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Genealogical Memoranda 
 
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 OF THE 
 
 Quisenberry Family 
 
 AND OTHER FAMILIES, 
 
 Including the Names of Chenault, Cameron, Mullins, Burris, 
 Tandy, Bush, Broomhall, Finkle, Rigg, 
 and others. 
 
 By ANDERSON CHENAULT QUISENBERRY. 
 
 “ I think every man would like to come of an ancient and honorable race . As you 
 
 like your father to be an honorable man, why not your grandfather, and his ancestors 
 before him?” —Colonel Newcome. 
 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Hartman & Cadick, Printers. 
 1897. 
 
THE FLOWERS COUECTION 
 
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 introduction— 
 
 Chapter I. Origin of the Name and Family of Quisenberry. 
 Chapter II. The Quisenberry Family in Virginia. 
 
 Chapter III. Characteristics and Services of the Family. 
 Chapter IV. The Descendants of William Quisenberry. 
 Chapter V. The Descendants of Humphrey Quisenberry. 
 Chapter VI. Rev. James Quisenberry and His Children. 
 Chapter N il. Colby Burris Quisenberry and His Descendants. 
 Chapter VIII. James Francis Quisenberry and His De¬ 
 scendants. 
 
 Chapter IX. The Bush Family. 
 
 Chapter X. The Chenault Family. 
 
 Chapter XI. The Mullins Family. 
 
 Chapter XII. The Cameron Family. 
 
 Chapter XIII. The Broomhall Family. 
 
 Chapter XIV. The Finkle Family. 
 
 Chapter XV. Reminiscences of Life in Virginia before tin* 
 War. 
 
 APPENDICES. 
 
 I. Information from England. 
 
 II. Information from Westmoreland County, Va. 
 
 III. Information from King George County, Va. 
 
 IV. Information from Richmond and Essex Counties, Va. 
 
 V. Information from Caroline County, Va. 
 
 VI. Information from Spottsylvania County, Va. 
 
 VII. Information from Orange County, Va. 
 
 VIII. General and Miscellaneous Information. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 It lias been about ten years since I first conceived the idea of 
 collating all accessible information concerning each branch of the 
 ancestry of my children, and perpetuating it in print for the benefit 
 and information of future generations. The plan I at first pro¬ 
 posed to myself was a very comprehensive one, and embraced no 
 less an undertaking than the tracing back of each line to the re¬ 
 motest ancestor possible, even in Europe, and then coming back 
 down the line and including every descendant of the remote pro¬ 
 positus, even to the present time. I soon found that the success¬ 
 ful accomplishment of that kind of an undertaking, if possible 
 at all, would require the whole work of a number of people for a 
 lifetime each, together with unlimited means, and so that plan 
 was abandoned and the much less pretentious one adopted in 
 its stead is not so perfect as it might be. For, hampered both by 
 a lack of means and of time, I have been able to prosecute my re¬ 
 searches for genealogical data only desultorily. But, as I can see 
 no prospect of ever getting the work into any materially better 
 shape than it now is, though it is very imperfect, I have con¬ 
 cluded to print it as it is, and thus preserve what 1 have been at 
 so much pains to gather, little as it is; for life is uncertain, and in 
 case of my death before its publication even that little would in 
 all probability be lost again. The work, I fear, will not be satis¬ 
 factory to any one; it certainly is not satisfactory to me; but, such 
 as it is, it really does contain much information that is of value to 
 the members of the families concerned, and that is worthy of be¬ 
 ing preserved by them. I think it undoubtedly gives to all of them 
 information about their ancestors that they never had before. I 
 hope my little effort may be the means of so interesting others 
 that a much fuller and more perfect work may be the outcome some¬ 
 time in the immediate future. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 While I have eagerly sought out everything attainable about 
 each of the families considered in this work, I have naturally been 
 most deeply interested in matters concerning my own name—the 
 name I am to transmit to other times, if i transmit any; and, very 
 much to my surprise, it is the one name of them all about which 
 information was everywhere most easily and most voluminously 
 secured. 
 
 I have placed the price of the work at a figure which will 
 enable me to pay the cost of publication only; and it is easily 
 worth the price to anyone to whom it is worth anything at all. As 
 it is for my children and my possible remote descendants, it has 
 been to me strictly a labor of love; and I have no hope of ever being 
 reimbursed for even the expense I have gone to in collating and 
 publishing it, much less for the time I have devoted to it. The edi¬ 
 tion, though limited to 100 copies, is more than I expect to sell, and 
 the book has been gotten up, as to the quality of paper and bind¬ 
 ing, with a view to durability. There is no good reason why a 
 book constructed mechanically as this one is, with careful handling 
 and barring accidents, should not last for several centuries. And 
 the older it grows the more valuable it will become. 
 
 In conclusion, I wish to explain a couple of points: In the 
 copies of old records in the Appendix such forms of date as, say, 
 “February 10,1707-’08,” sometimes appear. This is explained by the 
 fact that until 1752 the English year began on the 25th of March, 
 whilst elsewhere in Europe the year began on January 1st; so, after 
 January 1st, and until March 25th of each year, all documents in 
 England and her colonies were dated as of two years; for instance, 
 1707-’08 served to show that while it was still 1707 in England and 
 her colonies, it was 1708 everywhere else. In 1752, by act of Par¬ 
 liament, the English year was made to begin on January 1st instead 
 of March 25th. 
 
 The word “ye,” so often used in old records and documents, 
 is not “ye” at all, but “the.” In the old Anglo-Saxon runes or 
 alphabet there was a letter or symbol called “thorn,” almost ex¬ 
 actly similar to the Roman “y” in shape, and it had the sound of 
 “th,” as the Greek letter “theta” has. This symbol was retained 
 by the Normans, after their conquest of England; and, in fact. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 it dropped out of use but little more than a hundred years ago. 
 It was rarely used except in spelling the word “the,” though 
 sometimes it was used in “that,” as “yat;” or more frequently in an 
 abbreviated form, as “yt.” This fact is so little known that I 
 have mentioned it for the benefit of those who may read the 
 copies of old records in the Appendix to this work. 
 
 Blank pages are inserted at the end of the book for the con 
 venience of those who may wish to continue their family record 
 thereon. 
 
 ANDERSON CHENAULT QUISENBERRY. 
 Washington, D. C., January 25, 1897. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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CHAPTER I. 
 
 ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND FAMILY OF QUISENBERRY. 
 
 The origin of the Quisenberry family, as well as the significa¬ 
 tion of the name, is wrapped in an obscurity which a great deal 
 of patient research has, as yet, failed to penetrate. Apparently 
 the name is Norman, but English, Scottish, and Dutch origins 
 have been severally claimed for it by different parties. It has, 
 at vai’ious times, been spelled in quite a variety of ways; and is 
 iven at this time spelled in at least half a dozen ways by different 
 branches of the original stock. During researches it lias been 
 found in public records and elsewhere spelled after each of the 
 following styles, to-wit: Quissinburrowe, Quissinborow, Quissin- 
 boro’, Quessenbury, Quisenbury, Quisenberry, Quese n burv , Quesen- 
 berry, Quistenberry, Quizenborogh, Cliristianbury, Christianberry, 
 Chrissenberry, Cosenberry, Crusenberry, Cusenberrv, Custenberry, 
 Cousinberry, Crusinberry, Cushenberry, and, in fact, in a variety 
 of other styles, the changes being rung on the “i” and the “e,” and 
 on the “berry,” “bury,” “borough,” etc., almost infinitely. Truly 
 this is a goodly lot of cognomens from which to take pick and 
 choice, and they are all actually variants of one original form of 
 the name—probably Christianbury or Queenborough. The name is 
 now known principally in Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. In 
 Virginia it is pronounced “ Cushenberrv,” “Cuesenberry,” and 
 “Crusinberry,” according to locality; and in Kentucky it is almost 
 universally pronounced “Cushenberry.” Probably the first pro¬ 
 nunciation of the name in America was “Quizenborough,” for the 
 records show (see Appendix II, 32) that on May 12, 1663, the pioneer 
 of the family, then living in Westmoreland county, Virginia, 
 bought a red heifer at a sale in old Rappahannock, an adjoining 
 count} 7 , and his name was put down on the sale book as “John 
 Quizenborough” by the clerk of the sale, who probably wrote it 
 phonetically as the buyer called it out, he (the clerk) being of a 
 different county and unacquainted with the name. The pioneer 
 himself spelled the name “Quessenbury.” 
 
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 ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND FAMILY OF QUISENBERRY. 
 
 Different branches of tlie family have different traditions as 
 to its origin, and the philologists who have been consulted upon the 
 subject do not agree in their views as to the nationality of the 
 name. Professor Scheie de Vere, of Virginia University, who is 
 a recognized authority upon such matters, is of the opinion that 
 the name is of Scottish origin, and that it is a corruption of the 
 name “Queensberry,” and in this view he is supported by Dr. Wil¬ 
 liam D. Quesenberry, of Milford, Caroline county, Virginia. Dr. 
 Quesenberry states that the tradition that has come down to him 
 is that the family is of Scottish origin; and he believes the name 
 has been corrupted from Queensberry. It appears, however, that 
 no such patronymic as Queensberry exists in Scotland. There is, 
 indeed, a Scotch nobleman bearing the double title of Duke of 
 Buccleuch and Queensberry, and he owns the ruins of the historic 
 Melrose Abbey, consecrated forever by the witching poetic fantasy 
 of the Wizard of the North; but the cognomen of the Duke of 
 Queensberry is Douglas, and in his case the term Queensberry is 
 merely a title of honor appertaining to that branch of the Douglas 
 family of which he is the head. (See Appendix I, 3.) 
 
 Dr. Hyde Clark, of London, a very distinguished philologist, 
 states that he is inclined to think Quisenberry is a Dutch name, 
 but declines to give an authoritative opinion. Mr. Bernard Kettle, 
 Librarian of the Guildhall Library, London, and Mr Walter Rye, 
 of London, author of “Records and Record Searching,” have each 
 given an opinion that the name is of Dutch origin; and it is stated 
 in support of this view that vast numbers of Dutch Protestants, 
 fleeing from the persecution of the bloody Duke of Alva, settled 
 in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and that these 
 emigrants added largely to Ihe personal nomenclature of England, 
 their names generally being more or less modified in the process of 
 Anglicization. 
 
 I have read on the tombstone of my great-grandfather, Rev. 
 James Quisenberry (1759-1830) that he was “of English parentage,” 
 which Avas evidently intended to mean that he was of English 
 descent, for his parents were not born in England, but in Virginia. 
 His grandson, Esquire Thacker Quisenberry, of Winchester, Ky., 
 says he has heard the old gentleman say that the Quisenberrys 
 came from the north of England, close to the marches of Scotland. 
 
ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND FAMILY OF QUISENBERRY. 
 
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 Tlie tradition of numerous members of the family now living in 
 various parts of Virginia is that their ancestors came from Eng¬ 
 land. The fact that the name in some of the branches of the family 
 is “Chrissenberry,” “Christenberry,” and “Christianberry,” may in¬ 
 dicate the origin of the name from Christianbury Craig, a mountain 
 in the extreme north of Cumberland county, England, and which, 
 indeed, lies partly in England and partly in Scotland. The will 
 of Humphrey Quesenbury (Appendix II, 26), written in his own 
 hand, several times uses the term “dafter” for “daughter,” a strong 
 North of England colloquialism, which, of course, he had acquired 
 from his father and those before him. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Quesenberry, at present living at Ozeana, Ess< 
 county, Virginia, where he is a Justice of the l’eace, only a fe 
 years ago had in his possession an old black-letter English Bible, 
 which had come down to him through many generations. Being- 
 unacquainted with black-letter, he presumed that the book was 
 “printed in Greek, or some other language,” and he had long used 
 it as a “scrap-book.” That portion devoted to the purposes of a 
 family record, however, he held sacred, though only one entry of 
 all the long record was legible or decipherable, and that said: 
 
 “/Jfcary Quesenbury bteD September S, 1569.” 
 
 Mr. Samuel Quesenberry was not aware of the value of this 
 book, both as a family record and relic, and as a Biblical curio, 
 for it was probably a Coverdale, or in any event a very rare copy 
 of one of the earliest editions of the English black-letter Bible. 
 A “commercial traveler” stopping with him one night suggested 
 that he might get a good price for it in Baltimore. He accordingly 
 carried it to that city and sold it for fifty dollars to a man who 
 told him, after the sale was effected, that it was “the oldest Bible 
 in America.” Since that time all trace of the old Bible has been 
 lost, though it is probably not an ill conjecture that it has passed 
 through the hands of Bernard Quaritch, the world-famous biblio¬ 
 pole of London. The known existence of this book and the record 
 it contains, however, seems convincing proof that the Quisenberry 
 family at least lived in England for some time, whether it origin¬ 
 ated there or not, and that they were among the very first of those 
 
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 ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND FAMILY OF QUISENBERRY. 
 
 in England to unite with the Reformation; and it authentically 
 carries the existence of the family back almost to the extreme 
 limit of the period to which English families generally may be 
 traced, for Mr. W. 1*. W. Phillimore, of London, a most competent 
 authority, says in his very entertaining book, “How to Write the 
 History of a Family,” that “for the majority of English families 
 the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries may be fixed upon as the ex¬ 
 treme limit of antiquity to which they may hope to attain.” 
 
 The name Quisenberry, however, is now apparently extinct in 
 England. Mr. G. Iv. Fortesque, Librarian of the British Museum, 
 wrote that he had made an exhaustive search of all the contem¬ 
 porary (1888) English, Scotch, and Irish directories, as well as 
 other works, and utterly failed to find the name Quisenberry, or 
 any name approximating it, and that in his opinion no such name 
 now exists in Great Britain. Mr. Walter Rye, who is perhaps as 
 well informed concerning English names as any man living, also 
 made a similar search, without success. The only contemporary 
 names in Great Britain at all approximating Quisenberry, so far 
 as he could find after a faithful search, are: Queenborough, in 
 Kent (and this, if anything is, is doubtless the present name of the 
 Quisenberry family in England); Quanbury, in Licolnshire, and 
 Quarnbury, in Yorkshire. While Mr. Rye thinks that Quisenberry 
 “sounds Dutch,” he admits that “it may be a corruption of some 
 such name as ‘Kissenbury.’ ” The nearest approach that has been 
 found to this name is that of Lieutenant Kislingbury, of the United 
 States Navy, a member of the ill-fated “Greeley expedition,” fitted 
 out by the United States Government to discover a route to the 
 North Pole. 
 
 In England a name might easily become obliterated without 
 the family which it had some time designated becoming extinct, 
 for in that country the surnames may generally be changed at will. 
 This is notably instanced in the case of the name Washington, so 
 familiar in America, and, indeed, throughout the world. The orig¬ 
 inal progenitor of this race, so far as the records extend, was a 
 de Hertburn, who arbitrarily changed his name into Wessyngton, 
 which, after going through several etymological gymnastics, finally 
 crystallized into Washington, and became immortal. And it may 
 be that the humble name of Quisenberry, or Quessenbury, or Quis- 
 
ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND FAMILY OF QUISENBERRY. 
 
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 sinborrowe, or whatever it may originally have been, has been sim¬ 
 ilarly changed in England since the American branch left there, 
 two hundred and fifty years ago or more, and that the family now 
 has there a numerous representation under some other surname 
 wholly unknown to us, their transatlantic kin. 
 
 After a great deal of correspondence and considerable ex¬ 
 pense there has been found only one trace of the name Quisenberry 
 in England, though with sufficient time and adequate means to 
 devote to Ihe matter a great deal about it might be discovered. 
 The trace mentioned is this: the ancient registers of St. Giles 
 Church, Cripplegate Without, London, have the following entry: 
 
 “Licensed to marry. — Samuel Quissinburrowe, of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, bachelor, 23, 
 and Mary Warner, of St. Michael, Bassishawe, London, 21. Her parents dead. Alleged by Thomas 
 Quissinborow, of St. Giles, aforesaid, Clerk — at St. Giles, aforesaid, February 1st, 1673. 
 
 At that time there had been Quisenberrys in Virginia for at 
 least twenty-two years, and perhaps longer. Although this license 
 was issued February 1st, 1G73, the marriage, for some cause, now 
 unknown, was not solemnized until September 4th following. It 
 is noted that Samuel Quissinburrowe was married by license at the 
 maximum fee of six shillings and eight pence, and not by banns 
 at the minimum fee of two shillings, and this fact is assumed by 
 Mr. John BroomlialJ, J. P., of Surbiton, County Surrey, England, 
 <c indicate his superior social and financial position. Both Squire 
 Broomhall and Mr. Kettle, the Guildhall Librarian, are of the 
 opinion that the expression “Thomas Quissinborow, Clerk,” may, 
 without contradiction, be construed to mean that Thomas Quis¬ 
 sinborow was curate or pastor of St. Giles Church. 
 
 At that time (1G73) St. Giles was one of the most famous 
 churches in London. It was founded in the year 1090, A. D.; re¬ 
 built, after destruction by fire in 1545 (with the exception of the 
 fine tower added in 1G60); and there Oliver Cromwell was married, 
 and Milton, the poet, and Foxe, the martyrologist, are buried. 
 
 It will be noted that in the brief entry from the ancient regis¬ 
 ters of St. Giles Church, the name Quisenberry is spelled in two 
 ways. Thomas and Samuel were doubtless father and son. At any 
 rate they were undoubtedly closely related and members of tin* 
 same family. Spelling, especially of names, was until a compara¬ 
 tively recent date quite arbitrary, and this fact accounts for 
 the diversity in the manner of spelling the name Quisenberry re¬ 
 ferred to in the beginning of this chapter. Few, if any, English 
 names have escaped a similar diversity. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE QUISENBElRY FAMILY IN VIRGINIA. 
 
 Of course there is a tradition that the Quisenberry family in 
 America originated from “three brothers” who came from Eng¬ 
 land at an early date. All, or at least the great majority of Amer¬ 
 ican families, are traditionally descended from “three brothers” 
 who originally came to these shores. In the case of the Quisen¬ 
 berry family, however, it is believed from researches among ihe 
 records that all of them now in America are descended from John 
 Quessenbury, who settled in Virginia at some time prior to 1051. 
 The exact time of his coming is not known, and probably never 
 will be known. It appears (see Appendix II, 1) that he had, in 
 1651, assisted in surveying the “Stratford” or Thomas Lee estate 
 (then in Northumberland county, now in Westmoreland), and he 
 afterwards (in 1660) bought one hundred acres of land adjoining 
 that estate, when it was still the property of Thomas Pope, of 
 w'hose heirs Thomas Lee bought it. John Quessenbury evidently 
 owned other lands before he bought this hundred acres, but he 
 had purchased them while Westmoreland was still a part of 
 Northumberland. Westmoreland was formed from Northumber¬ 
 land in 1653, and the records of the last-named county were 
 destroyed when the Courthouse was burned in 1710; and the 
 records of the early land grants and patents in the land office at 
 Richmond Avere also burned at the time of the surrender of the 
 city to the Federal forces in 1865. Thus the evidences of his first 
 purchases or entries of land in Virginia are forever lost. 
 
 In 1707, in a deposition given by this John Quisenberry before 
 (lie Westmoreland justices, “being examined and sworn upon the 
 Holy Evangelist,” he testified that he was eighty years of age, and 
 that fifty years previously he had assisted in surveying a planta¬ 
 tion on the Potomac, in Westmoreland county, “since called Vaulx- 
 land, or Vaulx Quarter,” for “old Mrs. Vaulx,” whose husband 
 
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 was then in England; and lie had offered to buy a portion of this 
 plantation, “and she seemed willing;” but whether the trade was 
 consummated the deposition does not state, and the records of 
 Westmoreland county do not show. However, it does show 
 that as John Quisenberry was eighty years old in 1707, he must 
 have been born in 1627. 
 
 In the earliest records of Westmoreland county, now about 
 two hundred and fifty years old, the name is invariably spelled 
 Quessenbury; but as the years go on that is gradually changed into 
 Quesenbury, Quisenburv, Quesenberry, and Quisenberry. The first 
 record concerning John, the pioneer, is dated June 27, 1656, and 
 is a record of “his mark of Hoggs and Cattle.” (See Appendix II, 3.) 
 The records also show that on January 16, 1666, he bought of John 
 Butler, of Westmoreland county, one hundred acres of land (be¬ 
 ing part of a patent) “for a full and valuable consideration in hand 
 paid,” and a yearly quit-rent of two shillings “at the feast of St. 
 Michael, the Archangel.” On November 25, 1691, John Quisen¬ 
 berry, sr., bought of Malachi Beale his remaining interest of two 
 hundred acres in a patent. 
 
 John Quisenberry, so far as is known, had but three children, 
 all sons—John, William, and Humphrey. John, who had the dis¬ 
 tinction of engaging in a law suit in 1692 with Captain John 
 Washington (Appendix II, 6), died in 1695, leaving no children, 
 although he was married. The elder John Quisenberry died in 
 1717 at or near the age of ninety years. His will, dated November 
 23, 1714, was probated November 27, 1717, which was probably a 
 short time after his death. (Appendix II, 17.) One of the wit¬ 
 nesses of the will was Francis Quisenberry, of whom there is no 
 other known record; but very probably he was the brother of the 
 testator, and he must have died childless. Of Humphrey Pope, an¬ 
 other witness to the will, a few words of what is considered well 
 founded conjecture is here appropriate, perhaps. The fact that he 
 witnessed John Quisenberry’s will and went his security (Appendix 
 IT, 32) is prima facie evidence that the two men were upon the 
 closest terms of intimacy; and in addition to this, the fact that 
 one of John Quisenberry’s sons w T as named Humphrey, all goes to 
 suggest close relationship or connection; and the belief is war¬ 
 ranted that John Quisenberry’s wife, Anne, was the sister of 
 Humphrey Pope. 
 
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 THE QUISENBERRY FAMILY IN VIRGINIA. 
 
 Mr. Franklin Pope, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a gentleman who 
 has made extensive personal researches among English records 
 for matters relating to the name of Pope, states that in the course 
 of his researches he has learned that “one Humphrey Pope, of 
 Taunton, Somersetshire, England, was a participant in the Duke 
 of Monmouth’s Rebellion in 1665, and was sentenced to transporta- 
 lion to the Barbadoes for his offense, and was actually sent there 
 upon a ship sailing from Bristol in that year.” It is known that 
 a great many of the political exiles to the Barbadoes made their 
 way (o Virginia within a few years; and therefore it would not be 
 surprising if the Humphrey Pope who witnessed the will of John 
 Quisenberry in 1717, and was afterwards one of the appraisers of 
 his estate, was the same Humphrey Tope who was sent to the 
 Barbadoes in 1665. However, there were always Popes in West¬ 
 moreland county from the very start; and whether Humphrey 
 was the Monmouth rebel or not, he was certainly closely allied 
 to the other Popes in the county, all of whom originally came from 
 the adjoining shires of Gloucester and Somerset, in England. 
 
 From the Pope family, of Westmoreland county, Virginia, are 
 descended the Popes who took so prominent a part in the early 
 political affairs of Kentucky, Illinois, and Arkansas, of whom Hon. 
 John Pope, United States Senator from Kentucky, was perhaps the 
 most conspicuous. From him was descended the late Gen. John 
 Pope, United States Army, who at one time commanded the Army 
 of the Potomac during the Civil War. In Westmoreland county 
 the Popes and the Quisenberrys have so frequently intermarried 
 during the past two hundred years that the degree of consanguinity 
 between the two families is now too closely complicated to be 
 determined with any degree of accuracy. 
 
 John Quisenberry was himself most probably one of that num¬ 
 erous throng of Royalists who, shortly after the beheading of 
 Charles I, in 1649, was obliged to flee from the persecutions of 
 Cromwell and the Puritans, and who came to Virginia and settled, 
 for the most part, in the “Northern Neck,” of which Northumber¬ 
 land and Westmoreland counties are a part, and were then the 
 only part open to settlement. Before that time the Northern 
 Neck had been called “Chiccoun,” or “Cliickown,” and until shortly 
 before the advent of the Royalists it had been unlawful to settle 
 
THE QUISENBERRY FAMILY TN VIRGINIA. 
 
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 iii any portion of it. Virginia was loyal to the Stuarts throughout 
 all their vicissitudes, and gave freely of the lands of the Northern 
 Neck to the fugitive Royalists. It is almost a certainty that John 
 Quisenberry was one of these; some of the Popes were of the 
 same party; and his wife, Anne Pope, was probably very closely 
 related to that other Anne Pope of Westmoreland county who 
 married Colonel John Washington, the great-grandfather of George 
 Washington. 
 
 John Quisenberry's old homestead is still standing. It is a 
 small, unpretentious house, built more with a view to durability 
 than for show, and it has weathered the storms of more than two 
 centuries. It adjoins tin* lands taken up in 1651 by Thomas Pope, 
 and afterwards sold to Hon. Thomas Lee, who erected upon them 
 about 1730 the historic “Stratford Hall,” still standing, the birth¬ 
 place of Richard Henry Lee and Francis Light foot Lee, two signers 
 of the Declaration of Independence, and of Robert E. Lee, the 
 great Confederate General; and it is only a few miles away from 
 the site of “Wakefield,” the first home of the Washingtons in 
 America, where George Washington was born. 
 
 It is not known what, if anything, John Quisenberry called 
 his home; but it is now known as the “Old Quisenberry Place,” 
 and is owned by a man named Jenkins, who has made it the model 
 farm of Westmoreland county. 
 
 The anxiety to obtain every possible scrap of information 
 about the origin and early history of the family was so great that 
 tin* Clerk of the Westmoreland County Court was commissioned 
 to examine tin* criminal records and dockets of his office, from the 
 earliest dates, and furnish copies of whatever they might show 
 in this connection. His reply was: “Nothing can be learned from 
 this source. The name Quisenberry has never appeared on tin* 
 criminal docket in this county.” This is undoubtedly a good rec¬ 
 ord, for the family has certainly existed there for two hundred and 
 forty-six years (1651-1897), and most of that time has been as 
 numerous there as ever it was in Clark county, Kentucky, where 
 for one hundred and fourteen years (1783-1897) it has maintained 
 equally as creditable a standing. 
 
 John Quisenberry, the pioneer, is described in old legal docu¬ 
 ments as a “planter,” and his own depositions show that he some- 
 
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 THE QUISENBERRY FAMILY IN VIRGINIA. 
 
 
 times acted as a surveyor’s assistant. The deeds still in existence 
 show that he owned three hundred acres of land; and he almost 
 certainly owned other lands, the records of which were destroyed 
 by fire at Northumberland Courthouse and at Richmond. ITe and 
 his family were communicants of the Anglican or Episcopalian 
 Church, and were members of the famous old Pope’s Creek Church, 
 one of the two original churches in the Washington Parish of 
 Westmoreland county. The ancient records of this church, em¬ 
 bracing, of course, the registers of marriages, births, and deaths, 
 have long ago perished, else much valuable information of a genea¬ 
 logical character might have been secured from them for use in 
 this work. It is safe to infer, however, that the ashes of John 
 Quisenberry and many of his descendants rest in the consecrated 
 soil of old Pope’s Creek churchyard, which, in colonial times, 
 was adorned with many memorial stones. At this time, however, 
 and for many years past, its numerous graves have been wholly 
 unmarked, and it would, therefore, be quite impossible to identify 
 the grave of any person who there lies interred. 
 
 John Quisenberry, as has been shown, had three sons—John, 
 William, and Humphrey, and it is from Humphrey, the youngest 
 of the three, that the Kentucky branch of the family are de¬ 
 scended. Under the laws of primogeniture that then prevailed in 
 Virginia, as well as under his father’s will, William, the eldest 
 son (John having died in 1695), inherited practically the whole 
 of his father’s estate; but Humphrey had been making his own 
 way. We find from the records that on July 6, 1695, he bought of 
 Christopher Pritchett one hundred acres of land, the deed beginning 
 quaintly as follows: “This indenture, made the 6th day of July, 
 anno dom. 1695, in the sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign 
 Lord and Lady, King William and Queen Mary, of England, Scot¬ 
 land, France, and Ireland, King and Queen, Defender of the Faith, 
 etc., between Christopher Pritchett, of Westmoreland county, and 
 Washington Parish, of the one part, and Humphrey Quisenberry, 
 of the same County and Parish, of the other part, slioweth that 
 Christopher Pritchett, abovesaid, for and in consideration of nine 
 thousand pounds of good Orronoco tobacco, and casks, to him in 
 hand paid, doth hereby alienate, bargain, sell, enfeoff and con¬ 
 firm,” etc., the one hundred acres of land, as stated. 
 
THE QUISENBERKY FAMILY IN VIRGINIA. 
 
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 Without stopping to consider the enormous magnitude of a 
 hand into which nine thousand pounds of tobacco, and casks, could 
 be paid, it is interesting to be able to compute the money value 
 of the land. For many years tobacco was the principal legal 
 lender and medium of exchange in Virginia, which colony never 
 had a coinage of its own. All linancial transactions being com¬ 
 puted in tobacco, it was necessary for that staple to have a fixed 
 value, and the Council, as early as 1039, had, by enactment, placed 
 this at ninepence per pound. The nine thousand pounds of tobacco 
 was therefore worth £337 1-2 in money, or about $1,125, the 
 Virginia pound being worth only $3.33 13; and this made the land 
 cost $11.25 per acre-—at least twice as much as it would sell for 
 in this year of grace, 1897, more than two hundred years later. 
 
 This land, “lying on the north side of the great road that 
 goeth from Pope’s Creek to the head of Perpeto Creek,” it tran¬ 
 spires, was in old Rappahannock county, which comprised portions 
 of the present counties of King George, Richmond, and Essex— 
 and was formed about 1600, and was swallowed up by the forma¬ 
 tion of those counties some years afterwards, disappearing en¬ 
 tirely. The present Rappahannock county, Virginia, in an en¬ 
 tirely different locality, was not formed until 1820. 
 
 The records of Richmond county, Virginia, show that in 1718 
 “Humphery Quesenbury,” of 'Westmoreland county, bought a tract 
 of land in Richmond county from one John Jennings, but there 
 is no further record of it in that county; but it appears to have 
 been the same tract of land sold in 1728 by Thomas Quisenberry, 
 in King George county, to John Finch, in the deed to which lie 
 mentions that he received the land under the will of his father, 
 Humphrey Quisenberry. (See Appendices III, 2, and IV, 1, 2.) It 
 may further elucidate this matter to state that Richmond county 
 was formed in 1692 from old Rappahannock, and King George 
 was formed in 1720 from Richmond. 
 
CHAPTER III 
 
 CHARACTERISTICS AND SERVICES OF THE FAMILY. 
 
 Before proceeding to trace the descendants of William and 
 Humphrey Quisenberry, it is thought best to here make a digres¬ 
 sion for the purpose of describing the characteristics, peculiarities, 
 and, in some respects, the history of the Quisenberry race in 
 America, which shall be done as briefly as is consistent with main¬ 
 taining the interest of the theme to those who may be interested 
 in it. 
 
 It is believed that it will be freely admitted by all who know 
 them that the distinguishing characteristics of the family have 
 been honesty, industry, candor, and thrift. The character of John 
 Quisenberry, the founder of the family, is perhaps as fully ex¬ 
 emplified in the following extract from the will of Tobias Butler 
 (Feb. 17, 1687), of Westmoreland county, as it could possibly be 
 by anything, to wit: 
 
 “If my wife should die, I leave my son, James Butler, unto my 
 loveing friend, John Quessenbury, and his wife; and if my wife 
 should marry and my children should be abused, then my loveing 
 friend, John Quessenbury, to take them and raise them.” 
 
 A man who could inspire that kind of implicit trust in a 
 friend and neighbor was certainly a very good kind of a man to 
 start a family with. Tobias Butler was of the prominent Butler 
 family of Westmoreland county, and was undoubtedly closely re¬ 
 lated to Jane Butler, who was the first wife of Augustine Washing¬ 
 ton, the father of George Washington. 
 
 The Quisenbcrrys have certainly been a patriotic race, and 
 they have shed their blood in every American war (and on both 
 sides of some of them) since the days of Queen Anne. What part, 
 if any, they bore in Bacon’s Rebellion, in Virginia, in 1676, is not 
 known, as the records of that war are mostly lost. In the French 
 and Indian wars several of them saw service, and one of them, 
 
CHARACTERISTICS AND SERVICES OF THE FAMILY. 
 
 21 
 
 Christopher Quisenberry, a subaltern of Westmoreland militia, was 
 killed at Braddock’s Defeat, July 1), 1755. The MS papers of George 
 Washington, now on tile in the Bureau of Rolls and Library of 
 the Department of State, in Washington, D. C., furnish the follow¬ 
 ing information: 
 
 On a roll of Captain Charles Lewis’s Company of the Virginia 
 Regiment, taken July 18, 1756, appears the name of Nicholas 
 Quisenberry, who enlisted in May, 1756, in Westmoreland county; 
 age, 21; height, 5 feet 5 inches; planter; born in Virginia; dark 
 complexion; brown hair. 
 
 On a roll of Captain Joshua Lewis’s Company, taken July 13, 
 
 1756, appears the name of Humphrey Quisenberry, who enlisted 
 May 1!), 1755, at Fredericksburg; age, 24 years; height, 5 feet 6 
 inches; planter; born in Virginia; dark complexion. (He was 
 doubtless in Braddock’s Defeat, as his company, of which he was 
 a member at the time, took part in that battle.) 
 
 On a roll of Captain Henry Woodward’s Company, stationed 
 at Fort Lytleton, August 22, 1757, appears tin* name of Humphrey 
 Quisenberry. 
 
 On another roll of tin' same company, taken September 24, 
 
 1757, appears the following: “Humphrey Quisenberry, born in 
 V irginia, age 24 years, 5 feet 7 1-2 inches high, enlisted in Hamp¬ 
 shire county; fair complexion; red hair; thin face; planter.” 
 
 It is not known how many Quisenberrys served in the Revolu¬ 
 tion, but record has been found of the following: 
 
 James Quisenberry, in Captain Charles Porterfield's Company 
 of Colonel Daniel Morgan’s 15th Virginia Regiment of the Con¬ 
 tinental line. 
 
 Nicholas Quisenberry, in Smallwood's Brigade of Virginia and 
 Maryland Riflemen. This was a distinguished corps. 
 
 Rev. James Quisenberry served in the Virginia Militia, and 
 was one of the garrison of the fort at Boonesboro, Ky., in 1783. 
 and later. 
 
 John Qnesenbury, served in a Virginia Regiment of the Con¬ 
 tinental line. 
 
 In the War of 1812 the roll grows <|nite numerous, viz: 
 
 Daniel Quisenberry, in Captain Daniel Green's Company of 
 Colonel Clark’s Virginia Militia. Pensioned. 
 
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 CHARACTERISTICS AND SERVICES OF THE FAMILY. 
 
 James Qui sen berry, in Captain Timothy Dalton’s, afterwards 
 Captain Richard Glasscock’s Company of Virginia Volunteers. 
 Pensioned. 
 
 Roger Quisenberry, in Captain John Martin’s Company of 
 Colonel Asa K. Lewis’s Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers. Pen¬ 
 sioned. 
 
 Thomas Quisenberry, in Captain Timothy Dalton’s Company 
 of Virginia Volunteers. Pensioned. 
 
 Vivian Quisenberry, in Colonel Mason’s Regiment of Virginia 
 Volunteers. Pensioned. 
 
 Edward Sanford Quisenberry, in the Virginia Militia. 
 
 Major William S. Quisenberry, Surgeon of Colonel Austin 
 Smith’s 25th Virginia Regiment. 
 
 George Quisenberry, in Captain James Daniel’s Company of 
 Colonel R. E. Parker’s 30th Virginia Regiment. 
 
 William Quisenberry, in Captain Win. H. Hooe’s Company, 
 25th Virginia Regiment. 
 
 William Quisenberry, in Captain John T. Lomax’s Company 
 of Colonel Vincent Branham’s 41st Virginia Regiment. 
 
 William Quisenberry, in Captain Josiah Penick’s Company, 
 7th Virginia Regiment. 
 
 James Quisenberry, in Captain Joseph Reddish's Company of 
 Colonel Samuel H. Payton’s 45tli Virginia Regiment. 
 
 So far as is known, none served in the Mexican War except 
 Captain William D. Quesenbury, who served in a regiment of 
 Arkansas Cavalry and Roger Tandy Quisenberry, who was a sub¬ 
 altern in Captain John S. William’s Company of Independent Ken¬ 
 tucky Cavalry. 
 
 In the Civil War, 1861-’65, quite a number served, principally 
 on the Confederate side, and some of these will be mentioned here¬ 
 after, as this work progresses. From Clark county, Ky., none went 
 except into the Confederate service, and they were as follows: 
 
 In the “Orphan Brigade”—James H. Quisenberry, William 
 Quisenberry, Philip Quisenberry. 
 
 In Cluke’s Regiment, Morgan’s Command—Elkanah Quisen¬ 
 berry, Ezekiel Pi. Quisenberry, Claudius V. Quisenberry, Richard 
 Quisenberry, Silas Quisenberry. 
 
CHARACTERISTICS AND SERVICES OF THETAMILY. 
 
 23 
 
 Iii Cheuault’s Regiment, Morgan’s Command—Joel T. Quisen 
 berry, Robert Quisenberry, Benjamin Quisenberry. 
 
 Generally the Quisenberrys have been without ambition for 
 fame or eminence in the opinions of men, and consequently but few 
 of them have sought or obtained office or high position of any kind. 
 
 Physically, the male members of the family originally were 
 generally very tall, most of them being more than six feet feet in 
 height, and some of them reaching six feet six inches. Some 
 branches of the family still retain this characteristic. The race 
 is generally a long-lived one, many of them having attained the age 
 of ninety years, and in 1890 one of them died in King George 
 county, Virginia, at the age of ninety-six. The generation born 
 toward the close of the last century were quite prolific. George 
 Quisenberry, of Orange county, Virginia, had twenty-two chil¬ 
 dren; his brother, Rev. James Quisenberry, of Clark county. Ken¬ 
 tucky, had twenty-four, and his (James’) son, Tandy Quisenberry, 
 had nineteen. Edward Sanford Quisenberry, of Logan county, 
 Illinois, had twenty-two, and nearly all of the others ran from 
 that number on down to the more moderate output of ten or dozen. 
 
 The original members of the family in Virginia were Episco¬ 
 palians. and, judging from the expressions of the pioneer, John 
 Quisenberry, in his will, dated November 23, 1714, he must have 
 been extremely pious. The preamble ran: “In the name of God, 
 Amen! I, John Quisenberry, of the Parish of Washington, and 
 County of Westmoreland, being sick of body, but of perfect mind 
 and memory, doe make, ordain and publish this my last will and 
 testament in manner and form following, vizt: revokeing and dis- 
 anuling all and every will and wills and testaments by me hereto¬ 
 fore made and declared either by word or writing, and this to be 
 taken only for my last will and testament, and none other; and 
 being penitent and sorry for my past sins and humbly praying for¬ 
 giveness for them, I give my soul unto Almighty God, my Saviour 
 and Redeemer, and believe myself assuredly to be saved, and ihat 
 my soul with my body at Ihe genera 11 day of resurrection shall 
 rise again with joy and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven prepared 
 for His elect.” 
 
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 CHARACTERISTICS AND SERVICES OF THE FAMILY. 
 
 The parsons sent out from England by the ecclesiastical an 
 thorities for (he cure of souls in Virginia were generally an in¬ 
 ferior lot, whom the English were glad to he rid of at any pi-ice. 
 In Virginia many of (hem paid no more attention to spiritual affairs 
 than was involved in a perfunctory mumbling of the service on 
 Sundays, and the collection of their tithes; but they could generally 
 hold their own at drinking, gambling, horse-racing, cock-lighting, 
 and hard swearing. The sturdy Virginians never at any time 
 looked upon these men with much allowance, but rather bore the 
 infliction with Christian resignation and forbearance. So the times 
 were ripe for a general religious upheaval when the Methodists 
 and Baptists, about the middle of the eighteenth century, began 
 almost simultaneously to make a stir in the Old Dominion. Some 
 of the Quisenberrys about that time became Methodists, but most 
 of them were gathered up by the great Baptist revival which 
 swept through the colony like a hurricane. Others had already be¬ 
 come converted to the faith of the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who 
 had settled in the Shenandoah Valley in the early part of the 
 century. At this time (1897) it would be safe to say that the great 
 majority of the name who were connected with any church at all 
 are Baptists. However, I personally know members of different 
 branches of the family who are Catholics, Episcopalians, Presby¬ 
 terians, Methodists, Cumberland Presbyterians, and Disciples of 
 Christ. 
 
 Among the family have been many Baptist and a few Metho¬ 
 dist and Presbyterian ministers; many physicians, a few lawyers, 
 and some merchants. Most of them, however, for two hundred 
 and fifty years past, have been farmers and planters, and these 
 have invariably owned their own land. The only Episcopal min¬ 
 ister among them, so far as known, was Thomas Quissinborow, 
 curate of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, in 1673, heretofore re¬ 
 ferred to. 
 
 The descendants of John Quisenberry are now scattered, so far 
 as known, through the following States and Territories of the 
 Cnion, and are numerous in most of them, to wit, Virginia, Mary¬ 
 land, New York, North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, 
 Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Ne¬ 
 braska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and the 
 
CHARACTERISTICS AND SERVICES OF THE FAMILY. 
 
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 Indian Territory, and they are almost “as the sands of the sea for 
 number.'’ It would be impossible for one man to trace even a tithe 
 of them in a life-time, but it is curious to see how many descendants, 
 even of his own name, one man of nine or ten generations ago, like 
 John Quisenberry, can have to-day. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
 The descendants of William, the elder son of John Quisenberrv, 
 in Westmoreland county, may be easily traced by the records of 
 that county, even down to the present day. It appears that some 
 of them intermarried with the Baynes, Dodds, Mothersheads, 
 Weavers, Hazels, Deans, Brocks, Popes, Moxleys, Hungerfords, 
 Stoops, Welches, Marmadukes, and Riggs. No attempt will be 
 made to follow this numerous branch of the family, but merely 
 to state briefly the matters of interest connected with it, which 
 seem to be mainly clustered about one line of its descent. The 
 generations of this line, beginning with the founder, are as follows: 
 (1) John, (2) William 1 , (3) William 2 , (4) Nicholas I , (5) Nicholas 2 , 
 (6) George, (7) Nicholas 3 , (8) Nicholas 4 , who also has children; 
 making nine generations of this family who have lived in Virginia. 
 Nicholas 2 , was probably the wealthiest man of the Quisenberry 
 name who ever lived in Virginia. His daughter, Catherine, or 
 “Catie,” married Jonathan Rigg, and one of her descendants has 
 furnished a list of her generations, as follows: 
 
 THE GENERATIONS OF CATIE RIGG. 
 
 Catherine Quisenberry, daughter of Nicholas Quisenberry, of 
 Westmoreland county, Virginia, was born about 1770. Married 
 Jonathan Rigg in 1792. Moved to Lexington, Ky., in 1807. Had 
 eleven children, of whom four died young. Was left a widow in 
 1834, and moved to Jackson, Mississippi, with her daughter Eliza¬ 
 beth in 1839, and died there September 4,1849. Children: 
 
 1. Mary Rigg—Born in 1794 or ’96; married Mr. Hawkins, and 
 died young, leaving one daughter, Mary, who was born about 1825. 
 In 1845 she married Ambrose Dudley, of Lexington, Ky., where she 
 now dwells a widow. She had four children: Winslow, Charles 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF WJLUAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
 27 
 
 (died young), William (died young), and Mary, wlio married Dr. 
 Short, of Cincinnati. 
 
 2. Basil Quisenberry Bigg—Born in 1800; educated at Tran¬ 
 sylvania University and went to Louisiana to practice law about 
 1826, and settled at Alexandria, in that State. May 11), 1833, he 
 was killed by the explosion of the steamer “Lioness,” gunpowder 
 in hold, on Red river. Not married. 
 
 3. Elizabeth Rigg—Born May 2, 1803, and about 1826 mar¬ 
 ried Hon. Charles Humphreys, Circuit Judge and Professor of 
 Law in Transylvania University, who died in 1830. They had one 
 child, Charles William Humphreys. She was married again on 
 May 30, 1833, to Hon. Daniel Mayes, Circuit Judge and Professor 
 of Law in Transylvania University. (Curious coincidence: Mayes 
 followed Humphreys in Judgeship, Professorship and wife.) They 
 moved to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1839, where she was left a widow 
 on February 6, 1861. She bore Judge Mayes three children: Basil, 
 Daniel, and Edward. Her son, Charles William Humphreys, was a 
 physician and planter. In 1859 he married Miss Kate A. Scott, 
 of Jefferson county, Mississippi. In the Civil War he was a First 
 Lieutenant in Wilburn’s Battalion of Mississippi Cavalry, and was 
 killed in a skirmish before Port Hudson, in 1863. He left two 
 daughters, Elizabeth and Matilda. Her son, Basil Rigg Mayes, was 
 born in 1835, and is a lawyer living at Carrollton, Mississippi. He 
 was a First Lieutenant in the lltli Mississippi Infantry, and was 
 wounded at Antietam. Married Miss Alethea McIntyre, of Car¬ 
 rollton, Mississippi, and died childless on November II, 1871. Daniel 
 Mayes was born in 1839; Corporal in the 4th Mississippi Cavalry, 
 and is a planter near Oxford, Mississippi. Edward Mayes, born 
 December 15, 1846, was a private in the 4th Mississippi Cavalry. 
 Graduated at the University of Mississippi in June, 1868. Married 
 on May 11, 1869, Miss Frances Eliza Lamar, daughter of Hon. L. 
 Q. C. Lamar, who has served as a United States Senator and as a 
 Justice of the Supreme Court. Edward Mayes has been a lawyer 
 since 1870, and in 1877 was elected Professor of Law in the Univer- 
 sity of Mississippi and made Chancellor of the University in 1886. 
 Has seven children—Mary Lamar, Lucien Lamar (died in infancy), 
 Elizabeth Lamar, Lucius Lamar (died in infancy), Elizabeth Lamar, 
 Edward Walthall (died a child), Lucius Lamar, Francis Lamar, 
 Basil Robert. 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
 4. Edward Rigg—Born in 1805; went to Alexandria, Louis¬ 
 iana, to practice law, and died there about 1840; unmarried. 
 
 5. Alexander Moxlev Rigg—Born in 1809; farmer; lived at 
 Owensboro, Kentucky, and died there some years ago, leaving a 
 large number of descendants. Mr. H. B. Rigg, of Glasgow, Ken¬ 
 tucky, is his son. 
 
 G. Jane TV. Rigg—Born in 1813, and moved to Jackson, Mis¬ 
 sissippi, in 1S39, with her sister, Mrs. Mayes. In 1850, married 
 Barry TV. Humphreys, her sister’s step-son, and moved to Austin, 
 Texas, her husband's home, and now 7 lives at Good Luck, Texas. 
 Their only child, Parry W. Humphreys, born in 1857, is married and 
 has a small family. 
 
 7. Thomas J. Rigg—Born in 1817; w 7 ent in 1848 to New 
 Orleans, where he married a French woman, name not remembered, 
 and in 1869 died, childless. 
 
 Colonel William C. Marmaduke, of the late Confederate Army, 
 has served several terms as Sheriff of Westmoreland county, Vir¬ 
 ginia, and now holds that office. He is the grandson of Georg'e 
 Quisenberry, son of Nicholas 2 . 
 
 Nicholas 3 , son of George, owned an extensive plantation on 
 Machodoc creek, one mile from the Potomac river, in King George 
 county, where his son, Nicholas 4 , lived until his death in 1894. 
 Nicholas 3 married Miss Rose Green, of “Rosedale,” between 
 Georgetown and Tenallytown, in the District of Columbia, and her 
 brother was the original owmer of “Oak View,” or “Red Top” 
 (adjoining “Rosedale”), wdiic-h was subsequently purchased by Presi¬ 
 dent Cleveland as a residence. One of Mrs. Quisenberry’s sisters 
 married a son of the Emperor Iturbide, of Mexico, who w 7 as a stu¬ 
 dent at the Catholic University at Georgetown, D. C. Mrs. Itur- 
 bide’s son, Prince Augustine Iturbide, w 7 as the protege and de¬ 
 clared successor to the ill-fated Emperor Maximillian, and is now 7 
 llie only legitimate heir to the throne of Mexico in case its present 
 republican form of government should be abolished, which, indeed, 
 is probable enough in that land of revolutions. 
 
 Another very interesting incident connected with this Mrs. 
 Nicholas Quisenberry was recited at length in a letter from George 
 Alfred Townsend, the great newspaper correspondent, published 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
 29 
 
 in the Cincinnati Enquirer of August 1, 1884. From this letter 
 such portions are here extracted as cover the main points of the 
 story. 
 
 After the assassination of President Lincoln, in April, 1865, 
 by John Wilkes Booth, the assassin and his confederate, Herold, 
 fled together, and at Port Tobacco, Maryland, they crossed the 
 Potomac in a boat, for which Booth paid twenty dollars in gold, 
 and landed in Virginia on the farm of a man named Bryan, a near 
 neighbor of Mrs. Quisenberry’s. Mr. Townsend (“Gath”) then tells 
 the story as follows: 
 
 * * *- “Herold wanted to buy two horses, one for him¬ 
 
 self and one for Booth, and Bryan rather demurred to selling his, 
 but said that Mrs. Quisenberry, who lived close by, had several 
 horses, and wanted money. Herold therefore set off to this lady’s 
 house, about a mile and a half distant. Here a word about the 
 topography of the country. The Potomac, opposite to Pope’s creek, 
 Maryland, is only three miles wide, but both aliove and below it is 
 much wider. Mr. Jones, in Maryland, had directed the two fugi¬ 
 tives to enter Machodoc creek, and find the house of Mrs. Quisen- 
 Lerry. Machodoc creek is about a mile wide, and the first house on 
 its northern bank is the lady’s mentioned. * * * Bryan, in his 
 
 little hut, had no slaves, but Mrs. Quisenberry had a delightful cot¬ 
 tage, and was highly connected, and would have been a superior 
 woman anywhere. She was the daughter of a Mr. Green, of Iiose- 
 dale, an estate between Washington and its suburb of Tenallv- 
 town. Her sister had married the son of the Emperor Iturbide, 
 of Mexico, and Mrs. Quisenberry’s nephew was, at the very time 
 Booth stopped at this house, a protege, and perhaps adopted son, 
 of the Emperor Maximillian. This little incident seems to connect, 
 in some measure, the fates of two distinguished men, one of whom 
 speedily followed tin* other to a violent death. The Emperor Itur- 
 1 file’s son had been a student at Georgetown College, in the vicinity 
 of which Mr. Green lived. Mr. Quisenberry had been a Virginia 
 planter, with slaves and good connections, and his house was not 
 many miles from Washington’s birthplace. The house was a beauti¬ 
 ful cottage, trellised and ornamented, and with a lawn in front of 
 it reaching to the wide creek, hardly fifty yards distant, and on this 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBKRKY. 
 
 lawn, among other cabins, was a small school-house, fitted up for 
 the education of the children of the family who had a governess 
 by the name of Miss Duncanson. During the war the rebel govern- 
 ernment had established on Mrs. Quisenberry’s farm their per¬ 
 manent signal station to communicate with other rebels in Mary¬ 
 land, and hold open their mail route to the North and Canada. The 
 signal officers, as a rule, were genteel men, and they all thought 
 highly of their hostess, who was then about fifty years old. They 
 occupied the school-house, at least two of them did, and one of 
 these was a Maryland gentleman named Thomas Harbin. This 
 man was one of the original confidants of John Wilkes Booth in 
 the Scheme to abduct President Lincoln. Having been several 
 times in his company, I can say of him, as of his brother-in-law, 
 Thomas A. Jones, who ‘‘held the fort,” so to speak, for the Confed¬ 
 eracy, on the other shore—that while they do not conform to my 
 ideas of politics, they materially softened my feelings on the sub¬ 
 ject of Mr. Lincoln’s abduction by the frankness and fidelity of 
 their character. Harbin was a representative-looking Marylander, 
 tall, almost gaunt, yet supple, with a smile ever on his countenance; 
 dark-brown hair, high cheek bones, with somewhat sunken cheeks; 
 but cautions, and thoughtful, and tender to women. He had as 
 much respect for Mrs. Quisenberry and her family as if she had 
 been the wife of Jefferson Davis. * * * He took intense interest 
 
 in the Southern cause, reported at Richmond, and was intrusted 
 with the business of opening a mail route to the North. On the 
 opposite shore lived Thomas A. Jones, at a point where the bluffs 
 of Maryland rise at least one hundred feet high. Jones' first wife 
 had been Harbin's sister. It required no Masonic oath to bind 
 these men together. They were the life of the Confederacy in its 
 communication with Maryland and the North. Jones, in the earlier 
 part of the war, had nightly crossed the river with passengers for 
 the South. Arrested once on his return home from Richmond, he 
 was sent to prison in Washington and kept there several months. 
 When he was let out by some jail-opening commission, he returned 
 home to find everything broken up by the war; and Harbin came 
 to him, after he had refused a man named Crimes, and they agreed 
 to keep the ferry open. Every day toward evening a boat left 
 Mrs. Quisenberry’s place and crossed the river in the gray light 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBEllRY 
 
 31 
 
 to a place where the rebel mail was deposited, under the bluffs 
 of Maryland, in a stump. This mail was taken out, a pouch from 
 the South substituted, and the boat stole off in the gray evening, 
 unobserved, just as the Federal pickets were planted along the 
 bluff, which was done about sundown. If Jones had kept the boat 
 on his side of the river the Federals would have seized and de¬ 
 stroyed it. And so the courier spirit lodged all day in Virginia, at 
 Mrs. Quisenberry’s, and flew once, toward night, to Maryland, and 
 silently returned * * * * 
 
 * * * “Harbin had heard of the President’s assassina¬ 
 
 tion on Wednesday, five days after it occurred. He then knew that 
 his friend Booth had done the deed. The family circle at Mrs. 
 Quisenberry’s discussed the matter in all the Christian spirit of a 
 Northern household. Miss Lucy Hooe, an interesting lady, now 
 married, said at that circle: ‘This crime will hurt the Southern 
 people more than the whole war has done. It has no good motive; 
 was the ending of a man probably simple and honest, and its re¬ 
 sults will fall on us and our friends.’ They little knew while they 
 wyre talking by the wood-fire that April day that the President’s 
 murderer was steering toward them. There was a sick person in 
 the house, or neighborhood, and Harbin had taken a boat, in com¬ 
 pany with one of his military associates named Baden, and crossed 
 Machodoc creek to the fine estate of Colonel Baker, who had 
 hot houses and raised oranges and lemons to make lemonade. On 
 his return the wind blew up from the Potomac river and made 
 the crossing almost dangerous, so that they had to creep around 
 by the shores; and so they came to the lawn of Mrs. Quisenberry, 
 who, by the way, was known to all the neighbors as Mrs. ‘Cuesen- 
 berry.’ Miss Duncanson, the governess, came down to the boat and 
 said: ‘Mr. Harbin, there is a strange man here who has come to 
 buy horses.’ Baden went up to reconnoiter, and returned, saying: 
 ‘He says his name is Herold.’ Harbin’s heart sank a little. He 
 knew Herold, and that he was one of Booth’s conspirators, and 
 that probably the assassin himself was close at hand. He said 
 nothing to the lady, however, but went up to the house, and there 
 he saw Herold covered with dirt, filth and grime; unwashed, un¬ 
 combed, the picture of a vacant-minded tramp. He took him apart 
 and asked: ‘Herold, where’s Booth?’ ‘He’s over here at the next 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBEKKY. 
 
 farm, and you must go and see him/ said Herold. Baden and 
 Harbin took Herold down to the school-house on the lawn, and had 
 him washed and combed and made human. At the time Herold 
 arrived Mrs. Quisenberry was not at home, but had gone on her 
 horse, Virginia fashion, to some neighboring place. She arrived 
 at home, however, while Herold was there, and was disposed to sell 
 him horses, because the close of the war had reduced her to pov¬ 
 erty and she could not keep her horses. Harbin, with his 
 
 thoughtfulness for the woman, took her aside and said: 
 ‘You must not sell this man a horse. There are circum¬ 
 stances connected with him which make it my duty to 
 
 tell you to give him nothing more than something to eat.’ If the 
 lad} r had sold Herold a horse it might have been to the prejudice 
 of her liberty in the subsequent court-martial proceedings. Not a 
 word was said by Harbin to any member of this family as to Booth 
 being in the neighborhood until he had returned from his visit 
 to Booth that evening. Mrs. Quisenberry was at the time a widow. 
 Her husband died during the war, and was buried at the little 
 
 church at Hampstead, in the neighborhood. She had two sons 
 
 and two daughters, all young. The Hooe farm, on which Booth’s 
 boat landed, in the neighborhood, bore the name of ‘Barnesfield,’ 
 and that which he had embarked from in Maryland, ‘Brentsfield.’ 
 The rebel signal camp had been on Mrs. Quisenberry’s farm for 
 about eighteen months. Harbin had not been at her house for some 
 little time, but at the close of the war, when Richmond was aban¬ 
 doned, he had returned there, and was waiting a few days with 
 nothing to do. * * * Herold arrived at Mrs. Quisenberry’s 
 house at 10 or 11 o’clock in the morning. He and Booth had 
 landed in Virginia before daylight, and had gone quite early to 
 Bryan’s house. About 2 o’clock he departed on foot, having par¬ 
 taken of food, and he carried with him a lunch for Booth. The day 
 had become beautiful, though somewhat windy, and the fields were 
 dry and all the frost out of them. Back of Mrs. Quisenberry’s 
 house extend two large fields, reaching almost a mile, and thus he 
 entered the woods and walked in them to the small clearing around 
 Bryan’s house. * * * 
 
 * * * “Bryan told everything he knew in Washington, 
 
 and Harbin, aware that he had put himself in jeopardy, concluded 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
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 to stay right at Mrs. Quisenberry’s house and not to run away. 
 The scent came very close to him, but he was so gentlemanly and 
 obliging that the very officers of the law became rather confidential 
 with him. When he had returned from his last farewell with 
 Booth he told the folks at the house who their caller had been, 
 and they conferred together. After Booth had been killed Lieu¬ 
 tenant Baker and a detective and some soldiers came to the place 
 to make inquiries for Wilson (Harbin's assumed name). Harbin 
 kept out of sight as much as possible. The officers said it was 
 necessary that some one person should go up to Washington to 
 testify before the Judge Advocate. Harbin rather pressed that 
 he should go, though the contrary was His design. Mrs. Quisen- 
 berry said she couldn’t go on account of her children. Baden 
 quietly dropped the remark that he had an old mother in Washing¬ 
 ton whom he had not seen for four years, and the humane officers 
 took him along instead of Harbin. Baden’s reward, however, was 
 to be sent to prison for about six weeks. A steamboat came up 
 Machodoc creek not long afterwards and Mrs. Quisenberry was 
 informed that she would have to go to Washington. She demurred, 
 but was told she could take her children along, and that her ex¬ 
 penses would be paid by the Government; and she was allowed, 
 while in that city, to stay at the home of her childhood, Rosedale, 
 but came into the city every day to be examined. * * * * 
 
 * * * “The boat in which Booth had crossed the river 
 
 was seized by the Government at Mrs. Quisenberry’s, and it is not 
 known what became of it. Mr. Harbin says that Booth, in his be¬ 
 lief, was never in Richmond during tin 1 war. * * * The rebel 
 
 mail service which Jones conducted was almost as efficient as the 
 baited States mail at the present time. Washington, Baltimore, 
 and New York papers were subscribed for by different rebel in¬ 
 dividuals in the vicinity of Allen’s Fresh, the subscription price 
 being paid by the Confederacy, and one person would go and call 
 for the mail of all the neighbors. These papers would be deposited 
 in tin 1 stump under Jones’ Bluff, and then the boat would come 
 over, as described in the gray of the evening, and leave rebel 
 mail and take the papers out, and the next morning they would 
 be in Richmond, going by way of Port Conway, Port Royal, and 
 Bowling Green. This became the great route for blockade-runners 
 and go-betweens, and finally Booth’s route.” 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Quisenberry assured the writer of this history 
 personally that this account of the affair, so far as his mother was 
 concerned in it, is substantially correct, except that Herold, when 
 he came to the house, was almost in a state of physical collapse, 
 through fright, and blurted out his whole story to those of the 
 family who were at home, and even in the presence of the colored 
 servants. When Harbin and Herold went to rejoin Booth in the 
 wood, Nicholas, who was then quite a young boy, went along with 
 them; and they carried an old-fashioned carpet-sack which his 
 mother, out of humanity, had filled with food for the fugitives. Mr. 
 Quiseuberry said that they “found Booth sitting under a walnut 
 tree in the woods—the wildest-looking maniac I ever saw.” Booth 
 gave the boat in which he and Herold had crossed the river to 
 young Nicholas. It was afterwards seized by the Government de¬ 
 tectives, who paid him for it. It was taken to Washington and 
 deposited at the Navy Yard, but for some years past has been one 
 of the attractions at the National Museum. 
 
 When Booth and Herold, a few days later, were cornered in 
 a barn at Mr. Garrett’s, in Caroline county, Herold proposed to 
 surrender after the barn was fired, and Booth cursed him for a 
 coward, and asked permission to shoot him. This Herold declined; 
 and Booth then pushed him to the opening, saying: “Quarter for 
 this man, he surrenders,” at the same time shooting himself and 
 dying by his own hand. This story is somewhat different from the 
 accepted version, but Nicholas Quiseuberry had it from Mr. Harbin, 
 who had it from Herold himself, during his imprisonment previous 
 to his execution. Mr. Harbin was subsequently for many years a 
 clerk at the National Hotel, in Washington City, and died at his 
 home in that city in 1891. 
 
 Before Booth shot himself he threw into the fire of the burn¬ 
 ing barn the carpet-bag which Mrs. Quisenberry had filled with 
 food for himself and Herold, thinking, no doubt, to destroy it, and 
 thus, almost with his last act, endeavoring to shield the charitable 
 lady who had fed him in his need, for her name was embroidered in 
 full on the inside of the bag. The bag, however, was rescued from 
 the flames, and was the cause of getting Mrs. Quisenberry into 
 what might have been serious trouble, from which she was rescued 
 only by the strenuous efforts of her brothers, who were among the 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
 35 
 
 strongest and most influential Union men in the District of Colum¬ 
 bia. Mrs. Quisenberry is still living and resides in Texas with her 
 daughter Alice, who was married in the Oak View 7 Manor, D. C., 
 then the property of her uncle, Mr. Osceola Green, afterwards that 
 of President Cleveland. 
 
 One of the descendants of the first William Quisenberry, also 
 named Nicholas, settled in North Carolina, and became the founder 
 of the North Carolina branch of the family, as also of those in 
 Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas, in part. The records of Westmore¬ 
 land county, Virginia, show that on September 20, 1780, Nicholas 
 Quesenbury and Elizabeth, his wife, of the Parish of Margate, 
 Wake county, North Carolina, sold to Lawrence Pope a plantation 
 in Westmoreland county, Virginia, containing 460 acres of land, 
 “for the consideration of sixty thousand pounds, current money.” 
 This, of course, was in the depreciated Continental money of the 
 Revolution. One of their descendants, Mr. N. F. Henderson, of 
 Houston, Texas, has furnished a list of the descendants of one of 
 Ihe children of this Nicholas Quesenbury, and Elizabeth, his wife, 
 as follows: 
 
 William Minor Quesenbury, born in Wake county, North Caro¬ 
 lina, June 14, 1777, and his wife, Betsey Quesenbury, born in East 
 Tennessee, January 18, 1787. Their children were: 
 
 Sallie Quesenbury, born March 7, 1806, in Rutherford county, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Thomas Quesenbury, born June 20, 1808, in Franklin county, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Robert Quesenbury, born September 20, 1810, in Franklin 
 county, Tennessee. 
 
 Betsey Quesenbury, born January 30, 1814. 
 
 William I). Quesenbury, born July 2, 1816, in Fayetteville, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Richard Quesenbury, born November, 1818. 
 
 Mary Ann Quesenbury, born September 12, 1821. 
 
 Susan Quesenbury, born April 13, 1823, in Franklin county, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Julia Quesenbury, born August 14, 1825, in Franklin county, 
 Tennessee. 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
 36 
 
 F. A. Quesenbnry, born December 20, 1827, in Franklin county, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 William Minor Quesenbnry, the father of this family, was for 
 some years the Collector of Public Moneys at Fayetteville, Tennes¬ 
 see, and was, so far as is known, the first of the name to hold a Gov¬ 
 ernment office. Information has been received concerning only a 
 few of his children. His eldest daughter, Sallie, married Colonel 
 Alfred Henderson, concerning whom Ihe following notice appeared 
 in the Houston (Texas) Daily Post, in 1893: 
 
 “Colonel Alfred Henderson (born March 9, 1797, in Rocking¬ 
 ham Township, North Carolina, died in Scliulenburg, Texas, Novem¬ 
 ber IS, 1893), was the son of Samuel Henderson, who was the 
 brother of Colonel Richard Henderson, the chief proprietor of the 
 Colony of Transylvania, which afterwards became the State of 
 Kentucky. Samuel Henderson's wife (and the mother of Colonel 
 Alfred Henderson) was Betsey Callaway, the eldest of the three 
 girls who were captured by Indians at Boonesboro; and Samuel 
 Henderson, her future husband, was one of the party who rescued 
 them. 
 
 “While Colonel Alfred Henderson was still a young man he 
 went to Tennessee, where he was married July 23, 1823, to Sallie 
 Quesenbnry, of Winchester, in that State. In 1837 he went to 
 Arkansas, where he was State Collector of Public Money under 
 the Whig administration. In 1846 he returned to Tennessee, and 
 in 1852 he went to Texas, living at different times in Austin 
 and Fayette Counties. During the war he was Justice of the Peace 
 in Austin County, and also Tax Collector for the Confederate Gov¬ 
 ernment. 
 
 “To Colonel and Mrs. Henderson were born eleven children— 
 six sons and five daughters. Mrs. Henderson died in 1872. Colonel 
 Henderson’s son-in-law represented Fayette county in the Legis¬ 
 lature several times. Another son-in-law, Dr. W. W. Walker,* of 
 
 * Dr. Walker’s ancestors emigrated with the Scotch-Irish colony that settled on 
 the Potomac somewhere about 1650. His great-grandfather was a captain in the Vir¬ 
 ginia Continental Dine during the Revolution, and the family has furnished soldiers 
 to every war the United States lias had. Dr. Walker, himself in the Civil War, was 
 captain of Company D, 6th Louisiana Infantry, in Taylor’s (afterwards Hayes’) Br g- 
 ade, Ewell’s Division, Jackson’s Corps, and he was desperately wounded in the rail¬ 
 road cut at tlie second battle of Manassas. His son, Lieutenant Kenzie Walker, 9th 
 Cavalry, U. S. Army, married Miss Whitman, of Worcester, Mass., a descendant of 
 the illustrious Adams family, of that State. 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISKNBERRY. 
 
 !S7 
 
 Schulenburg, is prominent in medicine and surgery. Among his 
 descendants are Travis Henderson, who represented his district 
 in the Texas Legislature; Richard Henderson, a Lieutenant-Corn 
 niander in the United States Navy, and Lieutenant Kenzie Walker, 
 of the Ninth United Slates Cavalry. Lieutenant-Commander 
 Arnold, of the United States Navy, is related by marriage.” 
 
 The son, William I). Quesenbury, moved to Franklin county, 
 Arkansas, in 1S37, and was always a prominent man there. He 
 was a Captain of Arkansas Volunteers in the War with Mexico 
 and in the Civil War he was Quartermaster General of General 
 Albert Pike's Trans-Mississippi Confederate Army. 
 
 Mrs. Bessie Quesenbury, of Van Buren, Ark., writes under date 
 of March 9, 1897: “The earliest authentic date that we possess is 
 (he birth of our grandfather, William Minor Quesenbury, in Wake 
 county, North Carolina, in the year 1777. I am sorry to say I can 
 find no mention of his father’s or mother’s name. He had several 
 brothers—John Quesenbury, Anderson Quesenbury, Humphrey 
 Quesenbury, and perhaps others. William Minor Quesenbury 
 moved from North Carolina to Winchester, Tenn., about the begin¬ 
 ning of this century. There he engaged in the mercantile business, 
 I think, perhaps, with General Andrew Jackson for a partner; at 
 least there is a tradition in the family to that effect, and I know 
 they were great friends from letters we still have, written to him 
 by General Jackson after his election to Congress. William Minor 
 Quesenbury and his brother, Anderson Quesenbury, removed from 
 Tennessee to Arkansas about the year 1830. William M. has only 
 two male descendants living—grandsons—Albert Quesenbury, of 
 Mulberry, Ark., and Argyle Quesenbury, of Sallisaw, Indian Terri¬ 
 tory. Anderson Quesenbury's only male descendants, two grand¬ 
 sons, both live in Texas. I have heard my father-in-law in his life¬ 
 time say that the family came originally from England and settled 
 in Virginia, and that the name was originally Queensbury. If this 
 is true, you see our branch of the family have adhered more closely 
 to the original spelling than yours. While William Minor Quesen¬ 
 bury left few sons, he left several daughters, and they have quite a 
 number of children here. The Avife of Senator James II. Berry 
 is one of his granddaughters. We had one cousin, an erratic son 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISEN BERRY. 
 
 of Ibe muses, who could hardly be overlooked iu a family history. 
 He was a grandson of Anderson Quesenbury, and was a genius 
 beyond a doubt. He played beautifully on the violin without ever 
 having taken a lesson; with no instruction in painting he painted 
 portraits that were tine likenesses; and he wrote beautiful poetry. 
 One of his poems, 'Arkansas,’ was quite equal to Goldsmith's 
 ‘Deserted Village.' A prince of good fellows, he numbered among 
 his friends man} 7 of the celebrities of his time, John Howard Payne, 
 George D. Prentice, and Albert Pike being of the number. His 
 name was William Quesenbury, but he was known all over Texas, 
 Arkansas, and Missouri as ‘Bill Cush.’ I am sorry you did not 
 writes to us in his lifetime (he has been dead only live years), as 
 he had kept track of all the different branches of the family, and 
 knew where they were. My husband was Sanford Quesenbury, son 
 of Richard Quesenbury, and grandson of William Minor Quesen¬ 
 bury. He was a merchant at Mulberry, Ark., but died quite young 
 —under 30 years of age. We had one child, a little girl.” 
 
 In a subsequent letter the same lady writes: “All the children 
 of William Minor Quesenbury are dead. The last was Mrs. Frances 
 Quail, who died about two years ago. She was the mother of the 
 wife of Hon. James H. Berry, who was at one time Governor of Ar¬ 
 kansas, and is now one of the Senators from that State in the Con¬ 
 gress of the United States. The only children of William Minor 
 Quesenbury who left descendants are: 
 
 “1. Mrs. Sallie Henderson, of whom you have an account. 
 
 “2. Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Shorers, and was the mother 
 of Mrs. Judge W. W. Wainwriglit, of Ozark, Ark.; Mrs. Lotspeach, 
 of Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. Shrewsberry, who also lives some¬ 
 where in California. 
 
 “3. Richard Quesenbury, father of Albert Quesenbury, of Mul¬ 
 berry, Ark., and of my husband, Sanford Quesenbury, who died be¬ 
 fore his father did. 
 
 “4. Thomas Quesenbury, father of Argyle Quesenbury, of Sal- 
 lisaw, Indian Territory. 
 
 “5. Frances Quesenbury, who married a Mr. Quail, and left 
 Mrs. Senator Berry, Mrs. Jennie Blackburn, Mrs. H. C. Carter, 
 Walker Quail and William Quail, all of Ozark, and Mrs. O. M. Bour- 
 land, of Van Buren. 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
 39 
 
 “William Quesenbury’s (“Bill Cush”) wife and daughters live 
 al Neoslia, Mo., and his sons Stanley Quesenbury and George Ques- 
 enbury live either at McKinney or Navasota, Texas, I am not sure 
 which. They are the grandsons of Anderson Quesenbury. 
 
 “Humphrey Quesenbury, I think, died very young, and left no 
 children. James Quesenbury, who left descendants in Tennessee, 
 was probably the brother of William Minor Quesenbury. 
 
 “We pronounce our name ‘Oushenberry.’ ” 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBERRY. 
 
 While the Kentucky Quisenberrys, or at least most of them, 
 are descended from Humphrey (son of John, the pioneer), many 
 of this Humphrey Quisenberry’s descendants still reside in Vir¬ 
 ginia and in other States than Kentucky. 
 
 My own line, from the foundation of the family in Virginia, 
 runs: 
 
 1 . 
 
 2 _ 
 
 3. 
 
 4. 
 .5. 
 
 G. 
 
 7. 
 
 8 . 
 9. 
 
 John Quisenberry. 
 
 Humphrey Quisenberry. 
 
 Thomas Quisenberry. 
 
 Aaron Quisenberry. 
 
 James Quisenberry. 
 
 Colby Burris Quisenberry. 
 
 Janies Francis Quisenberry. 
 
 Anderson Chenault Quisenberry. 
 
 My own children: Adelaide Corinna, James Francis, Colby 
 Broomhall, and Florence Emily Quisenberry. 
 
 Of these nine generations, eight were certainly born on Amer¬ 
 ican soil; but in this line there have in some instances been more 
 than nine generations, many members of llie generation to which I 
 belong having grandchildren and some of them, perhaps, even 
 great-grandchildren. 
 
 Humphrey 1 Quisenberry, as we have seen, as early as 1695 
 bought a plantation in that portion of old Rappahannock county, 
 Virginia, which is now comprised in King George county, and sub 
 sequently he bought other lands in that vicinity. His estate lay in 
 llie parish of Sittenbourne, King George county. The date of his 
 birth is not known, but assuming that he must have been at least 
 twenty-one years old when he first bought land in 1695, as shown 
 by the records, he was, of course, born not later than 1674, and 
 the probability is that he was born much earlier. Who his wife 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBEKUY. 
 
 4 \ 
 
 was is not known, nor is it definitely known how many children 
 he had, though he certainly had two sons—Humphrey 2 and 
 Thomas. It is likely that he had several other children—sons or 
 daughters, or both. Neither is the date of his death known defi¬ 
 nitely, though it w'as somewhere between 1711) and 1728, for the 
 records of King George county show (Appendix III, 2) that in 
 the latter year Thomas Quisenberry sold some land bought by his 
 father, Humphrey Quisenberry, in 171!), and devised to the said 
 Thomas, by the last will and testament of the said Humphrey. 
 Unfortunately this will cannot now be consulted, as the book con 
 tabling it, together with a great many other records of the King 
 George County Court, w r ere destroyed or carried away by Federal 
 soldiers during the Civil War. The clerk of the court states 
 that some twenty-five years ago he received a letter from a man 
 somewhere in New York, who offered to sell to the county of King 
 George its first will-book for an exorbitant price, and the County 
 Court declined to pay any such price for its own property, and the 
 matter ended. The letter was lost, however, and now that the 
 county is willing to buy that will-book no one knows how to go 
 about finding it. It is the book that contains the will of 
 Humphrey 1 Quisenberry. 
 
 Of the two known children of Humphrey 1 Quisenberry — 
 Humphrey 2 and Thomas—the former returned to Westmoreland 
 county and became quite a wealthy man. He was twice married. 
 The name of his first wife is unknown, and it is believed that his 
 second wife was Elizabeth Carter, daughter of Robert Carter, of 
 “Nomini Hall,” who was the son of Robert Carter, and grandson 
 of “King” Carter, of “Corotoman.” ((Appendix VIII. 18) The will 
 (f Humphrey 2 Quisenberry (Appendix II, 26) was witnessed by 
 .John Carter and Samuel Carter. It seems by the will that his 
 children by his first wife were all girls, at least he leaves no be¬ 
 quests to any sons by that marriage, and the children by the 
 second wife consisted of two girls and a boy. His age is not known, 
 the date of his birth being missing, but his death must have been 
 about 1776, as his will, dated January 30, 1773, was probated in 
 1776. By this will he left the bulk of his property to the second set 
 of children, leaving only some negroes to the older set (who had 
 
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 TIIE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBERRY. 
 
 probably been previously provided for), except “five shillings 
 starling” to his grandson, John Pope, and “nine shillings starling” 
 to his daughter, Jane Pope. This lady was the wife of Law¬ 
 rence Pope, of the parish of Lunenburg in the county of Rich¬ 
 mond. It also appears from the will that Humphrey Quisen- 
 berry's daughter Anne had married a Piper; his daughter Bethle¬ 
 hem a Bashaw, and his daughter Mary married John Marshall. 
 This John Marshall was the brother of Colonel Thomas Marshall 
 (so prominent and famous in the early history of Kentucky) and 
 the uncle of the great Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 United States, who was named in his honor. John Marshall and 
 Mary Quisenberry, his wife, were the parents of Humphrey 
 Marshall, who was a Senator in Congress from Kentucky, 1795-1801, 
 and author of the famous “Marshall’s History of Kentucky;” and 
 he was altogether the most unique and interesting character in 
 the early history of Kentucky and in the eaidy history of the 
 United States as well. Humphrey Marshall married his first 
 cousin, Mary Ann, daughter of Colonel Thomas Marshall, and 
 sister of Chief Justice John Marshall. His two sons, John Jay 
 Marshall and Thomas A. Marshall, were both prominent and dis¬ 
 tinguished lawyers, judges and statesmen. Each of them served in 
 Congress. His grandson, Humphrey Marshall (father of Kellie 
 Marshall McAfee, the novelist), served several terms in Congress, 
 was a Colonel in the Mexican War, United States Minister Pleni¬ 
 potentiary to China, a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, 
 and, after his resignation as such, a member of the Confederate 
 Congress. General Humphrey Marshall’s son, also named Hum¬ 
 phrey, is now a prominent lawyer in Louisville. 
 
 Through Thomas Quisenberry (son of Humphrey 1 ) are de¬ 
 scended most of the Quisenberrys of Kentucky. On account of 
 the destruction during the war of the records of King George and 
 Caroline counties, Virginia, but little information can be gathered 
 concerning him. It is known that he had one son—Aaron—and 
 he doubtless had others, for he belonged to a race who gen¬ 
 erally had “the quiver full.” Whether Thomas Quisenberry died 
 in King George county or moved to Caroline county before his 
 death can not now be ascertained. His son Aaron, the date of 
 whose birth is unknown, first appears in 174G in what is left of the 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBERRY. 
 
 43 
 
 records of Caroline county, and was then probably just of age, 
 or thereabouts. That he removed from Caroline county is shown 
 by the records of Spottsylvania county, which give evidence that 
 on November <i, 1750, “Aaron Quisenberry, of Caroline county,” 
 purchased a plantation in St. George’s parish, Spottsylvania 
 county, from one John Collins. The records also show that he 
 sold this land on August 28, 1769, and the next information we get 
 of him is in the records of Orange county, Virginia, where we find 
 that on September 28, 1769, “Aaron Quisenberry, of Spottsylvania 
 county,” bought of Richard Thomas six hundred and fourteen 
 acres of land in St. Thomas’ parish, Orange county. This land, 
 as described in the deed, was situated “on the north side of the 
 north fork of the North Anng River,” adjoining the Spottsylvania 
 line, and there is reason to believe that it included the property 
 now known as the Orange Springs. 
 
 The date of Aaron Quisenberry’s marriage, as well as tin* 
 maiden name of his wife, are unknown. His wife’s given name was 
 Joyce, as the records show, and it was for some time believed sin* 
 was Joyce Craig, the daughter of Tolliver Craig, who lived at that 
 time in Spottsylvania county, but investigation has shown that 
 this lady married a Mr. Falkner. It may be that she was Joyce 
 Dudley, the daughter of Robert Dudley and Joyce Gayle, his wife, 
 but of this there is also doubt. Robert Dudley lived in Spottsyl¬ 
 vania, but had a plantation in Orange, adjoining that of Aaron 
 Quisenberry, and they were all Baptists together. 
 
 The children of Aaron Quisenberry and Joyce, his wife, were 
 (1) Aaron, jr., (2) Moses, (3) William, (4) John, (5) George, (6) James, 
 and the following daughters: Winifred, “Miss," Mary, who married 
 William Cooper, and Elizabeth, who married Rice Pendleton. 
 Captain David J. Pendleton, of Winchester, Kentucky, is a great 
 grandson of this latter marriage. (See Appendix VII, 1, 2, 3.) 
 
 It is not intended, nor, indeed, is it possible, in a work of 
 limited scope like this, to give in detail the descendants of these 
 various children of Aaron Quisenberry, desirable as that would be. 
 The most that has been intended is to bring down (he line of my 
 own descent as succinctly as possible, and to give such general 
 items as may enable members of other branches of the family to 
 gain a starting point for doing the same thing in regard to their 
 own lines, if they should wish to do so. 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QlIISENBERRY. 
 
 Aaron Quisenberry, as it appears from the records of Orange 
 county, died in 1705, as the administration of his estate began on 
 March 22 of that year, and his wife survived him. After having 
 given to his children between seven hundred and eight hundred 
 acres of land and numerous slaves, he died still possessed of about 
 four thousand dollars' worth of personal property, which was a 
 good deal more than the average, in his day, even for rich men. 
 
 His sens will now be mentioned, seriatim, as they are numbered 
 in a preceding paragraph. It is not known, however, that they 
 ranked in point of age in the sequence in which they are given. 
 Aaron Qnisenberry left no will; if he had, his children would have 
 been mentioned in it in the order of their birth, as is almost uni¬ 
 versally the case. 
 
 1. AARON QUISENBERRY, JR,— 
 
 Lived and died in Orange county, his home being near North 
 Pamunkey church. Pie was twice married. The name of his first 
 wife is not known, but his second wife was Sally Ellis. From his 
 will it would appear that he died between February 21st and 
 duly 22d, 1805, and that he left children as follows: 
 
 Stephen Qnisenberry, of whom nothing further is known. 
 
 Thomas Qnisenberry, of whom nothing further is known. 
 
 Aaron Shelton Quisenberry, who married Henrietta Reynolds, 
 and about 1810 settled in Jefferson county, Kentucky. He had 
 three children—Robert, William, and Evaline. The two sons mar¬ 
 ried, and each of them has descendants in Jefferson county, Ken¬ 
 tucky, and in Indiana. The daughter, Evaline, married a Mr. 
 Johnson, of Jefferson county, and their son, Hon. E. Polk Johnson, 
 has represented that county in the Kentucky Legislature several 
 times, and was for a long time the managing editor of the Louis 
 vilie Courier-Journal. He has also filled other positions of trust 
 and edited numerous newspapers. 
 
 David Quisenberry, of whom nothing more is known. 
 
 Winnifred Quisenberry, who married a Mr. Morris. 
 
 Polly Quisenberry, who married a Mr. Bell. 
 
 Benjamin Quisenberry, who went to Kentucky. 
 
 Joyce Quisenberry, who married William Reynolds. 
 
 Sallie Quisenberry, married John Henderson. 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBERRY. 
 
 45 
 
 Elizabeth Quisenberry, married Thomas Nelson, and went to 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Hezekiah Ellis Quisenberry, who married Miss Sally Burris. 
 
 Susie Ellis Quisenberry. 
 
 Nancy Quisenberry, who married Curtis Brockman. 
 
 Lucy Quisenberry, who married Asa Brockman. 
 
 2. MOSES QUISENBERRY— 
 
 It seems that he moved to the southwestern part of Kentucky, 
 and in the land office of that State are records of early purchases 
 of land by Moses Quisenberry, in Breckinridge and Green counties. 
 He left numerous descendants, some of whom are now living in 
 Meade and Christian counties. John H. Quisenberry, who was a 
 First Lieutenant in the 12th Kentucky Cavalry (Union), was un¬ 
 doubtedly his grandson or greatgrandson, and so, also, doubtless, 
 was Lieutenant H. S. Quisenberry, who served first in the 22d 
 Regiment of Louisiana Infantry, from which he was transferred 
 October 19, 1SG4, to the Cumberland (Ky.) Confederate Artillery. 
 There is scarcely a doubt but the Quisenberrys of Logan county, 
 Illinois, are descended from Moses Quisenberry. The founder of the 
 Illinois Quisenberrys was Edward Sanford Quisenberry, who was 
 born in Virginia in 1787, moved to Christian county, Kentucky, 
 about 1815, and from thence went to Illinois in 1835, where he 
 has left a numerous and wealthy progeny. He had brothers named 
 John, George, and James, some or all of whom now have de¬ 
 scendants living in Christian county, Kentucky, and some of the 
 neighboring counties. Other interesting information concerning 
 the Illinois Quisenberrys may be found in the Appendix. 
 
 3. WILLIAM QUISENBERRY— 
 
 Was born in Orange county but afterwards moved to Spott 
 sylvania, where his old homestead, ‘‘Rose Valley,” is still iu the 
 possession of his descendants. He was twice married, and his 
 first wife, Agnace Morton,* by whom he had two daughters and 
 
 * The Mortons were always a prominent aiul influential family in Virginia, and 
 many of them filled responsible positions in the State. Agnace Morton Quisenberry 
 had three brothers—William, George, and Jeremiah Morton. The latter had four sons 
 —William Jackson, George and Jeremiah. William Morton, tlie eldest, represented 
 the county of Orange several times in the State Legislature. Ja ksou Morton in early 
 manhood went to Florida and became Governor of the State, and also represented it 
 in tlie United States Senate. George Morton was an eminent physic'an. ranking with 
 the first in Virginia; and Jeremiah Morton was a lawyer of very great distinction 
 
 Elizabeth Hawkins (the mother of Agnace Morton Quisenberry! was born in Eng¬ 
 land, and was a lineal descendant of Sir John Hawkins and Lord John Hawkins. 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBERRY. 
 
 two sons, was the daughter of Elijah Morton and Elizabeth 
 Hawl dns, his wife, of Spottsylvania county, and his second wife 
 was a widow Swann, by whom he had three sons and three 
 daughters. He died in 1807. His first set of children were: 
 
 Aaron Quisenberry, who died young and without children. 
 
 Elizabeth Quisenberry, married Ralph Dickinson, and their 
 son, Rev. A. E. Dickinson, was for many years editor of the Re¬ 
 ligious Herald, published at Richmond, Virginia, the leading Bap¬ 
 tist periodical of America. 
 
 Jane Quisenberry, a daughter, of whom nothing is now known. 
 
 Elijah Quisenberry was born in Spottsylvania county in 1781; 
 married Lucy Nelson, a lineal descendant of Thomas Nelson, jr., 
 who, according to Bishop Meade, was for a long time Secretary of 
 the Council. His brother, William Nelson, was President of the 
 < 'ouncil and father of the “signer” of the Declaration of Inde¬ 
 pendence. These two were the only sons of Thomas Nelson, sr.,* 
 the progenitor of the Nelson family in Virginia. Elijah Quisen¬ 
 berry and Lucy Nelson, his wife, had five sons—William, Albert, 
 James, Edwin and John—and several daughters. (1) William 
 Quisenberry married a Miss Hyter, and two of his sons are prom¬ 
 inent Baptist ministers. One of them, Rev. Hyter Quisenberry, 
 lives in Hamilton, Ohio, and the other, Rev. Wm. Quisenberry, lives 
 in Nashville, Tenn. (2) Albert Quisenberry married in Spott¬ 
 sylvania, and left children. (3) James Quisenberry married Frances 
 
 * Lucy Nelson Quisenberry was (he daughter of Joseph Nelson, who was the son 
 of James Nelson, who was the son of John Nelson, who was the son of Thomas Nel¬ 
 son, jr., who was the son of Thomas Nelson, sr., the founder of the Nelson family in 
 Virginia. 
 
 Bishop Meade’s “Old Families and Churches of Virginia” says: “Thomas Nelson, 
 sr., came to Virginia in 1705. He founded Yorktown, and married a Miss Reid, of 
 the neighboring county, and had two sons and one daughter. The sons settled in 
 York, and the daughter married Colonel Berkeley, of Middlesex. The eldest son, 
 Thomas, was called Secretary Nelson, because he was for a long time Secretary of 
 the Council. lie had three sons in the American Revolution, whose descendants are 
 all over Virginia. The second son of old Thomas Nelson (the founder) has always 
 been called President Nelson, because so often President of the Council, and at one 
 lime President of the Colony. Pie married a Miss Burrell, granddaughter of Robert 
 Carter, called King Carter. His eldest son was Governor Thomas Nelson, ‘the 
 signer.’ ” 
 
 Inscription on the tomb of Thomas Nelson (the founder), at Yorktown, Va. 
 (Translated from the Latin): 
 
 “ Here lies, in certain hope of being raised up in Christ, Thomas Nelson, 
 G( nt’eman, son of Hugh and Sarah Nelson, of Penrith, in the county of Cumberland. 
 Born February 20, 1077. Completed a well spent life on the 7th of October, 1745, 
 in his 08th year.” 
 
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 47 
 
 Spindle, of Spottsyl vania, a granddaughter of Major Benjamin 
 Alsop, of the Revolutionary army. Their children are: Virginia 
 Quisenberry, now living in Danville, Ky.; Emma Quisenberry, who 
 married James Taylor, of Lankford, Kent county, Maryland; Ellen 
 Quisenberry, who married Dr. George P. Holman, jr., of Virginia; 
 Harriet, who married Dr. Winfield Dulaney, of Maryland; and 
 James Quisenberry, who lives in Tennessee. (4, 5) Edwin and John 
 Quisenberry went to Kentucky about 1845, settling first in Clark 
 county, where they had numerous relatives. John read medicine 
 in Winchester, and afterwards graduated from Transylvania Uni 
 versify and settled at Paris, Ky., where he built up a fine practice, 
 and where, in 184!), he died a heroic death in ministering to the 
 wants of victims of the cholera, of which disease he himself died. 
 He was never married. Edwin Quisenberry read law in Win¬ 
 chester, Kv.; married Miss Anna Price, of Jessamine county, and 
 settled in Carlisle, Ky., where he practiced law until 18(50, when 
 he removed to Danville, Ky., where he died some years later, leav¬ 
 ing three children — Lucy, who died unmarried; John A. Quisen- 
 berry, cashier of the leading bank of Danville, who married Pattie 
 Beatty, daughter of Ormond Beatty, D.D., LL.D., late President 
 of Centre College; and Robert T. Quisenberry, who graduated 
 from Virginia University in 1880, and is now practicing law in 
 Danville. He is unmarried. John A. Quisenberry has one child — 
 a son — Thomas Edwin Quisenberry, who was born May 24, 1891. 
 
 Lucy, one of the daughters of Elijah Quisenberry, married Mr. - 
 
 Gardener, of Spottsylvania, and their son, Dr. James E. Gardener, 
 is a surgeon in the United States Navy, at present assigned to duty 
 on the good ship Amphitrite. Dr. Gardener married in Cambridge, 
 Mass., which city is now his home, and his wife is a direct descen¬ 
 dant of William Penn, lie has two children. 
 
 WILLIAM QUISENBERRY’S children by his second wife, the 
 widow Swann, were: 
 
 William Quisenberry, a physician, who lived in King George 
 county, Virginia, where he married a widow Ashton, but had no 
 ehildren; 
 
 James Quisenberry, who went to Missouri; 
 
 Charles Quisenberry, who lived in Lynchburg, Va.; and three 
 daughters, Anna, Lucy and Maria. 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBERRY. 
 
 4. JOHN QUISENBERRY— 
 
 Moved to Clark county, Kentucky, in 1788, and left there about 
 1808, going to Warren county, in the same State, and it has not 
 been possible to learn much about him. He owned considerable 
 land in Clark county, and the deeds show that his wife’s given name 
 was Rachel. He lived on a farm adjoining that of his brother, 
 Rev. James Quisenberry, and he had several children, sons and 
 daughters, but it has not been possible to get information con- 
 cerning any but one of them. This one is his son Nicholas Quisen¬ 
 berry, who married Lucy, the daughter of James Stevens, and built 
 and lived at the place on the Boonesboro’ turnpike, once known 
 as the “Old Natty Ragland place;” later as the “Catherine Turner 
 place.” This place Nicholas Quisenberry sold in 1808 to Nathaniel 
 Ragland, and then he went to Warren county with his father, 
 John Quisenberry, and settled. One of Nicholas Quisenberry’s 
 sons, Maury W. Quisenberry, was the fatlie? of William Quisen¬ 
 berry, now living at Bristow Station, Warren county, Kentucky, 
 from whom most of this meager information was obtained. (See 
 Appendix VIII, 6.) 
 
 5. GEORGE QUISENBERRY— 
 
 Lived and died a! his estate of “Cherry Grove,” near Antioch 
 Church, in Orange county, Virginia. He was thrice married: first, 
 about 1782, to Jane Daniel, and their children were: 
 
 (1) Jane Quisenberry, born June 21, 1784, married William 
 Reynolds, of Orange. 
 
 (2) George Quisenberry, born September 28, 1786; died young. 
 
 (3) Sidna Quisenberry, born September 8, 1788, married John 
 Newman. 
 
 (4> Daniel Quisenberry; see below. 
 
 (o! Vivian Quisenberry, born October 12, 1793; died Septem¬ 
 ber 30, 1875; married Sarah Wright, who died April 30, 1863. 
 
 (6) Millie Quisenberry, born September 18, 1796, who married 
 John Newman after the death of her sister Sidna. 
 
 (7) Elizabeth Quisenberry, born August 29, 1798, married 
 John Herndon, of Orange county. 
 
 GEORGE QUISENBERRY’S second wife was Peggy Reynolds, 
 who gave him thirteen children, as follows: 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBERRY. 
 
 49 
 
 (8) Eliza Quisenberry, born September 8, 1803, married Benja¬ 
 min Wright. 
 
 (9) Joseph Quisenberry, born November 18, 1804; died young. 
 
 (10) William Quisenberry, born December 30, 1805, married 
 Kitty Terrill, and went to Missouri. 
 
 (11) Joyce Quisenberry, born May 6,1807; died young. 
 
 (12) David Quisenberry, born October 4, 1808; killed by being 
 thi own from a horse. 
 
 (13) Albert Quisenberry, born February 21, 1810, married 
 Sarah Reynolds, and went to Kentucky. 
 
 (14) Lucy Quisenberry, born May 10, 1812, married Jack 
 Wright, and went to Kentucky. 
 
 (15) James Quisenberry, born February 2, 1814, married, first, 
 Elizabeth Rhoades, then Frances Sanders, and lived in Spottsyl- 
 vania. 
 
 (16) Mary Ann Quisenberry, born October 9, 1815, married 
 John Falconer, and went to Missouri or Kentucky. 
 
 (17) Sarah Quisenberry, born April 27. 1817, married George 
 Tinder, of Orange. 
 
 (18) George Quisenberry, born November 10, 1818, and died 
 young. 
 
 (19) John Quisenberry, born December 29, 1820, married 
 Mary Ellen Rose, and went to Texas. 
 
 (20) Nancy Quisenberry, born February 17, 1823, married 
 Richard Tinder. 
 
 By his third wife George Quisenberry had two children, who 
 died in infancy before they were named; and by his three wives he 
 hud twenty-two children in all. George Quisenberry, who was 
 killed in Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg, was his grandson. 
 
 Vivian Quisenberry (5), son of George Quisenberry and Jane 
 Daniel, married Sarah Wright, and had the following children: 
 Nancy, who married William Reynolds; Sarah, who married James 
 Coleman; Benjamin, who married Elizabeth Herndon; George, 
 killed at the siege of Petersburg, who married Millona Miller, and 
 their son is now a physician at Cliff To]), West Virginia; Vivian, a 
 physician, who married Billie Robinson; Jane, who married Fer¬ 
 dinand Richards, of Georgia; and Daniel (who has furnished this 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBERRY. 
 
 information), who lives in Orange county, and lias had fifteen chil¬ 
 dren by his wife, Sallie Reynolds, who is a great-grand-daughter of 
 Aaron Quisenberry, who married Sallie Ellis. 
 
 Daniel Quisenberry (4), son of George Quisenberry and Jane 
 Daniel, was born in Orange county, Virginia, October 22, 1790, but 
 moved to Spottsylvania county, where he died in 1833. He married 
 Mary Rhoades (born January 5, 1792), of Orange county, on Decem¬ 
 ber 23, 1812. He served for a while in the War of 1812. They had 
 seven children; and in October, 1837, the mother, then a widow, 
 removed with all the children to Saline county, Missouri, where 
 they settled. The children were: 
 
 (1) George Quisenberry, born 1813, died April 25, 1889. Mar¬ 
 
 ried in 1839 to Martha Kinnear, of Rockbridge county, Virginia, 
 who died in 1872. Their children were: (a) William IT., born in 
 1842; served through the Civil War on the Confederate side, and 
 was wounded at the battle of Jenkins’ Ferry, Ark.; died 1878. (b) 
 
 George, born 1844. (c) Daniel, born 1848, died 1881. (d) John, born 
 1852, married in 1878 Roselma Wright, of Chariton county, Mis¬ 
 souri, and has one son — William R. (e) Gusteen, born 1856, died 
 1862. 
 
 After the death of his wife (Martha Kinnear), in 1872, George 
 Quisenberry married (1874) Sarah E. Reynolds, of Missouri, and the 
 children of this marriage were: (f) Thomas E., born 1875; married 
 in 1893 Miss Mabel Doan, of Liberty, Mo., and is now editor of the 
 Index newspaper, Slater, Mo. (g) Bettie, born in 1878. (h) Mary F., 
 born 1880, and died the same year. 
 
 (2) Richard Harrison Quisenberry, born in 1816, and still liv¬ 
 ing in 1897; married in 1842 to Constantin Monroe, who died in 
 1852; and 1853 he was married to Araminta Cawthron, of Carroll 
 county, Missouri, who died in 1874. Children: 
 
 By first wife: (a) Mary E., born 1843, died 1869. (b) Emily E., 
 born 1845, married in 1862 A. R. Cawthron, of Carroll county, and 
 has children, Lela, Liza, Arthur and Nannie, (c) Arthur D., born in 
 1847, married Susan C. Goodwin in 1872, and had four children — 
 Maggie, Bessie, Luther and Melvin; served nine months in Price’s 
 Confederate army, and is now in Kansas City, Mo., in the live 
 stock commission business, (d, e) Leander and Leonidas, twins, 
 
THE DESCENDANTS OF HUMPHREY QUISENBERRY. 
 
 51 
 
 born in 1849; Leander died in 1851; Leonidas married in 1880 Anna 
 Kay, of Carroll county, and had one child—Ray. He was a lawyer, 
 and served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Carroll county; 
 died in 1888. 
 
 By second wife: (f) Annie E., born in 1854, married A. J. Kin 
 naird in 1882. (g) Thomas R., born 1850. (b) Mattie, born 1859. 
 
 (i) William, born 1801, died 1802. (j) Jennie, born 1802, married T. 
 J. Fleetwood 1884; died 1885. (k) George L., born 1808. (1) Edward 
 H., born 1870, married Sallie Brandon in 1895. (m) Fredonia, born 
 1873. 
 
 (3) Ann R. Quisenberry, born 1818, married in 1838 to Eden 
 E. Garrett; died in 1847, leaving three children—Lycurgus, Fre¬ 
 donia and John, all of whom are living. 
 
 (4) Elizabeth Quisenberry, born in 1822, married William Mc¬ 
 Daniel, of Carroll county, Missouri, and died in 1849. 
 
 (5) Daniel Quisenberry, born April 18, 1820, died June 14, 
 
 1887; married December 23, 1852, to Mary A. Gwinn. Their chil¬ 
 dren were: (a) John W. (lawyer), born October 20, 1853; married 
 May Johnson October 0, 1881; died October 30, 1880, leaving two 
 children—Joseph Warren and Inez. (b) Nannie, born October 19, 
 1855; married Dr. L. S. Mead June 13, 1892. (c) Mollie, born August 
 15, 1857; married D. W. Norvell January 10,1880, and has four chil¬ 
 dren—Edna, Howard Q., Junius and Irene, (d) Sallie, born Novem¬ 
 ber 28, 1859; married David Freet March 0, 1884, and has tw r o chil¬ 
 dren—Raymond and Lilian, (e) Richard 1)., hardware merchant 
 in Slater, Mo., born March 9, 1804; married Lissa Perry on April 
 30, 1890, and has no children, (f) Susie, born July 25, 1800. (g) 
 
 Rosie, born December 28, 1870; married R. L. Haines on October 
 8, 1891. 
 
 (0) Thomas Quisenberry, born 1829, died in Memphis, Tenn., 
 in 1870, leaving no children. 
 
 (7) Mary S. Quisenberry, born 1831; married George Norvell, 
 of Saline county; died in 1870, leaving four children — Ann E.. 
 Thomas R., William D. and Arthur, of whom Thomas R. alone is 
 now living. 
 
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 THE DESCENDANTS OP HUMPHREY QUrSENPERRY. 
 
 6. REV. JAMES QUI8ENBERRY— 
 
 Son of Aaron Quisenberry, sr., and Joyce, his wife, was born in 
 Spottsylvania county, Virginia, June 13, 1759, and at the age of 
 ten lie went with his father to settle in the adjoining county of 
 Orange. On December 1, 177(>, then seventeen years old, he mar¬ 
 ried Jane Burris, of the same county, and in 1783, at the close of 
 Ihe Revolutionary war, they went to Kentucky and settled. Their 
 history will be continued in the next chapter. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 REV. JAMES QUISENBERRY AND HIS CHILDREN. 
 
 Jane Burris, the first wife of Rev. James Quisenberry, was 
 born July 5, 1759, in Orange county, Virginia, and died November 
 3, 1811, after having borne her husband seven sons and six 
 daughters. Burris is another form of the names Burrows, Bur¬ 
 roughs, Burrace and Burys. Thomas Burris, the father of Jane 
 Burris, was a very wealthy man for his times as his will shows 
 (see Appendix VII, 5), and he was descended from a family who 
 had been in Virginia from the earliest times. In the records his 
 name is variously spelled “Burrace,” “Burras,” and “Burris,” and it 
 is the latter form that has been adopted for use in this work. 
 Thomas Burris served in the French and Indian War, in Captain 
 George Mercer’s Company of the Virginia Regiment, commanded 
 by Colonel George Washington, and fought at the battle of the 
 Meadows in 1754, and was one of the number “who received the 
 present of a Fistole from the Country as an acknowledgement of 
 their gallant behaviour upon that occasion” (see “Washington 
 Papers,” State Department, Washington City), and he was one of 
 the detachment that marched to Augusta some time after the de¬ 
 feat; and he also fought at the disastrous Braddock’s Defeat, in 
 1755. For his services in this war he received a share of the two 
 hundred thousand acres of land granted under Governor Dinwid 
 die’s proclamation. He appears to have been a born warrior, for 
 he fought in the Revolution also, and was granted lands for that 
 service. The following brief certificate of his service in the Revolu¬ 
 tion was furnished by the Chief of the Records and Pension Office, 
 Washington, viz: 
 
 “It appears from the records of this office that Thomas Burris 
 enlisted February 23, 1776, as a private in Captain William Wash¬ 
 ington’s Company, 3d Virginia Regiment of Foot, Revolutionary 
 
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 REV. JAMES QUISENBERRY AND IHS CHILDREN. 
 
 War, and his name appears on the muster rolls of that organization 
 to July, 1777. He is reported with the rank of Corporal on muster 
 rolls, as follows: Captain John Francis Mercer’s company of this 
 regiment to and including May, 1778; Captain Robert Powell’s 
 company, 3d and 7tli Virginia (consolidated) regiment from May, 
 1778, 1o September, 1778; Captain Robert Powell's company, 3d 
 Virginia regiment, for October, 1778; Captain John F. Mercer's 
 company, 3d Virginia regiment to April, 1779; and Captain Valen¬ 
 tine Peyton’s company, 3d Virginia regiment, to November, 1779.” 
 
 Thomas Burris died about the 1st of March, 1789. His wife, 
 Frances Tandy, was the daughter of Roger Tandy, whose wife, a 
 .Miss Colby, is said to have been a descendant of Edward Colby, of 
 London, who subscribed £12 10s to the stock of the London Com¬ 
 pany for the Colonization of Virginia, and who himself came to this 
 country, and died at Jamestown in 1620. The Burrises and Colbys 
 are of English, and the Tandys of Irish descent, and they were all 
 among the earliest settlers of Virginia. 
 
 One of Thomas Burris’s daughters, Frances Tandy Burris, 
 married Captain “Billy” Bush, who served with George Rogers 
 ('lark in the conquest of the northwest, and founded the famous 
 Bush Settlement in Clark county. Other matters of interest con¬ 
 cerning the Burris and Tandy families may be found in Appendix 
 VII. 
 
 James Quisenberry, son of the elder Aaron Quisenberry and 
 Joyce, his wife, united with the Baptist church in Orange county, 
 Virginia, when quite a boy. He married before he was seventeen 
 years of age, and saw some service in the Revolutionary War in the 
 militia of Orange county. In 1783, before the close of the war, he 
 removed to Kentucky. He was then an ordained Baptist minister, 
 though only twenty-four years of age. He went first to Madison 
 county, and Mr. French Tipton, author of a history of that county, 
 as yet unpublished, says in that work, on record authority, that 
 Rev. James Quisenberry was one of the garrison of the fort at 
 Boonesboro’ in 1783-’84. In 1785 he settled in what is now Clark 
 county (it was then a part of Fayette county), where he purchased 
 a considerable tract of land, which he subsequently added to from 
 lime to time. On this land he built a house which stood until 1893 
 — more than a century—when it was accidentally destroyed by fire, 
 
REV. JAMES QUISENBERRY AN1) HIS CHILDREN. 
 
 55 
 
 and its site is still owned by bis descendants. The house stood on 
 Two-Mile creek, about four miles north of Boonesboro’ and five 
 miles south of where the city of Winchester now stands. There 
 is a family tradition that he gave a stonemason one hundred and 
 fifty acres of land for building a stone chimney at either end of 
 this house. The land so given is at this time (1897) easily worth 
 twelve thousand dollars. 
 
 On April 11, 1785, he united by letter with Providence church 
 (“the old stone meeting-house") soon after it had settled in Clark 
 county. Rev. Robert Elkin was the pastor of the church, but he 
 was assisted by Rev. Andrew Tribble, who also had his membership 
 there. Each had his following in the congregation, and in 1790 
 considerable trouble arose between the two factions over the merits 
 of their favorites. A division ensued in consequence, and the Trib¬ 
 ble faction withdrew and built a frame church on Howard’s Creek, 
 about where Tate’s old mill now stands, two miles north of “the 
 old stone meeting-house.” Rev. James Quisenberry withdrew 
 with the Tribble faction, his wife and Tribble’s being sisters. The 
 new church was called “Unity,” and Rev. Andrew Tribble was its 
 pastor until 1792, when he resigned and moved to Madison county, 
 being succeeded in the pastorate of Unity church by Rev. James 
 Quisenberry. A large portion of the congregation were from “the 
 Haggard neighborhood,” and they soon withdrew from Unity and 
 established a new church on Stoner’s branch, near where Antioch 
 church now stands, of which Rev. James Quisenberry was also 
 pastor. 
 
 Rev. James Quisenberry’s first wife died November 3, 1811, 
 after having borne him thirteen children; and on December 21, 1811. 
 he was married to Chloe Shipp, of Clark county, who bore him 
 eleven children, making twenty-four by the two wives. On the 
 occasion of his second marriage his son-in-law, John Haggard, to¬ 
 gether with the entire Haggard connection, withdrew from the 
 Stoner's Brandi church and established a new church on Indian 
 creek, and called another pastor. Afterwards the present Mt. Olive 
 church was established by the consolidation of Unity, Stoner’s 
 Branch and Indian Creek churches. Rev. James Quisenberry was 
 also the pastor of “Red River” and “Friendship” churches. Friend¬ 
 ship stood on a portion of the ground now occupied by the Win- 
 
REV. JAMES QUISENBERRY AND IIIS CIULDREN. 
 
 5d 
 
 cheater cemetery, and it was into the membership of this church 
 that he baptized the subsequently distinguished Rev. William 
 Vaughn, D.L)., one of the great Baptist lights of the century, who 
 was converted under his teachings. Mr. Quisenberry never 
 charged nor received anything for his services as pastor of these 
 churches, extending through forty years, but accumulated a re- 
 spetcable fortune, for his times, by farming and stock-raising. 
 Spencer's “History of Kentucky Baptists” says of him: “Mr. 
 Quisenberry’s preaching gift was meager, but he maintained a re¬ 
 spectable reputation, and accomplished much good among the 
 early settlers. He departed this life August 5, 1830, leaving behind 
 him a very numerous posterity, many of whom have been and still 
 are wealthy and influential citizens and valuable church members.” 
 
 The following is a list of the children of Rev. James Quisen¬ 
 berry, copied from his old Bible, now in the posessioh of this 
 writer, together with a very brief account of the descendants of 
 each of them, except in the case of his son, Colby Burris Quisen- 
 berry, of whose family there is presented a more detailed state¬ 
 ment. Some of the names may sound oddly enough in this day 
 and generation, but it may perhaps be conceded that one who has 
 twenty-four children is entitled to some latitude in choosing names 
 for them: 
 
 CHILDREN BY JANE BURRIS. 
 
 1. Joyce Quisenberry, born October 25, 1777, in Orange 
 county, Virginia, married William Duncan, of Clark county, Ken¬ 
 tucky, and at an early day they moved to Missouri, where they be¬ 
 came wealthy. 
 
 2. Frances Quisenberry, born in Orange county, Virginia, 
 October 6, 1779, married John Bruner, of Clark county. 
 
 3. Jane Quisenberry, born in Orange county, Virginia, Febru¬ 
 ary 22, 1782, married Ambrose Bush, of Clark county. 
 
 4. Joel Quisenberry, born in Madison county, Virginia (now 
 Madison county, Kentucky), January 31, 1784, and married Eliza¬ 
 beth Haggar d, of Clark county. He was about the wealthiest man 
 in Clark county in his day, and the litigation over his will is one 
 of the causes celebre in the court records of Kentucky. Henry 
 
REV. JAMES QUISENBERRY AND HIS CHILDREN. 
 
 57 
 
 Clay, a short time before liis death, made his last speech before a 
 jury in this case. Joel Quisenberry’s daughter Joyce married Hon. 
 Harrison Thomson, who subsequently represented Clark county for 
 several terms in both the Senate and the Lower House of the Ken 
 tucky Legislature, and their daughter, Elizabeth Thomson, mar¬ 
 ried Ben B. Groom, of Clark county, one of the most famous breed¬ 
 ers of Shorthorn cattle in America, and who, in 1873, sold a bull 
 calf six months old for seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. 
 About 1879 Mr. Groom went to Texas and engaged in cattle ranch¬ 
 ing with the “Francklyn Land and Cattle Company,” a syndicate 
 of English noblemen, of whom Lord Alfred Paget, the resident 
 member, was killed in Texas. The company owns a hundred square 
 miles of land and hundreds of thousands of cattle. Mr. Groom’s 
 only child, Harry T. Groom, is in the newspaper business in Lexing¬ 
 ton, Ky. Joel Quisenberry had numerous other children, among 
 whom were Roger, John, James and Thomas Jefferson, all now de¬ 
 ceased. His grandson, Dr. Silas Evans, is the superintendent of the 
 “High Oaks Sanitarium,” in Lexington, Ky. 
 
 5. James Harvey Quisenberry was born in Fayette county, 
 Virginia (now Clark county, Kentucky), on March 13, 1786, and 
 married there a Miss Thomas. He moved to Henry county, Ken¬ 
 tucky, where he was murdered August 5, 1822, and where he now 
 has numerous descendants. One of his grandsons is Captain John 
 M. Ragland, of Osceola, Mo., who, while in the Confederate service, 
 captured the colors of an Iowa regiment. In 1895 he presented 
 these colors to the State of Iowa, for which he was publicly and 
 gracefully thanked by tin 1 Governor of the State. 
 
 6. Colby Burris Quisenberry. (See Chapter VII.) 
 
 7. Tandy Quisenberry, born February 8, 1791, in what is now 
 Clark county, Kentucky, and married Peggy Bush, of the same 
 county, and they had nineteen children, all of whom lived to be 
 men and women. “Aunt Peggy” is said to have wept most griev¬ 
 ously because she could not “even out” tin* twenty. Among their 
 children were Thacker, now living in Winchester, Ky.; Colby Tandy, 
 a prominent lawyer in New Mexico. Philip Quisenberry, who made 
 a surpassing record for dare-devil bravery in the Confederate army, 
 and who is now a merchant in Santa Fe, Mo., is his grandson. Tandy 
 
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 REV. JAMES QUISENBERRY AND HIS CHILDREN. 
 
 Quisenberry was a wealthy man, and one of tlie most highly es- 
 teemed citizens of ('lark county. In his last illness, during the au¬ 
 tumn of 18(59, he lived for sixty days without eating anything at 
 all. or drinking anything except an occasional sip of water. 
 
 8. Roger Quisenberry, born in Clark county on November 23, 
 1792, about live months after Kentucky was admitted into the 
 Union as a State, and died in 1S77. He married Polly Eubank, 
 daughter of Achilles Eubank, one of the first representatives from 
 Clark county in the Kentucky Legislature; and they had fifteen 
 children. He fought through the second war with Great Britain, 
 and engaged in the battle of the River Raisin, where he was taken 
 prisoner and carried to Fort George, where, after being compelled 
 to “run the gauntlet” by the Indians, he was paroled by the British. 
 He is said to have been an exceptionally brave soldier. He acquired 
 considerable wealth, which he subsequently “fed away” in lavish 
 hospitality. In Clark county his name was the synonym of purity, 
 honesty, and honor. He served two terms as sheriff of the county. 
 
 9. William Fountain Quisenberry, born July 9, 1797, and 
 married Rachel Ryan, of Clark county (the great-aunt of William 
 J. Lampton, a distinguished journalist of Washington, 1). C.), by 
 whom he had numerous children. He was killed by the accidental 
 discharge of his gun while hunting deer in the mountains of Ken¬ 
 tucky in 1868. He was a man of substance and of fine character. 
 
 10. Mourning Quisenberry, born January 22, 1795, and mar¬ 
 ried John Haggard, of Clark county. They had numerous children. 
 
 11. Rhoda Quisenberry, born February 3, 1802, and married 
 George Fox, of Clark county, to whom she bore numerous children. 
 Their son, Clinton B. Fox, has served several terms each as Sheriff 
 and Circuit Court Clerk of the county. 
 
 12. Jackson Quisenberry, born December 16, 1799, and mar¬ 
 ried a Miss Simpson, and went to Pettis county, Missouri, where he 
 died in 1880, leaving a fine estate and numerous children. 
 
 13. Sally Banks Quisenberry, born July 31, 1805, and married 
 Thomas Smith Ragland, whose father, James Ragland, served in 
 a Virginia Regiment of the Continental line in the Revolutionary 
 War. They had a number of children. 
 
REV. JAMES QL’ISENBERRY AND HIS CHILDREN. 
 
 59 
 
 CHILDREN BY CHLOE SHIPP (THE SECOND WIFE). 
 
 14 and 15 (Twins). Joseph Harrison Quisenberry, born October 
 13, 1813; still living in 1897. Letty Quisenberry, born October 13, 
 1813; died July 28, 1814. 
 
 10. Letitia Quisenberry, born October 23, 1814, died in 1890. 
 Married Dr. Peter Evans, son of John Evans, of Virginia, a Captain 
 in (he Revolutionary War. Their son, Dr. George W. Evans, of 
 Richmond, Ky., was a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil 
 War. 
 
 17. Louis Colby Quisenberry, born January 18, 1810; died 
 August 28, 1810. 
 
 18. Kitty Quisenberry, born July 19, 1817; died August 4, 
 1819. 
 
 19. Patsey Quisenberry, born March 13, 1819; died August 
 9, 1830. 
 
 20. Chloe Quisenberry, born November 18, 1820; died January 
 0, 1821. 
 
 21. Sophia Ann Quisenberry, born October 12, 1821. 
 
 22. Janies Harvey Quisenberry (second son of that name), 
 born June 13, 1823, and still living in 1897. Was never married. 
 
 23. George Washington Quisenberry, born January 17, 1825; 
 died June 21, 1842. 
 
 24. Polly Ann Emerine Quisenberry, born July 28. 1829; mar¬ 
 ried E. J. M. Elkin, son of Rev. Robert Elkin, for forty-two years the 
 pastor of old Providence church, in Clark county. She it was who 
 presented to the compiler of this sketch the family Bible of his 
 great-grandfather. Rev. James Quisenberry. 
 
 That there were only twenty-four children is probably due to 
 the fact that Mr. Quisenberry died in 1830, at the age of 71, his 
 youngest child then being about a year old. 
 
CHAPTER VIL 
 
 COLBY BURRIS QUISENBERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Colby Burris Quisenberry, the sixth child and third son of Rev. 
 James Quisenberry, was born July 7, 1788, in wliat was then Fay¬ 
 ette county, Virginia, but is now Clark county, Kentucky. He was 
 a man of the sternest integrity, indomitable will, and most remark¬ 
 able force of character. He possessed all the elements of a truly 
 great man, and had he turned his attention to politics or to litera¬ 
 ture instead of simply to making a fortune, he would certainly have 
 been one of the foremost men of his time. But, true to the char¬ 
 acteristics of his race, he was utterly without ambition for fame 
 or official position. Indeed, he seemed to have a contempt for such 
 things, but was not above making quite a considerable fortune, 
 all of which was honestly accumulated. He was married on Sun¬ 
 day, December Hi, 1810, to Lucy Bush, daughter of Francis Bush, 
 who had been a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and was one 
 of the founders of the “Bush Settlement,” in Clark county. Soon 
 after his marriage Colby Quisenberry and his wife settled in Madi¬ 
 son county, at what is known as “the Red House,” which is still 
 standing, and which has given its name to one of the stations on 
 the Kentucky Central Railroad. Here he combined the business of 
 tavern-keeping with farming and trading in stock, and made money 
 rapidly. About this time he was commissioned a Captain of Militia 
 by Governor Isaac Shelby. In those days Indians were constantly 
 strolling through the country singly or in small parties, but they 
 rarely committed any depredations. They often stopped at the 
 Bed House tavern to get something to eat, and Mrs. Quisenberry 
 frequently remarked, in after life, that she was always afraid to 
 charge them anything for their meals when her husband was not 
 at the house. They were never molested by the Indians, however, 
 at any time. 
 
BuRF°sQ u ' st ' 
 
 ;H Quisenber 
 
 James Francis Quisenberry. 
 
 "%*So N 
 
 
 
 FOUR GENERATIONS. 
 
COLBY BURRIS QUISENBERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 61 
 
 They lived at tlie Red House many years, and most of their 
 children were born there. 
 
 About 1840 Mr. Quisenberry bought the farm of Captain Wil¬ 
 liam C. Simpson, in Clark county, nearly two miles south of Win¬ 
 chester, on the Boonesboro' turnpike. He lived at this place the 
 remainder of his life, and both he and his wife, as well as several of 
 their children and grandchildren, are buried in the family grave¬ 
 yard, only a few rods from the house. The place is now (1897) 
 owned by Mr. W. Timberlake. 
 
 When he attained his majority Colby B. Quisenberry was a 
 Democrat. His father, when a young man in Virginia, had known 
 Thomas Jefferson, who lived not far distant from him in the ad¬ 
 joining county (to Orange) of Albemarle, and became an ardent 
 Jeffersonian, when that great statesman, a few years later, 
 founded the Democratic party, which was then known, however, 
 as the “Republican” party. Colby B. Quisenberry remained a 
 Democrat until along in the “forties,” when he voted for William 
 Henry Harrison for President of the United States. He then be¬ 
 came a confirmed W hig, through the influence of Henry Clay, 
 whom he knew and greatly admired; and he remained a Whig until 
 that party finally disappeared from politics in 185(1. In 1860 lie 
 supported Bell and Everett, the “Union” candidates for President 
 and Vice-President. After that he again became a Democrat, and 
 so remained until his death. Early in youth lie united with the 
 Baptist church, and was all his life an earnest, active, conscientious 
 Christian. He always gave liberally to the church, and the Baptist 
 church erected in Winchester in 1860 was built mainly by his con 
 tributions. Hi* died at sunrise on January 1, 1871, being then in 
 the eighty-third year of his age. 
 
 Lucy Bush, the wife of Colby Burris Quisenberry, was born in 
 the “Bush Settlement,” near the old stone meeting-house, on May 
 5, 1790, and was the daughter of Francis Bush and Rachel (Martin) 
 Bush, his wife. She was a woman of great natural capacity, and 
 was adorned with all the Christian graces. She died December 2, 
 1872, in her eighty-third year. 
 
 The children of Colby B. and Lucy Quisenberry were thirteen 
 in number, twelve of whom reached maturity (and three of whom 
 are still living), as follows: 
 
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 COLBY BURRIS QUISENBEHBY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 1. LOUISA QUISENBERRY, born in Madison county on 
 September 20, 1811. Slie married David Clienault, of the same 
 county, on October 25, 1827, and they moved to Sumner county, 
 Tennessee, settling near Oastalian Springs, and became quite 
 wealthy. Their children were: 
 
 1. John Clienault,, born February 21, 1830. Settled in Dallas 
 county, Texas, and served through the war in the Confederate army. 
 Died December, 1896. 
 
 2. Colby Clienault, born May 15, 1831. Served with the Ten¬ 
 nessee troops in the Confederate army. 
 
 3. David Clienault, born January 13, 1833. Served with the 
 Tennessee troops in the Confederate army. 
 
 4. Janies Clienault, born December 22, 1831. Served with the 
 Tennessee troops in the Confederate army. 
 
 5. Harvey Clienault, born May 11, 1S37. Served with Ten¬ 
 nessee troops in the Confederate army. 
 
 6. Sallie A. Clienault, born October 3, 1839. Married —— 
 Guthrie. 
 
 7. Nancy Clienault, born January 26, 1844. Married - 
 
 Martin. 
 
 8. Lucy Clienault, born February 12, 1847. Married- 
 
 Barry. 
 
 9. Frances Clienault, born November 21, 1841. Married- 
 
 Tyree. 
 
 10. Milton Waller Clienault, born June 1, 1849. Married, and 
 has eight children. 
 
 11. Maria Louisa Clienault, born July 15, 1851. Married- 
 
 Barry. 
 
 12. William Clienault, born December 29, 1853. 
 
 13. Millard Fillmore Clienault, born February 3, 1856. 
 
 2. MILTON QUISENBERRY, born in Madison county No¬ 
 vember 10, 1813. Married his cousin, Frances Quisenberry, 
 daughter of Roger Quisenberry, on September 13, 1838. Their issue 
 was: 
 
 1. Ann E. Quisenberry, born July 7, 1839; married Pleasant J. 
 Conkwriglit, of Clark county, and had issue. Died in February, 
 1897. 
 
COLBY BI'IlRrS QUISENBERRY ANI) HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 63 
 
 3. SALLIE QUISENBERRY, born February 26, 1815, in Mad 
 ison county. Married William H. Ragland, of Clark county, who 
 was a grandson of James Ragland, who served in Captain Wood¬ 
 son's company, 9th Virginia regiment, in the Revolutionary War. 
 Their children were: 
 
 1. Louisa Ragland, born June 10, 1833. 
 
 2. Catherine Ragland, born June 28, 1835. Married, first, 
 William Burris, of Clark county; second. Philip Elliott, of Estill 
 county. Mr. Elliott served in the Union army during the Civil War. 
 
 3. Patsey Elizabeth Ragland, born March 12, 1837. Married 
 Roger Brookin, of Clark county, and they settled in Texas. 
 
 4. Colby Quisenberry Ragland, born November 12, 1838. 
 Moved to Texas in I860, where he settled, and married Virginia 
 Fant, and is now a prosperous merchant in Goliad. Served with the 
 Texas Rangers in the Confederate army. Seven children. 
 
 5. Lucy Ann Ragland, born April 22, 1840. Married Enoch 
 Haggard, of Clark county, and they went first to Missouri and then 
 to Texas, where they are now living. 
 
 6. Nathaniel Ragland, born January 16, 1842. Served in 
 Colonel I). Waller Clienault’s 11th Kentucky Confederate Cavalry, 
 and died in Tennessee during the war. 
 
 7. Elkanah Ragland, born January 24. 1814. Served in Colonel 
 Clienault’s regiment. 
 
 8. Milton Ragland, born February 26, 1846. Served in Colonel 
 (Renault's regiment. Married Louisa Harris, of Clark county. 
 
 9. Mary M. Ragland, born June 7, 1848. Deceased. 
 
 10. Sarah Frances Ragland, born April 24, 1850. Married 
 Samuel Moore, of Bourbon county. 
 
 11. William Thomas Ragland, born July 31, 1852. Married 
 Miss Moore, of Bourbon county. 
 
 12. John Martin Ragland, born March 1, 1854. Married Bird 
 Ragland, of Clark county. 
 
 13. James Fielding Ragland, born January 26, 1856. Mar¬ 
 ried Miss-Fant, of Goliad, Texas, and lives there. 
 
 4. RACHEL JANE QUISENBERRY, born in Madison 
 county, June 2!), 1816. Married Thomas Jenkins, of Lincoln county, 
 Kentucky, in 1836, and their children were: 
 
 1. Virgil Thomas Jenkins, born April 14,1837. 
 
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 COLBY BURRIS QUIS BN BERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 2. Lucy Jaue Jenkins, born December 19, 1838. 
 
 3. Marie Louisa Jenkins, born July 30, 1840. 
 
 4. Colby Melville Jenkins, born May 21, 1845. 
 
 5. Sallie A. Jenkins, born-. 
 
 (3. James Quisenberry Jenkins, born December 16, 1847. 
 
 7. Leslie T. Jenkins, born January 6, 1850. Died in 1886, leav¬ 
 ing children. 
 
 8. Rachel Bush Jenkins, born March 12, 1851. 
 
 (The above were all married.) 
 
 5. FIELDING BUSH QUISENBERRY, born in Madison 
 county, June 6. 1818. Married Rebecca J. Elkin, daughter of Rev. 
 Robert Elkin, on October 8, 1839. Their children were: 
 
 1. Ezekiel Colby Quisenberry, born December 31, 1840. 
 Served in the 8th Kentucky Confederate Cavalry. Went to Texas 
 soon after the war and married there. 
 
 2. Claudius Vespasian Quisenberry, born October 27, 1842. 
 Served in the 8th Kentucky Confederate Cavalry. Now lives in 
 Collin county, Texas, where he married. 
 
 3. Ann Smallwood Quisenberry, born March 30, 1844. Mar¬ 
 ried Robert Bush, and went to St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 4. Buford Allen Quisenberry, born December 24, 1845. Now 
 lives in Texas. 
 
 5. Frances T. Quisenberry, born August 1, 1848. Married 
 Bartlett S. Haggard, of Clark county. Died leaving no children. 
 
 6. Sidney Allan Quisenberry, born November 12, 1851. Now 
 lives in Indian Territory. 
 
 7. Rodney M. Quisenberry, born September 5,1855. Now lives 
 in Texas. 
 
 8. Charles Crittenden Quisenberry, born December 9, 1858. 
 Married Nannie Evans, daughter of James H. Evans, of Win¬ 
 chester, Ky. 
 
 9. Walter Lee Quisenberry, born December 10, 1863. Married 
 Nettie Haggard, of Clark county. 
 
 6. LUCY QUISENBERRY, born in Madison county, August 
 2, 1820. On October 9, 1839, married Robert Elkin, son of Rev. 
 Robert Elkin. They settled in Sumner county, Tennessee, near the 
 town of Gallatin. Their children were: 
 
COLBY BURRIS QUrSENBERRY AND FITS DESCENDANTS 
 
 65 
 
 1. Milton Smallwood Elkin, born October 9, 1841. Served 
 with the Tennessee troops in the Confederate army. After the war 
 became a lawyer of distinction, and represented Sumner county in 
 the Tennessee Legislature. In 1884 was a Cleveland and Hendricks 
 Presidential elector. Died in 1885, leaving issue. 
 
 2. Colby Wellington Elkin, born November 25, 1842. Served 
 with the Tennessee troops in the Confederate army. 
 
 3. Joyce Ann Elkin, born September 28, 1844. Married - 
 
 Alexander. 
 
 4. Sarah Louisa Elkin, born August 5, 1846. Married - 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 7. COLBY BURRIS QUISENBERRY, JR., born in Madison 
 county, August 31, 1822. Married Sarah Tribble, daughter of Dud¬ 
 ley Tribble, of Madison county, on July 15, 1847. They settled in 
 Fayette county, near David's Fork church, where they are still liv¬ 
 ing. Their children are: 
 
 1. Ellen Quisenberry, born June 24, 1849. Died unmarried. 
 
 2. Lucy Belle Quisenberry, born October 9, 1851. Married 
 Blackwell Carr. 
 
 3. Madison Quisenberry. born October 27, 1853. 
 
 4. Dudley Tribble Quisenberry, born July 11, 1856. 
 
 8. JAMES FRANCIS QUISENBERRY. (See Chapter VIII.i 
 
 9. ROGER TANDY QUISENBERRY, born February 7, 1826. 
 Was never married. He was a student at the Drennon Springs 
 (Ky.) Military Academy, under the tutelage of the subsequently dis¬ 
 tinguished James G. Blaine; and he also took the law course at 
 Harvard University, but never practiced law. During the Mexican 
 War he served as a subaltern in the Independent Company of Ken¬ 
 tucky Cavalry commanded by John S. Williams, who was subse¬ 
 quently a Brigadier-General in tin* Confederate service and later 
 a Senator in Congress from Kentucky. In 1853 Mr. Quisenberry 
 went to the California gold diggings and was not heard from for 
 nearly ten years. In the meantime he had made considerable 
 money in California and had lived for some years in the Sandwich 
 Islands. Died October 3, 1892, in Clark county. 
 
 10. JOYCE DUNCAN QUISENBERRY, born March 12. 1838, 
 and on May 12, 1849, was married to Joseph Helm Withers, of Har- 
 
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 COLBY BURRIS QUISENBERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 rodsburg, Ky., in which town they lived until about the year 1868, 
 when they went to Audrain county, Missouri, where they now live. 
 Their children were: 
 
 1. Kitty Withers, born March 15, 1850. Deceased. 
 
 2. Roger Williams Withers, born June 15. 1851. Deceased. 
 
 3. Lucy Withers, born November 12. 1852. Married Edgar 
 M. Hultz, of Columbia, Mo. 
 
 4. Mariana Withers, born November 12, 1852. Deceased. 
 
 5. Aileen Withers, born November 24, 1855. Married Manlius 
 E. Hultz, of Columbia, Mo. 
 
 6. Sallie Withers, born February 6, 1858. Married Edward C. 
 Gamble, of Mexico, Mo. 
 
 7. Susan Withers, born August 10, 1860. Married John W. 
 Gamble, of Mexico, Mo. 
 
 8. Ella D. Withers, born May 10, 1862. 
 
 9. Josephine Withers, born February 21, 1864. 
 
 10. Electra Helm Withers, born August 16, 1869. 
 
 11. ELKANAH ELKIN QUISENBERRY, born July 15, 1830. 
 Served in the 8th Kentucky Confederate Cavalry during the Civil 
 War, and, on General Morgan’s Ohio raid, was captured at Buffing¬ 
 ton Island, Ohio, in 1863, and remained a prisoner at Camp Douglas, 
 Illinois, until near the close of hostilities. November 6, 1868, he 
 married Ellen Thornton, of Clark county, and aftei’wards removed 
 to Greene county, Missouri, where he died in 1880. His children 
 are: 
 
 1. Florence B. Quisenberry, born July 31, 1870. This lady, 
 who lives at Springfield, Mo., now owns the old family Bible of our 
 grandfather, Colby Burris Quisenberry, which contains the record 
 of his children and grandchildren, as well as of his numerous slaves. 
 
 2. Arthur T. Quisenberry, born February 22, 1872. 
 
 3. Eugene Quisenberry, born November 9,1873. 
 
 4. Charles W. Quisenberry, born October 31,1875. 
 
 5. Mattie L. Quisenberry, born July 10, 1877. 
 
 6. Grace E. Quisenberry, born October 14, 1879. 
 
 7. Gertrude E. Quisenberry, born October 14, 1879. 
 
 12. NEWTON QUISENBERRY, born January 26, 1832. Died 
 December 9, 1836. 
 
COLBY BURRIS QUISENBERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 67 
 
 13. JOHN MARTIN QUISENBERRY, born April 26, 1833. 
 On October 25, 1859, was married to Sarah Moore, of Montgomery 
 county, Ivy., and they now live at Ewington, in that county. He 
 was named for his maternal great-grandfather, John Martin. His 
 children are: 
 
 1. Cora Quisenberry, born November 6, 1861. 
 
 2. Ivanora Quisenberry, born September 16, 1863. 
 
 3. Audley Quisenberry, born January 27, 1865. 
 
 (There are, I think, four other children, whose names I have 
 not learned.) 
 
 So Colby Burris Quisenberry and Lucy his wife had thirteen 
 children and eighty grandchildren. Their great-grandchildren 
 and great-great-grandchildren are very numerous, indeed. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 JAMES FRANCIS QUISENBERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 James Francis Quisenberry, eighth child and fourth son of 
 Colby Burris Quisenberry, and Lucy Bush, his wife, was born at the 
 Red House, in Madison count}', on October 15, 1824. He was named 
 for his two grandfathers, Rev. James Quisenberry and Francis 
 Bush. He was educated mainly at the Winchester Male Academy, 
 an institution established by act of the Kentucky Legislature in 
 1796, and endowed with six thousand acres of land. The academy 
 building is still standing, though recently much enlarged, and is 
 used as one of the public schools of Winchester. In after life Mr. 
 Quisenberry became a great reader and tilled his house with stand¬ 
 ard books. Upon attaining his majority he bought a little farm 
 in what was then called “the McMillan neighborhood,” and made 
 money rapidly. October 14, 1847, he was married to Emily Came¬ 
 ron Chenault, the daughter of Anderson Chenault and Emily 
 Cameron, his wife, of Madison county. They lived in this house 
 in the McMillan neighborhood until 1854, in which year Mr. Quis¬ 
 enberry sold the place for almost twice what he had paid for it, 
 so greatly had he improved it. His first three children were born 
 at this place. In 1854 Mr. Quisenberry bought what was then 
 known as “the Miles place,” consisting of one hundred and ninety 
 acres of land, located on the headwaters of Howard’s Lower Creek, 
 about two miles south of Winchester, on the Boonesboro’ turn¬ 
 pike, and adjoining the lands of his father, Colby B. Quisenberry. 
 The place then had a stone dwelling-house on it reputed to have 
 been built in 1780. This house was replaced in 1870 by a larger 
 one, of frame. To this farm he added by subsequent purchases of 
 adjoining lands until it reached the dimensions of three hundred 
 and twenty-five acres. It should have been previously stated that 
 before buying this farm he took two trips—one to Tennessee and 
 
JAMES FRANCIS QUISENBERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 69 
 
 one to Missouri—for prospecting purposes. In Tennessee he was 
 near buying a tract of land just across the Cumberland river from 
 Nashville, where the prosperous city of Edgefield now stands. 
 Had he done this, of course the “unearned increment” would sub¬ 
 sequently have made him an enormously wealthy man. The out¬ 
 look in Missouri did not please him at all. During the trip to that 
 State he was accompanied by two of his neighbors, John Tate and 
 Charles W. Capps; and on one occasion the three were overturned 
 from a skiff in the middle of the Missouri river, near Kansas City. 
 Neither Tate nor Capps could swim, but Mr. Quisenberry, who 
 was an expert swimmer, succeeded in getting them both fo 
 shore and unquestionably saved their lives. 
 
 For the greater part of his life Mr. Quisenberry was an “Old 
 Line Whig,” though no party at any time fully represented his 
 views upon questions of public policy. Though a slave-holder and 
 the descendant of six generations of slave-holders, he was opposed 
 to slavery and favored gradual emancipation. Although a Whig 
 by family association and training, he never did believe in a pro¬ 
 tective tariff. When the Civil War began, though sympathizing 
 ardently and openly with the South, he was in favor of Kentucky 
 remaining in the old Union. Subsequently, he changed his views 
 on this subject, and favored the secession of the State. He cast 
 his first Democratic vote during the war, and remained a Democrat 
 until his death. At the age of fourteen years he united with the 
 Baptist congregation at “the old stone meeting-house;” but later in 
 life his extensive reading engendered doubts upon religious ques¬ 
 tions, and he separated himself from church associations. He 
 was an extremely kind-hearted, generous man, and was very popu¬ 
 lar with those who knew him, for he was the soul of honor and 
 integrity in all his dealings. He made money easily and spent it 
 lavishly, which is all that prevented him from becoming a very 
 wealthy man. He never sought public office, which he might 
 easily have attained; and, although frequently solicited by friends, 
 especially in his early manhood, to stand for office, he always de¬ 
 clined to do so. In 1876 he rented his farm, then consisting of 
 three hundred acres, for a term of three years, at $2,100 a year, 
 which is perhaps the highest rent ever received for a farm of that 
 
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 JAMES FRANCIS QUISENBEKRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 size, to be used for strictly farming purposes, in Kentucky. He 
 tben rented a small place near Boonesboro’ to occupy until the 
 lease on liis farm should expire; and there he died on February 3, 
 1877, of softening of the brain, from which he had been suffering 
 for several years. 
 
 Emily Cameron Chenault, the wife of James Francis Quisen- 
 berry, was born in Madison county, February 15, 1832, at the home 
 which her grandfather, William Chenault, had bought of Josiali 
 Phelps, who had it of George Boone, the brother of Daniel Boone. 
 She was educated in the schools of the county, and at a seminary 
 for young women at Versailles, Kentucky. She married Mr. Quis- 
 enberry when only sixteen years of age. About 1859 she united 
 with the Baptist congregation at the “old stone meeting-house,” 
 but later moved her membership to the Baptist church at Win¬ 
 chester. She is a good Christian woman and the best of mothers. 
 
 The children of James Francis Quisenberry and Emily Cameron 
 Chenault, his wife, are as follows: 
 
 1. EMMA ALICE QUISENBERRY, born October 26, 1848. 
 She was educated in the schools of Winchester, Danville and Rich¬ 
 mond, Kentucky; and early displayed a strong literary tendency. 
 Many of her poems and prose sketches were favorably received by 
 competent critics, among whom was George D. Prentice, the 
 veteran editor of the Louisville Journal. She was married June 
 21, 1870 at the Presbyterian church in Winchester, to Joseph Ad¬ 
 dison Hinkle, a prosperous young business man of Louisville. 
 Mr. Hinkle is a native of Tennessee, and served in the Confederate 
 army. He was taken prisoner when Fort Donelson capitulated to 
 General Grant, and was imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Illinois. 
 He succeeded in escaping from this place, and made his way safely 
 back to Dixie. After the close of the war he engaged in business 
 as a “commercial traveler” for Louisville houses, and always com¬ 
 manded the best salaries paid for such services, and for a long 
 time was paid $6,000 a year. He now has his home at McKenzie, 
 Tennessee, though employed by a Baltimore house. 
 
 The children of Joseph Addison Hinkle and Emma Alice Quis¬ 
 enberry, his wife, are as follows: 
 
ANDERSON CHENAULT QUISENBERRY. 
 
JAMES FRANCIS QUISENBERHY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 71 
 
 1. Emma May Hinkle, born May 18, 1.871, in Louisville (cor¬ 
 ner of Seventh and Jefferson streets), married January — , 1894, to 
 N. F. McDonald, of McKenzie, Tennessee. 
 
 2. James Marvin Hinkle, born November 11, 1873, at tin* 
 home of his grandfather, James Francis Quisenberry, in Clark 
 county, Kentucky. Now lives in Texas. 
 
 3. Lewise Rogers Hinkle, born in Louisville December 7. 
 1880. Died in McKenzie, Tenn., August 25, 1887. 
 
 2. ANDERSON CHENALLT QUISENBERRY, the compiler 
 of these chronicles, was born in Clark county, Kentucky, on October 
 20, 1850—two years, to a day, after the birth of his sister, Mrs. 
 Hinkle. Two of his own children also have the same birthday — July 
 10—though four years apart. He was named for his maternal grand¬ 
 father, Anderson Chenault. His life has not been particularly 
 eventful, but upon the supposition that nearly anything about him¬ 
 self may be interesting to his children and possible future descend¬ 
 ants, for whose benefit this sketch is mainly written, occurrences 
 in his life may perhaps be excusably mentioned, though totally un¬ 
 interesting to any one else. He attended the schools in and near 
 Winchester, and from 1807 to 1809, inclusive, was a student at 
 Georgetown College, Kentucky. The first school he attended, was 
 taught in the old Presbyterian church building in Winchester, 
 which stood where Dr. Washington Miller’s residence now stands. 
 In 1870, soon after leaving college he served a term as principal of 
 Ihe Winchester Male Academy, where his father had been a pupil 
 more than thirty years before. That same year his father bought 
 for him a half interest in the Clark County Democrat, a newspaper 
 published in Winchester. He edited this paper about a year, and 
 then sold his interest to his partner. Captain James M. Parris. 
 Subsequently he bought the whole plant, and published the paper 
 until October, 1873, having for partners, at different times, John 
 E. Garner, since Mayor of Winchester, and his brother, Waller 
 Quisenberry. Tt should be stated, however, that previous to buy¬ 
 ing the paper from Captain Parris, Mr. Quisenberry made several 
 trips through Kentucky as a “commercial traveler” for a Louis¬ 
 ville hardware house. In October. 1873, he sold the Democrat to 
 Judge William M. Beckner (who has since served his district in 
 
.TAME? FRANCIS QUISENBERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 72 
 
 Congress) and then farmed with his father for about a year. In 1874 
 he again went to Louisville, where he was employed at various 
 times on the Courier-Journal, Evening Gazette, Evening Tribune, 
 and Evening Ledger. He assisted O. H. Kothacker and others in 
 establishing the Louisville Sunday Argus, which had a prosperous 
 career. Then back to Winchester, where he assisted Judge Beck- 
 ner on the Democrat until November 1, 1878, when, in conjunction 
 with William T. Adams, James J. Adams and William W. Smith, 
 he established the Winchester Semi-Weekly Sun. About a year 
 subsequently his brother, Francis Quisenberry, went into the con¬ 
 cern. and they bought the best printing outfit that had ever been 
 in Winchester up to that time. Upon the death of his brother 
 Francis, shortly afterwards, Mr. Quisenberry disposed of his inter¬ 
 est in the Sun, having previously accepted the editorship of the 
 Lexington Daily Transcript. From 1881 to 18S5 he was editor, 
 first of the Transcript, then of the Lexington Daily Press, and then 
 again of the Transcript. For several years of this time he was the 
 Lexington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, which paid 
 extremely well. He was also the Lexington correspondent of the 
 Louisville Courier-Journal for about a year; and for some years 
 he furnished the Central Kentucky news to the Western Asso¬ 
 ciated Press. Altogether, his active career as a journalist covered 
 a period of more than fifteen years. 
 
 In September, 1885, General James F. Robinson, then Col¬ 
 lector of Internal Revenue for the Seventh District of Kentucky, 
 with his office at Lexington, appointed Mr. Quisenberry one of his 
 deputies, in which capacity he served until June 1, 1889. when lie 
 accepted an appointment under the Civil Service Act as a clerk 
 in the Quartermaster General's office, War Department, Washing¬ 
 ton, D. C. Six months later he was promoted one grade, and six 
 months after that was transferred to the office of the Inspector 
 General of the Army, with a further promotion of an additional 
 grade. His next promotion after that was on March 16, 1893. 
 since which time he has not been promoted. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Quisenberry was a candidate for the Democratic 
 nomination for clerk of the Clark County Court, but withdrew be¬ 
 fore the primary was over. In 1881 he was a candidate for the 
 
JAMES FllANCIS QUISENBERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 73 
 
 Democratic nomination for Representative in the Legislature from 
 Clark county. His opponents were Hon. I. N. Boone and Thomas 
 G. Stuart, the latter being one of the editors of the Clark County 
 Democrat. Stuart defeated Mr. Quisenberry by a plurality of 
 three votes. This was perhaps the closest and most exciting po¬ 
 litical contest ever had in Clark county, owing, to some extent, no 
 doubt, to the bitterness growing out of a personal difficulty be¬ 
 tween Mr. Stuart and Mr. Quisenberry. The difficulty was occa¬ 
 sioned b t y a vile, untrue and uncalled for publication made by Mr. 
 Stuart, in his paper, concerning Mr. Quisenberry. 
 
 Mr. Quisenberry has always been a strict construction Demo 
 crat, and since the year 1889 has been an ardent advocate of the 
 theory of the single tax on land values, as promulgated by Henry 
 George, and believes that that is a sure remedy for all the political 
 and most of the social ills that afflict humanity. He has never be¬ 
 longed to any church, and, indeed, has no belief in any of the ac 
 eepted systems of theology. He became a Freemason in 1871, an 
 Odd Fellow in 1873, and has belonged to several minor secret or¬ 
 ders. He has been a member of the Kentucky Branch of the So¬ 
 ciety of Colonial Wars (of which he is the Historian) since January, 
 1896, his State number being 10. He derives eligibility for this 
 membership from his two great-great-grandfathers, Thomas Bur¬ 
 ris and Matthew Mullins, who served in Braddock’s War. He has 
 also been a member of the Kentucky Society of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution since 1890 (State number, 129; National 
 number, 2029), deriving eligibility from three great-grandfathers, 
 Rev. James Quisenberry, William Chenault and Francis Bush; 
 and from three great-great-grandfathers, Thomas Burris, Matthew 
 Mullins, and John Martin, all of whom served in the Revolutionary 
 War. Mr. Quisenberry was also the editor and compiler of the 
 Year Book of the Kentucky Society of the Sons of the American 
 Revolution for 1896, which contains his portrait and publishes a 
 list of the officers of the Virginia Line who received land bounties, 
 a roll of the Revolutionary pensioners in Kentucky; a list of the 
 Illinois Regiment who served under George Rogers Clark in the 
 Northwestern campaign; and a roster of the Virginia Revolution¬ 
 ary Navy. Another production of Mr. Quisenberry’s that has ar 
 
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 tained the dignity of publication in book form is the ‘Life and 
 Times of Humphrey Marshall, the Elder," published in 1892. He 
 has been a member of the Filson Club since May 7, 1888. 
 
 On May 1, 1879, Anderson C. Quisenberry was married, in 
 Springfield, Ohio, to Miss Corinna Broomhall. She was born in 
 Wilmington, Ohio, on October 3, 1858. Her father, Webb Broom- 
 hall, was a Pennsylvanian by birth; and her mother, Adelaide Fin¬ 
 ish 1 , was born at Ernest-Town, on the shores of the Bay of Quinte, 
 in Ontario, Canada. Mrs. Quisenberry was educated in the schools 
 of Circleville, Ohio (to which place her parents had removed when 
 she was quite young), and at the Catholic Conventual School at 
 Zanesville, Ohio, and the Ohio Wesleyan College, at Delaware. 
 She early evinced a decided talent for music, and took a thorough 
 course in that science at the Conservatory of Music at Xenia, Ohio. 
 In 1876, she went to Winchester, Kentucky, and began teaching 
 music, and at once became very popular as a teacher. Her in¬ 
 struction to pupils was unusually thorough, and was conscien¬ 
 tiously imparted. The result was that she at once gained the con¬ 
 fidence and esteem of the people, and secured all the pupils she 
 could handle, and might easily have had as many more if she 
 would have taken them. After the removal to Lexington she 
 taught music for several terms in Hamilton Female College, and 
 gave great satisfaction. She is an Episcopalian by preference, 
 though not a communicant of any church. 
 
 The children of Anderson Chenault Quisenberry and Corinna 
 Broomhall, his wife, are: 
 
 1. Adelaide Corinna Quisenberry, born Monday, July 10, 
 1881, at 12:30 P. M., on Maxwell street, corner Yertner street, 
 Lexington, Ky. She has been a member of the Capital Society, 
 Children of the American Revolution, since 1895, and is Historian 
 of the Society. (National numebr, 49; Society number, 21.) Named 
 for her grandmother Adelaide Broomhall and for her mother. 
 
 2. James Francis Quisenberry, born Saturday, July 10, 1886, 
 at 12:15 A. M., at No. 47 West Sixth street, Lexington, Ky. Mem¬ 
 ber of the Capital Society, Children of the American Revolution 
 since 1895. (National number, 50; Society number, 22.) Named for 
 his grandfather and his uncle. 
 
JAMES FRANCIS QUISENBERRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 75 
 
 3. Colby Broomhall Quisenberry, born Sunday, December 
 1(», 1888, at 11:30 A. M., at No. 47 West Sixth street, Lexington, 
 Ivy. Member of the Capital Society, Children of the American 
 Revolution since 1895. (National number, 51; Society number, 
 23.) His great-grandfather, Colby Quisenberry, for whom he 
 was named, was born just a hundred years before—1788 — and 
 was married 78 years before to a day—Sunday, December 16, 1819. 
 
 4. Florence Emily Quisenberry, born Saturday, June 8, 1895, 
 7 o’clock A. M., at 737 Sixth street, N. E., Washington, D. C. At 
 the age of ten months she became the baby member of Capital 
 Society, Children of the American Revolution. (National number, 
 1179; Society number, — .) Named Emily for her grandmother, 
 Emily Quisenberry. 
 
 3. WALLER QUISENBERRY, born in Clark county, on 
 January 12, 1853. He was educated at the same schools and col¬ 
 lege that his brother, A. C. Quisenberry, attended. He is one of 
 the most prominent, intelligent and highly respected citizens of 
 his native county, where he now lives. He is perhaps the tallest 
 of Rev. James Quisenberry’s descendants, being six feet and one 
 inch in height. Rev. Janies Quisenberry himself was six feet 
 and six inches in height, but his wives were small. Waller 
 Quisenberry was one of the owners and editors of the Clark County 
 Democrat in 1872, but soon withdrew from journalism and went 
 to Texas, where he spent about a year. In 1874 he taught a school 
 near Republican church, in Madison county, Kentucky. He lias 
 been a farmer for the most of his life, and owns a good farm in 
 Clark county, on which lie has prospered. He was named for his 
 uncle, Colonel D. Waller Chenault. He was married on December 
 12, 1894, to Miss Emma Lisle, of Clark county, daughter of James 
 Hockaday Lisle and Mary Hampton, his wife, and niece of Hon. 
 Marcus C. Lisle, who represented his district in the Fiftieth Con¬ 
 gress. Waller Quisenberry and wife have one child, a daughter, as 
 yet unnamed, born Sept. 17, 1896. 
 
 4. JAMES FRANCIS QUISENBERRY, JR., born in Clark 
 county, on January 23, 1855, and died at the “home place” on 
 February 4, 1880, of typhoid pneumonia, after an illness of three 
 weeks’ duration. He was unmarried. He was educated at George- 
 
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 town College, and was probably better informed and had achieved 
 a wider and more general course of reading than any man of his 
 age in Kentucky. In the opinion of this writer, he had the highest 
 mentality and brightest intellect of any of Rev. James Quisen- 
 berry’s descendants. He became one of the editors and owners of 
 the Winchester Semi-Weekly Sun on January 1, 1880, about a 
 month before his death. He was named for his father, and inci¬ 
 dentally for two of his great-grandfathers—lev. James Quisen- 
 berry and Francis Bush. 
 
 “ Only the dead hearts forsake us never; 
 
 Love, that to Death’s loyal care has fled 
 Is thus consecrated ours forever, 
 
 And no change can rob us of our dead." 
 
CHAPTER IX 
 
 THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
 The Bush family, of Clark county, Kentucky, is said to have de¬ 
 scended from John Bush, who came from England and settled 
 at Kiccoughtan (now Hampton), Virginia, in the year 1618, and 
 while there is probably no doubt whatever of this being a fact, 
 still, on account of the destruction of many old records in Vir¬ 
 ginia, it has not been found possible to trace the connection. 
 
 The furthest back the Clark county Bushes have been abso¬ 
 lutely traced is to John Bush, of St. Thomas Parish, Orange county, 
 Virginia, whose will was probated in that county in 1746. (See 
 Appendix, VIII, 19.) In this will his wife is mentioned as Bridget 
 Bush, and the following children are enumerated: (1) Philip; 
 (2) Martha Bruce; (3) Elizabeth Sanders; (4) John; (5) Thomas; 
 (6) Daniel. The testator, John Bush, was probably born not later 
 than 1670, and was doubtless the grandson of the pioneer John 
 Bush who settled at Kiccoughtan in 1618. In this connection the 
 following note from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biog¬ 
 raphy (Vol. I, page 194) may be of interest: 
 
 “John Bush, of Kiccoughtan, in the Corporation of Elizabeth 
 City, Gentleman, who came over in the Neptune, at his own charge, 
 in 1618, was patented 300 acres; 50 in his own right, 150 for tin? 
 transportation out of England of his wife, Elizabeth, and his chil¬ 
 dren, Elizabeth and Mary Bush, who all came in the Guift, in 1619 ; 
 and 100 acres for the transportation of his two servants, Thomas 
 Hand and William Pucker, who came in the Charles in 1621, said 
 land being in the parish of Kiccoughtan and adjoining the lands of 
 Lieutenant Albino Lupo and William Julian and bordering on the 
 main river. Granted by Wyatt in 1624.” 
 
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 This extract mentions only two children, both daughters; but 
 there were doubtless several others, both sous and daughters, in the 
 course of time. The Bushes have never been deficient in that re¬ 
 spect. 
 
 Philip Bush, of St. Thomas Parish, Orange county, Virginia, 
 the eldest son of John Bush, sr., of the same county and parish, was 
 the ancestor of the Clark county branch of the family. The first 
 mention found concerning him in the records of Orange county is 
 where, on March 6, 1745, William Bryan, of St. Thomas Parish, 
 Orange county, sold to Philip Bush, of the same county and parish, 
 one hundred acres of land in the same county and parish, “in con¬ 
 sideration of five shillings and the rent of one ear of Indian corn 
 yearly, at the feast of St. Michael, the Archangel, when lawfully 
 demanded.” One of the witnesses to this deed was Zachary Taylor, 
 Ihe grandfather of the President of that name. The William Bryan 
 who sold the land was very probably the ancestor of William 
 Jennings Bryan, whose Virginia forefathers lived in Orange and 
 the adjoining county of Culpeper. 
 
 Philip Bush, in his will (see Appendix VIII, 20), probated in 
 Orange county, Virginia, on September 24, 1772 (which was prob¬ 
 ably not more than a month or so after his death), and witnessed 
 by James Madison, the father of President Madison, names ten chil¬ 
 dren, and disposes of five hundred acres of land, £75 in money, four 
 slaves, and some personal property. Several of the children received 
 no bequests of land, and doubtless he had previously provided 
 for them in that respect. At the time the will was made it seems 
 his wife was not living, as she is not mentioned in it, and none of 
 her descendants now know what her maiden name was. Her given 
 name was Mary. The children mentioned in the will are: (1) Jo- 
 siah; (2) Philip; (3) John; (4) William; (5) Ambrose; (6) Mrs. Sarah 
 Watts; (7) Mrs Mary Richards; (8) Joseph; (9) Joshua; (10) Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Johnson. It is likely that all the sons named saw service 
 in the Revolutionary War. It is known that some of them did. 
 
 Most of these children moved to Kentucky, sooner or later, 
 and some of them settled in what was called “the Barrens,” in the 
 southwestern part of the State; and to this stock belongs Sarah 
 Bush, the second wife of Robert Lincoln, the father of Abraham 
 
THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
 7 !) 
 
 Lincoln. Christopher Bush was on Robert Lincoln’s bond for this 
 marriage. 
 
 Those of the children of Philip Bush, sr., who settled in 
 Clark county, Kentucky, and founded the famous “Bush Settle 
 ment,” in the midst of which Providence Baptist church, or 
 “the old stone meeting house,” was located, were: 
 
 1. PHILIP BUSH, born October 18, 1730. In his youth lie 
 courted a young lady in Virginia who rejected him and married 
 Colonel John Vivion instead, but she promised that he might marry 
 her first daughter, if she should have a daughter; and sure enough 
 he did marry her eldest daughter, Frances Vivion, some eighteen 
 or twenty years later, when he was forty years of age. Among 
 his children were Robert Bush, the father of the famous Dr. Bush, 
 of Lexington; Colonel John Bush; Peggy, who married Tandy 
 Quisenberry, and Polly, who married a Mr. McMurtry. 
 
 2. MARY BUSH, born July 3, 1738; married Robin Richards. 
 
 3. JOHN BUSH, born February 2, 1712. He was twice mar¬ 
 ried, and the name of his first wife is not now known. His second 
 wife was Polly Tillman. 
 
 4. WILLIAM BLTSH (better known as “Captain Billy Bush”), 
 horn October 21), 1746; died July 26, 1815. He married Frances 
 Tandy Burris, a sister of Jane Burris, the first wife of Rev. James 
 Quisenberry. Captain Billy Bush accompanied Daniel Boone on 
 his second trip to Kentucky, in 1770, and was a great Indian fighter. 
 He also served under George Rogers Clark in tin 1 Illinois campaign, 
 which won the great Northwest Territory for the United States. 
 His tombstone says that “He was the friend and companion of 
 Daniel Boone.” 
 
 5. AMBROSE BUSH, born April 8, 1748; married Lucy Col¬ 
 son, or Gholson. They were Ihe grandparents of Hon. Ambrose 
 G. Bush, who for fifty years has been the clerk of old Providence 
 church, and of Judge James H. Bush. Richard G. Bush, and Valen¬ 
 tine W. Bush. 
 
 6. FRANCIS BUSH, born February 20, 1750. The name of 
 his first wife is not known, but their children were: (1) Fanny, who 
 
 married-Bradley; (2) Polly, who married Ambrose Christy; (3) 
 
 Nancy, who married Thomas Vivion; (4) Betsey, who married Daniel 
 
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 THE IiUSH FAMILY. 
 
 Orear. The second wife of Francis Bush was Rachel Martin, and 
 their children were: (5) Lucy, who married Colby Burris Quisen- 
 berry; (6) Sallie, who married George Matthews; (7) Fielding, who 
 married Ad elaid e Halyard, daughter of Captain John Halyard, 
 who commanded a Virginia company in the Revolutionary war; 
 (S) Jordan, who married Sallie Miller Stewart. One of the grand¬ 
 daughters of Fielding Bush married Hon. John H. Reagan, one of 
 the founders of the Republic of Texas, afterwards Governor of the 
 State of Texas, then Postmaster-General of the Confederate States 
 of America, so called, and subsequently Representative and then 
 Senator from Texas in the United States Congress. 
 
 Francis Bush was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He 
 enlisted February 14, 1778, in Captain William Taylor’s company of 
 Colonel Christian Febiger’s 2d Virginia Regiment of the Con¬ 
 tinental Line, and served one year. His second wife’s father, John 
 Martin, served as a sergeant in the same regiment and company 
 from September 16, 1776, to September 16, 1779. This family of 
 Martins are traditionally descended from Captain John Martin, 
 one of the Royal Councillors of Jamestown in 1607. 
 
 Francis Bush's home was on the hill, southwest of the old 
 stone meeting-house, and distant about a quarter of a mile from 
 the church. It was demolished about sixty years ago (1836), but 
 remnants of the chimneys still remain to mark the spot. He origin¬ 
 ally owned the spot upon which the old church stands, and deeded 
 it to the congregation to build their house of worship on. He 
 united with the church by open confession and baptism on August 
 5, 1786. The date of his death is not known, but Rachel, his wife, 
 died in 1861, being then nearly one hundred years old. 
 
 The following extract from Mrs. Julia Tevis’ valuable auto¬ 
 biography, “Sixty Years in a School Room,” is very interesting, 
 not only in connection with the Bush family, but also in connection 
 with the early history of Clark county. 
 
 Mrs. Tevis says: 
 
 “ I w as born December 5,1799, in Clark county, Kentucky. My 
 grandparents on both sides were among the earliest immigrants 
 from Virginia into this State. Their location in the vicinity of 
 
THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
 81 
 
 Boonesboro’ brought them into familiar intercourse and com¬ 
 panionship with Daniel Boone, and my maternal grandfather, Am¬ 
 brose Bush, with his four brothers, were among the most cele¬ 
 brated of the ‘old Indian fighters.’ Their numerous descendants 
 were scattered over so large a portion of Clark county as to give it 
 fhe name of ‘Bush Settlement.’ Thrifty and respectable farmers, 
 they occupied a position in society both honorable and useful. 
 * * * My grandmother Bush was a strictly pious Baptist; my 
 
 grandmother Hieronvinous a Methodist of the old school, a real 
 Wesleyan, thoroughly and decidedly religious. * * * I remem¬ 
 
 ber my grandmother Bush more distinctly, as much of my time 
 between the ages of four and seven was spent with her. Like 
 gleams of light come up now my joyous Saturday evenings and 
 Sundays at the old homestead, and the many dear, merry, warm¬ 
 hearted cousins, with whom I so often played ‘Mrs. Bush,’ or ‘Lady 
 Come to See’—the Bushes being so numerous that we had no idea 
 but that they tilled the world. Our world they did fill. I can, 
 even now, see in the dim, shadowy distance the tall, queenly form 
 of my grandmother, simply attired in a dove-colored dress and plain 
 white ’kerchief, with a cap faultless in shape and of showy white¬ 
 ness, setting olf the most benevolent of features. I can hear her 
 quick step, and her sweet voice calling ‘Jennie, Julia, Esther, 
 Polly!”-—her four daughters; for when she wanted one she never 
 failed to call them all over before she could get the right name. 
 And from habitual quickness of word, thought and action she often 
 made a laughable pell-mell of words. When she called for her black 
 mare to be saddled—for everybody rode on horseback in those days, 
 there being nothing more than bridle paths—it was: ‘Warrick, run 
 up the black mare, bring down the backstairs and put my saddle on 
 it right away; quick, quick, for I must go to sister Frankey’s at 
 once.’ And how often have I ridden to the stone meeting-house 
 behind her on that same black mare, and walked over and around 
 the churchyard where now my beloved grandparents lie buried 
 with many of their descendants. Grandfather was often away from 
 home on the ‘war-path’ for days and weeks at a time. During his 
 absence my grandmother kept her little ones about her. and never 
 failed to commend them to God in family prayer, night and morn 
 
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 THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
 ing. She was gifted with a fine voice, and I never heard her sing 
 anything but hymns. Often have I heard my mother relate thrilling 
 stories about Indians, panthers and wolves that came stealthily 
 around the solitary dwellings, their approach undiscovered in con¬ 
 sequence of the dense canebrake, until their gleaming eyes peering 
 through the unchinked walls aroused the family to a terrible con¬ 
 sciousness of danger. But never did they seem able to molest the 
 charmed circle within. Indians would steal the horses and fly; 
 wild beasts found other prey and departed. 
 
 “At the time that my grandfather, with his four brothers and 
 sister, came to Kentucky, many families traveled together for 
 mutual safety and protection against the Indians, whose hunting- 
 grounds extended to the border settlements of Virginia. On their 
 way through the wilderness they encountered bears, buffaloes, 
 wolves, wild cats, and sometimes herds of deer. Thus they moved 
 cautiously onward, in long lines, through a narrow bridle-path so 
 encumbered with brush and undergrowth as to impede their prog¬ 
 ress and render it necessary that they should sometimes encamp 
 for days in order to rest their weary packhorses, and forage for 
 themselves. A space of country that can now be leisurely passed 
 over in less than ten days, was then a journey of many weeks, and 
 sometimes months. I have heard interesting anecdotes related 
 connected with the emigration of my grandfather’s family through 
 this wilderness. When they tarried, even for a day or night, pickets 
 were thrown out and every pass was guarded vigilantly, lest haply 
 some lurking foe might invade the camp. None dared to speak 
 aloud, and generally the horses’ feet were muffled for fear of at¬ 
 tracting attention. No camp-fires were lighted, and when night 
 dropped her dark curtains around the weary travelers some rested 
 or slept while others gazed in death like stillness upon the sparkling 
 firmament, or listened to the music of streamlet or breeze, occa¬ 
 sionally starting at the rustling of a leaf—anything that broke the 
 solemn stillness striking terror to the heart. 
 
 “Once, after having passed over many miles without interrup¬ 
 tion. the travelers grew careless, and scattered groups pursued 
 their way without apprehension. One family, being considerably 
 in advance, was entirely separated from the company. Several 
 
THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
 83 
 
 hours had elapsed without one of them being seen by those in the 
 rear. Night came on; the stars shone in full glory, shedding a hazy 
 light on a few of the nearer objects, but adding to the dimness and 
 uncertainty of everything beyond. The profound silence was broken 
 only by the restlessness of the tethered horses, or the low murmur¬ 
 ing in dreams of the disturbed sleepers. So intense was the still¬ 
 ness that an imaginary noise more than once startled the guards 
 into an apprehension of a night attack, deepening the ominous 
 silence and quickening the light step of the sentinel as he made 
 his lonely round. The report of a gun was heard, and then another, 
 followed by the fierce war-whoop of the savage. Some of the young 
 men, dashing rapidly onward, soon reached a spot where, in the 
 gray light of dawn, a scene of horror presented itself, not un¬ 
 common in those perilous times. A party of Indians had come 
 upon the family stealthily, and, after a fierce struggle, had fled 
 precipitately with all the plunder they could carry. The light- 
 footed mysterious enemy had left the impress of his hand on the 
 dead and dying, scattered in every direction. One young girl, about 
 fourteen, had been scalped and left for dead in a dee]) ravine. She 
 had only swooned, and her brother, after the fray was over, seeing 
 something in the dim distance that looked like an animal, creeping 
 slowly toward them through the bushes, raised his gun to fire, 
 when he saw a human hand uplifted in an imploring attitude. In 
 a few minutes more he discovered it to be his sister, crawling on 
 her hands and knees, her face completely covered by her matted 
 hair. As he drew near she threw back her hair, and uttering the 
 word ‘brother,’ fainted in his arms. She had been scalped, but not 
 deeply wounded, and her only permanent loss was a portion of the 
 skin of her head, rudely torn off by the firm grasp of an Indian. 
 This young girl lived to reach Kentucky, grew up into womanhood, 
 married, and became the mother of a number of sons and daughters 
 —a proof that scalping does not necessarily produce death. 
 
 “One circumstance, often related to me, forcibly illustrates 
 the keen instinct of the panther. My grandfather had been out on 
 a hunt for many days. Weary eyes and anxious hearts were watch¬ 
 ing and waiting his return. It was midsummer, and the tall 
 cane, with its gracefully waving leaves, excluded the view of every 
 
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 THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
 object not in the immediate vicinity of the lonely and scattered 
 dwellings. About sunset one lovely afternoon my grandmother, 
 with her faithful handmaiden, ‘Mourning,’ set out to fetch some 
 water from the spring which, though at no great distance from the 
 house, was hidden from sight. Always in fear of ambushed 
 savages, they were walking slowly along when startled by the lost 
 hunter’s cry of ‘hoo-hoo!’ which was suppressed at intervals, as if 
 listening for a response to assure him that he was in the neighbor¬ 
 hood of home and loved ones. My grandmother answered, as she 
 was wont to do, while her heart thrilled with the joyful anticipa¬ 
 tion of meeting her returning husband. ‘Hoo-hoo!’ in a loud voice 
 was again heard and responded to, each time seeming nearer and 
 more distinct; when, just as they emerged from the thicket and 
 caught a glimpse of the shelving rock that over-arched the spring, 
 they perceived something moving among the bushes above. At 
 first they supposed it to be nothing more than a raccoon or an opos¬ 
 sum, but it proved to be a panther. This animal, when stimulated 
 by hunger, would assail whatever would provide him with a ban¬ 
 quet of blood. Lo! there he stood on the rock high above the spring, 
 squatting on his hind legs in the attitude of preparing to leap—his 
 glaring eyeballs fierce with expectation. His gray coat, fiery eyes, 
 and the cry whiqh he at that moment uttered, rendered by its re¬ 
 semblance to the human voice peculiarly terrific, denoted him to be 
 the most ferocious of his detested kind. My grandmother, whose 
 presence of mind never forsook her, even under the most appalling 
 circumstances, retreated slowly, keeping her eyes steadily fixed 
 on the eyes of the monster, which seemed momentarily paralyzed by 
 her gaze, until she and the negro girl could turn by a sudden angle 
 into the woods, when, adding ‘wings to their speed,’ they soon 
 reached the house and barred the doors behind them. 
 
 “I do not wish to give the impression that the name of Bush is 
 entitled to any patronymic distinction, or that any branch of the 
 family claim nobility; nevertheless, they came from a pure and 
 ancient stock, upon whose bright escutcheon no stain had ever 
 rested. It had never been legally disgraced, and never forfeited its 
 claims to respect and consideration. The family was originally 
 English, and the tradition among them is that the founder of the 
 
THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
 85 
 
 American branch, John Bush, came over among the first settlers 
 of Jamestown, and was the friend and companion of Captain John 
 Smith. My great-grandfather, Philip Bush, possessed a large landed 
 estate. His eight sons and four daughters were matrimonially con¬ 
 nected with some of the most distinguished families in the ‘Old 
 Dominion.’ My grandfather, Ambrose, the youngest child, save one, 
 married a Gholson, a family from whence originated statesmen and 
 orators. My great-uncle, Captain Billy Bush, came to Kentucky 
 with Daniel Boone on his second trip. He was fortunate in secur¬ 
 ing the fairest portion of the land in Clark county, by warrants and 
 otherwise, extending from Winchester to Boonesboro’. He 
 gave away, or sold for a trifle, farm after farm to his friends and 
 relatives that they might be induced to settle near him. These 
 seemed so well satisfied with the Goshen of their choice that even 
 their descendants had no disposition to emigrate, nor, indeed, to 
 enter the arena of public life. Thus they continued their pastoral 
 and farming occupations, ‘lengthening their cords and strengthen¬ 
 ing their stakes,’ marrying and intermarrying with the families in 
 the vicinity as well as among their own kindred, until the rela¬ 
 tionship can scarcely be traced to a vanishing point. There are 
 the Quisenberrys, the Vivions, the E lki ns, the Ge ntrys , the Embrys, 
 tin' Bushes, etc.—all uncles, aunts or cousins, and at one time you 
 might travel for miles without being out of the favored circle. 
 When I can first recollect, it was a community of Baptists, and they 
 all worshiped at the stone meeting-house, on Howard’s Creek. 
 There is an interest attached to this old church that deserves men¬ 
 tion. It is probably the first Baptist church built in Kentucky, 
 [It is the first of any kind.—A. C. Q.] and its foundations are laid 
 deep and strong, though not large and wide. A community of Bap¬ 
 tists living in Virginia determined to emigrate to Kentucky, in 
 1780. The ruling elder, Rev. Mr. Vinton [Vivion], was their leader. 
 They passed through much tribulation, and finally reached their 
 destination, but had no permanent place of worship until the stone 
 church was erected and called ‘Providence.’ Rev. Robert Elkin 
 was their pastor for forty-two years. Among the most prominent 
 members for a long time were my grandparents, who lived to see 
 many of their descendants baptized into the same church. I visited 
 
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 THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
 the neighborhood in 1824, and found attached to the congregation 
 thirteen widow Bushes. During the past year (1864) I had the priv¬ 
 ilege of entering within its hallowed walls and hearing an excellent 
 sermon from a Reformed-Baptist minister. The Reformers preach 
 on alternate Sundays with the old Baptists, and the two congrega¬ 
 tions worship together, generally without any disagreement. The 
 old church is in good condition. We reach it through a lovely blue- 
 grass region, dotted with stately mansions and rendered attractive 
 by green lawns and magnificent old sugar trees, through whose 
 foliage the sunlight streaming down covers the ground with en¬ 
 chanting figures of light and shade. The rugged hills surrounding 
 the creek present a striking contrast to the green valleys where 
 summer sleeps upon beds of roses. Now and then a simple cottage 
 is seen sparkling like a diamond in its granite cup; or on the top of 
 some green and goodly hill a dwelling, white and fair, gleaming 
 through depths of richest verdure. In a lovely nook, nestled among 
 the rock-hills of the creek, stands the house of a dear old relative 
 [Roger Quisenberry], with whose family I was privileged to spend 
 a few hours during my recent visit—a golden link in the chain of 
 reminiscences binding me to the past. What a tide of sweet mem¬ 
 ories swept over me as I listened and learned again the oft-repeated 
 histories of my childhood’s rosy hours, and stood once more in the 
 graveyard where, amid crumbling gravestones, rested the bodies 
 of so many I had known and loved in early life. What changes 
 had passed over Kentucky since my grandparents were deposited 
 in that quiet resting-place! Their tomb-stones are hoary with age, 
 and crumbling into dust; but affection keeps the spot green with 
 fresh memorials. Flowers bloom in loveliness around them. The 
 sweetbrier sends forth its fragrance and summer roses are found 
 there gushing with dewy sweetness. 
 
 “Of my uncle, Billy Bush, a word and I am done with this sub¬ 
 ject, rendered somewhat tedious by the clinging fondness of my 
 own recollections. This famous old Indian fighter, after having 
 suffered, in common with the rest of the settlers, many privations, 
 and having endured much, found himself with but a feAv hundred 
 acres of that vast domain he had fought to defend. He had munifi¬ 
 cently given away much, and was probably bereft of some by de- 
 
THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
 87 
 
 feetive titles. Hi* spent liis latter years in llie visionary pursuit of 
 silver mines, which lie never found. Like the mirage of the desert 
 they eluded his grasp, forever and forever vanishing as the spot was 
 in ared. The glittering prize proved ‘a glorious cheat,’ but it kept up 
 its delusions until (he ‘silver-chord was loosened and the golden 
 howl was broken,’ and the pool* old man found a resting place be¬ 
 neath Kentucky soil, with many oilier patriarchs of the infant 
 State. 
 
 * * * “1 recollect what an inexpressible feeling of awe 
 
 crept over my childish spirit as I listened to the veteran pioneers 
 teling their exploits with the Indians and recounting with peculiar 
 rest their perils, their bloody struggles, their hairbreadth escapes, 
 and their victories. The whites scarcely ever took prisoners; they 
 considered it safer to dispatch them at once to another world. My 
 heart-bubbling laughter was stilled and my childish sports forgot¬ 
 ten as, listening, I crept nearer to my grandmother’s side. * * * 
 
 The whole State of Kentucky was then a perfect jungle of beautiful 
 luxuriance, and. to the admiring eyes of the new settlers, another 
 Eden, with its green glories of canebrake (which in some places 
 grew twenty feet high) and forest, crystal streams and laughing- 
 skies; its luxuriant cornfields and bluegrass woodland pastures. 
 No wonder our good old preacher, with his own peculiar quaintness, 
 in describing Ihe beauties of heaven called it ‘a fair Kentucky of a 
 place.’ To the early settlers of Kentucky it appeared a fairy land. 
 Leaf-embowered streams, whose laughing waters danced over pol¬ 
 ished pebbles that glittered in the sunlight like diamonds; hill and 
 dale, mountain and glade, varied the scene to the charmed eye 
 of the huntsman, as lie wandered through the thick forests under a 
 canopy of softest blue, while the lofty trees sang a pleasant melody 
 at the bidding of the balmy, flower laden breeze. No wonder that 
 the tales of the past, which now in memory dwell, are full of mys¬ 
 tical fancies, arising from those days and beautiful solitudes 
 where— 
 
 ‘All (lie Boundless store of charms 
 
 Which nature to her votary yields. 
 
 The pomp of grove and garniture of fields.'— 
 
 fills the heart with emotions of love and gratitude to that great and 
 good Being who created this earthly paradise, as if to reflect the 
 
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 glories of that world of light and love, where silvery vales and glit¬ 
 tering streams, green fields and budding flowers ‘forever and for¬ 
 ever rise.’ 
 
 * * * “In the early part of the present century the cotton- 
 
 fields in Clark county yielded enough of the best quality of cotton 
 to supply the wants of every family; and while tobacco was the 
 staple of the State, rich harvests of wheat, extensive corn-fields, 
 and every variety of cereals gladdened the happy farmer with the 
 consciousness of a bountiful provision for his family. Sugar was 
 made in abundance from the maple, whole groves of which were 
 found in Kentucky before the utilitarian ax of the woodman laid 
 them prostrate to give place to the more useful bluegrass. One of 
 these grove s, on my grandfather’s place, contained a thousand trees, 
 many of which are still standing (1865). The sugar-making time, 
 in February, when the rich sap began to flow abundantly, was a 
 glorious time, and long looked forward to with as much delight 
 as Christmas. A regular encampment on the ground made a pleas¬ 
 ant home for the two weeks devoted to this gypsy life. The chil¬ 
 dren, including the little negroes—and there were swarms of them 
 —to use their own word, ‘toted’ sugar-water in their tiny pails hour 
 after hour, and were amply rewarded when the sugar was in its 
 transition state of wavy consistency, with as much as they could 
 eat. My grandmother’s sugar-chest was every year filled with 
 grained maple sugar, whiter and purer than that made from the 
 cane, while a great quantity was put up in cakes for eating—like 
 candy, and as much molasses was reserved as would abundantly 
 supply the family until sugar-making time came around again. 
 
 “And now, while I write, I can see the camp-fires lighted, the 
 dusky figures passing and repassing, groups of happy children 
 laughing and shouting as they bring in their contributions of crys¬ 
 tal water for the steaming boilers. I almost inhale the delicious 
 breath of an atmosphere redolent with a freshness and purity never 
 known in the crowded haunts of men. I have counted nearly sixty 
 years since those days of unmingled joyousness, yet still the mem¬ 
 ory of that time is green, when I played beneath the boughs of the 
 lofty maple trees, at whose roots grew the fresh moss, clustered 
 with tiny blue flowers, or wandered through avenues of pawpaw 
 
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 bushes, as I wended my way from my father’s house to the dear old 
 grandfather’s homestead.” 
 
 Of a visit she paid to “The Bush Settlement,” in 1824, Mrs. 
 Tevis, in a subsequent chapter of her book, says: 
 
 “Most of the old landmarks had been swept away; the paw¬ 
 paw bushes were gone; the double line of cherry trees that formed 
 an avenue from my grandfather’s to my uncle Gliolson’s white cot¬ 
 tage on the hill, under which I had so often stood holding up my 
 little check apron to receive the clustering cherries thrown down 
 by brothers and cousins, were no longer there. * * * There 
 
 was the same old stile to cross before we could enter the yard, even 
 then covered with a living green as soft and rich as in midsummer. 
 There was the quaint old brick house—the first brick house ever 
 built in Kentucky—with its projecting gables and its ample door 
 standing wide open to welcome the coming guest. * * * The 
 next day, the news of my coming being spread throughout the 
 neighborhood, a numerous delegation of uncles, aunts and cousins 
 came to welcome us and invite us to partake of their hospitality. 
 The family tree, transplanted from Virginia to Kentucky soil, had 
 lost neither beauty nor glory. Its branches were widespread and 
 flourishing, and from its roots had sprung a thousand ramifica¬ 
 tions, whence arose many a roof-tree, affording shelter and protec¬ 
 tion to wayworn travelers and homeless wmnderers. * * * My 
 eyes wandered about the best room in search of some familiar ob¬ 
 jects. The same old clock stood in the corner ticking its ‘ever, for¬ 
 ever,’ as regularly as of old, and near by the little square table with 
 its deep drawer in which my grandmother kept the cakes, baked 
 every Saturday afternoon for the children who generally came with 
 their parents to dine on Sunday. The wide, open fireplace brought 
 to mind the ‘yule log,’ Christmas fires and winter cotton-picking. 
 
 I could almost see the little woolly-headed cotton-gins of olden 
 times, each with a heap of cotton before him from which to separate 
 the seed, and sundry little grandchildren plying their nimble fingers 
 in the same manner, grandmother superintending the w T hole—the 
 click of her knitting-needles, meantime, as uninterrupted as the 
 ticking of the clock. Our tasks done, cakes, nuts, etc., w r ere di? 
 
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 tributed, and then followed a game of romps, which my grand 
 father enjoyed as much as the children, and he could laugh as lorn? 
 and long as any of us. * * * I recalled old‘Uncle Billy Bush,’of 
 
 Indian memory, who lived near by, and frequently formed one of the 
 merry group, chasing us about the room with his cane. How we aF 
 loved to see his ruddy face, so full of intelligence and good humor, 
 a lurking jest ei r er in his eye, and a smile about the corners of his 
 mouth, with a voice loud enough to hail a ship at sea without the 
 aid of a speaking trumpet! It was wonderfully rich, too; harmon¬ 
 izing admirably with his blunt, jovial face; and this warm, rosy 
 scene generally closed with an exciting Indian story, in which 
 Daniel Boone figured, as well as himself. * * * During our 
 
 stay here we spent one charming day with ‘Aunt Frankey Billy,’ 
 the widow of this old uncle, so called to distinguish her from an¬ 
 other ‘Aunt Frankey,’ and noted for her good housewifery, as well 
 as her boundless hospitality. Simple-hearted, right-minded, and 
 pious she was loved by all who knew her. So free from selfishness, 
 so liberal, so everything a nice old lady ought to be—what a pleas¬ 
 ure it was to see her still presiding at her own table, abundantly 
 spread with all that could minister to the most delicate taste or 
 satisfy the most craving hunger.” 
 
 A word concerning Mrs. Julia Tevis herself. Her father’s 
 patronymic was Hieronymus, and her mother was the daughter of 
 the first Ambrose Bush. Her grandfather Hieronymus was a native 
 of Austria, who emigrated to America and settled in Virginia prior 
 to the Revolutionary War; and he was among the first settlers in 
 Clark county, Kentucky. Although an Austrian, the name Hier¬ 
 onymus clearly shows that he was of Roman or Latin descent. 
 Hieronymus was the name of one of the numerous Roman Em¬ 
 perors, and there was also a Roman historian of the same name. 
 Mrs. Tevis’ grandfather was a highly educated man, and spoke all 
 the European languages. When she was quite young her father, 
 Pendleton Hieronymus, moved with his family to Virginia, because 
 of the superior educational advantages of that State at that time. 
 He settled first in Winchester, Va., but subsequently removed to 
 Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, where his daughter fin- 
 
THE OLD STONE MEETING-HOUSE. 
 

 
THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
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 islied her education under the best masters. Here she saw the 
 burning of the Capitol by the British in 1814. She continued to live 
 in Georgetown until 1824, and met, in Washington City, the most 
 distinguished men and mingled with the most polished society of 
 the times. In 1824 she was married to Rev. John Tevis, a native 
 of Kentucky, and a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 In 1825 she founded in Shelbyville, Ky., the “Science Hill Academy” 
 for young women, and it became one of the most famous schools in 
 the country. In 1875 she celebrated the semi-centennial of this 
 school. Up to that time she had educated more than three thousand 
 young women, and some of her first graduates attended the celebra¬ 
 tion and brought their grandchildren with them. Mrs. Tevis con¬ 
 tinued to direct this school until her death, which occurred in 188J. 
 
 THE OLD STONE MEETING-HOUSE. 
 
 No account of the Bush family, however brief, would be com¬ 
 plete without some acount also of old Providence church, which 
 that family in a great measure founded, and which th?y have largely 
 nurtured and sustained for almost one hundred and twenty years. 
 
 The records of the church go back continuously to December, 
 1780, when the congregation was residing temporarily at Holston, 
 Va.; but the church had existed as an organized body prior to that 
 time, and, according to tradition, the following is, in substance, its 
 previous history: 
 
 Captain Billy Bush, who had accompanied Daniel Boone to 
 Kentucky, returned to his home in Virginia about the beginning of 
 the year 1780, and he gave such glowing descriptions of the new 
 country that a colony of about forty families, living in Orange and 
 Culpeper counties, and all Baptists, were induced to start in the 
 summer of that year for Boonesboro’, Ky., at or near which 
 place they determined to settle. Captain Billy Bush went in ad¬ 
 vance to Boonesboro’ to choose and locate lands in that vicinity 
 for each of these families, and, sensible man that he was, he chose 
 the lands on the north side of the river, in what is now Clark 
 county. The others, or such of them as were church members, or¬ 
 ganized themselves into a Baptist church, but the name of the 
 
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 church at that time, if it had one, has not survived. They had no 
 regularly ordained pastor, but Elder John Yivion acted in that 
 capacity, and under his leadership this unique church colony made 
 ready and started, and proceeded as far as Holston (now Abingdon, 
 Ya.), which is near the line between Virginia and Kentucky, arriv¬ 
 ing there in December, 1780. On their tedious march through the 
 wilderness to this point they had held divine services in their tem¬ 
 porary encampments every Sunday, invariably making a halt for 
 the purpose of keeping the day holy and engaging in divine worship. 
 
 At Holston they received advice by a runner from Captain 
 Billy Bush, who was then in the fort at Boonesboro’, warning 
 them not to proceed any further for the time being. The troubles 
 with the Indians at that time rendered it impolitic and unwise for 
 them to proceed into Kentucky. At this point they met Rev. Robert 
 Elkin, a regularly ordained Baptist minister “from the older parts 
 of Virginia,” who was also on his way to Kentucky, with his family, 
 and choosing him as their pastor they at once (December, 1780) re¬ 
 organized the church, and the minute records of its history are com¬ 
 plete from that time to this. At that time the Baptist fraternity 
 was divided into two factions, known severally as “Regulars” and 
 “Separatists,” and this church was of the Separatist faction. 
 Among the names prominently mentioned in the reorganization 
 proceedings are those of Rev. Robert Elkin, pastor; John Vivion, 
 elder; Philip Bush, clerk; Ambrose Bush, Lucy Bush, William Bush, 
 Frances Bush, John Bush, Robin Richards, Mary Richards, Daniei 
 Ramey, Philip Johnson, William Fletcher, John Vivion, jr., Benja¬ 
 min Johnston, Mary Johnston, Thomas Sutherland, Joseph Embry, 
 Milly Embry, Mary Harris and Mary Clark. There were forty-five 
 members in all. 
 
 This body remained at Holston until 1783, raising three crops 
 there; and, the colony being reinforced by numerous accessions of 
 people en route to Kentucky, they then moved forward to Lewis 
 Craig’s Station, on Gilbert’s creek, in Lincoln county, Kentucky, 
 where they remained until November 12, 1785, or about two years. 
 From this point a number of members of the church proceeded to 
 the so-called “Barrens” of Southwestern Kentucky, but the great 
 majority of them, in 1785, removed to the waters of Lower How- 
 
THE BUSH FAMILY. 
 
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 ard’s creek, in what is now Clark county, and occupied the lands 
 that had been located for them by Captain Billy Bush. Their first 
 meeting as a church in the new locality is quaintly chronicled in 
 the church records as follows: “Through a turn of God’s provi¬ 
 dence, the church chiefly moving to the north side of the Kentucky 
 river, and for the health and prosperity of Zion, we have appointed 
 a church meeting at Bro. William Bush's house for November 27, 
 1785 .” 
 
 At that meeting new officers were elected, and the organization 
 was named “Howard’s Creek Church,” and for about two years the 
 meetings were held in the houses of the members. The first house of 
 worship erected was a log structure, built in 1787 on a lot given 
 for that purpose by Francis Bush and Robin Richards, his brother- 
 in-law. This log church was provided with loop-holes through 
 which the devout pioneers could fire their trusty flint-locks at In¬ 
 dians who might attempt (and they sometimes did) to interrupt 
 the devotions with hostile demonstrations. This building was re¬ 
 placed, on the same site, by the famous “old stone meeting-house,” 
 which was finished and dedicated to God in May, 1799. 
 
 Spencer’s History of Kentucky Baptists says: “In 1785 James 
 Quisenberry, an ordained minister from Virginia, joined Ibis 
 church, and in January of the next year Andrew Tribble, also a 
 minister from the same State, became one of its members. About 
 this time a revival began in the church and continued nearly two 
 years. During this period a considerable number were baptized, of 
 whom were Christopher Harris, Squire Boone, jr. (nephew of Daniel 
 Boone), and James Haggard, who became preachers. In 1787 the 
 church entered into the constitution of South Kentucky Associa¬ 
 tion. In 1790 another revival visited the church, and many were 
 baptized, among whom was Edward Kindred, who became a good 
 preacher. The church had now become quite large. But during 
 this year a difficulty between Robert Elkin and Andrew Tribble 
 caused a division in the body. By the advice of Elders John Bailey, 
 Joseph and William Bledsoe, and others, the Elkin party retained 
 the constitution, but changed the name of the church from ‘How¬ 
 ards Creek’ to ‘Providence,’ while the Tribble party was constituted 
 under the name of ‘Unity.’ The two churches agreed to live in fel- 
 
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 lowship. Providence continued a ‘Separatist’ cburcli until 1801, 
 when the terms of general union between the Regulars and Sepa¬ 
 rates were ratified at its house of worship. After that it be¬ 
 longed to the old North District Confederacy for a number of years, 
 and finally united with the Boone’s Creek Association, litany prom¬ 
 inent citizens of Clark county have been among its members, and 
 most of the Bushes, Haggards, Quisenberrys and Elkins in the 
 State, and multitudes of them in the great West, are descendants 
 of the fathers of this famous old church." j 
 
 In 1830 another serious difficulty confronted the church. Many 
 of its members then united with the sect originated by Alexander 
 Campbell and others, then known as Reformers but now as Dis¬ 
 ciples of Christ, or Christians. The minutes show that on October 
 2, 1830, there was “a motion in order before us to know whether 
 we will or will not commune with members of the Baptist church 
 who call themselves Reformers. The church says she will not.’’ 
 The Baptists, however, permitted the withdrawing members, who 
 organized a church of their own, to use the church building on alter¬ 
 nate Sundays with themselves, and this continued in all peace and 
 amity until 1870, when the Baptists built a new house of worship 
 on the Boonesboro’ and Winchester turnpike, a mile or so away, 
 and sold the old stone meeting-house to a colored Baptist congre¬ 
 gation, who still occupy it. The old church building is in a good 
 state of preservation and bids fair to easily last another century 
 or two. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Ambrose G. Bush printed in the Winchester Demo¬ 
 crat a brief sketch of the history of old Providence, in which he 
 stated that up to that time one thousand and forty-six members 
 had been received into the church by experience and baptism and 
 two hundred and twenty-seven by letter—a total of twelve hundred 
 and seventy-three; and it had had seventeen pastors, viz.: Robert 
 Elkin, 1780 to 1822; Richard Morton, 1822 to 1828; George Boone 
 
 (a nephew of Daniel Boone), 1828 to 1833;-Elrod, 1833 to 1834; 
 
 Abner D. Landrum, 1834 to 1838; Thomas German, 1838 to 1842; 
 Buford E. Allen, 1842 to 1847; Edward Darnaby, 1847-1848; with¬ 
 out a pastor for some months, then : Buford E. Allen, September and 
 October, 1849, when he resigned and the church was again without 
 
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 a pastor; Buford E. Allen, 1851-1852; Pleasant T. Gentry, 1852 to 
 1855; Buford E. Allen, 1855 to 1861; Rvland T. Dillard, 1861 to 
 1865; Henry McDonald (a converted Roman Catholic) during the re 
 mainder of 1S65; C. E. W. Dobbs, 1866-1867; W. B. Arvin, 1868 to 
 1874; G. T. Stansbury, six months in 1874; George Yeiser until 
 March, 1875, and in June, 1875, A. F. Baker became the pastor. 
 
 The churches that have had their origin from old Providence 
 are Unity, in 1790; Indian Creek, in 1792; these two united in 1845 
 and formed Mt. Olive; Boggs’ Fork, in Fayette county, in 1812, 
 which was afterwards merged into Boone’s Creek church, at 
 Athens; the Baptist church at Winchester, in 1859; and the Reform, 
 or Christian church, now known as “Forest Grove Church,” in 1830. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 The Chenaults first settled in America, so far as is known, 
 about the year 1700. Key. A. C. Graves, in his biography of Rev. 
 A. W. La Rue, says that the La Rues, Chenaults, and others named, 
 came from France to Virginia about 1685, but nothing has been 
 found to indicate that the Chenaults came so early. They came 
 from the southern part of France—probably from the vicinity of 
 the city of Nismes (or Nimes) in the province of Languedoc. They 
 were Huguenots, and fled from the cruel persecutions which were 
 inflicted in the latter part of the seventeenth and the early part 
 of the eighteenth centuries upon all dissenters from the Catholic 
 religion in France. “The Huguenots were the followers of John 
 Calvin, the leader in France of that great conflict for religious tole¬ 
 ration now several centuries old. Although the spirit of religious 
 freedom began to be heard only with the outbursting flames of 
 the Reformation in Germany, the principle in its purity had been 
 held for long years by a people inhabiting the secluded retreats of 
 Western Europe. D’Aubigne says the Reformation was not im¬ 
 ported to France, but was born on its soil before Calvin or Luther 
 began to preach. That mysterious people, the Waldenses, who have 
 so strange a history and whose deeds are the savor and glory of 
 the church, had nurtured the seed of this reform in valleys and 
 mountains through that blighting winter of the Dark Ages.” 
 
 It was in Languedoc, mainly, that the Vaudois and the Wal¬ 
 denses had kept up an unceasing struggle for liberty of conscience 
 and a pure and simple religion, from the days of Constantine until 
 the times of Luther; and, although forever harassed and perse¬ 
 cuted for conscience’s sake, they never gave up the struggle or 
 
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 denied the faith that was within them. It was from this stock 
 that the Chenaults had descended for many centuries before per¬ 
 secution finally drove them to abandon their native land to try 
 their fortunes in the free wildernesses of the new world. 
 
 The Chenaults, together with some two hundred other Hu¬ 
 guenot families, were granted by the Colonial government of Vir¬ 
 ginia a tract of land at Monildn-Town (an old Indian town) in what 
 was then Powhattan county, now Goochland county. From this 
 little settlement of two hundred years ago has sprung some of tin* 
 best people in America; and such old Huguenot names as D'Au- 
 bigne (Dabney), La Rue, Le Maire, Le Nair, Maupin, Mullin, Dupuy, 
 Chenault, Calmes, De Jarnette, Heine (Rainey), Colcasier, Dozier, 
 D'Etherage, Lenoir, Parmentier, Janvier, Xavier (Sevier), Flour¬ 
 noy, Grosvener, and many others not now recalled, have spread 
 from Monikin Town to all parts of the country, winning honor 
 and respect wherever they have gone. The members of this 
 colony, as the records show, came from London to Virginia, and 
 had probably been in England several years before coming to 
 America. 
 
 For nearly a hundred years after its settlement the records 
 of Monikin-Town were kept in French, and some of these interest¬ 
 ing documents have survived the ravages of time, though, unfor¬ 
 tunately, many of them are lost. From those that survive it is 
 learned that the first Chenault settlers in Virginia were “Estienne 
 Clieneau et sa femme" (Stephen Chenault and his wife), who ar¬ 
 rived at Monikin-Town in the year 1700 on the ship “Nemme le 
 Xasseau." As the names Clieneau and Chenault are almost iden- 
 itcal in pronunciation, when pronounced in French, and are almost 
 certainly different forms of the same name, it is not strange that 
 Stephen Chenault got on the records as “Clieneau." In French, 
 Chenault is pronounced “Shen-ho," and Clieneau is pronounced 
 “She-no." Chenault means “high oak;" Clieneau means “young- 
 oak." Some of the varieties of the present spelling and pronun¬ 
 ciation of the name in the United States are: Chernault, Shinault, 
 Shinall, and Shindall. 
 
 It is a reasonable presumption that from this Stephen Che¬ 
 nault and his wife have descended all the numerous Chenaults 
 
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 scattered throughout the Southern States of the Union. Owing 
 to the fact that most of the public records in Virginia were 
 destroyed during the Civil War by the Federal troops, it has been 
 impossible to follow the descent of the family consecutively from 
 1700 down to 1775, the time of the breaking out of the Revolu 
 tionary War. The records of the War Department at Washington 
 show that at least four of the name served in that war—James, 
 Daniel, William, and Benjamin. The latter spelled his name 
 “Sliinault,” and about the year 1830 he settled in Surrey county. 
 North Carolina. 
 
 William Chenault was the first of the name to settle in Ken¬ 
 tucky. Tradition says that his father, Felix Chenault, was the 
 son of Hugo Chenault, who was himself the son of Estienne 
 (Stephen) Chenault, the pioneer. The wife of Felix Chenault was 
 a Miss Dabney, or D’Aubigne, of Huguenot descent. William Che¬ 
 nault was born in 1749, and he served in the Revolutionary War 
 in Captain Henry Terrill’s company of Colonel Josiah Parker’s 5th 
 Virginia regiment of the Continental Line, and spent the winter 
 of 1777-’78 in the historic camp at Valley Forge. He was with 
 General Washington in his march from Valley Forge, in 1778, in 
 pursuit of the British, who had evacuated Philadelphia to go 
 across New Jersey to New York City; and he had fought in the 
 battles at Stillwater in October, 1777, preceding the surrender of 
 Burgoyne at Saratoga; and he also fought in the battles of Bran¬ 
 dywine and Germantown. Boonesboro' Chapter Daughters of 
 the American Revolution, at Richmond, Kentucky, is made up 
 almost entirely of his descendants. At the close of the Revolution 
 he settled temporarily in Albemarle county, Virginia, and in the 
 fall of the year 1786 he moved to Madison county, Kentucky, and 
 his descendants in that county and State constitute, and always 
 have, one of the wealthiest and most influential families in the 
 commonwealth. He settled near the town of Richmond, on a 
 farm which he bought from Josiah Phelps, who had bought it 
 of George Boone, the brother of Daniel Boone, a portion of which 
 still remains in the possession of some of his descendants, and on 
 which his own remains and those of his wife, and of his son, An¬ 
 derson Chenault, his grandson, Colonel Waller Chenault, and 
 
THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
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 others of his descendants, are now buried. He was married in 
 Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1770, to Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Matthew and Mary (Maupin) Mullins. William Chenault died De¬ 
 cember 30, 1813, of the “cold plague,” and his wife died on May 
 4, 1816. 
 
 On his arrival in Kentucky, William Chenault united with the 
 Tate's Creek Baptist Church, of which Andrew Tribble was then 
 the pastor; and he afterwards became a member of the Dreaming 
 Creek Baptist Church, of which Peter Woods was the pastor. 
 The Tate's Creek church was gathered in 1786 by Andrew Tribble, 
 its first pastor, and Mr. Chenault had probably been a member 
 of Mr. Tribble’s church in Albemarle county, Virginia, before go¬ 
 ing to Kentucky. This church was near Monticello, the home of 
 Thomas Jefferson, who frequently attended its meetings. It is 
 stated by Rev. J. H. Spencer, in his “History of Kentucky Bap¬ 
 tists” that “the Virginians, and especially the able and learned R. 
 C. Howell, assert that Mr. Jefferson conceived the idea of popular 
 government for the American States while attending the little 
 Baptist church of which Mr. Tribble was the pastor.”* 
 
 William Chenault and Elizabeth Mullins, his wife, had eleven 
 children—Garland, Waller, John, David, William, Mary, Jane, 
 Elizabeth, Sarah, Nancy and Anderson. 1. Garland, 2. Waller 
 and 3. John died in Virginia in infancy. 
 
 4. DAVID CHENAULT— 
 
 was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, September 30, 1777. He 
 was married in 1793 to Nancy Tribble, daughter of Rev. Andrew 
 Tribble. Spencer’s History of Kentucky Baptists says of him: 
 “David Chenault was the third pastor of Unity Church. His fath¬ 
 er, William Chenault, was of French extraction, but was born in 
 Virginia, and was a soldier under Washington during the Ameri¬ 
 can Revolution. * * * David Chenault joined the church at 
 
 Mt. Nebo about 1795 and was baptized by Peter Woods. His 
 ministry began during the great revival of 1800-’03. He possessed 
 
 * Sparks’ “Life of Washington,” page 155, Vol. XII, says: “The Baptists were 
 among the earliest friends of freedom in Virginia, and their brave straggle for lib¬ 
 erty of conscience had much to do with the birth and growth of revolutionary sen¬ 
 timent. Washington spoke of them as ‘Firm friends of civil liberty and the perse¬ 
 vering promoters of our glorious revolution.’ ” 
 
100 
 
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 only a common school education, but had a strong native intellect 
 and sound, practical judgment. He was an extensive farmer, and 
 held the office of Justice of the 1‘eace for about twenty years. He 
 was a successful business man and aeumulated a fortune of not 
 less than one hundred thousand dollars. He was an active pas¬ 
 tor, usually serving four churches for more than fifty years. Be¬ 
 sides this, he preached a great deal in the mountains of Kentucky, 
 even down to old age. Among the churches he preached to, be¬ 
 sides Unity, were Cane Spring, Lulbegrud, Log Lick, White Oak 
 Bond, Mt. Taber, Stoner’s Branch, and Union. He was a hyper- 
 Calvinist in doctrine and very uneven in his religious manifesta¬ 
 tions. Sometimes his zeal amounted to a burning enthusiasm, 
 and at others he was dull and chillingly frigid. But he never 
 swerved from the path of conscientious rectitude. At a ripe old 
 age he fell asleep in Jesus, May 9, 1851.” 
 
 Rev. David Chenault had ten children—Cabell, Joyce, Nancy, 
 David, Harvey, William, Tandy, Sarah, Waller, Anderson, and 
 John. 
 
 1. Cabell Chenault was born July 25, 1795, and married 
 Emily Mitchell, of Newcastle, Ivy., and they had ten children— 
 Robert, Nancy, Elvenee, Elizabeth, Sal lie, David, Cabell, Anderson, 
 Jeptha, and Harvey. 
 
 1. Robert Chenault married Josephine Prewitt Cavins, of 
 Fayette county, in 1851, and the} r had five children—John Cabell, 
 Thomas A., David, Daniel M., and W. T. Chenault. In 1873 Robert 
 Chenault was married a second time, this wife being Sallie Prewitt, 
 of Jessamine county, and they had two children, Emily and Rob¬ 
 ert Earl. He was a farmer and never asked for or held an office. 
 At the breaking out of the war in 1861 he went South, and joined 
 the Confederate army. He died in March, 1881, in his fifty-seventh 
 year. His first wife died in November, 1872, and his second wife 
 in December, 1896. Of his children, John Cabell Chenault, was 
 born April 21, 1855, and lived on the farm until his majority. He 
 began business as a country merchant in 1876, but abandoned 
 it the same year, and entered the law department of Central Uni¬ 
 versity, and in 1878 was admitted to the Richmond bar. In 1881 
 he was appointed Police Judge of Richmond, and was elected to 
 
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 the two succeeding terms of the same office. In 1884 he was 
 elected Judge of the Madison County Court and was re-elected 
 to the same position in 1880 and 1890. In 1895 he was the Demo¬ 
 cratic nominee for Representative in the Legislature, but was de¬ 
 feated. In 1896, on account of his intense interest in bimetallism, 
 he bought the Richmond Climax, and advocated with all his 
 might the election of William J. Bryan to the Presidency. He will 
 probably be the next Representative in Congress from his district. 
 He was married in 1884 to Miss Eleanor B. Oldham, descendant 
 of Captain John Oldham, of the North Carolina line, in the Revo¬ 
 lutionary War. 
 
 Thomas A. Chenault married Mary Duncan, of Madison county, 
 and is in the livery business in Richmond. 
 
 David Chenault married Susie Elmore, of Mercer county, and 
 is now a merchant in Richmond. 
 
 Daniel M. Chenault, a lawyer, of Richmond, married Ida 
 White, of Green county, who died in 1896, leaving him two chil¬ 
 dren—Barnett and Josephine. 
 
 W. T. Chenault married Minnie Turner, of Shelby county, and 
 is now doing a prosperous dairy business in Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 Emma Chenault married Eli Bean Evans, of Clark county, and 
 they live near Richmond. 
 
 Robert Earl Chenault graduated at Jessamine Institute in 
 1896, and resides with her brother, D. M. Chenault, in Richmond. 
 
 2. Nancy Chenault married John Huguely, of Madison 
 county, and they removed to Boyle county. Both are now de¬ 
 ceased. They left three children—John A. Huguely, who mar¬ 
 ried Miss Cromwell, of Lexington, Ivy.; Cabell Huguely, who mar¬ 
 ried Miss Roberts, of Boyle county; and Jacob Huguely, who mar¬ 
 ried Miss Robinson, of the same county. 
 
 J. Elvenee Chenault married William Shearer, of Madison 
 county. Both are deceased. They left two children—Nannie 
 Shearer, who married O. T. Wallace, of Garrard county, and Ann 
 Shearer, who married James Burnsides, of the same county. 
 
 4, 5. Elizabeth and Sallie Chenault both died while very 
 young. 
 
 6. David Chenault married Mary Bullock, of Illinois, in 1865, 
 and they have three children—Cabell, Bessie and Charles. He 
 
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 THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 served in Col. D. W. Chenanlt's regiment during the war, and was 
 taken prisoner on the Ohio raid, and confined in Camp Douglas, 
 from which prison he made his escape but was recaptured. His 
 son Cabell is teller of the Second National Bank, in Richmond. 
 Bessie married James Elmore, of Mercer county, and they now 
 live at Point Leavell, Garrard county. Charles, who is still young, 
 resides with his father, and is a bright, promising boy. 
 
 7. Cabell Clienault entered the Confederate army in 1862 
 and died at Monticello, Kentucky, while in the service. It is said 
 of him that he was a brave soldier and a very handsome man. 
 
 8. Anderson Clienault also entered the Confederate service 
 in 1862, at the age of 19, and was captured on the Ohio raid. He 
 escaped from Camp Douglas with his brother David, but was re¬ 
 captured in Kentucky and tried in Louisville as a Rebel spi 7 ; but 
 on account of his youth, and through the assistance of men who 
 were willing to swear falsely, Burbridge was cheated out of a 
 victim. He made a fine fortune at farming and stock trading in 
 Madison county after the war. He married in 1866 Miss Bettie 
 Fogg, of Woodford county, by whom he had eight children, only 
 four of whom survive him. His daughter Agnes married C. P. 
 Goff, of Clark county, and died in 1895. The living children, Jep- 
 tha, Emily, Elijah A. and C. F. Clienault, reside with their mother 
 in Madison county. Anderson Clienault died in April, 1896, 
 aged 51 years. No truer friend, better citizen or grander man ever 
 lived in any community. 
 
 9. Jeptha Clienault married Louvenia Estill, of Madison 
 county, in 1874, and they had one child, Estill C. Chenault, who 
 married Brutus J. Clay, of Bourbon county, where they live. Jep¬ 
 tha Chenault died in 1876. 
 
 II.’. Harvey Chenault, the youngest child of Cabell Chenault 
 and Emily Mitchell, his wife, has never married. He lives in 
 Madison county, where he is a successful farmer and stock trader. 
 
 2. Joyce Chenault married Captain James Munday. 
 
 3. David Chenault married Louisa Quisenberry. (See Chapter 
 VII). 
 
THE CHEN AULT FAMILY. 
 
 103 
 
 4. Harvey Chenault was born September 29, 1802, and died 
 September 18, 1843. He was married on March 30, 182G, to Ann 
 McCord Douglass, who was born July 24, 1810, and died October 
 25, 1891. Their children were David Chenault, born December 
 31, 1827, died March 15, 1869, married Pattie Tribble, daughter of 
 Dudley Tribble, of Madison county. 
 
 Eliza Jane Chenault, born February 9, 1830; died August 30, 
 1834. 
 
 William Chenault, born July 3, 1832; died September 23, 1854. 
 
 Matilda Chenault, born June 12, 1835; died February 24, 1884. 
 She married John R. Rlackwell. 
 
 Harvey Chenault, born January 28, 1838; died December 25. 
 1858. 
 
 Thomas Douglass Chenault, born November 28, 1840; married 
 Carlisle Chenault, and they have several children. He has long been 
 the wealthiest man in Madison county and one of the wealthiest 
 in Kentucky. 
 
 John Chenault, born December 12, 1842; died September 25. 
 1843. 
 
 The following is an extract from an article published in the 
 papers in 1843, when Harvey Chenault died, viz: 
 
 “Died, in this county, on the 18th of September, Mr. Harvey 
 Chenault, son of the Rev. David Chenault. In the death of Mr. 
 Chenault society has lost a valuable member and the county an 
 esteemed citizen; and to his family and friends the deprivation is 
 irreparable. He was remarkable in all his dealings for his 
 straightforward integrity and nice sense of honor and justice. As 
 a husband, father, neighbor, and master—in whatever phase his 
 character was seen—the deceased was irreproachable. Of a hos¬ 
 pitable disposition and charitable in his nature, none worthy ever 
 turned from his door hungry or unsatisfied; but from his ample 
 means the needy and distressed were liberally supplied. The 
 afflictive dispensation of Providence that terminated so prema¬ 
 turely his earthly career he bore with fortitude and resignation, 
 becoming a Christian, although he had never attached himself to 
 any church. For some time before his dissolution his mind was 
 
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 THE CHEN AULT FAMILY. 
 
 evidently composed, liis countenance being serene, and shadowing 
 forth the thoughts thus beautifully expressed by the poet: 
 
 “ ‘Jesus can make a dying bed 
 Feel soft as downy pillows are; 
 
 While on his breast I lean my head, 
 
 And breathe my life out sweetly there.' ” 
 
 5. Sallie Chenault, born November 13, 1804; married Duke 
 Simpson. 
 
 6. William Tandy Chenault, born February IT, 1807, married 
 Virginia Quisenberry, daughter of Joel Quisenberry, of Clark 
 county, and they had eight children, as follows: Joel Quisenberry 
 Chenault, who married Elizabeth Gay; David Waller Chenault, 
 who married Emma Reed; Nancy Chenault, who married William 
 Bridgeforth; B. F. Chenault, who married Belle Anderson; John 
 Wesley Chenault, who married Bettie Robinson; Annie Chenault, 
 who married George T. Fox, of Madison county, and William Tan¬ 
 dy Chenault. The father of this family settled in Montgomery 
 county, Kv. 
 
 7. Waller Chenault, born April 21, 1809; married Berlinda 
 McRoberts. Died in 1843, without children. 
 
 8. Anderson Chenault, born January 8, 1812; died -. 
 
 Married Margaret K. Oldham, of Madison county, and they set¬ 
 tled in Montgomery county. They had seven children, as follows: 
 Nancy Chenault, who married Judge John T. Woodford; W. O. 
 Chenault, who married Arabella Morse; Waller Chenault, unmar¬ 
 ried; Anderson Chenault, unmarried; Mollie W. Chenault, who 
 married S. Bogie; Margaret P. Chenault, who married William 
 Graham Dealing, and Lucy K. Chenault, who married Bishop 
 Clay, of Lexington, Kv. 
 
 This family now possesses the old family Bible and family 
 record of Rev. David Chenault, and they also possess a Bible which 
 certainly belonged to William Chenault, the pioneer, and possibly 
 was the property at one time of his great-grandfather, Estienne 
 Chenault. It is an English black-letter Bible, printed in London 
 
THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 105 
 
 in 1698 “by Charles Bell and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 
 deceased, printers to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty,” and 
 translated by John Canne. Unfortunately, it contains no family 
 record. The only writing in it is on one of the blank pages, and 
 refers to the dimensions and population of “the great city,” refer¬ 
 ring doubtless to London. Estienne Chenault probably bought 
 this Bible in London before he sailed thence in 1700 for Virginia. 
 
 9. John Chenault, born December 16, 1815; died in 1813, un¬ 
 married. 
 
 10. Nancy Chenault, born July 27, 1810; married Alexander 
 Tribble, of Madison county, son of Rev. Andrew Tribble. Issue. 
 
 5. WILLIAM CHENAULT— 
 
 Was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1773. He married 
 Susannah Phelps, of Madison county, Ivy., daughter of Josiah 
 Phelps, who received a pension on account of his services in the 
 Revolutionary War, among which was a participation in the cam¬ 
 paign with George Rogers Clark in the Northwest Territory. 
 
 William Chenault served in the lower house of the Kentucky 
 Legislature in 1822 and he died in 1844. He had seven children— 
 Waller, Nancy, William, Josiah Phelps, Elizabeth, Susan P., and 
 David A. 
 
 1. Waller Chenault served in the Kentucky Legislature in 
 1848. He was a very successful business man, and was in every 
 way one of the finest men and best citizens that ever lived in 
 Kentucky. He accumulated a large fortune. He married Talitha 
 Harris, and his children were: William <>. Chenault, who married 
 Caledonia Miller; Elizabeth Chenault, who married Joseph Blink¬ 
 er; Joseph Chenault, who was captain in Colonel D. Waller Che- 
 nault's regiment of Confederate cavalry, and was killed at Horse 
 Shoe Bend in 1863, unmarried; Susannah Chenault, who married 
 William Miller, the brother of Caledonia Miller, who married Wil¬ 
 liam O. Chenault; Carlisle Chenault, who married Thomas Dou¬ 
 glass Chenault; Christopher D. Chenault, who married, first, Flor¬ 
 ence Dillingham, second, Sallie Gibson Humphries, of Woodford 
 county, a descendant of Colonel Nathaniel Hart, one of the most 
 
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 THE CHEN AULT FAMILY. 
 
 distinguished of the Kentucky pioneers; Waller Ohenault, who 
 died childless, and who was one of the physicians in charge of the 
 Asylum for the Insane at Anchorage, Ivy.; Nancy, who married 
 Dr. George W. Evans, a son of Dr. Peter Evans and Letitia Quis- 
 enberry (daughter of Rev. James Quisenberry), his wife; Overton 
 Harris Clienault, who married Lida McCann; Laura Chenault. 
 who married P. H. Eastin, of Fayette county; Ella Chenault, who 
 married William I). Watts, of Fayette county, the grandson of 
 Joel Quisenberry and great-grandson of Rev. James Quisenberry, 
 and David A. Chenault, who married Bettie Bronston. 
 
 2. Nancy Chenault first married Samuel Taylor, and had one 
 child, Susan Ann Taylor, who married James A. Harris. Her 
 second husband was Colonel Reuben Monday, of Madison county, 
 by whom she had one child, Mary E. Monday, who married Dr. 
 George W. Bronaugli. Reuben Monday was Colonel of a regiment 
 of Kentucky Union cavalry during the Civil war. 
 
 3. William Chenault was never married and became very 
 wealthy. He served in the lower house of the Kentucky Legisla¬ 
 ture in 1840; in the Senate from 1840 to 1846; was a member of 
 the Constitutional Convention in 1849 and a Presidential elector 
 the same year, voting for Zachary Taylor for President. 
 
 4. Josiah Phelps Chenault married Narcissa Oldham, great- 
 granddaughter of John Oldham, of Caswell county, North Caroli¬ 
 na. who was a captain of North Carolina troops in the Revolution¬ 
 ary war. Their children were: Ulysses O. Chenault, who died un¬ 
 married; William Chenault, who married Anna Givens, of Lin¬ 
 coln county, Ivy., the great-granddaughter of Captain John Pax¬ 
 ton, of Rockbridge county, Va., who was wounded at the battle of 
 Guilford on March 15, 1782. William Chenault, who is recognized 
 as one of the first lawyers in Kentucky, has been Judge of the 
 Madison County Court and Commissioner of the Railroad Fund 
 of the same county. In 1880 he accepted the position of Professor 
 of Common Law Equity and Pleading in the University of Louis¬ 
 ville, which he held until 1885, in the meantime being one of the 
 founders of the famous Filson Club, of Louisville. In 1885 he 
 went to Kansas where he practiced law and held positions of honor 
 and trust; and in 1893 he returned to Richmond, Ky., where he 
 
THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 10T 
 
 lias since been engaged in the practice of law. Abner Oldham 
 Chenault, third son of Josiah Phelps Chenault, married first a 
 Miss Reynolds, and second Lillie Thompson; Jason W. Chenault,* 
 a distinguished educator and college professor, married Ellen 
 Thomson, daughter of Sanford Thomson, of Clark county. He 
 died suddenly in December, 1896. Susan Ann Chenault, who mar¬ 
 ried James Miller; Lavinia O. Chenault, who married Dr. Thomas 
 B. Montgomery; Reuben M. Chenault, who married a Miss Lips¬ 
 comb; Helen Chenault; David Chenault, deceased; Annie Che¬ 
 nault, deceased; Mary Chenault, deceased; Robert D. Chenault, 
 deceased, and Josiah 1’. Chenault, who married Ellen Lowe. 
 
 * The Louisville Commercial pays I'rof. Jason W. Chenault, deceased, this high 
 tribute, which will be read with p.easure by all who knew and loved him: 
 
 “Great teachers are rare. The power to impart knowledge is not unusual with 
 men of education. But to awaken, arouse, and transmute into action the moral and 
 intellectual forces of a pupil: to infuse that living quality, character, ennobling one’s 
 life and expanding a hundred fold one's capacity for usefulness—this is the genius 
 of a great teacher. 
 
 “On last Tuesday morning there passed suddenly away from our midst a great 
 educator, a man rarely endowed with the gift of teaching. A graduate of Centre 
 College, completing a post-graduate course in philosophy and metaphysics at Harvard, 
 he returned to Kentucky and labored for many years, first as Professor of Latin and 
 Greek at Centre College, later as Pr.ncipal of the Louisville High School, and finally 
 as Principal of the University School in this city. In each sphere he exerted a power¬ 
 ful influence for the higher education and learning. 
 
 “A master of the classics, he made the dead languages luminous with truth and 
 beauty. A profound scholar in all philosophy, it was in ethics, in its practical applica¬ 
 tion to human conduct, that he particularly excelled. His power of analysis and ex¬ 
 pression in making plain the great principles and underlying problems and subjects of 
 thought were marvelous. 
 
 “His pupils, and indeed many who came only in casual contact with him, will re¬ 
 call often a sympathetic talk, from which one came away with entirely a new idea 
 of his own life. He seemed to comprehend intuitively the woes of those around him, 
 and with his ready enthusiasm, intelligent and large hearted, imbued one with a new 
 spirit for work and duty. 
 
 “He was more than a brilliant conversationalist. There was a splendid power 
 about the man when he talked that aroused to tlie quick the intellectual and moral 
 faculties, and was the secret of his success as a teacher. 
 
 "Many will remember the ardor and magnetic earnestness with which he taught, 
 for ho gave himself abundantly and unsparingly to his work, and those ‘informal’ 
 talks to his classes, full of wisdom and suggestion, will always remain an ennobling 
 experience with those who were privileged to hear them. The famous Dr. Arnold, 
 head master at Rugby, and the large-minded Mark Hopkins, at 'Williams College, left 
 an impress upon their age, deep, abiding and far-reaching, by the large seriousness in 
 respect to life and its duties which they instilled into their students by the power of 
 their personal influence. And there are those fortunate enough to come within the 
 range of Dr. Chenault’s influence, who long ago have recognized in his intellectual and 
 moral menlorship that genius for teaching, and (hat strenuous, heroic effort to develop 
 all that the pupil was capable of, that suffered not a whit by comparison with the 
 qualities that made Arnold and Hopkins great.’’ 
 
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 THE CHEN AULT FAMILY. 
 
 5. Elizabeth Chenault, who married Samuel Bennett, son of 
 Rev. John Bennett, a pioneer Methodist minister in Madison 
 county. The first Methodist church in the county was called 
 “Bennett’s Chapel,” in his honor, but the name was afterwards 
 changed to “Proctor's Chapel,” and it is now called “Providence 
 Church.” The children of Samuel and Elizabeth Bennett were: 
 William Bennett, who married Annie Neale; John Bennett, un¬ 
 married, who has served in the Kentucky Senate, and is a lawyer 
 of distinction; James Bennett, who married Sallie Clay, daughter 
 of General Cassius M. Clay, formerly United States Minister to 
 Russia; Dr. David Bennett, of Lexington, Ky.; Sue A. Bennett, de¬ 
 ceased, wlio endowed the “Sue A. Bennett Memorial School,” of 
 London, Ky.; Waller Bennett, who married Mary C. Burnam; Belle 
 II. Bennett, who was largely instrumental in endowing the Scar¬ 
 lett Training School, at Kansas City, Mo., and Samuel Bennett, 
 who married Mary Warfield, of Lexington, Ky. 
 
 G. Susan P. Chenault, who married David D. Oldham, and 
 had the following children: Annie Oldham, who married Caleb 
 M. Wallace, and William Abner Oldham, who married a Miss 
 Evans. 
 
 7. David A. Chenault, who married Sallie Ann Smith, and 
 died childless. He made a donation of twenty thousand dollars 
 to the Baptist Theological School at Louisville, Ky 
 
 6. MARY CHENAULT— 
 
 Married Thomas Todd, of Madison county, and they moved to 
 Calloway county, Mo., and settled. Issue. 
 
 7. JANE CHENAULT— 
 
 Married Josiali Jones, and lived and died in Madison county. Issue. 
 
 8. ELIZABETH CHENAULT— 
 
 Married Christopher Hardwick, of Henry county, Ky., and died 
 in that county. Issue. 
 
 9. SARAH CHENAULT— 
 
 Married John Sarnuells, of Henry county, Ky., and died without 
 
 issue. 
 
THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 109 
 
 10. NANCY CHENAULT— 
 
 Married Thomas Brown, of Henry county. Died in 1854, leaving 
 ten children. 
 
 11. ANDERSON CHENAULT— 
 
 Youngest son of William Clienault and Elizabeth Mullins, his 
 wife, was born in Madison county, Virginia (now Madison county, 
 Kentucky), on August 18, 1788, and died there November 5, 1854. 
 He married first, in Henry county, Kentucky, Emily Cameron, a 
 native of Pennsylvania, who was the daughter of Robert Cameron 
 and Sarah Tiffin, his wife. Emily Cameron Chenault was born 
 February 20, 1796, and died duly 9, 1830, after having borne her 
 husband eight children. Anderson Chenault’s second wife was 
 Mrs. Talitha Harris, by whom In* had no children. His children 
 by Emily Cameron were: 
 
 1. Elizabeth Chenault, born November 13, 1810; died No¬ 
 vember 25, 1831. 
 
 2. John Samuells Chenault, born November 20, 1818. Never 
 married. 
 
 3. Dr. William J. Chenault, born July 27, 1820. Educated at 
 the Medical College of Transylvania University, Lexington. In 
 1845, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Mexican War, serving in 
 Captain J. C. Stone’s company of Colonel Humphrey Marshall’s 1st 
 Kentucky Cavalry. He died in camp near Port Lavacca, Texas, 
 April 17, 1840. Lieutenant Green Clay Smith, writing to his fath¬ 
 er from Port Lavacca, under date of April 20, 1840, said: ‘T 
 grieve to announce the death of my friend, Dr. William Clienault. 
 He was a man of many good and amiable traits of character. In 
 his friendship he was frank and sincere; as a soldier he was firm 
 and decided; in his social intercourse he was kind, courteous and 
 bland. Generous almost 1o a fault, he would divide the last cent 
 with a friend, especially those of his own company, for he looked 
 upon them all as brothers. The languid eye of the sick turned 
 to him with hope and pleasure, for to them he was all attention 
 and tenderness. He listened to their complaints and soothed 
 their pain with the gentleness of a sister. As a companion he 
 was uncommonly agreeable. He had information and much play- 
 
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 THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 fill wit. He was beloved by bis officers and fellow-soldiers as 
 such a man deserved to be, and died possessed of their warmest 
 friendship. But he is gone. A lone tree in an unbounded prairie 
 in the wilds of Texas marks the spot where he rests ‘solitary and 
 alone/ relieved from all worldly trouble. In a few days, as we 
 march by, we shall drop a tear upon the grave of a friend, a gen¬ 
 tleman and a soldier.” 
 
 1. Mary Chenault married Elias Burgin, of Madison county, 
 whom she survives, and by whom she had seven children: Eliza¬ 
 beth. Mary, Lucy, Nancy, William A., and one who died in in¬ 
 fancy. Elizabeth married James P. White, and had a number 
 of daughters, one of whom married Judge Jerry Sullivan, of 
 Richmond. Lucy married Cassius Taylor and William A. mar¬ 
 ried Joyce Munday. 
 
 5. David Waller Chenault, born February 5, 1820, married 
 Tabitha Phelps (daughter of Samuel and grand daughter of Josiah 
 Phelps), who survives him, and by whom he had no children. He 
 served through the Mexican War as a subaltern in Captain J. C. 
 Stone's company of Colonel Humphrey Marshall’s 1st Regiment of 
 Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, in which capacity he displayed 
 marked military talent and ability. After this war he engaged in 
 farming, in which business he prospered, and being a man of 
 many engaging and noble qualities of both mind and heart, as 
 well as of social virtues and attractions, he soon gained a pre¬ 
 eminent position in the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens 
 of Madison county. Perhaps no more popular man ever lived in 
 the county. Though often importuned to stand for offices of trust 
 and profit, to which he could undoubtedly have been easily elected, 
 he always declined to do so. During the Confederate General 
 Bragg’s occupation of Kentucky, in the fall of 1802, David Waller 
 Chenault sought and obtained a commission as Colonel in the 
 volunteer forces of Kentucky, and speedily recruited a full regi¬ 
 ment of cavalry in the counties of Clark, Madison and Estill. This 
 regiment was designated the 7th (afterwards lltli) Kentucky Vol¬ 
 unteer Confederate Cavalry, and was assigned to the command 
 of the famous General John H. Morgan. Colonel Chenault partici¬ 
 pated in all the battles, marches and raids of this command 
 
THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 Ill 
 
 from the time he joined it until the day of his death, which oc¬ 
 curred July 4, 1863, at Green River Bridge, Kentucky, during the 
 beginning of the celebrated “Ohio raid,” which ultimately resulted 
 in the capture and disruption of Morgan’s forces. At Green 
 River Bridge, in the first days of this raid. General Morgan found 
 his way blocked by Colonel Moore and a small number of Michi¬ 
 gan troops, strongly entrenched in an almost impregnable posi- 
 lion, the reduction of which, under the circumstances, was an ut¬ 
 ter impossibility. However, two regiments, Chenault’s and John¬ 
 son’s, were ordered to attack the position. The lire of the«j\lichi 
 gan troops upon the charging columns was deadly from the first, 
 they being completely covered and protected by earthworks and 
 a formidable system of out lying abatlis. It was while gallantly 
 leading his men in this hopeless assault that Colonel Chenautt 
 was shot through the head and instantly killed by a sharpshooter 
 lying concealed in the abattis, who immediately sprang up and 
 attempted to seek by flight the cover of the earthworks. How¬ 
 ever, he was shot and killed by one of Colonel Chenault’s men— 
 Private Waller Combs, of Captain Gordon Mullins’ company, from 
 Clark county. Colonel Chenault’s remains were soon afterwards 
 removed to Madison county, and reinterred in the old family bury- 
 ing-ground heretofore mentioned. 
 
 (J. Anderson Tiffin Chenault, born April 19, 1829; married, 
 first, Ann Y. Williams (daughter of Samuel Williams and grand¬ 
 daughter of Jarrett Williams, who served under George Rogers 
 Clark in the great Northwestern campaign of the Revolution), by 
 whom he had no children. He was again married December 3, 
 189(1, to Mrs. Pattie Parrish, whose maiden name was also Parrish. 
 She is the daughter of Owen Parrish, and her mother was the 
 daughter of Joseph Gentry, who was closely related to the Bush 
 family, of Clark county. Sin* is also a great-great-granddaughter 
 of George Boone, the brother of Daniel Boone. Anderson Tiffin 
 Chenault is one of the most prominent and popular citizens of 
 Madison county, which he represented in the lower house of the 
 Legislature in 1867-’8-’9, and again in 1887-’8. He has often been 
 importuned bv his fellow-citizens to stand for Representative in 
 Congress, but has not yet done so. 
 
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 THE CHEN AULT FAMILY. 
 
 7. Emily Cameron Cheuault, born February 15, 1832; mar¬ 
 ried October 14, 1847, to James Francis Quisenberry, whom she 
 survives, and by whom she had four children: Emma Alice Quis¬ 
 enberry, Anderson Cheuault Quisenberry, Waller Quisenberry, and 
 James Francis Quisenberry. (See Chapter VIII.) 
 
 8. Dr. Robert Cameron Clienault, born March 23, 1834; mar¬ 
 ried Henrietta Bronston, daughter of Elder Thomas Bronston, 
 of Madison county. They had five children: Emily, Lucy, Mary, 
 Pearl and Robert. Dr. Cheuault graduated at Jefferson Medical 
 College, Philadelphia, and was for many years one of the most 
 prominent and prosperous physicians in Madison county. He served 
 altogether about six years as medical superintendent of the Eastern 
 Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, at Lexington, under the administrations 
 of Governors Leslie, McCreary, and Blackburn, consecutively; and 
 again for about three years under the administration of Governor 
 Knott. His administration of this asylum was first-class in every 
 particular, and gained for him a great reputation both as an execu¬ 
 tive officer and as a physician for the insane; but his persistent ef¬ 
 forts to introduce reforms and economy in the use of the funds of 
 the asylum, during his last administration, awakened against him a 
 bitter and uncompromising opposition, which greatly hampered 
 his efforts and ultimately resulted in his retirement. He died at 
 Anchorage, Kv., February, 1894. His daughter, Emily, married 
 Asa Runyon, whom she survives, and by whom she had two chil¬ 
 dren—a son and a daughter. She is now practicing medicine in 
 Richmond, Virginia. Mary married Aitcheson Alexander Bow- 
 mar, of Versailles, Ivy., and has one child, a daughter. Pearl 
 married Dr. Silas A. Evans, proprietor of the High Oaks Sanita¬ 
 rium, at Lexington, which was established by Dr. R. C. Chenault. 
 Robert is unmarried. 
 
 OTHER CHENAULTS. 
 
 James Chenault, in an application for a pension filed in April, 
 1819, stated that he was then living in Rockingham county, Vir¬ 
 ginia, aged sixty-five years, and that he had enlisted in the Revo¬ 
 lutionary army in September, 1770 (5th Virginia regiment, Con- 
 
THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 113 
 
 tiiiental Line), for a term of two years. He was in the winter 
 camp at Valley Forge, and fought in the battles of Stillwater, 
 Saratoga, Brandywine and Germantown. 
 
 John Chenault, in an application for a pension filed in June, 
 1820, stated that he was then living in Columbia county, Georgia, 
 aged sixty live years, and that he had enlisted in the Revolutionary 
 army in March, 1770, for a term of two years, with Captain Sam¬ 
 uel Cabell, in Colonel Mordecai Buckner's (5th Virginia regiment 
 of the Continental Line, and that he was in the two battles at 
 Stillwater (September 1!) and October 7, 1777), and was dis¬ 
 charged in December, 1777, and immediately re-enlisted under 
 Captain John Marks, in the command of Colonel Davis. He was 
 detached at Stillwater to the command of Colonel Morgan's Vir¬ 
 ginia Rifles, in the battles at that place. Then he was transferred 
 to the lltli Virginia regiment, and was with that regiment at the 
 battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, and was discharged in De¬ 
 cember. 1770. The members of his family in June, 1820, were, 
 his wife, Nancy, aged forty-five years (doubtless a second wife), 
 and the following children: John, aged thirteen; Louisa, aged ten, 
 and Mary Ann, aged seven. 
 
 In April, 1865, the executive portion of the Confederate Gov¬ 
 ernment, composed of the President, Jefferson Davis, and several 
 members of his cabinet, disbanded and disintegrated on the farm 
 of John Chenault, near Washington, Ga. This John Chenault was 
 doubtless the son or grandson of the Revolutionary soldier of the 
 same name. There have been many stories told of large sums of 
 gold and silver money hidden or buried on INI r. Chenault's farm by 
 the Confederate chiefs when they disbanded; but, so far as is 
 known, none of it has ever been discovered. 
 
 E. N. Chenault, Fourelie Dam, Arkansas, writes (November 
 20, 1888) that his grandfather. Stephen Chenault, was born in 
 Virginia in 1788; moved thence to Georgia (In* was probably a son 
 of John Chenault, tin* Revolutionary soldier, by a first wife); from 
 there to Alabama, and thence, to Texas, where he died in 1885, in 
 the ninety-seventh year of his age. E. N. Chenault's father, Ste¬ 
 phen J. Chenault, was killed in the Confederate army. He says 
 
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 T1IE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 there are a great many Chenaults iu Arkansas, none of whom, 
 except one brother, are of his branch of the family so far as he 
 knows. At the date of the letter his grandfather's brother, a very 
 old and very wealthy bachelor, was still living in Columbia county, 
 Georgia. Mr. Chenault stated further that he knew of a family 
 of Chenaults living near Memphis, Tennessee, and of still other 
 families—one living in Kansas City, Missouri, and one in Gauda- 
 loupe county, Texas, a member of which was then or had recently 
 been County Clerk of Gaudaloupe county. Mr. E. N. Chenault 
 also had an uncle, Rev. E. N. Chenault. a Baptist minister, living 
 at Hico, Texas, AVho was then a very old man. All this family of 
 Chenaults were Baptists. 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. Hawkins, Center City, Texas, writes (December 
 10, 1888) that her father, Stephen J. Chenault, was born in Colum¬ 
 bia county, Georgia, of Virginian parentage. His father, also 
 named Stephen, moved from Geoi’gia to Tennessee; tlienc£ to Ala¬ 
 bama, where he died; and he had a twin brother named Reuben 
 Chenault, who also died in Alabama. Her father, Stephen J. 
 Chenault, had four brothers—George, Maurice, William and John. 
 She states that she had two brothers living—William H. Chenault, 
 of Collegeville, Ark., and John M. Chenault, of West Station, Hill 
 county, Texas. She states also that “there is a Stephen Chenault 
 living at Beaumont, Texas, whose father's name was Felix Che¬ 
 nault.” All the Chenaults she ever heard of were Baptists. 
 
 The records of the War Department, at Washington, show that 
 Benjamin Shinault served in a Virginia regiment in the Revolution¬ 
 ary war, and in 1820, when he applied for a pension, he was living 
 in Grayson county, Virginia, and about 1830 he settled permanently 
 in Surry county, North Carolina. 
 
 Napoleon B. Shinault, of Byphalia, Miss., writes (January 18, 
 1889) that his father, John Shinault, had three brothers—Waller, 
 James and Stephen, all born in Alabama. He himself was born in 
 Shelby county, Tennessee, not far from Memphis; and he had three 
 brothers, William, James and John. He has a nephew, James 
 Shinault, who is a druggist in Byphalia, and he has heard of fam- 
 
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 ilies of the name in Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. His 
 branch of the family are nearly all Baptists. 
 
 J. L. Chernault, a prominent citizen of Farnrville, Prince Ed¬ 
 ward county, Virginia, states that his name was originally spelled 
 “Chenault,” but that he inserted an “r,” as lie considered that it 
 made the name more euphonious. His family, so far as he knows 
 (except that they originally came from France), have always lived 
 in Virginia, and he has seen old records in which the name was 
 spelled “Chenaut.” His father was named Benjamin Chenault. 
 About all the Chenaults in Virginia, so far as lie knows, are 
 Baptists. 
 
 Captain Churchill (). Chenault, of New Orleans, La., states 
 that his father was born in Lynchburg, Va., and that his grand¬ 
 father, Christopher Chenault, was the agent in Virginia for a 
 French fur company, prior to tin* Revolutionary war, and bought 
 up furs from the Indians and trappers, and shipped them to 
 France. Captain Churchill O. Chenault is tin* donor of a great 
 many of the most interesting animals now in the National Zoolog¬ 
 ical Park, at Washington, I). C. He is charmingly described in a 
 sketch by Thomas Nelson Page, in Scribner’s Magazine for Decem¬ 
 ber, 1893, entitled: “How (he Captain Made Christmas.” 
 
 Allen’s History of Kentucky states that a Stephen Chenault 
 was admitted to the bar in Green county, Kentucky, on May 23, 
 3803; and Allen adds that he knows nothing of the history of this 
 Stephen Chenault, never having seen his name except in the record 
 of his admission to the bar in said county. 
 
 From “Bench and Bar of Missouri,” by W. V. N. Bay. 
 
 JOHN R. CHENAULT.—We first met this gentleman at the 
 session of the Missouri Legislature in 1844. He was a member of 
 the lower house and represented the county of Jasper. It was 
 the commencement of his public life, and lie was soon regarded as 
 one of the leaders of the delegation from Southwestern Missouri. 
 Modest and unassuming, with genial manners and gentlemanly de¬ 
 portment, lie gradually won the confidence of the House, and was 
 
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 honored by being - placed upon some of the most important com¬ 
 mittees. Without being at all brilliant, he was a forcible and fluent 
 speaker, and all his speeches contained a vein of good sense which 
 never failed to command the attention and respect of his hearers. 
 The subject in which he manifested the most interest was the im¬ 
 provement of the Osage river, for that stream furnished the only 
 outlet for the produce of Southern Missouri, railroads being un¬ 
 known in that day. 
 
 Judge Chenault was born near Bardstown, Ky., November 7, 
 1808. His grandparents were from Virginia, and his father, Stephen 
 Chenault, studied law with Felix Grundy. He and Mr. Grundy 
 married sisters. Judge Chenault’s education was confined to the 
 common schools of Kentucky, but he had the benefit of private in¬ 
 struction from his father, who was well versed in the classics. It 
 was at his father’s instance that he studied law with Charles A. 
 Wickliffe, and finished in the office of Mr. Grundy. 
 
 In 1830 or 1831 he married Martha J. Staples, of Meade county, 
 Kentucky. After his marriage lie resided with his father about 
 two years, then moved to Gallatin, Sumner county, Tennessee, and 
 after a residence there of two years came to Missouri and settled in 
 Jasper county. He soon acquired a fair practice and attended all 
 the courts in his circuit. During the administration of President 
 Tyler he was appointed Indian Agent, the duties of which lie faith¬ 
 fully performed. He was afterwards appointed Judge of the 13th 
 Judicial District, composed of the counties of Dade, Lawrence, 
 Jasper, Newton, Barry, Greene, Taney, Stone and McDonald. It 
 was an immense circuit, and embraced a territory more extensive 
 than some of the New England States. Court and lawyers traveled 
 on horseback and carried their law library in their saddle-bags. 
 Judge Chenault presided over this circuit many years, and made 
 an honest, impartial and upright judge. In 1861 he was elected a 
 delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and represented 
 in part the 17th Senatorial District, composed of the counties of 
 Dade, Jasper and Cedar. He took very little part in the debates, 
 but generally voted with the secessionists. Before the final ad¬ 
 journment of the convention he moved to Dallas, Texas, in hopes 
 of improving his financial condition, for he had become much em- 
 
THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 117 
 
 barrassed and had a large family wholly dependent upon him. The 
 change of residence seemed to prosper him, for he soon obtained a 
 fair practice, but his constitution began to give way under the 
 labor, cares and mental anxiety which lie had to encounter, and on 
 March 12, 1873, he left this world. A wife, three sons and three 
 daughters survived him. 
 
 From ‘‘The History of the Presbyterian Church in Illinois,” by 
 A. T. Norton. 
 
 THOMAS WOODRUFF HYNES (Autobiographical).—I was 
 born at Bardstown, Nelson county, Kentucky, October 5, 1815. My 
 father, William R. Hynes, was a native of Washington county, 
 Maryland. * * * My mother, Barbara Clienault, was a native 
 
 of Essex county, Virginia. Her family were Huguenot French, and 
 all of the name of Clienault in this country are descendants of three 
 brothers, who tied from France at the time of the terrible slaughter 
 of the Protestants, commonly known as the massacre of St. Bartho¬ 
 lomew. My father was an elder of the Presbyterian church of 
 Bardstown, and died there in 1837. My first school was taught by 
 my uncle, Stephen Clienault. * * * 
 
 [Note.—No r< cord has 1 ecu found of tin* coming to America of 
 three Clienault brothers as mentioned in the foregoing paragraph. 
 Estienne (Stephen) is the only one named. St. Bartholomew’s mas¬ 
 sacre occurred in 1572, thirty-five years before the settlement of 
 Jamestown, the first Protestant colony in America. A Stephen 
 Clienault, of Bardstown, was a quartermaster of Kentucky troops, 
 2d Regiment Mounted Militia, in the War of 1812.—A. C. Q.] 
 
 Stephen Clienault, of Orange, Texas, writes under date of 
 March 5, 1897: “My grandfather’s name was Stephen Clienault. I 
 think lie was born in South Carolina, and about 1788 settled in 
 Kentucky, lb* was a farmer, and also a physician of considerable 
 reputation, as 1 infer from 1 he fact that the Medical College of St. 
 Louis, Mo., conferred upon him the degree of M. I)., as an honorary 
 member, lb* movi d from Kentucky to Missouri about 1825 or 1830, 
 and settled in Osage county. He had four sons and three daugh¬ 
 ters, viz: John, James, Felix, William, Louisa, Eliza and Martha. 
 He died in 1840, being past eighty years of age. lb* served in the 
 
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 TIIE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 War of 1812, and was with General Jackson in the battle of New 
 Orleans. His son, John Ghenault, was at one time an Indian agent 
 for the United States; and at the beginning of the late war he was 
 Judge of the Circuit Court for the Southwestern District of Mis¬ 
 souri. He espoused the cause of the South, and at the close of the 
 war his estate was confiscated and he moved to Texas, settling near 
 Dallas, where lie died. My father, Felix Chenault, was born in 
 1804 and was educated at Bardstown, Ky. He moved to Gallatin, 
 Tenn., where he married Ann Trigg, and was engaged in the mer¬ 
 cantile business there from 1830 to 1835. In 1830 he moved to 
 Mississippi, and in 1838 he settled in Gonzales county, Texas, it 
 then being a wild and frontier section. He participated in the In¬ 
 dian troubles incident to the times and place. He was elected 
 County Clerk in 184(5, and held the place continuously until his 
 death in 1872. I was born on January 6, 1831, at Gallatin, Tenn., 
 and was educated in the log cabin schools of early Texas. I studied 
 law when 21 years of age, and attended the Law University of 
 Louisiana in 1854 and 1855, and have been practicing law ever 
 since, except four years I served in the Confederate army. I have 
 held various offices, and was a Representative in the Texas Legisla¬ 
 ture in 1880. I am a member of the Presbyterian church, in depen 
 dent in politics, and proud of my Huguenot blood. I have one 
 child, a daughter—Hattie Ellen Chenault; and although I say it, 
 she is possessed of more than ordinary intellect, and is phenome¬ 
 nally intelligent. My wife was a Miss McKenzie, of Scotch and 
 French descent.” 
 
 William Sliinault, of Coinjock, North Carolina, writes under 
 date of March 3, 1S97: “I am a native of Virginia, a son of Dixon 
 Sliinault, who was the son of John Sliinault. From the best in¬ 
 formation I can get, my grandfather, John Sliinault, settled in Mar- 
 tliews county, Va., about the year 1800. In 1806 he married Eliza¬ 
 beth Rankin, and they had two daughters and one son. Dixon 
 Chenault, my father, married Mildred Foster in 1840, and they had 
 eight daughters and two sons—myself and Janies M. Sliinault, now 
 residing in Matthews county, Va. My grandfather, John Sliinault, 
 died at the age of 85 years. I have been told that he served both in 
 the Revolutionary War and in the War of 1812. My father, Dixon 
 Sliinault, died in 1887, at the age of 78 years.” 
 
THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 119 
 
 The following information concerning Chenaults who served in 
 the War of 1812, is gleaned from the “Master and Pay Rolls of the 
 Virginia Militia,” viz: 
 
 Presley Chenault, in Captain Reuben McGarnett’s company of 
 Colonel Wm. Boyd's 9th regiment. 
 
 John Chenault, of Augusta county, in Captain Archibald 
 Stuart's company of Colonel James McDowell's 93d regiment, or 
 “Flying Camp.'’ 
 
 James Chenault and John Chenault, in Captain John Sizer's 
 company of Colonel Leavin Gayle’s 30tli regiment. 
 
 Henry Chenault, in Captain Boaz Ford’s company of Light In¬ 
 fantry, 7th regiment. 
 
 There is a town named Chenault in Lincoln county, Georgia. 
 
 CHENAULTS IN FRANCE. 
 
 The following letters are from two officers of the French army, 
 with whom a correspondence has recently been had: 
 
 From Lieutenant Michel Chenault, 73d Regiment, Armee 
 Territorial, letter dated No. 11, Rue Baulant, Paris, France, Sep¬ 
 tember 19, 1895: 
 
 “In reply to your favor of August 28tli, I regret to say that I 
 am unable to give you all the information you did me the honor to 
 request. As to the name Chenault, I do not exactly know its ety¬ 
 mology, unless it is, as you said, Chene haut (high oak). The name 
 Clieneau may have two significations: (1) Cheneau (Juene chene') 
 (young oak); or (2) Cheneau (Conduire l'eau) (to carry water). So 
 far as I know the name Chenault is not derived from either of 
 these. The name Chenault is scarce in France; Cheneau, on the con¬ 
 trary, is frequently found. As to the genealogy of my family, my 
 knowledge of it is rather short, dating hardly back to the French 
 Revolution. My father, who lost his parents when very young, was 
 born in Berry, where he still lives, and where, 1 believe, there is no 
 one else of his name. 1 have never heard that the family came from 
 Languedoc, or that it lived there for any length of time. I believe 
 I understood the spirit of your letter, and w'ould have liked to give 
 
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 THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 von fuller (and especially more definite) information. However, I 
 shall continue my researches, and shall not fail to consult records 
 that may be of use in the establishment of identities. If I lind 
 anything of interest to you 1 will gladly communicate it to you. 
 Please accept, sir, with great respect, the assurance of my esteem.” 
 
 From the same, letter dated Paris, November 28, 1805: 
 
 To-day 1 was agreeably surprised to receive the photograph of 
 your uncle, Colonel David Waller Chenault. I thank you heartily 
 therefor, and shall send you mine as soon as I can. I am obliged 
 to have my photograph taken, as I am not prepared for this 
 emergency. 1 am delighted to have pleased you and your family, 
 and would like to give you fuller information to day, but it has 
 been impossible to obtain any and my father can only repeat what 
 I have already told you—a fact readily understood from the large 
 emigrations and changes which occurred at the close of the last 
 century. The families that have no records and no longer any 
 proprietary titles (which I believe to be the case with my family) 
 leave little chance of success in genealogical research. In closing 
 I regret to be unable to give you further details, but I hope, how¬ 
 ever, to lind some, though it will be necessary to search, and above 
 all to be favored by luck. Please accept, sir, with my compliments, 
 the assurance of my best wishes.” 
 
 From same, letter dated Paris, January 2, 1896: 
 
 “I have received your valued favor of December 23, and shall 
 not task your excusable impatience any longer. I send you here¬ 
 with my photograph, and regret very much to have let you wait so 
 long, though I trust you will kindly excuse me, as I was somewhat 
 indisposed and confined to my room for some time; but do not let 
 this give you any uneasiness concerning the promise I made you. 
 I think, like you, that those who have exactly similar names have 
 every probability of having come from the same origin, though 
 diversity of life, aided by time and separation, have made kinship, 
 that may be rather close, ambiguous, if not untraceable. It may be 
 folly, at the least, to seek to establish an exact relationship, which, 
 I believe, if not impossible is at least very difficult, without having 
 
THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
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 in every instance a good starting point. On the occasion of the new 
 year I have the honor to extend 1o you and my kinsmen of America 
 my best New Year's wishes, and beg that you will accept the 
 homage of my best regards.” 
 
 From the same, letter dated Paris, March 25, 18915: 
 
 “Please excuse me for waiting so long to write an answer to 
 yours of January 15, and allow me to thank you for your picture, 
 which pleased me very much. My duties at present do not permit 
 me to continue my researches, which, perhaps, would be useless 
 without a well-defined clue. I hope to find it in your book, and 
 shall therefore wait for a copy before engaging again upon what 
 lias so far been a fruitless labor. For, as I have already told you, 
 to make careful and successful researches in Languedoc, which is 
 about one-tenth of France, is not an easy thing. The names you 
 gave me as forming part of the colony with which your ancestor, 
 Estienne Chenault, left France, are all good French names. Col 
 cassier, Dozier, Calmes, seem to be from Languedoc, the other 
 names would more certainly be encountered in the center of the 
 country. According to my opinion, the colony must have recruited 
 a littie from every section. At that period of religious persecution 
 the transmigration took place everywhere, and was often definite. 
 Please accept, dear sir, the assurance of my best wishes.” 
 
 From Pierre-Edouard Chenault, Chef de Battailon (Major) 
 Fervice des Chemins de fer, Army Territoriale, letter dated No. 10 
 Rue de Berne, Paris, January 30, 1896: 
 
 “I have the honor to ask that you will excuse me for not having 
 sooner replied to your very esteemed letter, in which you request 
 information regarding my family. Believe me that I should have 
 placed myself entirely at your disposal if I had been able to give 
 you interesting details, of which, as it is, I am entirely ignorant. 
 Unfortunately, I lost my father, Etienne Chenault, last year. 
 Through him I might have learned much of (he origin of our family, 
 though I never asked him while he was living. I remember to have 
 seen in my youth some old papers concerning my ancestors, but I 
 could not find them at the death of my father. lie was born at Or 
 
122 
 
 THE CHENAULT FAMILY. 
 
 loans, the birthplace also of my grandfather, I believe; and that is 
 all I know. I left my family to join the Marine Infantry, and from 
 1859 until my retirement the greater part of my military career was 
 passed in the colonies. That means that I saw very little of my 
 parents and only when I was able to obtain leave for a few months. 
 On retiring from the army I took up my residence at Paris, still 
 away from my people. I cannot, therefore, give you the informa¬ 
 tion you desire and which I would have been happy to communi¬ 
 cate. I regret this exceedingly. Please accept, dear sir, the expres¬ 
 sion of my most devoted sentiments.” 
 
CHAPTER XL 
 
 THE MULLINS FAMILY. 
 
 Thanks are due to Mrs. Mary King-, of Newcastle, Ivy., for the 
 following- account of the descendants of Matthew Mullins, who mar¬ 
 ried Mary Maupin, in Goochland county, Virginia. Mary Mullins' 
 mother was Margaret Maupin, wife of Daniel Maupin and daughter 
 <if Thomas Grown, jr., of Virginia, whose wife, a Miss Voiers, was 
 a native of Wales. The Mullins and the Maupins were among the 
 original French Huguenot settlers at Monikin-Town, and they were 
 related to the Dabneys, Ballards and Harrises of Virginia and Ken¬ 
 tucky by intermarriage. Daniel Maupin was granted 1,188 acres 
 of land in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1745. The original form 
 of the name Mullins, or Mull in, was almost certainly Moulin, which 
 is the French word for mill. The signification of Maupin is not 
 known, but it is a name of “territorial” origin, and the Maupins of 
 the present are among- the most aristocratic families in France. 
 Gabriel Maupin and wife and three children were the original set¬ 
 tlers in Virginia, and the name was then spelled “Maupain.” Mrs. 
 Brown claims Voiers as a Welch name, and it may be that, but 
 Voier is a French name, also, and signifies an examiner or in¬ 
 spector. 
 
 Matthew Mullins and Mary Maupin, his wife, were born and 
 lived and died in Goochland county, Virginia. The records of the 
 War Department show that he served as a sergeant in the Revolu¬ 
 tionary war in Captain William Croghan’s company of the con¬ 
 solidated 4tli, 8th and 12th Virginia Regiments of Foot, commanded 
 by Colonel James Wood; and Hennng’s Statutes, Volum * VII, page 
 203, show that he and his two sons, John and William, served with 
 the Virginia Militia in the French and Indian War, in 1758. He 
 
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 THIS MULLINS FAMILY. 
 
 raised nine children, to wit: Five sons—William, John, Gabriel, 
 Matthew, Richard; and four daughters—Margaret, Jane, Mary, 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 1. WILLIAM MULLINS, who served in the French and In¬ 
 dian M ar in 1758, was also a soldier in the Revolutionary War, in 
 which he was killed. He left two children, one of whom died in in¬ 
 fancy, and the other, William by name, went to Madison county, 
 Kentucky, where he married Nancy Woods, of that county. They 
 went to Missouri about 1812, where he died some years later, leav¬ 
 ing two children. 
 
 2. JOHN MULLINS, who served in the French and Indian 
 war in 175S, died in Virginia and was never married. 
 
 3. GABRIEL MULLINS, who served in the Revolutionary 
 War, married Rachel Ballard, in Virginia, and went to Madison 
 county, Kentucky, about 1790, and afterwards settled in Pendleton 
 county, Kentucky. His wife was the daughter of Francis Ballard 
 and niece of Bland Ballard, sr., of Shelby county, Kentucky. They 
 had ten children—Stephen, Reuben, Richard, Fountain, Mary, 
 Frances, Tinsley, Patrick, Elizabeth, and one other. Stephen mar¬ 
 ried a Miss Riddle, of Pendleton county, by whom he had no chil¬ 
 dren; his second wife was a Miss Thrasher, by whom he had a num¬ 
 ber of children. Richard and Fountain and Reuben do not appear 
 to have married. Mary married Peter Rush, and they settled in 
 Rush county, Indiana, where they now have many descendants. 
 Frances married a Mr. McRay, and now lives in the northern part 
 of Missouri. 
 
 4. MATTHEW MULLINS is shown by the records of the War 
 Department to have served three different tours of duty as a private 
 in the Revolutionary War, amounting in all to about one year. He 
 enlisted in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1780, and was finally 
 discharged in 1781. He served, at the various times, under Colonels 
 
 Holt Richardson, James Innis, and-Lindsay, and he fought in 
 
 the battle at Jamestown and at the siege of Yorktown. He married 
 Sarah Clarke, in Virginia, and moved to Madison county, Kentucky, 
 in 1791, and died there in 1836 in his seventy-seventh year. He re¬ 
 ceived a Revolutionary pension. He had two children—Louvenia, 
 
THE MULLINS FAMILY. 
 
 125 
 
 who married William Hogan, of Madison county, by whom she had 
 nine children; and Peggy, who married a Mr. Richardson, and had 
 one child, now dead. Her second husband was Callaway Young. 
 
 5. RICHARD MULLINS, married Mary Clark, in Virginia, 
 and moved to Madison county, Kentucky. They had two children, 
 Hudson and Susan. His second wife was Susan Woods, daughter 
 of Adam Woods, of Madison county. He then went to Missouri, 
 where he was drowned about the year 1825. His son, Hudson, mar¬ 
 ried in Madison county and moved to Indiana, and his daughter, 
 Susan, married a Gillispie, and ieft issue, and one of their children, 
 Peggy Gillispie, married a Boggs, of Madison county. 
 
 ti. MARGARET MULLINS married Jeremiah Yancey, of Al¬ 
 bemarle county, Virginia, and had six children—Charles, Jechonias, 
 Robert, Joel, Mary and Elizabeth. Charles married a Miss Fields, 
 in Virginia, whom In* survived, and he was married a second time; 
 and Jeremiah and Ralph are the only ones of his children whose 
 names are now known. Jechonias married a sister of his brother 
 Charles’ second wife (name not known), and had several children. 
 Robert married a Miss Rozelle, and had four children, two sons and 
 two daughters. He moved to Missouri, where he died. His two 
 sons were named Jeremiah and Charles. Joel married a Miss 
 Rhoades, in Virginia, and moved to Barren county, Kentucky. He 
 was a man of great culture, and served both in the Kentucky Legis¬ 
 lature and the National Congress. He represented Barren county 
 in the Kentucky Senate, 1816-’20, and was a member of the lower 
 house of Congress from 1821 (o 1831, inclusive. Mary married David 
 Rhoades, in Albemarle county, Virginia, and had live children. 
 Elizabeth married John Wood, of Virginia, and left issue. William 
 L. Yancey, of Alabama, the famous Southern orator and statesman, 
 was of this family of Yanceys. 
 
 7. JANE MULLINS married Benjamin Clark, of Albemarle 
 county, Virginia, and they moved to Madison county, Kentucky, 
 where she died in 1844, in the ninetieth year of her age, leaving ten 
 children—William, David, Sarah, Susan, Elizabeth, Richard, Lucy, 
 Robert, Mary and Woodson. William married Catherine Sweeney, of 
 Madison county, and had three children, who are now living in Lex¬ 
 ington, Ky., and one of them, Susan, married William Wilson, of 
 
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 THE MULLINS FAMILY. 
 
 Lexington, whose son married a Miss Wickliffe, of that city. David 
 married a Miss Rodison, of Madison county, and had six children. 
 Sarah married Samuel McMahon, of Madison county, and moved 
 to Missouri; they had seven children. Susan married William 
 Woods, of Madison county, and went to Missouri, where they have 
 a large number of descendants. Elizabeth married John Martin, 
 of Madison county, and had four sons; her second husband was a 
 Mr. Heathman. Woodson married Mary Green, of Madison county, 
 and had seven children; the family removed to Putnam county, In¬ 
 diana. Richard married a Miss Gordon, of Madison county, and left 
 issue. Lucy married Thomas S. lironston, of Madison county, and 
 had ten children. Thomas S. Bronston was the father of Thomas S. 
 Bronston who was Secretary of State of Kentucky during Governor 
 James B. McCreary's administration, and grandfather of Hon. 
 Charles S. Bronston, of Lexington, Ivy., one of the foremost lawyers 
 of Kentucky, and for many years Commonwealth's Attorney for the 
 Lexington District. Henrietta Bronston, a daughter of Thomas S. 
 Bronston and Lucy Clark, married Dr. Robert Cameron Chenault. 
 Robert never married. Mary married a Mr. Webster, of Madison 
 county, and had several children. One of their daughters married 
 a son of Dr. Miller, of Richmond, Ivy. 
 
 8. MARY MULLINS married Lewis Gillispie, of Madison 
 county, Ivy., but had no children. She lived to be more than ninety 
 years old. 
 
 9. ELIZABETH MULLINS, second daughter of Matthew Mul¬ 
 lins and Mary Maupin, his wife, married William Chenault, in Albe¬ 
 marle county, Virginia, in 1770. (See “The Chenault Family,” 
 Chapter X.) 
 
CHAPTER XII 
 
 THE CAMERON FAMILY. 
 
 The records of that branch of the Cameron family pertaining 
 to this genealogical sketch has been very indifferently preserved, so 
 far as is known. The family tradition has always been that the 
 first of this branch of the family in this country was Robert Camer¬ 
 on, who was born in Inverness Shire, Scotland, about 1720, and fol¬ 
 lowed the fortunes of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the “Young 
 Pretender,” in his almost successful effort, in 1745, to establish his 
 claims to the throne of Great Britain. His Chieftain was Lochiel, 
 who has been rendered famous in Campbell's celebrated poem, 
 “Lochiel’s Warning.” After the disastrous defeat at the battle of 
 Culloden, Robert Cameron fled to America. He landed in Connecti¬ 
 cut, where he married and spent the remainder of his life. He had 
 several children, but there is no account of any of them except his 
 son Robert. This second Robert Cameron married Sarah Tiffin, of 
 Connecticut, of Puritan descent, some of her ancestors having 
 “come over in the Mayflower;” and she claimed to be closely re¬ 
 lated to Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame. She died in Newport, 
 Ky., some years ago, at the advanced age of one hundred and one 
 years. 
 
 The children of Robert Cameron and Sarah Tiffin, his wife, 
 were eight in number—Robert, Joseph, William, James, Martha, 
 Sarah, Emily and Charlotte. Most, if not all, of them were born in 
 Pennsylvania, to which State their parents had removed from Con¬ 
 necticut soon after their marriage, settling first in Northumberland 
 county and afterwards in Crawford county. They were the first 
 white family to settle in Crawford county, according to tradition. 
 After the death of the father, the widow and children settled in 
 
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 TIIE CAMERON FAMILY. 
 
 Kentucky, and most of the children afterwards went to Ohio, set¬ 
 tling in Hamilton and the adjoining counties. Of the children, only 
 the following meager account has been preserved, to wit: 
 
 Robert died unmarried. 
 
 Joseph probably did not marry, and there is no account of him. 
 
 William established the Lebanon Star, at Lebanon, Ohio, and 
 the paper has now been published continuously for nearly eighty 
 years. One of his sons was one of the founders of the Indianapolis 
 Sentinel. 
 
 James established a newspaper (The Home Telegraph) in Ham¬ 
 ilton, Ohio, which, it is stated, is still published. His son, Anderson 
 Chenault Cameron, was an officer of the Ohio Volunteer troops dur¬ 
 ing the Civil War, at the close of which struggle he was given a 
 position in the Post Office Department at Washington, where he 
 compiled and edited the Postal Guide until his death. Another son, 
 William Cameron, was a captain in an Ohio regiment. 
 
 Martha married a Mr. Massey, and had two children, Charles 
 and John. Of John there is no account, but for a number of years 
 Charles Massey has been one of the chief elders of the Shaker com¬ 
 munity at Union Village, Ohio. 
 
 Emily married Anderson Chenault, of Madison county, Ken¬ 
 tucky. (See “The Chenault Family,” Chapter X.) 
 
 Of Charlotte nothing is now known. 
 
CHAPTER XIII 
 
 THE BIIOOMHALL FAMILY. 
 
 The Broomhall family originated in England, where it is still 
 numerously represented, its members being generally people of 
 standing and responsibility, socially and financially. The name 
 of the family is one derived from “place,” as the philologists would 
 say. That is, some manor called Broomhall, or Broome Hall, gave 
 the name to the family owning or occupying it at the time when 
 English families began to assume surnames. And the family, in 
 its turn, afterwards gave names to various places, as. for instance, 
 there are now villages called Broomhall in Surrey, Worcestershire, 
 Shropshire and Cheshire; as is also Lord Elgin’s seat in Scotland. 
 The city of Sheffield has a Broomhall Church, Broomhall Park, 
 Broomhall Street, and Broomhall Lane. Broomhall is also the 
 designation of various other localities and places throughout Eng¬ 
 land. 
 
 The name Broomhall, like all other English names, has un¬ 
 dergone many variations. Some of its variants are Broomall, 
 Bramall, Brummell, Bromhall, Bromall, Bramhall, Brammell. 
 Broomwell and Brumall. 
 
 In England, Broomhall is an* armigerous family, and while 
 the coat armor of the several branches of the family differ as to 
 minor details, there is no marked difference between any of them 
 as to essentials. To Mr. John Broomhall, J. I\, of Beerscroft, Sur¬ 
 biton, County Surrey (very near “Twickenham Ferry”), thanks are 
 due for a copy of the coat of arms of that branch of the Broom¬ 
 hall family from which Mrs. Corinna Broomhall Quisenberry has 
 most probably descended. It is described technically as follows, 
 viz: 
 
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 THIS BROOMHALL FAMILY. 
 
 “A lion rampant, or; tail forked. Crest: a lion rampant, or.” 
 
 The arms of the Bromlmlls, of Cheshire and London are: 
 “Sable, a lion rampant, or; armed and langued, gules. Crest: a 
 lion passant, or; on the shoulder a crescent upon a crescent for dif¬ 
 ference.” 
 
 The arms of the Bromlialls of Levington, Bedfordshire, are: 
 “Sable, a lion rampant, or. Crest: a dcmi-lion, or, holding between 
 the paws a cross crosslet titchee, sable.” 
 
 Concerning the Broomhalls of England, Squire John Broom- 
 hall, of Beerscroft, writes (December 1, 1888) as follows: 
 
 “The earliest account which l have of my family is March 7, 
 1385, just three hundred and three years ago (vide the Early Chron¬ 
 icles of Shrewsbury, page 305, in the third volume of the Shrop¬ 
 shire Archiological Society), where it is stated, inter alia, that on 
 that date John Broomhall and his two men were all three drowned 
 while coming down the river Severn. The next is in the same 
 book (sic) 234, when, in 1747, John Broomhall took part in an 
 election for a member of Parliament. It is stated, inter alia, in 
 volume 8 of the same history, that the name of Thomas Broomhal! 
 was affixed to the Subsidy Roll in the Castle Ward, in the thir¬ 
 teenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1571. A few years 
 ago I printed memorials of my mother’s family, which I have sent 
 to you by post, in which you will see (pages 13 and 14) that a John 
 Bromlnill sided with Charles I in lfi45-’50. 
 
 “My grandfather had two sons, both born in Shrewsbury, and 
 baptized at St. Mary’s Church, in that town. The eldest son, John, 
 died unmarried in 1830. My father, the second son, was named 
 James Broomhall, and I was baptized John, after my uncle. As 
 my grandfather died in 1798, when my father was only two years 
 old, the latter never had any reliable information as to the geneal¬ 
 ogy of the family. I have often resolved to go to Shrewsbury and 
 search the records, but have never done so, and now I think I am 
 too old for the purpose. 
 
 “The common way of pronouncing the name is to drop the ‘li;’ 
 the polite way is to sound it, and that accounts, no doubt, for the 
 change, there being many of the family who drop the ‘IT in spell 
 ing their names. 
 
THE BROOMIIALL FAMILY. 
 
 131 
 
 “I have not the slightest doubt that there is a very close con¬ 
 nection between the American and the English Broomhalls, be¬ 
 cause the name is rare, and not like Brown, Jones, or Smith; but, 
 owing to tin* death of my grandfather in 1798—now ninety years 
 ago—I have no certain proof. John Broomliall, who fought for 
 Charles I in 1645, no doubt was a churchman; but, of course, 1 
 cannot speak for the others.” 
 
 Squire Broomliall stated in a subsequent letter that lie had 
 seen documents signed by his grandfather, some of which were 
 signed ‘‘Broomliall” and others “Bromhall.” He seemed to use 
 the two spellings of tlie name interchangeably. 
 
 Squire Broomhall’s son is now (1897) editor of the Liverpool 
 Corn Trade News. 
 
 THE BROOMHALL FAMILY IN AMERICA. 
 
 It appears that there are at least two different branches of the 
 Broomliall family in America, the one coming about 1682 and the 
 other in 1739, both coming from England and both settling in 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 The genealogy of that branch of the Broomliall family to 
 which Mrs. Corinna Broomliall Quisenberry belongs is almost 
 complete since its advent into America. That this is the fact is 
 due to the intelligence and remarkable memory of Mr. William 
 P. Broomliall, of Spencer Station, Ohio, who, it seems, has always 
 taken a great interest in family matters, and who has developed 
 a wonderful talent for keeping unconfused in his mind the intri¬ 
 cacies and complications of genealogical ramifications. He lias 
 personal knowledge of all the later genealogical history of the 
 family; and his traditions concerning the earlier members and 
 general ions of il lie had from his father, who, in iiis turn, had 
 them direct from the original John Broomliall, who was the first 
 of this branch of the Broomliall family to settle in America, and 
 he came in 1739. 
 
 This John Broomliall was born in England in 1726, and when 
 he was a lad some twelve or thirteen years old his mother, then a 
 widow, left his native place, the name of which is now unknown, 
 
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 TIIE BROOMHALL FAMILY. 
 
 and took wliat is known in England as a “three-life lease” of a 
 property only a few miles inland from the port of Bristol. The 
 “three life lease” is a lease which is to run during the lives of 
 three persons, who must be nominated in the bond. One bright 
 Saturday morning in the year 1739 John Broomhall, then an active 
 and intelligent lad nearly thirteen years old, got leave of his 
 mother to walk into Bristol to see the ocean and the shipping. 
 When he reached the wharves the captain of one of the ships lying 
 there enticed him on board the vessel and entertained him highly 
 until late in the afternoon; and before the boy was aware of it, the 
 ship had sailed and was out at sea, and he was, of course, unable 
 to return to his home. This kidnaping game was constantly played 
 in those days by unscrupulous and conscienceless “sea captains,” 
 who found in it a source of great profit; and it is to this practice 
 that the United States now owes many of its best people and 
 families. 
 
 Upon the arrival of the ship in America young Broomhall's 
 services for seven years were sold in Pennsylvania or Delaware to 
 a Quaker named Paynter (a pious, God-fearing man) to “pay for 
 his passage.” When we consider that his “passage” was thrust 
 upon him by fraud, sorely against his inclination and will, the 
 ironical humor of selling seven years of his life to pay for it seems 
 to fall but little short of the diabolical. However, the boy was of 
 approved character and good pluck, and rose superior to the op¬ 
 pressions that were heaped upon him. His descendants, a frank 
 and manly race, have all borne the impress of his sterling integrity 
 and character. 
 
 John Broomhall was married in 1751 in Chester county, Penn¬ 
 sylvania, where he was then settled, and afterwards continued to 
 live. The name of his wife has not descended. He had been a 
 communicant of the Church of England in the old country, and 
 continued in that faith in the new. He raised four sons: John, 
 Thomas, Enos and James, of whom Thomas and James were Epis¬ 
 copalians, and John and Enos were Quakers. 
 
 The generations of his sons are as follows: 
 
THE BROOMHALL FAMILY. 
 
 133 
 
 1. JOHN BROOMHALL— 
 
 Was born June 10, 1752, and died March 17, 1835. The name of 
 his wife is not known. He left four sons: John, Jacob, Harlan and 
 Eli. 
 
 John Broomliall was born August 3, 1777, and died December 
 27, 1853. In 1800 he married Phoebe Webb (who died in 1826), 
 daughter of Thomas Webb, a Pennsylvania Quaker, and they left 
 Pennsylvania and settled in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1817. Their 
 children were: William, John, Webb, Orphah, Minerva, Harlan 
 and Hannah. John Broomliall was married a second time to 
 Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald (nee Smith), who survived him and re¬ 
 moved to Illinois after his death, taking his family record with 
 her, as is believed. Of the children of John Broomliall and Phoebe 
 Webb, his wife— 
 
 John Broomliall died young. 
 
 William Broomliall died a few years ago at an advanced age, 
 in Clinton county, Ohio. Among his children were Phoebe, Mary, 
 Webb, James, John and George. The two last named served as 
 soldiers in the Civil War. 
 
 Minerva Broomliall married a man named Price, and died in 
 1872. They had several children. 
 
 Harlan Broomliall died at McConnellsville, Ohio, a few years 
 ago, of heart disease. 
 
 Orphah Broomliall died young. 
 
 Hannah Broomliall married Eli Walker, of Wilmington. 
 Ohio. Their children were : (1) Harlan Walker, a handsome 
 
 and genial gentleman and successful business man. He served in 
 the late war, and was prominent in Grand Army of the Republic 
 and Masonic circles. He was for many years a druggist in Wilming¬ 
 ton, where he died Feb. 15, 1896. He married Samantha Deaking, 
 and had one child—William. (2) William Webb Walker, who is mar¬ 
 ried and has four children—Laura, Josephine, Emma and Minnie. 
 (3) Lydia Ann Walker, married, and has issue. (4) Mary Eliza 
 Walker, who married Thomas Hunt, and had three children—Clif¬ 
 ton, Harry and Corinna. 
 
 Webb Broomliall was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, 
 November 19, 1815, and died in Ohio, November 10, 1881. He was an 
 
134 
 
 THE BKOOMIIALL FAMILY. 
 
 ardent Republican in politics, and a st ill more ardent Methodist in 
 religion, a man of tine character, large brain, strict morality and 
 great kindness of heart. He was, withal, a man of no mean literary 
 ability in prose and poetical composition, and his mind was also 
 of an inventive turn, and he patented several inventions which 
 were quite successful. He was about two years old when his 
 father and family left Pennsylvania and went to Ohio, settling 
 in Belmont county (where all the Broomhalls first settled in Ohio). 
 Webb Broomhall married first Mary Ann Shepherd, of Clinton 
 county, Ohio, where he was then living, December 8, 1842, and 
 by her he had two children, Franklin Shepherd and Charles Webb. 
 Franklin Shepherd Broomhall was born July 16, 1846, married 
 Caroline Haines in Wilmington, Ohio, on October 24, 1872, and 
 they had one child, a son named Earl, born August 6, 1875, died 
 August 25, 1876. Franklin S. Broomhall has been for many years 
 one of the most prominent and successful business men of Wilming¬ 
 ton, Ohio, and almost from infancy has been an active member of 
 the Methodist church. Charles Webb Broomhall was born August 
 9, 1850, was married to Miss Lorena Nitchman, of Urbana, Ohio, 
 in the fall of 1870, and they have had three children—Edith May, 
 Edgar Fenton, and Florence. He is now living in St. Louis, Mis¬ 
 souri, where his daughter Edith May was married October 8, 1896, 
 to August Busch, of St. Louis. On August 19, 1855, Webb Broom 
 hall was again married; this time to Adelaide Finkle, a Canadian 
 by birth and a Tory, or “United Empire Loyalist” by ancestry. 
 They were married in Wilmington, Ohio, where they were both 
 then living; and of this union were born four children: Addison 
 Finkle Broomhall, born July 22, 1856; Miley Fisher Broomhall, 
 born October 22, 1857, and died October 27. 1857; Comma Broom¬ 
 hall, born October 3, 1858, and Cassius Haven Broomhall, born 
 October 1, 1860, and died April 4, 1862. Addison Finkle Broom¬ 
 hall was married December 25, 1882, to Estella Baird (daughter 
 of Davis Baird and Margaret Murphy, his wife), and they have two 
 children, Baird Broomhall, born November 20, 1884, and Corinna 
 Adelaide Broomhall, born June 16, 1887. Addison Finkle Broom¬ 
 hall is now (1897) one of the most intellectual, prominent and suc¬ 
 cessful lawyers of Troy, Ohio; a poet of recognized ability, and an 
 
THE BROOMHALL FAMILY. 
 
 135 
 
 orator of renown and great eloquence. Corinna Broomliall, the only 
 daughter of Webb Broomliall and Adelaide Finkle, his wife, mar¬ 
 ried Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, of Winchester, Kentucky, and 
 they have had four children. (See Chapter VIII, “James Francis 
 Quisenberry and his descendants.”) 
 
 Jacob Broomliall was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, 
 on May 4, 1782, and married, March 7, 1807, Orphah Webb, a sister 
 of Phoebe Webb, who married his brother John, above. He set 
 tied in Ohio in 1811), and died there July 31, 1861. He had ten 
 children: Albert, Harlan, Thomas, Bayard, William 1*., Jacob, 
 Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary and Phoebe, all of whom are now de¬ 
 ceased except Elizabeth, Phoebe, and William P., and William P. 
 Broomliall is the only son of Jacob Broomliall who ever had a 
 son. He was born in 1826 and married Rachel Redd on November 
 26, 1850, who died July 23, 1883, and they had three sons—Thomas, 
 John and Albert. 
 
 Harlan Broomliall left Zanesville, Ohio, mysteriously in the 
 fall of 1816, and was never heard of afterwards. 
 
 Eli Broomliall, born July 3, 1706, died September 9, 1878, 
 leaving four sons and four daughters. 
 
 2. THOMAS BROOMHALL— 
 
 Was a soldier under General William Henry Harrison in the War 
 of 1812, and was killed at the battle of the Thames. He left two 
 sons, John and Joshua. The latter had a son Thomas, and his 
 son, William Broomliall, is now living at Yorklin, Delaware. 
 
 3. ENOS BROOMHALL— 
 
 Had a son named Jehu Broomliall, who settled in Belmont 
 county, Ohio, and also a son named Eli Broomliall, born July 3, 
 1796, died September 9, 1876, who left four sons and several daugh¬ 
 ters. His sons, named Lindley, Isaac N. and Eli are now living 
 at Lithopolis, Fairfield county, Ohio. 
 
136 
 
 THE BROOMHALL FAMILY. 
 
 4. JAMES BROOMHALL— 
 
 Never moved to Ohio, but remained in Chester county, Pennsyl¬ 
 vania, and is supposed to be the ancestor of some of the Broom- 
 halls now living in Chester and Delaware counties, in that State. 
 
 OTHER BROOMHALLS. 
 
 Mr. C. D. M. Broomhall, of Media, Delaware county, Pennsyl¬ 
 vania, writes, under date of December 14, 1885: 
 
 “My father's name was John Broomhall, and he was born in 
 1791. 1 was the youngest of five children by a second wife. 
 
 By his first wife, he had one son, who died twenty-five years ago, 
 leaving three children, two of whom are now deceased. I have 
 two sisters living, and we are all that are now living of the family. 
 My father and mother both died when I was a child. I have bin 
 an indistinct recollection of my father. I was raised by an uncle 
 and aunt, on my mother's side, but when I was a boy eleven or 
 twelve years old an old lady who lived in the family used to 
 describe to me my grandfather. She said he wore a queue, plaited 
 and hanging down his back. I have forgotten his name. When I 
 was about fifteen years of age a land speculator came along and had 
 records of 160 acres of land upon which warrants of my father's had 
 been located. I have been thinking it was in Missouri, in Adams 
 county, bordering on the Mississippi river, but I find there is no 
 Adams county in Missouri on the Mississippi river; but there is 
 an Adams county in Illinois, across the river, opposite to Mis¬ 
 souri; so it was probably located in Illinois. This land warrant 
 was for services rendered in the War of 1812 with England. 
 Years ago I heard of relatives on the Broomhall side in Chester 
 county, Pennsylvania. My parents dying when I was young left 
 it in the dark for me. I have heard my half-brother, who died 
 twenty-five years ago, speak of some relatives we had in Chester 
 county, Pennsylvania, but I never met with any. We children 
 sold our rights to the speculator, and that is the last we ever 
 heard of the land. * * * I have an idea that all the ‘Broomalls’ 
 
 are of the Broomhall family. I think ‘Broomhall’ is the old origi¬ 
 nal name.” 
 
THE BROOMHALL FAMILY. 
 
 137 
 
 Hon. John M. Broomall, of Media, Delaware county, Pennsyl¬ 
 vania, wlio represented his district in Congress several terms, 
 writes under date of December 10, 1885: 
 
 “.My family name, according to tradition, was ‘Broomall,’ but 
 1 think the change from ‘Broomhall’ was made in England. My 
 great-grandfather, John Broomall, who in 1082 settled within a 
 few miles of where I now live, signed his name as witness to a 
 marriage certificate in 1690, spelling it without the ‘h.’ He was 
 a young man when he came, and I have supposed he made the 
 change for convenience in writing about the time he came to this 
 country. His son, John Broomall, married Anne Lewis; their 
 son, Daniel Broomall, married Martha Talbott; their son, John 
 Broomall (who was born in 1760) married Sarah Martin, and I am 
 the youngest child of that marriage. I was born in 1816. I have 
 two sons practicing law in Chester, Pennsylvania, William B. and 
 Henry L., and a daughter practicing medicine in Philadelphia— 
 Annie E. Broomall, professor in the Philadelphia Woman's College. 
 
 I had a son, John M. Broomall, jr., also a member of the bar, who 
 died three years ago, leaving three children. There is a family 
 named Broomhall in this county, several generations old, and 
 now nearly extinct, there being but one member of the same left— 
 an old bachelor member of the bar in this town—Charles D. M. 
 Broomhall. I have shown him your letter, but he can not give 
 any information except that his ancestors came from England 
 early, and he thinks he is the only male descendant of them left. 
 
 I have made several attempts to trace a connection between his 
 family and mine, in this county, but have failed. I am assured he 
 
 is a relation of mine, but not a descendant of the same immigrant.” 
 
 * * * 
 
 The “Muster Rolls of Virginia in the War of 1812,” show that 
 Pleasant Broomhall, of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, served in 
 that war in Captain William Bircliett's company of the 22d Vir¬ 
 ginia regiment. This would indicate a Virginia branch of the 
 Broomhall family, but it has not been possible to trace it. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 Dr. George Finkle (or Fiuckel) was born in Prussia, probably 
 about 1720, and came to America about 1740 to 1750, and engaged 
 at first in fur trading with the Indians. After his marriage (the 
 name of his wife is not known) he settled in Dutchess county, New 
 York, and engaged in farming and was prosperous. He had two 
 estates in New York, one at Little Nine Partners and one at Great 
 Nine Partners. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war he 
 sided with the King, and was compelled to leave the country. His 
 lands were confiscated by the Americans, or “Rebels,” and he went 
 to Quebec, where he remained until his death, which occurred about 
 the time of the close of the Revolutionary war. There is now no 
 record of any of his children except his three sons, Henry, George 
 and John; but it is believed that he had other sons who sided with 
 the colonies and fought for American independence. Dr. George 
 Finkle's youngest son, John, remained with him in Quebec, and 
 never entered the army, presumably on account of being too young. 
 The other two sons, Henry and George, both served the King in 
 the army. 
 
 Soon after the beginning of hostilities Henry Finkle, then about 
 sixteen years old, enlisted at Quebec in the Engineer Department 
 of the British army, in which he served some time and learned the 
 use of tools, etc., which knowledge subsequently proved to be of 
 very great use to him. On the completion of his term of service in 
 the Engineer Department he joined the First Battalion of the <S4th 
 Regiment of Foot, the battalion being commanded by Major Jessup 
 and the regiment by Sir John Johnson. George Finkle served in 
 I he second battalion of this regiment, which was commanded by 
 
THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 139 
 
 Major Rogers. The nucleus of this regiment had originally been 
 recruited in North Carolina, but later the regiment was much en 
 larged, and expanded into three battalions of five hundred men 
 each, and it was tilled up with recruits enlisted in other colonies, 
 but mostly in New York, and finally it was embodied in the line of 
 British regulars as the 84th Regiment of Foot. It had formerly 
 been known as the “King’s New York Royal Rangers” and as “Sir 
 Johnson’s Regiment;” but the Americans, or “Rebels,” invariably 
 called it “The Royal Greens.” 
 
 At tin* close of the War of the Revolution many thousands of 
 Americans who had served the King and who called themselves 
 “United Empire Loyalists,” found themselves generally_slripped 
 of everything, their property, in most cases, having been confiscated 
 by the American Government; and even where this was not tin* 
 case, it was not personally safe for the loyalists to remain in the 
 United States. When the British evacuated New York many regi¬ 
 ments of Americans who had served the King were carried, to¬ 
 gether with their families, to Canada. The British Government, 
 to recoup these men of their losses and to requite them, in a meas¬ 
 ure, for their services, furnished them money and granted them 
 lands in the then wholly unsettled and unbroken wilderness on the 
 shore of Lake Ontario, in Upper Canada, which they and their de¬ 
 scendants in the course of a hundred years have made to blossom 
 as a rose, and have developed into one of the happiest and most 
 prosperous communities in the world. 
 
 Canniff, the historian of Upper Canada, says: “It has been gen¬ 
 erally estimated that at the close of the struggle, and as a result, 
 there were distributed upon the shores of Canada about ten thou¬ 
 sand American loyalists. * * * The following were the prin¬ 
 
 cipal corps and regiments of loyalists who took part in the war 
 against the rebels, and who were mainly Americans, viz: The 
 King’s Rangers, the Queen’s Rangers, the Royal Fencible Amer¬ 
 icans, the New York Volunteers, the King's American Regiment, 
 the Prince of Wales’ American Volunteers, the Maryland Loyalists, 
 DeLancy's Battalions, the Second American Regiment, the Carolina 
 King’s Rangers, the South Carolina Royalists, the North Carolina 
 Highland Regiment, the King’s American Dragoons, the Loyal 
 
140 
 
 THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 American Regiment, the American Legion, the New Jersey Volun¬ 
 teers, the British Legion, (lie Loyal Foresters, the Orange Rangers, 
 the Pennsylvania Loyalists, the Guides and Pioneers, the North 
 Carolina Volunteers, the Georgia Loyalists, and the West Chester 
 Volunteers. These corps were all commanded by Colonels or Lieu¬ 
 tenant-Colonels, and as DeLancy’s Battalions and the New Jersey 
 Volunteers consisted of three battalions each, there were twenty- 
 eight. To these must be added the 1 Loyal New Englanders, the As¬ 
 sociated Loyalists, Wentworth’s Volunteers, and seventeen com¬ 
 panies of New York Loyal Militia, commanded by Colonel Archi¬ 
 bald Hamilton.” 
 
 Dr. Canniff's History of Upper Canada is a very able and very 
 interesting work, but it contains the expression of a good deal of in¬ 
 herited prejudice against the Americans, some of which may be 
 observed in the following quotation: 
 
 “The United Empire Loyalist was one who advocated or wished 
 to have maintained the unity of the British empire; who felt as 
 much a Briton in the Colony of America as if he were in old Eng¬ 
 land; who desired to perpetuate British rule in America. * * * 
 
 This class became, as the tide of rebellion gained strength and vio¬ 
 lence, exceedingly obnoxious to those in rebellion against their King 
 and country. * * * Many of this noble class relinquished com¬ 
 
 fortable homes rather than live under an alien hag—they greatly 
 preferred to enter a wilderness and hew out a new home. They 
 would live anywhere, endure any toil, undergo any privation,so long 
 as they were in the King’s dominion and the good old flag waved 
 over their heads and their families. It was oft declared that their 
 bones should lie on the King’s soil. * * * Elsewhere it has been 
 shown how cruel were the persecutions made against the ‘Tories,’ 
 how relentless the spirit of vengeful ness. All this, it may be said 
 by some, should be forgotten—buried in the past with the Whigs 
 and the Tories, both of whom committed errors and outrages. Under 
 certain circumstances this would be the proper course—the course 
 indicated by the great Ruler; but, regarding the United States in 
 the light derived from her statesmen, orators and press, it cannot 
 for a moment be allowed. Until the descendants of those who suc¬ 
 cessfully rebelled in 1770 cease to villify our fathers, until they can 
 
THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
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 find other subject matter for their Fourth of July orations than foul 
 abuse of our country, uutil they can produce school-books which are 
 not stained by unjust and dishonest representations, and books of 
 a religious nature which are not marred by unchristian, not to say 
 untruthful, statements respecting Britain and her colonies, until 
 (lie ‘Great Republic’ can rise above the petty course of perpetuat¬ 
 ing old feuds, we can not—we, whose fathers suffered—can not be 
 required to shut our mouths and thereby seemingly acquiesce in 
 their uncharitable and malignant charges against United Empire 
 Loyalists. Washington was a rebel as much as Jefferson Davis, 
 and history will accord to the latter a character as honorable and 
 distinguished as to the former. Washington succeeded against a 
 power that put not forth the gigantic efforts which the United 
 States did to subjugate fhe States over which Jefferson Davis pre¬ 
 sided. By the events of fhe Civil War in the United States we, the 
 descendants of those who occupied the same relative position in the 
 American Revolution, feel it right to be judged. 
 
 “The most of the loyalists were Americans by birth. * * * 
 
 The great majority of those who settled Upper Canada were from 
 the Provinces of New York, Pennsjdvania, and the New England 
 States.” 
 
 The lands along the north shore of Lake Ontario were plotted 
 into townships, and the townships into concessions or lots, which 
 were distributed among the old soldiers. The “front concessions,” 
 or those abutting upon the lake or its inlets, were given to officers or 
 favorites, and the concessions back of these were given to the less 
 favored ones; and even to this day there is a strong implication of 
 reproach in that community in the term “back concessioner,” which 
 is applied to the descendants of the original residents of the back 
 concessions, to whom the term was first applied. 
 
 The second township, now in tin* county of Addington, Ontario, 
 was called Ernesttown, in honor of Ernest Augustus, the fourth 
 son of King George III, and it was allotted principally to the mem¬ 
 bers of the First Battalion of the 84tli, or Sir John Johnson's regi¬ 
 ment, and it was first settled by them in tin* year 1784. The town¬ 
 ship fronted immediately upon the shores of the beautiful Bay of 
 Quinte, and it was here that Henry Finkle was allotted a concession 
 
142 
 
 THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 of laml—lot G, “on the front.” He was married on May 15, 1788, to 
 Lucretia Bleeeker, daughter of the loyalist Colonel Bleeeker and 
 his wife, who had been a Miss Myers, or Myer. Colonel Bleecker’s 
 ancestors were among the first Dutch settlers in New York, and 
 were prominent in the colonial affairs of that province, both under 
 the Dutch and the English rule. Colonel Bleeeker himself served 
 the King during the Revolution. His wife (nee Meyers), like himself, 
 was descended from the early Dutch or Knickerbocker settlers of 
 New York. Canniff says her father and one of her brothers served 
 in the American army under Washington, but another of her 
 brothers, John Walter Meyers, served the King as a captain in 
 Major Edward Jessup’s Corps of Loyal Rangers. Sabine says of 
 him: “He was noted for enterprise and daring, but not for cruelty 
 or ferocity.” Canniff says: “Captain Meyers was a bold man, with 
 limited education, but honest, and like many others of the Dutch 
 loyalists given to great hospitality. He was a pioneer in mill-build¬ 
 ing, in trading, and in sailing batteaux up and down the lake.” On 
 one occasion during the war he made, with his men, a secret foray 
 within the American lines for the purpose of making a prisoner of 
 General Schuyler, and vei’y nearly succeeded in his purpose. This 
 adventure gained him great fame in his own day. 
 
 Colonel Bleeeker, who had a front concession in Sidney, the 
 eighth township, was appointed a magistrate there. Canniff says: 
 “Old Squire Bleeeker was probably the very first settler between 
 Trent and the Carrying-Place. He was a trader with the Indians, 
 and probably Indian Agent. At all events he was a man of consid¬ 
 erable authority among them.” His wife survived him and married 
 for her second husband a McKenzie, and had by him four children: 
 Dr. Colin McKenzie, Duncan McKenzie, William McKenzie, and 
 Sallie McKenzie, who married a Mr. Berdan, of Amherst Island. 
 
 George Finkle settled on the front in the third township, Fred- 
 ericksburgh, and was killed soon after his settlement by falling 
 through a temporary bridge. He was never married. John Finkle, 
 the youngest of the three brothers, also settled on the front in this 
 township, but of his descendants nothing has been learned. 
 
 Henry Finkle, who married Lucretia Bleeeker, was a most use¬ 
 ful man in the community in which he settled. Having learned the 
 
THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 143 
 
 use of tools in the Engineer Department of the British army, he 
 now put his skill to great use in cutting lumber with his whipsaw 
 and crosscut saw, and building for his own use the first frame 
 house ever erected in Upper Canada and the first school house, the 
 first Masonic Hall, and the first brewery and distillery as well. He 
 erected the school-house and the Masonic Hall on his own land, 
 and donated to the community the school-house, together with a 
 dwelling house for the teacher, and the lodge building he gave to his 
 Masonic brethren. As he kept for many years the only tavern be¬ 
 tween Kingston and York (now Toronto), the brewery and distillery 
 were doubt less profitable accessories to his business. The first court 
 to assemble in Upper Canada sat in his tavern; the first muster of 
 militia trained on his grounds; he built the first wharf on the shores 
 of the Bay of Quinte; and Finkle's Point, a place of prominence on 
 the bay, was named in his honor. He was the first man in Upper 
 Canada to emancipate his slaves. Before the advent of steamboats 
 he had owned and operated sailing vessels on the bay and lake; and 
 after his death his widow owned shares in the Frontenac, the first 
 steamboat ever on Lake Ontario, and was also part owner in the 
 second, the Queen Charlotte, which was built and launched at 
 Finkle’s wharf by her son-in-law, Henry Gildersleeve. 
 
 Henry Gildersleeve came into Canada about a month before 
 the Frontenac was launched, in August, 1816. He was the son of 
 a shipbuilder who owned yards on the Connecticut river, and built 
 vessels for the New York market. Being a skillful shipwright he 
 assisted in finishing off the Frontenac, and then as master ship¬ 
 builder assisted at the Charlotte. During this time Mr. Gildersleeve 
 himself built a packet named the Minerva. In building this vessel 
 he brought to his assistance the knowledge he had acquired in his 
 father's yard. The result was that when “she was taken to King¬ 
 ston to receive her fittings out, Captain Murney examined her in¬ 
 side and out, and particularly her mould, which exceeded anything 
 lie had seen, and declared her to be the best craft that ever floated 
 in the harbor of Kingston, which afterwards she proved herself to 
 be, when plying bid ween Toronto and Niagara.” 
 
 At a later date Mr. Gildersleeve superintended the building of 
 the “Sir James Kemp,” at Finkle’s Point. This was the last built 
 
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 THE FIN RLE FAMILY. 
 
 there, after which Mr. Gildersleeve commenced building at King¬ 
 ston. Here were constructed the Barry (a lake boat with two en¬ 
 gines, which in its third year of running collided with the steamer 
 Kingston, at night, and immediately sank, the passengers only be¬ 
 ing saved), the Prince of Wales, the New Era, and the Bay of 
 Quinte. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Gildersleeve's name is asso¬ 
 ciated with most of the steamers which have plowed the waters of 
 the bay, first as a skillful shipwright, then commander and share¬ 
 holder, and finally as a successful proprietor of a shipyard and 
 owner of vessels. Says one who knew him long: “Of Mr. Gilder¬ 
 sleeve's business habits there are numerous evidences; for years 
 if seemed that everything he touched turned to gold, hence the 
 wealth he left behind him; and I can say that during the many 
 years I knew him I never heard a want of honest integrity laid to 
 his charge. He died (T think) in the fall of 1851, of cholera, much 
 lamented and greatly missed."—CannitTs History of Upper Canada, 
 pp. 606, 607.] 
 
 The following, published by Mr. Arthur W. Moore in the Roch¬ 
 ester (N. V.) Sunday Herald a few years ago, is of interest in con¬ 
 nection with the Finkles and Gildersleeves, viz: 
 
 “In speaking of the leading families who have figured in the 
 history of Canada, I can not do better than commence with the Gil¬ 
 dersleeves. In the early part of the present century, before any 
 steamboat had ploughed the waters of Lake Ontario, the father of 
 Charles F. and James Gildersleeve arrived in Kingston from New 
 York. He was a famous shipwright and commenced business in 
 that line by building schooners. In 1817 he superintended the 
 building of the first steamers that were run on the lake. They 
 were the Frontenac and Charlotte. 
 
 “Mr. Gildersleeve picked out a very convenient place at which 
 to build his vessels; it was called Pinkie’s Point, named after a 
 wealthy family of that name who owned the land thereabout. It 
 is sixteen miles from Kingston, at what is now known as the village 
 of Bath. As this pretty place figures largely in the development of 
 the Bay of Quinte, a few items concerning it may be of interest. 
 Bath is situated in the township of Ernesttown, named after Prince 
 Ernest Augustus, eighth child of King George III. 
 
THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 145 
 
 “If was first settled in the early spring of 1784 by the soldier 
 settlers, the first battalion called ‘Jessup’s corps.’ The township 
 contains 68,044 acres, nearly all of which is excellent land. 
 
 “It was not long after the settlers had been upon their land 
 before the township became tin 1 best cultivated and most wealthy— 
 not alone around the Bay of Quinte, but in the whole of western 
 Canada. 
 
 “The richness of the sod lying more immediately at the mouth 
 of the bay contributed to its prosperity, and a village, in course of 
 time, sprang up, which rivaled even Kingston itself in respect to 
 rapid increase of inhabitants, the establishment of trade, building 
 of ships, and for the presence of gentlemen of refinement and edu¬ 
 cation, and in (lie foundation of a library and a seminary of higher 
 education. This village was for a long time known as Ernesttown, 
 but in time, after the War of 1812, it acquired the name of Bath, 
 probably after the English town of that name. Gourley says of 
 this place in 1811: ‘Bath is a city in embryo and promises to be a 
 place of considerable importance.’ 
 
 “The situation of Bath is delightful and salubrious and well 
 adapted for a watering-place for invalids. The drives around are 
 very beautiful; the fishing and sailing can not be beaten in any part 
 of the Dominion. The village has a very quaint look, the buildings 
 being for tin* most part ancient. 
 
 “The Episcopal church is one of the oldest in Ontario, having 
 been built in 1793. Surrounding this old edifice is a graveyard rich 
 with historic names. Some of the monuments and tombs are very 
 handsome and costly. About four miles from the village is the ruin 
 of an old mill, from the windows of which cannon frowned during 
 the War of 1812. 
 
 “The village of Bath would have undoubtedly grown to be a 
 place of much importance had theGrandTrunkrailway been located 
 through it. Failing in this it soon ceased to be a rival of Kingston, 
 and although the senior Mr. Gildersleeve utilized its beach for ship¬ 
 building he eventually operated in Kingston, and it was there he 
 founded the great fortune that he bequeathed to his children. Bath 
 had the honor of supplying an excellent wife to this pioneer ship¬ 
 builder, who was united in marriage to Lucretia, the daughter of 
 
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 THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 Squire Finkle, of Finkle’s Point. The best part of Mr. Gilder- 
 sleeve's life was devoted to the development of routes of transit 
 through (lie Canadian lakes, rivers, and canals long before rail¬ 
 roads came into operation. His services in this capacity were in¬ 
 strumental in developing the agricultural and commercial resources 
 of Upper Canada, as it was then called. The Bay of Quinte espe¬ 
 cially reaped great benefits from the energy and enterprise of this 
 shipbuilder and navigator. The death of Mr. Gildersleeve was a 
 great loss to Kingston, but his positions, both in public and private 
 capacities, were ably filled by his eldest son, Overton S. Gilder- 
 sleeve, who at the time of his father’s decease had risen to the fore¬ 
 most rank of the legal profession and was one of the most popular 
 young barristers in Canada. Inheriting his father’s enterprising 
 spirit, he had the advantages also of the most liberal education and 
 the culture to be obtained by European travel. He was more than 
 a good speaker, he was an orator, and no man filled the position of 
 chief magistrate of Kingston more ably than he did. He was a 
 man universally beloved, not only for his great talent, but for his 
 uniform courtesy, benevolence, and rectitude, and had it not been 
 for his untimely death in early life would have been one of the most 
 prominent men in Canada. The sudden death by apoplexy of this 
 gifted young man caused profound regret in Upper Canada, and al¬ 
 though twenty years have well-nigh passed since the sad event, the 
 name of Overton Gildersleeve is very fresh in the memories of thou- 
 sandswho honored andlovedhim. He married the daughter of Judge 
 Draper, who died before him. Occupying a similar position in the 
 estimation of the public is the brother of Overton, Charles F. Gil¬ 
 dersleeve, also a barrister. This gentleman has been identified with 
 every movement for the development of his native city. Like his 
 father and brother, he has been largely engaged in the ownership 
 of steam and other vessels that ply upon the lakes. He is the pres¬ 
 ent owner of the steamer ‘Norseman’ that runs between Port Hope 
 and Charlotte. He has also been very active in many industrial 
 enterprises, especially in the building of the Kingston and Pem¬ 
 broke railroad, of which he has been president for a number of 
 years. In politics he is a reformer and consequently opposed to 
 the policy of Sir John A. MacDonald and it was no doubt due in a 
 large measure to the activity of Charles Gildersleeve that the great 
 
THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
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 Tory leader was ousted from his seat as M. P. for Kingston. Mr. 
 Gildersleeve is a staunch friend of the industrial classes, is in favor 
 of free trade, the overthrow of monopolies, and a system of govern¬ 
 ment that will best promote the happiness and prosperity of what 
 is called the ‘bone and sinew’ of the country. A man of Charles 
 Gildersleeve’s social standing and commercial importance holding 
 such political principles is the man for the hour, and as he has 
 recently been nominated as a candidate for Kingston in the Pro¬ 
 vincial Parliament, it will be strange indeed if the workingmen 
 do not elect him by an overwhelming majority. Although Mr. Gil¬ 
 dersleeve is a barrister, the silk gown has no allurements for him. 
 lie prefers the wide field of business enterprise, such as the build¬ 
 ing of colonization, railroads, the development of mining and agri¬ 
 cultural regions. Few men are more capable than lie of guiding the 
 financial affairs in great undertakings, and as many people think 
 he will, in the course of events, be called to a seat in the House of 
 Commons, it would not be at all surprising if he one day became, 
 as his friend Sir Richard Cartwright did, minister of finance. 
 
 “His brother James P. Gildersleeve is also a barrister, an aider- 
 man and a man of enterprise. Speaking of the Gildersleeves re¬ 
 minds me that Charles F. was mayor of Kingston during the official 
 visit of the Marquis of Lome and the Princess Louise.” 
 
 HENRY FINKLE 
 
 Son of the pioneer, Dr. George Finkle, was born in Dutchess 
 county, New York, in 1700, and died in Ernest township, Adding¬ 
 ton county, Ontario, on January 0, 1808. His wife, Lucretia 
 Bleecker, to whom lie was married on May 15, 1788, died March 23, 
 1850. They are both buried in Kingston, near the grave of Sir 
 John A. McDonald. Their children were five in number—Charlotte, 
 George, Lucretia, Minerva and William. 
 
 CHARLOTTE FINKLE— 
 
 Married Solomon Johns, who was engaged with Henry Gildersleeve 
 in shipbuilding. Issue. 
 
148 
 
 THE PIN RLE FAMILY. 
 
 GEORGE FINKLE— 
 
 Married Susan Talbot, and their children are: 
 
 (1) Sarah Finkle, Avho married John Chapman. They live on 
 a line farm near Rath, and have no children. 
 
 (2) Gordon William Finkle (deceased), who was one of the 
 first captains on the Bay of Quinte. He married Eliza Harvey 
 January l(i, 1840, and had seven children; and those surviving now 
 live at Rochester, N. Y. They are Georgia, William, and Anna. 
 Anna married Arthur W. Moore, artist and editor. They have 
 three children, Georgia, Cecil, and Arthur. 
 
 (3) Roland Robinson Finkle, who married Elizabeth Morse, 
 but has no children. Sir. Finkle is a prince of good fellows, and 
 owns the old Finkle homestead and the wharf at Bath. 
 
 (4) Judge Henry Finkle (deceased), married, and had but one 
 child, a posthumous son. He was long postmaster at Bath, but 
 moved to Fargo, Dakota, and from thence to Moorehead, where he 
 died on September 5, 1890, only a few months after his marriage. 
 
 (5) Lueretia Finkle, married Richard Keyworth, and lives 
 near Bath. Issue. 
 
 LUCRETIA FINKLE— 
 
 Married Henry Gildersleeve, a native of New Haven, Connecticut, 
 where his father owned extensive shipbuilding yards on the Con¬ 
 necticut river. More extensive reference is made to Sir. Gilder¬ 
 sleeve in a preceding paragraph. Among the children were: 
 
 (1) Overton S. Gildersleeve, who married a daughter of Judge 
 Draper, Chief Justice of Ontario, whom he survived. 
 
 (2) Charles F. Gildersleeve, who married a Sliss Herkimer. 
 
 (3) James P. Gildersleeve married Sliss Rose, of Prescott. 
 
 (4) Lueretia Gildersleeve. 
 
 (5) Sarah, who married Sir. Grant, of Toronto. 
 
 (G) Gertrude, who married Rev.-Kirkpatrick. 
 
 SIINEKSL4 FINKLE— 
 
 Slarried a Sir. Chrysler, and had issue. One of their grandsons is 
 now a clever lawyer at Ottawa. Mr. Chrysler was one of the Chrys- 
 lers of “Chrysler’s Farm,” where a battle occurred during the War 
 of 1812, where the Americans were worsted. 
 
THE TINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 149 
 
 WILLIAM TINKLE— 
 
 The second son and third child of Henry Finkle and Lucretia 
 Bleecker, his wife, was born in Ernesttown township on July 22, 
 1797. lie owned lands in Prescott and South Fredericksburgh 
 townships, in the latter of which he died in 1874. For the greater 
 part of his life he followed the business of a farmer, and had a tine 
 farm on the Hay of Quinte, “on the front;” but in early life he was 
 a “Lake Captain,” or captain of a merchant ship on Lake Ontario, 
 and for some years he owned and operated the good ship Minerva, 
 which was named in honor of his sister Minerva. In 1821 he was 
 married to Hannah Huff Haven (or Havens). She was the daughter 
 of George Haven, a native of Troy, N. Y., who, in the early part of 
 this century, when about twenty-seven years of age, moved to 
 Kingston, Ontario, and went thence to Mill Creek, Addington 
 county, Ontario. At this place he married Abigail Huff (also 
 spelled “Hough”), the daughter of Paul Huff, of Bellville town¬ 
 ship, who had been an officer in the British service during the Rev¬ 
 olution. Paul Huff's father emigrated from Denmark to Pennsyl¬ 
 vania about 1750, and, although a Dane, became known as “Penn¬ 
 sylvania Dutch.’’ Paul Huff was a prominent man and leading 
 citizen among the United Empire Loyalists in Upper Canada. The 
 first Methodist church in Canada was organized in his house, and 
 held its meetings there for a year, until a church building was 
 erected. He gave the land for it to be built on. 
 
 When the War of 1812 began George Haven left Canada in 
 company with several others, and soon after the battle of Queens¬ 
 town Heights he joined the American army, and was killed in one 
 of the affairs that followed. His house in Canada was burned by 
 the British and his family were scattered. He had nine children, 
 among whom were two sons, Robert and Hilton Haven, both of 
 whom became ministers and lived in the United States—principally 
 in Ohio and Kentucky. 
 
 Soon after the close of the War of 1812 George Haven’s widow 
 married Dr. Samuel Johnston, brother of the celebrated “Bill 
 Johnston,” but they had no children. She survived him, and died 
 in 1856 at the home of her son, Rev. Hilton Haven, in Maysville, 
 Ky., and is buried there. 
 
150 
 
 THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 Rev. Hilton Haven was a man of commanding presence, genial 
 manners, warm heart and large brain. He was born April 22, 
 1S07, died in 1873, and was married in 1815. His wife, Caroline 
 Hinckley, was born October 22, 1825; and she is the granddaughter 
 of Ashbell Treat, of New York,who was a revolutionary soldier; and 
 she is also a cousin of ex-United States Senator Gilbert Pierce, of 
 North Dakota. She was married at East Otto, N. Y. Her line ap¬ 
 pearance and sunny disposition have made her many friends and 
 admirers. The children of this marriage are: Hilton Haven, who 
 is married, and lives in Chicago; Mary, Avho married James P. But¬ 
 ler, now deceased, who was at one time a member of the Texas 
 Legislature, and who served in the Union army in the late war; 
 Osceola Haven, who lives in Detroit with her mother; Captain 
 DeLancey Haven, who has been for many years chief of the Fire 
 Department of Detroit, and who has patented some successful in¬ 
 ventions; he was married October 1, 1891, and has one child, a 
 daughter; and Robert Haven, who lives in Grand Rapids, Mich., 
 and is married and has issue. 
 
 Rev Robert Haven, who was also an inventor, a man of most 
 kindly disposition, married, first, Margret Strickle, of Wilmington, 
 Ohio, and had issue; Anna, who married Henry Fristoe, of Sabina, 
 Ohio, whose children are Frank, Gertrude, Mamie, Jessie and Fred. 
 His second wife was Maria Jackson, of Casston, Ohio, by whom he 
 had one child—Dr. Henry H. Haven, of Tippecanoe, Ohio, who 
 married Kate E. Wefler on February 10, 1892, and has issue. 
 
 WILLIAM FINKLE— 
 
 Second son and third child of Henry Finkle and Lucretia Bleecker, 
 his wife, was united in marriage in 1821, as stated, to Hannah Huff 
 Haven, by Rev. Mr. McDowell, the first Presbyterian minister to 
 visit the Bay of Quinte region. She died December 25, 1858, and 
 both she and her husband are buried in the churchyard of St. John’s 
 Protestant Episcopal church in Bath, Ontario. 
 
 William Finkle and Hannah Huff Haven had thirteen children, 
 one of whom died in infancy, unnamed. The others were: 
 
 (2) Henry Finkle, born December 7, 1821, and died about 
 1890. He was a man of fine character and splendid physique, and 
 
THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 151 
 
 was very successful in business. He owned and operated a large 
 carriage manufactory, and also conducted a line of stage-coaches 
 from Kingston to Napanee. His first wife was Jane Rickabee, by 
 whom he had seven children, to wit: (1) Caroline,who married Clark 
 Baum, and lives in Syracuse, N. Y. (2) Emma, who married Mr. 
 Curlett, of Napanee, and has two children. (3) Sarah, who married 
 W. A. Hope (deceased), of Newburgh,Ontario, and had five children 
 —(i) Marion, who married June 3, 1885, Fred W. Armstrong, post¬ 
 master and county clerk of Bath; (ii) Margaret, who married and 
 lives in New York City; (iii) Winnie, married Mr. Reade, foreign 
 steamship agent at Montreal; (iv) Maude, married Mr. Gibbs, and 
 lives in New York City; (v) Bertha. (4) Adelia, who married Mr. 
 Switzer, of Camden, N. J., and has one son, Harry Switzer, who is a 
 lawyer in Philadelphia. (5) Bertha, who married Thos. Henry, a 
 prominent business man of Napanee, and has two daughters. (6) 
 Hilton, who lives in Newburgh, Canada, and succeeded to his 
 father’s business. He is one of nature’s noblemen. He married 
 a Miss Spofford, and has two children. (7) Agnes, who married 
 Prof. Miner, and lives in Muskegon, Michigan. 
 
 Henry Finlde’s second wife was Martha Shibley, by whom he 
 had two children—Henry Livingston and Luella Warren. Henry 
 Finkle was for many years a prominent Freemason. 
 
 (3) Harriet Finkle, born August 6, 1822, married a Mr. Miller, 
 of New England, and lived first in Pennsylvania, and settled after¬ 
 wards in Illinois. Issue—Marion, Helen, Charles and Bruce. 
 
 (4) Charles Finkle, born July 19, 1824, died May 4, 1896, at 
 Drayton, North Dakota. He lived in Dakota many years, where he 
 married and became an extensive landowner. Three children— 
 George, Oran, and Mina. 
 
 (5) Lucretia Finkle, born September 19, 1826, married Wil¬ 
 liam Marshall (now deceased), and they had four children—(l) 
 Frank; (2) Minnie, who married G. Y. Lovell; (3) George, a fine busi¬ 
 ness man now living in Dakota; (4) Mattie, deceased. 
 
 (6) Mary' Jane Finkle, born March 23, 1829. Married John 
 Martyn,who owns large flouring mills in Alvinston, Ontario. Chil- 
 
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 THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 (Iren—Jolm, who graduated with high honors, and is a successful 
 physician; Ilea, Gertrude, and Augusta. 
 
 (7) Adelaide Finkle. (See below.) 
 
 (8) Sarah Ann Finkle, born July 14, 1833, and died at the age 
 of three years. 
 
 (9) Julia Finkle, born August 15, 1835. Married first Dr. Hen¬ 
 derson, and had one child—Minnie, who married Mr. Cooper, a 
 lawyer of Portage la Prairie, Winnipeg. Married, second, Dr. Sin¬ 
 clair, a prominent physician and druggist of Walkerton, and had 
 two children—Herbert, a physician, and Corinna. 
 
 (10) Caroline Finkle, born January 28, 1838, and died at the 
 age of twenty one years. Unmarried. 
 
 (11) William Burton Finkle, born February 11, 1840. Never 
 married. He enlisted in 1862 in Company F of the 92d Regiment of 
 Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he was made a sergeant. He 
 was killed in the battle at Milliken’s Bend in 1863. 
 
 (12) Ira Finkle, born January 26, 1842. Now lives in Dakota, 
 and was never married. 
 
 (13) Bertha Theresa Finkle, born August 9, 1844. Married 
 Miles A. Snider, a Canadian, who possesses all the traits that go to 
 make a good and honest man. Mrs. Snider is very prominent in 
 musical circles in Rochester, N. Y., where they have lived for many 
 years. They have two children—(1) Hilton, a druggist in Rochester; 
 (2) Lillie Fayette, who married Frederick Vivian Vann, of St. Louis, 
 and has two children—Phyllis Emily, born April 4, 1895, and Kings¬ 
 ley Hilton, born December 4, 1896. 
 
 Adelaide Finkle, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Wil¬ 
 liam Finkle, and Hannah Huff Haven, his wife, was born at the 
 paternal homestead in South Fredericksburgh, on the Bay of 
 Quinte, on March 8, 1832. When some twelve years of age she 
 went to stay a year in Pennsylvania with her sister, Mrs. Harriet 
 Miller, but the visit lengthened beyond what was at first intended, 
 
THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 153 
 
 and when the Miller family removed to Illinois she went with them 
 and lived with them several years. Finally, on her way homeward 
 to Canada, she stopped in Wilmington, Ohio, to visit her uncle, 
 Hilton Haven, who was pastor of a church there, and remained 
 some time with him. Here she became engaged to marry Webb 
 Broomhall, and after going home to Canada she was married to 
 him on August 19, 1855. Her children, four in number, were all 
 born in Wilmington, Ohio, where two of them died in infancy. Mr. 
 Broomhall afterwards removed to Circleville, Ohio, and the family 
 removed thence to Springfield, and finally settled in Troy, Ohio. 
 Mrs. Broomhall died very suddenly at her home in Troy on Septem¬ 
 ber 30, 1895, and was buried in the family lot in the Troy cemetery. 
 Her two living children are: Addison Finkle Broomhall, of Troy, 
 Ohio (see Chapter XIII) and Corinna Broomhall Quisenberry, wife 
 of Anderson C. Quisenberry, now of Washington, I). C. (see Chapter 
 VIII). 
 
 Mrs. Adelaide Finkle Broomhall was a woman of the finest 
 order of intellect and of the loveliest character. 
 
 The following obituary notices concerning Mrs. Adelaide 
 Finkle Broomhall appeared in the Troy newspapers: 
 
 From the Buckeye, October 10,1895: 
 
 “Adelaide Finkle Broomhall was born March 8, 1832, on the 
 front, near Bath, Ontario, Canada. At Wilmington, Ohio, August 
 19, 1855, at the home of her uncle, the Rev. Hilton Haven, who was 
 once rector of the Episcopal church of Troy, she was married to 
 Mr. Webb Broomhall. Since the death of her husband she has been 
 n siding in Troy. 
 
 “As wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, she constantly 
 strove to be a comfort and help, always doing something for the 
 good and happiness of others. 
 
 “In tin* midst of seemingly good health and of unusually cheer¬ 
 ful spirits, while encouraging friends and providing for the comfort 
 of her little grandson (Francis Quisenberry), she fell asleep, Septem¬ 
 ber 30, 1895. 
 
 “Her death was as she hoped it might be, in the midst of full 
 and active service. 
 
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 THE FINKLE FAMILY. 
 
 “She was a woman of great learning aiul wisdom, and leaves to 
 her children a precious legacy of memory and influence, whose value 
 is beyond words.” 
 
 From the Miami Union, October 3, 1895: 
 
 “The community was greatly shocked on Monday afternoon by 
 the sudden death of Mrs. Adelaide F. Broomhall, of South Plum 
 street. At 4 o’clock she was discovered by her little grandson lying 
 unconscious on the floor at her house. The neighbors were im¬ 
 mediately summoned to the spot and medical assistance called, but 
 the spark of life had gone out, and the only indication of conscious 
 ness was a faint movement of the lips when she was removed to a 
 couch. 
 
 “Mrs. Broomhall had been a resident of Troy for many years, 
 and had won the respect and love of a large circle of friends and 
 acquaintances by her lovable qualities. She will be sincerely 
 missed by her immediate family, but the memory of a good, kind 
 and tender mother will help to temper their sorrow and assuage 
 their grief over their irreparable loss. The funeral will take place 
 this afternoon at the home of her son (Mr. A. F. Broomhall), on 
 West Water street, and the body will be interred in the Riverside 
 Cemetery.” 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF LIFE IN VIRGINIA BEFORE THE 
 
 WAR. 
 
 BY MRS. EMMA (QUISENBERRY) TAYLOR. 
 
 Sitting alone to-night before the glowing grate, thoughts of 
 other times and scenes come over me. While the outer world is 
 wrapped in a mantle of snow, shutting me in doors, I am traveling 
 hack year by year over old familiar paths. Old memories are 
 stirred and never-to-be-forgotten pictures rise before me. These 
 scenes, it is needless to say, are laid in Virginia, near the old his¬ 
 toric town of Fredericksburg. 
 
 First comes the picture of an old country house, the place of 
 my birth and the home of my childhood. “Hartfield” it was called, 
 and although it has now fallen into ruins, I remember it well as 
 an immense, rambling old-fashioned house, with large and lofty 
 rooms, each one spacious enough to hold two or three of the modern 
 apartments in our compactly-built houses. There were scores of 
 windows, for our forefathers scorned to live in the dark. The 
 principal rooms were wainscoted or paneled from floor to ceiling 
 with wood, which was painted in light pearly tints, or in pure white. 
 The mantels were all of wood, elaborately carved, and so high as to 
 be quite out of reach of ordinary-sized mortals. The main feature 
 of this old mansion was the hall, which was very wide and lofty 
 and extended the entire length of the building, with no break to 
 mar its symmetry of proportion, for the stairway had been built 
 in an adjoining hall of much smaller dimensions. Along the sides 
 of this main hall there were deep recesses let into the walls, with 
 shelves, glass doors, and low, wide seats. The shelves were filled 
 with books, and many an hour have I lounged away, ensconsed in 
 
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 REMINISCENCES OF LIFE IN VIRGINIA BEFORE THE WAR. 
 
 one of these cosy nooks, reading what ought to have been one of 
 Maria Edgeworth's didaofie stories, or Hannah More's “Lady of the 
 Manor"—these being the authors specially recommended to us by 
 our unmarried aunts on both sides of the house, with the prim and 
 precise Felicia Hemans thrown in for good count—but in all prob¬ 
 ability the volume that held me enthralled was Byron's poems, 
 or Jane Eyre! Further down the hall, and near the door leading 
 to my mother’s apartments was a deep and curious niche in the 
 wall, containing fowling-pieces, old silver-headed canes, etc. The 
 floor of the hall was kept waxed and polished, and games of battle¬ 
 dore and shuttlecock and graces amused these same aunts of ours 
 and their gallant cavaliers in stormy weather. 
 
 The front door of this hall was entered from a flight of steps 
 coming up from a spacious lawn shaded by grand old trees whose 
 age and ancestry would probably have put to the blush our claims 
 to ancient lineage, though we should doubtless have scouted such 
 an insinuation at that time. 
 
 From the back door we descended by another flight of steps 
 into one of those lovely old gardens then always to be seen on the 
 estates of Virginia country gentlemen. From the large plat of vel¬ 
 vety greensward encircling the steps we emerged into the main 
 walk. This led to a summer-house in the center of the garden, 
 covered with woodbine and yellow jessamine, while all around 
 it were the flower-beds, bordered with the spicy boxwood, growing 
 to toe height of four or five feet. Nowhere else have T seen the 
 box attain such height and luxuriance, and in and out among its 
 intricacies did we children play many a game of liide-and-seek. 
 All the old-fashioned flowers flourished here—snowballs, tulips, 
 pinks, damask-roses, besides great varieties of annuals. 
 
 One feature was lacking to the dear old place which I must 
 not forget to mention, because it was so vividly impressed upon 
 my childish imagination. We had no ghost, no haunted chamber, 
 but there seemed to be a pretty good substitute in the shape of 
 a mystery which hung around the place. Under the floors of two 
 large closets in the second story, concealed by trap doors, were two 
 pits measuring five or six feet in depth, utterly useless, and yet 
 dark and gruesome enough to excite the liveliest curiosity as to the 
 
REMINISCENCES OF LIFE IN VIRGINIA BEFORE THE WAR. 
 
 157 
 
 purpose of their existence. Had we ever lived under a “Stuart 
 dynasty” and owned a “fugitive Prince,” these niysyterious places 
 might have served as convenient places to hide him; lull that being 
 out of the question, there were not wanting ingenious suggestions 
 lo (lie effect that old Colonel Hart, the founder of Harttield, might 
 have invented them for the purpose of concealing himself from im¬ 
 portunate creditors. This prosaic but scarcely probable solution 
 of the problem affects me quite differently to-night from what it did 
 in my childish days, when I shuddered with dread whenever I hap¬ 
 pened to be left alone in one of the rooms containing these mys¬ 
 terious closets. Then T expected every minute to see the old 
 Colonel, or his wraith, rise from the floor and make a savage spring 
 at me, as though I had been one of those inconsiderate creditors, 
 presuming to present an ‘‘I O U” to a man in his station of life. 
 
 Tin* garret, as we called it then, was the place of the most 
 thrilling interest to us children. It extended over all the top 
 of the house, with stacks of chimneys rising up through the centre, 
 and here we used to assemble with our young companions, in the 
 twilight, to tell stories; and here, from among these chimneys 
 would spring out sometimes a dusky figure enveloped in a sheet, 
 and rushing at us would scatter us pell-mell, each shouting and 
 screaming with terror. This apparition was the most ungainly 
 negro girl on the place, nicknamed by us “Crane Mary,” on account 
 of her great height, length of arms and legs, her long scrawny 
 neck, and bony lingers. She took a fiendish delight in frightening 
 us in all sorts of ways, and jet she possessed for us a kind of 
 dreadful fascination; and not one of us would have dreamed of 
 felling our mother of her uncanny tricks, for then they might have 
 been put an end to. Besides, if would have been “mean and un¬ 
 derhanded,” possibly resulting in punishment for “Crane;” and 
 no child of the family could ever endure to be the cause of punish¬ 
 ment to a servant. Of all our attic experience, one evening stands 
 out as distinctly in my memory as if it had been yesterday. Clus¬ 
 tered closely together among the chimneys, we sat listening lo 
 ghost stories told by tin* older ones of the group. The light had 
 gradually faded, but still we lingered until the ringing of the sup¬ 
 per-bell caused a hasty rush to tin* dining-room, three long flights 
 of stairs away. I, being the youngest, was somehow left behind 
 
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 in the dark. My feelings of absolute terror are with me yet; the 
 ghosts and their clanking chains sounded in my ears; their hands 
 were touching me; and my scream after scream of despair speedily 
 brought the whole family to my rescue. Possibly that little in¬ 
 cident may explain the fact of my being such a coward in the dark 
 to this day! On Ihe whole, I think, however, we enjoyed our “long 
 parliaments” in that old garret quite as much as were those de¬ 
 scribed by Jean Ingelow. 
 
 With a great house and a large family we naturally had many 
 visitors. Entertaining was one of our chief pleasures, and there 
 was rarely a time when the old house was not enlivened with 
 guests. Hospitality did not entail much trouble in those days. 
 The family had abundant leisure, the servants were trained each to 
 his or her work, and we never dreamed that a day could come 
 when these circumstances would be changed. 
 
 During all these years our education was going on, but it did 
 not interfere materially with our pleasures. As there were five 
 daughters to educate, my father engaged the services of two thor¬ 
 oughly competent lady teachers, and taking into his family a lim¬ 
 ited number of young girls—cousins, and daughters of friends— 
 he established an excellent private school in his own house. Here 
 we pursued our studies in a systematic way for a number of years. 
 
 But finally the old home was broken up, and new pictures pre¬ 
 sent themselves to my mind. My grandmother on ihe mother’s side 
 lived in the same county, some twenty miles away. By the mar¬ 
 riages and deaths of her children she was left almost alone, and for 
 her ju’otection and comfort my parents felt it to be their duty to 
 live with her. Father bought the estate—Glencoe was its name— 
 and here again we had a large house, but one of more modern con 
 struction and adornment. A more fashionable governess was en¬ 
 gaged, and we were allowed to see more of society, though we were 
 not regarded as young ladies, by any means. But we were sur¬ 
 rounded now by cousins of both sexes (I wonder, by the way, 
 whether this particular relationship is quite so close and endearing 
 anywhere else as it used to be in Old Virginia), and there was no 
 lack of society for us, as we were always together somewhere! We 
 gave and attended parties, acted charades, and enjoyed life to the 
 
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 fullest, never realizing the meaning of the word care. Up 
 to this time dancing had not been much indulged in in our home, 
 the pious heads of the family having a feeling that it was unseemly 
 in a Christian household; but as many of our relations and friends 
 here regarded it as an innocent amusement, we gradually fell 
 into the ways of the neighborhood and enjoyed the gay and fascin¬ 
 ating amusement as much as our companions did. 
 
 Within a mile and a half of Glencoe was Snow Hill, the home of 
 our great-grandfather, who had been an officer in the Revolutionary 
 War, sheathed his sword, and passed away from the scene of action 
 before my mother was born; but he had left an ideal place which, 
 at the time I speak of, was owned by his son-in-law, Major Staple- 
 ton Crutchfield, a proud, haughty man, very choleric in temper, 
 but with line physique and polished manners. As I first remember 
 him he was quite old, but he had lately married a young, gay, and 
 beautiful woman, very little older than his sons, our cousins; so 
 now the house presented one continuous scene of festivity and 
 pleasure. How well I remember the grand old place before it was 
 turned into barracks for Federal soldiers, after which the house 
 was burned to the ground, and every vestige of its former beauty 
 destroyed! The extensive grounds, always kept in perfect order, 
 sloped gently down to the banks of a small river. A magnificent 
 avenue led from the heavy iron gates up to the house, and the car¬ 
 riage drive was bordered with beautiful linden trees. The garden 
 was the loveliest and finest I have ever seen anywhere, and the 
 house was handsomely appointed within and without. The 
 long rows of shining cottages—many of them built of stone—for 
 the almost countless negroes, and the numerous out buildings, all 
 brilliantly white, presented the appearance of a village, rather than 
 of a private home. 
 
 Many and varied were the entertainments enjoyed by us at 
 Snow Hill. Once, I remember, when the old man was especially 
 gracious, he gave orders that we should be taken to the Courthouse 
 to the “general muster,” to see the militia drill. To our inex¬ 
 perienced eyes the high hats with red and white cockades, the gay 
 uniforms, and all the pomp and parade was quite imposing—almost 
 as good as the circus, which we were never allowed to attend. 
 
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 Dancing was always a prominent feature at Snow Hill,and even 
 in summer 1 have seen it carried on successfully out of doors, with 
 canvas spread on the smooth grass. Barbecues for the gentlemen 
 were fashionable, when ox-tail soup, barbecued meats, Brunswick 
 stews, and mint juleps abounded. But the most memorable as well 
 as the most brilliant affair that I remember, and this occurred just 
 before the war, was a reception given in honor of the eldest son, 
 Corbin Crutchfield, when he brought his young bride home. The 
 grounds were beautifully illuminated, the house was radiant with 
 the light of innumerable wax candles, brass bands from the city 
 played in the yard, while indoors the flying feet of the dancers kept 
 time to stringed instruments. The supper was in the best style of 
 Old Virginia’s best days. Oysters, turkeys, chicken-salad, flu* 
 inevitable roast pig with an orange in his mouth, the baskets of 
 champagne and other wines, the ices and fruits and everything else 
 which was common to Snow Hill in those days—not forgetting the 
 sable waiters in snowy apparel hurrying hither and thither, and 
 the rows of black faces outside pressed against window panes, 
 keenly interested in (lie doing of the “fambly”—all these made 
 up a picture striking and unique, and never again to appear, save 
 on the canvas of memory! 
 
 Major Crutchfield himself was a prominent figure in those 
 times, as he took his daily drive in a close carriage drawn by a span 
 of magnificent horses, as white as snow. It was whispered, by the 
 way, that the young wife, when remonstrated with for marrying 
 him, said she might have resisted him and his money, but those 
 horses she was bound to have! His coachman, Aaron, was also a 
 famous character. Apart from his reputation for stealing, he had 
 more notoriety for himself as the driver for this handsome and strik¬ 
 ing equipage; and as he drove back and forth to the springs every 
 season, as was the custom in those days, he became very well 
 known over the State. With advancing age the Major became more 
 testy and overbearing. An amusing conversation was one day over¬ 
 heard between two of his servants in regard to their master. 
 Speaking of I In* recent death of a young man in the vicinity, one 
 said to the other: 
 
 ’Deed, now; I sholy does b’leeve de good Lawd done clean for¬ 
 got old marster, and is gwine to leab him here for good and all.” 
 
REMINISCENCES OF LIFE IN VIRGINIA BEFORE THE WAR. 
 
 161 
 
 “Hat’s so; win n't He tuk him and lef dat po’ young man a 
 while longer? I'm mortal sho' we cud a spar'd him.” 
 
 In connection with this side of the past, many other figures and 
 scenes rise up and crowd upon my memory, but I could scarcely 
 expect others to feel interested in them. In contrast I turn to a dear 
 old lady, our nearest neighbor, and worthy to be remembered among 
 the Roman matrons for nobility of character, strong common sense, 
 and sterling honesty of purpose and action. I mention her because 
 she seemed to me the most original character 1 ever knew; her 
 meaning was not always expressed in language taught by Murray, 
 but it was no less clear and emphatic on that account. She was 
 very devoted to my mother, and would often come to sit with her 
 on Sunday afternoons. We young people were often secretly 
 amused at her quaint ways, her remarkable costumes, and her 
 emphatic “That's hit, Ferginia;” and we wondered at mother's 
 gracious ways and gentle courtesy to such a plain old woman. But 
 we lived to realize that for all true womanly qualities, tender 
 sympathy when trouble invaded the household, and for kindly 
 help in every emergency, she was the peer of any lady in the land. 
 It is a pleasure to add that she lived to have her sons rise up and 
 call her blessed. They are now occupying honored positions in 
 their native State—one having represented the good old town 
 of Fredericksburg in legislative halls and the other has been the 
 clerk of the county for the past fifteen years; while many of the 
 gay young bloods of that by-gone time, unable to adjust themselves 
 to the changed conditions imposed upon them by emancipation, 
 have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. 
 
 Lankford, Kent Co., Md., January 15, 1893. 
 
 Note.—As this chapter may seem rather outside the general 
 scope of the book, it may be proper to state the reason for the in¬ 
 sertion thereof. It was written at the request of one of the 
 “cousins” mentioned, who had been selected to read a paper before 
 a literary society upon “Southern Life Before the War.” Being 
 unable to prepare the whole of it by reason of urgent work in her 
 department as teacher in a large female college, she requested two 
 
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 or three friends to write some personal incidents descriptive of the 
 period. This A\as my contribution and with no thought of publica¬ 
 tion beyond the “society.” She added some recollections of he’ 1 own, 
 for Ave were as one family, and it was read. The author of the book 
 thought it might be of interest to some who could easily recall the 
 general conditions of the time, and therefore inserted it. 
 
 E. T. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 i. 
 
 INFORMATION FROM ENGLAND. 
 
 (1.) Winchester House, rutney, S. W., 
 
 London, England, March, 1889. 
 
 Mr. A. C. Quisenberry: 
 
 Sir: I can not help you in a search after your surname, for I do not 
 recognize it as an English name at all; and my memory is borne out by the 
 fact that it does not once occur in the return of owners of lauds (which l 
 have just looked through for you), though Queen borough occurs in Kent, 
 Quanbury in Lincoln, and Quarnbury in York. It (Quisenberry) sounds 
 Dutch to me, though I may be wrong; and it may be a corruption of some 
 such name as Kissenbury, but that, too, I do not know. * * * If Quisen¬ 
 berry is an English name, it is a very scarce one, and should be very easy 
 to trace out when once you know the locality whence it came. 
 
 Yours faithfully, WALTER RYE. 
 
 (2.) Surbiton, Surrey, England, March 13, 1889. 
 
 Mr. A. C. Quisenberry: 
 
 Sir: * * * The universal opinion of all whom I have consulted is that 
 the original name was Queensberry, and that it was corrupted to Quisen¬ 
 berry, and the universal opinion also is that the termination “berry” equals 
 "bury;” i. e., Canterbury, borough, burg—in fact, that it a town termination; 
 but no one can give any idea of the “Quis.” * * * 
 
 Yours truly, JOHN BROOMHALL, J. P. 
 
 (3.) Dalkeith House, Dalkeith, November 18, 1878. 
 
 Mr. A. C. Quisenberry: 
 
 Sir: I am directed by the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry to acknowl¬ 
 edge the receipt of your letter to His Grace, of the loth ult. In answer 
 thereto I have to inform you that Queensberry is the title of honor of a 
 branch of the Douglas family, and not the surname. I am not aware of any 
 family in this country with the patronymic of Queensberry, and may add 
 that, although 1 have made inquiries on the subject, I can not suggest any 
 elucidation of the traditional change, to which you refer, in your name, to its 
 present form. I am, 
 
 Your obedient servant, J. A. STUART, JR. 
 
 (4.t Surbiton, Surrey, England, March 30, 1889. 
 
 Mr. A. C. Quisenberry: 
 
 My Dear Sir: * * * The name Quisenberry has interested me very 
 much. I have no doubt as to the termination, but the prefix 1 have not 
 been able to find in any book; on which I consulted Dr. Hyde Clark, a verj 
 distinguished philologist, and he was inclined to think that the “Quis” was a 
 Dutch word; but he would not venture on an authoritative opinion. * * * 
 
164 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 You are quite right ns to Humphrey Pope, nml a personal search among the 
 registers of Taunton may give you definite information, as a vast number of 
 Dutch Protestants settled in the West of England in the reign of Queen 
 Elizabeth. 1 would suggest that you write to "the Reverend, the Minister of 
 the Old Parish Church, Taunton, Somersetshire, England,” and ask him to 
 look through the parish registers as to the names of Pope and Quisenberry. 
 Say, if you please, that you made the application on the advice of John 
 Broomliall, Esq., ,T. P„ Surrey. I do not know the gentleman, but I shall be 
 much surprised if he do not send you any information in his power. * * * 
 Yours truly, J. BROOMHALL, ,T. P. 
 
 (5.) Guildhall Library, 
 
 London, E. C., 29 March, 1889. 
 
 Dear Mr. Broomliall: The clue you sent me in re. Quisenberry lias not 
 been a bit of use. Beyond finding that “Humphrey Pope, of Taunton,” was 
 amongst Sir William Booth’s list of prisoners sent to Barbadoes after the 
 Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion in the West, and that soon after the civil wars 
 ol Charles I. some almshouses were rebuilt in Taunton and called “Pope’s 
 Almshouses,” I have found absolutely nothing. There is not the ghost of a 
 sign of the name Quisenberry. * * * 
 
 Yours faithfully, BERNARD KETTLE. 
 
 fC>.) 02 Asliburuam Grove, 
 
 Greenwich, London, S. E., 2 April, 1889. 
 
 A. C. Quisenberry, Esq.: 
 
 My Dear Sir: Yours of the 12th instant has been mailed to me from 
 Boston. I regret to say that my engagements are such that it will be im¬ 
 possible for me to visit Somersetshire and examine the records there. * * * 
 My present researches are about London and its neighborhood and one or 
 two counties north of the Thames. 
 
 Sincerely yours, HENRY F. WATERS. 
 
 P. S.—I open this to say that I find license granted for the marriage 
 of Samuel Quissinburrowe, of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, bachelor, 2)5, 
 and Mary Warner, of St. Michael Bassisliawe, London, 21; her parents 
 dead—alleged by Thomas Quissinborow, of St. Giles, aforesaid, clerk—at 
 St. Giles, aforesaid, February 1, 167.3. 
 
 (7.) Guildhall, London, E. C., May 25, 1889. 
 
 Dear Mr. Broomliall: * * * In answer to the query contained in Mr. 
 Quisenberry's letter, I see the registers of St. Gules, Cripplegate, have never 
 been published. They are in very good condition, and date back to 1561. 
 Mr. Baddeley, of Chapel Works, Moor Lane, E. C., published an account of 
 the church and parish of St. Giles, Without Cripplegate. He does not give 
 a list of clerks or vicars. It is possible Thomas Quissinborow may have 
 been curate of St. Giles, as the word clerk was often used at that time for 
 curate. * * * I can not trace the name in the London Directory for that 
 time, as 200 years ago none but commercial people were entered in the 
 London Directory. Cripplegate Without is, as you know, roughly speaking, 
 the most northernmost parish of London. St. Michael Bassisliawe is an 
 adjoining parish to the south. * * * Mr. Q. seems to have got on the 
 track. I hope he null have success. The extract Mr. Waters gave him is 
 taken from Colonel Chester’s “Marriage Licenses.” edited by Joseph Foster. 
 Are Questonbury and Quisenberry identical? * * * 
 
 Yours sincerely, BERNARD KETTLE. 
 
 (8.) Surbiton, Surrey, England, May 27, 1889. 
 
 Mr. A. C. Quisenberry: 
 
 My Dear Sir: * * * I called at the Guildhall, and Mr. Kettle produced 
 the Register called Colonel Chester’s (an American gentleman, very dis- 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 165 
 
 tinguislied. who has done more on the subject of genealogies than any man, 
 dead or alive), and the entry is just as you quote it. I have no doubt that 
 Quissinburrowe and Quissinborow and Quisenberry are identical, my name 
 being often spelled Bromliall in ancient writings. Indeed, my own father's 
 name is so spelled in 1796, in his baptismal register, while, in the same regis¬ 
 ter, he is described as the son of William Broomhall. The Church of St. 
 Giles, in London, is one of our most distinguished churches, Milton being 
 buried there; and the first thing an American gentleman does is to go to ids 
 tomb, just as tlie first tiling an Englishman does when in the south of the 
 United States is to go to Washington’s. * * * The name “clerk” is a very 
 distinguished name in history. Henry I. was “Beauclerc” by name; and 
 every clergyman to the present day, is described in legal documents as 
 “clerk.” Again, Mr. Samuel Quissinburrowe was married by license at the 
 maximum fee of six shillings and eiglitpence, and not by banns of two 
 shillings, the lowest fee. The name of Warner is well known, and I dare 
 sny that the Mary Warner of 1673 was one of the family of Warners of 1889 
 who reside in the parish of St. Giles, and have done so for the last 200 years, 
 and are the great church-bell founders. Mr. Warner and I are co-directors of 
 a large insurance office, and 1 see him every week. I asked him if he had 
 any trace of the Mary Warner of 1673, and he said “No.” * * * 
 
 Yours truly, J. BROOMHALL. 
 
 (9.) Guildhall, E. C., 29 May, 1889. 
 
 Dear Mr. Broomhall: In making inquiries about the St. Giles registers, 
 I hear Mr. Quisenberry has written to Mr. Barff, tlie rector. When doing so 
 he supplied Mr. Barff with the wrong date, and gave him February, instead 
 of September, 1693. Of course, this accounts for Mr. Barff's inability to find 
 the marriage. 1 have since ascertained that the marriage did take place at 
 St. Giles on September 4. 1073, and was entered under the name of Quinsen- 
 burrow. This should lie good news for Mr. Q., and he will doubtless have 
 a copy of the entry. He should also have the registers searched. The regis¬ 
 ters of St. Giles are about the most complete of any in London. * * * No 
 doubt tHe children (if any) of the marriage will be found in the regis¬ 
 ter. * * * 
 
 Yours sincerely, BERNARD KETTLE. 
 
 (Note.—I had the St. Giles registers thoroughly searched, but did not find 
 any other entry pertaining to the name Quisenberry.—A. C. Q.) 
 
 (10.) Surbiton, Surrey, May 30, 1889. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Quisenberry: * * * Colonel Chester's book is very com¬ 
 plete; but. of course, in the printing of 25,000 names it is very probable that 
 tlie printing of “February” is a typical error. Or, from some cause or 
 other, flic marriage may have been postponed from February to September, 
 the license, of course, holding good. 
 
 Yours truly, .1. BROOMHALL. 
 
 IT. 
 
 INFORMATION FROM WESTMORELAND COUNTY. VIRGINIA. 
 
 (The following deposition was not taken until 1734, but as it establishes 
 tiie fact that John Quisenberry helped to survey certain lands “when 
 they were first taken up.” and as that was in the year 1651. this paper 
 fixes the earliest known date of a Quisenberry being in Virginia: and it 
 is therefore given first place here in mv transcript of Virginia records.— 
 A. C. Q.) 
 
 (1.) The deposition of Humphrey Pope, of the county of Westmoreland, 
 aged 60 years, or thereabouts, taken at the request of the Honorable Thomas 
 
166 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Lee, Esquire, concerning the bounds of his land, iu the presence of Matthew 
 Bean and Thomas Osborn, now in possession of the land adjoining to and 
 binding on the land of said Thomas Lee: the said deponent saith that about 
 thirty years ago one John Sturman, now dead, who acted as the attorney 
 of one Joanna Pope, then in England, the widow of one Thomas Pope, de¬ 
 ceased, made a survey of a certain patent granted to one Nathaniel Pope 
 for 1,050 acres of land in the county of Northumberland, now Westmoreland, 
 bearing date the 19tli day of May, 1(551, which land the said Joanna Pope 
 claimed in right of her son, Riichard Tope, under whom the said Thomas Lee 
 claims; and this deponent saith as the said survey was then made there 
 was neither line nor corner tree to be found, except one marked tree, which 
 this deponent was informed by one John Quiseuberry was marked to know 
 where some hogs lay; that when survey was made the said Sturman caused 
 lines to be marked, which this deponent hath often seen and believes are 
 still to be seen; and this deponent saith that, holding land adjoining to the 
 aforesaid patent and thinking the said survey was not right, about two 
 or three years after he made inquiry concerning the bounds of the aforesaid 
 patent, particularly of the aforesaid Quisenbury, then near 80 years of age, 
 and the said Quisenberry told this deponent that he was a chain-bearer and 
 helped mark the aforesaid 1,050 acres of land when the same was first 
 taken up, and further tould this deponent that the survey made by the said 
 Sturman was not right, and sayed there was a black walnut tree standing 
 at the head of a valley leading to Johnny Green’s Run, that falls into Pope’s 
 Creek Beaver Dams, which black walnut tree the said Quisenbury said was 
 a corner tree of the said patent, and that he had either marked it himself 
 or was present when the same was marked, at the time the land was first 
 surveyed; and this deponent afterwards went to the said valley, where he 
 found a black walnut tree, as the said Quisenberry had tould him, which 
 appeared to have been anciently marked as a corner tree, &e., &c. 
 
 (The remainder of this deposition is of no interest in connection with 
 this history. This Humphrey Pope was the second of the name, and was, 
 as I believe, John Quisenberry’s wife’s nephew.) 
 
 Sworn to March 29, 1734, before Wm. Aylett, Andrew Monroe, Jr., and 
 Benjamin Waddy, Justices of the Peace. 
 
 (2.) Heatlisville, Va., March 21, 1888. 
 
 Mr. A. C. Quisenberry: 
 
 My Dear Sir: The Clerk’s Office of Northumberland county was at one 
 time burned, and it is stated iu an old record book as having occurred 
 on the 25tli of October, 1710. The old records were about all destroyed. 
 Westmoreland county was cut off from Northumberland county in 1G53. 
 * * * Very respectfully, WM. S. CRALLE. 
 
 (3.) From the Westmoreland County Records: 
 
 Know all men by these presents, that John Quessenbury doth give for 
 his mark of hoggs and cattle, itnderkeeld, and underkeeld on both sides. 
 
 27 June, 1G5G, this mark was recorded. 
 
 (4.) Know all men by these present yt I, Henry Barbwell, factor for John 
 Pope, marcht, of Bristoll, doe acquit and discharge John Vaughn from all 
 bills, bonds, ingagements or accounts which was left by Owen Jones, factor 
 for John Pope, being lately deceast in John Vaughn’s house, to whom, before 
 his death, he left all his wrigliting and business of ye said John Pope; and 
 by virtue of my power received from John Pope, I doe discharge him of all 
 wrigliting and goods which was left by Ovqn .Tones in John Vaughn’s 
 house, or elsewhere, in virtue whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand, this 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 167 
 
 5th day of December, 1660. Likewise, I doe acquit Jolm Vaughn of all goods 
 and liquors which came from Monados since his decease. In witness whereof 
 I doe hereunto sett my hand and seale ye day and year above written. 
 
 HENRY BARBW’ELL. 
 
 Teste: L’anuiell Lisseon, John Quesseubury. 
 
 (5) In the name of God, amen! I, Tobias Butler, being very sick and 
 weak of body, but, thanks be to God, of perfect memory, doe make my last 
 will and testament as followeth: 
 
 Imprimis. I bequeath my soul to God and my body to the Earth from 
 whence it came, and as for my worldly estate, it is my Will that it shall 
 be brought to an appraisement, and what it amounts (into to be equally 
 divided between my wife and two children (one is not yet in being) accord¬ 
 ing to appraisement, and if either of my children dies, then its part to the 
 survivor; furthermore, it is my Will that as soon as I am departed an 
 inventory of what moveables I have to be taken, because my children may 
 not be defrauded of what is theirs; and my two children, if they soe long 
 live, to be free at 18 years of age, and to have their whole estate at 20 
 years of age; and if my wife should die I leave my son James Butler unto my 
 loveiug friend John Quessenbury to take him and raise him, and if my Avife 
 should marry and my children should be abused, then my loveiug friend to 
 take them into his custody. It is further my will that my cattle be presd 
 September next ensuing the date, and if this be a Girl, then my sou to have 
 two shares and to give unto his sister at 16 years of age, or marriage, three 
 young heifers: and of this my last Will and testament I leave my beloved 
 wife and my beloved friend John Quessenbury my executors, to see this my 
 last Will and testament performed; as witness my hand and seale this 17th 
 day of February, 1687-8. TOBIAS BUTLER. 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of John Sanford and Philip 
 Welch. 
 
 (6.) On the minutes of a Court held for Westmoreland county on Sep¬ 
 tember 29. 1692. occurs the following record of a suit: 
 
 “Captain John Washington vs. John Quessenbury, jr., dismist.” 
 
 (There is nothing to show what the suit is about.—A. C. Q.) 
 
 (7.) At a Court held for the same county on the 31st day of May, 1693, 
 John Quesseubury, jr., is named as one of the Grand Jurors of the said term 
 of Court. 
 
 (8.) At a Court held for tiie same county the 31st day of October, 1694, 
 upon the peticon of Elizabeth Quissenbury, relict of Jolm Quissenbury, juur., 
 administration is granted her of her dec’d husband’s estate, Edward Lambley 
 and Humphrey Quissenbury now having assumed in Court for her due 
 administration, &c.: Ordered, they enter into bond accordingly. 
 
 It is ordered that Elizabeth Quissenbury, relict of John Quissenbury. 
 junr., doe return to the next court a true and perfect inventory of her said 
 dec’d husband’s estate, upon oath. 
 
 It is ordered that Edward Lambley, Robert Andrews, and Anthony 
 Windsor, or any two of them, being first sworn before some of Their Majes¬ 
 ties’ Justices for this county, doe value and appraise the estate of John 
 Quissenbury, junr., dec’d, and make return of the same to the next Court. 
 
 (9.) At a Court held for the same county tin' 30th day of January, 1694-5. 
 Elizabeth Quissenbury returned into Court an inventory of the estate of 
 John Quissenbury, junr., dec’d, upon oath, which, together with the appraise¬ 
 ment thereof, are ordered to be recorded. 
 
168 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Elizabeth Quissenlmry exhibited to this Court an account against the 
 estate of her deceased husband, John Quissenlmry, junr., for funeral ex¬ 
 penses, Ac., amounting to 070 lbs. of tobacco, and prayed allowance for the 
 same out of her said husband’s estate; which, being examined and regulated 
 by the Court, it is considered that slice be allowed 410 lbs. of tobacco out of 
 said estate, and judgment is granted her for the same. 
 
 (10.1 At a Court held for Westmoreland County, Virginia, June 20, 1709;— 
 Elizabeth Luck, servant to Humphrey Quissenbury, being convicted of hav¬ 
 ing a naturall child born of her body in her said master's house, in the 
 parish of Washington, and he having assumed to pay her tine of 500 pounds 
 of tobacco to the said parish of Washington, in consideration whereof shee, 
 the said Elizabeth Luck, acknowledged to serve her master one whole yeare, 
 arid upon his mocon it. is ordered that she serve him one whole yeare 
 more in compensation of the trouble of his house, loss of service, &c., which 
 said two yeares’ service is to be performed and fulfilled after all other service 
 due from the said Luck to her master, according to law, by indenture, former 
 order of Court, or otherwise, howsoever. 
 
 The said Elizabeth being examined in Court, declared upon the Holy 
 Evangelist that one John Adams did on her body begett the aforesaid child. 
 
 Humphrey Quissenbury assumed in open Court to pay the parish of 
 Washington ftive hundred pounds of Tobacco, being the sum due from his 
 servant Elizabeth Luck, for fornication. 
 
 (11.) At a Court held for Westmoreland county, Virginia, June 25, 1712:— 
 Judith Peters, servant to Humphrey Quissenbury, being convicted of having 
 a bastard child, and failing to pay the fine for fornication, it is ordered the 
 Sheriff of the County doe give her twenty-five lashes on her bare back, well 
 laid on, according to law, for her said offense. T T pon motion of Humphrey 
 Quissenbury, it is ordered that Judith Peters, his present servant, lately 
 delivered of a bastard child, doe serve her said master one whole yeare for 
 the trouble of his house and the loss of service during the tyme of her re¬ 
 covery, after all former service is expired according to law. 
 
 (Note.—The foregoing extracts from the records of Westmoreland county 
 I copied myself in June. 1893. The memoranda now immediately following 
 were furnished me by the County Clerk in 1888, in order to show what his 
 records contain re Quisenberry. I had full copies of many of these made, 
 which will follow in due order.—A. C. Q.) 
 
 (12.) Montross, Westmoreland Co., Va., February l(!j 1888. 
 
 Mr. A. C. Quisenberry: 
 
 Dear Sir: * * * I have gone through a thorough search of the old 
 records (as to old patents, deeds and wills) of my county, which go back to 
 1053, the year of the formation of Westmoreland county from Northumber¬ 
 land county, to learn something of the Quisenberry family, who settled in 
 this county. In my search through the old records of patents, wills, deeds, 
 Ac-.. I find the information on the memoranda enclosed herewith. * * * In 
 
 reference to the spelling or writing of the name Q-, will say all of the 
 
 original books containing patents, deeds and wills have been transcribed, 
 and possibly the different ways of spelling or writing the name was with 
 the transcribers. Much handling of the old records containing patents, deeds 
 and wills necessitated the transcribing of the same. The original fiduciary 
 books have never needed transcribing, as they are not handled much, and 
 are as good as new now. I find in the old fiduciary books that the name is 
 written Quessenbury or Quissenbury; and in the transcribed books of patents, 
 deed and wills the name is written, viz, Quesenbury, Quisenbury, Quesen- 
 berry and Quisenberry. I believe the original way was as contained in the 
 old fiduciary books—Quessenbury, or Quissenbury. * * * 
 
 Yours very respectfully, 
 
 M. L. HUTT. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 169 
 
 MEMORANDA. 
 
 ....John Butler, of Westmoreland Co., Va., to John Quisenbury, planter, 
 of the same Co., 100 acres of land, being part of a patent. Bill of sale dated 
 January 16, 1666. 
 
 ... .Christopher Pritchett, et ux., to Humphrey Quisenbury, of Westmoreland 
 Co., Va., bill of sale for 100 acres of land, dated July 6, 1695. 
 
 ....Malachy Peale to John Quisenbury, sr., assignment dated Nov. 25, 1691, 
 of his remaining interest, of 2U0 acres, in a patent. 
 
 ... .Deposition of John Quisenbury, “age 80 years, or thereabouts,” iu refer¬ 
 ence to the line of an old patent. Date of deposition, January 31, 1707. 
 
 . .. .Richard Harman, et ux., to Ann Quisenbury, of Westmoreland Co., Va., 
 binding their child, Win. Harman, to her during the term of 20 years and 3 
 months. Date, February 25, 1707-8. 
 
 ... .Henry Ward to Nicholas Quesenbury, of Washington parish, deed dated 
 April 8, 1738, for 100 acres of land on Monroe’s Creek, for £26, current money 
 of Virginia. 
 
 . ...Wm. Quesenbury to his three sons, John, William and Nicholas, deed 
 of gift to each of 50 acres of land, dated August 25, 1710. 
 
 .Tames Naughty to Wm. Quisenbury, arbitration bond, dated June 17, 
 
 1740. Penalty, £200. 
 
 ... .Mary Hazel to James Quesenbury, sr., of Washington parish, deed dated 
 July 25, 1748, conveying her interest in certain property in consideration of 
 maintenance. 
 
 ... .Ann Quisenberry to James Quisenberry, of Washington parish, deed dated 
 August 22, 1752, conveying land and negroes, iu consideration of natural love 
 and affection, 800 lbs. of tobacco, and maintenance. 
 
 ....John Bayn to Wm. Quesenbury, sr., of Washington parish, deed dated 
 June 27, 1756, conveying life interest in 469 acres of land, in consideration 
 of one shilling yearly. 
 
 .. .John Bayn to Wm. Quesenbury, of Washington parish, deed dated 
 March 5, 1757, conveying 250 acres of land, in consideration of £250, current 
 money. 
 
 ....Daniel McCarty, et ux., to Nicholas Quesenbury, of Washington parish, 
 deed dated September 24, 1771, conveying 68 acres of land on Monroe’s 
 Creek; consideration, £60, current money. 
 
 ....Same, to James Quesenbury, of Washington parish, deed dated Septem¬ 
 ber 24, 1771, conveying 60 acres of land on tlie north side of Monroe’s Creek; 
 £60, current money. 
 
 ... .Clias. Deane, et ux., to Nicholas Quisenbury, of Washington parish, deed 
 dated November 19, 1781, conveying two tracts of land, 125 and 83 acres; 
 £200, good money. 
 
 ....James Quisenbury and Ann, his wife; Charles Deane and Elizabeth, his 
 wife, to Peggy Deane, deed dated October 8, 1781, conveying their interest 
 in the land of Mary Brock, deceased; £50, current money, and natural love 
 and affection. 
 
 ... .John Berkley, et ux., to Nicholas Quisenbury, of Washington parish, deed 
 dated June 18, 1784, conveying 150 acres of land; consideration, £40, good 
 money of Virginia. 
 
 ....Thomas Drake, et ux., to Nicholas Quisenberry, of Washington parish, 
 deed dated June 23, 1784, conveying 20 acres of laud; consideration, 4,000 lbs. 
 of tobacco. 
 
 . .. .Richard Stevens, it ux., to Nicholas Quesenbury, of Washington parish, 
 deed dated October 11, 1785, for 74 acres of land; consideration £16. 
 
 ....Mary Pead, Philip Pead and Alice, his wife, to Nicholas Quesenberry, 
 of Washington parish, deed dated Nov. 8, 1785, for 100 acres of land; con¬ 
 sideration not stated. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 ....Philip Pead, rt u.r., to Nicholas Quesenbury and Hannah, his wife, of 
 Washington parish, deed dated September 27, 1791, for 72 acres of land in 
 the “Irish Neck;” £100, good and lawful money of Virginia. 
 
 . .. .Nicholas Quesenbury and Hannah, his wife, to John Steward, deed dated 
 June 20, 1792, for OS acres of land in Irish Neck, on north side of Monroe’s 
 Creek; £S0, current money of Virginia. 
 
 ....Nicholas Queseuberry and Hannah, his wife, to Philip Pead and wife, 
 deed dated September 27, 1791, for 100 acres of land; £100, current money 
 of Virginia. 
 
 ... .Nicholas Quisenberry and Hannah, his wife, to Philip Pead, deed dated 
 June 22, 1799, for 50 acres of land; £25, current money of Virginia. 
 ....Richard Payne, ct nr., to Nicholas Quisenberry, of Washington parish, 
 deed dated February 20, 1790, 107 acres 12 poles of land; £100. 
 
 ....Nicholas Quesenbury and Elizabeth, his wife, of Wake county, parish 
 of Margate, State of North Carolina, to Lawrence Pope, deed dated Septem¬ 
 ber 20, 17S0, conveys plantation containing 409 acres in Washington parish, 
 Westmoreland county, Virginia; consideration, £00,000, current money. 
 (Note.—This was in the depreciated Continental money of the Revolution.— 
 A. C. Q.) 
 
 . .. .Nicholas Quisenbury and Hannah, his wife, of Washington parish, deed 
 dated February 24, 1790, to Henry Lee, for 05 acres of land, “on which re¬ 
 sides Nanny Quisenbury, widow of James Quisenbury;” £100, current money. 
 . .. .Nicholas Quisenberry and Hannah, ids wife, of Washington parish, deed 
 dated September 20, 1790. to Lawrence Pope, for 107 acres 12 poles of land; 
 £100, current money. 
 
 ....Nicholas Quisenbury, of Stafford county, Va., to Win. Quisenbury, of 
 Washington parish, bill of sale for negroes, dated November 19, 1782. 
 ....Lawrence Tope to Humphrey Quisenbury, bond dated August 10, 1772: 
 consideration, a deed of gift to his daughter Jane for six negroes. (Said Jane 
 Quisenbury married said Lawrence Pope.) 
 
 ....Ann Quisenberry to her son, James Quisenberry, deed of gift dated 
 August 22, 1752. 
 
 . . .Nicholas Quisenberry and Hannah, his wife, to Wm. Nelson, deed dated 
 January 9, 1784, 125 aeres in Washington parish; consideration, six slaves. 
 
 . .. .Nicholas Quisenbeiry and Hannah, his wife, to Philip Pead, deed dated 
 17S5, for 70 acres of land; consideration, 100 acres of land. 
 
 ....Hannah Quisenberry to Penelope Pope, widow of Lawrence Pope, and 
 to Nancy Moxley, her two daughters, deed of gift dated July 10, 1817; con¬ 
 veys 100 acres in Richmond county, Va., to be equally divided. 
 
 ....Lawrence and William Butler to Nicholas Quisenbury, of Washington 
 parish, deed dated May 29, 1792, for 15G acres of land; £8G. 
 
 ....James Quisenberry’s estate, inventory and appraisement dated October 
 IS, 1794. Same, division in obedience to order of court dated October 28, 1794; 
 division of negroes to Mrs. Ann Quisenberry, Mrs. Rose, Mrs. Drake and 
 Nicholas Quisenberry. 
 
 . .. .John Quisenbury’s estate; inventory and appraisement by order of court, 
 dated November 17, 1717. 
 
 . .. .Order of court dated January 28, 1756, appointing appraisers to value the 
 estate of John Quisenbury. 
 
 . .. .Order of court dated July 27, 17G2, to inventory and appraise the estate 
 of Wm. Quisenbury. John Naughty, Adm’r. 
 
 . .. .Wm. Quisenberry’s allotment, July 1, 1774, to his daughter, Ann Stoop, 
 wife of John Stoop. 
 
 . .. .Order of court to appraise the estate of Christopher Quisenberry, dated 
 May 2G, 175G. No administrator’s account. 
 
APPENDIX. 171 
 
 ... .Humphrey Quisenberry. By order of court dated September 24, 1776, 
 inventory and appraisement, and allotment to widow. 
 
 ....Ann Quiseubury, inventory and appraisement, by order of court June 
 29, 1779. 
 
 ....Nicholas Quiseubury, inventory and appraisement, by order of court 
 March 27, 1750. 
 
 ....Nicholas Quiseubury, inventory and appraisement, by order of court 
 August 20, 1755. 
 
 .Vt a poll taken at an election of Burgess on May 24. 1747, there voted 
 
 John, William, sr., William, jr., and Humphrey Quiseubury. 
 
 .U a poll taken for Burgess April 25, 1757, there voted Humphrey, James 
 
 and Wiiliain Quiseubury. 
 
 .U a poll taken for Burgess May 10, 1701, there voted James, Humphrey 
 
 and James Quiseubury. 
 
 ....Nicholas Quisenberry, and Hannah, his wife, to John Pratt, deed dated 
 December 21, 1800. for 00 acres, being part of the land bought of Tlios. 
 Drake, June 23, 1784; 100. 
 
 . .. .George Bruce, et tu\. et al, to George Quisenberry, deed dated January 
 27. 1812, for 63 acres of land; $03. 
 
 And other conveyances of record down to near the present time. 
 
 WILLS. 
 
 ....Will of John Quisenbnry, dated November 23, 1714; given in full here¬ 
 after. 
 
 ... .Will of William Quiseubury, dated May 27, 1702; given in full hereafter. 
 ....Will of Elizabeth Quisenberry, dated May 23, 1784; bequeaths to Elijah 
 Weaver one bay horse, to him and his heirs forever; to IUchard Weaver, 
 one feather bed and furniture; to William Dodd, one bay mare and her 
 future increase; to Nicholas Dodd, one bay colt; to Ann Weaver, all her 
 wearing apparel and one side-saddle during her life, and after the decease 
 of the said Ann Weaver the saddle to go unto her eldest daughter, Elizabeth 
 Bayn, and to her heirs forever; gives to William Quisenberry some personal 
 property. 
 
 ....James Quisenberry, will dated October in, 1788: devises to his wife his 
 plantation in the “Irish Neck” during her natural life, then to his brother 
 or his heirs; his forest farm, a few negroes and some personal property 
 to be divided between his brother and sister. (Note.—His wife’s name is not 
 given in the will. Ann Quisenberry quail tied as the administratrix, and I 
 think she was the widow.—M. L. Hutt.) 
 
 . ..Will of Nicholas Quiseubury, of Washington parish, dated May 2, 1755: 
 “Item, I give unto my daughter, Ann Welch, one negro garl, &c. Item, I 
 give unto my beloved wife one negro woman, &c. Item, I give unto the 
 child my wife now goes with, one negro garl, &e. Item, I give unto my 
 father my suit of Jar min Sarge Cloathes. Item, I give unto my daughter, Atm 
 Welch, the plantation 1 now live on, and to her heirs forever; and the re¬ 
 mainder of my estate to be divided between my wife and daughter and the 
 child my wife now goes with.” Witnesses: Humphrey Pope, James Quisen¬ 
 berry. 
 
 . .. .Will of Ann Quisenberry, dated February 16, 1808, bequeaths to General 
 John Hungerfonl, one negro man; to Lawrence Pope, one' negro man; “I give 
 and bequeath to my (daughter ?), Oaty Dean, all my bonds, money, debts, 
 &c., together with the remainder of my estate, both real and personal.” 
 ....Will of Nicholas Quisenberry, dated June 10. 1802. Gives to his wife 
 Hannah, during her widowhood, all his real and personal estate. (“This 
 includes the land that my brother James gave me, and the negroes I have in 
 my possession); afterwards I give it to my son, George Quisenberry; and 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 also give my part of the negroes which Ann Quiseuberry hath in her posses¬ 
 sion. which negroes, being her third of the negroes that belonged to my 
 brother, James Quiseuberry, to be equally divided among my three daugh¬ 
 ters. Penelope Pope, Nancy Moxley and Catie Rigg.” lie also gives land 
 to these three daughters. 
 
 ....Will of Humphrey Quiseuberry, dated January HO, 1773; given in full 
 hereafter. (Note.—The original will is written entirely in II. Q.’s own hand 
 -A. C. Q.) 
 
 . .. .Will of Ann Quiseuberry, dated August 23, 1773; given in full hereafter. 
 ....Also, wills of record; Augustine Quiseuberry, May 4, 1850, and Lucy 
 Quiseuberry, February 28, 1868. 
 
 US.) John Butler to John Quiseuberry, deed. 
 
 Be it known unto all men by these presents that I, John Butler, of the 
 County of Westmoreland, in Virginia, planter, for a full and valuable con¬ 
 sideration in hand paid before the signing and sealing hereof, by John 
 Quisenbury, of the same place, planter, wherewith I acknowledge to be fully 
 satisfied, have bargained, aliened, sold, enfeoffed and continued, and doe by 
 these presents bargain, alien and sell, assign, enfeoff and confirm unto the 
 said John Quisenbury a certain parcell of land containing one hundred acres, 
 being part of a dividend of land of three hundred and fifty-nine acres of 
 land granted unto me, the said John Butler, by patent from the Governor 
 and Council, which said 359 acres I. the said John Butler, am now seated on; 
 the said 100 acres of laud being bounded as followetli, to wit: Beginning at a 
 marked dogwood tree standing on the east side of a run, and in the line of 
 the land of Mr. Thomas Pope, and extending along the said Pope’s line E. 100 
 poles, thence S. 80 poles, then SW. to the aforesaid run, finally down said run 
 to the said dogwood tree—to have and to hold the said 100 acres of land to 
 him, the said John Quisenbury, his heirs or assigns forever, with all rights 
 and privileges thereunto belonging in as large and ample manner to all in¬ 
 tents and purposes as is to me granted by said patent, yielding and paying 
 unto me, the said John Butler, my heirs or assigns, yearly, at the feast of St. 
 Michael the Archangel, the fee of two shillings. And furthermore, I, the said 
 John Butler, doe hereby, for me and my heirs, warrant the sale of the said 
 land to the said John Quisenbury, his heirs or assigns, against the claim or 
 claims of any person or persons whatsoever, as also to acknowledge this 
 sale of land at the next term of Court. In witness whereof I have hereunto 
 set my hand and seal this 17tli of January, 1666. JOHN BUTLER. 
 
 Teste: William Horton, John Bell. 
 
 12tli February, 1666-7, this bill of sale was acknowledged in court and 
 then recorded. 
 
 (14.) Malachy Peale to John Quisenbury, assignment. 
 
 I, the subscriber, do assign to John Quisenbury, senr., his heirs or as¬ 
 signs, the remaining part of the within pattent, being two hundred acres, 
 more or less, to the said John Quisenbury, his heirs or assigns forever; as 
 witness my hand and seal this 25tli November, 1691. MALACHY PEALE. 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Joshua Davis, John San¬ 
 ford. 
 
 Westmoreland set.—At a court held for the county the 25tli day of No¬ 
 vember, 1691, Mr. Malachy Peale came into court and acknowledged the above 
 assignment to be his proper act and deed, and the land and premises con¬ 
 veyed thereby to be the just and rightful property of the above-named John 
 Quisenbury, which, together with the said instrument, is entered on the 
 records of the said county. JAMES WESTCOMB, C. W. C. 
 
 (Note.—The patent to Malachy Peale is not of record in this county. In 
 the deed from said Peale to Francis Williams for 300 acres of land (part of 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 173 
 
 this patent) it is stated that said Peale's patent is dated November 29, 1078, 
 for 843 acres of land. After making one other conveyance of his land (part 
 of this patent) said Peale makes the within assignment to John Quiseubury.— 
 M. L. Hutt.) 
 
 (15.) Christopher Pritchett to Humphrey Quiseubury, patent, bond, deed, &e. 
 
 To all, &c., whereas, &c., now know ye that I, William Berkeley, Lieuten¬ 
 ant Governor, &c., doe, with the consent of the Council of State, accordingly 
 give and grant unto Philip Wadding three hundred acres of land, situate, 
 lying and being in the forest on the north side of Rappahannock county, 
 about a mile and a half from Popetoe (Perpeto) Creeke, near a pathside that 
 goeth from Rappahannock county to Pope’s Creeke in Potomac River, and 
 beginning at a marked oak, being a corner tree of a parcel of land belonging 
 to Major John Weir and Mr. Thomas Dun, and running from the said oak 
 N. 44 poles to a red oak on the south side of a hill, thence E. NE. 08 poles 
 into a vale to a line of trees belonging to Thomas Phelps, thence near the 
 said line of trees belonging to said Phelps 78 poles to a red oak standing 
 near the head of a vale near a path, thence SE. and S. 70 poles to a swamp, 
 thence by or near the said swamp S. SE. 90 poles to a run-side, thence with 
 the said run S. SW. 110 poles, thence W.100 poles, thence NW. 00 poles, thence 
 N 120 poles to the place we first began; the said land being due unto the said 
 Wadding by and for the transportation of six persons into this colony, 
 whose names are on the records mentioned under this patent—to have and to 
 hold, &c. Given at James Citty under my hand and the seal of the Colony 
 this 20th day of October, lGGti. WILLIAM BERKELEY. 
 
 30th December, 1G68, this patent was recorded. 
 
 .Know all men by these presents that I, Philip Wadding, have bar¬ 
 gained, aliened, sold, assigned and made over to Thomas Pritchett or his 
 heirs or assigns forever, all my right, title and interest of this patient, with 
 the land therein mentioned; and further, I doe bind myself or my heirs or 
 assigns to warrant the same to the aforesaid Pritchett, his heirs or assigns 
 forever; and further, I doe bind myself or my assigns to acknowledge this 
 assignment in the County Court of Westmoreland. In witness whereof I 
 have hereunto set my hand and seal this 28th day of December, 16G8. 
 
 PHILIP WADDING. 
 
 30th December, 1G68, this assignment of land was acknowledged in court 
 and recorded: 
 
 ....Know all men by these presents that I, Christopher Pritchett, son and 
 heir of Thomas Pritchett, of the county of Westmoreland, have and do here¬ 
 by alien, bargain, sell, enfeoff and confirm all my right, title and interest of 
 the within pattent unto Umphrey Quiseubury, of the county aforesaid, to 
 him, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns forever, having received 
 a full and valuable consideration for the same (except 100 acres of land, more 
 or less, sold to John Wade, lying on the north side of the great road that 
 goeth from Pope’s Creek to Perpeto Creek, and so east to a locust post, and 
 from that post to another locust post, so from these two posts down a point 
 by a line of marked trees to a branch, including the aforesaid 100 acres, 
 more or less, as is above-mentioned), and 1, the aforesaid Christopher Pritch¬ 
 ett, do hereby warrant and will forever defend the title of the within men¬ 
 tioned land from me, my heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, and 
 oblidge myself or my lawful attorney, and also my wife, Jane, to make a due 
 and true acknowledgement hereof in the County Court of Westmoreland. In 
 confirmation whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 
 6th of July, anno dom., 1G95. CHRISTOPHER PRITCHETT. 
 
 Sealed and delivered in the presence of us: James Taylor, George Day. 
 
 ....This indenture made the Gth day of July anno dom. 1695, and in the 
 sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady, William and Mary. 
 
174 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King and Queen. Defender of the 
 Faith, &c„ between Christopher Pritchett, of Westmoreland county and 
 Washington parish, of the one part, and Humphrey Quisenbury, of the same 
 county and parish, of the other part, slieweth that Christopher Pritchett, 
 aforesaid, for and in consideration of 9,000 pounds of good Orronoco tobacco 
 and casks, to him in hand paid at and before the sealing and delivery of these 
 presents, by the above said Humphrey Quisenbury well and truly paid, the 
 receipt whereof the said Christopher Pritchett doth hereby acknowledge him¬ 
 self fully satisfied and paid, doth hereby alienate, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff 
 and confirm, and bv these presents doth fully, clearly, and absolutely give, 
 grant, bargain, sell, enfeoff and confirm unto the above said Humphrey 
 Quisenbury. his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns forever, a certain 
 tract or pareell of land by estimation as is comprised and mentioned in a 
 certain pattent granted to Philip Wadding, and by the said Wadding assigned 
 to Thomas Pritchett, late of this county, deceased, bearing date the 20tli day 
 of October, 1006, all the whole moiety or quantity of said land contained in 
 the said patent (except 100 acres of land sold out of the said patent unto 
 John Wade, of the county aforesaid bounded and lying as is comprised 
 in a. certain deed of sale bearing date with these presents, for 100 acres of 
 land, more or less)—to have and to hold the said tract of land contained in 
 the patent as aforesaid, with all and singular its rights, privilidges, woods, 
 underwoods, ways, easements, with all buildings, orchards, fences, together 
 with all profits and commodities whatsoever thereunto belonging, unto the 
 said Humphrey Quisenbury, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, 
 forever, against him the said Christopher Pritchett, his heirs, executors, 
 administrators, and all and every other person or persons whatsoever, law¬ 
 fully claiming by, from, or under him, them, or any of them, shall and will 
 warrant and forever defend by these presents from any or all person or 
 persons whatsoever, or from any other person claiming by my means, pro¬ 
 curement, peaceably and quietly to possess the same, without any manner 
 of molestation, interruption or eviction whatsoever: and it is hereby agreed 
 to by the abovesaid Christopher Pritchett that if this deed of sale prove not 
 good and authentiek in law as by the advice and skillful attorney shall be 
 required, then he the said Christopher Pritchett doth oblidge himself to give 
 what further satisfaction as shall be required to strentken and establish the 
 title: and also further oblidges that lie himself and also his wife, Jane, make 
 a due and true acknowledgement of this deed of sale in the County Court 
 of Westmoreland, when thereunto desired by the said Humphrey Quisenbury; 
 only it is hereby agreed by the parties aforesaid that Christopher Pritchett 
 and his family shall privilidge for house room and firing until the last of 
 April next ensuing. In confirmation of the above premises, and of every 
 article therein contained, Christopher Pritchett abovesaid and his wife, Jane, 
 have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year above 
 mentioned. CHRISTOPHER PRITCHETT. 
 
 JANE PRITCHETT. 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of us: James Taylor, George Day. 
 
 Westmoreland set.—At a court held for the said county the 28th day oyf 
 August, 1095. Christopher Pritchett within named came into court and ac¬ 
 knowledged the within instrument to be his proper act and deed, and the 
 lands and premises conveyed thereby to be the just right and inheritance 
 of the within named Humphrey Quisenbury: and Jane Pritchett, wife of the 
 said Christopher, came also into court and voluntarily relinquished her right 
 of dower and thirds in and to the same, and every part thereof; all of which 
 is ordered to be recorded. Teste: .Tames Westeomb, C. W. C. 
 
 . .. .Know all men by these presents that I, Christopher Pritchett, of West¬ 
 moreland County, stand justly bound unto Humphrey Quisenberry, of the 
 county abovesaid, his heirs and executors in the full sum of 18,000 pounds of 
 good tobacco and casks, payable convenient upon demand, for the true 
 performance I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators firmly by 
 these presents. In confirmation I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this 
 
appendix. 
 
 175 
 
 01 h day of July anno dom., 1095. The condition of this obligation is such 
 that if the above bound Christopher Pritchett doe well and truly observe, 
 perform, accomplish and keep all and singular the covenants, grants, articles, 
 clauses, conditions and agreements whatsoever which on his part are or ought 
 to be observed, performed, fulfilled and kept, mentioned or comprised in an 
 indenture or deed of mile for land, bearing date with these presents, then 
 this obligation is to be void and of no effect,—otherwise to stand in full force 
 and virtue. CHRISTOPHER PRITCHETT. 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of us: James Taylor, Geo. Day. 
 
 Teste: James Westeomb, C. W. C. 
 
 (16.) Deposition of John Quisenbury. 
 
 Westmoreland county, Virginia, ss.—John Quisenbury, aged eighty years 
 or thereabouts, being examined and sworn on the Holy Evangelist 
 of God, doth say that about fifty years ago Mrs. Wingate, a nigh relation to 
 old Mrs. Vaulx, her husband (that first took up the said land called Vaulx- 
 land), being in England, came up to the said Wingate’s with surveyors and 
 seated the plantation now called Vaulx Quarter. Your deponent desired (he 
 fad Wingate to speak to Mrs. Vaulx to sell him part of the said land, who 
 seemed to be willing, and sent up the patent with orders to Mr. William 
 Horton to lay out the same, who did forthwith lay out the same at the time 
 aforesaid, and your deponent went with the said surveyor in laying out the 
 said land, and well remembers yt yr. Deponent did help to make the line 
 next to Potomac River, or part thereof, which took in the plantation of 
 Vaulx Quarter, and likewise the line of fifteen hundred poles, and the next 
 line, next to Rappahannock River which included a plantation formerly 
 seated by one Mr. Lane, since Allen Mounjoy, and further saith not. 
 
 JOHN QUISENBURY. 
 
 In obedience to an order of the Westmoreland County Court we have 
 taken the above deposition at the place and time appointed in the said order. 
 Given under our hands this Hist day of January, 1707. 
 
 LEWIS MARKHAM. 
 
 CALEB BUTLER. 
 
 ANDR. MUNROE. 
 
 The within deposition was entered on the records of Westmoreland 
 County the 25th day of February, 1707. J. A. WESTCOMB, 
 
 Cl. Com. Prd. 
 
 Montross, Va„ June 16, 1888. 
 
 Mr. A. C. Quisenberry: 
 
 My Dear Sir: * * * In regard to the deposition of John Quisenbury 
 (1707) I will say it is as intelligble to you as it is to me. The original deposi¬ 
 tion book in which said deposition is recorded has been transcribed and, 1 
 suppose, the original book destroyed. I believe errors have often crept into 
 the records through careless transcribers. * * * I have failed to find a 
 deed from Mrs. Vaulx to John Quisenbury for the land mentioned in said 
 deposition. * * * The record of criminal cases do not throw any light upon 
 the early history of the Quisenberry family, as their names do not appear 
 on that docket: and 1 fail to find anything among the civil cases that would 
 interest you. I will say that the deed from John Butler to John Quisenbury, 
 dated January 16, 1666, is the first mentioned or relating to the Quisenberrys 
 on our records. 1 can not trace or find out what became of the 200 acres of 
 land bought by Humphrey Quisenbury from Christopher Pritchett et ii.r ., 
 deed dated July 6, 1695, in deed book 2, page 36. The records fail to show 
 what he did with his said land. It must have passed to his heirs at law. 
 I suppose, or was escheated. I can’t think, myself, that this was the same 
 Humphrey Quisenbury whose will was probated in 1776: for, as you say, 
 “assuming that he was at least 21 years old when he bought the laud in 1695, 
 
176 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 he would have been 102 years old at the time of his death in 1776”—a period 
 not often allotted to men. 1 will look over the records and see what I can 
 find in reference to Francis Quisenberry, who witnessed the will of John 
 Quisenbury in 1714. * * * 
 
 Yours truly, M. L. HUTT. 
 
 (17.) Will of John Quisenbury. 
 
 In the name of God, Amen! I, John Quisenbury, of the parish of Wash¬ 
 ington and County of Westmoreland, being sick of body, but of perfect mind 
 and memory, doe make, ordain and appoint this my last Will and Testament 
 in manner and form following, viz, revoking and disannulling all and every 
 Will and Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made and declared either 
 by word or writing, and this to be taken only for my last Will and Testament, 
 and none other; and being penitent and sorry for my past sins and humbly 
 praying forgiveness for them, I give my soul unto almighty God my saviour 
 and redeemer, and believe myself to be assuredly saved, and that my soul 
 with my body at the Generali Day of resurrection shall rise again with joy 
 and Inherit the Kingdom of Heaven prepared for his Elect; and my body to 
 be decently interred at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named; and 
 my worldly estate I give and bequeath in manner and form following: 
 
 it is my will that all my just debts be paid by my executors hereafter 
 named. 
 
 I give unto my son William Quisenbury all my lands in generall to him 
 and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, and in case of no such heir, then 
 to my son Humphrey Quisenbury and to the heirs of his body lawfully 
 begotten, and in case of no such heir, then to the next heir at law. 
 
 I give unto my son Humphrey Quisenbury one gunu now in his possession, 
 and one horse, to him and his heirs forever. 
 
 I give unto my loveing wife Anne Quisenbury all my personall estate in 
 generall, both within doors and without, and she to dispose of it as she shall 
 think fitt. 
 
 Lastly, I nominate and appoint my loveing wife Anne Quisenbury my 
 whole and sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seale 
 this 23d day of November, 1714. JOHN QUISENBURY. 
 
 Made, signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of 
 
 WILLIAM (his X mark) GRIFFIN. 
 FRANCIS (his X mark) QUISENBURY. 
 HUMPHREY POPE. 
 
 At a court held for the said county the 27th day of November, 1717, this 
 last will and testament of John Quisenbury, deceased, was presented into 
 Court by Ann, his relict and executrix, who made oath thereto, and being 
 proved by the oaths of Francis Quisenberry and Humphrey Pope, two of the 
 witnesses thereto, is admitted to record, and upon the motion of the said 
 Executrix, and her performing bond, as usual in such cases, certificate is 
 granted for her obtaining a probate thereof in due form. 
 
 Teste; THOMAS SORRELL, C. W. C. 
 
 (18.) Estate of John Quisenbury, Inventory and Appraisement. 
 
 Westmoreland County, ss.—17th of January, 1717-'8.—In obedience to an 
 order of said Court held for the said county the 27tli day of November, 1717, 
 the subscribers have mett at the house of John Quisenbury, deceased, and 
 being sumond and sworn before Mr. Augustine Higgins, one of his Majesty's 
 Justices of the Peace for the said county, have valued and appraised the 
 personal estate as followeth; to-witt: 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 177 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 Out of doors: 1 young horse, 4 yr. old. 2 10 0 
 
 4 cows and 2 calves £6 8s.; 4 ewes @ Os. each; 1 old mare £1, 5s. 8 19 0 
 
 9 cyd> r casks, all old, @ 3s. 17 0 
 
 1 leather lied, bolster, rugg, blankett sheets, pillow and bedstead 2 10 0 
 
 1 feather bed, bolster, and 2 old blauketts. 2 0 0 
 
 59 ells lining @ l^d. per ell; 1 boy’s liatt, 2s. Od. 2 12 8 
 
 1 i r. small stilliards, 13s.; 4 '/i yds Serge @ Is. Od; 1 pr men’s 
 
 shoes 2s. 8d. 1 2 5 
 
 TV. yds stuff druggett @ 15d.: a suite of old wearing clothes, 10s. 19 4y> 
 
 2 tables, 1 chest, all old, £2; 3 meal sifters, all old. 2s, Od. 2 2 0 
 
 ) brass mortar and pestle aud 2 brass candlesticks. 5 0 
 
 91 lbs. of old pewter @ 7d; 1 stear, 2 yrs old, 15s. 3 8 0 
 
 A parcell of old coopers tools, bottles and old iron, & 5 iron potts, 
 
 all old . 4 10 0 
 
 1 young hors and 1 young mare 2 yrs old.. 3 0 0 
 
 13 sows and barrows 2 yrs old, each Os. 3 18 0 
 
 1 cart and wheels, saddle, collar and harness, old. 1 7 0 
 
 1 feather bed, bolster, rugg, blankett, sheets, pillows and bed¬ 
 
 stead . 3 10 0 
 
 2 feather beds, bolsters, 1 rugg, bolster and blauketts, 1 pr 
 
 sheets . 5 00 0 
 
 1 trunk and 2 old chests 10s.; 4 shirts and 2 neckcloths 10s. 1 12 0 
 
 0 yds muslebrough stuff @ 4d.; 1 pr large stilliards, out of 
 
 order 15s. 17 4 
 
 4 yds Kersie @ 20d.; 1 pr serge breeches, lined 8s.; 3% yds drug¬ 
 get @ 15d. 19 OVi 
 
 4 old gunns 15s.; 1 copper warming pan and 1 looking glass 16s. 3 10 0 
 
 1 paper trunk 2s.; 1 cross cutt saw Os.; a parcell of old books 9s.. 17 0 
 
 1 mare, young, in. 1 10 0 
 
 55 i ny 2 
 
 Hump: Pope, Jno: Motliased, M. D., Danll: Field, junr. 
 
 Jaury ye 29th, 1717-18, returned into court, aud recorded ye 17tli of Feb. 
 next following. 
 
 (19.) Mary Hazel to James Quiseuberry, deed. 
 
 This indenture made lliis 25th day of June, 1748, between Mary Hazel, 
 widow of John Hazel, dec'd, of the county of Westmoreland and parish of 
 Washington, of tlie one part, and .Tames Quiseubury, planter, of the county 
 and parish afsd., of the other part, wituesseth: that the said Mary Hazel for 
 and in consideration of promises made and to be performed by sd James 
 Quiseuberry, that he is to find her in sufficient maintainance — that is, suf 
 ficient clothing, meat, drink, washing and lodging—according to the qualities 
 of her estate, that she is now possest wth and will be possest wtli durg her 
 natural life, for which promises and performances agreed to and to be per¬ 
 formed by the sd James Quiseuberry to the sd Mary Hazel, she hath of her 
 own voluntary free good will made over all her right and title of all her 
 land, negroes, household goods and stocks of all kinds that she is now possest 
 wth or shall be possest wth during her natural life, to the said James Quisen- 
 berry, for him or his to doe or act with as they shall think proper; and for 
 her personable estate to remain to him the said James Quisenberry and his 
 heirs forever; to which presents instrumt of writing the parties above men¬ 
 tioned interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year above 
 written. MARY HAZEL, ‘ 
 
 JAMES QUISENBERRY. 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in the presents off Wm: Settle and Benj: 
 Dodd. 
 
 Recorded August 0th, 1748, per George Lee, C. W. C. 
 
178 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 (•20.) William Queseubury to his sous, deed. 
 
 To all to whom these presents shall come: Know ye that I, William 
 Quesenhury. of the parish of Washington and county of Westmoreland, for 
 the natural love which 1 bare unto my three sons, John, William and Nich¬ 
 olas Quesenhury, do give and grant unto them the said John, William and 
 Nicholas Quesenhury and their heirs, executors and administrators, and to 
 each of them 50 acres of land (they now live on it), being part of the land 
 1 now live on, which said fifty acres of land to each of them I, the said 
 William Quesenhury, do fully, clearly and absolutely remise, release and 
 confirm and forever quit-claim unto my three sons, now in their peaceable 
 possession, to them the said John, William and Nicholas Quesenhury, and 
 their heirs forever, all such rights, titles, interest and demand whatsoever 
 as he, the said William Quesenhury, hath had or ought to have of, in and to 
 all the hereby given lands and premises lying and being in the parish of 
 1\ asliiugton and county aforesaid, and near to the place commonly known 
 and called by the name of Bottom’s Old Field, to have aud to hold the 
 aforesaid land and premises with all rights, members and appurtenances 
 thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining unto them, the said John, 
 William and Nicholas Queseubury, and to their heirs forever, to the only 
 proper use and behoof of them, the said John, William and Nicholas Quesen- 
 bury and their heirs forever; which land and premises I, the said William 
 Quesenhury will, by these presents, warrant and ever defend. In witness 
 whereof I, the said William Queseubury, hath hereunto set my hand and 
 seal this 25th day of August, anno domini, 1740. 
 
 WILLIAM QUESENBURY. 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in the prence of us: Nich; Miner, sr., Nick: 
 Miner, jr.; Steward Miner. 
 
 Westmoreland, ss.—At a court held for the said county the 26tli day of 
 August, 1740. William Queseubury personally acknowledged tliis deed of gift 
 of land by him passed and conveyed to his three sons, John, William and 
 Nicholas Quesenhury, to be his proper act aud deed; which, at the instance 
 of the said donor, is admitted to record. 
 
 Teste; GEORGE TUBERVILLE, C. W. C. 
 
 (21.) Nicholas Quesenhury, Inventory yand Appraisement of Estate. 
 
 In obedience to an order of court made the 27tli day of March, 1750, we. 
 flie subscribers, being first sworn, have valued and appraised the estate of 
 
 Nicholas Quesenburv, dec'd, in manner and form following, vizt: 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 2 cows and calves £3, 1 heifer £1, 3 cows and calves £4 15s. 8 15 0 
 
 1 bull and 1 young heifer £2, 21 young lioggs £3 3s, 1 horse £4. 0 3 0 
 
 1 young horse £1 15, 1 mare and colt £1, 5, 1 mare and colt £7. 10 0 0 
 
 1 still £7, 1 old tubb and 8 old cyder casks £2, 1, 2 sides of soal 
 
 leather 10s. 9 11 0 
 
 9 shtep £2, 5, a parcell of Cooper’s tools 6s, a pareell of carpen¬ 
 ter’s old tools 8s. 2 19 
 
 1 handsaw 3s, 3 old reaphooks Is, 1 pr old screws Is 8d, 1 wire 
 
 sieve, 5s. 10 8 
 
 1 riddle Is 6d, 2 old sifters Js, 1 earthen pott 8s, 1 old tubb (id, 
 
 1 old earthen pott Is 6d. 5 2 
 
 3 cyder casks 18s, 5 small casks £1, 5s, 1 powdering tub 3s, a 
 
 pareell of old leather 7s. 2 13 0 
 
 7 bottles Is 9d, 1 old table Is, 8 tubs £1, 4s, 1 pr pistols £1, 1 
 
 gun £1, 5s. 3 11 9 
 
 1 small sugar box 4s, 4 small jarrs 6s, 2 glasses lOd, 1 small tea- 
 
 pott, 1 saucer and earthen plate 10d. 11 8 
 
 1 quart and pint pott 3s, 1 old candlestick Is, 1 pepper box 4d, 
 
 1 chest of drawers £2, 5s, 1 oval table £1, 5s. 3 14 4 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 179 
 
 £ s 
 
 5 old leather chairs 15s 5d, old ditto flagged os, 1 old oval table 
 
 os. 2 pr spoon moulds, 10s. 1 15 
 
 A parcel of shoemaker’s old tools 4s, 1 old trunk Os, 1 box 2s 6d, 
 
 1 glass 6d. 13 
 
 1 old warming pan 3s, 1 box iron heaters 2s Oil, 3 beds and furni¬ 
 ture £9. 10s. 9 15 
 
 1 bed and furniture £1, 10, 1 joynter 2s (id, 1 box (id, 1 old saddle 
 
 and howzing 10s. 3 3 
 
 8 hoes 8s, a parcel of old iron 12s, 2 wedges Gd, 1 lire shovel 2s (id, 
 
 1 gridiron 2s (id, 1 ladle and tlesh forks, 5s. 1 1(5 
 
 1 seimer 3s, 1 frying pan 4s, 1 do Is (id, 1 kettle £1, 5s, 1 bell 
 
 mental skillet 3s; 1 pott, 5s. 2 1 
 
 1 iron skillet 2s, 1 bell metal spice mortar 8s, 1 old funnel 2d, 
 
 !/> doz. pewter plates 12s. 1 2 
 
 7 dishes £1 2s, G basons 17s, 2 old basons 5s, a parcel of old 
 
 pewter Gs, % doz. supe plates 12s. 3 2 
 
 1 salt seller lOd, 3 pr pott hooks Gs, 1 old broad axx Is (id, 1 
 
 spinning wheel (5s. 14 
 
 1 grinding stone Gs, 2 sows and 7 piggs £1 2s, 3 sows with pigg 
 
 Is 3d, 1 iron pott 4s, parcel of pails and piggons 7s. 3 2 
 
 1 negro fellow .Tack £35, 1 negro boy Peter £25, 1 negro girl Moll 
 
 £20, 1 negro girl Pegg £15 95 0 
 
 1 negro girl Kate £10, 1 old negro Kate £2. 12 0 
 
 d 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 G 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 G 
 
 2 
 
 0 
 
 4 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Total, 184 19 1 
 
 Thomas Shaw, Nathaniel Gerrard, Nathaniel Mothershead, appraisers. 
 Recorded the 4th day of May, 1750. 
 
 Teste; GEORGE LEE, C. W. C. 
 
 (22.) Nicholas Quisenbury, Inventory and Appraisement of Estate. 
 
 Westmoreland, set.—In obedience to an order of Port, bearing date the 
 2Gth day of August, 1755, we whose names are underwritten, being first 
 sworn before Major John Martin, gentleman, one of TIis Majesty’s Justices 
 for the said county, do value and appraise the estate of Niclis: Quisenbury, 
 dec’d, in money, as followeth: 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 3 cows and calves @ 30s, £4, 10s, 1 cow £1, 13s, 1 cow, £1, 10s, 1 
 1 low bed £2 10, 2 old chests 5s, 1 pr money scales 4s, 2 razors 
 
 young bull £1 10, 1 high bed & turn. £6 14 15 
 
 and 1 old hone Is 3d, 1 sugar box 2s, 1 pr shoe buckles Gd. 3 2 
 
 1 man’s saddle Gs, 1 spinning wheel 8s, 17 quart bottles 4s 3d, 1 
 
 pottle bottle (id, 1 doz knives Gs, % doz pocket knives 2s Gd. 2 7 
 
 2 square tables 5s, 1 cross-legd table 3s, 7 stools 4s, 1 looking 
 
 glass 3s Gd, 1 ladle and flesh fork 2s (id. 18 
 
 1 skimer Gd, 2 washing tubs 8s 2d, 2 water pails & 2 piggins 8s, 
 
 1 wooden tray & 1 bole 9d, 1 pr. traces, collar and hames 8s. 18 
 
 2 frying pans (is, 1 butter pot 2s (id, 5 old hoes 3s 4d, 2 old axes 
 
 5s, 1 iron pessel Is, 9 geese 9s. 1 G 
 
 1 spice mortar & pessel 7s Gd. 1 bell metal skillet 2s Gd, 1G lbs 
 
 new pewter £1 4, 10 lbs old do. 10s, 19 pewter spoons 3s. 2 7 
 
 1 earthen plate, 1 pepper box. 1 stone mugg Is, 1 old meal sifter 
 Is, 35 lbs. pot iron 5s lOd, 2 lbs old do. 2s 9d, 2 pr pot¬ 
 hooks 3s (id. 14 
 
 A parcel of iron lumber 2s, a parcel of cotton 2s. 1 suit of men's 
 
 cloatlies £3, 1 cow and calf £1 5. 4 9 
 
 3 liefers £2, 2 sows £1. 10 young hogs £3 11 0. G 11 
 
 1 negro woman named Sarah £25, 1 negro garl named Jenny £25, 
 
 1 do named Frank £30. 80 0 
 
 0 
 
 9 
 
 3 
 
 0 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 o 
 
 0 
 
 G 
 
 0 
 
 Errors excepted. 117 10 3 
 
 Lawrence Butler, Nathaniel Butler, Humphrey Pope, appraisers. 
 
180 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 t23.) Christopher Quisenberry, Inventory and Appraisement of Estate. 
 
 Westmoreland, set.—In obedience to an order of Court bearing date Oc¬ 
 tober liti. 175G, we whose names are underwritten, being first sworn before 
 Benjamin Weeks, Gent., one of Ilis Majesty’s Justices for the said county, 
 do value the estate of Christopher Quiseuberry, dec’d, in money, as followeth: 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 1 suit of men’s cloaths £4, 1 suit do. £6, 1 suit do. £1 10, 1 old 
 
 red coat & 1 pr. breeches £1. 5. 1*2 15 
 
 7 white shirts £5. 5, 4 strip! Holland shirts £1, 1 line liatt 15s, 1 
 
 old liatt 2s (id, 1 pr shams Is 3d. 7 3 
 
 4 neckcloths 5s, (i stocks 3s, 7 linnen caps 8s 9d, 3 linnen handker¬ 
 chiefs 4s (id, 3 do Is (id. 1 2 
 
 3 jirs worsted stockings 11s 3d, 2 prs thread do. 2s (id, 1 pr. 
 
 worsted do. 2s (id, 1 pr silk do. 15s. 1 11 
 
 2 wiggs £1, 1 pr boots £1, 1 pr pumps tis, 1 pr do. 2s (id, 1 pr 
 
 chancld do. 2s (id, 1 chest 15s. 3 (i 
 
 1 saddle and housing £1 12 (i, 1 silver watch £5, 1 silver liatt 
 
 buckle and band, 3s, 2 gold rings 15s. 7 10 
 
 1 silver band buckle 4s (id, 1 pr silver shoe buckles 12s (id, 1 doz. 
 
 black glass buttons Gd. 17 
 
 1 pr silver sleeve buttons 3s 9d, cash £(i(i 11 1%, 00 14 
 
 0 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 G 
 
 6 
 
 ioy 2 
 
 Total, 101 2 7% 
 
 Alexander Thom, Lawrence Pope, Humphrey Pope, appraisers. 
 
 (24.) William Quisenlmry, senr., Will. 
 
 In the name of God, amen! I, William Quiseuberry, senr, of the parish 
 of Washington and county of Westmoreland, being weak of body but of 
 perfect sences and memory (blessed be God for it), do make and ordain this 
 my last will and testament in manner and form following, hereby revoking 
 all other wills and testaments by me made. 
 
 Imps: I commit my soul to God that give it me, and my body to* the 
 earth to be decently buried by my executors after named; and my worldly 
 estate I give and bequeath in manner and form following: 
 
 Item: I give to my daughter Eleanor Bayn, one shilling sterling. 
 
 Item: I give to my grandsons Nicholas Quisenbury, John Mothershead 
 and William Dodd, each one shilling sterling. 
 
 Item: I give to my son William Quisenbury the land he now lives on, 
 beginning at a marked tree (which is a white oak) standing in the mouth of 
 a branch which divides the land I now live on from the said land, running 
 up the said branch to a marked tree on ihe head of said branch, then along 
 a line of marked trees to the head of a branch called Bolton Spring, then 
 down the said branch to the line of Butler’s, then along the said line to the 
 main road, and running along the said road to the line of Naughty’s, then 
 along the sd line to the beginning—to him and his heirs forever. 
 
 Item: I give to my two daughters Ann and Elizabeth all the remainder 
 part of my land, to them and the heirs of their body lawfully begotten, for¬ 
 ever. And I give to my two daughters Ann and Elizabeth, ail the remainder 
 part of my estate both within doors and without, to them and their heirs for¬ 
 ever. 
 
 Lastly: I appoint my two daughters, Ann and Elizabeth, executors of 
 this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 
 hand and seal this 27th day of May, anno dom. 17G2. 
 
 WILLIAM QUISENBURY. 
 
 James Clark, William Dodd, Wm. Weaver, witnesses. 
 
 At a court held for Westmoreland county the 27th day of July, 17G2. this 
 will was proved according to law by the oaths of James Clark, William Wea¬ 
 ver and William Dodd, the witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded, 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 181 
 
 and on motion of Ann Quisenbury and Elizabeth Quisenbury, the executors 
 named in tue said will, who made oath according to law, and together with 
 John Pope and William Dodd, their securities, entered into and acknowledged 
 bond with condition as the law directs, certificate is granted them for ob¬ 
 taining a probat thereof in due form. JAMES DAVENPORT, Ct. Cler. 
 
 (25.) Humphrey Quisenbury to Lawrence Pope, deed of gift, dated Aug. 
 
 10, 1772. 
 
 To all Christian people to whom this present writing shall come, I, 
 Humphrey Quisenbury, of the parish of Washington and county of West¬ 
 moreland (Planter) sendeth greeting in our Lord God Everlasting. Know ye 
 that the said Humphrey Quisenbury for and in consideration of the true 
 love and paternal affection which 1 bear unto my beloved daughter Jane 
 Pope, wife of Lawrence Pope, of the parish of Lunenburg and county of 
 Richmond, as well as other valuable considerations me hereunto especially 
 moving—have given and granted and by these presents do give, grant and 
 .confirm unto my said daughter Jane rope, my six negro slaves, namely: one 
 negro lad named Harvey, one ditto named Charles, one negro woman named 
 Lucy, and her three children, namely: .iantes, Kate and Hannah,—to have 
 and to hold the said six negro slaves, together with all their future increase, 
 unto my said daughter, Jane Pope, her executors and administrators and as¬ 
 signs, henceforth to her and their own proper use and uses thereof and 
 therewith to do and ordain at her and their will and pleasure, as of their 
 own proper goods and chattells, freely, peaceably and quietly, without any 
 manner of lett, hindrance, trouble or denial of me and quietly, without any 
 enbury, my heirs, &c., or of or from any other person or persons whatsoever. 
 Of all the said premises I, the said Humphrey Quisenbury, have put the said 
 Jane Pope in full and peaceable possession. (Balance obliterated.) 
 
 ....Lawrence Pope, of Richmond county, to Humphrey Quisenbury, 
 bond, £1,000 current money, to be paid unto said Humphrey Quisenbury, his 
 certain attorney, Ins heirs, &c., dated 10th of August, 1772. 
 
 The condition of this bond is such that whereas the above-named Hum¬ 
 phrey Quisenbury hath this day by his died of gift given to liis daughter .Jane, 
 wife of the above-named Lawrence Pope, the following negroes, viz: Harry, 
 Charles, Lucy, James, Kate and Hannah, with their future increase, which 
 said slaves are given as a full satisfaction for said Humphrey Quisenbury’s 
 promises at the time of the said Lawrence Pope’s marriage with the said 
 Jane. 
 
 The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above-bound 
 Lawrence Pope and his heirs shall forever hereafter quit-claim to all and 
 every part of the said Humphrey Quisenbury’s other estate, and permit the 
 same to be given by the said Humphrey Quisenbury to such other persons 
 as he may think proper, then the above obligation is to be void, otherwise to 
 remain in full force and virtue. 
 
 (26.) Will of Humphrey Queseubury. (Written by himself.) 
 
 In the name of God, amen! The 30tli day of January, 1773, I. Humph 
 rey Queseubury, of the county of Westmoreland, being sick in body but of 
 good and sound memory (thanks In* to Almighty God), and calling to remem¬ 
 brance the uncarteu estate of this transitory life, and that all flesh must yeld 
 to Deth when it shall please God to call, do make, constitute and ordain and 
 declare this my last will and testament in manner and form following, revoke- 
 ing and annuling by these presents all and every testament or testaments, 
 will or wills, heretofore by me made and declared by word or writing, and 
 this is to be taken for my last will and testament, and none other. 
 
 Item: I have to my wife Elizabeth Queseubury, my hold estate now 
 in my pursessuu, dureiug herr widurehud, for to rais "bur three children upon; 
 
182 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 and if she marries, then to be taken out of her hands into the hands of them 
 as I shall apint to take care of there estate, which is all as I am pursest with; 
 and my will is for it to be equally divided between my three children that I 
 have by my present wife, Elizabeth Quesenbury, which is Elizabeth Quesen- 
 bury, Peggy Quesenbury, and John Quesenbury. 
 
 Item: 1 give and bequeath to my daftur, Ann Piper, won negro whench 
 named Cate, and child named Grace. 
 
 Item: I give and bequeath to my daftur, Mary Marshall, won negro boy 
 named Isuk. 
 
 Item: I give to my dafter, Bethlehem Bashaw, one negro wence named 
 Jude, and child. 
 
 Item: I give to my son in law, John Pope, live shillings starling, and to 
 Jane Pope nine shillings starling. 
 
 I do apint John Carter, senr., and Presley Neal executurs of this my last 
 will and testament, assigned the day and date above written. 
 
 HUMPHREY QUESENBURY. 
 
 Witnesses: Presley Neale, John Carter, Samuel Carter. 
 
 1770. Westmoreland, set.—Elizabeth Quesenbury, declareth before you 
 the gentlemen of the Court, I do not abide by the contents of my husband, 
 Humphrey Quesenburey’s will, desiretli your goodness to make an order and 
 appoint men to divide my property of his estate from the orphan’s part. Am 
 willing to administer on the said estate, and have prepared security. Am 
 bound to pray. 
 
 .... At a court held for Westmoreland county September 24, 1770, this 
 will was proved according to law by the oaths of Presley Neale 
 and John Carter, witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded. Presley 
 Neale, John Carter and Elizabeth Quisenbury, the Exrs. therein named, hav¬ 
 ing refused to qualify, on the motion of the said Elizabeth, who made oatli 
 thereto, and together with James Quesenberry and Charles Dean, junr., her 
 securities, entered into and acknowledged bond as the law directs; certificate 
 is granted her for obtaining letters of administration with the said will an¬ 
 nexed, in due form. PRESLEY THORNTON, C. W. C. 
 
 (27.) An inventory of Humphrey Quisenberry’s estate, as follows, vizt: 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 5 beds with furniture £35, 11 sheets £2 15, 2 best table cloths, 
 
 12s. 35 7 
 
 Brown linen table cloth 3s, round table (is, square do. 6s, round 
 
 do. £1, pine do 2s. fid. 1 17 
 
 18 flag chairs £1 2 black trunks £1 10, 2 small gilt trunks 4s, 
 
 2 looking glasses 9s. 3 19 
 
 Case with 8 bottles £1 5, desk £1, 3 chests 15s 3d, 1 cupboard 
 
 2s fid, a parcel of glassware 7s fid 3 10 
 
 Box Is 3d, a pareell of stoneware 15s, coffee pot, 8s, parcell of 
 
 earthen dishes, potts & .iuggs £1. 5. 2 9 
 
 2 tin pans 7s fid, 2 pr stilliards £1, 2 brass and 2 iron candle¬ 
 sticks 7s fid, warmiing pan 5s. 2 0 
 
 Chaffing dish 2s, 1 box and 2 flat irons with 2 heaters 7s fid, 3 old 
 
 brushes Is 3d. 10 
 
 1 pr spoon moulds fis, currying knife and steel 3s, 1 old gun 15s, 
 
 parcell of old iron £2. 3 4 
 
 1 Lamb with harness, &c., 15s, a parcell of leather £2, a parcell of 
 
 old casks £1, spinning wheel and cards 15s. 4 10 
 
 1 man’s old saddle 10s, cart and wheels £1, 15s, woman’s sad¬ 
 dle and bridle 15s, a parcell of hoggs £10. 13 0 
 
 12 sheep £fi, 20 cattle £20, 1 black horse £8, 1 black mare and 
 
 colt £20, 1 young bay mare £25 79 0 
 
 1 old black mare £2, 1 old fiddle 5s, copper kittle £1, brass do. 
 
 10s, 2 brass skillets 15s. 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 0 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 0 
 
 9 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 4 10 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 183 
 
 1 frying pan 4s, 1 spit and iron pestle 5s, parcell of iron potts 
 £1. 17, 2 pr tongs and shovels 7s (id. 
 
 Spice mortar 5s, a parcell of tubs and pails 10s, a parcell of 
 knives and forks, 3 plates, 11 spoons, 10s. 
 
 Grindstone 5s, sugar box 5s, 2 wooden sugar boxes 2s, 1 old quilt, 
 
 2 table cloths and 1 tow r el 2s. 
 
 1 pr small money scales 2s (id, candle mould and snuffers Is, 
 
 3 small canesters Is 3, 1 bedstead 5s, 
 
 1 set of razors Is 3d, 1 sercli and sive 2s, 2 earthen pots 5s, 2 (asks 
 
 5s, 1 rawhide 10s. 
 
 Some old iron 2s, 1 frow 2s (id, 1 quilting frame Is, Negroes: 
 
 Jacob £70, Moses £05. 1 
 
 Negroes: Sail £55, Barbary £65, Itose £35, Harry £10, Sue £10, 
 Joe £35, Penny £35, Charity £25. : 
 
 Total, i 
 
 The widdow's dower in slaves allotted: Jacob £70. Moses £65 
 (as she agreed) 
 
 Personal estate: 2 ueds and furniture £17, 11 sheets £2, 15, 2 
 best table cloths 12s, large table £1, 
 
 2 black and 2 small gilt trunks £1. 14, small looking glass 3s, 
 
 chest 7s Od, saddle 15s, frying pan 4s. 
 
 20 cattle £20, 12 sheep £6, pewter £1. 17, 1 small round and 1 
 square table 12s, potts and spice mortar 5s. 
 
 £ 
 
 s 
 
 d 
 
 2 
 
 13 
 
 6 
 
 i 
 
 5 
 
 0 
 
 
 14 
 
 0 
 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 i 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 135 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 270 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 571 
 
 19 
 
 6 
 
 135 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 21 
 
 7 
 
 0 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 33 
 
 12 
 
 0 
 
 Total, 
 
 190 
 
 By virtue of an order of court bearing date the 29tli of September, 1770, 
 we have first appraised the estate of Humphrey Quiseuberry, dec’d, as above, 
 and then allotted the widdow her dower of the said estate, being first sworn 
 according to law. Dec. 13, 1776. 
 
 Richard Ilipkins, Nicholas Muse, Rodham Neale, appraisers. 
 
 (28.) Will of Ann Quiseuberry. 
 
 In the name of God, amen! I. Ann Quiseuberry, of the parish of Wash¬ 
 ington, in the county of Westmoreland, being weak of body, but of perfect 
 senses and memory, praised be Almighty God for it. do make and ordain this 
 my last will and testament in manner and form following: 
 
 Imprimis: I commit my sole into the hands of Almighty God which 
 give it to me, and my body to the earth to be decently buried by my executors 
 hereafter named, and my worldly estate I give in manner and form fol¬ 
 lowing: 
 
 Item: I give unto my loving sister Elizabeth Quiseuberry all my estate 
 both within (lores and without dores, to her forever. 
 
 Lastly, I nominate and appoint my cousin William Dodd and my sister 
 Elizabeth Quiseuberry, and Nicholas Dodd executors of this my last will 
 and testament. In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and seal 
 this 23d day of August, anno domney, 1773. ANN QUISENBERRY, 
 
 Witnesses Wm. Dodd, Alvin Motliershead, Thomas Olliff. 
 
 Admitted to probate Aug. 29. 1779. and Wm. Dodd qualified as executor, 
 with James Omohundro as his security. 
 
 (25).) Nicholas Quisenberry to Wm. Quiseuberry, bill of sale. 
 
 Mem: Bill of sale dated 9th of November, 1782. Nicholas Quiseuberry, of 
 the county of Stafford, in consideration of £50 current money of Virginia, 
 sells to his brother, William Quisenberry, of Westmoreland county, one 
 negro man. 
 
184 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 (30.1 Owens F. O., Ya., Feb. 15, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: * * * My family of Quiseuberrys all came from England. 
 My father's name was Nicholas, and he was born in Westmoreland county, 
 son of George Quisenberry. There he lived until he grew up; then lie 
 bought a farm on Maehodoc Creek in King George county. He lived here 
 until he died. He was born in 1812, died when 52 years of age, leaving me 
 a mere child. My mother was Miss Rose Green of Georgetown, D. C. My 
 father has a brother, Austin, living in La Grange, Mo. * * * You will 
 hear from me as soon as I can hear from my cousin, William C. Marmaduke, 
 the Sheriff of Westmoreland county. He is rather a slow coach. When I 
 get a reply from him 1 will inclose it to you. He can furnish all the infor¬ 
 mation you want about the Quisenberry family. * * * 
 
 Yery truly yours. NICHOLAS A. QUISENBERRY. 
 
 (31.) Potomac Mills, Westmoreland Co., Ya., May 14, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: I have received several letters from you in regard to the 
 Quisenberry family. * * * I am sorry I can not inform you further than 
 my great grandfather, Nicholas Quisenberry, who lived and died in this 
 county, who was the father of my grandfather. George Quisenberry, who 
 also died in this county. From what I have been able to learn of the name, 
 there are several branches of the name, and, I presume, of the same family, 
 now living in this and adjoining counties. Three branches of the name 
 si ill live in this county, one in Caroline, ami, I think, one in Maryland. * * * 
 Yours truly, WM. C. MARMADUKE. 
 
 Potomac Mills, Ya., May 31, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: * * * 1 know nothing of the facts relative to the occu¬ 
 
 pancy by the Quiseuberrys (in early times) of any lands on the Potomac. 
 I live at the head of Pope’s Creek, near the mouth of which Gen. Washing¬ 
 ton was born, and, as the crow flies, about one and a half miles from the 
 birthplace spot. I know of but two cemeteries in this county belonging to 
 Colonial times—the first, ‘Tope's Creek,” one mile from my place, into 
 which a large number of persons, many of them distinguished, were in¬ 
 terred; and, strange as it may seem, not a single stone remains to indicate 
 their identity. The other is in the lower part of the county, the condition 
 of which I am not informed of. I can not point you to a single locale owned 
 or occupied by any of the original Quisenberrys. I know only of those 
 beginning with my great-grandfather, Nicholas Q. Monroe’s Creek is the 
 dividing line, on the north of this county, from King George county, im¬ 
 mediately south of which is embraced a section of country on the Potomac 
 known as the “Irish Neck,” extending to another stream known as Mattox 
 Creek, which marks its boundary on the south. From the last named to 
 Pope’s Creek is contained the renowned district of the Washingtons, and, a 
 few miles south of that, the Lees—Stratford—the old Colonial manor of tli" 
 Lee family, still remaining in a wonderful state of preservation. * * * A 
 portion of the “Irish Neck” was once owned and occupied by President 
 Monroe, and a popular summer resort known as “Colonial Beach” has of 
 late years been established there. * * * 
 
 Yours truly, WM. C. MARMADUKE. 
 
 (32. INFORMATION FROM OLD RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY, YA. 
 
 Rapp. County j An account of what goods were sold at an outcry of part of the 
 [estate of Wm. Sargent, dec’d, according to his last Will and Testa- 
 [ rnent, and Judgments Confessed before us, ye subscribers. As fol- 
 May 12, 1663 J lows (vizt.) 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 185 
 
 John Quizenborogh confessed judgment. 1 lb. tobacco 
 
 Mr. Humphrey Pope, security. / To red yearling heifer, 0150 
 
 (And some fifty other vendees and securities.) 
 
 III. 
 
 INFORMATION FROM KING GEORGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 
 
 ( 1 .) King George C. II., Va., Jan. 25, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: Your letter asking for information relative to the Quisenberry 
 family in King George county is received. The earliest mention of the name 
 in the records is in a deed from Thomas Quisenberry, dated in 1728, in which 
 he mentions the will of his father, Humphrey Quisenberry, which will, how¬ 
 ever, I can not And, the book in which it is recorded having been carried 
 (>lf by the Federal troops during the war. There are two distinct families 
 of your name in King George now-the descendants of Mr. James Quisen¬ 
 berry, address Port Conway, King George Co., Va., and Mr. N. A. Quisen¬ 
 berry, address Owens, King George Co., Va. * * * 
 
 ‘ Yours truly, \V. A. ROSE, Deputy Clerk. 
 
 (2.) Thomas Quisenberry, deed to John Finch. 
 
 This indenture, made the 13th day of September, in the second year 
 of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God 
 of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &e., 
 A. I). 1722, between Thomas Quisenberry, in the parish of Sittenburn, in 
 the County of King George, planter, of the one part, and John Finch, in the 
 parish of Washington, in the county of Westmoreland, planter, of the other 
 part, Wituessetli: that the said Thomas Quisenberry, for and in consideration 
 of 12,000 pounds of Tobacco, to him in hand paid, or secured to be paid, by 
 the said John Finch at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents, 
 the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge, and every part thereof, 
 doth release, acquit and discharge the said John Finch, his heirs, executors 
 and administrators forever,—by these presents hath granted, bargained, 
 aliened, sold, remised, released and confirmed unto the said John Finch tin 
 his actual possession now being by virtue of a bargain and sale thereof made 
 for one whole year by indenture bearing date the day next before the date 
 of these presents, and by force of the statute for transferring uses into pos¬ 
 session) and to his lioiis and assigns forever, all those messuages, tenements, 
 plantations and tracts of land, with their appurtenances lying and being in 
 the Parish of Sittenburn, in the county of King George aforesaid, containing 
 one hundred acres of land, be the same more or less, formerly in the pos¬ 
 session or seizin of one Martin Fisher, being part of 300 acres of land 
 formerly purchased by the said Martin Fisher's father of one William Jen¬ 
 nings; and also, all that messuage, tenement, plantation or parcell of land, 
 containing by estimation Thirty acres, be the same more or less, situate, 
 lying and being in the parish and county last mentioned, formerly purchased 
 by said Martin Fisher’s father of one William Payne—the inheritance of 
 which severall plantations and tracts of land, by several mesne conveyances 
 in the law. coming to and vesting in one David Dickey, by deeds of lease 
 and release, bearing date the thirtyetli and one and thirtyeth days of De¬ 
 cember in the year 1711), granted and conveyed tin* same to Humphrey 
 Quisenberry, deceased, father of the said Thomas Quisenberry, in which said 
 deeds of lease and release the right and title of the said David Dickey to 
 the said severall plantations and tracts of land is set forth and derived- 
 aml the said Humphrey Quisenberry in and by his last will and testament 
 in writing did give and devise the same to his son, the said Thomas Quisen¬ 
 berry, party to these presents; and all houses, outhouses, edifices, buildings, 
 
186 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 jards, gardens, orchards, fences, woods and underwoods, trees, ways, water¬ 
 ways, water courses, profits, commodities, emoluments, hereditaments and 
 emoluments whatsoever to the said severall plantations and parcells of 
 land b> longing, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, 
 remainder ann remainders, rents, issues and profits of all and singular the 
 premises aforesaid; and also all tlie estate, right, title, use, interest, trust, pos¬ 
 session, reversion, benefit, properly, claim, and demand whatsoever, of him 
 the said Thomas Quisenberry of, in and to the same, and all deeds, evidences, 
 and writings, touching or in anywise concerning the same premises, or any 
 part thereof,—To have and to hold the said severall plantations and tracts 
 of land, all and singular other the premises hereinbefore mentioned and 
 intended to be hereby granted and released with their and every of their 
 appurtenances—unto the said John Finch, liis heirs and assigns forever. And 
 the said Thomas Quisenberry for himself, his heirs, executors and adminis¬ 
 trators, doth covenant, promise, grant and agree to and with the said John 
 Finch, his heirs and assigns, by these presents, that he, the said Thomas 
 Quisenberry and his heirs, all and singular the several plantations and 
 tracts of land and other premises hereinbefore granted and released unto 
 him the said John Finch, his heirs and assigns, against the claims of all and 
 every person whatsoever, shall and will warrant and forever defend by 
 these presents. 
 
 In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto inter¬ 
 changeably sett their hands and seals the day and year first above written. 
 
 Signed and delivered in the presence of David Wise, Robt: Tomkins, 
 Eilil: Barradell. 
 
 IV. 
 
 INFORMATION FROM RICHMOND AND ESSEX COUNTIES, VIRGINIA. 
 
 (1.) Warsaw, Richmond county, Va., March 30, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: The name of Quesenberry does not appear on our records as 
 early as 1660. All the records so early, pertaining to this country, are iu 
 Essex county, Va. In the year 1718 the name of Humphrey Quesenbury 
 appears in a deed from John Jennings to him. * * * There are none earlier 
 than this. 
 
 Yours respectfully, H. L. WARNER, D. C. 
 
 (2.) Warsaw, Va., April 6, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: Humphrey Quesenbury, as the deed shows, was from West¬ 
 moreland county, Va. He left no will in this county. Yours truly, 
 
 H. L. WARNER. 
 
 (3.) Tappahannock, Essex Co., Va., April 26, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: I have examined the records of this office carefully from the 
 year 1656 (the oldest record book in the office) to the present time, and prior 
 to the vear 1850 I fail to find the name of Quisenberry mentioned. * * * 
 Yours respectfully, H. L. SOUTHWORTH, Clerk. 
 
 V. 
 
 INFORMATION FROM CAROLINE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 
 
 Bowling Green, Caroline Co., Va., April 27, 1888. 
 Dear Sir: * * * I have carefully examined our remaining records, and 
 give you the result. I think I wrote you that our old deed books were 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 187 
 
 burned in Richmond, in 1865, by Federal troops. I timl an index to them 
 from 1733, in which are the following entries: 
 
 1746 to 1752—Quisenberry to Quarles, page 253. 
 
 1777 to 1780—Quisenberry to Hackett, page 721. 
 
 1827 to 1138— Six deeds to and from Quisenberry, pages 231 to 1523. The 
 last were to and from William S. Quesenberry, a merchant then living in 
 Port Royal, the father of Dr. Wm. D. Quesenberry, now living near Milford, 
 in this county. 
 
 In one of our old order books, (all of which I have carefully examined) 
 I find that Aaron Quisenberry in November, 1762, recovered a judgment 
 against Benjamin Catlett for £22. with interest and costs, and 107 lbs of to¬ 
 bacco. This is all I could find, and am pretty sure that nothing further can 
 be learned from the records of this otlice. * * * I am a sort of antiquary, 
 ai d take a pleasure in such searches. I am in my 86th year, and have had 
 charge of the office here since June, 1827. * * * 
 
 Very respectfully, ROBERT HUDGIN. 
 
 VI. 
 
 INFORMATION FROM 8POTTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 
 
 Spottsylvania C. II., Va., Jan. 4, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: The records of this county show that on Nov. 6. 1756, Joseph 
 Collins deeded a tract of laud containing 325 acres situated in St. George i ar- 
 ish, to Aaron Quisenberry, of Caroline county, Va.. and the on August 28, 
 176!), Aaron Quisenberry, and Joyce, his wife, conveyed this same tract by 
 deed to one John Mitchell. There are numerous other matters of record con¬ 
 cerning the Quisenberry family from Nov. 6. 1756 (the first) to this time, but 
 no others about this Aaron Q. Yours truly, 
 
 J. P. H. CHRISMOND, Clerk. 
 
 VII. 
 
 INFORMATION FROM ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 
 
 (1.) Orange Court House, Va., Jan. 25, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: I have again searched the records for information to your 
 inquiry of January 19th. The first deed found was made to Aaron Quisen¬ 
 berry, of St. George’s Parish, of Spottsylvania county, by a Mr. Richard 
 Thomas and wife, on Sept. 28, 1760, conveying 614 acres of land on 
 the north side of the north fork of the North Anna river, in this (Orange) 
 county. This land, 1 reckon, was bought directly after Aaron Quisenberry 
 sold his Spottsylvania land to John Mitchell, as you state. No other deed ap¬ 
 pears to have been made to Aaron Quisenberry after that date, nor does it 
 appear that he deeded any property to any daughter. Our tiles of marriage 
 bonds date back no further than 1775, and no records appear to have been 
 kept of marriages, only files of bonds, which were required of ministers of 
 the gospel performing the ceremony of marriage. Preachers, from that time 
 to about 1800, returned very few marriages. I find, however, that George 
 Quisenberry gave bond on May 22, 1783, to marry a Miss Jane Daniel, but 
 no return of the marriage appears on file. William Cooper gave bond also, 
 with James Quisenberry, as his surety, on Nov. 24. 1787, to marry a M'ss 
 Mary Quisenberry. Rice Pendleton also gave bond, with George Quis¬ 
 enberry as security, to marry a Miss Elizabeth Quisenberry. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 P. H. FRY, Clerk. 
 
188 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 (2.) Orange 0. II., Va., Dec. 5, 1887. 
 
 A. C. Quisenberry, Esq.: 
 
 Dear Sir: Tlie records of this county go back no earlier than 1734, and 
 for information prior to that date you can apply to the clerk of Spottsylvania 
 county, -which is an adjoining county to Orange, and from which this county 
 was taken oil' about that time. I have, however, made an examination of 
 tin' records of deeds here, and find one from Aaron Quisenberry and Joyce, 
 his wife, to Aaron Quisenberry, jr.. his son, for about 100 acres of land; the 
 deed recites that the parties are all of Orange county, Va., and is in con¬ 
 sideration of natural love and affection. The next deed is from the same 
 parties to their son. Moses Quisenberry, for the same quantity of land and for 
 tlie like consideration, ’t he third is from the same parties to their son, Wil¬ 
 liam Quisenberry, for like quantity of land and consideration as the other 
 two. All three deeds are recorded in January, 1772. The next deed is from 
 Aaron Quisenberry to his son John Quisenberry, for 114 acres of land and 
 like consideration as the other three, and this deed is recorded in March, 1777. 
 Then again, by deeds, Aaron Quisenberry conveys to his four above-named 
 sons, and also to another son named George, certain slave property, which 
 deeds are all recorded in March, 1786, and on the margin of these records— 
 i. e., the last live—I find endorsed: “Ex’d and delv’d to James Quisenberry, 
 son to Moses, April, 1789.” Again, I find in July, 1786, a deed recorded from 
 Aaron Quisenberry to his son James Quisenberry, of the county of Fayette, 
 Kentucky, conveying a negro boy named “Bob,” about 24 years old. This 
 James Quisenberry must have been your great-grandfather referred to. 
 These are all the parties of your name that can be found on the record of 
 deeds here within the dates you specify, or near about them. * * * 
 
 Yours respectfully, P. H. FRY, Clerk. 
 
 (3.) Orange C. H., Va., Feb. 4, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: Aaron Quisenberry, sr., left no will, but died intestate, and his 
 sons Aaron and Moses qualified as administrators, as will be seen from the 
 settlement of their administration account, on record; wherein, after stating 
 the receipts and disbursements, the balance of the estate is given to his five 
 children, lo-wit: Winifred, Miss, William, George, and Aaron, each receiving 
 the sum of £120, 10s and 9d., making the whole estate divided among the 
 heirs, after payment of debts, expenses, &c., amount to over £630. Aaron 
 Quisenberry must have died about the commencement of the year 1795, a< 
 the first item of the administration account is March 22d of that year, and 
 the account is completed as of February 6, 1798, when the funds were paid 
 over to the five heirs, as before stated, and the estate settled up. 
 
 Yours respectfully, P. H. FRY, Clerk. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 189 
 
 Dr 
 1795. 
 Meh. 22. 
 
 Settlement of the Estate of Aaron Quisenberry, sr. 
 
 Aaron Quisenberry, seur, dec’d, estate in settlement with Aaron and Moses 
 Quisenberry, Admrs. 
 
 I Cr. 
 
 £ g. d. 1795. £ s. d. 
 
 To cash paid George Quifcn- M’ch 12. To amount of sales. 169 2 2 % 
 
 berry.-. 4 13 6 | 1797. _ 
 
 “ cash paid Moses Quiscn- I Jan. 28. To amount of do. 199 !•*> •►, { 4 
 
 berry.-. 0 7 6 ! 
 
 “ cash pd. Win. Wright for 
 
 Vand*. 2 0 0 | 
 
 " John Bickers for 1 coffin... 0 15 0 
 “ spirits furnished at the 
 
 sale. 1 93 1 
 
 “ cash pd. lawyer and adver¬ 
 tising sale. 0 16 0 
 
 cash pd. for taxes. 1 3 8 
 
 “ cash pd. for boating out 
 
 corn . 0 6 0 
 
 “ cash paid the estate. 0 7 0 
 
 Dec. 28. “ cash pd. clerk's fees for 
 
 record. 1 10 5 
 
 hailing tobacco to Freder¬ 
 icksburg. 
 
 1796. 
 May 23. 
 
 1797. 
 Nov. 0. 
 
 1798. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 cash pd. Somerville for 
 Cunningham <fc Co. ap¬ 
 praisers fee. 
 
 Wm. Burris receipt omit¬ 
 ted 27 A pi., 1795. 
 
 cash pd. taxes 1796 & 1797- 
 
 cash pd. Mrs. Burrus. 
 
 cash pd. for support of Mrs. 
 
 Quisenberry, dec'd. 
 
 cash pd. taxes in full 1791 
 (omitted). 
 
 0 8 0 
 
 2 9 8 
 0 15 3 
 
 o 9 8 
 
 3 6 6% 
 
 8 2 8 
 1 3 8 
 
 Aaron & Moses Quisen¬ 
 berry, charges allowed for 
 acting as administrators... 6 0 0 
 Winifred Quisenberry, her 
 legacy pd. as per receipt— 126 10 9 
 Win. Quisenberry, per re¬ 
 ceipt. 126 10 9 
 
 Gcorgo Quisenberry, per 
 
 receipt.—. 126 10 9 
 
 HIis* Quisenberry, per re¬ 
 ceipt. 126 10 9 
 
 Aaron Quisenberry, per re¬ 
 ceipt. 126 10 9 
 
 £668 17 0'., 
 
 £668 17 6% 
 
 * “ Vand,” i. 6., “ Vend,” or sale. Win. Wright was the auctioneer.—[A. C. Q.J 
 
 We, the Commissioners appointed by the County Court of Orange, have 
 this clay settled the administration of Aaron Quisenberry and Moses Quisen¬ 
 berry, on the estate of Aaron Quisenberry, deceased, and find the legacies 
 all paid off and the accounts balanced. Given under hands this 6tli day of 
 February, 17!)S. 
 
 JOHN BROCK, JR., JAMES NELSON, ADAM LINDSAY. 
 
 (4.) St. Just, Orange Co., Va., Jan. 18, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: Your letter of the 8th instant was duly received. 1 am sorry 
 to say iu reply that I am not able to give you any information that would be 
 of any service to you. I have seen my brother Benjamin, my oldest sister, 
 and several other old persons, but none of them know anything of your 
 great-great-grandfather, Aaron Quisenberry—who was my great-grandfather. 
 George Quisenberry, who was your great-grandfather's brother, was my 
 grandfather. He had 22 children. I have ids register giving tlie names of 
 all but two, who died before they had names. My father’s name was Vivian 
 
190 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Quisenberry. Grandfather George Quisenberry married Jane Daniel. I have 
 never heard of grandfather George living anywhere else but in Orange 
 county, Va., where he died about 1836 at his farm “Cherry Grove,” iu sight, 
 of where 1 now live, llis brother, Aaron, jr., also died in this county. We 
 all believe that our great-grandfather was from England, but we have no 
 proof, li e do not know anything of the old family record, or where great¬ 
 grandfather Aaron Quisenberry was buried. * * * 
 
 Very respectfully yours, DANIEL QUISENBERRY. 
 
 (5.) The Will of Thomas Burrus (or Burris), father of Jane, the wife of 
 Rev. James Quisenberry, of Kentucky. 
 
 In the name of God, amen! I, Thomas Burrus, of the County of Orange 
 and Parish of St. Thomas, (Va.), being at present time sound in mind and 
 memory, I thank God for the same, do hereby certify this to be my last wJl 
 and testament, in manner and form as follows: First, after I quit this mortal 
 life I desire my body to be decently buried with every solemnity at the dis 
 cretion of my Executor; aud after paying my just debts, what then remaius 
 my will and desire is may be disposed of in the following manner, viz: 
 
 1 lend to my beloved wife, Frances Burrus, my whole estate, real and 
 personal, during her natural life or widowhood, and after her death to be 
 divided amongst my children, hereafter named. 
 
 I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Burrus five hundred acres of 
 Land at Kentucky (first choice) to him and his heirs, &e. 
 
 Also, I give and bequeath to my son Will/iam Tandy Burrus five hundred 
 acres of Land at Kentucky (second choice) to him and his heirs, &c., as also 
 one feather bed and furniture, &c. 
 
 Also, 1 give and bequeath to my son Roger Burrus five hundred acres 
 of land at Kentucky (third choice) to him and his heirs, &c., aud one 
 feather bed and furniture, &c. 
 
 Also, I give and bequeath to my grandson, Thomas Burrus, son of Thomas 
 Burrus, one negro boy Absalom, to him and his heirs, &c. 
 
 I give and bequeath to my daughter. Mounting Burrus, one negro woman 
 named Nan, and all her increase, but if this said negro should die before my 
 daughter shall be of age or marry, then there shall be another likely girl 
 not under the age of ten years old to be replaced to her aud her heirs, &c.. 
 and also one beast by the name of Jack, aud saddle, and feather bed and 
 furniture. 
 
 Also, I give and bequeath to my daughter Fanny Embry, one negro girl 
 named Sukey, and all her increase, to her and her heirs, it being her part of 
 the slaves I intend for her; also one feather bed and furniture; which said 
 negro and bed is already delivered to her. 
 
 Also, I give aud bequeath to my daughter, Mildred Embry, one negro 
 boy named Ben, to her and her heirs, &e., already delivered; also ten pounds 
 cash, already delivered. 
 
 I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Brockman one negro boy 
 named Duke, also one feather bed and furniture, which said negro aud bed 
 is already delivered; also twenty pounds cash, to be raised out of my estate, 
 to her and her heirs, &e. 
 
 I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Tribble one negro girl named 
 Agness, and all her increase, to her and her heirs, already delivered; also 
 one feather bed aud furniture, already delivered. 
 
 I give and bequeath to my daughter Jane Quisenberry one negro girl 
 named Dinah, and all her increase to her and her heirs: also one feather bed 
 and furnituiv; also twenty pounds cash; which portion above mentioned is al¬ 
 ready delivered. 
 
 I give to my grand daughter Frances Quisenberry, the daughter of Jane 
 Quisenberry, one negro girl named Violet, to her and her heirs forever. 
 
 I give to my daughter Frances Tandy Bush one negro girl named Alice, 
 and all her increase; also one feather bed and furniture, to her aud her heirs, 
 which is already delivered to her. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 191 
 
 Also, I desire after iny wife Frances Burrus’s death or widowhood, that 
 the negro boy Gilbert, now in possession of my sou Thomas Burrus, may 
 be returned to the ballance of my estate, and that there may be nine of the 
 choice of my slaves then remaining, to be equally divided between my three 
 sons Thomas Burrus, William Tandy Burrus, and Roger Burrus, to them 
 and their heirs, Ac., and if either of my sons should die under age or before 
 they possess their part of my estate, that their portion shall be equally di¬ 
 vided between my sons then remaining. 
 
 1 also desire that the balance of my land at Kentucky, which is live 
 hundred acres, be equally divided between my five daughters Fannie Embry, 
 Mildred Embry, Sallie Tribble, Jane Quisenberry and Frances Tandy Bush, 
 to them and their heirs forever. 
 
 I give unto my daughter Mourning Burrus the Land whereon I now live, 
 at the death of my wife Frances Burrus, to her and her heirs forever. 
 
 Also my will and desire after the death or widowhood of my wife Frances 
 Burrus, that the ballance of my negroes then remaining, with stock and 
 household furniture of all kinds, may be equally divided amongst my sons 
 and daughters above named, except one equal child's part of the last bal¬ 
 lance of negroes and household furniture and stock to be equally divided 
 amongst my two grand-daughters and grand son, Elijah Perry, Dicey Perry, 
 and Mary Perry, to them and their heirs, &c. 
 
 And I do hereby nominate and appoint my wife, Frances Burrus, Execu¬ 
 trix, and Henry Tandy and Thomas Burrus, Executors, of this my last will 
 and testament. As witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and seal 
 this 2d day of October, 1788. THOMAS BURRUS. 
 
 Witnesses: Caleb Lindsay, Thos. Bell, .Tames Daniel. 
 
 Probated and admitted to record on Monday, March 23, 178!), the execu¬ 
 trix and executors named herein qualifying as such, with Joseph Duncan 
 and William Tandy Burrus as their securities. 
 
 ((i.) )y Frankfort, Ivy., Jan. 31, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: On yesterday I entered on my 84tli year, so you will see how 
 far back my recollection of things and of persons should reasonably extend. 
 * * * In your last letter you wanted to know something of the Tandy and 
 Burris families. There are perhaps no two families in the State of Vir¬ 
 ginia whose genealogy I know more of. Both families were neighbors and 
 intimate friends of my father; and the younger ones (and there were a host 
 of them) were my schoolmates. I knew all the elder ones, whom I shall 
 name. Of the Tandy family there were Billy (as he was called), Harry, 
 Roger, and a sister of these married a man named Perry. Billy, about the 
 time of my birth, married Betsey Dickinson, an aunt of the editor of the 
 Religious Herald, and about the year 1812 he moved to Kentucky. Harry 
 and Roger Tandy both married Misses Adams, and in the fall of 1818 they 
 moved to Kentucky and settled in the county of Todd, where some of their 
 descendants still live. 
 
 Were 1 to live to the age of a thousand years I should not forget Tandy 
 Burris, who was the sou of a sister of the Tamlys whom I have named. 
 He and my father were intimate friends, and each kept, a pack of hounds, 
 and were together in many very exciting fox-chases. When a boy I was 
 often with them. Captain Burrus left a large family, one of whom, a daugh¬ 
 ter named Emily, married Hezekiah Quisenberry, a son of Aaron Quisen¬ 
 berry (the second). Your great-grandmother, Jane Burris, was the sister of 
 Tandy Burris, and his first daughter was named after her—Jane Burris. 
 This Jane Burris married a man named Frazier, of Orange County. * * * 
 Yours most respectfully, J. RUSSELL HAWKINS. 
 
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 (7.) Record and Pension Office, War Department, 
 
 Washington, Aug. 24, 1893. 
 
 Mr. John M. Ragland, Osceola, Mo.: 
 
 It appears from the records of this office that Thomas Burrace, whose 
 name appears on some records as Burris, enlisted February 23, 177(5, as a 
 private in Captain William Washington’s company, Rd Virginia regiment of 
 Foot, Revolutionary War, and his name appears on the muster rolls of that 
 organization to July. 1777. He is reported with the rank of Corporal on mus¬ 
 ter rolls as follows: Capt. John Francis Mercer’s company of this regiment 
 to and including May, 1778; Capt. Robert Powell’s company, 3d and 7th 
 Va. (consolidated) regiment from May to September, 1778; Capt. Robert 
 Powell’s company, 3d Virginia regiment, for October, 1778; Capt. John F. 
 Mercer's company, 3d Virginia regiment, to April, 1779, and Capt. Valentine 
 Peyton's company, 3d Virginia regiment, to November, 1779. No further 
 record of him has been found. 
 
 No record has been found showing the residence or age of Private James 
 Ragland, of Capt. Woodson’s company, 9tli Virginia regiment, nor has any 
 record been found showing in what part of Virginia the company was 
 enlisted. 
 
 By authority of the Secretary of War. F. C. AINSWORTH, 
 
 Colonel, U. S. Army. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
 
 (1.) Epitaph on the Tomb of Rev. James Quisenberry, Clark County, Ky. 
 
 In memory of Rev. James Quisenberry, born in Orange county, Virginia, 
 of English parentage, June 13, 1759. In the 18th year of his age he inter¬ 
 married with Jane Burrus, of the same county, by whom he had seven sons 
 and six daughters; and on the 24th of December, 1811, he was married to 
 Chine Shipp, of Clark county, Ivy., by whom he had eleven children. In the 
 early part of his life he professed religion. In 1783 he moved to Kentucky, 
 and not long after commenced preaching the Gospel of the Redeemer, which 
 he continued zealously to do till his departure on the 5th day of August, 1830, 
 whose soul, made meet for glory, was taken to Immanuel’s bosom, being 
 71 years, 1 month and 22 days old. 
 
 Like all good men, by some despised; 
 
 Like them, by many others loved and prized; 
 
 But theirs shall be the everlasting crown— 
 
 Not whom the World, but Jesus Christ, will own. 
 
 From the Tomb of Ilis Wife: 
 
 In memory of Jane Quisenberry, consort of Rev. .Tames Quisenberry, to 
 whom she was married December 4, 177ti, and by whom she had thirteen 
 children. She was born in Orange county, Virginia, July 5th, 1739: pro¬ 
 fessed the Christian religion when cpiite young, and departed this life Novem¬ 
 ber 3d, 1811, being 52 years, 3 months and 27 days old. 
 
 When Faith and Love (which parted from her never), 
 
 Had ripened thy just soul to dwell with God, 
 
 Meekly thou didst resign this earthly load 
 • Of Death, called Life, which us from Life doth sever. 
 
 Thy works * * * (Balance; illegible.) 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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 ( 2 .) 
 
 From the Fly-Leaves of Rev. James Quisenberry’s old Bible (printed by 
 Mark and Cbas. Kerr, Edinburgh, 1795): 
 
 Titles of My Books: 
 
 Clia liner's Discourses, 2 volumes. 
 
 Memoirs of Whitfield. 
 
 Letters on Uuitariauism. 
 
 Ward's Letters. 
 
 Self Knowledge. 
 
 Bries" Memoirs. 
 
 Practical Piety. 
 
 Almost a Christian. 
 
 Record of My Slaves: 
 
 Negro Bob was born 1703. 
 
 Negro Dinah was born June 20, 1771. 
 
 Negro Cato was born 1773. 
 
 Negro Dicey was born September 4, 1780. 
 
 Negro Clianey was born November 27, 1791. 
 
 Negro C'uflfee was born March 15, 1792. 
 
 Negro Walker was born October 7. 1795. 
 
 Negro Jeremiah was born August 25. 1807. 
 
 Negro Sally was born January 0, 1790. 
 
 Negro Duke was born February 3. 1800. 
 
 Negro David was born April 10, 1803. 
 
 Negro Daniel was born March 8, 1805. 
 
 Negro Violet was born November 22, 1805. 
 
 Negro Milly was born February 11, 1807. 
 
 Negro Patsy was born March 10, 1808. 
 
 Negro Bob was born February 3, 1809. 
 
 Negro Joyce was born May 23, 1810. 
 
 Negro Ben was born June 10, 1810. 
 
 Negro Betty was born November 2. 1810. 
 
 Negro Mariudo was born November 24, 1811. 
 
 Negro Jacob was born May 20, 1812. 
 
 Negro Caesar was born September 24, 1813. 
 
 Negro Andy was born April 4. 1814. 
 
 Negro Willis was born May 7. 1814. 
 
 Negro Sam was born July 31, 1815. 
 
 Negro Louisa was boru August 20, 1810. 
 
 Negro Major was born October 1, 1810. 
 
 Negro Lucinda was born February 4. 1819. 
 
 Negro Gilbert was boru May 14, 1821. 
 
 Negro Mary was boru- 1823. 
 
 Negro John Green was boru Dec. 11. 1828. 
 
 Taylor’s History of Ten Churches. 
 Debate on Baptism. 
 
 Septick’s Manual. 
 
 Revival of Religion in New England. 
 Dialogue of Devils. 
 
 Solitude Sweetened. 
 
 Whitfield's Sermons. 
 
 (3.) Winchester, Clark Co.. Ky., June 8. 1S88. 
 
 My Dear Q.: The following is a memorandum of lands bought and sold 
 by persons named Quiseuberry, as appears of record in this office, between 
 the years 1793 and 1810, viz: 
 
 John Quiseuberry and Rachel, his wife, to Benjamin Drake, 100 acres, £100. 
 
 Same to Charles Stewart, 8214acres, £82 10s. 
 
 Same to Curtis Pendleton. 80 acres, £50. 
 
 James Quiseuberry and Jane, his wife, to Conrad Lane, 39 acres, £50. 
 
 Same to Aaron Haydon, 50 acres, £50. 
 
 John Reed and Elizabeth, his wife, to James Quiseuberry, 55 acres, £110. 
 James Stevens and Lucy, his wife, to Nicholas Quiseuberry and Lucy, his 
 wife, 54 acres, £8. 
 
 James Stevens and Lucy, his wife, to James Quiseuberry, 7% acres, £15. 
 
194 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 William Bush and Frances, his wife, to James Quisenberry, 82 acres, £50. 
 
 liice Fendleton and wife to Aaron Quisenberry, 53V-> acres, £58, 18s. 
 
 James Quisenberry to Joel Quisenberry, 92% acres, deed of gift. 
 
 James French to John Quisenberry, all his interest in 100 acres of land which 
 was sold and conveyed by Andrew Tribble to the said John Quisen¬ 
 berry in the year 1789. This is a quit-claim deed. 
 
 John Quisenberry and llachol, his wife, to Zachariali Elkin, 100 acres, $1,000. 
 
 Nicholas Quisenberry and Lucy, his wife, to Nathaniel Ragland, 54 acres, $540. 
 
 Henry Hieronymus and Elizabeth, his wife, to Harvey Quisenberry, 105 
 acres, $1,000. 
 
 Win. Eubank to Joel Quisenberry, 55 acres, $500. 
 
 Aaron Quisenberry and Betsey, his wife, to Thomas Berry, 53 acres, $500. 
 
 Jas. Harvey Quisenberry and Lucy, his wife, to James> Quisenberry, 105 
 acres, $1,000. 
 
 Yours truly, FRED BROADIIURST, Co. Clerk. 
 
 (4.) 
 
 Note.—In April. 1888, then a resident of Lexington, K.v., I personally 
 examined the records of Fayette county, and found (in the “burnt records”) 
 that in 1788 my great-grandfather, James Quisenberry, bought from Andrew 
 Tribble 200 acres of land in that part of Fayette which is now Clark county. 
 The “burnt records” are copies of papers more or less destroyed by lire 
 when the Fayette County Clerk’s office was burnt in 1800. Many papers 
 and records were then totally destroyed, and among them the record of 
 James Quisenberry’s first purchase of land in Kentucky, in 1785.—A. C. Q. 
 
 (5.) Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 12, 1887. 
 
 My Dear Q.: 1 have searched the deed books, &c., on file in the office of 
 the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, and I can find only two deeds made to 
 Quisenberrys—December 22, 1788, Aaron Bledsoe, of Orange county, Va., 
 made a deed to John Quisenberry for and in consideration of £150, of a tract 
 of 350 acres of land lying on Howard’s Creek in (then) Fayette county. In 
 1808 Anderson Long and wife deeded to John Quisenberry a tract of land in 
 Warren county, Ky., for $1,015. 1 can find no deed to James Quisenberry 
 at all. JOHN H. STUART. 
 
 (6.) Bristow, Warren Co., Ky., Feb. 3, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: I received a letter at this place a few days ago directed to my 
 brother, John Quisenberry, who has gone West. Y r ou wanted to know our 
 ancestors and where they came from. My father’s name was Maury W. 
 Quisenberry; his father was Nicholas Quisenberry, and his father was 
 John Quisenberry. Nearly all of the Quisenberrys who lived here have 
 gone West, except myself and family of five. I have in my possession some 
 of my grandfather’s papers, which show that they came from Virginia. My 
 grandfather (Nicholas Q.) married a Stevens. * * * I also have another 
 paper showing that he lived in Clark Co., Ky. In 1808 my grandfather made 
 a deed to Nathaniel Ragland, of Clark county, Ky., and the land deeded had 
 formerly belonged to James Quisenberry. I have heard my grandfather 
 speak of Joel and Aaron Quisenberry often. I never knew where our first 
 ancestors came from, further than Virginia. 
 
 Yours truly, WILLIAM QUISENBERRY. 
 
 (7.) Land Office, Frankfort, Ivy., April 23, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: I submit you herewith a list of all patents of record in this 
 office in any name approaching those in your letter: 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 195 
 
 Nicholas Quisenberry, 10 acres, Warren county, Book 16, page 436. 
 Zacckeus Quesenberry, 100 acres, Barren county, Bok E, page 520. 
 Zaceheus Quesenberry, 25 acres, Barren county, Book E, page 521. 
 
 Page Quesenberry, 50 acres, Barren county, Book W, page 372. 
 
 Moses Quisenberiy, 131 acres, Breckinridge county, Book L 2, page 110. 
 Moses Quisenberry, 137 acres, Green county, Book O 2, page 370. 
 
 Very respectfully, HAL. S. CORBETT, Dep. Reg. L. O. 
 
 (8.) Hiseville, Ky., Jan. 23, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: I am just in receipt of yours of the 10th. I have written to my 
 
 uncle, Solomon Quesenberry, who is 80 years old, to get up the best history 
 
 of our family he can. * * * My father is dead. Some of our family are 
 in Richmond, Mo. * * * My grandfather, Page Quesenberry, was born in 
 Virginia. His brother, Zachariah Quesenberry, was a Methodist preacher. 
 My grandfather moved from Virginia to Boyle county, Ky., and lived at 
 Perryville; and moved from Perryville to Barren county in 1803. 
 
 Truly yours, I. M. QUESENBERRY. 
 
 Parksville, Boyle Co., Ky., Oct. 1, 1888. 
 Dear Sir: Since writing to you last 1 have bought a place up here. * * * 
 Page Quesenberry was born in Fauquier or Culpeper county, Virginia, in 
 1780, and his father’s name was James, born in 1690, as my Uncle Solomon 
 Quesenberry (now 81 years old) thinks. (Note.—A palpable error; lie was 
 probable born about 1730, or later.—A. C. Q.) My grandfather, Page Quesen¬ 
 berry, moved from Virginia in company with his brother Zachariah, and they 
 stopped at Perryville, Ivy., and lived there one year, and then moved to 
 Barren county, 5 miles east of Glasgow. Zachariah Quesenberry was a 
 Methodist preacher, and left Barren county in 1840, moving to Richmond, 
 Missouri. He was a preacher of considerable note, and had charge of the 
 church in Richmond from 1840, preaching every week, up to two weeks 
 before his death, which occurred September 23, 1804, at the age of 95 years. 
 He was born in 1769. * * * He left a widowed daughter, Mrs. Bryant, 
 in Richmond, and a son, John I\ Quesenberry, who is a merchant there, and 
 lias been for 48 years, and has never married. * * * 
 
 Janies Quesenberry was born in Virginia in 1090. His two sons were 
 born there—Zachariah in 1709 and Page in 1780. Page had three sons, 
 Joseph, Abel and Solomon. Joseph died young. Abel was born in 1815 and 
 died in 1883. leaving one daughter, Mrs. Hanks, of Hart county, Ky., and 
 three sons—Y. M. Quesenberry, of Gordon City, Kansas; ,T. W. Quesenberry, 
 of Hiseville, Ky., and myself. Solomon Quesenberry was born in 1806, and 
 now lives near Glasgow, Ky., and has one son, J. IV. Quesenberry, and four 
 daughters living—one single, Lucinda; and three married, Mrs. Kitmaird, of 
 Adair county; Mrs. Breeding, of El Paso, Texas, and Mrs. Wood, of Hiseville, 
 Ky. Zachariah had a daughter and two sons, Joseph and John. Joseph 
 died young, in Richmond, Mo., and John is a very prominent merchant there. 
 The daughter, Mrs. Bryant, lives with her brother John. * * * 
 
 Respectfully, I. M. QUESENBERRY. 
 
 (9.) Courier-Journal Office, Louisville, Ky., Jan. 4, 1888. 
 
 My Dear Cousin: You are my “sure enough” cousin, as I always believed 
 you to be from your Quisenberry features. * * * In regard to my mother’s 
 family I know this: Her name was Evaline Quisenberry, only daughter of 
 Aaron Shelton Quisenberry and Henrietta Reynolds, his wife. She was born 
 in Orange county Va„ Nov. 8. 1808. My grandfather was born either in 
 Spottsylvania or Orange, I can not say which, as the family record is not 
 available. He had three children, my mother, and two sons—Robert and 
 William, both older than she. All are dead. My grandfather was a very tall 
 man, undeviatingly honest, stern, proud, and not easily turned from his pur- 
 
196 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 1 os s. 1 remember him very well, particularly so as I have been credited w th 
 some, if not all, of his marked characteristics. 1 know that. 1 am stubborn, 
 at least, and believe that I am honest, llis sons left small families, and a 
 grandson. Dr. .lames Quisenberrv, is a rising young physician at Utica, In¬ 
 diana. * * * 1 am unable to say when my grandfather came to Kentucky, 
 but it w as after the birth of my mother. Your affectionate cousin, 
 
 E. TOLK JOHNSON, Managing Editor. 
 
 ( 10.1 Belmont, Va., Feb. 17, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: * * * Hezekiali Quisenberrv, who married Miss Sally Bur¬ 
 
 ris, urns the son of Aaron, who lived near North r.amunkey Church, in 
 Orange county. Aaron Quisenberrv married Miss Ellis, a sister of Hezekiali 
 Ellis, who, besides her son Hezekiah, raised live daughters, all of whom left 
 children. The name of one (Mrs. Reynolds) was Joyce. I never saw' Mr. 
 Aaron Quisenberry. His brother, Air. 'William Quisenberry, was the father 
 of Elijah, James, Charles and William Quisenberry, all dead, and their fami¬ 
 lies ail left the State, except Elijah’s and Mrs. Ralph Dickinson’s. She is 
 the mother of A. E. Dickinson, editor of the Religious Herald, at Richmond, 
 Va. William Quisenberry, the son of Elijah, married Miss Hyter, grand¬ 
 daughter of Rev. Wm. H. Hyter, and tw’o of his sons are Baptist preachers, 
 and stand well as such. One was ordained at Mt. Hermou last year, and is 
 pastor of a church below' Richmond, and tHe other is now at the Baptist Theo¬ 
 logical Seminary, at Louisville, Ky. Elijah Quisenberry’s grandson, Dr. 
 James E. Gardner, is a surgeon in the United States Navy. I knew Mr. 
 George Quisenberry, who lived near Antioch Church, in Orange county. He 
 had a large family, but they are all dead, or have left this State except one. 
 His name is James, and he lives at Dabney’s Old Mill, in Louisa county, 
 just below' Waller’s Tavern, in Spottsylvania. R. L. COLEMAN. 
 
 Louisville, Ky., July 20, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: Your letter asking information of the Quisenberry family was 
 received a few days ago, My husband’s father was named Aaron, and I 
 think that his grandfather’s name, was either Aaron or Shelton. My hus¬ 
 band never saw his grandfather, he having been born and always lived in 
 Charleston, Va. My husband’s mother and father u r ere born in Virginia, and 
 had one child before they came to Kentucky. They never had but three chil¬ 
 dren—my husband, wdiose name w'as William, one brother, named Robert, 
 and a sister named Evaline. * * * 
 
 Yours respectfully, MRS. FRANCES E. QUISENBERRY. 
 
 Will of Aaron Quisenben-y, junr. 
 
 Tn the name of God, amen! I, Aaron Quisenberry, of the county of 
 Orange, calling to mind the uncertainty of this life, do make, ordain and set¬ 
 tle iliis my last will and testament, hereby revoking and disannulling all 
 other w'ills by me heretofore made, in manner and form following, that is to 
 say—I resign my soul to God w’ho gave it me trusting in and thro’ the merits 
 of Jesus Christ to meet a joyful resurrection; and as to my worldly goods 
 the Lord has blessed me with, after my body is decently buried and all my 
 debts paid. I give as follow's: 
 
 Imprimis. I g ve unto my son, Stephen Quisenberry, one shilling sterling. 
 
 Item. I give unto my daughter, Polly Bell, the bed and household furni¬ 
 ture and stock that I have give into her possession, and one negro girl about 
 14 years old, by name Esther, and her increase, and forty dollars cash. 
 
 Item. I give unto my son, Thomas Quisenberry, one shilling sterling. 
 
 Item; I give unto my son, Aaron Shelton Quisenberry, one negro boy by 
 name Daniel, is about ten years old, and one negro girl named Milley, about 
 two years old, and one feather bed and furniture. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 197 
 
 Item. I give unto my son, David Quisenberry, one negro girl named Daf- 
 feny, is about nine years old, and the horse I have let him have in posses¬ 
 sion, and one feather lied and furniture, and if can be found, one negro man 
 by name Anthony, and the horse which he made his elope with, the ninth day 
 of August, at night, in the year 1800. 
 
 Item. I give unto my daughter, Winnifret Morris, one negro girl named 
 Rose, about sixteen years old, and her increase, and the bed and furniture and 
 mare that I have lent her, and one hundred dollars. 
 
 Item. I give unto my sou, Aaron S. Quisenberry, the tract of land 1 
 bought of Andrew Shepherd, lying in Orange county, containing 318 acres, 
 adjoining to Dolestage Taton, only he is to raise one hundred dollars out of it, 
 which I give to my daughter Tolly Bell. 
 
 Item. 1 give and bequeath all the remainder of my estate, both real and 
 personal, that is not yet given away, to my beloved wife, Sally Quisenberry, 
 during her natural life or widowhood, and no longer; for it is my will that 
 she shall have my tract of land whereon I now live on containing about 409 
 acres, and another tract adjoining of 138 acres which 1 bought of .Tames 
 Robb and Company, and all the residue of my estate both real and personal, 
 as long as she remains my widow, and no longer; and at her marriage or 
 death it is my will that the said estate left her be equally divided between 
 my last wife’s children, namely: .Toice Quisenberry, Benjamin Quisenberry, 
 Sally Quisenberry, Elizabeth Quisenberry, Hezekiali Quisenberry, and Susie 
 Ellis Quisenberry. And it is my will and desire if any of these last-named 
 children should die before the division, or before they have an heir, it is my 
 will that its or their parts should be equally divided among the remaining 
 part of the last set of children. 
 
 Lastly, I constitute my beloved wife, Sally Quisenberry, executrix, and 
 Aaron S. Quisenberry and George Ellis, executors, of this my last will and 
 testament. 
 
 In witness whereof I nave hereunto set my hand and seal the 21st day 
 of February, in the year of our Lord, 1805. AARON QUISENBERRY. 
 
 Signed and acknowledged in presence of William Quisenberry, Henry 
 Bell, Jno. Moore, Wilt. Bell. 
 
 At a Court held for Orange county, at the Courthouse, on Monday the 22d 
 day of July, 1805, this last will and testament of Aaron Quisenberry, de¬ 
 ceased, was proved by the oaths of Henry Bell and William Bell, witnesses 
 the eto, and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of George Ellis, one 
 of the executors therein named, who made oath thereto according to law. 
 and together with Thomas Coleman and Goodrich S. Grasty, his securities, 
 entered into and acknowledged their bond in the penalty of fifteen thousand 
 dollars, conditioned as the law directs, certificate was granted him for ob¬ 
 taining a probat thereof in due form, liberty being reserved to Sally Quisen¬ 
 berry and Aaron S. Quisenberry, the executrix and other executor therein 
 named, to join in the probat when they shall think fitt. 
 
 Teste: REYNOLDS CHATMAN, Clerk. 
 
 At a court held for Orange county, at the Courthor.se, on Monday th • 
 23d of September, 1805, on motion of Aaron S. Quisenberry, one of the exeeu- 
 tois named in the last will and testament of Aaron Quisenberry, dec’d, who 
 made oath according to law, and together with Caleb Lindsay and Goodrich 
 S. Grasty, his securities, entered into and acknowledged their bond in the 
 penalty of fifteen thousand dollars, conditioned as the law directs. Certificate 
 was also granted him for obtaining a probat thereof in (hie form. 
 
 Teste: REYNOLDS CHATMAN, Clerk. 
 
 (11.) Extract from Will of William Quisenberry. 
 
 Orange County, Virginia, July 7, 1807. 
 
 1. Gives his son Elijah, the tract of land whereon lie lives, in Spottsyl- 
 vauia county, 20tl acres, and two slaves. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 2. To daughter Elizabeth, two slaves, horse, saddle and bridle and furni¬ 
 ture. all ol' which she has received. 
 
 3. To son Aaron, one-half the tract of land lying in Spottsylvania county 
 containing 4D0 acres, and two slaves and horse and saddle and bridle. 
 
 4. To son .Tames, 20(5 acres, to he taken off the land bought of Lawrence 
 Battaille, adjoining Widow Cooke, and two slaves, &c. 
 
 5. To daughter .fancy, two slaves, horse, saddle and bridle. 
 
 6. To his three daughters, Anna, Lucy and Maria, two slaves and horse 
 and saddle and bridle, etc., to each. 
 
 He orders the Merry tract, “adjoining the one I now live on,” and Mr. 
 Tandy’s land, to be sold, and the money, after reserving enough to educate 
 the children whose education is not completed, to be equally divided among 
 his children. 
 
 To his wife Polly, the balance of the tract bought of Lawrence Battaille, 
 and the land on which he lives, (lulling widowhood or life. 
 
 (12.) Atlanta, Illinois, Feb. 8, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: 1 received your letter some few days ago, asking for informa¬ 
 tion in regard to the Quisenberry family of Illinois. I am sorry that I can 
 give so little of the history of our branch of the family. My father’s name 
 was Edward Sanford Quisenberry, and he was born in Fauquier county, 
 Va„ in 178(i. He had three brothers that I have an account of, and their 
 names were John, Ceorge and James. My father was the youngest of the 
 family. He moved from Virginia to Kentucky in 1816, and settled in Chris¬ 
 tian county, and then moved to Illinois in 1835, and raised a large family 
 here. My father’s brother James moved from Virginia to Kentucky, but I 
 don’t know r what year. 
 
 Very respectfully, H. C. QUISENBERRY. 
 
 (13.) Lincoln, Illinois, Feb. 14, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: Your letter of February 3d, addressed to Allen Quisenberry, 
 has come into my hands. * * * My father, Edward Sanford Quisenberry, 
 was born in Culpeper or Fauquier county, Va., in 1787, and served in the 
 War of 1812, and moved to Christian county, Ky., soon after the war. He 
 was married twice, and raised nineteen children to be men and women; and 
 lie moved to Logan county, Illinois, in the year 1835. My father’s brother 
 James moved to Christian county, Ky., and raised a family, and died there. 
 His sons Edward and Richard lived there the last I knew' of them. I am 
 the youngest child of nine sons and ten daughters. The traditions of our 
 family (of which my father knew much) were that three brothers, of Scotch 
 origin, came to this country from England, and settled in Virginia, from 
 whom a numerous family had their origin. If I had remembered all that 
 my father told me it would be invaluable. When you remember that he lived 
 to shake hands with Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, you 
 will see that his memory v'erit back to a long time ago. * * * The address 
 of Allen Quisenberry is Armington, Tazewell county, Illinois. * * * 
 
 Yours truly, ‘ ARTHUR QUISENBERRY. 
 
 (14.) Ozeana, Essex county, Virginia, May 25, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: I can not trace my family on my father’s side any further back 
 than this (w'hich is in the old family Bible): My father’s father was named 
 James T. Quesenberry, and my father’s name was Wm. S. Quesc nb rry. and 
 he w r as married twice. He had two daughters by his first wife and three 
 sons by Iris last wife, who was a Miss Southall, daughter of Charles Southall, 
 and I am the youngest son by the last wife. My oldest brother was killed in 
 the war, in 1864, and my father was also killed in the war, in 1865. My 
 
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 mother (lied when I was three years old, and I went to live with my grand¬ 
 mother, Courtney Southall, who came from Scotland in 1790, and was mar¬ 
 ried in America to Charles Southall, my grandfather on my mother's side, 
 and my father’s relations I never knew much about. I could not say wheth¬ 
 er my father was born in Orange county, or Spottsylvania. I know that he 
 lived in Fredericksburg at the time he married my mother, and lived there 
 until the war broke out. * * * He was killed at Petersburg. * * * My 
 old family Bible is a Bible that belonged to a Mary Quesenbury—with that 
 name in it—dated in 1509; and no one can read it. It is all printed in Greek, 
 or some other language, I have never been able to find out what, and it has 
 been taken for a scrap-book, and a part of the record in it has been taken out 
 and lost. On receiving your letter I examined the old Bible, and the first 
 name on the record was Mary Quesenbury, who died September 8 1509, and 
 the balance of that has been torn out. It has been so little cared for be¬ 
 cause no one could read it, and what was cared for (of the family record) 
 lias been taken out and put in newer Bibles. * * * I am 35 years old and 
 carry on carriage building, and hold a small office in this county—Justice of 
 the Peace. * * * 
 
 Yours truly, SAMUEL QUESENBERRY. 
 
 Clarendon Hotel, Baltimomre, Md., June 9, 1888. 
 
 Dear Sir: * * * The Bible that lias ben used as a scrap-book I brought 
 to Baltimore with me, and sold it for fifty dollars, it being the oldest Bible 
 in America, so there will be no chance of your getting that. If I could have 
 gotten your letter before I left home I would have been glad to sell it to you. 
 I could have gotten more money than $50 for it if some of the leaves had 
 not been torn out. I did not think it was worth anything until a drummer 
 stopped with me the day before I came to Baltimore, and he was looking at 
 it, and said I could sell it for a good price here, so I brought it along, and 
 sold it before your letter reached me. * * * 
 
 Yours truly, SAMUEL QUESENBERRY. 
 
 (15.) From the “Burnt Records” of Fayette County, Ivy. 
 
 The “burnt records,” so called, of Fayette county, Kentucky, are copies 
 of mutilated papers partially saved from the flames when the Fayette County 
 Clerk’s Office was destroyed by fire prior to the year 1800. In April, 1888, I 
 examined these records personally, and found where my great-grandfather. 
 Rev. James Quisenberry, bought 200 acres of land in 1788, in (now) Clark 
 county, from his brother-in-law, Rev. Andrew Tribble. And in the same 
 book (Vol. 1. page 213) it is recorded that in 1795 Elijah Cushenberry bought 
 land on David’s Fork, Fayette county, from Elijah Craig. 
 
 Also, tlie following entries from the records succeeding the “burnt rec¬ 
 ords.” for the period between 1795 and 1800, viz: 
 
 District Court, Book D, Elijah Cosenberry, deed to Elijali Craig, page 
 
 133. 
 
 District Court. Book D, Lewis Craig to Lewis Custenberry, page 166. 
 
 Circuit Court, Book B, Lewis Craig to Elijah Crounsenb rry, page 688. 
 
 County Court, Book C, Elijah Custenberry to R. R. Hunt, page 398. 
 
 County Court, Book E, Wm. Cusenberry to Charles Robinson, page 381. 
 
 Marriage Register, book 1, page 4, John Pullen to Rachel Cushenberry. 
 Nov. 6. 1804, by Rev. Ambrose Dudley. Elijah Cushenberry certifies that his 
 sister Rachel is of lawful age. Book 1, page 10, Obedience Custenberry to 
 Jonathan Ellis, Nov. 29, 1807, by Rev. R. R. Hunt. 
 
 Who these people were, and where they went to when they left Fayette 
 county in 1810, I do not know. The variations in the spelling of the name 
 is due to the lawyer who drew up the papers or of the clerks who recorded 
 them, for none of the parties themselves could write at first, though Elijali 
 seems subsequently to have learned to do so, and then, instead of “making 
 his mark,” he signed Cusenberry.—[A. C. Q.j 
 
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 (17.) Melrose, near Milfonl, Caroline Co„ Va., Sept. 11, 1878. 
 
 I>enr Sir: 1 will give you all tlie information in my possession con¬ 
 cerning our family, though 1 fear it will be very unsatisfactory. First, there 
 seems to be two ways of spelling the name, and for some cause unknown 
 to me this has divided the families, though evidently they were originally 
 the same. My branch spell the name with an e—thus, Quesenberry—and as 
 ftir back as I can trace them they were in Middlesex county, Va.,* some 
 old places there still retaining the name. They thence removed to Westmore¬ 
 land county, and thence to King George county, where my grandfather lived. 
 I have his marriage register, dated in 1794. His name was James, and his 
 wife was Ann Brown. So far as I know, my family were mostly Methodists, 
 and I have heard of no preachers among them. Since I have grown up I have 
 become acquainted with several members of our family who spell their 
 names as you do (with an i—thus, Quisenberry) and who live in Spottsylvania 
 and Orange counties, and who are, I behove, all Baptists; and “James” is a 
 family name with them. * * * I have been, like yourself, curious to 
 know something of the origin of a name so singular, and I will tell you 
 what I have concluded about it, and that is that it is no name at all, but 
 that from some carelessness or ignorance on the part of some of our early 
 ancestors in this country, a very pretty and good name has been spoiled and 
 ruined forever. Take the name Quesenberry and transpose the letter s, and 
 you will have the name Queensberry, which, in my judgment, is what has 
 happened; and from all I can learn from the traditions of the family, Ave 
 came from Scotland, Avliere the name of Queensberry properly belongs. * * * 
 I am, yours very truly, WM. U. QUESENBERRY. 
 
 *The Clerk of Middlesex Co., Va., Avrote me that the name Quisenberry or 
 Quesenberry (or anything like them) does not occur ju the records of 
 that county at all.—[A. C. Q.] 
 
 (18.) 
 
 Pedigree CXL, from BroAvniug's “Americans of Royal Descent” (page 570). 
 
 1. —Alfred the Great, King of England, had; 
 
 2. —EdAvard the Elder, King of England, who had: 
 
 3. —Princess Edgiva, m. secondly, Henry, Count Vermandois, and had: 
 
 4. —Hubert. Count de Vermandois and Troyes, Avho had: 
 
 5. —Lady Adela de Vermandois, who m. Prince Hugh the Great. Count de 
 Vermandois, sou of Henry I, King of France, and had: 
 
 6. —Lady Isabella de Vermandois, Avho in. first, Robert, Baron de Bellomont, 
 Earl of Mellent and Leicester, and had: 
 
 7. —Robert, second Earl of Leicester, Justice of England, avIio had: 
 
 8. —Robert, third Earl of Leicester, SteAvard of England, Avho had: 
 
 9. —Lady Margaret de Bellomont, who m. Saier. Baron de Quincey, of 
 Bushby, created, in 1207, Earl of Winchester, and had- 
 
 10. —Lady HaAvise de Quincy, m. Hugh de Vere, fourth Earl of Oxford. 
 Chamberlain of England, and had: 
 
 11. —Robert, fifth Earl of Oxford, Avho had: 
 
 12. —Alplionso de Vere, second son. avIio had: 
 
 13. —John de Vere, seventh Earl of Oxford, avIio had: 
 
 14. —Aubrey de Vere, second son. tenth Earl of Oxford, Avho had: 
 
 15. —Richard de Vere, eleventh Earl of Oxford, Avho had: 
 
 10.—Robert de Vere, second son, avIio had- 
 
 17. —John de Vere. Avho had: 
 
 18. —John de Vere, I\. G., fifteenth Earl of Oxford, Avho had: 
 
 19. —Lady Anne de Vere, avIio m. Edmund Sheffield, created, 1547. Lord 
 Sheffield of ButterAvieke, K. 1548, and had: 
 
 20. —John, second Lord Sheffield, avIio had: 
 
 21. —Sir Edmund, Lord Sheffield, K. G„ Earl of Mulgrave, who had: 
 
 22. —Lady Frances Sheffield, in. Sir Philip Fairfax, and had: 
 
 23. —Sir William Fairfax, of Stenton, 1010-'92, Avho had: 
 
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 24. —Lady Isabella Fairfax, b. 1037, cl. 1091; m. Nathaniel Bladen, of Hems- 
 worth, Yorkshire, and had: 
 
 (1.)—Kt. lion. Col. Martin Bladen, of Aldborough Hatch, Essex, d. 4 Feb. 
 1740, age 06; M. I’., Comptroller of Mint, 1714: Minister Plenipotentiary; 
 Aide to Marlborough; Lord of Trade and Plantations, 1717-’40; Under 
 Secretary of State, after whom Bladen county, N. C., was named; m.. 
 first. Mary, daughter of Colonel Gibbs, Governor of North Carolina, and 
 had issue. 
 
 25. (2.)— William Bladen, b. 27 Feb. 1072, d. 7 Aug. 1718; Commissary 
 General of Maryland; m., first, Letitia (or Jane), daughter of Judge 
 Dudley Loftus, Vicar General of Ireland, and his wife Frances, daugh¬ 
 ter of Patrick Nangle, son of Thomas Naugle, Baton of Navau; m., 
 secondly, Anne Seymour. By his first wife he had, besides others: 
 
 (I.)—Thomas Bladen, of Glastonbury Abbey, Somersetshire, b. 23 Feb., 
 1098, d. 2 Feb., M. P., 
 
 (II.)—Governor of Maryland, 1742-'47, after whom Bladensburg, Md., 
 was named. II. Wm. 
 
 (I'll.)—Bladen, naval officer in 1781, at Annapolis, Md. III.—Priscilla 
 Bladen, who married Robert Carter, of “Nomini," Va., son of 
 “King” Carter, of Corotoman, Va., and had: (a) Robert Carter, 
 of Nomini Ilall, Va.. the Councillor, who married: 
 
 26. —(IV.) Frances Tasker, liis cousin. IV. Anne Bladen, who married 
 
 Benjamin Tasker, b. 1690, d. 1768; President of the Council and 
 Deputy Governor of the Province of Maryland, son of Captain 
 Thomas Tasker, d. 1699, Treasurer of the Maryland Province and 
 Judge of the Provincial Court, 1695-’98, and his wife, Anne Calvert, 
 widow of Baker Brooke, Deputy Governor of Maryland, a grand¬ 
 daughter of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, and had: (1) 
 Col. Benjamin Tasker, d.s.p. 21 Oct., 1760, aged 40 years, Secre¬ 
 tary of State of Maryland, and a Commissioner for Maryland to 
 the General Convention of the Colonies at Albany. (2) Anne 
 Tasker, who m. Samuel Ogle, thrice Governor of Maryland. (3) 
 Rebecca Tasker, who m. Judge Daniel Dulaney, member of the 
 Council and Secretary of State of Maryland, son of Judge Daniel 
 Dulaney, Attorney-General of Maryland. (4) Frances 
 
 27. —(4) Tasker, who m. Robert Carter, of Nomini, the Councillor, son of 
 
 Robert Carter, and grandson of “King” Carter, of Virginia, and 
 had: (a) George Carter, of Oatlands, Va., who m. Mrs. Betty Lewis 
 Grayson and had (one) Benjamin Tasker Carter, m. Miss F.itzhugli, 
 and (two) George Carter, m. Kate Powell; (b) Betty Landon, m. 
 Spencer Ball, of Virginia; (c) Ann T., m. John Mound, of Vir¬ 
 ginia: (d) Mrs. 
 
 28. —(d) Quisenberry, of Virginia; (e) Priscilla, m. Mr. Mitchell, of Vir¬ 
 
 ginia: (f) Julia, in. Dr. Robert Berkley, of Virginia; (g) Sally, m. 
 Mr. Chinn, of Virginia; (lit Frances, m. Mr. Jones, of Virginia; 
 (i) Benjamin; (j) Robert; (k) John; (1) Sophia; (m) Rebecca; (in 
 Amelia; (o) Harriet; (p) Mary. (5) Elizabeth Tasker, m. Christo¬ 
 pher Lowndes, of Bladensburg, Md., son of Richard Lowndes, of 
 Hawell Hall, and had: (a) Richard Tasker Lowndes, who m. a 
 daughter of Col. Edward Lloyd, of Wye House, Md., and his 
 wife, a sister of Col. John Tayloe, of ML Airy, Va., and had (one) 
 Benjamin Ogle Lowndes, of Bladensburg, d.s.p., (two) the wife 
 of Itt. Rev. Bishop Pinckney; (b) Charles Lowndes, m. a daughter 
 of Col. Edward Lloyd, of Wye House, and had: (one) Lloyd 
 Lowndes, (two) Charles Lowndes, m. daughter of Governor Lloyd, 
 of Maryland; (c) Frances Lowndes; (d) a daughter, who m. Levi 
 Gantt, of Graden, Md., and had: (one) Christopher Lowndes Gantt, 
 who married a daughter of Benjamin Stoddert, Secretary of the 
 Navy, and had Thomas Tasker Gantt, of St. Louis; (e) Rebecca 
 
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 Lowndes, who married Benjamin Stoddert, Secretary of the Navy, 
 and had (one) a daughter, who in. Christopher Lowndes Gantt, 
 (two) Bettie Stoddert who in. Dr. Thomas Ewell, and had 
 Lieutenant-General It. S. Ewell, C. S. Army; (f)Benjamin Lowndes, 
 m. Miss Buchanan. 
 
 (19.) Will of John Bush. 
 
 (Will-Book 2. page 94, Records of Orange County, Virginia, Court.) 
 
 In the name of God, amen! I. John Bush, of St. Thomas Parish, in (lie 
 county of Orange, being weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory, 
 and knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die, do make and 
 ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following: 
 
 Imprimis. I do order that all my just debts be paid and satisfied. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Bridget Bush, one bed 
 and furniture. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Philip Bush, five shillings sterling. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Martha Bruce, also five 
 shillings sterling. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Elizabeth Sanders, also 
 five shillings sterling. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath to my son, Joliu Bush, five shillings sterling. 
 
 Item. I give and bequeath unto my sons, Thomas Bush and Daniel Bush, 
 all the Remainder of my Estate, to be equally divided between them, to 
 them and their heirs forever; and 
 
 Lastly, I do constitute and appoint Philip Bush and Bridget Bush to be 
 my whole and sole Exrs of this my last will and testament. In witness 
 whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 7th day of September, 
 1745. JOHN BUSH. 
 
 Teste: Thos: Stanton, Jos: Eddows. 
 
 Feb. 27, 174G, Thilip Bush qualified as Executor, with John Askew as 
 surety. 
 
 (20.) Will of Philip Bush. 
 
 (Will-Book 2. page 153, Records of Orange County, Va„ Court.) 
 
 In the name of God, amen! I, Philip Bush, of the County of Orange and 
 Parish of St. Thomas, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do 
 make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form 
 following: 
 
 First.—I resign my soul into the hands of Almighty God in full hope he 
 will receive it through the merits of my blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ. And 
 my body I desire may be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, 
 hereafter named. 
 
 Item.—I give and devise unto my son, Josiali Bush, and Sarah, his wife, 
 one hundred acres of my land which lies on the South Side of Blue Run, and 
 which I had of George Head, during their natural lives, or the survivor of 
 them, and after their decease my will is and I devise this land to my grand¬ 
 son, Philip Bush, son to the said Josiali and Sarah his wife, and his heirs 
 forever. 
 
 Item.—I give and devise unto my son Philip Bush two hundred acres of 
 land lying on Bare Run. in Spotsylvania County, to him and his heirs forever. 
 And whereas the said land is under contract and sold, my will is that I make 
 a conveyance for the said land in my lifetime that my said son Philip shall 
 have and enjoy the money for which said land is sold. 
 
 Item.—I give and devise unto my sou John Bush and Elizabeth his wife 
 during their natural lives, or the survivor of them, one hundred acres of land, 
 
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 it being the tract whereon I now live, and after their decease I devise the 
 said land to the first male heir lawfully begotten of the body of the said 
 John, and his heirs forever. 
 
 Item.—I give and devise unto my son William Bush, one hundred acres of 
 land which I bought of William Bryan, and which lies on the north side of 
 Blue Run, to him and his heirs forever; and whereas my said son William 
 has been absent some time past and not heard of, now my will and desire 
 is that if he the said William should never return, or any heirs lawfully 
 begotten of his body, to claim and possess the said laud, that my son Francis 
 Bush and his heirs forever shall have and enjoy the same, provided that he, 
 the said Francis Bush, pay unto my grandson Lewis Bush the sum of Five 
 Founds, Current Money. And it is also my will and desire that my said son 
 Francis shall, at my death, have quiet possession and enjoy the said land 
 until my said son William or his heirs as aforesaid shall lawfully claim the 
 same. I also give and bequeath unto my said son Francis one negro man 
 slave named Tom, and one feather bed and furniture, and one smooth gun, 
 forever. 
 
 Item.—I give and bequeath unto my son Ambrose Bush one negro woman 
 named Rose, to him and his heirs forever. 
 
 Item.—I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Watts one negro 
 woman named Jude, and to her heirs forever, provided she pays to my execu¬ 
 tors hereafter named the sum of Twenty Pounds Current Money, to be dis¬ 
 posed of as hereafter directed. 
 
 Item.—I give unto my grand-daughter, Susannah Watts, one oval table. 
 
 Item.—I give unto my daughter Mary Richards one negro boy named 
 James, provided she pay to my executors the sum of Twenty Pounds Current 
 Money, to.be disposed of as hereafter directed. 
 
 Item.—I give and bequeath unto my grand-daughter Frances, alias 
 Franky, Johnson one chest of drawers which I am now possessed of. 
 
 Item.—I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Bush the sum of Twenty- 
 Five Pounds current money, to be paid by my Executors. Also I give him a 
 rule gun which he has in his possession. 
 
 Item.—I give and bequeath unto my son Joshua Bush the sum of Twenty- 
 Five Pounds current money, to be paid by my Executors; also a gun called 
 the Long-shot Gun. 
 
 Item. I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Johnson the sum of Twenty- 
 Five Pounds current money, to be paid by my Executors. 
 
 Item.—To enable my executors to discharge the above legacies in money, 
 and for the payment of my just debts and my funerall expenses, I do hereby 
 direct and it is my will and desire that all my other estate not before be¬ 
 queathed or devised be sold by my executors; and the residue of the money 
 which shall be in thedr hands belonging to my estate, and if there bo any. 
 to be equally divided amongst all my children. 
 
 Lastly.—I do hereby appoint my two sons Philip and Francis Bush and 
 my son-in-law David Watts executors of this my last will and testament, 
 and do constitue them as such. And do hereby revoke and make null and 
 void all former wills heretofore made by me. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set. my hand and seal this loth dav 
 of May, 1771, Anno Domini. PHILIP BUSH. 
 
 Sealed, published and declared by (lie Testator as his last Will and Tes¬ 
 tament in presence of us who have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto 
 in the presence of the said Testator. 
 
 JAMES MADISON, 
 
 (Father of the President of the United States, of that name.—A. C. Q.) 
 
 THO. BARBOUR. 
 
 DAVID THOMSON. 
 
 At a Court held for Orange county on Thursday the 24th day of Septem¬ 
 ber, 1772, this last will and testament of Philip Bush, dec’d, was presented 
 into Court by Philip Bush, one of the Executors therein named, and proved 
 
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 by the oaths of James Madison and Thomas Barbour, two of the witnesses 
 thereto, and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of the said Philip, 
 who made oath according to law, certificate is granted Mm for obtaining let¬ 
 ters of probat thereof in due form, he giving security. Whereupon he, with 
 Josiali Bush and Ambrose Bush, lvis securities, entered into and acknowledged 
 their Bond for the sum of One Thousand Pounds Current Money. 
 
 Teste: GEORGE TAILOR, Clerk. 
 
 Note.—The foregoing extracts of records and copies of letters, etc., in this 
 Appendix, are only a portion of what I have received during my researches, 
 but are, in my opinion, the most worthy of preservation. A. C. Q. 
 

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