land in 
 the Colony of Vir- 
 ginia, September 16, 
 1618. He was a lead- 
 ing member of Sir 
 Edwin Sandys' party 
 during 1620 to 1624;** 
 and a Member of the 
 Council of Virginia, 
 1623. He returned to 
 England where many 
 honors were conferred 
 upon him, and died 
 there suddenly 1632, 
 being buried in St. 
 Antholius. His per- 
 sonal estate was large. 
 He married Susanna, 
 and they had issue, 
 nine sons and seven 
 daughters. Two of 
 the sons were Ed- 
 ward and Theodorick. Both were merchants in Spain, 
 and both removed to Virginia. 
 
 rrhe colonist, Edward Bland, settled in Charles City 
 County, died in 1653, and was buried at "Westover," 
 the family estate on the James River. His wife Jane, 
 was a daughter of Gregory, who was a brother of John 
 Bland of Sythe Lane, London, and of Virginia. 
 
 12 FamiUw Memorium OenUwrn., Harleian Soc. Pub., Vol. ii, p. 431. 
 IS Brown's Genesis, p. 829. 
 
 BLAND 
 
 y#FORT.Es\ 
 
 1> H 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 281 
 
 Their only: son, Edward Bland II, of " Kymages," 
 is also buried at "Westover." He married Margaret 
 
 , and their daughter Sarah Bland, married Edmund 
 
 New II. 
 
 Other Bland Descendants 
 
 The other brother, Theodorick Bland, married Ann, * 
 the daughter of Richard Bennet, a former Governor of 
 the colony, and he was one of the King's Council for 
 Virginia. After living seventeen years at " Westover," 
 on the James River, he was buried there in April, 1671. 
 Colonel Wilham Byrd was a later owner of "West- 
 over." 
 
 Among the Bland descendants in Virginia are the 
 Lees, beginning with " Light-Horse Harry," whose 
 mother was descended from John Bland; thus the be- 
 loved General Robert E. Lee was also a descendant. 
 
 NEW 
 
 The colonist, Richard 
 New, settled in James City 
 County, Va., receiving a 
 grant of land April 6, 1655, 
 of seven hundred and fifty ■ 
 acres. 
 
 A resident of St. James 
 Parish, Henrico County, 
 Va., Edmund New mentions 
 in his will, dated July 4, 
 1726, a wife Mary and a son 
 Edmund, also a grandson 
 John ("son to my son Ed- 
 mund"). 
 
 Their son Edmund II. 
 married Sarah, the daughter of Edward and Margaret 
 Bland. 
 
 NEW 
 
282 
 
 Ancestral Recouds and Porteaits 
 
 SOUTHALL 
 
 Their son John had a son William, whose daughter 
 Tabitha married Chislen Morris. 
 
 Their daughter Mary married Norborne Southall. 
 
 SOUTHALL 
 
 Henry Southall, of Charles City County, Va., died 
 in 1795. He was a member of the Committee of Ob- 
 servation " of that county, Decem- 
 ber 17, 1774. 
 
 His son John married Susan 
 Hardyman, the daughter of Little- 
 bury and Elizabeth (Eppes) Hardi- 
 man. She was the ward of the first 
 Governor Tyler, of Virginia, and 
 lived at the executive mansion in 
 Richmond during his administra- 
 tion. She is said to have been a most 
 beautiful and brilliant woman, and 
 the tradition that Governor Tyler wooed and lost her, is 
 sustained by a poem which he wrote, an acrostic to her 
 name. Her brother. Colonel Stith Hardyman, mar- 
 ried Rachel Tyler, a sister of the Governor. John and 
 Susan (Hardyman) Southall died a few years after 
 their marriage, leaving two sons, Norborne and Albert. 
 , They were adopted and reared by Governor Tyler's 
 son, John Tyler, who was President of the United 
 States. 
 
 The elder son, Norborne, married Mary, the daugh- 
 ter of Chislen and Tabitha (New) Morris. 
 
 Their daughter Anastia married John Eldridge 
 Clarke, whose daughter, Elizabeth Southall, married 
 Douglas H. Gordon, Jr. 
 
 Elizabeth Southall Clarke Gordon, 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
 " William f Mo/ry Quar., Vol. v, p. 253. 
 
Jacob Hite 
 
 Ambrose Robeut Hite Ransok 
 
 5 ,| 
 
 James Lackland Ransok 
 
 Robert Rutherford 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 283 
 
 XVIII 
 HITE 
 
 As early as 1710, Hans Jost Hite came to New York 
 with his wife, Anna Maria DuBois, and their children, 
 from Alsace, Germany/ He settled in the Valley of 
 the Shenandoah in 1730, on a tract of land which became 
 known as " Hite's Grant." 
 
 The second son, Jacob Hite, came to the Valley of 
 Virginia with his father. He was sent to Ireland to 
 secure settlers for their lands, and while there married 
 Catherine O'Bannon. She died, leaving two sons, and 
 he married, second, Fannie, the daughter of Colonel 
 Ambrose and Frances (Taylor) Madison, and the 
 widow of Colonel Taverner Beale. Jacob Hite owned 
 several handsome estates in Berkely and Jeiferson 
 Counties, on which he resided. He was involved, how- 
 ever, in a dispute as to the seat of justice, for the county, 
 with Stephan, who advocated Martinsburg, while Hite 
 contended for Leetown. Stephan prevailed, and Hite 
 became so dissatisfied that he gave up five of his estates 
 to his son Thomas, and to his daughter, and leaving his 
 son George at William and Mary College, moved 
 with wife and younger children to a new home in 
 North Carolina in 1786. Establishing a trading sta- 
 tion, he was soon very popular with the Cherokee In- 
 dians. Later they became offended, and massacred the 
 family, except one little girl, Eleanor, who was rescued 
 by a squaw. The Indians burned the house, and es- 
 caped to Florida, taking the negro servants with thdm. 
 
 1 There is still in the family a soup ladle which belonged to Jacob 
 Hite, with a crest, a sheaf of wheat on it. Also a grant of land on the 
 original parchment from George III to Jacob Hite in 1760. 
 
 Compiled from article written by Miss Jane G. Keys, Baltimore 
 /Sun. 
 
284 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 The son, George Hite^ went at once to the ruined 
 home, and found the charred remains of all the family 
 except his little sister, for whom he searched many years, 
 finding her at last in Pensacola. The Indians had sold 
 her to the wife of an English army officer, and the child 
 refused to be separated from her foster parents. 
 George Hite married, February 4, 1780, in Charles 
 Town, Jefferson County, Va., DeboraJi, the daughter of 
 Robert and Mary (Howe) Rutherford, 
 
 Their daughter was Frances Madison Hite, who mar- 
 ried James Lackland Ranson. 
 
 RUTHERFORD 
 
 Robert Rutherford, born in Scotland, October 20, 
 1728, was the son of Hugh and Sarah (de Montargis) 
 Rutherford. [He was educated at the Royal College 
 of Edinburgh. With his brother Thomas he settled in 
 Berks County, Tenn., but soon removed to the Valley 
 of Virginia. Thomas was the first High Sheriff of Fred- 
 erick County, Va., 1743 to 1744, and both were trustees 
 of Bath and Berkely Springs, 1786. Robert entered 
 actively into the cause of independence. A delegate 
 to the convention held in Richmond, Colony of Virginia, 
 December 1, 1775, afterwards held at Williamsburg, 
 Va., he was the first member, from beyond the Blue 
 Ridge, elected to Congress, where he represented Berk- 
 ely from 1793 to 1797. His patriotism was never bet- 
 ter shown than in his speeches in Congress, in the early 
 days of the new government. He was one of Gen- 
 eral Washington's devoted friends. His large es- 
 tate, near Charles Town, Jefferson County, in the pic- 
 turesque valley of the Shenandoah, called "Flowing 
 Spring," commanded a full view of the beautiful Blue 
 Mountains. In this lovely place he was laid to rest be- 
 side his wife, in October, 1803. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 285 
 
 He marrded Mary, the daughter of William and De- 
 horah Daubine, or Dobbin, and widow of John Augus- 
 tus Howe, " who was killed at Tieonderoga in the war 
 with the Indians." His only son died at the age of eight- 
 een. His daughters' descendants are to be found in 
 the families of Peyton, Hite, Briscoe, Brown, etc. 
 
 His daughter Deborah married Georse Hite? whose 
 daughter, Frances Madison, married James Lackland 
 Banson. 
 
 RANSON 
 
 The daughter of George and Deborah (Rutherford) 
 Hite, Frances Madison Hite, married in Charlestown, 
 Jefferson County, Va., May 16, 1820, James Lack- 
 land Ranson. He was the son of Ambrose and Rachel 
 (Lackland) Ranson, of Buckingham County, Va. 
 
 Their son, Ambrose Robert Hite Ranson, bom in 
 Charles Town, April 12, 1831; married, October 12, 
 1854, in JeiFerson County, Frances Elizabeth Beverly, 
 daughter of John James and Frances Perrin (Lown- 
 des) Frame, bom February 17, 1834, descended 
 from William Bladen. Her early married life was 
 spent in Virginia, but after the Civil War they moved 
 to Maryland, living in Catonsville, where she died Au- 
 gust 4, 1876, and was buried in the graveyard of Zion 
 Church, Charles Town. Issue: 
 
 Frances Lowndes, married Nathaniel James. 
 
 Elizabeth Anne, married Harry Prescott Hall. 
 
 Mary Tasker, married Charles James. 
 
 BLADEN 
 
 Honorable William Bladen, came to Maryland 
 in 1690 at the early age of nineteen. He was the son 
 of Nathaniel and Isabella (Fairfax) Bladen, the grand- 
 
 2 Compiled from an article by Miss Richardson in the Baltimore Sun. 
 
286 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 son of the Rev. Thomas and the great-grandson 
 of William Bladen, Lord Mayor of London, 1647. In 
 1698, William Bladen, the colonist, was Surveyor and 
 Deputy Collector of the port, was appointed Secretary 
 of the Province by Nathaniel Blackistone, the Royal 
 Governor, 1701; commissioned Attorney-General May 
 8, 1702; served as Clerk of the Council, 1704, and 
 was a Vestryman of old St. Anne's Church, Annapolis. 
 William Bladen's name is associated with the important 
 work of compiling the first laws of Maryland in one 
 volume. 
 
 His first residence in this country was in St. Mary's 
 County, and there he married Anne, the daughter of 
 Gerret Van Swearingen, of St. Mary's, a native of 
 Holland. They removed to Annapolis. Issue: 
 
 Anne, who married Benjamin Tasker. 
 
 Thomas. 
 
 Christopher. 
 
 TASKER 
 
 Hon. Benjamin Tasker, son of Thomas' Tasker 
 (see pp. 671-672) , bom in 1690, and died June 19, 1768, 
 was President of the Council of Maryland at the time 
 of his death, an office he had held for thirty-two years, 
 and a Delegate to the Colonial Congress, which as- 
 sembled in Albany, 1754. He married Anne, the 
 daughter of William and Anne (Van Swearingen) 
 Bladen. Issue : 
 
 Benjamin, who died at the age of thirty-nine, being 
 Secretary of the Colony. 
 
 Anne. 
 
 Elizabeth, who married Christopher Lowndes. 
 
 Frances. 
 
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Ancestral Records and Poetraits 287 
 
 LOWNDES-FRAME 
 
 The ninth child of Richard and Margaret (Poole) 
 iiowndes, of Bostic House and Hassall Hall, Chester, 
 Eng., Christopher Lowndes, was baptized June 19, 
 1713. He came to Maryland, settling at Bladensburg, 
 and married Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Benjamin and 
 Anne (Bladen) Tasker. 
 
 Their son, Charles Lowndes, died in Jefferson 
 County, Va., April 16, 1846. He married, first, Elea- 
 nor Lloyd, of Wye House, Talbot County, Md. (see 
 Lloyd) and had issue, six children; married, second, 
 Frances Whiting, of Virginia, who died September 3, 
 1841, aged seventy-two years, and had issue, four chil- 
 dren, viz.: 
 
 Two daughters, died young. 
 
 Beverly Bladen, was drowned while bathing, in 1835, 
 in the Shenandoah River. 
 
 The surviving daughter, Frances Perrin, was born 
 October 11, 1810, and died January 23, 1901. She mar- 
 ried, July 24, 1828, John James Frame, of Charles 
 Town, Jefferson County, Va., who died October 17, 
 1834. They lived at the home place called " Beverly," 
 a large farm situated about three miles from Charles 
 Town, which had been in the Whiting family for many 
 years. After the Civil War the place was sold and 
 Mrs. Frame moved to Maryland. Issue: 
 
 Frances Elizabeth Beverly Frame, who married Am- 
 brose Robert Hite Banson. Their daughters are: 
 
 Elizabeth Anne Ranson Hall, 
 
 Frances Lowndes Ranson James, 
 
 Mary Tasker Ranson James, 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
288 Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 
 
 XIX 
 
 GILMOR 
 
 In 1767, Robert Gilmor, the son of Gavin and Janet 
 (Spier) Gilmor, made a voyage to the shores of the 
 Chesapeake, where he disposed of a cargo of merchan- 
 dise advantageously. He was bom at Paisley, Scot- 
 land, in November, 1748, and married, in 1771, Louisa 
 Airey. They were living in St. Mary's County, at the 
 time of the outbreak of the war of the Revolution. 
 Afterwards, he formed a business partnership with 
 Thomas Williams and Robert Morris, the well-known 
 financier. 
 
 Their son, William Gilmor, married Mary Ann, the 
 daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Custis (Teackle) 
 Smith, and the widow of —— r— De Drisdale. Issue, 
 five children, one being Robert. 
 
 SMITH 
 
 The first of this line, John Smith, married loane, the 
 daughter of Lieutenant- Colonel John Sheppard, 
 
 Their son, Isaax: Smith I., married Sarah, the daugh- 
 ter of Major John West, and his wife, Frances Yeard- 
 ley. 
 
 Isaac Smith II., their son, married Elizabeth Cus- 
 tis, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Custis)' 
 Teackle. Issue, among others, two daughters, Mary 
 Ann and Ann Teackle. 
 
 The elder, Mary Ann, married, first, De Dris- 
 dale ; second, William Gilmor. 
 
 The younger, Ann Teackle, married John Donnell, 
 
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 Painted bv Sir Tlionias Lawrence 
 
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 From an old print 
 
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 Elizabltii CrsTis Teackle 
 Wife of Isaac Smith II 
 
 
 Robert Gilmoe 
 Taken in 1780 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 289 
 
 and one" of their daughters, Elizabeth, married James 
 Swan; another, Frances, married Gustav W. Liirman. 
 
 TEACKLE 
 
 Rev. Thomas Teackle^ of "Craddock," Accomac 
 Comity, Va., married, first, Isabella Douglas, and sec- 
 ond, Margaret, the daughter of Robert and Mary 
 (Temple) Nelson. 
 
 John Teackle^ of " Craddock," their son, married 
 Susannah, the daughter of Arthur and Sarah (Browne) 
 Upshur. 
 
 Their son, Thomas TeacMe II., married Elizabeth, 
 the daughter of John Custis IV., and his wife, Ann 
 Upshur. 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth Custis Teackle, married 
 Isaac Smith II. 
 
 BROWNE 
 
 John Browne^ grantee of large tracts of land in 
 Virginia, married Ursula 
 
 Their son, Thomas Brown, married Susannah, the 
 daughter of Levin Denwood. 
 
 Their daughter, Sarah, married Arthur Upshur 
 II., whose daughter, Susannah, married John Teac- 
 kle. Their son, Thomas Teackle, married Elizabeth 
 Custis. 
 
 WEST-SCARBOROUGH-YEARDLEY 
 
 The emigrant was Anthony West. 
 
 Lieutenant- Colonel John West (1638-1705), 
 his son, married Matilda, the daughter of Colonel 
 Edmund Scarborough and his wife, Mary, the daugh- 
 ter of Stephen Charlton. The Scarborough line in 
 America began with Captain Edmund Scar- 
 borough I. 
 
290 Ancesteai, IIecobds and Portraits 
 
 Major John West, son of John I., married Frances, 
 the daughter of Captain Argall and Sarah (Michael) 
 Yeardley, and their daughter, Sarah, married Isaac 
 Smith I. 
 
 The Yeardley line in America is as follows: ' 
 
 Sir George Yeardley married Temperance West. 
 
 Colonel Argall Yeardley married Anne Custis. 
 
 Captain Argall Yeardley married Sarah Michael, 
 the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Thoroughgood) 
 Michael. Elizabeth was the daughter of Captain 
 Adam Thoroughgood. 
 
 Frances l^eardley married Major John West. 
 
 CUSTIS 
 
 A son of John and loane Custis, of Rotterdam, Ger- 
 many, Thomas Custis, lived in Baltimore, Ireland. 
 
 Edmund Custis^ his son, married Tdbitha, the daugh- 
 ter of Colonel William and Tabitha (Smart) Whitting- 
 ton. 
 
 Their son, Thomas Custis, married his cousin, Eliza- 
 beth, the daughter of Colonel John Custis III. and 
 his wife, Margaret Michael. 
 
 Judge John Custis IV., their son, married Ann Up- 
 shur, and their daughter, Elizabeth, married Thomas 
 Teackle II. ( See pp. 336-350 for Smith, West, Yeard- 
 ley, Scarborough, Teackle, Brown, Thoroughgood, and 
 Custis hnes.) 
 
 GILMOR {Continued) 
 
 A son of William and Mary Ann (Smith) Gilmor, 
 Robert Gilmor, was graduated at Harvard University 
 in 1828. He was appointed attache of the American 
 legation in Paris, William C. Rives being the American 
 minister. It was his good fortune to spend several days 
 
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Ancestral Recoeds and Poetbaits 291 
 
 at Abbotsford, upon the invitation, and as the guest, of 
 Sir Walter Scott. Robert Gihnor married, 1832, 
 Ellen, the daughter of Judge WiUiam H. Ward, of 
 Maryland. She was celebrated for her beauty. Issue, 
 several sons and daughters, among them Robert and 
 William. 
 
 WARD 
 
 William Ward I. w^as Justice of Cecil County 
 Court, Md., 1689-1692. 
 
 Colonel John Ward was Burgess of Cecil County, 
 1708 to 1736. 
 
 John Ward^ Jr., was Justice of Cecil County Court, 
 1726 to 1730. 
 
 William Ward II. was in the Provincial Assembly 
 of Maryland, 1762 to 1769, and Burgess, 1770 to 1774. 
 
 GILMOR (Continued) 
 
 The second son of Robert and Ellen (Ward) Gil- 
 mor, William Gilmor (now deceased), married Mary, 
 the daughter of Philip Barton and Ellen (Swan) Key. 
 (See Key.) 
 
 The elder son of Robert and Ellen (Ward) Gilmor, 
 Judge Robert CHlmor, Jr., was born in 1833. He was 
 Judge of the Supreme Bench of Maryland, from 1867 
 to 1882, and a man of literary attainments. He mar- 
 ried, first, Casilda Hodges; second, Josephine Albert, 
 and was survived by eight children. A daughter o£ 
 the second marriage, Josephine Gilmor^ married Wal- 
 lace Harvey. 
 
 Josephine Gilmor Harvey, 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
292 Ancestrai. Records and Portkaits 
 
 HULL 
 
 XX 
 
 HULL 
 
 Abms: Sable, a chevron engrailed eimmois between three talbots' heads 
 erased argent.^ 
 
 The Hull f aDiily ^ are recorded in the Heralds Dis- 
 tinctions of Devonshire, but the original name, De La 
 
 Hulle, in Shropshire, in the reign 
 of Edward IL, indicates that 
 they went from the Continent to 
 England, probably from Nor- 
 mandy. (The family is to be 
 found as early as the fourteenth 
 century in Somerset County.*) 
 Shortly after the PUgrims 
 landed at Plymouth, five broth- 
 ers came to Massachusetts from England: John, 
 George, Richard, Joseph, and Robert HuU.* 
 
 Reverend Joseph Hull, was born in Somersetshire, 
 Eng., 1594. He was of Weymouth, Mass., 1635, and 
 of York, Me., 1642 to 1643. He matriculated at St. 
 Mary Magdalen Hall, Oxford, May 12, 1612, aged 
 seventeen, and was instituted Rector of Northleigh, 
 
 1 Old Hull Seals. The seals of Edward Hull of London were a 
 Bear, ar., on a chevron az., between 3 demi-lions passant gu. 
 
 2 Authorities : Eec. Joseph Hull and Some of Bis Descendants, by 
 A. E. E. Hull, Cong. Lib.; Data, published by the Hull Family Assn., 
 1905; Austin's B. I. Oen.; Freeman's Hist, of Cape Cod, p. 269; Am. An- 
 cestry, Vol. 2, p. 63; Cotton Mather's Hist., of N. E. Ministers; FamUg 
 papers. 
 
 3 See List of Incumbents of Somerset named Hulle, Instituted at 
 Wells from' the Earliest Records in the Register to 1734. CoUinson in his 
 History of Somersetshire gives certain Hulls in his list of those in Par- 
 liament from that County. 
 
 4 Todd's Hist, of Bedding. 
 
Ancesteal Recoeds and Portbaits 293 
 
 diocese of Exeter, Devonshire, April 14, 1621. He 
 sailed March 20, 1635, with his family, consisting of 
 his second wife, Agnes, aged twenty-five years, two 
 sons, five daughters and three servants, from Wey- 
 mouth, bound for New England, with a company com- 
 posed of sixteen families, and numbering one hundred 
 and four (six) persons, chiefly west country people. 
 They reached Boston Harbor, May 6, 1635.^ On their 
 arrival, a grant was obtained to establish a plantation at 
 Wessaguscus, and here, with others from Boston and 
 Dorchester, they soon gathered into a church organiza- 
 tion, with Joseph Hull as their pastor. In September 
 of the same year, Joseph Hull, with other prominent 
 members of his community, took the freeman's oath, 
 and their plantation was erected into a township and 
 decreed hereafter to be called Weymouth. 
 
 The new church did not meet with favor from its 
 Puritan neighbors. Dissension quickly arose within the 
 church itself, instigated by the authorities outside, and 
 in less than a year the Separatists had called the Rev. 
 Thomas Jenner, of Roxbury, to be their pastor, and 
 Joseph Hull relinquished his charge and withdrew. He 
 obtained a grant of land in Hingham, the adioining 
 toAvn, and after a brief season of preaching at Bass 
 River, now Beverly, he gave up his ministerial labor, 
 and turned his attention to civic affairs. He evidently 
 possessed the confidence of his fellow-townsmen, for 
 he was twice elected Deputy to the General Court, and 
 in 1688 was appointed one of the local mag'strates of 
 
 B From data published by the Hull Assn. of New York in 1905. " This 
 company of adventurers, numbering 106 people, is known in Kew Eng- 
 land history as ' HuU's Colony.' 1, Joseph Hall of Somerset, a Minister 
 aged 40 year. ... 5, Tbistrau his son aged ... 11 Yeare.' " 
 From Camden Hotten's Original Lists. N. E. Hist. Oen. Reg., Vol. Iv, p. 
 336: 
 
294 Ancesteal Records and Portraits 
 
 f 
 
 Hingham. In June, 1639, the Plymouth Court granted 
 authority to Joseph Hull and Thomas Dimoc to erect 
 a plantation at Barnstable, on Cape Cod, and the former 
 was elected Freeman, and Deputy for Barnstable at the 
 first General Court held at Plymouth. For a time he 
 supported his family by agriculture and the raising of 
 cattle and horses. 
 
 Turning once more to the ministry, he preached for 
 a time at the Isle of Shoals. iRetuming to Barnstable 
 he accepted a call at Yarmouth, and moved his family 
 there; but as the call was not for a recognized church 
 organization, it aroused the hostility of the authorities, 
 and Joseph Hull was excommimicated by the Barn- 
 stable church in 1641, He withdrew to the more 
 friendly association of the Maine Colony. For a time 
 he was settled at the Isle of Shoals, and in 1643 was 
 called to York, Me., as minister. In 1652, Joseph Hull 
 returned to England, and was given the living at St. 
 Burian, in Cornwall, where he remained until after the 
 Restoration. In 1662, he returned to America, and 
 was settled as minister at Oyster River, now Dover, 
 N. H. Here, among his old friends, he passed the clos- 
 ing years of his life in quietness and esteem. He died 
 at the Isles, November 19, 1665, in his seventy-first 
 year.® , 
 
 The Hull Brothers 
 
 Of the four immigrant brothers of the Rev. Joseph 
 Hull, George Hull married, at or near Krewkerne, 
 Somerset, Eng., Thamzen Michell, of Stockland, Au- 
 gust 27, 1614, and sailed from Plymouth, March 30, 
 1629-30, in the ship Mary and John, with a notable 
 
 6 Barnstable papers, by Hon. Amos Otis. 
 
Ancestral Records and Poeteaits 295 
 
 company. He settled at Dorchester; was made Free- 
 man of Massachusetts, March 4, 1632; was Representa- 
 tive to the General Court, May, 1634, and one of the 
 first Selectmen of Dorchester. Removed to Windsor, 
 Conn., 1636, where he surveyed that place, also Weath- 
 ersfield; and held various offices from 1637 to 1654. He 
 married, second, Sarah, the widow of David Phippen, 
 of Boston. His will was admitted to probate, Novem- 
 ber 20, 1659. 
 
 Among his descendants wei'e Josiah Hull, a Deputy 
 of the General Court, between 1659 and 1674, and Cor- 
 nelius, a Deputy between 1658 and 1667, a Lieutenant 
 of Fairfield County, and in King Philip's War. 
 
 The third brother, Richard Hull, of New Haven, 
 Conn., came from Derbyshire, Eng. The name was 
 originally spelled "Hulls," and the final "s" was 
 dropped by his descendants. He is on the list of Free- 
 men in the Massachusetts Colony prior to 1639; also in 
 the list of those who took the oath of fidelity to the 
 Colonies. Resided in Dorchester, Mass., 1634, but 
 moved to New Haven, Conn., 1639, of which town he 
 was one of the founders. Was admitted to the General 
 Court of Connecticut, 1639, and died December 3, 1662. 
 He was a member of the church, but not a believer in 
 Puritanism. 
 
 Among his descendants are Commodore Isaac Hull, 
 the hero of the Constitution; Captain Joseph Hull; 
 General WiUiam Hull; Admiral Andrew Hull Foote, 
 commander at Fort Donelson and Island No. 10 ; Gen- 
 eral Ehas Hull, of Georgia, who was in the War of 
 1812; General Joseph Wheeler, who was in the Spanish 
 War; Judge Andrew Hull; Doctors Titus and Amos 
 Hull, Mrs. Richmond P. Hobson, and many others. 
 Another brother, Robert Hull, was the father of John 
 
296 A2«rcESTRAL Records and Portraits 
 
 Hull, the "Mint Master," of Boston. (Point Judith 
 was named for his daughter, Judith Quincy. 
 
 A sixth brother, William Hull, was Vicar of Coly- 
 ton, in Devon, 1611, and died without issue, 1627.'' 
 
 The Line of Ret. Joseph Hull (Continued) 
 
 Tristram Hull, the second son of the Rev. Joseph 
 Hull, was a man of prominence in Barnstable, where 
 he was chosen Selectman, and served on numerous com- 
 mittees, being empowered to buy land from the Indians, 
 for the improvement of the town, etc. Captain HuU 
 was a "chip of the old block," and cared for neither 
 King nor Kaiser, when either interfered with what he 
 wished to do. Colonel Hull, in his pamphlet, gives an 
 interesting account of the manner in which Tristram 
 aided an old church member, who had been fined and 
 banished for " raising his voice " against Quaker perse- 
 cution. He picked him up bodily, and carried him off 
 in his own ship as far as Sandwich, on the Cape, in 
 direct violation of the law and contempt of the magis- 
 trates. When Captain Hull died he left, besides two 
 fine ships, land, etc., £1150, 5s, 2d. Tristram Hull and 
 his wife Blanche had issue: 
 
 Mary, born in Yarmouth, September 16, 1645, and 
 married Joseph Holley, of Sandwich. 
 
 Sarah, bom in Barnstable (as were the remaining 
 three children), in March, 1650, married Robert Bur- 
 gess. 
 
 Joseph, born June, 1652, married, October, 1676, Ex- 
 perience, the daughter of Robert Harper, who was one 
 of the first Quakers to suffer in body and estate, and 
 was banished from Boston in 1660; he removed to South 
 Kingston, R. I., where he died about 1709. 
 
 7 Compiled from the Pamphlet of the Col. Robert Hull. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 297 
 
 John. 
 
 Hannah, bom February, 1656; married, September 
 15, 1674, Joseph Blish; died November 15, 1733. 
 
 Captain John Hull, fourth child and second son 
 of Tristram and Blanche Hull, was born in Barnstable, 
 March, 1654. He held various public offices at James- 
 town, R. I., and was Assessor, Town Clerk, for seven 
 years, in the Town Council, and Deputy, 1698, 1703, 
 1706, 1707, 1709. He was also on the important com- 
 mittee to hire out ferries, belonging to the Colonies. 
 Admiral Sir Charles Wager was his apprentice when a 
 boy, and a sincere friendship always existed between 
 them. 
 
 He brought over from London an English wife, hav- 
 ing been married there October 23, 1684, to Alice, the 
 daughter of Captain Edmund Teddeman, of St. Mag- 
 dalens, Lrondon. Their marriage certificate is in the 
 possession of the family, and is a most interesting docu- 
 ment, bearing the names of a great number of those 
 who witnessed the ceremony. Their son: 
 
 John Hull II., lived at Canonicut, and married 
 Damans, the daughter of John and Damaris (Arnold) 
 Cary. He held various offices, among others that of 
 Representative, in 1757. Their son was Oliver Hull. 
 
 CARY 
 
 " The ancient family of Cary derives its name from 
 the manor of Cary, or Karri, in the Parish of St. Giles, 
 in the Heath, near Launceston, 1198.* . . . The 
 intermediate descents of Cary from Adam (de Karry), 
 are given in the visitations of Devon, 1620." This line 
 
 8 Burke. For history of John Cary's line of 1198, see Oary Memo- 
 rials. 
 
298 Ancestrax Records and Portraits 
 
 of John Gary, the colonist, from Alfred the Great, has 
 recently been traced.® 
 
 John Gary, founder of Duxbury and Bridgewater, 
 came to Plymouth in 1630, and settled at Duxbury. 
 He taught the first liatin school in the Golony and was 
 the first Town Glerk at Bridgewater, 1651 to his death 
 in 1681. He was Selectman in 1667- 
 8-9. He married Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Francis Godfrey. Their son: 
 
 Hon. John Gary, was one of the 
 two first deacons of the first church of 
 Bristol, and is recorded as Sergeant; 
 one of the raters in the town; first Re- 
 cording OflScer of the county, and Glerk 
 of the Peace; Selectman, sometimes 
 CARYio Magistrate, appointed to solemnize 
 
 marriages; on many comniittees, and sent as Repre- 
 sentative to the General Gourt, 1694, after the Ply- 
 mouth Golony had united with Massachusetts. He 
 married, 1670, Abigail, the daughter of Samuel Allen. 
 Their son, Joihn Cory 111,, married Damans^ the 
 daughter of Oliver and Phoebe (Gook) Arnold. 
 Their daughter Damans married John Hull II. 
 
 ALLEN 
 
 The colonist, Samuel Allen, came in 1630 from 
 Bridgewater, Eng., to Braintree, Mass., and with Myles 
 
 » A. E. E. Hull; English Hist; Jour, of Am. Hist., "Vol. i. No. 3, p. 
 620; Ripley's Ancestors of Lieut. Thomas Tracy; Burke's Commmaner*, 
 Vol. ii, p. 33; Landed Gentry, Vol. i, p. 194, etc. Plyrnouth Records, 
 Vol. iv, p. 14; B. I. Genealogies, Arnold; Munroe's History of Bristol, 
 R. I., for American Carys. 
 
 10 " The three White Roses and the Motto of the Coat of Arms were 
 bestowed upon Sir Robert Gary on account of his defeat of the Knight 
 of Aragon, at Smithfield, London, by King Henry Fifth (1413-1422,) in 
 the early years of his reign." 
 
Ancestbal Records and Portraits 299 
 
 Standish became one of the proprietors and settlers of 
 East Bridgewater, Mass. Samuel Allen took the oath 
 of allegiance 1635, and was Town Clerk, Selectman, 
 Surveyor of Highways, Constable, and Deputy three 
 
 ALLEN 
 
 times. His second wife was Margaret, the widow of 
 Edward Lamb. One of his daughters married a son 
 of Myles Standish. 
 
 His daughter Abigail married John Cary II. 
 
 OLIVER ARNOLD 
 
 Oliver Arnold, the son of Governor Benedict and 
 Damaris (Westcott) Arnold," lived at Canonicut, where 
 he was Deputy, 1682, and held other important offices. 
 He married Phoebe, daughter of Captain Thomas and 
 Mary (Havens) Cook. Captain Cook (descended 
 from Thomas, who was a Deputy in 1666) , was Com- 
 missioned to run the west line of the Colony. Mary 
 Havens was the daughter of William Havens, one of the 
 original settlers of Aquidneck. 
 
 Their daughter Damaris married John Cary III. 
 
 "For Arnold and Westcott families, see pp. 15-16, US-US. 
 
300 Aktcestral Records and Poeteaits 
 HULL ( Continued ) 
 
 Though a Friend, Oliver Hull, the son of John and 
 Damans (Gary) Hull, took an active, if quiet, part in 
 the Revolution. He married Penelope Ffones 
 (Fones), whose great-grandfather had heen one of the 
 most important men of the Colony, and with her he 
 moved to New York a few years before the war. She 
 has been especially honored because of her great kind- 
 ness to the prisoners during the Revolution. The late 
 Robert Hull, in his pamphlet of the Hull family, gives 
 a very interesting account of the efforts the Quakers 
 made to mitigate the suffering of the American prison- 
 ers during the time the British had possession of New 
 York. "Among the most active of these was Oliver 
 HuU, Robert Murray and his son John. The Long 
 Island Quakers furnished the beef, vegetables, etc., and 
 in the garden of Oliver Hull's house, corner of Beek- 
 man and William Streets, these were put into a huge 
 caldron and under Mrs. Hull's directions speedily con- 
 verted into soup, was soon brought to the famishing 
 prisoners. One day Mrs. Hull, with her daughter 
 Penelope, was passing the old Sugar House in Liberty 
 Street when a prisoner called out from a grated win- 
 dow, ' I hope you won't be discom-aged, dear ladies; the 
 rebels are not discouraged; they'll never give up.* 
 When the British took possession of the town, several 
 people were billeted at Oliver Hull's house, one a young 
 officer. Count Saint Leger, of whom they became ex- 
 ceedingly fond, who presented Mr. Hull at parting with 
 a tall staff made of some curious wood and moxmted in 
 gold, as a souvenir of his gratitude and friend- 
 ship. . . •" 
 
 The son of Oliver and Penelope (Fones) Hull was 
 John Hull III. 
 
Ancesteal Records and Portkaits 301 
 TONES, OR FFONES 
 
 Aems: Azure, two. eagles digplayed in chief and a mullet in base 
 argent. 
 
 Captain and Honorable John Fones/* of Westerly, 
 R. I., was the son of Thomas and Anna (Winthrop) 
 Fones. jArina Winthrop was the daughter of Adam 
 and Anna (Brown) Winthrop, and the sister of Gov- 
 ernor Winthrop, of Massachusetts. Captain Fones 
 was a lineal descendant of " William Fowns, of Saxby, 
 Esq.," and his wife, daughter of Robert Hyelton, 
 Knight." 
 
 A member of the court martial at Newport, for the 
 trial of Indians charged with taking part with King 
 Philip in 1676, with the title of Captain, John Fones 
 was also Deputy, from 1679 to 1681, and later was 
 respectively Justice, Clerk of the Court of Commission- 
 ers, Permanent Clerk of the Court of Records, and in 
 1698 was Assistant and Deputy. His sister Elizabeth 
 married, first, Henry Winthrop, and second, Robert 
 Feake. His wife was Margaret . 
 
 Their son, Jeremiah Fones, married Elizabeth 
 
 12 Authorities: N. E. Hist. ^ Gen. Beg., Vol. xviii, p. 185; Records 
 at Newport; Hist. Soc. Records at Jamestown, R. I.; Austin's R. I. Oen.; 
 Family Papers. 
 
 13 " The Fones pedigree is one of the oldest manuscript pedigrees ex- 
 tant, found among the old Winthrop papers." N. E. Hist ^ Oen. Beg., 
 Vol. xviii, p. 18S. 
 
302 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Their son, Joseph Fones, had the distinction of being 
 the oldest Ensign, so far recorded, in the Revolutionary 
 War. He was bom May 11, 1699; responding to an 
 alarm call, July 30, 1778, in his seventy-ninth year, he 
 was created Ensign and served seven days, for which he 
 received sixteen shillings. He lived in Canonicut, R. I., 
 and married there Penelope Remington, of the Rhode 
 Island family. 
 
 Their daughter, Penelope Fones, married Oliver 
 Hull 
 
 Their son was John Hull III. 
 
 WINTHROP 
 
 Arms: Argent, three chevrons crenelU gules, over all a Lion rampant, 
 sable, armed and langued, azure. 
 
 Crest: A hare proper, running on a mount vert. 
 Motto: Spes vincit thromu/m. 
 
 An early ancestor of Governor Winthrop, and his 
 sister Anna, was Adam Winthrop, whose wife was 
 Joane Burton (or Burwell). 
 
 Adam Winthrop II. married, second, Agnes, the 
 daughter of Robert Sharp, of Islington. 
 
Ancestbal Records and Portbaits 303 
 
 Adam Winthrop III. was of Groton, and married, 
 second, Anna, the daughter of Henry Brown. Two of 
 their children were : 
 
 John, the first Governor of Massachusetts. 
 
 Anna,^* the wife of Thomas Tones, of London, and 
 the mother of Captain John Fones, 
 
 HULL ( Continued ) 
 
 A son of Oliver and Penelope (Fones) Hull, John 
 Hull III., was born in Canonicut, August 11, 1762. 
 He came to New York with his father, and married, 
 1781, Mary Avery. She died 1802, in Dutchess 
 County, where they had moved in 1800. On November 
 23, 1803, he married Amy, the daughter of Quinby 
 and Hannah (Underbill) Cornell. Issue, seven chil- 
 dren, viz. : 
 
 Hannah, 
 
 WiQiam. 
 
 Edward, maxried Edwina Willett Coles. From 
 them is descended Sarah Coles HuU, wife of Henry 
 Trowbridge, of New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Ann, married Edward Dibble, Esq. 
 
 Rebecca, married Haviland. 
 
 Robert. 
 
 Henrietta, married Cowdrey. 
 
 1* Cape Ann was named for Anna Winthrop Fones. 
 
304 
 
 Ancestral Recokds and Poetraits 
 UNDERBILL 
 
 Oanfierbill 
 
 3Kni«4ill> 
 
 Ahms: Argent on a chevron sable between three trefoils slipped, vert, 
 as many bazants. 
 
 Chest: On a moviat vert, a hmd, lodged or. 
 
 Captain John Underhill, believed to be descended 
 from a Warwickshire family, served as a soldier in the 
 Netherlands, under the Earl of Leicester, and in Spain 
 and Ireland, under the Earl of Essex. 
 When that nobleman was executed, 
 Captain Underbill went to Holland, 
 and finally to America in Winthrop's 
 company. Soon after be was training 
 the mihtia in Boston, wh^'ch he repre- 
 sented at the first Court of Deputies. 
 Being too liberal in bis ideas of religious toleration, be 
 was disfranchised, November 20, 1637, and banished 
 from Massachusetts. He retreated to New Hampshire, 
 where, in 1638, he was chosen Governor. Again bis lib- 
 eral views and possibly his Boston enemies compelled 
 
 capt. under^ 
 hill's seal 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 305 
 
 him to flee, and he was soon found in Albany, where he 
 became a favorite with the Dutch of that place, who 
 called him " Captain Hans Van Vanderhill," and gave 
 hitn a command of one hundred and twenty men. He 
 became a noted fighter and slayer of Indians. In 1643 
 he was a Delegate from Stamford, Conn., to the General 
 Court at New Haven, and appointed Assistant Justice, 
 Settling at Oyster Bay, he was a Delegate from that 
 place, 1665, and made Lord High Sheriff of North Rid- 
 ing on Long Island, by Gtovemor NichoU. The Matine- 
 cock Indians conveyed to him a large tract of land in 
 1667. Part of it, named Killingworth (originally Ken- 
 ilworth, from the place in Warwickshire, Eng., of that 
 name), remained in his family nearly two hundred 
 years. In the Pequot War he was Captain of all the 
 New England troops and so vanquished the Indians as 
 to make it possible for the white settlers to live in that 
 region. 
 
 His will was dated September 18, 1671, and he died 
 at " Killingworth " at an advanced age. He married 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Tones) 
 Feake. 
 
 Their son, Nathaniel Underhill, was one of the trus- 
 tees of the town of Westchester 1720. He married 
 Mary, daughter of John Ferris, Esq., of Leicestershire, 
 Eng., who was one of the purchasers of Stamford, 
 Conn., in 1640, and in 1654 removed to Westchester, 
 and became one of the first patentees of the town and 
 one of the ten proprietors. The family of Ferris came 
 from Normandy. Henri de Ferrers is written on the 
 famous "Battle Roll," and received large grants of 
 land from William the Conqueror in Straffordshire, 
 
 10 Bolton's Hist, of Westchetter, N. Y. 
 
306 
 
 Ancestbal Recoeds and Poetkaits 
 
 FERRIS 
 
 Derbyshire and Leicestershire. James, a grandson of 
 the colonist, lived on his grandfather's estate when Lord 
 
 Howe took it for his headquar- 
 ters, and James was made pris- 
 oner by the Queen's Rangers, 
 dying from hardship. 
 
 Their son, Abraham Under- 
 hill, of White Plains, N. Y., 
 married Hannah Cromwell, " a 
 descendant of that family of 
 Cromwells who at a very early 
 period possessed estates in Westchester County, N. Y. 
 The several branches of the family in America claim 
 descent from the same parent 
 stock as that of the Protec- 
 tor." 
 
 Their son, Jacob Underhill, 
 married, 1747, Amy, the daugh- 
 ter of John and Hannah Hal- 
 lock, the granddaughter of John 
 and Abigail (Sweezey) Hal- 
 lock, the great-granddaughter 
 of Wilham and Margaret Hal- 
 lock; and descended from Peter 
 HaUock, who married a widow, Mrs. Howell, in Eng- 
 land, and was in New Haven by 1640. 
 
 Their daughter, Hannah Underhill^ married Quinby, 
 the son of William and Mary (Quinby) Cornell. 
 
 CROMWELL 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 307 
 
 FEAKE 
 
 Lieutenant Robert Feake, was born in England, 
 and died in Watertown, Mass., 1662. He was the son 
 of James and Judith (Thomas) Feake, and the grand- 
 son of WiUiam and Mary Wetherell Feake, of London 
 (wUl 1595), and great-grandson of James Feake of 
 County Wighton, Eng. He came to Massachusetts 
 Bay with Governor Winthrop,^* 1630, and subsequently 
 held many pubhc offices of trust. In 1632 he was ap- 
 pointed Lieutenant to Captain Patrick, chief military 
 officer at Watertown. In 1634, when the first Court of 
 Delegates was held, his name appears fourth on the list, 
 which is given by Winthrop in his History. Again, 
 1635 and 1636, he was Representative from Watertown, 
 and 1639 to 1640 he united with Captain Patrick in the 
 purchase of land, now the town of Greenwich. He 
 married Elizabeth, the widow of Henry Winthrop 
 (the son of Governor Winthrop) and the daughter of 
 Thomas and Anna (Winthrop) Fones. 
 
 18 Winthrop's HUt. of N. E., Vol. i, pp. 69, 101 ; Harleian Surrey Vis- 
 itations, etc. 
 
308 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Their daughter Elizabeth married Captain John 
 Underhill. 
 
 QUINBY 
 
 One of the first settlers of Stratford, Conn., Colonel 
 William Quinby," came from England, and settled near 
 New York City, while under Dutch 
 occupancy. He signed allegiance to 
 .England in 1664. His son: 
 
 John Quinby^ was Justice, Dep- 
 uty and Member of the first New 
 York Assembly. He was one of the 
 five patentees of Westchester, and 
 took out the first patent of land there. 
 He married, 1686, Deborah (or 
 «^^^°^ Charity) Haight. 
 Their son, Josiah Quinby, married Mary Mullineux. 
 Their son, Josiah Quinby II., of Mamaroneck, 
 N. Y., married Hannah, the daughter of Richard 
 Cornell, of Scarsdale, the owner there of a large 
 •amount of property. Mary Quinby, their daughter, 
 married William Cornell. 
 
 The town of Scarsdale, near Mamaroneck, joins New 
 Rochelle on the Cornell property, the farm thus being 
 in three towns. Some of Richard Cornell's descendants 
 stUl live on the place. He held various ofiices of trust, 
 and in 1703 was foreman of the* Grand Jury which ig- 
 nored the bill against Bownas, the Quaker.^^ 
 
 CORNELL 
 
 The family of Cornell traces through the Barons of 
 Burford to Richard de Cornewall, son of Richard, Earl 
 
 IT Authorities ! Boltoin's nist. of Westchester; N. E. Hist. §■ Oen. 
 Beg., Vol. xvii, p. 62; Family Papers. 
 
 18 Cornell Oen., by Rev. John Cornell. 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 309 
 
 of Cornwall, second son of King John, younger brother 
 of Richard Coeur de Lion. The name is written vari- 
 ously: Cornel, Cornwall, Coomell, etc. 
 
 Thomas Cornell,^® arrived in Boston, with wife and 
 family in 1638. In 1641 he removed to Portsmouth, 
 R. I., and from there, in 1643, to Throgg's Neck, N. Y., 
 where, after a brief period, as Gov- 
 ernor Winthrop records: 
 
 " The Indians set upon the Eng- 
 lish that dwelt under the Dutch and 
 killed such of Mr. Throckmorton's 
 and Mr. Comhill's families as were 
 at home. These people," he adds, 
 "have cast off ordinances and 
 churches and for larger accommoda- 
 tions had subjected themselves to the Dutch and dwelt 
 scattering near a mile apart." 
 
 Among those who escaped was Thomas Cornell, who, 
 with the remainder of his household, went back to Ports- 
 mouth, where, in 1646, he was granted about two hun- 
 dred acres of land. The same year he received a grant 
 of land in Westchester County, N. Y.,^" known to this 
 day as "Cornell's Neck."^" He died in 1673, having 
 been closely associated with Roger Williams in his colon- 
 ization of Rhode Island, and having held many posi- 
 tions of trust, among others that of Commissioner, 1643. 
 The place at Portsmouth is still owned by the family. 
 The old house was burnt in 1889. From the windows of 
 the modern house, buUt in colonial style, can be seen the 
 old burying-ground of the family, where Thomas Cor- 
 
 i» Authorities: Austin's B. I. Oen.; Cornell Gem., by Rev. John Cor- 
 nell; Arnold's R. I. Oen.; Family Papers. 
 
 ,20 "Thomas was the second grantee receiving one half Dutch mile. 
 Refer to Bolton's Westchester for interesting account of grant. Cor- 
 nell's Neck is now within the limits of Greater New York." 
 
310 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 nell, the first of his name in this country, was interred. 
 He married Rebecca Briggs, of Portsmouth, R. I,, a 
 sister of the Hon. John Briggs. His son: 
 
 Hon. John Cornell, married Mary, daughter of 
 Hon. John Russell and his wife Dorothy. Their son: 
 
 Joshua Cornell, married Sarah, the daughter of 
 John and Mary (PearsaU) Thorne. The line de- 
 scends as follows: 
 
 Joshua Cornell II., married Charity Haight. 
 
 William Cornell, married Mary Quinby. 
 
 Quinby Cornell, married Hannah Underhill. 
 
 Amy Cornell, married John Hull III. 
 
 RUSSELL 
 
 One of the first settlers of Dartmouth, Ralph Russell, ^ 
 of Pontipool, Eng., died in 1676. He was the ancestor 
 of the Russell family of New Bedford, which received 
 its name from one of Ralph's descendants in the fourth 
 generation. His son: 
 
 Hon. John Russell, was Deputy 1646 to 1648, rep- 
 resented Dartmouth 1665, and was again Deputy, 1680 
 to 1683. He was in the earliest list of Freemen, 1644; 
 was sent out to fight the Indians, 1645, and in 1677 was 
 one of the important committee for distributing charity 
 coming from Ireland. His wife was Dorothy, the 
 widow of the Rev. Henry Smith. 
 
 Their daughter Mary married Hon. John Cornell, 
 
 THORNE 
 
 Abus: Argent, a fess gules between three lions ramipant sable. 
 Chest: A lion, ram/pant, sable. 
 Motto: Principes Obsta. 
 
 William Thorne,** was one of the first settlers of 
 Long Island, and with seventeen others became a pat- 
 
 21 Authorities^ Bunker's L. I. Oen.; Bolton's Westchester; Family 
 Papers, etc. 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Portkaits 311 
 
 entee of Flushing, in 1645, granted by the Dutch gov- 
 ernor, Kieft. He was also granted a plantation lot in 
 Gravesend, of which Lady Moody, and three others, 
 had received a general patent ; about ten years later he 
 became one of the proprietors of Jamaica. He and 
 thirty-one others signed a remonstrance to Governor 
 Stuyvesant, in 1657, against the severe treatment of the 
 Quakers .^^ 
 
 His son, John Thome, married Mary, daughter of 
 Nicholas and Sarah PearsaU. 
 
 Their daughter, Sarah Thome, married Joshua Cor- 
 nell I. 
 
 The name PearsaU is given " Parcell, of Flushing," in 
 the will of Nicholas PearsaU, 1689, recorded at Jamaica, 
 L. I. In some records the name of his wife is given as 
 Mary Van Dam. He was one of the patentees of 
 Flushing, L. I. 
 
 HULL [Continued) 
 
 A son of John and Amy (Cornell) Hull was Robert 
 Hull, who married, first, Hannah Anne Janney, and 
 second, Susanna Rebecca, the daughter of Judge Lucas 
 Powell and Susanna Caroline (Tapscott) Thompson. 
 Issue, first wife: 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Joseph J., married Mary Delafield; issue, Cornelius 
 DuBois and Marion. 
 
 Julia, married John Newport; issue, Elizabeth (who 
 married Charles L. Hepburn). 
 
 Alice, 
 
 John. 
 
 William J., married Amelia B. Murphy, of Wood- 
 
 22 For detailed account of Thome family, refer to N. T. Oen. S/; Biog. 
 Bee. \ I 
 
312 
 
 Ancestbal Records and Portraits 
 
 stock, Va.; issue, John, Harry (who married Louise 
 Peckham) , and William Buchanan. 
 
 Issue, second wife: 
 
 Henry Powell, married Lelia Gordon Taylor; issue, 
 Elizabeth, who married Francis M. McKey, and had 
 Francis. 
 
 Caroline Tapscott. 
 
 Amy Eleanor E. Hull. 
 
 John Baker Thompson, married Louise Gertrude M. 
 Ranstead. 
 
 Robert Carter, married Susan Boush Johnston; is- 
 sue, Elizabeth Carter. 
 
 POWELL 
 
 Lucas Powell, of Amherst County, Va., was a lineal 
 descendant " of those Powells whose first representative, 
 Nathaniel, came to America with John Smith." Lucas 
 Powell married, 1754-55, Elizabeth^ the daughter of 
 John Edtvards. 
 
 Their daughter, Rebecca Edwards^ married John 
 
 Thompson. 
 
 EDWARDS 
 
 The family ^^ descended from 
 
 the ancient Welsh kiners of Pow- 
 
 ysland. The first to assume the 
 
 name of Edwards was Robert, 
 
 I the son of Edward ap Thomas, ap 
 
 Llewellyn, lineally descended 
 
 from Ehion Efell, Lord of Cynl- 
 
 laeth. He married Ann,' the 
 
 daughter and heir of Robert Ryf- 
 
 fin, and was succeeded by his 
 
 son John, who purchased Ness 
 
 23 Authorities: Va. Mag., Vol. v, p. 18S; William ^ Mwry Quar., Vol. 
 iii, p. 1S3; Va. Ccurolorvm. 
 
 EDWARDS 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 313 
 
 Strange, Salop, which is still owned by the Edwards 
 family. The branch of the family that emigrated to 
 Virginia, early in the seventeenth century, came from 
 near Cardiff, Wales, where the ruins of an old caslle, 
 known as " Edwards Hall,'' are still to be seen. 
 
 William Edwards, held among other offices, that of 
 Burgess for Surry, 1652 to 1653, 1658 to 1659. His 
 son: 
 
 William Edwards II., was Justice, 1714. He mar- 
 ried Ann, the daughter of Colonel Benjamin Harrison, 
 ancestor of Benjamin Harrison, who signed the Decla- 
 ration of Independence, father and great-grandfather, 
 respectively, of General William Henry Harrison and 
 Benjamin Harrison, ex-Presidents of the United 
 States. 
 
 Their son, John Edwards, was the father of Eliza- 
 beth, who married Lucas Powell. 
 
 Rebecca Edwards Powell, married John Thompson. 
 
 TAPSCOTT 
 
 The Tapscotts (who married into the Thompson fam- 
 ily) , came to America with John and Lawrence Wash- 
 ington, and settled in the Northern Neck of Virginia. 
 
 Henry Tapscott, of Lancaster County, Va., a son of 
 Edward, of Northumberland County, Va., was on the 
 Committee of Safety for Lancaster, 1775. He mar- 
 ried Mary, the daughter of Martin Sherman and Ann 
 Chinn, his wife (descended from Colonel William 
 Ball). ' -■'»'^\ 
 
 Their son James married Susanna Howard, the 
 daughter of John and Judith (Wood) Baker, and the 
 widow of Dr. John Wood. 
 
 Their daughter, Susanna Caroline, married Judge 
 Lucas Powell Thompion. 
 
314 Ancesteal Records and Porteaits 
 
 BALL 
 
 Colonel Willla.m Ball, of 
 Lancaster County, Va., was the 
 progenitor of the Virffinia Balls 
 (see pp. 134-137). 
 
 His granddaughter Esther, 
 the daughter of Colonel Jo- 
 seph and Elizabeth (Rogers or 
 Romney) Ball, married .Raw- 
 ROMNBY leigh Chinn, and was the mother 
 
 of Ann Chinn, who married 
 Martin Sherman, whose daughter Mary married Henry 
 Tapscott. 
 
 BAKER 
 
 A descendant of the house of Norfolk, through the 
 Howard family, Judith Wood, who married John 
 Baker, was the daughter of Peter Wood and Susanna 
 Howard, his wife, who was the daughter of Sir WUliam 
 and Lady Judith Howard, of Howard Hall, Eng. 
 
 Their daughter, Susanna Howard Baker, married, 
 first, John Wood, and second, James Tapscott. 
 
 THOMPSON 
 
 In 1774, at the age of eighteen, John Thompson came 
 to America. He joined the Revolutionary army, serv- 
 ing in Captain Watson's company in a Pennsylvania 
 regiment, fought in the battles of Long Island and 
 Trenton, and crossed the Delaware with Washington. 
 He settled after the war in Nelson County, Va., where 
 he died in 1828. He married Rebecca Edwards, the 
 daughter of Lucas Powell, and his wife, Rebecca 
 Edwards. 
 
 The sixth of his seven children was Judge Lucas 
 
Judge I.ucas Powell Thompson 
 
 Judith Wood 
 Wife of John Baker 
 
 Sarah Coles Hull 
 Wife of Henry Trowbridge 
 
Ancestbal Recoeds and Poetraits 315 
 
 Powell Thompson. At the age of eighteen, after a 
 walking tour through Spain, he returned to Virginia, 
 where he studied and graduated in law, his license hear- 
 ing the names of three of the most emiuent men of that 
 State, Archibald Stuart, Hugh Holmes, and Briscoe 
 Baldwin, Judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia, 
 and by a coincidence all cousins of his wife. In a few 
 years he was elected Judge of the Circuit Court of 
 Augusta, Albemarle, Nelson, Amherst, and Rock- 
 bridge counties, succeeding Chief Justice Marshall, be- 
 ing the youngest man who had ever held this position, 
 and after Chief Justice Marshall, admitted to be the 
 most learned jurist in Virginia. He held his position 
 during the Civil War, and was still kept in it by the 
 Federal government during the stormy reconstruction 
 days. By the advice of General Robert E. Lee, he took 
 the oath of allegiance, and after the war, though refus- 
 ing to " soil the ermine of the office " by runmng for the 
 position he had held before, was elected to it again, one 
 vote only being cast against him. Judge Thompson 
 was the originator of the idea of sending a commission, 
 during the Civil War, to meet Mr. Lincoln in the inter- 
 ests of peace, a suggestion which was accepted, Hon. 
 Alexander H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, one of President 
 Fillmore's cabinet, being chosen to represent Virginia. 
 Judge Thompson married Susanna Caroline, the daugh- 
 ter of James and Susanna Howard (Baker) Tapscott. 
 Issue : two sons and six daughters. 
 
 The sons, as follows: 
 
 The eldest, Lucas Powell, died s. p. 
 
 The second, John Baker, became professor at Kenyon 
 College, Cambria, Ohio, before he was twenty-one, and 
 President of St. John's College, Arkansas, when only 
 twenty-three years old. When the Civil War broke 
 
316 Ancestbal Recobds and Poetbaits 
 
 out he commanded a regiment of boys from his cpllege, 
 officered by their professors. As Lieutenant-Colonel, 
 on his twenty-seventh birthday, he led a charge at the 
 (Battle of Shiloh, and the spot where he fell, mortally 
 wounded, is one of the cycloramic features of the bat- 
 tle. Wounded unto death he was carried from the field 
 still shouting encouragement to his men. His name is 
 on a tablet in the rotunda at the University of Vir- 
 ginia, erected to the memory of the alumni who fought 
 in the Civil War. 
 
 The daughters were known as the " Six lovely Vir- 
 ginia sisters." 
 
 Margaret, married Dr. Paul J. Carrington, of Vir- 
 ginia. 
 
 Caroline, Eleanor Stuart, and Mary Carter, married, 
 respectively, three brothers, Charles, Robert Harper 
 Goodloe, and John Lee Carroll (the latter then gov- 
 ernor, lineal descendants of Charles Carroll, the signer) . 
 
 Alice Louise. 
 
 The second daughter, Susanna Rebecca, married Rob- 
 ert Hull, of New York and Baltimore. Their daugh- 
 ter is: 
 
 Amy Eleanor E. Hull, 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
Robert Hull 
 From a miniature 
 
 Susanna Rebecca Thompson 
 Wife of Robert Hull 
 
 Old clock with picture of the Indians 
 meeting Gov. Winthrop 
 
 Old pitcher with portrait of Capt. 
 Isaac Hull and frigate Constitution 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 317 
 
 XXI 
 
 KUHN 
 
 Among the eighteenth century families that were 
 swept into Pennsylvania, on the flood tide of the re- 
 markable German emigration, were the Kuhns, whose 
 ancestor, John Kuhn, was a magistrate of Berwangen, 
 near the Black Forest, Germany, and died previous to 
 November 30, 1676. His son, George Martin Kuhn, 
 was assistant jurat of the Court of Furfield, a village 
 on the Neckar, in the province of Wiirtemburg. He 
 married Barbara, the daughter of Friedrich Ponmes, a 
 Justice of the Peace, and had six children. 
 
 Their second child, John Christopher Kuhn, was 
 born December 16, 1684, and died in 1754. He con- 
 tinued to reside in Furfeld, in the beautiful valley of 
 the Neckar, until 1719, when he removed to Hutten. 
 He had married Margaret, the daughter of the late 
 Marx Reichss, a citizen of Sernum. The Kuhn family 
 embarked on the ship Hope of London, Rotterdam be- 
 ing the port of departure, Daniel Reed, Master. They 
 arrived in Philadelphia, August 28, 1733, with their 
 three children, Adam Simon, aged nineteen; Eva Bar- 
 bara, aged thirteen, and Anna Maria, aged nine. The 
 list of passengers of the Hope is preserved at Harris- 
 burg, Pa. The family settled in the present Berks 
 County, Pa., and the father was naturalized March 28, 
 1747. He was living in that section, in Maiden Creek 
 township, when he died. 
 
 Adam Simon Kuhn^ the eldest child and only son, 
 was born in Furfeld, Germany, December 26, 1713, and 
 died January 23, 1780. He was naturalized, April 8, 
 1744, in Lancaster Coimty, Pa. A man of bright nat- 
 
318 Ancesteal Recokds and Portraits 
 
 ural parts, liberally educated, he bjecame a physician 
 and settled in Lancaster, where he was considered a very 
 skillful, attentive and successful practitioner. He also 
 became conspicuous in public affairs in his new home. 
 From 1749 to 1753 he was Chief Burgess of Lancaster. 
 During the French and Indian War he took an active 
 part in the defence of his neighborhood. He was com- 
 missioned a Justice of the Lancaster County Courts 
 1752, 1761, 1764 and 1770 ; a member of the committee 
 of Observation and Correspondence, December 15, 
 1774, and served as a delegate to the Provincial Con- 
 vention held at Philadelphia, January 23, 1775. A 
 memorial tablet was erected to him in Trinity Church, 
 Lancaster. Of him it has been said, " He was the prin- 
 cipal and almost the only person who was concerned 
 for the promotion of classical learning amongst the 
 youth of that community." He married, December 11, 
 1740, Anna Maria Sabina, the daughter of John Jacob 
 and Eva Rosina Schrack. She was born at sea Octo- 
 ber 26, 1717, and died in Lancaster, Pa., 1799. They 
 had eight children, viz.: Adam, John, Johann Frederick, 
 Daniel, Peter, Maria Sabina, John Jacob, Hannah, Eve. 
 The eldest son, Adam John Kuhn, was bom Novem- 
 ber 17, 1741. He decided upon the medical profession 
 as his life work, in which he eventually gained world- 
 wide distinction. Having sailed for Europe 1761, he 
 began the study of medicine and botany in January, 
 1762, at the University of Upsala, Sweden, under the 
 celebrated Linnaeus. He continued there until 1764, 
 when he entered the University of Edinburgh, graduat- 
 ing in 1767. While at Upsala he was a member of the 
 family of Professor Linnaeus, who, in a letter still pre- 
 served in the family said: " Your son of great prom- 
 ise, and endowed with most engaging manners, arrived 
 
Ancestrax, Recoeds and Portraits 319 
 
 here," and writing a year later, said, " You have ven- 
 tured to send your beloved son to a foreign country, he 
 is unwearied in his studies, lives in a most temperated 
 and correct manner — he long since began to taste the 
 sweets of science, therefore I congratulate you and my- 
 self on this your son, and I have never known any one 
 more correct in his deportment or superior in applica- 
 tion." 
 
 After taking his degree in Edinburgh 1767, Dr. 
 Adam Kuhn made a tour of France, Holland and Ger- 
 many, returning to Philadelphia 1768, when he was at 
 once appointed professor of Materia Medica and Bot- 
 any in the College of Philadelphia. He was chosen 
 one of the physicians of the newly organized society for 
 inoculating the poor for small-pox in 1774, and May, 
 1775, was named as one of the physicians to the Penn- 
 sylvania Hosj)ital, resigning in 1798. Upon the estab- 
 lishment of the Philadelphia Dispensary, 1786, fop the 
 relief of the poor. Dr. Kuhn was selected as consultant 
 physician. In 1787, the College of Physicians, was 
 founded and he was one of its charter members, becom- 
 ing its president 1808, holding the office at the time 
 of his death. In 1789 he was called to the Chair of 
 Theory and Practice in the University of Pennsylvania, 
 and when the college and university were united 1792, 
 was chosen to the professorship of Physic. At the out- 
 break of the Revolution he was commissioned surgeon 
 and physician of the continental service July 8, 1776, 
 and served until 1777. He resided for some time in 
 St. Croix, West Indies, where he married. May 14, 
 1780, Elizabeth, the daughter of Isaac and Mary Car- 
 roll ( Nanton) Hartman, and the widow of Franie Mar- 
 koe. She was born August 20, 1755, and died Feb- 
 ruary 25, 1791. Dr. Kuhn died intestate, leaving a 
 
320 Ancestral Recoeds and Poetraits 
 
 large fortune to his three children, Hartman, Charles 
 and William. 
 
 The second son, Charles Kuhn, was born April 12, 
 1785, and died September 22, 1842. He was gradu- 
 ated from the University of Pennsylvania 1802. He 
 married, July 28, 1808, Elizabeth Hestia, the daugh- 
 ter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Kortright) Yard. She 
 was born January 24, 1788, and died March 12, 1870.^ 
 Issue, eight children, viz.: Cornelius, Elizabeth, Hart- 
 man (who married his cousin, Mary Kuhn), Emily, 
 WilUam, Edward, and a second Edward. 
 
 HARRISON 
 
 Their fifth child, Emily Kuhn, married Samuel 
 Thompson Harrison, of the Maryland Harrisons. 
 
 Their son, Charles Kuhn Harrison, married Louisa 
 Triplett, the daughter of Boiling Walker and Ann 
 (Triplett) Haxall, and their daughter, Ann Triplett 
 Hareison, married George Somerville Jackson. 
 
 HARRISON-CAILE 
 
 John Caile Hareison, son of Christopher and 
 
 1 Authentic Family Papers. 
 
Ancestbal Recohds and Poeteaits 321 
 
 Mary (Caile) Harrison, married his cousin, Mary, the 
 daughter of Hall Caile and his wife, Elizabeth Has- 
 kins, the granddaughter of Goveet Loockeeman II. 
 
 Their son. Hall Harrison, married Elizabeth, the 
 daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Thompson) Gait. 
 
 Their son, Samuel Thompson Harrison, married 
 Emily, the daughter of Charles Kuhn, whose son, 
 Charles Kuhn Harrison, married Louisa Triplett Haw- 
 aii. 
 
 LOOCKERMAN-WOOLFORD-DENWOOD 
 
 Goveet Loockeemans I., married, second, Marritje 
 Jansen. 
 
 Jacob Loockeeman, married Helen Ketin. 
 
 Goveet Loockeeman II., married Sarah, the daugh- 
 ter of RoGEE WooLEOED, and his wife Mary, the daugh- 
 ter of Levin Denwood I. Their ygungest daughter, 
 Mary Loockerman, married Thomas Haskins, whose 
 daughter, Elizabeth, married Hall Caile. (See 
 pp. 56-79 for Harrison, Caile, Loockerman, Woolford 
 and Denwood families.) 
 
 HAXALL 
 
 ■ The first known ancestor of the Haxall family of 
 .Virginia, John Haxall, of Exning, England, was born 
 1681 and died September 17, 1751. 
 
 His son, William Haxall, bom 1724, and died March, 
 1787, was one of the leading men of Exning, being 
 churchwarden and collector of the vicar's tithes, and 
 overseer of the poor. He married Catherine Newton, 
 of Bristol, England, who died at " Whitehall," a large 
 house still standing in Exning. Issue, six children, viz. : 
 George, William, Joseph, Henry, John, Philip. 
 
 The youngest son, Philip HaxaU, was born April 
 
322 
 
 Ajncesteai, Records akd Porteaits 
 
 10, 1770, and died December 26, 1831. He emigrated 
 to Petersburg, Va., 1786, where he was vestryman of 
 Old Bristol Parish,* He moved to Richmond, Va., in 
 
 June, 1809, and established the 
 Haxall Mills. He married, 
 July 20, 1801, Clara, the 
 daughter of Robert and Ehza- 
 beth (Starke) Walker, of 
 Kingston, Dinwiddie County, 
 Va. She was bom July 9, 
 1780, and died March 29, 1857. 
 Issue, nine children, viz.: Rob- 
 ert Walker, Richard Barton, 
 Elizabeth, Harriet, William, 
 Henry, Mary Bell, Philip Au- 
 gustus, BoUins Walker, David 
 Walker, EUzabeth. 
 
 The seventh child of the col- 
 onist. Boiling Walker HaxallJ^ 
 born July 13, 1815, and died Jime 26, 1885, married, 
 December 30, 1845, Anne, the daughter of John Rich- 
 ards and Louisa (Stone) Triplett, and their daughter, 
 Louisa Triplett, married Charles Kuhn Harrison. 
 
 HAXALIi 
 
 TRIPLETT* 
 
 The first of this name to settle in Virginia, Francis 
 Triplett, who died 1700, went to Richmond County. 
 He patented one thousand and fifty acres of land in 
 Rappahannock County 1666. He was a nephew of 
 
 2 Bristol Parish Records. Hayden's Genealogies. 
 
 3 The name of Haxall is believed to be extinct in England, and it only 
 exists in this country in the descendants of Plulip and Clara (Walker) 
 HaxalL 
 
 *A genealogy of this family will be published in the Virgima Aist. 
 Mag. by Rev. Arnold Harris Hord, of Germantown, Penn. 
 
Ancestbal Recobds and Portraits 323 
 
 Rev. Thomas Triplett, Dean of Westminster Abbey, 
 whose monmnent is in the Poets' Corner of the Abbey. 
 The Dean is described in some very old books as of 
 London and the son of a gentleman. 
 
 A son of Francis, the colonist, William Triplett, was 
 a resident of King George's County, and a land deed 
 bearing date November 6, 1733, is on record in Spott- 
 sylvania County; his will was dated December 3, 1738. 
 He married Isabella, the daughter of Captain Lyman 
 Miller, whose will was proved in Rappahannock County 
 May 22, 1684. Captain Miller was a noted shipbuilder 
 and a large landoAvner.' 
 
 Their son, Francis Triplett II., owned estates in 
 Westmoreland and King George's Counties; his will 
 was proved March 5, 1767. His wife's name was Mil- 
 dred . 
 
 Their fifth and youngest son, Daniel Triplett, was 
 born May 8, 1753, and married, January 1, 1777, Eliz- 
 abeth, the daughter of John and Susannah (Coleman) 
 Richards. She was born May 22, 1760. 
 
 Their son, John Richards Triplett, was bom Janu- 
 ary 29, 1785, and died October 2, 1843. He married, 
 May 19, 1813, his cousin, Louisa Richards Stone, and 
 resided in Norfolk, Va. Their daughter, Anne, mar- 
 ried Boiling Walker Hawaii. 
 
 RICHARDS 
 
 Abms: Sable a chevron between three fieur-de-Us or. 
 
 The son of William Byrd Richkrds, John Richards, 
 was born in England, January 27, 1734, and died Sep- 
 tember 13, 1785.® He married, January 1, 1754, Su- 
 sannah, the daughter of Robert Coleman, of Goochland 
 
 B Bruce's Economic Hist, of Va. Vol. II, p. 439. 
 B Family Papers. 
 
324 Ancestbal Records and Pokteaits 
 
 County, She died April 15, 1778. Had twelve chil- 
 dren, viz.: Patty, James, Elizabeth, Triplett, Susan- 
 nah, Payne, Sarah, John, WiUiam, Mildred, who mar- 
 ried WilKam Scandreth Stone November 10, 1787; 
 Fanny, Catherine. 
 
 The third child, Elizabeth, was bom May 22, 1760, 
 and married, January 1, 1777, Daniel Triplett, whose 
 son, John Richards, married Louisa Richards, the 
 daughter of Mildred and William Scandreth Stone. 
 
 WALKER 
 
 The first of the name in Virginia, Captain David 
 Walker, lived in Dinwiddle Coimty. Family records 
 say that " he was a man of large means, for years Pre- 
 siding Magistrate, a position that was only held by men 
 of the highest education and wealth. He was Senior 
 Warden of Bristol Parish, later a Warden of Bath 
 Parish.'' 
 
 His son, Robert Walker, of Kingston, Va., was born 
 October 10, 1729, and married, 1745, Elizabeth^ the 
 daughter of William and Mary (BoUing) Starke. 
 Had ten children, viz.: Robert, Richard, David, Boi- 
 ling, Freeman, Starke, Louisa, Martha, Mary, and 
 Clara, who married Philip Haxall. Their son, Boiling 
 Walker Haaiall, married Anne Triplett. 
 
 STARKE 
 
 Asms: Aawre, a chevron between three acorns in chief or. 
 Chest: A bull's head erased or, distilling drops of blood proper. 
 Motto: Fortiorum Portia Facta. 
 
 The Starkes came to America from Scotland, the first 
 mentioned being Dr. Richard Starke, of York County, 
 Va. It becomes a matter of interest to identify this 
 gentleman, of whom very little is remembered, beyond 
 
 Tibid. 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Poethaits 325 
 
 ' his interesting connection with our earliest American 
 law books. In the records of York County is mentioned 
 a Dr. Richard Starke, who died in 1704, leaving a wife 
 Rebecca, and the following children: William, Rich- 
 ard, James, Catrine, and Mary Harris. In 1774, there 
 was printed, at Wilhamsburg, by Alexander Purdie 
 and John Dixson, a book entitled " The Office and Au- 
 thority of a Justice of the Peace, explained and digested 
 under proper titles," to which are added full and cor- 
 rect precedents of all kinds of process necessary to be 
 used by magistrates, in which also the duties of sheriffs 
 and other public officers are properly discussed. The 
 greater part of the book was written by Dr. Richard 
 Starke, whose death prevented its completion. His 
 friends prevailed upon some benevolent gentlemen of 
 the law to finish the work. 
 
 Colonel William Starke, his eldest son, was a 
 prominent man in York County, Va. He was Justice 
 of the Peace in 1730 and other years, and Colonel of 
 the County Militia. He built and gave Starke's Free 
 School. He married Mary, the daughter of Robert and 
 Anne (Cocke) Boiling, and there is a marriage contract 
 on record between William and Mary, 1713. Their 
 daughter, Elizabeth, married Robert Walker.* 
 
 ROLLING 
 
 The Boilings are of very ancient origin. Robert 
 Boiling, Esq., in the reign of Edward IV., resided at 
 Boiling Hall, near Bradford, in Yorkshire, England, 
 where many generations of his ancestors in the enjoy- 
 ment of private life had lived, and where he died 1485, 
 He was buried in the family vault of the church at 
 Bradford. It is probable that his family had been bene- 
 
 8 Willicmi and Mary Quar. 
 
326 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 factors of that church, or had even bviilt it, since their 
 coat-of-arms alone are engraved upon it. Boiling Hall 
 passed in succession to the families of Tristram BoUing 
 and Sir Richard Tempest, the latter marrying Rosa- 
 mond, the daughter and heiress of Tristram. 
 
 Robert Rolling, son of John and Mary, of the Boi- 
 lings of "Boiling Hall," near Bradford, of All Hal- 
 lows, Barking Parish, Tower Street, London, 
 was the first of the name who settled in Virginia, arriv- 
 ing there October 2, 1660. He was bom December 26, 
 1646, and died July 17, 1709. He lived at " Kippax," 
 sometimes called " Farmingdate," served as a Burgess 
 1704, and took a prominent part in the aiFairs of the 
 colony. The BolUng family were deeply interested in 
 the church in Virginia, and have been represented in the 
 Vestry of Old Bristol Parish in every generation.® 
 Robert Boiling married, first, 1675, Jane, the daughter 
 of Thomas Rolfe and the granddaughter of Pocahon- 
 tas; second, 1681, Anne, the daughter of Colonel John 
 Stith. Issue, second wife, seven children, viz. : Robert, 
 Stith, Edward, Anne, Doury, Thomas, and Agnes. 
 
 Robert Rolling II. was born January 25, 1682, and 
 died 1749. He was also prominent in the ajBfairs of his 
 county; Surveyor of Charles City County 1714; Justice 
 of the Peace, and a member of the House of Burgesses 
 1723, 1726 and 1730. He married, January 27, 1706, 
 Anne, the daughter of Richard and Anne (Bowler) 
 Cocke. They had eight children, viz. : Elizabeth, Anne, 
 Lucy, Jane, Martha, Susanna, Robert, and Mary, who 
 married William Starke. 
 
 STITH 
 
 Colonel John Stith was the first of this family in 
 
 t Bristol Pariah; Va. Hist. Mag., and William and Mary Quar, 
 
Ancestbal Recokds and Portraits 327 
 
 Virginia. He had a grant of land in Charles City- 
 County 1663; was a practicing lawyer 1680; member 
 of the House of Burgesses 1685 to 1692 and 1693, and 
 Sheriif 1691. His known children are: Drury, John, 
 ahd Anne, who married Robert BoUing I. 
 
 Their son, Robert Bolling II., married Anne Cocke, 
 whose daughter, Mary, married William Starke. 
 
 COCKE 
 
 Abms: Argent two lions passant sable crowned or a fesse sable be- 
 tween two talbots passant. 
 
 Richard Cocke (1600-1665), the original ancestor 
 of the Cockes of Virginia, emigrated from Leeds, Eng- 
 land, about 1630, and settled at Milvert Hills. With 
 him, came Captain Francis West, his sister having mar- 
 ried Robert West, son of Lord de la Warr, and settled 
 in Henrico County, Va. Richard Cocke was a promi- 
 nent merchant in London, and several of his family 
 were connected with the Royal households of Mary, 
 Elizabeth, and James I., and the Cocke family was con- 
 nected with the Wests, Percy Lord Chandos, the Berk- 
 eley family. Sir Hugh Poynty, and Lord Wentworth. 
 In the Committee of Safety of Surry County, Va., 
 1776, there were five Cockes: Colonel Allen, Colonel 
 John, John Jr., J. H., and Colonel Lemuel Cocke. 
 The Cocke family sat in nearly every session of the 
 Virginia House of Burgesses. Richard Cocke took a 
 leading part in the affairs of the colony, serving as a 
 Burgess 1632, 1644, and 1654. He was also a member 
 of the " Grand Assembly of Virginia." His nephew, 
 Captain Cocke, of London, is well known by his inti- 
 macy with Samuel Pepys, and is often mentioned in his 
 
328 Ancestbal Records and Poeteaits 
 
 celebrated diary. Richard Cocke married Mary, the 
 daughter of Walter Aston, and had a large family. 
 
 Richard Cocke II., third son of .the colonist, was 
 born 1639, and died 1705. He took an active part in 
 the affairs of Virginia, being a civil officer of Henrico 
 County 1680; Justice of the Peace 1714, and Burgess. 
 He married, 1675, Ann Bowler, and their daughter, 
 Anne Cocke, married Robert Rolling, Jr., whose 
 'daughter, Mary Boiling, married William Starke. 
 
 ASTON 
 
 Abms: Argemt a fesae sable in chief three lozenges of the last. 
 Crest: A hull's head, cowped sable. 
 
 Walter Aston (the grandson of Sir Walter Aston, 
 of Longdon, Stafford County, England, who was 
 knighted 1560), was born July 9, 1584, and died Au- 
 gust 13, 1639, and is buried at " Westover," The fam- 
 ily came to America 1626, and August 12 of that year 
 Walter Aston patented one thousand and forty acres 
 of land near Shirley Hundred, two hundred acres of 
 which were known as " Causey's Care," purchased in 
 1634 from John Causey (being the same land patented 
 by Nathaniel Causey, who came in with the first supply, 
 1608. All of this property became part of William 
 Byrd's celebrated "Westover"), Walter Aston rep- 
 resented Shirley Hundred in the House of Burgesses 
 1629 to 1630 and Causey's Care 1632 to 1633. He was 
 a Justice of the Peace, and Lieutenant- Colonel of the 
 Militia.'" His first wife's name is mentioned in land 
 patents as being Warboe or Narboe, and his second 
 wife's name was Hannah, who married after his death 
 Colonel Edward Hill. Children: Susannah, Walter, 
 
 10 William and Mary Quar. 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Poetbaits 329 
 
 EHzabeth, and Mary, who married Richard Cocke. 
 From them the line descends as follows: 
 
 Richard Cocke II., married Ann Bowler. 
 
 Anne Cocke, married Robert Rolling II. 
 
 Mary Boiling, married William Starke. 
 
 Elizabeth Starke, married Robert Walker. 
 
 Clara Walker, married Philip Haxall. 
 
 Boiling Walker Hawaii, married Anne Triplett. 
 
 Louisa Triplett Haxall, married Charles Kuhn Har- 
 rison, whose daughter is: 
 
 Anne Triplett Harrison Jackson, 
 
 Member of Chapter I„ The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
330 Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 XXII 
 
 SWAN 
 
 Scottish records, of the year 1599, contain the name 
 of William Swan, a Burgess of Dumfrieg, who died in 
 January, 1603, leaving a widow, Helen Anderson, and 
 four children, viz.: Andrew, William, Alison, and 
 Helen. 
 
 The eldest child, Andrew Swan, married, before 
 1607, Janet, who was a daughter of Herbert Ranyng 
 (who died in 1601), and Janet Davidson, his wife, and 
 a granddaughter of another Herbert Ranyng (who died 
 1587) , and Malie Kirkpatrick, his wife. 
 
 The elder Ranyng was Provost of Dumfries, 1572; 
 member of the Parliament of Scotland the same year, 
 and Commissioner for Dimifries, in the Convention of 
 Royal Burghs, 1578. The younger Ranyng, was Pro- 
 vost of Dumfries, 1586, 1591 to 1592, and was fre- 
 quently Bailie. 
 
 A son of Andrew and Janet (Ranyng) Swan, was 
 John, living in the year 1626. Of the same family was 
 James Swan, a merchant of Dumfries, who died May 
 24, 1760. His son Robert, born 1720, a partner in the 
 house of Nelson, Carlyle & Company, of Glasgow, re- 
 sided at Annapolis, Md., as the American representa- 
 tive of the firm, and died there unmarried May 4, 1764. 
 The larger part of his estate he left by will to his 
 nephew, John Swan, the eldest son of his brother John, 
 of Cocketfield, viz.: 
 
 Major John Swan, who was baptized in Torthor- 
 wald Parish, November 27, 1750, and came to Mary- 
 land in the year 1766, as the heir of his uncle's estate. 
 
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 Elizabeth Maxwell 
 Wife of Maj. John Swan 
 
 Maj. Joiix Swan 
 
 James Swan 
 
 Elizametli Doxnell 
 AVife of James Swan 
 
Ancestbal Records and Poetbaits 331 
 
 He settled first in Annapolis, soon removed to Fred- 
 erick County, and later to the growing town of Balti- 
 more, where he resided imtil his death, August 21, 1824. 
 He early entered the army of the Revolution, and was 
 made Captain of the 3d Continental Dragoons, April 
 26, 1777, at that time being recruited in Fredericksburg, 
 Va., by Colonel George Baylor. He was commissioned 
 Major of the 1st Continental Dragoons, October 21, 
 1780, and served with gallantry until the close of the 
 war. In 1777 he was wounded during an engagement 
 near Morristown, Penn., and taken to Philadelphia for 
 treatment. While there. General Washington wrote 
 the following letter to Colonel George Baylor, who was 
 then recruiting a regiment in Fredericksburg, Va. 
 
 "Morristown, April 25, 1777. To George Baylor, 
 Esq., Colonel of a Reg. of Dragoons to be formed, 
 Fredericksburg. 
 
 Dear Sir: — The Captaincy becoming vacant in your 
 Regiment is to be filled by Mr. John Swan of Fred- 
 erick, Md., a gentleman strongly recommended to 
 me by some members of Congress and whom (from 
 other accounts) you will find fully qualified to give 
 great satisfaction in the execution of his duty. He 
 is at present under confinement in Philadelphia occa- 
 sioned by a wound received in an action near this place 
 some time ago. I have written for him to join you with 
 all convenient expedition, and to receive your instruc- 
 tions how he is to proceed. I repeat my request that 
 you send in your Regiment, troop by troop, as fast as 
 you can equip them. 
 
 I am, dear sir, your most obedient servant, G. 
 Washington." ^ 
 
 With his command. Major Swan was present with 
 
 1 Va. Hist. Register. By Maxwell, 1848-49. Vol. I, p. 146. 
 
332 Ancestral Recobds and Poetbaits 
 
 General Lafayette, at the surrender of Lord Comwallis 
 at Yorktown. The Bible, carried by him throughout 
 the war, was bequeathed by his granddaughter, Miss 
 Willie Swan, to her kinswoman, Mrs. Robert A. Dob- 
 bin. On the title page is written, evidently by himself: 
 "John Swan, His Book 1765." 
 On a blank page between the Old and New Testa- 
 ments is written: 
 
 " John Swan's book, arrived at Annapolis in Maryland 
 , from Scotland on the 30th of August 1766 " 
 Pasted in front of the book is the following: 
 " This Book once the property of General John Swan 
 of the Revolution was by him given to his eldest son 
 Robert Swan, who gave it on his deathbed to his eld- 
 est son John, Willie's father." 
 
 With the Bible was also sent General Swan's watch. 
 At the close of the war he was made General of the 
 Maryland State Militia. Generals Washington and 
 Lafayette were his warm personal friends. He was one 
 of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati, 
 and the membership has passed regularly through his 
 family, being now held by his great-grandson, James 
 Swan Frick, of Baltimore. The Society of the Cincin- 
 nati was the only patriotic society in the United States 
 until the formation of the Society of The Colonial 
 Dames of America. Major Swan married, July 12, 
 1787, Elizabeth, daughter of George and Elizabeth 
 (Trippe) Maxwell, born 1757. Their son was James 
 Swan. 
 
 MAXWELL 
 
 Prior to 1676, James Maxwell settled in Anne Arun- 
 del County, Md. He died that year, leaving one child, 
 and a widow who afterwards married Patrick Hall.* 
 
 2 Teitamentary Proceedmgs, Ann Arundel Co., Md. Vol. X, fol. 336. 
 
George Max\\'ei,l 
 
 Thorougiigood Smith 
 Second Mayor of Baltimore 
 
 Dr. CniAHLEs Sloan 
 
 JoHX Frick 
 
Ancestkal Records and Poeteaits 333 
 
 Colonel James Maxwell, the only child of James 
 Maxwell, was born 1661, and died January 5, 1728, 
 leaving a will, dated that year.^ He was a Ranger 1692, 
 and his district was from the Falls of the Patapsco to 
 the Susquehannah; Sheriff, 1693; and Member of the 
 General Assembly, 1694.* 
 
 He married, first, Mary ; second, . 
 
 "William Savary of Baltimore County, married the 
 widow of Colonel James Maxwell, and administered 
 d.b.n. on his estate, and on that of his son James." ^ 
 
 Issue by first marriage, several children, including a 
 son James; by second marriage, several children also, 
 one being referred to as James the yoimger. In the 
 Records of St. James Parish, Baltimore County, page 
 41, is the following entry: • 
 
 " Phillisyanna Maxwell, daughter of James Maxwell 
 and Mary his wife, he being the eldest son of Colonel 
 James Maxwell deceased, was born 3rd March, 1723; 
 Mary Maxwell, datighter of said persons born 6 April, 
 1724; Elizabeth Maxwell daughter of said persons was 
 born 3rd June, 1727; Eleanor Maxwell daughter of 
 said persons was born 12th Feb. 1729." 
 
 Geoege Maxwell, one of this family of children, 
 was bom 1725, but there is no entry of his birth in 
 these records, doubtless because he moved to Benedict 
 in Charles County. He married. May 27, 1756, Eliz- 
 abeth, daughter of Major Henry and Elizabeth (Emer- 
 son) Trippe. George Maxwell died in Charles County, 
 leaving a will dated 1777, by which he appointed his 
 wife Elizabeth executrix, and names his son James. He 
 refers to his daughters, but does not name them. They 
 
 B OMce of the Reg. of Wills, Baltimore Co., Liher No. 1, fol. 215. 
 
 4 Arch, of Md. Vols. XIX, p. 305; XX, p. 580; XXII, p. 80. 
 
 5 Adm. No. 3, fol. 137, of Baltimore Coimty; passed Nov. 19, 1733. 
 
334 Ancesteai. Recobds and Portbaits 
 
 were: Elizabeth, Mary, Ann and Eleanor. Mary left 
 a will dated December 18, 1816,® in which she gives 
 certain moneys to Robert, John, James and Robert 
 Maxwell Swan, " sons of my very affectionate brother- 
 in-law John Swan." At the foot of this will is an 
 agreement signed by "A Maxwell and E. Maxwell, 
 only sisters of Elizabeth Maxwell, that letters may be 
 granted to a stranger in blood," Elizabeth Maxwell 
 married Major John Swan. 
 
 TRIPPE 
 
 Major Henry Trippe came to Maryland before 
 1663 and settled in Dorchester County. His birthplace 
 is said to have been Canterbury, England, 1632. He 
 was Justica and County Commissioner, 1669 to 1681, 
 and 1685 to 1694; Captain of Foot in the Dorchester 
 County Militia 1676, and commissioned Major of 
 Horse 1689. He represented his county in the Mary- 
 land Assembly 1671 to 1675, 1681 to 1682, and 1692 
 to 1693; member of the Committee of Twenty in whose 
 hands the government of the Province was placed 1690.'' 
 He married Ehzabeth, widow of Michael Brooke, an 
 early colonist. He died 1698 and left a large landed 
 estate to his children. His eldest son: 
 
 Captain Henry Trippe, who died in 1724, was a 
 member of the Assembly 1712 to 1715. He married 
 Susanna Heron, and had with other issue: 
 
 Major Henry Trippe, who died in 1744. He was 
 High Sheriff of Dorchester County, 1731 to 1734, and 
 Justice and member of the Assembly, 1735-1744. He 
 married Elizabeth, daughter of Major Thomas Emer- 
 son, of Talbot County, who was a member of the As- 
 
 ^OUice of the Beg. of Wills of Baltimore City, Liber No. 11, fol. S46. 
 ■'Arch, of Md. Vol. v. 
 
2. '^ 
 
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Ancesteal Records and Poetkaits 335 
 
 sembly 1716 to 1719 and died 1720. Issue, with other 
 children: Elizabeth, who married George Maxwell. 
 
 SWAN {Continued) 
 
 In 1796, James, the son of Major John and Eliza- 
 beth (Maxwell) Swan, was born, and his death occurred 
 in 1859. He married, 1818, Elizabeth, the daughter of 
 John and Ann Teackle (Smith) Donnell, who was born 
 in January, 1801, and died 1838. They had three chil- 
 dren: 
 
 John, married Isabel Davies. 
 
 Ellen, married Philip Barton Key. 
 
 Aime Elizabeth, married William Frederick Frick. 
 
 DONNELL 
 
 About the year 1800, John Donnell, an Irish gentle- 
 man, came to America. He married, October 10, 1798,* 
 Ann Teackle, the daughter of Isaac and Eliazbeth Cus- 
 tis (Teackle) Smith; she was bom October 15, 1781, 
 and died 1858. Two of their daughters were: 
 
 Elizabeth, married James Swan. 
 
 Frances, married Gustav Liirman. (See Liirman- 
 Powel line.) 
 
 SHEPPARD 
 
 Thomas Sheppard was a member of the House of 
 Burgesses, for Elizabeth City County, 1632 to 1633." 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel John Sheppabd, his son, was 
 a member^** for James City County, in 1644. His 
 wife's name was Jean. Their daughter, loane, mar- 
 ried John Smith. 
 
 s Marriage Bond, Clerk's' OfSce, Northampton Co., Va. 
 
 9 Hening's Statutes, Vol. I, pp. 202, 313. 
 
 10 Ibid, Vol. I, pp. 213, 283. 
 
336 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 SMITH 
 
 A son of John and loane (Sheppard) Smith, Iscuic 
 Smith I., came from Scotland prior to 1760, according 
 to family tradition, and taught school in Pungoteague, 
 Accomac County, Va. There he lived and died. He 
 was an educated man, and a. vestryman of St. George's 
 Parish, in lower Accomac County. 
 
 He married Sarah, the daughter of Major John and 
 Frances (Yeardley) West, and died in 1760. 
 
 Isaac Smith II., their son, was horn November 4, 
 1734, and died March 23, 1813." He succeeded his 
 father in the office of vestryman of St. George's Par- 
 ish, and was on the Committee of Safety for Accomac 
 County, Va., 1774, and a delegate to the Virginia Con- 
 vention of June, 1774, and those of 1775 and 
 1776.^2 
 
 He married, March 14, 1759, Elizabeth Custis, the 
 daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Custis) Teackle, 
 who was born December 13, 1742, and died August 
 19, 1829. 
 
 A daughter, Mary Ann Smith, married, firsfl^ 
 
 De Drisdale, and second, WilKam Gilmor. 
 
 Their son, Robert Gilmor, married Ellen Ward, whose 
 son. Judge Robert Gilmor, married Josephine 
 Albert. 
 
 Their daughter is Josephine^ who married Wallace 
 Harvey. 
 
 Another daughter, Ann Teackle Smith, married 
 John Donnell. Of their' daughters, Elizabeth married 
 James Swan, and Frances married Gustav W- Liir- 
 man. (See Liirman-Powel line.) 
 
 11 Tombstone at Selma^ Iforthampton Co., Va. 
 
 12 Principles and Acts Of the Revolution, pp. 89, 261. 
 

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Ancestbal Records and Poktbaits 337 
 WEST 
 
 ^isgfi:::^^ 
 
 Abms: Argent, a fesae dancetty between three leopard*' heads table. 
 Crest: Out of a mural coronet a griffin's head argent, charged with 
 a fesse dancetty sable. 
 
 The immigrant, Anthony West, who came to Amer- 
 ica in the ship James in 1622,^* died 1652. 
 
 LrEUTENANT-CoLONEL JoHN West, his son, was 
 born 1638, and died 1703. He was High Sheriff of 
 Accomac County, 1664 and 1667, one of the Council," 
 and Captain of Militia, 1663, Major 1675, and 
 Lieutenant-Colonel 1679. He married Matilda (born 
 1644), the daughter of Colonel Edmund and Mary 
 (Charlton) Scarborough. 
 
 Major John West, their son, who died 1718, was 
 Major of Militia of Northampton County, Va.*^ He 
 married Frances, the daughter of Captain Argall and 
 Sarah (Michael) Yeardley. Their daughter. Sarah. 
 married Isaac Smith I. ' 
 
 18 Hotten's Lists. 
 
 1* Northampton Co. Bees., No. 4, p. 136. 
 
 16 Accomac County Bees. Vol. X, p. 107. 
 
338 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 YEAKDLEY 
 
 Akmb: Argent on a chevron azure three barbs or, on a canton gvlet 
 a fret of the third. 
 
 Cbest: a buck courant gulet, attired, or. 
 
 Sir George Yeardley came to the Virginia Colony 
 1609, in the ship Deliverance. . He was descended from 
 a Staffordshire family, known as the " Lords of Yeard- 
 ley," and had fought with distinction in Holland in the 
 war against Spain. He was commissioned Captain 
 upon his arrival in Virginia, and 
 given command of a stockade, near 
 the present site of Fortress Mon- 
 roe. Sir Thomas Dale, then Gov- 
 ernor of the Colony, sailed for Eng- 
 land 1616, and Captain George 
 Yeardley was made Deputy-Gk)v- 
 ernor in his absence, and served un- 
 til the arrival of Governor Argall, 
 1617. Sometime during 1618, Cap- 
 tain Yeardley married Temperance 
 yeardley "W'est, going the same year to Lon- 
 don in the interest of the Colony. The Virginia com- 
 pany had been for some years divided by political dis- 
 cord into two parties. The Court party looked upon 
 the colonists as men-servants of the Company, giving 
 them no voice in the settlement of their affairs. The 
 Virginia party sought and demanded more rights and 
 privileges. When Captain Samuel Argall was ap- 
 pointed Governor to succeed Deputy-Governor Yeard- 
 ley, who had grown greatly in favor with the people, it 
 was considered a great calamity. It proved in the end, 
 however, to be much to their advantage. Captain 
 Yeardley had now lived for a number of years in Vir- 
 ginia, had learned the needs of the settlers, and had wit- 
 
Ancestkal Records and Portraits 339 
 
 nessed their oppression. The representations he made 
 to the London Company created a great conflict in the 
 management of its affairs. The Court party was de- 
 feated, Governor Argall was recalled, Yeardley was 
 knighted and made Governor-General in ArgaU's stead. 
 He returned to Jamestown in 1619, with his Commis- 
 sion. Among its provisions was one granting to the col- 
 onists the right to have a share in governing themselves, 
 and to that end it was provided that they should hold an 
 Assembly once every year, " whereat were to be pres- 
 ent the Governor and Council and two Burgesses from 
 each plantation, said Burgesses to be elected by the 
 inhabitants thereof, the Assembly to have power to 
 make and ordain whatever laws and orders were neces- 
 sary and good for the Colony." The Commission 
 was issued in London on the 28th day of November, 
 1618. That night a flaming comet appeared in the 
 heavens and was considered an ill omen. It was vis- 
 ible until the 26th day of December, and the supersti- 
 tion of the times prevented the sailing of the expedi- 
 tion until the comet had disappeared. Yeardley set 
 sail on the 29th of January, 1619, more than a year 
 before the sailing of the Mcnyflower. Acting under the 
 authority of his commission he called an Assembly to 
 meet on the 30th day of July of that year at James- 
 town. This was the first Legislative Assembly held 
 in America and ante-dated all others by some fifteen 
 years. The largest building in Jamestown was the 
 Episcopal Church, a wooden structure about sixty feet 
 long, and twenty-four feet wide, and it was there that 
 the Assembly was held. On this day the Governor, 
 accompanied by the members of the Council of State 
 and escorted by a guard dressed in the Governor's 
 livery, went to the meeting. The Assembly was form- 
 
340 Ancestkai. Records and Poktkaits 
 
 ally organized, and at once entered upon the perform- 
 ance of the work." 
 
 In 1627 Sir George Yeardley died, leaving a will 
 by which he bequeathed one-third of his estate to his 
 widow, Lady Temperance Yeardley, one-third to his 
 son Argall Yeardley, and one-third to his daughters, 
 Elizabeth and Frances Yeardley. 
 
 Colonel Argat.t. Yeaedley, his son, sailed for Rot- 
 terdam in his own vessel in 1649, carrying a cargo of 
 tobacco raised by himself. After transacting his busi- 
 ness, he returned to his Virginia home bringing with 
 him a bride, who was Ann, the daughter of John and 
 loane Custis of Rotterdam. His boat dropped anchor 
 before his house, where it is said Argall and his new 
 wife entertained lavishly. He was a member of the 
 Council 1644, and also a Colonel of Militia of the 
 Eastern Shore of Virginia. He died intestate. 
 
 Captain Argall Yeardley^ II., his son, was Cap- 
 tain of Militia of Virginia, and High Sheriff of North- 
 ampton County." He married, 1678, Sarah, the 
 daughter of John and Elizabeth (Thoroughgood) 
 Michael. Their daughter, Frances, married Major 
 John West, whose daughter, Sarah West, married 
 Isaac Smith I. 
 
 SCARBOROUGH 
 
 Abus: Or, a chevron, betvoeen three towers gvXes. 
 Chest: Out of a mmral coronet gules, a dejiU^lion or, holdinff upon 
 the point of a lance of the first, a Saracen's head, ppr., wreathed asmre. 
 
 i« See Account of the meeting of the first legislative Assembly held in 
 America, in Report of American Bist. Association. By W. W. Henry, 
 of Richmond, Va. 
 
 17 Northampton Co., Va. Bees. Vol. VI. 
 Va. Carolorwm, pp. 180-225. 
 Palmer's Va. State Papers. Vol. I, p. 13. 
 Hening's Statutes, Vol. I, p. 179. 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Poeteaits 341 
 
 Captain Edmund Scaeboeough, the son of Henry- 
 Scarborough of North Walsham, Norfolk County, 
 came to this country, bringing his wife Hannah, and 
 his son Edmund. He was Commissioner of Accomac 
 County, Va., and a member of 
 the Board of Justices, 1632, 
 and of the House of Burgesses 
 from 1628 to 1630/® He died 
 1634, leaving two sons, Charles 
 and Edmund Scarborough. Sir 
 Charles was educated at Caiu's 
 College, Cambridge, and was 
 physician to Charles II., James 
 II. and William I. He was 
 knighted 1669, a member of Par- Scarborough 
 liament, and died 1639; buried at Cranford, Middlesex. 
 
 Colonel Edmund Scaeboeough, was of Northamp- 
 ton County, and for many years one of the most useful 
 men in Virginia.^* He was Burgess 1642 to 1671, the 
 year of his death; Surveyor-General of the colony from 
 1655 to 1671, and Speaker of the House, 1645; High 
 Sheriff 1660 to 1661, and frequently Justice. He 
 gave to Hungars Church one thousand acres of land.*" 
 This church, the third erected in Northampton County, 
 was built in 1680, of brick made and burnt just behind 
 the church, where are still the remains of the old kihi. 
 He married Mary, the daughter of Stephen Chael- 
 TON^ who was a member of the House of Burgesses 
 1644, 1645, and 1647,''^ and they had several children, 
 
 isHening's Statutes, pp. 203-289. 
 County Bees. Vol. I, 1632-1640. 
 
 19 Hayden's Va. Oenealogies, p. 439. \ 
 Va. Carolormm, p. 301. 
 
 20 Va. Carolorvm, pp. 186-198. 
 
 21 Hening's Statutes, Vol. I, pp. 289-340. 
 
342 
 
 Ancestral Recoeds and Poetraits 
 
 ajtnong them Matilda, who married John West I., and 
 Tahitha, who married first, William Smart, and third, 
 John Custis II. 
 
 NELSON 
 
 Abms: Per pale argent and sable a chevron between three fleur-de-lis 
 countercharged. 
 
 Cbest: a cubit arm quarterly, argent and sable, holding in the hand 
 proper a fleur-de-lis per pale of the first and second. 
 
 An ancestor of the Teackle family, Thomas Nelson, 
 or Neylson, of York, Mterchant of the Staple, was 
 Lord Mayor of York, 1454 to 1465. His will was 
 proved March 22, 1484-85. 
 
 One of the Lord Mayor's direct 
 descendants, by loane his wife, was 
 William Nelson of the city of York, 
 whose son, William Nelson, of Bel- 
 fast, County York, married Elinor 
 Oglethorpe of that place. Their 
 son, William Nelson, was of Be- 
 dale. County York, and his son, 
 Robert Nelson, of Barnard's Inn, 
 Jjondon, was buried at St. Dun- 
 stan's on the West, December 21, 
 1641; will proved 1642. He mar- 
 
 nelson ried Helen . 
 
 Their son, Robert Nelson, ad- 
 mitted to Gray's Inn March 11, 1630, will proved Au- 
 gust 4, 1698, married Mary, the daughter of Sir John 
 Temple, of Staunton Bury, Knt., and sister of Sir 
 Thomas Temple, Bart., Governor of Nova Scotia. 
 Their only daughter Margaret, heiress by will to her 
 brother, married the Rev. Thomas Teackle. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 343 
 
 ARMS OF TEMPLE 
 Anns: Quarterly, first and fourth or, an eagle displayed sable; second 
 and third argent two bars sai>le, each charged with three martlets, or. 
 Ceest: On a ducal coronet or, a martlet gold. 
 
 TEACKLE 
 
 The Reverend Thomas Teackle, was born in 
 Gloucestershire, Eng., 1624, and came to America in 
 1656, on account of persecution by Cromwell. On the 
 restoration of Charles II. he received from the Crown 
 a grant of a large tract of land in Accomac County, 
 Va., called " Craddock." It remained in his family 
 imtil sold in 1810. He was an Episcopal clergyman, 
 and founded a church in this county, of which he was 
 the rector for many years. He married first, Isabella 
 Douglas, in 1658;^^ married second, Margaret, the 
 
 22 County Bees. 16S7-168S, p. 111. 
 
344 ANCESTRAii Records and Poetbaits 
 
 daughter of Robert and Mary (Temple) Nelson of 
 London. He died January 25, 1695, at his country 
 seat, " Craddock." A son of the second marriage: 
 
 John Teackm:, of " Craddock," was born Septem- 
 ber 2, 1693, and died at Yorktown, Va., December 3, 
 1721, in which year he was a member of the House of 
 Burgesses. He married, November 2, 1710, Susannah^ 
 the daughter of Arthur and Sarah (Browne) Upshur.''* 
 
 Their son, Thomas Teackle II., was born November 
 11, 1711, and died July 20, 1769, at " Craddock." He 
 had a grant of three thousand acres of land. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth, the daughter of Judge John Custis 
 IV., and Ann Upshur, his wife. Their daughter, Eliz- 
 abeth Custis TeacklCj married Isaac Smith II. 
 
 DENWOOD 
 
 Levin (Living) DenwooDj''* the colonist, married 
 Mary . (See pp. 149, 481-482.) 
 
 Their daughter Susannah, married Thomas, the son 
 of John and Ursula Brown. 
 
 Their daughter Sarah Brown, married Abthub, Up- 
 SHUB 11. 
 
 Their daughter Susannah Upshur, married John 
 Teackue. 
 
 Their son, Thom,as Teackle II., married Elizabeth 
 Custis. 
 
 BROWN-UPSHUR 
 
 John Brown appears first in the records of North- 
 ampton County, Va., in 1683. He is mentioned in 
 
 23 Henlngs Statutes. 
 
 2*JBec». Norfham/pton County., "Vols. I and VII; Vol. XVI, p. 16. 
 Keith's Provincial Councillors of Va., pp. 128, 129. 
 
Ancesteal Records and Portbaits 345 
 
 Hotten's list as living on Hog Island, February 10, 
 1623. He owned large tracts of land, and was highly 
 respected in the colony. November 14, 1645, he re- 
 ceived a grant of one hundred and fifty acres of land, 
 and another grant September 15, 1647, and one of 
 six hundred and fifty acres on July 4, 1652.*^ He also 
 owned one thousand two hundred and sixty-two acres 
 in addition. John Brown died in 1655. His will was 
 written August 26, 1654, and recorded March 15, 
 
 1655.^® His wife, believed to have been Ursula 
 
 (although no evidence has been found ^''), survived him. 
 Issue: Johni, Thomas, Stephen, Elizabeth, Sarah, 
 Mary. John and Stephen died without issue. 
 
 The second son, Thomas Brown, married Susannah, 
 the daughter of Levin Denwood I. 
 
 Their daughter Sarah, married Arthur Upshur II. 
 the son of Arthur and Mary (Clark) Upshur, who had 
 a gi'ant of three thousand acres of land. 
 
 Their daughter, Susannah Upshur, married John 
 Teackle. 
 
 Their son, Thomas TeacJele II., married Elizabeth 
 Custis. 
 
 CUSTIS 
 
 In Rotterdam, Germany, in the middle of the seven- 
 teenth century, lived John Custis and his wife loane. 
 Of their seven children, four came to America, viz.: 
 Ann, John, William, Joseph. Ann came to Virginia 
 as the wife of Colonel Argall Yeardley, and her 
 three brothers followed. The elder: 
 
 2B Northampton Co. Bees. Vol. iu, p. 102; Vol. iv, p. 86. 
 Virginia GaroVrii/m. 
 
 26 Northampton Co. Bees. Vol. V, p. 86. 
 
 27 Northampton Co. Bees. Vol. Vli, p. 69, May 29, 1656. 
 
346 
 
 Ancestkal Recobds and Poeteaits 
 
 Major-Generai. John Custis II. (1630-1696), 
 called "of Arlington," was Sur- 
 veyor-General of Virginia 1662; 
 Major-General of Militia 1675, 
 and a member of the Council the 
 same year.^* The inscription on 
 his tombstone at " Arlington," near 
 Cape Charles, Northampton 
 County, on the eastern shore of 
 Virginia (from which place "Ar- 
 Ungton" on the Potomac derived 
 i^s name) , reads as follows: 
 
 Cy UsX Xo 
 
 Here lies the Body of 
 JOHN CUSTIS, ESQ., one of the 
 
 Councill and. Major Crenarall of 
 
 Virginia who departed this life ye 
 
 39th of January 1696 aged 66 years 
 
 And by his side a son and daugter 
 
 Of his Grandson John Custis whom 
 
 He had by the daughter of 
 
 Daniel Parke Esq. Capt. Generall 
 
 And Chief Governor of the Leeward 
 
 Islands. 
 
 "Virtus Post Funera. 
 
 He married second, Tabitha (Scarborough) Smart, 
 the widow of William Smart. ( She was married f our 
 
 times : First to William Smart, second to Brown, 
 
 third to John Custis II., and fourth to Edward Hill.) 
 Their son: 
 
 Colonel John Custis III., of "Wilsonia" (1653- 
 1713), married first, Margaret, the daughter of John 
 and Elizabeth (Thoroughgood) Michael, and second, 
 Sarah Littleton. The inscription on his tombstone 
 reads as follows : 
 
 28 Hening's Statutes; Northampton Co. Bees. 
 
Ancestbal Records and Portraits 347 
 
 Beneath this Marble Tomb lies ye body 
 
 of the Honorable John Custis, Esq., 
 
 of the City of Williamsburg and Parish of Bruton 
 
 Formerly of Hungars Parish on the Eastern Shore of 
 
 Virginia and the County of Northampton the 
 
 place of his nativity. 
 
 Aged 71 years and yet lived but seven years 
 
 Which was the space of time he kept 
 
 A Bachelor's House at Arlington 
 
 On the Eastern Shore of Virginia. 
 
 This information put on this tomb was by his 
 
 own positive order. 
 
 Wm. Colley, Mason, in Fenchurch Street 
 
 London. Fecit. 
 
 A daughter of the first marriage, Elizabeth Custis, 
 married her cousin Thomas, the son of Edmund and 
 Tabitha (Whittington) Custis. 
 
 Judge John Custis IV., their son, married Ann 
 Upshur, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married Thomas 
 Teackle II. 
 
 This second Custis line was descended from another 
 son of John and loane Custis, of Rotterdam, Ger., 
 viz.: Thomas Custis of Baltimore, Ire., whose son: 
 
 Edmund Custis^ married Tabitha, the daughter of 
 William and Tabitha (Smart) Whittington, their son 
 Thomas CvMis, marrying his cousin Elizabeth, Colonel 
 John Custis' daughter. They thus imited two of the 
 American Custis' lines in their son, Judge John Cus- 
 tis IV., whose daughter Elizabeth married Thomas 
 Teackle II. 
 
 THOROUGHGOOD-MICHAEL 
 
 Captain Adam Thoroughgood (1603-1640), was 
 the son of WilUam and Ann (Edwards) Thorough- 
 good of Norfolk, Coimty, Eng., and brother of Sir 
 John Thoroughgood of Kensington. He married, at 
 St. Anne's, Blackfriars, London, July 18, 1627, Sarah, 
 the daujj-hter of Robert and Anne (Osborne) Offley. 
 Sarah Ofiley was baptized at St. Benet's, London, 
 
348 
 
 Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 AprQ 16, 1609, and died in Virginia, 1675. She mar- 
 ried second, Captain John Gooking, and upon his de- 
 cease she married Colonel Francis Yeardley; but had 
 no issue by second or third marriages. Adam Thor- 
 oughgood was Burgess for Elizabeth City County, 
 1629 to 1632, and a member of the Council of Virginia, 
 and Presiding Justice, in 1637.^* 
 
 Their daughter, Elizabeth, married John Michael, 
 a Commissioner of Northampton County, Va.,*" and 
 Captain of Militia in Virginia. Among others, they 
 had two daughters: Sarah, who married Captain Ak- 
 GAT.T. Yeardley, and Margaret, who married Colonel 
 John Custis III. 
 
 OFFLEY 
 
 Akms: Ardent on a cross pattie flory azure, a lion passamt or, be- 
 tween four Cornish, choughs ppr., beaks and legs, gules. 
 
 Chest: A demv-lion rampant, per pale or and sable collared gules, 
 holding in his paw an olive bramch stalked and leaved vert, frueted or. 
 
 In Staiford, Eng., lived John Ofiley and Margery, 
 his wife, who were the parents 
 of William Offley, twice Mayor 
 of Stafford, who removed to 
 Chester and was alderman of 
 that city, 1517. He had issue 
 by two marriages. His second 
 wife was Elizabeth, the daugh- 
 ter of Wlilliam Rogerson (who 
 died 1519), an alderman of 
 Chester. He had seven children. 
 The eldest child, Robert Of- 
 fley, removed to London and 
 established himself in Grace-church street as a Mer- 
 
 2»Hening's Statutes, Vol. I, pp. 149-187. 
 30 Bees, of Accomac Co. Vol. IX, p. 3. 
 
 OFFLEY 
 
Mary Sloan" 
 Wife of Judge William Frick 
 
 Judge Wiilia^i Frick 
 
 Peter Frick 
 
 Barbara Breidenhart 
 Wife of Peter Frick 
 
Ancesteax. Recoeds and Portbaits 349 
 
 chant of the Staple. He was the executor of his half- 
 brother. Sir Thomas Offley, Knt. Robert was buried 
 April 29, 1596, and his wife, the widow of Nicholas 
 Rose, of London, was buried October 8, 1572. 
 
 Their eldest^ son, Robert Offley, was a Turkey Mer- 
 chant, residing in Grace-church street. He married, 
 February 3, 1588-89, Anne, the daughter of Sir Ed- 
 ward Osborne, Knt., who died 1591, Lord Mayor of 
 London, 1583, and of Anne, his wife, the daughter of 
 Sir William Hewitt, Knt., also Lord Mayor of Lon- 
 don. Anne Osborne's brother. Sir Hewitt Osborne, 
 was the grandfather of the first Duke of Leeds. She 
 was baptized March 25, 1570, and was buried, January 
 14, 1653-54', and her husband, Robert Offley, was buried 
 May 16, 1625. They had six sons and as many daugh- 
 ters. 
 
 One of the daughters, Sarah Offley, married Cap- 
 tain Adam Thoroughgood, and their daughter Eliza- 
 beth, married Captain John Michael^ whose daugh- 
 ters, Sarah and Margaret, by their marriages, con- 
 nected the Thoroughgood and Michael families with 
 those of Yeardley and Custis. 
 
 WHITTINGTON-SMART 
 
 Captain William Whittington^ was a member 
 of the board of County Commissioners 1654, North- 
 ampton County, Va., and Captain of the Militia the 
 same year.^* He was Judge of the Orphan's Court 
 of Northampton County, 1655. His wife was Eliza- 
 beth Weston, Their second son: 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel William Whittington^ 
 was a Major of Militia of Accomac County, Va., 1693, 
 
 SI County Bees. Vol. II, p. 84 94; 1692-I71S, p. 431; Vol. Ill, p. 223. 
 Arch, of Md. Vol. XX, p. 138. 
 
350 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 and Lieutenant-Colonel, 1711. He married Tabitha, 
 the daughter of William and Tabitha (Scarborough) 
 Smart, and their daughter Tabitha, married Edmund 
 
 CUSTIS. 
 
 The colonist, WiUiam Smart, was bom in Bristol, 
 Eng., and his wife was Tabitha, the daughter of Colo- 
 nel Edmund and Mary (Charlton) Scarborough.*'* 
 
 FRICK 
 
 Aems: Argent, a tree in three tiers vert, terraced of the same. 
 Ceest: a garb or, tmo doves argent. 
 
 A Huguenot refugee from the Palatinate, John 
 Conrad Frick, sailed with his wife, Barbara Enten, 
 from Rotterdam in the ship Pennsylvania, landed in 
 Philadelphia September 11, 1732, and became one of 
 the original settlers and founders of Germantown, 
 Penn. 
 
 Their son, Peter Frick, born in Germantown, No- 
 vember 9, 1743, moved to Baltimore town during the 
 heat of the Revolution, and soon took an active part 
 in its aifairs. In 1797, agreeably to an Act of Assem- 
 bly incorporating the city of Baltimore, an election 
 was held by the inhabitants for the purpose of elect- 
 ing councilmen and Mayor, At this election Mr. Frick 
 was elected to represent the foiu-th ward of the city. 
 He married Barbara, the daughter of Doctor John 
 Christopher Breidenhart. 
 
 Their second son, William Frick, was born in Balti- 
 more November 2, 1790. His first public position 
 after several yeai:s' successful practice of the law in the 
 Courts of Maryland, was as State Senator from Balti- 
 more City, that being succeeded by the office of CoUec- 
 
 82 Northampton County Recs. Vol. IV, p. 152. 
 Accomac County, Va. Bees., 1682-1715. 
 
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 2 C/3 
 
AncestrajL Records and Portbaits 351 
 
 tor of the Port for the District of Maryland, by ap- 
 pointment of the President, Andrew Jackson, in 1837. 
 He was subsequently appointed Judge of the Balti- 
 more County Courts, by ex-Governor Francis Thomas, 
 which place he held until he was chosen by his feUoAV- 
 citizens as the first Judge of the Superior Court of 
 Baltimore City, and this post he honorably filled until 
 his death in 1855. He married in 1816, Mary, the 
 daughter of James Sloan, a merchant of Baltimore 
 City. 
 
 SLOAN 
 
 Abms: Ouleg, a sword in 'pale point downwards, blade argent, hilt 
 or, between two boars' heads, couped at the neck of the third. On a chief 
 erminois a lion's passant of the first, between two mascles, sable. 
 
 Cbest: a lion's head erased or^ 
 
 The eldest son of William and Mary ( Sloan) Frick, 
 William Frederick Frick, was bom in 1817. He mar- 
 ried, February 10, 1848, Anne Elizabeth^ the daughter 
 of James and Elizabeth (Donnell) Swan. Their chil- 
 dren were: James Swan, Mary Sloan and Elizabeth 
 Donnell. (See Swan Continued.) 
 
352 Ancesteal Recobds and Poetkaits 
 
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 KEY 
 
 Philip Ket was a member of the Lower House of 
 Assembly for St. Mary's Coimty, 1728 to 1732, 1735 
 to 1738, 1745 an<J 1754, and a member of its Councfl 
 1763 to 1764.*' His wife was Susaimah, daughter of 
 John Gardiner and his wife Mary Boarman. John 
 Gardiner was the son of Richard Gardiner, Judge of 
 the Circuit Court for St. Mary's County, 1681, and 
 Elizabeth Weire his wife, daughter of Major John 
 Weire.^* Richard Gardiner was the son of Luke 
 Gardiner, and was Captain of the Mihtia of Mary- 
 land 1674.*' Mary Boarman was the daughter of Wil- 
 liam Boarman, Major of Militia of Maryland, and 
 Justice of the Circuit Court for St. Mary's County 
 1681, who married Mteiry, daughter of John Jarboe, 
 Lieutenant-Colonel of Militia 1670.'" 
 
 Francis Key, son of Philip, was a member of the 
 Lower House of Assembly of Maryland, 1753. He 
 married Ann Arnold, the daughter of John and Alicia 
 (Arnold) Ross. John Ross was the son of Henry and 
 Jane Ross, and his wife, Alicia, was the daughter of 
 Michael and Ann (Ejiippe) Arnold. 
 
 John Ross Key, son of Francis, was second Lieu- 
 tenant of the Rifle Battalion of Maryland Troops^ 
 which formed part of General Lafayette's command at 
 Yorktown, when Lord ComwaUis surrendered.'^ He 
 married Ann Phoebe Dagworthy Charlton. 
 
 ssBook of Col. Wars, p. 148. 
 
 Arch, of Md., Vol. XIV, p. 107, etc. 
 ^Arch. of Md. Vol. XVII, p. 379. 
 
 Hening's 8tatute», pp. 55, 250. 
 35 Arch, of Md. 1660-75, p. 514. , 
 
 38 76td, Vol. XVII, p. 379; 1661-73, p. 504. 
 S7 Schaffs HUt. of Md. 
 
 Book of Col. Wan, p. 40. 
 
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Ancestral Records and Portraits 353 
 
 Francis Scott Key, their son, the author of " The 
 Star Spangled Banner," ^* lived in Georgetown, D, C, 
 in 1814, and practiced law before t^e Supreme Court, 
 the Courts of Maryland, and the District of Columbia. 
 When the British troops retired from Washington, a 
 squadron of their ships, the fleet then lying at the mouth 
 of the Potomac River, went up the river as far as Alex- 
 andria, compelled the place to surrender and plundered 
 it of tobacco and of whatever they wished. Return- 
 ing to their ships, the army passed through Upper 
 Marlboro, and encamped some miles below the town. 
 At midnight a detachment of troops was sent back 
 there to the house of Doctor Beanes, a prominent physi- 
 cian of the place and an intimate friend of Francis 
 Scott Key, took him prisoner and hurried him to the 
 British camp. Hastening to Georgetown, some of the 
 Doctor's friends requested Mr. Key to obtain permis- 
 sion of the Government to go under a flag of truce to 
 the Admiral's ship and seek the release of Doctor 
 Beanes before the fleet sailed. This mission was read- 
 ily undertaken; the President promptly gave his sanc- 
 tion, and ordered a vessel to be made ready without de- 
 lay, and also directed that John S. Skinner, agent for 
 the Government for flags of truce and exchange of 
 prisoners, should accompany Mr. Key. They found 
 the British fleet at the mouth of the Potomac prepar- 
 ing for an expedition against Baltimore. 
 
 After considerable negotiation the release of Doctor 
 Beanes was effected. Mr. Key was informed, how- 
 ever, that none of the party would be allowed to leave 
 the fleet for some days, until the attack on Baltimore 
 was over. He and Mr. Skinner were then transferred 
 
 38 See volume of Key's Poem, with introductory chapter by Chief -Jus- 
 tice Taney, of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
354 Ancestral Records and Poeteaits 
 
 to the British frigate Surprise, on which vessel they 
 were detained until the fleet reached the Patapsco, and 
 until preparations were completed for landing the 
 troops. They were then transferred to their own ves- 
 sel and kept under a guard. By chance their boat was 
 anchored in a position which enabled them to see the 
 flag at Fort McHenry. The bombardment soon be- 
 gan and lasted until late into the night. Mr. Key 
 anxiously paced the deck, watching each shell, for while 
 the bombardment continued it was proof that the fort 
 had not surrendered. Suddenly, before daylight, the 
 firing ceased, and his suspense and anxiety was intense, 
 waiting for the coming day. When light did come, 
 he saw to his great delight that " Our flag was still 
 there." When the British troops had reembarked he 
 and Mr. Skinner were permitted to return to Baltimore. 
 
 During the bombardment, he made notes of the 
 poem on the back of an old letter that happened to be 
 in his pocket. On reaching his hotel in Baltimore, he 
 wrote it out as it now stands. In less than an hour after 
 it was placed in the printer's hands, the poem was being 
 universally read, and took the place of a national 
 song.'® 
 
 Francis Scott Key married Mary Tayloe, the 
 daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Tayloe) Lloyd, 
 
 Philip Barton Key^ their son, married ElUn, the' 
 daughter of James and Elizabeth (Donnell) Swan. 
 Children: Elizabeth Swan, and Mary. (See Swan 
 Continued.) 
 
 LLOYD 
 
 Edward Lloyd I., of Wye House, was born in 
 Wales, and came to America, where he resided in Vir- 
 
 38 Schaffs HUt. of Md. 
 
"Wit House," Tat hot Co., Md. 
 Tlie honicstciul of the Lloyd family 
 
 "Mt. Airy/' Richmond Co., Va. 
 The homestead of the Tayloe family 
 
Ancestbal Records and Portraits 355 
 
 ginia, from 1637 to 1649, and in Maryland from 1649 
 until 1668, when he returned to London, and died there 
 1695.*" He was Burgess in the Virginia Assembly- 
 from 1637 to 1649, and appointed Commander of the 
 Militia of Anne Arundel County, Md., by Governor 
 Stone, July 30, 1650, and on the 29th of the same 
 month was commissioned to grant patents for land. 
 September 26, 1651, he was made Councillor of the 
 Commonwealth of England; 1658 to 1666, a member 
 * * * of the Upper House of Assembly of Maryland; a 
 Justice of the Peace for Talbot County, 1663, in which 
 capacity he continued to act until his return to England 
 in 1668.*^ He married Alice Crouch. Their son: 
 
 Philemon Lloyd was elected a member of the 
 House of Delegates of Maryland, and made Speaker, 
 holding that position from 1671 to 1674; was first Cap- 
 tain and then Colonel of Militia from 1671. to 1685. 
 He married Henrietta Maria, the daughter of James 
 Neale*^ (and his wife Ann GiU), and the widow of 
 Bennett. She was Maid of Honor to Queen Hen- 
 rietta Maria. (See pp. 548-549 for Neale line.) Their 
 son: 
 
 Governor Edward Lloyd II., was bom at Wye 
 House, February 7, 1670, and resided in Maryland 
 until his death, March 20, 1718, at Wye House, where 
 he is buried. He was commissioned January 16, 1697 
 by Sir Francis Nicholson, (one of the Royal Gover- 
 
 *o Henlng's Statutes, at large. 
 *i Henlng's lat Statutes. 
 
 Bazman's Hist, of Md. 
 
 Biog. Enc. Hist, of Md. §• DUt. of Col. 
 
 McMahon's Eist. of Md. 
 
 Annals of Annapolis. 
 i^Arch. of Md. 
 
 1st Henlng's Statutes, pp. 386, 389. 
 
 Arch, of Md., Vol. I, p. 441; Vol. II, pp. 10, 124, 126. 
 
356 Ancestbal Records and Poeteaits 
 
 nors), as "One of the worshipful Commissioners and 
 Justices of the Peace," and made one of the Quorum, 
 which position he retained until August 19, 1701. A 
 memher of the Upper House of Assemhly January 
 11, 1698; President of the Council 1701; A memher of 
 the Governor's Council 1702, and Royal Governor of 
 Maryland 1701 to 1704, and 1709 to 1714.*^ He mar- 
 ried Sarah, the daughter of Nehemier and Rebecca 
 (Denwood) Covington. 
 
 Edward Lloyd III., their son, was bom May 8,' 
 1711, and resided in Maryland until January 27, 1770, 
 when he died. He is buried at Wye House. He was 
 a member of the Lower House of the General Assem- 
 bly of Maryland, December 15, 1737, and continued 
 a member until 1740; was Councillor of the State of 
 the Commonwealth of England for thirty-two years. 
 The Harrison Papers say: 
 
 " To relate the parts taken by the Honorable Colo- 
 nel Edward Lloyd (III. of the Wye House), in the 
 public affairs of the colony from the time he entered 
 the House of Delegates until he resigned his seat as 
 Councillor on account of ill health, would be to relate 
 the history of Maryland for thirty-two years." 
 
 He was one of the originally appointed Commis- 
 sioners on the part of Maryland to decide the boundary 
 line between Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Com- 
 missioners inet at New Castle November 19, 1760, for 
 the beginning of their operations.** He married Ann, 
 the daughter of John and Barbara (Morgan) Rousby. 
 
 Edward Lloyd IV., their son, was a member of the 
 
 4SMcMahon's Hist, of Md. 
 
 Harrison Papers. 
 ** McMahon's Hi»t. of Md. 
 
 Bazman's Hist, of Md. 
 
 Armah of Amaapotts, 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Portraits 357 
 
 Maryland Assembly 1771 to 1791.*^ He married 
 Elizabeth, the daughter of John and Rebecca (Plater) 
 Tayloe, and their daughter, Mary Tayloe, married 
 Francis Scott Key. 
 
 ROUSBY 
 
 John Rousby was born in England, and emigrated 
 to America, living at Rousby Hall from 1650 to 1685, 
 when he died. He was Clerk of the Upper House of 
 Assembly March 27, 1671, and again October 27, 1671; 
 also member of the Lower House from 1681 to 1683.** 
 He married Barbara, the daughter of Judge Henry 
 Morgan. 
 
 Their daughter Ann, married Edward Lloyd III. 
 In 1645 Judge Henry Morgan came to America from 
 England and lived in Maryland until his death. He was 
 High Sheriif of Kent County 1648; one of the County 
 Commissioners 1654; Judge of the County Court 1650 
 to 1656;*'^ Burgess for Lancaster County 1658 to 1659, 
 and a member of the Council 1663 to 1667. 
 
 BROOKE-ADDISON-PLATER 
 
 Governor Robert Brooke (1602-1655) , the colonist 
 of 1650, was Acting-Governor of Maryland, 1652. 
 ( See pp. 553-554. ) He married first Mary, the daughter 
 of Thomas Baker, Esq., and second, Mary, the daugh- 
 ter of Roger Mainwaring, Bishop of St. David's Eng. 
 
 Major Thomas Brooke, (1632-1676), a son of the 
 first marriage, was a member of the Legislature from 
 Calvert County, 1663-1676, and High Sheriff, 1666- 
 
 *i Arch, of Ma. 
 
 46 Arch, of Md. Vol. VII, pp. 164, 611. 
 
 « Old Kent. 
 
358 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 1673.** He married Eleanor, the daughter of Rich- 
 ard Hatton, and Margaret, his wife. 
 
 Colonel Thomas Brooke (1660-1730), their son, 
 was a member of the Council 1691 to 1707, and Act- 
 ing-Governor in 1720.*® He married Barbara (1676- 
 1754), the daughter of Thomas Dent^ a Burgess from 
 St. Mary's County 1669 to 1674.! Their daughter, 
 Eleanor, married Captain Thomas Tasker, a member of 
 the Maryland Legislature 1692. 
 
 One of their daughters, Elizabeth Tasker, married 
 Colonel Thomas Addison. He was the son of Colo- ¥ 
 NEL John Addison.^" ( See pp. 671-672 for Addison- I 
 Tasker lines.) 
 
 One of the daughters of this marriage, Rebecca Ad- 
 dison, married first, Bowles, and second, George 
 
 Plater II. 
 
 George Plater I., married Ann, the daughter of 
 Thomas Burford, one of the Justices of Charles 
 County Court, and a member of the Quorum, 1681.®^ 
 Their son: 
 
 George Plater II., was a member of the Council 
 of Maryland, 1732. He married Rebecca Addison, fjij 
 and their daughter, Rebecca Plater, married John 
 Tayloe II. 
 
 TAYLOE 
 
 One of the Burgesses of Virginia in 1710, was Wil- 
 liam Tayloe, who married Ann, the daughter of Henry * 
 Corbin, who was a member of the Virginia House of 
 Burgesses 1658 to 1659, and one of the Council from 
 1663 to 1667.'" 
 
 isArch. of Md. 
 iBibid. Vol. XX. 
 
 50 Ibid, Vol. XX, p. IS and 16. 
 
 Life and Times of Col. Diilany Addison. 
 
 51 Arch of Md. 1681, p. 30. 
 
 52 Hayden, p. 86. 
 

 
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Ancestral Records and Portraits 359 
 
 John Tayloe^ son of William, was a member of the 
 Comicil of Virginia, 1756. He married Elizabeth 
 (Gwyn) Lyde, the daughter of Major Hugh Gwyn^ 
 of Essex County, and Catherine Griffith his wife. 
 Major Gwyn was a Justice and County Commissioner 
 in 1699, and a Burgess of Richmond County, 1712. 
 He was the son of Hugh Gwjnn, a Justice of York 
 County 1641, and of Gloucester County 1652.^* 
 
 John Tayloe II., the son of John I., was a mem- 
 ber of the House of Burgesses of Virginia 1774. He 
 married Rebecca, the daughter of George and Rebecca 
 (Addison) Bowles Plater, and their daughter Eliza- 
 beth, married Edward Lloyd IV. 
 
 DOBBIN 
 
 On account of political troubles in Ireland, George 
 Dobbin, of Monagan, Ire., came to America in the lat- 
 ter part of the eighteenth century. He was the son of 
 Archibald Dobbin (Archibald, Robert). He married 
 in Ireland, Mary Commings, September 25, 1759, and 
 died in Baltimore, May 19, 1808. 
 
 Their son, George W- Dobbin, practiced law in 
 Maryland and before the United States Supreme 
 Court until 1867, when he was elected one of the Judges 
 of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. He died 
 in 1891. His wife was Rebecca, the daughter of Ed- 
 ward and Sarah (Rutter) Pue. (Rebecca Pue was 
 descended from the Hill, Denwood and Dorsey fam- 
 ilies.) 
 
 Their son Robert A. Dobbin, was born March 17, 
 1839. He attended school in Baltimore, and later 
 went to the University of Virginia, remaining until the 
 beginning of the war between the states. In 1862, 
 
 63 Ibid. 
 
360 Ancesteal Records and Portbaits 
 
 he joined the Confederate army, and was a private in 
 Company A, of the 3d Virginia regiment of Local De- 
 fense Troops, commanded by General Custis Lee. In 
 February, 1870, he married Elizabeth Swan, the daugh- 
 ter of Philip Barton and Ellen (Swan) Key. Their 
 daughter is Ellen Swan Dobbin, who married, in 
 1901, Frederick Hoppin Rowland, of Providence, 
 R. I. 
 
 HILL-DENWOOD-DORSEY 
 
 Captain Richard Hill, had emigrated to America 
 before August 12, 1673, for on that date a patent of 
 one hxmdred and fifty acres was issued to him. He 
 was a Naval Ofiicer for Anne Arundel Town, 1694 
 to 1696.=* 
 
 His son, Henry Hill, married Mary, granddaughter 
 of Levin Denwood. Their daughter, Priscilla, was 
 born May 9, 1718, and married, February 10, 1735, 
 Caleb Dorsey II, born July 18, 1710, and descended 
 from Colonel John Doesey. See pp. 149, 150, 250, 
 251.) 
 
 Their daughter, Mary Dorsey, married Dr. Michael 
 Pue, whose son Edward, married Sarah Butter. 
 
 PUE-RUTTER 
 
 In 1770, Dr. Michael Pue, an Irish physician, came 
 to America, and practiced his profession in and around 
 Baltimore, dying in 1799. He married Mary, the 
 daughter of Caleb and PrisciUa (HiU) Dorsey. 
 
 Their son, Edward Pue, married Sarah, the daugh- 
 ter of Solomon, and the granddaughter of Lieuten- 
 ant Thomas Ruttee, who was of the Baltimore 
 County Battalion of Infantry, Their daughter, Be- 
 st Areh. of Md. Vol. II, pp. 407, 448, 485. 
 
Ancestral Recobds and Poeteaits 361 
 
 hecca, married George W. Dobbin, whose son Robert 
 A., married Elizabeth Swan Key. 
 
 SWAN {Continued) 
 
 A daughter of James and Elizabeth (Donnell) 
 Swan, Anne Eiizabeth Swan, married, February 10, 
 1848, William, the son of WiUiam and Mary (Sloan) 
 Frick. Children: 
 
 James, married EHse Dana, of Boston. 
 
 Maey SloaNj married first, Robert Garrett, Presi- 
 dent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company; sec- 
 ond. Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs. 
 
 Elizabeth Donnell, married Frank Foster, an Eng- 
 lishman. 
 
 Another daughter of James and Elizabeth (Donnell) 
 Swan, Ellen Swan, married Philip Barton Key. 
 Children: 
 
 MarYj married WiUiam Gihnor (deceased). 
 
 Elizabeth Swam, married Robert A. Dobbin; their 
 daughter is Ellen Swan, wife of Frederick Hoppin 
 Howland. 
 
 Mary Sloan Frick Jacobs^ 
 
 Mary Key Gilmor, 
 
 Ellen Swan Dobbin Howland, 
 
 Josephine Gilmor. Harvey, 
 
 Members of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
362 Ancesteai. Records and Poktraits 
 
 XXIII 
 WOODBRIDGE 
 
 Rev. John Woodbridge II. (1613-1691), of Ox- 
 ford and Newbury, Mass., the son of Rev. John (died 
 1637) and Sarah (Parker) Woodbridge, of Stanton, 
 Eng., was elected Deputy from Newbury to the Gen- 
 eral Court of Massachusetts 1637, 1638, 1640, 1641; 
 Associate Magistrate, County Court of Essex, .1678 
 to 1679.^ He was Chaplain to the Parliamentary Com- 
 mission treating with King Charles I. at Carisbrooke 
 Castle, Isle of Wigjit, 1647. He married, 1639, 
 Mercy, the daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley 
 (1576-1653^), the son of Captain Roger Dudley. 
 (See pp. 214, 266-269.) 
 
 Their son. Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge, married 
 Mary, the daughter of John, and the granddaughter 
 of Rev. Nathaniel Ward. 
 
 Their, son. Rev. Samuel Woodbridge, married, in 
 1707, Mabel, the daughter of Rev. Daniel aijd Mabel 
 (Wyllys) Russell. 
 
 WYLLYS 
 
 Governor George Wyllys (1590-1644) was the son 
 of Richard Wyllys, born in the town of Fenny Comp-" 
 ton, Warwickshire, England. His biographer says: 
 
 " Famed for his social and domestic virtues, his sim- 
 plicity and his love for civil and religious liberty, a dis- 
 tinguished Englishman of means, he had abundance of 
 
 ^Beg. Conn. Soc. Col. Dames. 
 2 Appleton's Cyclopaedia Am. Biog. 
 Oeneal. Diet, of N. E. 
 
HoMK 01 Gov. George Wn.i.Ys, Haktfoiid, Conx. 
 Showing the historic Charter Oak 
 
 Mabel Harlekenden 
 Wife of Gov. John Haynes 
 
 Aems of Gov. Geobce Wyilys 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 363 
 
 time to notice the trend of public affairs, and becoming 
 interested in the Puritan cause he decided to leave Eng- 
 land and to settle amongst the Puritan Colony in Amer- 
 ica. In 1636 he sent his steward, William Gibbons, with 
 twenty men to find an estate in Hartford, Conn., and 
 to erect a suitable mansion for himself and family. This 
 was situated on an eminence overlooking the ' Greate 
 River' (Connecticut), and laid out with flowers, orna- 
 mental shrubberies, a miniature lake and orchards 
 planted with imported fruit trees. Here lived succes- 
 sive generations of distinguished patriots, and their un- 
 broken line of honorable public service is an example of 
 ability and loyalty that Connecticut may well be proud 
 of." 
 
 It was not until two years later that Wyllys himself 
 came to Hartford. One of the original planters of the 
 town, it was on his farm that the famous "Charter 
 Oak" stood, spared, as the legend goes, by the en- 
 treaties of a party of Indians when " Gibbons " would 
 have it cut down. George Wyllys was chosen mag- 
 istrate 1639 and held the position until his death; 
 Deputy-Governor 1641 and Governor 1642. He mar- 
 ried Mary Smith. Their son: 
 
 Samuel Wyllys, was born in England 1632, and 
 died 1709. He was graduated from Harvard College 
 1653; was elected one of the Magistrates of Connecticut 
 1654 under the charter of Charles II. In this office and 
 the corresponding one of Assistant Governor, he was 
 retained by annual election for more than thirty years. 
 The office of Secretary of State was filled by his son, 
 Hezekiah, grandson George II., and great-grandson 
 Samuel Wyllys 11.^ I. W. Stuart remarks, in his " Lives 
 of the Early Governors of Connecticut " : 
 
 s Register of Conn. Society, C. D. A. 
 
364 Ancesteal Recobds and Portraits. 
 
 " It is believed that this instance of the perpetuation 
 of high office in the same family for so long a term of 
 years (nearly a century) is without parallel in this 
 country. 
 
 He married, 1654, Ruth, the daughter of John and 
 Mabel (Harlakenden) Haynes, and their daughter, 
 Mabel, married Rev. Daniel Russell, whose daughter, 
 Mabel, married Rev. Samuel Woodhridge. 
 
 HAYNES 
 
 Governor John Haynes, of. Copford Hall, Essex, 
 Eng. (1594-1653), emigrated to Massachusetts 1633, 
 and was made Governor of the Bay Colony 1635. In 
 1636 he removed to Connecticut, and became its first 
 Governor 1639, serving every alternate year vmtil his 
 death.* On the Haynes memorial gateway at the old 
 burying ground, Hartford, are two tablets. One records 
 in usual form the birth and death of John Haynes, first 
 Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, and the other 
 bears the following tribute : 
 
 " John Haynes, one of the three illustrous Framers of 
 the first written Constitution creating a government 
 upon which were based the principles of American con- 
 stitutional liberty.® 
 
 His second wife was Mabel, the daughter of Richard 
 Harlakenden of Earlscomb Priory, Essex, Eng., 
 " whose descent from the whole line of Enghsh Norman 
 kings is well known to genealogists." Their daughter, 
 Ruth, married Samxjel Wyllys, whose daughter, 
 Mabel, married Rev. Daniel Russell, and their daughter 
 Mabel, married Rev. Samuel Woodbridge. 
 
 « Appleton's Cycl. Am. Biog.; Gen. Vict, of N. E. 
 « Rtg. Conn. Soc. Col. Dames. 
 
Ancesteal Recoeds and Portraits 365 
 WOODBRIDGE (Continued) 
 
 The son of Rev. Samuel and Mabel (Russell) Wood- 
 bridge, Russell Woodbridge, married, in 1741, Anna 
 Olmsted, whose son Deodatus, married, in 1780, Esther 
 Wells. 
 
 WELLS, OR WELLES 
 
 Thomas Wells (1598-1660), the son of Thomas, 
 (a zealous Puritan of London, Eng.), was born in 
 England. He came to this country before 1638, and 
 settled in Hartford,* Conn., where he was a Magistrate 
 from 1637 until his death. He was Treasurer of the 
 Connecticut Colony 1639 to 1651; Secretary 1646 to 
 1648; Moderator of the General Court 1654, and 
 Deputy-Governor the same year ; was elected Governor 
 1655, and again 1658. A writer says: 
 
 " Many of the most important early laws and papers 
 pertaining to the founding of the Colony were drafted 
 by Governor Welles," and he also states that he " pos- 
 sessed the full confidence of the people." "^ 
 
 Historians do not agree as to the exact spot where 
 Governor Welles was buried, but one of the best authori- 
 ties says that he lies " in the rear of the Meeting House 
 in Wethersfield, where the Welles family for many gen- 
 erations are buried." He married Elizabeth Street. 
 They are connected with the Woodbridge family as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Thomas Wells, Jr., married Hannah Little. 
 
 Samuel, married Ruth Judson. 
 
 Captain Samuel, married Esther Ellsworth. 
 
 Colonel Jonathan, married Esther Hills. 
 
 Esther, married Deodatus Woodbridge, whose daugh- 
 ter was Electra. 
 
 8 Appleton'8 Cycl. Am. Biog., etc. 
 7 FamHy Beei. 
 
366 Ancestbal Recobds and PoaTKAITS 
 
 WOODBRIDGE {Ccmtinued) 
 
 The daughter of Deodatus and Esther (Wells) 
 Woodbridge, Electra Woodbridge, married George .| 
 Cheney. 
 
 Their son, George Wells Cheney, married Mary , 
 Cheney, and theii; daughter, Mary E., married John 
 Henry Piatt, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married 
 Francis M. Jencks. 
 
 Elizabeth Platt Jencks, 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
Ancestbal Records and Portbaits 367 
 
 XXIV 
 
 JOHNSTONE 
 
 Abms: 1 Argent, a saltire sable; on a 
 Crest: A winged ipwr or. 
 Motto: Nwnqimm, nan paratus. 
 
 chief gules, three cushions or. 
 
 Archibald Johnston, the first of his family in this 
 country of whom we have record, came to America be- 
 fore 1734 and obtained many grants of land in South 
 Carolina, one of these being one thousand acres in Prince 
 George's Winyah, March 27, 1756.^ The South Caro- 
 lina Gazette, 1763, notices his death, stating that as a 
 planter of indigo he was " one of the first best and most 
 considerable " in the Province. He was appointed by 
 special act of the Legislature one of the Commissioners 
 of Roads in the Peedee and Waccamaw regions, 1756,* 
 and was attorney for Sir Nathaniel Tragagle, 1760, as 
 shown by an old deed signed by the latter. He married 
 
 i Arms used by William Johnston, born 1776. 
 
 2 Book of Grants in State House, Columbia, S. C. 
 
 3 Stats, of S. C, p. 182. 
 
368 Ancesteax Recobds and Poeteaits 
 
 Esther, daughter of William Alston and Esther La 
 Bruce de Marboeuf (Huguenot), and died December 
 13, 1763, leaving issue: Andhew^ William, Esther, and 
 Archibald. 
 
 ALSTON 
 
 The founder of this South Carolina family, John 
 Alston, the ancestor of a long line of lawyers and 
 statesmen, was the son of William Alston, Gentle- 
 man, of Hammersmith, Middlesex, 
 Eng., and came to America in 1682. 
 He had grants of land,* 1734, 1736, 
 1739, 1769, in Colleton County.' 
 Among the descendants of John 
 Alston are, Governor R. F. W. Al- 
 ston; Governor Joseph Alston, who 
 married Theodosia Burr; the artist, 
 Washington Alston; Captain Jo- 
 seph Blythe Alston, of the Confed- 
 erate army, lawyer, poet, and war- 
 rior; and others, whose names are prominent in the 
 history of the nation. He married, 1695, Elizabeth 
 (Turgis) Harris, the sister of Francis Turgis, Esq., of 
 Ringwood, Hampshire, Eng., who was a Member 
 of the Carolina Commons House of AssemblJl?, 
 1695. 
 
 Their eldest son, William Alston, who died 1744, 
 married, in June, 1721, the beautiful Esther Margaret 
 (bom October 12, 1702), daughter of Dr. Joseph La 
 
 * B. C. Hist. Mag.; Pedigree from Bible owned by Benjamin Allston, 
 Esq. 
 
 sBook of Grants, State House, Columbia, S. C, and Colonial Beo- 
 ordi of North Carolina, Vol. iv, p. 767. Land in Edgecomb 1350 acres, 
 in ChowoB 1745, 400 acres. 
 
 ALSTON 
 
WiLI-IArvr JOHXSTONE 
 
 At the age of 19 
 
 AxDREW JOIIXSTONE 
 
 From a ininature bv Charles Fraser 
 
 Col. William Rhett 
 From a pastel probably by Hen- 
 rietta Johnson 
 
 John Rutledge 
 
Ancestrai. Recoeds and Pokteaits 369 
 
 Bruce Marboeuf , son of Julian la Bruce de Marboeuf * 
 (Huguenot) and his wife, Esther Robin, of Bretagne, 
 France. 
 
 Their daughter Esther, born July 7, 1726, at Wacca- 
 maw, her father's plantation in Carolina, was married 
 by Rev. E. C. Keith, to Akchibald Johnston.'^ 
 
 JOHNSTONE (Continued) 
 
 Andbew Johnstok, bom 1748, was the eldest son 
 of Archibald and Esther (Alston) Johnston. May 2, 
 1770, he received a grant of a thousand acres, Craven 
 County, S. C. His death occurred January 19, 1795, 
 and he appointed in his will, dated February 28, 1792, 
 his "esteemed friend William Washington" (cousin of 
 the President) one of his executors. He married, Feb- 
 ruary 25, 1773, in Charleston, Sarah Elliott, daughter 
 of Robert and Mary (Elliott) McKewn, who was 
 born February 26, 1Y56, and died July, 1817. Issue: 
 
 Esther Ainslee, born September 25, 1774; married 
 R. F. Withers. 
 
 William. 
 ■ Robert McKewn, died aged two years. 
 
 Archibald, died in infancy. 
 
 The eldest son, William Johnston, born September 
 22, 1776, and died August 9, 1840, married, Decem- 
 ber 5, 1797, Anna Maria, daughter of Hopson and 
 Eliza (Cannon) Pinckney, bom November 3, 1778, 
 and died August 25, 1853. They are said to have been 
 the first couple married in this country by a Bishop — 
 
 6 Mrs. E. C. La Bruce of Greorgetown, S. C, has among her old pa- 
 pers a grant of land to Joseph P. La Bruce by George II, with seal 
 attached. There was also a grant of 60O acres to the same Joseph, in Wac- 
 camaw, June 16, 1733. Also another grant August 2S, 1733. "Vol. A. A., 
 p. 178, Book of Oromti, State House, Columbia, S. O. 
 
 1 From S. C. Hist. Mfig. and Bible at McKewn Johnstone, May 20, 
 1789. 
 
370 Ancestkal Records and Portraits 
 
 Bishop Robert Smith performing the ceremony and 
 presenting the bride with a ring (a hoop of diamonds) 
 in commemoration of the event. The year of her mar- 
 riage, Anna Maria Pinckney received a grant of land 
 in South Carolina.* Issue: 
 
 Andrew. 
 
 Anna Maria, married William Maxwell. 
 
 McKewn, married Martha Webb. 
 
 Pinckney, married Harriet Pringle. 
 
 Francis Withers, married Eleanor Simons. 
 
 Emma, married Simon Lucas. 
 
 Eliza, unmarried. 
 
 McKEWN 
 
 The first of the name in Carolina, Robert McKewn, 
 married Elizabeth Lewis, born in Worcestershire, Eng., 
 1672. 
 
 Their son, Robert McKewn II, was born 1698; mar- 
 ried Susannah Hackett, a Scotch girl, and died October 
 1, 1767. 
 
 Their son, Robert McKewn III, born November 
 30, 1726, was appointed one of the Conmiittee for 
 building a new church " to be the Parish Church of St. 
 Pauls." ' There is a record of a grant _of five hundred 
 and fifty acres to him, Colleton County, S. C, June 20, 
 1754.'" He died December 16, 1764, and in his will, 
 dated December 13, he bequeaths amon^ other things 
 "a wax doll." He married, March 1, 1753, Mary 
 Elliott, born February 28, 1735, and died June 25, 1769; 
 a daughter of Thomas and Susanna (Wright) Elliott 
 of Stono. 
 
 8 State House Recs. 
 
 8 Dalcho's Church Hist. 
 
 10 State Bees., Columbia, S. C, Book vi, p. 7. 
 
Ancestkat. Recobds akd Portraits 371 
 
 Their daughter, Sarah Elliott McKewn, married 
 Andrew Johnstone. 
 
 The father of Mary (Elliott) McKewn, Thomas 
 Elliott, was horn January 15, 1699, and died 1760; his 
 wife, Susannah Wright, was born 1711, and died 1742, 
 and they were married 1727. This marriage was traced 
 through the Wright arms on an old snuif-box, belong- 
 ing to Thomas Elliott of Stono. 
 
 PINCKNEY 
 
 Abms: Or poe lozenges in fesse gules. 
 
 Cbest: Out of a ducal coronet or, a Orion's Head ppr. 
 
 Motto: Non nobis solum. 
 
 These are the arms of the Pinckneys of Rushall, Wilt- 
 shire, Eng., and of the Roger Pinckney family of South 
 Carolina whose line descends from William Pinckney, 
 of Rushall, Wiltshire; born 1519, 
 died 1591, and married Agnes 
 Page. 
 
 Their son, William Pinckney 
 II., was born 1552; married 
 Catherine , 
 
 Their son, William Pinckney 
 III., was born 1591, died 1658; 
 
 married Joan , who died zhsez^ssc-.-.v^siv^x 
 
 1672. 
 
 Their son, Roger Pinckney, pinckney 
 
 was born 1631, and died 1705; married Barbara , 
 
 who died 1680. 
 
 Their son, Roger Pinckney II, was born 1664, and 
 
 died 1730; married Ann , who died 1743; both are 
 
 buried in Sarum Cathedral, Eng. 
 
 Their son, Roger Pinckney III, was born 1696; died 
 September 22, 1774; married Anna Maria Loake; they 
 are buried in Peterborough Cathedral, Eng. 
 
372 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 ' The colonist, Roger Pinckney IV, came to America, 
 and was followed by his brother: 
 
 HoPSON Pinckney," bom in England 1749, and 
 died February 4, 1794, was a Deputy from St. Thomas, 
 S. C, 1777." He married second, January 21, 1777, 
 Elizabeth^ the daughter of Daniel and Martha (Winn) 
 Cannon; born 1752, and died January 13, 1787. 
 
 Their daughter, Anna Maria, married William John- 
 ston. 
 
 CANNON 
 
 Daniel Cannon/* bom July 10, 1726, married first 
 March 8, 1749, Martha Winn. He resided in Charles- 
 ton for sixty years, and was a Member of the first Pro- 
 vincial Congress of South Carolina 1775, Captain of 
 " Cannon's Volunteers " and one of the signers against 
 the Stamp Act, at the "Liberty Tree," Charleston,! 
 1776. The Carolina Gazette, October 7, 1802, contains , 
 a lengthy eulogy on Daniel Cannon. He was a Ves- 
 tryman of St. Philip's church for thirty years and up- 
 wards. I 
 
 His daughter, Elizabeth, married Hopson Pinck- i| 
 
 NEY. 
 
 JOHNSTONE {Continued) 
 The eldest son of William and Aiina Maria (Pinck- 
 
 11 This pedigree from William Pinckney, of Rushall, born 1S19, to 
 Hopson, born 1749, is taken from the family record of the late Lady 
 Henry B-rudenell Bruce, Marchioness of Aylesbury, nte Geor^ana ' 
 Pinckney, and from papers in possession of the family of Henry Pinck- 
 ney Walker, Esq., for fifty years Her Majesty's Consul in Charleston, 
 S. C and whose sister, Sarah, married Judge Winslow of Crake Hall, 
 Eng., whose mother was a Pinckney, Mary, also Lady Roxburgh, both 
 dead. From Mrs. H. P. Walker. Letter dated 1894. 
 
 12 State House Recs. 
 
 IS The Cannons were originally from Wales, and their crest was a 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Pokteaits 373 
 
 ney) Johnston, Andrew Johnstone^ was born March 17, 
 1805. He inherited large plantations on the Santee 
 River, South Carolina, his home " Annandale " being 
 the centre of hospitality in that vicinity. He had also 
 a home in the mountains of North Carolina, "Beau- 
 mont" near AsheviUe, and a house on the seashore at 
 South Island. He married first, Sophia Clarkson, 
 issue: one son, WiUiam; married, second, Mary Bam- 
 well, daughter of William and Ann Hutchinson 
 (Smith) EUiott, of Beaufort, S. C. She was born 
 August 27, 1824, in the old house at Beaufort, and was 
 married at the age of twenty-four. 
 
 "When but fifteen she accompanied her father and 
 older sister Ann, to Philadelphia, where their portraits 
 were painted, in 1889, by Sully then in the zenith of his 
 fame, who had just completed a picture of Queen Vic- 
 toria. His ' Kit-Kat,' or three-quarter length portrait 
 of Mary Barnwell EUiott, represents a young girl of a 
 distinctly Southern type. Sully had earher painted the 
 portraits of her father and his two sisters — Mrs. 
 Charles Coatsworth Pinckney, and Miss Mary Elliott 
 — the two latter being in possession of Miss Pinckney, 
 of Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Johnstone died in Balti- 
 more, Md., March 4, 1909." Issue: 
 
 WiUiam EUiott, married Sarah Lenox MiUs. 
 
 Annie, died young. 
 
 Mary, married Edward Livingston Thompson, of 
 Maryland. 
 
 Emma Elliott. 
 
 Frances, married William Dent, of Maryland. 
 
 Edith, married Robert Habersham Coleman, of 
 Lebanon, Penn. 
 
374 AsrcESTKAL Records and Pokteaits 
 
 ELLIOTT 
 
 Abms: 1* Aaure, a fesse or. 
 
 Cbest: a griffin's head cooped, wingg endorsed sable. 
 
 Motto: Virtute spenUt victa. 
 
 Thomas Elliott son of Joseph Elliott, who died 
 1697, came to America with his brothers John and Wil- 
 liam. He acquired large possessions in Carolina, nu- 
 merous grants being recorded in the 
 Book of Grants, State House, Co- 
 lumbia, and left estates to his chil- 
 dren. He was a Member of the As- 
 sembly of Carolina 1696, at which 
 time he had grants on the Stone 
 River, and was one of the Gov- 
 ernor's Council, 1720, dying 1731. 
 He was twice married, first to 
 ELLIOTT j^^j,^^ ^j^g daughter of Gov. Rob- 
 
 ert GiBBES. Issue, first wife: 
 Thomas. 
 William. 
 Joseph. 
 
 Ann, married Saunders. 
 
 Elizabeth, married Butler. 
 
 Martha, married, March 14, 1726, Fairchild. 
 
 The second child, William Elliott, was born May 31, 
 1703, and died before 1731, the date of his father's death. 
 
 He married Elizabeth Issue: 
 
 William II. 
 
 Stephen, died in Jamaica. 
 
 Elizabeth, married George Parsons. 
 
 Mary, married Clay, of Georgia. 
 
 William Elliott II, was bom in Charleston, S. C, 
 and died in Beaufort, S. C, 1774. 
 
 14 From Bookplate of Lt. Col. Barnard Elliott, died 1778. Letter of 
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 He had grants on the Ogeechee River in Georgia 
 1751 , which are still held in the family. Was a Member 
 of the Assembly of Carolina ^^ 1739, to fill the place of 
 Nathaniel Barnwell, who went to Ireland for a short 
 time. He married, first. Miss Mulryne, no issue; sec- 
 ond, 1760, Mary Gibbes, the daughter of JSTathaniel and 
 Mary (Gibbes) Barnwell; born April 11, 1745; third, 
 Mrs. Savage, nee Clay, of Georgia. Issue, second wife: 
 
 William III. 
 
 Stephen, married Esther Habersham. 
 
 Ralph Emms, married Miss Clay, and was the ances- 
 tor of the following notable people: Stephen Elliott, 
 Bishop of Georgia; Robert W. Eliott, Bishop of Texas; 
 R. W. Barnwell, Bishop of Alabama; William Boone, 
 Jr., Bishop of China; Rev. John H. Elliott of Wash- 
 ington, a parliamentarian in the Episcopal church; 
 Rev. Stephen Barnwell; Rev. W. H. Barnwell; Gen. 
 Stephen ElKott, Commander of Fort Sumter during the 
 Civil War; Hon. WiUiam Elliott, Senator from South 
 Carolina, and many leading men of that State. 
 
 The eldest son, WiUiam Elliott III, was born in 
 Beaufort, S. C, 1761, and died 1808. When very 
 young he fought in the Revolutionary war as an officer, 
 and at the surprise on John's Island was dangerously 
 wounded, taken prisoner and immured in the prison ship 
 The Pack Horse. After the war he served in both 
 branches of the State Legislature.^® He introduced Sea 
 Island cotton in America after the Revolution. He 
 married 1787, Phoehe, the daughter of William and 
 Phoebe (Jenkins) Waight, of John's Island, who was 
 born in 1771. Her miniature was painted by Malbone 
 
 IS state Bees. Col., S. C. ; Papers of Mrs. Frank Hampton, Miss Isa- 
 bel Johnstone and Miss Elliott. 
 
 10 Diet, of Am. Biog. Was In the Convention of 1788, St, Helena. 
 
376 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 in 1799. She was descended from John Ladson. 
 Issue : 
 
 William IV. 
 
 Carolina, married C. C. Pinckney. 
 
 Mary. 
 
 Ralph, married Miss Mackay. 
 
 Stephen, married Miss Habersham; second, the 
 widow Barnwell, nee DeSaussure. 
 
 George Parsons, married Bower Barnwell. 
 
 The eldest son, William Elliott IV, was born April 
 27, 1788, and died in 1863. He was educated at Har- 
 vard College, where he formed friendships that with- 
 stood all the bitterness of the Civil War, and became 
 a planter, a statesman, owned a fine library and trav- 
 elled extensively. He represented the United States, 
 as commissioner, at the Paris Expositon of 1855. 
 He was the author of many poems, political articles, and 
 volumes of interest, his Carolina Sports, being much 
 read in England as well as in this country. He was 
 Intendant of Beaufort at the time of Lafayette's visit 
 to Carolina (1824) , and entertained him. Later he was 
 a member of the State Senate. 
 
 May 23, 1817, he married Anne Hutchinson, the 
 daughter of Thomas Rhett and Anna Rebecca ( Skirv- 
 ing) Smith. She was an heiress, born April 5, 1802,. 
 and died February 23, 1877. They passed the sum- 
 mers in Beaufort, and the winters at their planta- 
 tions. MrSi. Elliott, after her husband's death, lived 
 at her plantation, " Oak Lawn," in -Colleton County, 
 until the historic homestead was burned by Sherman, 
 during the Civil War. In William Elliott's will he 
 leaves his " OAvn miniature to daughter Mary, and the 
 miniature of my mother, by Malbone, and bequeathedi 
 to me by her, I give to my daughter Anne." Issue: 
 
William, died young. 
 
 Thomas Rhett Smith, married Mary Cuthbert. 
 
 Anne Hutchinson. 
 
 Mary Barnwell, married Andrew Johnstone. 
 
 William. 
 
 Caroline. 
 
 Emily. 
 
 Ralph Emms. 
 
 Harriet Rutledge, married General Ambrose Jose 
 Gongales. 
 
 Of the eight heroines of the Revolution, three were 
 Elliotts by birth, viz.: Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Savage 
 and Mrs. Ferguson; and two by marriage, viz.: Mrs. 
 Charles and Mrs. Barnard Elliott." 
 
 The brother of William Elliott III., Ralph Elliott, 
 built a beautiful house at Beaufort, about 1788, leaving 
 it at his death to his eldest nephew, William Elliott IV. 
 The northern army, occupying Beaufort after the Civil 
 War, used this old homestead as a Club House, and it 
 was later bought by Admiral Beardsley, of the U. S. 
 Navy, whose widow now occupies it." 
 
 LADSON 
 
 John Ladson came to Carolina from the Barbadoes 
 1679, in company with Sir John Yeamans. He was a 
 Member of the Assembly 1683, and concerned in the 
 affairs of the colony from 1691 to 1697. He received a 
 grant of land from the lords proprietors, September 
 14, 1682. His wife was Mary, the daughter of 
 Colonel James Stanyarne, a member of the Carolina 
 Assembly of 1692, and the Governor's Council of 1693.** 
 
 Their daughter, Phoebe Ladson, (1691-1764), mar- 
 
 17 McCrady's Sist. of 8. C, Vol. ii, p. 359. 
 
 18 Journal of Orand Council. 
 
378 Ancesteai. Records and Pokteaits 
 
 ried John Chaplin, who had a grant on the Stono River, 
 S. C, 1682." 
 
 Their daughter, Phoebe Chaplin^ (1718-1794), mar- 
 ried, 1735, Joseph Jenkins, the son of Joseph Ap Jan- 
 kin, and Martha, his wife. Joseph Jenkins, the 
 younger, founded the first Episcopal church on Edisto 
 Island, 1760, giving large sums to its establishment. 
 Joseph, Sr., always signed his name "Ap Jankin." 
 His two grants of land called " Sea Cloud," and " Bleak 
 Hall," descended to the Townsends, through their 
 mother, Phoebe Waight Jenkins. (Mrs. Frank Hamp- 
 ton's Records.) 
 
 A daughter of Joseph, Jr., Phoebe Jenkins, (1743- 
 1816), married William Waight. 
 
 Their daughter, Phoebe Waight, married William 
 Elliott III. 
 
 BARNWELL 
 
 Abus: Ermine j a bordwre engrailed, gnXei. 
 
 Crest) From a phvme of five ostrich feathers or, gules, argent, vert 
 and argent, a falcon rising of the last. 
 Motto: Malo mori qnam foedari. 
 
 " These arms are copied from the seal of Colonel John 
 BamweU, the emigrant, and are the same as those of 
 the Barnwell family of Crickston, County Meath, Ire- 
 land, the parent stock from which the noble houses 
 of Kingsland and Trimklestom branched and which was 
 established in Ireland by Sir Michael de Barnwell, one 
 of the companions in arms of Strongbow." ^^ 
 
 Colonel John Bahnvstell came to South Carolina 
 
 19 Book of Oramts, State' House, Columbia, S. C. 
 
 20 Burke's Qen'l Armory, 3d Ed. From Chart compiled by B. R. 
 Heyward, and 8. O. Hist. Mag. These anus are on a silver bowl owned 
 by Miss Elliott. 
 
Ancestkat. Recobds and Portraits 
 
 379 
 
 BARNWELL 
 
 from Dublin, Ire., 1701. A letter from John Page, 
 Alderman, and subsequently Lord Mayor of Dublin, to 
 John Harleston, in South 
 Carolina, dated Dublin, De- 
 cember 1, 1708, contains the 
 following postscript: 
 
 " Cosson, pray in your 
 next let me know wither 
 there will be any such man 
 liveing neare Charlestowne 
 which they call Mr. John 
 Barnwell he went from 
 hence about seven years 
 agon; out of a humor to goe 
 to travel, but for no other 
 reasson, he is the son of a verry good gentleman and 
 Gentlewoman and hath extriordinary friends and Rela- 
 shons in this Kingdome and therefore let me know^* 
 how he lives and in what condition." 
 
 The answer to this represents Colonel Barnwell in 
 Carolina, as having taken sides with the Dissenters in 
 the Church Act troubles of 1704, thereby losing many 
 of his offices. He had been Deputy-Secretary of the 
 Colony and Clerk of the Council, and had distinguished 
 himself as a volunteer under Colonel William Rhett 
 against the French and Spaniards. In 1707, however, 
 he was recalled, made Comptroller of the Colony and 
 later became Member of the Commons House of As- 
 sembly, Member of the Governor's Council of South 
 Carolina, and a Deputy Surveyor-General. He was 
 " Colonel- Commander " of the first expedition 1712, 
 against the Tuscarora Indians, in North Carolina, and 
 was agent for the Province in London, during the Rev- 
 
 21 From 8. O, HUt. Mag. 
 
380 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 olution of 1719.^^ His commission from King George I. 
 is very complimentary, and his deeds in behalf of his 
 adopted Province of Carolina fill almost an entire vol- 
 ume of the London State Papers, 1719 to 1722,"® Col- 
 onel Barnwell married Anne Berners, and died in 
 Beaufort, S. C, in June, 1724, leaving issue: 
 
 Margaret, married, first, John Whitmarsh; second, 
 Richard Stephens. 
 
 Nathaniel. 
 
 Anne, married four times; first, Thomas Stanyame, 
 second, Dr. Ambrose Reeve, third. Colonel Thomas 
 Wigg, and fourth. Colonel John Gibbes. 
 
 Mary. 
 
 Bridget, married Robert Sams. 
 
 Catherine, married Hugh Bryan. 
 
 John, was one of the gentlemen voltmteers in Ogle- 
 thorpe's expedition to Florida, 1740 ; he married Martha 
 Chaplin, and their daughter, Catherine Barnwell, mar- 
 ried Andrea de Veaux I. (See De Veaux, etc.) 
 
 Elizabeth, married Thomas Tattnall, ancestor of Gov- 
 ernor Tattnall of Georgia, and of Commodore Tattnall. 
 
 Colonel Nathaniel Barnwell, the eldest son, was 
 born in Charleston, S. C, March 3, 1705. He was 
 named for his father's friend, Sir Nathaniel Johnson, 
 Governor of Carolina, who was also his God-fathen 
 During the Spanish Invasion, he was a Colonel, and 
 Aide to General Oglethorpe, in the Florida Expedition 
 of 1740; also a Member of the South Carolina Assem- 
 bly, from St. Helena, 1739 to 1740, at which date he 
 went to Ireland on family matters. In 1734 he was 
 Judge of Berkely County.^* He married, April 7, 
 
 22 S. C. Hist. Mag. 
 
 23 Mrs. Frank Hampton's Records. 
 2* State Bees., Book 39. 
 
Ancesteal Recoeds and Poktraits . 381 
 
 1735, Mary, daughter of Colonel John and Mary 
 (Woodward) Gibbes.^' Issue: 
 
 Nathaniel. 
 
 John. 
 
 Anne married first. Colonel Thomas Middleton, 
 second. Colonel Stephen BuU. 
 
 Mary Gihhes, married William Elliott II. 
 
 Nathaniel, John, Robert, Bridget, Robert. 
 
 Elizabeth, married, in London, Richard Gough. 
 
 Richard, Edward, Robert Gibbes. 
 
 Sarah, married James Hazzard Cuthbert. 
 
 GIBBES 
 
 Abms: Shield argent quartered. In first and fowrth three Danish 
 axes sable for Oibbes. In second and third two fiisil gules for Champ- 
 
 Crest: An arm embowed in armour holding a Danish axe. 
 Motto: Tenax propositi. 
 
 These are the Arms of the Gibbes of Elmonstone 
 Couri; in Kent, England, and of the Gibbes family of 
 South Carolina, quartered with Champney, whose line 
 descends from: 
 
 Thomas Gybbes, temp Richard II. 
 
 John, temp Edward IV. 
 
 Jenking, married Ann Eden. 
 
 Thomas, married Ann Treuwall. 
 
 John, married Margaret Champney. 
 
 WilUam, married Jane Gason. 
 
 Stephen, married Jane Forney. 
 
 The son of Stephen, Robert Gibbes, born November 
 17, 1594, married February 26, 1630, Mary Coventry, 
 
 25Ped. Ref.: Old Bible of Mr. Hampton Gibbes, Columbia; S. C. 
 Sist. Mag. Hist. Ref.: S. C. Hist. Mag.; all Histories of the State of 
 Carolina. 
 
 28 From Chart prepared by Rev. Robert Wilson of Charleston, S. C. 
 
382 
 
 Ancestkal Recobds and Portraits 
 
 GIBBES 
 
 born 1616.^^ They removed from Kent to the Barba- 
 does, 1648, had ten children and soon came to Carolina 
 with six or seven of them. In the State Papers, Lon- 
 don, 1692-3, March 1, we find 
 the following: "Lords, Propri- 
 etors to the Governor and Coun- 
 cil of Ashley River: John 
 Gibbes, Esqr., a Kinsman of the 
 Duke of Albemarle designing 
 to settle in Carolina every at- 
 tention and respect is to be 
 shown him and those accompany- 
 ing him, three thousand acres of 
 land granted him rent free." 
 Issue : 
 Basil, born 1640. 
 Thomas, bom 1642. 
 
 Alice, bom 1643; married John Daniel, who became 
 Governor of the Province. 
 Robert. 
 
 Stephen, born 1648. 
 John, born 1649. 
 Mary. 
 
 Jane, born 1654. 
 Nicholas, bom 1655. 
 
 Governor Robert Gibbes, bom 1644, and died 
 1715, held many important positions in the Province 
 of Carolina and was Governor from 1710 to 1712. He 
 was Chief -Justice 1709 to 1713; chosen Governor by 
 the Council 1709 and 1712; ^* in the Assembly from Col- 
 leton County, 1671; also high sheriff of Berkeley 
 
 ^T Pedigree' tioTa Gibbes family Bible belonging to Major W. Hamp- 
 ton Gibbes of Columbia, S. C. Johnson In his Itemwitcences says; "The 
 name Gibbes belonged to an old distinguished Cavalier family." 
 
 «s McCrady's EM. of 8. 0. 
 
Ancesteai. Records and Porteaits 383 
 
 County, S. C.^* Robert Gibbes was thrice married; 
 second to Mary ,^° and third, 1710-1711, to Eliza- 
 beth (Donne) Neale Godfrey; the daughter of Robert 
 and Jane Donne, and the widow first, of William Neale 
 and second, of John Godfrey 11.'^ 
 
 Robert Gibbes had issue by two wives ^'^ as follows, 
 order of birth not known: 
 
 Robert. 
 
 Mary, married Thomas Elliott. 
 
 Issue, second wife: 
 
 Elizabeth, married John Fenwick, whose grand- 
 daughter, Elizabeth Fenwick, married Henry Scott, 
 third of Earl of Deloraine. 
 
 William, married Alice Culchett. Their third child 
 was William. 
 
 Colonel John Gibbes was born January 21, 1696,^* 
 and died 1764. He had large grants of land on the 
 Ashley River and is given the title of " Colonel," in all 
 records. He married in St. Andrew's Church, S. C, 
 Mary, daughter of Colonel John and Elizabeth 
 (Stanyame) .Woodward. Issue: 
 
 John, bom 1721. 
 
 Susannah. 
 
 Ehzabeth, died young. 
 
 Mary, married Nathaniel Baenwell. 
 
 Elizabeth, married, first, Carson; second, John 
 
 Ladson. 
 
 Sarah. 
 
 20 Journal of the Grand Council of So. Carolina. 
 so Family Records. 
 
 31 So. Carolina Oeneaiogies, by A. S. Salley, Jr., in The State; Colls., 
 S. C. Hist Soc.; V. 329; and Probate Court, Charleston, 1751-54, 68. 
 
 32 It is evident from the period of Robert Gibbes' third marriage 
 (1710-11), that Colonel John Gibbes was the son of the second wife. 
 
 33 So. Car. Hist. Mag. (Dr. Wilson's Records say "1664"). Mrs. 
 Frank Hampton's Records. 
 
384 Ancestral Records and Poetkaits 
 
 Anne, married William Ladson. 
 John, born 1732, married Mary Anne Stevens. 
 Jane. 
 
 Robert, married, first, Ann Stanyarne; second, 
 Sarah Reeve. 
 
 WOODWARD 
 
 Abms: Azure, a pale between two eagles displayed argent. 
 
 DocTOE Heney Woodwaed, conspicuous in aU his- 
 tories of South Carolina, was the first English settler of 
 that Colony. He came as Lord Shaftesbury's friend 
 and acted as his Deputy from 
 1672 to 1677, his name appearing 
 on numberless old records. He 
 made treaties with the Indians, 
 acted as their friend and interpre- 
 ter, made extended expeditions in- 
 to the interior of the country, 
 "the Proprietors soon realizing 
 woodward j^jg value and commending the dis- 
 
 coveries made by his industries and hazard." He was 
 given a grant of two thousand acres of land.** 
 
 He married Mary, daughter of Colonel John God- 
 frey and widow of Robert Browne. (After Dr. Wood- 
 ward's death she married William Davis). Issue: 
 Richard, married Sarah Stanyarne. 
 JoHNj married Elizabeth Stanyarne. 
 They were the daughters of Colonel James Stan- 
 yarne, who was a Member of the Carolina Assembly 
 1671 to 1695, and of the Governor's Council, 1671.*' 
 
 3* From Sketch of Dr. Henry Woodward and Some of His Descend- 
 ants, by Hon. Joseph W. Barnwell in Vol. vlil, 8. C. Hist. Mag., p. 29. 
 
 85 State Papers in London ; Jour, of the Grand Council of the Prov. 
 of Carolina. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 385 
 
 Colonel John Woodward was a Member of the 
 House of Commons of Carolina, 1706 to 1717, and of 
 the Board of Commissioners 1706 and 1720. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth^ daughter of Colonel James Stanyarne. 
 
 Their daughter Mary, married John Gibbes, 
 
 GODFREY 
 
 "The Godfreys are descended from Godfrey de 
 Bouillon. One of the three men appointed by the 
 King of England to lay out the city of Charleston, 
 was William Godfrey, of» South Carolina. Another 
 of the family was one of the Deputies for the Pro- 
 prietors and consequently sat in the Upper House 
 under the Proprietary Government." ^® 
 
 Another member of this family. Sir Richard God- 
 frey, was the father of: 
 
 Colonel John Godfrey^ who was among those com- 
 ing to South Carolina in 1670, " Subsequently to the 
 arrival of the first fleet of settlers." From the time of 
 his arrival, he had shown great interest in the develop- 
 ment of the Province. 
 
 " He was one of those ' Gentlemen and Merchants 
 of the Island of Barbadoes ' who had contributed to the 
 f imd raised to send ' WiUiam Hilton, Commander, and 
 Commissioner with Captain Anthony Long, and Peter 
 Fabian, in the ship Ad/oenture, which set Sayle from 
 Spikes Bay, Aug. 10. 1663,' on a voyage of discovery 
 to the coasts of Carolina. On account of that contri- 
 bution, the Governor, Sir John Yeamans, of South 
 Carolina, 'by and with the advice and consent of the 
 Councill,' on May 21, 1672, directed John Culpeper, 
 the Suryevor General of South Carolina, 'to cause to 
 be admeasured and layd out for Capt: John Godfrey 
 
 S8 Dr. BuUock of the Nat Genealog. Soc, Washington, D. C. 
 
386 Ancesteal, Records and Portkaits 
 
 five hundred acres of land being the proporcon allowed 
 to him by the lords proprietors, concessions (for his dis- 
 bursmts in the discovery of this Province by Capt. Hil- 
 ton)." 
 
 " The Governor, Joseph West, and the Council, on 
 April 27, 1675, directed Stephen Wheelewright, a sm*- 
 veyor, to lay out ' For Lieut: Col: Godfrey three hun- 
 dred acres of land for himselfe, his Wife and one Servt 
 namely John Ferrington arriveing in the yeare 1670 
 and 1671." At the same time direction was given 
 to John Yeamans, a surveyor, to lay off to him four 
 hundred and forty acres of land ' due him for John God- 
 frey Junr: Richard Godfrey, selfe, his Wife and one 
 Servt namely Mathew English Thomas Ellis and 
 George ' Jerman arriving in the yeare 1670.' " *^ 
 
 "On the John and Thomas came Captain GJodfrey, 
 who had been a deputy in the Council in Barbadoes, and 
 who went out upon the persuasion of Sir John Yeamans. 
 He took with him five men, — ^hands — as they were 
 called." ^« 
 
 He was soon Captain of Militia, after his arrival, 
 and subsequently became Lieutenant-Colonel of Mili- 
 tia. In 1675, dm-ing the absence of Governor West, 
 from June to October, he, as senior Deputy, acted as 
 Governor. He was one of the Deputies of the Pro- 
 prietors under the government, and was appointed a 
 Deputy for the Duke of Albemarle, under the propri- 
 etary government, June 3, 1684. 
 
 He married Mary — — . Issue : ^® 
 
 John, married Mrs. Elizabeth (Donne) Neale, and 
 died about 1705. He had seven children. His widow 
 married Governor Robert Gibbes, 1710-1711. 
 
 37 So. Carolina Oenealogies, by A. S. Salley, Jr. 
 38McCrady's Hist, of 80. Carolina, Vol. i, p. 148 (ot 3), 
 
 38 Record given in So. Carolina Oenealogies, by A. S. Salley, Jr. 
 
Ancesteal Records and Portraits 
 
 387 
 
 Mary, married first, Robert Browne (had a daughter 
 Mary) ; second, Dr. Henry Woodward ; third, Wil- 
 liam Davis. 
 
 Richard, had at least one son, John, 
 
 Beniamin. 
 
 SMITH 
 
 Arms: Sable, a fesse cottised between three martlets, or. 
 Crest: A greyhound sejant gules collared and lined or. 
 Motto: Semper fidelis. 
 
 " Copy of original coat of arms brought from ling- 
 land by Thomas Smith, Landgrave and Governor of 
 
 Carolina. Same arms were 
 on his ring with date, 1671, 
 and the second Landgrave's 
 will was sealed with this 
 
 ring. 
 
 " Thomas Smith, the 
 first Landgrave of that 
 name, was a cousin of the 
 two lords* proprietors, the 
 Duke of Albemarle and the 
 Earl of Bath, all three be- 
 ing descendants of Sir 
 George Smith, the sheriff of 
 He was not a mere adven- 
 
 SMITH 
 
 County. Devon, in 1516, 
 turer, but came out to take possession of large estates 
 which he had purchased, and he brought with him ample 
 means to improve them after his arrival." * 
 
 He was born 1648, and came to America in 1684, 
 with his wife Barbara,*" two sons Thomas and George, 
 two maids and five men servants. He settled in the 
 Province of Carolina. In a patent dated May 1691, 
 
 * From an article by R. R. Heyward in the Sunday News of Charles- 
 ton, S. C, July 10, 1898. 
 ios. C. Hist. Mag. 
 
388 Ancestbal Recoeds and Poetbaits 
 
 he was created Landgrave and four Baronies of forty- 
 eight thousand acres were granted to him. November 
 29, 1693, he was made Governor and Commander-in- 
 chief of Carohna and died 1694. Tb him is attributed 
 the idea of drawing the names of jurors indiscriminately 
 from a box. He also planted the first rice grown in this 
 country. 
 
 He married second, March 27, 1687, Sabina de 
 Vignon, Dowager d'Arsens, the widow of John 
 D'^Arsens, Sieur de Vernhaut. No children. His 
 eldest son, by first wife : 
 
 Thomas Smith, the second Landgrave, was always j 
 called the " Little Englishman," having been bom in 
 England 1664, and according to the laws of entail re- 
 ceived both the title and estates of his father. He made 
 his mark in the Carolina Assembly, was Speaker 1700, 
 Judge of Berkeley Court, Member of the Governor's = 
 Council 1693, and held many other ofiices between 1693 
 and 1730. He received a grant of five thousand acres 
 of land November 17, 1730. He married twice and 
 died May, 1738, being buried on his plantation at Goose 
 Creek, S. C. Issue, first wife : 
 
 Thomas, George, Joseph Blake, Anne, Sabina, Re- 
 becca, Rebecca, Justina, Sarah, Barbara. 
 
 His fifth child, Sabina Smith, was bom May 10, 1699, 
 and married, 1715, Thomas Smith III., the son of: 
 
 William Smith^ who was of the Council of 1695. 
 He married 1690, Elizabeth, the daughter of Bernard 
 Schencking. She died 1751. Their son: 
 
 Colonel Thomas Smith III., was born April 28, 
 1691, and died March 3, 1724. He was a Major in 
 the Berkeley County Regiment, S. C, and Lieutenant- 
 Colonel, 1719 to 1724. He held large grants of land 
 
Ancestral Records and Poetbaits 389 
 
 on Cape Fear River, when eighteen years of age/^ 
 He married Sabina Smith, daughter of the second 
 Landgrave. 
 
 Issue, two sons: 
 
 The elder, Benjamin, was Speaker of the Commons 
 House of Assembly, 1755 to 1762. and Judge, 1766; 
 married first, Ann, the daughter of WiUiam Loughton; 
 and second, Mary Wragg. (See p. 639.) The second 
 son: 
 
 Thomas Smith IV., was bom November 7, 1719. He 
 was a Member of the South Carolina, Assembly 1764, 
 and had a grant of three thousand acres, in Craven 
 County, and a grant on Bufi'alo River 1763, and one 
 thousand acres in Colleton Coimty, May 25, 1774.** 
 Thomas Smith was a wealthy merchant. In the numer- 
 ous branches of the family he was called " Long Tom 
 Smith" for distinction, being a tall man.** 
 
 He married August 2, 1744, Sarah, the daughter of 
 Roger and Catherine (Rhett) Moore, who was born 
 September 7, 1728 and died February 14, 1774. Issue: 
 
 Roger Moore. 
 
 Thomas, Benjamin and William, died young. 
 
 Sarah, married first, Chancellor Hugh Rutledge; 
 second, Huger. 
 
 Peter, married Mary Middleton. 
 
 Benjamin, a Major-General and Governor of North 
 Carolina, and on General Washington's staff; married 
 Sarah Dey. 
 
 Rhett, died young. 
 
 James, married Marianna Gough. 
 
 Mary, married John Faucheraud Grimke. 
 
 41 State Records, Vol. xxxix, p. 263. 
 
 42 State Home Records, Columbia, S. C, Vol. B 28, p. 349 ; Vol. xxx, 
 p. 421. 
 
 43 Johnson in his Reminiscences. 
 
390 Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 Ann, was the second wife of Thomas Bee. 
 
 Rhett, died young. 
 
 Roger Moore Smith, was bom** in Charleston 
 August 4, 1745, and died July 29, 1805. He was a 
 member of the first naval board of Carolina and of the 
 Council of Intelligence 1775, and of the First Provincial 
 Congress. He was one of the signers of the old paper 
 money, and lived in handsome style.*® Josiah Quincy 
 wrote in enthusiastic terms of the dinner*® which he 
 attended at Roger Smith's house in Charleston in 
 1773. 
 
 He married, April 7, 1768, Mary, daughter of Doctor 
 John and Sarah (Hext) Rutledge. She was bom in 
 Charleston December 5, 1747, and was baptized in St. 
 Philip's church there by Rev. Alexander Garden. " On 
 a visit to London in 1786, her hfesize portrait was 
 painted by Romney as a gift to her husband from her 
 father-in-law, who accompanied them to England. In 
 1888, this beautiful picture (representing Mrs. Roger 
 Smith standing beside a pedestal on which her child, 
 born in London, is seated), was sent from Charleston 
 to England and there sold to the late Duke of Bucking- 
 ham for £4000. It remained in his gallery imtil his 
 death, and is owned now by his nephew. Lord Masham." 
 The following list of the children of Roger Moore and 
 Mary (Rutledge) Smith was " Copied from the family 
 Bible owned by Miss Elliott Oak Lawn, Colleton 
 County. Unfortunately the leaves are much torn, 
 many of the dates being lost. . . ." 
 
 Thomas Rhett. 
 
 ** " October 4, 174pS, Rodger, the son of Thomas and Sarah Smith, 
 was baptized." St. Philip's Beg. 
 
 *5 Johnson's Traditions. 
 
 ^a Records of Mrs. Hampton; State House Bees.; 8. C. Hist. Mag.; 
 Chart of B'. R. Heyward; Bibles of Miss Elliott. 
 
Ancestbal Bjecoeds and Poeteaits 391 
 
 Roger Moore, bom August 2, 1770. 
 
 Sarah Rutledge, bom September 27, 1771. 
 
 Mary, born December, 1772. 
 
 Caroline, born November 25, 1773. 
 
 John Rutledge, bom October 17, 1775. 
 
 Benjamin Burgh, born October 15, 1776. 
 
 Hugh Rutledge, bom April 10, 1778. 
 
 Andrew Doria, born October 11, 1779. 
 
 Infant son. 
 
 Mary Sabina, bom September 16, 1782. 
 
 Edward Nutt, born in London, 1785. 
 
 Anna Maria, born July 26, 1785. 
 
 The eldest son, Thomas Bhett Smith, was bom 
 December 20 (or 3) 1768, and died March 28, 1829. 
 He was educated in England. Together with De- 
 Saussure, he led in the movement of forcing South 
 Carolina to establish the Columbia University, and to 
 promote the higher education. He served in the Legis- 
 lature until 1802 ; was Intendant of Charleston, during 
 the war of 1812, and lived in that city, and on his plan- 
 tation, at " Chehaw," where amid his " Ten acres of 
 roses, he found his greatest happiness outside of Paris." 
 
 He married. May 28, 1795, Anna Rebecca, born in 
 1778, daughter of Colonel William and Anne Holland 
 (Hutchinson) Skirving. Issue: 
 
 William Skirving, Mary, Bethia. 
 
 Anne Hutchinson, married William Elliott IV. 
 
 Thomas Rhett, Caroline and Edward. 
 
 SCHENCKING 
 
 Colonel Bernaed Schencking, came from the Bar- 
 badoes about 1685, and settled in Carolina, becoming 
 Sheriff of Berkeley County, a Proprietor's Deputy and 
 a Member of the Grand Council. The Lords Proprie- 
 
392 Ancestbal Recokds and Portraits 
 
 tors in England wrote to their representatives in Amer- 
 ica as follows : 
 
 "We are alsoe informed that you have put Mr. 
 Schfincking out from being Chief Judge or Sheriff of 
 Berkley County and have commissioned Mr. Quary for 
 the said place . . . We have heard no complaints 
 of Mr. Schencking for injustice or oppression and we 
 think it is not for the Bang's service or our own honor 
 to have a man turned out of emplojTnent who hath be- 
 haved himself faithfully therein and it being the Pro- 
 prietors in general that are responsible to the King for 
 any failure of justice in Carolina, wee have thought 
 fit to exercise to ourselves the power of appointeing 
 Judges or Sheriffs of Countys and have now sent a 
 Commission, under our great scale to Mr. Schencking, 
 to be Chief Judge or Sheriff of Berkley County whom 
 wee require you to permitt quietly to execute that oflBce. 
 . We rest Yor affectionate Friends, Craven, 
 Palatine, Ashley, Carteret." *'' 
 
 In 1687 Bernard Schencking was chosen one of a 
 •committee of seven to frame a new code of laws for 
 
 the colony.** He married Elizabeth , and their 
 
 daughter Elizabeth, married, 1690, William Smith, 
 and died 1751. Their son Thomas, married Sabina, 
 the daughter of Thomas Smith II. 
 
 SKIRVING 
 
 James Skerving, Esq., was the son of William Skirv- 
 ing, of St. Margaret's Westminister, Eng., and was 
 bom in Devonshire, Eng., 1715. He was a surgeon 
 in the British Army, came to America, and was Jus- 
 
 " River's Hist. Sketches of 80. Car. 
 *8Hcwett, pp. 100 and 151. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 393 
 
 tice in Colleton County, S. C, 1747.* He had a grant 
 of one thousand acres of land June 3, 1763, signed by 
 Governor Bull, and the land is still in possession of the 
 family. He had also five hundred and eighty acres, 
 November 5, 1755.*® 
 
 He married, 1744, Mary, daughter of Henry and 
 Elizabeth Jackson. John Jackson, Mrs. Skirving's 
 grandfather, was granted in 1700 "The land upon 
 which was built the town of Jacksonboro,^" at one time 
 the seat of the Legislature of South Carolina during 
 the Revolutionary war." 
 
 Colonel Willl^^m Skirving, son of James, was 
 born 1745, in Charleston. "He owned very large 
 estates, (eleven plantations in South Carolina), and his 
 wife, manned with her own negroes, the important ferry 
 over the Ponpon River by which all the troops, messages 
 and artillery were transferred during the many years of 
 the Revolution. Colonel William Skirving left £200 
 to the Church at Ashepoo for plate, also £500 to his 
 cousin William Skirving of England. Colonel Skirv- 
 ing's grants of land in 1769 show the very rare signature 
 of Governor BuU.®'^ He and his brother Charles were 
 commissioned Captains in the First Regiment of Con- 
 tinentals, the latter being one of Marion's favorite offi- 
 cers. William was Colonel of the American forces 
 during the Revolution,^^ and was a Member of the sec- 
 ond Provincial Congress of South Carolina November 
 1, 1775, from St. Bartholomews County.^* 
 
 * Chest: " A stag's head on a wreath," found engraved on forks and 
 spoons. 
 
 49 Papers of Mrs. Frank Hampton and Book of Gramts, B. 11, p. 160, 
 in State House, Columbia, S. C. 
 
 BO Founded by order of the Lords Proprietors in 1711. 
 
 51 Mrs. Frank Hampton's Papers. 
 
 52 Moultrie's Memoirs. 
 
 63 £f. C. Hist. Mag., Vol. vii, p. 105. 
 
394 Ancesteal Records and Poktraits 
 
 He married first, Mary Saeheverell (of the same 
 family as the famous Doctor Hemy Saeheverell of 
 Great Britain) and second, January 28, 1769, her cousin 
 Anne Holland, daughter of Colonel Thomas and Re- 
 becca (Hohnan) Hutchinson, born in Charieston 1751. 
 and died 1804. Anne Holland Hutchinson lived in 
 Charleston, on her plantations of Ashepoo and Hutch- 
 inson's Island, before her marriage, and afterwards she 
 lived at " Chehaw," in Charleston, or at " Oak Lawn," 
 CoUeton Coiinty, where the old avenue of Uve oaks was 
 laid out, and labelled with great care by a Surveyor, in 
 1767, the trees being ten years old when set out. "A 
 manuscript by one of the SachevereU's giving an ac- 
 count of ' Oak Lawn ' the present home of the Elliotts 
 (with the story of the Angola war in 1739, when the 
 Saeheverell children were massacred there by the ne- 
 groes) was burned, with the old house in 1865 by 
 Sherman's troops, also Thomas SachevereU's Diary." 
 
 Their daughter, Anne Rebecca, married Thomas 
 Bhett Smith. 
 
 HUTCHINSON 
 
 Abms: Per pale gulet and azure, a lion ram/pant between eight crost- 
 crossleti argent. 
 
 Ceest: Out of a ducal coronet or, a cockatrice aaare, combed, beaked 
 and wattled gules. 
 
 " These arms represent the seal of John Hutchinson,'* 
 the first to come to America, which seal was inherited 
 by Thomas 'of Chehaw,' his son, and from which the 
 bookplate was made for Thomas Leger Hutchinson," a 
 nephew of Anne Holland Hutchinson (Mrs. William 
 SMrving). The age of this bookplate antedates "the 
 publication of The Memoirs of Lucy Hutchinson 1808, 
 
 5* Pedigree Papers of Miss Elliott. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 
 
 395 
 
 HUTCHINSON 
 
 in which the same arms are given to the Nottingham 
 branch. The fact aids in verifying the abiding tradi- 
 tion in the South Carolina family that the Hutchinsons 
 in that State are directly de- 
 scended from Colonel John 
 Hutchinson, Governor of Not- 
 tingham Castle and his wife 
 Lucy Apsley, da,uffhter of Sir 
 Allan Apsley. Another proof 
 of this claim, is the fact that 
 Anne Holland Hutchinson 
 (daughter of Thomas Hutch- 
 inson and wife of Colonel Skir- 
 ving), always addressed as 
 * Cousin ' Polly Sacheverell, 
 who was Colonel Skirving's 
 first wife." 
 
 John Hutchinson is the first of the name known 
 in Carolina, where he had large grants of land.^® He 
 
 married Anne , who died November 26, 1723. 
 
 Their son: 
 
 Colonel Thomas Hutchinson, was born November 
 16, 1722. He was Justice for Charleston, in March, 
 1776.°® He was the owner of large plantations in Caro- 
 lina, and of land in Georgia, granted originally to 
 Thomas Sacheverell and himself. The will of "one 
 Postel" leaves to his heirs, land in Georgia, originally 
 granted to Thomas Hutchinson and Thomas' Sachever- 
 ell, whose brother John was attorney for Thomas 
 Hutchinson. These Hutchinsons had cousins in Jama- 
 ica, one of whom wrote, 1774, to Thomas, of South 
 Carolina, begging his cousin " To be circumspect in re- 
 s' From Book of Grants, State House, S. C, VoL ii, K, p. 3; ix, p. 
 197. 
 
 ^'Journal of Assn., March 13, 1776. 
 
396 
 
 Ancestral Recobds and Poetbaits 
 
 gard to the threatened uprising, as their family had 
 suffered enough from rebellions." Thomas Hutchin- 
 son signed many papers for Sacheverell in 1759, and a 
 strong tie of friendship and intimacy always existed be- 
 tween the two families. He signed as bondsman for 
 Charles Pinckney, and Edmund Bellinger, for £25,000 
 in 1750. He was a member from St. Bartholomew's 
 to the General Convention, 1774, and died at March's, 
 South Carolina, 1789. 
 
 He married, 1750, Rebecca, the daughter of William, 
 and the granddaughter of Thomas and Leah Holman. 
 
 "Thomas Holman came to America in 1700, and 
 had a grant of seventeen hundred acres on the Ashley 
 River, S. C, March, 1704, and died, October 27, 1730." 
 
 Anne Holland Hutchinson, married Willlam Skibv- 
 
 ING. 
 
 MOORE 
 
 Arms: Sable, a svxm with wings expansed argent, membered or, within 
 a bordure engrailed of the aamefit 
 
 The Moores,^* of South Carolina, are said, by many 
 
 B7 From seal of Governor James Moore. 
 
 68 References; Bibles; Letters; 8. C. Hist. Maff.; Wills, etc 
 
Ancestkal Records and Poktraits 397 
 
 authorities, to be of Irish descent, but according to all 
 available records they belong to the Devonshire family 
 of that name. They came to Carolina via the Barbadoes, 
 arriving with Sir John Yeamans, Bart. 
 
 Governor James Moore, was born 1641, and died in 
 Charleston, 1706. He was Chief Justice of Carolina, 
 1700 to 1701, and Governor of the Province, 1700 to 
 1703. While in office he was accused of selling Indians 
 as slaves in Jamaica and Barbadoes, but Johnson (an 
 old authority) says, page 228 : " That Governor Moore's 
 measures were known and approved in England is evi- 
 denced from his being retained in office about three 
 years, and when superseded by Nathaniel Johnson, was 
 appointed attorney-general. On page 229, Governor 
 Bull said he had investigated the matter, and that the 
 Indians being a terrible scourge to the Colony, Moore 
 had them captured and shipped to the West Indies, but 
 that the proceeds of sales were always placed in the 
 publick Treasury." James Moore married Margaret, 
 only daughter of Sir John and Margaa-et (Gibbes) 
 Yeamans. "Governor Moore afterwards married his 
 mother-in-law. The latter seems to have had a tender 
 heart, as it is recorded concerning two criminals that 
 ' upon the earnest sohcitation of Margaret, Lady Yea- 
 mans, and the rest of the Ladyes and Gentlemen of this 
 County, it is resolved that the execution of the said 
 persons be suspended.'" Issue, first wife: 
 
 James, the second Governor. 
 
 Maurice, founder of Brunswick, X. C. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 Nathaniel. 
 
 John. * 
 
 • (Mrs. Clifford), who afterwards niarried Job 
 
 Howe, and was the grandmother of General Robert 
 
398 Ancesteax Recoeds and Portraits 
 
 Howe, of Revolutionary fame, who fought the Dutcl 
 with General Gadsden. 
 
 Rebecca, married Dey. 
 
 (Mrs. Schencking). 
 
 Roger Moobe, called " King Roger," from the stat( 
 in which he lived; bom August 24, 1694, and died Octo 
 ber 20, 1759, was the owner of the beautiful " Orton ' 
 plantation near Brunswick, N. C. In the old rec- 
 ords he is called " The Honorable Roger Moore, Esq. 
 Member of ye council," where he served continuouslj 
 from 1734 to 1749. He had a grant of land in Nortl 
 Hanover County, Carolina, 1745.^® 
 
 He married, October 10, 1721, Catherine, the daugh- 
 ter of Colonel William and Sarah (Cooke) Rhett; bon 
 December 14, 1705, and died June 11, 1745. Issue: 
 
 George. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 Sarah, married Thomas Smith IV. 
 
 William, married Parris (Mary) Davis. 
 
 Mary, married Edward Harleston. 
 
 Ann, married, first, John Swann; second, Petei 
 Taylor. 
 
 YEAMANS 
 
 On August 22, 1651, Sir Robert Yeamans, Baronet 
 of Bristol, Eng., a Lieutenant- Colonel of His Maj- 
 esty's forces in England, obtained a warrant for a pri- 
 vate man-of-war, being boimd to Virginia. In the Edin- 
 burgh Annual Register, March 16, 1814, a statement if 
 given, regarding the disinterment of his body, whicl 
 was found " In a coffin of ^great antiquity," in St. Mary 
 port Church, Bristol. He was executed for his devotioi 
 to the King, being Prince Rupert's main stay in th( 
 
 50 Co/. Bee, Vol. iv, p. 767. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 399 
 
 defence of the city. " He was High Sheriff and his 
 body was handsomely accoutred in the costume of the 
 day (1643) , embalmed, and in the highest state of pres- 
 ervation, with gloves similar to those worn by the High 
 Sheriff of the present day." His son: 
 
 Governor Sir John Yeamans, Bart, held for some 
 time the office of Governor of the Barbadoes, and came 
 to Carolina in 1665, bringing many Englishmen as col- 
 onists ; and the first slaves introduced into the Province. 
 He was made Landgrave, 1671, and was Governor of 
 Carolina from 1671 to 1674,®° after which time he retired 
 to the Barbadoes and died 1676. His home in Carolina, 
 at Goose Creek, "Yeamans Hall," was built prior to 
 1680, and remains in the possession of the Landgrave's 
 descendants. " The house was surrounded by earth- 
 works as a defence against the Indians and had port- 
 holes in the walls. In the cellar was a, deep well for sup- 
 plying the garrison with water in case of a siege, and a 
 subterranean passage, whose entrance can still be seen, 
 led out under the garden to the creek where boats were 
 kept securely concealed. Within, the walls were 
 painted in landscapes, little gilded cherubs spread their 
 wings over the arches. The gufest chamber was hung 
 with Gobelin tapestry; the floors, tessellated and the 
 apartments adorned with statues. Old Yeaman's Hall 
 has its ghost-story, and its secret chamber where, during 
 the Revolution, and also during the Civil War, the silver 
 and family valuables were concealed."*^ The Colomal 
 Records of North Carolina state that Sir John Yea- 
 mans had governed the Cape Fear Colony from 1665 
 to 1690. Charleston, in 1680, was laid out by him. 
 
 He married Margaret, the daughter of Sir Philip 
 
 «o MfcCrady's Hist, of Carolina. 
 61 From Harper's Mag., 1875. 
 
400 
 
 Ancestbal Records and Portraits 
 
 Gibbes, of Barbadoes. In his will, dated 1671, Sir Job 
 leaves a large settlement, cattle, jewels', plate, prival 
 ship, coach and four, and entire guardianship of h 
 children to his "dear and well-beloved wife, ye lady 
 Margaret." 
 
 Their daughter Margaret, who was not of age whe 
 her father died, had a dowry of three hundred thousan 
 pounds of sugar, besides land, etc. She married Glo^ 
 ERNOK James Moore. Their son, Roger Moore, mai 
 ried Catherine, the daughter of William and Sara 
 (Cooke) Rhett. 
 
 ^ 
 
 RHETT 
 
 Arms: Or, a cross engrailed sable. 
 
 Chest: A dexter arm embowed in armor holding a broken spear. 
 
 Motto: Aut faciam anit periam. 
 
 These arms are taken from the tombstone of Colone 
 
 William Rhett in St. Philip' 
 churchyard (Western) 
 Charleston, S. C* 
 
 Colonel William Rheti 
 born September 4, 1666, ant 
 died January 12, 1722, wa 
 the son of Sir Gaulter d 
 Rhaedt, of Flanders.*'' H 
 came to Carolina in 1694, wit] 
 his wife Sarah and one chile 
 His father's family came fror 
 Holland, under William o 
 Orange, and the original speE 
 ing of the name (Rhaedt) wa 
 changed to suit the English mode of pronouncing it.' 
 
 *8. G. Hist. Mag. 
 
 82 Ramsey's Hist, of 8. C. 
 
 63 Johnson's Traditions. 
 
 L 
 
 ^ ^|f I 
 
 rhett 
 
Ancestral Recoeds and Poetraits 401 
 
 He was Colonel of the Provincial Militia of Carolina, 
 Receiver-General of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina 
 1722; Vice- Admiral of the colonial navy; Surveyor and 
 Comptroller of His Majesty's customs for Carolina 
 and the Bahama Islands ; Lieutenant-General and con- 
 structor of fortifications."* These offices he held until 
 appointed Governor of the Barbadoes, for which place 
 he was preparing to start when seized with an attack 
 of apoplexy, from which he died in Charleston. A 
 monument was erected in that city to his memory over 
 the family vault in the Western cemetery of St. 
 Philip's near the front door of that building. WiUiam 
 Rhett was a follower of SacheveraU's doctrines and 
 "used to pay a great deal of respect to SacheveraU's 
 picture, which himg in the colonel's hall in 1715."®^ 
 Dalcho's Church History mentions one Tankard, one 
 Chalice and Paten and one large Alms Plate on 
 which is engraved: "The gift of Colonel WiUiam 
 Rhett to the Church of St. Philip's, Charles Town, 
 South Carolina." The plate is intact and in use at 
 the present day. When the pirates had become for- 
 midable to the trade of the West Indies and Carolina, 
 Colonel WiUiam Rhett proved his courage and skill in 
 naval warfare. In command of two vessels he pursued 
 Steede Bonnet into Cape Fear River, captured the sloop 
 and thirty pirates, the latter being tried, condemned 
 and hanged at Charleston, for which service Colonel 
 Rhett received the thanks of the Proprietors.®" Charles- 
 ton at this time was "fortified more for beauty than 
 strength. There are several fair streets in the town and 
 some very handsome buildings, as Mr. Landgrave 
 
 '* 8. C. Hist. Mag.; Johnson's Bermniscencea. 
 85 Collections of S. C. Hist. Soc, Vol. ii, p. 233. 
 88 R. R. Heyward's Records. 
 
402 Ancestral Recobds and Portraits 
 
 Smith's house on the Key with a drawbridge and whai 
 before it, Colonel Rhett's on the Key, also Mr. Rivers 
 Mr. Boone's, Mr. Schinkings' and ten or twelve moi 
 which deserve to be taken notice of." ^"^ 
 
 He married Sarah Cooke, who was born 1665, an 
 died December, 1745. They were the ancestors of man 
 noted men and women of Great Britain and Ameriei 
 Chief Justice Trott, at the age of seventy-one, marrie 
 William Rhett's widow, aged sixty-three. As Mr 
 Rhett, she lived on the west side of East Bay, Charles 
 ton. Issue : 
 
 Christiana, died yoimg. 
 
 William, married Mary, only daughter of Chief Jus 
 tice Trott. 
 
 Sarah, married Eleazer Allen. 
 
 Rebecca, died young. 
 
 Catherine, married Roger Moore; their daughte 
 Sarah married Thomas Smith IV., whose son, Roge 
 MooRB Smith, married Mary Butledge. 
 
 Robert, died young. 
 
 Mary, married Richard Wright. 
 
 67 Old Mixon. 
 
Ancestral Records and Portraits 403 
 
 RUTLEDGE 
 
 Asms: Ardent, on a chevron azure between three crescents, two 
 
 iges gvXesfii 
 
 Cbest: a Crescent. 
 
 Motto: Progredi non regredi. 
 
 "On March 26, 1776, the Provincial Congress of 
 South Carolina set up an independent government with 
 John Rutledge as president. On Tuesday, April 2, 
 1776, the General Assembly passed the following: Re- 
 solved that his Excellency the President and Com- 
 mander-in-Chief, by and with the advice and consent of 
 the Privy Council may and he is hereby authorized to 
 design and cause to be made a Great Seal of South Caro- 
 lina and until such an one can be made, to fix a tem- 
 porary Public Seal. For a temporary seal. President 
 Rutledge used his private seal bearing his family Coat 
 of Arms. . . .'"" 
 
 The Rutledge family, of English origin, settled in 
 Ireland, in the time of Oliver Cromwell, and owned land 
 
 es From an old Book Plate of Edward Rutledge, Signer of the Dec- 
 laration of Independence. 
 
 19 8. C. Hist. Mag., Vol. vii, p. 266. 
 
404 Ancestrajj Records and Poetkaits 
 
 of Ballymagiel, near Baroulog, County Cavan, Ire^ 
 land, for several generations/" 
 
 The American family descends from two brothers 
 Andrew and John, who came to this country from Ire 
 land (some historians say from the north of England) 
 1735. They were men of the highest education, An 
 drew a lawyer, and John a physician, Andrew became 
 Speaker of the House of Assembly of Carolina, 1749' 
 1752, and was complimented by both King and Governoi 
 on his learning and capacity. The two brothers settlec 
 in Charleston, S. C. 
 
 Doctor John Rutledge was acting surgeon in tht 
 1st South Carolina Regiment, 1738. The records give 
 the following: 
 
 " The repeated advices we have received of the designs 
 of Spain against this Province . . . have deter- 
 mined several Gentlemen of Worth and Distinction ir 
 Charleston to accept commissions in the Mihtia and tc 
 make themselves Masters in the best manner they could 
 of the Military Discipline, that they might be the bettei 
 enabled to act vigorously in defence of the province 
 . . . T^o this end His Honor the President of the 
 Council (William Bull) has been pleased to form the 
 Town Militia (which for six years consisted only of twc 
 Companies and since of four) into the First Regimeni 
 of this Province. The Regiment is divided into sis 
 companies of which the following are officers. . . 
 (24 names) and Mr. John Rutledge surgeon to the 
 regiment. The regiment of 600 men exclusive of Offi' 
 cers and Monday last His Majesty's Birthday, appeared 
 for the first time under arms and made a very gallani 
 and genteel appearance."''^ 
 
 TO From Burke's Colonial Gentry. Ref. for Rutledge pedigree; Mrs 
 C C. Pinckney; Bible of Roger Smith owned by Miss Elliott; Papert o) 
 the late Mrs. Frank Hampton. 
 
 Tifif. C. Hist. Mag., Vol. ii, p. 134. 
 
"Annaxdale," the Plantation" Home of Andrew Johnstone 
 On the No. Santee River, S. C. 
 
 
 Watek Fbont, Beaufort, S. C. 
 
Ancestral Recokds and Porteaits 
 
 405 
 
 Dr. John Rutledge married, December 25, 1738, 
 Sarah, daughter of Hugh and Sarah (Boone) Hext, 
 who was born 1724. Washington was entertained at 
 breakfast by Mrs. Rutledge in 1791, then a very old 
 lady. She had grants of two thousand four hundred 
 and thirty-three acres in Colleton County, August 20, 
 1767, and sixteen hundred acres in Berkeley County, 
 February 22, 1768." Dr. Rutledge died December 27, 
 1750.''^ Issue, seven children, five of whom lived to 
 maturity, viz.: 
 
 John and Edward, the Governors. 
 
 Hugh, the Chancellor. 
 
 Andrew. 
 
 Sarah (Mrs. Mathewes). 
 
 Mary, married Roger Moore Smith. 
 
 HEXT 
 
 Arms: Or, a tower embattled between three battle-axes, erect fable. 
 A crescent for difference. 
 
 Crest: Out of a tower embattled a derm-lion holding in dexter paw 
 a battle-axe sable. 
 
 The arms of Hext (or Hicks) 
 of Somersetshire, Great Britain, 
 as given in the "Visitation of 
 Somersetshire " : 
 
 Hugh Hext/* came with his 
 family to the province of Caro- 
 hna from Dorsetshire, Eng., 
 and was related to the Hexts of 
 Somersetshire. He was elected 
 a member of the Commons 
 
 House of Assembly, 1707, and 
 he was one of the Commission- 
 ers appointed under the "Church ^^^^ 
 Acts" of November, 1704, and 
 
 T2 state House Records, B. 16, p. 259. 
 
 78 St PMUp's Register. ■<* S. O. Hist. Mag., VoL vi, p. 
 
406 Antcestbal Records and Portraits 
 
 November 30, 1706. Ramsay says, on page 10, Vol. II : 
 
 " Two of the twenty laymen who were vested ' with 
 these extraordinary powers,' and highly esteemed by 
 the people, were John Woodward and Hugh Hext. 
 They formed a ' board of Commissioners to superintend 
 the temporal concerns of all the parishes and exercise 
 ecclesiastical jurisdiction, with full powers to deprive 
 ministers of their livings at pleasure, etc' " Surviving 
 issue : 
 
 Alexander. 
 
 Edward, of Charleston, S. C, in whose will, dated 
 October 6, 1739, bequests are made to " Kinsman Philip 
 Hext of Froome, in Somersetshire, Great Britain."^* 
 
 Francis, David, Thomas, and Amias. 
 
 Hugh II. 
 
 Amelia, married • Godfrey. 
 
 Katharine, married StiU. 
 
 Martha, married, first, William Bowen; second, "John 
 Bee. 
 
 Hugh Hext II., was a member of the South Caro- 
 lina Assembly, 1717 to 1720,''® and died in November, 
 1732. He married, November, 1723, Sarah, the 
 daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fenwick) Boone. 
 
 Their daughter Sarah married John Rutledge. 
 
 Mary Rutledge married Roger Moore Smith. 
 
 Thomas Bhett Smith, married Anne Rebecca Skirv- 
 ing. 
 
 Anne Hutchinson Smith, married William Elliott IV. 
 
 Mary Barnwell Elliott, married Andrew Johnstone. 
 Their daughter is : 
 
 Emma Elliott Johnstone, 
 
 Member of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of 
 America. 
 
 ■'^Ibid, Vol. vi, p. 40. 
 
 76 River's Hist, of S. C, p. 465, Appendix. 
 
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