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" So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity.
That when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her,
Driving afar off each thing of sin and guilt,
And in clear dream and solemn vision
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear
Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants
Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape."

Milton

THE BEVILLE FAMILY

OF VIRGINIA, GEORGIA, AND FLORIDA,

AND

SEVERAL ALLIED FAMILIES, NORTH AND SOUTH

BY
AGNES BEVILLE VAUGHAN TEDCASTLE

Member of the Georgia Society of Colonial Dames of America, Neiv

England Historic Genealogical Society, Huguenot Society

of South Carolina, Virginia Historical Society,

Georgia Historical Society

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Agnes Beville Vaughan Tedcastle

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The Memory of my Grandmother

LA VINA LIPSEY BEVILLE

AND TO

My other Best Friend
My Husband

CONTENTS

Chapter

Foreword
I. Glimpses of Southern Plantation* Life
II. The Bevill or Beville Family

III. The Vaughan Family

IV. The Harrison Family
V. The Pelot Family

VI. The Pearce Family
VII. The Chisholm Family
VIII. The Atherton Family
IX. The Humphrey Family
X. The Gignilliat Family
XI. The Cooke Family
XII. The Weekes Family

XIII. The Leeds Family

XIV. The Scruggs Family
Xotes
Index

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121
127
135
143
149
155
161
167
173
181
193

ILLUSTRATIONS

Mary Lavisy Beville Vaughan . . . Frontispiece

Ellen 14

104 years on the Harrison Plantation.

Beville Coat of Arms . 22

Gwarnock 24

Keduced to a Farm House in the 17th Century.

Beville Altar-Tomb, Talland Church, Cornwall . 28

Agnes Beville Willetts 38

Agnes Obedience Beville Tedcastle .... 66
And her " grand child," Agnes Beville Willetts.

Tedcastle Coat of Arms 68

Granted in 1590.

Lieutenant Commander Horace Nephew Harrison . 80
United States Navy.

" Hill Crest," Home of the Author .... 136

Pillars at " Hill Crest " 144

View from Rose Arbor, "Hill Crest" . . . 168

FOREWORD

Among the English settlers in Virginia, under Lord Del-
aware and Sir Thomas Dale, in the very early part of the
seventeenth century, and at later periods in the same cen-
tury, were representatives of many of the greatest families
of the Mother Land. The same also is true of the settlers
of South Carolina, which colony was granted by Charles the
Second to eight noblemen in 1665, and under the patronage
of these " Lords Proprietors " began to be settled in 1670.
To one or the other of these famous southern colonies came
early, but in precisely what years we cannot now tell, the
various families of which limited sketches will be given or to
which allusions will be made in the following pages. Of any
of these families far too little has yet been written. Living
as they did on great plantations and owning large numbers
of negro slaves, rejoicing in aristocratic traditions and able
not only to indulge luxurious tastes but to exercise unstint-
edly the high-bred hospitalities becoming true gentlefolk,
there is no section of the American people in Colonial times
whose community life stimulates the imagination and lends
itself to dramatic historical description and dramatic fiction
half so insistently and richly as theirs.

That old Virginia and South Carolina and Georgia plan-
tation life, with its luxury and ease, its courtliness and grace,
its strong sense of honour among men and chivalrous regard
for women, — in short with all its high lights of romance, and

Foreword

its dark shades of prosaic defect as well, is long gone now.
"Already, as we regard it," says Charles Dudley Warner,
" it assumes an air of unreality, and vanishes in its strong
lights and heavy shades like a dream of the chivalric age."
But in many quarters, in spite of the glare of modern
changed conditions, unfaded memories of it remain, and in
some at least of the descendants of those who figured in it,
as in the writer of the present volume of family sketches,
there is strong sense of the duty of preserving the names
and the personalities of these early people from entire obliv-
ion in the generations to come.

The greater number of families, which because of their
interrelationships are grouped together in this volume are
Southern families, but as in the activities and general inter-
ests of America in modern days the various sections of the
country are becoming more and more entangled, so to the
group of Southern families mentioned in this book will be
found linked a number of the prominent Puritan families of
the North. It was a somewhat far cry from Massachusetts to
the extreme South in the days of the Revolution, but shortly
after the close of that great struggle one of the writer's ances-
tors, who had served through the whole of the war, found his
way, unmarried, to Georgia, and became in the adjoining
Spanish Colony of the Floridas, a Southern Planter too.
Marrying, about 1798, a southern wife, he founded a family,
which thus had the good fortune to inherit some of the richest
traditions of both North and South.

Of these combined northern and southern families from
which she is descended, and their histories, the writer of the
present volume has undertaken to give brief outline sketches
here.

Foreword

The writer realizes that the field wherein she has done
her work of love is by no means exhausted. If, however,
her efforts should lead to a deeper sense of the debt we owe
to the memory of the strong men and women of the Ameri-
can Colonies who labored and endured that this wonderful
land we call The United States of America should become our
heritage, her work will not have been in vain. Her reward
has come in large measure from the acquaintance and cor-
respondence with men and women of to-day who have con-
tributed no little to the data herewith presented.

A. B. V. T.

Hillcrest, Milton,

June, 1917.

GLIMPSES OF SOUTHERN
PLANTATION LIFE

" I love thee next to Heaven above,
Land of my fathers ! — Thee I love."

" Joys too exquisite to last,

And yet more exquisite when past."

Montgomery.

" Far down the winding river named in honor of King James by
the navigators Newport and Smith, who wrested from the dusky
dwellers on its banks an earlier right to call it for their sovereign
King Powhatan, stands an old brick house. With spreading wings
and airy colonades it is a type of the stately by-gones of Virginia's
ancient aristocracy now crumbling to sure decay. Surrounding its
lawns and rose gardens are marshes full of game, wheat fields and
tobacco fields still ready to answer to a fructifying touch, tall forests
of unbroken shade." Mrs. Burton Harrison, in Flower De Hundred.

" I am helped to bear all that is so very painful to me here by my
constant enjoyment of the strange wild scenery in the midst of which

I live I rode today to some new cleared and ploughed ground

that was being prepared for the precious cotton crop. I crossed a
salt marsh upon a raised causeway that was perfectly alive with land-
crabs, whose desperately active endeavors to avoid my horse's hoofs
were so ludicrous that I literally laughed alone and aloud at them.
The sides of this road across the swamp were covered with a thick
close embroidery of creeping moss or rather lichens of the most vivid
green and red : the latter made my horse's path look as if it was
edged with an exquisite pattern of coral ; it was like a thing in a
fairy tale, and delighted me extremely ....

" After my crab and coral causeway I came to the most exquisite
thickets of evergreen shrubbery you can imagine. If I wanted to
paint paradise I would copy this undergrowth, passing through which
I went on to the settlement of St. Annie's, traversing another swamp
on another raised causeway. The thickets through which I next
rode were perfectly draped with the beautiful wild jasmine of these
woods. Of all the parasitical plants I ever saw, I do think it is the
most exquisite in form and colour, and its perfume is like the most
delicate heliotrope." Frances Anne Kemble, in Journal of a Resi-
dence on a Georgia Plantation.

CHAPTER I

GLIMPSES OF SOUTHERN PLANTATION LIFE

' I 'HE writer of the following family sketches was reared on
A the plantations of her maternal grandparents in Georgia
and Florida, while others of her immediate ancestors owned
conspicuous plantations in East Florida not far from the
Georgia line. Life on all these plantations was much the
same, and it seems desirable before the sketches themselves
begin, to give some glimpses of this life as the writer actually
knew it.

Besides our grandparents' large plantation, which con-
sisted of about four thousand acres, there was the town
house, with twenty acres about it, the eastern boundary of
this property being a beautiful stream loved by the Indians
in earlier days, the name of which was (and is) " Sweet Water
Branch," because of the transparent clearness and purity of
the water which flows in it. This crystal stream flowed for
miles through a forest of primeval pines. On the town prop-
erty our little grandmother put into practice her advanced
ideas on horticulture, growing here most of the ornamental
and fruit trees and shrubs peculiar to the West Indies, as
well as those already commonly known in Florida. She had
a theory that to get the sweetest oranges one must raise the
trees from seed without grafting, and from somewhere she

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once procured a barrel of so-called China oranges, which
were medium in size, very fine skinned, and of a peculiar
aromatic sweetness, and from these she raised trees, some of
which stood close to the house and grew to be quite thirty
feet tall. From the thud story windows of the great house
we used freely to gather oranges which hung in wonderful
clusters of gold against a background of dark glossy green
leaves. The little grandmother began growing bananas also,
but her sense of beauty was so great that she soon discarded
these trees because they were ragged, untidy, and ugly in
appearance.

Within the gate of her wonderful garden1 of roses, jasmines
of all kinds, oleanders twenty feet high, heavily laden with
rosy pink blossoms, and century plants with their delicate
yellow orchid-like blooms that came only once, we used to
play till our dear old black mammy would warn us that our
day was ended and we must go to bed. One of the most
sacred memories of the dear grandmother was her injunction,
which we never disobeyed, that having spoken with the
Heavenly Father in our evening prayer we must speak to no
human being afterward that night. Thus came to us a
spirit of reverence for God which has never been and can
never be lost.

Our grandfather was reared by his grandfather, a gentle-
man of General Washington's time and type, and our grand-
father's memories were historic and picturesque. As we
walked and talked together, the man of six feet two inches,
and the little girl, his first grandchild, whom he always
called his " baby," it was the writer's good fortune to learn
much of the noble past of the South, both as regards men
and measures. He always styled his grandfather our grand-

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father, and they two and the little grandchild " our threefold
cord." To his grandchild he entrusted the responsibility of
transmitting to later generations the traditions he loved so
well.

One of the chiefest of these traditions was how the old
Joshua Pearce homestead, on the original grant from King
George the Third, in St. George's Parish, now Screven County,
Georgia, had been made historic and doubly dear by the
visit of President Washington in the course of his memora-
ble ride from Savannah to Augusta in 1791. Later, in 1825,
Stephen Pearce, son of Joshua, entertained General Lafay-
ette on his return visit to the South he had served so well
in the closing years of the Revolution.

Pleasant it was in 1916 to find that only the day before,
the country schoolmaster had brought his pupils from the
church near by to show them the much respected spot where
the great house had stood. It may interest our readers to
know that the mahogany table at which our first President
sat for his tea on that fifth of May, 1791, is still in the
family of his host. Washington chose for his refreshment
on that occasion, southern waffles, crisp and thin, honey and
pound cake, in which he knew his hostess excelled. The
table has another association of historic interest : when it
was being removed from the burning house a soldier dis-
figured it with a slash of his sword. Just here let us say
that the kindred and friends of the owners of this table
bear little malice towards General Sherman, although their
eyes grow dim with tears as memories of the dark period
of the civil war persistently crowd upon them.

Our table has carried us along the years with too great
swiftness, we must go back to Georgia and have a closer

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look at those gentlemen who came with their families and
slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas somewhere between
1758 and '68, and settled in the newer province of Georgia.

By this change they secured by royal grant a larger acre-
age for their plantations, but found serious border troubles
by reason of the hostile attitude of Indians and Spaniards.
As one studies the colonization of our country one realizes,
however, the comfort and delight that must have come to
these planters by moving in groups the members of which
were bound to each other by the closest ties of blood and
friendship. Whether we find these men, brave and true, in
Virginia, the Carolinas, or Georgia, we see in the main the
same family groups clinging together, as for example the
Arundells, Bevills, Edwardses, Everetts, Granvilles, Hales,
Laniers, Mclntoshes, McCalls, Millses, and Pearces.

The sources of the wealth of these planters were the pro-
ducts of the soil, rice, indigo and cotton, and especially the giant
pine trees of Georgia's primeval forest. These huge pines
were sent down the Savannah and other rivers, and thus on
to England to be made into masts for the British nav}^ and
to enter into the construction of manor houses. These land-
ed proprietors of the South thus became men of large incomes
and wide influence. Colonel Charles Spalding Wylly, in
his enlightening and charming book "The Seed that was sown
in the Colony of Georgia," describing life on the Georgia Sea
Island plantations on which the writer's ancestors lived, says:
"In manner, mind, and bearing the planter and gentleman
of that day exhibited a constant courtesy to equal and in-
ferior. Many were men of wide education and often of
travel and experience. The fatal "environment" had not
yet poisoned spirit, heart, or action. They were distinguished

Glimpses of Southern Plantation Life 5

by a universal desire for the upbuilding of the country and
for love of the Union. To a certain extent they were over-
bearing in opinion, for the habit of command asserted itself
in their mental as well as their daily life, and with it a dog-
matism not open to argument."

"The home life of these owners of generally large planta-
tions was delightful; hospitality was universal, and to be the
guest of one family insured constant invitations to others.
Courtesy, one to the other, was greatly in evidence in speech
and demeanor. Indeed, the " code duello " had long issued
its decree that the slighest deviation from a studied etiquette
demanded quick reparation, and that to women was due
double caution in speech and approach. The mode of en-
tertainment was lavish, and though in somewhat of a cas-
tle-racket " order, had yet to every visitor the subtle charm
of being made to feel that in his stay he was conferring a
favor and not in receipt of one. To this was added a con-
stant change in the company, for in some houses the pro-
cession of incoming and outgoing guests was continuous."

" An aunt of mine has said to me that when a young
lady in her father's house, she scarcely remembered sitting
down to the dinner table with less than twenty-four. And
I have often been told of the gentleman and his wife who
being asked to dine at a residence on St. Simon, found that
during a meal a boat had been sent to Darien, fifteen miles
distant for their luggage, and that so much pleased were host,
hostess, and guests with one another that the stay was pro-
longed until two children had been born to the visiting
couple."

"The most common mode of entertaining," says this
writer, " was the giving of formal dinners. . . . The men ar-

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ranged hunting, fishing, and shooting parties for the morn-
ings and forenoons. The ladies rode much on horseback,
but never as is now common joined the men in their field
sports; conversation and needlework were their chief re-
sources ... In each of the homes the library was the room
most frequented. The paucity of social life forced a book
companionship, and when chance or purpose threw the
residents together, the conversation turned into channels as
unlike the talk, chat, and repartee of the present day as is
possible to be imagined. . . . The sons of ' well-to-do ' fam-
ilies were sent abroad and received fair educations with col-
legiate training. But that of the daughters was in general
entrusted exclusively to governesses. The colleges and fin-
ishing schools that now offer to the feminine sex advantages
not inferior to what Princeton, Harvard, and Yale give to
their brothers, were unknown. One or at most two years in
Charleston or Savannah gave the finishing touch to an ed-
ucation that was often followed quickly by an early mar-
riage."

" The mistress of one of these plantation houses, and host-
ess to this never ending house party," continues the writer,
" led an arduous life. Servants she had in numbers ....
but they needed her constant oversight and care."

This last bit of description applies with peculiar aptness to
our little grandmother. Her responsibilities and duties were
manifold, by reason of the care of her own children, the man-
agement of her numerous slaves, and the superintendence of
the rearing of their children, who were dear to her not so
much because they were her possessions, as because they were
her fellow human beings. The little grandmother was pos-
sessed of all the qualities and attributes sketched by King

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Solomon as essentials of the perfect woman. Not content
with rearing her own ten children, she did as much for two
orphans and her first grandchild, as well as two coloured boys.

It is often charged that the Southern planters ruthlessly
separated the families of their slaves when it suited their
convenience to do so, but there was at least one instance of
a mother who so trusted her " ole miss " that she chose to
leave her two small boys with her when her owners removed
to Florida. Nancy was a famous cook and was always al-
lowed to go to neighboring plantations to assist their mistresses
when weddings were about to take place. She was the chief
of three cooks at the great house, while her husband belonged
to a neighboring planter. When it was decided by our
grandfather to remove to Florida, he offered to purchase
Nancy's husband, but his owner saw too good an opportun-
ity to procure an excellent cook, and so refused to sell his
man, also declining to buy Nancy's small sons, aged two and
three. In this exigency Nancy was allowed to choose
whether she would remain or not, and she thought it best
to cling to her husband. Our grandparents, however, com-
pelled her new owner to allow her to continue the care of her
six months old baby. This was in 1851, but when a visit
was finally made by the little grandmother to her sister at
her Georgia plantation, twenty years later, Nancy left her
husband and accompanied her former mistress to Florida,
scarcely ever again while she lived leaving her side. The
writer well remembers Nancy's " shouting " around the young-
coloured son of twenty-two, who had been taken to Georgia
to see his mother while she was still there.

Has it ever been given to the reader to see a church full
of people smile a welcome to an adorable and adored woman

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when she appeared ? The writer looked forward to this
benediction every Sabbath long ago, for when the little
grandmother walked into the village church on grandfather's
arm, the members of the small congregation knew that their
patron saint was there and in this way acknowledged her
presence. And a picture, too, she was, dressed in her pretty
brown silk, with real lace collar, and quaint poke bonnet
which framed her beautiful face. Her eyes were large and
blue as Heaven's own sky, her hair soft and curly, lightly
touched with gray, her features regular and true, shining
with the light that never was on land or sea.

What did Monday bring this mistress of a large plantation
of the early nineteenth century ? There were the spinning
wheels and looms to be set in motion, while the many clothes
had to be cut and made for the men, women, and children
at the " quarters. " All the workers were carefully trained
and supervised by the little grandmother, and there was not
one among them who could make the big cotton spinning-
wheels sing so sweetly as could she. Truly, the music of the
pines at her door was not sweeter to the writer than the
whir of her wheel as she moved back and forth while teach-
ing those who were less skilled than herself how to make
the threads finer and truer. All her movements gave us joy,
and wherever she passed her very presence threw the high
lights on the picture. After all, is not life one complete
picture ; and all pictures must have high light, middle tint,
and shadow, without which there would be no form. The
high light of life is what we make it by our own determined
touch and skill, the middle tint is the daily routine, and is
as beautiful and useful as we choose to make it, while the
shadow is sorrow and death ! Then there were the weddings,

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christenings, sugar-cane boilings, plantings, etc., all of which
functions " ole miss " must attend. When sickness came she
was untiring, and these dear dependents were always satisfied
and cheered by her ministrations, whatever the result.

It is worth not being young any more to be able to re-
member somewhat of the old regime of a Southern planta-
tion. Even in our Southern home of the late nineties after
our marriage it was blessed to have our dear old black
mammy Harriet with us. We did not own her, she owned
us, and in a measure controlled our destiny. One day
Mammy Harriet met a young man of feeble health near the
entrance to the estate, and thus accosted him: "Little bit,
is you gwine up to de big house to see my chile ?" Upon
being answered in the affirmative she took him by the
shoulder, and turning him around with his face towards the
town said: " You des go back to dat town wid dat guitar
in yo' haid ! ,: And he took her decision of his love affair
as final. Mammy's outlook was far oftener true than other-
wise.

Once Mammy asked for money to send her grandchild to
a Northern city, where an older sister of the girl was at
work, and where there were excellent schools. A few weeks
later the dear old soul announced: " May is comin' home,
she on de train now. Dey put her in a room wid a whole
passel o' white chillun, and May cyant stan' it !" Mammy
Harriet's description of Heaven, in the hymn which she fre-
quently crooned, was unique:

" When I go to Heaven
An' live at my ease
Me an' my Jesus
Gwine do as we please."

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REFRAIN.

" Aint I happy now
Settin down by de side ob de Lam'."

" Two white hosse»
Side an' side,
Me an' God-a'mighty
Gwine tek a ride."

REFRAIN.

•' Aint I happy now
Settin down by de side ob de Lam'."

One evening we told Mammy she need not come to us for
the usual reading of the Scriptures, because some friends had
unexpectedly come to us for a game of whist. "Ay Lord ! "
said mammy with a deep sigh. ' What is the trouble
Mammy?" we asked. uO Miss Aggie, Honey," answered
the dear old soul, " I don' on'erstan' you young Christuns.
You pray to God-a'mighty one night, an' you play cyards
de nex'."

Once Mammy came to us in an excited frame of mind and
urged us to write a note to her cousin, from whom she rented
a cabin for her daughter and her family. " Tell him, please
ma'am," she said, " dat ef he will wait to de een' of de
month I'll pay him his ole rent ef he des wont level (levy)
on my furniture." In less than a fortnight Mammy said to
us : " You 'member, Miss Aggie, I axed you to write to dat
good-fur-nuthin' cousin of mine, Anderson Paine, and tell
him not to level on my furniture ? Well, I done bin to de
Cote House and Ise got my papers, and de clerk say ef I
fetch him a dollar ev'y year I wont have to pay no more
debts long as I live." When we remonstrated with her at
taking such unfair advantage of the law, she said : " What's

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dat law made fur, Honey, ef it ain't fur widders and orphans
lak me ?

Has any of our readers ever seen the " man in the moon " ?
He is there, and we know it, because our black Mammy told
us so when we were very very young. He was put there, she
said, as an awful punishment for "burnin' brush on a Sun-
day," and so breaking the Fourth Commandment. What, we
wonder, would Mammy think of the modern keeping of the
Sabbath, of society's teas and dinners, golf, tennis, and
rackets of many kinds.

When Mammy grew altogether too old to work we pen-
sioned her and she rented a cabin in what we considered an
utterly unsuitable neighborhood, the land being low and
lying along the line of a railway. But the dear creature
insisted that it was greatly to her advantage to live there
and we found that the chief merit of the location was that
it afforded her an opportunity of getting her wood and coal
for nothing. In answer to our expressions of surprise at
this revelation she stated that she got her fuel " from the
cyars that stood on de siding, and nobody ain't 'sturbed me
yit." " When do you go for your wood and coal ? " we
asked her. " Three o'clock in de mawnin'," she replied,
quite as a matter of course. No doubt this was quite the
safest hour in the day for such an expedition.

Once when we returned from England, after visiting our
family there Mammy queried : "How long wuz you on dat
big water, wuz it one week or two ? Anyhow, I prayed two
weeks to make sure. But de nex' time he go to see his ma
he must go by hissef and leave my chile at home."

The slaves of the aristocracy of the South were very proud
of the lineage of their owners. In 1889 we were building

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roads and making lawns and orchards on our estate, and it
fell to the master of the house to decide between two appli-
cants for the position of " boss of the gang." He chose the
bigger, stronger man, without any thought of his prestige or
the lack of it, that he had had as a slave in the early-
sixties. The head of the house was soon called to Massa-
chusetts on business, and it fell to the writer to bear
the brunt of his mistake, for he had made the mistake of
choosing a negro who had belonged to an obscure family.
The unsuccessful candidate, Frank, worked well, but, as
having been a slave on a notable plantation, he felt keenly
his disgrace in being placed in a subordinate position to the
other negro. One morning we received this greeting from
Frank : " Good mawnin mam ! I's pintedly glad to see you,
cause dat Yankee gen'man he don made dat ole nigger John
de boss of us ten niggers when he don know nuttin. Ef
he tell you the name of his master you wouldn't know who
he wuz ; and he maybe never had but one nigger no-how,
while I was Senator Ben Hill's nigger, I wuz, and dey
teached me out of de books, dey did." " Please mam," he
continued, " you knows books, now tell me, is dat land
harvey's uncle ? ' We insisted that we did not understand,
but at last it dawned upon us that he meant horizontal.
The word, he was sure, was either in the " jografy" or the
" 'rithmetic," he did not know which. When we guessed
horizontal he said : " Yes'm, sho I mean dat, ain't I tell you
it wuz in de books and dat my master, Senator Ben Hill,
teached me. But please mam, tell me mistis, wuz it in de
jografy sure nuf, or in de 'rithmetic ? "

Frank, the gardener, was as black as ebony, but he and
the black pet cat, " Jetty," were not on good terms. From

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our chamber window, once when Jetty was spitting out her
dislike of Frank, with her back and fur raised high, we
heard this retort from the negro : " Fore Gawd, I'd lak to
know who's eny blacker 'an you is ! "

Ellen Billups was quite the best cook we ever had. She
was talented and had been exceedingly well-trained by a
famous Southern housewife. The day she came to our
country home to apply for the position, we frankly told her
we wanted a woman without children ; she quickly replied
" I aint got a chile in de worl'." When she had been in
our employ several months we observed that she had con-
verted her sitting-room into a sleeping-apartment. On in-
quiring about the, matter she answered thus : "' Dat is fur
Bud and Dove, my sons." " But you told us you had no
children," we said. " Dey aint no chillun, mam," she re-
plied, " dey is full grown men, but dey takes dey meals at
de resterann." In the South all the house servants live in
a neat cottage on the estate, each maid generally having
two rooms allotted to her. Our parlor-maid at this time
was Alice, whose husband, Sam Boiling, was a well-known
preacher.

We had just recovered from the shock of discovering
Ellen's sons, " Bud " and " Dove," when, one fine Summer
morning about five o'clock, we saw the dark-visaged figure
of a bearded man pass out of the grounds along the river-
bank. "And who is this man, Ellen ? " we asked, later in
the day. " Oh, Miss Agnes," she said, " dat's Jones ; us
bin keepin' house together for sixteen years ; you needn't
bother 'bout him" We will let Alice, the parlor-maid, whose
husband was a preacher, tell what followed. ' Last night
me and Sam were settin' down talkin' and there ca*me a rap

14 The Beville Family

on the door. When we opened it, there stood Ellen all
dressed in white, with a hand on Jones's arm. She said right
shyly: ' Brother Boiling, me an' Jones wants you to marry us.
We'se sassfied, but Miss Agnes she feel so bad 'bout us keep-
in' house together dat Jones he dun got a weddin' license.' "

The couple were married and nothing further was said
about the matter for a number of weeks, then one day Ellen
said to us : " Miss Agnes, you alius' have extry men in de
gyarden, won't you please mam give Jones employment ? '
'' Certainly," said we, and the next Monday Jones appeared
in the garden. All the week he worked well and on Satur-
day afternoon Ellen requested that we should give his money
to her, saying she would give it to him.

The next Monday morning Jones was missing. " Where
is Jones ? " we asked Ellen. " I'll tell you de truth 'bout
dat nigger, Miss Agnes ; long as we des kep' house together,
he gived me all his money dem sixteen years an' we never
had no words 'bout nuthin. But des as soon as dat ole
weddin' license wuz bought, it was nuthin' but qwarellin',
qwarellin' all de time, an' he am' never give me a cent, till
I tuk his wages las' Saturday night. Dat nigger dun gone,
an' he aint gwine cum back no mo' nuther."

As we have already stated, Sam Boiling, whose wife was
our parlor-maid, was a colored preacher, his charge being a
church on an island near Savannah. Late one evening-
Alice received by telegraph this message : " Come at once,
Sam Boiling dying." We so dreaded the excitement and
confusion incident to such a funeral as would probably be
had on our estate if Sam's body were brought there, that the
master of the house strongly advised, nay even ordered, Alice
to bury her husband in his own churchyard, so that his parish-

Glimpses of Southern Plantation Life 15

ioners might bear the expense of the funeral and care for his
grave. To this Alice readily assented. A very few days
later Alice, to our surprise, again waited on us at breakfast,
looking none the worse for her sad experience. " Well,
Alice," said the master, " of course you buried Sam be-
side his church ! " " No, sir ; " answered the woman, ' I
brung him home." " But I told you to bury him there ! '!
exclaimed the master. With characteristic naivete Alice re-
plied : " Yes, sir, but he aint daid, I brung him home alive."
Ellen Harrison, whose likeness we are delighted to reproduce
here, is now a hundred and four years old. Her picture
was taken last summer on Amelia Island, Florida, at the old
Harrison plantation, where she has always lived, held in
high esteem by the family and their descendants who once
owned her. Only last summer Ellen was cook at a house-
party of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of her
former master. One could go a day's journey and find no
nobler woman than she, regardless of color or creed. Honor,
efficiency and poise are unmistakably among her characteris-
tics and have had their part in the fine life she has lived.
W^hen asked if she remembered the visitor's grand parents
she answered joyously ; ' Indeed I do remember Marse
Daniel and Miss 'Liza, and Marse Johnnie (our father),
too. Those were good old days when they lived, and I
cooked for them."

" Daddy Primiss " is now almost a hundred and was
owned by the brother of one of our ancestors. He makes
his home with the great-grandchildren of his old master.
This message he sent to us not long ago : ' Please mum,
put it in your book dat my master, Robert Bevill, married
de widder Hudson, who wuz Miss Sarah Williams, of South

16 The Beville Family

Carolina ; an' she wuz n't born no Hudson an' I knows it."
It is doubtless true that other genealogical tangles would be
straightened out could we only gain access to more of these
dear old friends of the long-gone past.

Loyalty to those employers of whom they think well-
enough to call " our folks " and devotion to their duty to
them are still dominant traits in the best of the Southern
colored people. We are glad that our own home is still
blest with the services of refined, well-trained men and
women of this race. " Our Mary," especially, who comes to
us from Charleston year after year, is indeed to the manor
born.

It was customary before the civil war for the master of a
large plantation to ride about his fields frequently on a fine
horse set apart for his use. There was a bridle-path in
every important field along which the planter would ride
while he made his observations. There comes to our mind
now one event of special interest and importance that oc-
curred once when Grandfather and his little girl, the writer,
were driving along a lane on the plantation. A noise as of
snorting horses caused us to look upward to a woodland
stretch that lay on a knoll above the lane where we were
driving : Then it was that the child got her very first im-
pression of grandeur, in witnessing a fight between the two
magnificent stallions of the stock plantation. The two eldest
sons of the planter were in the habit of riding " Dudley "
and " Jordan " in making their rounds of the plantation,
being always very careful to avoid meeting each other. On
this occasion, however, the two men rode around the curve of
the forest from opposite directions, and without a moment's
notice, the stallions sprang at each other. For a few mo-

Glimpses op Southern Plantation Life 17

ments the riders kept their seats, then simultaneously they
made a leap, and both seizing heavy fence-rails, struck the
maddened animals blow after blow. Their onslaughts, how-
ever, were without effect. ' Dudley " and "Jordan " were
each so determined to kill the other that they seemed not to
notice their masters' strokes. The fight did not cease until
one horse had dug his teeth into the other's neck and felled
him. When " Jordan " lay dead " Dudley " stood over
his body with true animal pride in his deadly feat of killing
his rival. This was a Southern duel of an unusual kind.
When we were older we recognized the counterpart of the
battle in the Rosa Bonheur's famous painting ' The Horse
Fight."

Each notable Southern plantation had its cotton-gin, grist-
mill, and store. On Friday of every week, neighboring
groups of planters would send their corn to the mill to be
made into meal and hominy to meet the plantation's needs
for the coming week. During the cotton-picking season, on
all other days than Friday the power, which was steam,
would be used alone for driving the cotton-gins : Saturday,
also, on the plantation was an interesting day, for then the
slaves assembled in the smoke-house yard for the distribu-
tion of their week's rations, which consisted of corn-meal,
hominy, bacon, flour, syrup, and sugar. They themselves
raised in the " patches " about their cabin-doors such things
as chickens, vegetables and small fruits.

There were many Southern families that felt the poverty
consequent upon the civil war more keenly than did ours.
The little grandmother's good judgment and fine executive
ability soon caused our cotton to be turned into a bank
balance, and even cotton caterpillar, so dreaded by Southern

18 The Beville Family

planters, did not dismay her. She always argued the wis-
dom of raising diversified crops, so that if rain, so necessary
to the growth of corn, was not abundant, cotton, which is
eminently a sun-plant, could still be made to keep the bal-
ance. When they grew up, the three oldest sons of the
family were made masters of the several institutions of the
plantation and this distribution of authority worked well on
the place.

In one of the skirmishes which occurred at Gainesville
during the Civil War, when the Federals had been victori-
ous, little grandmother's town house was taken as a hospital,
though we were permitted to occupy the third floor. The
estate was well picketed by Federal soldiers, and the family
was thus protected. The dark red piano cover was flung to
the breeze as the hospital flag, and for many years after-
ward we children used to peep into the hole on the stairway
which was pierced by a bullet as it passed between the
ankles of our favorite aunt as she ran upstairs. During the
engagement the children had been sent by grandmother to
the third floor, but when the greatest activity began on the
ground floor, the writer, as a little girl will often do, ran
below to take observations. The picture that presented
itself to her was of the slaves running back and forth with
shining white cedar tubs filled with water, and grandmother
and her daughters with others tenderly ministering to the
needs of the wounded and dying. Even in such circum-
stances grandmother's large and wide sympathies did not
forsake her.

When Cedar Keys was stricken with yellow fever in 1871,
with her usual greatness of soul she threw open her house

Glimpses of Southern Plantation Life 19

to the refugees, and then as a consequence came our terri-
ble loss, for she herself was stricken with the dread disease
and died. Curiously, it was then held by the medical world
that yellow fever could not occur except in sporadic cases,
other than on the seaboard, consequently people from the
stricken town of Cedar Keys rushed to the interior to escape
it, and accordingly the town of Gainesville was as deeply
bereaved as though a war had been fought within its pre-
cincts.

THE BEVILL OR BEVILLE

FAMILY

" The stately homes of England
How beautiful they stand
Amid their tall ancestral trees
O'er all the pleasant land."

Mrs. Hemans.

villlc lD4Xti/ of*, irmd

CHAPTER II

THE BEVILL OR BEVILLE FAMILY

A MONG the many great English families which sent rep
resentatives to Virginia in the seventeenth century was
the illustrious Cornish family of Bevill or Beville.2 This fam
ily was one of the group of noted families of Cornwall which
comprised the Arundells, Bassets, Fortescues, Godolphins,
Granvilles, Killigrews, Petits, Prideauxs, Roscarricks, St.
Aubyns, Tregomynions, Trewents, and Tremaynes, and was
by all means one of the greatest of them. Its founder was
De Beville, a Norman knight, " who accompanied the Con-
queror in his expedition to England, and was placed at Truro
as Commander-in-Chief of the Western District." There
seems little doubt, says Gilbert, in his Complete Historical
Survey of Cornwall, "that the castle of Truro was built as
a residence for this petty chief and his successors in office, "
and the early importance of the family is shown by the fact
that Reginald Bevill was one of the two first representatives
of Cornwall in the English Parliament in the year 1294, the
twenty-third year of the reign of Edward the First. In
succeeding parliaments many Bevills held the same relation
to the county, and one of the family, John Bevill, a de-
scendant of Reginald, was Sheriff of Cornwall in 1382.

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24 The Beville Family

Famous alliances without number occurred in successive
generations between the Bevill family and the other great
Families of Cornwall, notably the families of Arundel and
Granville or Grenville. "The manor of Gwarnike," says
Lysons's Topographical and Historical Account of the County
of Cornwall, " passed at an early period, by a female heir,
to the ancient family of Bevill, whose chief seat it continued
to be for ten descents. The male line of this family became
extinct in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when the two co-
heiresses married into the families of Arundell of Trerice,
and Grenville. The Arundells became possessed of Gwar-
aicke; John Arundell of Gwarnicke, commonly called Black
Arundell (from his always wearing a black dress), dying
without issue in the year 1597 gave it to his kinsman Pri-
deaux. In 1704, it was sold by the Prideaux family to
James Kempe of Penryn, and in 1731 purchased by Edward
Prideaux, Esqr., of Place House, Padstow, ancestor to the
Rev. Charles Prideaux Brune, of the same place. . . . There
were formerly two chapels at Gwarnike ; one at a small
distance from the house, which was demolished before the
year 1736, and another attached to it, which, together with
'the old hall, curiously timbered with Irish oak,' was then
remaining."

A farm house built of materials from the hall now occupies
the site of this famous residence of the Bevilles and Arundells.
Between the Bevilles and Granvilles or Grenvilles there
were several notable alliances, which are indicated or de-
scribed in the magnificent History of the Granville Family
( traced back to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy, with ped-
igree charts), by the Rev. Roger Granville, M. A., Rector
of Bideford, and published in Exeter, England, in 1895. " Sir

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The Bevill or Beville Family 25

Richard Granville, marshal of Calais," says the Rev. Roger
Granville, "improved the family estates by his marriage
with Matilda, daughter and co-heir of John Bevill of Gwar-
nock, the descendant of another old Norman family, which
had been settled in Cornwall since the Conquest, and with
whom the Granvilles intermarried more than once. The
will of Peter Bevill (The father of John Bevill) was proved
in 1515. In it the names of his two granddaughters occur.
' Item do et lego Marie Arundell et Matilde Greneffelde, fil :
Johannis Bevyll filii mei cuilibet earum £%0.' "

A grandson of Sir Richard Granville and his wife, Matilda
Bevill, was the celebrated Sir Richard Granville of the
Revenge, cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh, who in 1591, as
Vice-Admiral of a squadron was sent out to intercept the
richly-laden Spanish fleet on its return from the West Indies.
" How the English ships were surprised in their lurking place
at Flores in the Azores, and how valiantly Sir Richard Gran-
ville fought and died for Queen and Country let Raleigh and
Tennyson tell." This Sir Richard Granville, also, it was,
who brought to Virginia in 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh's second
fleet with the colonists who fared so badly that they returned
to England with Sir Francis Drake. The grandson of this
Sir Richard was " the immortal Sir Beville Granville, eldest
son of Sir Bernard Granville and his wife Elizabeth Beville
of Killigarth, near Polperro," who fell at the battle of
Lansclowne, near Bath, fighting for King Charles the First,
in 1643.

The ancient parish church of Cornwall with whose history
the history of the Beville family is most closely identified is
the Talland Church, commonly known as the Beville Church,
near Polperro, the most picturesque and entirely unchanged

26 The Beville Family

fishing village in Cornwall. " This church/' says Gilbert,
"was considered not many years ago one of the most inter-
esting religious edifices in Cornwall .... The form of
the building is rather singular, it having a large Gothic
porch on the south side, with two heavy entrances ; and on
the south side of this is attached the tower, which rises to a
good height and is adorned by battlements. The interior of
the church consists of two noble aisles and a small transverse
called Killigarth Aisle, and although its religious aspect is
considerably lessened by the glare of its Venetian windows
its former impressive dignity is by no means wholly subdued.
Most of the original pews remain and the workmanship on
them is unusualfy rich and beautiful. In the south aisle
are hung several helmets, which bear a griffin, the crest of
Beville ; also swords and gauntlets. Below these venerable
antiquities stands an altar tomb whereon is sculptured the
full length effigy of John Beville, Esquire, who died in 1574,
and a profusion of other ornaments." The epitaph is as
follows :

" Here lyeth ye bodye of John Bevyll of Kyllygarth, Es-
quire, who deceased the XXth of January, beynge ye age of
LXIII, in anno Elizabeth Regine XXI, 1578, he married
Elizabeth Myllytun, and had Issue by her lyvying at hys
deceaes 4 sons and 4 daughters

" A Kubye Bull in perle Filde

doth shewe by strength and hew
A youthful wight yet chaste and cleane
to wedded feare most trew

•; From diamonde Beare in perle plot
a leevinge hee achieved
By stronge and steadfast constancy
in chastness still contrived

The Bevill or Beville Family 27

" To make all up a raach he made
with Millets plaste
In native seate so nature hath
the former vertues graste

" His Prince he served in good regard
twyce Shereeve and so just
That justlye still on Justice seate
three Princes him dyd trust.

" Such was his lyfe and suche his death
whose corps full low doth lye
Whilste soule by Christe to happy state
with hym doth rest on hye.

" Learne by his life such life to leade
his death: let platform bee
In life to shun the cause of death
that Christe may leeve in thee.

" William Bevill, Knight, eldest brother. He married
Jane, daughter of Thomas Arundell, Knight.

" Peter Beville, second brother, married Grace, one of the
co-heiresses of William Vyell, Esquire.

" Philip Bevill, third brother, married Elizabeth, daughter
and heir of Anthony Bearrye.

"John Bevyll, fourth brother, married Johan, the daughter
of Killiowe.

" Henry Meggs, Esquire, married Elizabeth, the eldest
daughter of John Bevyll, Esqire.

" Walter Kendall, Esqire, married Agnes Bevyll, the second
daughter of the aforesaid John Bevyll.

" William Pomeroye, married Mary Bevyll, the third
daughter.

" Humphrey Prideaux, Esqire, married Johan Bevyll, the
fourth daughter.

28 The Beville Family

" This Toumbe was made at the costs and charges of
William Bevill, Knight, Sonne and Heir of John Bevill,
Esquier, here in toumbed, and the Ladye Jane, wief unto
the saied Syr William Bevyll, Knight, being the youngest
daughter of Sir Thomas Arrundell, Knight.

" Motto : Futurum invisible."

" Much of the history of the interior of our church," says
the Reverend J. Parson, the present Vicar of Talland Church,
" centres round the name of Sir John Beville, Kt., whose
exquisite slate monument is in the east end of the South
aisle. It is just possible that it may be due to his mater-
nal grandfather, John Bere, of Killigarth, who died in 1517,
that we owe the oldest carving and seating ; but more prob-
ably .... we owe it to John Beville himself, who died in
1587, and that it is due to his granddaughter, and her hus-
band, Sir Bernard Grenville, who also lived at Killigarth,
that we owe the remaining carved ends — those in the north
transept, the pulpit, and the Beville family pew. The rea-
son which induces one to believe that John Bere, or John
Beville, did much for the church in his day, is that the
initials ' I. B.' are on the panel of one of the oldest bench
ends, with a winged figure as finial, near the pulpit. It is
unreasonable to suppose the initials would be placed there,
unless there was some cause of gratitude towards a public
benefactor. And for the same reason the Grenvilles, who
owned this estate later, were not likely to permit their coat
of arms to be paraded for the sake of vainglory, nor would
any other donor put on these carvings, the arms of a family
with which he was not connected. Sir Bernard Grenville
came into possession of Killigarth through marriage. It was
the home of his wife, Elizabeth, who was the only child of

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Phillip Beville, and the only grandchild of all John Beville's
four sons and four daughters. Sir Bernard Grenville gave
up his residence at Stowe in Kilkhampton parish, North
Cornwall, to his son, Sir Beville Grenville, of famous memory,
and came to Killigarth to live. Two letters of his are in ex-
istence, dated from Killigarth, in 1614 and 1616. . . .

" It adds much to the interest of our church to realize
that here there must have worshipped, and these seats have
been occupied by, successive generations of great men and
heroes. For example, Sir John Beville, who was Sheriff for
the county under three monarchs (died 1578) ; and his cousin,
the great Sir Richard Grenville, whose mother was a Beville.
The latter would have paid occasional visits before his death
at sea (1591), when he died fighting the Spaniards against
untold odds. Then again, Sir Bernard Grenville, son of the
preceding. He was noted for his goodness and worth as a
county gentleman, and lived for some years at Killigarth as
stated. Also, his most distinguished son, Sir Beville Gren-
ville,3 who led King Charles's forces in Cornwall and other
parts of England."

Sir Bevill Grenville's eldest son John was a principal
instrument of the Restoration, and was created Earl of
Bath, 20 April, 1661, three days before the coronation of
King Charles the Second. Soon after the Restoration the
king claimed the province of Carolina and united it to Great
Britain as a " Principality or Palatinate." The fertile dis-
tricts between Albemarle Sound and the river St. John the
king granted to eight of his favorite noblemen, John Gren-
ville Lord Bath being one of them. Bath was appointed
Lord-Lieutenant of the Counties of Cornwell and Devon in
England. " A document," says the Rev. Roger Granville

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in his History of the Granville Family, " dated 24 June, 1670,
is extant, by which the Earl of Bath, as Lord-Lieutenant of
Devon, appointed twenty-one gentlemen of the county to
act as his Deputies. Attendant to this commission is a
magnificent seal nearly three inches wide. On it is repre-
sented the Earl in armor on horseback charging the foe.
The inscription is Sigillum Praenobilis Johannis Comitis
Baihoniae. The reverse bears the family arms quarterly:
(1) Granville; (2) Wyche; (3) St. Leger; (4) Bevill; and on
a scroll is the expressive motto, Futurum invisibile."

The founder of the Bevill family of Virginia, the " Old
Dominion ", was Essex Bevill, whose name first appears in a
land warrant dated 27 October, 1671, to " Essex Bevill of
Old Town, on the Appomatox river." That he had then
recently come, and that he had come not directly from Eng-
land but from Barbadoes seems highly probable. His wife
is known to have been Ann Butler,4 whom he married prob-
ably about 1669, for his eldest son, John, was born, it is
said, in 1670. Other children of Essex and Ann Bevill were:
Essex, Jr., whose wife was Mary, and who was alive in 1726;
Mary; Elizabeth; and Amy.

John Bevill, elder son of Essex and Amy Bevill, married
Martha, possibly Claiborne. He had a grant of land con-
firmed to him of two hundred and twenty-five acres in
Bristol Parish, " formerly granted to Amy Butler, mother of
the said John Bevill, dated in the original grant 29 Septem-
ber, 1664, in Charles City county, Virginia." On the 17th of
August, 1720, Essex Bevill, Jr., had a grant of a hundred and
twenty-seven acres " on the south side of the Appomatox
river, in Prince George county, Virginia, opposite Sappony
town."5 An interesting notice of Mrs. Amy Bevill occurs

The Bevill on Beville Family 31

in the Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth
Century (Vol. I., p. 408). A few years after 1684, as the
date would seem to be, " Mrs. Ann Bevill of Henrico, by
deed of gift during her lifetime, divided her collection of
books equally between her two sons ". This collection of
books, from the special mention of it as having been trans-
mitted by deed of gift, would probably have been one of
the most important private libraries in Virginia at the
period when it was willed.

On the 25th of August, 1724, Robert Bevill, who was
probably a son of John rather than Essex, received a
grant of two hundred and twenty acres in Prince George
County. After this there were many grants made to Bevills
of the third generation — to John Bevill, to Thomas and
Daniel Bevill, " sons of Essex Bevill deceased " (dated
1730), and to Essex Bevill, 3rd. The Robert Bevill who
received a grant in Prince George County in 1724 was
one of the most prominent men in Bristol Parish, and
his name occurs frequently, as a Vestryman and as hold-
ing other important posts in the records of this parish.
As Vestryman his influence would necessarily be very
wide; "The Vestries," says Bishop Meade, in his Old
Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia, ' were the
depositaries of power in Virginia. They not only governed
the Church by the election of ministers, the levying of taxes,
the enforcing of laws, but they made laws in the House of
Burgesses; for the burgesses were the most intelligent and
influential men of the parish, and were mostly vestrymen."

Precisely who the wife of Robert Bevill the vestryman
was we do not know, but her first name was Ann, and the
couple had four sons and one daughter recorded in Bristol

82 The Beville Family

Parish records. Whether there were others we cannot cer-
tainly tell, but we suspect there were. The children who
are recorded were: James, born 2 November, 1721; Robert,
10 October, 1723; William, 2 October, 1726; Joseph, 11
December, 1730; Frances, 12 December, 1732. Of these
children, the second, Robert, whose wife was named Sarah,
removed to Georgia, where in December, 1759 he petitions for
four hundred and fifty acres of land "to be located about
four miles above Briar creek". In this petition Robert says
that he has been in the Province of Georgia for a year, and
that he has a wife and three children. On the 24th of April,
1760, he was selected by the Royal Commissioners and the
Legislature to be one of the Commission for the Parish of
St. George, in which he resided, to put the forts of the prov-
ince in good repair, this action having become necessary by
reason of the hostile attitude of the Cherokee Indians. In
November, 1766, he was dead, for at that date Sarah Bevill,
his widow, petitions for three hundred acres more land " on
Briar creek, about two miles above Beaver dam ", in her
petition stating that her husband had had four hundred and
fifty acres under a prior grant. She also mentions that she
has five children. In February, 1767, Sarah unites with her
neighbors, Nathaniel Miller, William Colson and Abraham
Lundy in a petition for one thousand acres of land from
which to cut timber, which petition was granted. On the
8th of March, 1774, Sarah gives a deed to her sons Robert,
Paul and James Bevill, "for love and affection" of all per-
sonal property, of which, however, she retains for herself the
use during her natural life. This deed, which is recorded in
Effingham County, was witnessed by John Bonner and
Thomas Lundy. On the 14th of March, 1774, Sarah Bevill,

The Bevill or Beville Family 33

widow of Robert, was married, secondly, to David Harris,
of Burke County, Georgia. On the 21st of July, 1778,
David Harris, planter, and his wife Sarah Bevill, of Burke
County, deeded to William Colson and Paul Bevill three
hundred acres in Burke County, bounded east by Briar
creek, on all other sides by vacant land.

Paul Bevill, second son of Robert and Sarah of Effing-
ham County, Georgia, born in Virginia about 1755 or '56,
married in Effingham County, then St. Matthew's Parish,
about 1780-82, Sarah Scruggs, daughter of Richard and Ann
(Sisson) Scruggs, of the same parish, who like the Bevills,
were originally from Virginia. In 1793, Screven County was
laid out from Burke and. Effingham counties, and thereafter
Paul Bevill's plantation lay in both Effingham and Screven
counties.

The Rev. George White in his Statistics of the State of
Georgia (page 520), says that among the early settlers of
Screven County were Lewis Lanier (collateral ancestor of
Sidney Lanier, the poet), Captain Everett (a collateral
ancestor of Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale), Paul Bevill,
Richard Scruggs and Stephen Pearce. Three of these plant-
ers, Paul Bevill, Richard Scruggs, and Stephen Pearce, were
great-great-grandfathers of the author of this, book. These
men were all Justices of the Peace, and officers of the several
churches to which they belonged. All had the distinction of
having served in the Revolution, and one of them, Richard
Scruggs, was a member of the Council of Safety for the
Province of Georgia. They were, of course, large landowners
and were noted for kindness and strict justice in all their
dealings with the dependants on their estates. Among the
traditions of these planters is the laudable tradition that they
always advocated good roads, good schools, and churches.

34 The Beville Family

Paul Bevill and his wife, Sarah Scruggs, had sons, James,
and Paul, Jr., the latter of whom was born 11 July 1788;
and daughters, Sarah Ford Bevill, and one other, probably

Frances, who was married to Garnett and had, among

other children, a son, Paul Bevill Garnett. The last will
and testament of Paul Bevill was made on the 24th of Janu-
ary, 1828, and probated 10 January, 1836. It reads as
follows :

The Last Will and Testament of Paul Bevill

In the name of God, amen — I, Paul Bevill of the State
of Georgia and county of Effingham, being in good health
and sound mind, considering the uncertainty of life, do make
and ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say
principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul to
God who gave it, and my body to the Earth from whence it
came to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion
of my friends.

As touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased
God to bless me with in this life, I give and dispose of in
the following manner and form : — First : — I desire that all my
just debts be paid. Secondly: — I give unto my beloved wife
Sarah Bevill during her life time my real and personal estate
with the exception of what has already been disposed of to
my daughter Sarah Ford Bevill in deed of trust. Thirdly: —
I give unto my grandson Paul Bevill Mathews one negro
boy named Valentine, also one tract of land containing five
hundred acres originally granted to John Lucas, also, one
other tract containing five hundred and fifty acres granted
to Paul Bevill, which property should the said Paul Bevill
Mathews not arrive to the age of maturity shall be divided
among his brothers and sisters.

Fourthly: — I give and bequeath unto my following named
grandsons, Paul B. Garnet, Stephen P. Bevill, James Bevill,
Claborn Bevill, John G. Bevill, Paul R. Bevill, and William

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Colson the residue of my property viz: When Stephen P.
Bevill shall come to years of maturity, or should he die, then
the next oldest of my grandsons, the following negroes * * * *
shall be divided into lots amounting in value equal one to
another and divided according by giving to Stephen his por-
tion, the balance to remain in the hands of my executors
and delivered to my grandsons as they respectively arrive to
the years of twenty-one, with this difference, that James
Bevill shall receive one negro, or the value of an ordinary
negro, more than either of the others, provided also, that if
either of my before mentioned grandsons should die before
receiving his portion, then his portion shall be divided among
the remaining survivors. Again, I give unto my grandson
James Bevill my brass-mounted rifle. Again, all my lands
except what I have given away as before mentioned, shall
be sold and the proceeds equally divided among the before
named grandsons.

Lastly: — I do appoint John Goldwire Mathews and Wil-
liam H. Scruggs executors to this my last will and testament
with the request that my first named executor shall manage
alone the concerns of my estate as long as he may live, or
until the same is completed, and I do hereby utterly dis-
allow, revoke and annul all and every other testament, will,
legacy and bequest by me in any way before named willed
and bequeathed, satisfying and confirming this and no other
to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this the twenty-fourth day
of January Eighteen-hundred and twenty-eight.

PAUL BEVILL (L S)
Signed and sealed in the presence of us

Henry White

Ch. M. Hill

John J. Pitts, [Probated 10th January, 1836]

Paul Bevill, Jr., second son of Paul Bevill and his wife
Sarah Scruggs, was born 11 July, 1788, married, first, in 1810

36 The Beville Family

Mary Pearce, daughter of Stephen Pearce and his wife, Mary
Mills, born 6 February, 1793. They had children: Stephen
Pearce Bevill, born 14 January, 1811; Sarah Ann Bevill, born
4 November, 1812; and John Goldwire Bevill, born 7 Septem-
ber, 1814. Mary Pearce, wife of Paul Bevill, Jr., died 15
August, 1816, and Paul married, secondly, Eliza Rudolph
(license granted 15 April, 1817). Of this marriage one child
only was born, Paul Rudolph Bevill, who died 20 January,
1855, "aged about 35." Paul Bevill, Jr., died before Janu-
ary, 1820, for on that date " Paul Bevill, Sr., was appointed
guardian of Stephen P. Bevill and John G. Bevill, minors
and orphans of Paul Bevill, Jr., deceased; and Eliza W.
Bevill was appointed guardian of Paul R. Bevill, minor and
orphan of Paul Bevill, Jr." Paul Bevill, Jr.'s, widow, Eliza
Rudolph, was married secondly " about or before 29 July,
1819, in Screven County, Georgia" to William Lundy, of a
family that " can be traced back to Brunswick County, Vir-
ginia, associated with Laniers and other intermarried families
of Burke, Screven, and Effingham counties, Georgia."

Stephen Pearce Bevill, elder son of Paul Bevill, Jr., and
his wife Mary Pearce, was born 14 January, 1811, in Georgia,
and married 28 November, 1833, Lavina Lipsey, born 10
May, 1811, daughter of William Lipsey and his wife Ann.
Between 1835 and 1861 Mrs. Lavina Bevill bore her husband
twelve children; she died 15 November, 1871. In 1851
Stephen Pearce Bevill removed with his family from Georgia
to Alachua County, East Florida, several other Georgia fam-
ilies descended also from early Virginia colonists going at
the same time. The occasion of their migrating to Florida
was that ancestors of theirs had received large grants there
while the colony belonged to Spain, and these grants were

The Bevill or Beville Family 37

now so valuable that it was important that they should be
occupied.6 One of these grants alone, given in 1767, was of
the enormous extent of sixteen thousand acres, and was to
William Mills, Jr., a great-grandfather of Stephen Pearce
Bevill, and some four thousand acres of this had come into
the possession of Mr. Bevill. To this inherited estate Bevill
added by purchase, and he now owned a large plantation,
on which he raised corn, cotton, poultry, and stock. Owning
a spacious colonial house in Gainesville and several comfort-
able houses on his plantations, he with his family lived in
the usual luxurious ease of the people of his station in the
South. He owned, of course, a considerable number of
slaves, the row of " quarters " for whom was so long that
standing at one end one could not see to the other. On
this plantation he gradually settled his sons, and, as his
daughters married, no less than four of his sons-in-law.

The aristocratic spirit and bearing of the Southern gen-
try in the old days " before the War " is a matter of com-
mon knowledge, and Stephen Pearce Bevill was no exception
to the rule. He was patrician in mind and manner, and in
the parts of Georgia and Florida where his plantations lay,
people of all ages treated him uniformly with a reverence
that was almost awe. He was a Justice of the Peace, Clerk
of the Alachua County court, and being reared in the Baptist
faith, which a large number of other influential persons in
Gainesville had adopted, senior deacon of the Gainesville
Baptist Church. To his slaves he was so kind and faithful
a master that three years after they were emancipated every
one who was still alive had returned to his plantation and
gladly reported to the familiar roll call. Erect of form, of
great refinement of face and elegance of manner, with an

38 The Beville Family

unmistakeable hauteur that prevented the slightest familiar-
ity on the part of inferiors, conscious always of the proud
traditions of his family, Stephen Bevill was yet a thoroughly
kind Christian man. Whether he knew Emerson's precept
or not, " Life is not so short but that there is always time
enough for courtesy," he believed and practised it, and the
memory he has left his descendants is of a true gentleman
of an age that had gentlemen indeed. He died 29 April,
1894, and was buried in the cemetery of Gainesville, which
he with others had set apart in 1852.

The children of Stephen Pearce Bevill and his wife Lavina
Lipsey were: John Rieves, born 3 October, 1834, married
Elizabeth Rain; Sarah Jane, born 2 December, 1836, died
young; Robert Harper, born 9 October, 1838, married Jemima
Simmons; Mary Lavisy, born 15 January, 1841, married first
to John James Vaughan, second to Colonel Hamlin Valentine
Snell; Stephen Calfrey, born 19 October, 1843, married first
Frances McRae, second Annie Jones; Sarah Rebecca, born
16 January, 1845, married James Barrett Cullen; Frances
Alethea, born 3 July, 1847, married to John W. Crichton;
Ann Elizabeth, born 14 March, 1850, married first to George
Francis Kinsey Beattie, second to James Henry Jarvis; Henry
Lafayette, born 8 March, 1852, married Ellen McRae; Hen-
rietta Rudolph, born 19 April, 1855, married to Louis Smith.

Mary Lavisy Beville, daughter of Stephen Pearce Bevill
and his wife Lavina (Lipsey), was born 15 January, 1841, on
her father's plantation in Effingham County, Georgia, about
twenty-five miles from Savannah. She was married, first,
in November, 1858, to John James Vaughan of Amelia Island,
Florida, her parents as we have seen having removed in 1851
from Georgia to Alachua County, Florida, where after that

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The Bevill or Beville Family 39

time she had lived. By her first marriage, Mary Beville
had one child, Agnes Beville Vaughan, the author of this
book. In the autumn of 1867, she was married, secondly,
to Colonel Hamlin Valentine Snell, the most noted lawyer
of his time in Florida, and a speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, who was said by governors and judges of his
state, his intimate friends, to have been the most influential
advocate of the admission of Florida into the Union as a
State. To her second husband Mary Beville bore two
children: William Hamlin Snell, born 23 October, 1868, died
23 December, 1870; and much later, Frances Lavinia Snell.
Mrs. Mary Beville Snell died at Gainesville, Florida, at what
had been her father's town residence, 23 November, 1889,
Colonel Snell having died about four years earlier.

Robert Harper Bevill, son of Stephen Pearce and Lavina
(Lipsey) Bevill, born 9 October, 1838, married Jemima Sim-
mons, and had two children, Alfred Stephen and Mary.
Alfred Stephen Bevill married Ruby Young, and had two
children, Julia and Mildred. Mary Beville was married to
Louis C. Lynch, and had one son Haisley. Mary Lavisy
Beville (Stephen Pearce and Lavina) was married as above.
Ann Elizabeth Beville (Stephen Pearce and Lavina) was
married to George Francis Kinsey Beattie and had two
children, George Francis Kinsey Beattie, Jr., and Ann Beat-
tie, the latter of whom was married to Ernest Ward Willetts,
M. D., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has three children:
Agnes Beville Willetts, born 26 November, 1906; Ernest
Ward Willetts, Jr., born 14 February, 1909; Arthur Tedcastle
Willetts, born 20 August, 1910. Mrs. Ann (Beville) Beattie
was married second, in 1877 to James H. Jarvis of Virginia,
and to him bore three children: Harry Lee Jarvis; Arthur
Tedcastle Jarvis, and Blanche Jarvis.

THE BEVILLE DESCENDANTS

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann?] Butlek

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert8 Bevill = Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Paul5 Bevill, Sr. = Sarah Scruggs
Paul6 Bevill, Jr. = Mary Pearce
Stephen Pearce7 Bevill = Lavina Lipsey
Mary Lavisy8 Beville = John James Vaughan
Agnes Beville9 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert3 Bevill = Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Paul5 Bevill, Sr. = Sarah Scruggs

Paul6 Bevill, Jr. = Mary Pearce

Stephen Pearce7 Bevill = Lavina Lipsey

Ann8 Beville = (1) George Francis Kinsey Beattie

(2) James Henry Jarvis
Anne9 Beattie = Ernest Ward Willetts, Sr., M. D.
Agnes Beville10 Willetts
Ernest Ward10 Willetts, Jr.
Arthur Tedcastle10 Willetts

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert8 Bevill = Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Paul5 Bevill, Sr. = Sarah Scruggs
Paul6 Bevill, Jr. = Mary Pearce
Stephen Pearce7 Bevill = Lavina Lipsey
Ann8 Beville = (1) George Francis Kinsey Beattie

(2) James Henry Jarvis

Arthur Tedcastle9 Jarvis, Sr. = ■

Arthur Tedcastle10 Jarvis, Jr.

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert8 Bevill = Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Paul5 Bevill, Sr. = Sarah Scruggs
Paul6 Bevill, Jr. = Mary Pearce
Stephen Pearce7 Bevill = Lavina Lipsey
Robert Harper8 Bevill = Jemima Simmons
Alfred Stephen9 Bevill = Ruby Young
Julia10 Beville = Jonathan Yerkes
Mildred10 Beville

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert8 Bevill = Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Paul5 Bevill, Sr. = Sarah Scruggs
Paul6 Bevill, Jr. = Mary Pearce
Stephen Pearce7 Bevill = Lavina Lipsey
Robert Harper8 Bevill = Jemima Simmons
Mary9 Beville = Louis C. Lynch
Haisley10 Lynch

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert8 Bevill = Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Robert5 Bevill = Sarah (Williams) Hudson
Granville6 Bevill, Sr. = Sarah Ann Bonnell
Granville7 Bevill, Jr. = Patience Mobley
Daniel Earl8 Beville = Martha Jane Mobley
George Granville9 Beville = (1) Bird Biddle

(2) Pattie Scott
Etta M.10 Beville = James Edward Slaughter

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert3 Bevill = Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Robert5 Bevill = Sarah (Williams) Hudson

Granville6 Bevill, Sr. = Sarah Ann Bonnell

Julia7 Beville = Ezekiel Samuel Candler, Sr.

Ezekiel S.8 Candler, Jr. = Nancy Priscilla Hazlewood

Daniel Beville8 Candler = Dora Candler

Charles Granville8 Candler

Julia Ada8 Candler

Milton Asa8 Candler = Elizabeth McKinney

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann ?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert8 Bevill = Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Robert5 Bevill = Sarah (Williams) Hudson
Granville6 Bevill, Sr. = Sarah Ann Bonnell
Julia7 Beville = Ezekiel Samuel Candler, Sr.
Ezekiel S.8 Candler, Jr. = Nancy Priscilla Hazlewood
Julia Beville9 Candler = Franklin Gregory Swift
Susan Hazlewood9 Candler = Wm. E. Small, Jr.
Lucy Alice9 Candler

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert8 Bevill = Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Robert5 Bevill = Sarah (Williams) Hudson
Claiborne6 Bevill = Susannah Daly
Henrietta7 Beville = Henry J. Strobahr
Ida Claiborne8 Strobahr = James Oliver
Henrietta8 Strobahr = C. C. Purse

Noble8 Strobahr = Strobahr

Rebecca8 Strobahr = Habersham King
Cecil8 Strobahr = (1) Lou Oliver Bryant

(2) Asselia Gaschet de L'Isle
Garnett8 Strobahr = Lola Crawford

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert3 Bevill = Ann

Robert1 Bevill = Sarah — —

Robert5 Bevill = Sarah (Williams) Hudson
Claiborne6 Bevill = Susannah Daly
Henrietta7 Beville = Henry J. Strobahr
Henrietta Beville8 Strobahr = C. C. Purse
Elizabeth9 Purse
Roberta9 Purse

Essex1 Bevill = Amy [Ann ?] Butler

John2 Bevill = Martha

Robert3 Bevill == Ann

Robert4 Bevill = Sarah

Robert6 Bevill = Sarah (Williams) Hudson

Robert6 Bevill = Nancy

Scruggs7 Bevill =

Granville8 Bevill, 3d =

Scruggs9 Bevill =

Granville10 Beville (daughter)

THE VAUGHAN FAMILY

" I sing New England, as she lights her fire
In every Prairie's midst ; and where the bright
Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night,

She still is there."

William Ellery Charming

CHAPTER III

THE VAUGHAN FAMILY

A BOUT 1796 a young American lieutenant, John Vaughan,
**■ who the previous year had been stationed at the little
military post known as " Burnt Fort, " in southeastern
Georgia, on the Satilla river, received from the Spanish Gov-
ernment a large grant on Amelia Island, in the extreme north-
eastern portion of Florida, just below the St. Mary's river.
The exact extent and date of his grant we do not know, for
at the time he obtained it, as for many years before and
for nearly a quarter of a century after, the loose Spanish
control of northern Florida and the constant entanglements
of the nominal government there with the governments of
France, England, and the United States, made the keeping
of accurate records almost an impossibility. During his
brief term of military service at Burnt Fort, as we suppose,
Vaughan met Rhoda Effingham, whose uncle had a plantation
at Peter's Point, in Camden County, Georgia, not far from
the fort, and about 1797 married her, afterwards retiring to
his Sea Island plantation, where he spent the rest of his life.
John Vaughan was not a Southerner but was a native of
Massachusetts, where he was born probably in 1762. His
parents were Henry Vaughan, Jr., and his wife, Mary
Humphrey, both also natives of Dorchester, his mother's
family being one of the most conspicuous families in that

historic Massachusetts town.

(55)

56 The Beville Family

The Vaughan family is not found in Dorchester earlier
than 1736, its founders there being Henry Vaughan, Sr., and
his wife Elizabeth, who so far as we can see bore no immedi-
ate relationship to any other family of Vaughans in New En-
gland, and who may have come, a young couple recently mar-
ried, directly from England or Wales. In April, 1737, Henry
Vaughan was declared eligible in Dorchester for jury duty;
9 May, 1739, he and others petitioned that the part of Dorches-
ter where they resided should be annexed to the town of Ded-
ham, and to Dedham, accordingly, this part of Dorchester
was annexed. Thenceforth, then, we find the Vaughans resi-
dents of Dedham, their home, as a writer in the Dedham
Historical Register (Vol. 1, pp. 98, 99) says, being on or near
what is now Readville Street, this location being determined
by the fact that Henry Vaughan " owned land running from
Mother Brook, across River Street, and nearly to Readville
Street."7

In the Dedham and Dorchester Town and Church records
we find the births and baptisms carefully given of three, and
only three, children of Henry and Elizabeth Vaughan.
These children were : Henry, born 31 August, baptized 31
October, 1736 ; Elizabeth, born 4 April, baptized 8 April,
1739 ; and John, born 13 May, baptized 26 May, 1745. Of
these children, Henry, the eldest, married in Dorchester (by
Rev. Jonathan Bowman), 20 August, 1761, Mary Humph-
rey, born 8 April, 1730, daughter of Samuel and Mary
(Leeds) Humphrey of Dorchester, who is said in the
Humphrey Genealogy to have died in December, 1804.
From the Dorchester Vital Records we learn that a Henry
Vaughan died 31 August, 1769, and this we believe to have
been Henry Vaughan, Jr., rather than his father. On the

The Vaughan Family 57

Register of the First Church in Dorchester (from 1729 to
1845) we find recorded the baptisms of two children of
Henry, Jr., and Mary (Humphrey) Vaughan, — Mary, bap-
tized 8 July, 1764, and Henry, baptized 18 May, 1766; but
they had possibly two children, certainly one, born between
the date of their marriage and the date of the baptism of
the child Mary as given above. Their first child, as we be-
lieve, who lived, was the lieutenant of Burnt Fort and the
Florida planter, John Vaughan, whose tombstone records his
birth as occurring on the thirteenth of March, 1763, but who
must have been born, we think, in 1762.

On the second of January, 1777, announcing his age as six-
teen,8 John Vaughan entered military service in Massachu-
setts for the period of the Revolution. As the Massachu-
setts military records testify, and as he himself at later
times declared, on this date he enlisted as a private in
Captain Wiley's company, Colonel Michael Jackson's regi-
ment. On the 4th of June, 1833, when he was, so he says,
"seventy" years old, desiring to receive the bounty land
" promised " him by the United States for his Revolution-
ary service, he appeared before Nicholas Biddle Van Zandt,
Justice of the Peace in the city of Washington, and made
oath that in January, 1777, he entered the service of the
United States " for the term of during the war, " and that
he ''served in the company commanded by Captain Wiley,
in the Regiment No. 8, commanded by Colonel Michael
Jackson of the Massachusetts line," and that he " was hon-
orably discharged at the close of the War in the year 1783,
from the Regiment commanded by Colonel M. Jackson afore-
said. " On the thirty-first of March, 1856, when he was, as he
says, " ninety-three " years old, desiring to receive bounty land

58 The Beville Family

for service he had rendered in the " Indian War " after the
Revolution, he appeared before John Johnson, Justice of the
Peace in Nassau County, Florida, and made oath that he
was " the identical John Vaughan who was a private in the
Massachusetts Line in the Revolutionary war, as will be
seen by reference to the Pension Office ; also in the Com-
pany of Captain Pierce in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Hamer in the year 1785, in the then Indian War,
and was mustered into the United States Service in German-
town, and was in the service for the space of twelve months,
as will be seen by reference to the proper Department, and
was honorably discharged, at place not recollected, some
time in 1786. He makes this declaration for the purpose
of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled
under Act passed by Congress on March 3, 1855. " In the
next and final paragraph of his sworn declaration, he says
that for his service in the Revolution he had received from
Congress as bounty land one hundred acres.

From these sworn declarations of Vaughan, and from
other official records, we learn, then, that the military ser-
vice of this young Massachusetts soldier covered in all a
period of some nineteen years. After the Revolution, he
was, probably continuously, in service in Pennsylvania and
other states, finally at the State House at Augusta, Georgia,
on the tenth of January, 1795, being appointed " Lieutenant
of the Department of the militia at Burnt Fort, and to con-
tinue as such until the first of January, 1796, unless sooner
discharged. " When the war of 1812 came, although living
then on his Florida plantation, under the government of
Spain, he owned land in Georgia, and was still an American
citizen. Accordingly, fired with a spirit of loyalty to his

The Vaughan Family 59

country, he left his family on his plantation, crossed into
Georgia, and once more entering military service, remained
in the army until the end of the war.

John Vaughan married, as we have seen, about 1797,
Rhoda Effingham, niece of Thomas Harvey Miller, owner
of a notable plantation at Peter's Point, in Georgia, near
St. Mary's, and not far from the Florida line. Her mother
was Pharaba Miller whose kinsman, Phineas Miller, married
19 July, 1796, at Philadelphia, Mrs. Catharine Greene, widow
of General Nathanial Greene. In each generation of this
Miller family since the Revolution there have been noted
lawyers, as, for example, Stephen D. Miller, author of The
Bench and Bar of Georgia, and Andrew J. Miller of Augusta,
to whose memory the women of Georgia erected a monu-
ment in his home city Augusta, soon after his death.

At some period in his career, possibly because of the pres-
ence of some other John Vaughan near him in military ser-
vice, or in the county where he finally settled, John Vaughan
adopted as a middle initial the letter "D", and in his later
years was known commonly as John "D" Vaughan. He
died on his plantation on the 16th of April, 1860, and was
buried in a private burying-ground on his estate. The
tombstone first erected to his memory was destroyed during
an uprising of the negroes on Amelia Island, at the beginning
of the civil war. The Federal Government punished the ne-
groes for their offence, and erected a shaft which now stands
at the head of his grave. On the east side of the shaft the
inscription reads:

60 The Beville Family

SACRED TO THE MEMORY

OF

JOHN D. VAUGHAN

BORN IN BOSTON, MASS., MARCH 13, 1763,

DIED IN

NASSAU COUNTY FLORIDA

APRIL 16, 1860

AGED

97 YEARS

On the north side appears:

HE BLED FOR LIBERTY AND BEQUEATHED ASA LEGACY
TO HIS POSTERITY RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY AND OP-
PRESSION. PEACE TO THE ASHES OF THE TRULY GREAT.

On the west:

ALMOST THE LAST OF THE HEROES OF THE REVOLU-
TION, HIS LIFE FADED CALMLY. IT WAS MARKED BY
ALL THOSE VIRTUES WHICH ADORN A HERO, EVENTFUL
AND DETERMINED.

HE LIVED RESPECTED.

HE DIED BELOVED.

RHODA

HIS WIFE.

On the south side:

WHEN IN COMING YEARS THE STRANGER SHALL READ
THIS EPITAPH, REMEMBER THAT THIS MONUMENT MARKS
THE SPOT OF ONE WHO LIVED IN TIMES WHICH TRIED
MEN'S SOULS, AND THAT HE ASSISTED IN BEQUEATH-
ING TO YOU THE RICH LEGACY YOU NOW ENJOY.
SACRED BE THE SPOT.

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The Daughters of the American Revolution of the State
of Florida have lately petitioned his family for a deed of his
grave, which they wish to honour perpetually in tribute to
his service to the country.

The children of John D. Vaughan and his wife Rhoda
Effingham were: Daniel, born in 1800 ; Pharaba Jane, mar-
ried to General James Gignilliat Cooper ; and William, born
in 1806.

Will of John Daniel Vaughan.

In the Name of God Amen.

The Last Will and Testament of John Daniel Vaughan.

I John Daniel Vaughan of the County of Nassau and State
of Florida being in good bodily health and of sound mind
and memory calling to mind the frailty and uncertainty of
human life and being desirous of settling my wordly affairs
and directing how the estates with which it has pleased God
to bless me shall be disposed of after my decease while I have
strength and capacity so to do do make and publish this my
Last Will and Testament hereby revoking and making null
and void all other last wills and testaments by me hereto-
fore made.

And First I commend my immortal being to him who
gave it and my body to the earth to be decently interred.

And as to my wordly estate and all the property real per-
sonal or mixed of which I shall die seized and possessed or
to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease I de-
mise bequeath and dispose thereof in the manner following
towit

Imprimis my will is that all my just debts and funeral
expenses shall by my executors hereinafter named be paid
out of my estate as soon after my decease as shall by them
be found convenient. Item I give bequeath and devise my
whole and entire interest and property in negro Slaves in the
following manner to wit In three equal shares or divisions

62 The Beville Family

The first share I give devise and bequeath to Eliza Vaughan
the wife of my oldest son Daniel Vaughan to hold to her
and the children of her body by my said son Daniel forever
The second share or division that is one third of my whole
number of negroes I give and bequeath in the following
manner to wit One half of said share division or third I give
and bequeath to my second and youngest son William
Vaughan To have and To hold in his own proper right in fee
simple; the other half of said share division or third I give and
bequeath equally to the Three children of my said son William
Vaughan he being their Natural guardian until their majority
The Third and last share division of my whole negro prop-
erty I give devise and bequeath to my only daughter Jane
Pharaba Cooper To have and To hold to her and her heirs
forever Item I give devise and bequeath to Eliza Vaughan
aforesaid Two hundred and fifty acres of land being situate
on Amelia Island in said County To have and To hold to her
as aforesaid Item I give devise and bequeath to my grand-
son Horace Vaughan three lots of land situate in the Town
of Fernandina according to the survey of said Town on said
Amelia Island in said State and County Item I give devise
and bequeath to my said daughter Jane Pharaba Cooper
Three hundred and fifty acres of land being situate in Nassau
County aforesaid in said State commencing at the North line
and running direct south being lying and situate on the North
Branch of Nassau river Item I give devise and bequeath to
my said son William Vaughan Three hundred and fifty acres
of land being a portion of same tract a part of which tract
of which I devised as above to my daughter Jane Pharaba
Cooper said portion so devised to my said son William to
commence at the south line of said tract and to run North
Item I give devise and bequeath to my Two granddaughters
May and Jane the daughters of my son William Vaughan
aforesaid Seventy five acres of land each making one hun-
dred and fifty acres between the two said land being situate
in said tract with the land bequeathed as aforesaid to my

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daughter Jane Pharaba Cooper and my son William Vaughan
Item I give bequeath and devise to my two sons Daniel and
William Vaughan and my daughter Jane Pharaba Cooper
equally my present residence known as Mount Hope with the
condition that the same containing two hundred acres of land
shall be appraised and if either of said three heirs shall de-
sire to reside at said place and shall well and truly pay to
the other two named heirs their respective proportions of
said appraisement then the said place to become the prop-
erty of such an one so paying Item I will that all my
horses cattle plantation tools and utensils and all other per-
sonal property that I own shall be appraised and the nett
proceeds thereof be equally distributed between my sons and
daughters aforesaid Item I give bequeath and devise to
Charles P. Cooper the sum of One hundred Dollars for the
professional services rendered which I do of my own free will
and accord. Item I will that if William Russell of said
State and County shall or will pay or cause to be paid the
remainder at balance on a certain mortgage held by me upon
a female slave named Patty and her children together with
simple interest on the same within the time prescribed by
law to close estates then the bill of sale I have to said prop-
erty be cancelled and said property to be delivered up to him
Lastly I do nominate and appoint James G. Cooper of Nas-
sau County State of Fla and Charles P. Cooper of Duval
County and State aforesaid to be the executors of this my
last will and testament

In testimony Whereof I the said John Daniel Vaughan
have to this my last will and testament contained on this
shingle sheet of paper and opon the four pages thereof in-
scribed my name and affixed my seal this 18th day of April
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight and forty nine

JOHN D. VAUGHAN (Seal)

Signed Sealed and published by the said John Daniel
Vaughan as and for his last will and testament in presence

64 The Beville Family

of us who at his request and in his presence and in the pres-
ence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses
hereto

Charles M. Cooper

Michael Hearn Jr

Isadore V. Gamie

State of Florida
County of Nassau

Personally appeared Isadore V. Gamie who being duly
sworn deposeth and sayeth that he was present and saw the
testator John D. Vaughan sign seal publish and declare the
foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and
testament that at the time of the signing the same Testator
was of sound mind and memory.

That deponent and Charles M. Cooper and Michael Hearn
Jr at the Request of testator and in his presence and in pres-
ence of each other subscribe their names as Witnesses thereto.

Sworn to and subscribed in Isadore V. Gamie.

my presence this 21st day of
May 1860

Geo Stewart
Judge of Probate Nassau County

State of Florida
County of Nassau

I Geo Stewart Judge of Probate for the County and State
above written do hereby certify that the above and forego-
ing is a full true and correct copy of the last will and testa-
ment of John D. Vaughan as on file and record in this office.
In witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and af-
fixed the seal of the Probate Court this 30th day of May
A. D. 1860.

Geo Stewart (Seal)
Judge &c

The Vaughan Family 65

It is to be observed in John D. Vaughan's will that no
names of slaves were given, the reason being that the large
number of them owned by him made it well-nigh impossible
to mention them individually.

Daniel Vaughan, son of John D. and Rhoda Effingham
Vaughan, was born on his maternal grandfather's plantation
in Georgia in 1800, and married, first, Elizabeth Harrison,
daughter of Captain Samuel Harrison of Amelia Island, and
sister of Colonel Robert Harrison, one of the most affluent
and best known of the Sea Island planters. His wife died
very soon, leaving no children, and he married secondly,
about 1825, Eliza Chisholm Pelot Harrison, born in 1805 on
her father's estate "The Meadows", about seven miles
north of Darien, Mcintosh County, Georgia, daughter of
Horace Jesse Harrison and his wife Mary Martha Pelot
(whose mother was Elizabeth Chisholm ). Daniel Vaughan
inherited part of his father's plantation on Amelia Island,
which he managed progressively for several years before his
father's death. This plantation was one of three or four
into which the whole of Amelia Island was divided, its extent
being easily imagined when it is known that Daniel Vaughan
and his father together owned about five hundred slaves.
On this plantation he spent his life, his death being occa-
sioned by a steamboat explosion near St. Simon's Island, off
the coast of Georgia, in 1856. He was buried in the Vaugh-
an burying ground on the plantation. His wife, Eliza C.
Pelot Harrison, died some time before 1875.

The children of Daniel and Eliza Chisholm Pelot (Harrison)
Vaughan were five: Mary A. Chisholm, born in 1827, mar-
ried to her cousin Charles Pelot, a lawyer; Elizabeth S.,
born in 1829, married to Dr. Sullivan, of Greenville, South

66 The Beville Family

Carolina; Horace Daniel, born in 1831, married a Spanish
lady, Manuella Noberta, and was killed in the Civil War;
Susan Jane, born in 1833, married to Colonel Thaddeus A.
MacDonnell, "a brilliant attorney and a true type of the
Southern gentleman," who was born on Amelia Island,
7 February, 1831, and in the Civil War a brave officer,
was appointed on Jefferson Davis's special staff ; John
James, born in 1838, married, first, Mary Lavisy Beville;
Franklin Decatur, born in 1838, died unmarried, in the Con-
federate service in the Civil War. Of these children; Hor-
ace Daniel Vaughan by his wife Manuella Noberta had
children: Horace Glanville, died unmarried; Mary Elizabeth,
married to Warren Scott, and had among her children, Rilla
Scott, married to Sydney Pons, and who had three sons; Flor-
ence Marcella, married to Adolphus Cavado; Daniel Francis,
now living in Greenville, South Carolina; and Ella Virginia,
died in infancy. Susan Jane Vaughan, to her husband Colonel
Thaddeus A. MacDonnell bore children: Braxton Bragg
MacDonnell; Donald MacDonnell; and Sydney Johnston Mac-
Donnell.

John James Vaughan, son of Daniel and Eliza Pelot
Harrison Vaughan, born 18 September, 1835, married
first in November, 1858, Mary Lavisy Beville, born as we
have shown in our account of the Beville family, on her
father's plantation in Effingham County, Georgia, fourteenth
January 1841. Two high-spirited young people, both reared
luxuriously and the idols of their parents, their married life
through unfortunate temperamental differences early came
to an end, Mrs. Vaughan returning to her father's planta-
tion, where her daughter Agnes Beville was born, and re-
suming her maiden name. Some years after the law had

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The Vaughan Family 67

separated Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan, both married again. John
James Vaughan died in Florida in November, 1914. In the
Civil War he and his two brothers enlisted in the First
Florida Regiment for service during the war. His two
brothers were killed in battle, but he, though wounded nine
times, survived. Among other battles he took part in the
battles of Shiloh and Missionary Ridge. From the Civil
War he went to Cuba and served in the ten years rebellion
there. Then he retired to his island home.

On the twenty-second of November, 1882, Agnes Beville
Vaughan, was married at Gainesville, Alachua County, Flor-
ida, the town of which her grandfather Beville was one of
the founders and most distinguished citizens, to Arthur White
Tedcastle, who was born in London on Christmas Day, 1855.
His father was William Porteous Tedcastle, who when he
came of age took the royal road to London, and entered the
office of the Lloyds. Late in the fifties, however, he came
to New York, where he took a position with a friend, of
equal importance with the one he had filled in London, and
this he held until January, 1866, when he suddenly died.
William Tedcastle's wife was Julia Riddiough Nuttall, born
23 December, 1827, daughter of Peter Austin Nuttall, one
of the most learned Englishmen of his time, whose name
through his eminent Pronouncing Dictionary of the English
Language and many other philological, classical, and arch-
aeological studies, is one of the best known and most highly
venerated in the world of English scholarship. To be the
grandson of so eminent a scholar as Mr. Nuttall is unques-
tionably no small distinction. This gentleman, who, as
became a great scholar, was one of the most modest of men,
was a graduate of Oxford and a doctor of laws of that an-

68 The Beville Family

cient university. He was for years part owner and editor
of the Gentleman's Magazine, and at one time was asked to
take the editorship of Punch. Had he done this he would
probably have much advanced his fortune, but his answer
to the request that he assume the leadership of Punch was
that the publication was " too frivolous " for him to connect
himself with. He died at his home in London some time
during the American Civil War, passing quietly away at his
desk in the act of writing some scholarly article, probably
for publication. His most widely known work is his Pro-
nouncing Dictionary of the English Language, but he was also
the author of A Classical and Archaeological Dictionary of the
Manners, Customs, Laws, Institutions, Arts, etc., of the Cele-
brated Nations of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages ; a Dic-
tionary of Scientific Terms ; translator of Juvenal's Satires,
the Works of Horace, etc. ; editor of Ftdler's Worthies of
England; and author and compiler of numerous valuable edu-
cational works, some of which like his translations are in
use by scholars at the University of Oxford at the present
time.

Of Dr. Nuttall's daughter, Julia, the wife of William Ted-
castle and mother of Arthur Tedcastle, a word also ought to
be said. This lady inherited much of her father's scholarly
tastes and no little of his ability. She lived, unfortunately,
at a time when scholarship was not expected in women but
was rather frowned on as unfeminine, and her training under
an English governess was distinctly along the conventional
lines that are so well depicted by Miss Jane Austen in her
inimitable stories. Julia Nuttall, however, in spite of the
entreaties and frowns of both her mother and her governess,
insisted on being her father's amanuensis, and the result of

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The Vaughan Family 69

her work in his study and with him was that she contrib-
uted herself not a few articles of interest, which she always
signed merely with her initials " J. R.", to the Gentleman's
Magazine. When she married and came to America her
literary work necessarily ceased, for her family was large
and the care of them demanded her whole attention.

She died in England, at the home of her only daughter,
Florence, Mrs. Edward Tindall, at Bidborough, near Tun-
bridge Wells, in Kent, in December, 1915. William and
Julia Tedcastle had eight children, seven sons and one
daughter, all of whom except three died young. The fifth
of these children is the husband of the author of this
book.

THE VAUGHAN DESCENDANTS

Henry1 Vaughan, Sr. — Elizabeth

Henry2 Vaughan, Jr. = Mary Humphrey

John3 Vaughan = Rhoda Effingham

Daniel4 Vaughan = Eliza. C. Pelot Harrison

John James5 Vaughan = Mary Lavisy Beville

Agnes Beville6 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

Henry1 Vaughan, Sr. = Elizabeth

Henry2 Vaughan, Jr. = Mary Humphrey

John3 Vaughan = Rhoda Effingham

Daniel4 Vaughan — Eliza C. Pelot Harrison

Horace Daniel8 Vaughan = Manuella Noberta

Mary Elizabeth6 Vaughan = Warren Scott

Aurilla7 Scott = Sydney Pons

Sydney Scott8 Pons

Aubray Canora8 Pons

John Daniel Horace8 Pons

Henry1 Vaughan, Sr. = Elizabeth

Henry2 Vaughan, Jr. = Mary Humphrey

John3 Vaughan = Rhoda Effingham

Daniel4 Vaughan = Eliza C. Pelot Harrison

Susan Jane5 Vaughan = Col. Thaddeus A. MacDonnell

Braxton Bragg6 MacDonnell
Donald6 MacDonnell

Sytdney Johnston6 MacDonneli,

Henry1 Vaughan, Sr. = Elizabeth

Henry'2 Vaughan, Jr. = Mary Humphrey

John3 Vaughan = Rhoda Effingham

Pharaba4 Vaughan = Gen. James Gignilliat Cooper.

Charles5 Cooper

Mary5 Cooper

James Gignilliat5 Cooper

THE HARRISON FAMILY

"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the
glory belongs to our ancestors."

Plutarch.

CHAPTER IV

THE HARRISON FAMILY

' I 'HE first member of the Harrison family of Virginia to
appear in South Carolina was Thomas Harrison, who
was ordained to the office of deacon of the Baptist Church
at Euhaw, near Beaufort, by the Rev. Oliver Hart, A. M.,
pastor of the Baptist Church at Charleston, on the eleventh
of January, 1752. Although it is impossible at present,
owing to the destruction of both public and private records
by fire and by the devastation of war, to produce legal
proof of the fact, we have strong reason to believe that
Thomas Harrison was not descended from the Harrisons of
Wakefield, Virginia, from whom descend the Harrisons of
Berkeley and Brandon on the James River. Like others
of our ancestors he was a Sea Island planter,9 on a large
scale, of rice, indigo, and cotton, owning a considerable
number of slaves and exerting the widest influence in the
part of the South where his plantation was situated. It is
known from collateral wills that his second wife was a Han-
nah Sealy, a sister of the first wife of the Rev. Francis Pelot,
and cousin of the second wife of the Rev. Oliver Hart. His

first wife was Mary .

(77)

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Of the full number of his family, we are not sure, but he
had a son William, who married Miss Gignilliat, of the
distinguished family of this name of South Carolina and
later of Georgia. A son of William and his wife was Horace
Jesse Harrison, a gentleman noted for his noble bearing, his
strictly upright and honourable dealings with men of all
grades, his wisdom and justice in the management of his
slaves, his brilliant conversational gifts, and what is espe-
cially remembered of him by his own descendants and the de-
scendants of contemporaries, his remarkable genius for friend-
ship. Mr. Harrison was a Colonel of the militia of Darien,
and served under General Francis Hopkins, his intimate
friend and neighbor, in the war of 1812. His wife was
Mary Martha Pelot, daughter of James Pelot and his
wife Elizabeth Chisholm, and granddaughter of the Rev.
Francis Pelot and his first wife, Martha Sealy. She was a
woman of marked intelligence, great beauty, and truly
queenly bearing. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison lived on their
plantation " The Meadows," about six miles from Darien,
and there reared a large family of three sons and six daugh-
ters. Of these children, a daughter, Caroline, shortly before
engaged to a Mr. Merrill of Georgia and South Carolina,
and two young sons, Samuel and Benjamin, were drowned
at " The Meadows " in September, 1824, in the worst hurri-
cane and tidal storm with which the southern coast of the
United States was ever visited. It is interesting to note
that the ancient records of the Presbyterian Church in
Darien show that the five remaining daughters, with their
grandfather William Harrison (their father having died in
1816 from an injury received in the war of 1812), united
with the church in 1823.

The Harrison Family 79

These Harrison sisters were celebrated for their distin-
guished bearing, beauty, and wit. They were all married
to men of marked ability and notable lineage, several of
whom were at once lawyers and large planters. Our grand-
mother, Eliza Chisholm Pelot Harrison, the eldest, was mar-
ried to Daniel Vaughan, eldest son of the young Massachu-
setts Lieutenant who settled on Amelia Island, Florida, on
his Spanish grant, late in the eighteenth century. The
second, Sarah Gignilliat, was married first to Isaac Snow of
Rhode Island, who was the father of her twelve children,
secondly to the distinguished Major Blue of Georgia, grand-
father of the Hulls of Savannah, thirdly to Colonel A. A.
Gaulding, an able lawyer and editor of Atlanta. The
fourth daughter, Mary Amanda, was married to Henry
Young of Savannah ; the fifth, Susan Marion, was the wife
of Tudor Tucker Hall of South Carolina ; the sixth, Jane,
was married to the Rev. Dr. Dodd, a scholarly Presbyterian
clergyman of Augusta. Dr. Dodd was directly succeeded
in the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Au-
gusta by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, father of the
Hon. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States.
When Dr. Dodd and his talented wife removed from Au-
gusta they went to Roswell, Georgia, where Dr. Dodd
became principal of the noted Roswell Academy, at which
Institution many of the young sons and daughters of the
aristocratic planters of the South were educated. Among
his first pupils there was Martha Bullock, who afterward
became the mother of Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt.

The one son of Horace Jesse Harrison who lived to man-
hood was Horace Nephew Harrison, a Lieutenant in the
United States Navy. He married Rebecca Somerville of

80 The Beville Family

Baltimore and Washington and had two sons, who died in
boyhood on Sapelo Island, Georgia, and four daughters,
one of whom became the wife of Edward Codrington Car-
rington, an able lawyer of Baltimore. The Carringtons had
with other children two sons, Edward C. Carrington, Jr.,
and Campbell Carrington, lawyers of Baltimore and New
York. Lieutenant Horace Nephew Harrison's other daugh-
ters were Mary Rebecca, who was married to Major W. F.
Johnson ; Camilla, who died young, and Marion Amanda,
who was married to Captain Addison Barrett. The sons
who died young were Randolph and Henry.

Admiral James Harrison Oliver, of the United States
Navy, whom President Wilson has appointed the first Gov-
ernor of " The Virgin Islands," formerly known as the Danish
West Indies, is of this Harrison family of Georgia. Benja-
min Harrison, a great-grandfather of Admiral Oliver, was
a member of the Convention which revised the Constitution
of the State of Georgia at the end of the eighteenth century.
Benjamin married Charity Williams (died 1854), and had
James, Dorcas, Charlotte, and perhaps others. Of these,
Dorcas (born 29 October, 1802, died 18 September, 1830)
married William Oliver (born 10 December 1798, died 1836)
and had, among others, Thaddeus Oliver, who married Sarah
P. Lawson and had James Harrison and other children.
James Harrison Oliver married, in 1882, Marion, daughter of
Robert Carter, Esqr., of the famous family of that name of
Northern Virginia, and whose fine estate " Shirley," on the
James River, is still occupied by the family.

Despite the traditions of several generations of descend-
ants and the sincere belief of many worthy persons now
living that these Harrisons of South Carolina and Georgia

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The Harrison Family 81

belonged to the James River family, the author is convinced
after several years' research among Probate Court Records
and land transactions, that Thomas Harrison, of South
Carolina, descended from the " Harrisons of Northern Vir-
ginia."

Mr. William G. Stanard, the distinguished historian and
genealogist of Virginia, says, " Probably no Virginia family
of equal note has had so little systematic genealogical work
done in regard to its history as that of Harrison, which, first
settling in Stafford, extended to Prince William, Fauquier,
Loudoun and other counties, and which for purposes of dis-
tinction may be called Harrison of Northern Virginia ....
the subject is full of difficulty, owing chiefly to the destruc-
tion of so large a part of the records of Stafford and Prince
William Counties, during the Civil War."10 The distinguished
family of " Harrison of Northern Virginia " was founded by
Cuthbert1 Harrison, who in 1637 was resident in the parish of
St. Margarets, Westminster, London. The parish register of
St. Margarets shows that Burr, son of Cuthbert Harrison,
was baptized 3 January, 1637, that Cuthbert, son of Cuth-
bert, was baptized 11 January, 1607, and that Alexander,
son of Cuthbert and Susan Harrison, was baptized in 1644.
Cuthbert's eldest son Burr2 Harrison, emigrated to Virginia
and settled in Stafford County, where we find him a Justice
in 1698. He died intestate in 1706. He married in Virginia
the widow of Edward Smith. She bore him a son Thomas3,
(born 7 September, 1665) who died 13 August, 1746. He
had children : William4; Burr4; Thomas4; and Cuthbert .
July 10th, 1700, Thomas3 (Burr2), of " Chappawamsie," is
included among the civil and military officers of Stafford
County. William4 (Thomas3, Burr2, Cuthbert1) with his

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father and others obtained a grant of land in Stafford
County in 1706. Mr. Stanard says : " He was appointed a
justice of Prince William County in 1731 and was vestryman
of Overwharton Parish, Stafford, in 1746. The index to the
lost Stafford deed book 1729-1748 refers to the inventory of
the estate of William Harrison, deceased, so he probably died
in Stafford between 1746 and 1748." William4 Harrison
(Thomas3) married Sarah Haw ley and had issue : William5
who died in 1750; and Thomas5, who was beyond reasonable
doubt the deacon at Euhaw, South Carolina, in 1752, and
whose will of date May 3rd, 1755, is recorded in Charleston,
South Carolina.

Thomas Harrison (Thomas3) born — , died in December,
1773, was appointed a justice of Prince William in 1731, and
was sheriff of that county in 1733. From 1742 to 1769 he
was Burgess for Prince William County, but when Fauquier
County was set off from Prince William, he became a resi-
dent of Fauquier. His wife was Ann, and they had children :
William5; Thomas5; Burr5; Susannah5; Mary5; Ann5; Ben-
jamin5. Of these children, Burr5, (Thomas4, Thomas3, Burr2,
Cuthbert1), removed to South Carolina soon after the Revo-
lution, following the example of his first cousin, Thomas5
(William4, Thomas3, Burr2, Cuthbert1) who had become a
citizen of that Province some years earlier. Burr' (Thomas4)
born 1738 in Virginia, died in Chester District, South Carol-
ina, in 1822, having gone there after serving under General
LaFayette in the war of the Revolution. He married, in
South Carolina, Elizabeth Dargan, of Sumpter District, South
Carolina. Burr5 and Elizabeth (Dargan) Harrison had chil-
dren: 1. Benjamin, married Nancy Hart, and lived in Col-
umbia, South Carolina; 2. Mary, married Benjamin May; 3.

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Jonathan, married Sally Tyler ; 4. Kate married Samuel
Johnson; 5. Elizabeth died unmarried; 6. Rebecca married
Nathaniel Cocknell ; 7. Susan married William Head; 8.
Sophy, married Christopher Thompson ; 9. Dorean married
(1st) James Runnell and (2) Hartwell Macon ; 10. Narcissa
married James Ragsdale; 11. Mordecai married Susan Alston;
12. Anne married Mr. McLelland, of Charleston, South
Carolina.

The will of Thomas5 Harrison (William4), planter of old
Granville County, and deacon of the church at Euhaw, men-
tions his children, Henry, William, Thomas, John, Mikell
and Francis. It was his son, William, who married Miss
Gignilliat, and went, with many others, from Beaufort Dis-
trict, South Carolina, to Darien, Georgia, soon after the close of
the Revolution. That the colonist ancestor, Burr Harrison,
was a man of means, is shown by the large acreage taken up
in his name, and that he was of gentle birth, the arms of
Harrison he brought with him to this country is guarantee.
From generation to generation his descendants have married
with the best. They are now scattered throughout the
Union, and we find them, as in the past, filling honorable
positions, civil and military.

Bishop Meade, in his noble book, " Old Churches, Minis-
ters and Families of Virginia," describing life in the Old
Dominion, says : " There were galleries in the church at
Broad Run, one of which was allowed to be put up by Mr.
Thomas Harrison, provided it was done so as not to incom-
mode any of the pews below it. The others were put up by
the vestry and sold. The pews below were all common,
though doubtless taken possession of by different families,
as is usual in England. The old English custom (beginning

84 The Beville Family

with the Royal family in St. George's Church at Windsor)
of appropriating the galleries to the rich and noble was soon
followed in Virginia, and the old aristocratic families could
with difficulty be brought down from their high lofts in the
old churches, even after they became uncomfortable and
almost dangerous."11

Bishop Meade further says: " We enter now on that most
interesting portion of Virginia called the Northern Neck,
which, beginning on the Chesapeake Bay, lies between the
Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, and crossing the Blue
Ridge, or passing through it, with the Potomac, at Harper's
Ferry, extends with that river to the heads thereof in the
Alleghany Mountains, and thence by a straight line crosses
the North Mountain and Blue Ridge, at the head-waters of
the Rappahannock. By common consent this is admitted
to be the most fertile part of Virginia, and to abound in
many advantages, whether we consider the rich supply of
fish and oysters in the rivers and creeks of the tide-water
portion of it and the rapid growth of its forests and improv-
able character of its soil, or the fertility of the lands of the
valley, so much of which is evidently alluvial.

"There were settlements at any early period on the rich
banks of the Potomac and Rappahannock by families of
note, who took possession of those seats which originally be-
longed to warlike tribes of Indians, which latter were forced
to give way to the superior prowess of the former." Among
the notable families of Northern Virginia were those of Carter,
Cary, Culpepper, Custis, Fairfax, Harrison, Lee, Tayloe and
Washington.

There comes to our mind the gentle admonition of Bishop
Meade: "Show your estimate of a respectable ancestry by

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faithfully copying their excellencies. ' Say not that you have
Abraham for your father/ said our Lord, ' for God is able to
raise up children unto Abraham, out of the stones of the
earth.' He bids them to do the works of Abraham in order
to receive his favour. Your ancestry may, and will be, only
a shame to you, except you copy what is worthy of imitation
in their character and conduct."

THE HARRISON DESCENDANTS

Thomas1 Harrison = Mary

William2 Harrison = Gignilliat

Horace Jesse8 Harrison = Mart Martha Pelot
Eliza Chisholm Pelot4 Harrison = Daniel Vaughan
Sarah Gignilliat4 Harrison = (I) Isaac Snow

(2) Major Blue

(3) Col. A. A. Gaulding
Caroline4 Harrison

Mary Amanda4 Harrison = Henry Young
Horace Nephew4 Harrison = Rebecca Somerville
Susan Marion4 Harrison = Tudor Tucker Hall
Samuel4 Harrison (twin to Jane)
Jane Evylyn4 Harrison = Rev. Dr. Dodd
Benjamin4 Harrison

Thomas1 Harrison = Mary

William2 Harrison = Gionilliat

Horace Jesse8 Harrison = Mary Martha Pelot
Eliza Chisholm Pelot4 Harrison = Daniel Vaughan
John James6 Vaughan = Mary Lavisy Beville
Agnes Beville8 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

Thomas1 Harrison = Mary

William2 Harrison = Gignilliat

Horace Jesse3 Harrison = Mary Martha Pelot
Sarah Gignilliat4 Harrison = Isaac Snow

Mary Alice5 Snow = Hickman

Leila Alice6 Hickman = Kennerly

Eva Harrison6 Hickman = Collins

Thomas1 Harrison = Mary

William2 Harrison = Gignilliat

Horace Jesse3 Harrison = Mary Martha Pelot

Sarah Gignilliat4 Harrison = Isaac Snow

Janie Harrison5 Snow — John Campbell McMillan

Lula6 McMillan (Mrs. J. S. Holliday)

Jesse Ora6 McMillan (deceased)

Harry C.6 McMillan (deceased)

William Vernon6 McMillan

John C.6 McMillan

Lillian May6 McMillan (deceased)

Archie Harrison6 McMillan (deceased)

Jennie Alice6 McMillan

Nannie6 McMillan (Mrs. F. Woodrow Coleman)

Robert K.6 McMillan

Bessie6 McMillan (Mrs. J. A. Krouse)

THE PELOT FAMILY

" People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote

ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with

pride by remote descendants."

Macaulay.

"I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world

Emerson.

were of one religion."

CHAPTER V

THE PELOT FAMILY

' I 'HE Pelot family of South Carolina, Georgia, and Flor-
■*■ ida, which Dr. J. G. B. Bulloch of Washington, D. C,
in the Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina
classes as among the families which made that state illus-
trious, was founded in America by the Rev. Francis Pelot,
A. M.,13 who was born at Norville, Stuttgart, Switzerland,
11 March, 1720. His ancestors were people of political and
financial consequence in Switzerland, and " he derived from
them," as the Rev. Oliver Hart, the distinguished Baptist
clergyman of Charleston says,14 "the right of Burghership
in his native town."

The year of his coming to America is said to have been
1734, and the Rev. Morgan Edwards, the founder of Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island, says that in 1772, he
was the owner of three islands and 3,785 acres of land on
the mainland of South Carolina, besides a large number of
slaves, and "stock in abundance." Although bred a Pres-
byterian, in 1744 he adopted the Baptist faith, and two
years later, a plantation owner and a layman, he assumed
the ministry of the Euhaw Church, on Indian Land. This
church, which had had its beginning in 1683, had remained
a dependency of the First Baptist Church of Charleston for
sixty years, but had now been constituted a separate church.

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By 1752, Mr. Pelot had determined to enter the ministry as
an ordained preacher, and on the thirteenth of January of
that year he was ordained at Euhaw, and became the set-
tled pastor of the church. In this capacity he remained, a
notable figure in that part of South Carolina, and one of the
most influential persons in the councils of the Baptist denom-
ination, until his death in 1774. In the manuscript diary
of the Rev. Oliver Hart, of Charleston, we find the follow-
ing : " On Saturday, January 11, 1752, Mr. Stephens and
Oliver Hart ordained Mr. Thomas Harrison to the office of
deacon. January 13th we ordained Mr. Francis Pelot min-
ister, Mr. Benjamin Parmenter ruling elder, and Archibald
Harting deacon, all in ye church at Euhaw."

The American Church History Series (Vol. 2, on the Bap-
tists, by Newman) says : " In February, 1752, Francis Pelot
became pastor of the Euhaw Church, which he long served
with ability and devotion. Born in Switzerland (1720) and
brought up in the Reformed Church, he became a Baptist
about 1744, ten years after his arrival in South Carolina.
He was a man of means, being possessed of ' three islands
and about 3,785 acres on the continent, with slaves and
stock in abundance.' This notice furnished by Morgan
Edwards is worthy of being quoted on account of the rarity
of such phenomena up to this time. He was the first in a
long line of wealthy Baptist ministers, who administered
their large estates in the fear of God and proved a blessing
to the cause. From this time forward he stood shoulder to
shoulder with Hart in his aggressive efforts in behalf of edu-
cation and evangelization. The churches of the Charleston
Association were from the beginning among the most liberal
supporters of Rhode Island College. . . . The needs of the

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college were considered and Gano, Hart, and Pelot were re-
quested to address Baptist Associations throughout America
in favor of a plan of contribution for its support."

" In 1767," says Benedict's History of the Baptists, quot-
ing from an older authority, Wood Furman's History of the
Charleston Association, " the [Charleston] Association having
previously called the serious attention of the churches to the
subject, formally adopted the Confession of Faith published
by the London Assembly of 1689. . . . Messrs. Hart and
Pelot were appointed to draw up a system of discipline
agreeable to Scripture to be used by the churches. This
they brought forward in 1772, and Rev. Morgan Edwards
and Mr. David Williams were requested to assist the com-
pilers in revising it. In 1773, it was examined by the Asso-
ciation and was adopted." Benedict also says : "Mr. Pelot
was a very distinguished man in his day amongst the South
Carolina Baptists. He possessed an ample fortune and a
valuable library, and devoted much of his time to books."
Pelot's interest in ministerial education is shown by the re-
corded fact that he with several others in Charleston raised
a fund that educated among others at Rhode Island College
two eminent ministers of Massachusetts, the Rev. Dr. Sam-
uel Stillman of Boston, and the Rev. Dr. Hezekiah Smith
of Haverhill. At the ordination of both these ministers Mr.
Pelot preached the sermon. Quoting from the manuscript
diary (kept from 1740-1780) of the Revd. Oliver Hart, who
was for more than thirty years pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Charleston, South Carolina — " On Friday Novem-
ber ye 12, 1774, died my dear Friend and Brother the Revd
Francis Pelot. A greater loss the Baptist Interest could not
have sustained by the death of any one in the Province. His

96 The Beville Family

family, his Church, and the Neighbourhood, will feel a sen-
sible and irreparable loss. And as to my own Part, I have
lost the best Friend and counselor I ever was blest with in
the world; the most intimate friendship had subsisted betwixt
us for about four and twenty years. In all which Time I
ever found him a faithful Friend, and qualified to give advice
in the most critical cases. This worthy man was born March
11th, 1720, of a reputable family, in the town called Neuvavill,
in Switzerland (to which town he had an ancient right of Bur-
gership) and came over to America (with his Father, Mother,
Sister and Brother) Oct. 28, 1734. They settled in Purys-
burg, South Carolina, where his mother died about two years
after their Arrival, and his Father died May 24, 1754. His
brother set off from Purysburg, for the Ewhaw, on Saturday
Jany: 6th; 1749-50, but being overtaken with excessive bad
weather lost his way, and (tho' sought for) was not heard
of, for many months; when his Bones, and horses bones, with
some Rags of Clothes and Things he had with him were
found, back of a place called Oakatees. The Loss of his
only Brother in such a manner must have been a great
affliction, to him, as well as their Father, Sister and other
friends.

" By his industry, Mr. Pelot had procured a fine interest:
which he left free from incumbrance, between his Widow and
Children, in the most equitable manner.

" To delineate a finished picture of this Worthy man's Char-
acter would require much nicer touches than my pencil is
capable of, therefore I shall not attempt it.

" I have already observed that he was blest with good nat-
ural Parts, and a pretty good Education, whereby a Foun-
dation was laid for the great Improvements he made, by

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Reading Study and Conversation. He had much Vivacity
of Temper, a great Flow of Spirits; which being regulated
by a principle of Grace, rendered him a facetious and agree-
able Companion. His conversation was not only pleasing
but profitable; as he had a fine Turn for introducing Reli-
gion, and spiritualizing most Occurrences in Life. The
French was his native language which he pronounced ac-
curately and spake fluently, as long as he lived. As to his
Preaching, he did not content with delivering a little dry
Morality, but unfolded and applied the great and glorious
Doctrines of the Gospel. His Principles were truly evan-
gelical, and his knowledge of Truth was extensive, clear
and judicious. He knew how rightly to divide the Word
of Truth, and to give the Saint and Sinner their proper
Portion. He would search the Hypocrite, and wrest his
false props out of his hands. In the choice of his subjects,
he often seem'd to give his Fancy Scope; for he would fre-
quently go upon Texts, which his Hearers could hardly
devise how he could manage them to Advantage; but when
he had smote the Rock, the Waters would gush out. Upon
the whole, he was a Workman who needed not to be
ashamed, for he rightly divided the word of Truth.

" In his family he was a bright Example of true Piety.
The morning and evening Sacrifices of Prayer and Praise
were constantly offered up to the God of our Lives and
mercies. He not only endeavored to train up his Children
in the Paths of Virtue and Religion. But he also took
much Pains with his Servants, to teach them the fear of
God, and the Way to Eternal Happiness. I wish I could
say that in these things his success had been equal to his
Endeavours.

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"He was a good Casuist; knew how to solve doubts, and
clear up difficult Cases of Conscience, and to say no more;
He was the sincere, open, constant and hearty Friend;
could keep a secret, and, in short, few Men were ever better
qualified for Friendship than He."

Will of Francis Pelot
South Carolina

In the name of God, Amen. I, Francis Pelot of St.
Helena Parish, Granville County in the Province aforesaid
Clerk, being sensible of the frailty of Human Nature, do,
while through the goodness of God, I am in health, and have
the full exercise of my understanding and memory, make and
Constitute this my last Will and Testament requiring it may
be received by all as such. Imprimis. I do most humbly
bequeath my soul to God thro' the all sufficient Righteous-
ness of my Exalted and most precious Redeemer Jesus Christ,
who only Can present me to the heavenly Father without
spot or blemish, and am daily endeavoring that when my
body is Called to the Grave, it may be in the Comfortable
Hope and full assurance of the Resurrection unto eternal
life.

Item. I do require that my Funeral Charges (which
must be very moderate) and all my lawful debts be faith-
fully paid by my Executors hereinafter mentioned. Item.
I give unto the Church of Christ, Baptized on a personal
Profession of faith by Immersion holding the doctrines of
Election, effectual Calling, Perseverance of the Saints in
Grace &c. One acre of Land for a place of Public Worship,
where the Ewhaw Baptist Meeting house now stands the
Eastern line to run along the high Road, and the northern
line to run three feet below the spot where the Vestry house
now stands, and so to Close one Square Acre; which with
the buildings now thereon or any that may be raised thereon

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for Public Worship, School keeping, or Sheds to put Horses
under during the time of Worship, or buildings for a Minis-
ter and his successors of the Baptist denomination, holding
the doctrines aforesaid, and no other purposes shall belong
to said Church for ever; with this Proviso, nevertheless that
if any Part of the said Acre of Land be with the knowledge
or allowance of the said Church made use of for a burying
place, which would spoil the useful spring of water below it,
the said acre of Land shall be forfeited to him or her of my
Heirs, who shall own or have sold the Land adjoining it; but
even then the said Church shall have liberty, within Twelve
months time to take away all the buildings that may be
thereon at the time of the said forfeiture. Whereas Joseph
Sealy of the above named parish and County deceased, did,
in his Last Will & testament bearing date on or about the
29th day of August 1760, give and bequeath the sum of one
Thousand pounds Current money of this Province to the
above mentioned antipedo baptist Church at Ewhaw, of
which I was and still am the Pastor, the Interest of which
sum is to be Yearly paid by the Trustees to the Minister of
the said Congregation; and I, as Executor of the said Will
and Testament, having the said sum of One Thousand
pounds in my hands it is my Will that my Executors, as
soon as a proper trust in behalf of the said Church Can be
obtained, the old one being extinct, do pay the said sum of
one thousand pounds Currency to the Trustees who shall
be legally nominated; but then I as Executor of the said
Will and Testament, and for the security of my own Estate,
require that the said Trustees on receiving the said sum of
One thousand pounds Currency, do give my Executors here-
after named, a Security Bond both for the application of the
said money according to the directions of the said Joseph
Sealy by his Will, and also to return the said money to my
Executors, if it should be Legally Claimed of my Estate by
any Person or Persons. Item, I give and bequeath unto
my beloved wife Catherine Pelot all the negroes she was

100 The Beville Family

possessed of before our marriage which shall be found in my
possession at my Death, with all their Increase since, and
everything else I had by her at our marriage excepting, how-
ever the labour which I have had of the said Negroes with
what is worn out, lost or sold. I also give her the Choice
of one of the other Beds, her Choice of two of my Riding
Horses, ten Cows and Calf, Six Ews and one Ram, three
breeding sows. I give her Doctr. John Gill on the Canticles,
a large Quarto, her Choice of twelve Octaves, twelve duo-
decimos and twenty Pamphlets out of my Study. I also give
to my said wife my negroe Woman named Rose with her
Children Called Cuffee and Nancy, I also give her Young
Nelly now Pompey's wife, and the Girl Amy, with all the
said Rose, Nelly & Amy's future Increase, during my said
Wife's life time, and at her death to be the Property of my
Younger sons, Charles and Benjamin Pelot to be equally
divided them or the Heirs of their Bodies but should either
of them die without such Heirs before the decease of my
said wife, then the Survivor of my said sons Charles or Ben-
jamin to have all said Negroe Women with their increase;
but if both should die Childless before their Mother's death,
then the said Negroes to be divided between my wife who
is to have one third of them to her Heirs forever, and the
other two thirds to be divided between my three other sons
John, James and Samuel Pelot, or the Heirs of their bodies
and to none else. I also give to my said wife the full and
free use of three hundred Acres of Land whereon I now live,
that is a line parallel to the Eastern line of my six hundred
Tract, is to be run across the middle of the Tract so as to
inclose three hundred acres, the lower part whereon the
Buildings now Stand, shall be for my Wife's use, during her
Natural life and no longer, of which land she may Clear &
Cultivate as she shall see proper, and have the intire use of
the Houses thereon and other improvements, during her life.
The above Legacies are given to my said Wife in lieu of all
Dowers or other demands. Should my wife want Timber

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for building, or other plantation uses fencing excepted, she
may freely have it taken off my four hundred Acres Tract I
lately bought of William Blake Esqr. If the above three
hundred acres of Land should prove insufficient for my said
Wife's Culture, she may during her Widowhood and no
longer, Clear and Cultivate one hundred and fifty Acres of
my Tract of seven hundred Acres and the five hundred
acres lately granted to me the latter adjoining the former;
but I recommend it to her not to let the land be abused,
and that there may be no dispute about the said Hundred
and fifty acres between my wife and sons, if they Can not
so well agree about the spot, let two Disinterested arbitra-
tors be Chosen by the parties, and let them measure it off
so that if possible, there may be a proportionable quantity of
good with bad land, and they may as little as possible inter-
fere with each other and their arbitration shall be decisive.
Item I give and bequeath unto my three sons John, James
and Samuel Pelot, all my lands, except those above and
hereafter mentioned, to be equally divided between them,
and John Pelot to have his first Choice of the said divisions,
James Pelot his next Choice, and Samuel Pelot the last Choice
to them and the Hens of their bodies for ever and to no other.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my sons Charles and Ben-
jamin Pelot the Tract on which I now live Containing six
hundred acres attended with the Incumbrance mentioned
above in favour of their Mother. The Ewhaw Tract Con-
taining three hundred acres, my three Islands and the four
hundred acre Tract I lately bought of William Blake Esq1-,
this also attended with the Incumbrance, as above in favour
of their Mother, to be equally divided, not Consider the
quantity more than the quality as I order it shall be the
Case with regard to the lands to be divided amongst my
three sons, John, James & Samuel Pelot to be my said sons
Charles & Benjamin Pelot and their lawful begotten heirs
for ever. But should either of them die in Minority, and
leaving no lawful Heirs of their Bodies, the whole is to be

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the Property of the survivor. If both should die in Minor-
ity without lawful issue, then the said lands shall be divided
amongst my sons John, James and Samuel Pelot, or their
Issue according to the Rule above prescribed, except the
three hundred Acres above given for my Wife's use, which
shall then be her property to dispose of at her Pleasure,
with this further exception, nevertheless, that is my said
wife Catherine should be with Child at my death, that Child
shall be possessed of the said Lands as its own property, and
not to be divided amongst my sons John, James and Samuel
Pelot as above mentioned, or should only Charles Pelot or
Benjamin Pelot die without lawful Issue, the Child my said
Wife Conceived before my death shall have the part of the
deceased, and so share with the survivor of the two; but if
that Child dies without lawful Issue, then the division is to
be made as above directed. Item, should my said wife be
with Child at my decease that Child shall have an equal
share of my Personal Estate with my other Children, if a
Girl, to be delivered to her at the age of eighteen Years;
but if a boy at the age of twenty one Years. If that Child's
income is not sufficient to give it a convenient Education
and maintainance, some allowance is to be given out of my
Estate towards it, so far as it may appear necessary; but I
allow nothing for Gaudiness or superfluities. Item, I give
and bequeath unto my five sons, John, James, Samuel,
Charles and Benjamin Pelot and their heirs each an equal
share of my Personal Estate that shall be found remaining,
But let it be observed that what Negroes soever I have put
or may put into the hands of any of my Children, that these
Negroes shall be appraised, and Counted as part of my Es-
tate, but after they are appraised, they shall become part of
the shares of those of my Children, who had them in Pos-
session before, and no other. Item, I give and bequeath
unto my son in law John Grimball Junr. a Negroe Boy
named Dembo, who he now has in his Possession. Should
any Disputes arise amongst any of my Heirs above men-

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tioned about any part of the whole of my Estate, my Will is
that it shall be referred to the Arbitration of three, or even
to Twelve disinterested freeholders to be Chosen by the Con-
tending Parties, each an equal number, whose Arbitration
shall be valid, and not Contested by the Arbitrators, after
due warning given to the refusing party, then the other shall
Choose Arbitrators, and their Arbitration shall be Valid, and
he, she or they of my said Heirs that will not stand to the
Arbitration; but go to Law, I do hereby declare that by the
said act of going, He, She or they that enter a Suit first &
by any dispute, except the majority of the Arbitrators give
it under their hands that they look upon it as absolutely
necessary: not but any of them may take the advice of a
Lawyer; but not except as above, to enter suits or arrest-
ing one another about my Estate. Finaly. I do hereby
appoint, ordain & Constitute my beloved Wife Catherine
Pelot, my beloved son John Pelot, my beloved friends Thomas
Rivers Junr. & David Williams both of Charlestown Execu-
trix and Executors of this my last Will and testament, whom
I do hereby impower to buy, sell, and act in behalf of my
Estate, as they (Consistant with the above directions) shall
Judge most beneficial for my Estate, and are also hereby
impowered to sell the Shares of my Estate Coming to my
Minor Children, and so to put the monies at Interest with
good securities: or if they shall think it will be best to keep
the said shares together, they may Clear & Cultivate their
Lands for their Negroes to work either together or apart, as
they shall think best, only I would have no waste made of
the lands.

I do hereby revoke and disannul all other Wills, testa-
ments, Donations and Legacies by me made before the date
of these presents.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal
this 13th day of June In the Year of our Lord One thousand
Seven hundred and seventy-three.

(Signed) FRAS. PELOT (L.S.)

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Sealed, signed and declared by Fras. Pelot to be his last
Will & Testament, Contained in this and the two foregoing
Pages, in the presence of us. Note the word Quallity inter-
lined between the 33d and 34th Lines of the second page,
before signing. There [is] an Erasement of four words in the
8th line of said Page.

(Signed) John Parmenter Jun.
Charles Bealer
Thomas Dawson

Be it remembered that Francis Pelot the Testator has de-
clared to us, this to be his last Will and testament, and that
we the subscribers, each saw him with his own hand blot out
two words in the 24th line of this Page, as Witness our
hands.

Oct. 30th, 1774
(Signed) Richard Grey
Joseph Massey
Robert Bramston

State of South Carolina, ) x '

r(TTA„x_ n > In the Probate Court.

Charleston County, j

I, George D. Bryan, Judge of the Probate Court of
Charleston County, and State of South Carolina, do hereby
certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy of the last
Will and Testament of Francis Pelot late of said County and

State, deceased, admitted to Probate on the day of

and of record in said Court, in Will Book dated 1774-1778,

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my official
signature as Judge of said Court, with the seal of said Court
affixed, this 13th day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

[Seal] G. D. BRYAN,

Judge of the Probate Court of
Charleston County, South Carolina.

The Pelot Family 105

The Rev. Francis Pelot married, first, Martha Sealy,
a descendant of Joseph Sealy, Esq., an English settler
with Lord Cardross in 1683, whose first plantation was on
Edisto Island, South Carolina, but who about forty years
later removed to Euhaw. Martha was a daughter of John
Sealy and his wife, Hannah. He married, secondly, Catharine,
widow of William Screven (son of the Rev. William Screven),
and daughter of Justinius Stoll. His children were, by his
first wife : John; Francis, who died young; James, who mar-
ried Elizabeth Chisholm, and died in 1824; Samuel, who
died unmarried; and other sons who died young. By his
second wife he had Charles, who married Susanna Postell ;
Benjamin; and a daughter, Sarah Catharine, born soon
after her father's death, who was married, first, to James
Gignilliat, second, to James Nephew. Of these sons, James,
Samuel, and Charles served with distinction in the Revolu-
tion. Samuel was taken prisoner by a Dutch captain and
escaped on the captain's own horse. He died a bachelor.
Charles entered the war as a private and for acts of valor
was promoted major. They all joined the army in South
Carolina. These brothers and their descendants intermar-
ried with the Chisholms (Chisolms), Coopers, De Saussures
(Saussys), Gignilliats, Guerins, Harrisons, Kings, MacDon-
nells, Maxwells, Nephews, Perrins, Porchers, Postells,
Rogerses, and Vaughans.

James Pelot, second son of the Rev. Francis Pelot and
his first wife, Martha Sealy, was born on his father's
plantation on Euhaw river. When the Revolution came he
took a servant with him and went to the war. He was
taken prisoner at Purysburg and was held until after the war
closed, when he was released. In the United States Census

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taken in 1790 we find him still in South Carolina, with his
wife, two sons over sixteen and two under, two daughters,
and thirteen slaves. His brother, Major Charles, also ap-
pears in this census, with his wife, one son under sixteen, one
daughter, and seventy-one slaves. As early as 1797, James
Pelot and his son John Francis are found on Amelia Island,
Florida, where James had very large grants from the Span-
ish Government. His plantation, like those of John D.
Vaughan and the Harrisons, was one of the most notable
plantations in the South, the principal crop it yielded being
Sea Island cotton, from which its owner derived a princely
income. Amelia Island had been named by the Spaniards,
Santa Maria, but General Oglethorpe named it Amelia in
honour of the Princess Amelia, daughter of George the Third.
Oglethorpe describes it as "a beautiful Island, and the Sea-
shore covered with Myrtle, Peach-Trees, Orange-Trees, and
Vines in the Wild Woods." The vines he speaks of were
undoubtedly the fragrant yellow jasmine, which abounds in
the Florida woods.

In the year 1800, James Pelot lost all his negroes by
their escaping on board a British war-ship, and in 1812 he
lost "all his property and negroes by Soldiers of the United
States." In 1836 his family was reimbursed in part for
this latter loss which was known in the family as the " Span-
ish claim," by the payment of twenty-five thousand dollars.

James Pelot married about 1773 or '74 Elizabeth Chis-
holm, daughter of John Chisholm and his wife. He died in
1824, and his wife died in 1796. Both are buried in the
family burying-ground on their plantation. Their children
numbered six : John Francis, planter on Amelia Island, who
died a bachelor ; Major James, who married Susan Marion

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Cooper, a collateral descendant of Anthony Ashley Cooper,
one of the lords proprietors ; Mary Martha, who was mar-
ried to Colonel Horace Jesse Harrison, of the distinguished
family of that name of Virginia, South Carolina, and Geor-
gia ; Sarah Bulia, who was born in October, 1788, and was
married on Amelia Island to Fernando Donald MacDonnell
(born November, 1770, died November, 1849), and died in
October, 1867 ; Joseph Sealy, born about 1790, married
Jane E. Maxwell, and died 16 October, 1833; and Samuel

G., married in Liverpool, England, Rathbone. The

eldest child of Sarah Bulia (Pelot) and her husband Fer-
nando Donald MacDonnell, was Alexander Harrison Mac-
Donnell, born 5 September, 1809, married Ann E. Nowlan,
born 5 December, 1808, and had George N. MacDonnell, who
married Margaret R. Walker, and their second child was
Judge Alexander Harrison MacDonnell, Jr., now of Savannah,
born 28 March, 1859, married Lillian B. Russell, and has
had three children : Alexander Harrison MacDonnell, 3rd ;
Henry Russell MacDonnell ; and Alan MacDonnell. Joseph
Sealy Pelot was a notable lawyer in Savannah and an offi-
cer and pew-holder in the historic Christ Church in that city.
Mary Martha Pelot, daughter of James and Elizabeth
(Chisholm) Pelot, was born in South Carolina about 1786,
and was married about 1803 to Horace Jesse Harrison, of
Darien, Mcintosh County, Georgia, whose plantation seven
miles from Darien was known as " The Meadows." The
great house on this plantation was destroyed in the terrible
hurricane of 1824.

THE PELOT DESCENDANTS

Jean (or Jonas)1 Pelot =

Rev. Francis2 Pelot = (1) Martha Sealy

(2) Catharine (Stoll) Screven
James8 Pelot = Elizabeth Chisholm
Mary Martha4 Pelot = Horace Jesse Harrison
Eliza Chisholm Pelot5 Harrison = Daniel Vaughan
John James6 Vaughan = Mary Lavisy Beville
Agnes Beville7 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

Jean (or Jonas)1 Pelot =••

Rev. Francis2 Pelot = (1) Martha Sealy

(2) Catharine (Stoll) Screven
James8 Pelot = Elizabeth Chisholm
Mary Martha4 Pelot = Horace Jesse Harrison
Eliza Chisholm Pelot5 Harrison = Daniel Vaughan
Jane8 Vaughan = Thaddeus A. MacDonnell
Braxton Bragg7 MacDonnell
Donald7 MacDonnell
Sydney Johnstone7 MacDonnell

Jean (or Jonas)1 Pelot =

Rev. Francis2 Pelot = (1) Martha Sealy

(2) Catharine (Stoll) Screven
James8 Pelot = Elizabeth Chisholm
Mary Martha4 Pelot = Horace Jesse Harrison
Eliza Chisholm Pelot5 Harrison = Daniel Vaughan
Horace Daniel6 Vaughan = Manuella Noberta
Mary Elizabeth7 Vaughan = Warren Scott
Aurilla8 Scott = Sydney Pons
Sydney Scott9 Pons
aubray canova9 pons
John Daniel Horace9 Pons

Jean (or Jonas)1 Pelot =

Rev. Francis2 Pelot = (1) Martha Sealy

(2) Catharine (Stoll) Screven
James8 Pelot = Elizabeth Chisholm
Sarah Bulia4 Pelot = Fernando Donald MacDonnell
Alexander H.5 MacDonnell, Sr. = Ann E. Nowlan
G. N.6 MacDonnell = Margaret R. Walker
Alexander H.7 MacDonnell, Jr. = Lillian B. Russell
Alexander Harrison8 MacDonnell, 3d
Henry Russell8 MacDonnell
Alan8 MacDonnell

Jean (or Jonas)1 Pelot =

Rev. Francis2 Pelot = (1) Martha Sealy

(2) Catharine (Stoll) Screven
Charles3 Pelot = Mary Susanna Postell
Sarah Julia4 Pelot == Francis Yonge Porcher, M. D.
Francis James5 Porcher = Louisa Gilman
Francis Yonge6 Porcher
Wilmot D.6 Porcher
Louisa G.6 Porcher

Jean (ok Jonas)1 Pelot =

Rev. Francis2 Pelot = (1) Martha Sealy

(2) Catharine (Stoll) Screven
Sarah Catharine8 Pelot = (1) James Gignilliat, Jr.
Sarah Catharine Pelot4 Gignilliat = Edward Postel
Clifford6 Postel = Gadsden King

Alexander6 King =

Edward Postel7 King
Mitchell7 King

Jean (or Jonas)1 Pelot =

Rev. Francis2 Pelot = (1) Martha Sealy

(2) Catharine (Stoll) Screven
Sarah Catharine8 Pelot = (1) James Gignilliat, Jr.
Sarah Catharine Pelot4 Gignilliat = Edward Postel
Susan5 Postel = Francis Yonge Porcher,M.D. (2d wife)

Jean (or Jonas)1 Pelot =

Rev. Francis2 Pelot = (1) Martha Sealy

(2) Catharine (Stoll) Screven
James8 Pelot = Elizabeth Chisholm
John Francis4 Pelot
James4 Pelot = Susan Marion Cooper
Mary Martha4 Pelot = Horace Jesse Harrison
Sarah Bulia4 Pelot = Fernando Donald MacDonnell
Joseph Sealy4 Pelot = Jane E. Maxwell
Samuel4 Pelot = Rathbone

Jean (or Jonas)1 Pelot =

Rev. Frances2 Pelot= (1) Martha Sealt

(2) Catharine (Stoll) Screven
S. C. (Pelot)8 Gignilliat = (2) James Nephew (2d wife)
Caroline Clifford4 Nephew = Rev. Joseph C. Stiles, D. D.
Catharine Ann6 Stiles = Prof. H. Newton

Josephine Clifford6 Stiles =

Robert Augustus6 Stiles = Leila Caperton

Randolph6 Stiles =

Mary Evelyn6 Stiles =

Eugene West6 Stiles = (1) Caroline D. Anderson

(2) Rosabel Bowley
Rosa Anderson6 Stiles = (1) R. H. Christian

(2) Hon. Wm. Gaston Caperton

THE PEARCE FAMILY

" Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven
With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven
Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs,
Emerald twilights, —
Virginal sky lights,
Wrought of the leaves to allure the whisper of vows,
When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonades
Of the dim sweet woods and glades,

Of the heavenly woods and glades,
That run to the radiant marginal sand beach within
The wide, wide sea-marshes of Glynn."

Sidney Lanier.

CHAPTER VI

THE PEARCE FAMILY

TpHE Pearce family from which we are descended was one
of the early families of Virginia, its early representative
there being William Pearce or Pierce, of James City County,
born in England, died in Virginia, a member of the Vir-
ginia Council in 1631. One of his kinsmen, Stephen
Pearce, Sr., emigrated to Carolina early in the eighteenth
century, and there had sons born, Stephen, William, and
Joshua. In July, 1768, Joshua appears in Georgia as making
application for a hundred and fifty acres of land on both sides
of Buck Creek, he deposing that he had then been in the
province four months from North Carolina, had had no
lands granted him previously in Georgia, and had a wife
and six children and negroes. He received this grant in
July, 1771. Joshua was a leader in Methodism in the
State of Georgia. He was a man of great intelligence and
energy, a planter of importance, and deeply interested in
every movement for the welfare of his state. His memory
still endures, he is spoken of in the several counties of Ef-
fingham, Screven, Bullock and Burke, with veneration and
respect. This was the Joshua Pearce who entertained
President Washington on his visit to the South in 1791. 15
Either Joshua's mother or his grandmother was a Lanier
(the other being a Green), and he was in this way a collat-
eral ancestor of the eminent Georgia poet, Sidney Lanier.

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Joshua's son Stephen married Mary Mills of the noted
family of that name of South Carolina, and later of Georgia
and Florida. His own position in Georgia was precisely
similar to that of his father, and his ideals and activities
were theoretically and practically the same. As we have
said in our chapter of reminiscences, it was he who enter-
tained, in 1825, in the same house and the same room in
which Washington was entertained by his father, the great
General Lafayette. Though he was interested largely in
Florida lands, through the family of his wife, he never lived
in that state. His grandsons, however, did; one of them,
Stephen Pearce Bevill, being among the earliest settlers of
Alachua County.

Stephen's older brother, Joshua, emigrated to Mississippi,
and receiving grants in that state, founded the Mississippi
branch of this Pearce family.

Major William Pearce, uncle of Stephen, was a member
of the Continental Congress from Georgia. He was born
in North Carolina about 1740, received a liberal education,
and was one of the early exponents of the cause of the
colonies. The Cyclopoedia of Georgia, edited by ex-Governor
Allen D. Candler and General Clement A. Evans, says of
him : " His first service was as aid-de-camp to General
Greene. At the battle of Eutaw Springs he distinguished
himself by his bravery, for which he was given a sword by
Congress, and was promoted to the rank of Major." In
the year 1786-87 he served as a delegate to the Continental
Congress, in the latter year being also a member of the
Philadelphia Convention to revise the Federal Constitution.
He married 13 December, 1783, at John's Island, Georgia,
Charlotte Fenwick, daughter of Edward Fenwick, deceased,
and a ward of General Nathaniel Greene.

THE PEARCE DESCENDANTS

Stephen1 Pearce, Sr. = Green (or Lanier)

Joshua'2 Pearce = Hannah Lanier (or Green)
Stephen3 Pearce = Mary Mills
Mary4 Pearce = Paul Bevill, Jr.
Stephen Pearce5 Bevill = Lavlna Lipsey
Mary Lavisy6 Beville = John James Vaughan
Agnes Beville7 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

THE CHISHOLM FAMILY

" Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair
And Greta woods are green,
Now you may gather garlands there
Would grace a summer's queen.

" Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea.
The orange flower perfumes the bower,
The breeze is on the sea."

Scott.

CHAPTER VII

THE CHISHOLM FAMILY

THHE Chisolm Genealogy, by William Garnett Chisolm,
A LL. B., published in New York in 1914 says : "Alexan-
der Chisolm and his wife, daughter of Fraser of Ballindown,
emigrated to Carolina about 1717 and settled near Charles
Town on the Wando or Cooper river. The rising in 1715
under the Earl of Mar had been repulsed, and Roderick
Chisholm, chief of the Clan, had been forfeited by the
King for his participation therein, and no doubt a home
in the new world offered more inducements to a free
spirit than the unsettled condition of affairs in the High-
lands." After Culloden, in 1746, the Clan was almost
broken up, much the larger portion taking refuge in Canada.
These seem to have been nearly all Roman Catholic, the
Protestants of the Knockfin branch coming to Georgia and
Virginia, where they are to-day. There appear to have been
several Chisholms, who emigrated to Carolina, the exact re-
lationship between whom the present status of the family
researches does not disclose. These branches are now rep-
resented by Dr. Julian F. Chisholm of Savannah, Mr.
Edward de C. Chisholm of New York, Mr. Frederick A.
Chisholm of Birmingham, Alabama, Mrs. J. W. Masters of
Fredricksburg, Virginia, and Senator Robert L. Owen of
Oklahoma. Senator Owen's mother was Narcissa Chisholm,

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hereditary head of the Cherokee Indians, her father, Thomas
Chisholm, having married a Cherokee princess before the
tribe were sent West by the Government. He was the son
of John Chisholm, a Scotchman, who lived near Charleston
about Revolutionary times. This John Chisholm witnessed
the will of William Maine (who married Judith Gignilliat),
in old Granville County, now Beaufort, South Carolina, on
the 6th of March, 1769. His daughter, Elizabeth Chisholm,
married James Pelot, and was the great great-grandmother
of the writer.

The Chisholms of Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia
" are descended from the cadet house of Knockfin, a branch
of the Clan Chisholm, which has been established in Inver-
ness-shire and neighboring counties for nearly six hundred
years, being one of the smaller but independent members of
that great system peculiar to the Scottish Gael." 16 " The
Chisholm," says Dr. Joseph G. Bulloch, in his History and
Genealogy of the Family of Baillie and Dunain, " a family
twice descended from Royalty, and through the de TArds
from the earls of Strathern and Orkney and Kings of Nor-
way," also descend from the McKenzies of Gairloch, Tar-
bat, Red Castle, Applecross, and the Earl of Seaforth, the
Mclntoshes, McDonalds of Moidart and Glengarry, Mc-
Leans, Frasers, and others. Dr. Bulloch also adds : " The
ancient family of Chisholm (The Chisholm) descends from
the Earl of Athole, the last representative of Donald Bane,
King of Scotland, and this family is one of the early Celtic
families of old Scotland." 17

In the Chisolm Genealogy we further read : " Wiland de
Chisholm was said to have been a man of remarkable
strength and an expert with the bow. He was the first of

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the name to be designated The Chisholm, it being the proud
boast of the family in former days that there were only
three persons entitled to this prefix — The Pope, The King,
and The Chisholm. Modern authorities state that in spite
of the use of this title by other Highland chieftains, notably
The Mackintosh, the head of the Clan Chisholm is the only
one who by right is entitled to be so designated." " The
principal seat of the family is Erchless Castle, a stately and
picturesque old fortalice, situated near the confluence of the
Glass and Farrar, in a region unsurpassed for its combina-
tion of sylvan beauty and mountain grandeur — about ten
miles from the town of Beauly, where, in the midst of a
group of old trees, stands the ancient Priory, roofless and
neglected — the burial place of the Lords of Lovat and
Knights of the families of Chisholm and MacKenzie." 18

THE CHISHOLM DESCENDANTS

John1 Chisholm =

Elizabeth2 Chisholm = James Pelot

Mary Martha8 Pelot = Horace Jesse Harrison

Eliza Chisholm Pelot4 Harrison == Daniel Vaughan

John James5 Vaughan = Mary Lavisy Beville

Agnes Beville6 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

THE ATHERTON FAMILY

" Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ;
So dids't thou travel on life's common way
In cheerful godliness.'"

Wordsworth.

ft

" Liberty's in every blow !
Let us do or die."

Burns.

CHAPTER VIII

THE ATHERTON FAMILY

TIUMPHREY ATHERTON, Major-General, was born at
Preston, Lancashire, England, where he married Mary
Wales. With his wife and three children, embarking at
Bristol, he came to Boston, Massachusetts, in the "James" in
1635. Settling in Dorchester, he was admitted a freeman
there and signed the covenant of the church in May, 1638.
Becoming captain of the Dorchester train-band at its organ-
ization in 1644, he was promoted five years later to the
command of the Suffolk Regiment. This position he held
until 1661, when he succeeded Daniel Denison as Major-
General of the Suffolk troop. In civil as well as military
affairs Major-General Atherton was very prominent. For
thirteen years, between 1638 and 1660, he was a selectman
of Dorchester, for nine years he represented the town in the
General Court, in 1653 he was Speaker of the House, and in
1654, and thereafter annually, he was chosen an assistant.
In the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, with
which he united in 1638, he rose to be captain in 1650.

The public acts of Major-General Atherton, other than
strictly military, are enumerated as follows by his biogra-
pher in The History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company : "In 1643 he was sent with Edward Tomlins of

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Lynn, by the General Court to treat with the Narragansett
Indians. In 1644 he returned to the same district with
Captains Johnson and Cooke to arrest and try Samuel Gor-
ton for heresy. He seems to have had great skill in his
treatment of the Indians, with whom his public duties
brought him in frequent contact. He manifested much
sympathy for their ignorance and degraded condition, but
exercised great energy and decision of character when neces-
sary. Johnson says : ' Although he be slow of speech, yet
he is downright for the business — one of a cheer-spirit and
entire for the country.' He is also said to have been 'a
man of courage and presence of mind, for when he was sent
with twenty men to Pessacus, an Indian sachem, to demand
the arrears to the colony of three hundred fathom of wam-
pum, Pessacus put him off for some time with dilatory
answers, not suffering him to come into his presence. He
finally led his men to the door of the wigwam, entered him-
self, with pistol in hand, leaving his men without, and seiz-
ing Pessacus by the hair of his head drew him from the
midst of a great number of his attendants, threatening if any
of them interfered, he would dispatch them. Pessacus paid
what was demanded, and the English returned in safety.' " 19

Major-Generai Atherton died 17 September, 1661. He
had been in Boston reviewing the train-band and was on his
way home to Dorchester across the Neck when his horse
stumbled over or was frightened by a cow and threw him
off and caused him injuries from which he did not recover.
His death seems to have been felt to be a public calamity,
and his funeral was conducted with great military pomp.

His estate, besides a farm of seven hundred acres, inven-
toried eight hundred and thirty-eight pounds. His will was

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The Atherton Family 137

proved 27 September, 1661, and his estate was divided
among his widow and children. Blake records " He was
killed by a fall from his horse at ye South end of Boston as
he was coming homewards (I think in ye evening) his horse
either running over or starting at a cow that lay down in
ye way." His tomb is in the Dorchester Burying Ground,
and the epitaph on it is as follows :

" Here lies our Captain and Major of Suffolk withal
A goodly magistrate was he, and Major General,
Two troops of horse with him here came, such love his

worth did crave
Ten companies of foot, also mourning, marched to his

grave.
Let all who read be sure to keep the truth, as he has

done
With Christ he now is crowned, his name was Hum-
phrey Atherton."

Major-General Humphrey Atherton's ninth child was
named Mary. She was married 9 (7), 1667 to Joseph Weekes,
son of George and Jane (Clap) Weekes. A daughter Mary,
of Joseph and Mary (Atherton) Weekes, born 20 May, 1668,
was married, probably about 1684, to Joseph Leeds, son of
Joseph and Miriam (Cook) Leeds, and a daughter Mary, of
Joseph and Mary (Weekes) Leeds, born in 1696, was married
12 November, 1728, to Samuel Humphrey. The three
children of Samuel and Mary (Leeds) Humphrey were Mary,
born 8 April, 1730, married to Henry Vaughan ; Elizabeth,
born 2 May, 1734, died about 1771, unmarried ; and Rachel,
born 5 April, 1736, married to John Vaughan.

Samuel Humphrey's will was made 8 September, 1761,
and proved 11 July, 1766. The Inventory shows his estate
to have been valued at ^"159. 10. 8.

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In his will he mentions his eldest (living) daughter, Ruth
Clapp, wife of David Clapp, his only child then living by
his first wife (Elizabeth Baker), his daughter Mary " Vann "
wife of Henry " Vann," and his unmarried daughters Eliza-
beth and Rachel. His homestead he devises to these four
daughters in specific parts. 11 November, 1763, Henry
Vaughan mortgages twenty acres of land in Dedham to
John Whiting. This transaction is recorded in the Registry
of Deeds of Suffolk County, Book 100, page 254.

THE ATHERTON DESCENDANTS

Major General1 Humphrey Atherton = Mary Wales

Mary2 Atherton = Joseph Weekes

Mary8 Weekes = Joseph Leeds

Mary4 Leeds = Samuel Humphrey

Mary6 Humphrey = Henry Vaughan, Jr.

John6 Vaughan = Rhoda Effingham

Daniel7 Vaughan = Eliza C. Pelot Harrison

John James8 Vaughan = Mary Lavisy Beville

Agnes Beville9 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

THE HUMPHREY FAMILY

" Plain living and high thinking are no more,
The homely beauty of the good old cause,
Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence,
And pure religion breathing household laws. "

Wordsworth.

CHAPTER IX

THE HUMPHREY FAMILY

HPHE Humphrey family was founded by Jonas Humphrey,
"■■ " who came to Dorchester, " says Clapp's History of
Dorchester, "with his wife Frances, and son James, from
Wendover, in Buckinghamshire, England, (where he had been
a constable) in 1634. James was about twenty-six years old
when the family arrived. Mr. Humphrey was a grantee of
Neck Lands in 1637 ; a member of the Church in 1639 ;
freeman May 13, 1640 ; and proprietor in the great lots in
1646." His children were : Jonas, died October 30, 1689 ;
James; Hopestill, baptized 4 (4) 1649 ; Elizabeth; Susan;
Sarah ; and one other daughter. He lived in what is now
called Humphrey Street, and the estate he owned was still
in the Humphrey family's possession during most if not all
of the nineteenth century. Jonas died " 9 (1) 1662 " and
his wife died "2 (6) 1668". The Humphreys came in the
second emigration from England to Dorchester, in 1635,
other families coming with them being the Athertons, Claps,
Fosters, Leedses, Mathers, Topliffs, Waleses, Weekses,
Withingtons, etc.

Elder James Humphrey, second son of Jonas, born in
England, was so intimate a friend of his pastor, Richard
Mather, that he requested in his will that he should be
buried in Mather's tomb. The tomb being stoned up, and

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too small, however, his grave was made at the foot of the
tomb, and is still marked with the original stone. The in-
scription thereon is as follows :

" Here lyes Interred ye Body of Mr. James Humphrey,
one of ye Ruling Elders of Dorchester, who departed this
life May 12th., 1686, in ye 78th. year of his age.

" Inclos'd within this shrine is precious Dust
And only waits for th' rising of ye Just.
Most usefull while he liv'd, adorn'd his Station,
Even to old age he Serv'd his Generation,
Since his Decease tho't of with Veneration.

" How great a Blessing this Ruling Elder he
Unto this Church & Town ; & Pastors Three.
Mather he first did by him help Receive ;
Flint did he next his burden much Relieve ;
Renowned Danforth he did assist with skill
Esteemed high by all : Bear fruit untill
Yielding to death his Glorious seat did fill."

Elder James Humphrey had a wife Mary, whose maiden
name we do not know. Their first child was Hopestill, a
son, baptized 10 June, 1649, who married first 21 November,
1677, Elizabeth Baker of Dorchester, and had with seven other
children a son Samuel, born 27 August, 1691, who had two
wives. The second of these wives was Mary Leeds, whom
Samuel married 12 November, 1728. To her husband this
lady bore three daughters, Mary, born 8 April, 1730, who
became the wife of Henry Vaughan, Jr. ; Elizabeth, born
2 May, 1734, died unmarried; and Rachel, born 5 April, 1736,
who became the wife of John Vaughan, brother of Henry.20
Hopestill Humphrey was chosen a Selectman of Dorchester
in 1708.

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I

THE HUMPHREY DESCENDANTS

Jonas1 Humphrey = Frances

Elder James2 Humphrey = Mary

Hopestill3 Humphrey = Elizabeth Baker

Samuel4 Humphrey = Mary Leeds

Mary5 Humphrey = Henry Vaughan, Jr.

John6 Vaughan = Rhoda Effingham

Daniel7 Vaughan = Eliza Chisholm Pelot Harrison

John James8 Vaughan = Mary Lavisy Beville

Agnes Beville9 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

THE GIGNILLIAT FAMILY

" Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel
No self-reproach."

Wordsioorth.

CHAPTER X

THE GIGNILLIAT FAMILY

"""PHE Gignilliat family is one of the notable group of
"*• Huguenot families, the founders of which, as Dr. J. G. B.
Bulloch of Washington, D. C., says, "either as gentlemen,
planters, soldiers, lawyers, statesmen, &c, have added lustre
to the Commonwealth of South Carolina."21 It was evi-
dently founded in America by Jean Francois Gignilliat, who
came to America 30 July, 1685, before the Revocation of
the Edict of Nantes, 22 October, 1685; and who was the son
of Abraham Gignilliat and Mary De Ville.

Jean Francois received a grant of three thousand acres
as the "first of the Swiss nation to settle in Carolina,"
and married Susanne Le Serurier, daughter of Jacques Le
Serurier and his wife Elizabeth Leger. They had among
their children Henry Gignilliat, who married Esther Marion,
aunt of General Francis Marion, known as the " Swamp
Fox of the American Revolution; " and Abraham Gignilliat,
who married, and had John Gignilliat.

John Gignilliat married Mary Magdalen Du Pre, daughter
of Cornelius Du Pre and his wife Jean Brabant. Their
children were James Gignilliat, born 30 July, 1746, who
married Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Pepper and his wife Sarah
Evelyn, and had : James Gignilliat, Jr. ; Mary Magdalen
Gignilliat, who was married to James Nephew ; Gilbert Gig-
nilliat, who married Mary MacDonnell; and Henry Gignilliat,
who married Jane Mcintosh of Mala or Mallow ; Elizabeth,

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who married John Cooper; Charlotte; John May; Sarah
Evelyn; Ann H., and Margaret Pepper.

James Gignilliat, Jr., married Sarah Catharine Pelot,
daughter of Rev. Francis Pelot and his second wife, Cath-
arine (Stoll) Pelot, and had three children, viz: Charles
Gignilliat; James Gignilliat, 3rd; Sarah Catharine Pelot
Gignilliat. The daughter married Edward Postell. They
had eight children : Charles, Susanna, Elizabeth, Jane Eliza,
Sarah Margaret, Clifford Stiles, Julia Porcher and Laura
Edwards. Susanna Postell became the second wife of Dr.
Francis Yonge Porcher, her sister, Clifford Stiles Postell, mar-
ried Gadsden King, Esq., and Laura Postell married Dr. Eli
Geddings.

Henry, the eldest son of Jean Francois Gignilliat and his
wife Susanne Le Serurier, married Esther Marion, daughter
of Benjamin Marion and his wife Judith Baluet, and had,
among other children, Judith, who married William Maine;
Mary Ann; Gabriel, who was a member of the Provincial
Congress in 1775, from South Carolina; and Benjamin.
Gabriel had a son, Gabriel, who married and left no issue,
and also two daughters, Elizabeth and Esther.

A descendant of Jean Francois de Gignilliat — either a
granddaughter or a great-granddaughter — was married to
William Harrison, born at Euhaw, South Carolina, in 1741,
and was the ancestress of the writer of this book. Public
records, such as wills and land transactions, cannot be offered
as proof of this fact, because of destruction by fire and war.
Private records, however, and an interview which was en-
joyed in 1886, with Mrs. Sarah Gignilliat (Harrison) Gauld-
ing, who was the second grandchild of William Harrison and
Gignilliat, confirm this statement.

THE GIGNILLIAT DESCENDANTS

Jean Francois1 Gignilliat = Susanne Le Serurier
Henry2 Gignilliat = Esther Marion

Gabriel3 Gignilliat = Cahusac

4 Gignilliat = William Harrison

Horace Jesse6 Harrison = Mary Martha Pelot
Eliza Chisholm Pelot6 Harrison = Daniel Vaughan
John James7 Vaughan = Mary Lavisy Beville
Agnes Beville8 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

THE COOKE FAMILY

" As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land ;
but the fame that comes after is oblivion. "

Marcus Aurelius.

CHAPTER XI

THE COOKE FAMILY

A ARON COOKE, Captain, was one of the first settlers
of the tpwn of Dorchester, Massachusetts, coming
there probably as early as 1630. He was made freeman in
Dorchester, 6 May, 1635, where, 5 July, 1636, it was ordered
that he should have " half an acre of ground over against his
lot, by the brook near the dead swamp, to build his house
upon." "Mr. Cooke," says Clapp's History of the town of
Dorchester, " was a man of great energy and a devoted
friend of the regicide Judges, Goffe and Whalley. While
they were in this country they resided in his neighborhood."
Among his fellow settlers of Dorchester were Roger Clap,
Bernard and John Capen, Thomas Tileston, Roger Williams,
and Henry Wolcott. Captain Aaron Cooke was born in
England in 1610, and was married four times, his first wife,
daughter of Thomas Ford, being the writer's ancestress.
Their first daughter, Joanna, born 5 August, 1638, was
married to Simon, son of Henry and Elizabeth Wolcott ;
their second daughter, Miriam, baptized 12 March, 1642-3,
was married 8 November, 1661, to Joseph Leeds of Dorchester,
and at once removed to Northampton, Massachusetts.
Later she returned to Dorchester, and died there 23 August,
1720. Both she and her husband are buried in the old
Dorchester burying-ground at Upham's Corner.

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Captain Aaron Cooke had a land grant at Windsor,
Connecticut, 5 July, 1636, and about this time with many of
his friends assisted in founding this town. In Windsor he
remained, one of the most prominent men of the town in
municipal and military affairs, until 1661, when he removed
to Northampton, Massachusetts j where he resided until his
death, 5 September, 1690, at the age of eighty years. His
first wife died at Windsor, some time after 1645, in which
year her last child was born. Captain Cooke's military
career, says Stiles's History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut,
"seems to have commenced in Windsor, for 21 May, 1653,
Lieutenant Cooke was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the
sixty-five soldiers drafted out of the ten Connecticut towns
on a requisition of the Commissioners of the United Colonies,
for a war against the Dutch, Windsor having the largest
number of men; and 25 May, 1655, 'Leftenant' Cooke was
chosen Captayne at Windsor ; he had 87 papers (votes) ;
only 19 for others. Sept. 1, 1656, he was ordered by the
Town to beat the drum on Lord's and lecture-days, from the
top of the meeting-house, for which he was to have 20s for
the next year."

" In 1687, Gov. Andros made Cap. Cooke a major (then
the highest military office in Mass.), and after Andros's fall

he was again Captain The valiant Captain, as

appears from frequent mention in Windsor Town Records,
was a great hunter of wolves."

THE COOKE DESCENDANTS

Captain Aaron1 Cooke = Ford

Miriam2 Cooke = Joseph Leeds

Joseph3 Leeds = Mary Weekes

Mary4 Leeds = Samuel Humphrey

Mary6 Humphrey = Henry Vaughan, Jr.

John6 Vaughan = Rhoda Effingham

Daniel7 Vaughan = Eliza Chisholm Pelot Harrison

John James8 Vaughan = Mary Lavisy Beville

Agnes Beville9 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

THE WEEKES FAMILY

" Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end
be like his."

The Bible.

CHAPTER XII

THE WEEKES FAMILY

p EORGE WEEKES came from Devonshire, England, to
^-* Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1635, in the same ship
with the Rev. Richard Mather. His wife was Jane Clap,
a sister of Roger Clap, and both were admitted to the Dor-
chester church 21 December, 1639. Mr. Weekes, says the
historian of the Weekes family, " was evidently a man of
superior culture for his time, and held a prominent, place in
the colony." He was a selectman of Dorchester and from
time to time occupied other positions of trust. He appears
to have taken an especial interest in education. He died 28
December, 1650, and his widow afterward became the second
wife of Jonas Humphrey.

Joseph Weekes, a younger son of George Weekes, born in
Dorchester, but at what date is not known, married 9 April,
1667, Mary, daughter of Major General Humphrey Atherton,
and their daughter Mary, born 20 May, 1668, was married
to Joseph Leeds.

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THE WEEKES DESCENDANTS

George1 Weekes = Jane Clap

Joseph2 Weekes = Mary Atherton

Mary8 Weekes = Joseph Leeds

Mary4 Leeds = Samuel Humphrey

Mary5 Humphrey = Henry Vaughan, Jr.

John6 Vaughan = Rhoda Effingham

Daniel7 Vaughan = Eliza Chisholm Pelot Harrison

John James8 Vaughan = Mary Lavisy Beville

Agnes Beville9 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

THE LEEDS FAMILY

" God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over
into the wilderness." William Stoughton.

(Election Sermon at Boston, April 29, 1669.)

" When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best,
but like a forward child that must be played with and humoured a
little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."

Sir William Temple.

CHAPTER XIII

THE LEEDS FAMILY

DICHARD LEEDS of Great Yarmouth, England, with
*• ^ his wife Joan, left England, says Clapp's History of
Dorchester, on the twelfth of April, 1637, " desirous, as he said
(to Mr. Thomas Mayhew, the King's commissioner), 'to pass
to New England, and there to inhabit and dwell.' " He
settled at what is now Savin Hill in Dorchester and in 1639
was granted land on Thompson's Island for a fishing busi-
ness, which he and Nathaniel Duncan carried on for many
years. " He was an active man, both in church and town
affairs, and left a large estate for those times. He died 18
March, 1692-3, aged about ninety-eight, and his grave-stone
still marks the spot where he was laid. His wife Joan, who
was in everything all that adorns a wife, mother, and friend,
died in 1682, and lies by his side in the Dorchester burying-
ground." The eldest children of Richard and Joan Leeds
were twins, Joseph and Benjamin, born in Dorchester in
1637. Of these, Joseph married 8 November, 1661, Miriam
Cooke, daughter of Captain Aaron Cooke of Northampton,
concerning whom we have given some important facts.
Joseph and Miriam lived at Northampton until about 1672,
when they returned to Dorchester. Joseph died 28 January,

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168 The Beville Family

1714-15, aged about seventy-seven. Miriam died 23 August,
1720, aged about seventy-eight, having had a large family.
" They were an exemplary couple and their children were
among the most prominent of their generation."

Joseph Leeds, Jr., son of Joseph and Miriam, married
Mary Weekes, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Atherton)
Weekes, and granddaughter of Major General Humphrey
Atherton. Their tombstones are likewise to be seen, the
inscriptions they bear being still entirely legible, in the old
Dorchester burying-ground.

^

THE LEEDS DESCENDANTS

Richard1 Leeds = Joan

Joseph2 Leeds = Miriam Cooke

Joseph3 Leeds = Mart Weekes

Mart4 Leeds = Samuel Humphrey

Mart5 Humphret = Henrt Vaughan, Jr.

John6 Vaughan = Rhoda Effingham

Daniel7 Vaughan = Eliza Chisholm Pelot Harrison

John James8 Vaughan = Mart Lavist Beville

Agnes Beville9 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

THE SCRUGGS FAMILY

"There is
One great society alone on earth :
The noble living and the noble dead. "

Wordsworth.

CHAPTER XIV

THE SCRUGGS FAMILY

HPHE remote ancestor of the Scruggs family was named
Schroggs, he was one of the Continentals who came to
England with the Conqueror or about the Conqueror's time.
In time his name was anglicized to Scroggs and Scruggs, the
latter being the name the family has always borne in
America. In the time of Cromwell's protectorate two
brothers, Henry and Richard Scruggs emigrated to Virginia
and there became tobacco planters on a large scale. We
find Richard Scruggs in James City County, Virginia, in
1655, and exactly one hundred years later we find one of
his descendants, also named Richard, petitioning for land in
St. George's Parish, Georgia, about fifty miles from Savannah,
which was then in Christ Church Parish. The Colonial
Records of Georgia, volume 7, page 678, of the date De-
cember, 1757, records the petition of Richard Scruggs, " set-
ting forth that he was lately come into the province and
was desirous to become a settler therein, his family consist-
ing of his wife, five children, and nine negroes, now in the
province." He received his grant on the Walnut Branch of
Briar Creek.

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174 The Beville Family

Again, in volume 8 of the same records, in October, 1762,
we find Richard Scruggs, while setting forth that he had had
three hundred acres of land granted him, " fit only for pas-
turing cattle," petitioning for another tract of three hundred
and fifty acres adjoining southward on land of Robert Bevill.
This fresh grant he obtained, the land lying in the Parish of
St. Matthew. From the fact that Richard Scruggs and
Robert Bevill owned adjoining plantations, nothing was more
natural than that a daughter of Scruggs should become the
wife of a son of Bevill. This, as our charts will show, was
precisely what did happen.

In volume 9 of the Georgia Colonial Records, page 232,
under date of November, 1764, we find recorded as follows :
" Ordered that Richard Scruggs and Leonard Claiborne be
inserted in the Commission of the Peace, Justices for the
Parish of St. Matthew." It is proper to mention here that
Richard Scruggs, Robert Bevill, and Leonard Claiborne came
together from Virginia to Georgia, and that they were
throughout their lives bound by the closest ties of blood and
friendship. It is known beyond a doubt that William Clai-
borne, great-grandfather of Leonard, who was undoubtedly
the most distinguished of all the early American Colonists,
was an ancestor of the writer of this book, her descent from
him coming through the marriage of Paul Bevill, Sr. and
Sarah Scruggs. Owing to the loss of Georgia records, how-
ever, it is uncertain through which family, the Bevills or
Scruggses, she does descend from him. The alliance of
Henry Scruggs with Ann Gross, this marriage occurring 25
January, 1685-6, in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County,
Virginia, gives the writer also a Gross ancestry. Of the
Gross family the most distinguished member has been the

The Scruggs Family 175

brilliant surgeon, Dr. Gross of Philadelphia. Through the
Bevill-Scruggs marriage comes also to the writer a Sisson
ancestry, Thomas Sisson, a descendant of Richard Sisson of
Rhode Island, having settled in North Carolina early in the
eighteenth century and become a planter there. William
Sisson, son of Thomas, removed to Georgia, and either his
sister or his daughter, Ann, who was the wife of Richard
Scruggs, administered on his estate " as nearest of kin."

THE SCRUGGS DESCENDANTS

Richard Scruggs = Martha
Henry1 Scruggs = Hannah Gross

Gross2 Scruggs = Ann

Richard3 Scruggs = Ann Sisson

Sarah4 Scruggs = Paul Bevill, Sr.

Paul5 Bevill, Jr. = Mary Pearce

Stephen Pearce6 Bevill = Lavina Lipsey

Mary Lavisy7 Beville = John James Vaughan

Agnes Beville8 Vaughan = Arthur White Tedcastle

Thomas1 Sisson =
William2 Sisson =

Ann8 Sisson = Richard Scruggs

Sarah4 Scruggs = Paul Bevill, Sr.

Paul5 Bevill, Jr. = Mary Pearce

Stephen Pearce6 Bevill = Lavina Lipsey

Mary Lavisy7 Beville = John James Vaughan

Agnes Beville8 Vaughan — Arthur White Tedcastle

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NOTES

NOTES

CHAPTER I

1. " From the flower garden, where Tabby was greatly given to the
culture of clove pinks, were wafted through the chinks of the win-
dow shutters perfumes that might have come from Araby the blest."

Mrs. Burton Harrison, in " Flower De Hundred."

CHAPTER II

2. The original form of the name Bevill was De Beville, but in
England it was anglicized to Beville, and so appears until 1643,
when Sir Bevill Granville, the hero of the battle of Landsdowne,
changed the spelling to Bevill. It is interesting to note that in
America the female members of the family have uniformly retained
the final e.

3. Bevill Granville was Governor of the Barbadoes in 1706 and
there is an unpublished letter among the Hawks Mss. in Fulham
Palace [Library] Fulham Road S.W. London written by Rev. Bevill
Granville 6th May, 1732 and dated from " North and South Carolina
and Georgia."

Right Hon. John Earl Granville, Viscount Cartaret and Baron
Cartaret of Hawnes, in the County of Bedford, had a grant of land in
A.merica from George II, dated 17 September, 1744, which was laid
in what is now Pitt county, North Carolina.

4. In his notes on the Bevill family, carefully made from original
records in Virginia, the late Thomas Forsythe Nelson, genealogist of
Washington, D. C, calls her Amy Butler, but once at least he calls

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182 Notes

her Ann. Whether she was married to Essex Bevill in Virginia or
not we cannot be sure, nor whether she was related to the Rev.
Amory Butler of Rappahannock or the Rev. William Butler, his
brother, who held the liviu of Washington Parish. A Rev. Thomas
Butler of Denbigh Parish had a grant there of 1000 acres in 1635.

5. Thereafter there were many grants to John Bevill; to Thomas
and Daniel Bevill, " sons of Essex Bevill deceased " granted in
1730, and to a younger Essex Bevill, all in Virginia. While it is
shown that both the sons of Essex Bevill married, the details of the
family groups in which we can place Robert Bevill " Vestryman in
Bristol Parish in 1731 " have not been discovered. There is hardly
any doubt but that they are the progenitors of all of the name in
Virginia and who went thence to Georgia.

6. John Vaughau, Samuel Harrison, and Ephraim Harrison, son
of Samuel, Robert Harrison, James Pelot, John Francis Pelot, son
of James, and Stephen Pearce, one of the heirs of William Mills,
were all interested in the title to lands on Amelia Island, East
Florida, as early as 1797. This fact is found in the printed report
of the Commissioners who took testimony and adjusted the land
claims after the Floridas were taken into and became a part of the
United States.

In 1763, East and West Florida were ceded by Spain to Great
Britain, and in the next twenty years more than 2500 whites had
settled there. In 1783 the Floridas were again ceded to Spain and
most of the English settlers withdrew. In 1795 West Florida was
sold to France.

" East Florida was delivered by Governor Coppinger to Lieutenant
Robert Butler of the United States Army, July 10, 18-21, and on that
day the Spanish flag was finally lowered from the walls of St. Au-
gustine, where it had so long proudly waved. The stars and stripes
announced the second acquisition to the young nation of the new
world." " The Purchase of Florida, Its History and Diplomacy," by
Hubert Bruce Fuller, A.M., LL.M. Cleveland, Ohio, 1906, Page 323.

Notes 183

CHAPTER III

7. This is learned from a deed, which we shall hereafter refer to,
given in Book 1, page (50, of the Norfolk County Deeds, in Dedham.

April 30, 1754, Henry " Vaughn " received a deed from John
Fuller, of four and a half acres on the Dedham road to Dedham
meeting house. " Suffolk County Registry of Deeds," Book 84,

P. 196.

May 19, 1755, Henry Vaughn, probably the father but possibly
the son, entered military service. He appears on a muster roll dated
Boston, February 26, 1756, of a company in H. M. Service under
command of Captain Eliphalet Fales, his rank private, his residence
Dedham. He served until December 15, thirty weeks and one day.
He was in the Crown Point Expedition. " Military Archives,"
Book 94, P. 95.

Henry Vaughn appears on a card as John Vaughn's father or
master in 1763. " Military Archives," Vol. 98, P. 429.

March 18, 1765, Henry Vaughn of Dedham, County Suffolk, hus-
bandman, sells to William Badlam of Dedham, husbandman, for
,£120., 20 acres "by estimation" iu the township of Dedham, of
which " Henry is lawfully seized and possessed" in his own proper
right as a good, perfect, and absolute estate of inheritance in fee
simple." Both Henry and his wife sign this deed, which is regis-
tered in Norfolk County, Nov. 28, 1793. Mary Vaughan appears
before Samuel Dexter, J. P., and acknowledges having siarued this
instrument as her free act and deed. The boundaries of the land
are minutely given.

Of John Vaughn (Henry, Sr., and Elizabeth) born 13 May, 1745,
baptized 26 May, 1745, we have a more complete record than of his
brother, Henry. He entered Military service in 1761, serving in
Capt. Lemuel Bent's Company, in Capt. Simon Jefferd's Company
from 28 May, 1762, until 21 July 1762, and in Capt. Oliver Billings'
Company in 1779, in which year he reported his age as 33. He
married in Dorchester (by Rev. Jonathan Bowman) 5 September,

184 Notes

1769, Rachel Humphrey of Dorchester, youngest daughter of Samuel
and Mar}r (Leeds) Humphrey, who was born 5 April, 1736, and died,
according to the Humphrey Genealogy, in May, 1802, aged 67.

After her death John Vaughan married Susannah , who died

(Dorchester Vital Records) May 27, 1803, John Vaughan died Sep-
tember 14, 1810.

On the day of the Battle of Lexington, John Vaughan and others
assembled in the Dorchester Company. " History of Dorchester,"
p. 341. He served in some capacity in the Revolution from July 24,
1776 to April 3, 1779. " History of Dorchester," p. 343.

On the 22nd of December, 1786, John Vaughan of " Dorchester,
County Suffolk," and his wife Rachel, deed a piece of land lying in
Dorchester (y± of an acre more or less) to James Humphrey of the
same town, tanner, David Clapp, Jr. and Hannah Humphrey being
witnesses of their signatures. They also deed a third of an acre to
James Humphrey, November 17, 1795, on which date they acknowl-
edge the former deed. See Norfolk County records (at Dedham)
April 7, 1800, they sell for fifty dollars to James Humphrey, about
9 rods, together with half of a dwelling house standing thereon.

John Vaughan and his wife Rachel owned the covenant in Dorches-
ter December 10, 1769 ; Rachel Vaughan was admitted to full com-
munion July 15, 1781.

John and Rachel Vaughan had at least one child. This was
Rachel, born 30 December, 1769, baptized January 7, 1770; died
28 January, 1770. That they had other daughters is possible, for
in the census of 1790, John Vaughan living in Dorchester, is said to
have had a family consisting of one male (himself) and three white
females.

An Elizabeth Vaughan (the record says " widow of John "), died in
Dorchester September 14, 1810. That she was not widow of John
but of Henry Sr., we are quite convinced. She must have been
over ninety when she died.

8. In the description given of Vaughan on his entrance on mili-
tary service in Massachusetts, he is said to be sixteen years old, his

Notes 185

height is given as five feet, and his hair and complexion are said to
be light.

John D. Vaughan is said to have been with Washington at Valley
Forge, where, after being defeated at Germantown in December,
1777, Washington went into winter quarters.

CHAPTER IV

9. The term " Sea Island" as applied to many of the plantations
of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida implies that these estates
were surrounded by the tide waters of the sea. The Sea Island
plantations were by far the most famous southern plantations, rais-
ing the so-called Sea Island cotton, which has a "long staple," in
contradistinction to the short staple cotton, which to this day is not
worth more than one fourth the value of the other.

The plantation of which Frances Anne Kemble (Mrs. Pierce
Butler) in her "Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in
1838-1839," writes so charmingly was situated on St. Simon's Island,
and on neighboring plantations on this island, especially that owned
by the Hon. Thomas Spalding and later by his son Randolph Spalding,
this Harrison family in successive generations visited frequently and
intimately. Mrs. Pierce Butler's book was published in Loudon by
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863.

10. Mr. Win. G. Stanard in " The Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography," Vol. XXIII, pp. "214, 215.

11. Bishop Meade's " Old Churches, Ministers and Families of
Virginia," Vol. II, p. 210.

12. Bishop Meade's " Old Churches, Ministers and Families of
Virginia," Vol. II, pp. 105, 109.

CHAPTER V

13. See "Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina,"
by Dr. J. G. B. Bulloch, in an article on " The Influence of the
Huguenots in the United States of America". Dr. Bulloch says:

186 Notes

" It was the gallant Pelot who captured the Water Witch during the
late war between the states." The following interesting account of
the capture of the Water Witch by Captain Thomas Pelot, great-
grandson of Rev. Francis Pelot, was written by Mr. Arthur W. Ted-
castle from notes given him by Julian Schley, Esq., a lawyer of
Savannah : " The United States government vessels were blockad-
ing Savannah. Captain Thomas Pelot of the Confederate Navy,
stationed at Beaulia Battery on Green Island, Ossabaw Sound,
noticed a new vessel joining the squadron just below the island
This proved to be the converted yacht Water Witch, loaded with
arms and supplies for the use of naval forces. Pelot asked for and
was given permission to lead an expedition to capture her. He
called for one hundred volunteers and over two hundred offered.
Captain Pelot selected one hundred, and taking four barges with
muffled oars the expedition started after dark and rowed to the
mouth of the Sound, about six miles away. In the darkness two of
the boats were lost and returned to the battery, so only fifty men
reached the Water Witch. They found her, as usual with night nets
out to prevent her being boarded, but they had grappling irons and
ladders, and boarded her from each side. As they anticipated, all
on board being tired only the deck watch was in sight. This watch
proved to be a very powerful negro, and as Captain Pelot ascended
the ladder the man met him with two pistols, killed the Captain, and
killed and wounded several others. The rest of the party, however,
overpowered the negro, and before the sleeping crew could appear,
the hatchways were closed and guarded and all the crew kept below.
Captain Pelot had with him as pilot an old negro, Ben, belonging to
some branch of his family, and he took the wheel. The boarding
party then roused the engineer and at the point of the pistol com-
pelled him to run the vessel into Beaulia Battery. She was un-
loaded, her guns and supplies were taken, and she was burned and
sunk." The History of the Confederate Navy asserts that " no
country ever lost a more gallant officer or more polished gentleman
than Cantain Pelot."

Notes 187

14. " Two Centuries of the First Baptist Church of South Carol-
ina, 1683-1883." Edited by H. A. Tupper. Baltimore, 1889. P. 29.

CHAPTER VI

15. See "President Washington's Diary," under date of May 16,
1791.

CHAPTER VII

16. " Chisolm Genealogy. Being a Record of the Name from
A.D. 1254." By William Garnett Chisolm, LL.B. New. York, 1914.

17. " History and Genealogy of the Family of Baillie of Dunain,"
pp. 20, 21, 45, 73.

18. " Chisolm Genealogy," pp. 13, 1.

CHAPTER VIII

19. See " History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com-
pany," Vol. I, pp. 52, 53; the " History of Dorchester" ; " Diary of
John Hull " (1660) ; " The New England Historical and Genealogical
Register " (for 1848, 1878, and 1881) ; and other authorities.

In the " Boston Evening Transcript " of Wednesday, July 12, 1916,
appeared the following query : " (5695) 1. Atherton. When and
where was Humphrey Atherton born ; also his daughter Isabel, wife
of Nathaniel Wales, Jr.? E. S. S. M. N."

A little later an answer as follows appeared in the " Transcript " :

" *5695. 1. Atherton. E. S. S. M. N., and *5702. 4. Atherton.
G. C. P. N., July 12, 1916. Major General Humphrey Atherton was
born in Preston, Lancashire, Eng., before 1610; married Mary
Wales, daughter of John Wales of Idle (Bradford), Yorkshire, Eng.
' At marriage he was between fourteen and fifteen years of age, his
wife being between thirteen and fourteen.' He died from an acci-
dent, Sept. 16, 1661; he is buried in Dorchester, Mass. (Upham's
Corner), Stoughton Burial Ground, having a very quaint epitaph
upon his tombstone; his wife born (April 30, 1638) died Aug. 17,
1672. In 1658 he was senior commander of all New England colonial
military forces. The Athertons are a very ancient family, descend-
ing from ' Robert of Atherton,' Shrieve (sheriff) of Lancashire,
Eng., in the time of King John, 1199 to 1226.

188 Notes

"Isabel, third child of Humphrey Atherton, was baptized at Win-
wick, Eng., Jan. 23, 1630; Consider, his fifth child, married Anna
Anniball, Oct. 19, 1761, (or Dec. 14, 1671). See New England
Historical and Genealogical Kegister, vols. 32 and 35 ; Putnam's
Historical Magazine, March 1899 ; and Robert's ' Ancient and Hon-
orable Artillery Company ' ; also ' Atberton Family in England,'
page 72, found in the Library of the New England Historic and
Genealogical Society, Boston ; also, Encyclopedia Edition xiii."

On Monday, August 14, 1916, also appeared :

"*5695. 1. Atherton. July 31, 1916. I think the statement that
Major General Humphrey Atherton's wife was Mary Wales, daugh-
ter of John Wales of Idle, Yorkshire, Eng., is a mistake. While it
is true that Nathaniel Wales in his will, 20-4-1661, leaves ' My wife
and my brother-in-law Humphrey Atherton ' executors, this evi-
dently should not be taken in the sense that we now use the term
'brother-in-law.' This Nathaniel Wales, son of Johu Wales of
Idle, County Yorkshire, who was baptized Idle, County York, April
18, 1623, married Isabel, daughter of Humphrey Atherton. She
was baptized Winwick, County Lincolnshire, Jan. 29, 1630. The
will of John Wales of Idle, County York, father of Nathaniel Wales,
probated Nov. 26, 1610, leaves the residue of his property ' to his
children equally,' and names six sons and no daughters."

W. S. M. N.

CHAPTER IX

20. Samuel Humphrey's will was made 8 September, 1761, and
proved July 11, 1766. The Inventory shows his estate to have been
valued at £159.10.8.

In his will he mentions his eldest (living) daughter, Ruth Clapp,
wife of David Clapp, his only child by his first wife then living ; his
daughter Mary " Vann ", wife of Henry Vann ; and his unmarried
daughters Elizabeth and Rachel. His homestead he devises to these
four daughters in specific parts.

November 11, 1763, Henry Vaughn mortgages twenty acres of
land in Dedham to John Whiting. " Registry of Suffolk County,"
Book 100, p. 254.

Notes 189

CHAPTEB X

21. See "Transactions of the Huguenot Society," Charleston,
S. C, 1915, p. 32. Dr. Bulloch says here: "What names stand
higher on the roll of honor than Godin, Guerard, Mazyck, Manig-
nult, Kavenel, Porcher, DuBose, Petigru, Gaillard, Bacot, Gignilliat,
Gibert, Marion, Horry, Huger, Moragne,Prioleau, and many others."
Elsewhere in the same article Dr. Bulloch mentions many other
names of eminent Huguenot families in the State, as for example
De St. Julien, De Saussure, De Veaux, Legare, Le Serurier, Pelot,
and Postell.

INDEX

INDEX

Alston, Susan 83

Amelia, Princess of England

106
Anderson, Caroline D. 117
Andros, Edmund 156
Anniball, Anna 188
Arundell, 4, 23

Jane 27

John 24

Marie 25

Thomas 27

Thomas, Sir 28
Atherton, 143, 187

Anna 188

Consider 188

Humphrey 135-137, 139, 161,
168, 187, 188

Isabel 187, 188

Mary 135, 137, 139, 161, 163,
168, 187, 188

Athole, Earl of 128

Aurelius, Marcus 154
Austen, Jane 68

Bacot,

189

Badlam, William 183

Baillie, 128

Baker, Elizabeth 138, 144, 145

Baluet, Judith 150

Bane, Donald, King of Scotland

128
Barrett, Addison 80

Barrett, Marion Amanda 80

Basset, 23

Bath, Granville, John Earl of 29,

30
Bealer, Charles 104
Bearrye, Anthony 27

Elizabeth 27
Beattie, Ann 39, 42

Ann Elizabeth 38, 39, 42, 43

George Francis Kinsey 38, 39,
42,43
Benedict, David 95
Bent, Lemuel 183
Bere, John 28
Bevill or Beville

4, 23, 24, 181

Agnes 27

Alfred Stephen 39, 44

Amy 30, 41-51, 181

Ann 30, 31,41-51,182

Ann Elizabeth 38, 39, 42, 43

Annie 38

Bird 46

Claborn 34

Claiborne 49, 50

Daniel 31, 182

Daniel Earle 46

Eliza 36

Eliza W. 36

Elizabeth 25-28, 30, 38

Ellen 38

Essex 30, 31,41-51, 182

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194

The Beville Family

Bevill or Beville
Etta M. 46
Frances 32, 34, 38
Frances Alethea 38
George Granville 46
Grace 27

Granville 46-48, 51
Henrietta 49, 50
Henrietta Rudolph 38
Henry Lafayette 38
James 32, 34, 35
Jane 27, 28
Jemima 38, 39, 44, 45
Johan 27

Johannis see John
John 23, 25-27, 30, 31, 41-51,

182
John Goldwire 34, 36
John Rieves 38
John, Sir 28, 29
Joseph 32
Julia 39, 44, 47, 48
Lavina 36, 38, 39, 41-45, 123,

176, 177
Martha 30, 41-51
Martha Jane 46
Mary 27, 30, 36, 39, 41-45, 123,

176, 177
Mary Lavisy 38, 39, 41, 66, 70,

87, 109, 123, 131, 139, 145,

151, 157, 163, 169, 176, 177
Matilda 25
Mildred 39, 44
Nancy 51
Patience 46
Patty 46
Paul 32-36, 41-45, 123, 174,

176, 177
Paul Rudolph 34, 36

Bevill or Beville

Peter 25, 27

Phillip 27, 29

Reginald 23

Robert 15, 31-33, 41-51, 174,
182

Robert Harper 38, 39, 44, 45

Ruby 39, 44

Sarah 32, 34,35, 41-51, 174,176,
177

Sarah Ann 36, 46-48

Sarah Ford 34

Sarah Jane 38

Sarah Rebecca 38

Scruggs 51

Stephen Calfrey 38

Stephen Pearce 34-39, 41-45,
122, 123, 176, 177

Susannah 49, 50

Thomas 31, 182

William 27, 32

William, Sir 28
Bevyll, see Bevill
Bevyll, Ladye Jane 28
Biddle, Bird 46
Billings, Oliver 183
Blake, James 137

William 101
Blue, James 79, 86

Sarah Gignilliat 79, 86
Bonheur, Rosa 17
Bonnell, Sarah Ann 46-48
Bonner, John 32
Bowley, Rosabel 117
Bowman, Jonathan 56, 183
Brabant, Jean 149
Bramston, Robert 104
Brune, Charles Prideaux 24
Bryan, George D. 104

Index

195

Bryant, Lou Oliver 49
Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie
93, 128, 149, 185, 189

Martha 79
Burns, Robert 134
Butler, Amoiy 182

Amy 30, 41-51, 181

Ann 30, 41-51, 182

Pierce, (Mrs.) 185

Robert 182

Thomas 182

William 182

Cahusac,

151

Candler, Allen D. 122

Charles Granville 47

Daniel Beville 47

Dora 47

Elizabeth 47

Ezekiel Samuel 47, 48

Julia 47, 48

Julia Ada 47

Julia Beville 48

Lucy Alice 48

Milton Asa 47

Nancy Priscilla 47, 48

Susan Hazlewood 48
Capen, Bernard 155

John 155
Caperton, Leila 117

Rose Anderson 117

William Gaston 117
Cardross, Erskine, Henry Baron

of 105
Carrington, Campbell 80

Edward Codrington 80
Carter, 84

Marion 80

Robert 80

Cary,

84

Cavado, Adolphus 60

Florence Marcella 66
Channing, William Ellery 54
Charles I, King of England 25,

29
Charles II, King of England 29
Chisholm or Chisolm

105, 129

Alexander 127

Edward de C 127

Elizabeth 65, 78, 105-107, 109-
112, 116, 128, 131

Frederick A. 127

John 106, 128, 131

Julian F. 127

Narcissa 127

Roderick 127

Thomas 128

Wiland de 128

William Garnett 127, 187
Christian, R. H. 117

Rosa Anderson 117
Claiborne, Leonard 174

Martha 30

William 174
Clapp or Clap

David 138, 184, 188

Ebenezer 143, 155, 167

Jane 137, 161, 163

Roger 155, 161

Ruth 138, 188
Cocknell, Nathaniel 83

Rebecca S3
Coleman, F. Woodrow 89

Xannie 89
Collins, S8

Eva Harrison 88
Colson, William 32, 33, 35

196

The Beville Family

Cooke, Aaron 155-157, 167

George 136

Joanna 155

Miriam 137, 155, 157, 167, 169
Cooper, 105

Anthony Ashley 107

Charles 73

Charles M. 64

Charles P. 63

Elizabeth 150

James G. 63

James Gignilliat 61, 73

Jane Pharaba 61-63, 73

John 150

Mary 73

Pharaba Jane see Jane Pharaba

Susan Marion 106, 116
Coppinger, Jose", Don 182
Crawford, Lola 49
Crichton, Prances Alethea 38

John W. 38
Cromwell, Oliver 173
Cullen, James Barrett 38

Sarah Rebecca 38

Culpepper, 84

Custis, 84

Daly, Susannah 49, 50
Dargan, Elizabeth 82
Davis, Jefferson 66
Dawson, Thomas 104
De Beville, see Bevill
De Chisholm, see Chisholm
De Gignilliat, see Gignilliat

De l'Ard, 128

De L'Isle, see L'Isle de

De Saussure, 105, 189

De Saussys, see De Saussure
De St. Julien, 189

De Veaux,

189

De Ville, Mary 149
Denison, Daniel 135
Dexter, Samuel 183
Dodd, Charles Squire 79, 86

Jane Evylyn 79, 86
Drake, Francis, Sir 25

Du Bose, 189

Du Pre-, Cornelius 149

Jean 149

Mary Magdalen 149

Dunain, 128

Duncan, Nathaniel 167

Edward I, King of England 23
Edwards, 4

Morgan 93-95
Effingham, Rhoda 55, 59, 61, 65,
70-73, 139, 145, 157, 163, 169
Elizabeth, Queen of England 24,

26
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 38, 92
Evans, Clement A. 122
Evelyn, Sarah 149
Everett, 4

, Capt. 33

Fairfax,

84

Fales, Eliphalet 183
Fenwick, Charlotte 122

Edward 122
Ford, 157

Thomas 155
Fortescue, 23

Foster,
Fraser,

143
127, 128

Fuller, Hubert Bruce 182

John 183
Furman, Wood 95

Index

197

Gaillard, 189

Gamie, Isadore V. 64
Gano, John 95
Garnett, 34

Frances 34

Paul Bevill 34
Gaulding, A. A. 79, 86

Sarah Gignilliat 79, 86, 150
Geddings, Eli 150

Laura 150
George I, King of England 127
George II, King of England 181
George III, King of England 3,
106

Gibert, 189

Gignilliat, 78, 83, 86-89, 105,

189

Abraham 149

Ann H. 150

Benjamin 150

Charles 150

Charlotte 149, 150

Elizabeth 149, 150

Esther 149-151

Gabriel 150, 151

Gilbert 149

Henry 149-151

James 105, 114, 115, 149, 150

Jane 149

Jean Francois 149-151

John 149

John May 150

Judith 128, 150

Margaret Pepper 150

Mary 149

Mary Ann 150

Mary Magdalen 149

Sarah Catharine 105, 114, 115,
117, 150

Gignilliat, Sarah Catharine Pelot
114, 115, 150

Sarah Evelyn 150

Susanne 149-151

Gilbert, 23, 26

Gill, John 100
Gilman, Louisa 113

Godin, 189

Godolphin, 23

Goffe, William 155
Gorton, Samuel 136
Granville, 4, 23, 30

Bernard, Sir 25, 28, 29

Bevill 181

Beville, Sir 25, 29

Carteret, John Earl of 29, 181

Elizabeth 25, 28

Matilde 25

Kichard, Sir 25, 29

Koger 24, 25, 29
Green or Greene

121,123

Catharine 59

Hannah 123

Nathaniel 59, 122
Greneffelde, Matilde 25
Grenville, see Granville
Grey, Richard 104
Grimball, John 102
Gross, Ann 174

Hannah 176

Samuel David 175

Guerard, 189

Guerin, 105

Hale, 4

Edward Everett 33
Hall, Susan Marion 79, 86

Tudor Tucker 79, 86

198

The Beville Family

Hamer, see Harmer
Harmer, Josiah 58
Harris, David 33
Sarah 33

Harrison, 84, 105, 106

Alexander 81
Anne 82, 83
Benjamin 78, 80, 82, 86
Burr 81-83
Burton (Mrs.) 181
Camilla 80
Caroline 78, 86
Charity 80
Charlotte 80
Cuthbert 81, 82
Dorcas 80
Dorean 83

Eliza Chisholm Pelot 65, 70-72,
79, 86, 87, 109-111, 131, 139,
145,151, 157, 163,169
Elizabeth 65, 82, 83
Ephraim 182
Francis 83
Hannah 77
Henry 80, 83
Horace Jesse 65, 78, 79, 86-89,

107, 109-111, 116, 131, 151
Horace Nephew 79, 80, 86
James 80
Jane 79, 86
Jane Evylyn 86
John 83
Jonathan 83
Kate 83

Marion Amanda 80
Mary 77, 82, 86-89
Mary Amanda 79, 86
Mary Martha 65, 78, 86-89, 107,
109-111,116, 131,151

Harrison, Mary Kebecca 80
Mikell 83
Mordecai 83
Nancy 82
Narcissa 83
Kandolph 80
Kebecca 79, 83, 86
Eobert 65, 182
Sally 83

Samuel 65, 78, 86, 182
Sarah 82
Sarah Gignilliat 79, 86, 88, 89,

150
Sophy 83
Susan 81, 83
Susan Marion 79, 86
Susannah 82

Thomas 77, 81-83, 86-89, 94
William 78, 81-83, 86-89, 150,
151
Hart, Nancy 82

Oliver 77, 93-95
Harting, Archibald 94
Hawley, Sarah 82
Hazelvvood, Nancy Priscilla 47,48
Head, Susan 83

William 83
Hearn, Michael 64
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea 22

Hickman, 88

Eva Harrison 88
Leila Alice 88
Mary Alice 88
Hill, Benjamin 12

Ch. M. Hill 35
Holliday, J. S. 89

Lula 89
Hopkins, Francis 78
Horry, 189

Index

199

Hudson,

16

Sarah 15, 46-51

Huger, 189

Hull, 79

John 187
Humphrey, Elizabeth 137, 138,
143-145, 188

Frances 143, 145

Hannah 184

Hopestill 143-145

James 143-145, 184

Jane 161

Jonas 143, 145, 161

Mary 55-57, 70-73, 137, 139,
144, 145, 157, 163, 169, 184

Kachel 137, 138, 144, 184, 188

Euth 138

Samuel 56, 137, 139, 144, 145,
157, 163, 169, 184, 188

Sarah 143

Susan 143

Jackson, Michael 57
Jarvis, Ann 39, 42

Ann Elizabeth 38, 39, 42, 43

Arthur Tedcastle 39, 43

Blanche 39

Harry Lee 39

James Henry 38, 39, 42, 43
Jeflerd, Simon 183
John, King of England 187
Johnson, Edward 136

John 58

Kate 83

Mary Eebecca 80

Samuel 83

W. F. 80
Jones, Annie 38

Kemble, Frances Anne 185

Kempe, James 24
Kendall, Agnes 27

Walter 27
Kennedy, 88

Leila Alice 88

Killigrew, 23

Killiowe, Johan 27
King, 105

Alexander 114

Clifford 114

Clifford Stiles 150

Edward Postel 114

Gadsden 114, 150

Habersham 49

Mitchell 114

Eebecca 49

Knockfin, 128

Krouse, Bessie 89

J. A. 89

Lafayette, Marie Jean Paul Mar-
quis de 3, 82, 122
Lanier, 4, 36, 121, 123

Hannah 123

Lewis 33 *

Sidney 33, 120, 121
Lawson, Sarah P. 80

Lee, 84

Leeds, 143

Benjamin 167

Joan 167, 169

Joseph 137, 139, 155, 157, 161,
163, 167-169

Mary 56, 137, 139, 144, 145,
157, 161, 163, 168, 169, 184

Miriam 137, 155, 157, 167-169

Eichard 167, 169

Legare, 189

Leger, Elizabeth 149

200

The Beville Family

Le Serurier,

189

Elizabeth 149

Jacques 149

Susan ne 149-151
Lipsey, Ann 36

Lavina 36, 38, 39, 41-45, 123,
176, 177

William 36
L'Isle, Asselia Gaschet de 49
Lucas, John 34
Lundy, Abraham 32

Eliza 36

Thomas 32

William 36
Lynch, Haisley 39, 45

Louis C. 39, 45

Mary 39, 45
Lyson, 24

Macaulay, Thomas Babington 92
MacDonnell, 105

Alan 107, 112

Alexauder Harrison 107, 112

Ann E. 107, 112

Braxton Bragg 66, 72, 110

Donald 66, 72, 110

Fernando Donald 107, 112, 116

George N. 107, 112

Henry Russell 107, 112

Jane 110

Lillian B. 107, 112

Margaret R. 107, 112

Mary 149

Sarah Bulia 107, 112, 116

Susan Jane 66, 72

Sydney Johnston 66, 72, 110

Thaddeus A. 66, 72, 110

Mackintosh, 129

Macon, Dorean 83

Macon, Hartwell 83
Maine, Judith 128, 150

William 128, 150

Manignult, 189

Mar, Erskine, John Earl of 127
Marion, 189

Benjamin 150

Esther 149-151

Francis 149

Judith 150
Massey, Joseph 104
Masters, J. W. (Mrs.) 127
Mather, 143

Richard 143, 161
Mathews, John Goldwire 35

Paul Bevill 34
Mayhew, Thomas 167
Maxwell, 105

Jane E. 107, 116
May, Benjamin 82

Mary 82

Mazyck, 189

McCall, 4

McDonald, 128

Mcintosh, 4, 128

Jane 149
McKenzie, 128

McKinney, Elizabeth 47

McLean, 128

McLelland, 83

Anne 83
McMillan, Archie Harrison 89

Bessie 89

Harry C. 89

Janie Harrison 89

Jennie Alice 89

Jesse Ora 89

John C. 89

John Campbell 89

Index

201

McMillan, Lillian May 89

Lula 89

Nannie 89

Robert K. 89

William Vernon 89
McRae, Ellen 38

Frances 38
Meade, William 31, 83, 84, 185
Messrs, Elizabeth 27

Henry 27

Merrill, 78

Miller, Andrew J. 59

Catharine 59

Nathaniel 32

Pharaba 59

Phineas 59

Stephen D. 59

Thomas Harvey 59
Mills, 4

Mary 36, 122, 123

William 37, 182
Mobley, Martha Jane 46

Patience 46

Moragne, 189

Myllytuu, Elizabeth 26

Negroes :
Amy 100
Ben 186
Bud 13
Cuffee 100
Dembo 102
Dove 13
Frank 12, 13
Harriet, Mammy 9-11
John 12
Jones 13, 14
Mary 16
May 9

Negroes:

Nancy 7, 100

Nelly 100

Patty 63

Pompey 100

Primiss, Daddy 15

Rose 100

Sam 13

Valentine 34

Billups, Ellen 13, 14

Boiling, Alice 13-15
Sam 13-15

Harrison, Ellen 15
Nelson, Thomas Forsythe 181
Nephew, 105

Caroline Clifford 117

James 105, 117, 149

Mary Magdalen 149

Sarah Catharine 105, 117
Newman, Albert Henry 94
Newton, Catharine Ann 117

H. 117
Noberta, Manuella 66, 71, 111
Nowlan, Ann E. 107, 112
Nuttall, Julia Riddiough 67, 68

Peter Austin 67, 68

Oglethorpe, James Edward 106
Oliver, Dorcas 80

Ida Claiborne 49

James 49

James Harrison 80

Marion 80

Sarah P. 80

Thaddeus 80

William 80

Orkney, Earl of 128

Owen, Narcissa 127

Robert L. 127

202

The Beville Family

Paine, Anderson 10
Parm enter, Benjamin 94

John 104
Parson, J. 28
Pearce or Pierce

4

Capt. 58

Charlotte 122

Hannah 123

Joshua 3, 121-123

Mary 36, 41-45, 122, 123, 176,

177
Stephen 3, 33, 36, 121-123, 182
William 121, 122

Pelot, 189

Benjamin 100, 101, 105
Catharine 99, 102, 103, 105,

109-117, 150
Catherine, see Catharine
Charles 65, 100-102, 105, 106,

113
Elizabeth 65, 78, 105, 106, 109-

112, 116, 128, 131
Elizabeth Chisholm 107
Francis 77, 78, 93-96, 98, 103-

105, 109-117, 150, 186
James 78, 100-102, 105-107,

109-112, 116, 128, 131, 182
Jane E. 107, 116
Jean 109-117
John 100-103, 105
John Francis 106, 116, 182
Jonas 109-117
Joseph Sealy 107, 116
Martha 78, 105, 109-117
Mary A. Chisholm 65
Mary Martha 65, 78, 86-89, 107,

109-111, 116, 131, 151
Mary Susanna 113

Pelot, Samuel 100-102, 105, 116

Samuel G. 107

Sarah Bulia 107, 112, 116

Sarah Catharine 105, 114, 115,
117, 150

Sarah Julia 113

Susan Marion 106, 116

Susanna 105

Thomas 186
Pepper, Dr. 149

Charlotte 149

Sarah 149

Perrin, 105

Pessacus (Indian), 136

Petigru, 189

Petit, 23

Pierce, see Pearce
Pitts, John J. 35

Plutarch, 76

Pomeroye, Mary 27

William 27
Pons, Aubray Canova 71, 111

Aurilla 66, 71, 111

John Daniel Horace 71, 111

Rilla, see Aurilla

Sydney 66, 71, 111

Sydney Scott 71, 111
Porcher, 105, 189

Francis James 113

Francis Yonge 113, 115, 150

Louisa 113

Louisa G. 113

Sarah Julia 113

Susan 115

Susanna 150

Wilmot D. 113
Postel or Postell

105, 189

Charles 150

Index

203

Postell, Clifford 114

Clifford Stiles 10

Edward 114, 115, 150

Elizabeth 150

Jane Eliza 150

Julia Porcher 150

Laura Edwards 150

Mary Susanna 113

Sarah Catharine Pelot 114, 11
150

Sarah Margaret 150

Susan 115

Susanna 105, 150
Prideaux, 23

Edward 24

Humphrey 27

Johan 27

Prioleau, 189

Purse, C. C. 49, 50

Elizabeth 50

Henrietta Beville 49, 50

Koberta 50
Putnam, Eben 188

Ragsdale, James 83

Narcissa 83
Rain, Elizabeth 38
Raleigh, Walter, Sir 25

Rathboue, 107, 116

Ravenel, 189

Rivers, Thomas 103
Roberts, Oliver Ayer 188

Rogers, 105

Rollo, Duke of Normandy 24
Roosevelt, Martha 79

Theodore 79

Roscarrick, 23

Rudolph, Eliza 36
Runnell, Dorean 83

Runnell, James 83
Russell, Lillian B. 107, 112
William 63

Schley, Julian 186
Schroggs, see Scruggs
Scott, Aurilla 66, 71, 111

Mary Elizabeth 66, 71, 111

Pattie 46

Rilla, see Aurilla

Walter, Sir 126

Warren 66, 71, 111
Screven, Catharine 105, 109-117

William 105
Scroggs, see Scruggs
Scruggs, 173

Ann 33, 174-177

Gross 176

Hannah 176

Henry 173, 174, 176

Martha 176

Richard 33, 173-177

Sarah 33-35, 41-45, 174, 176,
177

William H. 35

Seaforth, Earl of 128

Sealy, Hannah 77, 105

John 105

Joseph 99, 105

Martha 78, 105, 109-117
Sherman, William Tecumseh 3
Simmons, Jemima 38, 39, 44, 45
Sisson, Ann 33, 175-177

Richard 175

Thomas 175, 177

William 175-177
Slaughter, Etta M. 46

James Edward 46
Small, Susan Hazlewood 48

204

The Beville Family

Small, Wm. E. 48
Smith, Edward 81

Henrietta Rudolph 38

Hezekiah 95

Louis 38
Snell, Frances Lavinia 39

Hamlin Valentine 38, 39

Mary Lavisy 38, 39

William Hamlin 39
Snow, Isaac 79, 86, 88, 89

Janie Harrison 89

Mary Alice 88

Sarah Gignilliat 79, 86, 88, 89
Somerville, Kebecca 79, 86
Spalding, Randolph 185

Thomas 185

St. Aubyn, 23

St. Leger, 30

Stanard, William G. 81, 82, 185

Stephens, Mr. 94

Stewart, George 64

Stiles, Caroline Clifford 117

Caroline D. 117

Catharine Ann 117

Eugene West 117

Henry R. 156

Joseph C. 117

Josephine Clifford 117

Leila 117

Mary Evelyn 117

Randolph 117

Robert Augustus 117

Rosa Anderson 117

Rosabel 117
Stillman, Samuel 95
Stoll, Catharine 105, 109-117,
150

Justinius 105
Stoughton, William 166

Strathern,
Strobahr, -

-Earl of 128

-49

Asselia Gaschet 49
Cecil 49
Garnett 49
Henrietta 49, 50
Henrietta Beville 50
Henry J. 49, 50
Ida Claiborne 49
Lola 49
Lou Oliver 49
Noble 49
Rebecca 49

Sullivan, Dr. 65

Elizabeth S. 65
Swift, Franklin Gregory 48
Julia Beville 48

Tayloe, 84

Tedcastle, Agnes Beville 41, 67,
70, 87, 109, 123, 131, 139,
145, 151, 157, 163, 169, 176,
177
Arthur White 41, 67, 68, 70, 87,
109, 123, 131, 139, 145, 151,
157, 163,169, 176,177, 186
Julia Riddiough 67-69
William Porteus 67-69
Temple, William, Sir 166
Tennyson, Alfred 25
Thompson, Christopher 83

Sophy 83
Tileston, Thomas 155
Tindall, Edward 69

Florence 69
Tomlins, Edward 135

Topliff , 143

Tregomynion, 23

Tremayne,

23

Index

205

Trewent,

23

Tupper, H. A. 187
Tyler, Sally 83

Van Zandt, Nicholas Biddle 57
Vaughan, Vaughn or Vann

105

Agnes Beville 10, 14, 39, 41,

66, 67, 70, 87, 109, 123, 131,

139, 145, 151, 157, 163, 169,

176, 177
Daniel 15, 61-63, 65, 66, 70-72,

79,86,87,109-111, 131,139,

145, 151, 157, 163, 169
Daniel Francis 66
Eliza 62
Eliza Chisholm Pelot 15, 65,

66, 70-72, 79, 86, 87, 109-111,

131, 139, 145, 151, 157, 163,

169
Elizabeth 56, 65,70-73,183,184
Elizabeth S. 65
Ella Virginia 66
Florence Marcella 66
Franklin Decatur 66
Henry 55-57, 70-73, 137-139,

144, 145, 157, 163, 169, 183,

184, 188
Horace 62

Horace Daniel 66, 71, 111
Horace Glanville 66
Jane 62, 110
John 55-61, 63-65, 70-73, 106,

137, 139, 144, 145, 157, 163,
169, 182-185
John D. see John
John Daniel see John
John James 15, 38, 41, 66, 67,
70, 87, 109, 123, 131 ,139, 145,
151, 157, 163, 169, 176, 177

Vaughan, Manuella 66, 71, 111
Mary 55, 57, 62, 70-73, 137-

139, 144, 145, 157, 163, 169,

183, 188
Mary A. Chisholm 65
Mary Elizabeth 66, 71, 111
Mary Lavisy 38, 39, 41, 66, 70,

87, 109, 123, 131, 139, 145,

151, 157,163, 169, 176,177
May 62

Pharaba Jane 61, 73
Rachel 137, 144, 184
Rhoda 55, 59-61, 65, 70-73,

139, 145, 157, 163, 169
Susan Jane 66, 72
Susannah 184
William 61-63
Vyell, Grace 27
William 27

Wales,

143

Isabel 187, 188

John 187, 188

Mary 135, 139, 187, 188

Nathaniel 187, 188
Walker, Margaret R. 107, 112
Washington, 84

George 2, 3, 121, 122, 185, 187
Weekes, 143

George 137, 161, 163

Jane 137, 161, 163

Joseph 137, 139, 161, 163, 168

Mary 137, 139, 157, 161, 163,
168, 169
Whalley, Edward 155
White, George 33

Henry 35
Whiting, John 138, 188
Wiley, John 57

206

The Beville Family

Willetts, Agnes Beville 39, 42

Anne 39, 42

Arthur Tedcastle 39, 42

Ernest Ward 39, 42
Williams, Charity 80

David 95, 103

Koger 155

Sarah 15, 46-51
Wilson, Joseph Buggies 79

Woodrow 79, 80

Withington, 143

Wolcott, Elizabeth 155

Henry 155

Wolcott, Joanna 155

Simon 155
Wordsworth, William 134, 142,
148, 172

Wyche, 30

Wylly, Charles Spalding 4

Yerkes, Jonathan 44

Julia 44
Young, Henry 79, 86

Mary Amanda 79, 86

Buby 39, 44

Notes 207

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