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CHISOLM GENEALOGY
BEING A RECORD OF THE NAME FROM
A.D. 1254
WITH SHORT SKETCHES OF ALLIED FAMILIES
BY
WILLIAM GARNETT CHISOLM, LL.B.
MEMBER OF SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS
TLbc Tknicfterbocfter press
NEW YORK
1914
Copyright by
WILLIAM GARNETT CHISOLM
1914
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INTRODUCTION
The compilation of the accompanying data is the
result of several years of research and effort on the part
of the writer, and while it is by no means complete in all
details, he trusts it will serve as a foundation for a more
comprehensive and exhaustive work on the subject,
embracing not only the descendants of Alexander and
Christina Chisolm, but also the other branches of the
name in America, all of whom have a common Scottish
ancestor. In treating of the generations preceding the
advent of the family into the Colonies, the writer has
drawn freely from Alexander Mackenzie's History of the
Chisholms. The record of the name in South Carolina
has been compiled from sources believed to be authentic,
including family bibles, parish registers, wills, public
documents, inscriptions on gravestones, etc. The same
method has been followed, when available, in connec-
tion with the accounts of the allied families appearing
throughout the work. A bibliography of the principal
authorities consulted will be found at the end of the
book. If, through any mistake, errors have been made,
the writer will appreciate being corrected, and will
cheerfully make addenda to rectify data which he is
convinced is wrong.
The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness
INTRODUCTION
and desires to express his appreciation to the various
persons who have so kindly contributed data in their
possession. In conclusion he feels that his efforts will
not have been in vain if there be awakened a deeper
interest in the past and a greater veneration for the
deeds and memories of those who, in periods of stress
and oppression, endured loss, suffering, expatriation,
and even death in their attempts to secure for them-
selves and their posterity the inestimable blessings of
liberty.
William Garnett Chisolm.
925 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md.,
June, 1914.
COAT-OF-ARMS
The Arms borne by the Chisolms of South CaroHna,
described in Crozier's General Armory, page 28, are the
same as those given by Burke for the Chisholms of
Strathglass in his Encyclopcedia of Heraldry, viz. :
Arms : Gules a boar's head erased argent.
Crest: A dexter hand holding a dagger erect ppr.,
on the point a boar's head couped gules.
Supporters: Two savages wreathed with laurel
about the head and loins, with clubs over their shoulders,
ppr.
Mottoes: Vi aut virtute; over crest, Feros ferio.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY
The Chisolms of South Carolina are descended
from the cadet house of Knockfin, a branch of the Clan
Chisholm, which has been established in Inverness-shire
and neighboring counties for nearly six hundred years,
being one of the smaller but independent members of
that great system peculiar to Scottish Gael. In earlier
days the chiefs of the Clan owned vast estates in the
Highlands, now decreased through marriage portions
and alienation; but as late as 1882 Bateman, in his
Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, placed
the Chisholm in the first group of forty-four persons
holding over 100,000 acres. 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 combination 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
the Knights of the families of Chisholm and Mackenzie.
A report of the Clans furnished the Government by
Duncan Forbes in 1 745 states that the Chisholms could
then place two hundred fighting men in the field. These
were mustered from the main house, known as Strath-
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glass, which consisted of the chief and his family, and
from the several subordinate houses, descendants of
younger sons of former chieftains (the more important of
which were Kinneries, Knockfin, and Muckerach) ; while
in addition there were the retainers and vassals. In
feudal times these Highland chieftains lived in barbaric
splendor, making war at pleasure and traveling about
the country with much pomp and ceremony. When
paying a visit of state or attending any other important
function, the chief was always accompanied by a
numerous retinue — a select bodyguard defended his
person, also there were his henchman, his bard, his
spokesman, his sword-bearer, the man who carried him
over the fords, the leader of his horse, his baggage-man,
his piper, and the piper's attendants; the principal
music of the Clan being Failtent-Siosalach — "The
Chisholm's Salute" — composed in honor of their noted
hospitality. The family were staunch Jacobites, and
many members fell on the field of battle, fighting under
the banner of the unfortunate Stuarts.
There has been much controversy regarding the
origin of the Chisholms; some attributing a Gaelic
descent from Harald, Thane of Caithness, Orkney, and
Shetland, who flourished in the reign of William, the
Lion (1196) and married the daughter of Madoch, Earl
of Athol, the last male descendant of Donald Ban, King
of Scotland; others stating that the progenitor of the
family was of Anglo-Norman origin and subsequently
acquiring lands in the Highlands adopted the customs
of his Gaelic neighbors, forming, with his tenants, a
clan, with all the feudal and patriarchal bonds incident
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thereto, as was the case with the Erasers, Bissets,
Gordons, Bruces, Bahiols, and other powerful Scotch
houses. This latter theory has been forcibly main-
tained by William Forbes Skene, Historiographer-
Royal for Scotland, and is generally in accord with the
opinions of the older etymologists, genealogists, anti-
quarians, and heralds, supported as it is by indisputable
written evidence. The original name is said to have
been de Chese, to which the Saxon termination "holme "
was added on the marriage of a Norman ancestor with a
Saxon heiress, whose lands from situation were so-called.
In the early records the name is written de Cheseholme,
de Chesholme, Chisholme, and finally Chisholm.
While a perusal of the Battle Abbey Roll fails to
disclose the name of Chisholm, Malcolm, the historian,
says, "They came soon after the Conquest, a.d. 1066,
from Tindale, England, and settled in the western dis-
trict of the county of Roxburghe, formerly included in
the Old Deanery of Teviotdale and diocese of Glasgow."
The earliest documentary evidence extant, in which
mention of the family is made, is a bull of Pope Alexan-
der IV., in which John de Chisholme is named, a.d.
1254.
I. This John de Chisholme married Emma de
Vetereponte or Vipount, daughter of William de
Vipount, Lord of Bolton, who granted them as a
marriage portion a charter of the lands of Paxtoun, with
the fishing of Brade-la-Tweed, in the county of Berwick,
along with the pendicles in the village of Paxtoun and
the fishings and pertinents thereunto belonging. In
the inquisition made at Berwick by the officers of
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Edward II., on December 23, 1315, these grants are
included among the possessions of his grandson, Sir
John de Chesholme.
VIPOUNT
Arms: Gu. six annulets, three, two, and one, or.
The ancient and honorable family of Vipount, Lords of West-
moreland by gift from the Conqueror, have long since become
extinct, and unfortunately there is no definitely authentic and
satisfactory genealogy of the family from its first appearance in
England; but during the period from the Conquest until the
reign of Edward II., these feudal barons wielded considerable
power over their extensive domains and lived like princes, and
the mere mention of their names brings up before us stories of
knightly feats of arms, of the battlefield and tilting-ground.
William, Lord of Vieuxpont, is the sixth person named in the
catalogue of nobles who assisted at the Conquest of England,
1066, and Wace in his Roman de Rou (a metrical history of the
Duke of Normandy) describes the gallant part which this ancestor
bore in the battle of Hastings. In 1098 Robert de Vipount was
one of the Crusaders at the raising of the siege of Antioch.
Another Robert, Lord of Westmoreland, whose mother was
Maude, daughter of Hugh de Moreville, was the favorite of King
John, to whom he remained loyal, receiving large grants of land
for his services, among which was the barony of Appleby, under
date of 28 October, 1204, which included, among forty-seven
others, the Lordship of Bolton, to hold to him and his heirs by the
wife he then had. He was one of the most important personages
of his day, being at various times custodian of Windsor Castle;
Constable of Nottingham Castle ; Sheriff of the counties of Not-
tingham, Derby, Westmoreland, Wiltshire, Devonshire, and
Cumberland; Governor of Carlisle; Justice Itinerant for York;
and Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He married Idonea,
daughter and heiress of John de Buily, Lord of Tickhill, and died
CHISOLM GENEALOGY
in 1228. From him William de Vipount inherited the Lordship
of Bolton, and his daughter, Emma, married John de Chisholme.
The male line of the Vipounts terminated in Robert de
Vipount, son of John and his wife, Sibella, daughter of William
Ferrers, Earl of Derby, who was killed at the battle of Evesham,
while fighting under the banner of Simon de Montfort. His
property, however, went to his daughters, one of whom, Isabella,
married Roger de Clifford, whose descendants became Earls of
Cumberland. Her granddaughter, Idonea de Clifford through
her marriage to Henry, second Lord Percy, is the ancestress of
the author on his maternal side.
John de Chisholme had by his wife, Emma, a son and
successor,
II. Richard de Chesholme, who is described as
"Del Counte de Rokesburgh. " He bore for his arms,
as appears by his seal, 1292, a boar's head couped
contournee. His name is attached to the Bond of
Fealty to Edward I., known as the Ragman's Roll,
under date of August 28, 1296, He married with issue:
1 . John.
2. Alexander, forfeited at same time as his brother
{Rotuli ScotcB 10 Edw. III.).
III. Sir John de Chesholme, Knight, " Del Counte
de Berwyke, " also signed the Ragman's Roll with his
father, but afterwards joined Robert the Bruce, by
whom he was knighted, and fought under his banner in
1 3 14 at the battle of Bannockburn, where his kinsman.
Sir William de Vipount, was slain. In consequence of
this action, his estates were forfeited by Edward II.,
who in a mandate dated at York, 18 April, 131 7, de-
scribes Sir John as "our Scottish enemy and rebel"
{Rot. Scot. 2 Edw. II.). However, some of his lands,
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together with several others in Nairn, which had been
forfeited by the Cummins, were restored and confirmed
to him and his heirs male by a charter of Robert the
Bruce, dated in the fourteenth year of his reign (1320).
He married and had issue,
IV. Alexander de Chisholme, who is described as
"Lord of Chisholme in Roxburghe and Paxtoun in
Berwickshire. " In 1 335 his name appears in a disputed
case about fishings in the Tweed as "Alexander de Chis-
holme of that Ilk" {Rot. Scot. 342 and 402). He was
succeeded by
V. Sir Robert de Chisholme, Knight, who is
designated as one of the " Magnates of Scotland. " He
was knighted by David II., and taken prisoner with
him at the battle of Neville's Cross, Durham, October
17, 1346 {Feeder a 20 Edw. III.). He was the first
of the family of whom any trace is found in the North of
Scotland. Through his marriage to Anne, daughter
and heiress of Sir Robert de Lauder, of Quarrel wood, he
acquired considerable property in Elgin, Nairn, and
Moray.
LAUDER
Arms: Within a double tressure arg. and gu., a griffin rampant
arg. Crest: A tower, portcullis drawn and the head and shoulders of
a man above the battlements, ppr. Supporters: Two lions rampant
arg. Mottoes: '' Ut migratius habita;" over the crest-^^ Turris
prudentia custos.^^
The progenitor of this family was an Anglo-Norman baron,
who accompanied Malcolm Caenmore into Scotland in 1056, in
his effort to regain the throne from the usurper Macbeth. From
CHISOLM GENEALOGY
him descended Sir Robert de Lauder or Lawedre, a close associate
of Sir William Wallace. He was sent as ambassador to England
from King Robert I., and in 1323 was one of the proxies of peace
with Edward II. He was Justiciar of the Lothians and that part
of Scotland south of the Forth, 1328. In 1333 he was present at
Hallidon Hill, but was too old to dismount and fight on foot. His
son, Sir Robert, was Constable of Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness
and Sheriff of Inverness, and his daughter, Anne, became the
wife of Sir Robert de Chisholme, Knt.
Sir Robert had by his wife, Anne de Lauder:
1 . Sir Robert.
2. William de Chisholme, who was educated in
England, later becoming a prominent churchman —
procurator to Bishop, 1375, and Treasurer of Moray,
1 360-1 398 {Rot. Scot. I., 8q2, and Eraser's Inverness-
iana, p. 73).
VI. Sir Robert de Chisholme, Knight, Lord of
Chisholme in Roxburghe, was Constable of Urquhart
Castle, on Loch Ness, and Sheriff of Inverness, re-
ceiving the appointment in 1359 from David II., by
whom he had been knighted in 1357 {Chamberlain's
Rolls, 1359). In 1358 he was Justiciar of Moray
{Chamberlain's Accounts, vol. i., p. 381), which position
he was still holding in 1376 {Invernessiana, p. 63).
His armorial bearings differed from those of his pre-
decessors and successors. His seal attached to an in-
strument dated 1362 shows a fesse between three boars'
heads couped, charged with as many cushions. He
married Margaret, daughter of Sir Walter Haliburton of
that Ilk, Berwick.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY
HALIBURTON
Arms: Or. on a bend az. three mascles of the first. Crest: A
Moor's head ppr. handed arg. Supporters: Two naked Moors ppr.
handed ahout the head and middle arg. Motto: " Watch well."
The family of Haliburton of Haliburton in the county of
Berwick is one of the oldest in the south of Scotland. The first
on record is Truite, who lived circa 1150. His son, David, in
1 176, granted certain lands to the Abbey of Kelso. He was
succeeded by Walter, 1207, whose son, Sir William de Haliburton,
married Christian, daughter and heiress of Richard de Fawnys,
with issue, Philip, whose widow, Alice, did homage for her lands
to Edward I., in 1296. His son was Sir Henry de Haliburton,
who married Agnes, daughter of Peter de Mordington and died
about 1320, being succeeded by Sir Adam, who dying 3 Septem-
ber, 1337, was succeeded by his eldest son. Sir Walter de Hali-
burton, who was taken prisoner at the battle of Neville's Cross,
1346, and confined in the Tower and later in Windsor Castle,
being released with King David in 1357. He was a member of the
King's Council, High Sheriff of Berwick, 1364, and one of the
Scottish ambassadors for the treaty of peace between the English
in 1367. He died 1385. His daughter, Margaret, married Sir
Robert de Chisholme.
Sir John Haliburton, brother of Sir Walter, was a brave
warrior and was killed at Nisbet, 1355 (Fordun, ii., 350). He
married the daughter and co-heiress of William de Vaux, Lord
of Dirleton, and left a son. Sir John Haliburton, who died 13C2,
with issue. Sir Walter, one of the hostages for ransom of King
James I., 1424, Ambassador Extraordinary to England, Warden
of the Marches, 1430, High Treasurer of Scotland, 1439 until his
death in 1449; created Lord Dirleton, 1440; married first Lady
Margaret, daughter of Archibald, third Earl of Douglas, and
widow of David, Duke of Rothesay, son of King Robert HL, and
had a son, Walter Haliburton, who married in 1432, his cousin,
Catherine, daughter of Alexander de Chisholme. Sir Walter
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married secondly Lady Isabel, widow of Alexander Leslie, Earl of
Ross, and daughter of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, Regent of
Scotland.
Sir Robert de Chisholme left issue :
1. John de Chisholme, who married Catherine
Bisset, daughter of Bisset of that Ilk, with issue, an only
child, Muriel, who married Alexander Sutherland,
Baron Duff us, great-grandson of Kenneth, Earl of
Sutherland. John died without male issue.
2. Alexander, of whom hereafter.
3. Robert, who married Marion, daughter of Sir
William Douglas of Drumlanrig, Hawick, and Selkirk;
ancestor of the Dukes of Queensberry, and his wife,
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Stewart of Duris-
deer. From him were descended the Border Chisholmes,
who resided at Stirches and Chisholme in Roxburghe-
shire. This branch of the family were faithful ad-
herents of Mary Stuart, the unfortunate Queen, being
actively engaged in her cause during all the civil wars
of her reign. One of the members, John Chisholme,
married 5 August, 1736, Margaret, daughter of
Alexander Scott and his wife, Magdalene Eliott, aunt
of General Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield, the gal-
lant defender of Gibraltar in 1782. The Roxburghe
Chisholmes survived until the Boer War, when the
last of the line, Col. James Scott Chisholme, command-
ing the Fifth Lancers, fell in the cavalry charge of
that regiment at Elandslaagte.
Sir Edmund Chisholm, the youngest son of Robert
and Marion (Douglas) Chisholme, became the progeni-
tor of the Cromlix branch, three of whom were Bishops
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of Dunblane — Sir James, who had been Chaplain to
James III., his brother, William, and their nephew,
William, who afterwards became Bishop of Vaison in
France. Another member of this family. Sir James
Chisholm, was Master of the Household to King James
VI., and his daughter, Agnes, married the celebrated
John Napier of Merchistoun, the inventor of logarithms.
Her brother. Sir James Chisholm, married first Helen
Stirling, the "Fair Maid of Perth," of poetry and song
fame, and her daughter, Jane Chisholm, married her
cousin, Hon. James Drummond, Baron Maderty; their
grandson. General William Drummond, Major-General
of the Forces in Scotland and Lord of the Treasury to
Charles II., being created in 1686 Viscount Strathallan.
Sir James Chisholm married secondly about 1612
Margaret, daughter of William, eighth Earl of Glen-
cairn, and by her had a daughter who married the Earl
of Lothian. The house of Cromlix is now extinct in
the male line, but the descendants on the female side
have formed alliances with many of the leading aristo-
cratic houses of England and Scotland, the principal
representatives of which are the Earls of Kinnoul and
the Earls of Perth, and the famous Drummond bankers
of London.
4. Janet, who married 2 January, 1364, Hugh
Rose, IV. of Kilravock, with issue.
VII. Alexander de Chisholme succeeded his
brother, John, as head of the Clan. He likewise was
Constable of Urquhart Castle, resigning in 1391 in
favor of his son, Thomas. Through his marriage to
Margaret de la Aird, Lady of Erchless, his posterity are
CHISOLM GENEALOGY H
descended from the ancient Kings of Norway and Den-
mark, as well as the Jarls of Orkney and Caithness. Mar-
garet de la Aird was the daughter and heiress of Weyland
de la Aird by his wife, Matilda, daughter and co-heiress
of Malise, Dei indulgentia Earl of Stratherne oxidjiire
us oris Earl of Orkney and Caithness, by his third wife,
Isabella, daughter of Magnus, the fifth Earl of Orkney,
and his wife, Catherine, Countess of Caithness. This
Magnus was the son of John, Earl of Orkney, by his wife,
the daughter of Magnus, King of Norway, and Inge-
borga, daughter of Eric, King of Denmark (Douglas'
Peerage of Scotland) . Lady Margaret de la Aird had
a brother, Alexander, who inherited the Earldom of
Caithness, which he alienated to Robert II., King of
Scotland, 1375. He was appointed Captain or Governor
of Orkney by the King of Norway and died without
issue about 1376. On the marriage of Lady Margaret
to Alexander de Chisholme, the latter acquired large
possessions, a part of which included the lands and
castle of Erchless. He died leaving issue:
1 . Thomas.
2. Margaret, who married in 1401, Angus Mac-
donald, son of Godfrey of Uist and Garmoran, second
son of John, first Lord of the Isles, and died without
issue.
VI 1 1. Thomas de Chisholme was one of the secur-
ities in an agreement dated 2 November, 1389, between
the "Wolf of Badenoch" and his wife, Euphemia, Coun-
tess of Ross; the other sureties being Robert, Earl of
Sutherland and Alexander de Moravia. He succeeded
his father as Constable of Urquhart Castle in 1391, he
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having become too old and frail to perform the duties of
that responsible ofhce. Thomas de Chisholme married
Margaret, daughter of Lauchlan Mackintosh, VIII. of
Mackintosh,
MACKINTOSH
Arms: Quarterly, first Or. a lion rampant gu. 2d. Arg. a dexter
hand jesswise coiiped at wrist, holding a mans heart gu. 3d. Az. a
boar's head couped or. 4th. Or. a lymphad, oars in saltire, sa.
Crest: A cat-a-mountain salient guardant ppr. Supporters: Two
wild cats ppr. Motto: " Touch not the cat hot a glove.''
The family of Mackintosh has long been one of prominence in
the history of Scotland. They are the chief sept and head of the
Clan Chattan, and are descended from Shaw or Sheagh, who
accompanied King Malcolm IV. on his expedition to the North,
and being sent by him in 11 63 to repress a rebellion in Moray,
which he effected in a signal manner, was awarded the Constabu-
lary of the Castle of Inverness. He died 11 79, having married
Giles, daughter of Hugh Montgomery, and left a son, Shaw, who
was for thirty-six years Constable of Inverness, which he de-
fended against Reginald, Lord of the Isles. His son, William, was
much at the court of Alexander II., and accompanied him to
France when he renewed the ancient league with King Louis. He
was succeeded by Shaw, who married Helen, daughter of Thane
of Calder, and dying 1265, left a son, Ferquhard, who had joined
Alexander III., in his expedition against Haco, King of Norway,
fighting gallantly at Largs, 1263. He married Mora, daughter of
Angus-Oig Macdonald, Lord of the Isles and died 1271, as the
result of a duel. His son, Angus Mackintosh, married Eva,
daughter of Dougal Phaol, Captain of Clan Chattan, said to be
descended from ancient Catti of Germany. He was captain in the
army at the battle of Bannockburn, 1314, and died in his 77th
year, 1346, being succeeded by William Mackintosh, who was
with the King at Durham, 1346. He married Finguala, daughter
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of Thane of Calder, and died 1368, being buried in Lockerkaig,
leaving among other issue, a son, Lauchlan, who married Agnes
Fraser, sister of Hugh, first Lord Lovat, and became the father
of Margaret Mackintosh who married Thomas de Chisholme.
Thomas left issue by Margaret Mackintosh :
1. Alexander, Lord of Kinrossy, Strathglass, and
the Aird, who married with issue an only daughter,
Catherine, who in 1432 married her cousin, Walter
Haliburton, son of Walter, Lord Dirleton. Through
her, Walter acquired the barony of Pitcur.
2. Wiland.
IX. Wiland de Chisholme, described as "of
Comar" during his father's lifetime, succeeded to the
chieftainship and family estates on the death of his
brother in 1432, and marrying left issue:
1 . Wiland.
2. A daughter who married, about 1470, Farquhar
Farquharson of Invercauld.
3. A daughter who married Ewen Maclean of
Ardgour.
X. Wiland de Chisholm was said to have been a
man of remarkable strength and an expert with the
bow. He was the first of 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 Chis-
holm." Modem 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.
In 1509, Urquhart Castle, which had been in the family
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for about one hundred and fifty years, passed into the
hands of the Grants, and in 15 13 we find Wiland,
accompanied by Sir Donald Gallda and Alastair Mac-
donald of Glengarry, proceeding to Urquhart, storming
the castle, expelling the garrison, and laying waste the
adjoining country, for which act the participants were
heavily fined. In this same year he received a grant
from James IV. of the lands of Knockfin, Comar Mor,
the two Invercannichs, etc., lying in Strathglass and in
the Earldom of Ross, the precept for infeftment being
under the Quarter Seal and dated 9 April, 1 5 1 3 . Wiland
was succeeded in his estates before his death by his son,
XI. John Chisholm, who, under date of 13 March,
1538, had a charter under the Great Seal from James V.,
erecting certain of his lands into a barony in favor of
him and his heirs. He died about 1555, for in that year
Queen Mary granted to John, Earl of Sutherland, cer-
tain lands which ''the deceased John Cheisholme held of
her" {Reg. of Privy Seal, vol. xxvii., p. 103). He was
succeeded by his son and heir.
XII. Alexander Chisholm, who had a sasine of the
family estates on 31 May, 1555, as son and heir of John
Chisholm. Alexander married Janet Mackenzie, widow
of ^neas Macdonald, VII. of Glengarry, and daughter
of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, tenth Baron of Kintail by
his wife Lady Elizabeth Stewart.
MACKENZIE
Arms: Az. a stag's head cabossed or. Crest: A mountain in
flames, ppr. Supporters: Two savages wreathed about their temples
and middles with laurel, each holding in his exterior hand a baton
erect, with fire issuing out of top, all ppr. Motto: ^'Luceo non uro.^'
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The Clan Mackenzie, at present represented by the Earls of
Seaforth and Cromartie, are of Scoto-Gaelic descent and have
been conspicuous in the annals of Scotland for nearly seven hun-
dred years. They claim descent from one Colin, who married
the daughter of Walter, Lord High Steward of Scotland, 1266.
His son, Kenneth, became the first Baron of Kintail, and died
1304, leaving a son, John, who married Margaret, daughter of
David de Strathbogie, Earl of Athole. He fought under Bruce
at Inverury, 1308, and died 1328, being succeeded by Kenneth,
whose son, Murdoch, died 1375, was the father of Murdoch Mac-
kenzie, died 1416, who married Finguala, daughter of Malcolm
Macleod of Harris and his wife, Martha, daughter of Donald. Earl
of Mar, nephew of Robert the Bruce. Murdoch was succeeded
by his son, Alexander, who was much in favor at court, having
been educated by the King, whom he later accompanied on his
expedition to the North in 1426. He died 1488, having married
first Anne, daughter of John Macdougall of Dunolly, she being
the mother of Kenneth, VII. of Kintail; secondly, Margaret,
daughter of Macdonald of Morar, by whom he had a son. Hector
Roy Mackenzie, ancestor of the Mackenzies of Gairloch.
Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, VII. of Kintail, was served as heir on
2 September, 1488, and received the order of knighthood from
James IV. He married Agnes Eraser, daughter of Hugh, third
Lord Lovat. His son, John, IX. of Kintail, led the Clan at the
battle of Flodden Field, and died 1561, being buried at Beauly
Priory. By his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John
Grant, X. of Grant, he became the father of Sir Kenneth
Mackenzie, X. of Kintail, who was a firm friend and adherent
of Queen Mary, married Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of
John, Earl of Athol, and dying at Killin, 6 June, 1568, was
buried in Beauly Priory, leaving among other issue, a daughter,
Janet, who married Alexander Chisholm.
STEWART
Arms: Quarterly, one and four. Or. a Jess cheguy, az. and arg.
for Stewart; two and three. Paly of six, sa. and or. for Athol. Crest:
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A hand holding a key bendways. Supporters: Two savages in
fetters. Motto: " Furth fortune and fill the fetters. "
Lady Elizabeth Stewart, above, was the daughter of John
Stewart, second Earl of Athol, who was killed at Flodden, 15 13,
and his wife. Lady Mary Campbell, daughter of Archibald, second
Earl of Argyle, Master of Household, 1490, Chancellor, 1494,
Lord Chamberlain, 1495, commander of van of Royal army at
Flodden, 9 September, 15 13, when he was slain; married Lady
EHzabeth, daughter of John Stewart, Earl of Lennox. (Archibald
Campbell was the son of CoHn Campbell, created Earl of Argyle,
1457, Master of Household,^mbassador to Edward IV., 1465, Lord
Privy Seal, Lord High Chancellor, ambassador at Court of France,
1484, died 1493, and was descended from Sir Neill Campbell and
his wife. Lady Marjory Bruce, sister of King Robert the Bruce.)
Sir John Stewart, second Earl of Athol, was the son of Sir
John Stewart, (who was created Earl, 1457, ambassador to Eng-
land, 1463, one of the conservators of the peace with that nation,
1484, principal commander in army of King James HL, against
his son and the rebel lords, 1488, died 19 September, 1512, and
was buried in Dunkeld Cathedral) by his second wife. Lady
Eleanor Sinclair, daughter of William, Earl of Orkney. This John
was the son of Sir James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn, who
in 1439 married Lady Joan de Beaufort, widow of James L, of
Scotland, and daughter of Sir John de Beaufort, K.G., Duke of
Somerset and Marquis of Dorset, Constable of Dover Castle,
Warden of Cinque Ports, Lord Chamberlain of England and Lord
High Admiral, died 1409-10, by his wife, Lady Margaret Holland,
daughter of Thomas, Earl of Kent, Earl Marshall of England,
and his wife, Alice, daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arun-
del. Thomas Holland was the son of Thomas Holland, captain-
general of France and Normandy, who died 28 December, 1360,
having married that celebrated beauty, "The Fair Maid of
Kent," Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Edmund, Earl of Kent,
second son of Edward HL She afterwards became the wife of
Edward, the Black Prince.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 17
Sir James Stewart, the Black Knight, was the son of Sir John
Stewart, 1407, son of Sir Robert of Innermeath, 1386, third son
of Sir James Stewart, who fell at Halidonhill, 19 July, 1333,
seventh son of Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl, born 1246, had a
command in Scots army, and while giving orders to the archers
at battle of Falkirk, 22 July, 1298, was thrown from his horse and
slain, and his men rather than desert his body all fell around him.
He was the brother of James Stewart, first of the Royal line in
Scotland, and son of Alexander, fourth Lord High Steward, who
led the right wing of the army at the battle of Largs, 1263, where
the Danish power was finally shattered.
Alexander Chisholm died about 1590, and left issue:
1. Thomas, XV. chief of the clan, who married
12 April, 1578, Janet Fraser, daughter of James Fraser
of Phoineas, brother of Hugh, fifth Lord Lovat, and
died without male issue.
2. John.
3. Wiland "of Comar."
XIII. John Chisholm, who was served as heir to
his father on 19 December, 1590, married first Janet
Bayne, by whom he had no issue; secondly, the eldest
daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, progenitor of the
families of Coul and Applecross, by his second wife,
Christian, daughter of Hector Munro of Assynt. John
left issue by Miss Mackenzie:
1 . Alexander.
2. Thomas I. of Kinneries, who married, 1630, his
cousin, Catherine, fourth daughter of Roderick Mac-
kenzie, I. of Redcastle and his wife, Florence, daughter
of Robert Munro, 15th Baron of Fowlis.
3. Agnes, who married William Rose of Clava
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(who died 13 August, 1664), second son of William
Rose, XI. of Kilravock, with issue.
4. A daughter who married Alexander Rose of
Cantray, brother of William, who married her sister,
Agnes.
5. A daughter who married about 1625 Maclean of
Dochgarroch.
John was succeeded by his son and heir,
XIV. Alexander Chisholm, who married in 1639
his cousin, a daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, V. of
Gairloch, a descendant of Alexander Mackenzie, VI. of
Kintail, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of
Macdonald of Morar. Alexander left issue :
1. Angus, colonel of troops in sheriffdom of
Inverness, 1658, married Margaret, daughter of Mur-
doch Mackenzie, II. of Redcastle, without issue.
2. Alexander, who succeeded his brother as XIX.
chief, and marrying the eldest daughter of Roderick
Mackenzie, I. of Applecross, carried on the families of
Chisholm of Strathglass and Muckerach.
3. Colin, progenitor of the house of Knockfin.
4. A daughter who married Fraser of Belladrum.
XV. Colin Chisholm, I. of Knockfin, was the
leader of the Clan at the local battle of Aridhuiean, near
Fasnakyle House, between the Camerons and Mac-
millans on the one side and the Chisholms on the other,
which resulted in a complete victory of the men of
Strathglass and Knockfin over those of Lochaber. Colin
married 24 June, 1662, Mary, second daughter of
Patrick Grant, IV. of Glenmoriston.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 19
GRANT
Arms: Gu. three antique crowns, or. Crest: A mountain in
flames ppr. Supporters: Two naked savages, wreathed ppr. Motto:
^' Stand firm."
The surname of Grant, now represented by the Earl of Sea-
field, is of great antiquity in Scotland, and we have incontestable
proof that they were a powerful family and took an important
part in affairs as early as seven hundred years ago. The first on
record is Gregorius de Grant, Sheriff of Inverness in reign of
Alexander III., 12 15. He married Mary Bisset, daughter of Lord
Lovat (Bisset). His son, Sir Lawrence de Grant, 1258, was the
father of Sir John de Grant, a brave patriot, who joined Sir
William Wallace in defense of the liberties of Scotland. He was
apprehended by King Edward I., and carried a prisoner to London,
being liberated, 1297. His son, Sir John de Grant, was one of the
valiant knights in the army of relief at Berwick, when that town
was besieged by Edward III., 1333. He died, leaving issue. Sir
John de Grant, one of the ambassadors to Court of France to re-
new the ancient league, 1359, also sent to Court of England, 1366.
He was succeeded in turn by Sir Robert, 1385, Malcolm, and Sir
Duncan, who married Muriel, daughter of Malcolm, Lord of
Mackintosh. His son, John Grant, joined the Earls of Huntly,
Errol, and Marshall to assistance of James III., 1488, and died
1508, leaving issue among others, John Mor Grant, ancestor of
the Grants of Glenmoriston. His son, John, died 31 March, 1637,
and was father of Patrick Grant, died 1643, who married Mar-
garet, daughter of Eraser of Culbokie, leaving among other issue,
John Grant, who married Janet, daughter of Sir Ewen Cameron of
Lochiel, and Mary Grant, who married Colin Chisholm..
Colin had issue :
I. John, commander of the Clan at the battle of
Sheriffmuir, 17 15, owing to the youth of the chief,
Roderick.
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2. Archibald "of Fasnakyle."
3. Alexander "of Buntait."
XVI. Archibald Chisholm of Fasnakyle House
married first a daughter of Kenneth Macrae of Achter-
tyre, and secondly sl daughter of Fraser of Aigais. He
had issue by first marriage:
1. Kenneth who married Mary, daughter of
George Mackenzie of AUangrange.
2. Alexander.
3. A daughter who married Alexander Chisholm of
Muckerach.
Issue by second marriage:
4. Kenneth.
5. Alexander who married Miss Grant.
6. Daughter who married Colin Chisholm, IV. of
Knockfin.
XVII. Alexander Chisholm married Janet, the
daughter of Fraser of Ballindorn, brother of Captain
Hugh Fraser of Eskadale and son of Alexander Fraser
of Eskadale.
FRASER
Arms: Az. three fraser s, arg. Crest: A buck's head erased ppr.
Supporters: Two bucks ppr. Motto: above "/e suis prest.'
This illustrious Scottish family derives its descent from Gilbert
de Frisel or Fraser, a Norman, who held lands in East Lothian in
1080. His grandson, Bernard Fraser, son of Gilbert, was a
tenant-in-chief to King David I., and was appointed High Sheriff
of Stirling, 1234. His wife was Mary, daughter of Gilchrist,
Thane of Angus by Princess Marjorie, sister of Kings William
the Lion and Malcolm IV., and daughter of Prince Henry and
Adelina, daughter of William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, 11 14.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 21
Bernard's son, Sir Gilbert Fraser of Oliver Castle, was Sheriff,
and " Vice-comes " of Traquair, 1250, and had three sons: i. Sir
Simon, knighted by Alexander III., High Sheriff of Tweeddale
and Member of Parliament, died 1291. 2. Sir Andrew, of whom
hereafter. 3. William, Chancellor of Scotland, 1274-80, and
Bishop of St. Andrew's, 1279 until his death in 1297.
Sir Andrew Fraser, above, died 1308, was Sheriff of Stirling,
1291-3, married Beatrix of Caithness, an heiress, and was the
father of Simon Fraser, who fought with Robert the Bruce, and
was later killed at Halidon Hill, 19 July, 1333. He married
Margaret, daughter of John, Earl of Orkney. His son, Hugh
Fraser, married Isabel, daughter of Sir David Wemyss of that
Ilk, and was the father of Agnes, who married Lauchlan Mackin-
tosh, whose daughter, Margaret, married Thomas de Chisholme
VIII., and of Hugh, first Lord Lovat, born 1374, died 1440,
married 14 16, Janet Fenton, sister of William, Lord Fenton.
Hugh was one of the hostages for James I., 1424; Sheriff of In-
verness, 1431 ; and was created a Lord of Parliament by James I.
His son, Hugh, second Lord Lovat, married Lady Janet Dunbar,
daughter of Thomas, Earl of Moray, 1422, and his son, Hugh,
third Lord Lovat, married Lady Margaret Lyon, daughter of
Lord Glamys, with issue among others, Agnes, who married Sir
Kenneth Mackenzie, VII. of Kintail, and Thomas Fraser,
fourth Lord Lovat, who held the office of Justiciar of the North
in the reign of James IV. and marrying Lady Janet Gordon,
daughter of Sir Alexander Gordon, brother of the Earl of Huntly,
died 21 October, 1524, leaving issue, among others, Hugh, fifth
Lord Lovat, and James Fraser, whose daughter, Janet Agnes,
married Thomas Chisholm, XV. of Strathglass.
Hugh, fifth Lord Lovat, married Lady Janet Ross, and these
were the parents of William Fraser, first Lord Struy, whose son,
Thomas, married Margaret Fraser, daughter of William of Cul-
bokie, and his wife, Christina Chisholm, and was the father of
Hugh Fraser of Eskadale, who was in turn the father of Alexander
Fraser, supra, whose granddaughter married Alexander Chisholm,
XVII.
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Alexander Chisholm and his wife emigrated to Carolina
about 1 71 7, 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 Highlands.
Alexander died and left a son,
XVIII. Alexander Chisolme of Charles Town,
who married 26 February, 1742 {St. Philip's Parish
Register, p. 185), Judith Radcliffe, the beauty of Wando,
and died September, 1772 (records kept by Col.
Isaac Hayne in S. C. His. Soc. Mag., vol. x., p. 167),
leaving issue :
XIX. I. Ann Chisolm born 31 December, 1743,
died 2^ November, 1806, married 8 April, 1759, Dr.
Robert Wilson, born in Cupar, Fife, 2 April, 1732
or 1736, studied medicine in Edinburgh and later at
University of Moscow, 1754, but upon the outbreak
of the Seven Years' War in 1755 he emigrated to
Charles Town and died 26 August, 18 15, leaving
issue :
XX. I. Judith Isabel, born 8 January, 1760, died
II December, 1838, married 14 September, 1782, her
cousin. Lieutenant John Wilson, son of James Wilson,
architect of Stirling, Scotland.
2. Alexander, born 3 November, 1761, died
2 February, 1762.
3. Samuel, born 24 January, 1763, died 14
March, 1827, married five times.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 23
4. James, born i6 July, 1767, died 27 June,
1782.
5. Anne, born 31 January, 1767, died 26
February, 1805, and married 14 July,
1785, Stephen Mazyck.
6. Janet Christina, born 17 October, 1768,
died II July, 1770.
7. Robert, born 10 July, 1770, died 11
March, 1821, married 2 April, 1797,
Elizabeth Le Serurier Mazyck.
8. Mary Philip, born 4 June, 1772, died 21
April, 1844, married 21 January, 1808,
William Hasell Gibbes.
9. Alexander, born 14 November, I774>
died 14 June, 1775.
10. Hugh Rose, born 11 July, 1775, died
July, 1779.
11. Alexander Chisolm, bom 11 January,
1777, died 1778.
12. Janet, born 20 August, 1778, died De-
cember, 1778.
13. John, born 8 July, 1780, died November,
1780.
14. Christina, born 18 September, 1781, died
May, 1783.
15. Isabel Susannah, born 21 September,
1785, died 3 August, 18 16, married
28 November, 18 12, William Boyd, a
Scotchman.
16. James, born 31 August, 1788, married
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Mary Waring d. s. p. 13 November,
1813.
XIX. 2. Christina Chisolm, born 21 November,
1745, of whom hereafter.
3. Alexander Chisolm, born 30 May, 1747.
4. Judith Chisolm, born 14 June, 1748.
(These births were entered in Parish Register, 24
October, 1748, at the request of their parents by John
Remington, Registrar of St. Philip's.)
XIX. 2. Christina Chisolm, born 21 November,
1745, died between 1778 and 1786, married 5 October,
1766 as his first wife, Alexander Chisolm, Jr., of
Charles Town.
Alexander Chisolm, Jr., was born in Inverness-shire,
Scotland, in 1 738-9. He is said to have been a member
of the Knockfin branch of the Clan, and although I have
no proof to offer, I am inclined to believe that he is the
"(7) Alexander, Junior,'' mentioned on page 155 of
Mackenzie's History of the Chisholms, as the son of
John Ban and Catherine (Macrae) Chisholm, who was
the second son of Alexander of Bunt ait, heretofore
mentioned. Alexander emigrated to Carolina at an
early age, about 1746, accompanied by his mother, and
his youthful departure from Scotland may account for
the fact that nothing is known of him by the Scotch
genealogists. Through his marriage to Christina
Chisolm he acquired much property, a part of which
was known as Chisolm's Island, over seven miles long
and containing some 4000 acres.
He married secondly 11 June, 1786 {Charleston
Gazette, Thursday, 15 June, 1786), Mrs. Sarah Maxwell,
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 25
widow of the deceased William Maxwell, Esq., of Edisto
Island, but by this marriage he had no issue. By her
former husband, however, Mrs. Maxwell had had three
children, Sarah Glaze Maxwell, who became the wife
of Alexander Robert Chisolm, Mrs. Peter Maxwell, and
Mrs. Jane Inglis.
Alexander Chisolm, Jr., died lo December, 1810, and
was buried in the Scotch Presbyterian Church at the
corner of Meeting and Tradd Sts., Charleston, the
following inscription being found upon his tomb :
" Here are deposited the remains of Alexander Chisolm, Esq.,
a native of Inverness in Scotland, gifted with a vigorous mind and
a lively fancy. He was in temper, cheerful; in conversation
engaging; and in manner, social, liberal, benevolent, active. He
discharged the duties of his station with diligence and integrity,
and uniformly maintained a respectable standing in society. As a
member of the Presbyterian Church, his piety was rational and his
morals without reproach. Attached to its tenets and observant
of its rights, he was tolerant of those who embraced a differ-
ent system of faith and discipline. After a long, useful, and
exemplary life, he departed this transitory state on loth Decem-
ber, 1 8 10, in the 72d year of his age, endeared to his acquaintances
and lamented by his family.
His surviving sons have erected this monument to his
memory as a frail memorial of their filial piety."
His will is recorded in Will Book E, 1807-18 18, page
172, in the office of Judge of Probate, Charleston County,
South Carolina. It gives his wife, Mrs. Sarah Chisolm,
his house and lot in Charleston, where he lived, also
plantation at Combahee, farm on James Island, etc.,
for her life. After her death, property is to be sold
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and divided as follows: One-fifth each to his sons,
Alexander Robert Chisolm, Dr. William Chisolm, George
Chisolm, Dr. Robert Trail Chisolm, and Captain Thomas
Chisolm. He gives his slaves to his wife for life, after
her death to be sold and the proceeds divided between
her two surviving children by her former marriage, as
follows: "To Mrs. Sarah Maxwell Chisolm, wife of
Alexander Robert, one half, and the remaining one
half to Mrs. Peter Maxwell, at present residing in State
of Rhode Island. As the two children of Mrs. Jane
Inglis, deceased, who was another of my wife's children
by a former marriage, will be entitled to the fortune of
their mother by virtue of her marriage settlement, and
as they have both been adopted by their Uncle Alexan-
der Inglis, Esq., I leave them nothing." He appointed
his sons, Alexander Robert, Dr. William, and George,
his executors. His will is dated, September ii, 1810,
and proved 4 January, 181 1, and at the same time
qualified Alexander Robert Chisolm, Executor; on 25
January, 181 1, George qualified; and on 25 February,
181 1, Dr. William.
He left issue by first marriage :
XX. I. Alexander Robert Chisolm, born 1767.
2. William Chisolm, born 8 December, 1770.
3. George Chisolm, born 19 February, 1772.
4. Robert Trail Chisolm.
5. Captain Thomas Chisolm, born ,
died, 1 8 16, unmarried.
6. Ann Chisolm.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 27
Line of Alexander Robert Chisolm
XX. I. Alexander Robert Chisolm, born 1767,
married 6 July, 1789, Sarah Glaze Maxwell, died 18 14,
daughter of William Maxwell, of Edisto Island. He
inherited the extensive plantations of the family in
Carolina and Georgia, and died, 10 February, 1815, and
is buried at Sheldon Church, near Beaufort, S. C,
leaving issue :
XXI. I. Christina Chisolm, born 5 April, 1790,
died I July, 18 14, unmarried.
2. Sarah Maxwell Chisolm, born 22 July,
1792, died 1820, married 31 Decem-
ber, 1 819, Allston Gibbes, born 14
February, 1793, died 21 July, 1822,
son of William Hasell and Elizabeth
(Allston) Gibbes, no issue.
3. Alexander Robert Chisolm, born 24
December, 1794, died 27 October,
1827, married Ellen Gaillard, no issue.
4. William Maxwell Chisolm, born 17
December, 1796, died 3 October,
1804.
5. John Maxwell Chisolm, born 9 May,
1799, of whom hereafter.
6. Thomas Chisolm, born 3 May, 1800,
died 5 July, 1801.
7. James Chisolm, born 6 February, 1803,
died 16 July, 1804.
8. Edward Neufville Chisolm, born 14 Feb-
ruary, 1805, of whom hereafter.
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9. Robert Chisolm, born 25 March, 1807,
of whom hereafter.
10. Jane Chisolm, born 2 September, 1808,
died October, 18 14 (twin).
11. Jane Ann Chisolm, born 2 Septem-
ber, 1808, died 2 October, 1815
(twin) .
12. George Chisolm, born March, 18 10,
died October, 1811.
13. Alfred Maxwell Chisolm, born 24 Nov-
ember, 1812, died October, 18 17.
XXI. 5. John Maxwell Chisolm, bom 9 May,
1799, died 5 July, 1848, married Ann Jane North (who
married secondly as his second wife, 27 July, 1858,
William Cattell Bee, no issue), with issue:
XXII. I. Edward North Chisolm, died in infancy.
2. John Maxwell Chisolm, married Mrs.
Marie (Whaley) Walker, no living
issue.
3. Robert Thurston Chisolm, died in
infancy.
4. Alfred Chisolm, married Eliza Drayton
North, with issue:
XXIII. I. Valeria North Chisolm.
2. Lucy Virginia Chisolm.
3. James North Chisolm.
4. Eliza Drayton Chisolm, married John
T. Mclver.
XXII. 5. Jane Caroline Chisolm, married John A.
Crawford, issue:
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 29
XXIII. Daniel Crawford.
XXII. 6. Susan Emma Chisolm, married Peter
C. Porcher, no issue.
7. Laurens North Chisolm, married Valeria
North Bee, daughter of William Cat-
tell Bee, and his first wife, Rebecca
Hutchinson Stock, issue:
XXIII. I. Ann Jane Chisolm, married Charles
Heyward Jervey , issue :
XXIV. Charles Heyward Jervey.
XXIII. 2. Alice Rebecca Chisolm, married John
G. Prioleau, issue:
XXIV. I . Valeria Chisolm Prioleau.
2. Alice Chisolm Prioleau.
XXIII. 3. Susan Emma Chisolm.
4. Valeria Laurens Chisolm.
5. Edward Chisolm.
XXI. 8. Edward Neufville Chisolm, son of Alex-
ander Robert and Sarah (Maxwell) Chisolm, was born
in Charleston, 14 February, 1805, died at Grahamville,
S. C, I September, 1836, married, 17 May, 1835, Mary
Elizabeth Hazzard, born 181 1, died 3 November, 1838,
second daughter of Major William Wigg Hazzard of
Hazzard's Neck, Port Royal, S. C, aide-de-camp to
General Anthony Wayne. Edward Chisolm and his
wife are both buried at Sheldon Church, near Beau-
fort, S. C. He left issue:
XXII. I. Colonel Alexander Robert Chisolm,
born at Beaufort, 19 November, 1834, died in New York
City, 10 March, 1910, married 7 April, 1875, Helen
Margaret Schieffelin, widow of William Irving Graham
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(by whom she had two daughters), and daughter of
General Richard Lawrence SchieffeHn.
SCHIEFFELIN
Arms: Tierce per f esse sable and or, on three piles, tivo conjoined
with one between, transposed invected counter changed, as many
cross-crosslets of first. Crest: A pascal lamb passant, croivned with
glory, cross, staff, and pennion ppr. Motto: ^' Per fidem et
constantiam.'^
The family of Schieffelin are of German origin and were
prominent in the affairs of Nordlingen as early as 1269. The
first to visit America was Jacob, of Weilheim an der Deck, who
died 1746, the year in which his son, Jacob (i 732-1 769) came to
Philadelphia. He had a son, Jacob Schieffelin III., born 24 August
1757, married 1780, Hannah, daughter of John and Ann (Burling)
Lawrence ; held a commission in British army ; founded the present
drug and chemical business, and dying 15 April, 1835, left issue
among others:
1. Henry Hamilton Schieffelin born 1783, whose grandson,
William Henry Schieffelin, Major First New York Mounted
Rifles, 1863, married Mary, daughter of Hon. John Jay, Minister
to Austria, and granddaughter of Hon. John Jay, Chief Justice of
United States.
2. Effingham Schieffelin, born 17 February, 1791, lawyer,
member of Common Council, married 1813, Mary, daughter of
Caspar Lander, and his grandson, Charles (Miller) Schieffelin,
married 27 April, 1871, Mary Fredericka Chisolm, eldest daugh-
ter of William Edings and Mary Ann (Rogers) Chisolm.
3. Richard Lawrence Schieffelin, born 9 November, 1801,
graduated Columbia College, 18 19, lawyer, member of Common
Council, President of the Board, 1843-44; Brigadier-General,
State Militia, prominent member of Protestant Episcopal Church,
being a delegate to Diocesan Convention for over sixty years,
married 3 August, 1833, Margaret Helen, daughter of Captain
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 31
George Knox McKay, U. S. Artillery, and his wife, Sarah
Cunningham, and died 21 November, 1889, leaving issue among
others :
1. George Richard Schieffelin, who married Julia Matilda,
daughter of Hon. Isaac C. Delaplaine.
2. Helen Margaret Schieffelin, born 7 May, 1841, married
first, 21 June, 1866, William Irving Graham, who died 21
August, 1873; secondly, 7 April, 1875, Col. Alexander Robert
Chisolm.
Alexander Robert Chisolm was educated at Colum-
bia College, New York, and in 1852, returned South to
take charge of the plantations and 250 slaves which he
had inherited from his father. At the outbreak of the
Civil War, Governor Pickens offered him a lieutenant-
colonelcy in the South Carolina troops, which he ac-
cepted, being assigned to duty on the staff of General
G. T. Beauregard. He was one of the officers who
demanded the surrender of Fort Sumter and ordered
the firing of the first gun. Colonel Chisolm served with
distinction throughout the war, and at its close, signed
at Greensboro, N. C, in the name of General Joseph E.
Johnston, the parole of the Confederate troops in his
command east of the Mississippi River. In 1869, he
removed to New York and established the Financial
and Mining Record in connection with a bond and stock
brokerage business, General Thomas Jordan (who had
been Beauregard's adjutant-general) becoming the edi-
tor. He was a prominent clubman and had beautiful
estates at Morristown, N. J., and Southampton, Long
Island. By his wife, he left issue:
XXIII. Richard Schieffelin Chisolm, born 4 Sep-
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tember, 1876, married 1901, Mary Lockwood, daughter
of William H. Boardman of New York, with issue:
XXIV. I. Helen Schieffelin Chisolm, born 21
February, 1903.
2. Frances Boardman Chisolm, bom 26
May, 1906.
XXII. 2. Sarah Constance Chisolm, who married
Edward North Thurston, and died of yellow fever in
1858, without issue.
XXI. 9. Robert Chisolm, son of Alexander
Robert and Sarah (Maxwell) Chisolm, born 25 March,
1807, died 7 November, 1880, married Louisa Screven
Guerard, eldest daughter of Jacob and Alice (Screven)
Guerard, died 7 November, 1881, issue:
XXII. I. Alice Chisolm, died in infancy.
2. Robert Chisolm, born 4 October, 1843,
of whom hereafter.
3. Alexander Robert Chisolm, born 7 Jan-
uary, 1845, died 14 November, 1868,
unmarried.
4. George Heyward Chisolm, born 2"]
June, 1846, died 7 March, 1863,
unmarried.
5. Alice Cuthbert Chisolm, born 11 Feb-
ruary, 1848, died 31 May, 19 10, mar-
ried November, 1876, Arthur Per-
roneau Prioleau, M.D., issue:
XXIII. I. Elizabeth Harleston Prioleau, born 25
December, 1877, died 1908, married Wade Hampton
Logan of Charleston, no issue.
2. Alice Chisolm Prioleau, born 1879,
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 33
married Charles P. Paul of Beaufort,
issue :
XXIV. I. Charles Paul.
2. Arthur Paul.
XXIII. 3. Jacob Ford Prioleau, born 1881.
4. Louisa Guerard Prioleau, born 1882,
married Christopher P. Gadsden of
Charleston, issue:
XXIV. Elizabeth Prioleau Gadsden.
XXII. 6. Edward North Chisolm, born 25 April,
1850, married 3 December, 1874, Felicia Hurtel Robin-
son, born 2 June, 1847, eldest daughter of Murray and
Felicia Jeanne (Hurtel) Robinson, issue:
XXIII. I. Felicia Robinson Chisolm, born 30
August, 1875.
2. Louisa Guerard Chisolm, bom 10 Oct-
ober, 1876, married Patillo Farrow
of Charleston, 5 November, 1902,
issue :
XXIV. Louisa Chisolm Farrow, bom 5 March,
1908.
XXIII. 3. Edward North Chisolm, bom 2 April,
1878, married Annie Duncan Weston of Columbia,
S. C, issue:
XXIV. Fehcia North Chisolm, born 8 October,
1904.
XXIII. 4. Charlotte Hayden Chisolm, bom i
November, 1879, married W. A. McCrea of New
Rochelle, N. Y., issue:
XXIV. Alfred Chisolm McCrea, bom 10 Decem-
ber, 1903.
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XXIII. 5. Alice Maxwell Chisolm, born 6 Decem-
ber, 1 88 1, unmarried.
XXII. 7. William Maxwell Chisolm of Brenham,
Texas, born 29 April, 1852, married Annabel Allen,
issue :
XXIII. I. Robert Chisolm married Jennie May
Gamble.
2. Guy Maxwell Chisolm.
3. Dorothy Chisolm.
4. Maxwell Chisolm.
5. Annabel Chisolm.
6. Sarah Hunter Chisolm.
XXII. 8. Frederick Fraser Chisolm, born 19 Feb-
ruary, 1854, died April, 1910.
9. Louisa Isabel Chisolm, born 19 March,
1858, died 26 July, 1913, married
William Marion Heyward of Savan-
nah, Ga., no issue.
10. Christopher Gadsden Chisolm, born
29 August, i860, died 18 September,
1862.
11. Benjamin Guerard Chisolm, born 3
November, 1862, died 22 September,
1891.
XXII. 2. Robert Chisolm, son of Robert and
Louisa (Guerard) Chisolm, born 4 October, 1843, died
25 March, 1910, married 28 June, 1865, Margaret Horry
Laurens, born 19 December, 1846, died 14 December,
1906, daughter of John and Eliza (Rutledge) Laurens.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 35
LAURENS
119249?
The Laurens family of South Carolina, so prominent in Revo-
lutionary times, are of French extraction, the immediate ancestor
being Dr. Andrew du Laurens, physician to Henry IV., of Navarre,
King of France. He died in 1609, leaving a son, Andrew, who,
accompanied by his wife, Mary, fled from Rochelle, France, and
settled in New York. Their oldest son, John Laurens, was born
30 March, 1696, and marrying Esther Grossett, born in New York,
2 April, 1700, moved to Charles Town, arriving 20 May, 17 16.
He was the father of Col. Henry Laurens, born 24 February, 1724,
married Eleanor Ball, born 10 April, 1731, daughter of Elias Ball
(1709-1786). He was President of Council of Safety, 1774,
member of First Provincial Congress, 1775; drafted form of
association to be signed by all those who favored independence ;
Vice-President of South Carolina under new Constitution, 1776;
delegate to Continental Congress, of which he was elected Presi-
dent, I November, 1777. In 1779 he was appointed Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, captured on voyage by Eng-
lish and imprisoned in Tower of London, later being exchanged
for Lord Cornwallis. In 178 1 appointed one of the commissioners
to negotiate peace with England, the others being Benjamin
Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams. He died 8 December, 1792,
his body being the first to be cremated in America. He left issue
among others :
1 . Lieut. -Col. John Laurens, born 28 October, 1 754, a gallant
and brave officer, aide-de-camp to General George Washington;
fought duel with General Charles Lee; in 1781 sent by Washing-
ton to France to obtain aid for Colonies, which he effected in a
signal manner. He received sword from Lord Cornwallis at
surrender of Yorktown, 17 October, 1781, and met his death
during skirmish on Combahee River, 27 August, 1782.
2. Henry Laurens, born 25 August, 1763, married 26 May,
1792, EHza Rutledge, daughter of Hon. John Rutledge, President
of South CaroHna,' Chief Justice of United States, with issue:
John Ball Laurens, bom 22 April, 1799, married 30 October, 1823,
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Caroline Olivia Ball. These were the parents of John Laurens
born i6 September, 1824, married 5 February, 1846, Eliza
Rutledge Laurens, granddaughter of Henry and Eliza (Rutledge)
Laurens, and their daughter, Margaret Horry Laurens, born 19
December, 1846, married 28 June, 1865, Robert Chisolm, Jr.
Robert Chisolm had issue :
XXIII. I. John Laurens Chisolm, bom 21 Janu-
ary, 1867, died 20 September, 1876.
2. Eliza Laurens Chisolm, bom 16 Sep-
tember, 1870, married 29 April, 1896,
Bernard Robertson Guest, of Rich-
mond, Va.
3. Robert Chisolm, born 11 December,
1873, died II December, 1873.
4. Margaret Horry Laurens Chisolm, born
6 June, 1876, died 17 October, 1876.
5. John Laurens Chisolm, born 17 Feb-
ruary, 1878, married 17 June, 1908,
Frances Moore Burwell.
6. Margaret Laurens Chisolm, born 5
December, 1878, died 30 May, 1879.
7. Louisa Screven Chisolm, bom 8 Nov-
ember, 1879, married 7 June, 1900,
Daniel Elliott Huger, of Charleston,
son of William E. Huger, issue:
XXIV. Daniel E. Huger, Jr.
XXIII. 8. Alexander Robert Chisolm, born 18
July, 1 88 1.
9. Henry Laurens Chisolm, born 26 May,
1883, married 19 August, 1908, Mary
Agnes Jackson.
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10. Caroline Ball Chisolm, bom 20 Feb-
ruary, 1885, married 7 March, 1906,
Robert E. Cotton.
11. Heyward Chisolm, born 12 April, 1886.
12. Margaret Horry Chisolm, bom 27 July,
1891.
Line of William Chisolm, M.D.
XX. 2. William Chisolm, M.D., born in Char-
leston, 8 December, 1770, died in New York, 3 Sep-
tember, 1 82 1, second son of Alexander and Christina
Chisolm, married Marianne Porcher. He is buried in
Scotch Presbyterian Churchyard in Charleston. Issue :
XXI. I. Charlotte Porcher Chisolm, born 25
October, 1809, married Joseph Edings and died 3
December, 1834, without issue.
2. Harriet Chisolm, married Elias Horl-
beck, with issue:
XXII. I. William Chisolm Horlbeck, married
Elizabeth Lucas, issue:
XXIII. I. Henrietta Horlbeck, married Thomas
Lucas.
2. Katherine Horlbeck, unmarried.
3. Marian Horlbeck, died unmarried.
4. Maria Louise Horlbeck.
5. William Chisolm Horlbeck.
XXII. 2. Maria Louise Horlbeck, married as
second wife Robert George Chisolm, son of Robert
Trail and Harriet Emily (Schutt) Chisolm, no issue.
XXII. 3. Charlotte Porcher Horlbeck, married
John Calhoun Cain, issue:
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XXIIL I. Elias Horlbeck Cain.
2. Harriet Cain.
XXII. 4. Henry Horlbeck, M.D., unmarried.
5. James Moultrie Horlbeck, died un-
married.
XXI. 3. Ann Mazyck Chisolm, born 20 Septem-
ber, 1815, died 8 April, 1827.
4. William Alexander Chisolm, born 6
February, 181 7, died 6 September,
1818.
5. Georgianna Chisolm, married Henry
Herriot, issue:
XXII. I. Eliza Herriot married Dr. Walker.
2. Minna Herriot, married Mr. Anderson.
Line of George Chisolm
XX. 3. George Chisolm, third son of Alexander
and Christina Chisolm, was bom in Charleston, 19
February, 1772, married 21 January, 1796, Providence
Hext Prioleau, born 28 July, 1776, died 6 December,
i860, daughter of Lieutenant Hext Prioleau of the
Charleston Light Infantry, 1776.
PRIOLEAU
Arms: Barry of six, or and argent, a chief gu. Crest: An oak
tree, ppr. Motto: "Pax in hello.''
This distinguished Huguenot family has an unusually in-
teresting history, which carries us not only into France, but to the
noble Venetian family of Priuli and finally into Hungary, where
the name first appears prior to a.d. iooo. Coming to Venice they
were admitted to the Grand Council in the twelfth century and in
1319 had conferred upon them the perpetual and hereditary right
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 39
to sit in this august body. Members of the family have filled
every position of consequence which the Republic had to offer.
The first to become Doge was Lorenzo Priuli, 1556, who married
Zilia Dandoli, the most distinguished noblewoman in Venice.
His brother, Girolamo, succeeded him as Doge in 1559, and their
nephew, Nicolo Antonio PriuH, filled that office in 161 8. Other
members were cardinals, procurators of St. Mark's, ambassadors,
senators and generals. The hand of the daughter of Maria
Priuli, whose husband, Francesco Foscari, was Doge for 34 years,
was unsuccessfully sought in marriage by Constantine, Emperor
of the East. The Priuli have intermarried with the leading Vene-
tian nobility, and in 1829 were raised to the rank of counts of the
Austrian Empire by imperial decree. Numerous magnificent
palazzi were erected by them in Venice, several of which are
mentioned and admired by John Ruskin.
The French branch derives its descent from Antonio Priuli,
said to have been a nephew of the Doges Lorenzo and Girolamo,
who when twenty years of age accompanied his maternal uncle,
Pietro Loredano, later Doge, 1 567-1 570, then Ambassador, to the
Court of Henry IL of France, and while in Paris married a
Huguenot maiden of a noble family of Saintonge, which act
necessitated his expatriation. He settled at St. Jean d'Angely
and changed the spelling of his name to Prioleau. In 1660,
however, his descendants received full recognition from the
Venetian Republic.
Antonio Prioleau, grandson of Antonio above, studied
theology at Geneva and later, 1603, became pastor of Tounay-
Boutonne. He left one son, Elisha Prioleau, Seigneur de la
Viennerie, pastor of Jonzac, 1637, and Niort, 1650, who gave two
sons to the ministry — Elisha, of Exoudon, 1649, whose daughter,
Margaret, married Joshua Gallaudet, and their son. Dr. Peter
Gallaudet, was one of the founders of New Rochelle, N. Y. ; the
second son, Samuel Prioleau, was pastor at Pons, 1650-1683, and
married Jeanne, daughter of Rev. EHas Merlat. He died in
February, 1683, leaving a son, Elias, born 1659, who succeeded his
father at Pons. The religious wars in France were now at their
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height and October 22, 1685, witnessed the Revocation of the
Edict of Nantes, and on 15 April, 1686, the church at Pons was
battered down, and EHas Prioleau, his family and many of his
congregation made their way to England, after severe hardships.
In 1687 he and a number of his followers emigrated to Carolina,
and acquiring land on the Back River, became pastor of the first
Huguenot Church in Charles Town. He died in 1699, leaving
among other issue, a son, Col. Samuel Prioleau, born in Carolina
about 1690, member of first vestry of St. Philip's Church, 1732,
Commissioner of the Peace, Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards,
and Member of His Majesty's Council. He died in April, 1752,
having married Mary Magdalen, daughter of Philippe and Mag-
deleine (Chardon) Gendron, with issue, Philip, Samuel, Jr., Elijah,
Mary, who married Hugh Bryan, and Elizabeth.
Col. Samuel Prioleau, Jr., born 25 December, 171 7, was for
35 years Clerk of the South Carolina Society; Clerk of Commis-
sioners of Fortifications, 1744-55. In 1780 on capture of Charles-
ton by the British he was consigned to the prison-ship Torhay,
but was released upon his son being taken in his place. He
married 14 October, 1739, Providence Hext, who died 18 Febru-
ary, 1775, daughter of David Hext, Esq., with issue: Samuel,
Philip, Hext, Mary Magdalen who married Thomas Grimball,
Jr., Martha and Elizabeth.
Hext Prioleau, born 31 October, 1753, died 23 August, 1779,
third son of Colonel Samuel Prioleau, was Lieutenant in Light
Infantry, 1776. He married 9 April, 1775, Margaret, daughter of
Robert Williams, Jr. (who was commissioned to practice law
in Charles Town, 26 March, 1753; member from St. Paul's of
Provincial Congress held 11 January, 1775) by his first wife,
Elizabeth, died November, 1769, youngest daughter of David
Hext, Esq., to whom he was married, i January, 1755. Their
daughter. Providence Hext Prioleau, married 21 January, 1796,
George Chisolm, Esq.
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HEXT
Arms: Or, a tower embattled between three battle-axes erect sa., a
crescent for difference. Crest: Out of a tower embattled, a demi-lion
holding in dexter paw a battle-ax, sa.
Hugh Hext, the progenitor of the South CaroHna family,
came with his family from Dorsetshire, England, about 1636, and
was related to the Hexts of Somersetshire. He was elected a
member of the Commons House of Assembly, 1706-7, and was
also appointed one of the Commissioners under the Church Acts
of November 4, 1704, and November 30, 1706, who conducted the
temporal affairs of all the parishes and exercised ecclesiastical
jurisdiction, with full power to deprive ministers of their livings at
pleasure. He died leaving eight children, two of whom were
David and Hugh.
David Hext was elected to the Commons House of Assembly
from St. Johns, Colleton, 1736, and re-elected in 1739; member of
committee appointed in 1741 to distribute the fund raised for the
sufferers from the great fire which occurred in Charles Town,
November 18, 1740. Elected member of Commons House of
Assembly from St. Phihp's, Charles Town, 1746, and re-elected in
1749; Commissioner for Market and Workhouse in Charles Town,
1 75 1. Died December i, 1754; will dated May 11, 1751, proved
December 6, 1754. He left issue among others, Providence, who
married 14 October, 1739, Col. Samuel Prioleau, Jr., and Eliza-
beth, who married i January, 1755, Robert WilHams, Jr., whose
daughter, Margaret, married Lieut. Hext Prioleau.
Captain Hugh Hext, brother of David, above, was member of
Assembly, 171 7-1720. He married in November, 1723, Sarah
Boone, and died in November, 1732, with issue, Sarah Hext, bom
18 September, 1724, died 22 April, 1792, married 25 December,
1738, Dr. John Rutledge, who came to Charleston from England
in 1735, and became the mother of the famous Rutledge brothers
— I. John Rutledge, Member of Continental Congress, 1775-6,
President of South CaroHna, first Governor of State, Chancellor,
and Chief Justice of United States, 1795. 2. Edward Rutledge,
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Member of Continental Congress, Signer of Declaration of In-
dependence and Governor of South Carolina. 3. Hugh Rutledge,
Speaker of Legislative Assembly, Chancellor of South Carolina,
and father of Right Reverend Francis Huger Rutledge, first
Episcopal Bishop of Florida.
George Chisolm died in the old Chisolm mansion on
East Bay, now the Battery, 31 October, 1835, ^^^ was
buried at the "Retreat," the family burying-ground,
but his remains were afterwards removed to Magnolia
Cemetery, and his wife is buried beside him. He left
no will, but Letters of Administration were taken out
on his estate {Probate Office, Administration Book,
1833-1838, p. 207, "George Chisolm, the elder factor,
died intestate. Administration granted to George
Chisolm, the younger, 23 November, 1835; Letters of
Administration d.b.n. granted to Robert Trail Chisolm,
Gent., on 27 September, 1837.") He left issue:
XXL I . George Chisolm, born 22 October, 1796,
of whom hereafter.
2. Robert Trail Chisolm, born 16 July,
1798, of whom hereafter.
3. Samuel Prioleau Chisolm, married first
Martha Chaplin, issue:
XXn. I. George Augustus Chisolm, married
Mary Jenkins, no issue.
2. William Adolphus Chisolm, married
Caroline Fripp.
3. Ella Louise Chisolm, married Thomas
Fripp.
4.. Samuel Prioleau Chisolm.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 43
5. Sarah Caroline Chisolm, married An-
drew Moreland, no issue.
He married secondly Mrs. Sarah Por-
teous (Cuthbert) Dana, no issue.
XXI. 4. Alexander Chisolm, died young.
5. Elizabeth Prioleau Chisolm, married
as his second wife, Samuel E. Crocker,
d.s.p. (His first wife was Catherine
Marianne Wilson, daughter of Dr.
Robert and Elizabeth Le Serurier
(Mazyck) Wilson, supra.)
6. Christina Chisolm, died unmarried.
7 . Alexander Hext Chisolm, died 1 2 March,
1885, unmarried . He had an adopted
daughter, Alexina Pauline Chisolm,
who married Count John B. Leonetti,
of Florence, Italy, without issue.
8. William Sextus Chisolm, bom 1821,
died 8 April, 1901, married Mary
Missroon, with issue:
XXII. I. Mary McBride Chisolm, married Mr.
Kennedy, no issue.
2. Martha Laroche Chisolm, unmarried.
3. Ann Margaret Chisolm, unmarried.
4. Caroline Chisolm, unmarried.
5. James Chisolm, died unmarried.
XXL 9. Thomas Hanscome Chisolm, died
young.
10. Providence Hext Chisolm, died young.
11. Octavius Chisolm, married in Ireland,
Malvina Lodge, with issue:
44 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
XXII. I. Providence Hext Chisolm, born 28
October, 1838.
2. Octavius Chisolm.
3. John Bounell Chisolm.
4. Alexander Hext Chisolm.
5. Christina Chisolm, married Henry
Weaver, no issue.
6. Malvina Chisolm.
7. Elias Horlbeck Chisolm.
8. Ruth Chisolm, married Mr. McClellan.
9. Harriet Chisolm.
XXI. 12. Mary Maria Chisolm, married Charles
Edmondston, with issue :
XXII. I. Elizabeth Chisolm Edmondston, mar-
ried George Gaillard Ford, issue:
XXIII. I. Mary Providence Ford, married John
Bauman.
2. Christina Chisolm Ford.
3. George Gaillard Ford, Jr.
XXII. 2. George Chisolm Edmondston, married
Rachel Anderson, issue:
XXIII. I. Gertrude Edmondston.
2. Benjamin Wyman Ford Edmondston.
XXII. 3. Charles Edmondston, of Savannah, Ga.,
raarried Allie Law, whose sister married Randolph
Axson, uncle of the late Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, issue:
XXIII. I. Georgianna Edmondston.
2. Charles Edmondston.
3. Nora Lawton Edmondston.
XXII. 4. Jessie Coffin Edmondston, died un-
married.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 45
5. Nina Edmondston, died unmarried.
6. Mary Gertrude Edmondston, died un-
married.
7. Henry Louise Edmondston, unmarried.
8 . Catherine Devereaux Edmondston, died
unmarried.
XXI. I. George Chisolm, eldest son of George
and Providence Hext (Prioleau) Chisolm, was born in
Charleston, 22 October, 1796, married by Rev. Arthur
Buist, 14 January, 1823, Sarah M. Edings, bom 8 May,
1802, died 19 January, 1835.
EDINGS
The Edings of Edisto Island, South Carolina, are of Scotch
extraction. In the latter part of the seventeenth century William
Edings received a large grant of land in the vicinity of Beaufort,
S. C, and dying, 1712, left two sons, William and Joseph, who
married Miss Elliott. This second William Edings was a captain
in the English army, and one of the founders of the Presbyterian
Church of Edisto Island, as is shown by tablet erected in said
church in 1732. He married Elizabeth de La Gall, and dying
1756, left a son, Benjamin Edings, born i October, 1742, died
1784, married 1765, Mary Maynard, died 1792. They had issue:
I. William, 2. Benjamin, 3. Mary EHza, born 1778, died 1848,
married first William Evans, second Robert Trail Chisolm, 4.
Joseph, ancestor of present branch of family.
WilHam Edings above was born, i October, 1766, died 5 April,
1836, married 16 June, 1785, Sarah Evans, sister of William
Evans, who married Mary Eliza Edings, and daughter of WilHam
Evans, with issue among others, Sarah Edings, born 8 May, 1802,
died 19 January, 1835, who married 14 January, 1823, George
Chisolm.
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CHISOLM GENEALOGY
George Chisolm, died 31 August, 1837, as the result
of a stage coach accident near Staunton, Va., while on
his way to the Springs. Both he and his wife now rest
in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, having been re-
moved from the "Retreat," where their coffins, as well
as others in the vault, were broken into by the Union
soldiers during the Civil War. George left issue :
XXII. I. William Edings Chisolm, born 30
December, 1823.
2. James Julius Chisolm, born 7 June,
1827.
3. George Edings Chisolm, born 4 June,
1 83 1, married Catherine, daughter
of Col. John and Eliza C. (Legare)
Bryan, with issue :
XXIII. I. John Bryan Chisolm, married Esther
Vincent, issue:
XXIV. I. James Julius Chisolm.
2. Eugene Chisolm.
3. Lily Chisolm.
XXIII. 2. Hugh Legare Chisolm.
3. Julian J. Chisolm, unmarried.
4. Margaret Bryan Chisolm.
5. George Chisolm.
XXII. 4. Mary Edings Chisolm, born 21 Febru-
ary, 1833, died 29 March, 1888, married 3 February,
1852, her cousin, John Julian Chisolm, M.D., son of
Robert and Harriet Emily (Schutt) Chisolm (for whom
see).
XXII. I. William Edings Chisolm, born in
Charleston, S. C, 30 December, 1823, married 23 Feb-
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 47
ruary, 1848, by Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg,
Mary Ann Rogers, born 14 September, 1827, died 21
May, 1913.
ROGERS
Arms: Arg., a chevron between three bucks trippant sa. Crest:
— A buck as in arms. Motto: — " Nos nostraque Deo."
This branch of the Rogers family claims descent from John
Rogers, the Christian martyr. The immediate ancestor was Jere-
miah Rogers (i 633-1 676) who settled first in Dorchester and then
Lancaster, Mass. His grandson, Ichabod (1684-1746), son of
Ichabod Rogers, married Anna Nourse, and died leaving a son,
John Rogers, born 17 September, 1717, died 1758, married 1745,
Mary Davenport (i 725-1 792), daughter of James Davenport
and his wife, Sarah Franklin, sister of Hon. Benjamin Franklin.
These were the parents of John Rogers, born 8 January, 1749,
died 31 June, 1799, who married, 1785, Mary, daughter of George
Pixton, with issue, among others:
1. John Rogers, of whom hereafter.
2. Mary Rogers, born 16 September, 1795, died 13 Novem-
ber, 1859, married William Christopher Rhinelander, son of Wil-
liam and Mary (Robert) Rhinelander, the latter an aunt of
Christopher Rhinelander Robert (i 802-1 878), the founder of
Robert College, Constantinople, with issue: (a) Mary Rogers
Rhinelander, who married Lispenard Stewart, and (b) William
Rhinelander, who married Matilda Cruger Oakley, daughter of
Hon. Thomas Jackson Oakley, LL.D., Member of Congress and
Chief Judge of the Superior Court of New York City.
John Rogers above, born 19 June, 1787, died 11 April, 1841,
married 22 April, 181 7, Mary Ann C. Muhlenberg, daughter of
Henry William and Mary (Sheaffe) Muhlenberg. In 1846 his
widow erected in his memory the Church of the Holy Communion,
Sixth Avenue and Twentieth Street, New York. His only sur-
viving child, Mary Ann Rogers, born 14 September, 1827, married
23 February, 1848, William Edings Chisolm.
48 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
MUHLENBERG
The Muhlenbergs are descended from an ancient and honor-
able Hannoverian family. The immediate ancestor was Heinrich
Melchior Muhlenberg, D.D., who was born at Eimbeck, Han-
nover, Germany, 6 September, 171 1 ; graduated with high honors
from the University of Gottingen and entered the ministry. He
arrived in America, September 22, 1742, to take charge of the
parishes of New Hannover, Trappe, and Philadelphia, becoming
the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America. He married
the daughter of Conrad Weiser, the celebrated Indian interpreter
and pioneer, and died at Trappe, Pa., 7 October, 1787, having had
eleven children, among whom were: (i) John Peter Gabriel
Muhlenberg, born i October, 1746, entered the ministry, but in
1776, while pastor at Woodstock, Va., at the solicitation of General
Washington, accepted a commission of colonel in the Pennsylvania
troops. In 1 777 , he was advanced to brigadier-general and served
with distinction at Brandywine, Monmouth, Stony Point, and
Yorktown; promoted to rank of major-general and retired to
Pennsylvania, becoming Vice-President of the supreme governing
council of that State, of which Benjamin Franklin was President,
1785. Served in ist, 2d, and 3d Congresses and in 1801 was elected
U. S. Senator, later resigning to become Supervisor of Internal
Revenue; died i October, 1807. His brother (2), Gotthilf Hein-
rich Ernst Muhlenberg, M.A., D.D., born 17 November, 1753,
educated at University of Pennsylvania and Princeton Theological
Seminary was an eminent botanist and the recipient of diplomas
from many of the most learned societies in America and Europe.
His son, Henry Augustus Muhlenberg, was a Member of Congress,
1 829-1 838, U. S. Minister to Austria, and candidate for Governor
of Pennsylvania at time of his death, 1844. The grandson of
Gotthilf, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, became the first
President of Muhlenberg College, which office he held until
1876, when he accepted the Chair of Greek at University of
Pennsylvania.
Another son of the patriarch was Hon. Frederick Augustus
CHISOLM GENEALOGY
Muhlenberg, born i January, 1750, educated in Germany, study-
ing for the ministry and becoming assistant to his father. He
later entered Congress and was elected the first Speaker of the
House of Representatives, 1789. He died 4 June, 1801, leaving,
among others, a son, Henry WilHam Muhlenberg, who married
Mary, daughter of William SheaflEe of Philadelphia, and was the
father of Mary Ann C. Muhlenberg, who married John Rogers,
Esq., above, and of Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg, A.B.,
D.D., LL.D., S.T.D., born 16 September, 1796, graduated at Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, 1 814, ordained in Episcopal Church, 1817.
In 1828, he went to College Point, Long Island, and founded a
Christian high school which afterwards became St. Paul's College.
He served as its principal and rector until 1846, when he became
rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in New York. He
was founder of St. Luke's Hospital, and in 1843 organized the
first Protestant sisterhood in the United States. He was the au-
thor of several well-known hymns and founded a Christian in-
dustrial community at St. Johnland, Long Island, where he is
buried. He died 8 April, 1877.
Mr. Chisolm was educated at St. Paul's College,
under Dr. Muhlenberg, and upon his marriage settled
permanently at College Point, where he retired from ac-
tive business many years before his death. He died
13 November, 1895, with issue:
XXIII. I. Mary Fredericka Chisolm, born 10
February, 1851, married 27 April, 1871, Charles (Miller)
Schieffelin, with issue:
XXIV. I . Mary Chisolm Schieffelin, born 8 April,
1872, died 3 June, 1891 at Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
2. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg Schief-
felin, born 12 December, 1873, grad-
uated from Yale, 1897, unmarried.
3. Julia Rhinelander Schieffelin, born 21
50 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
July, 1875, married Rev. R. J. Small
of England, 11 June, 1900, no issue.
4. Helen Lawrence Schieffelin, born 19
December, 1876, married H. G. Her-
bert of England, no issue.
XXIII. 2. Jessie Edings Chisolm, born 16 August,
1854, died 21 April, 1855.
3. John Rogers Chisolm, born 14 October,
1856, died 9 June, 1866.
4. George Edings Chisolm,* of Morris-
town, N. J., born 13 June, 1858,
married 18 November, 1890, Edith
Lawrence, born 30 July, 1861, daugh-
ter of Henry E. Lawrence, with issue:
XXIV. I . John Rogers Chisolm, born 29 January,
1896.
2. Henry Lawrence Chisolm, born 9 Octo-
ber, 1898.
3. Donald Muhlenberg Chisolm, bom 25
November, 1900.
4. William Edings Chisolm, born 18 July,
1904.
LAWRENCE
Arms: Arg. a cross ragidy gii. Crest: A fish's tail or demi-
dolphin ppr. Motto: "In criices salus.''
The Lawrence family of America are descended from Sir
Robert Lawrence of Ashton Hall, Lancaster, England, who ac-
companied Richard Coeur de Lion to Palestine, where he so dis-
tinguished himself at the siege of St. Jean d'Acre, 1191, by being
the first to place the banner of the cross on the battlements of the
* This branch of the family contemplates resuming the earlier and present
Scotch spelling of the name, reinserting the second " h."
CHISOLM GENEALOGY
town, that he received the honors of knighthood from King Richard
and also the coat-of-arms above described. Many members of
the family have since been prominent in both the Church and
State. Thirteenth in descent from the first Sir Robert was
William Lawrence (son of Henry and Elizabeth (Hagar) Law-
rence) , who was born at St. Ives, but removed about 1580 to Great
St. Albans. He was the uncle of Henry Lawrence, born 1600,
educated at Cambridge; published in 1646 his books on "Com-
munion" and "Baptism"; member of Long Parliament of Crom-
well; for his services to the Protector was made and continued
Lord President of the Council, being at same time one of the lords
of the other House, and later member of the Honorable Committee
of Safety. With Lords Say and Sele, Brooke, and others he ob-
tained a grant of land on the " Connetticut " River, and in 1635
commissioned John Winthrop, Jr., to be Governor of same, intend-
ing to follow, but was prevented by Cromwell. William Lawrence,
above, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Hagar) Lawrence had three
sons, John, William, and Thomas, who accompanied Governor
John Winthrop to America in 1635 in the Planter, landing at
Plymouth, but settling later in New Netherlands.
John Lawrence, the eldest brother, was one of the patentees
of Hempstead, Long Island, 1644, ^.nd in 1645, with his brother,
William, and others, obtained the patent of Flushing, which was
confirmed by Governor Nicoll, 16 February, 1666. In 1663, he
was appointed by Governor Stuyvesant one of the commissioners
to act on boundaries between New England and the Dutch pro-
vince. He was one of the first aldermen of New York, 1665,
Mayor of New York, 1672, and from 1 674-1 698, member of His
Majesty's Council; again Mayor in 1691, and in 1692 appointed
Judge of Supreme Court, which office he filled until his death in
1699.
William Lawrence, the second brother, was born in 1623. He
was associated with his brother, John, as patentee of Flushing, and
was the largest landed proprietor of that section; magistrate in
1655 under Dutch government and later under English, also cap-
tain in militia. He married in 1664, as his second wife, Elizabeth,
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daughter of Richard Smith, Esq., patentee of Smithtown, and
died in 1680. The following year his widow married Captain,
later Sir Philip Carteret, Governor of New Jersey. She was a
woman of unusual endowments and 'directed the affairs of the
Colony during her husband's absence. Captain William Lawrence
had seven children, of whom the eldest son was Joseph, who
inherited the extensive estate on Little Neck Bay. He married
Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Townley, son of Charles Townley,
who fell at Marston Moor. Her sister, Dorothy, married Francis
Howard, who on 8 December, 1731, was created first Earl of
Effingham. Joseph Lawrence died about 1758. His eldest son,
Richard, born 1691, married 6 February, 171 7, Hannah, daugh-
ter of Samuel Bowne, a minister among the Friends, and left issue
among others :
1. John Lawrence, whose son, John W. Lawrence, was
Member of Congress, and President of Seventh Ward Bank of
New York, his daughter, Caroline, becoming the wife of Hon.
Henry Bedinger, Member of Congress from Virginia and after-
wards U. S. Minister to Denmark.
2. Effingham Lawrence, born 1734, commander of a British
frigate, died 1805. His daughter, Catharine Maria, married Col.
Sir John Thomas Jones, Bart., aide to the Duke of Wellington.
3. Joseph Lawrence, born 1741, Member of Assembly 1785,
married Phebe, daughter of Henry Townsend, patentee of
Jamaica, Long Island, 1656, with issue: Henry, of whom here-
after, and Effingham Lawrence, first Judge of Queens County.
Henry Lawrence above married first Harriet, daughter of
Cornelius Van Wyck, and secondly Amy Pearsall. By his first
wife he had issue, among others :
a. Cornelius W. Lawrence, born 1791, Member of Congress,
Mayor of New York, President of Bank of State of New York,
and Collector of Port.
b. Joseph Lawrence, born 1797, also President of Bank of
State of New York, Treasurer of City of New York, and first
President of United States Trust Company, married Rosetta,
daughter of Thomas S. Townsend, with issue: Margaret T., who
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 53
married William T. Hicks, son of Silas Hicks; Harriet, unmarried;
Henry E., of whom hereafter; Caroline T., who married Howard
Osgood, son of Isaac Osgood of Louisiana ; Thomas T., unmarried;
Catherine, who married Rev. C. T. Olmsted; and Isabella.
Henry Effingham Lawrence married Lydia, daughter of
Walter Underhill, Esq., of Westchester County, N. Y., a descend-
ant of Captain John Underhill, born 1597, came to America, 1630,
son of Sir Edward Underhill, and grandson of John Underhill,
Bishop of Oxford. Henry E. and Lydia (Underhill) Lawrence left
issue :
1 . Edith, who married George E. Chisolm.
2. Margaret, unmarried,
3. Joseph, unmarried.
4. Mary Trimble, who married F. M. L. Tonetti.
XXIII. 5. William Augustus Muhlenberg Chis-
olm, born 2'] January, 1862, died 15 May, 1866.
6. Margaret Willing Chisolm, born 17
October, 1863, died 5 January, 1904,
married 30 April, 1888, James Hooker
Hamersley, Esq., born 26 January,
1844.
HAMERSLEY
Arms granted 16 14: Gu. three rams' heads couped or. Crest:
A demi-griffin or., holding between claws a cross-crosslet fitchee, gu.
Motto: "Honore etamore"
The immediate ancestor of the prominent New York family
of this name was Sir Hugh Hamersley, Lord Mayor of London.
He was a member of the Russian, East India, Northwest Passage
and Virginia Companies, Sheriff of London, 16 18-19, Alderman,
1619-36, President of the Honourable Artillery Company, Lord
Mayor, 1627-28, knighted, 8 June, 1628; President of Christ's
54 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
Hospital, 1634, until his decease, 19 October, 1636. He is buried
under a great monument in the north wall of the Church of St.
Andrew's Undershaft, London. His grandson, William Hamer-
sley, born 1687, was a lieutenant in Royal Navy and settled in
New York, where he married Miss Van Brugh of an old Dutch
family. He is buried in Trinity Churchyard. His son, Andrew
Hamersley, married Margaret vStelle, granddaughter of Hon.
Thomas Gordon, one of the Lord Proprietors of New Jersey,
member of Majesty's Council, Attorney- General, Treasurer, and
Judge of the Province and son of Sir George Gordon; and left
a son, Louis Carre Hamersley, who married Elizabeth Finney of
Accomac County, Virginia. He had two sons :
1. Andrew Gordon Hamersley, diplomatist and capitalist,
who married Sarah, daughter of John Mason, with issue an only
son, Louis Carre Hamersley, who married Lillian Warren Price
of Troy N. Y. On his death she married George C. Spencer-
Churchill, eighth Duke of Marlborough.
2. John William Hamersley, lawyer and author, who married
Catherine Livingston, only daughter and heiress of Hon. James
Hooker, Judge of Probate of Dutchess County, N. Y., and a
descendant of Rev. Thomas Hooker, the founder of Connecticut;
of Robert Livingston, Speaker of Provincial Assembly, 1718-25,
founder of Livingston Manor; of Filyp Pieterse Van Schuyler,
Captain of Provincial Forces, 1697; of Henry Beekman; and
of Brant Arentse Van Schlichtenhorst, Governor of Colony of
Rensselaerwick, 1648. Mr. Hamersley had issue, Catherine,
who married John Henry Livingston of "Clermont" great-
grandson of the Chancellor; Virginia, who married Cortlandt
de Peyster Field; Helen Reade, who married Charles Dickinson
Stickney; and James Hooker, who married Margaret Willing
Chisolm.
James Hooker Hamersley graduated from Colum-
bia University in 1865; studied law at Columbia Law
School, practicing with success for ten years, when he
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 55
retired to devote himself to the interests of his family
and estates. Nominated for General Assembly, he
withdrew in favor of William Waldorf Astor. He was
a writer and poet of ability and actively interested in
philanthropic work. He died suddenly at his country
estate, "Brookhurst," Garrison-on-Hudson, in Septem-
ber, 1 90 1, having had issue:
XXIV. I. Margaret Rogers Hamersley, bom 20
August, 1889, died 20 April, 1891.
2. Catherine Livingston Hamersley, born
8 May, 1891.
3. Louis Gordon Hamersley, bom 20 July,
1892.
XX HL 7. Benjamin Ogden Chisolm, born i
June, 1865, married 12 November, 1888, Elizabeth
Rhoades, sister of Cornelia Harsen (Nina) Rhoades,
the authoress, and daughter of John Harsen Rhoades of
New York, born 26 October, 1838, died 1906, President
of Greenwich Savings Bank, and his wife, Annie G.
Wheelwright, with issue:
XXIV. I . Nina Rhoades Chisolm, born 8 Septem-
ber, 1889, married 4 February, 191 3, Alvin Untermyer.
2. Barbara Muhlenberg Chisolm, born
17 September, 1891, died 24 May,
1900.
3. Winifred Wheelwright Chisolm, born
3 May, 1893.
4. Dorothy Rogers Chisolm, bom 2']
August, 1895, died 25 April, 1914.
5. Margaret Willing Chisolm, born i Nov-
ember, 1897.
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6. Elizabeth Harsen Chisolm, bom 17
November, 1900.
7. Priscilla Pixton Chisolm, bom 22 July,
1905.
XXII. 2. James Julius Chisolm, second son of
George and Sarah (Edings) Chisolm, was bom in
Charleston, 7 June, 1827, married by Rev. Elisha White,
17 June, 1847, Margaret Swinton Bryan, bom 20 May,
1829, died 24 August, i860.
BRYAN-LEGARE-SWINTON-BALL
Margaret Swinton Bryan was the daughter of Col. John
Bryan, born 18 July, lyQi.died 14 April, 1848, married 28 Novem-
ber, 1 8 10, Eliza Catherine Legare, sister of Hon. Hugh Swinton
Legare (born 2 January, 1797, died 20 June, 1843, educated at
South Carolina College, University of Edinburgh and Paris;
Member of S. C. Legislature, 1820-30, Attorney-General of S. C,
charg6 d'affaires at Brussels, 1832-36; Member of Congress;
Attorney-General of United States, 1841, Secretary of State pro
tem 1843; editor of Southern Review, and considered one of the
most scholarly and brilliant literary men of his age), and daughter
of Solomon Legare (son of Thomas Legare, 1 733-1 801, Member
of Assembly and of Provincial Congress, 1775, and the descend-
ant of an honorable Huguenot family who emigrated to Carolina
in 1686), born 7 February, 1770, died 1799, and his wife, Mary
Swinton, born 29 April, 1770, died i January, 1843, daughter of
Hugh Swinton, 1 737-1 809, son of William Swinton, Esq., Sur-
veyor-General of Carolina, 1 721-1732, King's ofl&cer and possessor
of a barony of land, died 1743. He was the son of Sir John
Swinton of that Ilk, Scotland, Member of Parliament, and his
second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Sinclair, and his wife,
Margaret, daughter of William, Lord Alexander and grand-
daughter of William, first Marquis of Douglas; and a direct de-
scendant of the gallant Sir John Swinton, commander at the battle
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 57
of Otterburn, 1388, and leader of charge at Homildon Hill, 1402,
where he was killed ; and his second wife, Lady Margaret Stewart,
daughter of Robert II., King of Scotland.
Col. John Bryan was the son of John Bryan (son of Michael
Bryan) born 5 December, 1752, died 10 November, 1803, married
2 February, 1783, Lydia Ball Simons, widow of Edward Simons,
sister of EHas Ball, Jr., Member of Provincial Congress, 1775-6,
half-sister of Eleanor Ball, wife of Hon. Henry Laurens, President
of Continental Congress, supra, and daughter of Elias Ball, 1706-
1786 of "Limerick," who married 2 March, 1747, Lydia Child.
He was the son of Elias Ball of "Comingtee Plantation," who
came to Carolina about 1700, son of William Ball of Devonshire,
England. This Elias married the daughter of John Harleston of
Mailing, Essex, England, a member of a distinguished family,
whose sister, Affra Harleston, wife of John Coming, was one of
the first settlers of Carolina, 1669, and upon whose land Charles
Town was laid out in 1672. Mrs. Elias Ball was the aunt of (i)
Captain John Harleston, 1 708-1 767, who married Hannah Child,
sister of Lydia above, and was father of Major Isaac Harleston of
Continental Line, Member of Provincial Congress, 1775, and of
Edward Harleston, who married Annabella Moultrie, daughter
of Hon. James Moultrie, British Lieutenant-Governor and Chief
Justice of East Florida; of (2) Edward Harleston, Member of
Provincial Congress, 1775, who married Mary, daughter of
"King" Roger Moore of Cape Fear, Member of'Council, and his
wife, Catherine, daughter of Col. William Rhett, 1666-1722,
Receiver-General of Carolina, Vice- Admiral of Colonial Navy and
Lieutenant-Governor of Province, with issue, John Harleston,
Jr., who served under Baron von Steuben and married Elizabeth,
daughter of Hon. Thomas Lynch, Jr., Member of Continental
Congress and signer of Declaration of Independence, 1776.
James Chisolm was educated at St. Paul's College.
Long Island, and at the outbreak of the Civil War was
placed in command of the Stono Scouts, a volunteer
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company. He died from the effects of exposure, 23
February, 1862. Both he and his wife are buried at St.
John's, near Brevard, N. C, in the French Broad Valley.
He left issue:
XXni. I. Wilham Edings Chisolm, born 2 No-
vember, 1848, died 4 November, 1848.
2. Catherine Bryan Chisolm, born 12
July, 1850, married first, 17 June,
1884, Lee C. Walter, who died De-
cember, 1892, no issue. She married
secondly, 25 September, 1902, George
E. Pegues, who died May, 1906; no
issue.
3. Mary Edings Chisolm, bom 29 Decem-
ber, 1 85 1, died at "Oak Ridge," near
Brevard, N. C, 26 June, 1880, un-
married.
4. James Julius Chisolm, D.D., born 8
December, 1852, A.B. Princeton,
1874, at present rector First Presby-
terian Church in Natchez, Miss.,
married 4 June, 1885, Mary Tweed,
bom 18 November, 1852, daughter
of Robert Tweed, a Scotchman, of
New Orleans, La., and his wife, Vir-
ginia, granddaughter of James Van
Uxem, who came to Philadelphia
from Dunkirk, Belgium, in 1745, a
descendant of an ancient and dis-
tinguished baronial family of Fland-
ers; issue:
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 59
XXIV. James Julian Chisolm, born 24 December,
1889, A.B. Princeton University, 191 1, Phi Beta Kappa.
XXIII. 5. Elizabeth Wells Chisolm, bom 22 No-
vember, 1853, died 18 April, 1854.
6. William Edings Chisolm, born 31 May,
1855, of whom hereafter.
7. Harriet Bryan Chisolm, born 27 March,
1857, died 16 June, 1857.
8. Pavil Hamilton Chisolm, bom 4 May,
1858, died September, 1893, un-
married.
XXIII. 6. William Edings Chisolm was bom in
Charleston, 31 May, 1855, married in Richmond, Va.,
28 December, 1886, Helen Gamett, born 16 May, i860.
GARNETT-MERCER-WILLIS
Gamett Arms: Gu. within a bordure engrailed or., a lion rampant
arg. ducally crowned, or. Crest: A dexter hand holding a swans
head, ppr. Motto: "Diligentia et honor e."
The Garnetts of Essex County, Va., are said to be descended
from the Garnetts of Lancashire, England. The first on record
in America is John Garnett of Gloucester Co., Va., later Essex,
who died 17 13, leaving a son, James Garnett, born 17 January,
1692, died 27 May, 1765, Justice of Essex, 1720-40, Member of
House of Burgesses, 1742-47, married as his second wife, Eliza-
beth Muscoe, daughter of Salvator Muscoe, Justice of Essex and
Burgess, 1734-36, with issue, an only child, Muscoe Garnett,
born 17 August, 1736, died January, 1803, Member of Committee
of Safety for Essex, 1775-6, married 9 July, 1767, Grace Fenton
Mercer, daughter of John Mercer of "Marlborough," Secretary
of Ohio Company, author and lawyer, and sister of Hon. John
Francis Mercer (i 759-1 821), aide-de-camp to General Charles
60 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
Lee, 1778, studied law in office of Thomas Jefferson; Member of
Continental Congress, 1782-3; Maryland Convention of 1787-8,
which framed Federal Constitution; Member of Congress, 1792-4,
Governor of Maryland, 1 801-3; half-sister of Hon. James Mercer
( 1 736-1 793), Captain in French and Indian War, Burgess, 1762-
76; Member of Virginia Conventions of 1774-5-6; Committee of
Safety 1775-6; Continental Congress, 1779-80; Judge and Presi-
dent of General Court, 1780-89, and Judge of Court of Appeals,
1789-93, whose son, Hon, Charles Fenton Mercer, born 16 June,
1778, was Member of Va. Legislature, 1810-17; original projector
and charter president of C. & O. Canal Co.; Colonel and aide-de-
camp to Governor James Barbour in War of 1812; Member of
Congress, 1817-1840; half-sister of Col. George Mercer, (1733-
1784); aide-de-camp to Col. George Washington in French and
Indian War, Burgess, 1761-5; English Agent of Ohio Co.; ap-
pointed Lieutenant-Governor of North Carolina, 1768; and sister
of Anna Mercer, who married Benjamin Harrison, Jr., brother of
William Henry Harrison, President of United States, and son of
Benjamin Harrison, signer of Declaration of Independence, 1776.
Muscoe and Grace Fenton (Mercer) Garnett, had issue: i.
Hon. James Mercer Garnett, 1 770-1 843, Member Va. Constitu-
tional Convention, 1829; Member of Congress, 1805-9; Founder
and First President of U. S. Agricultural Society, married
Mary Eleanor Dick Mercer, daughter of Judge James Mercer,
supra. His grandson, Hon. Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett,
1821-1864, was Member of Congress, 1856-61; Member of Vir-
ginia Secession Convention, 1861; Member of Confederate Con-
gress, 1861-64; married Mary Barton Picton Stevens, daughter
of Commodore Edward A. Stevens of Hoboken, N.J. 2. Maria
Garnett, who married, 1796, James Hunter, with issue, Hon.
Robert Mercer TaHaferro Hunter, 1 809-1 887, Member of Con-
gress, 1837-47; Speaker of House of Representatives, 1839-41;
U. S. Senator, 1847-61; Candidate for President, i860; Secre-
tary of State of Confederacy, 1861-2; Confederate Senator, 1862-
65 ; one of three commissioners appointed to treat with Lincoln ;
Treasurer of Virginia, 1874-80; married Mary Evelina Dandridge.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 61
3. Hon. Robert Selden Garnett, 1 789-1 841 ; Member of Congress,
1817-27; married Charlotte Olympia de Gouges, daughter of
Gen. Jean Pierre de Gouges of French army, and was father of
Robert Selden Garnett, Jr., aide-de-camp to Gen. Zachary Taylor,
Major 9th U. S. Infantry, and Brigadier-General in Confederate
army, killed 13 July, 1861. 4. William Garnett, who married
Anna Maria Brooke, daughter of Richard and Maria (Mercer)
Brooke, and sister of Gen. George Mercer Brooke, U. S. A., and
of Hon. Francis J. Brooke, Speaker of State Senate, 1800; Presi-
dent of Virginia Court of Appeals; and their son, Brigadier-
General Richard Brooke Garnett, commanded "Stonewall"
brigade, and later a division of Pickett's brigade, being killed in
the famous charge at Gettysburg. 5. Muscoe Garnett, born
12 July, 1786, died 1869, married 1807, Maria Battaile, daughter
of Hay Battaile and his wife, Mary Champe Willis, daughter of
Lieutenant- Colonel Lewis Willis of the Tenth Virginia Continen-
tal Troops, 1776, and his first wife, Mary Champe, daughter of
Col. John Champe. Col. Willis married secondly Anne Carter
Champe, sister-in-law of his first wife, and daughter of Col. Charles
Carter and his wife, Ann Byrd, daughter of Col. William Byrd of
"Westover." By this latter marriage he became the father of
Major Byrd Charles Willis (who married Mary Willis Lewis,
granddaughter of Col. Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington,
sister of General George Washington), whose daughter, Catherine
Willis, married Prince Achille Murat, son of Marshall Joachim
Murat, King of Naples, and his wife, Carolina Bonaparte, sister
of Napoleon the Great.
(Lieut. -Col. Lewis Willis was the son of Col. Henry WilHs,
Burgess, 1718, first settler of Fredericksburg, Va., and his wife,
Mildred Washington, aunt and sponsor of General George Wash-
ington, and daughter of Captain Lawrence Washington, Burgess,
1685, and his wife, Mildred Warner, daughter of Col. Augustine
Warner (1642-1681) Speaker of House of Burgesses, Member of
His Majesty's Council (son of Col. Augustine Warner, 1610-1674,
Member of Council, 1659-74, who came to Virginia, 1628), and
his wife, Mildred Reade, daughter of Col. George Reade, Secre-
62 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
tary of State, and Acting Governor of Virginia, and Member of
Council, 1 65 7-1 67 1, who was the grandson of Sir Thomas Winde-
banlce, Clerk of the Signet to Queen Elizabeth, who married 20
August, 1566, Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke, Knight,
of Scrivelsby Manor, hereditary champion of England, and his
wife, Anne, daughter of Sir George Talbois, who died 21 Septem-
ber, 1538, by Elizabeth Gascoigne, daughter of Sir William Gas-
coigne and Lady Margaret Percy, daughter of Henry, Earl of
Northumberland. This Henry Percy was the grandson of Sir
Henry Percy "Hotspur," first Earl of Northumberland, and his
wife, Lady Elizabeth Mortimer, daughter of Edmund, Earl of
March by Lady Phillipa Plantagenet, daughter of Lionel, Duke
of Clarence, son of Edward IIL, King of England, 1327-1377.)
Muscoe and Maria (Battaile) Garnett had issue among others :
I. Alexander Yelverton Peyton Garnett, M.D., Examiner of
Board of Surgeons of Confederate Army; family physician to
President Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet; married Mary E.
daughter of Hon. Henry A. Wise, Member of Congress; Minister
to Brazil; Governor of Virginia, and Brigadier-General in Con-
federate Army. 2. Edgar Malcolm Garnett, born 28 April,
1 82 1, died 22 December, 1899, married 16 July, 1851, Emily
Mary Dennis Hayward, daughter of Thomas and Margaret
(Savage) Hayward, and a descendant of Ensign Thomas Savage,
the first white settler of Eastern Shore, who came to Colony
with Captain Newport in January, 1608; of Captain Edward
Waters, who came to Virginia, 1610; Member of Council in
Bermudas, 161 5; Justice, Burgess, Member of Virginia Com-
pany; Commander and Commissioner of Elizabeth City, 1628;
of Sir George Yeardley, Member of Majesty's Council and
Governor of Virginia, 161 8; of Col. Obedience Robins of His
Majesty's Council; of Col. Nathaniel Littleton, Chief Magistrate
of Northampton Co., Va., 1640; Member of His Majesty's
Council, son of Sir Edward Littleton, Chief Justice of North
Wales, and great-great-grandson of Sir Thomas Lyttleton, Judge
of Court of Common Pleas, 148 1, and author of the celebrated
"Treatise on Tenures." Edgar Malcolm Garnett had issue:
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 63
two daughters, Mary Champe, who married William Mason
McCarty, a descendant of Hon. George Mason of " Gunston,"
author of the Bill of Rights, and Helen who married William
Edings Chisolm.
Mr. Chisolm died suddenly October 12, 1903, and is
buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, leaving
issue :
XXIV. William Garnett Chisolm, born in Balti-
more, 19 November, 1890, admitted to bar, 191 2,
Member of Alumni Association of University of Mary-
land, Society of Colonial Wars, and author of present
volume.
XXI. 2. Robert Trail Chisolm (second son of
George and Providence Hext (Prioleau) Chisolm), was
bom in Charleston, 16 July, 1798, married first 10
October, 1827, Harriet Emily Schutt, who died 28
April, 1848, daughter of Caspar C. Schutt. He married
secondly, 2 January, 1851, Lynch Helen Bachman,
bom 19 September, 1828, died 30 August, 1906, daugh-
ter of Rev. John Bachman, D.D., LL.D., Ph.D.
BACHMAN
Rev. John Bachman, who was born at Rhinebeck, 4 February,
1790, was decended from the Bachmans of Berne, Switzerland,
one of whom was Lieutenant-General of the Swiss Guard, and
lost his life in defense of the unfortunate Louis XVI. of France.
His name stands second on the roll of honor carved on the base
of the Lion of Lucerne. Dr. Bachman's paternal ancestor left
Switzerland and went to England, finally coming to America as
private secretary to William Penn. He settled near Easton, Pa.,
and as a reward for faithful services rendered the infant colony,
the Government granted him two townships of land, called Upper
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and Lower Sackescy. Seventh in descent from him was John
Bachman, educated at William College, later studied for the
ministry, becoming pastor of Gilead Pastorate, N. Y., 1813.
In 1 8 14 he accepted a call to St. John's Lutheran Church in
Charleston, S. C. On 23 January, 1816, he married Harriet
Martin, granddaughter of Rev. John Nicholas Martin, fourth
pastor of St. John's. From his early school days, he had always
been fond of nature and was considered one of the best informed
naturalists and ornithologists in America. In 1831 he met the
celebrated John J. Audubon, who became one of his closest
friends. In 1838, he travelled extensively in Europe, where he
met Humboldt, and while in Switzerland represented the United
States at the Naturalists' Reunion. He was also a warm friend
of Professor Agassiz and wrote several articles upon his works.
He also wrote many of the descriptions accompanying Audubon's
Book of Birds. He died at Charleston, 24 February, 1874. His
daughter, Maria Bachman. born 1816, married 1837, John W.
Audubon, son of the naturalist. Her sister, Eliza Bachman, born
18 1 8, married 1839, Victor G. Audubon, also a son of the natural-
ist, and is buried in Audubon Park, N. Y. Another daughter,
Lynch Helen Bachman, married 2 January, 1851, Robert Trail
Chisolm.
Mr. Chisolm died, leaving issue by first marriage:
XXII. I. Henry Lewis Chisolm, bom 16 October,
1828, died 25 April, 1891, married 6 April, 1852, Caro-
line E. Moodie, died 19 October, 1879, daughter of
James Gairden and Rosa A. Moodie, issue:
XXIII. I. Lewis Henry Chisolm, born 2 January,
1853, died 4 September, 1886, married 3 December,
1884, Sallie, daughter of Winthorp Williams, no issue.
2. Harriet Emily, born 24 January, 1855,
died 9 November, 1862.
3. Caroline Chisolm, bom 7 August,
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 65
1863, died 22 November, 1894, niar-
ried 7 January, 1887, William E.
Vincent, Jr., son of William E. Vin-
cent, with issue:
XXIV. I. Mattie Boon Vincent.
2. Marie Chisolm Vincent.
3. William E. Vincent, III.
XXIII. 4. Henry Lewis Chisolm, born 14 Novem-
ber, 1869, died 1903.
XXII. 2. John Julian Chisolm, M.D., bom in
Charleston, 30 April, 1830, graduated from Medical
College of South Carolina, 1850, later studied in several
of the European universities. Professor of surgery in
his alma mater, 1858. On outbreak of Civil War he re-
ceived the first medical appointment in the Confederacy,
attending the wounded at Fort Sumter. He was author
of Manual of Military Surgery, which was adopted as the
official text-book of the Confederacy. Resumed his chair
at Medical College in 1865, but removed to Baltimore
in 1869, and was at once made professor of operative
surgery and clinical professor of diseases of the eye and
ear in the Medical School of the University of Maryland.
He was Dean of the Faculty, 1 869-1 874. In 1873 he
gave up surgery and devoted himself thenceforth ex-
clusively to his specialty, in which he achieved an
international reputation. He was a prolific writer, a
skillful operator and a man of extraordinary energy.
He was Chairman of the Ophthalmologists Section of
the International Medical Congress of 1887. The great
work of his life was the founding in 1877 of the Presby-
terian Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital of Baltimore, one
66 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
of the largest special hospitals in the country. He was
a member of the American Medical Association and
kindred institutions and societies. In 1894, shortly
after a trip to Europe, he was stricken with apoplexy
and aphasia, and his active work ceased. He then
gradually failed until his death in Petersburg, Virginia,
on I November, 1903.
He msLTvied first 3 February, 1852, his cousin, Mary
Edings Chisolm, only daughter of George and Sarah
(Edings) Chisolm. She died 29 March, 1888, and he
married secondly 14 June, 1894, M. Elizabeth Steel,
daughter of Dr. David Steel of Petersburg, Virginia.
He left issue by first marriage :
XXin. I. Julia Chisolm, born 18 January, 1854,
died 3 July, 1903, married 16 June, 1875, Glover Holmes
Trenholm, born 5 October, 1849, son of Edward L. and
Eliza Bonsai (Holmes) Trenholm of Charleston, S. C,
with issue :
XXIV. I. Mary Chisolm Trenholm, born 14 June,
1876, married 28 October, 1909, James F. Ferguson, son
of James Du Gue and Rita (Simmons) Ferguson, issue:
XXV. I . James Du Gue Ferguson, bom 28 Aug-
ust, 1 9 10.
2. Glover Trenholm Ferguson, born 29
June, 1912.
XXIV. 2. Julia Chisolm Trenholm, born 4 Feb-
ruary, 1878.
Eliza Holmes Trenholm, born i Decem-
ber, 1880, married 23 June, 1909,
Walton H. Hopkins, M.D., bom, 29
May, 1 88 1, with issue:
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 67
XXV. I. Thomas Walton Hopkins, bom 12
March, 191 1.
2. Sarah Catherine, born 13 February,
1913-
XXIV. 4. JuHan Chisolm Trenholm, bom 9 Janu-
ary, 1883, married April, 191 1, Augusta McKellip, with
issue :
XXV. I. Augusta McKellip Trenholm, born 29
June, 1912.
2. Donald Chisolm Trenholm, born April,
1914.
XXIV. 5. Evelyn Chisolm Trenholm, born 22
March, 1885, married 26 September, 1906, Hardy C.
Gieski, with issue:
XXV. I. Edward Trenholm Gieski, born 8 Aug-
ust, 1907.
2. Evelyn de Deriver Gieski, born 1 1 April,
1909.
XXIV. 6. Glover Chisolm Trenholm, born 4
December, 1886.
XXIII. 2. Francis Miles Chisolm, M.D., born
September, 1867, married 29 November, 1890, Lillian
B. Baugher, born 23 July, 1864, with issue:
XXIV. I. John Julian Chisolm, born June, 1896.
2. Donald Gordon Chisolm, born August,
1899.
Dr. Chisolm had issue by his second
marriage :
XXIII. 3. Katherine Chisohn, born 14 January,
1898.
XXII. 3. Robert George Chisolm, bom 30 Nov-
68 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
ember, 1831, married first Mary Gregg, who died 18
February, 1873. He married secondly Maria Horlbeck,
daughter of Elias and Harriet (Chisohn) Horlbeck, no
issue. He leftjssue by first marriage:
XXni. I. "^ Robert G. Chisolm.
2. Harriet Chisohn, married Rev. Edward
Trail Horn, with issue :
XXIV. I. Robert Chisohn Horn.
2. Rev. William Melchior Horn
3. Isabel Horn.
4. Harriet Emily Horn.
5. Edward Trail Horn.
6. Mary Gregg Horn.
XXIII. 3. Louise Chisolm.
4. John Edwards Chisolm, married Eliza-
beth Cawlwell, no issue.
XXII. 4. Caspar A. Chisolm, bom 16 October,
1833, died 18 March, 1910, married 26 September, 1866,
Mary Bellinger Gregg, daughter of William Gregg, bom
7 September, 1835, died 9 September, 1905, with issue:
XXIII. William Gregg Chisolm, bom 10 January,
1868, died 4 November, 1901, married 6 December,
1892, Nannie Miles, daughter of Rev. William Porcher
Miles, D.D., of New Orleans (who married as her second
husband, E. W. Durant, Jr.), with issue:
XXIV. I . William Miles Chisolm, bom 9 Septem-
ber, 1893.
2. Caspar S. Chisohn, bom 4 January,
1895.
3. Beim Chisolm, bom 23 November,
1897.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 69
4. Mary Gregg Chisolm, bom 3 Novem-
ber, 1 90 1.
XXII. 5. Emily Providence Chisolm, bom 12
November, 1835, married 1867, Stephen L. Howard,
son of Robert Howard, with issue:
XXIII. I. Emily Howard, died yoimg.
2. Robert Howard died young.
XXII. 6. Evelyn Z. Chisolm, bom 17 August,
1839, unmarried.
Mr. Robert Trail Chisolm, had issue by his second
wife. Lynch Helen Bachman:
XXII. 7. John Bachman Chisolm, born 24 Octo-
ber, 1 85 1, married 5 October, 1882, Octavia de Saussure,
daughter of Louis D. de Saussure, bom 28 December,
i860, with issue:
XXIII. I. Sarah de Saussure Chisolm, born 25
July, 1883.
2. Lynch Helen Chisolm, bom 7 July,
1885.
3. Louis de Saussure Chisolm, bom 17 No-
vember, 1886.
4. Emily Providence Chisolm, bom i No-
vember, 1888.
5. John Bachman Chisolm, bom 22 Aug-
ust, 1896.
6. Octavia de Saussure Chisolm, bom 12
July, 1 90 1.
DE SAUSSURE
The de Saussures, so distinguished in the annals of South
Carolina, are descended from an old family of Lorraine. France.
70 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
The first in America was Henri de Saussure and his wife, Magde-
line, who settled in Beaufort in 1730. Three of his sons lost their
lives in the Revolution. Another son, Daniel, also served in the
army and was later President of State Senate, 1790-91, also one
of original board of trustees of Charleston College. He was the
father of Hon. Henry William de Saussure, born 16 August, 1763,
died 29 March, 1839, captured by British and sent to Philadel-
phia, where he studied law under Jared Ingersoll. Delegate to
South Carolina Convention of 1789, which adopted Federal
Constitution. Appointed by President Washington second di-
rector of the Mint, 1795 ; Mayor of Charleston, 1797-8 ; one of the
founders of South Carolina College; Chancellor and Chief Justice
of South CaroHna, 1808-1838, when he retired. He married in
1785 Miss Ford of Morristown, N. J., and by her left several
children, among whom were:
1 . Henry A. de Saussure, lawyer, whose son, Louis Daniel de
Saussure, was the father of Octavia de Saussure, who married J.
Bachman Chisolm. Another son was Gen. Wilmot Gibbes de
Saussure, born 23 June, 1822, died i February, 1886, graduated
South CaroHna College, 1840; Member of Legislature, 1856-60;
commanded troops at Fort Moultrie, i860; adjutant and inspec-
tor-general during Civil War ; President of South Carolina branch
of the Society of the Cincinnati; of St. Andrew's Society; of the
Charleston Library Societ}'-; of the St. Cecilia Society and of the
Huguenot Society of South Carohna.
2. Hon. WiUiam Ford de Saussure, born 1792 died 1870,
graduated Harvard 18 10, Member of Legislature for many years,
and appointed in May, 1852 United States Senator from South
Carolina,
3. Daniel de Saussure, whose daughter, Octavia, married
Louis Daniel de Saussure, and was the mother of Octavia, the
wife of J. Bachman Chisolm.
XXIL 8. Alfred de Jouve Chisolm, born 26 May,
1853, died 2 May, 1882, unmarried.
9. William Bachman Chisolm, born May,
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 71
1858, married first 28 November,
1877, Felicia Oliveres Hall, died Feb-
ruary, 191 o, daughter of William P.
Hall. He married secondly, 7 June,
191 1, Katherine A. Reed, sister of
Mrs. Alexander T. Britton of Wash-
ington, D. C. He had issue by first
marriage :
\ XXin. I. William Hall, born 18 December, 1878,
died-24.-April, 1880.
2. Susan Hall Chisolm, born 30 Novem-
ber, 1880, married Mr. Dwight.
3. William Bachman Chisolm, Jr., bom 8
December, 1882.
4. Tudor Hall Chisolm, born November,
1884.
5. Caspar A. Chisolm, bom i October,
1886.
6. Felix H. Chisolm, bom 16 July, 1888.
7. Alfred de Jouve Chisolm, bom 28 July,
1890.
8. FeHcia Hall Chisolm, bom July, 1892.
9. Henry Chisolm, bom 19 June, 1895.
XXn. 10. Katherine Prioleau Chisolm, bom 11
August, 1867, married 8 September, 1900, Benjamin
Deford Webb, of Baltimore, died 15 April, 1914, son of
Albert Lee and Catherine (Deford) Webb, no issue.
Line of Robert Trail Chisolm, M.D.
XX. 4. Robert Trail Chisolm, M.D., of Edisto
Island, (fourth son of Alexander and Christina Chisolm)
72 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
was bom in 177- and died 1821, married Mrs. Margaret
Elizabeth Evans, born 1778, died 1848, widow of
William Evans, and daughter of Benjamin and Mary
(Maynard) Edings, with issue:
XXI. I. Julia Chisohn.
2. Susan Matilda Harriet Chisolm, died at
Columbia, S. C, 18 October, 1865,
married 5 April, 1828, Oliver Hering
Middleton, Esq., of Charleston.
MIDDLETON
Arms: Arg. fretty sa., on a canton per chevron, or and sa, a uni-
corn's head erased per chevron, gu and or, the horn sa. Crest: A
garb or, handed vert, between two wings erect sa. Motto: "Regardez
mon droit."
The Middletons of South Carolina are one of the most dis-
tinguished families in the United States, and are noted for their
long record of public service. They are descended from (i) Henry
Middleton of Twickenham, Middlesex, England, whose son (2)
Edward Middleton, emigrated to Carolina, 1678. He was Justice
of Peace, Lords Proprietors Deputy, Member of Grand Council,
Assistant Justice of South Carolina, and died 1685. (3) His son,
Hon. Arthur Middleton, born 1681, married Sarah, daughter of
Jonathan Amory, Speaker of Commons House of Assembly. He
was Lords Proprietors Deputy, Member of Grand Council,
President of Convention of 17 19; President of His Majesty's
Council, and Governor of Province. He left issue, (4) Hon.
Henry Middleton, born 171 7, Lieutenant of Horse Guards,
Speaker of Commons House of Assembly, President of His
Majesty's Council, President of Provincial Congress; President of
Continental Congress, 1774-5, married ^1^5/, Mary, daughter of
John Williams, Esq. ; second, Mary Henrietta, daughter of Hon.
William Bull, Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina, third. Lady
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 73
Mary Mackenzie, daughter of George, third Earl of Cromartie.
One of his daughters, Henrietta Middleton, married Hon. Edward
Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence; another,
Sarah, married Hon. General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, U.
S Minister to France. His son by his first marriage (5) Hon.
Arthur Middleton, born 25 June, 1742, died i January, 1787, was
Member of Provincial Congress, of Council of Safety, Delegate
to Continental Congress, and signer of Declaration of Indepen-
dence. He married Mary Izard, sister of Sarah, who married
Lord William Campbell, Royal Governor of South Carolina, 1776,
the younger son of the Duke of Argyle, and daughter of Walter
Izard, with issue among others (6) Hon. Henry Middleton, born
28 September, 1770, died 14 June, 1846, Representative and Sena-
tor of South Carolina; Member of Congress; Minister Plenipo-
tentiary to Russia and Governor of South Carolina. He married
13 November, 1794, Mary Helen, daughter of Julines Hering,
Esq. of Heybridge Hall, England, Captain of His Majesty's 34th
Regiment, with issue among others:
1. Arthur Middleton, born 28 October, 1795, Secretary to
Legation and charg^ d'affaires at Madrid, married Paulina,
Countess iBentinoglio, daughter of General Count Bentinoglio,
Governor of Castle of San Angelo, and died 7 June, 1853, leaving
one son, Henry Bentinogho Van Ness Middleton, who was Cap-
tain of the Papal Zouaves and officer at the Court of King of
Italy, having married Beatrice, Countess Cini, daughter of Count
Cini, and grand-niece of Pope Leo XIII.
2. Edward Middleton, Rear Admiral United States Navy,
1876.
3. Oliver Hering Middleton.
4. Hon. John Izard Middleton, born 4 February, 1800,
Secretary of Legation at St. Petersburg, 1822, Speaker of South
Carolina Assembly, 1848, State Senator, 1858.
Oliver Hering Middleton was bom at Clifton, Glou-
cestershire, England, 12 August, 1798 ; educated at South
Carolina College; entered U. S. Naval Academy, but
74 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
resigned and retired to his estates and life of an opulent
planter. He married 5 April, 1828, Susan Matilda
Harriet, only surviving daughter and heiress of Robert
Trail Chisolm, M.D., and died at the residence of Gen-
eral Rutledge, 44 South Bay, Charleston, 7 January,
1892, with issue:
XXn. I. Mary Julia Middleton, bom i February,
1829, died 19 December, 1904, married 16 February,
1854, Benjamin Huger Read, born March, 1823, died
October, 1888, son of John Harleston and Emily Anne
(Huger) Read, with issue:
XXHI. I. Oliver Middleton Read, bom 6 Novem-
ber, 1855, married first, 21 December, 1886, Mary
Louise Gregorie, bom September, 1864, died April,
1892, issue:
XXIV. I. Mary Louise Read, born 5 November,
1887.
2. Oliver Middleton Read, born 12 Janu-
ary, 1889.
3. Eliza Baker Read, born 3 June, 1890,
married December, 19 12, William
Walter Mangum, of Savannah.
4. Julia Middleton Read, bom 17 April,
1892.
He married secondly, January, 1898, Edith Matthew
Glover, with issue :
XXIV. 5. Benjamin Huger Read, bom May,
1899.
6. Sanders Glover Read, born 4 March,
1903.
XXIII. 2. Benjamin Huger Read, bom 16 Dec-
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 75
ember, 1856, married 9 December, 1884, Ann Cleland
Smith, with issue:
XXIV. I. EHzabeth Middleton Read, born 31
August, 1885, married 23 November, 191 1, Thomas
Francis Cadwalader, son of John Cadwalader, of Phila-
delphia, with issue:
XXV. Thomas Francis Cadwalader, Jr., born
November, 191 2.
XXIV. 2. BenjaminHuger Read, born July, 1888,
died 12 January, 1892.
3. Cleland Kinloch Read, born March,
1 89 1, died 5 January, 1892.
4. Mary Middleton Read, bom 22 Dec-
ember, 1892.
5. Anne Cleland Read, born 5 August,
1894.
6. Francis Kinloch Read, born 5 Septem-
ber, 1895.
XXIII. 3. Emily Anne Read, married Joseph M.
Fox, of Philadelphia, with issue:
XXIV. I. Mary Lindley Fox, married Mr.
Devereux of New York.
2 . Emily Read Fox .
3. EHza Fisher Fox.
4. William Logan Fox.
XXIII. 4. Susan Chisolm Read, born, mar-
ried 3 September, 1901, William Sidney Thayer,
M.D., born at Milton, Mass., 23 June, 1864, son of
James B. and Sophia (Ripley) Thayer, A.B., Harvard,
1885, M.D., 1889, LL.D., Washington College, 1907;
associate physician Johns Hopkins University; pro-
76 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
fessor of clinical medicine; Fellow Royal Medical
Society, London, member of numerous medical and
scientific associations and author of several treatises;
no issue.
XXII. 2. Susan Matilda Middleton, bom 2 Janu-
ary, 1830, died at St. Catherine's, Canada, 11 January,
1880, unmarried.
XXII. 3. Eleanor Maria Middleton, born 17
April, 1 83 1, died 25 December, 1905, married 25 Janu-
ary, 1858, Benjamin Huger Rutledge, bom 4 June, 1829,
son of Benjamin Huger and Alice Ann (Weston) Rut-
ledge, and a descendant of Hon. Hugh Rutledge,
Chancellor of South Carolina, 1791-1811; graduated
from Yale and studied law. In 1858, Captain of Char-
leston Light Dragoons; Member of Convention which
passed Secession Ordinance; raised to rank of Colonel
and placed in command of the Fourth South Carolina
Cavalry, C.S.A., and served through the War with
distinction, being appointed Major-General by the
Governor. He died 30 April, 1893, with issue:
XXIII. I. Benjamin Huger Rutledge, married
Emma Craig Blake, 5 October, 1892, daughter of
Daniel Blake, Esq., issue:
XXIV. I. Eleanor Middleton Rutledge, bom 23
March, 1894.
2. Emma Blake Rutledge, bom 24 August,
1897.
3. Alice Weston Rutledge, bom i January,
1899.
4. Benjamin Huger Rutledge, bom 11
January, 1902.
p
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CHISOLM GENEALOGY
5. Amelia Van Cortlandt Rutledge, bom
13 May, 1904.
6. Susan Middleton Rutledge, bom 27
July, 1906.
7. Anne Blake Rutledge, born 13 July,
1910.
XXIII . 2. Oliver Middleton Rutledge, married
5 October, 1892, Helen Bayley Blake, sister of Emma
Craig Blake, and daughter of Daniel Blake, issue:
XXIV.
1893.
I. Helen Blake Rutledge, bom 10 August,
2.
3-
XXIII.
Frances Blake Rutledge, bom 6 May,
1895-
Oliver Middleton Rutledge, bom 5
December, 1900.
Elizabeth Rutledge, born 31 January,
1903.
Dorothea Barclay Rutledge, bom 10
October, 1905.
Alice Weston Rutledge unmarried.
4. Edward Rutledge married 31 October,
1906, Lily Huger Wells, daughter of
Edward and Anne Mason (Smith)
Wells, issue:
XXIV. I . Anna Wells Rutledge, bom 22 June, 1907.
2. Ella Middleton Rutledge, bom 20 Octo-
ber, 1909.
3. EHza Huger Rutledge, born 30 March,
1911.
XXII. 4. Emma Middleton, bom 4 March, 1834,
died 5 May, 191 3, unmarried.
78 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
5. Olivia Middleton, bom 25 April, 1839,
married 6 December, 1864, Fred-
erick Rutledge Blake, Esq., of New-
ington, N. C, and Board House,
Captain of 25th North Carolina
Regiment, C.S.A., born 24 January,
1838, son of Daniel Blake and his
wife, Emma Middleton, daughter of
Henry Rutledge, Esq.; grandson of
Daniel Blake (i 775-1 834), and his
wife, Ann Louisa, daughter of Hon.
Arthur Middleton, Signer of Declara-
tion of Independence; and great-
great-great -grandson of Right Honor-
able Col. Joseph Blake, Landgrave
and one of the true and absolute
Lords and Proprietors of Carolina,
twice Governor of State, and a
nephew of Admiral Blake of the En-
glish Navy. Olivia Middleton and
Frederick Rutledge Blake left issue:
XXHL I. Edward Molyneux Blake, born 14
January, 1866, Lieutenant U. S. Artillery, married
Eleanor, daughter of Colonel Farley, U. S. A., with
issue :
XXIV. I. AyliffeB. Blake.
2. Olivia Middleton Blake.
XXIII. 2. Emma Rutledge Blake, born August,
1868, died March, 1873.
3. Daniel Blake, born October, 1872.
4. Elizabeth Fisher Blake.
CHISOLM GENEALOGY 79
XXII. 6. Oliver Hering Middleton, Jr., bom 17
July, 1845, volunteered in Charleston Light Dragoons,
C.S.A., and killed in action at Mattadequin Creek, 30
May, 1864, unmarried.
Line of Ann Chisolm
XX. 6. Ann Chisolm, sixth child of Alexander and
Christina Chisolm married 1796, Mungo Mackie, a
Scotchman, with issue :
XXI. I. Robert Mackie, died unmarried.
2. George Chisolm Mackie, married Abi-
gail Evans Jenkins, with issue:
XXII. Mary Martin Mackay married 3 March,
1859, William Maine Hutson, bom 27 June, 18 13, died
18 Jvily, 1879, son of William Maine and Martha (Hay)
Hutson, with issue.
XXIII. I. Abigail Mackay Hutson, born 10
December, 1859, married 13 June, 1878, Rev. J. D. A.
Brown.
2. Martha Hay Hutson, bom 26 April,
1862, died 19 July, 1864.
3. Thomas Woodward Hutson, bom 3
October, 1864, died 10 May, 1865.
4. Clara Glover Hutson, bom 18 October,
1866, died 22 May, 1900.
5. William Maine Hutson, born 17 Sep-
tember, 1868, married 26 December,
1894, Clara M. Knockenderfer, and
lives in St. Augustine. Issue:
XXIV. I . William Maine Hutson, bom 2 October,
1895-
80 CHISOLM GENEALOGY
2. Edith Genevieve Hutson, bom 14 Octo-
ber, 1900.
3. Albert Donald Hutson, born 18 June,
1903.
XXIII. 6. Woodward Evans Hutson, born 15
December, 1875.
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INDEX
Aird, Alexander de la, Earl of Caith-
ness, II
Margaret, lo, il
Weyland, ii
Alexander, Lord, William, 56
Amory, Jonathan, 72
Sarah, 72
Anderson, Rachel, 44
Angus, Thane of, Gilchrist, 20
Armorial bearings:
Chisholm, Richard de, 5
Chisholm, Sir Robert de, 7
Chisolm of South Carolina, v
Fraser, 20
Garnett, 59
Grant, 19
Haliburton, 8
Hamersley, 53
Hext, 41
Lauder, 6
Lawrence, 50
Mackenzie, 14
Mackintosh, 12
Middleton, 72
Prioleau, 38
Rogers, 47
Schieffelin, 30
Stewart, 15
Vipount, 4
Audubon, John J., 64
John W., 64
Victor G., 64
Bachman Family, 63-64
Bachman, Eliza, 64
John, 63
Lynch Helen, 63, 64, 69
Maria, 64
Ball Family, 57
Ball, Caroline Olivia, 36
Eleanor, 35, 57
Elias, 35, 57
Elias, Jr., 57
Lydia, 57
William, 57
Battaile, Hay, 61
Maria, 61, 62
Baugher, Lillian B., 67
Beaufort, Lady Joan de, 16
Sir John, Duke of Somerset, 16
Bedinger, Henry, 52
Bee, Valeria North, 29
William Cattell, 28, 29
Bentinoglio, Countess, Paulina, 73
Bisset, Catherine, 9
Lord Lovat, 19
Mary, 19
Blake, Admiral, 78
Ayliffe B., 78
Daniel, 76, 77, 78
Edward Molyneux, 78
Elizabeth Fisher, 78
Emma Craig, 76, 77
Emma Rutledge, 78
Frederick Rutledge, 78
Helen Bayley, 77
Joseph, 78
Olivia Middleton, 78
Boardman, Mary Lockwood, 32
William H., 32
Bonaparte, Caroline, 61
Napoleon, 61
Bowne, Hannah, 52
Samuel, 52
Brooke, Anna Maria, 61
Francis J., 61
George Mercer, 61
Richard, 61
Bruce, Lady Marjory, 16
Robert, King of Scotland, 15, 16
Bryan Family, 57
Bryan, Catherine, 46
Hugh, 40
■ John, 46, 56, 57
85
86
INDEX
Bryan, Margaret Swinton, 56
Michael, 57
Buily, Idonea de, 4
John, 4
Bull, Mary Henrietta, 72
William, 72
Burwell, Frances Moore, 36
Byrd, Ann, 61
William, 61
Cadwalader, John, 75
Thomas Francis, 75
Thomas Francis, Jr., 75
Cain, Elias Horlbeck, 38
Harriet, 38
John Calhoun, 37
Caithness, Beatrix of, 21
Countess of, Catherine, 1 1
Calder, Thane of, 12
Cameron, Sir Ewen, of Lochiel, 19
Janet, 19
Campbell, Archibald, Earl of Argyle,
16
Colin, Earl of Argyle, 16
Lady Mary, 16
Sir Neill, 16
Lord William, 73
Carter, Anne, 61
Col. Charles, of "Cleves," 61
Carteret, Sir Philip, 52
Champe, John, 61
Mary, 61
Chardon, Magdeleine, 40
Chattan, Clan, Dougal Phaol, Cap-
tain of, 12
Child, Hannah, 57
Lydia, 57
Chisholm, Agnes, 10, 17
Alexander, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, li, 13,
14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22
Angus, 18
Archibald, 20
Catherine, 8, 13
CoHn, 18, 19
Christina, 21
Sir Edmund, 9
Sir James, 10
James Scott, 9
Jane, 10
Janet, 10
Janet Agnes, 21
Sir John, 4, 5
John, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 19
John Ban, 24
Kenneth, 20
Margaret, 11, 21
Muriel, 9
Richard, 5
Sir Robert, 6, 7, 8, 9
Robert, 9
Roderick, 19, 22
Thomas, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 21
Wiland, 13, 14, 17
William, 7, 10
Chisolm, Alexander, 22, 24, 25, 37, 38,
43, 71. 79
Alexander Hext, 43, 44
Alexander Robert, 25, 26, 27,
29,31, 32, 36
Alexina Pauline, 43
Alfred, 28
Alfred de Jouve, 70, 71
Alfred Maxwell, 28
Alice, 32
Alice Cuthbert, 32
Alice Maxwell, 34
Ann, 22, 26, 79
Ann Jane, 29
Ann Margaret, 43
Ann Mazyck, 38
Annabel, 34
Barbara Muhlenberg, 55
Beirn, 68
Benjamin Guerard, 34
Benjamin Ogden, 55
Caroline, 43, 64
Caroline Ball, 37
Caspar A., 68, 71
Caspar S., 68
Catherine Bryan, 58
Charlotte Hayden, 33
Charlotte Porcher, 37
Christina, 24, 27, 37, 38, 43, 44,
71, 79
Christopher Gadsden, 34
Donald Gordon, 67
Donald Muhlenberg, 50
Dorothy, 34
Dorothy Rogers, 55
Edward, 29
Edward Neufville, 27, 29
Edward North, 28, 33
Elias Horlbeck, 44
Eliza Drayton, 28
Eliza Laurens, 36
Elizabeth Harsen, 56
Elizabeth Prioleau, 43
Ehzabeth Wells, 59
1
INDEX
87
Chisolm, Ella Louise, 42
Emily Providence, 69
Eugene, 46
Evelyn Z., 69
Felicia Hall, 71
Felicia North, 33
Felicia Robinson, 33
Felix H., 71
Frances Boardman, 32
Francis Miles, 67
Frederick Eraser, 34
George, 26, 28, 38, 40, 42, 45, 46,
56, 63, 66
George Augustus, 42
George Edings, 46, 50, 53
George Hey ward, 32
Georgianna, 38
Guy Maxwell, 34
Harriet, 37, 44, 68
Harriet Bryan, 59
Harriet Emily, 64
Helen Schieffelin, 32
Henry, 71
Henry Laurens, 36
Henry Lawrence, 50
Henry Lewis, 64, 65
Hey ward, 37
Hugh Legare, 46
James, 27, 43
James Julian, 59
James Julius, 46, 56, 57, 58
James North, 28
Jane, 28
Jane Caroline, 28
Jessie Edings, 50
John Bachman, 69, 70
John Bounell, 44
John Bryan, 46
John Edwards, 68
John Julian, 46, 65, 67
John Laurens, 36
John Maxwell, 27, 28
John Rogers, 50
Judith, 24
Julia, 66, 72
Julian J., 46
Katherine, 67
Katherine Prioleau, 71
Laurens North, 29
Lewis Henry, 64
Lily, 46
Louis de Saussure, 69
Louisa Guerard, 33
Louisa Isabel, 34
Louisa Screven, 36
Louise, 68
Lucy Virginia, 28
Lynch Helen, 68
Malvina, 44
Margaret Bryan, 46
Margaret Horry, 37
Margaret Horry Laurens, 36
Margaret Laurens, 36
Margaret Willing, 53, 54, 55
Martha Laroche, 43
Mary Edings, 46, 58, 66
Mary Fredericka, 30, 49
Mary Gregg, 69
Mary Maria, 44
Mary McBride, 43
Maxwell, 34
Nina Rhoades, 55
Octavia de Saussure, 69
Octavius, 43, 44
Paul Hamilton, 59
Priscilla Pixton, 55
Providence Hext, 43, 44
Richard SchieffeHn, 31
Robert, 28, 32, 34, 36, 46
Robert George, 37, 67, 68
Robert Thurston, 28
Robert Trail, 26, 37, 42, 45. 63,
64, 69, 71, 74
Ruth, 44
Samuel JPrioleau, 42
Sarah Caroline, 43
Sarah Constance, 32
Sarah de Saussure, 69
Sarah Hunter, 34
Sarah Maxwell, 26, 27, 29, 32
Susan Emma, 29
Susan Hall, 71
Susan Matilda Harriet, 72, 74
Thomas, 26, 27
Thomas Hanscome, 43
Tudor Hall, 71
Valeria Laurens, 29
Valeria North, 28
William, 26, 37
W^illiam Adolphus, 42
William Alexander, 38
WiUiam Augustus Muhlenberg,
53
William Bachman, 70, 71
William Edings, 30, 46, 47, 49,
50, 58, 59, 63
William Garnett, 63
William Gregg, 68
88
INDEX
Chisolm, William Hall, 71
Huntly, 21 ; Kent, 16; Kinnoul, 10;
William Maxwell, 27, 34
Lennox, 16; Lothian, 10; Mar, 15;
William Miles, 68
March, 62; Moray, 21; North-
William Sextus, 43
umberland, 62; Orkney, 11, 16, 21;
Winifred Wheelwright, 55
Perth, 10; Ross, 9; Seafield, 19;
Cini, Countess, Beatrice, 73
Seaforth, 15; Stratherne, 11 ; Sur-
Clifford, Idonea de, 5
rey, 20
Roger, 5
Edings Family, 45
Cotton, Robert E., 37
Edings, Benjamin, 45, 72
Crawford, Daniel, 29
Joseph, 37, 45
John A., 28
Mary Eliza, 45, 72
Crocker, Samuel E., 43
Sarah M., 45, 56, 66
William, 45
Dana, Mrs. Sarah P. C, 43
Edmondston, Benjamin W. F., 44
Dandoli, Zilia, 39
Catherine Devereaux, 45
Dandridge, Mary Evelina, 60
Charles, 44
Davenport, James, 47
EUzabeth Chisolm, 44
Mary, 47
George Chisolm, 44
De Saussure, Family, 69-70
Georgianna, 44
De Saussure, Daniel, 70
Gertrude, 44
Henri, 70
Henry Louise, 45
Henry A., 70
Jessie Coffin, 44
Henry William, 70
Mary Gertrude, 45
Louis Daniel, 69, 7c
Nina, 45
Octavia, 69, 70
Nora Lawton, 44
William Ford, 70
Edward IIL, King of England, 16, 62
Wilmot Gibbes, 70
Eliot, Augustus, Lord Heathfield, 9
Delaplaine, Isaac C, 31
Magdalene, 9
Julia Matilda, 31
Erchless Castle, i , 1 1
Denmark, Eric, King of, 1 1
Evans, Sarah, 45
Ingeborga, Princess of, 11
WilHam, 45, 72
Dirleton, Lord, 8, 13
Doges of Venice, 39
Farley, Eleanor, 78
Douglas, Earl of, Archibald, 8
Farquharson, Farquhar, of Inver-
Lady Margaret, 8
caiild, 13
Marion, 9
Farrow, Louisa Chisolm, 33
Marquis of, William, 56
Patillo, 33
Sir William, of Drumlanrig,
9
Fawnys, Christian de, 8
Drummond, James, Baron Maderty,
Richard de, 8
10
Fenton, Janet, 21
William, Viscount Strathallan,
Lord, William, 21
10
Ferguson, Glover Trenholm, 66
Dukes of: Albany, 9; Argyle,
73;
James Du Gu6, 66
Clarence, 62; Marlborough,
54;
James F., 66
Queensberry , 9 ; Rothesay,
8;
Ferrers, Sibella, 5
Somerset, 16
William, Earl of Derby, 5
Dunbar, Lady Janet, 21
Field, Cortlandt de Peyster, 54
Thomas, Earl of Moray, 21
Finney, Elizabeth, 54
Fitz-Alan, Lady Alice, 16
Earls of: Athol, 15, 16; Athole,
is;
Richard, Earl of Arundell, 16
Argyle, 16; Arundell, 16; Caith-
Ford, Christina Chisolm, 44
ness, II; Cromartie, 15,
73;
George Gaillard, 44
Cumberland, 5; Derby, 5; Douglas,
Mary Providence, 44
8; Effingham, 52; Glencairn,
10;
Foscari, Francesco, 39
INDEX
89
Fox, Eliza Fisher, 75
Evelyn de Deriver, 67
Emily Read, 75
Hardy C., 67
Joseph M., 75
Glamys, Lord, 21
Mary Lindley, 75
Glencairn, Earl of, William, 10
William Logan, 75
Glover, Edith Matthew, 74
Franklin, Benjamin, 47
Gordon, Sir Alexander, 21
Sarali, 47
Sir George, 54
Fraser Family, 20-21
Janet, 21
Eraser, Agnes, 13, 15, 21
Thomas, 54
Alexander, of Eskadale, 20, 21
Gouges, Charlotte Olympia de, 61
Sir Andrew, 21
Gen. Jean Pierre, 61
of Ballindorn, 20
Graham, William Irving, 29, 31
Bernard, 20
Grant Family, 19
Gilbert, 20
Grant, Sir Duncan, 19
Hugh, of Eskadale, 20, 21
Elizabeth, 15
Hugh, Lord Lovat, 13, 15, 17, 21
Gregorius, 19
James, 17, 21
Sir John, 19
Janet, 17, 20
John, 15
Janet Agnes, 21
John Mor, 19
Margaret, 19, 21
Sir Lawrence, 19
Sir Simon, 21
Malcolm, 19
Thomas, 21
Mary, 18
Thomas, Lord Lovat, 21
Patrick, 19
William, 21
Sir Robert, 19
William, Lord Stray, 21
Gregg, Mary, 68
Mary BeUinger, 68
Gadsden, Christopher P., 33
William, 68
Elizabeth Prioleau, 33
Gregorie, Mary Louise, 74
Gaillard, Ellen, 27
Grimball, Thomas, 40
Gallaudet, Joshua, 39
Guerard, Jacob, 32
Peter, 39
Louisa Screven, 32, 34
Gamble, Jennie May, 34
Guest, Bernard Robertson, 36
Garnett Family, 59-63
Garnett, Alexander Ylverton Peyton,
Haliburton Family, 8
62
Haliburton, Alice, 8
Edgar Malcolm, 62
Catherine, 8, 13
Helen, 59, 63
David, 8
James, 59
Sir Henry, 8
James Mercer, 60
Sir John, 8
John, 59
Margaret, 7, 8
Maria, 60
Philip, 8
Muscoe, 59, 60, 61, 62
Traite, 8
Muscoe Russell Hunter, 60, 61
Sir Walter, 7, 8, 13
Richard Brooke, 61
Sir William, 8
Robert Selden, 61
Hall, Felicia Oliveres, 71
Robert Selden, Jr., 61
William P., 71
William, 61
Hamersley Family, 53-54
Gascoigne, Elizabeth, 62
Hamersley, Andrew, 54
Sir William, 62
Andrew Gordon, 54
Gendron, Mary Magdalen, 40
Catherine, 54
Philippe, 40
Catherine Livingston, 55
Gibbes, Allston, 27
Helen Reade, 54
William Hasell, 23, 2"]
Sir Hugh, 53
Gieski, Edward Trenholm, 67
James Hooker, 53, 54
90
INDEX
Hamersley John William, 54
Louis Carre, 54
Louis Gordon, 55
Margaret Rogers, 55
Virginia, 54
William, 54
Harald, Thane of Caithness, 2
Harleston, Affra, 57
Edward, 57
Isaac, 57
John, 57
John, Jr., 57
Harrison, Benjamin, 60
Benjamin, Jr., 60
William Henry, 60
Hay ward, Emily M. D., 62
Thomas, 62
Hazzard, Mary Elizabeth, 29
William Wigg, 29
Herbert, H. G., 50
Hering, Julines, 73
Mary Helen, 73
Herriott, Eliza, 38
Henry, 38
Minna, 38
Hext Family, 41
Hext, David, 40
Elizabeth, 41
Hugh, 41
Providence, 40
Sarah, 41
Hey ward, William Marion, 34
Hicks, William T., 53
Holland, Lady Margaret, 16
Thomas, Earl of Kent, 16
Holmes, Eliza Bonsai, 66
Hooker, Catherine Livingston, 54
James, 54
Rev. Thomas, 54
Hopkins, Sarah Catherine, 67
Thomas Walton, 67
Walton H., 66
Horlbeck, Charlotte Porcher, 37
Elias, 37, 68
Henry, 38
Henrietta, 37
James Moultrie, 38
Katherine, 37
Maria Louise, 37, 68
Marian, 37
William Chisolm, 37
Horn, Edward Trail, 68
Harriet Emily, 68
Isabel, 68
Mary Gregg, 68
Robert Chisolm, 68
William Melchior, 68
Howard, Emily, 69
Francis, Earl of Effingham, 52
Robert, 69
Stephen L., 69
Huger, Daniel Elliott, 36
Emily Anne, 74
William E., 36
Hunter, James, 60
Robert Mercer Taliaferro, 60
Hutson, Abigail Mackay, 79
Albert Donald, 80
Clara Glover, 79
Edith Genevieve, 80
Martha Hay, 79
Thomas Woodward, 79
William Maine, 79
Woodward Evans, 80
Inglis, Alexander, 26
Mrs. Jane, 25, 26
Izard, Mary, 73
Sarah, 73
Walter, 73
Jackson, Mary Agnes, 36
Jay, John, 30
Mary, 30
Jenkins, Abigail Evans, 28
Mary, 42
Jervey, Charles Heyward, 29
Jones, Bart., Sir John Thomas, 52
Lander, Caspar, 30
Mary, 30
Lauder Family, 6-7
Lauder, Anne, 6
Sir Robert de, 6, 7
Laurens Family, 35
Laurens, Andrew, 35
Eliza Rutledge, 36
Henry, 35, 36, 57
John, 34, 35
John Ball, 35
Mary, 35
Margaret Horry, 34, 36
Law, Allie, 44
Lawrence Family, 50-53
Lawrence, Caroline, 52, 53
Catharine Maria, 52
Catherine, 53
Cornelius W., 52
INDEX
91
Lawrence, Edith, 50, 53
Effingham, 52
Hannah, 30
Harriet, 53
Henry, 51
Henry Effingham, 50, 53
John, 30, 51
John W., 52
Joseph, 52, 53
Margaret Townsend, 52
Mary Trimble, 53
Richard, 52
Sir Robert, 50
Thomas, 51, 53
WiUiam, 51, 52
Legar^, Eliza Catherine, 46, 56
Hugh Swinton, 56
Solomon, 56
Thomas, 56
Leonetti, Count John B., 43
Lewis, Col. Fielding, 61
Mary WiUis, 61
Littleton, Sir Edward, 62
Nathaniel, 62
Livingston, John Henry, 54
Robert, 54
Logan, Wade Hampton, 32
Loredano, Pietro, 39
Lucas, Elizabeth, 37
Thomas, 37
Lynch, Elizabeth, 57
Thomas, Jr., 57
Lyon, Lady Margaret, 21
Lyttleton, Sir Thomas, 62
McCarty, William Mason, 63
McCrea, Alfred Chisolm, 33
W. A., 33
McKay, George Knox, 31
Margaret Helen, 30
McKellip, Augusta, 67
Macdonald, Aeneas, 14
Angus, II
Angus-Oig, Lord of the Isles, 12
Godfrey, 1 1
John, Lord of the Isles, 1 1
Margaret, 15, 18
Mora, 12
Mackenzie Family, 14
Mackenzie, Alexander, 15, 17, 18
Catherine, 17
Colin, 15
George, 20
George, Earl of Cromartie, 73
Hector Roy, 1 5
Janet, 14, 15
John, 15
Sir Kenneth, 14, 15, 21
Margaret, 18
Lady Mary, 73
Mary, 20
Murdoch, 15, 18
Roderick, 17, 18
Mackie, George Chisolm, 79
Mary Martin, 79
Mungo, 79
Robert, 79
Mackintosh Family, 12
Mackintosh, Angus, 12
Ferquhard, 12
Lauchlan, 12, 21
Malcolm, 19
Margaret, 12, 21
Muriel, 19
Shaw, 12
William, 12
Maclean, Ewen, of Ardgour, 13
Macleod, Finguala, 15
Malcokn, of Harris, 15
Macrae, Kenneth, 20
Magnus, King of Norway, 1 1
Mar, Donald, Earl of, 15
Marjorie, Princess of Scotland, 20
Martin, Harriet, 64
John Nicholas, 64
Mason, George, of "Gunston," 63
John, 54
Sarah, 54
Maxwell, Mrs. Peter, 25, 26
Mrs. Sarah, 24
Sarah Glaze, 25, 27, 29, 32
William, 25, 27
Maynard, Mary, 45, 72
Mazyck, Elizabeth Le Serurier, 23, 43
Stephen, 23
Mercer Family, 59-60
Mercer, Anna, 60
Charles Fen ton, 60
George, 60
Grace Fenton, 59, 60
James, 60
John, 59
John Francis, 59
Maria, 61
Mary Eleanor Dick, 60
Merlat, Rev. EUas, 39
Jeanne, 39
Middleton Family, 72
92
INDEX
Middleton, Ann Louisa, 78
Arthur, 72, 73, 78
Edward, 72, 73
Eleanor Maria, 76
Emma, 77
Henrietta, 73
Henry, 72, 73
Henry B. Van Ness, 73
John Izard, 73
Mary Julia, 74
Oliver Hering, 72, 73
Oliver Hering, Jr., 79
Olivia, 78
Sarah, 73
Susan Matilda, 76
Miles, Nannie, 68
William Porcher, 68
Montgomery, Giles, 12
Hugh, 12
Moodie, Caroline E., 64
James Gairden, 64
Moore, Mary, 57
"King" Roger, 57
Mordington, Agnes de, 8
Peter, 8
Moreville, Hugh de, 4
Maude, 4
Mortimer, Edmund, Earl of March,
62
Lady Elizabeth, 62
Moultrie, Annabella, 57
James, 57
Muhlenberg Family, 48-49
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus, 48
GotthUf Heinrich Ernst, 48
Heinrich Melchior, 48
Henry Augustus, 48
Henry William, 47, 49
John Peter Gabriel, 48
Mary Ann C., 47, 49
William Augustus, 47, 49
Murat, Prince Achille, 61
Joachim, King of Naples, 61
Muscoe, Elizabeth, 59
Napier, John, of Merchistoun, 10
North, Ann Jane, 28
Eliza Drayton, 28
Nourse, Anna, 47
Oakley, Matilda Cruger, 47
Thomas Jackson, 47
Olmsted, C. T., 53
Orkney, Isabella of, 1 1
Earl of, John, 11, 21
Earl of, Magnus, 1 1
Margaret of, 21
Osgood, Howard, 53
Paul, Arthur, 33
Charles P., 33
Pearsall, Amy, 52
Pegu^s, George E., 58
Percy, Lord, Henry, 5
Henry, Earl of Northumberland,
62
Sir Henry, "Hotspur," 62
Lady Margaret, 62
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 73
Pixton, George, 47
Mary, 47
Plantagenet, Edmund, Earl of Kent,
16
Lady Joan, 16
Lionel, Duke of Clarence, 62
Lady Phillipa, 62
Pope Leo XIII., 73
Porcher, Marianne, 37
Peter C, 29
Prioleau Family, 38-40
Prioleau, Alice, 29
Alice Chisolm, 32
Antonio, 39
Arthur Perroneau, 32
Elias, 39, 40
Elijah, 40
Elisha, 39
Elizabeth, 40
Elizabeth Harleston, 32
Jacob Ford, 33
John G., 29
Louisa Guerard, 33
Martha, 40
Mary, 40
Mary Magdalen, 40
Philip, 40
Providence Hext, 40, 45, 63
Samuel, 39, 40, 41
Valeria ChisoLm, 29
Priuli, Antonio, 39
Girolamo, 39
Lorenzo, 39
Maria, 39
Nicolo Antonio, 39
Radcliffe, Judith, 22
Read, Ann Cleland, 75
Benjamin Huger, 74, 75
INDEX
93
Read, Cleland Kinloch, 75
Eliza Baker, 74
Elizabeth Middleton, 75
Emily Anne, 75
Francis Kinloch, 75
John Harleston, 74
JuHa Middleton, 74
Mary Louise, 74
Mary Middleton, 75
Oliver Middleton, 74
Sanders Glover, 74
Susan Chisolm, 75
Reade, Col. George, 61
Mildred, 6i
Reed, Katherine A., 71
Rhett, Catherine, 57
Col. William, 57
Rhinelander, Mary Rogers, 47
William, 47
William Christopher, 47
Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina), 55
Elizabeth, 55
John Harsen, 55
Robert, Christopher Rhinelander, 47
Mary, 47
Robins, Col. Obedience, 62
Robinson, FeUcia Hurtel, 33
Murray, 33
Rogers Family, 47
Rogers, Ichabod, 47
Jeremiah, 47
John, 47, 49
Mary, 47
Mary Ann, 47
Rose, Alexander, 17
Hugh, of Kilravock, 10
Wilham, 17
Ross, Lady Janet, 21
Rutledge, Alice Weston, 76, 77
Amelia Van Cortlandt, 77
Anna Wells, 77
Anne Blake, 77
Benjamin Huger, 74, 76
Dorothea Barclay, 77
Edward, 41, 73, 77
Eleanor Middleton, 76
EHza, 34, 35, 36
Eliza Huger, 77
Elizabeth, 77
Ella Middleton, 77
Emma Blake, 76
Emma Middleton, 78
Frances Blake, 77
Francis Huger, 42
Helen Blake, 77
Henry, 78
Hugh, 42, 76
John, 35, 41
Oliver Middleton, 77
Susan Middleton, 77
Savage, Margaret, 62
Thomas, 62
SCHIEFFELIN FAMILY, 30
Schieffelin, Charles (Miller), 30, 49
Effingham, 30
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg,
49
George Richard, 31
Helen Lawrence, 50
Helen Margaret, 29, 31
Henry Hamilton, 30
Jacob, 30
Julia Rhinelander, 49
Mary Chisolm, 49
Richard Lawrence, 30
William Henry, 30
Schutt, Caspar C, 63
Harriet Emily, 37, 46, 63
Scotland, Kings of : James I., 16;
Malcolm IV., 20; Robert H., 57;
Robert III., 8; Robert Bruce, 15,
16; WilHam the Lion, 20
Scott, Alexander, 9
Margaret, 9
Screven, Alice, 32
Sheaffe, Mary, 47, 49
William, 49
Sinclair, Anne, 56
Lady Eleanor, 16
Sir Robert, 56
William, Earl of Orkney, 16
Smith, Ann Cleland, 75
Ann Mason, 77
Elizabeth, 51
Richard, 52
Spencer-Churchill, George C, Duke
of Marlborough, 54
Steel, David, 66
N. Elizabeth, 66
Stelle, Margaret, 54
Stevens, Com. Edward A., 60
Mary Barton Picton, 60
Stewart, Earls of Athol, 15-17
Stewart, Alexander, Lord High Stew-
ard, 17
Lady Elizabeth, 15, 16
Elizabeth, 9
94
INDEX
Stewart, Lady Isabel, 9
Sir James, Black Knight of Lorn,
16
John, Earl of Athol, 15, 16
John, Earl of Lennox, 16
Sir John, of Bonkyl, 17
Lispenard, 47
Lady Margaret, 57
Robert, Duke of Albany, 9
Sir Robert, of Durisdeer, 9
Sir Robert, of Innermeath, 17
Walter, Lord High Steward, 15
Stickney, Charles Dickinson, 54
Stirling, Helen, 10
Strathbogie, David de. Earl of Athole,
15
Margaret de, 15
Stratherne, Malise, Earl of, 1 1
Matilda de, 11
Sutherland, Alexander, Baron Duffus,
9
Kenneth, Earl of, 9
Swinton, Hugh, 56
Sir John, 56
Mary, 56
William, 56
Talbois, Anne, 62
Sir George, 62
Thayer, James B., 75
William Sidney, 75
Thurston, Edward North, 32
Tonetti, F. M. L., 53
Townley, Charles, 52
Dorothy, 52
Mary, 52
Sir Richard, 52
Townsend, Henry, 52
Phebe, 52
Rosetta, 52 ,
Thomas S., 52
Trenholm, Augusta McKellip, 67
Donald Chisolm, 67
Edward L., 66
Eliza Holmes, 66
Evelyn Chisolm, 67
Glover Chisolm, 67
Glover Holmes, 66
Julia Chisolm, 66
Julian Chisolm, 67
Mary Chisolm, 66
Tweed, Mary, 58
Robert, 58
Underhill, Sir Edward, 53
Capt. John, 53
John, Bishop of Oxford, 53
Lydia, 53
Walter, 53
Untermyer, Alvin, 55
Urquhart Castle, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14
Van Schlichtenhorst, Brandt Arentse,
54
Van Schuyler, Filyp Pieterse, 54
Van Uxem, James, 58
Van Wyck, Cornelius, 52
Harriet, 52
Vaux, William de, 8
Vincent, Esther, 46
Maria Chisolm, 65
Mattie Boon, 65
WiUiam E., 65
ViPouNT Family, 4
Vipount, Emma de, 3, 5
Isabella de, 5
John de, 5
Robert de, 4, 5
Sir William de, 5
William de, 3, 4, 5
Walker, Mrs. Marie Whaley, 28
Walter, Lee C, 58
Warner, Col. Augustine (I.), 61
Col. Augustine (II.), 61
Mildred, 61
Warren, Adelina de, 20
William, Earl of Surrey, 20
Washington, Betty, 61
George, 61
Lawrence, 61
Mildred, 61
Waters, Capt. Edward, 62
Webb, Benjamin Deford, 71
Weiser, Conrad, 48
Wells, Edward, 77
Lily Huger, 77
Wemyss, Sir David, 21
Isabel, 21
Weston, Annie Duncan, 33
Wheelwright, Annie G., 55
Williams, John, 72
Margaret, 40, 41
Mary, 72
Robert, Jr., 40, 41
Sarah, 64
INDEX
95
Williams, Winthrop, 64
Isabel Susannah, 23
Willis, Byrd Charles, 61
James, 22, 23
Catherine, 61
Janet, 23
Henry, 61
Janet Christina, 23
Lewis, 61
John, 22, 23
Mary Champa, 61
Judith Isabel, 22
Wilson, Alexander, 22, 23
Mary Philip, 23
Alexander Chisolm, 23
Robert, 22, 23, 43
Anne, 23
Samuel, 22
Catherine Marianne, 43
Windebanke, Sir Thomas, 62
Christina, 23
Wise, Henry A., 62
Hugh Rose, 23
Mary E., 62
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