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GENEALiOGY
OF THE
PAGE FAMILY IN VIRGINIA.
ALSO A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OJ- THE
NELSON, WALKER, PENDLETON AND RANDOLPH FAMILIES,
WITH REKERENCES TO THE
BLAND, BURWELL, BYRD, CARTER, GARY, DUKE, GILMER, HARRISON,
.RIVES, THORNTON, WELLFORD, WASHINGTON,
AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED FAMILIES IN VIRGINIA.
BY
RICHARD CHANNING MOORE PAGE, M,D.,
Life Member of the American Historical Association ; of the Neiv York Historical
Societij ; and Member of the Virginia Historical Society, etc.
SECOND EDITION.
NEW YORK:
PRESS OF THE PUBLISHERS' PRINTING CO.,
120 & 122 East 14th Street.
1893.
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THE MEMORY OF
COL. JOHN PAGE,
FIRST OF HIS FAMILY IX VIRGINIA,
AVHOSE TEMPERATE AND INDUSTRIOUS HABITS, INDOMITABLE ENERGY,
AND STRICT INTEGRITY,
WON FOR HIM A HIGH PLACE IN THE CONFIDENCE OF THEIR MAJESTIES,
WILLIAM AND MARY,
AS A MEMBER OF THEIR COUNCIL IN THE
DOMINION OF VIRGINIA,
AND ARE WELL WORTHY OF IMITATION BY HIS DESCENDANTS,
THIS LITTLE BOOK
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
Ten years have elapsed since the first edition of the " Genealogy
of the Page Family in Virginia " was issued. During that time ad-
ditional facts have been ascertained and minor errors corrected.
There is also continued demand for the book. For these reasons the
author has determined to issue a second edition. The following is a
revised list of those who have furnished valuable information :
1. Prof. William Allen, deed., McDonough Institute, Maryland.
2. Miss Isabella Nelson Atkinson, Gonzales, Texas.
3. H. Farnham Burke, Somerset, College of Arms, London.
4. Mrs. George Byrd, New York City.
5. Capt. R. R. Carter, deed., Shirley, on James River, Virginia.
6. Mrs. Fanny Page Nelson Carter, Holly oak, near Shirley,
Virginia.
7. Wilson Miles Cary, Baltimore, Maryland.
8. John Esten Cooke, deed., Clarke County, Virginia.
9. Mrs. Nellie Deans Taylor, Norfolk, Virginia.
10. R. T. W. Duke, Jr., Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., Vir-
ginia.
11. Ernest A. Ebblewhite, College of Arms, London.
12. Mrs. John Boiling Garrett, Albemarle County, Virginia.
13. Mrs. Elizabeth H. Gordon, Baltimore, Maryland.
14. Miss Mary Jane Griffith, deed.. Shelly, Gloucester Co., Vir-
ginia.
15. Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, Charlotte County, Virginia.
16. Mrs. Mary R. P. Harrison, The Rowe, on James River,
Virginia.
17. Mrs. Ellen W. R. Harrison, Edge Hill, Albemarle Co.,
Virginia.
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18. Genl. Roger Jones, Inspector- Gen., U. S. Army, Washing-
ton, D. C.
19. Mrs. Fannie B. P. Meade, deed., Washington, D. C.
20. Mrs. Fannie B. N. Mercer, Yorktown, Virginia.
21. Miss L. Page Nelson, New York City.
22. Dr. Robert W. Nelson, Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., Vir-
ginia.
23. Col. William Nelson, deed., Oakland, Hanover Co., Vir-
ginia.
24. Col. William N. Nelson, Clarke County, Virginia.
25. W. Steptoe Nelson, Bedford County, Virginia.
26. Mann Page, Esqr., Lower Brandon, on James River, Vir-
ginia.
27. Legh R. Page, Esqr., Richmond, A^irginia.
28. John W. Page, Esqr., Petersville, Frederick Co., Maryland.
29. Peyton N. Page, deed., Gloucester County, Virginia.
30. Dr. John R. Page, Birmingham, Alabama.
31. William N. Page, Esqr., deed., Cumberland County, Vir-
ginia.
32. John Page, Esqr., Hanover County, Virginia.
33. Thomas Nelson Page, Richmond, Virginia.
34. Miss Lucy M. F. Page, Washington, D. C.
35. Thomas Walker Page, deed., Albemarle County, Virginia.
36. Carter H. Page, Esqr., Charlottesville, Virginia.
37. Frederick W. Page, Esqr., Librarian, University of Vir-
ginia.
38. Judge John E. Page, deed., Clarke Count}', Virginia.
39. Prof. Frederick M. Page, University of the South, Sewanee,
Franklin Co., Tennessee.
40. Capt. John Page, deed., Argentine Nav}*.
41. Capt. Thomas Jefferson Page, U. S. N., Florence, Italy.
42. George C. Page, Rome, Italy.
43. Samuel H. Pendleton, Elizabeth, New Jersej'.
44. Mrs. W. N. Pendleton, deed., Lexington, Rockbridge Co.,
Virginia.
45. Mrs. Judge Roger A. Prj^or, New York Cit}'.
46. Mrs. D. Coupland Randolph, deed., Cumberland County,
Virginia.
PREFACE. ix
47. Dr. Robert C. Randolph, deed., Clarke County, Virginia.
48. Miss Polly Cary Randolph, Clarke County, Virginia.
49. Francis R. Rives, Esqr., deed., New York City.
50. William C. Rives, Esqr., deed., Newport, R. I.
51. Norborne Thomas Nelson Robinson, New Orleans, Louisiana.
52. Mrs. Lucy B. P. Saunders, deed., Washington, D. C.
53. Stephen Tucker, deed., Somerset, College of Arms, London.
54. Lyon Gardner Tyler, Esqr., Richmond, Virginia.
For the purpose of ascertaining the parentage of Col. John
Page, progenitor of the Page family in Virginia, an exact copy of the
coat-of-arms and inscription on his original tombstone at Williams-
burg, James City Co., Virginia, was sent in 1879 to Mr. Stephen
Tucker, of the College of Arms, London. At first Mr. Tucker con-
cluded that he was the brother of Mary who, according to the record
at Harrow, were the " sonne and daughter of Thomas Page, of Sud-
bury," and "baptized 20 Deer. 1G28." But upon further examina-
tion it was found that both those children died soon after the}" were
born. That theorv, therefore, had to be abandoned.
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In May, 1884, the author received a letter from Mr. L5"on Gard-
ner Tyler, of Richmond, Virginia (son of Ex-President John Tyler,
U. S. America), saying that while looking over the records in the
Clerk's office at Yorktown, Virginia, for papers regarding his own
family, he had accidentally discovered the recorded will of Col. John
Page. It was through this will that the parentage of Col. Page was
finally established. A legally authenticated copy was taken by the
author to London in Jul}', 1884, and placed in the custody of Mr.
Tucker. Upon the death of the latter in Januar}', 1887, his successor,
Mr. H. Farnham Burke, son of the author of " Extinct and Dormant
Baronetcies, " took charge of the matter. From the names of persons
and places mentioned in Col. John Page's will, search was made in
St. Marj-'s Church, Bedfont Parish, Middlesex Co., England, with
the result of establishing his parentage, as fully set forth elsewhere.
Regarding family portraits the same remarks hold good as in
the preface to the first edition, except as follows :
Mrs. Belle Burwell Mayo, 110 West Franklin Street, Richmond,
Virginia, has the portraits of Mann Page (father of Gov. John Page)
and Anne Corbin Tayloe, his second wife. Thej^ were formerly
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in possession of Mrs. Mary B. Whiting, deed., of Millwood P. O.,
Clarke Co., Virginia.
The portrait of Mary Mann is at present owned by Dr. R. C.
M. Page, of New York, he having received it from Capt. Thomas
Jefferson Page, of Florence, Italy, in August, 1892. This portrait
had been in Captain Page's family for fifty-three years. It was first
carried to the Argentine Republic, S. A., after the Civil War in the
United States, and afterward to Florence. There are yet five other
family portraits remaining in possession of Captain Page, as de-
scribed elsewhere. The portrait of Mann Page, Jr. (half-brother of
Gov. John Page) and Elizabeth, his sister, who afterward married
Benjamin Harrison, of Brandon, is in the possession of Mrs. Lucy
Gwyn Carter, of Winchester, Frederick Co., Virginia.
The portrait of Robert Page, of Broadneck, is thought to be
in possession of Commodore William Hopkins, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia.
R. C. M. PAGE, M.D.
31 West 33d Street,
New York, 1893.
PART r.
PAGE FAMILY IX VIRGINIA.
COAT-OF-ARMS OF COL. JOHN PAGE,
FIRST OF HIS FAMILY IN VIRGINIA.
AS EMBLAZONED BY J. S. AND A. B. WYON, CHIEF ENGRAVERS OF HER MAJESTY'S SEALS,
287 Regent Street, London.
■• Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, ivhich minister
questions, rather than godly edifying. " — i Timothy i. 4.
" Bitt avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions,
and strivings about the laic; for they are unprofitable and vain." —
Titus hi. 9.
(From the original portrait by Sir Peter Lely, London, 1660.)
COL. JOHN PAGE,
Williamsburg, James City County, Virginia,
FIRST OF THE PAGE FAMILY IX VIRGINIA.
Died 23d January, 1692, Aged (35.
PAGE FAMILY.
I. John Page, the first of the family in Virginia, is mentioned
on his tombstone at Williamsburg, James City Co., Virginia, as
"Colonel John Page, of Bruton Parish, Esquire."
According to the record in the custody of the registrar of the
College of Arms, London, he was the son of Francis Page, of the
Parish of Bedfont, Middlesex Co., England.
Francis Page died loth Oct., I*i78, aged eighty-four and was
buried in the chancel of St. Mary's Church, Bedfont. The inscrip-
tion on the tombstone shows that it was placed there by " John Page,
his son, of York County, Virginia, Merchant." The original tomb-
stone was removed from the church in 1865 during repairs, and was
placed in the churcliA-ard against the eastern wall where it now
stands. But in 1880 a brass plate was put in the chancel where the
original tombstone formerly rested. On the brass plate is an ex-
act copy of the coat-of-arms and inscription from the original, and a
statement that it was placed there in 1889 by Dr. Richard Channing
Moore Page, of New York.
The coat-of-arms found on the tombstone of Col. John Page, at
Williamsburg, Va., is as follows, the arms being identical in out-
line with those of Francis Page, except the bordure:
Arms— A fesse daucette between three martlets, a middle chief crescent.
Cresx- — A demi-horse forcene (rearing).
There are no marks on the tombstone to indicate the tinctures,
and no motto. The latter, however, is unimportant. The crescent
found on the arms signifies merely "second son." Col. John Page
married, about 1656, Alice, whose surname, from the coat-of-arms on
her tombstone at Williamsburg, Va. , is supposed to be Luckin, of the
County of Middlesex, England. It is thought that she was descended
from the baronet of the same name whose coat-of-arms is as follows :
Arms. — Sable, a fesse indented between two leopards' faces or.
Crest. — A demi-griffin or, issuing out of a tower paly of six of the
last and sable.
This exactly corresponds in outline with that found on the
tombstone of Alice, the wife of Col. John Page, except that in the
latter case the arms have a bordure.
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PAGE FAMILY.
The omission of the bordure to the arms on the tombstone of Col.
John Page appears to have been the error of a sculptor who placed
it by mistake on the arms of the wife Alice, where it does not belong.
The arms of the Page family in Virginia are, therefore, the first
above-named of Francis Page of Bedfont, County of Middlesex,
England, as follows :
Arms. — Or, a fesse dancette between three martlets azure.
Crest. — A demi- horse forcene (rearing) per pale dancette or and azure.
Motto. — Spe Labor Levis.
The following is an accurate diagram of the fragments of the
original tombstone of Col. John Page, placed, 1877, in the vestibule
of the Episcopal Church at Williamsburg, James City Co. , Va.
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Here liethlnho|peofajoyfull Resurection
the Body of Couonel John Page of
Bruton Parish!) Esquire. One of their
Majesties Counail in the Dominion
of Virginia . Wlip Departed this
life the 2j of J muary in the year
of our Lordi |6^i Aged 63 .
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Col. John Page was born in England, 1G27, and emigrated to
Virginia about KJoO when he was about twenty-three years of age.
According to his tombstone he died '^od January, 16r»-:2, aged sixty-
five.
His wife Alice (Luckin?) died at Williamsburg, James City
Co., Va., 2"2d June, IGO- (last figure obliterated), aged seventy-
three.
The following is an exact copy of the coat-of-arms and inscrip-
tion on her tombstone :
Here lyeth the Body of Alice Page
wife of John Page of y County of York
in Virginia. Aged 73 years. Who
departed this life the 22d day of June
Anno Domini 169-.
The last figure is obliterated, but it looks like 8 : thus, 1698.
In regard to the above inscription on the tombstone of " Alice
Page, wife of John Page, of y" County of York in Virginia," it
may be stated that the two counties of York and James City come
together at Williamsburg, Va., so that Col. John Page might have
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lived in York County, although he is buried in James City County ;
or he may have lived in both counties at different times.
All records at Williamsburg', Va., up to recent times have been
destroyed, as appears from the following certificate of Dr. Robert M.
Garrett, lately deceased :
" WU.LIAMSBURG, Va, 16th Dec, 1879.
"I (li) liereby certify that the records in the clerk's office of the city of
Williamsburg and James 'City Count}-, Virginia, contain no will of Col. John
Page, and that the clerk thereof states that all records of both offices — up to a
short period before the late war — were destroyed during the war.
"Given under my hand and seal as Justice of the Peace for the city of
Williamsburg.
"Ro. M. Garrett, J P." [L. S ]
In January-, 18T8, a new monument of Carrara marble was
erected at the head of Col. John Page's grave, which was found by
the side of that of his wife Alice. The following is copied from the
Richmond, Va., Weekhj State, of 15th Feb., 1878:
" A very chaste but substantial obelisk was erected last month over the
gi'ave of Col. Jolm Page, in the old Episcopal churchyard, at Williamsburg,
Va. , by Dr. R. Channing M. Page, of New York. The fragments of about
lialf the original tombstone were found and collected from various parts of the
churchyard. By permission of the vestry, these were placed in the vestibule
of the church for preservation The coat-of-arms and inscription are still visi-
ble, the latter reading as follows :
" ■ Here lieth in hope of a Joyfull Resurection the Body of Colonel John
Page, of Bruton Parish, Esquire. One of their Majesties Council in the
Dominion of Virginia. Who Departed this life the 23 of January, in the year
of our Lord -69^. Aged 65. '
'■ The date of the year has been obliterated in part, but it must have been,
originally, 169|. The grave was marked by a mound of broken bricks, etc. ,
by the side of his wife, Alice, whose tombstone is still in a fair state of pres-
ervation. The obelisk is about twelve feet high, and consists of a shaft, die,
and base of the best Carrara marble, with a plinth of granite, the whole having
been very neatly executed by Messrs. Draddy Bros., of Broadwaj*, New York.
It is erected on a solid foundation of brick and cement, extending six feet
deep, at a total cost of five hundred dollars. The inscriptions, etc., are as
follows, viz. , Front face : coat-of-arms. Col. John Page died 23d January,
1692. Aged, 65. Name and date also on plinth beneath the ground. Reverse :
'He being dead yet speaketh. ' — Heb. xi. 4. Right face : the original inscription
copied from the old tombstone with a notice to that effect. Reverse : erected
January, 1878, to replace the original tombstone. "
£5^3
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(From a drawing by Draddy Bros., Broadway, New York, 1878.)
MONUMENT TO COL. JOHN PAGE,
Williamsburg, James City County, Virginia.
Erected January, 1878, to replace the original tombstone.
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"Their Majesties," occurring in the inscription refers, of course,
to William and Mary, who reigned 1690-1702, They were suc-
ceeded by Queen Anne, 1702-14.
It is evident that the fragment of date, -69^, found on the
tombstone of Col. John Page, was, originally, 169^. This means
1691 or 1692, and was also written 16|^, 1691-2, or 1691-'92, etc.
The error of the Julian calendar consisted in making the year
365^ days, which was about eleven minutes too long. This in time
amounted to days. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII. ordered the 5th
October to be called the 15th, and that the years 1700, 1800 and
1900 should not be accounted leap years. That is the Gregorian
calendar.
The change from Julian to Gregorian reckoning was made in
Great Britain bj^ act of Parliament, Sept., 1752, the 3d of that
month being called the 14th, and the following year to commence
January 1st instead of March 25th. It appears that O. S. (old sij\e)
and N. S. (new style) refer only to the Julian and Gregorian calen-
dars respectively, e.g.: George Washington, born 11th Feb., O. S. ;
22dFeb., N. S.
From the fourteenth century up to 1752, in England, the legal
and ecclesiastical year both began 25th March, which was the sup-
posed date of the immaculate conception. After the change was
adopted, in 1752, by which the legal year began 1st January, events
which had occurred in January, February, and up to the 25th March
of the old legal year, would, according to the new arrangement, be
reckoned in the next subsequent year. In such cases, the dates of
both years were given, and this custom prevailed for a long time
after the change in 1752 was adopted.
Bishop Meade, in his " Old Churches, Ministers, and Families
in Virginia," Vol. I., p. 146, states as follows:
"In 1078 it was proposed to erect, at Williamsburg, a good
church to take the place of two indifferent ones in the parish. Row-
land Jones was the first rector. John Page, first of the Family,
headed the list of subscriptions with £20, and gave the ground for
the church and gravej^ard. . . . Afterwards his eldest son, Francis,
enlarged the church," etc. For a picture of this church see Bishop
Meade, opus citatum, Vol. I., p. 146.
Bishop Meade, Vol. I., op. cit., p. 195, also states that it was
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called Bniton Parish, in honor of Thomas Liulwell, who came from
a parish of the same name in Somersetshire, England.
The church and wall around the churchyard are built of brick,
and are both in a good state of preservation. It is usually said that
the bricks used in the building of this and of other churches in those
days, were imported. This, however, is probably a mistake. Rev.
Philip Slaughter (" Hist, of Bristol Parish," p. DO) says : " There was
no occasion for it, as brickmakers were among the earliest impor-
tations, and the bills for moulding and burning the brick for the
capitol at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., are still extant.
(Palmer's Calendar of State Papers, 125; 1st Henning, 208.)"
The gates, both of wrought iron, are very ornamental. The ivy
that now grows so luxuriantly at the east end of the church, orig-
inally came from Westminster Abbey, England.
The following is a copy of a letter from Col. John Page to his
son ]\Iatthew :
"To My Loving Son, Capt. Matthew Page.
"Son Matthew : I herewith present you a New Years gift, wherein you
may observe the excellency of Sci'ipture learning, which I desire that you may
read, mark, and learn, that you may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed
hope of everlasting life which God hath given you in the Gospel of ovn- Saviour
Jesus Christ. You will in this little book see what you are by nature — born in
sin, having in 3'oa an original pravity, indisposition to do good, and i^roneness
to evil. There is also tavight you that Christ by His death vau(|uished death
as Himself saith (Jolm xi., 25), "I am the resurrection and the life: he that
believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. " Therefore endeavor
that Christ's death may become effectual to your soul, that you may rise from
the death of sin to righteousness of life. Keep yourself from sin, and pray for
God's Spirit to establish faith and sanctificatiou in your heart, that you may
live an heavenly conversation on earth ; that, after death, eternal glory may be
your portion. Set not lighth' by my gift, but esteem those fatherly instructions
above earthly riches. Consider the dignity of yovir soul, and let no time slip
whereby jou may, with God's assistance, work out your salvation with fear
and trembling. I pray God bless you and give His blessing to what I have
written for your everlasting happiness, Avhich is the prayer of your truly loving
father, John Page.
'•January 1st, 1688."
The little book referred to in this letter, and presented by Col.
John Page to his son Matthew, on the first day of Januarv, 1688, as
a New Year's gift, was a MS. on parchment in Colonel Page's hand-
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writing, and heavily bound. It contained practical instructions of
a religious nature, together with quotations from the Bible. Though
perhaps it was never intended for the press, yet it was so much esteemed
by the late Bishop William Meade, of Virginia, that in the year 1856
he had it published. It was printed from the original MS. by Henry
B. Ashmead, George St., above Eleventh, Philadelphia, Pa. There
are a limited number of copies. These are distributed chiefly among
Colonel Page's descendants, by whom the book is known as '' The
Deed of Gift."
Bishop Meade, in his preface to this book, states that Col. John
Page died 28d January, 1091-2, aged sixty. This is an evident mis-
take, since, according to the inscription on his tombstone, he died
at that time, aged sixty-five.
At the end of the book there is a notice — written by Bishop
Meade presumably, though not signed — stating that the book was
written by a titled personage. This mistake appears to be due to a
statement made by Gov. John Page, in his brief autobiography, in
which he sa3^sthat Colonel Page was supposed to have been knighted
(see Bishop Meade, op. cit., Vol. I., p. 147, note). That he was not
knighted, however, is a fact now well known and easily proved. It
is not known what became of the original MS. of " The Deed of Gift."
It is positively certain, however, that Mr. Henry B. Ashmead, of
Philadelphia, after printing the book, returned the original MS. to
Bishop William Meade. It is highly probable that the original MS.
is now in possession of the family of Capt. Thomas Jefferson Page,
U.S.N., now residing in Florence, Italy.
The following is a copy of the will of Col. John Page, taken from
the records in the clerk's office at Yorktown, Va., in Maj^, 1884:
In the name of God Amen. I, John Page, of Middle Plantation, in Yorke
County, in Virginia, Esqr. , being in good health, perfect memory & under-
standing (praised be God) doe make & ordain this my last Will & Testament
in manner & form as following. Imprimis I surrender my soule into y hands
of God, my Creator, considering that my body being raised from nothing to
what ittisnow, is a mutation noe lesse than infinite; stedfastly believing after
this mortall life ended, that by y Divine power of God & merrit of my Saviour,
Jesus Christ, y'' ressurrection of my body and everlasting life, my body I re-
mitt to y Earth, to be decentlj' buryed, with Christian buriall according to y
reights & ceremonies of y" Church of England, in y" Church yard of Bruton
Pish, where I now live (if I happen to dye in or near that Pish) within ten
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foot of y South side of y'' Cliurch wall from }•« Chancill Door to y' East end of
y Chunh, And that over my <;rave erected with brick three foot six inches
above ground, be laid u pollisht black marble stone of a good dimention. Itm.
(in case itt shall happen that my dear and loving wife shall survive me) I give
unto her so long as she shall live, and to my beloved son Francis Page & his
heires forever. All of my seat, tract or divident of laud situate lying and Iteing
att Middle Plantation, aforesaid, together with that other Plantation or tract
of land situate neare James Citty, called y" Neck of land, formerly pai-t of y
land & possession of my brother Mathew Page, deceased, which by and after
his decease, was according to his will nuide over and given to his son Mathew
Page, and which by y" ^lathew Page y*^^ son was mortgaged to me y one and
twentieth day of Decemb. one thousand six hundred and eighty three, and
acknowledged in y" Gen" Court, y* nineteenth day of Aprill then next follow-
ing, for security of y payment of one hundred & four pounds Ster'*-', y which
sum (with twent}' six pounds more I gave him) I i>aid and delivered for ree-
deeming him from Slavery out of Algiers & cloathing him att London) with
all tenements houses out houses edittices profitts emoluments & appurtenances
what soever, to y said several plantations or either of them belonging or ap-
purtainiug. And I doe also bequeath y use possession and occupation of all &
singular such servants slaves cattle horses sheep hogs, household stuffe lining
woollen plate brass pewter, bedding furniture, utensills of household & hus-
bandry both within dores & without, and all & singular other my goods chat-
tells and personall estate whatsoever, which att y time of my decease shall be
remaining or being on my said plantations att Middle Plantation & Neck of
land, or thereto or either of them belonging or therewith used and enjoyed, the
rents proffits increase cropps neat proceeds, benefits & advantages, which shall
arise, be made or had, of & from, my said plantations att Middle Plantation &
Neck of land, or either of them, y* first and principall stock, being in the first
place made good & vindeminished both in quantity & quallity. And alsoe y*
houses, fences orchards & plantations kept in as good order and repair as they
shall be att y° time of iwj decease) to be equally devided, had and taken by and
between my said wife & my said sonn Francis, his Executors, Adm" Assignes,
And in case of y*^ death of my said wife either before or after me, then I doe
give will & bequeath my said personall Estate, remaining or foinid at my said
plantations att Middle Plantation and Neck of land or either of them unto my
said sonn Francis, his Executors Adn^^ or Assignes forever. And I doe hereby
declare that my said wife, by the true intent & meaning of this my Will is
only to have a Joynt Estate for her life with my said sonn Francis and his
heirs, in and to y" said two plantations att Middle Plantation and Neck of
land, and to the personall estate on y<* said plantations, shee is only to have
y** joynt use thereof for her life, with my said sonn Francis, his Executors or
Assignes, onh' \' neat proceeds of y proffits arising therebj' from & after my
decease as aforesaid to be divided had and taken equally (that is to say) one
moyety or halfe part by my said wife and the other half part by my said sonn
Francis, his Executors and Assignes. And that in case of the death of my said
wife before or after me, mv son Francis is to have the aforesaid two plantations
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to liim aud liis heires forever, and y personall estate to the said plantations &
either of them belonging as aforesaid to him his Esecu'" Adm''^ and Assignes
for ever more, provided always and neverthelesse, that if my said nephew,
Matthew Page, doe or shall at anytime within tenn years, next after y" date of
this my will pay or cause to be paid to me my Execut'^'' or Assignes y* aforesaid
sum of one hundred and four pounds Ster' for which y said plantation att y*
Neck of land stands mortgaged to me as aforesaid, that then my devise or
bequest of y* said plantation, called 3-' Neck of land, only to be voyd and of
noe effect. And that my said cousin [nephew?] Matthew Page, if then living
shall be estajid in and repossessed of so much of y*" said plantation called y"
Neck of land as the mortgage to me, but in case y'^ said Matthew dye before y"
expiration of y said terme of tenn years, then his heires executorrs or adm"
to have noe bennefitt or advantage of this provisoe. Itm forasmuch as I have
been att great charge in y* purchase building & placeing on my plantation
called Mehixtou in New Kent County a competent number of Negroe slaves,
cattle, horses sheei^ hoggs & other things convenient and necessary to maunage
y*" said plantation to advantage, & likewise a considerable expence in erecting
repairing and keeping in order my Mehixton Water Mill on Tottapottamoys
Creek, and as yett finde in my sonn Matthew Page noe inclination to take a
wjfe, now to y end my said plantation and Mill may not basely dessend or
come to him or them, if I shall by this my last Will appoynt without y" stock
that sliall remaine ujjon my said plantation, and ntt y" said Mill att y" time of
my death, therefore for y® better of such person or persons that shall succeed
in y*" inhabiting my sd plantation Mehixton, and enjoy my said Mill, my
Will is, and I hereby give and bequeatli unto my said dear and loving wife
Alice, and my well beloved sonn Matthew Page for their respective lives all
that my said seat tract or divident of land called Mahixton with all houses,
outhouses ediffices profitts & appurtenences thereto belonging, situate on Tot-
tapottamoys Creek, together with the use jiossession and occupation of all such
of my servants, slaves, cattle horses sheep (y' one halfe of y' sheep being now
my said sonn Matthew's) household stuff, linnen wollen, plate, brass, pewter,
bedding, furniture utensills of household & husbandry, both within doores &
without, & all & singular other my goods chattells and i:)ersonall estate, what-
soever which att y* time of my decease shall be remaining or being on my said
plantation called Mahixton, and the aforesaid Mill or thereto belonging, or
therewith enjoyed, y" rents, profitts, encrease, advantage, bennefitt, cropps
and cleare proceeds of y" same (y principall stock not being diminished, but
first made good both in quantity and quality) to be equally divided, had and
taken by and between my said wife and my said son Matthew, share & share
alike (that is one moyet}" to y one, and the other moyety to y other, for and
towards their necessary support & maintainance. And further it is my Will
and intent that my Mahixton plantation and Mill forever remain & continue
insepable to whome y right tytle or interest of _y said plantation shall come
being dependant one on y other, and in case of the death of my said wife be-
fore or after my decease, and before my said sonn Matthew, then I give and
bequeath my said whoie plantation called Mehixton with y appurtences and
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y aforesaid Mill & lands with y*^ appurtences to them or either of them belong-
ing unto my said sonn Matthew, for y- terme of his uatureal life & y" use pos-
session and occupation of all & every, the servants, negroes, cattle goods chat-
tells and other personal estate to y said plantation called Mehixton and Mill
belonging, only for his life, and after the decease of my wife and son IMatthew,
I give and beiiueath my said plantation called Mahixton with y appurtences
and }•"■ said Mill and lands thereto belonging unto y* heires male or female of
y" body of my said sonn Matthew, lawfully begotten or to be begotten. And
for want of such issue of my said son Matthew, then I give the said plantation
called Mehixton with appurtences and Mill with y" land thei-eunto belonging,
together with y'' use bennefitt and occupation of all such of my servants, slaves,
cattle, horses, household stufFe, and other my personall estate thereto belonging
to my nephew, John Page, son of my brother Robert Page late of Hattou on
Hownsley heath, for and during y" terme of y" natureall life of y" said John
Page. And from and after his decease, I give and bequeath y" said plantation
of Mehixton, and y sai<l Mill and appurtences with y" use of all the negroes,
serv" cattle household stuffe and other per.sonall estate to the said plantation &
Mill, belonging, to the heires male of the said John Page lawfully begotten or
to be begotten, and for want of such heir maile on y" body of my said nephew
John Page, then to the R' heire of me y testator, on this condition neverthe-
less, that if my said Cozen [XKPHEwr] Jiihn or his heir male, doe not per-
sonally come into Vii-g" and actually live on my said plantation of Mehixton
within eighteen monthes next after notice that y'' same shall or may come to
him, by y true intent of this my will, then y" bequest hereby made to him or
them shall be utterly voyd. and upon such refusall y said plantation called
Mehixton and Mill, witli all iny personall estate thereto belonging to goe and
decend forever to such reiglit heir of me y«' testator, as shall be actually living
in Virginia. Itm. I give and bequeath to my said wife Alice and two sonues
Francis and Matthew, y" lease of those five tennements with y appurtenances,
situate on Longditch in y" Citty of Westminster (whicli I hould of y Dean &
Chapter of y Collegiatt Church of St. Peeters in Westminster, for y*" ternje of
twenty seven j-ears from y five and twenth day of March next to come and
unexpired att y* yearly Rent of forty eight shillings and sixpence, for four ac-
quitances) which houses I have lett to Francis Norris, Bricklayer, and Dan'
Finch, Carpenter, by lease dated y four and Twentyeth day of March Anno
Dom. one thousand six hundred eighty three for Twenty seven years to come
the five and twentyeth day of December now last jjast imder y reserved yearly
rent of forty pounds Ster' to have and to hold to my said wife and two sons
and the longer liver of them his Execut"^" Adm" or Assignes with the improved
rent thereby due and payable, for and dureing y residue of y= terme which att
my decease shall be to come of y" lease granted to me of y" same
Itm. I give y* remainder of my two hundred and ninety one acres of land
situate in y forks of Powhatan (net sold to Henry Malara) unto my said son
Francis and the heirs male of his body lawfullj* begotten, and for want of such
heirs maile, to my Grandson John Tyler sonn of my Grand daughter Eliz :
Tyler, and his heires forever. Itm. I give to my said Grandson John Tyler the
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sum of fifty pounds Ster' to be paid att his age of eighteen j^ears, and in case
he dye before that age, then in lieu thereof I give ilie sum of tJiirty pounds
Ster' to such other child of my said Grand daughter, Eliz : Tyler as shall attaine
first to y" age of eighteen years. Itm. I give to the children of my brother
Matthew Page one hundred pounds Ster' (that is to say) to my aforesaid Cozin
[nephew?] Matthew Page, thirty three pounds six shillings eight pence, to
my Cozin [nephew?] Luke Page thirty three pounds six shillings eight pence,
and to my Cozin [niece?] Marj' Page y" like sum of thirty three pounds six
shillings eight pence Ster', all which last mentioned sumes, in lett shall be sett
apart and paid by my Execut" out of my Estate before any divission be made
thereof among themselves, to y j)erson such legacj- is before given & not to y"
Executors or Adm'" of such Legatee as shall happen to dye before me. And
further it is my will, intent & meaning and soe I hereby declare that if it
shall appeare by my booke written with my owne hand or if itt be with my
owne hand indorsed on this my Will, that I have made payment in parte or in
whole of any y legacies before mentioned, that then such payment made by
me in my life shall be accounted as so much paid of any of y" said legacies
and what shall be behinde and unpaid, shall be only made good by my Execut".
Itm : I give and bequeath j" profitts of all and every part, parts, or share of
such shipps, as at y" time of ni}^ decease, I shall have an interest or title to
unto my said dear and loving wife, and two well beloved sonus Francis and
Matthew, to be divided equally between them dureing y"^ uatureall life of my
said wife, and from and after her decease, I give my part and shares of y*
ships called the Augustine, and y"" East India Merchant (formerly called the
Prince) unto my said son Francis his Execut'* and Assignes forever. And my
part of y"^ shipp Jeffreys to my said sonn Mathew his Execut'^ and Assignes
forever. And as to all other my goods and chattells, debts, rights, and credits,
due and owing to me by or from any person or persons whatsoever, in England,
Virginia or elsewhere, my debts legacies and fuuerall charges being first paid
and discharged, I give and bequeath to my said dear and loving wife and my
two well beloved sonns Francis and Matthew or such of them as shall be living
att y" time of my decease to be equally divided between them share and share
alike. Itm, itt is my will and desire that such negroes or slaves as I shall dye
possessed of at Midlde Plantations, y" Neck of land, and Mehixton, when they
or any of them grow aged and past tlieir labour, that such decrippitt slave or
slaves be kept ijrovided for and maintained by their respective owners and
masters, with cloathes, dyatt & all other necessaries, in as good sufficient and
like manner as when they were able to work. Itm. my Will is, that with as
convenient speed as may be procured after my decease, eighteen funerall goold
rings, one with another, of y" value of twenty shillings each, be given to those
severall friends if living (Viz') to my brother Francis and his wife, — to ray
brother Gibbs and his wife, — to my sister Ince, those to be given in England,
— to my dear wife, — to my sonn Francis and his wife, — to my son Matthew, —
to my Coz. Henry Tj^ler and his wife, — to my Grandson John Chiles, — to my
honored sister Eliz: Diggs, — to my honored friend Will" Cole, Esquire, — to the
Reverent Rowland Jones minister and his wife ; — These to be given in Virginia,
WILLIAMSBURG. 21
and to m\' brother Robert and his wife iu England. And lastly, of this my last
Will and Testament, I make my said dear wife, Alice, and my said two well
beloved sonnes Francis Page & Matthew Page, Joynt Executors, having great
confidence of my wifes love to our sons, shee being with this my last will right
well i)leased & contented, I charge & require mj- said sons to honor their mother
with that hliall love duty dt obedience as is jjleasing to Almighty God, and
due to parents, each to keep a just and true Ace' of all things relating to their
mothers interest, and faithfully & truly make paym' of her just right & dues
given her l)\' this my last will, that noe dispute, strife, debate, or controversy
may arise between my wife, sons or au}' other Relations claiming any bennefitt
by this my Will, and if any question or doubt shall arise, my will is that y"
exposition and determination thereof, shall be judged from time to time ac-
cording to the litterall sense of this my last will in every behalfe, and by the
discretion of my Execut'* and two other discreet friends, and noe otherwise.
And I doe hereby Revoke all former Wills, bequests, and legacies by me made,
and establish this to be my last Will and Testament. In testimony that this
(contained iu two sheets of paper, is my last Will and Testament, I have in
the presence of three witnesses sett my hand & affixed my seal the fifth day of
March, in y" third year of y* Raigne of our Soveraign Lord King James y*
Second & Anno Dom. 168f
JoHN Page
Signed byy^ Testator JoHX Page (& his wife Alice being also present) and
also sealed and delivered as his last Will & Testament this fifth day of March
Anno 1686 in presence of
Wii Sherwood
[the seal] Hexry Tyler '
Alex. Bonxyman
Yorke Couxty Ss. Ffruary the 24"' 169i presented iu Court by Capt
Ffrancis Page one of the joynt Executo" in y"" within Will mentioned,
and was proved by y'^ oathes of Henry Tyler and Alexander Bonnyman
two of y* witnesses hereunto. And is Recorded
Wm Sedgwick C<' Cur.
Memoraud y* Raseing of part of y*" first and second line, y** sixth, ninth,
eleventh, nineteenth, twentyth, one two and three and twentyeth lines in y
second sheet of this my Will, was obliturated with mine own hand
JoHX Page.
Memorand That on y" thirtyeth day of September 1689 Mr. Geo : Richards
by my order paid to my niece Mary Page, thirty three pounds six shillings
eight pence, in full of all legacy within given, & signed a discharge for the
same. That ony* 28*'' day of December 1689 y like sume of thirty three pounds
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six shillings eiglit pence was paid to my nephew Luke Page in full of y within
Legacy as by both discharges inclosed herein, being fully paid by my order
John Page.
Ffebruaiy y" 24"^ 1694 Recordant. die et Anno superadict
^ WiLLM Sedwicke C Cur. Ebor.
A copy
Teste
A. F. HUDGIXS
Clk Court York County V".
Virginia
York County to wit :
I, A. F. HUDGINS, Clerk of the County Court of York County, State of V",
do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the last Will & Testament
of Jolm Page, deceased, as the same appe'ars of record and on file in my office.
AVitness my hand and the seal of said Court affixed this the 20"'' day of May
A. D. 1884, in the 108"^ year of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
A. F. Htdgins Clerk
York Co. Cts. V^
Virginia
York County to wit :
I, H. B. Warren, Judge of tlie County Court of York County, State of
Virginia, do hereby certify that A. F. Hudgins who hath given the foregoing
Certificate, is clerk of the County Court of York County, State of V" and was
Clerk of said Court at the time of so giving it. And I further certify that his
attestation is in due form of law. Given under mj- hand this 24"' day of May
1884
H. B. Warren Judge.
Resume of the Will of Col. John Page.
Imprimis he surrenders his soul into the hands of God, and directs that
his body shall be buried with Christian burial, according to the rites and
ceremonies of the Church of England, in the churchyard of Bruton Parish,
within ten feet of the south side of the churcli wall, and a black marble stone
to be placed over his grave, on a brick foundation rising 3 ft. 6 in. from the
ground.
I. — He gives equally to his Avife Alice, during her life, and to his son
Francis, and his lieirs forever, his farm with houses, etc., at Middle Plantation,
and the farm with houses, etc., near Jamestown, called Xeck of Land; which
latter belonged to his brother Matthew Page, deceased, whose son Matthew
had mortgaged said farm, called Neck of Land, to the testator, John Page,
21st Dec, 1683, at £104 for redeeming said son ^Matthew from slavery out of
Algiers. In addition he had given the said Matthew £26 for expenses, includ-
ing clothing him, at London.
After the death of his wife Alice, the whole of both places to go to his son
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Francis. If. however, the said Matthew redeem the Neck of Land farm of the
mortgage of £104 in ten jears, the said Matthew is to have the farm back.
OtJierwise it is to go to liis son Francis.
II. — He gives his farm called Mehixton with water mill thereon, both
situated on Tottapottamoy Creek, New Kent Co., Va. , to his wife Alice and
his son Matthew e(|ually. After the death of his wife Alice, his son Matthew
to have it all, and the farm and mill are not to be separated. After the death
of his son Matthew, who as yet is not inclined to marry, the Mehixton farm,
houses, etc., and mill to go to Matthew's lawful heirs if he have any. If not,
the Mehixton farm, lioiises, etc., and mill, after Matthew's death without
heirs, are to go to his nephew John Page, son of his brother Robert Page, late
of Hatton, Hownsley Heath, during his life. After his death to his heirs if
he have any. If not, or if he do not come to Virginia and actually live on
the place eighteen months after notice, the property to go to his rightful heir
then living in Virginia.
III. — He gives to liis wife Alice and his two sons Francis and Matthew
equally, or the longer liver of them, the profits arising from the lease of five
tenements on Longditch, in Westminster, which he held from the Dean of St.
Peter's, in "Westminster, for twenty-seven years from 2oth March, 1683, at JfS
shillings and G pence (£3 8 6) per annum, but which he liad "rented out for
twenty-seven j'ears from 20th Dec. . 1682, under lease dated 20th March, 1683,
to Francis Norris, bricklayer, and Danl. Finch, carpenter, at forty pounds ner
annum !
IV. — He gives 291 acres of laud, left over from some sold to Henry Malara,
in the forks of Powhatau, to his sou Francis and his heirs male. In want of
which, it goes lo nis granason John Tyler, son of his granddaughter Eliz. Tyler,
and his heirs forever.
\^. — He gives £50 to his grandson, John Tyler, to be paid wdien he becomes
eighteen years old. If he die befoi-e then, £30 to such other child of his grand-
daughter Eliz. Tj'ler as shall first become eighteen.
VI. — He gives to each of his brother Matthew's children as follows: (1) to
his nephew Matthew Page, £33 6 8; (2) to his nephew Luke Page, the same ;
and (3) to his niece Marj^ Page, the same. If any are paid off during his life,
as was the case with Luke and Mary, they were not to get it after his death.
[The record mentions them as Cozuis; a term of consanguinity then used for
relatives further than brother or sister — as O Tybavilt, my cozen, my own
brother's son! (Shaks.) In a codicil, Luke and Mary are properly called
nephew and niece, respectiveh". ]
VII. — He gives his interest in ships equally to his wife Alice and his two
sons Francis and Matthew during her life. After her death, his interest in
the Augustine and East India Merchant (formerly called the Prince) is to go
to his son Francis, etc. , forever. His interest in the ship Jeffreys to go to his
son Matthew, etc., forever.
All other dues, chattels, etc., not mentioned, to be equally divided between
the three or such as shall be alive when he dies.
VIII. —All the negroes at either of the farms at Middle Plantation, Neck
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of Land, and Mehixtou, when they become old, are to be taken care of, with
clothes, diet, and all other necessaries as when they were able to work.
IX. — Eighteen gold rings, each costing twenty shillings, to be given to the
following friends if living when he dies : (1 & 3) his brother Francis and his
wife ; (3 & 4) his brother Robert and his wife ; (5 & 6) his brother Gibbs and
his wife ; (7) his sister Ince (Jure — Tyler) ; those to be given in England. And
in Virginia the following : (8) to his wife Alice ; (9 & 10) to his son Francis
and his wife ; (11) to his son Matthew ; (12 & 13) to his cousin Henry Tyler and
his wife ; (1-1) to his grandson John Chiles; (15) to his honored sister Eliz.
Diggs; (16) to his honored friend Wm. Cole, Esq. ; (17 & 18) to Rev. Rowland
Jones and his wife.
X. — Lastly he makes his dear wife Alice and his two well-beloved sons
Francis and Matthew joint executors. Should any doubt or dispute arise, it
is to be settled by the executors and two other discreet friends. He revokes
all other wills, etc., and signs this on the 5th March, 168&, and 3d year of the
reign of James II. , in the presence of Wm. Sherwood, Henry Tyler, and Alex.
Bonnyman.
Col. John Page died 23d January, 1692. On the 24th Feby. , 1692, the will
was presented in court by Capt. Francis Page, one of the joint executors, and
was proved by the oaths of Henry Tyler and Alexander Bonnyman, two of the
witnesses. And was recorded.
Signed by AVii Sedgwick C"' Cur. (also written C' Cur. Ebor. )
Mr. Lyon G. Tyler, son of the late John Tyler, ex-President
U. S., writes under date of April 29th, 1884, Richmond, Va., as
follows : —
I inclose you the testimony I collected and hastily jotted down, from
which you will jierceive that Col. Page speaks of a grandson named John
Chiles. It appeared to me at the time that Elizabeth, wife of Henry Tyler,
was sister of John Childs. You will observe also that there was a Mr. John
Page, of Gloucester Co. , Adm' of Matthew Page of Rosewell. (This John Page
Avas undoubtedly the husband of Eliz. Page, only child of Capt. Francis Page,
brother of Matthew.) Ann Tyler, mother of Henry Tyler, husband of Elizabeth
in question, makes a Mr. John Page trustee in her deed of gift, June 24, 1672.
She speaks of liim as her " trusty and well-beloved friend. " Deed Book 1671-
76. p. 17.
It appears that John Tyler lived to become eighteen years old,
and received the fifty pounds according to Colonel Page's will. Mr.
Lyon G. Tyler, under same date, incloses the following copy of the
record :
Received by me, John Tyler, son of Mr. Henry Tyler, of Yorke County
in Virginia, and grand son of Coll" John Page, formerly of y said County in
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Virginia, dece'', of John Page of y* County of Gloucester, fifty pounds of law-
ful inony of Englantl, by bills of Exchange on Mr. Micajah Perry and Couip"
Merch'* in London at ten days sight. The said Sum being due to me, the said
John Tyler, for a legacy left me by y" last Will & Testament of y' said Coll"
John Page Dec', which I do herebj' acknowledge to have received and dis-
charge and acquit the said John Page of y" said County of Gloucester & Mary
his wife. Admin'* of Matt. Page Esq" late of y" said County of Gloucester
dece**, one of y" Exec" of y'^ last Will & Testament of y* said Coll" John Page
deced., and hold myself fulh' satisfied, contented and paid. In witness where-
of I have hereunto set my hand and seal tliis nineteenth day of August 1706.
John Tyler
Signed, sealed, and delivered in }•* presence of
Mary Whaley
Hex. Carv
At a Court held for Yorke Coimty June the 24"", 1707, John Tyler the above
mentioned came into Court & acknowledged y" above writing as his act and
deed, & according to order is Recorded.
WiLLLVJi TuxLEP Jr., Dep. Clerk.
This " John Page and Mary his wife, Admin' of Matt. Page,
Esqr late of y" said County of Gloucester dece'V' was the same John
Page who married, first, Elizabeth, the only child of Capt. Francis
Page, and, secondly, Mary Mann, the widow of Hon. Matthew Page,
deceased.
Col. John Page, first of his family in Virginia, mentions brothers
and sisters as follows: (1) Matthew Page, of Virginia, wife un-
known. Had three children, viz. : Matthew, Luke, and Mary. (2)
Francis Page, of England, wife and children unknown. (3) Robert
Page, of Hatton, Hownsley Heath, England, wife unknown. One
son mentioned, viz., John Page, who was offered some inducements
by Colonel Page, his uncle, to come to Virginia. He probably mar-
ried, first, Elizabeth Page, his first cousin, only child of Capt. Francis
Page, eldest son of Col. John Page-. She died ver}" young, aged 19,
without known issue. John Page then married, second, Mary Mann,
widow of Hon. Matthew Page, and removed to Gloucester County,
where he was administrator of Hon. Matthew Page, of Rose well.
(4) Gibbs Page and wife unknown, of England. (5) Ince (Jure —
Tijler), sister, England.
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Otiier Relations.
(1) Grandson John Tyler, son of his granddaughter, Eliz.
Tyler (wife of his cousin Henry Tyler and probably sister of John
Chiles).
(2) His cousin Henry Tyler— wife Elizabeth (Chiles?).
(3) Grandson John Chiles.
(4) Sister Eliz. Diggs.
Colonel Page had only two sons, Francis and Matthew. Of these
Matthew alone had surviving male issue — one, Mann Page, who was
the only real grandson. How could he \ia,ye grandsons John Tyler
and John Chiles? Eliz. Diggs was his sister by courtesy and
mother of his daughter-in-law. John Tyler was great-grandfather
of John Tyler, ex-President of the United States.
Col. John Page may have had a daughter married Chiles, who
had John ; and Eliz. married Henry Tyler. If so, their son, John
Tyler, would have been great-grandson of Col. John Page and not
grandson. Mr. F. R. Rives stated that in those days grandchildren
and grandchildren's children were probably all called grandchildren
only. On the other hand, nephew meant grandson ; niece meant any
relation in general, especially aunt; and cousin meant any relation
more distant than sister or brother. It was frequently used for
nephew.
Eliz. Diggs (mother of Mary Diggs, wife of Francis?) was either
sister by courtesy or else sister Avho married Diggs.
Memoranda of Papers Carried to England iier Cunard Steamship Aurania,
Cajitain Hains, Dtli July, 1S84.
I. Probate Order. Ordo'^ for A probate of y^ last Will & Testameut of
John Page Esq' deceased was this day granted unto Alice his Avife Executrix
and his two sonnes Capt ffrancis and Capt Mathew Pages joynt Executors ap-
pointed by y said AVill, which was this day proved in Court by y'" Oathes of
Henry Tyler & Alexander Bonnyman, two of y Witnesses to y* said Will
A Copy
Teste
A. F. HUDGIXS
Clk Court, York County, V».
II. Will of John Page foregoing.
WILLIAMSBURG. 27
III. Certificate of British Vice-Consul as follows :
British Vice Consulate,
Richmond, Virginia, U. S. A.
I, William ^larsliall, British Vice-Consul at Richmond, State of Virginia,
Do hereby Certify That A. F. Hutlgins, whose genuine Signature, and Seal of
his Court, are respectively subscribed, and attixed to the foregoing Certificate,
was on the day of the date thereof, the Clerk of the County Court of York
County, State of Virginia, duly (jualified, to whose official acts, faith and
credit are due — and that the signature of H. B. Warren to his certificate is
that of the Judge of the aforesaid County Court of York County, State of
Virginia.
In Testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and Seal of office, at the
City of Richmond, Va. on this Sixth day of June, A. D. 1884.
William Marshall,
British Vice-Consul.
IV. Coat-of-arms drawing and Draddj^'s and Smith's Certificates, same as
in first edition of this book, but Consul" s and County Clerk's certificates some-
what different, as follows :
State of New York, }
City and County of New York, \
I, PATRICK KEENAN, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and
also Clerk of the Supreme Court for tlie said City and County, the same being
a Court of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That A. P. Smith whose name is
subscribed to the Certificate of the i^roof or acknowledgment of the annexed
Instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof and
acknowledgment, a Notary Public in and for the City and County of New
York, dwelling in the said City, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized
to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-
writing of such Notary and verily believe that the signature to the said certifi-
cate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. I further certify that said Instru-
ment is executed and acknoirledged according to the law of the State of Neio York.
In Testuniony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the said Court and County, the 26th day of June, 1884.
Patrick Keenan, Clerk.
HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S CONSULATE-GENERAL, NEW' YORK.
(Arms of Great Britain follow.)
I, J. PiERREPONT Edwards, Esqr., Her BRITAN^^c Majesty's Acting
Consul General, Do Hereby Certify (old Eng.), That I have reason to be-
lieve that the Signature subscribed and Seal affixed to the Certificate hereunto
annexed, are the true Signature and Seal of A. P. Smith who was on the day
of the date of said Certificate, a Notarv Public in and for the State of New
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York, duly commissioned and sworn, to whose Official acts faith and credit
are due.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF (old Eng.), I do hereunto set my hand and seal of
Office at the City of New York, this Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.
J. PiERREPONT Edwards.
V. Two Laud Office Certificates endorsed by British Vice-Consul etc. , as
follows :
Johu Page 200 Land Reg. Vol. 3, p. 66.
(1). To all et, whereas et. Now Know y"", That I the said Richard Bennett
Esq'' et give and grant unto John Page, Merchant two hundred acres of Land
Situated on the North side of Yorke river beginning at a little run joyning to
the Laud of Colt"' William Clay borne running West by South by the river ten
perches West North West behind Sunken Ground one hundred forty two perches
and Soe North by West fourteen perches to a creeke ruuing East North East
three hvmdred and Seventy perches by the said Creeke thence South by East to
the back of Colto : Clayborne and Soe West by South halfe a i^oint Southerly
and thence South halfe a point Westerly one mile to the place where it began.
The said Land being due unto the said John Page Merchant by and for the
transportation of four persons into this Colony to have and to hold et. Yielding
and paying et which payment is to be made Seven years after the first grant
or Sealing thereof and not before, provided et. Dated the 23'' of August 1653
Ut in Alys
John Page Merchant '
NOICE —
- William Ord
John Cox
Land Office, Richmond, Virginia.
I hereby certif.v the foregoing to be a true copy from the Records of this
Office as Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 27th daj' of June, 1884.
I. A. WiNGFIFLD,
Reg. Land Office.
British Vice-Consulate,
Richmond, Virginia, U. S. A.
I hereby certify, That I. A. Wingfield, whose true signature and seal of
his Office ai-e respectively subscribed and affixed to the foregoing Certificate,
was on the day of the date thereof the Registrar of the Land Office of the State
of Virginia, to whose official acts faith and credit ai-e due.
In Testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal of office at the
City of Richmond on this 2Tth day of June, A. D. 1884.
William Marshall,
British Vice-Consul.
WILLIAMSBURG. 29
John Page 850, Land Reg. Vol 8, p. 312.
(2) . To all et. Whereas et. Now know y«'>- that I the said Richard Bennett
Esq' et give and grant unto j\P. John Page, Merchant Eight hundred and fifty-
acres of Land Situated on the south side of the freshes of Yorke river. Begin-
ning by a little run at a marked Beech tree running East South East down the
river to another marked beech tree by a ruuu adjoyuiug to the now Laud of
M'. Anthony Langstone runing one mile South South West into the Maine woods
and Soe West halfe a point Northerly on the back side four hundred and eight
perches from thence North, North East one mile to the place where it begann.
The said Land being due unto the said John Page by and for the transportation
of Seventeen persons into this Colony et. and also by order of the Governo"" and
Councill bearing Date the blank to have and to hold et. Yielding and paying
et. which jiayment is to be made Seven years after the first grant or Sealing
thereof and not before provided et. Dated the blank.
Sam Smith Mary Page Andrew Coster
Jno . BiNiAS Thomas Pevixn George Beashill
Alice Page Thomas Wadlowe Mary JIiddleton
Eliza Page Morris Garrett Jane Vallm
Anne Hill
Anne Cooper
Eliza Parsons
Then follows certificate of registrar; also British Vice-Consul,
same as the one before this.
This one bears no date, but occurred during Richard Bennet's*
governorship of Virginia, 30th April, 1652, to 30th March, 1055.
It ma}^ be stated here that other branches of the Page family
owned land in the colony of Virginia at various times, as evidenced
by the following extracts taken from the old land register in Rich-
mond, Va. :
1. Robert Page, patent for 500 acres of land, on Elizabeth Cit}' River,
April 13•^ 1636, Land R. Vol. I. p. 416.
2. John Page, Gent. — 2700 acres, Lancaster Co., within tlie freshes of the
Rappahannock River, eighteen miles above Nansemum town, on North side of
said river — the 2700 acres of land being by the said John Page called " Pages
Pilgi-image" — Dated last of Oct. 1656, 1400 acres purchased from Nicholas
Meriwether, and 1300 acres due for 26 persons. L. R. N° 4, p. 132.
3. Thomas Page 28U acres on south side of Rappahannock River for trans-
porting six persons— Apr. 21, 1657. L. R. N" 4, p. 132.
Also same patentee — 600 acres — south side Rappahannock river — Date 1662.
L. R. N° 5, p. 246.
4. Richard Page. County of York— 100 acres— land formerly granted to
Daniel W^yld and assigned to said Page. Date Sept. 13, 1664. L. R. N" 5, p. 424.
30 PAGE FAMILY.
5. Thomas Page and others— 3075 acres in Rappahannock Co. 3'^ Apr. 1667
— N« 6, p. 182.
Same, 783 acres in Rap. Co. 16 immigrants 3 Aug. 1667. L. R. N" 6, p.
183.
6. Jolm Page, 1900 acres in New Kent Co. , V", on southe side of York
River— 38 immigrants— March 14'\ 1672— L. R. N« 6, p. 107.
Ditto 34 immigrants, same date. L. R. N" 6, p. 108.
7. John Page Esqr. 330 acres Mid. Plantation in York Co., on the north
side of the road leading through Mid. Plantation to J. Cittie Apr. 16, 1683.
8. Francis Page, 1600 acres in New Kent Co. on north side of the Pamunky
river— Dated 20 Apr. 1685— L. R. N" 7, p. 457.
The following is a copy of the will of Alice Page, wife of Col.
John Page, taken from the records in the clerk's office at Yorktown,
Va., in April, 1890:
In the name of God Amen, I Alice Page of Middle plantation in Yorke
County Virg. being sick and weak in body but of pfect memory & understanding
l^raised be God Doe make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament in man-
ner & forme following, flfirst I comend my Soule into y«^ hand of Almighty God
my Creator hoping y' through the Death and merritts of his blessed Sonne,
my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I shall be raised again & receive eternall life
My body I committ to y^ Earth to be decently hurried according to y*^ Reights
and Ceromonies of y*" Church of England in y" Church yard att Middle planta-
tion between my late dear husband John Page Esqr his grave and my well be-
loved Sonn Capt ffrancis Page his gi'ave, And itt is my desire y' over my Grave
Erected with brick Avith equal highth with my Dear husband & Sonn's graves
there be laid a i^olisht black Marble Stone, And for such Worldly goods as itt
hath pleased God to bestow on me I give and dispose of y** same as foUoweth
(that is to Say)
Im primis, ffirst I doe give and bequeath unto Bruton pish for j-"* use of y^
Church one good pulpit Cloth and Cushion of y"* best Velvitt Att y' discretion
of my Executor hereafter named.
Item. I doe give & bequeath unto my Sonne Matthew Page his sonne Mann
Page And to his daughter Alice Page each of them one hundred pounds sterl
to be paid when they shall arrive at y"" age of one & twenty years. And in case
eyther or both of them depart this life before that age, Then to his daughter
Mary Page, And all y remaining part of my Estate both Reall and personall
wheresoever eyther in England or Virginia I doe give and bequeath unto my
loveing Sonne Matthew Page hee paying all my just debts, And lastly I doe
hereby make ordaine and appoint my said loveing sonne Matthew Page whole
& sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament, not doubting his care to
see y« same fulfilled in every respect. And I doe hereby Revoake & make voyd
all former and other Guifts Wills, or legaces, by me heretofore made or spoken
And establish this to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I the
I \ 'ILLIAMSB URG. 31
said Alice Page have to this my last Will and Testament Sett my hand &
Seal the twelveth day of November lu the year of our Lord one tlmiisaud six-
hundred ninety six.
Alice Page (The Seal)
Signed, Sealed, & delivered by y within named Alice Page for and as her
last Will & Testament. In presence of us,
Bridgett Taylor
Allexander Bonnyman
Att A Cort held for Yorke County August y^' 24"' 1G98 The within written
Will was then proved in Co'' by the oath of Bridgett Taylor one of y Wit-
nesses thereto & according to order is received.
Test. Willm Sedgwick C-^ Com. Ebor.
Att a Co'' held for Yorke County September y SG"" 1698 P. adjournm' from
August Co" y" 24''' last past, the within will was then proved in Co'' by y" oath
of Alexander Bonnyman y" other witness thereunto.
■ Teste. Willm Sedcjwick C"" Com. Ebor.
State of Virginia, County of York, to wit :
I, Chidley Wade, Clerk of the County Court of the County of York, in the
State of Virginia, do herebj' certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the
will of the said Alice Page as recorded in my said office i
County Court In testimony whereof, I hereunto set mv hand and annex
vfrginUi: t^^*" s^al of t'le said Court, this 2d day of April A.D. 1890.
Chidley Wade, Clerk.
State of Virginia. James City County, to wit :
I, W. G. W. Farthing, Judge of the Countj^ Court of York County, do
hereby certify that Chidley Wade, whose name is signed to the foregoing cer-
tificate bearing date April 2d, 1890, is the Clerk of the said County Court of
York in the State of Virginia, and as such is entitled to the custody of the
records in the Clerk's Office of said Couutj' Court, and duly authorized to coiDy
and certify the same.
Countv Court Given under my hand this 3d day of April, 1890.
«4|?jta. W.'g. W. Farthlxg.
British Vice-Consulate,
Richmond, VIRGIN^A, U. S.
I, WiLLL^M Marshall, British Vice-Consul at Richmond, Virginia, Do
HEREBY Certify, That W. G. W. Farthing, whose true signature and offi-
cial SEAL, are respectively subscribed and affixed to the foregoing and above
written CERTIFICATE, was on the dav of the date thereof the Judge of the
32 PAGE FAMILY.
County Court of York County, State of Virginia, duly commissioned and
QUALIFIED, and to whose official acts, faith and credit are due.
Seal of the lu TESTIMONY WHEREOF I do hereunto set my hand
British Vice-Consulate, _, ^ .-, ■ e~, i i. »
Richmond, Va. AND SEAL OF OFFICE on this SEVENTH day of APRIL, A. D.
1890, at the City of Richmond, Va., State of Virginia.
Col'^sufelrS WILLIAM MARSHALL,
British Vice-Consul.
As already stated in the preface, it was by reason of the names
of persons and places mentioned in Col. John Page's will that Mr.
Burke, successor to Mr. Tucker in the College of Arms, London, was
led to make searches in the parish of Bedfont. The following is a
copy of his first report :
PAGE FAMILY IN ENGLAND.
First Report as to the Parentage of Col. John Page, of Virginia.
On the 2oth July, 1884, after the publication of his "Genealogy of the
Page Family in Virginia, " Dr. R. C. M. Page wrote to the late Stephen Tucker,
Esqr. , Somerset Herald, asking him to proceed with the investigation into the
parentage of his ancestor, John Page, Esqr., of Middle Plantation, in York
County, Virginia, by making the searches suggested by Mr. Tucker in March,
1880. A complete list of all wills and administrations of the name of Page was
then made in the Prerogative Covirt of Canterbury from 1500 to 1700 and care-
ful abstracts taken of those referring to the County of Middlesex from 1633 to
1681. On the supposition that the entry of baptism of 1628 in the parish reg-
isters of Harrow, Co. Middlesex, referred to Dr. Page's ancestor, and that con-
sequently he was a member of the branch of the family of Page, of Harrow,
which was then seated at Sudbury in that i)arish, the records of the Heralds
College, and of the old Grammar School at Hari'ow, as well as other likeh^
sources were carefully exhausted with a view of corroborating and elaborating
this conjectural pedigree. In 1886, Mr. Tucker's assistant, E. A. Ebblewhite,
who had been conducting these searches under that gentleman's direct instruc-
tions, carefully examined and made extracts from the parish registers of
Harrow on the Hill, from their commencement in 1558 to 1700. It was then
discovered that the John Page who was baptized 26th December, 1628, was buried
on the following day and his twin sister, Mary, nine days later. The theory,
therefore, that he was identical with the John Page who emigrated to America,
about 1650, was entirely upset, and the whole matter had to be gone over again.
Mr. Tucker died on the 6th Januaiy, 1887, and Mr. Ebblewhite became my
assistant on my succeeding to the office of Somerset Herald.
In April, 1887, I was instructed by Dr. Page to i^roceed with the investiga-
tion and having obtained all the papers from the administratrix of Mr. Tucker's
estate, and after a careful examination of the whole case, I decided to act upon
a clue in the will of John Page, of Virginia, dated 1686-87, in which lie men-
Here lyethy*^ body of Mat hew Page**
Gent who deceased y^ first ofFebr
AnO.DnI. 1 631 , TOGETFERWITH HIS
LOVING Mother IsABEaB^GE WHO dyed
Y 9 ofIanv^Ano:1629.WhichMatiew
B\GE Gave at his decease to y^pgdre
of this parishe y^ svmve of twenty
POVND forever , BEING AGED 37 > »
Brass from the Chancel of St. Mary's Church, Bedfont, Co. Middlesex,
England.
34 PAGE FAMILY.
tious his brother Robert as '"late of Hattou on liounslow Heath." I found
Hatton to have been in the parish of Bedfont, Co. Middlesex, and therefore
instructed Mr. Ebblevvhite to go there and examine the parish registers and
monuments. We were informed by the Vicar that the parish chest did not
contain any books prior to 1678, and after a careful search this was found to be
the case. Extracts were taken down to 1723, at which period the family ap-
peared to have died out there, but without much hope of their proving to be of
assistance. In the chancel of Bedfont church is a brass to the memory of Mat-
thew Page gent. 1631, and his mother Isabell 1029, of whicli a painting was
made.
After thoroughly examining the church aud surroundings, Mr. Ebblewhite
discovered a large marble stone, with the Page arms, fixed against the church-
yard wall. The inscription seemed only to record the death of Francis Page in
1678, aged 84, but having carefully removed the grass and mould from the foot
of the stone, my assistant discovered a further statement to the effect that it
had been placed there at the instance and cost of John Page, of York County, in
Virginia, Merchant, the son of the deceased Francis.
We now know, therefore, that Dr. Page's ancestor was second son (as
shown by the crescent in the arms in America) of Francis Page, senior, of Bed-
font, Co. Middlesex, gent., who died on the 13th aud was buried there on
the 16th October, 1678, aged 84. It is very probable that this Francis was brother
to Matthew Page whose brass is in the chancel, and that consequently his mother
was the Isabell Page who died on the 9th day of January, 1629-30.
The Pages were seated at Bedfont at a very early period — Rowland Page
having held the manor of Pates there in the time of Edward VI. In the fol-
lowing reign Alice, daughter of John Page, of Bedfont, married Paul Garway,
of Tingereffe, in Bedfordshire, who died in 1619.
The arms on the monument to Francis Page give the birds with legs, thus
indicating swallows or liouse martins, but they are usually depicted as martlets
or swallows without feet.
The descendants of John Page, of York County, Virginia, are therefore
representatives of the family of Page, of Bedfont— a branch of the old family
of Pages of Harrow on the Hill, and are entitled to the arms borne by them,
namely — Or, a fesse dancette between 3 martlets azure, a bordure of the last.
Crest: a demi -horse forcene per pale dancette, or and azure.
With this report I send ;
1. A collection of evidences bound in morocco and lettered "Page Family
in England."
2. A painting, framed, of the monument to the memory of Francis Page,
1678.
3. A painting, framed, of the Brass, 1631, and
4. A mezzo-tint engraving of Bedfont Church.
H. Farnham Burke,
Somerset.
Heralds College, London.
11th October, 1887. [seal]
p^ a.vertuous life 8^ good o^dagk-'w
■.PeTvFvmed te memooa^wfrancisPaCe :
\/:-:\ ■0^ Oct ]5:SWno Dom T 67 sv^v^fe
pocdovKT^haiinis^^
— -- - ' '^ _-. . ^- catonsl
^w^ (Omitatu £boT- inljlirgjnia
'- -\-.^ ' ..-'-^■^■f'-'
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Original Tombstone of Francis Pagk, Removed, 1865, from the Chancel of
St. Mary's Church, Bedfont, Co. Middlesex, England, and now-
Standing Against the East Wall of the Churchyard.
30 PAGE FA3[ILY.
From the foregoing report it might be supposed that the tomb-
stone of Francis Page, father of CoL John Page, had been placed by
the latter against the churchyard wall. This, however, is a mistake,
for, as already mentioned, this tombstone was originally placed bj'
Col. John Page over the grave of Francis Page in the chancel of the
church, but was removed in 1865 during repairs, and was never re-
placed. The new brass plate in the chancel is an exact copy of the
original tombstone, but cannot be seen without removing the matting
placed over it. Any one visiting the church would never suppose
that such a memorial existed unless they rolled up the matting. The
latter was placed there at the suggestion of Vicar Pilkington to pre-
serve the brass plate and prevent its being scratched by nails in the
boots of country folk.
The following is Mr. Burke's second and final report on the
parentage of Col. John Page, of Williamsburg, James City Co., Va. :
THE PAGE FAMILY IN ENGLAND.
Second Report.
Since my report of the 11th October, 1887, on my researches into the history
of tlie Page Family in England, I have compiled a full pedigree showing the
genealogical history of the descendants of Francis Page, of Bedfont, Co. Mid-
dlesex, who died in 1678.
The particulars contained in the papers I sent to Dr. R. C. M. Page, of New
York, on the 12th October, 1887, were supplemented by information collected
by him and other members of the family in the United States, and the draft
pedigree was authenticated by the signature of Dr. Page, dated 7th September,
1888, and by that of Mary Maria (Page), wife of the Rev. George W. Dame, of
the Episcopal Church, Danville, Pittsylvania Co. , Virginia, dated 4th August
previous. The jiedigree was then handed in by me at the Heralds College,
Chapter of the 6th December, 1888, and it was referred for proof to Windsor
Herald and Rouge Croix as official examiners.
It then became necessary for me to make some further investigations with
a view of showing that Francis Page, of Bedfont, was descended from some
family of the same name who had previously registered their famih^ genealogy
in the records of the Heralds College. This I have not actually succeeded in
doing, though from the notes I have made I have every reason to believe in
the following conjectural descent :
At the visitation of Bedford, taken in the year l.')66, John Page, of Arlesey,
in that county. Esquire, son and heir of Richard Page, of the same place,
Esquire (by Cicelie, his wife, daughter and one of the heirs of John Greene of
Stoutfold, Co. Bedford, by Edith, daughter and one of the heirs of Sir Nicholas
WILLIAMSBURG. 37
LatynuT of Dountoysh. Co. Dorsot, Knight), who was son and heir of John
Page, of Loudon, Esquire, entered iiis family pedigree and arms.
Mr. John Page, who attested the pedigree, had been twice married — first to
Mary, daughter of William Broke, of Broughing, Co. Herts, and secondlj- to
Margaret, daughter of Lawrence Snowe, of Neither Gravenhurst. Co. Bedford —
by whom she iiad issue, Richard Page, son and heir, Thomas, second son, and
four daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, Anne and Dorothy — all of which children
were living in 1566. Mr. John Page also had a sister Elizabeth, who was
married first to Michael Cooper of Arlesey, and secondly to Jasper Smith of the
same place, yeoman.
The arms admitted to this family were Or, a fesse dancette between three
martlets Azure (quartering Greene, viz. : Azure, three stags trippant Or, and
Latymer, viz. : Gules, a cross patonce Or) and the Crest of Page, a demi-horse
forcene per pale indented Or and Azure named of the first. [Philipot, No. 49,
p. 16, Her. Coll.]
It seems probable that John Page, of London (the grandfather of Mr. John
Page, of Arlesey) . had a younger son, John Page, of Bedfont, Co. Middlesex—
whose family may have added the bordure to their arms — as the distinction of
a cadet line, which was at that early period a very usual practice. This John
Page (sometimes called Rowland Page), of Bedfont [Ic, 2b., 11''.— Her. Coll.]
was father of Alice who was born about 1553, and who was subsequently twice
married : first to George Brettridge of Iver, Co. Bucks, and aftei-w^ard of London
(son of William Brightridge, of Iver, aforesaid) and secondly, to Paul Garaway
(or Garway) , of Acton, Co. Middlesex, and afterward of Tingereflfe, Co. Bedford,
who died in Feb. , 1619, and was buried in St. Martins-in-the-Fields, Co. Middle-
sex (G. 3., d&>: C24., 153^: 122. 20^; C2., 330^. and C24. 298^. —Heralds College).
I believe that "John Page, of East Bedfont. Co. Middlesex," who was living
in the years 1603, 16l0, 1616, 1621. 1625, and 1628 (see Public Record Office
Extracts at p. lS9—sequiti(r) was the son of John Page, of Bedfont. above men-
tioned— the father of Alice. Mrs. Garaway.
John Page, of East Bedfont, seems to have died in 1628, leaving a widow,
Isabel, who died 9th January. 1629 (see my first report of Oct. 11th, 1887).
They seem to have had three children : (1) Mary, who was married by license
29th June, 1610 (Bishop of London's office) at East Bedfont, to John Walker, of
the City of London ; (2) Matthew Page, of Bedfont. who died unmarried, 1st
February, 1631 (see my report of October 11th, 1887) and (3) Francis Page,
senior, of East Bedfont (the ancestor of the Pages of Virginia) , who was born
in 1595 and died in 1678.
I do not depart from the suggestion in my previous report that the Pages
of Bedfont were akin to those of Harrow on the Hill— for the identity of the
arms proves this.
Although there is a good deal to be urged in favor of this descent. I have
been unable definitely to prove it— and when it is remembered that the parish
registers of Bedfont and the wills for that district (Archdeaconry of Middlesex)
were destroyed by fire— it will be seen that the task is no easy one.
My investigations have comprised the wills and administrations of Page
38 PAGE FAMILY.
from 1600 to 1740 (pp. 9 to 45 seq.) and extracts from the Public Record Office
(p. 139 et seq.) as well as various incidental searches.
On the 6th June, 1S89, having satisfactorily proved the Page pedigree
(together with the additions afforded by the will of John Page, of Gloucester
County— see pp. 47, 65) I handed it in at the Chapter for Record, when it was
referred to the official examiners, and another officer, "for a precedent as to
what pedigree has been entered of an alien from an English ancestor not on
record in the Heralds College."
On this resolution of chapter I went diligently through all our records for
the desired precedent ; but, although I discovered some very similar entries and
offered them for the consideration of the committee, the officers were not
unanimously in favor of the registration.
It was then suggested that, as I had failed in proving the earlier paternal
descent, owing to the destruction of evidence, it would be taken as sufficent if
I were to show a descent through Alice, wife of Col. John Page, from a Luckin
family recorded in the College books. I accordingly examined the records
here, the wills and administrations in the various Courts of Probate, and the
registers of various parishes in Es.sex to discover the parentage of Alice Luckin
— but all to no purpose (see pp. 69 to 134 seq.).
As will be seen from the accompanying papers (pp.67, 135, and 137) similar
searches were made as to Digges — with a more gratifying result, and the facts
were added to the pedigree. This connection with the College Records, how-
ever, was not considered as sufficient, and the pedigree could not be actually
recorded. The Draft Pedigree — every statement in which I have thoroughly
vouched for — remains in the custody of tlie registrars of the Heralds College
and will alwaj's be accessible for future reference ; and I quite believe that
the technical difficulty which prevents its further registration will hereafter
be removed or overcome.
In the meantime I have prepared a vellum copy of the whole pedigree to
which I have certified (in the following form) under date the 3d September in-
stant : ■' I hereby certify that the above pedigree of the descendants of Francis
Page, of Bedfont, has been faithfully compiled from authentic sources, that it
has been fully proved before the official examiners of the College, and handed
in by me at the Chapter for record. "
I also certify that the whole of the documents attached to this report are
faithful copies from the originals.
H. Farnham Burke,
Somerset Herald, [seal]
Heralds College, London,
6tli day of September, 1889.
From the foregoing reports of Mr. Burke it appears that Col.
John Page, progenitor of the Page Family in Virginia, was the
son of Francis Page, of Bedfont, Middlesex County, England, as stated
on the tombstone at St. Mary's Church, but beyond this all is, for
WILLIAMSBURG. 39
the present, conjecture, owing to destruction of the records in that
parish. It is highly probable that he was a relative of Sir Gregory
Page, Ba7't., of Greenwich, County of Kent, England, as their arms
closely resemble each other and their crests are identical. Mrs.
Gregory Page died and was buried in Bun Hill Fields Cemetery,
London, where rest also Daniel De Foe, John Bunyan, Isaac Watts,
Mrs. Susaimah Wesley, and others. The inscription on the tomb-
stone of Lady Page attracted the attention of Rev. S. Halsted Wat-
kins while visiting this cemetery among other places in London in
August, 1892, and he copied it for the author. It runs thus:
Here lyes Dame ^lai y
Page, Relict of Sir Gregory
Page, Bar'. She departed
this life Mar. 11, 1728. In
the 56"' year of her age.
And on the opposite side as follows :
lu ()T un)nths she was tapd
06 times. Had taken away
240 gallons of water with-
out ever repining at her
case or ever fearing the
operation.
This beautiful little Church of St. Mary's, Bedfont Parish, Mid-
dlesex County, England, was built about the twelfth century and is
of Norman architecture, as indicated by the zigzag (dogs' teeth it is
called) ornamental work about the arches and doorways. The little
village of Bedfont is near Feltham, on the London and South West-
ern Railway, about thirteen miles from London. In order to get to
Feltham it is necessary to take the train at Waterloo station, London,
on what is called the Loop Line. There are always vehicles at Felt-
ham station in readiness for conveying passengers to their destina-
tion, wherever they may wish to go. Near this church is a beauti-
ful little vicarage, the residence of the vicar. Rev. Mr. Pilkington.
In front of the church stand two ancient yew trees, curiously trinmied
to represent peacocks, and in their foliage are still preserved the in-
itials of parish officers dated 1704 (see also Geutlemen's Magazine,
Vol. XCV., Julv to Dec, is25, p. 201) . In the churchyard are tomb-
40 PAGE FAMILY.
stones to the memory of several who had lived at Williamsburg, Va.
Beneath the large yew tree on the south side of the churchyard is a
tombstone containing the following inscription :
Here Lieth tlie Bodj-
of MARY WHALEY,
Grandtlaaghter to
Frances Page
of Hatton, and Widdow
of Iames Whaley
Gentleman in y Countj'
of York in y'^' Coloney of
Virginia.
She Died y« 31 of Ian'>
1742.
In August, 1889, this church was visited by Dr. R. C. M. Page,
of New York, and his two cousins, Thomas Nelson Page, the author,
and his brother, Rosewell Page, of Virginia, who had gone to Europe
during the Paris Exposition. Thej^ were very handsomely enter-
tained b}' Vicar Pilkington, who with the assistance of the young
ladies, all of whom were very beautiful, prepared some ivy slips
which were taken to America and planted in the rear of Dr. Page's
house in New York, where tliej" now flourish.
This church was also visited by Dr. Page and his friend. Rev.
S. Halsted Watkins, while travelling in Europe during the summer
of 1892. It has also been visited at various times by Dr. and Mrs.
Page.
To return to Williamsburg, Va. According to the original
tombstones at Williamsburg and Rosewell, Col. John Page and-Alice,
his wife, had two children, viz. :
1. Francis Page, eldest, born at Williamsburg, Va. , A.D. 1657.
2. Matthew Page, born at Williamsburg, Va., A.D. 1659.
II. Francis Page, of Williamsburg, James City Co., Va.,
eldest son of Col. John Page, of England and above-named place,
and Alice Luckin, his wife, was born at the first-named place, in
1G57, and died there 10th May, 1092, aged thirty-five years.
The inscription on his tombstone, at Williamsburg, Va., is as
follows :
42 PAGE FAMILY.
Here lieth in liope of a Joyfull Resurection
the Body of Captain Francis Page of
Bruton Parish in the Dominion of Virginia.
Eldest Son of Colonel John Pa(;e of the
same Parish, Esquire. Who Departed
this life the tenth Day of May
in the year of our Lord
1692. Aged 35.
Bishop Meade, O}^. cif., Vol. I., p. 196, says that "he died at
this early age, not without, however, being much distinguished as a
lawyer. To him, according to Henning, were committed several
trusts : among them the revision of the laws of the colony. He was a
vestryman of the parish of Bruton, and contracted for the building
of that part of the present church that was built before the time of
Governor Spottswood."
He was also Clerk of the House of Burgesses, as appears from
the following copy from Calendar of Virginia State Papers, Vol. I.
Virginia, S. S.
By His Excellency. ^
For as nuich as I, Francis Lord Howard, Baron of Effingham, and his Maj''*''
Lieut. Gov' Gen" of Virg'\ am by his most sacrd Maj"'^^" Especiall Commands,
Given, at his Maj"**" Court at Windsor, the first day of Aug"", An" Dom, 1686,
and in the second y'"' of his Maj"*'^ Reigne, Required upon the Convening As-
sembies. to apjjoynt a fitt person to Execute the office of the Gierke of the House
of Burgesses. In Obedience to which commands of his most Excellent Maj"*',
I, the s'* Francis Lord Howard, Baron of Effingham, being well assured of the
Loyalty, Integrity and ability of you, Capt. Francis Page, of the execution and
performance of the said place and office, and trust thei'eto belonging, I have
thought fitt, and hereby doe, by and with the advice and approbation of the Coun-
cell of State, ordaine, nominate and appoynt you, the said Capt. Francis Page,
Gierke of the House of Burgesses, with power to take, receive and Injoy to y""^
owne use and behoofe, all fees, dues and perquisites to the said place usually
belonging or appertaining, and that j'ou continue Gierke to the House of Bur-
gesses till I shall signifye my Will and pleasure to the contrary.
Given under my hand and the Seale of the Colony, this twenty-fourth day
of April, An" Dom. 1688.
Effingham.
Capt. Francis Page married, about 1682, Maiy Diggs, the in-
scription on whose tombstone is as follows :
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Here lieth in hope of a Joyfull Resurrection
the body of Mary the wife of Captain
Francis Page of Bruton Parish in
the Dominion of Virginia. Daughter of
Edward Diggs of Hampton Parish in
the same Dominion, Esquire. Who Departed
this life the Eighteenth Day of March in
the year of our Lord 169^. Aged 3-.
The last figure is partially obliterated, but it looks like 2. Thus :
aged 32.
Capt. Francis Page and Mary Diggs, his wife, had an only
child, Elizabeth Page, the inscription on whose tombstone is as
follows :
Here lyeth the Body of Elizabeth Page dec''*
late wife to John Page of York County, Gent.
and Daughter of Cap. Francis Page late of the
same county deceased. Who Departed this
life the 12th November Anno Domini 1703
and in the 20th year of her age.
The following is the will of Gapt. Francis Page, copied from the
records in the Clerk's office at Yorktown, Va. :
In the name of God, Amen, I, Ffrancis Page of Middle Plantation in
Yorke County, Gentl"', being sick of body but of sound and perfect minde and
memory, all laud and praise be given to God for y" same, considering with
myself the certainty of Death and uncertainty of time when to make this my
last Will & Testament in manner following, Ffirst I commend my soule unto
the hands of Almighty God, my Creator, hopeiug that through the death and
meritts of his blessed sonn my Lord and only Saviour Jesus Christ, I shall be
raised againe, and receive eternall life, my body I comitt to the Earth to be
decently buryed according to the rites & ceremonies of the Church of England,
in the Churchyard at Middle Plantation as near and att as a convenient distance
from my late dear wifes gi-ave as may be for laying of a gravestone over each
of our graves, the ordering whereof, and of my funerall, I leave to the oi'der
and discretion of my Honored Mother M". Alice Page, and my dear and loving
brother Cap* ]\Iatthew Page. And itt is my desire that over my grave erected
with brick of equall highth with my dear fathers and wifes graves, there be
laid a pollisht black marble stone. And for such worldly goods and Estate as
itt hath pleased God to bestow on me. I give and dispose of y" same as follows :
(That is to say) I well knowing y" intent of my late deceased father John Page
Esq' was to give to my coz : John Page, son of my uukle, M' . Robert Page, y^
44 PAGE FA3IILY.
plantation called Muskimino, doe hereby not only to perform the desier of my
said father but alsoe for the love and affection I have to my said loving cosen
John Page; Give and bequeath to him, all that y" aforesaid plantation called
Muskimino containing seven hundred and ninety acres (more or lesse) situate
lying and being att or near Chickahominy. Three hundred acres part there of
lying in James Citty County, being purchased by my said deceased father of
Christoi)her Cliaiit. and y^^ other four hundred and ninety acres lying in New
Kent County purchased by my said father parte from Robert Booth, and the
other parte of John Boswell son & heir of David Boswell deceased ; To have
and to lioid y said whole divident of laud with y appurtenances, to him my
said Cusen jolm Page, and the issue of his body lawfully begotten forever,
And for want of such issue to revert to y-^ reight heire of me y'' testator, And
whereas I have (as one of y Executors of my sai<l deceased father) a right to
the third parte of tlie negroes, stock, and other personall estate on and belong-
ing to the said plantation ; I doe hereby give to my said Cusen John Page and
the issue of his body lawfully begotten, the use, possession and occupation of
my part of all and every y' servants, negroes, cattle, stock, goods & chattells
to y« said plantation called Muskimino belonging, and if my said Cusen John
Page dye witliout having issue of his body lawfully begotten, then y same to
come and revert to my Reight heire. Item, I give and bequeath to my dear
and only child Elizabeth Page (after my debts and legacies paid) all and singu-
lar my Estate both reall and personall whatsoever and wheresoever to me be-
longing, eyther discending to me as heir of my said desceased father, or given
by his Will or by me purchased or otherwise belonging. And I hereby comitt
her next to the blessing of God to the care, tuition, and government of my
honored mother and after the decease of my said mother, to the care, tuition,
and government of my well beloved brother in law Dudley Diggs, who I desire
to bestow on my said child, the best education this country can afford. And
itt is my Will, and soe I doe hereby order and appoynt that my Execut'^ imploy
my negroes labour and Cropps, with my other part of my personall estate to
the best bennefitt and advantage of my said daughter, by settling another
quarter on my land called Pamputike in King and Queen County, and purchas-
ing more negroes to be settled thereon, and on my other plantations and
quarters, and by secureing or imploying y= mony that shall arise by y'' neat
proceeds of the cropps and other part of my Estate as they my Execut" shall
think fitt, for the best advantage of my said daughter. And itt is my Will
and desire that my Execuf'' pay to my said daughter on the day of her mar-
riage (in which I charge her to take the advice of her Grandmother, and two
unkles, my Execut" & their conssents) the sum of two hundred pounds ster',
besides that part of her Grandmother M" Eliz : Diggs' Estate which is due to
her, and that y* other part of my said daughters estate be paid to her at her
age of one and twenty years. And I desire my Execut"^* to take care, that my
brick mault house, and brick barne, with all other my houses att Middle
Plantation be forthwith finished, and from time to time kept in good and suf-
ficient repairs, and that y* same be leased out by my Excut" till my said
Daughter come to y age of one and twenty years, for such reasonable rent as
WILLIAMSBURG. 45
they my Execut" shall think fitt, aud that caie be taken, and y tenants bound
to keep aud leave y" same in good and sufficient repair. All my Reall Estate,
houses, land, and plantations whatsoever, I give to be held by my said
Daughter, and the issue of her body forever, and for want of such issue then
1 give and bequeath the same to my said Brother :Matthew Page his heires aud
Assigues forever. Item itt is my earnest request aud desire to my said Brother
Dudley Diggs, that lie take y trouble on him and care (and if occassion be, to
take y assistance of my other Execut"^ forthwith to settle and secure for my
said child that part of the Estate to her belonging out of the Estate of her
Grandmother M"^*. Eliz : Diggs deceased, to y« end the same may be imployed
or securely putt oute for tlie best advantage of my said child. Item, I give to
a poor man that lives on the Queen's Mill in Pomunkey Neck (whose name I
cannot well remember, but is well known to my brother Matthew Page) the
sum of five pounds Ster', to be laid out to the best advantage, by my said
Brother, of the said poor man. Itm, I give to Evan Roberts of Mill Swamp in
Bruton Pish five pounds Sterling to be laid out by M'. Samuell Timpson for
the best advantage of the said Evan, Itm I give to each of my Execut" here-
after named twenty pounds Ster' apeece to buy them and their wife's mourn-
ing. Item I give mourning rings to the several persons hereafter named. Viz'
William Cole Esq" and his wife, William Diggs Esq' and his wife, my loving
Brother Matthew Page and his wife, and M'. Dudley Diggs and his wife,
Edward Jenings Est/ and his wife, William Sherwood and his wife, M^ Dann"
Parke and his wife, M^ Sam'. Timson and his wife, my Cussen Tyler and his
wife, and John Page, M"". Mary Jones, M'. Samuell Eborue and his wife, M^
Martin Gardner, M". Thomas Thorpe and his wife and Cap' James Archer, and
desire that y" same be produced & disi^osed of by Execut'" with the first con-
veniency Item I give to my loving friend William Sherwood five pounds Ser-
ling for writing this my Will. And lastly I hereby make, ordaine and appoint
my said dear and loving Brother Cap' Matthew Page and M\ Dudley Diggs
Execut" of this my last Will & Testament, not doubting but they will take
care to see the same fulfilled in every respect. And I hereby revoke and make
voyd all former and other guifts wills or legacies by me heretofore made, or
spoken, and establish this to be my last Will and Testament. In witnesse
whereof. I the said Ffrancis Page have to this my last Will and Testament
sett my hand & scale the Three and twentyeth day of Aprill, in the year of our
Lord One thousand six hundred ninety two.
Ffrancis Page [the seale]
Signed, sealed, published, & declared by the within named
Ffrancis Page for and as his last will an Testament and by him soe
delivered (the words, if fulfilled, M^ Thomas Thorpe and his wife)
being interlined before signing.
In presence of
WiLLM Sherwood
James Doran
John Newsam
46 PAGE FAMILY.
YORKE County May the 24"' 1692
Proved in Co' by the Oathes of all the witnesses. And is Ordered
to be comitted to Recoixl. which is accordingly performed.
WiLLM Sedgwicke C* Cu^ Ebor.
A copv
Teste
A. F. HUDGINS
Clk Court York County V\
Virginia.
York County, to wit :
I, A. F. HUDGINS, Clerk of the County Court of York County, State of Vir-
ginia, do liereby certify that the foregoing is a ti'ue copy of the Last Will and
Testament of Francis Page, dec** and also a true Copy of the Probate Order for
said Will as the same appears of record and on file in my Office. Witness my
hand and the seal of said Court affixed this the 21st day of May A. D. 1884,
in the 108th year of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
A. F. HUDGINS.
[L. S. ] Clerk uf York County Court, Virginia.
Virginia
York County, to wit :
I, H. B. Warren, Judge of the County Court of York County, State of
Virginia, do hereby Certify that A. F. Hudgins, who hath given the foregoing
Certificate, is Clerk of the County Court of York County, State of Virginia,
and was Clerk of said Court at the time of so giving it. And I further Certify
that his attestation is in due form of law. Given under my hand this 24th day
of May A D. 1884.
H. B. Warren, Judge.
Probate Order.
Capt Mathew Page and M'. Dudley Diggs upon their petition to this Co'''
have Ordered granted for a probate of y* last Will and Testament of M^ Ffrancis
Page deceased they being appointed Execut" by the said Will which was this
day proved in Co" by y" Oathes of all y'^ Witnesses thereunto subscribed. And
it is ordered to be comitted to Record.
A copy
Teste
A. F. Hudgins
Clk Court York County V\
There are at present (1893) fiv^e graves of the Page family at
Williamsburg, Va., and the foregoing inscriptions are exact copies,
in every respect, of those found on the tombstones. These copies
were made 18th October, 1881, hj Dr. R. Channing M. Page, of New
WILLIAMSBURG. 47
York City, in the presence of Francis R. Rives, Esq., of the same
place, the two being at that time on a visit together to the centennial
anniversary of the Yorktown surrender.
Elizabeth Page, only child of Capt. Francis Page and Mary
Diggs, his wife, was born at Williamsburg, Va., in 1G83. She
married, about ITOl, John Page, an eminent lawyer, by whom she
had no issue, and died 12th November, ITOS, aged nineteen.
Bishop Meade, op. cif.. Vol. I., p. 107, says:
There is also in the Williamsburg churchyard the tomb of a Mrs. Page,
wife of John Page, and the daughter of Francis. This John Page was, doubt-
less. Col. John Page, the lawyer, to whom the Ve.stry intrusted their rights,
when Nicholson and others sought to invade them. . . . The Vestry directed
Mr. John Page (who was grandson of the old vestryman of that name, who
was now dead), an eminent lawyer and member of tlie Council, to present the
case to the House of Burgesses, requesting tliem to take action on the subject,
etc.
This John Page was not grandson, as Bishop Meade supposed,
but was grandson-in-law " of the old vestryman of that name who
was now dead " and afterward his son-in-law ; for he married, first,
Elizabeth, the granddaughter, and, secondl}-, the daughter-in-law,
Mary Mann, the latter being the Avidow of Hon. Matthew Page.
The following is the will of this John Page, the lawyer, furnished
by Mr. Burke, of the College of Arms, London :
(P. C. C, Broinmig 14.)
In the Name of God Amex. I John Page of Gloucester County in Vir-
ginia, being in good health and perfect memory and understanding (praised
be God) and designing by the grace of God shortly a voyage for England do
make and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner and form fol-
lowing : —
Imprimis, I give and bequeath to my dear and loving daughter Elizabeth
Page all her Mother's Cloathes, Rings and Jewells, and five Guineas to lay out
on such Jewell or Ornament as she shall think proper, at the age of twelve
years — which will be on the fourth day of November in the j'ear of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and fourteen, and such a certain sum of money
besides as, with what is due to her from the Estate of Cap* ffi'ancis Page and
M'" Elizabeth Page (her Mother) deceased, (which will a^ipear by my account
of the said Estates given into the Generall Court), will make the full sum of
three thousand pounds of lawfull English Money — to be jiaid her at the age of
twenty one years.
Item I give and bequeath to my dear and loving daughter Mary Page the
48 PAGE FAMILY.
lull sum ol three thousand pounds of lawfull Engliwh money :— That is to say
two thousand pounds of the said summ to be paid her three mouths after the day
of her marriage or at the [age] of twenty one years whicli shall first happen
and the other one thousand poimds to be paid her at the age of twenty one
years, wliieh will be on the twenty-sixth day of January in the year of our
Lord One tliousand seven hundred and twenty seven. And I give my said
daugliter Mary a i)air of gold earings sett with rubies and Rose Diamonds in a
.Sliaggri'en ease, and one large gold wedding ring one gold ring enameld with
blew and another with Black, which were her Mothers, and the one half of all
my China ware in my now dwelling house in the said Gloucester County.
Item I give and becpieatli to my loving daughter in Law Martha Page all her
Mothers rings and Jewells, except the Earings and the other three Rings already
bequeathed to my daughter Mary, And the other half of my China ware in my -
now dwelling house in the said Gloucester County and one large Comon Prayer
book with a Shagreen Cover plated with silver and clasps, which was her
mothers. Item I give and bequeath unto my loving son in Law Mann Page
upon liis arrivall in Virginia a saddle horse such as he shall choose upon any
of my plantations, also a large folio Bible with a Turkey leather cover plated
with silver and clasps, a silver Watch, a Silver hilted sword a Torter shell and
Silver hilted hanger and Belt, one Torter shell and Silver handed Horse whip,
Crimson Velvett Howsen and Holster caps trimm'd with Silver Lace and a
Silver Tobacco box which were his ffathers. I also give and bequeath to my
said Son in law five Pictures in double lacker' d frames now hanging in the
jmrlor of my said dwelling house in Gloucester County (viz') of his father
Cole [sic, a contraction for " Colonel "] Mathew Page, of his Mother M'•^ Mary
Page, of himself and of his two Sisters Alice and Martha ; And w^iereas by
an Instrument of writing, bearing date the twentieth day of September in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and five made by me before mar-
riage with my late wife mother of the said Mann Page — wherein I did oblige my-
self to pay to the said Mann Page to the value of two tliousand pounds sterling
in Negroes, Cattle horses, mares and sheep, and hoggs household necessaries, and
working Tooles, as the same should be ajDpraised by four honest men upon their
oathes whereof the said Slann Page to choose two of them if the said Mann
Page and myself my Executors &c. should not otherwise agree and forty hogs-
heads of prized Tobb" at the rate of thirteen shillings and sixpence for every
hundred pounds weight upon the Plantations of the said Mann Page in New
Kent County which is to be in full payment of so much as part of wliat is
due to the said Mann Page out of his said ffathers Estate. Now my will is if
I should depart this life before the said Mann Page attain to the age of twenty
one years that, Imediatel}- after the finishing the Croji upon liand at my death,
my Trustees of this my last will and Testament hereafter menconed do have so
much of the said Estate in the said New Kent County appraised as with the
said forty hogsheads of Tobacco (which is to be leaf tobacco) shall amount to
the said Sum of Two thousand pounds sterling and deliver the same to the said
Mann Page or his Guardian in part of paj'ment of what is due to him from
his said ffathers Estate ; Nevertheless if the said Mann Page or his Guardian
Tl ULLIAMSB URG. 49
in Trust for him be willing to take the said Stock of Negroes, Cattle, horses,
mares, hogs, household necessaries and working Tooles upon the said Planta-
tions [after the rates (in proportion to their qualitj') they were formerly ap-
praised as will appear by Inventory in the Secretaries office] then my will and
desire is (if he like of it) that he may have the whole stock of Negroes, Cattle,
horses, mares, hogs, household necessaries and working Tooles, and all the
Indian Corn and other grain upon the said Plantations in New Kent Coimty,
at the said rates, discharging my Estate from so much as the same shall amount
to as part of his due out of his said ffathers Estate ; And Whei-eas it would be
a very gi'eat hindrance and loss to my said Son in law Mann Page to have his
plantations in Gloucester County unstockt wiien they shall come into his hands
therefore my will is that he may have the whole Stock of Negroes, (Except
George and Jemmy two of my Carpenters and Doll and Poll two house wenches
and their Children) , Cattle, horses and mares, sheep, hogs, household furniture
and working Tooles, as near as can be computed by four honest men upon
their Oathes at the rates they were formerly appraised which will appear by
Inventory in the Secretaries Office, having due regard to the quality of the said
Negroes, and ni}- will also is that my said Son in Law Mann Page may have
one half of my Store goods u])on the said Plantations which are properly for
the use of the Plantations at the rate of Tenu p' Cent upon what they cost in
England which is for charges of Importation but if the said Mann Page shall
refuse to take the whole stock, goods and chattells aforesaid in Gloucester
County then my will and intention is that he have no part thereof And whereas
the aforementioned goods and chatties will amount to considerably more
than what will be due to him of his said ffathers Estate my will is if it
should so happen that the said Mann Page hath not nor cannot have the Guar-
dianship of his sister Martha whereby to have his porcon in his hands that he
the said Maun Page giving Bond with sufficient security, if under twenty
one years of age, but if at that age, his own Bond shall be sufficient for the
payment within three years from the date of the said Bond for the use of my
Executor hereafter named the overplush with the said stock of Negroes Goods
and Chattells shall amount to more then what shall be due to him from his
said ffathers Estate. Item I give and bequeath to my Godson Bouth Napier
son of Rob'. Napier formerly of New Kent County the Sum of Twenty pounds
St"^. to be paid Six months after my decease to buy him a young Negro. Item
I give and bequeath to my Godson Edward Diggs son of Co". Dudley Diggs
twenty pounds St?. , to be paid him at the age of twenty one years to buy him
a peice or peices of plate. Item I give and bequeath to my godson Matthew
Walker Son of M'. Joseph Walker of York County thirty pounds S'-. to be paid
within Six months after my decease to be laid out the first opportunity in pur
chasing two negro children which said two negroes and their Increase to go to
him dispose of as he shall think fitt as soon as he shall attain to the age of
Eighteen years. Item I give and bequeath to my dear and loving Son John
Page all the remainder of my Estate both reall and personall in England and
Virgin! or elsewhere (Except forty pounds sterling hereafter bequeathed) and
do make my said son John Page sole Executor of this my last Will and Testa-
4
50 PAGE FAMILY.
ineiit aud my will is tiiat lie have full and al)solute possession of the said Estate
and fidl power in the Execucon of this my last Will and Testament as soon as
he siiall attain to the age of Eighteen years, which will be on the twenty
second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventeen, aud uutill my said son John Page shall attain to the age of
Eighteen years, I appoint my Kn-ing ffriends M'. Edmond Barkley of Gloster
County, :\r. Robert Anderson juu'. of New Kent County and M\ Richard
AViltslieir of Gloster C<Mmty Trustees to see tliis my last Will and Testament
duely executed, and for the better mauagem' of my said sons Virginia Estate
my will and desire is that my said Trustees appoint one or two of themselves
or some other capable person at a reasonable Sallary to look after and manage
the same as a Gen" oversoir or Baylif and to shi]) the Crops of Tob'", but tliat
the bills (if loading be taken in all my Trustees names.
Item I give and bequeath to eacli of my said Trustees ten pounds st*-' to huj
mourning, and my will is, as soon as my Son in law Mann Page shall attain
to the age of Twenty one years aud have received full payment of my said
Trustees out of my Estate for what is due to him from his said ffathers estate,
that my said son in Law 3Iann Page by joined to my said Trustess, in Trust
for my said son John Pages Estate. In Witness whereof I have hereunto sett
my band and seal the twentieth day of Aprill in the year of our Lord Christ One
thousand seven hundred and nine. J. Page. Signed sealed and delivered by
the within named John Page for and as his last AVill and Testament In the pres-
ence of Guy Smith Cler :, Jobn Piatt, Hugh Hughes.
2'' January 171S Which day appeared personally Micajab Perry and Richard
Perry of the Parish of S'. Catherine Cree-church London merchants, and John
Page of York County in Virginia. Gentleman, and by vertue of their corporall
Oaths deposed as followeth to wit the said Micajab and Richard Perry deposed
that they were well acquainted with John Page the elder, late of Gloucester
County in Virginia, but at Bethnal Green in the parish of Stepney in the
Countv' of Middx Merchant deceased, and with his hand-writing for severall
years next before and till the time of his death which happned sometime in
the year 1710 — having severall times seen him write aud received severall
Letters and Bills of Exchange from him whereby they became well acquainted
with his hand-writing and the Dep'* several times visited the said deceased at
his lodging at Bethnal Green afores'' during the time of his sickness whereof
he dyed aud he then told the Depon" that he had made his will aud left the
same at Virginia and the Deponents shortly after his Death found amongst
his the deceaseds pajiers of importance in his Escrutore or desk at his said
lodgings the Schedule Testamentary hereunto annexed purporting his the de-
ceaseds last Will and Testament beginning thus viz' : — In the Name of God
Amen I John Page of Gloucester County iu Virginia &c., and ending thus,
viz' : — In witness whereof, I have liereunto sett my liand and seal. Aud the
Dep'* verily believe the same to be all wi-ote by and with the proper hand of
him the said deceased and the said Micajab Perry further deposed that he hath
had in his custody the aforesaid Schedule ever since the same was so found as
aforesaid. And the said Johu Page the younger deposed that he was well ac-
WILLIAMSBURG. 51
quainted with his said ffathers hand writing and verily believes the aforesaid
IScliedule to be all wrote by and with the proper hand of his said tfather and
that the same agrees with his said, ffathers originall will remaining in the
Secretaires office in Virginia and the Dep' about nine months since received
from M'. Joseph Walker of York County aforesaid Merchant one of the Trustees
therein named the other Schedule Testamentary hereunto annexed bearing date
the twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and nine who then told him the Dep' that the same was a Copy of his fathers
last will and Testament which the Dep' believes to be true —
Micajah Perry, Richard Perry, J. Page— eod die p'fati Micajah et Rich'us
Perry et Jolies Page Jurat, fixer, super veritati p'^missorum coram me E. Kinas-
ton, Surr.
Probatum fuit hu.jusmodi Testamentum apud London coram venerabili viro
Edvardo Kinaston Legum Doctore Surrogato venerabilis et egregij viri Johan-
nis Bettesworth Legum etiam Doctoris Curite Prerogativge Cantuariensis Mag-
istri Custodis sive commissarij legitime constituti secundo die mensis Januarij
anno Domini millesimo septigentesimo decimo octavo, Juramento Johannis
Pagefilij dicti defuncti et Exeeutoris vmici in dicto Testamento nominat. Cui
commissa fuit administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum jurium et credi-
torum dicti defimeti de bene et fideliter administrando eadem ad Sancta Dei
Evangelia jurat, etc :
From the foregoing will it appears that the John Page who first
married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Francis Page, married secondly
Mary Mann, widow of Hon. Matthew Page, of Rosewell, and had
issue, all of whom lived in England. John Page himself died in
1710 at Stepney, England. His widow, Mary Mann, returned to
Rosewell, where she died and was buried, as will appear when
speaking of her as the wife of Hon. Matthew Page.
It was the case above mentioned of the Yestrj^ of Bruton Parish
versus Parson Whatelj' and his supporter. Governor Nicholson,
about 1702, that led Bishop Meade, op. cit., Vol. I., pp. 150, 151, to
write as follows :
In the history of tlie Vestries we may fairly trace the origin not only of
that religious liberty which afterward developed itself in Virginia, but also
of the early and determined stand taken by the Episcopalians of Virginia in
behalf of civil liberty. The Vestries, who were the intelligence and moral
strength of the land, had been trained up in the defence of their rights against
governors and bishops, kings, queens, and cabinets. They had been slowly
fighting the battles of the Revolution for one hundred and fifty years. Taxation
and representation were only other words for support and election of ministers.
The principle was the same. It is not wonderful, therefore, that we find the
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same men, who took the lead in the councils and armies of the Revolution most
active in the recorded proceedings of the Vestries. Examine the vestry boolis
and you will find prominent there the names of Washington, Peyton Randolph,
Gen'l Nelson, Crov. Page, Richard Henry Lee, George Mason, and hundreds of
others who might be named as patriots of the Revolution.
The Williamsburg branch of the Page family in Virginia be-
came extinct upon the death of Capt. Francis Page without surviv-
ing issue. The second son, Matthew Page, had an only son, as we
shall see, from whom all the others are descended.
II. Matthew Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., second
son of Col. John Page, of England and Williamsburg, James City
Co., Va., progenitor of the Page family in Virginia, and Alice
Luckin, his wife, was born at the last-named place in 1659, and re-
moved to the first-named place. He died 9th January, 1703, aged
forty-four years, and on his tombstone at Rosewell he is mentioned
as "Honourable Collonell Matthew Page, Esqr."
The following is a copy of the inscription :
Here lieth Interred y Bodj' of y*' Honourable
Collonell Matthew Page Esqr. One of Her Majesties
most Honourable Councell of the Parish of
Abington in the County of Gloucester in the
Collony of Virginia.
Son of the Honourable Collonell John & Alice
Page of the Parish of Bruton in the County
of Yorke in j*" aforesaid Collony. Who Departed
tills life in the 9th day of Januaiy Ann.
Dom. 1703 in y" 45th year of his age.
In the above inscription " Her Majesties most Honourable Coun-
cell" refers to Queen Anne, who reigned 1702-14. Hon. Matthew
Page was one of the members of the original Board of Trustees for
the College of William and Mary, and his name appears in the
charter of that Institution as " Matthew Page, Gent." This charter
is dated " at Westminster, the eighth day of February, in the fourth
year of our reign" (1692). A MS. of this charter maybe seen at the
College of Arms, London. For a picture of the College of William
and Mary see Bishop Meade, op. ciY., Vol. I., p. 157.
He married, about 1089, Mary Mann, only child of John and
Mary Mann, of Timberneck, Gloucester Co., Va., where he probably
lived several years before removing to Rosewell. The house in
which he lived at the latter place does not now exist. It was simply
a temporary wooden structure, like many others erected in the early
colonial days, and has since been replaced by the present brick
mansion, a description of which appears further on.
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Mary ^lauii was an heiress, and alone survived her parents;
hence the reason for naming her only surviving child, Mann.
She was born at Timberneck, in 1G72, and died at Rosewell, 27th
March, 1707, aged thirty-five. She was buried at Rosewell, and the
following is a copy of the inscription on her tombstone there :
Here \yoth Interred the Body
of Mary Page wife of the
Hon'''*' ^Matthew Page Esquire
one of Her Majestys Councel
t)f the Collonj' of Virginia and
Daughter of John and Mary
Mann of this Collony. Who
Departed this life y'' 24th Day
of Marrli in y" year of our
Lord 1707 in y" thirty Sixth
year of her Age.
She married first, as already stated, Hon. Matthew Page, about
1G89; after his death in 1703 she married her cousin John Page, the
lawyer, whose will has already been given.
In regard to John and Mar}' Mann, the parents of the wife of
Hon. Matthew Page, the following are copies of the inscriptions on
their tombstones at Timberneck :
Here Lyetli y' Body of John Mann of
Gloucester County in Virginia. Gent.
Aged 63 years. Who Departed this life
y 7th Day of January Anno Domini 1694.
That of Marj', his wife, reads as follows :
Here Lj-eth Interred the Body of Mrs
Mary Mann of the County of Gloucester in
the Collony of Virginia. Gentle Wo"'. Who
Departed this life the 18th day of March 170f.
Aged 56 years.
Of the four children of Hon. Matthew Page and Mary Mann,
his wife, three died infants. One of these, Elizabeth, the eldest,
(From the origriiial nil pnrtrair.
MARY MANN,
riMBERNECK, GLOUCESTER CO., Va.
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was buried at Timberneck, and the inscription on her tombstone
there is as follows :
Here Lyeth y Body of Elizabeth Page
Daughter of Matthew Page of y* Colouy of
Virginia. Gentleman. Aged three years.
Who departed tliis life y' 15111 day of March
Auuo Domini 1(!9:J.
The other two children were buried at Rosewell, and the inscrip-
tion on their joint tombstone reads as follows :
Neare this Place lye Interred the Body of
Matthew Page Son of y Honourable Colon*^"
M.\TTHEW Page Esqr. and Mary his wife.
Who departed this life the ol day of December
An". Do™. 1T02 in y 5th month of his Age.
Allso the Body of Mary Page Daughter
to Colon-^" Matthew Page Esqr. & MarY
his wife. Who Departed this life y'' 14th day of
Jan : An". Do"\ 170^^ in the 7th yeare of her Age.
The children of Hon. Matthew Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester
Co., Va., and Mar}^ Mann, his wife, were therefore as follows:
1. Elizabeth Page, eldest, born 1690 ; died at Timberneck, 15th March,
1693, aged 3 years.
2. Mann Page, born 1691 ; only survivor.
3. Mary Page, born 1697 ; died at Rosewell, 14th January, 1703, aged 6 years.
4. Matthew Page, born 1702 ; died at Rosewell, 31st December, 1702, aged 4
months.
The location known as Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., was
originally settled by Hon. Matthew Page about the year 1700,
although the house that was built there by him does not now exist.
Why he should have selected that particular site is not certainly
known. It is no more conveniently situated than the location now
called Shelly, and the latter is of a considerably higher elevation
than the former, which is quite a consideration in that rather flat
portion of the country. It is claimed b}' some that Powhatan had
his headquarters at Rosewell, and it is supposed that Hon. Matthew
Page settled there in commemoration of the event of the saving of the
life of Capt. John Smith b}" Pocahontas. Many Indian relics have
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been found at Rosewell and in its immediate vicinity, and from
various accounts it would appear that Rosewell was about the loca-
tion of Powhatan's headquarters. On the other hand, Howison, in
his "'History of Virginia,'" is quite positive that Shelly, which was
formerly called Werowocomico, is the correct location that marks
the spot where that celebrated Indian chief, or " Emperor of Virgina,"
once resided. Bishop Meade (op. cit., Vol. I., p. 335) inclines to
Howison 's statement of the case. The two localities are not very
far distant from each other, and are separated by Carter's Creek,
which flows into York River. They are both situated on the left
bank of York River, Rosewell being on the right bank of Carter's
Creek, while Shell}' is on the left bank of that stream.
III. Mann Page, I., of Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., the
first of that name, second and onl}^ surviving child of Hon,
Matthew Page, of the same place, and Mary Maun, his wife, second
child (and only one having surviving male issue) of Col. John Page,
of England and Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., pro-
genitor of the Page Family in Virginia, and Alice Luckin, his wife,
was born at the first-named place in 1691, and died there 2-l:th Jan-
uary, 1730, aged 39 years. He was the half-brother of John Page
of England, who was the son of Mary Mann, by her second husband,
John Page.
The following is an exact copy of the inscription on the tomb-
stone at Rosewell :
Here lie the remains of the Honourable Mann Page Esq.
One of His ^Majesties Council of this Collony
of Virginia.
Who departed this life the 24th Day of January 1730
In the 40th year of his Age.
He was the Only Son of the Honourable Matthew Page Esq.
Who was likewise a member of His Majesties Council.
His first wife was Judith Daughter of Ralph Wormeley Esq.
Secretary of Virginia ;
By whom he had two Sons and a Daughter
He afterwards married Judith. Daughter of the Hon^'- Robert Carter Esq.
President of Virginia
With whom he lived in the most tender reciprocal affection
For twelve years :
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Leaving by her five Sous and a Daughter.
His publick Trust he faithfully Discharged
with
Candour and Discretion
Truth and Justice.
Nor was he less eminent in His private Behaviour
For he was
A tender Husband and Indulgent Father
A gentle Master and a faithfuU Friend
Being to All
Courteous and Benevolent Kind and Affable.
This Monument was piously erected to his Memory
By His mournfully Surviving Lady.
According to Governor Page's autobiography, quoted in Bishop
Meade, op. cit., Vol. I., p. 147, note, Hon. Mann Page was educated
at Eton in England.
He was a member of His Majesty's Council in Virginia at the
time of his death which occurred in the early part of the reign of
George II. (1727-60). He was also a member of the Council during
the latter part of the reign of George I. (1714-27). He inherited a
vast landed estate, and was the founder of the present Rosewell
Mansion.
According to Bishop Meade, he made a financial mistake in building such
a large and costly house. Others say that the account of Bishop Meade, oj). cit.,
Vol. I., pp. 331, 332, is based on inaccurate information, and is greatly exag-
gerated. However this may be, he was only sixteen years old when his parents
and grandparents on both sides were dead, and it is hardly surprising that a
youth thus left alone in the world should be tempted into extravagance under the
idea that he was rich because he had inherited vast forests.
The present Rosewell House was commenced about 1725. It was barely
completed in 1730, when Hon. Mann Page died, and his body was laid out in
the great hall, where it remained a short time before it was buried. The house
is situated on the right bank of Carter's Creek, near the junction of the latter
with York River, and just ojiposite Shelly. It is built of brick, with im-
ported marble casements, and is three stories high, exclusive of the basement.
It was then, and for many years afterward, the largest house in Virginia. The
rooms are cubes in their proportions. The large hall was wainscoted with
polished mahogany, and the balustrade of the grand stairway was made of the
same material. The latter is carved by hand to represent baskets of fruit,
flowers, etc. From the roof can be seen the Nelson House, at Yorktown, about
fifteen miles away. It is the tradition of the place that Jefferson drafted the
Declaration of Independence in this house before going to Philadelphia. This
(From the original oil painting by unknown artist, 1696.)
MANN PAGE, I.,
Founder of the present Rosewell Mansion, 1725.
Died 24th January, 1730, aged 89.
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tradition is not only not impossible, but is highly probable, as Jefferson was
an intimate friend of Gov. John Page, and frequently visited Rosewell. For
a picture of this house, see Bishop Meade, op. cit., Vol. I., p. 333. It remained
in the possession of the Page Family until about 1838, when it was sold, to-
gether with the land belonging to it, to Thomas B. Booth, of Gloucester Co.,
Va. , for the paltry sum of twelve thousand dollars.
]Mr. Bootli changed the original flAt roof to its present shape, covering it with
galvanized iron instead of the lead, which he sold. After selling $35, 000 worth
of lumber and wood from the estate, he sold the latter to John Tab Catlett, of
Gloucester Co. , Va. , for $22, 500. The present owner, Mrs. Deans, says that her
husband, lately deceased, bought it from Catlett, in 1855, for the last-named
sum. The above-mentioned Mr. Booth evidently had an eye to profit when
he bought the place. The lead was stripped fi-om the roof, as already
stated, and sold — galvanized iron being used instead. A letter is still in exist-
ence wherein Edmund Pendleton urges Gov. John Page to accept pay for the
lead weights taken from the window casements for the purpose of being cast
into American Revolutionary bullets. The grand old cedars bordering the
avenvie, some of which are said to have been of enormous size, Avere cut down
and the wood sold for tub timber. The mahogany wainscoting was detached
from the walls of the hall and sold, but being unable to dispose of the carved
wood of the stairway, it was whitewashed. Even the bricks of which the wall
of the graveyai'd Avas made were removed. The very foundations of the tomb-
stones themselves appear to have been taken away, and the large marble slabs
are scattered about on the svirface of the ground. For a very interesting ac-
count of Rosewell, the reader is referred to Scritnier's Monthly Magazine for
Oct., 1881, published in New York by The Century Company.
Hon. Mann Page was quite prominent in politics, and according
to Governor Page (Bishop Meade, op. cit.. Vol. I., p. 147, note), he
was influential in " checking the British merchants from claiming
even freight on their goods from England," etc.
The following copy of an old document, in possession of the
author, is published, as it refers to Mann Page and is a Colonial
relic :
Mr. Pratt's Case with Mr. Ste. Comyns's Opinion, in Aug., 1744.
12"' Dec 1722, Mr. W'" Pratt of Virginia by his will of this date Gives to
his only Daughter Elizabeth Pratt £1000 payable as therein is mentioned and
in case his wife sho* be ensient with a Son then he disposes of all the residue
of his Estate in manner following "I Give all my real Estate unto such after
born Son & his Heirs for Ever, and as to my personal Estate I give the Same
to such after born Son when he shall marry or attain the age of 21 years for
Ever. But if such after born Son happen to die before such time or in case
my Wife sho'* not be ensient with a Son as af'^ I give all the residue of my s**
Estate to my Father William Pratt of Peterhead in the kingdom of Great Britain
ROSE WELL. 61
Gent, and his Heirs for ever. But if mj- Father sho' die in my life time and
so my Will become void as to him then I Give the residue to my Uncle John
Pratt of London Merchant and his Heirs for Ever. And if he sho"' die before
me then I Give the same to be equally divided among all my Brothers and their
Heirs." He further willed that his Ex'*"^^ sho'' allow out of tlie profits of his
s*' Estate such Sum or Sums of Money as sho** be sufficient to maint" and Educate
his s' Child or Children in such manner as sho'' be fitting for them and ap-
pointed Maun Page Esqr, Mr. John Pratt his Uncle and John Randolj)]] Guard-
ians to his s'' Child or Children & Ex"^" of his Will.
The Test' died the 22'' Feby 1723 leaving the s'^ Elizabeth his Daughter
and Keith William Pratt his only Son and who was born after making the
said Will and Mr. John Pratt alone proved the Will.
It does not appear the Test' had any real Estate but died poss'"^ of a per-
sonal Estate of about £7000, one 3'' whereof his Widow was intitled to and the
residue (after payment of the s' Legacy of £1000) amounting to about £3600 was
to be paid to the said Keith William Pratt or to such Person as sho'' be intitled
upon the Contingencies mentioned in the said Will.
W"' Pratt J" Test" Father died in the Life time of the Testator 12"' Feby
1731. The s'' John Pratt by his will of this date Gave to the s'' Elizabeth Pratt
£500 to be paid her at her age of 21 or Marriage, and gave to the s'' Keith
William Pratt his Gold Watch and his great Bible Two Silver Salvers and sev-
eral other pieces of Plate therein particulai-ly mentioned to be delivered to him
at his Age of 24 years and Gave all the rest and residue of his Estate to the s''
Keith William Pratt to be jxiid liim at his age of 24 years, but if he sho'' die
before such age then he gave a further Legacy of £1500 to the said Elizabeth
Pratt if she slio'' be then living and the residue of his Estate to his Nephew
James Pratt willing tliat his Ex"^'* do first thereout pay to his Bro. W™ Pratt
and his wife Greeswell Tliirty Poimds and directed his Ex""" to maintain and
Educate the s'' Keith W'" Pratt in the manner mentioned in his Will & ap-
pointed Joseph Windham, Philip Terry & Roger Tublay Ex""'.
The s'' John Pratt died the 7"' Jime 1731, and his Ex"' duly proved his Will
& maintained & educated the s'' Keith W™ Pratt and placed him in a Merchants
House at Lisbon where he died lately under tlie age of 21 years & unmarried,
but whether he made any will is not yet known.
The s' Eliz" Pratt is the only Sister of the s'' Keith W'" Pratt and was
married to Mr. Walter King.
Mr. King has rec' of the Ex"''* of Mr. John Pratt the Legacy of £1000 left
to his Wife by her Fathers Will & the £500 left her by the Will of the s'' John
Pratt.
- Q. What is Mr. King in right of his Wife, the Representatives of Keith W'"
Pratt, & y'' s** James Pratt respectively intitled unto under y'' Wills of W"'
Pratt & Jn'^ Pratt upon y" death of y** s'' Keitli W"> Pratt unmarried & before
attaining y^ age of 21.
If Mr. W'" Pratt left any real Estate, the same was well devised to Keith
W™ Pratt, & upon his death Mrs. King his Sister became intitled thereto as
his Heir at Law ; as to y" residue of Mr. W™ Pratts personal Estate given to
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Mr. Ju" Pratt upon y contingencies of Keith W'" Pratt dying unmarried and
before 21, I apprehend is now to be considered as part of y^ personal Estate of
y« s'' Jn" Pratt, botli y'' contingencies of K. W. Pratt dying unmarried & before
21 liaving happened, but y" Interest and annual Increase of such residue from
y death of y' s'^ W'" Pratt is I conceive to be looked upon as part of the per-
sonal Estate of y s** K. W. Pratt & go according to his Will (if he has made
any) if no Will made, then to go to his Sister & her Mother if living to be dis-
tribuuted equally between them & not to go over with y*' residue to Jn° Pratt,
there being no express words for that purpose, nor will a Court of Equity con-
strue it to be y'' intention of y" Tesf^ that it sh'' go over to j" prejudice of an
only cliild. As to y" Plate &c given by John Pratts Will to K. W. Pratt to be
delivered to him at his age of 24 years was a vested Legacy on K. W. Pratt,
& y time of delivery only postponed, & will consequently go to his Representa-
tives & not to James Pratt as y"= same is not devised over to him upon y'' death
of K. W. Pratt. Mr. King in right of his Wife is intitled to y" Legacy of £1500,
& Mr. James Pratt to y'' residue of y'' personal Estate of John Pratt after pay*
nieut of Debts & legacies
StS : COMYNS
Inner Temple Aug*' 4"=, 1744.
He married, first, at the age of '2], in 1T12, Judith Wormelej',
aged 17, daughter of Hon. Ealph "Wormeley, Secretary of the Colony
of Virginia. The following is an exact copy of the inscription on
her tombstone at Rosewell :
Sacrse et Piae Memoriae
Hoc Monumentum positum doloris
ab Honorato Mann Page Armigero
charissimae svia> conjugis
JUDITH^E
In ipso eetatis flore decusste
Ornatissimi Ralph: Wormeley
de Agro Middlesessise
Armigeri
Nee non Virginian! Secretaij quondam Meritissimi
Filliae dignissima?
Lectissima3 dilectissimseque foemina^
Quae vixit in Sanctissimo Matrimonio
quatuor annos totidemque menses.
Utriusque Sexes unum Suj^erstitem
reliquit
Ralpham et Maeiam
vera Patris simul et Matris ectypa.
Habuitque tertium Mann uominatum
vix quinque dies videntem
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8iib hoc Sik'Uti Marinore Matre sua iuclusuni
Post ciijus partuiii terti(j die
Mortal itatem pro Immortalitate
connnutavit.
Pruli dolor I
Inter uxores ainantissinia
Inter matres fuit optima
Candida Doinina
Cui sunnna Comitas
Cum veuustissima suavitate niorum et sernionum
conjuncta
Obi it duodecimo die Decembris
Amio ;\Iilessimr) Septingessimo decinio Sexto
^-Etatis Sufe vicessinio Secundo.
The following- is a translation of the inscription on the tombstone
of Jiulith Wornieley :
"To the Sacred and Pious Memory of his most beloved wife, Judith, cut down
in the very flower of her age, this Monument of grief was erected by the
Honourable ^lauu Page, Esquire. She was a most worthy daughter of the very
illustrious Ralph Wormeley of County Middlesex, Esquire, formerly also a most
deserving Secretary of Virginia. She was a most excellent and choice lady
who lived in the state of most holj^ niatrimonj^ for four years and as many
months. She left one survivor of each sex, Ralph and Maria, true likenesses
together of Father and Mt)ther. She also had a third named Mann, who,
scarcely five days surviving, under this silent marble was inclosed with his
mother. On the third day after his birth she exchanged mortality for immor-
tality. Alas, grief I She was a most affectionate wife, the best of mothers, and
an upright mistress of her family, in whom the utmost gentleness was united
with the most graceful suavity' of manners and conversation. She died on the
twelfth day of December in the One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixteenth
year and the twenty second of lier age. "
The following is copied from the old Famih' Bible now in pos-
session of Frederick M. Page, son of Capt. Thomas Jefferson Page,
U. S. Navy :
"Mann Page son of Juditli & M. Page born the 8tli of December, about
three of the clock in the morning, 1716. On the twelfth day of December (the
most unfortunate that ever befel me) about seven of the clock in the morning,
the better half of me, my dearest dear wife, was taken from me, after she had
endured the bitterest pangs of death about thirty hours, with the greatest
patience imaginable, and most absolute resignation to the blessed will ot God. "
04 PAGE FAMILY.
The said Family Bible was printed in London, 1696, and contains, besides
the Bible, the Episcopal Prayer Book, Hymns, and the Apocrypha.
The records contained in it are very meagre and written by different people
at different times. The above-quoted memorandum was probably written by
Hon. Mann Page himself, unless it is a copy. That and a memorandum re-
garding the births of Ralph and Maria Page (which see) are the only satisfac-
tory entries, the rest being in different handwritings and without dates.
Armiger literally means armor- bearer, but in heraldry it sig-
nifies Esquire.
In a letter from William C. Rives, Esqr., of Newport, R. I., to
Dr. R. C. M. Page, of New York City, dated IStli February, 1879,
he says :
" One of our nearest neighbors at Newport is Miss Catharine P. Wormeley,
daughter of Admiral Ralph Wormeley, of the British Navy. He was a Vir-
ginian by birth, and beyond doubt of the same blood with the lady whose
beautiful epitaph you have transcribed."
Hon. Mann Page married, secondly, in 1718, Judith, third child
and second daughter of Hon. Robert (King) Carter, of Corotoman,
Lancaster Co., Va., President of the Colony of Virginia, and Judith
Armistead, his first wife. In regard to Hon. Robert Carter, Capt.
R. R. Carter, of Shirley, on James River, Charles City Co.,
Va., writes as follows, 18th May, 1879:
Robert Carter (King) was the son of John Carter by his third wife, Sarah
Ludlowe. The said John Carter was born in England, moved to Corotoman,
Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1649, built the house and a church there, and
died there in 1669, Robert " The King " being then six years old.
King Carter married, first, in 1688, Judith Armistead, and secondly, in ITOl,
Betty Landon. By each of these wives he had five children. Judith Carter,
the second wife of Mann Page, of Rosewell, was his third child, and second
daughter by the first wife, and was born about the year 1694.
My great-grandfather, Charles Carter, of Shirley, married, secondly, in 1770,
Anne Butler Moore, of Chelsea, King William Coimty, Virginia. Their daugh-
ter, Anne Hill Carter, was born in 1773, and married Gen. Lee (Light Horse
Harry) 18th June, 1794. Miss Moore was granddaughter of Gov. Spottswood.
It may be stated here that Sir Alexander Spottswood, governor
of Virginia, was aid-de-camp to Marlborough at the battle of Blen-
heim. He built the house now known as the Moore House, at
Yorktown, Va., in which the terms of surrender were signed by
Lord Cornwallis, in October, 1781.
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Judith Carter was about 23 years of age when she became the
second wife of Hon. Mann Page, of Rosewell, in the year 1717-18.
When she died, or at what age, is not known. Bishop Meade, op.
cif., Vol. I., p. 351, says: "There were tombstones over each of the
wives of this the first Mann Page — one in Latin and the other in
English. The latter was first broken, and then crumbled away."
The children of Hon. Mann Page and Judith Wormeley, his first
wife, were as follows : ~
1. Ralph Wormeley Page, eldest, bom at Eosewell, 2d December, 1713. He
lived to become a student at William and Mary College, but died single
and probably young.
2. Maria Page, born at Rosewell, 24tli February, 1714. She was called
Judith after the death of her mother, and maiTied, about 1735, William
Randolph, of Tuckahoe. Goochland Co., Va. She was the grandmother
of Gov. Thomas Mann Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va.
(See Randolpli.)
3. Mann Page, born at Rosewell, 8th December, 1716 ; died infant.
The following is a copy of the record in the old family Bible
in regard to these three children of Hon. Mann Page and Judith
Wormelej', his first wife :
Ralph Page, the son of Judith & Mann Page, was born at Rosewell the
second of December about half an hour after twelve at night, 1713.
Mary P. , the daughter of Judith & M. Page, was born the 24 day of I'eb-
ruary, about 8 o'clock in the morning, 1714.
Mann Page, son of Judith & M. Page, born the 8th of December about
three of the clock in the morning, 1716.
The children of Hon. Mann Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester
Co., Va., and Judith Carter, his second wife, were as follows:
1. Mann Page, eldest, born at Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va. , about 1718, re-
sided there. He married, first, 1743, Alice Grymes. Their eldest child
was Governor John Page. Mann Page married, secondly, about 1748,
Anne Corbin Tayloe.
2. John Page, second son and child, bom at Rosewell, Gloucester Co. , Va. ,
about 1720 ; removed to North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co. ,
Va. He married, in 1746, Jane Byrd, of Westover, on James River,
Charles City Co. , Va.
3. Robert Page, third son and child, born at Rosewell, Gloucester Co. , Va. ,
5
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about 1722; removed to Broadneck, Hanover Co., Va. He married,
20th January, 1750, Sarah Walker.
4. Carter Page, born at Rosewell about 1724. He was a student at William
and Mary College, but died single and young.
5. Matthew Page, born at Rosewell about 1726. He also became a student
at William and Mary College, but died young and witliout issue.
6. Daughter Page, born at Rosewell about 1728, and died infant.
The three surviving brothers, Manx, John, and Robert, i)e-
came the heads, respectively, of the three branches of the Page
famil}' in Virginia, viz. : (1) Rosewell, also called the White
Pages. (2) North End, or Black Pages. (3) Broadneck Pages.
The latter removed to Clarke County, Va.
After completing the history of the Rosewell Pages, we will
consider the North End and Broadneck branches.
IV. Mann Page, the second of that name, of Rosewell,
Gloucester Co., Va., eldest son of Hon. Mann Page, of the same
place, and Judith Carter, his second wife (by whom alone he
had surviving male issue), only survivor of Hon. Matthew Page,
of the same place, and Mary Mann, his wife, second (and only son
having male issue) of Col. John Page, of England, and Williamsburg,
James City Co., Va., progenitor of the Page familj' in Virginia, and
Alice Luckin, his wife, was born at the first-named place about the
3'ear ITIS.
He was probably buried at Rosewell, but at what age he died is
not known. Bishop Meade, op. cit., Vol. I., p. 353, correctly states
that "there is no tombstone over the second Mann Page."
According to the Catalogue of William and Mary College, he was a member
of the Board of Visitors of that institution in 1758, and is designated as "Mann
Page, Gent. " His son, Governor John Page, in his autobiogi'aphy, as quoted
in Bishop Meade, ojJ. cit. , Vol. I. , p. 147, note, says : " He declined the oflSce
of Councillor in favor of his younger brother, John Page (of North End) , who,
my father said, having been brought up in the study of the law regularly, was
a much more i^roper person for that office than he w^as."
He married, first, in 1743, Alice Grymes, daughter of Hon. John
Grymes, of Middlesex County, Va. , who was a member of the
Colonial Council during the reign of George I. The following is a
copy of the inscription on her tombstone at Rosewell :
HON. MANN PAGE, II.,
RosEWELL, Gloucester Co., Va.
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Here lies the Body of Mrs. Alice Page
Wife of Mann Page Esq.
She departed this life the 11th Day of January 1746
In childbed of her second Son
In the 23rd year of her Age
Leaving
Two Sons and one Daughter.
She was the third Daughter
of the Honourable John Grimes Esquire
of
Middlesex County
one of His Majesty's Council in this Colony
of Virginia.
Her personal Beauty
and the uncommon Sweetness of her Temper
Her affable Deportment and Exemplary Behaviour
Made her respected by all who knew
The spotless Innocency of her Life
and her singular Piety
Her Constancy & Resignation at the Hour of Death
Sufficiently testified
Her firm & certain Hopes of a joyfull Resurrection.
To her sacred Memory
This Monument is piously erected.
The children of Mann Page, of Rosewell, and Alice Grymes^
his first wife, were as follows :
1. John Page, eldest, born at Rosewell. 17th April, 1744, and afterward
Governor of Virginia.
2. Judith Page, born at Rosewell about 1745, mai-ried Lewis Burwell, of
Carter's Creek, Gloucester Co., Va.
3. Son Page — died infant.
Mann Page married, secondl}', about 1748, Anne Corbin Tayloe
of Mt. Airy, S^ottsyirania Co., Va., and they had the following
children: tCLQjLou<^<fhJ^
1. Mann Page, Jr., born at Rosewell about 1749; removed to Mansfield,
Spottsylvania Co. , Va.
2. Robert Page, born at Rosewell about 1751 ; removed to Hanovertown,
Hanover Co., Va.
3. Tayloe Page, born at Rosewell, 1756 ; died there, 1760, aged 4 years.
The following is a copy of the inscription on his tombstone at Rosewell :
ROSE WELL. G9
Here Ij-etli interi'd the Body of
Tayloe Page
Tliird Son of Mann and
Ann Corbin Page.
Wlio Departed this life
the 29th Day of November 1760
in the 5th year of his Age.
4. Gvvynn Page, born at Rosewell about 17o8 ; removed to Kentucky.
5. Matthew Page, born at Rosewell about 1760; died single.
6. Elizabeth Page (called Betsey), born at Rosewell about 1762. Married,
about 1782, Benjamin Harrison, of Brandon, on James River, Prince
George Co., Va. Their daughter, Lucj- Harrison, married Richard
Byrd, and their children were :
(1) Addison Byrd ; married Miss Custis.
(2) Otway Byrd. and
(3) Mary Anne Byrd, who mai-ried Beverly Kennon, and had two sons.
/) f 7. Lucy Burwell Page, born at Rosewell about 1764 ; married, first, about
,0 /lAvt,*»wi^^<,« — S4 Col. George W. Baylor, and had the following children :
yr h\uj\ (J) Jolin"\Baylor ; married Nancy Fitzhugh.
(2) Lucy Baylor ; married William Brent.
(3) Molly Bajior ; married Horner.
(4) Nathaniel Baylor ; died unmarried.
(5) Eliza Baylor ; married Horner.
(6) Francis Baylor ; died unmarried.
Lucy Burwell Page, the widow Baylor, married, secondly, about 1798, Col.
Nathaniel Burwell, of Carter Hall, Clarke Co. , Va. , and had :
(1) Tayloe Burwell ; died unmarried.
(2) William Burwell ; married Mary Brooke.
(3) Eliza Burwell ; married Dr. James Hay and had issue. One of the
daughters married Robert Dunbar, of Baltimore, Md.
(4) Mary Burwell; married Francis Whiting, of Clay Hill, Millwood
P. O. . Clarke Co., Va. She died in 1881, leaving the porti-aits
of Mann Page, of Rosewell, her grandfather, and Anne Corbin
Tayloe, his second wife, to Mrs. Belle Burwell Mayo, 110 West
Franklin Sti'eet, Richmond, Va.
(5) George Burwell ; married, first, Isabella Dixon ; and, secondly.
Agnes Atkinson.
(6) Thomas H. Burwell ; died unmarried.
In regard to the Burwell Famih^ in Virginia, the first was
Lewis Burwell, who emigrated from the north of England, 1640, and
settled on Carter's Creek, Gloucester Co., Va. He married Lucy
Higginson and had issue.
Of the children, Nathaniel Burwell, the fourth son, was born
70 PAGE FAMILY.
about inSO, and died in 1721, aged about forty-one years. He mar-
ried, about 170'.), Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Robert (King) Car-
ter, and sister of Judith, the second wife of the Hon. Mann Page,
of Rose well.
Of the known children of Nathaniel Burwell and Elizabeth
Carter his wife, may be mentioned : Elizabeth Burwell, their only
daughter and called Betty, married in February, 1737, Prest, Wil-
liam Nelson (see Nelson) ; Col. Robin Burwell, of Isle of Wight Co.,
Va., married Sail}', only daughter of Scotch Tom Nelson and the
widow Tucker, his second wife, and was the father of Gov. John
Page's first wife; and Lewis Burwell, the eldest son, born in 1710.
After the death of Nathaniel Burwell in 1721, his widow, Elizabeth
Carter Burwell, married Dr. George Nicholas and was the mother
of Robert Carter Nicholas, Speaker of the Virginia House of Bur-
gesses and Treasurer of Virginia.
Lewis Burwell, the eldest son, and born 1710, as already stated,
removed to The Grove, James Citj" Co., A"a., which was built for
him by President William Nelson, about 1740.
The house is situated on James River and is not far from Wil-
liamsburg. It is still standing and is said to contain the finest mar-
ble mantelpiece ever brought to Virginia in olden times. Lewis Bur-
well married, 173G, Mary Willis; and Col. Nathaniel Burwell, who^\/
married the widow Baylor, as already stated, was probably his sfen^
Col. Nathaniel Burwell first lived at The Grove, near Williams-
burg, James City Co., Va., but subsequently removed to Clarke Co.,
Va., where he founded Carter Hall. After the death of his first
wife, Susan Grymes, Col. Burwell was so afflicted that he went to
Rosewell and requested Gov. John Page to send for his young and
beautiful widowed half-sister, Mrs. George W. Baylor, for him to
marry. The widow came, but refused to listen to Col. Bur well's
addresses. The latter put it all to rights by saying : " Luc}^, you
don't know what is good for 3'ou. Your brother John and I ar-
ranged it all before you came!" Their marriage took place soon
after. The ceremony having been performed, he said : " Now, Lucy,
you can weep for your dear George, and I will weep for my beloved
Suky ! "
Colonel Burwell built Carter Hall soon after the Revolution, and
before 1700. He left The Grove to his eldest son. Carter Burwell.
ROSEWELL. 71
The foregoing copies of inscriptions on the tombstones at Rose-
well were furnished by Miss Nellie Deans, of that place, in 1879, and
they are accurate in every respect. The Timberneck inscriptions
were furnished, about the same time, by Peyton N. Page, Escjr., of
Gloucester Court House, Virginia.
Y. John Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., Governor
OF Virginia, eldest son and child of Mann Page, of the same place
and Alice Grymes, his first wife, eldest son and child of Hon. Mann
Page, of the same place, and Judith Carter, his second wife (by
whom alone he had surviving male issue), second and only sur-
viving child of Hon. Matthew Page, of the same place, and Mary
Mann, his wife, second child (and the only one having male issue) of
Col. John Page, of England and Williamsburg, James City Co., Va.,
progenitor of the Page Family in Virginia, and Alice Luckin, his
wife, was born at the first-named place, 17th April, 1744, and died at
Richmond, Va., 11th Oct., 1808, aged 64 years. He was buried in
St. John's Episcopal Churchyard, near the present east side entrance.
A tombstone of Carrara marble was placed to his memory,
November 2Gth, 1881. It was made by Messrs. Rogers & Miller,
of Richmond, Va., and has upon it the following inscription:
Gov. John Page
(coat-of-arms)
Died
Oct. 11th 1808
Aged 64 Years.
Blessed are the dead
Which die in the Lord.
In the diagram on the following page furnished by William G.
Strange, Esqr., of Richmond, Va., may be seen the relative positions
of St. John's Church, Richmond, Va., and Governor Page's grave
— the latter marked g:
The portion marked A was built first, and at H, near the present door/,
stood Patrick Henry when he uttered the memorable words, "Give me liberty
OR GIVE me death !" It was in this portion, also, that the Virginia Conven-
tion met for the ratification of the Federal Constitution in 1788.
The shaded portion marked B is said to liave been added in 1836.
c is the new main entrance to the church.
(Z is a door — it originally led to a gallery.
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PAGE FAMILY.
e on the south side was the old main entrance, but lias been converted into
a window.
/ was originally the position of the old pulpit, which was subsequently
moved, and the present east side entrance was placed here.
p is the location of the new pulpit facing the new main entrance c.
g is the grave of Gov. John Page.
c/d
CM
-a a-
GF^ACE
ST.
c7>
in
CM
■^^^''^"''/Cr
For a picture of this church, see Bishop Meade, op. cit., Vol. I.,
p. 141.
Accordina; to the same authority, he was educated at William
and Mary College, where he was the associate and intimate friend of
Thomas Jefferson, and his follower in politics afterward, though
entirely differing with him on religious subjects.
The following letters written by him in his earlier years will be
read with interest :
(From the original portrait by Benjamin West, 1758.)
GOV. JOHN PAGE AT THE AGE OF 16,
RosEWELL, Gloucester Co., Va.
Died 11th October, 1808, aged 64.
74 PAGE FAMILY.
RosEWELL, Sept. 18th, 1772.
Dear Sir : The bearer of this, Mr. Robert Andrews, a native of Pennsyl-
vania, was educated and took his degrees with credit at the College of Phila-
delphia. He has lived as tutor in my father's family several years, has applied
himself to the study of divinity, and now offers himself a candidate for holy
orders. His morals, abilities and orthodoxy are such that it gave me pleasure,
when I found lie was determined to enter into that sacred office in our church.
As his character is truly amiable, I heartily recommend him to your notice ;
every civility shown to him will be deemed as shown to myself ; and if you
will please introduce him to the most ingenuous gentlemen of your acquaint-
ance, as he is very ingenuous himself, you will lay an additional obligation on
your much obliged and most obedient servant, John Page, Jun.
John Norton, Esq. , London.
RosEWELL, July y" 21st, 1773.
Dear Sir : I must beg leave to introduce to j-ou Mr. Thos. Davis, a candi-
date for holy orders, and a late usher of our college. I need say but little of
him, as I suppose you are acquainted witli his father, and make no doubt he
will carry manj^ recommendations to you. ... I had observed for several years
past a great inequality of the quantity of rain which fell, and judged that in
the gust of 1769 and some other heavy showers, there fell as much as fell in the
same time in any part of Europe ; and I had fancied that our dews were greater
than in most parts of the world. I had also svipposed that not only our crops,
but our health must be greatly affected by this inequality of moisture, and
that both must depend upon a certain due proportion of heat and moisture.
To be satisfied on this point, I contrived a simple instrument liy which I could
easily measure tlie jTiyth part of an inch of rain. Mr. David Jameson, by Mr.
Hunt's means, procured such an instrument from London, Mr. Hunt causing
it to be made after his direction. Mr. Jameson imported two, and gave me
one. We have now for thirteen months kept an exact journal of the weather,
and roost accurately measured the rain and dews which fell. I measured at
Rosewell, 4:0^%%%, and Mr. Jameson, at York, 4:1^%^^ (inches?), which fell from
June 14th, 1722, to June 14th, 1773. We several times found nearly four divi-
sions of dew in ovir glasses, which were equal to x^Trth of an inch on the earth.
I have troubled you with this long account of our observations, partly because
I thought it might be acceptable to you and j'our curious friends, as being the
first that ever were made of this kind in America, and I may say, with such
an instrument, in the world. With best wishes, etc., your much obliged hum-
ble servant, John Page, Jun.
John Norton, Esq., London.
Rosewell Jan^ y 2'^ 1794
Sir : I am still confined by Lameness in my Foot but hojDe to be able to set
out to Philad'' early next Week. I wish before I go, to receive a Copy of
the Account of Sales of the Tob° which M' Charlton shipped in the Year 1792
toM" Donald's House ; & shall also be obliged to you for an Account of the Tob»
ROSE WELL. 75
which yoii put iuto 'M" Shedden's Hands at New- York. A few Lines by Mon-
day's Stage will reach me. I am y' obliged
Jia* Brown Esq'' John Page
Merchant in Richmond.
The following account is taken from Bishop Meade, op. cit.:
He was with Washington in one of his western expeditions against the
French and Indians. Afterward he was a Representative in the House of
Burgesses. In 1776, he was a visitor of the College of William and Mary ; at
which time he is mentioned in the Virginia Ahnanac as John Page, Junior,
Esqr. , to distinguish him from his uncle, Hon. John Page, of North End,
Gloucester (now IMatthews) Co., Va.
It was about this period of his life that Governor Page o^jposed Lord
Dunmore in the attempt of the latter to place John Randolph (who went to
England when the war commenced) among the visitors of the College, and suc-
ceeded in having Mr. Nathaniel Burwell (afterwards of Frederick County, Va.),
chosen. Lord Dunmores vote alone being cast for Mr. Randolph. During the
Revolutionary struggle Governor Page rendered important services as a mem-
ber of the Committee of Public Safety, and as Lieutenant-Governor of the
Commonwealth. He also contributed freely from his private fortune to the
public cause, and was an officer for the County of Gloucester, Va. , during
the war. He was elected one of the earliest Representatives in Congress from
Virginia, upon the adoption of the Federal Constitution, and continued to act
in that capacity from 1789 to 1797.
In the Congressional Becord of 1780, we find, among others,
that John Page and James Madison, Representatives from Virginia,
resided at No. 10 Maiden Lane, New York City — the seat of gov-
ernment being at that time in New York, and its removal from that
city was opposed hj Mr. Page. (See " Repub. Court," p. 166, note.)
In reference to changing it. Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Philadelphia,
wrote to a friend, saying, that he was glad that there was a prospect of
moving it from ''^ such a sinkhole of vice." Mr. Page, of Virginia,
on the other hand, who was sagacious, moral, and without local
interest, except in his own State, declared that New York was suj^erior
to any place he knew, for the orderly and decent behavior of its
inhabitants. ("Repub. Court," p. 322.)
In 1796 and 1799 he published addresses to the people, and in
1800 he was chosen one of the electors for President. In December,
1802, he was chosen Governor of Virginia, in the place of James Mun-
roe. After serving three terms he was succeeded by Mr. Cabell in
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1805. (The State Constitution at that time required the Governor to
be elected annually by the General Assembly, and permitted the same
person to serve only three years in succession. At least four years
must then elapse before the same person could be elected again to
that office. )
The following is a cop}- of a paper formerly in possession of the
late Thomas W. Page, Esqr., of Keswick (Turkey Hill), Albemarle
Co., Va., signed in Governor Page's handwriting:
The CominoniceaWi of Virginia,
To Jacob C. Clarke, Greeting :
Know You, that from the special trust and confidence reposed in your
fidelity, courage, activity- and good conduct, and upon the recommendation of
the Court of the County of Albemarle, our Governor, in pursuance of the act,
intituled (sic), "An act to amend and reduce into one the several acts of the
General Assembly for regulating the Militia of this Commonwealth," doth
appoint you the said Jacob C. Clarke. Lieutenant in the Eighty Eighth Regi-
ment third Brigade, and second Division of the said Militia, to rank as such
agreeably to the number and date hereof.
In testimony whereof, these our letters are sealed wath the Seal of the
Commonwealth and made patent.
Witness John Page our
said Governor, at Richmond, this
18tli day of July, 1805.
JfiHN Page.
Registered.
Sam : Coleman.
At the time of his death, in 1808, he was Commissioner of
Loans, a Federal office, which had been conferred upon him bj"
President Thomas Jefferson.
"Hon. John Page was, from his youth, a man of pure and unblemislied life.
He was a patriot, a statesman, a philosopher, and a Cliristian. From the com-
mencement of the American Revolution to the hist hour of his life, he exhibited
a firm, inflexible, unremitting, and ardent attachment to his country, and ren-
dered her very important .services. His conduct was marked by upriglitness in
all the vicissitudes of life — in the prosperous and calamitous times through
which lie i:)assed — in seasons of gladness and of affliction.
" He was not only the patriot, soldier, and politician, the well-read theo-
logian and zealous churchman — so that some wished him to take orders, with a
■view to being the first Bishop of Virginia — but he was a most affectionate
domestic character. "
i
ROSEWELL. 77
He was born about the same year with Thomas Jefferson and
Col. John Walker— the latter of Castle Hill and Belvoir, Albemarle
Co., Va.
The following is a copy of a verj- interesting letter from Gov.
John Page to Arthur Lee, in March, 1778:
W'^burg March the 12"' 1778
Dear Sir
My former Acquaintance with j'ou & mj^ Knowledge of your great Abil-
ities constantly exerted in Support of your Country's Cause & the Liberties
of Mankind have long excited in nie a Desire of being admitted into the Nimi-
ber of your Correspondents ; but the Fear of interrupting your Attention to the
important Affairs you are engaged in, has hitherto prevented me from attempt-
ing to enjo3' that Happiness.
However, I am so selfish that I can no longer refrain from asking you to
permit me to engross Part of your Attention. For this Interruption I will
endeavour to make some amends bj^ writing to you the best Accounts I can
collect of the State of Affairs in America in general & Virginia in particular,
as often at least as the Muhiplicity of m^' public Business will admit of.
You ■svill have heard long before this reaches you that Howe is in quiet
Possession of Philad", & that Burgoyne with his Army are detained at Cam-
bridge till the Convention of Sarahtoga shall be ratified by the King his Mas-
ter. By the unhappy Error Congress & the different States fell into of raising
their Troops upon short Inlistments, & from the wretched Accommodations
the Clothiers & Commissaries afforded them when raised, we have not been
able to keep our Troops long enough together to introduce amongst them proper
Discipline, nor indeed liave we been able to collect -} of the Men voted by Con-
gress. Whereas had it been determined at first that they should be inli.sted
for the War, & had the Clothiers & Commissaries done their Dutj% & been
properly assisted by the Legislature & Executive of each State, I have no
Doubt we should have had our Quotas of Men compleat. & by this Time they
would have been as well disciplined as the british Troops. Indeed by this Time
we should have no Occasion for Troops, for had we been able to produce l of
our Quota in Field when General Howe landed at the Head of Elk, it is certain
his whole Army must have been cut off if we may judge from what was done
at Braudywiue with an i Part of that Number — for I have been Avell assured by
good authority that we had not an eighth Part of the Ti'oops voted by Congress
that Daj' in the Field. We are now reduced to the Necessity of dr. fting the
Militia to fill up the Vacancies occasioned by the Expiration of Inlistments &c
&c — but although this seems to be an expeditious and certain Method of raising-
Troops, it is by no Means so good as that by voluntary Inlistments — Numbers
are dissatisfied and others desert. However I hope we shall have Men enough
in the Field to bring Howe to a Capitulation or Convention, at least, if he
does not receive considerable Reinforcements in the Spring — and from the con-
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siderable Importations made this Winter on public Account & by private
Adventurers, added to some late Regulations of Congress, & the different States,
we may expect to see our Troops well clothed & armed & in a more respectable
& comfortable Situation than they have ever been. The Enemy have left Virgi"
almost in a State of Peace ever since Dunmore was driven away, till this
Winter, when they began to be troublesome on the Bay & at the Mouths of
some of our Rivers — their Frigates seem to be very shy of our Gallies and Bat-
teries, but I hope before this Summer is out they will be more so.
I take this Opportunity, Sir, of informing you that you were elected a
corresponding Member of our Society for promoting useful Knowledge at one of
our last Meetings — which have been for some Time pasfa discontinued, the crit-
ical Situation of our Country engrossing the AttentySn of all the Members —
However we have made some Progress in our Business having received some
valuable Astronomical Observations, Meteorological Journals and other Papers,
Models of Machines &c, & are collecting Materials for compleating the natural
History of Virginia. Not only the Arts & Sciences, but Manufactures & Agri-
culture are objects of our Attention. By the next Opportunity I will send you
some Extracts from some of our Papers. The Society will think themselves
happy to receive any thing you may think proper to communicate. I have
engrossed so much of your Time, & intruded so much on you, that I must beg
your Pardon, & conclude after desiring you to present my Comp" & best
Wishes to your Brother, his Lady & Family — I am dear Sir your
affectionate h'''"' Servant
John Page
of
Rose well.
Gov. John Page married twice. He married, first, about 1765,
Frances (called Fannie), daughter of Col. Robin Burwell, of Isle-
of- Wight County, Va., and Sallie Nelson, his wife. The latter was
the only child of Thomas Nelson (Scotch Tom), of Yorktown, York
Co., Va., and the widow Fannie Tucker (whose maiden name was
Houston), of Bermuda Islands, his second wife. Col. Robin Burwell
was the brother of Betty Burwell, who was the wife of President
Nelson.
Frances Burwell, first wife of Gov. John Page, died in 1784,
aged 37, and was buried at Rosewell, although no tombstone appears
to have been erected to her memory. Three of their children died
infants. Their naines are unknown. The remaining nine were as
follows :
1. Mann Page, eldest, born at Rosewell, 1766 ; removed to Shelly, Glou
cester Co., Va. , and married, 5th June, 1788, Elizabeth, eldest daughter
and sixth child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co. , Va.
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2. John Page (No. 1), born about 1768; died infant.
3. Robert Page, born about 1770 ; died unmarried, at Yorktown, Va. , aged
about 2.) years.
4. Sally Burwell Page, born about 1771 ; married, about 1790, AVilliam, eldest
son and child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va.
5. John Page (No. 2), born about 1773; drowned in Carter's Creek, in 1784,
aged about 11 years.
C. Alice Grymes Page, born at Rosewell about 1775 ; married, first, 1793,
Dr. Augustine Smith, of Yorktown, Va. , by whom she had as follows :
(1) Robert Nelson Smith, first of Louisville, Ky. , and then of Lexing-
ton, Mo. ; died 1877, aged about 83 years. He married, 1815, Mary
Fiy, of Albemarle Co., Va. , and had issue. F. Coleman Smith,
of Butler, Bates Co. , Mo. , is one of the sons.
(2) John Page Smith ; died in 1859 in Louisville, Ky. He married
twice, and had several daughters and two sons, one of whom was
killed in the late war.
(3) Augustine Smith ; removed to Alabama, and died in Mobile, leaving
three sons and two daughters. One of the sons. Rev. Dudley D.
Smith, now resides in Philadelphia ; married twice.
(4) Lucy Calthrope Smith; married, 1835, Ralph Diggs, of Louisa Co.,
Va. He removed to Alabama, and died in 1836. The widow now
lives in Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co. , W. Va. , with the widow of
her late nephew, Dudley Diggs Pendleton.
(5) AVilliam Smith ; removed to Alabama.
(6) Frances Burwell Smith.
Alice Page (the widow Smith) married, secondly, in 1812, Col. Dudley
Diggs, of Louisa Co., Va. , and had Elizabeth Diggs, who married,
in 1840, Hugh N. Pendleton, and was his second wife. (See Pen-
dleton. )
7. Frances Page, born at Rosewell about 1777 ; married, first, in 1795,
Thomas Nelson, Jr. , second son of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown,
Va. Their daughter, Thomasia, married, 1821, Bishop William Meade,
of Virginia, and was his second wife.
Frances Page (the widow Nelson) married, secondh", about 1811, Dr.
Carter Berkeley, of Edgewood, Hanover Co. , Va.
8. Francis Page, born at Rosewell about 1781, removed to Rug Swamp,
Hanover Co. , Va. . and married, in 1806, Susan, fourth daughter and
tenth child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va.
9. Judith Carter Page, born at Rosewell about 1783 ; married, about 1803,
Robert, ninth child and youngest son of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of York-
town, Va. Being Chancellor of William and Mary College, he was
called Chancellor Nelson.
Thus there were twelve children of Gov. John Page and Frances
Burwell, his first wife, three of whom died infants, names unknown
\
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Of the re^iiaining nine, five married sons and daughters of Gov.
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va.
Gov. John Page married, secondly, 1789, in New York City, Mar-
garet, daughter of William Lowther, of Scotland. She was visited
by General Lafayette, 20th October, 1824, at Williamsburg, Va.,
while he was on his way from Yorktown to Richmond, during his
last visit to America. Although Governor Page was now dead, his
name appeared among those of other patriots of the Revolution, on
the obelisk that was temporarily erected at the main entrance to the
Capitol Square at Richmond, Va., during the celebration of Gei^eral
Lafayette's visit.
There were eight children by the second marriage, as follows :
1. Margaret Lowther Page, boru at Rosevvell about 1790 ; married, first, about
1810, Jolm H. Blair, of Elniington, Hanover Co. , Va. . and had ;
(1) Archie Blair; died in Kentucky, leaving a widow and daughter.
(2) Margaret McLean Blair ; unmarried.
(3) Mary Anne Beverly Blair ; married a son of Richard Anderson, of
Richmond, Va. , by his first wife.
(4) Fanny Adams Blair ; married another son of Richard Anderson, of
Richmond, Va. , by. his fii-st wife.
Margaret Lowther Page (the widow Blair) married, secondly, the
above-mentioned Richard Anderson, of Richmond, Va. , and was
his second wife. He was the father of her two sons-in-law. By
the second marriage, she had :
(1) Richard Lowther Anderson ; died infant.
(2) Margaret Anderson ; brought up l)y her aunt, Mrs. John Minor
Botts.
2. William Lowther Page ; died infant.
3. Mary Mann Page ; ditto.
4. Gregory Page ; a very talented youth ; was drowned while a student at
William and Mary College.
5. John Page ; died unmarried in 1838. He was a very cultivated and pol-
ished gentleman, who had travelled a great deal.
6. John William Page; died infant.
7. Barbara Page, born at Rosewell about 1795 ; died, unmarried, at Wil-
liamsburg, Va. , about 1864, aged 69 years.
8. Lucy Burwell Page, youngest of the twenty children of Gov. John Page,
was born at Rosewell, in 1807. She married, 1828, Hon. Robert Saun-
ders, of Williamsburg, James City Co. , Va. He died about 1870. After
the death of her husband, Mrs. Saunders removed to the Louise Home,
established in Washington, D. C. , by the liberality of Hon. W. W.
Corcoran, of that citJ^ The children of Hon. Robert Saunders and
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Lucy, his wife, were Barbara, Lelia, Robert (died infaut) , Robert, Luey
(died infant) , John (ditto) , Page, and Mary Anna, who married Rev.
George T. Williams of Virginia, and had issue.
We now return to the children of Mann Page, the second, of
Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., and Anne Corbin Tayloe, his second
wife.
V. Mann Page, of Mansfield, Spottsylvania Co., Va., better
known as Mann Page, Jr., eldest son and child of Mann Page, of
Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., and Anne Corbin Tayloe, his second
wife, was born at the last-named place about 1740, and removed to
the first-named place. He was a member of the Continental Con-
gress from Virginia, in 1777, along with Thomas Jefferson, Thomas
Nelson, Jr., and George Wythe.
He married, 18th April, 1776, Mary Tayloe, fifth child and
daughter of John Tayloe, of Spottsylvania Countj^ Va. , and Rebecca
Plater, his wife.
John Tayloe died 18th April, 1779. He married, 11th July,
1747, Rebecca, daughter of Hon. George Plater, of Maryland. The
children of Mann Page and Mary Tayloe, his wife, were as follows :
1. Maria Page, born about 1777 ; married Lewis Burwell.
2. Lucy Gwynn Page, born about 1779 ; married Josiah Tidball.
3. Mann Page, born about 1781 ; married, but name of wife is unknown.
Their son, Mann Page, married, 1837, at Willis' Grove, Orange Co.,
Va. , Miss Mary Champe Willis, daughter of William C. Willis, and
resided at Orange Court House. She subsequently died, leaving only
one surviving child. Mann Page subsequently studied medicine and
removed to Mississippi. Nothing more is known.
V. Robert Page, second son and child of Mann Page, of Rose-
well, Gloucester Co., Va., and Anne Corbin Tayloe, his second wife,
was born at Rosewell, about 1751, and removed to Hanovertown,
Hanover Co., Va.
He married, about 1776, Elizabeth Carter, daughter of Charles
Carter, of Fredericksburg, Va. Their children were :
1. Elizabeth Page (called Betsey), born about 1777; married, about 1797,
Philip Burwell, of Chapel Hill, Frederick Co. , Va., son of Col. Nathaniel
Burwell, of Carter Hall, Clarke Co., Va., and Susan Grymes. his
first wife. No issue known.
2. Charles Page, born about 1778 ; married, in September, 1799, Sally Gary,
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82 PAGE FAMILY.
fourth (laughter and sixth child of Col. William Nelson, of The Dorrill,
Hanover Co.. Va. , who was the eldest son and child of Secretary
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. (See Nelson.)
;}. Mann Page, born about 1780 ; married, about 1803, Mary Chiswell Nelson,
sister of his brother Charles' wife.
Y. GwYNN Page, fourth son and child of Mann Page, of
Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., and Anne Corbin Tayloe, his second
wife, was born at Rosewell, about 1758, and removed to Kentucky.
He married, first, Miss Herreford, by whom he had one child,
viz. :
Dr. Matthew Page, born about 1789: removed to Clarke County, Va. , and
married, about 1814, Mary Randolj)!! (called Polly), daughter of
Archie Cary Randolph, of that county, who was the eldest son of
Thomas Isham Randolph, of Dungeness, Goochland Co., Va. (See
Randolph.) Their children were (1) Archie Cary Page, (2) Gwynn
Page, (3) Dr. William Meade Page, of San Francisco, Cal., and (4)
Matthewella Page (called Mattie), who married, 1858, Benjamin Har-
rison, Jr., of Berkeley (Harrison's Landing), on James River, Charles
City Co., Va. , by whom she had Dr. Benjamin Harrison and others.
(See Broadneck.) Benjamin Harrison, Jr., and Mattie Page, his wife,
w^ere the last of the Harrison family to reside at Berkeley (Harrison's
Landing) . They removed to Longwood, Clarke Co. , Va.
He married, secondly, Miss Hoe, of Caroline County, Va., by
whom he had :
1. Gwynn Page, of Louisville, Ky. , an eminent lawyer. He removed to
San Francisco, Cal. , and amassed a large fortune. He died unmarried,
at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. , and left his money
to his sister Lucy.
2. Lucy Page, of San Francisco, Cal. , unman-ied.
VI. Mann Page, of Shelly, Gloucester Co., Va., eldest son and
child of Gov. John Page, of Rosewell, same county, Va., and Frances
(called Fannie) Burwell, his first wife; eldest son and child of
Mann Page, of the same place, and Alice Grymes, his first wife;
eldest son and child of the Hon. Mann Page, of the same place, and
Judith Carter, his second wife (by whom alone he had surviving male
issue) ; second and only surviving child of Hon. Matthew Page, of
same place, and Mary Mann, his wife, second son (and only one having
male issue) of Col. John Page, of England and Williamsburg, James
(From the original nil i>aiiitiii.: in pMsst'ssion (,t ;\li-s. I.iiuy Gwyn CartfT, Winchester, Va.)
MANN PAGE, JR., AND HIS SISTER ELIZABETH.
84 PAGE FAMILY.
City Co., Va., progenitor of the Page Family in Virginia, and Alice
Liickin, his wife, was born at Rosewell, the second above-named
place, in 17GG, and died 2-tth August, 1813, at Mt. Air, Hanover
Co., Va., aged 47 years. He was buried at Airwell, the seat of the
Berkeleys, in Hanover County, Va.
He founded Shelly, on York River, Gloucester Co., Va., in 1794.
It is situated on the hill opposite Rosewell, across Carter's Creek.
The original house was destroyed by a fire in 1883, but was subse-
quently rebuilt.
The Indian name for this place was Werowoconiico, and is said to have
been the location of Powhatan's Headquarters, where Pocahontas is said to
have saved the life of Captain John Smith. The name being difficult of jironun-
ciation, it was changed by Governor Page to Shelly, on account of the great
quantity of shells found there. (See Bishop Meade, op. cit., Vol. I., p. 335.)
The following is copied from the record in the clerk's office at
Yorktown, Va. :
This Indenture made the twenty third day of November in the year of our
Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred & forty nine, between Mann Page of the
County of Gloucester in the Colony of Virginia, Esq'' : Heir at Law of Mary
Whaley late of the Parish of Saint Margaret Westminster in the County of
Middlesex in Great Britain, widow deceased, of the one part, & Thomas Dawson,
Clerk John Custis and John Blair Esq", Thomas Jones, Peyton Randolph, Thomas
Cobbs, Henry Tyler, Mathew Pierce, Lewis Burwell, Benjamin Waller and
William Parks Gent. , all of the Parish of Bruton in the said Colony, of the
other part. Whereas, the said Mary Whaley being in her lifetime and at the
time of her death seised in Fee Simijle of certain lands lying and being in the
said Parish of Bruton in the County of York and Colony aforesaid, made her
Last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the Sixteenth day of Febru-
ary One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty one, and therein did give, devise
and bequath as follows : "I give, devise and bequath to the Minister and Church
Wardens for the time being of the said Parish of Bruton in the County of York
in the said Colony of Virginia, and their successors, a certain piece or parcel
of land in the .said Parish of Bruton, Containing by estimation, ten acres, little
more or less, together with Mattey's School House and Dwelling House lately
erected and built thereon for the use of a School Master to teach the neediest
Children in the said Parish, who shall be offered, in the art of Reading, Writ-
ing and Arithmetick, and bounded by the Main Road leading to Queen's Creek
and beginning at a Gully of running water surrounding the said ten acres of
land & adjoining upon Mr Pope's land, which said piece or parcel of land
School House and Dwelling House together also with all outhouses, gardens and
appurtenances thereunto belonging I give and devise to the said Minister and
Church Wardens for the time being and their successors for ever, upon Ti-ust,
to continue the same for the use, benefit and behoof of the said Mattey's School
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for tlie purposes aforesaid to eternalize Mattey's School by the name of Mattey's
School lor ever to and for no other use, intent or purpose whatsoever as in the
said Will more fully is contained : And whereas, in a suit in Chancery lately
depending in the CJeneral Court of the said Colony between Peyton Randolph
Esq' : Attorney General of our Lord, the King in the Colony aforesaid at the
relation of the Minister and Church Wardens of the said Parish of Bruton,
Plaintiff, and the said Mann Page and James Frances Executor of the last Will
& Testament of the said Mary Whaley Defendants, it is, among other things,
decreed and ordered that the said Mann Page do convej' the Fee Simple Estate
of the lands with the houses and appurtenances herein before mentioned and
described, unto the said Thomas Dawson, John Custis, John Blair, Thomas
Jones, Peyton Randolph. Tliomas Cobbs, Henry Tyler, Mathew Pierce, Lewis
Burwell, Benjamin Waller and William Parks and James Wray deceased, their
heirs and assigns for ever. In Trust, and to and for the uses and purposes
mentioned in the Last Will and Testament of the said Mary Whaley as in the
said decree, dated and signed the fourteenth day of October last past, more
fully is Contained. Now this Indenture Wituesseth, that in compliance of the
recited decree, and for and in consideration of the sum of Five Shillings to the
said Mann Page in hand paid by the said Trustees, the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged, he, the said Mann Page, liath given, granted, bargained,
Sold, aliened and confirmed, and by these i)resents, doth give, grant, bargain.
Sell, alien and confirm unto the said Thomas Dawson, John Curtis, John Blair,
Thomas Jones, Peyton Randolph. Thomas Cobbs. Henry Tyler, Mathew Pierce,
Lewis Burwell, Benjamin Waller and William Parks, their heirs and assigns
for ever, all that piece or parcel of laud in the said Parish of Bruton, Contain-
ing by estimation, ten acres, little more or less, and bounded as herein before
is mentioned and expressed, being the Lands devised by the Will of the said
Mary Whaley as aforesaid, together with all houses out houses, edif. .ces, build-
ings, yards, gardens, orchards, woods, underwoods, trees, ways, waters, water-
courses, profits, commodities, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to
the same in anywise belonging, and the reversion and reversions remainder
and remainders, rents and issues thereof, and all the estate, right, title and
interest. Claim and demand whatsoever of him, the said Mann Page, of in and
to the same, or any part thereof. To have and to hold all & singular the premises
with the appurtenances unto the said Thomas Dawson, Jolm Custis, John
Blair, Thomas Jones, Peyton Randolph, Thomas Cobbs, Henry Tyler, Mathew
Pierce, Lewis Burwell, Benjamin W^aller and William Parks, their heirs and
assigns for ever. In Trust, and to and for the uses and purposes mentioned in
the Last Will and Testament of the said Mary Wlialey according to the said
decree and to no other use, intent or purpose whatsoever. In witness whereof,
the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangebly set their hands and
aflSxed their seals the day and year first within written
Sealed and delivered in presence of Mann Page [L. S.]
Thos. Everard
J. Palmer
George Wythe
86 PAGE FAMILY.
At a Court licld for York Coimty The 18"' day of December 1749. This
Indenture was proved by the oaths of Thomas Everard John Palmer and George
Wythe, the witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded
Exam"^ Teste,
Tho' Everard Ct Cur"
A copy,
Teste,
A. F. HUDGINS, Clerk
Virginia,
York County, to wit :
I, A. F. HUDGINS, Clerk of the County Court of York County, State of Vir-
ginia, do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Deed of Mann
Page to the said Trustees therein named as the same appears in the Record on
file in my Office.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court affixed this the 20th day of
May A.D. 1884, in the 108th year of the Com"' of V".
[L. S.] A. F. HUDGINS, Clerk.
Virginia,
I, H. B. Warren, Judge of the County Court of York County, State of Vir-
ginia, do Certify that A. F. Hudgins, who hatli given the foregoing Certificate,
is Clerk of said Court, and that his said attestation is in due form.
Given under my hand this the 24th day of May A.D. 1884, in the 108th
year of the Com"' of Virginia.
H. B. Warren, Judge.
Mann Page, of Shelly, married, 5th June, 1788, Elizabeth Nel-
son, eldest daughter and sixth child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of
Yorktown, York Co., Va., and Lucy Grymes, his wife, and their
children were as follows :
1. John Page, eldest, born at Shelly, 7th March, 1789 ; died there 81st Jan-
uary, 1817, aged 28 years — from disease conti-acted during service in
the war of 1812, and from excessive blood-letting by his physicians.
He married, in 1812, Elizabeth (called Betsy) Perin, of Gloucester
County, Va. No surviving issue. She married, secondly, the eminent
lawyer, Thomas J. Michie, of Staunton, Augusta Co. , Va. No issue.
2. Lucy Mann Page, born 9th February, 1790 ; married, about 1811, Dr.
Nathaniel Nelson, of The Lodge, Hanover Co. , Va. He was the j'oung-
est son and fourth child of Col. Hugh Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. , and
Judith Page, his wife. (See Nelson.)
3. Frances Burwell Page (called Fannie), born 15th July, 1791; married,
about 1813, Major William Perin, of Goshen, Gloucester Co. , Va. She
died 20th May. 1819, aged 28 years. Their davighter, Anna Louise Perin,
married, about 1838, Wyndham Kemp, of Gloucester County, Va. , and
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died, leaving three cliildren, viz. : (a) Perin Kemp, lawyer ; Gloucester
Court House, Va. (6) Emily Kemp, married Peyton N. Page, of same
place, (c) Wyndliam Kemp, Jr., of Texas. Ellen Perin, sister of
Anna Louise Perin, died single.
4. Thomas Nelson Page, born 5th October, 1792 ; married 1st February, 1827,
Juliana, daughter of Isham Randolph, of Richmond, Va. She was
the sister of Fanny P. Randolph, the wife of William N. Page, of the
North End branch. (See Randolph.)
5. Mann Page, born J)th June, 1794 ; married, first, 1819, Judith Nelson,
of Hanover County, Va. He married, secondlj', Anne Page Jones, of
Gloucester County, Va.
6. Eliza Nelson Page, born 15th October, 1795 : married, 1830, Benjamin
Pollard, of Norfolk City, Va. Their only child, Ellen Pollard, married,
about 1853, Mr. Marsden, of the same place.
7. William Nelson Page, bron 20th July, 1797, died unmarried at Mt. Air,
Hanover Co., Va. , in 1H29, aged 82 years.
8. Mary Jane Page, born 30th October, 1798 ; married, about 1833, Archie
McGill, of Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., and afterward of Barley
Wood, .same count}-, Va. No issue.
9. Dr. Warner Lewis Page, born 10th March, 1800 ; died unmarried, at
Rugswamp, Hanover Co., Va. , 26th March, 1822, aged 22 years.
10. Sally Burwell Page, born 8th May, 1802 ; died single, at Shelly, in 1869,
aged 67 years.
11. Ann (called Nancy) Page, born 10th February, 1803 ; married 24th
April, 1823, Francis K. Nelson, of Cloverfields, Albemarle Co., Va. , and
was his first wife. He was the eldest son and child of Hon. Hugh
Nelson, of Belvoir, same county. (See Nelson.)
12. Philip L. G. Page, born 28th September, 1804 ; died single, at Shelly,
1st April, 1821, aged 16 years.
13. Robert Nelson Page, born 13th December, 1805 ; died single, 15th Aug-
ust, 1824, aged 18 years.
14. Thomas Jefferson Page, born 4th January, 1807 ; married, in 1838, Ben-
jam ina Price, of Loudon Count3% Va.
15. Cornelia Mann Page, fifteenth and last child of Mann Page, of Shelly,
and Elizabeth Nelson his wife, was born 29th April, 1809, and died at
Shelly, 15th December, 1890, aged 81. She married 23d December, 1835,
at Shelly, Lieutenant Alberto Griffith, U. S. N. During a storm on
the Pacific Ocean he biu'st a blood-vessel on board ship and died. He
was buried at Kingston, Jamaica. Their only child, Mary Jane Grif-
fith, recently died unmarried at Shelly.
VI. Francis Page, of Rugswamp, Hanover Co., Va., eighth
child and fifth son of Gov. John Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester Co.,
Va., and Frances (called Fannie) Burwell, his first wife, was
born at Rosewell, about 1781, and married, in 1806, Susan (called
88 PAGE FAMILY.
Suky), fourth daughter and tenth child of Gov. Thomas Nelson,
of Yorktown, Va., and Luc}^ Gr3'mes, his wife. Their children
were as follows :
1. Anzolette Page, bom 1807 ; married, in 1831, Rev. William N. Pendle-
ton, of Lexington, Va. ; died 15th January, 1884, aged 77. (See Pen-
dleton. )
2. Thomas Lucius Page, eldest son, resided at Rugswamp, Hanover Co. ,
Va.. and died there, single, in 1861, aged 52 years.
3. Francis Maun Page, born about 1813 ; married, 1854, Victorine Valette,
of Baltimore, Md., and had five children, viz. : (1) John Randolph
Grymes, (2) Victorine, (3) Rosalie Rosewell, (4) Marie, and (5) Ed-
mund Shelly.
4. Anne Rose Page, born 1815 ; unmarried, removed to Oakland, Hanover
Co. , Va. , the residence of Capt. Thomas Nelson.
5. Frances Burwell Page (called Fannie) , born about 1818 ; married, 1838,
Philip N. Meade. Their children were : (1) William ; married in
Louisa County, Va. No issue. (2) Everard, minister in the Episcopal
Church. (3) Philip N. , Jr. , (4) Harry Vernon, (5) Susan Page, (6) Mary
Nelson, (7) Fannie. Four others died infants. Philip N. Meade re-
sided at Mountain View, Clarke Co. , Va. He was the eldest son of
Bishop William Meade, of Virginia, and Mary Nelson, his first wife,
daughter of Philip Nelson, of Clarke County, Va. After the death of
her husband, Mrs. Fannie B. P. Meade removed to the Louise Home,
Washington, D. C. , where she died about 1885.
6. John Page, born about 1822 ; removed to Oakland, Hanover Co. , Va. ,
where he married, 1847, Elizabeth Burwell (called Betsey) , fourth
daughter and eighth child of Capt. Thomas Nelson, of the same place.
Three children, as follows : (1) Rev. Francis Page, of the Episcopal
Churcli ; (2) Thomas Nelson Page, lawyer and author, Richmond, Va. ;
(3) Rosewell Page, lawyer, Danville, Va.
7. Hughella Page, born about 1824, died, single, 1844, aged about 20 years.
VI. Charles Page, of Hanovertown, Hanover Co., Va., eldest
son and second child of Robert Page, of the same place, and Eliza-
beth Carter, his wife, second son and child of Mann Page, of Rose-
well, Gloucester Co., Va., and Anne Corbin Tayloe, his second
wife, was born at the first-named place about 1778.
He married, in September, 1799, Sally Cary, fourth daughter
and sixth child of Col. William Nelson, of The Dorrill, Hanover Co.,
Va., eldest son and child of Secretar}" Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown,
Va., and was her first husband. (See Nelson.) Their children were
as follows :
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1. Elizabetli Burwell Page (called Betsey), born about 1800; married,
about 1830, Dr. B. R. Wellford, of Fredericksburg, Va., and was his
first wife. She died leaving one child, who married Joseph Atkinson,
of North Carolina.
2. Caroline Page, born about 1802; married, about 1822, John C. Pollard,
of Hanover Count}', Va.
3. Norborue Page, born about 1804 ; married, about 1829, Mary Jones. No
known issue.
4. William A. Page, born about 1806; married, about 1831, Caroline Jones,
and died leaving four children, names iinknown.
5. Robert C. Page, born about 1808 : married, about 1833. Martha Temple,
and died withovit issue, in California. His widow resided in Rich-
mond, Va.
VI. Manx Page, of Hanovertown, Hanover Co.,Va., about the
third child and second son of Robert Page, of the same place, and
Elizabeth Carter, his wife, second son and child of Mann Page, of
Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., and Anne Corbin Tayloe his second
wife, was born at the first-named place about 1 T80.
He married, about 180:], Mary Chiswell, eighth child and fifth
daughter of Col. William Nelson, of The Dorrill, Hanover Co., Va.,
eldest son of Secretary Thomas Nelson. Their children were as
follows :
1. Robert Page, born about 1804; died immarried.
2. Charles Page, born about 1800 ; married, about 1831, Lucy, daughter of
Wilson Cary Nelson, of Hanovertown, who was the son of Capt. Thomas
Nelson, the third son and child of Secretary Thomas Nelson. No issue
known .
3. John F. Page, born about 1808 ; married, about 1833, Catherine, also a
daughter of Wilson Carj' Nelson. They had one child, viz. : Mary
Mann Page, born about 1834, and married, about 1854, W^illiam B. , son
of Hon. Willoughby Newton, of Westmoreland County, Va. , and brother
of Rev. John B. Newton, of Richmond, Va. , who married Roberta P.-^
Williamson, of Orange Countj% Va. William B. Newton died leav-
ing a widow and three children, viz. ; (a) Lucy P. , (6) Willoughby,
and (e) Kate. They resided at Summer Hill, Old Church P. O. , Han-
over Co., Va. After the death of John F. Page his widow Catherine
married Dr. Brockenborough, vrho died, leaving her a second time
a widow.
VII. Thomas Nelson Page, of Shelly, Gloucester Co., Va.,
second and eldest surviving son and fourth child of Mann Page, of
same place, and Elizabeth Nelson, his wife, eldest son of Gov. John
90 PAGE FA3IILY.
Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., and Frances (called
Fannie) Burwell, bis first wife, eldest son and child of Mann
Page, of the last-named place, and Alice Grymes, his first wife,
eldest son and child of Hon. Mann Page, of same place, and Judith
Carter, his second wife (by whom alone he had surviving male
issue), second and only surviving child of Hon. Matthew Page,
of same place, and Mary Mann, his wife, second son (and only one
having male issvie) of Col. John Page, of England and Williams-
burg, James City Co., Va., progenitor of the Page Family in Vir-
ginia, and Alice Luckin, his wife, was born at Rosewell, 5th October,
1792, and died at Shelly, in October, 1835, aged 43 years. At his
own request he was buried at Rosewell.
He married, 1st February, 1827, Julianna, second child and
daughter of Isham Randolph, of Richmond, Va., who married Nancy
Coupland. Isham Randolph was the second son and child of Thomas
Isham Randolph, of Dungeness, Goochland Co., Va. (See Ran-
dolph.) Julianna Randolph was the sister of Fannie P. Randolph,
the wife of William N. Pago. (See North End.)
Thomas N. Page and Julianna Randolph, his wife, had only one
surviving child, viz. :
Mann Page, of Lower Brandon, on James River, Prince George Co. , Va. ,
unmarried. He was born at Shelly, 21st April, 1835, a few months
before his father's death. Being the eldest son of the eldest son, etc.,
he is the representative of the Page Family in Virginia. Should he
die without issue, the eldest son of Major Francis N. Page comes next
in order, and after his family, that of Dr. John R. Page, of Birming-
ham, Ala.
VII. Mann Page, of Greenland, Gloucester Co., Va., fifth child
and third son of Mann Page, of Shelly, same county, Va., and
Elizabeth Nelson, his wife, was born at the second-named place, 9th
June, 1794, and died in January, 1841, aged 47 years.
He was among those who were appointed marshals, with power to select
as many assistants as they might deem necessary, whose duty it was to form
the procession and preserve order, on the 18th and 19th October, 1824, at York-
town, York Co., Va., during the visit of General Lafayette (whose full
name was Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier Marquis de Lafayette) .
Mann Page married, first, in 1819, Judith, daughter of Francis
Nelson, of Mont Air, Hanover Co., Va., fourth son and child of
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Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. The wife of Francis Nelson
was Lucy, youngest child of Hon. John Page, of North End,
Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife.
(See North End.)
Judith Nelson, first wife of Mann Page, was the sister of Philip Nelson,
of Mont Air, Hanover Co., Va. , second husband of Jane Crease, widow of Rev.
George W. Nelson, of the Episcopal Chirrch. She was also the sister of Jane
Nelson, who married, 1819, John Page, of North End, Clarke Co., Va., and
was his first wife.
The children of Mann Page and Judith Nelson, his first wife,
were as follows :
1. Francis Nelson Page, eldest, born at Greenland, Gloucester Co., Va.,
28th October, 1820. Was educated at West Point Military Academy,
and became a Major in the U. S. Arm}'. Married, 25th February, 1851,
Susan Duval, of Florida.
2. Powhatan Robertson Page (called Posie) , born at Greenland, about 1822,
and died ITth June, ISW, aged about 42 years. He served through the
Mexican War as captain of a companj' in tlie 14th Regiment Infantry,
U. S. Armj-, and was a gallant ofticer and soldier. He married, 1853,
Elizabeth (called Lizzie), daughter of Dr. Samuel Scollay, of Smith-
field, Jefferson Co. , W. Va. He died in 1864, leaving a widow and one
child, Sally ScoUaj' Page, who removed with her mother to Clarksburgh,
Harrison Co. , W. Va. Mrs. Elizabeth Scollay Page was the half-sister
of Mary Nelson Scollay who married Rev. G. W. Nelson of the Epis-
copal Church. Dr. Samuel Scollay was a native of Massachusetts and
was born 21st January, 1781. He graduated at Harvai-d College in
1808, and in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1876. He
removed to Smithfield, and married Harriet Lowndes, who was his first
wife ; she was the granddaughter of Gov. Edward Lloyd, of Maryland,
who married Elizabeth Tayloe of Mount Airy, Spottsylvania Co., Va.,
the sister of Mary Taj'loe, who was the wife of Mann Page, Jr. , who
was the half-brother of Gov. John Page, of Virginia.
Mann Page, of Greenland, Gloucester Co., Va., married, sec-
ondly, in 1829, Anne Page Jones, of same county, Va. Their chil-
dren were as follows :
1. John Randolph Page, eldest, physician, of Birmingham Ala., was born
at Greenland, Gloucester Co. , Va. , in 1830. He married, 30th October,
1856, at Eagle Point, Gloucester Co., Va., Delia, eldest daughter of
John Randolph Brj-an, of Carj^sbrook, Fluvana Co., Va. , and Elizabeth
Coalter, his wife, who was the daughter of Judge Coalter, and the
92 PAGE FAMILY.
favorite niece of John Randolph, of Roanoke. Dr. John R. Page and
Delia, his wife, had nine children, as follows : (1) Mann Page, of
Denver, Col., married Hattie Robbins, and has two children, (a) Mann,
and {h) Winthrop ; (2) Dr. Charles C. Page, of New York ; (3) Anne
Page, married 17th March, 1884, her cousin, Walter Taylor Page, of
Omaha. Neb. , and has one child, Nannie ; (4) Delia Page : (5) Ada S.
Page ; (6) Joseph B. Page ; and (7) John Randolph Page, Jr. The two
first born, not mentioned (Randolph Bryan Page and Elizabeth Page),
died infants.
2. Martha T. Page, born at Greenland, Gloucester Co., Va. , about 1834;
married, about 1864, H. W. Vandergrift, of Alexandria, Virginia, and
had Kate and Annie.
3. Elizabeth N. Page (called Betty) , born about 1840 ; married, about 1857,
James Goggin, of Hempstead, Texas.
4. Richard M. Page, born at same place, about 1838 ; resides in Gloucester
County, Va. Married, about 1878, Kate, daughter of the late Jacob
Wray, of Hampton, Elizabeth City Co. , Va. One child, Thomas Nelson.
5. Peyton N. Page, born at same place, about 1840, lawyer and Common-
wealth's Attorney for Gloucester County, Va. ; married, about 1875,
Emily, daughter of Wyndham Kemp, of same county, and Anna Louise
Perin, his wife. He died ; no .surviving issue.
VII. Captain Thomas Jefferson Page, U. S. Navy, eighth
son and fourteenth child of Mann Page, of Shelly, Gloucester Co.,
Va., and Elizabeth Nelson, his wife, was born at Shelly, 8th January,
1808.
He married at Washington, D. C, in 1838, Benjamina, daugh-
ter of Benjamin Price, of Loudon County, Va. They both reside
at Florence, Italy.
Thomas Jefferson Page entered the U. S. Navy in October, 1827, as mid-
shipman. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in June, 1833, and to
that of captain, in 1855. In the early part of his service he was employed, for
a time, on the U. S. Coast Survey. In 1853 he was appointed to the command
of an exi^edition for the exploration of the tributaries of the River La Plata,
and adjacent countries, from which he returned in May, 1856, after an absence
of three years and four months. His narrative of this expedition was pub-
lished in 1859, 8vo, New York.
In 1857 Congress made a further appropriation to complete the exploration
of the Parana and tributaries of the Paraguay Rivers. Commander Page was
assigned to this service, which was finished in December, 1860.
The children of Capt. T. J. Page and Benjamina Price, his
wife, were as follows :
CAPT. THOMAS JEFFERSON PAGE, U.S.N.,
Florence, Italy, 1892.
At the age of 84.
94 PAGE FAMILY.
1. Thomas Jefferson Page, Jr., born in New Jersey, 15th February, 1839;
died unmarried, at Florence, Italy, 16th June, 1864, aged 25 years. He
was buried in the English cemetery there.
2. John Page, born at Washington, D. C, 29th November, 1840; removed
to Estancia -San Carlos, Bragado, Buenos Aj-res, South America. Mar-
ried, 1863, Julia Lowry, of Buenos Ayres, S. A. He was captain in
Argentine S. A. Navy, and was killed by savages, in 1890, while explor-
ing the river Pilcomayo.
3. Lilly Page, born at Washington, D. C. , 1843, married, October, 1866, the
Marquis Spinola, of Florence, Italy. He died, leaving her a widow
with no surviving issue.
4. Philip N. Page, born at Washington, D. C. , 2d May, 1847 ; also removed
to Buenos Ayres, South America.
5. Mary Bell Page, born at Washington, D. C. , 1848 ; died at Florence, Italy,
1870.
6. Frederick M. Page, born at Washington, D. C, 18th April, 1852; mar-
ried, 28th October. 1880, Sadie Byrd, daughter of A. M. Chichester, of
Loudon County, Va.
7. George C. Page, born at Washington, D. C. , 28th September, 1857. He
resides at Rome, Italy.
VIII. Major Francis Nelson Page, U. S. Army, eldest
son and child of Mann Page, of Greenland, Gloucester Co., Va., and
Judith Nelson, his first wife, was born there 28th October, 1820,
and died at Fort Smith, Ark., 25th March, 1860, aged 40 years.
He graduated at the West Point Militarj^ Academy, in 1841, and served as
lieutenant of infantry in the closing of the Florida War. He afterward
served through the Mexican War with great gallantry. From an old U. S.
Army Register we copy the following : " Francis Nelson Page (Virginia) ,
Cadet, Sept., 1836; Bvt. Sec. Lieut. 7th Infantry, July, 1841; Adjutant 1845
to 1847 ; Brevet First Lieutenant for gallant conduct in defence of Fort Brown,
9th May, 1846 ; First Lieut. Aug. , 1846 ; Assistant Adjutant-General (rank of
Captain) May, 1847 ; Brevet Major for gallant and meritorious conduct in the
battles of Contreras and Cherubusco, 20 Aug. , 1847; distinguished and wounded
in the battle of Chapultepec ; relinquished rank in line, Aug., 1851."
After the war with Mexico, the Legislature of the State of Virginia pre-
sented him with a sword in consideration of his brilliant services. This sword
and others, together with the pistols of General (also Governor) Thomas
Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. , were in the possession of Major Page's eldest son.
Major Francis N. Page married, 25th Februarj^, 1851, Susan,
daughter of Col. William Duval, of Florida, who was afterward
Indian Agent for the Indian Territoiy, at Fort Smith, Ark., and
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nephew of Judge Gabriel Duval, of Washington, D.C. The widow
of Major Francis N. Page removed to St. Louis, Mo. Their chil-
dren were:
1. Francis Nelson Page, Jr., eldest, born at Fort Smith, Ark., 21st Febru-
ary, 18.V2.
2. Lucy Nelson Page, born at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 29th Augvist, 1853.
Married, 8th January, 1877, Dr. William A. Hardaway, of St. Louis,
Mo.
3. Powhatan Randolph Page, born at last-named place, 8th December, 1854.
4. Kate Rector Page, born at Fort Brooke, Florida, 7th February, 1857.
Married, 1883, Mr. Lawrence of Las Vegas, New Mexico.
5. Elias Rector Page, born at Fort Smith, Ark., 9th November, 1858. Died
there, 1859, infant.
IV. John Page, of North End, situated on North River,
Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., Va., second son of Hon. Mann
Page, of Rosewell, same county, Va., and Judith Carter, his
second wife (by whom alone he had surviving male issue) , second
and only surviving child of Hon. Matthew Page, of same place, and
Mary Mann, his wife, second son (and only one having male issue),
of Col. John Page, of England, and Williamsburg, James City Co.,
Va., progenitor of the Page family in Virginia, and Alice Luckin,
his wife, was born at the second above-named place about the year
1720, and died about 1780, aged about GO years. He is also men-
tioned as John Page of North River.
He married, in 1746, Jane Byrd, who was one of the younger
children of Col. William E. Byrd, of Westover, on James River,
Charles City Co., Va., and Maria Taylor, of Kensington, England,
his second wife.
The following is a certificate from Mrs. Byrd regarding the
entry in the old Byrd family Bible relating to Jane Byrd, of West-
over :
69 Park Avenue, New York City, U. S. A.
October 23d, 1888.
I do hereby certify that the followiug is a true copy from the family Bible
of Col. William Byrd, of Westover, Va. , now in my possession :
"He (Col. William Byrd) married his second wife on the 9"' of May 1794,
Mrs. Maria Taylor, eldest daughter and one of the Coheiresses of Thomas Taylor
of Kensington Esqr. They came to this Colony in 1726. "
"This Lady was born in England the 10"' of Nov. 1698 and died Aug. 28"'
1771."
"Jane their 3"' Daughter was born Oct 13*'' 1729 & married John Page
Esqr of North River in 1746 by whom she lias a numerous issue."
Lucy Carter Byrd.
Witness,
Mary Wyman Byrd.
According to Governor's Page's letter, exti-acts from which may be seen in
Bishop Meade, op. cit.. Vol. I., p. 147, vote, he was educated a lawyer, and
was a member of the Colonial Council, in place of his elder brother, Mann
96
(From the orisinal portrait by Bridges, Virginia, 1750.)
HON. JOHN PAGE,
North End. Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., Va.
Member of the Virginia Colonial Council, 1776.
98 PAGE FAMILY.
Page, of Rosewell. In this capacity we find the name of Hon. John Page, ol
North End, in the Virginia Ahnauac for 1776. He was, therefore, a member
of the last Virginia Council of His Majestj' George HI.
He was also a visitor of the College of William and Mary— his name ap-
pearing as such in the catalogue of that institution in 1764^being the early
part of the reign of His Majesty George IH.
In regard to Col. William E. Byrd, father of the above-mentioned Jane
Byrd, it may be stated that his first wife was Lucy, daughter of Col. Daniel
Park, the British officer who brought the news of the victory at Blenheim to
Queen Anne. The portrait of this officer and many other celebrities, including
Lord Albemarle and the beautiful Evelyn Byrd. is at Lower Brandon on James
River, Prince George Co. , Va. Colonel Byrd had no sons by Lucy Park, his first
wife, but there were two daughters, one of whom was the celebrated beauty.
Evelyn Byrd. During a visit to England, she was introduced to William Pitt
(Lord Chatham) , who remarked that "he no longer wondered why young gentle
men were so fond of going to Virginia to study ornithology, since such beautiful
Byrds were there ! " Colonel Byrd man-ied, secondly, 9th of May, 1794, Mrs.
Mai-ia Taylor, of Kensington, England. Her maiden name is not known. The
following is coi^ied from a book by Lizzie Nicholas, now in possession of Mrs.
George Byrd, of New York Citj' : " Col. Byrd made a .second alliance with Mrs.
Maria Taylor, eldest daughter and one of the co- heiresses of Thomas Taylor, of
Kensington, and in 1726 they came to reside in this Colony" (Virginia). She
was born in England. 10th November, 1698, and died 28th August, 1771.
Colonel Byrd had by Maria Taylor, his second wife, a son (from whom the
Byrds are descended) and three daughters — the third of whom was Jane Byrd.
She was born October 13th, 1729. Colonel Byrd was born in 1674 and died in
1744, aged 70 years. He was buried at Westover.
He was one of the surveyors for establishing the line between Virginia and
North Carolina. The original MS., written by himself, is at Lower Brandon,
Va. (For the names of the surveyors of other portions of this line, see Walker. )
Hon. John Page and Jane Byrd, his wife, were, doubtless, buried at North
End ; but, strange to say, it is not positively known. There are no tombstones
there, or anywhere else, erected to their memory-. As tombstones were brought
over from England in those days, it is probable that the war of the Revolution
broke up the business ; and, before anything was done in the matter, their
graves became obliterated and forgotten.
The North End house was destroyed by fire during the war of the Revolu-
tion— probably during Arnold's raid in Virginia.
Hon. John Page and Jane Byrd, his wife, had fifteen children
in all, four of whom died infants, their names being unknown. The
eleven that survived were as follows :
1. Mann Page, eldest, born at North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co. ,
Va. , about 1747 ; removed to Fairfield, Clarke Co. . Va. He married,
about 1767, Mary Mason Selden, of Salvington, Stafford Co. , Va.
mm^ .X1^
(From the origiual portrait, by Bridges, Virginia. 1750.)
JANE BYRD, OF WESTOVER, VIRGINIA,
Wife of Hox. John Page, of North End.
Married, 1746.
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2. John Page, born at North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., Va.,
about 1749 ; removed to Caroline County, Va. He married, in 1764,
Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell.
8. Jane Page, born about 1751 ; married, about 1770, Dr. Nathaniel Nelson,
second son and child of President William Nelson, of Yorktown, Va.
4. Dr. William Page, born at North End, about 1758 ; removed to Rich-
mond, Va. He married, about 1778, Miss Jones.
5. Judith Page, born about 1755, married, about 1775, Col. Hugh Nelson,
third son and child of President William Nelson, of Yorktown, Va.
6. Carter Page, born at North End, 1758; removed to Willis' Fork, Cum-
b-^rland Co., Va. He married, first, iu 1783, Mary Gary, and secondly,
in 1799, Lucy, eighth child and third daughter of Gov. Thomas Nelson,
of Yorktown, Va.
7. Robert Page, born in 1764; removed to Janeville, Clarke Co., Va. He
married, in 1788, Sarah Page, of Broadueck, Hanover Co. , Va. As four
other children had died infants— names unknown — when Robert was
born he was really the eleventh child, although the seventh survivor.
8. Maria (called Molly) Page, born about 1765 ; married, first, John Byrd ;
secondly, Archie Boiling ; and thirdly, Peter Randolph ; by none of
whom had she anj' issue.
9. Matthew Page, born about 1767 ; died unmarried.
10. Thomas Page, born about 1773 ; married, about 1798, Mildred, daughter
of Edmund Pendleton, father of Edmund Pendleton, who married
Jane B. Page, daughter of the above-named John Page (No. 2) and
Elizabeth Burwell, his wife. Of the children of Thomas Page and Mil-
dred Pendleton, his wife, Mildred Page married Palmer. There were
also Thomas, Henry, and Robert, of whom nothing at present is known.
11. Lucy Page, youngest, born about 1775 ; married, about 1792, Francis
Nelson, of Mont Air, Hanover Co., Va., fourth son and child of Gov.
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va.
V. Mann Page, of Fairfield, Clarke Co., Va., eldest son and
child of Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester (now Matthews)
Co., Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife, was born at the last-named place
about 1743. It is not known when he died or where he was buried.
He married, about 1767, Mary Mason, daughter of Samuel Selden,
of Salving-ton, Staffoi-d Co., Va. There are two Salvingtons, viz.,
Upper Salvington, on Potomac Run, and Lower Salvington, on
Potomac Creek. It is not known which of the two is meant here.
Their only known surviving children were as follows :
1. William Byrd Page, eldest, born about 1768: married, about 1793, Anne,
daughter of Richard Henry Lee, and sister of General Henry Lee (Light
Horse Harry) .
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2. Jane Byrd Page, boru about 1770; married, about 1790, Major Thomas
Swaun, of Baltimore, Md., from whom the wealthy family in that city
is descended.
V. John Page, of Caroline County, Va., second son and child
of Hon. John Page of North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co.,
Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife, was born at the last-named place
about l?4o, and died in 1TS9, aged about 4G 3'ears. It is not known
where he was buried.
He was one of the original members of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society that was organized at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va.,
loth December, 1776.
He married, in 1704, Elizabeth (called Betty), daughter of
Lewis Burwell, of King's Mills (Kingsmel), York^Co., Va. She
was burned to death in the Richmond Theatre, Va., 2(Jth December,
1811, and her name appears on the monument erected there (the
present Monumental Church) to the memory of those who perished
in the flames on that occasion. John Page and Elizabeth Burwell,
his wife, had fifteen children. Of these, Robert, John, Byrd, and
Carter died unmarried, and probably j^oung. Six others died in-
fants— their names being unknown. The five surviving children
were as follows :
1. Octavius Augustine Page, eldest, Lieutenant United States Navy, bom
about 1765, and died, in Boston, Mass., June, 1813, of fever, during
the war of 1813, aged about 48. He was an officer of the ship Chesa-
jjeake, and was sick in Boston when the memorable fight with the
Shannon took place. The news of the British victory and the death of
Captain Lawrence, no doubt, hastened his death. He was unmarried.
In the " American Universal Cyclopaedia " he is mentioned as the son of
Gov. John Page — an evident mistake.
2. Jane Burwell Page, born about 1774, married, 23d August, 1794, Edmund
Pendleton, Jr., of Caroline County, Va. , and was his first wife. (See
Pendleton. )
3. Peyton Randolph Page, born about 1776 ; married, abovit 1801, the widow
Bryant. He died, age imknown, leaving four children, of whom noth-
ing at present is known. He belonged to the United States Navy ; rank
unknown. He was captured by the British during the war of 1812,
and had a hard struggle with some prisoners about a 7xit, that all
claimed as food.
4. Lewis Burwell Page, born about 1778; was a sailing-master in the
United States Navy, and died in Portsmouth, Va. , September 16th. 1826,
102 PAGE FAMILY.
aged about 48 years. He married, about 1803, the Widow Reade, of
Philadelphia, and left one child, Elizabeth, who married Dr. John R.
Chandler, United States Navy. They had five children : (1) Alice Lee,
unmarried, died of yellow fever in Norfolk, Va. , in 1854 ; (3) Margaret
Riche, married Rev. T. J. Beard, of Birmingham, Ala., and had issue;
(3) Augustus Page, unmarried, died of yellow fever ; (4) Mary Imogen,
married Bishop Wingfield, of California, and had one child, Page
Wingfield ; (5) William Lewis, married Georgia Pulling ; they had four
children, all of whom died young but Sarah Elizabeth.
The widow Reade had one child, a daughter, by her first husband, who
married Mr. Dennison, who was related to the late Admiral Rodgers,
United States Navy.
5. Hugh Nelson Page, Captain United States Navy; youngest, and fifth
survivor, and fifteenth child, was born in 1788. He married, first, in
1838, Imogen Wlieeler. No issue. He married, secondly, in 1848, Eliz-
abeth P. Wilson, and had issue.
V. Dr. William Page, of Richmond, Va., about the fourth
child and third son of Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester
(now Matthews) Co., Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife, was born at the
last-named place about 1753. It is not known when he died, or at
what age. He marrried, about 1778, a Miss Jones. It is not known
whose daughter she was. Their children, so far as known, were as
follows :
1. Jane Byrd Page, born about 1779; married, about 1799, Dr. Henry W.
Lockett. No issue known.
2. William Byrd Page, born about 1781 ; married, about 1806, Lucy Segar.
Their children were :
(1) John Carter Page, shoe dealer, Richmond, Va. ; married Martha
Goff.
(2) Mary Jane Page ; married George Bargamin. Nothing further
known at present.
8. John Carter Page, born about 1783 ; married, about 1808, a Miss Segar—
probably sister of Lucy, who was the wife of his brother William. No
issue known at present.
There is much more in connection with this branch of the family,
no doubt ; but little is known at present. The following is copied
from the Richmond (Va.) daily State, 20th June, 1881 :
" Last night Mr. Willam H. Page, City Gas Inspector, died at the residence,
of Mrs. Bargamin, after a long illness. While his demise was not unlooked
for, it will cause profound regret to a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
Mr. Page was made City Gas Inspector at the time of the reorganization of the
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city government, in 1865, and he filled the office faitlifully to the time of his
death. As a citizen, he was energetic and public-spirited. Mr. Page always
manifested a deep interest in the welfare of the city. He was one of the first
members of the Konservative Kampaign Klub, and was, as long as his health
remained to him, one of the most active members of liis party. He Avas also a
contributing member of the Howitzers. Mr. Page was in the Both year of his
age. His funeral will take place to-morrow evening at five o'clock, from the
Second Baptist Church. "
From the fact that Mrs. Bargamin's name is mentioned in the
foregoing notice, it is probable that the said William H. Page
belonged to the last-mentioned portion of the Page family, though
it is not positively certain.
V. Carter Page, of Willis' Fork, Cumberland Co., Va., sixth
surviving child, and about the fourth son of Hon. John Page, of
North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., Va., and Jane Byrd,
his wife, was born at North End in 1758, and died in April, 1825,
aged 67. He was buried at The Fork, with Lucj" Nelson, his second
wife. His residence was so named from its proximity to the fork
of Willis River.
According to the Virginia Historical Register, his name appears in the list
of students who left the College of William and Mary in 1776, to join the
American army. He rose to the rank of Major, and served as aide-de-camp to
General Lafayette during the campaign in Virginia against Cornwallis.
During the visit of Lafayette to the United States, in 1824, Governor
Pleasants, of Virginia, 10th August, 1824, addressed a letter to him at New
York, inviting him to be present at Yorktown, Va. , on the 19th October fol-
lowing. Hon. James Lyons, of Richmond, Va., was deputed to bear the invi-
tation to the General in New York. He replied on the 18th, accepting the
invitation.
At a meeting of the Mayor. Recorder, and Senior Alderman of the city of
Richmond, 31st of August, 1824, for the purpose of adopting such measures as
might be most expedient and proper for the reception of General Lafayette in
that city, it was ordered as follows :
1. That the polite offer of the Governor to afford apartments in the Gov-
ernor's House for the reception of Major-General Lafayette, and his suite, be
thankfully accepted, and that aiTangements for furnishing the same be accord-
ingly made. (This was afterward changed, and General Lafaj'ette was quar-
tered in what was at that time the Eagle Hotel.)
2. That as it would be a subject of high gratification to the citizens of
Richmond that General Lafayette, during his residence in that citj% should be
attended by as many of the officers of the Revolutionary w-ar as may be prac-
ticable to assemble, a correspondence be opended with General Robert Poters-
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field, Major John Nelson, Major Carter Page, Commodore James Barron, Colonel
Robert Randolph, Captain Thomas Price, and other Revolutionary soldiers of
Virginia, now living, inviting their attendance in Richmond upon the arrival
of their distinguished fellow-soldier.
3. That John Marshall be solicited to prepare an appropriate addi-ess for the
occasion.
4. That ]\Ir. Jefferson, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Monroe be invited to be
present.
(Signed) John Adams, Mayor.
W. H. FiTZWHYLSOXN, Recorder.
Thos. Brockenbrough, Senior Alderman.
Wlien General Lafayette arrived in Richmond, Va. , October 27th, 1834, it
is said that the introduction of the Revolutionary officers here, as well as at
Yorktown, was, perhaps, the most interesting and affecting scene of all. These
aged and venerable men, amounting to forty in number, were presented to their
old companion- in -anus in the spacious drawing-room appropriated to his use,
on Tuesday evening, October 27th, 1824, very soon after his arrival. He re-
ceived them in the luost cordial and affectionate manner, evincing the deepest
sympathy with them in the recollection of their hardships and dangei-s through
which they had mutually passed, and the i)roud result of their joint labors.
At 5 o'clock P.M. the General sat down to dinner with his suite, the gen-
tlemen who had attended him from Norfolk, the officers of the Revolutionary
army, the officers of the Federal, State, and City Governments, and the mem-
bers of the Committee of Arrangements.
Benjamin Watkins Leigh acted as president of one table, and Dr. John
Brockenbrough of the other, assisted by Messrs. Fitzwhylsonn, Thomas Brock-
enbrough, R. G. Scott, and "W. H. Roane, as vice-presidents. General Lafayette,
the Chief Justice, and Mr. Calhoun at the right of iMr. Leigh, the Governor
and Judge Brooke at his left ; and on both sides and in front were stationed
the Revolutionary officers.
Toasts were given by General Lafayette, Governor Pleasants, Chief Justice
Marshall, Mr. Calhoun, and many others, including Major Carter Page, who
gave the following: "'The memory of Baron Viomeuil, who gallantly stormed
one of the British redoubts at Yorktown. "
The name of Major Carter Page was inscribed Avith the names of other
Revolutionary patriots on the west front of the obelisk temporarilj' erected for
the occasion on the west of the j)riucipal entrance into the Capitol Square, at
Richmond, Va.
While the author was in Eichmond, Ya., in July, 1861, in the
barber shop of Lomax Smith, Richmond's great negro barber, under
the Exchange Hotel, a street band struck up the Marseillaise Hymn.
"Dey could play no more 'propriate chune den dat now," remarked
Mr. Smith; " 'minds me of Gineral Lafaj^ette. I used to shave him
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and fix his har when he was in Richmond." Major Carter Page,
hke Gov. John Page, his first cousin, and Gov. Thomas Nelson, of
Yorktown, Va., whose daughter Lucy was his second wife, probably
spent his money freely in the Revolutionarj- cause, and like them
(but unlike Washington) kept no account of it. Consequent!}^ it
was impossible for Congress to reimburse him.
In regard to the Cary family, it may be said that CoL. Miles
Cary, the first of his family in Virginia, was the son of John Cary,
of Bristol, England, whose j^ounger brother, James Car}", emigrated
to New England.
The said Col. ^Miles Cary was born in Bristol, England, a.d.
1620, and emigrated to Warwick County, Va., in 1G40. He died
there in 1GT7. He was the Royal Naval Officer for James River,
and was a member of the Colonial Council, under Berkeley. He
was a lineal descendant of Henry Cary, Lord Hunsdon, and was,
at the time of his death, the heir apparent of the barony.
He married Ann, daughter of Captain Thomas Taylor, and by
her had four sons. Of these only two are known to the writer at
present, viz. : nj,
1. Col. Miles Cary, Jr. , probably the eldest, married Mar3% daugliter of
Col. William Wilson, of Hampton, Va.
2. Henry Cary, probably one of the younger sous — the father of Col. Archi-
bald Cary, of Ampthill. Chesterfield Co., Va.
Col. Miles Cary, Jr. , and Mary Wilson, his wife, had an only
surviving married son, viz. : CoL. Wilson Cary, who was the
grandfather of Wilson Jefferson Cary, of Carysbrooke, Fluvanna
Co., Va. The latter married, in 1805, Virginia Randolioh, and was
the ancestor of the Carys of Baltimore, Md. (See Thomas Mann
Randolph, of Tuckahoe.)
Mary Cary (called Polly), the first wife of Major Carter Page,
was the daughter of Col. Archibald Cary, of Ampthill, Chesterfield
Co., Va., and Mary Randolph, his wife, who was the daughter of
Richard Randolph, of Curl's Neck, on James River, Henrico Co., Va.,
and Jane Boiling, his wife. The latter was fourth in descent from
Pocahontas, as follows: John Rolfe married Pocahontas, in 1G16;
Thomas Rolfe, their son, married Miss Poythress ; Jane Rolfe, their
daughter, married Robert Boiling; John Boiling, their son, mar-
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ried Mary Kennon; and Jane Boiling, their daughter, married
Richard Randolph. Pocahontas died at Gravesend, England, and
frt.
^^*^/;^ '
,^#^-^^,
'^./'ri ' '
-TA.'
POCi^HONTAS.
(From Barnes' Centennial History.)
is said to have been buried in the northwest corner of the church-
yard there.
Col. Archibald Gary was born 24:th January, 1721, O. S., or 4th
February, 1721, N. S., and died on Tuesday, 26th February, 1787,
in the 67th year of his age. His will was dated 21st February,
1787. He was a sterling patriot of the Revolution, and was a mem-
ber of the Virginia Convention of 1776. He was called " Old Iron."
He married, 31st May, 1744, Mary Randolph, of Curl's Neck, as we
have already said. Their children were :
1. Anne Gary, born February, 1745; marrried, 18th November, 1761, Thomas
Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe, Goochland Go. , Va. , who was the father
of Gov. Thomas Mann Eandolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va.
(See Randolph, of Tuokahoe. )
2. Mary Gary (No. 1) , born July, 1747 ; died, August, 1748, infant.
3. Jane Gary, born 12th February, 1751 ; married, about 1768, Thomas Isham
Randolph, of Dungeness, Goochland Co. , Va.
4. Sarah Gary, born 23d February, 1753; maiTied, about 1773, Mr. Boiling.
(From the original portrait.)
COL. ARCHIBALD CARY,
Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., Va.
Died 26th February, 1787, aged 66.
108 PAGE FAMILY.
5. Eliza Caiy, born 9th April, 1755; died single, 2d August, 1775.
6. Henry Gary, onlj- son, born 2d March, 1756 ; died, an infant, 17th May,
1758, aged about two years.
7. Mary Gary (No. 2), called Polly, first wife of Major Garter Page, of The
Fork, Cumberland Co., Va. ; born 4th December, 1766.
8. Elizabeth Gary (called Betsy), born about 1770; married, July, 1787,
Robert Kincaid.
Major Carter Page married, first, 12th April, 1783, at Tuckahoe,
Goochland Co., Va., Mary Cary (called Polly), daughter of Col.
Archibald Cary, of Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., Ya., and Mary
Randolph, his wife. Mary Cary was born 4th December, 1766, and
died 26th January, 1797, aged 31 years. She was buried at Pres-
quisle, on James River, Va. Their children were as follows :
1. John Gary Page, eldest, born at The Fork, Cumberland Co., Va. , 9th
May, 1784 ; removed to Union Hill, same county ; married, 12th Octo-
ber, 1808, Mary Anna Trent.
2. Henry Page, born at The Fork, 29th September, 1785 ; removed to Ken-
tucky ; married, 28d December, 1813, Jane B. Deane.
3. Carter Page, Jr. (No. 1), born 9th December, 1786; died 7th November,
1789, infant.
4. Lavinia Randolph Page, born 15th June, 1788 ; died 8th November, 1789,
infant.
5. Carter Page, Jr. (No. 2) , born 10th August, 1790 ; died 80th June, 1791,
infant.
6. Dr. Mann Page, born at The Fork, 26th October, 1791 ; removed to
Keswick (Turkey Hill), Albemarle Co., Va. ; married, 12th December,
1815, Jane F. Walker.
7. William Page, born 21st August, 1793 ; died 26th December, 1793.
8. Mary Isham Page, born 30th December, 1794, was burned to death in the
Richmond Theatre, Va. , 26th December, 1811, aged 17. Her name is
inscribed on the monument erected there (site of the present Monumen-
tal Church) to their memory.
Major Carter Page married, secondlj^ in 1799, Lucy, eighth
child and third daughter of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va.
After the death of her husband, in 1825, she became entitled to,
and received, a pension from the United States Government, in con-
sideration of his services as a soldier and an officer during the Revo-
lutionary war. She was born 2d Januarj^, 1777, and died 5th
January, 1863, aged 86 years. She was buried by the side of her
husband at The Fork. Their children were as follows :
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1. Thomas Nelson Page, bom about 1800; died young.
3. Nelson Page, eldest survivor, born at The Fork, 8th November, 1801 ;
died there in November, 1850, aged 49. He resided at The Fork, which
he inherited. He married, tirst, in March, 1838, Lucia, daughter of
Randolph Harrison, of Clifton, Cumberland Co., Va. , and had:
(1) Mai-y Randolph Page (called Polly) , born about 1835 ; married Ben-
jamin Harrison, son of William B. Harrison, of Upper Brandon,
on James River, Va. , and Mary Harrison, his wife, who was sister
to Lucia, the wife of Nelson Page. Benjamin Harrison died in
July, 1863. His widow resided at The Rowe, on James River, op-
posite Lower Brandon, Prince George Co. , Va. She sold The Fork,
her father's residence, about 1870. Their children were : (a) Wil-
liam Byrd ; (b) Lucia, married, 1878, E. R. Cocke, of Cumberland
County, Va. ; (e) Nelson, died infant ; and (d) Benjamin.
(2) Lucius Carv Page, born about 188S ; died young.
Nelson Page mari-ied, secondly, Maria Hamilton. No issue.
3. William Nelson Page, born at The Fork, 28th February, 1803 ; removed
to Q'a Ira, Cumberland Co., Va. ; married, 1827, Fannie P. Randolph,
and had issue.
4. Lucy Jane Page, born at The Fork, 6th April, 1804 ; died 7th January,
1872. aged 68. She married, in 1827, Jonathan P. Cushing, of Massa-
chusetts, who was President of Hampden Sidney College, Va. Their
children were :
(1) Luc3' Cushing, born about 1830 ; married, about 1853, Francis D.
Irving, of Cartersville, Cumberland Co., Va. , and was his first
wife. They had :' (o) Robert, and (6) Lucius Cushing.
(2) Beltie Cushing, born about 1835; married about 1855, Rev. W. C.
Meredith, of Winchester, Frederick Co , Va. , and was his second
wife. Their children were : (a) Jonathan Cushing, and {h) Lucy
Page.
5. Robert Burwell Page, born at The Fork, 1806 ; died 1837, aged 31 years ;
married, November, 1829, Sarah H. , daughter of Thomas May, of Buck-
ingham County Court House, Va. Their children were :
(1) Carter Page ; died young.
(2) Mary May Page, born about 1835 ; married, 1860, Francis D. Irving,
and was his second wife. They removed to Fai'mville, Prince
Edward Co., Va. She died in 1884. Children: (a) Dr. Paulus
Irving, of Farmville, Pittsylvania Co., Va. ; (?>) Sarah May Irving,
died single, 1883 ; (e) Francis D. Irving, and (d) Robert Page
Irving.
(3) Lucy Nelson Page, born about 1837 ; married Rev. James Gram-
mar, of Ashland, Hanover Co. , Va.
6. Thomas Page, born at The Fork, 8th June, 1807 ; removed to Locust
Grove, Cumberland Co., Va. ; he married, 5th November, 1839, Sally
Page, of Clarke County, Va.
7. Mary Maria Page, born at The Fork in 1813; married, in 1835, Rev.
110 PAGE FA3IILY.
George W. Dame, of the Episcopal Church, Danville, Pittsylvania Co.,
Va. They were both alive in 1883. Children :
(1) Jonathan Cashing Dame.
(2) Lucy Carter Dame.
(3) Rev. William Meade Dame, of the Episcopal Church.
(4) Ellen Dame.
(5) Nelson Dame.
(6) Rev. George W. Dame, Jr. , of the Episcopal Church.
The following is extracted from a letter from William N. Page,
Esqr., of Qa Ira, Cumberland Co., Va., to Dr. R. C. M. Page, of New
York City, dated 1st February, 1879:
"I have, as requested tlnough mj^ son. Dr. Isham Randolph Page, of Bal-
timore, Md., copied from the family Bible of Col. Archibald Cary the fore-
going information, which is all that is accessible to me in regard to the first
and second marriages of yom- grandfather (and my father), Major Carter
Page. This gives the births, deaths, and ages of all the children of your
grandfather by each of his wives. All the first have passed away, and of the
second, my sister, Mrs. Mary Maria Page Dame, and myself, are the only sur-
vivors. I remain your only surviving (half) uncle — within a few days of 76
years. The family Bible of Col. Archibald Cary, which was kept at The Fork
for some years after the death of Major Carter Page, afterwards passed into the
family of John C. Page — the eldest son of the first wife, who resided at Union
Hill, Cumberland Co., Va.
"The said Cary Family Bible is now in the possession of D. Coupland
Randolph and Harriet Page, his wife, at Union Hill. This Bible does not at
present contain the record of the marriage of Major Carter Page with Lucj^
Nelson, his second wife. After the death of Major Page, in April, 1825, his
widow, under the law of Congress, became entitled to a pension, the legal
claim to which could only be established by the evidence furnished in the
record of her marriage with Major Carter Page, in the Cary Family Bible.
The leaves containing the record of the fact were detached from the Bible and
sent to the proper authorities at Washington, D. C. They availed in securing
the pension, but were never sent back. This accounts for the non-appearance,
at present, of Major Page's second marriage in its place in the Cary Family
Bible."
Qa Ira is a French expression, signifying "that will go." It was
a watchword during the French Revolution.
V. Robert Page, of Janeville, Clarke Co., Va., eleventh child
and seventh survivor of Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester
(now Matthews) Co., Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife, was born at the
second-named place in 1764, and died at the first-named place, 1st
January, 1840, aged 76 years.
NORTH END. Ill
According to the Virginia Historical Register, he was one of the students
who left William and Mary College, in 1776, to join the American army. He
rose to the rank of Captain, and was one of the Revolutionary othcers who
were invited to be present at the reception of General Lafaj'ette, in Leesburg.
Loudon Co. , Va. , 9th August, 1825, during tlie last visit of that distinguished
officer to the United States. This occurred on the return of General Lafayette
from Oakhill, Loudon Co., Va. , the residence of President James Monroe, near
Leesburg. According to Lanman's " Dictionary of Congress" Captain Robert Page
was a Representative in the United States Congress, from Virginia, 1799-1801.
Hon. Robert Page married, in 1788, Sarah W. Page, who died
4th April, 1843, aged G7. She was the youngest surviving child of his
uncle, Robert Page, of Broadneck, Hanover Co., Va., and was, there-
fore, his first coasin, (See Broadxeck.) Their children were as
follows :
1. Jane Byrd Page, bom at Janeville, Clarke Co. , Va. , in 1789 ; man-led,
in 1812, John W. Page, of tlie same county.
3. John Page, eldest son, born at Janeville, Clarke Co. , Va. , 2d September,
1793 ; removed to North End, same county, Va. He married, first, in
1819, Jane Nelson, of Mont Air, Hanover Co., Va. ; and, secondly, in
1836, Sarah Williamson, of Glenoker, Fauquier Co., Va. He had issue
by both his wives.
3. Sarah Walker Page (called Sally), born at Janeville, 30th December,
1793 ; died unmarried.
4. Robert Page, born 23d June, 1795 ; died infant.
5. Judith Carter Page, bom 2oth April, 1800 ; died single.
6. Catherine Page, bom 23d October, 1803 ; died infant.
7. Maiy Mann Page, bom 29th March, 1805 ; maiTied, in 1832, Joseph A.
Williamson, of Orange Court House, Va. She died in 1876, aged 70
years, and was buried at Tappahannock, Essex Co., Va. Their chil-
dren were :
(1) Robert Page Williamson, died single, 1854, aged 31 years.
(3) Sally Page Williamson, ditto, 1873, aged 37 years.
(3) Williams W^iUiamson, ditto, 1858, aged 22 jears.
(4) Roberta Page Williamson, born in 1841 ; married, in 1862, Rev.
John B. Newton, of the Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. , and
has seven surviving children.
(5) Joseph A. Williamson, Jr. ; married, about 1868, Nellie, daughter
of Dr. Thomas McGill, of Marjdand, and has four children.
8. Robert AValker Page, born 17th April, 1807 ; died single.
VI. William Byrd Page, of Fairfield, Clarke Co., Va., eldest
son and child of Mann Page, of the same place, and Mary Mason
Selden, his wife, eldest son of Hon. John Page, of North End,
113 PAGE FAMILY.
Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife, was
born at the first-named place about 1768, and married, about 1793,
Anne, daughter of Richard Henry Lee, and sister of General Lee
(Light Horse Harry) of Revolutionary fame. Their children were
as follows :
1. William Byrd Page, eldest, bora about 1794 ; died single.
2. Maiy Anne Page, born about 1796 ; died in December, 1873, aged about
77 years. She married, about 1816, General Roger Jones, Adjutant-
General United States Army, and had twelve children, as follows :
(1) William Page Jones, single, graduated at the West Point Militaiy
Academy, 1840 ; was killed same year by the falling of his horse.
(2) Catesby ap Roger Jones ; married Gertrude Tart, of Selma, Ala. ,
and died there in June, 1877, leaving a widow and five children.
(3) Letitia Corbiu Jones; died, unmarried, in Georgetown, D. C,
January, 1869.
(4) Mary Jones ; immarried.
(5) Dr. Eusebius Lee Jones, of New York City and California. He
married, first, Julia Stewart, of King George County, Va. , and had
one child. He married, secondly, about 1873, Martha Moran, of
New York City. Dr. Jones died in Oakland, Cal. , in January,
1876.
(6) Edmonia Page Jones ; unmarried.
(7) Roger Jones, Inspector-General United States Army, Washington,
D. C. He graduated at West Point Military Academy in 1851, and
married Frederica B. Jones, of New York. They have three
children.
(8) Walter Jones ; died 1876. He married Miss Brooks, of Mobile,
Ala., who died about 1873. They had three children.
(9) Charles Lvician Jones ; married Mary Anderson, of Wilmington,
N. C. , who died about 1871. No issue.
(10) Thomas Skelton Jones ; married in Nashville, Tenn.
(11) Virginia Byrd Jones ; unmarried.
(12) Winfield Scott Jones ; unmarried ; banker in San Francisco, Cal.
3. Rev. Charles Henry Page, second son, and eldest to have issue, was born
1801. He married, 1827, Gabriella Crawford, of Amherst County, Va.
4. Mann Randolph Page, born about 1803 ; married Miss Beall, of Jefi'erson
County, W. Va. His daughter, Jane Byrd Page, married, 11th May,
1854, Guerdon H. Pendleton, of Clarke County, Va. (See Pendleton.)
Mann R. Page died in 1872, leaving a large family. Those known at
present are : (1) George R. Page, married, first. Miss Cabell, and, sec-
ondly, Miss Tiniberlake ; (2) Jane Byrd Page, married Guerdon H.
Pendleton, as already stated ; (3) Mary Page, died single ; (4) Anne Lee
Page, single ; (5) Margaret Byrd Page, married Charles S. Lee, of Jef-
NORTH END. 113
ferson County, W. Va. ; (6) Edniouia L. Page, single ; (7) William Byrd
Page, married Laura L. Lippitt and had two girls, Mary and Agnes.
5. Jane Byrd Page, born about 1805 ; unmarried.
G. Gary Selden Page, born about 1809 ; unmarried.
7. Captain Richard L. Page, United States Navy, born about 1811 ; resided
at Norfolk, Va. ; married, about 1833, Alexina Taylor, of same city.
Their children are the following :
(1) Fannie, married, about 1875, Captain Whittle, United States Navy,
nephew of Bishop Whittle, of Virginia, and had issue.
(2) William Byrd Page, mining engineer, married, about 1884, Louise
Blow, of Norfolk, Va.
(3) Alexina, died single.
(4) Walter Taylor Page, analytical chemist, married at the University
of Virginia. 17th March, 1884, Anne (called Nannie), daughter of
Prof. John R. Page. Removed to Omaha, Neb.
8. Dr. Thomas S. Page, born about 1813 ; married Miss Joliflf and died,
leaving several children.
9. Edmonia Page, born about 1815 ; married, about the year 1833, Hall
Neilson.
VI. Hugh Nelson Page, of Norfolk Cit}-, Va., Captain United
States Nav}', fifteenth and youngest child of John Page, of Caro-
line County, Va., and Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell, his wife,
second son and child of Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester
(now Matthews) Co., Va., and Jane Bj^rd, his wife, was born at the
second-named place in September, 1788, and died at the first-named
place, 3d June, 1871, aged 82 years.
Hugh N. Page entered the United States Navy as midshipman, 1st Sep-
tember, 1811. In June, 1812, he was ordered to the gunboat squadron, stationed
at Norfolk City, Va. , for the protection of that harbor. On August 13th, same
year, he was ordered to Commodore Chauncey's squadron, on Lake Ontario;
but left this, and joined Commodore Perry, on Lake Erie — volunteers for
this service having been called for. He was assigned to duty on board the
schooner Tigress, Lieutenant Conklin, September 11th, 1811. He took an active
part in the Battle of Lake Erie, which began at 12 m. and closed at 3 p.m.,
same day. In this action he behaved with great gallantry, and was wounded
in the hand. He w^as placed in charge of the prisoners, and had the honor of
bearing to General Harrison, who was then stationed at the mouth of San-
dvisky River, the immortal dispatch from Commodore Perry, "We have met
THE enemy and THEY ARE OURS. "
For his brilliant services on this occasion, young Page was voted a sword
bj' the United States Congress, and one by the State of Virginia also.
He was next ordered to the Niagara, which, with others of the squadron,,
■ 8
114 PAGE FAMILY.
conveyed General Harrison's army to Maiden, to attack General Procter, but
the latter fled at the approach of the fleet.
In the spring of 1814, he went, under Commodore Sinclair, to Detroit, to
convey Major Crogan's force to retake Mackinaw. Crogan was defeated, and
his force was taken on board again. After destroying an English fort on
Saginaw River, and burning a large schooner loaded with provisions, he pro-
ceeded to Erie, to winter there. After a leave of absence of three years, he
was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1818. He was ordered to the flag-
ship John Adams, Commodore Perrj-, with whom he sailed to South America.
On this voyage Commodore Perry died at Trinidad. In 1834 he took out the
Boxer, with the United States Charge d' Affaires, to Valparaiso, Chili.
In 1838 he was promoted to Commander, and in 1843 he was ordered to
the Levant. Taking on board, at Norfolk City, Va., Henry A. Wise, United
States Charge d' Affaires to Brazil, he landed him at Rio. He afterward
cruised on the Pacific coast.
AVhen the war with Mexico broke out, he was ordered to Monterey, which
was seized, and the United States flag hoisted. October, 1847, he was ordered
to take command of the receiving ship Pennsylvania, at Norfolk, Va.
In 1849 he was promoted to the rank of Captain, United States Navy, and
ordered to the Pacific to take command of the flagship Savannah. He was
retired in 1855, on leave pay.
Captain Hugh N. Page married, in November, 1838, Imogen,
daughter of Guy Wheeler Esq., of Kansemond County, Va. She
died in 1847, without issue. He married, secondly, 13th July, 1848,
Elizabeth P., daughter of Holt Wilson, Esq., of Portsmouth, Va.
Their children were as follows :
1. Mary Elizabeth Page, born in Portsmouth. Va. , 19th June, 1850; died,
unmarried, at the same place, 25th Februarj', 1879, aged 38 years.
2. Hugh Nelson Page, Jr., born at Portsmouth, Va. , 17th July, 1852; re-
moved to Norfolk City, Va. , and married, 23d October, 1878, Sallie.
only surviving child of Dr. Thomas Newton, of the last-named iilace,
and Miss Darragh, his wife. (The latter was descended from Lydia
Darragh.) No known issue at present.
3. Holt Wilson Page, born at Portsmouth, Va. , October 28th, 1853; mar-
ried, 22d Januarj-, 1878, Hattie W. , eldest daughter of Marshall Parks,
of Norfolk City, Va. There were two children, viz. :
(1) Marshall Park Page, born 29th October, 1878.
(2) Bettie Burwell Page, born 30th January, 1880.
4. Carter Bruce Page, born at Portsmouth, Va. , 24th May, 1855.
5. Edmund John Rutler Page, born at Portsmouth, Va. , 22d November,
1857.
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VI. John Gary Page, of Union Hill, Cumberland Co., Ya.,
eldest son and child of Major Carter Page, of Willis Fork, same
county, Va., and Marj- Gary, his first wife, was born at the last-named
place, 9th May, 1784, and died at Union Hill, 14th May, 1853,
aged 69 years.
He was a very handsome iiiau, of powerful frame and fine proportions,
standing six feet four inches in heiglit. In his face and expression lie very
much resembled liis grandfatlier. Col. Archibald Car}-. Even in Iiis later jears
there was a strong family resemblance in his face to Colonel Cary's jjortrait.
He was a man of great energy and fine judgment, and was wonderfully acute
in discerning the characters and motives of others. Though he commenced life
at 14 years of age, as a poor office boy in a store in Richmond. Va., he accu-
mulated a large fortune before his death.
He was very successful in his last j^ears as a farmer, having retired to his
farm at Union Hill, some time before his death. He attributed his success to
the con-ect business habits he had formed while a bookkeeper in Richmond, Va.
All his children were born at Locust Grove, Cumberland Co., Va. It is
about one mile from The Fork. To his two daughters, Mrs. Fisher and Mrs.
Hobson, he gave the Locust Grove property, and it was bought from them
about 1840, by Thomas Page, their half-uncle.
JohnC. Page married, 12th October, 1808, Mary Anna, daughter
of Dr. Alexander Trent, of Barley Hill, Cumberland Co., Va. She
died 10th January, 1877, aged 86. Their children were as follows:
1. Lavinia Anderson Page, born at Locust Grove, Cumberland Co., Va.,
20th June. 1809. Married, in 1832, Dr. Edward Fisher, Superintend-
ent of the Insane Asylum at Staunton, Va. Children :
(1) George Fisher, married, 1864, Miss Woodfin, of Powhatan County,
Va.
(2) John Page Fisher, called Pat, of Haxall's Flouring Mill, Rich-
mond, Va. , died single, in 1863.
(3) Nannie Ambler Fisher, married, 1858, William H. Kennon, of
Richmond, Va. She died, 1866, leaving several children.
(4) Eliza Page Fisher, died single, 1867, aged 29.
(5) Charles Fisher.
(6) Edward Fisher.
2. Mary Anna Page, born 26th May, 1811 ; married, 1845, John Daniel,
Esq., of Broomfield, Cumberland Co., Va. ; died 1884. He died, 1850.
They had two children :
(1) Lucy Daniel, married, 1869. Francis Kinckel, of Lynchburg, Va.,
and has several children.
116 PAGE FAMILY.
(2) Anna Daniel, married, 1870, M. Lewis Randolph, of Edge Hill,
Albemarle Co., Va.
3. Virginia Randolph Page, born 17th August, 1813 ; married, 1833, Thomas
Hobson, of Powhatan County, Va. , who died in 1850. Children :
(1) Mary Anna Hobson, married, 1854, Mann Page, of Albemarle
County, Va. , who died leaving one surviTing child, Charlotte, who
married Smith. One child, Mann Page Smith.
(2) Caroline Hobson, called Caddy : unmarried.
(3) Joseph Hobson ; uninarried.
(4) Virginia Page Hobson, married. 1863, Richard Archer, of Powhatan
County, Va., and had three children.
(5) Thomas Hobson, Jr., died single, 1864.
(6) Ellen Hobson, married George N. Guthrie, of Gallatin, Sumner
Co., Tenn.
(7) Clara Hobson, married Nash, and had issue.
(8) Alexander Hobson. (9) Cary Hobson.
4. Eliza Trent Page, born 19th October, 1815 ; died single, 16th September,
1838, aged 20 years.
5. Ellen Cary Page, bom 19th June, 1817; died single, 19th May, 1837,
aged 20 years.
6. Alexander Trent Page, eldest son, of Cumberland Coimty, Va. , born 21st
November, 1819; died April 4th, 1845, aged 26. Married, in 1840,
Martha Henderson, of Northfield, same county, and had one child, viz. :
Martha Henderson Page, married, 1867, Mr. Stewart, of Alexandria,
Va. She died in 1870, leaving two sons.
7. Maria Willis Page, born 18th January, 1822; died 1862, aged 40. She
married, 1843, Rev. William H. Kinckel, of the Episcopal Church,
Lynchburg, Va. , and had :
(1) Francis Kinckel, called Frank, married, 1869, Lucy Daniel, and has
several children.
(2) Anna Kinckel, married, about 1870, J. P. Williams, of Lynch-
burg, Va. (3) William Kinckel. (4) Maria Kinckel. (5) John
P. Kinckel. (6) J. Carrington Kinckel. (7) Alexander Gilmer
Kinckel. (8) Frederick Kinckel.
8. Archibald Cary Page, second son, and eldest to have male issue, bom
22d April, 1824 ; died in 1871, at Spring Hill, Goochland Co. , Va. , aged
47. He married, in 1846, Lucy, daughter of Dr. John Trent, of Tren-
ton, Cumberland Co. , Va. , and had two sons, viz. :
(1) William H. Page, eldest, born about 1845, and
(2) John C. Page.
He married, secondly, about 1853, Lizzie Trent, sister of Lucy, the first
wife, and had one child, viz. :
(1) Archibald Cary Page, Jr.
He married, thirdly, in 1869, Eliza Harrison, of Richmond, Va. No issue.
9. Carter Page, born 25th March, 1826 ; died 31st May, 1826, infant.
10. Harriet Randolph Page, born 15th April, 1827, married, 1857, D. Coup-
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land Randolph, of Richmond, Ya., son of Isham Randolph, of that city.
They removed to Union Hill about 18(55. She died 1884. Children ;
(1) Mary A. Randolph. (2) D. C. Randolph, Jr. (3) B. Heath
Randolph.
11. John Gary Page, Jr., bom at Locust Grove, Cumberland Co., Va , 22d
February, 1830 ; removed to Auburn, same count}'. He married,
first, 1858, Nellie, daughter of Dr. Willie J. Eppes, of Millbrook,
Buckingham Co. , Va. Children;
(1) Willie J. Page, eldest, born 1859. (2) Mary A. Page. (3) Martha
Burke Page.
Mrs. Nellie Eppes Page died about 1878, and John C. Page, Jr. , removed
to Clay Bank, Cumberland Co. , Va. He married, secondly, about 1882,
Julia Trent, widow of John Taylor Gray, Esq., of the firm of Adie &
Gra}% druggists, Richmond, Va.
12. Edward Trent Page, youngest, born 20th May, 1833 ; removed to Half-
way Branch, Cumberland Co., Va. He married, in 1854, Bettie,
daughter of J. S. Nicholas, of Seven Islands, same county. Children :
(1) Nannie Nicholas Page, married in Lynchburg.
(2) Mary Bj-rd Page.
(8) John Nicholas Page.
(4) Edwai-d Trent Page, Jr.
(5) Bessie Coupland Page.
VI. Henry Page, of Todd County, Ky., second son and child
of Major Carter Page, of The Fork, Cumberland Co., Va., andMarj^
Cary, his first wife, was born at the last-named place, 29th Septem-
ber, 1785, and died in Kentucky, in 1845, aged 60 j-ears.
He was educated at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, James City
Co., Va., in the catalogue of which institution his name appears in the alumni
list for 1804. He lived, first, near Qa Ira, Cumberland Co. , Va. , where all his
children were born. He removed to Kentucky about the year 1841.
He married, 23d December, 1813, Jane B. Deane, and their
children were as follows :
1. Mary Cary Page, called Polly, born at Qa Ira, Cumberland Co., Ya.,
27th October, 1814, and married, 23d December, 1840, Rev. George
McPhail, of the Presbyterian Church. He died about 1870, while Pres-
ident of Davidson College, North Carolina. Their children were :
(1) Jane McPhail, died single.
(2) Mary McPhail, married Rev. Mr. Davis, of the Presbyterian Church,
and died.
(3) Henry McPhail, married, and resides in Norfolk City, Va.
118 PAGE FAMILY.
(4) Lillian McPhail, married Rev. Mr. Irving, of the Presbyterian
Church, and died.
2. Thomas Deane Page, eldest son, born at Qa Ira, Cumberland Co., Va. ,
2Tth July, 1816; removed to Henry County, Mo., where he died, 31st
January, 1864, aged 48. He married, 1846, Isabella Catlett, of Todd
County, Ky. , and their children were :
(1) Fannie Catlett Page, married 28th October, 1874, William McCown,
who died 1875.
(2) Henry Page, born 27th December, 1849 ; married 9th January, 1878,
Maude G. Crews.
(3) Jane Deane Page, born about 1851 ; died 8th July, 1855.
(4) Thomas Deane Page, Jr. , born 20th October, 1853.
(5) Calmere Catlett Page, born 24th April, 1856.
(6) Carter Page, died 30th August, 1876, aged 16 years.
(7) Isabella Page, born 22d April, 1859.
(8) John Cary Page, born 12th February, 1861.
One of the girls married Rev. Octavius Parker, of the Episcopal Church,
in Selma, Fi'esno Co., Cal.
3. Carter Page, of Chillicothe, Mo. , born at (^a Ira, Cumberland Co. , Va. ,
4th May, 1818 ; married first, 14th December, 1843, Betty Byers, who
died soon after, leaving one child, Henry Cary Page, who also died
infant. He married secondly, 6th January, 1853, Sarah Bell Miller, of
Cynthiana, Ky. , and had :
(1) Elizabeth Deane Page, born 10th September, 1854.
(2) Henry Page, born 1st October, 1856 ; dentist in Chillicothe, Mo.
(3) Isaac Newton Page, born February, 1858.
(4) Eglantine Page, born 1860.
(5) James Page, born 1862.
(6) Virginia Lee Page, born 1865, and died infant.
(7) Catherine Page, boi-n 1867, and died infant.
4. Eliza Wallace Page, born at Qa Ira, Cumberland Co. , Va. , 2d July,
1820 ; married, 1851, Jonathan Clarke Temple, of Logan County, Ky.
He lived only a few weeks, but she never married again, and died
30th June, 1872, in Chillicothe, Mo., aged 52, leaving no issue.
5. Rev. James Jellis Page, born at Qa Ira, Cumberland Co., Va. , 7th July,
1822; was educated at the Theological Seminary, Fairfax County, Va. ,
and entered the Episcopal ministry. He married, 16th December, 1851,
Virginia, daughter of E. W. Newton, of Charleston, W. Va. Mr.
Newton was a native of Vermont, and a graduate of Dartmouth Col-
lege. The wife of Mr. Newton belonged to the Nicholas family, who
are descended from a Colonial minister of the Church of England.
Children :
(1) Wood Newton Page, born 13th November, 1852.
(2) Rev. Henry Deane Page, born 2d November, 1854. He was educated
for the Episcopal Church at the Theological Seminary, Fairfax
Countv, Va. Married and has several children. For many years
NORTH END. 119
lie has beeu missionary to Japan and resides at 38 Tsukiji, Tokyo,
Japan. One of liis children, born October, 1892, is named after the
author.
(3) Sarah Bell Page, born 28th July, 1856.
(4) Rev. Thomas Carter Page, of the Episcopal Church, born 8th De-
cember, 1858. Married and at present has charge of Bruton Parish,
Williamsburg, Va.
(5) Mary Wallace Page, born ITth November, 1860.
(6) Lilla Leigh Page, born Tth May, 1868.
6. Anne Catharine Page, born at ^a Ira, Cumberland Co. , Va. , 13th Jan-
uary, 1835 ; married, 1850, Dr. Charles A. W^illiams, of Chillicothe,
Mo. She died 18T8, aged 53, and left four children, viz. :
(1) Jane Clark Williams, born 14th August, 1852 ; married 1st Janu-
ary, 1874, Henry M. Hatton, of Chillicothe, Mo., and had two
children, of whoin Hubert McPhail. born 18th September, 1877,
was the second, and alone survived.
(2) Lucy Washington Williams, born 22d December, 1855.
(3) Henrj- Page Williams, died young.
(4) Charles Williams, born 3d Februar}', 1866.
7. Martha Bell Page, youngest of Henry Page, and Jane B. Deane, his
wife, was born at ^'a Ira, Cumberland Co. , Va. , 17th February, 1827.
Unmarried.
Dr. Mann Page, of Keswick (also called Turkey Hill), Albe-
marle Co., Va., sixth child and third surviving son of Major Carter
Page, of The Fork, Cumberland Co., Va., and Mar}^ Cary, his first
wife, was born at the last-named place, 2Gth October, 1791, and died
at the first-named place, 15th May, 1850, aged 58 years and Ymont-hs.
He was educated at Hampden Sidney College, Va., and after-
ward graduated in medicine at Philadelphia, in 1813.
The following is an exact copy of his Medical Diploma, now i-n
the possession of his youngest son. Dr. R. Channing M. Page, of
New York City :
Omnibus ad quos pr^sentes Liter.^ pervenerint SALUTEM : Cum
Gradus Universitatis instituti fuerint, ut Viri de Literarvuii Reijublica bene
meriti, seu nostrae Almas Matris Gremio educati, seu bonarum artium Disci-
plinis aliunde eruditi, a Literatorum Vulgo secernerentur. SciATis QUOD NOS
pr^fectus, vice pr.'Efectus, et professores universitatis
PENNSYLVANIENSIS Gradu Doctoris in Arte Medica libenter concesso TES-
TAMUR quanti fecimus Virum Probum Mann Page in Artis Medical Scientia
plenius instructum, cujus Mores benevoli cum omnibus iis Ai'tibus quae opti-
mum quemque ornant, nos illi devinxerint, Eundem idcirco virum honorabilem
et ornatum Mann Page omnium Suffrages DOCTOREM IN ARTE MEDICA
120 PAGE FA3IILY.
creavimus et constituimus, eique hiijus Biijlomatis virtute, singula Jura
Honores et Privilegia ad ilium Gradum inter nos. IN CUJUS REI TESTI-
MONIUM, Sigillum Universitatis majus hisce Praesentibus apponi fecinius,
Nominaque subscripsiuius.
DATUM PHILADELPHIA Die Mensis Aprilis primo Annoque Salutis
humanae Millesimo Octingentessimo, et decimo tertio.
Benj'x Rush, M.D. . Inst: et prax : med : et clin : Prof'r.
Casparus Wistar, M.D. , Anatomite Professor.
Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D.. Mat. Med. Hist. Nat. Sc. Prof.
Philippus Syng Physick, M. D. , Chirurgia? Prof'r.
Johannes Syng Dorsey, M. D. , Chirurgite Prof'r adjunctus.
Johannes Redman Coxe, M.D., Chem. Prof'r.
Tho. C. James, M.D., Art. Obstet. Profr.
Johannes Andrews, D. D. , Prsefectus.
ROBERTUS Patterson, A. M. , Vice Praefectus.
The Seal consists of seven books piled upon each other, and
bearing the following inscriptions from top to bottom respectively :
"Theolog., Astronom., Philos. Nat., Mathemat., Logica,
Rhettorica, Grammatica." On the circumference of the Seal is
the inscription: "SiGiLLUM AcADEMiJS Philadel. in Pennsyl-
vania." Inside of this is the motto, "Sine Moribus Van^."
Dr. Mann Page commenced the practice of medicine in Rich-
mond, Va. , but after his marriage he retired to his wife's estate, called
Turkey Hill, near Cobham, Albemarle Co., Va. The estate, con-
sisting of 3,700 acres of land, was a part of the Castle Hill estate,
owned by Hon. Francis Walker, but which originally belonged to
Meriwether. (See Walker.)
On Friday, November oth, 1824, a dinner was given to General Lafayette
in the rotunda of the Universitj- of Virginia, by ex-President Thomas Jeffer-
son. The General's son, George W. Lafayette, was also present. Ex-Presideut
James Madison, who was present, responded to the regular toast, "James Madi-
son, tlie ablest expositor of the Constitution," and ended by proposing the fol-
lowing toast : " Liberty, which has virtue for its guest and gratitude for its
feast. " Volunteer toasts were proposed by Thomas J. Randolph, W. C. Rives,
Th. Walker Gilmer, Dr. Mann Page, Wm. F. Gordon, V. W. Southall, N. P.
Trist, Colonel S. Carr, Richard Duke, and others. Mr. Southall presided with
great dignity, and none who were present will ever forget the enthusiasm of
this reception.
Dr. Mann Page was, as we have already stated, the grandson of
Col. Archibald Gary, who was descended from the Carys of Cock-
NORTH END. 121
ington and Ton- Abbey, England. In regard to a certain decree,
said to have been made in the Court of Chancery, England, respect-
ing the property of the Carys of Cockiugton, Dr. ]Viann Page wrote
to Francis R. Rives, Esq., Secretarj' of the American Legation,
in London, under date of 22d February, 1843. Edward Everett was
at that time the American Minister to England. In reply, Mr.
Rives wrote from London, 27th March, 1843:
My Dear Uncle : Immediately after the receipt of your letter, I addressed
a note to H. J. Perry, Esq., the principal Secretary to the Lord High Chan-
cellor, asking for the desired information, which, he wrote nie, it was not in
his power to give, unless some clue is furnished wlioreby the name of the suit
in court can be ascertained. A copy of his replj' I herewith transmit jou. I
then addressed myself to George Stanley Gary, Esq. , the present representative
of the Caiys of Follaton House, who is ignorant of the Chancery decree in
question. That gentleman forwarded a copy of mj' letter to the widow of his
late cousin, the proprietor of Torr Abbey ; and she turned the letter over to her
cousin, Mr. Browne, who says they are not aware of any decree having been
made in the Court of Chancery respecting the property of the Carys of Cock-
iugton (who are the ancestors of the Carj-s of Torr Abbey and of the Carys of
Follaton House), nor have the family any recollection of any such matter.
Entire copies of the letters of Messrs. Cary and Browne I likewise inclose you.
Tliese circumstances, it seems to me, furnish ample proof of the eiToneous
character of the information you have received respecting this affair. . . .
The following is a copj^ of the reply of George Stanley Car}^
Esq. , of Follaton House, to Mr. Francis R. Rives :
Follaton House, 22d March, 1843.
Sir : I beg to acknowledge the receij^t of your letter this morning. I beg
to state that I am totally unacquainted with any circumstance relative to the
decree in Chancer}- that your correspondent in the United States alludes to. I
have foi'warded bj- this day's post a copy of your letter to the widow of my
late cousin — the proprietor of Torr Abbey, where the family has resided the
last 170 years.
I have, Sir, the honor to be your most ob't servant,
George Stanley Cary.
To Francis R. Rfves, Esq.
P.S. — Should any further information be sought for, relative to the Cary
family, it will be most cheerfully given by Mi-s. J. Cary, who resides at No. 16
Park Road, Regent's Park.
-o"-
Mr. John Cary, of Cockington and Torr Abbe}-, residing in
Vienna, Austria, heard, through Mr. Everett, of this letter from
122 PAGE FAMILY.
Dr. Mann Page to Francis R. Rives, Esq., in regard to the Gary
propert}', and wrote as follows :
Vienna, March 14th, 1846.
Dr. Manx Page, Albemarle County, Va. , U. S. America.
My Dear Sir : On the 18th of Jmie last, 1845, I availed myself of the
pleasvire of addressing you. Obtaining unfortunately no answer up to this day,
I mucli fear that the said iuclosure has, on account of sjiecial reasons, been
mislaid. Allow me consequently to trouble j'ou again with these lines, at the
same time inclosing herewith a repetition of the letter in question, under date
of 18th June last, 1845.
Vienna, June 18th, 1845.
My Dear Sir : Informed at last, unfortunately but of late, of your address,
through the medium of Mr. Everett, the American Minister at London, I ven-
ture to avail myself of the pleasure of inclosing you these lines on a most
important subject regarding my family. I am apprised, my dear Sir, that
you are the gentleman who addressed Mr. Evere'tt, during the spring of 1843,
an inclosure imparting to him information that you had received from Eng-
land, to the effect that, according to a recent decree of English Chancer}^ a
considerable amount of i:)roperty had accrued to the heirs of Sir Henry Gary,
of Cockington, in Devonshire. My mucli- lamented father, Mr. Jolm Gary, of
Gockington and Torr Abbej% in Devonshire, was directly descended from Sir
Henry Gary, who was the son of Sir George Gary, of Gockington, Sheriff of
Devonshire in the 18th of Charles I. After that monarch's fallen fortunes, Sir
Henry Gary emigrated, with his family, to Virginia ; whicli event is well
known to me from records in Englisii History, as more so from various impor-
tant documents i-egarding my family ; copies of v%-hich have been in my pos-
session since my infancy. As a member of the family, being my father's
youngest son, and as a father, as well as in behalf of my innumerable brotiiers
and sisters, I shall feel myself, my dear Sir, much and much indebted to your
extreme kindness in favoring me in sliort, if possible, with a few lines, in-
forming me from what sovirce in England you gained this intelligence.
I have resided on the Continent for many years, and here in Germany for
sixteen years. I was formerly in the Austrian service, and at present retain
the cliaracter of an Austrian officer. My brothers are dispersed in all parts
of the world ; which fate, my deai- Sir, I do not doubt you are aware, befalls
the younger sons in England. By chance, unfortunately but of late, I heard
indirectly of the above-stated important communication. The amount of prop-
erty in question, and said to be in the Court of English Chancery, is jiossibly
leasehold property now falling in ; and if this be the case, the same, instead of
reverting to the present representative of my family, namely, to my nephew,
Robert Gary, eldest son of my sister-in-law. Mrs. Gary, of Torr Abbey, in
Devonshire, on his obtaininn; his majority of twenty-one years, the same must
evidently, after having been sold, be equally divided among us brothers and
sisters.
NORTH END. 123
I repeat again and again, nn^ dear Sir. liow much and much I shall feel
myself indebted to your extreme kindness if you will impart to me the source
in England from which you gained your information regarding the matter,
and also whether the propertj' in question is personal or leasehold now fall-
ing in.
I gained information of this important event in the spring of 1833. My
sister, who is at present married in Hungarj', was on a visit to us here in
Vienna, at that time. One day, during the month of April, 1833, she received
from my mother-in-law, Mrs. John Gary, a letter which by chance fell into
my hands.
In this letter she stated that my sister-in-law, Mrs. Caiy, of Torr Abbey,
had received, some days since, a most strange letter from the American Min-
ister in London, stating that a member of the Caiy family in the United States
had heard that, by a late decree of English Chancery, a lai-ge amount of prop-
erty had accrued to the heirs of Sir Henry Gary (son of Sir George Gary, of
Gockington), and that tlie said property was leasehold property then falling
in. Subsequently I addressed a letter on the subject to Mr. Edward Everett,
American Minister in London, and he confirmed the statement comnmnicated
to my sister by my mother-in-law. Moreover, Mr. Everett addressed a letter
on the subject to my sister-in-law, Mrs. Caiy, of Toxt Abbey, and he intimated
to me her answer, stating that she was not aware of the existence of any such
propert}', nor could she obtain any information respecting it, unless the date
and the name of the decree in question were known.
I repeat again and again, my dear Sir, that I shall feel myself truly much
indebted to your extreme kindness in foi^warding to me as soon as possible
information regarding this important subject. At the same time I should feel
myself much obliged to you if you could forward to me the addresses of certain
members of my familj-, residing in the State of Virginia, who are descendants
of Sir Henry Gary, of Gockington and Torr Abbey, in Devonshire.
Trusting on the speedy answer, I remain mj- dear Sir, your most sincere
and thankful friend,
JoHX Gary, of Gockington and Torr Abbey.
The origin of the statement that there had been a decree in the
English Court of Chancery regarding the Cary property is nnauthen-
ticated. No such decree has been heard of by those who were cer-
tainly in a position to have known it, had it really ever been made.
There is strong reason to suspect that it was merely a quack adver-
tisement in some newspaper, by a so-called law firm which made a
business of swindling credulous people about such matters. Not
long since the author read an article in the London Times regarding
the arrest and imprisonment of two men engaged in this business, m
which a fee in advance is always required. The article concluded
124 PAGE FAMILY.
with a warning to people to put no confidence in such statements,
as they invariably were mere baits for swindling the credulous.
The following is copied from a tablet in Grace Church, Walker's
Parish, Albemarle Co., Va. :
In Memoriam
►:-
MANN PAGE ESQRe M. D.
born 36»'' Oct. 1791,
died IS"- May 1850.
Son of Major Carter Page, of
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY ARMY,
AND of Mary Cary his First Wife.
By his death, his family was
deprived of the protection and
guidance of a Christian husband
and fatlier, and this church
of one of its founders.
His Beloved Wife,
JANE FRANCES WALKER.
born 17"' Feb. 1799,
died 7'!^ Feb. 1873 :
Was Endeared to All who Knew Her.
She was the eldest child of the
Hon. FRANCIS WALKER of Castle Hill,
and of JANE BYRD NELSON his wife,
of Yorktown Virginia.
►>
Ex dono Ricardi Channing Moore Page filii eorum octavi
de Nov. Ebor. M.D. et auctoritate curatorum
MDCCCLXXXIX.
Jane Frances Walker, the wife of Dr. Mann Page, was born in the Nelson
House, at Y'orktown, Va. , 17th February, 1799, and died at Turkey Hill, 7th
February, 1873, aged 74 years. She was married in the old Virginia Tavern
near the west entrance to the Capitol square at Richmond, Va. , and just oppo-
site St. Paul's Church. Mammy Suky, then a girl and her waiting-maid,
was present at the marriage and said that "Missis was a mighty pretty girl.
She gim me the dress she got married in. It wuz blue and stuffy." Upon ask-
ing her what she meant by "stuffy" she said, "quilted-like. " She may
possibly have had refei'ence to a quilted blue satin petticoat. The Virginia
Tavern, the aristocratic hotel in Richmond in those days, was kept by Mrs. Col.
NORTH END. 125
Hugh Xelsou (Jiulitli Page, of North End), called Big JFamma l)y the children,
as she was very tall and stately in appearance. It subsequently passed into the
hands of Capt. Thomas Nelson, who afterward removed to Oakland, Hanover Co. ,
Va. From this tavern could be seen the reflection of the tire that destroyed
the Richmond Theatre in 1811. some of the boarders having been victims.
Mammy ^juky, who accompanied Jane Frances Walker and her sister Judith
to Mr. Fremont's school, died in 1890, aged 95.
Jane Frances Walker was descended on her mother's side from the Nelsons
of Yorktown, Va. , as follows: Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va., first of his
family in Virginia, and called Scotch Tom, married, 1710, Margaret Reid ;
their son, William Nelson, of the same place, and known as President Nelson,
married, 1738, Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell ; their son. Col. Hugh Nelson,
of the same place, married, 1775, Judith Page; their daughter, Jane Byrd
Nelson, married, in 1798, Hon. Francis Walker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle
Co., Va., and was the mother of Jane Frances Walker, the wife of Dr.
Maun Page. On her father's side she was descended from the W'ashington
family as follows : Col. John Washington and his brother Lawrence emigrated
from England to W^estmoreland County, Va. , and became the progenitors of
the Washington family in that State. Col. John Washington married, about
1650, Anne Pope, who was his second wife : their son, Lawrence, married,
about 1675, Mildred Warner ; they were the grandparents, through their son
Augustine, of Gen. George Washington and his brother. Col. Samuel W^ash-
ington (who married five times) ; and their daughter, Mildred, sister of Augus-
tine Washington, and aunt of Gen. George Washington, married, about 1701,
Roger Gregory ; their three daughters married three brothers Thornton, Elizabeth
Gregory marrying, about 1720, Reuben Thornton ; their daughter, Mildred Thorn-
ton, married, first, Nicholas Meriwether, and secondly, Dr. Thomas Walker,
of Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va. ; their son, Hon. Francis Walker, man-ied,
1798, Jane Byrd Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. , and their eldest child was Jane
Frances Walker, the wife of Dr. Mann Page. (See Nelson, also Walker. ) Jane
Frances W^alker and Judith Page W^alker. her younger sister, who married Hon.
William C. Rives, L'nited States Senator from Virginia, studied the French
language in Richmond, Va. , under M. Fremont, the father of the late Gen.
John C. Fremont.
Dr. Mann Page married, l'2th December, 1815, at Richmond, Va.,
Jane Frances, eldest child of Hon. Francis Walker, of Castle Hill,
Albemarle Co., Va., and Jane B^-rd Nelson, of Yorktown, Va., his
wife. Children :
1. Maria Page, born in Richmond, Va. , 14th December, 1816, died unmar-
ried, at Turkey Hill, 15th June, 1837, aged 21 years.
2. Ella Page, born at Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va. , 18th September,
1818: died unmarried, at Turkey Hill, 14th November, 1882, aged 64
years.
126 PAGE FAMILY.
3. Francis Walker Page, eldest son, born at Turkey Hill, 17th November,
1820. Removed to Cobham Grove, Albemarle Co. , Va. , and died there
12th July, 1846, aged 26 years. He was buried at Turkey Hill. He
married, 4th September, 1844, Anna E. , daughter of Benjamin F.
Cheesmau and Maria S. Whittemore, his wife, both of New York Citj'.
Mrs. Cheesman is the daughter of Thomas Whittemore and Lucy Snow,
his wife. Mr. Whittemore was born in Leicester, Mass., and removed
to New York City, where he became a prominent and w^ealthj' mer-
chant. He died in 1829. He was sixth in descent from Thomas
Whittemore, of Maiden, Mass. , who emigrated to America with Gov-
ernor Wintbrop, of that State, in tlie year IGS."). Anna E. Cheesman
was tlie niece of the late distinguished physician and surgeon. Dr.
John S. Cheesman, of New York City, who was a contemporary of the
late Prof. Valentine Mott, of that city. She died at Cobham Grove,
April 7th, 1881, leaving one son, Francis Walker Page, Jr., born 20th
July, 1845. Resides at Staunton, Va. , unmarried.
4. Carter Henry Page, second son, born at Turkey Hill, Albemarle Co.,
Va. , 21st November, 1822; removed first to Eldon, near Cobham, and
secondly to 521 North First Street, Charlottesville, same county. He
married, 24th November, 1857, Leila, davxghterofCapt. William Graham,
of Baltimore, Md. Children :
(1) Leila Grabam Page, born 21st December, 1858. Resides at Char-
lottesville.
(2) William Graham Page, eldest son, born 31st August, 1860, lawyer ;
resides at Charlottesville, Va.
(3) Carter H. Page, Jr., engineer, born 4th September, 1864. Travelled
in Europe during the summer of 1882, with liis uncle. Dr. R. C. M.
Page, of New York. While in Paris he visited the grave of Lafay-
ette in the Cimetiere Historique, No. 35 Rue Picpus, pres de la
barriere du Trone, and placed a wreath of immortelles on the tomb-
stone, as his great-grandfather. Major Carter Page, of The Fork,
Cumberland Co., Va. , had served as Aid-de-Camp to General Lafay-
ette during the campaign in Virginia against Cornwallis, in 1781.
Married, 30th April, 1891, Elizabeth H. Roberts, and has a son, born
6th Oct. , 1892, and named after the author. At present they reside
in Philadelphia.
(4) Mary BoM^doin Page, born 26th June. 1866; married, 1st March,
1892, Gilbert Bonham Bird, of England.
5. John Gary Page, born 9th Januarv, 1824; died infant, 16th April,
1826.
6. Frederick Winslow Page, born at Turkey Hill, 20th November, 1826;
librarian University of Virginia, Albemarle County, Va. He married,
24th December, 1850, Anne Kinloch, daughter of Dr. Thomas W. Meri-
wether, of Kinloch, Albemarle Co., Va. , and Anne Carter Nelson, his
wife, who was a granddavighter of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown,
Va. Mrs. Anne Kinloch Meriwether Page died in the spring of 1867. He
NORTH END. 127
married, secondly, loth November, 1883, Lucy Cook Beale, the widow
Brent. No issue. Children by the lirst marriage :
(1) Jane Walker Page, born at Lynchburg, Va. , 22d September, 1851 ;
married, 13th January, 1875, Thomas Walker Lewis, of Castalia,
Albemarle Co., Va. They removed to Airslie, near by, in the same
county, and have several children.
(2) Eliza M. Page, born 1st August, 1853; died single, 14th March,
1873.
(3) Annie Nelson Page, born 15th September, 1855; married, 13th Jan-
uary, 1875, Nathaniel Coleman, of News Ferry, Halifax Co., Va. ,
and has issue. Annie bore a sti'ong resemblance to the portrait of
her ancestress, Jane Byrd, of Westover, on James River, Charles
City Co., Va. , who was the wife of Hon. John Page, of North
End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., Va.
(4) Fi-ederick K. Page, of Millwood, Albemarle Co., Va. , born 24th
July, 1857. He married, 20th November, 1878, Flora Temple,
daughter of William Lewis, of same county. Children :
(a) William Douglas Page— August 30th, 1879.
(6) Evelyn Mabry Page— December 17th, 1881.
(c) Frederick Byrd Page— September 22d, 1883.
(d) Fannie Campbell Page — September 20th, 1886.
(e) Robert Shackleford Page— September 14th, 1888.
(5) William Douglas Page, born 11th June, 1859; died 14th April, 1878,
aged 20 years, unmarried. He was buried in the Nelson Cemetery
at Belvoir.
(6) EveljTi Byrd Page, born 21st September, 1862 ; married, 19tli July,
1882, John M. Coleman, of Halifax County, Va. , and has issue.
(7) Mildred Nelson Page, born 27th June, 1865. Resides with her
uncle. Dr. R. C. M. Page, of Ne\v York City.
Jane Walker Page, born 18th October, 1828 ; died unmarried, 29th Jan-
uary, 1845, aged 17. Regarding this brilliant young lady who unfor-
tunately died so j'ouug, Mrs. Judge Roger A. Pryor thus writes to the
author ; " I knew j'our father and mother, your sister Ella, and icell
did I know and love the brilliant sister who died so young — Jane — my
classmate in music under the eccentric genius, Meei-bach. And I feel
deeply gratified that you permit me to aid in preserving from oblivion
that pure, bright spirit whose hand clasped mine for a little way on
the long journey of my life. Of her beauty of character and brilliant
genius I cannot say too mvich. "
Mann Page, Jr., born at Turkey Hill, Albemarle Co., Va. , 1st May,
1831 ; removed to Mansfield, same coimty. He died in November, 1864,
aged about 33 years, and was buried at Turkey Hili. He married, 15th
May, 1855, Marj- Anna Hobson, of Powhatan County, Va. , and left one
surviving child, viz., Charlotte Nelson Page, born 10th November, 1859,
who married, 31st October, 1883, William Ed. Smith, of North Carolina,
and has one son, Mann Page Smith.
138 PAGE FAMILY.
9. Charlotte Nelson Page, born at Turkey Hill, Albemarle Co. , Va. , 25th
March, 1833 ; died at Kiuloch, same county, 1849, unmarried. She
was buried at Turkey Hill.
10. AVilliam "VVilmer Page, born 31st March, 1835 ; died of typhoid fever,
6th November, 1857, aged 22 years.
11. Thomas Walker Page, born at Turkey Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., 18th
April. 1837 ; resided at same place, and died there 5th June, 1887,
aged 50. He married 10th May, 1861, Nannie Watson, daughter of
James Morris, of Sylvania, Green Springs, Louisa Co., Va. , and Caro-
line Smith, his wife. Children :
(1) Ella Rives Page, born 16th April, 1863.
(3) James Morris Page, A.M , Ph.D., born 4th March, 1864. He orig-
inated and is the principal of The Keswick School.
(3) Thomas Walker Page, Jr., A.M., born 4th December, 1866. As-
sistant in The Keswick School.
(4) Constance Morris Page, born 17th April, 1869.
(5) Maun Page, born 39th March, 1871.
(6) Susan Rose Morris Page, born 30tli August, 1878.
13. Dr. Richard Chanuing Moore Page, born 2d January, 1841, at Turkey
Hill, Albemarle Co. , Va. ; removed to New York City in 1867. He
married, 30th April, 1874, in the Memorial Episcopal Church, at West-
port, Conn., Mary Elizabeth Fitch, widow of the Hon. Richard Henry
Winslow, of that place.
Mary Elizabeth Fitch was the second daughter and youngest child of
Stephen Fitch, Esq. , of Norwich, New London Co. , Conn. , and Mary Ingraham
Rogei's, his wife. She first married Hon. Richard Henry Winslow, of West-
port, Fairfield Co. , Conn. , who was the founder of the banking firm of Wins-
low, Lanier & Co. , of New York City. He was a Connecticut State Senator,
and was the Democi'atic candidate for Govex'nor of that State in 1861. A
short time before his death, which occurred 14th February, 1861, he commenced
to build a beautiful granite church at Westport. This church is of the Protes-
tant Episcopal denomination, and was subsequently completed by his widow.
The interior is very handsome, and is finished off with carved oak and chest-
nut. Some of the frescoes on the walls so perfectly resemble statuary that they
remind one of Dewitt's celebrated frescoes in the Royal Palace at Amsterdam,
Holland. The windows are of stained glass — the memorial window in the rear
of the chancel being one of the most beautiful in America. The organ, made
by Hall & La Baugh, of New York City, cost five thousand dollars, and was
presented by Mrs. Mary E. Fitch Winslow. The bell was cast by Naylor, of
Troy, N. Y. Within the base of the tower is a well of excellent water, out of
which Gen. George Washington drank in September, 1780, when stopping at
the old tavern that formerly stood here. In the vestibule of the church is a
mural tablet bearing the following inscription :
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MEMORIAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY,
VVESTPORT.
The CHURCH
OF THE HOLY TRINITY
was incorporated April 14, 1860 ;
REV. JOHN PURVES, Rector.
The corner-stone of this edifice was laid,
September 19, 1860,
By Rt. Rev. JOHN WILLIAMS, D.D., Assistant Bishop
In grateful commemoration of
RICHARD HENRY WINSLOW,
who bought the site and began the erection of this structure ;
and of his widow,
MARY FITCH WINSLOW,
who completed it.
The Society, February 17, 1862,
adopted the corporate name it now bears.
The Church, first opened for divine service
February 23, 1862,
was solemnly consecrated to the worship of God
June 30, 1863,
according to the order of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States of America.
In perpetual memwy of these events
This tablet has been inscribed and is now set tip by order of
WILLIAM HENRY BENJAMIN, Rector.
JOHN CLEAVELAND and WILLIAM H. MARVIN, Wardens.
William Wood, ]
John F. Buckley,
Elijah S. Dowxes,
John H. Gray, j. Vestrymen.
Charles J. Ketchum,
George Jelliffe,
Henry Taylor,
130 PAGE FAMILY.
The following is copied from a letter received from a former
Rector of Memorial Church :
Westport, Fairfield Co. , Conn. , 19th June, 1883.
Dr. R. C. M. Page, New York City.
My Dear Sir : I send you the names of the first class confirmed in Memo-
rial Church. They were confirmed by Assistant Bishop John Williams (Bishop
Brownell being too old and infirm) , of Connecticut, May 8th, 1860, and were
as follows : Elizabeth I. Townseud, Jane Howel Townsend, M. A. Perring,
James Frederick Perring, Laura Sophia Perring. It is impossible to find out
who was confirmed first. The first person baptized (and consequently the first
person made a member of the church) was William Payne, baptized June 24th,
1860, by the Rev. John Purves. The first marriage in tlie parish was that of
Henry Augustus Ogden to Abbie Jane Coley, May 16th, 1860, also by Rev. John
Purves. The first marriage in the churcli was that of William Kirk to Miss
Smith, March 10th, 1863, by the Rev. Rufus Emery, of Southport, Conn. The
first burial in the parish was that of the founder, Hon. Richard Henry Wins-
low, February 18th, 1861.
Yours truh',
Alonzo Norton Lewis, D.D. , Rector.
The present Rector is Rev. Kenneth Mackenzie, who was formerly Assistant
Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Madisou Ave. , cor. 43d Street, New
York. He is very popular and has a large and flourishing congregation.
"In May, 1860, the second Episcopal Society, in the town of Westport,
purchased the property corner of East Church Street and Myrtle Avenue, known
as the 'Wakeman Lot,' for the sum of two thousand dollars. R. H. Wiuslow,
Francis Burritt, and Daniel J. Townsend were appointed a committee, with
power, to build a stone church edifice and chapel upon the 'Wakeman Lot,'
and to complete and furnish the same upon such plan, and in such mode and
manner in all respects, as they may deem proper or expedient. The committee
were instructed to make all contracts necessary, in order to carry into efi'ect, and
fully to exercise, the power delegated to them. In February, 1861, the society met
with a great loss in the decease of Mr. Richard H. Winslow, and, in the fol-
lowing April, the decease of Mr. Francis Burritt. The church edifice, which
had been commenced by Mr. Winslow, was, after his death, finished by his
widow, Maiy Fitch Winslow, who tendered its use to the society of the 'Holy
Trinity. ' The name of the society was shortly afterward changed to that of
'The Memorial Church of the Holy Trinity.'
"The site on which Memorial Church is built was the 'Wakeman Place,'
formerly an old inn Gen. George Washington passed a night at this tavern,
in September, 1780, while returning from Hartford, where he had been to meet
Count Rochambeau. During the demolition of the ancient edifice there was
found among the debris a French crown-piece of an eai'ly date in the eigh-
teenth century, in excellent preservation. " (" Hist, of Fairfield County, Con
necticut," p. 826. J. W. Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, 1881.)
MEMORIAL CHURCHoFTHE HOLY TRINITY. WESTPORT CONN ,
a£GUN IN iB&Q pr HON HiQiMRa H£nnr wiNSLov/, and completed in laez BY.tiifmfFncH witisLaioi,
132 PAGE FAMILY.
Mary Elizabeth Fitch, the widow of Hon. Richard H. Winslow^ and wife
of Dr. R. Clianuing M. Page, of New York City, was descended on her mother's
side from Sarah Wilson, of Boston, Mass., who married Edward Cowell, of
England, the legal heir to all the property now included in the city of Leeds
as follows : Joseph Wilson, of Boston, Mass. , died in 1680, leaving the daugh-
ter, Sarah Wilson, who married Edward Cowell, of England, who removed to
Boston, Mass. Their daughter, Sarah Wilson Cowell, married Timothy Ingra-
ham, of Rhode Island. Solomon Ingraham, their son, married Lydia Vail,
and had two children, viz. : (1) Capt. Solomon Ingraham, died unmarried ;
and (2) Mary Ingraham, who married Ebenezer Rogers. Their daughter, Mary
Ingraham Rogers, married Stephen Fitch, of Norwich, New London Co., Conn.
Their second daughter and youngest child was, as we have seen, Mary Eliza-
beth Fitch.
A stock company of gentlemen, composed of the descendants of Edward
Cowell and Sarah Wilson, his wife, have, for some years past, been searching
in the United States and England for the will of Edward Cowell, but so far
have not succeeded in finding it. Capt. Solomon Ingraham had a copy of the
original will. This copy was put away in a tin box in Boston, Mass. , whence
there is strong evidence that it was stolen by a law-j-er. It is supposed that he
sold it to interested parties in England, with a view to destroying an evidence
of claim to the propertj", as well as preventing the discovery of the original
will.
Regarding the present Keswick School, it is in a flourishing con-
dition and is attended by about thirty pupils. The principal is James
M. Page, A.M., Ph.D., the first assistant being his brother, Thomas
W. Page, A.M. Several buildings have been recently erected on
account of the increased number of scholars. In former years there
was a school here or in the neighborhood for teaching the children
of the various families, as follows :
1831-32. William W. Hawkins taught for a short time at the old Bentivo-
glio Tavern, which was kept at that time by Mr. Joseph Campbell. The school
was then removed to a log house in the woods near by, called the Tick Hill
Academy. Among the pupils were Frank W. Page, Carter H. Page, James
Parish and John T. Parish, twin brothers, Reuben Gordon, William F. Gordon,
Jr., Lewis Miller, and others. Mr. John T. Farish died in New York a few
years ago a millionaire.
The old Bentivoglio Tavern, called old Benti for short, stood on the south
side of the public road about a quarter of a mile east of the mouth of the
Turkey Sag. The latter is the name of the public road that runs northwest
over the mountains, along Feather-Bed Lane, across Turkey Run and through
Turkey Gap. The tavern was originally built by Hon. Francis Walker, of
Castle Hill, for the accommodation of travellers in those days. It has long
since gone to ruin, and nothing but a depression in the ground now remains
(From a portrait by Healy, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D. C. )
MRS. MARY ELIZABETH FITCH TVINSLOW,
Wife of Dr. R. C. M. Page.
Married 30th Ajjril, 1874.
134 PAGE FAMILY.
to mark the original site. The post-of3fice at Lindsay's turnout on the rail-
way, some two miles distant, is known as Bentivoglio. This and other beauti-
ful Italian names for places in the neighborhood, such as Modena and Monti -
cello, were doubtless given by Italian laborers imported in early times by
Thomas Jefferson for the purpose of introducing grape culture.
1833-33. Mr. Crawford taught at the same place with the same scholars.
Crawford was an exhorter in the Baptist Church and used the hickory freely.
The boys were much afraid of him. Sometimes he would be absent the whole
day preaching, and the boys would be afraid to go home. In the evening
he would return, and the whole school, drawn up in line in the public road,
would be put througli a course of spelling.
1883-34. James L. Gordon taught at Edgeworth, the residence of his father,
Gen. William F. Gordon, with much the same scholars.
1834-35. "William W. Hawkins rented Bentivoglio Tavern and taught school
again, Mr. Campbell having left. The scholars were nearly the same.
1835-36. Mr. Provost, a graduate of Princeton, N. J. , taught at Castle Hill,
the residence of Hon. William C. Rives. There were a limited number of pupils,
among wliom were Frank W. Page, Carter H. Page, Frederick W. Page,
Francis R. Rives, and William C. Rives, Jr. Provost was one of the best
teachers. He also courted all the marriageable girls in the neighborhood.
1836-37. Edwin Hall, of Maine, a pupil of the poet Longfellow and a
graduate of Bowdoin, taught at Bentivoglio. Among the pupils were Frank
W. Page, Carter H. Page, Frederick W. Page, Reuben Gordon, William Gor-
don, Henry Michie, Johnson Michie, and Lewis Miller.
1837-38. Giles Waldo, a graduate of Yale, taught at Bentivoglio. The
scholars were the same with the addition of William Anderson and Richard
Anderson, of Richmond, Va. , as boarders.
1838-39. Mr. Janes, of Burlington, Vt. , taught at Bentivoglio, and among
the scholars were Robert W. Nelson, W. Douglas Meriwether, William C.
Rives, Jr., Lewis Miller, William Lewis (Colonel), the brothers William,
Richard, and Jack Anderson, and Carter and Frederick Page.
1839-40. Jacob Belville, of Princeton, taught at Bentivoglio, with the same
scholars except R. W. Nelson and William and Richard Anderson.
1840-41-43. James Chisholm, of Harvard, taught at Keswick in the old
school- house down in the lot. Among the scliolars were Frederick W. Page,
Mann Page, Jr., Wilmer Page, Lindsay Walker, George and Charles Gordon,
twin brothers, Alexander Gordon, and Alfred Rives.
1843-43. Thomas W. Cattell, of New Jersey, graduate of Princeton. He
taught at the same place, and the scholars were Frederick, Mann, Wilmer, and
Thomas Page, George, Charles, Churchill, and Alexander Gordon, and William
C. Cattell.
1843-44. George Jeffery, of Cambridge, England, taught at the same place
with the same scholars except Frederick W. Page. It was about this time that
F. W. Meerbach, a famous German pianist, gave music lessons to young ladies
in the neighborhood. Mr. Jeffery was a very eccentric man, and the two had
a quarrel, resulting in Mr. Jeffery 's going next session to Edgeworth.
NORTH END. 135
1844-45. George Jeflfeiy taught at Edgeworth, the residence of Gen. William
F. Gordon. The same boys except William C. Cattell.
1845-46. Mr. Taylor, a Princeton man, taught at Edgeworth with the same
scholars.
1846-47-48. Frederick W^. Page taught at Keswick in the old school-house
in the lot. The scholars were Frank Hopkins, Churchill and Alexander Gordon,
Mann, Wilmer, Thomas, and Channing Page. The latter wore a check apron,
nmch to his annoyance.
1848-49. Calvin S. Maupin, of North Carolina, taught at Edgeworth, with
the same boys except Channing, who was too young to walk there. Mr. Maupin
was not a very literary man nor did he much enjoy conversation at meals,
being usually blessed with a ravenous appetite. Thus while General Gordon
was telling some anecdote about President Jackson, while he was a member of
Congress, Mr. Maupin interrupted him in the middle at the most interesting
part by remarking, " General, you got my bread ! "
1849-50. Mann Page taught at Keswick. The scholars were Churchill,
Alexander, and Mason Gordon, Henry Lewis, and Wilmer, Thomas, and
Channing Page.
1850-51. Dabney C. T. Davis taught at Keswick. He was a graduate of
the University of Virginia. The scholars were John and Hugh Nelson, twin
brothers and boarders at Keswick, Wilmer, Thomas, and Channing Page, Church-
ill, Alexander, and Mason Gordon, and John and Rice McGhee, also twin
brothers.
1851-52. Samuel S. Carr, of the University of Virginia, taught at Keswick.
The scholars were the same except Churchill Gordon, who was absent. Lewis
McGhee, brother of John and Rice, was a scholar this year. They came from
Bedford County, Va., and boarded at Logan, the residence of Capt. M. Lewis
Walker.
After that there were so few boys left in the neighborhood that
there was no occasion for a schooL Mason Gordon and Channing
Page were sent to academies before going to college, and it was not
until within a few years past that the present school was established,
VI. William Nelson Page, of Qa Ira, Cumberland Co.,
Va., third son and second surviving child (and eldest having sur-
viving male issue) of Major Carter Page, of The Fork, same county,
Va., and Lucy Nelson, his second wife, was born at The Fork, 28th
February, 1803. He married, in 1827, Fannie- P., daughter of
Isham Randolph, of Richmond, Va., and had the following
children :
1. Dr. Isham Randolph Page, eldest, born about 1834 ; removed to Balti-
more, Md. He married, first, in 1863, Virginia Barton, of Lexington,
Rockbridge Co. , Va. She died, leaving one child, viz. : Virginia Bar-
136 PAGE FAMILY.
ton Page, born 1864. He married, secondly, October 30th, 1866, Char-
lotte Stevens, of Baltimore, Md., and had two children, viz. :
(1) Frances McHenry Page, born about 1867.
(2) Robert Stevens Page, b^rn about 1869.
2. Anne Randolph Page, called Nannie, died, 8 years old.
3. Philip Nelson Page, born about 1838, died young.
4. William Nelson Page, Jr., died 21st July, 1861, aged 20.
5. Rev. Coupland Randolph Page, of the Episcopal Church, born about 1842 ;
married, 1876, Ellen Baker, of Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., and
had several children.
6. Lucia Harrison Page, born about 1844, died j^oung.
7. Fannie Randolph Page, born about 1846 ; married, 1873, Rev. W. C.
Meredith, of the Episcopal Church. He resided at Winchester, Fred-
erick Co., Va., and died about 1875, leaving her a widow vrith one
child, viz. , Fannie Randolph Meredith. Fannie R. Page was the third
and last wife of Rev. W. C. Meredith, his second wife having been
Bettie Cushing, of The Fork, by whom he had Jonathan Cushiug
Meredith, lawyer, removed to Kansas City, and Lucy Page Meredith.
VI. Thomas Page, of Locust Grove, Cumberland Co., Va.,
sixth child and fifth son and survivor of Major Carter Page, of The
Fork, same county, Va., and Lucy Nelson, his second wife, was
born at the last-named place, 8th June, 1807, and died at the first-
named place, 4th July, 1874, aged 67.
He married, 5th November, 1839, Sally, daughter of John W.
Page (see Broadneck), of White Hall, Clarke Co.,Va., and Jane Byrd
Page, daughter of Hon. Robert Page, of Janeville, same county,
Va. Mrs. Sally Page was born August, 1818, and died 27th No-
vember, 1872, aged 54 years. Their children were as follows:
1. Dr. Robert Page, eldest, born 12th Januaiy, 1842, and removed to Staun-
ton, Augusta Co., Va. He married, 18th December, 1878, Anna, daugh
ter of Willis W. Hobson, of same county, and Arabella Boiling, of Pe-
tersburg, Va. , his wife. There are several children.
2. Carter Page, born about 1844 ; teacher.
8. Lucy Nelson Page, bom 17th January, 1852 ; married, September 5th,
1877, W. T. Johnson, of Powhatan County, Va. , and had one child —
Sally P. Johnson.
4. James Chisholm Page, born 1855.
5. Thomas Nelson Page, born 6th June, 1860.
6. Willianna Page, born 27th October, 1864,
Four other children died infants — names unknown.
NORTH END. 137
VI. John Page, of North End, Clarke Co., Va., second child
and eldest sou of Hon. Robert Page, of Janeville, same county,
Va., and Sarah Walker Page, his wife (and first cousin), was born
at the last-named place, 2d September, 1792.
He married, first, in ISIU, Jane, daughter of Francis Nelson, of
Mt. Air, Hanover Co., Va., and Lucy Page, his wife, who was the
youngest child of Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester (now
Matthews) Co., Va. Jane Nelson was the sister of Judith, who
married, in 1819, Mann Page, of Greenland, Gloucester Co., Va.,
and was his first wife. (See Rosewell.) Thej' were granddaughters
of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. The children of John
Page, by the first marriage, were :
1. Robert Francis Page, born about 1820 ; removed to Campbell County,
Va. He married, 1847, Lavinia Sullivan, daughter of James Chris-
tian, of New Kent County, Va. Children :
(1) Edwin Randolph Page, born 19th September, 1849, at West Point,
King William Co., Va. He man'ied, about 1874, Olivia McDaniel,
of Jones County, N. C.
(2) Francis Nelson Page, born at Campbell Co., Va. , 29th January,
1855 ; removed to California.
(3) Roberta Frances Page, born at Campbell Court House, Va. . 14th
]May, 1857 ; removed to Richmond, Va.
2. Edwin Randolph Page, born about 1822; also removed to Campbell
County, Va. He married, 1850, the widow, Olivia Cam, daughter of
John Alexander, of the same county, Va. Children :
(1) Mary Mann Page, married Stephen M. Taylor and had issue.
(3) William Nelson Page, of Powellton. Fayette Co., W. Va. Married,
7th February, 1882, Emma, daughter of Col. William Gilham, of the
Virginia Military Institute, and Miss Hayden, of New York, his
wife. Children : Delia, Hayden, Edwin Randolph, Josephine, and
Evan Powell.
(3) Edmonia Randolph Page: married, 1878, Thomas A. Bledsoe, of
Augusta County. Va.
3. Judith Carter Page, born about 1824 : died unmarried.
4. Lucy Nelson Page, born about 1828 ; married, 1860, James Madison
Sublett, of Powhatan County, Va. , and had :
(1) Octavia Page Sublett.
(2) Mary Carter Sublett.
(3) Florence Sublett.
(4) Lvicy Nelson Sublett.
(5) Olivia Byrd Sublett.
5. Thomas Mann Page, born about 1830; removed to Bedford County, Va.,
138 PAGE FAMILY.
and married, 1854, Rosalie, daughter of James Brown, of Buckingham
County, Va. Their only child is William Nelson Page, born about
1855.
John Page, of North End, Clarke Co., Va., married secondly,
in 1836, Sarah Williamson, of Glenoker, Fauquier Co., Va. She
was sister to Joseph A. Williamson, of Orange Court House, who
married Mary Mann Page, daughter of Hon. Robert Page, of Jane-
ville, Clarke Co., Va. The children by the second marriage were:
1. Helen Page, born 1839, and died single, 1859, aged 20.
3. Rev. William Williamson Page, of the Presbyterian Church, born 1841 ;
removed to New York City ; he married, 1877, Lizzie M. , daughter of
Rev. Nathaniel Pierson, of Baltimore, Md. She died about 1880, leav-
ing one child — Surry Kent Page.
VII. Rev. Charles Henry Page, of the Episcopal Church,
third child and second son (being also the eldest to have issue) of
William Byrd Page, of Fairfield, Clarke Co., Va., and Anne Lee,
his wife (who was sister to General Light Horse Harry Lee, of
Revolutionary fame), eldest surviving son and child of Mann Page,
of the same place, and Mary Mason Selden, his wife, eldest son and
child of Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester (now Matthews)
Co., Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife, was born at the first-named
place in 1801, and died at Georgetown, D. C, in 1876, aged 75
years. He married, in 1827, Gabriella, daughter of Judge Craw-
ford, of Amherst County, Va., who was a brother of William H.
Crawford, of Georgia, one of the candidates for President of the
United States in 1825. Their children were:
1. Jane Byrd Page, born about 1828 ; married, about 1848, Thomas Barbour
Bryan, of Alexandria, Va. Children :
(1) Charles Page Bryan.
(2) Jeannie Byrd Bryan.
2. Elizabeth Spooner Page, born about 1833 ; man-ied, about 1858, Dr.
Glover Perin, Surgeon United Sjtates Army, and had :
(1) Gabriel Perin ; married Col. Henry Prout.
(2) Mary Byrd Perin.
(3) Lucy Legh Perin.
(4) Charles Page Perin.
(5) Betty Page Perin.
(6) Sophia Perin.
NORTH END. 13D
(7) Virginia Langdon Perin.
(8) Glover Fitzhugh Perin.
3. Legh Richmond Page, eldest son, born about 1835 ; married, 1863, Page
WaUrr, of Richmond, Va. , and has issue.
4. William Wilmer Page, born about 1837 ; married, about 1865, Victoria
Amiraux, of Canada. Children :
(1) Gabriella Page.
(3) William Wilmer Page, Jr.
(3) Thayer Page.
5. Roger Jones Page, born about 1839; removed to Louisville, Ky., and
married, 1867, Mary, daughter of Hon. John Mitchell, the Irish patriot
and late member of the British Parliament from Tipperary, Ireland.
They had a son, named John Mitchell Page.
6. Sophia Perin Page, born about 1841 ; married, 1862, Prof. Nathaniel
bhaler, of Cambridge, Mass. Two children, viz. :
(1) Gabriella Shaler.
(2) Anne Shaler.
7. Charles Henry Page, Jr. , born about 1845 ; married, 1876, Annie Brown,
of Oregon.
8. Lucy Fitzhugh Meade Page ; unmarried.
VIII. Legh Richmond Page, of Richmond, Va., lawyer,
third child and eldest son of Rev. Charles Henry Page and Gabriella
Crawford, his wife ; third child and second son (being the eldest to
have issue) of William Byrd Page, of Fairtield, Clarke Co., Va.,
and Anne Lee, his wife (who was sister of General Light Horse
Harry Lee, of Revolutionary fame), eldest surviving son and child
of Mann Page, of the same place, and Mary Mason Selden, his wife,
eldest son and child of Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester
(now Matthews) Co., Va., progenitor of the North End branch of the
Page family in Virginia, and Jane Byrd, his wife, was born about
1835. Being the eldest son of the eldest son, etc., in descent from
Hon. John Page, of North End, he is the representative of that branch
of the Page family.
He married, in 1863, Page, daughter of Logan Waller, of
Richmond, Va. Their children are :
1. Mary Lee Page, born in Richmond, Va. , about 1864.
2. Charles Henry Page, eldest son, born at same place, about 1866.
3. Legh Richmond Page, Jr. , born at same place, about 1868.
4. Waller Page, ditto, about 1870.
5. Brooks Page, ditto, abovit 1872.
6. Gabriella Page, ditto, about 1874.
IV. Robert Page, of Broadneck, Hanover Co., Va., third
and last surviving son and child of Hon. Mann Page, of Rosewell,
Gloucester Co., Va., and Judith Carter, his second wife (b}^ whom
alone he had surviving male issue), second and only surviving
child of Hon. Matthew Page, of the same place, and Mary Mann,
his wife, second son (and onl}- one having male issue) of Col. John
Page, of England, and Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., pro-
genitor of the Page family in A^irginia, and Alice Luckin, his wife,
was born at the second-named place about 1722, and died suddenl}-
at the first-named place, upon returning from a ride on horseback,
about the j^ear 17G8, aged 46. He founded the Broadneck House,
Hanover Co., Va., about 1750. It was destroyed by fire during the
war of the Revolution, his two sons, Robert and John, being youths
at that time.
His son Robert probably rebuilt the house after the war, while
others of the family removed to Clarke County, Va.
He married, 20th Januar}^ 1750, at the age of about 28 years,
Sarah Walker, sister of Clara Walker, who married Allen. The por-
trait of Clara Walker is said to be at Ciairmont, the Allen residence,
on James River, Va . The two sisters Walker were co-heiresses and
daughters of an English gentleman.
The children of Robert Page and Sarah Walker were:
1. Mann Page (No. 1), born at Broadneck, Hanover Co., Va. , 20tb October,
1750 ; died infant.
3. Robert Page, Jr., eldest survivor, born at tbe same place loth June,
1752; married, in 1779, Mary Braxton, of Chericoke, King William Co.,
Va.
3. Mann Page (No. 2). born 1754; died infant.
4. Judith Page, born 15th October, 1756; married, 1st September, 1774,
John (?) Waller, who was born 25th July, 1753, and was Clerk of
Spottsylvania Covmty, 1774-86, member of the House of Delegates, 1791.
Removed to Enfield, King William Co., Va., the old family residence,
which Judge Waller purchased from his elder brother. Children :
(1) Sarah Waller ; married, about 1806. Richard Byrd.
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(2) Benjamin AValler ; married, about 1814, ]\Iiss Travis.
(3) Martha H. Waller ; nuurietl, tirst, about IblU, William Montague,
and, secondly, Joseph H. Travis.
(4) John Waller ; married, about 1818, Miss Greenhovv.
(5) Dorothy Waller ; died single.
.J. Catharine Page, born 7th November, lloH; married, Februar). 1778,
Benjamin Carter Waller, of Williamsburg, James City Co., Va. , wlio
was born 24th December, 1757. Justice of York County. 179G, member
of the House of Delegates, 1798-1800, and afterward Clerk of James
City Countj', Va. They died many j-ears ago, leaving :
(1) Martha Waller ; married, first, about 1800, George W. Holmes,
and, secondly, Lawrence ^leuse.
(2) Benjamin C. Waller ; married Hattie Catlett.
(3) William Waller ; married Mary Berkely Griffin. Their granddaugh-
ter, Mary Stuart Waller, married Louis G. Young, of Charleston,
S. C.
(4) Dr. Robert Page Waller : married, first, about 1815, Eliza C. Grif-
fin, and, secondly, Julia W. Mercer.
6. John Page, born at Broadneck, Hanover Co. , Va. . 29th January, 1760 ;
removed to Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va. He married, in 1784, Maria
H. Byrd.
7. Matthew Page, born at Broadneck, 4tli March, 17(52 ; removed to Anne-
field, Clarke Co., Va. He married, about 1787, Anne, daughter of
Ricliard K. Meade and sister of Bishop William Meade, of Virginia.
Children :
(1) Sally Page, married, about 1808, Rev. Charles W. Andrews, of
Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., W. Va.
(2) Mary Frances Page ; married, about 1810, John Byrd. She died
leaving one child, who married Rev. J. R. Jones, of Clarke County,
Va.
8. Walker Page; born 1764: died unmarried. /
9. Sarah Walker Page, youngest, born at Broadneck, 16th February, 1766 ;
married, in 1788, Hon. Robert Page, of Janeville, Clarke Co., Va.
(See North End. )
V. Robert Page, Jr., of Broadneck, Hanover Co., Va.,
second and eldest surviving son and child of Robert Page, of same
place, and Sarah Walker, his wife, was born there loth June, 1752,
and died there, aged 42, in 1794.
As alread}^ stated, he probably rebuilt the Broadneck House,
which had been destroyed by fire during the Revolutionary war, he
being a youth at that time. His son. Walker Y. Page, is recorded
as an alumnus in the catalogue of the College of William and Mary, at
Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., for the year 1810. He is there
142 PAGE FAMILY.
mentioned as the "son of Robert Page, of Broadneck, Hanover Co.,
Va."
He married, in 1779, Marj% daughter of Carter Braxton, of
Chericoke, King William Co., Va., and their children were as
follows :
1. Robert Page, eldest, born about 1780 ; died single.
2. Carter Braxton Page, born about 1783 ; married, about 1807, Eliza
Nicholson. No issue.
3. Sally W. Page, born about 1784; married, about 1804, Humphrey Brooke,
of Spottsylvania County, Va. Children :
(1) Mary Brooke ; married, about 1825, IMi-. Helm, and died, leaving
many children.
(2) Elizabeth (called Betsey) Brooke ; married Thomas Blackburn, of
Clarke County, Va. , and died, leaving children.
(3) Anne Brooke ; married, about 1830, Oliver A. Shaw, of Louisiana,
and died, leaving Johanna, Eliza, Oliver, Herbert, Sally, Stephen,
and Judith ; all of whom removed to California.
(4) Robert Brooke ; married, about 1838, Eliza Smith, and had one
child, viz. , Robert Carter Brooke.
(5) Sarah W. Brooke ; married Samuel Williamson.
(6) Hon. Walker Brooke, United States Senator from Mississippi,
1852-53 ; died at Vicksburg, Miss. , 1870. He married Miss Eskridge.
4. John W. Page, third son and eldest having issue, was born at Broad-
neck, Hanover Co., Va. , 1786, and removed to Clarke County, Va.
He married, first, 1812, Jane Byrd Page, of Janeville, same county,
and had issue. He married, secondly, in 1833, Emily Smith, of Win-
chester, Frederick Co., Va. No issue.
5. Judith Robinson Page, born about 1788 ; died unmarried.
6. Walker Y. Page, born about 1790, and mentioned in the catalogue of
William and Mary College for 1810 as " son of Robert Page, of Broad-
neck, Hanover Co. , Va. ; " died unmarried.
7. Mattie Page, born about 1792; died unmarried.
8. Catherine Page, born about 1794 ; died unmarried.
V. John Page, of Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va., second son and
child of Robert Page, of Broadneck, Hanover Co., Va., and Sarah
Walker, his wife, was born at the last-named place 29th June, 1760.
He died 17th September, 1838, aged 78.
He hiarried, in 1784, Maria Horsemander, daughter of Col.
William E. Bj^rd, of Westover, on James River, Charles City Co.,
Va. She was probably the niece of Jane Bj-rd, of that place, who
married, 1746, Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester (now
BROADNECK. 143
Matthews) Co., Va. The children of John Page and Maria H. Byrd
were as follows :
1. Nanc}- Page, born about 1786 ; died infant.
3. Mary W. Page, born about 1788 ; married, 1816, Benjamin Harrison, of
Berkeley (Harrison's Landing), Cliarles City Co., Va., and died in
Richmond, 1865, aged 77. She was buried at Pagebrook, Clarke Co.,
Va. Children :
(1) Lucy Harrison ; unmarried ; resided in Clarke Couutj', Va.
(2) Heniy Harrison ; married, about 1845, Fannie Tab Burwell, daugh-
ter of George H. Burwell, of Carter Hall, Clarke Co. , Va. , and had
(a) Henry, married Margaret, daughter of Dr. William Byrd Page,
of Philadelphia, Pa. ; (6) Maria, married Dr. Philip Burwell ; (c)
George B. , and (d) Agnes.
(3) Benjamin Harrison, Jr. ; married, 1858, Mattie, daughter of Dr.
Matthew Page, of Clarke County, Va. , and Polly Randolph, liis
wife, and had (o) Dr. Benjamin Harrison ; (h) Mary Cary, mar-
ried Archie Bevan, of England ; and (c) Gwynn P. Dr. Matthew
Page was the eldest son of Gwj-nn Page, of Kentucky, who was the
fourth child of Mann Page, of Rosewell, and Anne Corbin Tayloe,
his second wife. (See Rosewell.)
(4) Maria Harrison ; died single.
(5) Evelyn Harrison, ditto.
3. William Byrd Page, eldest son ; bom about 1790 ; married, first, about
1813, Evelyn Byrd Nelson ; and, secondly, Eliza M. Atkinson.
4. Sarah W. Page, born about 1792 ; married, in 1815, Major Thomas I\I.
Nelson, of Mecklenburg Countj', Va. , who was a grandson of Secretarj^
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown. Va. She died 1835, aged about 43.
(See Nelson. )
5. Dr. Robert Powell Page, bom 11th Januaiy, 1794; married, first, about
1819, Mary Francis ; and, secondlj-, about 1839, Susan G. Randolph.
6. Judge John E. Page, born 11th March, 1796; married, 1823, Emily
McGuire.
7. Abby B. Page, bom August, 1798; man-ied, about 1816, Jolin Hopkins,
of Winchester, Frederick Co. , Va. , whom she sm-vived. Their children
were :
(1) William E. Hopkins, Commodore United States Navy ; resides in
San Francisco, Cal.
(2) John Page Hopkins, Jr. ; died unmarried.
(3) Dr. St. George Hopkins ; married, first, about 1859, Miss Brown,
of Philadelphia, and had one child— a daughter. He married,
secondly, about 1868, Miss Cunningham, of Baltimore, Md., and
has three children. He removed, with his family, to California.
8. Dr. Matthew Page, youngest; born at Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va. , 1801 ;
removed to Edeuton, Chowan Co. , N. C. He married, first, 1829, Mary
144 PAGE FAMILY.
Matilda, daughter of Josiah CoUius, of the last-named place. Shie died,
leaving no surviving issue. He married, secondly, in 1848, Henrietta
Elizabeth Collins, sister of his first wife, and had one surviving child,
viz. :
(1) Herbert Henry Page ; born 15th November, 1851; married, 1876,
Mary Louise, daughter of Dr. John Herbert Claiborn, of Petersburg,
Va. They had several children, viz. : (o) Herbert Claiborn, born
17th September, 1877 ; (5) Byrd Alston, born 30th July, 1879 ; (c)
Weldon Bathurst, born 11th November, 1880 ; and perhaps others.
VI. John White Page, of White Hall, Clarke Co., Va.,
fourth child and third son (being the eldest to have issue) of Robert
Page, Jr., of Broadneck, Hanover Co., Va., and Mary Braxton, his
wife, second and eldest surviving child and son of Robert Page, of the
same place, and Sarah Walker, his wife, was born at Broadneck in
178G, and died in Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., 19th October,
1861, aged 75. His name appears in the catalogue of William and
Mary College as an alumnus for 1807.
He married, first, in 1813, Jane Byrd, eldest child of Hon.
Robert Page, of Janeville, Clarke Co., Va., and Sarah W. Page,
his wife. (See North End.) The latter was, as we have seen, the
youngest child of Robert Page, of Broadneck, Hanover Co., Va.,
and Sarah Walker, his wife. Mrs. Jane Byrd Page Page died in
Winchester, Va., 27th March, 1830, aged 38. Their children were:
1. Robert Matthew Page, eldest, born 14th May, 1814 ; died unmarried in
Texas, in 1839.
2. Walker Yates Page, second son, and eldest having issue, was born at
Janeville, Clarke Co. , Va. , 16th December, 1816 ; removed to Frederick
City, Md. , and married, 1st June, 1858, Nannie C. Tyler, by whom he
had issue.
3. Sally Page, born 7th August, 1818 : died November 27th, 1872 ; married,
5th November, 1839, Thomas Page, of Locust Grove, Cumberland Co. ,
Va. (See North End. )
4. Nathaniel B. Page, born 1820 ; married, 15th November, 1848, Mary
Anna Richardson. No issue. He died in Washington, D. C. , 27th
July, 1853, aged 33.
5. Mary B. Page, born 16th August, 1821 ; unmarried ; removed to Balti-
more, Md.
6. Jane Byrd Page, born 23d May, 1823 ; died 27th February, 1855, aged
32. She married, 10th August, 1847, Rev. James Chi.sholni. who died
in Portsmouth, Va. , in 1854, during the yellow fever epidemic. He
left two sons, viz. :
BROADNECK. 145
^1) William B. Chisholm, born 20tli September, 1S48, editor of the
Auburn (N. Y.) hidependent. Married, iu 1873, Jeaunie Johnston,
and had one son.
(2) John W. Chisliolni, died infant.
7. John Wliite Page, Jr., born 9th November, 1824, at White Hall, Clarke
Co., Va. ; removed to Petersville, Frederick Co., Md. , and married,
14th November, 1855, Ellen, daughter of Dr. George W. West, of the
same county, ^laryland. ChiUlren :
(1) Judith Robinstm Page, born 8th June, 1857.
(2) George W^est Page, born 31st January, 1860. Removed to Nevp
York.
(3) William C. Page, born 28th April, 1862. Removed to New York.
Married, 28th November, 1885, Rosalie B. Williams, of Baltimore.
(4) Ellen West Page, born 3d March, 1866.
(5) Eliza Byrd Page, born 18th ]May, 1809.
(6) Jane Byrd Page, born 17th March, 1874.
8. Judith Robinson Page, born 7th March, 1826 ; died unmarried, 4th Sep-
tember, 1856, aged 30 years.
9. Carter Braxton Page, youngest, born at Wliite Hall, Clarke Co., Va.,
18th June, 1829; removed to Bladensburg, Prince George Co., Md.,
where he died 28th April, 1881, aged 52 years. He married, first, in
i853, Emily, daughter of Dr. William Armistead, of Fluvanna County,
Va., by whom he had five children, only one of whom survived, viz.,
Robert Matthew Page, born 1858. He married, secondly, 1st Novem-
ber, 1867, Evelina, daughter of William Gray, of Caroline County, Va.
No issue.
John W. Page, of White Hall, Clarke Co., Va., married,
secondly, in Februaiy, 1833, Emily, daughter of Gen. Edward
Smith, of Winchester, Frederick Co. , Va., by whom he had no issue.
VI. William Byrd Page, of Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va.,
eldest son and child of John Page, of the same place, and Maria H.
Byrd, his wife, was born there about 1790, and died 1st September,
1828, aged about 38 years. After his death, his younger brother,
Judge John E. Page, resided at Pagebrook.
He married, first, about 1813, at Westover, on James River,
Charles City Co., Va., Eveljm Byrd, daughter of Judge William
Nelson (a younger brother of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown,
Va. ) and Abby Byrd, his wife. Their children were as follows :
1. Anne Willing Page, born about 1814 ; married, in 1835, Thomas Carter,
of Annefield, Clarke Co., Va., who formerly lived in King William
County, Va. She was his second wife. Children :
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146 PAGE FAMILY.
(1) Dr. Charles Shirley Carter, of Baltimore, Md. ; married Miss
Swanu, of that city.
(2) Captain William Page Carter, of Clarke County, Va. ; married
Lucy, daughter of Dr. Robert Powell Page, of the same county,
and Susan G. Randolph, his second wife.
They are half brothers of Col. Thomas H. Carter, of Pampatike,
Manquiu P. O. , King William Co. , Va.
2. Dr. William Byrd Page, eldest son, born about 1817; removed to Phila-
delpliia, Pa. He married, about 1840, Celestine, daughter of Samuel
Davis, of Louisiana. Children: (1) S. Davis Page, Comptroller of the
city of Philadelphia and the father of (a) Howard ; (6) Ethel ; and
(e) William Byrd, the champion high jumper of the world '; (2) Mar-
garet, married Henry Harrison and had issue as already stated.
3. John Page, of Longwood, Clarke Co., Va. , born about 1820. He mar-
ried, about 1845, Lucy Mann Burwell, daughter of George H. Burwell,
of Cai'ter Hall, same county, the sister of Mrs. Henry Harrison. Chil-
dren : (1) Evelyn ; (2) Celestine.
William Byrd Page, of Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va., married,
secondly, about 1822, Eliza Mayo, daughter of Robert Atkinson, of
Mansfield, near Petersburg, Dinwiddle Co., Va., and had children as
follows :
1. Evelyn Byrd Page, born about 1823 ; married, about 1841, Richard Henry
Lee, of Grafton, Clarke Co., Va. Children : (1) Rev. William Lee; (2)
Richard Henry Lee, Jr. ; (3) Mary Lee ; (4) Charles Lee.
2. Mary Page, born about 1825 ; married, about 1842, William Norborn,
son of Major Thomas M. Nelson, of Mecklenburg County, Va. , who
was a grandson of Secretary Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. (See
Secretary Nelson.)
VI. Dr. Robert Powell Page, of Briars, Clarke Co., Va.,
fourth child and second son of John Page, of Pagebrook, Clarke Co.,
Va., and Maria H. Byrd, his wife, was born at the last-named place,
11th January, 1794, and died at the first-named place in March,
1849, aged 55 years. He was buried at Pagebrook.
It is probable that the portrait in the house of Mrs. Abby Byrd
Page Hopkins, at Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., is his likeness —
according to a letter written by his brother, the late Judge John
E. Page, of Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va. He married, first, about
1819, Mary, daughter of Thomas Willing Francis, of Philadeli3hia,
Pa. Their children were as follows :
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1. Maria B. Page, boru about 1820; inaiiied, about 1840, Mayhew Waiu-
wright, of New York City, and had lour children, viz. :
(1) Elizabeth (called Lizzie) Wainwright ; married, about 1875, Dr.
John Page Burwell, of Clarke County, Va. , and died, 1883, without
issue.
(3) Mayhew Wainwright, Jr., Lieutenant United States Navj-, killed
by pirates on the Pacific coast.
(3) Robert Wainwright, Lieutenant of Cavalry, United States Army. -
(4) Maria Wainwright, boru about 1855; married, first, about 1873,
Henry Slaughter, of New York City, and had two children, and,
secondly, jNIr. James. She was an actress — her noni-de-thedtre
being Fannie Louise Buckingham.
2. Dora W. Page, born about 1822 : married, about 1842, Nathaniel Bur-
well, of Clarke County, Va. Children ; (1) Dr. John P. Burwell ; (2)
Dr. William P. Burwell ; (3) Susie, married Archie Randolph and has
issue; and (4) Mary Willing Page, single.
3. Nancy F. Page, born about 1824 ; married, about 1844, Joseph Pleasants,
of Philadelphia, Pa. N»)w resides in Europe.
Dr. Robert Powell Page, of Briars, Clarke Co., Va., married,
secondh', about 18;>iT^ Susan Grymes, daughter of Archie Randolph,
of the same count}', and Susan Burwell, of Carter Hall, same
county, his wife. Archie Randolph was the eldest son of Thomas
Isham Randolph, of Dungeness, Goochland Co., Va. (See Ran-
dolph.) The children by the second marriage were:
1. Elizabeth B. Page, born about 1838; died, unmarried, at Cobham Park,
Albemarle Co., Va. , during the summer of 1863, aged about 25 years.
2. Mary Francis Page, born about 1840 ; married, in 1867, John Esten
Cooke, autlior, of Clarke Countj', Va. She died in 1878, leaving three
children: (1) Susie Randolph, born llth July, 1868; (2) Edmund Pen-
dleton, born 18th May, 1870 ; (3) Robert Powell Page, born 12th Octo-
ber, 1874. Their father, John Esten Cooke, died 27th September, 1886,
at Briars.
3. Lucy B. Page, born in 1842 ; married, in 1867, Captain William P.
Carter, of Clarke County, Va.
4. Robert Powell Page, Jr., of Saratoga, Clarke Co., Va., born about 1846.
He married, about 1870, Agnes, daughter of George H. Burwell, of
Carter Hall, same county, and Agnes Atkinson, his wife. Children :
(1) Agnes; (2) Mary; (3) Robert P. ; (4;) George; (5) Nathaniel B.
VI. Judge John E. Page, of Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va.,
fifth child and third son of John Page, of same place, and Maria H.
Byrd, his wife, was born there llth March, 1796, and died there 4th
148 PAGE FAMILY.
March, 1881, aged 84 years. He resided at Pagebrook after the
death of his brother, William Byrd Page, in 1828.
He was Circuit Court Judge for the counties of Clarke and Warren, Vir-
ginia, up to the time of his death. In 1863 he brought his family to Albe-
marle County, Va., and resided, for about a year, at Cobham Park, the resi-
dence of William C. Rives, Esq. , of Newport, R. I. The four children of Dr.
Robert Powell Page, by the second wife, were with him. It was during this
time that three of them died.
Judge John E. Page married, in 1823, Emily, daughter of Col.
William H. McGuire, of Harper's Ferry, Loudon Co., Va., who
was an officer of much distinction in the United States Army, Their
children, as far as known, were as follows :
1. John Y. Page, eldest survivor, two having died infants, born in Clarke
County, Va. , 24th July, 1837; removed to Ferguson, St. Louis Co.,
Mo. , where he practised law ; married, about 1859, Lizzie Wash.
2. Mary M. Page, born April, 1829, unmarried.
3. Emma Page, born at Pagebrook, August, 1833 ; married, in 1853, Philip
Nelson, of Nelson, Nelson Co. , Va. , and was his first wife. She died
in October, 1860, leaving two children — William and Emily. (See
Nelson.)
4. Anne W. Page (called Nannie) , born at Pagebrook, Clarke Co. , Va. ,
November, 1835; married, in 1864, Dr. William Douglas Meriwether,
of Kinloch, Albemarle Co. , Va. (See Nelson. ) She died at Culpepper,
Va. , in 1875, leaving one child, viz. , Evelyn Page Meriwether.
5. Dr. Robert P. Page, born at Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va. , 12th March,
1838 ; removed to Berryville, same county, and married, about 1864,
Martha Turner (called Mattie), daughter of William Hardee, of Peters-
bin-g. Dinwiddle Co., Va. Children: William Hardee, drowned in
Georgia, June, 1883, Evelyn Byrd, John Evelyn, Bettie, and Edward
Douglas.
6. Jane McGuire Page, born March, 1840, unmarried.
7. Evelyn Byrd Page, born February, 1842 ; died single, August, 1863, at
Cobham Park, Albemarle Co., Va. , aged 21 years. She was buried in
the old Nelson cemetery, at Belvoir, same county, Va.
8. Edward Charles Page, born 1844 ; died infant, 1848.
9. William Byrd Page, born 17th July, 1848 ; died March, 1864, at Kinloch
(the residence of Dr. Meriwether) , Albemarle Co. , Va. , and was buried
in the Nelson cemetery, at Belvoir, with his sister.
VII. Walker Yates Page, of Frederick City, Frederick
Co., Md., eldest surviving son and second child of John W. Page, of
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White Hall, Clarke Co., Va., and Jane Byrd Page, his first wife;
fourth child and third son (being the eldest to have issue) of Robert
Page, Jr., of Broadneck, Hanover Co., Va., and Mary Braxton, his
wife, eldest son and child of Robert Page, of the same place, pro-
genitor of the Broadneck branch of the Page famil}- in Virginia, and
Sarah Walker, his wife, was born at the second-named place lOtli
December, ISIG. He removed to Frederick City, Frederick Co., Md.
Being the eldest son of the eldest son, etc., in descent from Robert
Page, of Broadneck, he is the representative of that branch of the
famil3\
He married, 1st June, 1858, Nannie C, daughter of Dr. Will-
iam Tyler, of Frederick City, Md. Their children (two having
died infants) are as follows :
1. Mary Addison Pago, born in May. 1859 : married, 1879, "William Stiles,
of Baltimore, and had issue.
2. Nannie Walker Page, born Juh', 1864; died single.
3. William Tyler Page, only surviving son, born 8tb October, 1868 ; resides
in Baltimore.
PAET II.
NELSON FAMILY.
(From a water-color copy by C. H. Sherman. New York. 1883, from the original portrait by
unlvDown artist.)
HON. WILLIAM NELSON, OF YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA,
President of the Dominion of Virginia.
Died 19th November, 1772, aged 61.
NELSON COAT-OF-ARMS.
I. Thomas Nelson, of York-
town, York Co., Va., progenitor
of the Nelson Family in that State,
was the son of Hugh Nelson, of
Penrith^ County of Cumberland,
England, and Sarah, liis wife, and
was born at the last-named place
20th February, 1677. He emi-
grated to the Colony of Virginia
about the year 1700, and became
the progenitor of the Nelson Fam-
ily in Virginia.
He died at Yorktown, Va.,
7th October, 1745, aged 68 years,
and was buried in the Episcopal
churchyard there. He was popularh^ known as Scotch Tom, from
the fact that his parents were from the North of England, near Scot-
land. Above is given an exact copy of the coat-of-arms found on
his tombstone at Yorktown, Va. The engraving is made from a
drawing copied from the original tombstone at Yorktown, Va.,
May, 1883, by C. H. Sherman, of New York City.
The correct tinctures of this coat-of-arms are not known, as none
are represented on the tombstone. In outline the arms are identical
with those of Nelson, of Yorkshire, England, and this fact is sug-
gestive of the origin of tlie names of Yorktown and York County,
Va. The following is probably a correct description of Scotch Tom
Nelson's coat-of-arms:
Arms. — Per pale argent and sable, a cheveron between three fleurs-de-lis
couuterchanged.
Crest. — A fleur-de-lis per pale argent and sable.
No motto is mentioned on the tombstone, but, in the United
States of America, one of Lord Nelson's might,,without impropriety,
be adopted, viz. : " Palmam qui meruit ferat."
155
156 NELSON FAMILY.
The following is an exact copy of the inscription found on the
tombstone of Scotch Tom Nelson, at Yorktown, York Co., Va. :
Hie jacet
Sjje certa resurgendi in Cliristo
Thomas Nelson, Geuerosus
Filius Hugonis et Sarise Nelson
de Penrith in Comitatu Cumbiiae
Natus 20'"" die Februarii Anno Domini 16TT
Vitae bene gestae finem implevit
T"" die Octobris 1745. ^tatis suae 68.
The translation of the above inscription is as follows: "Here lieth, in the
certain hope of being raised up in Christ, Thomas Nelson, Gentleman. Son of
Hugh and Sarah Nelson, of Penrith, in the County of Cumberland. Born on
the 20th day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1677. He completed a well-
spent life on the 7th day of October, 1745. Aged 68. "
His only portrait, a very fine one, was destroyed by fire, in Richmond,
Va., in 1864.
According to Bishop Meade, Ojo. cit. , Vol. I. , p. 205, he founded Yorktown
in 1705. "A few venerable relics of the past, "says Bishop Meade, "are all
that may now be seen. The old York House is the most memorable. The
corner-stone of it was laid by old President Nelson, when an infant, as it was
designed for him. He was held by his nurse, and the brick laid in his apron
and passed through his little hands. " That statement is evidently erroneous,
since the present Nelson House, at Yorktown, Va. , was founded at a later date,
by Pi-esident Nelson, who Avas born in 1711.
The following is probably the correct account of the Nelson houses at
Yorktown, Va. :
First. Thomas Nelson, known as Scotch Tom, founded Yorktown, Va.,
about 1705, and, as any other emigrant would do, he built a wooden house
first. Second. He built, about 1715, the first brick house. All traces of this
house have disappeared. It was situated not far from the present Nelson
House, in a northwesterly direction from the latter, and on the opposite side
of the road that runs in front of it. This house was afterward occupied by
Col. Hugh Nelson, grandson of Scotch Tom. A portion cf the wall was stand-
ing about 1840, with multifiora roses growing over it. Third. Scotch Tom,
about 1725, built another brick house for Secretary Thomas Nelson, his youag-
est son and third child. This stood several hundred yards from the present
Nelson House, in a southeasterly direction from the latter. Being much
nearer the lines during the siege of Yoi-k, October, 1781, it was so bombarded
that it was never repaired. Not a vestige of it now remains. Secretary
Thomas Nelson was in this house when the siege commenced. During the
bombardment his butler was killed while serving dinner, waiter in hand.
Then Secretary Nelson left the house under a flag of tru<:"e, and was escorted
into the American lines by his three sons, who were officers under Washington.
YORKTOWX.
157
Fourth. The present Nelson brick liouse, wliich was occupied by Lord Coruwallis
as headquarters of the Britisli Army, during the siege, October, 17H1, was built
as late as 1740-41, by President William Nelson, for his eldest son, Thomas,
afterward signer of the Declaration of Independence, (Jovernor t)f \'irginia,
and Major-General in the American Army. Governor Nelson was an infant
in 1740-41, having been born :2(3th December, 178b, and it was through his
little hands that the first brick was made to pass when the present Nelson
House was founded. For a pictme of this house see Bi^ihop Meade, oj). cit.,
Vol. I., p. 204; Scribner's Alonthhj Illustrated Magazine (The Centui-y), Octo-
ber, 1881, p. 803; and the Magazine of American History, A. S. Barnes & Co.,
July, 1881. p. 47.
The old Custom-House at Yorktown, Va. , was doubtless built about 1715,
the same year as the first Nelson brick house — or even before it. In either case it
Old Cxjstom-House, Yorktown, Va.
would be the oldest brick house in that section of the country, as it is the
oldest and first Custom-House in the United States of America. It escaped
serious injury during the bombardment, in October, 1781.
The following is copied from a letter to Dr. R. C. M. Page, of New York
City, from Col. William Nelson, of Oakland, Hanover Co., Va. , under date of
April 3d, 1883 :
158 NELSON FAMILY.
"I learned in my young days from my father and mother that the present
Nelson House at Yorktown, Va. (the same, by the way, in which I was born) ,
was built about the year 1740-41, by President William Nelson for his eldest
son. Governor Thomas Nelson— then an infant in his nurse's arms— and the
first brick was made to pass through his little hands. This occurred a few
years before the death of his grandfather, Scotch Tom, who died 7th October,
1745. Bishop Meade was certainly inaccurate in his statement of the building
of that house. As regards your account of the other Nelson houses at York-
town, Va. , I think that it is as nearly accurate as you can get it at this late
day.
" Gov. Thomas Nelson died 4th January, 1789, at one of his farms in Han-
over County, Va. , and his body was carried down to York and buried in the
old churchyard, immediately at the foot of his father's tomb ; so that grand-
father, father, and son (Scotch Tom, President Nelson, and Governor Nelson)
were buried in a continuous line, the head of the second near the foot of the
first, and the head of the third near the foot of the second.
" I make this statement that you may ijut it on record, so that it may be
known by those who desire it."
In regard to the parents of Col. William Nelson, author of the foregoing
letter, it may be stated that his mother was Judith, eleventh and youngest
child and fifth daughter of Gov. Thomas Nelson, and that Col. William Nelson's
father was Thomas, eldest son and third child of Col. Hugh Nelson, of York-
town, Va. The place was formerly called York simply ; only after the Revo-
lution was it called Yorktown.
Thomas Nelson, the first of his family in Virginia, and known
as Scotch Tom, married first, about 1710, Margaret Reid, and their
children were as follows :
1. William Nelson, eldest, born at Yorktown, York Co., Va. , in 1711;
died there 19th November, 1773, aged 61. He was known as President
Nelson. Married, Febrviary, 1738, Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell.
2. Mary Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va. , about 1713 ; married, about 1783,
Col. Edmund Berkeley, of Barnelms, Middlesex Co. , Va. Children :
(1) Edmvmd Berkeley, Jr., of same place, married, first, Mary Judith
Randolph, of Tuckahoe, and, secondlj', Mary Burwell.
(2) Nelson Berkeley, of Airwell, Hanover Co. , Va. , married Elizabeth
Wormeley Carter, granddaughter of Hon. Robert (King) Carter,
and had issue.
(3) Mary (called Molly) Berkeley, married Dr. Corbin Grifiin, and had
one child, viz. , Major Griffin.
(4) Sally Berkeley, single.
(5) Lucy Berkeley, single.
3. Thomas Nelson, youngest, born at Yorktown, Va. , about 1716 ; died
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there, in 1783, aged 66. He was known as Secretary Nelson
lied, about. 1745, Lucy Armistead.
inar-
Thomas Nelson, known as Scotch Tom, married, secondh', about
1721, Fanny fionston, the widow Tucker, of Bermuda Islands, b}'
whom he had one child, viz. :
Sally Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va., about 1723 ; married, about 1743,
Col. Robin Burwell, of Isle-of- Wight County, Va. He was a brother
of Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell, wife of President William Nelson.
The children of Col. Burwell and Sally Nelson, his wife, were :
(1) Nathaniel Burwell, of Lancaster County, Va. , married Miss
Wormeley. of ^liddlesex County, Va.
(3) Frances Burwell (called Fannie), first wife of Gov. John Page.
There were probably other children, but their names are not known.
As the Nelsons of Virginia are known as descendants of Presi-
dent Nelson and Secretary Nelson, we will consider each of these
two branches separately.
II. William Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., President
of the Dominion of Virginia, and known as President Nelson,
eldest son and child of Thomas Nelson, known as Scotch Tom, of
England and the same place, progenitor of the Nelson Family in
Virginia, and Margaret Reid, his first wife, was born there in 1711,
and died there 19th November, 1772, aged 61 years. He was buried
in the Episcopal churchyard, at Yorktown, Va.
The following is the inscription copied from his tombstone:
"Here lies the body of the Honourable William
Nelson Esquire
late President of His Majesty's Council in this
Dominion. In whom the love of man and the love
of God so restrained and enforced each other
and so invigorated the mental jaowers in general
as not only to defend him from the vices and follies
of his country but also to render it a matter
of difficult decision in what part of laudable
conduct he most excelled. Whether in llie tender and
endearing accomplishments of domestic life
or in the moi'e active duties of a wider circuit
As a neighbour, a gentleman or a magistrate
whether in the graces of hospitalitv', or in the possession
of piety. Reader if you feel the spirit of that
excellent ardour which aspires to the felicity
of conscious virtue animated by those consolations
and divine admonitions, perform the
task and expect the distinction of the
righteous man.
He died the 19tli of November, Anno Domini 1773.
Aged 61."
From the above epitaph it appears that he was President of the Council a
short time before, or at the time of, his death. He had also been President of
the Dominion. According to Bishop Meade, op. cit., Vol. I., p. 205, he was
"called President Nelson, because so often President of the Council, and at one
time President of the Colony." "His Majesty's Covmcil," in the inscription,
refers, of course, to the Colonial Council of His Majesty, George II. or George
III.
His portrait, three-quarter length, is in the Nelson House, at Yorktown, Va.
160
PRESIDENT NELSOX. 161
President William Xelson manied, in Februaiy, 1738,
Elizabeth (called Bett}-), only danghter of Nathaniel Burwell, of
Gloucester Count}-, Va., and Elizabeth Carter, his wife. The lat-
ter was the second daughter of Robert (King) Carter and Judith
Armistead, his first wife. The children of President William
Xelson and Elizabeth (called Bett}') Burwell, his wife, were as
follows :
1. Thomas Nelson, eldest, siguer of the Deelaratioii of Amerieau Inde-
pendence, Governor of Virginia, and Major-General in the American
Army, born at Yorktown, Va. , 2Gth December, 1738 ; died 4th Januarj%
1789, aged 'A ; married, 29th July, 1763, Lucy Grymes.
2. Dr. Nathaniel Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va. , about 1745; died of pul-
monary consumption in Bei-niuda Islands ; married, about 1770, Jane,
eldestdaughter and about third child of Hon. John Page, of North End,
Gloucester (now Matthews) Co.. Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife. (See
Page Family, North End.) Their children were :
(1) Elizabeth (called Betsey) ; married Burwell, of Saratoga, Clax-keCo. ,
Va. Mrs. John Page, of Oakland Hanover Co., Va., was named
after her. (See Page Family, Rosewell.)
(3) William Nelson ; died single, 1803, aged 22 years.
3. Col. Hugh Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va., in 1750; died 13th October,
1800, aged 50; married, about 1775, Judith, second daughter and about
the fifth child of Hon. John Page, of North End. She was the sister
of Jane Page, wife of Dr. Nathaniel Nelson.
4. Robert Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va., about 1752; removed to Mal-
vern Hill, near James River, Charles City Co. , Va. He married, first,
about 1777, Mary, second daughter of Hon. Philip Grym-es, of Middle-
sex Count}^ Va. , and Mary Randolph, his wife. Mary Grjaiies was
the sister of Lucy, who married Gov. Thomas Nelson, the eldest son.
By the first wife, Robert Nelson, of Malvern Hill, had one child, viz.,
Elizabeth (called Betsey) Nelson ; died single.
He married, secondly, about 1756, Susan, daughter of Speaker John
Robinson, of the Virginia House of Burgesses. The latter was the
father of Beverly Robinson, of New York, the loyalist, who married
Susanna Phillipse. The children of Robert Nelson, by the second
wnfe, were :
(1) William Nelson.
(2) Mary Nelson ; married Prosser.
(3) Robert Nelson.
(4) Susan Nelson.
(5) Dr. Peyton Randolph Nelson.
(6) Nathaniel Nelson.
(7) Chiswell Nelson.
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(8) Lucy Nelson.
(9) Ethelia Nelson.
(10) Nancy Nelson ; married Moore.
(11) Roblnette Nelson.
5. Judge William Nelson, of the District Court, was born at Yorktown,
Va. , about 1754, and died in 1813, aged about 59, and was buried at
Yorktown. He was the godfather of his granddaughter, Anne Willing
Page, the second wife of Thomas Carter, of Annefield, Clarke Co., Va.
(See Page Family, Broadneck.) He was known as Uncle Judge Billy,
and Col. W^illiam Nelson, of Oakland, Hanover Co., Va. , was named
after him. Judge William Nelson married, iirst, about 1779, Miss
Taliaferro, of James City County, Va. , and had one child, viz., Eliz-
abeth (called Betsey) Nelson, who married Edwards.
He married, secondly, Abby, daughter of Col. William E. Byrd, of
Westover, on James River, Charles City Co. , Va. , and Mary Willing,
of Philadelphia, Pa. , his wife. , Children :
(1) Mary Nelson ; married Pickens, of South Carolina.
(2) Abby Byrd Nelson.
(3) Evelyn Byrd Nelson ; married, 1813, Willam Byrd Page, of Page-
brook. Clarke Co., Va. , and was his first wife. (See Page Family,
Broadneck. )
(4) Lucy Nelson ; married Harrison, of Berkeley (Harrison's Landing),
on James River, Charles City Co. , Va.
(5) Rosalie Nelson.
6. Elizaheth Nelson, only daughter of President Nelson, married Captain
Thompson, of H. M. S. Rix>on, when he came over with Lord Botetourt
on board. She went back to England with her husband and lived there.
According to Bishop Meade, o^j. cit., Vol. I., pp. 205, 206, "President Nel-
son had many daughters, but only one lived beyond the twelfth year. One of
the sons (name not known) became an idiot from a fall from an upi^er-story
window, and another was burned to death. These afflictions contributed to
make Mrs. Nelson a woman of sorrowful spirit. " President Nelson left landed
estates to each of his five surviving sons. Of these, William and Robert were
captured by British troopers imder Tarleton, at Castle Hill, the residence of
Dr. Thomas Walker, Albemarle County, Va. , during the war of the American
Revolution.
The following is the will of President William Nelson, copied
from the records in the Clerk's office at Yorktown, Va. :
In the name of God, Ameu. I, William Nelson, of the Town and County
of York in the Colony of Virginia Esquire, being at present indisposed, tho- in
my perfect senses, do make this my last Will and Testament. My precious
and immortal soul, whenever it shall please God to call me hence, I most
humbly resign into the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the merits
and mediation of my blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, to receive a
PRESIDENT NELSON. 1G3
full pardon of my great aud manifold sins, and to partake of the joyful resur-
rection at the last day — My Bod\- I desire may be interred as my Executors
shall think tit, in a decent but not pompous manner, and as to the worldly
Estate witli which it hath pleased God to bless me, so much above my desire,
I dispose of tlie same (my just debts and funeral expenses being first paid) in
the following manner. I give and bequath unto my dear and well beloved
wife, Elizabeth Nelson, the sum of live thousand pounds sterling to be paid
her within one year after my decease. I also givt> t.) my said well beloved
wife, the sum of Two hundred aud lifty pounds Sterling per annum during her
natural life — the first payment to be made within one month after my decease.
I also give to my said well beloved wife, her Watch, all her Jewells, Rings,
Snuff Boxes Clotlies and other ornaments of which she may be possessed at the
time of my death. I also give to my well beloved wife, during her natural
life, my House wherein I now live, with the Lotts and Gardens thereto belong-
ing, including the Store Garden, but not the Storehouses, also my Stable and
the Lott whereon it stands, the use of all my Household furniture, Plate,
Coach, Chariot and Cart with all their Harness, my Town Horses and Town
Cows, and the use of Ten House Servants, such as slie shall Chuse : all tliese
things I say I give her tlie use of dining her natural life — I also give to my
said well beloved wife all the Liquors and Provisions of everj- Kind that shall
be in the House at the time of my death, aud an}- Mederia Wine and Rum
imported for the use of my family, which maj- be in my storehouses. I like-
wise give her all such Family goods and liquors as I may have wrote for. I
also give to my said wife such new goods as she may Chuse out of my Store
for herself and the use of my three younger Children to the amount of One
hundred and fifty pounds Sterling, prime Cost. I further give to mj' dear wife,
during her natural life, the use and profits of my Plantations in Warwick and
James City Counties, commonly called Cheesecake Plantation, with the use of
the Slaves and Stocks of every kind thereto belonging, and after her decease,
I give and devise the said lands, Slaves and Stocks and every thing else belong-
ing thereto, to my son Hugh and his heirs forever. I also give to my said dear
wife, dviring the term of her life, the use of mj' Plantations near Yorktown,
called Pennys and Tarrapin Point including my meadows with the Slaves,
horses, Carts and Stocks of everj^ kind thereto belonging with liberty of Cut-
ting her fire wood ofl; the said lands and also ofl" a Tract called Dowsings. It
is my will, and I do accordingh' direct that, of the annuity hereby given to
my dear wife, one himdred pounds Sterling shall be paid yearly by my son
Thomas out of the residue of my estate given to him, aud seventy five pounds
sterling shall be paid bj' each of my sons Hugh and Robert yearly out of the
estates I shall give to them. It is my farther will and desire that my dear
wife shall be supplyed out of any part of my estate, with such Beef, Pork,
Wheat and Corn as she shall require annually. After the decease of my dear
wife, I give to my son Hugh, his heirs and assigns forever the House I now
live in, the lots and gardens thereto belonging, together with the Store Garden,
but not the Storehouses, also my Stable and the lott on which it stands, like-
wise all the furniture of my House, as it may remain at his mother's death.
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my Plate excepted ... I do also give to my said son Hugh and his heirs
forever my Mulatto woman named Aggy with all her Children and future in-
crease. I give and devise to my sons Thomas and Hugh and their heirs for-
ever, as tenants in common and not as joint Tenants, my Store Houses in
Yorktown and at the waterside, having already by deeds, given to my son
Hugh, all my lauds and Slaves in the Counties of Frederick and Fauquier,
I only give him a legacy in money of Two Thousand Pounds Sterling.
I give and devise to my son Robert and his heirs forever, all my lands in
the County of Albemarle with the Slaves and Stocks of every kind thereto
belonging, which lands, Slaves and Stocks are now in the possession and occu-
pation of my son Thomas Nelson, but as I shall, by this Will, give my said
son Thomas a much larger proportion of my estate, I do hereby order and
direct that he shall give a Release to his Brother Robert and his heii's forever
of all that whole Estate in the County of Albemarle upon which condition, he
is to hold my lands and estate in the County of Hanover. I also give and
bequath to my said son Robert the sum of Two Thousand |)ounds sterling. I
give and devise to my two sons, Nathaniel and William and tlieir heirs for-
ever, all my share and interest in The Dismal Swamp Scheme and, if either of
them should die before he comes of age, I give and devise the whole to the
siu'vivor and his heirs forever. I also give and bequath to my said sons.
Nathaniel and William, to each of them, I say, the sum of five thousand
pounds sterling. I desire that the Pecuniary Legacy given to my dear wife
may be first paid, and that the other money Legacies to my Children may be
Collected and paid according to their Seniority, and that the parts of my
yoimger sons may be placed out on interest till they respectively come of age.
After the death of my wife, I give to my son, Thomas, my best silver Cup
and the rest of my Plate I desire may be divided — two third parts of which
I give to my son, Thomas, and the other third part to my son, Hugh. I give
to my son Thomas my Mulatto woman, Hannah with her Children and all her
future increase, to him and his heirs forever, and after the death of my dear
wife, I give the Ten House Servants with their Children and future increase
of which she is to have the use for life, unto my son Hugh and his heirs for-
ever. I give to my son Thomas, my Virginia Amathyst Seal set in gold, to
my son Hugh, my gold watch, Cliain and Cornelian seal, to my son Robert
my gold Stock Buckle, to my son Nathaniel my Sword and Pistols, and co my
son William I give my best Garnett Sleeve Buttons sett in Gold. I give to my
dear sister, Mary Berkely, the sum of twenty five pounds sterling per annum
during her life, to be paid to her by son Thomas out of the residue of my
estate, and I do hereby remit and release to my said Sister any sum or sums
of money she may owe me at the time of my death. I give and bequath to
my Cousin Hephzibah Nelson Twenty Pounds Current Money a year to be paid
her by my son Thomas, out of the residue of my Estate, during her natural
life. I give and bequath to the Court of Directors appointed by Act of As-
sembly to errect and superintend the Public Hospital for the reception of
Lunatics &c, the sum of One hundred pounds current money to be by them
applyed towards the farther relief of such Patients as may be sent to the said
PRESIDENT NELSON. 1()5
Hospital as they, in their discretion, may think tit, bnt not to the enlargement
of the Buililing or to any other purpose. 1 give and liequath Fifty Pounds
current money to the poor of the Parisli of York Hampton to be distributed
as my Executors shall think proper. I desire that my wearing Apparel of every
kind may be disposed of in such manner as my dear wife and nij' two eldest
sons may Chuse. All the rest and residue of my estate of what nature or
quality soever, whether real or personal in Virginia or elsewhere, I give, devise
and bequath to my son, Thomas Nelson, to him, his heirs and assigns for ever.
I appoint my dear Brother, the Hon : Thomas Nelson Esquire, my dear friend
Robert Carter Nicholas Esq'' and my two sons. Thomas and Hugh, Executors
of this my Will, and guardians of my younger children during their minority.
I desire that my Estate may not be appraised, and that my Executors may not
be obliged to give any security for their performance of the Trust hereby re-
posed in them. Lastly. I do hereby revoke and annul all former wills by me
heretofore made, and declare this to be my only true last Will and Testament.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal
this sixth day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and Seventy two
[L. S.] W" Nelsox
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the Hon. William Nelson
Esquire as and for his last Will and Testament in presence of us who at his
request and in his presence do hereunto subscribe our names as witnesses.
Dudley Digges
David Jameson
Lawe Smith, Junr
At a Court held for York County
21st day of December 1772.
This Will was proved according to law by the oaths of Dudley Digges
David Jameson and Lawrence Smith Jun^ the witnesses thereto, and ordered
to be recorded, and on the motion of the Hon. Thomas Nelson Esquire, Robert
Carter Nicholas, Thomas Nelson and Hugh Nelson Esquires, the Executors
therein named, who made oath thereto as the law directs. Certificate was
granted them for obtaining a Probat in due form.
Exam'i
Teste, Thos. Everard Ct Cur'
A Copy
Teste,
A. F. HUDGIXS.
Clerk of Y'ork Co. Cts. , Va.
Virginia,
Y'oRK County, to wit :
I, A. F. HUDGINS, Clerk of the County Court of Y'ork County, State of
Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the last Will
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and Testament of William Nelson as the same appears of record and on file in
my office.
Witness my hand, and the seal of said Court affixed this the 20th day of
May, A.D. 1884 in the 108th year of the Commonwealth of Va.
A. F. HUDGINS, Clerk.
Virginia :
I, H. B. Warren, Jvidge of the County Court of York County, State of Va. ,
do certify that A. F. Hudgins, who hath given the foregoing certificate, is
Clerk of said Court, and that his said attestation is in due form. Given under
my hand this the 24th day of May, a.d. 1884, in the 108th year of the Com-
monwealth of Virginia.
H. B. Warren, Judge.
III. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Ya., Signer
OF THE Declaration of American Independence, Governor
OF THE State of Virginia, and Major General in the Ameri-
can Army, was born at Yorktown, Va., 2Gth December, 1738. He
was the eldest son and child of President William Nelson, of the
same place, and Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell, his wife; and
President William Nelson was the eldest son and child of Thomas
Nelson, known as Scotch Tom, of England and the same place, pro-
genitor of the Nelson family in Virginia, and Margaret Peid, his
first wife.
Governor Nelson died during an attack of asthma, caused by
exposure during the war of the Revolution, at Mt. Air, Hanover
Co., Va., on the 4th Januaiy, 1789, aged 51 years. He was buried
at the foot of President Nelson's grave, at Yorktown, Va., but there
has never been, as yet, any tombstone placed there to his memory.
According to Bishop Meade, op. cit., Vol. I., pp. 206, 207, he "was placed
under the care of Rev. Mr. Yates, of Gloucester Countj'. Va. , afterward Presi-
dent of William and Mary College, in order to prepare him for an English
university. At the age of fourteen — sooner than was intended — he was sent
thither. The circumstance which hastened his going was the following : On
one Sunday afternoon, as his father was walking on the outskirts of the village
of Yorktown, he found him at play with some of the little negroes of the place.
Feeling the evil of such associations, and the difficulty of preventing them, he
determined to send him at once to England ; and a vessel being ready to sail
he was despatched the next day to the care of his friends— Mr. Hunt, of Lon-
don, and Beilby Porteus, then Fellow of Cambridge University, and after-
wards Bishop of London. He went for some time to the preparatory school of
Dr. Newcome, at Hackney, and then to the especial care and tutorship of
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Dr. Porteus. The letters of Mr. Nelson to Mr. Hunt and Dr. Porteus — copies
of which I have, and the answers to which are acknowledged — evince deep
anxietj' for the improvement of his son in all things, but especially in morals
and religion. He is evidently uneasy about the spirited character of his son,
fearing lest it might lead him astraj', and begs his friends to inform liim if
his son shows a disposition to idleness and pleasure. In order to avoid the temp-
tations incident to young men during the vacation — especially such as are far
away from friends — he requests Dr. Porteus to place him, during those seasons,
with some eminent scientific agriculturist, and thus prepare him for dealing
with the soils of America. After seven years he returns home— being delayed
several months beyond the time he intended, by a circumstance which showed
the religious character of his father. In a letter to his friend, Mr. Hunt, he
alludes to the fact that two young Virginians, whose habits he feared were
not good, were coming over in the ship in which he expected his son, and he
must request that he be not sent with them ; that lie would rather his coming
be postponed six months than have them as his companions, though they were
sons of some of the first families of Virginia, and of those who were on terms
of intimacy with his. His return was accordingly delayed for some months.
On his arrival, Mr. Nelson writes to his friends in England, that he is much
pleased witli the general imjirovement of his son, but regrets to find that he
has fallen into that bad practice which most of the young Virginians going to
England adopt, of smoking tobacco — adding emphatically, 'filthy tobacco: ' also
that 'eating and drinking, though not to inebriety, more than was conducive
to health and long life. ' Still, he was rejoiced to see him, such as he was,
with good principles. "
While young Nelson was on his voyage home from England, he was elected
a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, although he was at that time
barely 21 years of age.
He was one of the members of the First Convention, which met at Will-
iamsburg, James City Co. , Va. , in 1774, to consider the matter of taxation
of the colonies in America, by the Home Government in England. He was
again a member of the Provincial Convention, and in July, 1774, he was
appointed Colonel of the 2d Virginia Regiment of Infantry.
He was a member of the Convention which met at Williamsburg, James
City Co. , Va. , in May, 1776, to frame a constitution for Virginia; and was
elected to offer the resolution instructing the Virginia delegates in Congress,
at Philadelphia, Pa., to propose a Declaration of Independence. He signed
THE Declaration of Independence of 4th July, 1776. In May, 1777, he was
obliged, by an indisjiosition affecting his head, to resign his seat in Congress ;
but in the following August, during the alarm occasioned by the entry of the
British fleet, under Admiral Howe, within the capes of Virginia, he was
appointed Commander-in-chief of the Virginia State forces; and soon after,
in response to an appeal from Congress, he raised a troop of cavalry with
which he repaired to Philadelphia. In June, 1781, he was chosen Governor
OF THE State of Virginia, a position to which he was recommended by
Thomas Jefferson, then retiring from office. He participated in the siege of
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Yorktown, Va. , October, 1781, as ('ommauder of the Virginia Militia, with
the rauk of Majou-General in the American Army. His force, about 3,UU()
strong, was raised and e(iuipped at his own expense, and constituted the second
or reserve line, and performed fatigue duty during the siege. As it was
tliought that Lord Coruwallis, Comniauder of the British Army, occupied liis
house (the present Nelson House) as headquarters, lie ordered it to be bom-
barded, saying to General Lafayette: "Spare no particle of my propei'ty so
long as it affords comfort or slielter to the enemies of my covmtiy. " His ser-
vices, and, as a matter of policy, those also of the militia Mhom he liad col-
lected, were highly commended in the General Orders of Gen. George Wash-
ington, tlie American Commander-in-chief, 20th October, 1781, being the day
after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis with the British Army. His statue
was one of the six selected to be placed around the Washington Monument, at
Eichmond, Va. The other five were Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Andrew
Lewis, John Marshall, and George Mason.
Governor Nelson built the Offley House, in Hanover County, Va. , during
the Revolution, in order to send his famih' there to a place of safety. For a
description of this wretclied little place see mention of Chatellux's account of
it in Bishop Meade, op. cit.. Vol. I., p. 211 Here it was that the Governor's
son Robert (afterward of Malvern Hill) used to sing the hymn :
"Send comfort down from thy right hand
To cheer us in this barren land,'" etc.
The old Offley House is probably gone, but the pond — the Offley pond — that
well-known source of chills and fever for the whole neighborhood, yet remains.
Governor Nelson had left to him by his father. President Nelson, landed
property, including the present Nelson House, at Yorktown, Va. , and £40,000 in
hard cash. As one Virginia shilling was equal to 16| cents of United States
coin, and twenty shillings made a pound, the value of the latter was about
three dollars and thirty-three and a third cents. Forty thousand pounds would
therefore be equal to a little more than one hundred and thirty-three tliousand
dollars of present United States coin — which was a great deal of money for
those days.
Nevertheless, he died poor — having given nearly all he had to the cause of
liberty. Such nobility of soul and purity of motive form a combination in
character rarely seen in the history of the world, and no doubt he was con-
scientious in the matter ; yet how different from Washington ! The latter,
although he had no large family to support, "magnanimously refused any
pay for his services, but merely asked Congress to reimburse him for his
expenses, an accurate account of which he had kept. " It is needless to say
that Congress promptly paid liim, having the detailed accounts with dates
specified, to be guided by. Had Governor Nelson kept an accurate account of
his expenses, no doubt Congress woukl have gladly paid him back also. But
it appears that he had no account to present to Congress. Consequently his
family had to be that much poorer. One may, therefore, here see the differ-
ence between a patriotic man, and a patriotic man who was also wise.
(From the uri;,'iiial ijui-lrait Uy L'luuuberlin, Luuduu, 1754.)
GOV. THOMAS NELSON, AT THE AGE OF 16,
YoRKTowN, York Co., Va.
Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 4th July, 1776.
170 NELSON FAMILY.
The onlj- original portrait of Gov. Thomas Nelson was painted when he
was a youth of 16 years of age, by Chamberlin, in London, 1754. This por-
trait, the canvas of which measures about 30x40 inches, formerly hung in the
parlor, at Oakland, Hanover Co. , Va. , but was removed to Shelly, Gloucester
Co., same State. It is a good painting, but much abused, having a hole
in the canvas at the chin. The following is a copy of a letter written by the
artist that was sent by Anderson, of Richmond, Va. (since removed to New
York City) , to Shelly, Gloucester Co. , Va. , to photograph the portrait of Gov-
ernor Nelson there :
Richmond, Va., March 19th, 1878.
Friend Brady : Your communication received this morning. The descrip-
tion of the portrait of Gen. Thomas Nelson, at Shelly, Gloucester Co. , Va. , is
as follows :
Age — about 16.
Hair — light, color of Naples yellow in the light.
Eyes — blue, medium shade.
Complexion — ruddy, with plentv of warm color.
Coat — gray.
Collar of coat — gray velvet.
Necktie — white.
Vest — white in shadow.
Buttons — brass.
Ruffle on sleeve — white.
Hat under arm — black.
Hoping this may be satisfactorj'.
Yours respectfully,
Wm. E. Trahem.
It is only a half-length portrait, hat under left arm, but the left hand doe»
not appear. The white rvxffle on the right sleeve and part of the right hand is
seen, the fingers being concealed from view by the waistcoat, in which the
right hand partly rests.
This portrait has been copied for the capitol at Richmond, Va. , where it
may be seen among the Governors in the State library. There is also a copy
at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., in the room where the famous
Declaration was signed. Since the death of Mrs. Cornelia Griffith it has be-
come the property of Thomas Nelson Page, the author.
The family Bible of Governor Thomas Nelson is at present in
the possession of the Goggin family, in Campbell County, Va. For
the pm-pose of obtaining a copy of the record contained in that Bible,
I applied to W. Steptoe Nelson, Esq., of Forest Depot, Bedford Co.,
Va. Mr. Nelson wrote to Mr. Goggin on the subject, and received
the following reply :
PRESIDEyT yELSON. 171
Leesville, Campbell Co. , Va. , )
28th Marcli, 1883. )
W. Steptoe Nelson, Esq. , Forest Depot.
Dear Friend and Cousin : Your letter in regard to the Nelson family-
Bible was received this evening. Enclosed you will find all the information
in it regarding the Nelson family. The record refers onl3- to Governor Nelson's
family, and is written on the title leaf between the Old and New Testaments,
as there is no blank space for family record. Nothing is said of the Pages.
Affectionately yrs. , S. C. Goggin.
The following is an exact copy of the record in the family Bible
of Gov. Thomas Nelson referred to :
Thomas Nelson and Lucy Giymes were married the 29th July, 1762.
"William Nelson, born August 9th, 1763.
Thomas Nelson, born December 27th. 1764.
Philip Nelson, born March 14th, 1766.
'Francis Nelson, born June Soth, 1767.
Hugh Nelson, born Septem'r 3()th, 1768.
Elizabeth Nelson, bom December 26th, 1770.
Mary Nelson, born December 19th, 1774.
Lucy Nelson, born Jan'y 2d, 1777.
Robert Nelson, born October 14th, 1778.
Susanna Nelson, born October 3d, 1780.
Judith Nelson, born May 8th, 1782.
Gov. Thomas Nelson married, 29th July, 17G2, Lucy, daughter
of Philip Grymes, of Middlesex County, Va., and Maiy Randolph,
his wife, who was the daughter of Sir John Randolph, of Williams-
burg, James City Co., Va., and Susanna Beverly, his wife.
Gov. Nelson's wife, Lucy Grymes, lived to be eighty years old,
"leaving," sa3'S Bishop Meade, "twenty dollars to her minister, and
freedom to her servant,^ the only one she had." She was not buried
with her husband at Yorktown, but at the east end of Fork Church
gravej'ard, Hanover County, Va. Their children were as follows :
•
1. William Nelson, eldest, born at Yorktown, Va., 9th August, 1763; mar-
ried, about 1790, Sally Burwell, eldest daughter of Gov. John Page.
2. Thomas Nelson, Jr., born at Yorktown, Va., 27th December, 1764, second
son, and eldest to have surviving male issue : married, in 1795, Frances,
third daughter and seventh child of Gov. John Page.
3. Philip Nelson, bom at Yorktown, Va., 4th March, 1766; removed to
Clarke County, Va., and married, 1789, Sarah N. Burwell.
172 NELSON FAMILY.
4. Fi-ancis Nelson, born at Yorktovvn, Va. , 2oth June, 1767; removed to
Mont Air, Hanover Co., Va., and married, about 1792, Lucy, youngest
daughter of Hon. Jolin Page, of North End, (iloucester (now Matthews)
Co., Va.
5. Hon. Hugh Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va. , 30th September, 1768; re-
moved to Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va. , and mariied, in 1799, Eliza,
daughter of Francis Kinloch, of South Carolina.
6. Elizabeth Nelson, eldest daughter, born at Yorktown, Va., 26th Decem-
ber, 1770; married, oth June, 1788, Mann Page, of Shelly. Gloucester
Co., Va. , eldest son of Gov. John Page. (See Page Family, Rosewell.)-
7. Mary Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va., 19th December, 1774; married,
about 1792, Robert Carter, of Shirley, on James River, Va., by whom
she had Hill Carter, and others.
8. Lucy Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va. , 2d January, 1777; married, in 1799,
Major Carter Page, of Willis Fork, Cumberland Co. , Va. , and was his
second wife. (See Page Family, North End.)
9. Robert Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va. , 14th October, 1778; married,
April, 1803, Judith Carter, youngest daughter and ninth surviving
child of Gov. John Page by his first wife. (See Page Family, Rose-
well.) He was called Chancellor Nelson, from having been Chancellor
of William and Mary College. He died, 1819, at Williamsburg, James
City Co., Va. , aged about 40. He was professor of law in William
and Mary College, and was also Equity Judge. He was a Presidential
Elector in 1813. • They had one surviving child, viz. :
(1) Lucy Nelson, who married, about 1830, Hugh N. Pendleton, of
Caroline County, Va. , and was his first wife. She died, leaving
one child, viz., Julia Pendleton, who married, about 1853, James
Allen, of Bedford, who died August, 1862, leaving one child, viz.,
Hugh Allen, who is the sole surviving descendant of Chancellor
Robert Nelson. Julia Pendleton, the wife of James Allen, of Bed-
ford County, Va. , died 1865.
10. Susanna (called Susan or Suky) Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va. , 3d Oc-
tober, 1780 ; married, in 1806, Francis Page, of Rugswamp, Hanover
Co., Va. , eighth child and fifth son of Gov. John Page. (See Page
Family, Rosewell.)
11. Judith Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va. , 8th May, 1782; married, 1804,
Captain Thomas Nelson, of Oakland, Hanover Co. , Va.
It will be seen that five of the children above mentioned married five of
Gov. John Page's children ; and two of them married two of the children of
Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., Va. Thuf
of the eleven children of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. , and Lucj
Grymes, his wife, seven of them married Pages.
III. Col. Hugh Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., about
the third son and child of President William Nelson, of the same
J PRESJBE.\T XELSOX. 173
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place, and Elizabeth (called Betty) Biirwell, his wife, was born there
in 1T50, and died there od October, 1800, aged 50 years. He mar-
ried, about 1T75, Judith, about the second daughter and fifth sur-
viving child of Hon. Jobn Page, of North End, Gloucester (now
Matthews) Co., Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife. The portrait of
Judith Page is at Oakland, Hanover Co., Va. Judith Page Walker,
her granddaughter, of Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., Avho mar-
ried Hon. William C. Rives, was named after her. The children of
Col. Hugh Nelson and Judith Page, his wife, were as follows :
1. Jane Byrd Nelson, boru at Yorktown, Va., about 17TG ; married, 1798,
Hon. Francis Walker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle Co. , Va. (Sct^ Walker. )
2. Lncv Nelson, boru at Yorktown. about 1778 ; married, 16th ilay, 1798,
Edmund Pendleton, Jr., of Caroline Couuty, Va. , and was his second
wife. (See Pendleton.)
8. Captain Thomas Nelson, eldest son, born at Yorktown, Va. , 1780; re-
moved to Oakland, Hanover Co., Va. , and married, 1804, Judith,
yovmgest child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va.
4. Dr. Nathaniel Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va. , about 1786; removed to
The Lodge, Hanover Co., Va. , and married, about 1811, Lucy Maun,
eldest daughter of Mann Page, of Shelly, Gloucester Co., Va. (See
Rosewell. ) Dr. Nelson first lived at a place called De la Salva, Glou-
cester Co. , Va. , but the name was changed to Smtgly by some people
who bought it. Children :
(1) Elizabeth (called Betsey) Mann Nelson ; married, about 1830, Rev.
John R. Lee, of the Episcopal Church, and had (a) Mary, died
aged 18, and (b) Charles D.
(2) Judith Carter Nelson ; single ; Richmond, Va.
(3) Thomasia Nelson ; single.
(4) Judge Hugh Nelson, of Franklin County, Va. ; married Miss Tal-
iaferro and had several children.
(5) Nancy Nelson ; married, about 1838, Dr. Binford, of Henry
County, Va.
5. Carter Nelson, born about 1788 ; died single.
6. Frances Edmonia Nelson, born about 1790; died single. She had a talent
for drawing and was an artist.
7. Maria Nelson, youngest, born 1794 ; was burned to death in the Rich-
mond (Va.) Theatre, December 26th, 1811, aged 17. Her body was
identified by the watch of Hon. Francis Walker, her brother-in-law, of
Castle Hill, Albemarle Co. , V^a. This watch was foimd on her body
in a partially fused condition, but w^as easilj' identified. Dr. Robert
W. Nelson, of Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., Va. , had the watch, and
a little diamond belonging to it was in possession of Dr. R. C. M. Page,
of New York.
174 NELSON FAMILY.
IV. William Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., eldest
son and child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of the same place, and Li cy
Grymes, his wife, eldest son and child of President William Nelst n,
of the same place, and Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell, his wife,
eldest son and child of Thomas Nelson, known as Scotch Tom, of
England and the same place, progenitor of the Nelson Family in
Virginia, and Margaret Reid, his wife, was born at Yorktown, Va.,
9th August, 1763.
He married, about 1790, Sail}" Burwell, eldest daughter and
fourth child of Gov. John Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va.,
and Frances (called Fannie) Burwell, his first wife. (See Page
Family, Rosewell.) Their children were :
1. Thomas Nelson, eldest, born at Yorktown, Va. , about 1791; married,
about 1815, Mary Lewis, the widow Peyton. No issue. She was prob-
ably the daughter of Warner Lewis, who married a daughter of Col.
John Chiswell. He died probably young. Rebecca, the only child of
the widow Peyton, married Edward Marshall, of Fauquier County, Va.
2. Elizabeth Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va. , about 1793; married, about
1813, West, of Accomac County, Va. , and had one child, Sarah, who
married, about 1835, William Parker, of the same county, and had issue.
3. William Nelson, Jr., second son, and eldest to have issue, was born at
Yorktown, York Co., Va., 1801. He married, first, in 1827, Mrs. Cath-
erine Fox and had :
(1) Lucy Thomas Nelson, married, about 1851, William Howard, of
York County, Va. , and had issue.
(2) Sally Burwell Nelson, married, 1854, Felix B. Welton, of More-
field, Hardy Co. , W. Va. , and had issue.
(3) Catharine Nelson, single.
(4) Mary Berkeley Nelson.
(5) Elizabeth Page Nelson, of New York City.
William Nelson, Jr. , of Yorktown, Va. , married, secondly, about 1844,
Mrs. Martha Whiting, who was a Miss Shield, of York County, Va. ,
and had :
(1) William Nelson, Jr., died 10th September, 1877, at St. Louis, Mo.,
aged 32. He left a widow, but no issue, and this branch became
extinct.
(2) Fannie Burwell Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. , married, November,
1886, Corbiu W. Mercer, 501 West Grace St. . Richmond, Va. He
is great-grandson of Gen. Hugh Mercer, who was killed at the
battle of Princeton, N. J. , in the American Revolution. Two chil-
dren : (a) William Nelson, died infant, and (b) Waller Nelson,
born 1881.
PRESIDENT XELSON. 175
IV. Thomas Nelson, Jr., second son and child of Gov.
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., and Lucy Grymes,
his wife, was born there 2Tth December, 1T04, and married, 1705,
Frances, third daughter and seventh surviving child of Gov. John
Page and Frances (called Fannie) Burwell, his first wife. The
name of his brother William's familj^ having become extinct upon
the death of William Nelson, Jr., 10th September, 1877, at St.
Louis, Mo., without issue, the famil}' of Thomas Nelson became
representative of the family.
The children of Thomas Nelson and Frances Page, his wife,
were :
1. Thomasia Nelson, born about 1796; married, 1821, Bisliop William
Meade, of the Episcopal Church, Virginia, and was his second wife.
She was buried in The Fork Church graveyard, Hanover County, Va.
2. Fannie Nelson, born about 1798 ; died unmarried.
3. Thomas Nelson, born about 1800 ; died unmarried.
4. Rev. George Washington Nelson, born about 1805 ; man-ied, about 1835,
Jane Crease, of Alexandria, Va. , and was her first husband.
Thomas Nelson died, date unknown, leaving his widow, who
married, secondly, Dr. Carter Berkeley, of Edgewood, Hanover Co.,
Va. Their children W' ere :
1. Carter Berkeley ; married a sister of Bishop Mcllvaine, of Ohio, and
died leaving one child, who married Captain McCauley, United States
Navy.
2. Catherine (called Kitty), who man-ied Lucius Minor, of Edgewood,
Hanover Co. , Va. , and was the mother of Charles L. C. Minor, C. N.
Berkeley Minor, and others. Mrs. Lewis Willis Minor, 30 Holt St.,
Norfolk, Va. , has copies of the Clere portraits of King Carter, Betty
Landon, Charles Carter, Anne Byrd, and others.
IV. Philip Nelson, of Clarke County, Va., third son and
child of Gov, Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., and
Lucy Grj-mes, his wife, was born at the last-named place, March
llrth, 1766, and married, 1789, Sarah N., daughter of Nathaniel
Burwell, of Isle of Wight County, Va. Sarah was a niece of Gov.
John Page's first wife. Their children were as follows:
1. Thomas Nelson, eldest, bom in Clarke County, Va., about 1790; mar-
ried, 1820, Mildred Nelson, of Belvoir. Albemarle Co. , Va.
2. Mary Nelson, born about 1792 ; married, about 1812. Bishop William
176 NELSON FA2IILY.
Meade, of Virginia, and was his first wife. She was the first cousin
of Thomasia >s'elson, Jiis second wife.
8. Dr. William Nelson, born in Clarke Countj', Va. , about 1795, resided
there. He married, 1834, Nancy Mitchell, of Charleston, S. C. , and
had :
(1) Philip Nelson, eldest, born in Clarke County, Va. , about 1835; re-
moved to Oak Ridge (Mr. Richard Gamble's old place), Albemarle
Co., Va He married, about 1873, Emily,, daughter of Rev. John
P. McGuii-e, of Essex Coiintj', Va. She is the sister of Rev. Kin-
loch Nelson's wife.
(2) Charlotte Nelson, single.
(3) Annie Nelson, died single.
(4) Selma Nelson, single. The two sisters. Charlotte and Selma, re-
sided with their brother at Oak Ridge.
IV. Francis Nelson, of Mont Air, Hanover Co., Va., fourth
son and child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va.,
and Lucy Grj'mes, his wife, was born at the last-named place, 25th
■June, 1TG7, and married, about 1702, Lucy, j^oungest surviving and
fifteenth child of Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester (now
Matthews) Co., Va., and Jane Byrd, his wife.
Their children were as follows :
1. Tiionias Nelson, eldest, born about 1703 : died single.
2. Mann Nelson, born about 1795; married, first, about 1820, Amelia Wash-
ington, and, second, Lydia Kouustar.
3. Svisan Nelson, born about 1796; died single.
4. Jane Nelson, born about 1798; married, in 1819, John Page, of North
End, Clarke Co. , Va. , and was his first wife. (See Page Family, North
End.)
5. Lucy Nelson, born about 1799 ; died single.
C. Judith Nelson, born about 1801 ; married, 1819, Mann Page, of Green-
land, Gloucester Co., Va. , and was his first wife. (See Page Family,
Rose well.)
7. Sally Page NelsQn, born 10th December, 1801 ; married, 21st January,
1841, Dr. Samuel Scollay, of Smithfield, Jefferson Co., W. Va. , and
was his second wife. Children :
(1) Francis Nelson Scollay, born 1841, died infant.
(2) Harriet Lowndes Scollay, born 11th May, 1843; married Dr. Mason
Evans, of Middlewa^^ Jefferson Co., W. Va., and had issiie.
(3) Mary Nelson Scollay. born 15th October, 1844 ; married, 17th Octo-
ber, 1865, Rev. G. W. Nelson, and had issue.
Elizabeth Scollay, wife of Capt. P. R. Page. U. S. A., was a daughter
by tiie first marriage.
PRESIDE XT NELSON. 177
8. Maria Nelson, born about 1803 ; married, about 1823, John Redman, of
Jelferson County, W. Va.
9. William Nelson, born about 1807 ; man-ied, about 1832, Mary, daughter
of Col. William Macon, of Mount Prospect, New Kent Co., Va. No
issue. William Nelson ai one time worked on the farm of Dr. Mann
Page, at Turkey Hill, xVlbemarle Co., Va.
10. Francis Nelson, known as "one-arm Frank, "born about 1809 ; married,
about 1840, Letitia Prosser, of Bremo, Charles City Co. , Va. He died,
leaving a widow and six children.
Francis Nelson at one time worked on the Belvoir fai-m, Albemarle
Countj', Va. He afterward worked at Shirley, on James River, Va.
xVt the latter place he lost his arm in some machineiy.
11. Philip Nelson, born at Mont Air, Hanover Co., Va. , about 1811; re-
sided there. He married, in 1845, Jane Crease, widow of Rev. George
W. Nelson, of the Episcopal Church, and was her second husband.
Children :
(1) Francis Nelson.
(2) Caroline ; died in 1876, aged 18.
(3) William Nelson.
12. Hugh Nelson, born at Mont Air, Hanover Co., Va. , about 1813; re-
moved to Clarke County, Va. He married, 1836, Adelaide Holker, of
Boston, Mass. He died at the former residence of K. S. Nelson,
Albemarle County, Va., about 1863, and was buried at Belvoir, same
county. Two children, viz. :
(1) Hugh Nelson.
(2) Nannie Nelson ; died single.
13. Fannie Nelson, born about 1815 ; single.
14. Elizabeth (called Betsey) Nelson, born about 1817 ; married, 1835, Dr.
James McCoughtry, and had issue.
IV. Hon. Hugh Nelson, of Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va.,
fifth son and child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co.,
Va., and Lucy Grj-mes, his wife, was born at Yorktown, Va.,
oOth September, 1T6S, and died at Belvoir, 18th March, 1.S36, aged 68.
He was at one time Speaker of the House of Delegates of Vir-
ginia. He was afterward Judge of the Federal Court, and was
sometimes called Judge Nelson ; Presidential Elector in 1809 ; Rep-
resentative in the United States Congress from Virginia, 1811-23;
and immediately thereafter he was appointed Minister to Spain by
President James Monroe, during the latter part of his administration.
He married, 1790, Eliza, only child of Francis Kinloch, of
Charleston, S. C. , and Mildred Walker, his first wife. (See Walker.)
Their childre?i were :
12
178 NELSON FAMILY.
1. Francis Kinloch Nelson, eldest, born at Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va. , in
1800 ; removed, first, to Peachylorum, and then to Cloverfields (his sec-
ond wife's residence), both in the county of Albemarle. It was at the
latter place that he died, 1862, aged 62 years. Peachylorum was a part
of the Walker estate, and was probably named after Peachy Walker,
who was the twelfth and youngest child of Dr. Thomas Walker, of
Castle Hill, same county.
Francis K. Nelson married, first, at Shelly, Gloucester Co., Va. ,
24th April, 1823, Anne (called Nancy) Page, of that place. (See Page
Famil}', Rosewell. ) Children:
(1) Isabella Nelson ; married, 1856, Dr. John F. Gardener, and died,
leaving Nancy (called Nina) and Francis.
(2) Hester Nelson ; died unmarried.
Francis K. Nelson married, secondly, 1843, Margaret Douglas Meri-
wether, widow of Fi-ancis Meriwether, of Bedford County, Va. , by
whom she had two children — (a) Mary Walker Meriwether, married
Thomas J. Eandolph, Jr., of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., and (b)
Charles Meriwether. She had no issue by her second husband, Francis
K. Nelson. She was known as Aunt Peggy, and was the daughter of
Capt. W. D. Meriwether, of Cloverfields, Albemarle Co., Va.
2. Mildred Nelson, born about 1802 ; married, in 1820, Thomas Nelson, of
Clarke County, Va. , who was her first cousin.
3. Anne Carter Nelson, born about 1804 ; married, 1824, Dr. Thomas War-
ner Meriwether, of Kinloch, Albemarle Co. , Va. She died there in
1858, aged about 54. Dr. T. W. Meriwether died in 1862. Their chil-
dren were :
(1) Dr. William Douglas Meriwether; died in Tennessee, 1880. He
married, first, 1847, Phoebe Gardener, of Richmond, Va. , and had ;
(o) Mary Gardener, who married Wallace, of Kentucky ; (b) Will-
iam Hunter ; (c) Thomas Warner, of Norwalk, Conn. , married, 1st
September, 1886, Alice Emma Blandford, and has issue ; and (d)
Isabella.
Dr. W. D. Meriwether married, secondly, 1864, Anne W. (called
Nannie) Page. (See Page Family, Broadneck. ) She died at Cul-
pepper, Va. , in 1873, leaving one child, viz. , Evelyn.
(2) Mildred Nelson Meriwether ; married, 1856, Geoi'ge Macon, of Clo-
verfields, Albemarle Co. , Va. , who died a few years ago, and had :
(ft) Thomas ; (b) Charlotte, married Frank M. Randolijh ; (c) Lit-
tleton ; (d) (leorge ; and (e) Douglas.
(3) Anne Kinloch Meriwether, married, 24th December, 1850, Fred-
erick W. Page, of Millwood, Albemarle Co., Va. (See Page Fam-
ily, North End.)
(4) /Eliza Meriwether ; married, 1853, N. H. Massie, of Charlottesville,
Va. , and was his first wife. She died without issue.
(5) Charlotte Nelson Meriwether ; married, 1865, Thomas Jefferson
(From a miniature in possession of Dr. Page.)
HON. HUGH NELSON,
Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va.
Representative U. S. Congress, 1811-S
180 NELSON FAMILY.
Randolph. Jr., and was his second wife. She died, 1876, leaving
one child, viz. , Mary Walker.
(6) Thomas W. Meriwether, Jr. ; died single, 1862.
(7) Jane Meriwether ; died infant.
4. Dr. Thomas Hugh Nelson, born at Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va., 30th
May, 1807; removed to Elk Hill, Bedford Co. , Va. , where he died, 11th
November, 1861, in the 55th year of his age. He married, first, in
June. 1833, Sarah A., daughter of John Alexander, Esq., of Campbell
County, Va. Children :
(1) Charlotte Simmons Nelson, born 14th March, 1834; died single.
(2) John Alexander Nelson, born 9th January, 1836 ; died, single, llth
October, 1863, aged 27.
(3) Hugh Nelson, twin brother of John ; died, single, 10th November,
1866, aged 30 years.
(4) William Steptoe Nelson, born 2d November, 1837.
(5) Eliza Kinloch Nelson, born 15th August, 1839 ; married, Septem-
ber, 1860, Dr. James H. Bowyer. She died 17th November, 1880,
aged 41 years. She left three children : (a) Thomas Hugh, born 2d
August, 1863 ; (b) Eddie Page, born 24th September, 1865 ; (c) Lu-
lie Preston, born 1st May, 1867.
(6) Thomas Walker Nelson, bom 9th March, 1841 ; married, 3d Novem-
ber, 1869, Lilia McDaniel, who died 6th April, 1870. No issue.
(7) Cleland Kinloch Nelson, born 2d September, 1842 ; married, 6th
November, 1873, Ella Scott, of Lynchburg, Va. Children : (a)
Charles, (b) Sallie, (c) Helen.
(8) Helen Lewis Nelson, born loth July, 1844 ; married, April, 1875,
J. N. Early, of Bedford County, Va. Children : (o) Lilia Page,
(b) Susan Alexander, (c) Hemy W. , (d) Helen Kinloch.
Dr. Thomas Hugh Nelson mai'ried, secondly, 4th October, 1853,
Mrs. Mary Ann Meem, of Lynchburg, Va. Her maiden name was
Matthews. The children by the second marriage were :
(1) Emily G. Nelson, born 4th July, 1854 ; married, 31st October, 1877,
W^. H. Dabney, of Lynchburg, Va. Three children : (a) William
B. , born 15th September, 1878; (&) Thomas Hugh, bom 18th Au-
gust, 1881 ; (c) Mary C. , born 2d March, 1883.
(2) Edwin M. Nelson, born 12th October, 1855.
(3) Frank W. Nelson, born 16th February, 1857.
(4) C. Page Nelson, born 16th December, 1859 ; married, 16th Decem-
ber, 1880, Charles T. Dabney, of Alexandria, Va. , and has one child,
Mary Norvell.
(5) Charles Keating Nelson, born 20th October, 1860.
All the members of this family live in Bedford County, Va. , ex-
cept Nos. (1) and (4) of the children by the second marriage.
5. Charlotte Nelson, born about 1808 ; died single.
6. Rev. Cleland K. Nelson, of the Episcopal Church, was bom at Belvoir,
Albemarle Co., Va. , about 1814 (as two other children died infant),
PRESIDENT NELSOy. 181
and removed to Anuapol is, Md. He died ;^Oth October, 1890. He mar-
ried, first, 1840, Mary A., daughter of Johu Marbury, of Georgetown,
D. C. Children :
(1) Mary Cleland Nelson, married, 1868, Holmes E. Offley, banker,
Wasliington, D. C, and has several children.
(2) Jolm Nelson, married, resides in Baltimore, Md.
Rev. C. K. Nelson, married, secondly. Mary Hagner, of Washington,
D. C. , and has Fanny and Hugh.
7. Caroline Nelson, born 1816; died single, 1853, aged 36.
8. Keating Sinnncjns Nelson, born 1819, at Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va. ;
married, 1841, Julia, daughter of Thornton Rogers, of Keswick, Albe-
marle Co., Va. She died September, 1890. " Children :
(1) Hugh Nelson, married, 1864, Rose Bentley, and has three sons.
(2) Francis K. Nelson, died 1864.
(3) Margaret Nelson, died young.
(4) Bettie H. Nelson, married, 1876, Beverly Mason, of Fairfax County,
Va. , and has several children.
(5) Celia R. Nelson, manned, about 18T0, Goolrick, of Fredericksburg,
Va. , and has several children.
(6) Rev. Cleland K. Nelson. Bislujp of Georgia since November, 1891,
to succeed Bishop Beckwith, deceased ; married Miss Matthews,
of Port Tobacco. Md.
(7) Keating S. Nelson, Jr.
(8) William M. Nelson.
9. Dr. Robert William Nelson, born 1822, at Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va. ;
removed to Charlottesville, same county. He married, in 1844, his
first cousin, Virginia L. , daughter of Capt. Thomas Nelson, of Oak-
land, Hanover Co. , Va. Children :
(1) Dr. Hugh Thomas Nelson, married, 1871, Mary (called Polly) Gil-
liam, and has several children.
(2) Nancy Nelson, died infant.
(3) Susan P. Nelson.
(4) Robert W. Nelson, Jr.
(5) William Nelson.
(6) Eliza Nelson. Two others died infants.
IV. Captain Thomas Nelson, of Oakland, Hanover Co.,
Va., eldest son and third child of Col. Hugh Nelson, of Yorktown,
York Co., Va., and Jndith Page, his wife, was born at Yorktown,
Va., 1780, and died at Oakland, in 1859, aged 79 years. He was
buried at Fork Church, Hanover Co., Va. He lived in Richmond,
Va., at one time, where he was the proprietor of the Virginia Hotel
near the Capitol Square. He was Commissioner of Loans, a federal
oflBce held by him under the United States Government. He after-
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ward retired to his farm at Oakland, Hanover Co., Va. He mar-
ried, 1804, Judith, youngest child of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of York-
town, York Co., Va., and Lucy Grymes, his wife. She was,
therefore, his first cousin. She died, 18G0, aged 87, and was buried
at Fork Church. The two were known as Uncle Tom and Aunt
Judy. Their children were as follows :
1. Hugh Thomas Nelson, eldest, born 1805, at Oakland, Hanover Co., Va. ;
died unmarried.
2. Mary Carter Nelson, born about 180.j ; died unmarried in 1861, aged 56
years.
3. Col. William Nelson, known as "William Particular, born about 1807 ;
resided, unmarried, at Oakland. He was named after Judge William
Nelson, fifth son of President Nelson. He died 17th April, 1892.
4. Maria Nelson, born about 1809 ; died single.
5. Judith Nelson, born 1815; died 1832, single.
6. Lucy Nelson, born 1817 ; died single, 1872, aged 55.
7. Rev. Robert Nelson, of the Episcopal Church, born at Oakland, Hanover
Co. , Va. , in 1819, was missionary to China for thirty years. Upon his
return to America he took charge of the parish of Waterbury, Conn.
Died at Oakland, Hanover Co., Va. , 15th July, 1886, aged 68. He
married, 1848, Rose, daughter of James Points, Esq., of Staunton,
Augusta Co. , Va. She died several years before he did. Children :
(1) James P. Nelson, eldest, married, 4th February, 1873, Mary W. ,
daughter of Edward W. Morris, of Hanover County, Va.
(2) Thomas Nelson, married, 2d September, 1880, Mary Alice, daugh-
ter of Joseph House, Esq. , of Virginia City, Placer Co. , Cal.
(3) Mary C. Nelson.
(4) John Nelson.
(5) Rosebud Nelson.
(6) Emily Nelson.
(7) Ruth Nelson.
8. Elizabeth (called Betsey) Burwell Nelson, born about 1824 ; married,
1847, John Page. (See Page Family, Rosewell.)
9. Virginia L. Nelson, born about 1826 ; married, 1844, Dr. Robert W.
Nelson, of Charlottesville, Albemarle Co. , Va. , as we have already seen.
V. Rev. Geoege Washington Nelson, of the Episcopal
Church, fourth child and second son of Thomas Nelson, Jr., and
Frances Page, his wife, second child and son (being also the eldest
to have surviving male issue) of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown,
York Co., Va., and Lucy Grymes, his wife, eldest son of President
William Nelson, of the same place, and Elizabeth (called Betty)
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Burwell, his wife, eldest son of Thomas Nelson, known as Scotch Tom,
of England and the same place, progenitor of the Nelson Family in
Virginia, and Margaret Reid, his first wife, was born about 1805,
and married, May, 1834, Jane Crease, of Alexandria, Va., and was
her first husband. He died about 1840. His widow married, sec-
ondly, in 1845, Philip Nelson, of Mont Air, Hanover Co., Va., and
had issue, as we have already seen. She died at Wytheville, Wythe
Co., Va., in 1878, aged 62 years, and was buried there.
The children of Rev. G. W. Nelson and Jane Crease, his wife,
were as follows :
1. Thomas Crease Nelson, eldest, born about 1836; died single, at Mont
Air, Hanover Co. , Va., Novembei', 1857, aged about 21.
2. Jane NeLson, born about 1888 ; single.
3. Rev. George Washington Nelson, Jr. , born in 1840 ; married, 17th
October, 1865, Marj' Nelson (called MoUie) , daughter of Dr. Samuel
Scollay, of Smithfiekl, Jefferson Co., W. Va. , and Sally Page Nelson,
his second wife. Being the eldest son of the eldest son, etc., he is the
representative of the Nelson Family in Virginia. Children :
(1) Sally Page Nelson, born 4th July, 1866.
(2) Thouias Crease Nelson, born 7th January, 1868.
(3) Harry Lee Nelson, born 5th October, 1869.
(4) Charlotte Cazenove Nelson, born 16th September, 1871.
(5) George W. Nelson, Jr. , born 29th July, 1875.
(6) Philip Nelson, born 21st Septenilier, 1878.
(7) Samuel Scollay Nelson, born 20th July, 1880.
(8) Caroline Peyton Nelson, born 26th May, 1882.
One was born in 1873, but died infant.
V. Thomas Nelson, of Clarke County, Va., school-teacher,
eldest son of Philip Nelson, of same county, and Sarah N. Burwell,
his wife, third son of Gov. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va., and
Lucy Gr3'mes, his wife, was born in Clarke Co., Va., about 1790,
and married, 1820, his first cousin, Mildred, daughter of Hon. Hugh
Nelson, of Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va. Their children were:
1. Dr. Robert Burwell Nelson, eldest, of Charlottesville, Va. , born about
1823 : died 1868, aged 45. He married, 1847, Mary S. , daughter of John
Price, of Fincastle. Botetourt Co. , Va. , where Dr. Nelson first practised
his profession. Children :
(1) Thomas F. Nelson, married, about 1874, Sophia Wornieley, who
died leaving one son.
(2) Dr. J. A'yilliam Nelson, removed to Philadelphia.
(8) Robert Nelson, died young.
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2. Rev. William Meade Nelson, of the Episcopal Church, born 1825 ; died
1876, aged 51. He married, about 1850, Sarah W. , daughter of Dr.
Thomas Semmes, of Alexandria, Va. , and left two daughters, Ann
Sophia and Eliza Kinloch.
3. Philip Nelson, of Nelson, Nelson Co., Va., born about 1828; married,
first, in 1853, Emily, daughter of Judge John E. Page, of Clarke County,
Va. (See Page Family, Broadneck.) She died, leaving two children,
William and Emily.
He married, secondly, Fannie Eflfenger, of Nelson County, Va. , and had
several children.
4. Eliza Kinloch Nelson, born in Clarke Count}\ Va. , about 1821 ; married,
in 1856, Nathaniel H. Massie, of Charlottesville, Albemarle Co. , Va. ,
and was his second wife. They had several children.
5. Archie Nelson, bom about 1832 ; was killed by a tree falling on him
while at work, in 1868. Married, 1857, Eliza J., daughter of John
Price, of Fincastle, Botetourt Co. , Va. , and Eliza his wife. Children :
(1) Eliza, born 1858, died young.
(2) Dr. John Price Nelson, boru 11th November, 1860, resides in Lin-
coln, Neb.
(3) Archie McGill' Nelson, born 9th November, 1862.
(4) Hugh Thomas Nelson, born 15th March, 1865.
6. Sallie Burwell Nelson, born in Clarke County, Va. , about 1836 ; married,
1868, Thomas Williamson, of Leesburg, Loudon Co. , Va. He was the
son of Professor Williamson, of the Virginia Military Institute, at Lex-
ington, Rockbridge Co. , Va. Children :
(1) Thomas Williamson.
(2) Robert Williamson.
(3) Garnet W'illiamson.
(4) Naucy Williamson.
7. Mary Nelson, boru in Clarke County, Va. , about 1837 ; married Rev. Mr.
Quimby, missionary to Japan, now dead.
8. Rev. Kinloch Nelson, of the Episcopal Church, youngest, born in Clarke
County, Va. , 1839 ; removed to the Episcopal Theological Seminary,
Fairfax County, Va. , and became Professor of Bible Histoiy in that
institution. He married, in 1868, Fenton, daughter of Rev. John P.
McGuire, of Essex County, Va. They have several childi-en. His
daughter Grace married Helfenstein.
II. Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., Secretaiy
of the Colonial Council of Virginia, and hence known as Secretary
Nelson, second son and third child of Thomas Nelson, known as
Scotch Tom, of England and the same place, progenitor of the
Nelson Family in Virginia, and Margaret Reid, his first wife, was
born at Yorktown, Va., in 1716, and died there in 1782, aged 66.
He was buried there. There is no tombstone over his grave, and no
portrait of him exists.
He married, about 1745, Luc}* Armistead, who was probably a
younger relative of Judith Armistead, the first wife of Robert
(King) Carter. The name of Armistead is said to have originated
in Virginia, with William Armistead, or D'Armstadt, who emi-
grated from Hesse Darmstadt to Virginia in 1636, and settled in
Elizabeth City County, in that State.
Secretary Nelson and Luc}' Armistead, his wife, had no daugh-
ters, and only three surviving sons, all of whom were heroes in the
Revolution, and became officers in the American army, under
Washington. They were all present at the siege of Yorktown, in
October, 1781, and brought their father into the American lines
under flag of truce. They were as folloAvs :
1. Col. William Nelson, of the American army, eldest, was born at York-
town, Va. , 17th June, 1746. and removed to The Dorrill, Hanover Co.,
Va. : married, 24th November, 1770, Lvicy Chiswell.
3. Capt. Thomas Nelson, of the American army, was born about 1748, at
Yorktown, York Co. , Va. , and removed to Bears Spring, Hanover Co. ,
same State. He maiTied. about 1775, Sally, daughter of Col. Wilson
Cary, of Williamsburg, James City Co. , Va. There was only one child
so far as known, viz. :
(1) Wilson Cary Nelson, born about 1776, at Bears Spring, Hanover
Co. , Va. ; married, but the name of his wife is at present unknown.
He had two daughters, viz. : (a) Catherine, who married, about 1831,
Charles Page, of Hanovertown, Hanover Co. , Va. ; and (6) Lucy,
who married, about 1833. John F. Page, of same place. (See Page
Family, Rosewell. )
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186 NELSON FAMILY.
3. Major John Nelson, of the American army, was born at Yorktown, Va. ,
about 1750, and removed to Oakhill, Mecklenburg Co., Va. He mar-
ried, about 1772, Nancy Carter, of Williamsburg, Va.
III. Col. William Nelson, of The Dorrill, Hanover Co.,
Va., eldest son and child of Secretary Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown,
York Co., Va., and Lucy Armistead, his wife, second son and third
child of Thomas Nelson, known as Scotch Tom, of England and
Yorktown, Hanover Co., Va., progenitor of the Nelson Family in
Virginia, and Margaret Reid, his first wife, was born at Yorktown,
Va., ITth June, 1746, and died 25th November, 1807, aged 61 years.
He was educated in England, with his first cousin. Gov.
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. He was present at the battles
of Monmouth and Brandywine, and all the Northern battles in which
Washington's army was engaged. He was also j^resent at the siege
of Yorktown, Va., in October, 1781, with the rank of Colonel of
Infantry in the American armj'. He married, 24th November,
1770, Lucy, daughter of Col. John Chiswell and Elizabeth Randolph,
his wife, who was a daughter of Councillor William Randolph, of
Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va. Lucy Chiswell was born 3d
August, 1752, and died 14th April, 1810, aged 58 years. They had
the following children :
1. Lucy Nelson, born at The Dorrill, Hanover Co., Va. , 13th September,
1771 ; married, 13th November, 1809, William Meaux, of Nevv^ Kent
County, Va. , and died without issue, loth September, 1824.
2. Elizabeth Nelson, born 18th Maj', 1773 ; died single.
3. Caroline Nelson (No. 1), born 18th May, 1775; died 6th July, same year.
4. NoRBOR-NE Thomas Nelson, eldest son, born at The Dorrill, Hanover
Co., Va. , 29th August, 1776; married, about 1801, his first cousin, Lucy,
daughter of Major John Nelson, of Oakhill, Mecklenburg Co., Va., and
had many children. One of these, Lucy Chiswell Nelson, maiTied H.
M. Robinson, of New Orleans, La. , and was the mother of Norborne
Thomas Nelson Robinson, of Washington, D.C.,and others. Catherine
Page Nelson, another daughter, married Collier, father of William
Ann i.stead Nelson Collier, of Memphis, Tenn. Other children removed
to Kentucky. Norborne Thomas Nelson removed to Arkansas in 1836
and died there in 1844, aged 68.
5. Warner Lewis Nelson, born 28th December. 1777 ; died 29th April, 1785.
6. Sally Cary Nelson, born 6th April, 1780; married, first, 1799, Charles
Page, of Hanovertown, Va. (See Page Family, Rosewell.) She mar-
ried, secondlj-, Thomas Atkinson, of Mansfield, near Petersburg, Din-
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widdie Co., Va. , by whom she had no issue. She died, January, 1861,
aged SI years.
7. AVilliam Nelson, born 30th October, 1781 ; died infant, 2d April, 1782.
8. Mary Chiswell Nelson, born 20th March, 1783; married, about 1803,
Mann Page, of Hanovertovvu, Va. , brother of Charles. (See Page
Family, Rosewell.)
9. Dr. William Randolpli Nelson, bom 9th October, 1784 ; died at Gould
Hill, Hanover Co. , Va. , 1863, aged 78 years. He married, about 1809,
the widow Lucy Oliver, whose maiden name was Tomlin. No surviv-
ing issue.
10. Caroline Nelson (No. 2), born 27th May, 1786; died 12th November,
1790, infant.
11. Fanny P. Nelson, born 23d December, 1787; married, 1807, John Spotts-
wood Wellford, of Fredericksburg, Va. Children :
(1) Jane Wellford ; married, about 1828, James Park Corbin, of Moss
Neck, Caroline Co., Va. , and had: (a) S. Wellford Corbin, of Far-
ley Vale, King George Co., Va. ; (b) Mrs. John Dickin.son, of Fred-
ericksburg, Va. ; (e) Kate Corbin ; married, first, 1863, Alexander
S. Pendleton, of Lexington, Rockbridge Co. , Va. , wiio died, 1864,
with no surviving issue. She married, secondly, John Brooke, of
Lexington, Va. , and had several children; (d) James Park Cor-
bin, Jr., married Miss Ficklin.
(2) Dr. William Nelson Wellford, of Farley, Culpepper Co. , Va. , mar-
ried, about lS3o, Mrs. Farley Fauntleroy, whose maiden name was
Corbin. He died in July, 1872, leaving: (a) Dr. William N. Well-
ford, Jr. , of Campbell County, Va. , who married and had several
childi'en ; and (6) R. Corbin Wellford, died in Memphis, Tenn. ,
about 1886, and others.
(3) Mary C. Wellford ; married, about 1837, Dr. George F. Carmichael,
of Fredericksburg, Va. She died, leaving three sons : (a) James,
(b) Spottswood, and (c) Charles Carter.
13. George R. Nelson, born 16th October, 1789 ; died 20tli November, 1802,
probably single. At his request, his portion of his father's estate was
given to his eldest brother, Norborne Thomas Nelson.
13. Susan R. C. Nelson, born 18th May, 1791 ; married, first, 2d March,
1809, William Wellford, brother of J. Spottswood Wellford, of Fred-
ericksburg, Va. William Wellford died, leaving one child, Lucy Nel-
son Wellford, who married, about 1830, Dr. Robert C. Randolph, of
New Market, Clarke Co. , Va. (See Randolph. ) Susan R. Nelson, the
widow Wellford, married, secondly, Philip Burwell, of Chapel Hill,
Clarke Co., Va. He died 11th February, 1849, and she died 27th De-
cember, 1869, aged 78 years. In 1868 Mrs. Susan Wellford Burwell
gave to N. T. N. Robinson, of New Orleans, La., a silver spoon bear-
ing the arms of Col. John Chiswell.
16. Hugh Nelson (14 and 15 died infants, names unknown), born at The
Dorrill, Hanover Co. , Va. ; married, in 1826, Elizabeth Harrison Minge.
188 NELSON FAMILY.
He died, 1st April, 1862, aged 69. His wife was of Wyanoke, on
James River, Charles City Co., Ya. She was a great-niece of William
Henry Harrison, President of the United States of America, and grand-
daughter of Benjamin Harrison, of Berkeley (Hai-rison's Landing), on
James River, Va. , who was one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. Children :
(1) Sally Nelson : single.
(2) Lucy Nelson ; single.
(3) Fanny Page Nelson, born at Petersburg, Va. , 29th August, 1832;
married, 2.jth April, 1861, Cliarles Carter, who resides at HoUyoak,
near Shirley, on James River, Charles City Co., Va. , and has: (a)
Maiy Randolpli, born 14th February, 1862 ; (h) Lucy Nelson, born
14th July, 1866 ; (c) Charles Hill, born 1st :May, 1868 ; {d) Elizabeth
Minge, born 26th October, 1870 ; {e) Fanny Boykin, born 5th De-
cember, 1873.
(4) Hugh Nelson ; married, about 1865, Maria, daughter of John Sel-
den, near Westover, on James River, Charles City Co., Va. , and
had one child, viz. : William.
(5) Mary Nelson.
(6) William R. Nelson ; removed to Selma,. Alabama, and married,
about 1867, Octavia Stevens, of Tennessee.
17. Armistead Nelson, youngest, born at Tlie Dorrill, Hanover Co., Va. ,
11th February, 1795; became an officer in the United States navy, under
Commodore Decatur. He afterward resigned, and became a merchant.
He married, about 1820, Mary Henderson, of Fredericksburg, Va. , and
had one son, viz. :
(1) Dr. William A. Nelson, United States Navy ; married, about 1846,
Mary Moncure, of Stafford County, Va.
III. Major John Nelson, of Oak Hill, Mecklenburg Co.,
Va., third son and youngest child of Secretary- Thomas Nelson, of
Yorktown, York Co., Va., and Lucy Armistead, his wife, was born
at Yorktown, Va., about 1748. When the war of the American
Revolution commenced, he entered the American army, and rose
"I
to the rank of Major of Cavalry. He married, in 1780, Nancy,
daughter of John Carter, a merchant, of Williamsburg, James Citj^
Co., Va. They are said to have had a large family; but the follow-
ing names only are known :
1. Major Thomas M. Nelson, eldest, born 1782; married, 1815, Sarah W. ,
daughter of John Page, of Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va. (see Page
Family, Broadneck), and had issue.
2. John Nelson, born about 1783 at Oak Hill, Mecklenburg Co., Va. , and
was unmarried.
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3. Lucy Nelson, born about 1785 ; married, about 1801, as we have seen, her
lirst cousin, Norborne Tliomas Nelson, eldest son and fourth child of Col.
William Nelson, of The Dorrill. Hanover Co., Va.
4. Robert Nelson, born 80th January, 1787, married, 10th January, 1809,
Isabella Hopkins Wilson, and had issue.
5. William Nelson, married Martha Walker. Children : (1) Anna Matilda
Nelson, married Dr. Jeffries ; (2) Sallie Page Nelson, married Mr.
Hughes ; (3) John Nelson, unmarried ; (4) Daughter, married Burwell ;
(5) Catharine Nelson ; (6) Virginia Nelson ; (7) William Nelson, married
Mrs. Watkins ; (8) Frank Nelson, removed to Texas. Catherine and
Virginia were both married, but the names of their liusbands are not
known.
6. Nancy Nelson, married Erasmus Kennon.
7. Matilda Nelson, married John Lewis.
8. Hugh Nelson, boi-n 17th August, 1827; removed to Missouri; married,
9th September, 1856, Harriet Boiling Archer, and had issue.
IV. Major Thomas M. Nelson, United States arm}^, eldest son
and child of Major John Nelson, of Oak Hill, Mecklenburg Co., Va.,
and Nancy Carter, his wife, second son and child of Secretary-
Thomas Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., and Lucy Armistead,
his wife, was born at the first-named place in 1 782, and removed to
Columbus, Muscogee Co., Ga., where he died 10th November, 1853,
aged Tl years. He served with distinction in the war of 1812, as
Captain of Infantry. After the war he was promoted to the rank of
Major. He soon after resigned, and was a representative in the
United States Congress, from Virginia, 1816-19. He declined a re-
election, and retired to private life. He was a Presidential Elector
in 1829 and 1833. '
He married, 1815, Sarah Walker Page, of Pagebrook, Clarke
Co., Va., who was the daughter of John Page, of that place, and the
sister of Judge John E. Page, also of the same place. (See Page
Family, Broadneck.) Mrs. Sarah W. P. Nelson died, 1835, aged
about 43. Their children were :
1. Evelyn Byrd Page Nelson, born 1819 ; married, about 1839, Robert Car-
ter, of Columbus, Ga. Children : (1) Thomas Michelle Carter, born
1840, married Miss Chin, and had (a) Evelyn who married William
Wooten, of Albany, Ga., and (6) Maria. (2) Robert E. Carter, born in
1842, married Eliza Redd — one child, William.
2. Hon. John P. Nelson, born 19th December, 1822 ; eldest son, and Repre-
sentative in the U. S. Congress from Georgia ; married Eliza Hern, of
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Railway, N. J. He died in 1848 without male issue, but left three
daughters : (1) Anne Nelson, married C. Barghmann, of Jersey City,
N. J. ; (3) Rose Nelson, who married in New York, but has no surviving
issue ; and (3) Eliza Nelson, married Boughton, of Bainbridge, Ga. No
issue known.
3. Col. William Nelson, of Millwood, Clarke Co., Va., born 24th July,
1824 ; married, 22d February, 1852, Mary A. , daughter of William
Byrd Page, of Pagebrook, Clarke Co., Va. , and Eliza Atkinson, his
second wife. Children : (1) Thomas M. Nelson, born 12th March, 1853 ;
married, in 1877, Susie H. Atkinson, of Baltimore, and had (a) William
Norborne, born November, 1878, and (&) Mann A., born 3d July, 1883.
(2) Eliza A. Nelson, born 6th March, 1855 ; married, 1878, JohnC. Wool-
folk, of Columbus, Ga., who died in 1890. They had (a) Mann N., born
August, 1878, (b) Maria Page, (e) Rosa Gray, {d) John C. . born 1887.
(3) Evelyn Willing Nelson, bom 14th June, 1861.
4. Maria B. Nelson, born 1826; married, in 1845, William G. Woolfolk of
Columbus, Ga. , and had (a) Thomas N. , (&) William E., (o) John C. ,
(d) Joseph W. , (e) Rosa, married Robert Abee, of Baltimore, Md., (/)
Arthur, {g) Henry, (/;,) Albert, (i) Robert, (k) Charles.
5. Rosalie Nelson, born 1828 ; married, in 1847, Dr. F. O. Ticknor, of Colum-
bus, Ga. Children: (1) Dr. W. Douglas Ticknor ; (2) George Ticknor.
(3) Thomas M. Ticknor; (4) Frank A. Ticknor; (5) William Nelson
Ticknor. All are married except Frank.
6. Col. Thomas M. Nelson, Jr., born 1833, died in Mississippi, 1863; he
married, in 1863, Fannie, daughter of Nelson Tift, of Albany, Ga. ,
and left one son, Thomas M. Nelson, Jr.
IV. Robert Nelson, of Oak Hill, Mecklenburg Co., Va., third
son of Major John Nelson, of the same place, and Nancy Carter, his
wife, third son and j^oungest child of Secretary Thomas Nelson, of
Yorktown, York Co., Va., and Lucy Armistead, his wife, was born
at the first-named place, 30th January, 1787, and married, 10th Jan-
uary, 1809, Isabella Hopkins Wilson. She was born in Mecklen-
burg County, Va., 6th April, 1793, and died in Belton, Tex., 20th
March, 1877. He died 20th March, 1846, in the 60th year of his age.
Children :
j 1. Nancy Carter Nelson, born 18th April, 1814 ; died in Belton, Tex. , 30th
May, 1873. She married, 6th November, 1833, Francis W. Venable, and
had issue.
I 2. John Wilson Nelson, born at Petersburg, Va. , 1st March, 1810; married,
24th September, 1833, Harriet Elizabeth Shore, and had issue.
3. Nathaniel Bacon Nelson, married, 31st October, 1833, Mary Speed, and
had issue. He died in Texas in Jul3^ 1863.
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4. Elizabeth Smitli Nelson, married, 5th June, 1833, Robert Alexander At-
kinson, ofDiuwiddie Count}', Va. ; removed to Gonzales, Tex., in 1857.
Children : (1) Marj' Isabella Atkinson. (2) Anne Eliza Atkinson, mar-
ried, 23d December, 1857, Henry Clay Pleasants, of Mansfield, Gonzales
Co., Tex., and had (a) Mary, married J. J. Cocke, who had Annie and
James ; (b) Robert, married Mary White, and had Aaron White ; (c)
Harriet Margaret, married Walter K. Bruden, and had Annie Pleasants
and Paul Hamilton ; (rf) John James ; (3) Robert Thomas Atkinson ;
(4) Mary Nelson Atkinson ; (5) William Mayo Atkinson, lawj-er,
married Mary Lane, of Clinton, Tex., 17th Januarj\ 1870, and had (a)
William Lane, (6) Cora Belle, (e) Lulu Lane, (d) Robert Alexander,
(e) John Mayo Pleasants, (/) Samuel Winston, {g) Roger; (6) Dr.
Roger Atkinson, of Gonzales, Tex., married 5th June, 1879, Alice
Duval Brawnley, of King and Queen Co. , Va. , and had («) Robert
Brawnley, (6) Roger Nelson, (c) Lucy Pleasants, (d) Alice Elizabeth ;
(7) Jane Minge Atkinson ; (8) Isabella Nelson Atkinson ; (9) Eliza-
beth Nelson Atkinson ; (10) Dr. John Joseph Atkinson, married, 20th
April, 1887, Johanna Clara Eckhardt, of Yorktovvu, DeWitt Co., Tex.,
and had (o) Elizabeth Nelson, (6) Helen Louisa, and (c) John Joseph.
5. Robert Carter JNelson, Jr., born about 1816; married, first, Mary Scott,
daughter of Samuel W^atkins, of Petersburg, Va. , and secondly, Lucy
Cunningham, of Mecklenburg County, Va. It is not known by which
of the wives the children are descended. They are : (1) Watkins Nelson ;
(2) Louisa Nelson ; (3) Isabella Nelson ; (4) Annie Nelson ; (5) John Nel-
son ; (6) Bettie Nelson ; (7) Mary Scott Nelson ; (8) Robert Nelson.
6. Lucy Armistead Nelson, married, 1841, Rev. Thomas E. Locke, of Mount
Holly, Lunenburg Co., Va., and had issue.
7. Mary Nelson, married E. H. Harrington, and had (1) Hugh Harrington
and (2) Isabella Harrington.
8. Hugh Nelson.
IV. Hugh Nelson, youngest son and child of Major John Nel-
son, of Oak Hill, Mecklenburg Co., Va., and Nancy Carter, his wife,
third son and youngest child of Secretary Thomas Nelson, of York-
town, York Co., Va., and Lucy Armistead, his wife, was born in
Halifax County, Va., 17th August, 1827, and removed to St. Charles
County, Mo. He married, 9th September, 1856, Harriet Boiling
Archer, who was born in Petersburg, Va., 23d October, 1839. Their
children were:
1. Robert Carter Nelson, born in St. Charles County, Mo. , 19th July, 1857.
He married, 24th June, 1884, at Wenona, 111. , Jennie Emma Moulton,
who was born 31st August, 1859. They had (1) Robert Moulton Nel-
son, born 24th May, 1885, at Fayetteville, Ark ; (2) Nathaniel Archer
192 NELSON FAMILY.
Nelson, born 26th June. 1887, in VVicliita, Kan. ; (3) Hugh McKay
Nelson, born 22d September, 1889, at Fayetteville, Ark. The}^ all now
reside in St. Louis, Mo.
2. ]VIary Shore Nelson, born in St. Charles County, Mo. , 8th April, 1859 ; mar-
ried, at St. Louis, Mo., 11th September, 1889, James Thomas Tate, of
Robinson, Tex. Children; (1) Harriet Nelson Tate, born at St. Louis,
Mo., 3d August, 1890; (2) Mary Ruth Tate, born at same place, 29th
August, 1892. They all reside in Robinson, Tex.
3. Edward Archer Nelson, born in St. Charles County, Mo., 6th October,
1860, unmarried.
4. John Wilson Nelson, born same place, 11th November, 1861, died in-
fant, 2d December, 1863.
5. Nathaniel Bacon Nelson, died young.
6 and 7. Isabella and Harriet, twins, died young.
8 and 9. Rosalie Nelson and Henry Lee Nelson, twins, born 5th October, 1871.
The following is extracted from a letter from George E. Hunt,
United States forecast official, Omaha, Neb., 3d December, 1892:
My mother was named Sarah Morduette Nelson ; her father was Dr. ' Hugh
Nelson, of Oak Hill, Roanoke, A^a., whose father was named John, or John
Carter Nelson. Beyond this, I know very little of my mother's family, but
am under the impression, as you intimate, that we are descendants of the Sec-
retary Nelson branch of the family. My father was Dr. A. D. Hunt, and he
and my mother were distantly related ; my grandmother, on the mother side,
having been Miss Mary Hunt, also of Virginia.
V. John Wilson Nelson, eldest son of Robert Nelson, of. Oak
Hill, Mecklenburg Co., Va., and Isabella Hopkins Wilson, his wife,
third son of Major John Nelson, of the same place, and Nancy Carter
his wife, third son and j^oungest child of Secretary Thomas Nelson,
of Yorktown, York Co., Va., and Lucy Armisteadhis wife, was born
near Petersburg, Va., 1st March, 1810, and removed to St. Charles
County, Mo. He died there, -Ith April, 18G0, in the 51st year of his
age. He married 24th September, 1833, Harriet Elizabeth Shore,
who was born at Petersburg, Va., 5th February, 1815. She died in
Missouri, 18th August, 1873, in the 50th year of her age. Their
children were :
1. Thomas Shore Nelson, born in Petersburg, Va. , 12th August, 1834; died
9th June. 1866, aged 32. He married in Haywood County, Tenn., in the
autumn of 1864, Elizabeth Kimbrough, who died in Meridian, Miss., 29th
September, 1886. They had a daughter, Lula Shore Nelson, born in
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Haywood County. Tenu. , 13th September, 1865 ; married, 6th March, 1888,
S. S. Granberry, of Meridian, Miss., aud they have two chihh'en, (a)
Laura, born 11th February, 1889, and {b) James Kimbrough, born in the
spring of 1892. They all live in Meridian, Miss.
2. Anna Carter Nelson, born in Petersburg, Va., 1st July, 1841; married
in Missouri, 1st March, 1859, Judge John T. Powell, who died 4th Sep-
tember, 1891. They had uine children, as follows : (1) Ben. T. Powell,
died infant ; (2) Mary Ann Powell, born 18th September, 1861 ; (8)
John Nelson Powell, born 26tli August, 1863 ; (4) Chester B. Powell, of
Newburg, Mo., married 23d September, 1891, Lottie Nivens ; (5) Har-
riet E. Powell, born 1st September, 1868 ; (6) Edward J. Powell, born
20th October, 1870 ; (7) Julius W. Powell, born 23d December, 1873 ;
(8) Marion P. Powell, born 14th January, 1876 ; (9) Robert Carter
Powell, born 18th August, 1879.
3. Elizabeth Smith Nelson, born in St. Louis. Mo., 9th January, 1844 ; mar-
ried, 4th November, 1874, Judge William Walla Edwards, of St. Charles
County, Mo., and had (1) Harriet E. Edwards, died infant; (2) William
W. Edwards, jr. , born 14th February, 1878 : (3) Julius Carter Edwards,
born 15th February. 1883.
4. Marion Preston Nelson, born in St. Louis, Mo. , 24th December, 1845 ;
married, 22d November, 1871, Julius Moulton, engineer, of St. Charles
County, Mo. No surviving issue.
5. Robert Nelson, born in St. Louis, Mo., 27th July, 1848; man-ied, August
6th, 1869, Harriet V. Pitzen, and had two children, died infants.
Four other children of John W. Nelson and Harriet E. Shore, his wife, '
died infants.
V. Nathaniel Bacon Nelson, second son of Robert Nelson, of
Oak Hill, Mecklenburg Co., Va., and Isabella his wife, was born
22d January, 1812, and died in Texas, Juh% 18G3. He married, ."Ust
October, 1833, Mary Speed who died in Texas in February, 1881.
Their children were :
1. George Nelson, born 21st August, 1834, died infant.
2. Mary Isabella Nelson, born 21st December, 1835 ; married, 1855, Peter
Stokes, of Virginia, and had issue.
3. Harriet Nelson (called Hattie) , born 23d April, 1837 ; married David S.
Speed, and had issue.
4. Robert Nelson, born 2d March, 1839 ; married Bettie Rather, who died.
Children: (1) William S. Nelson ; (2) Mary Nelson ; (3) Frank Nel-
son ; (4) Bettie Nelson, and (5) Richard Nelson.
5. Anne Eliza Nelson, born 26th December, 1841, married, 11th December,
1866, William J. Venable.
6. William Fownes Nelson, born 15th April, 1843 ; married, 21st January,
1.875, Alice Gee, and had (1) Willie Russell Nelson, died infant ; (2)
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194 NELSON FAMILY.
Annie V. Nelson, born 20th November, 1876 ; (3) Hugh Edward Nelson,
born 34th October, 1878 ; (4) Lily Belle Nelson ; (5) Fletcher Gay
Nelson, died infant; (6) Norborne Nelson, born 11th July, 1884; (7)
Daisy Oliver Nelson, born 1st November, 1886.
7. Lucy Maria Nelson, born 12th April, 1846 ; married R. A. Buchanan,
since died. They had issue.
8. Sallie Speed Nelson, born 26tli December, 1849 ; married Lewis G. Sims,
and had issue.
9. Edward Speed Nelson, born 2d June, 1852 ; married Laura Sims, and had
(1) Bettie Nelson ; (2) William Fownes Nelson ; (3) Mary Nelson ;
(4) Cora Belle Nelson ; (5) Frank V. Nelson ; (6) Alice Nelson ; (7)
Hattie Nelson ; (8) Nellie Nelson, died infant ; (9) Edward Nelson,
and (10) Nettie Nelson.
PART III.
WALKER FAMILY.
'From a water-color drawing by C. H. Sherman, Xew York, 1881.)
HON. FRANCIS WALKER,
Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va.
Died 1806, aged 4^.
WALKER FAMILY
The Walkers, of Virginia, came from Staffordshire, Eng-
land, about 1G50, at an early period in the history of the Colony of
Virginia. The Walker Family Bible is in the possession of Dr.
Bernard H. Walker, of Stevensville, King and Queen Co., Va., and
was printed in 1589.
I. Thomas Walker, of Gloucester County, Va., progenitor
of the Walker Family in Virginia, was a member of the Colonial
Assembly in 1662, being at that time a Representative from the
County of Gloucester. His wife and children are at present un-
known to the writer, though his eldest son was probably named
Thomas.
III. Thomas Walker, of King and Queen County, Va.,
was probably a grandson of the above-mentioned Thomas Walkery
of Gloucester Count}', same State. The following is copied from
a letter from Dr. Bernard H. Walker, of Stevensville, King and
Queen Co., Va., to" Dr. R. C. M. Page, of New York City, dated
30th October, 1880:
The old Walker Family Bible, in my possession, was printed in 1589, and
the New Testament was attached in 1602. In this old Bible there is this mem-
orandum: "September y*' 24th, 1709. I went to Sant Clemones Church, (signed)
Thomas Walker. "
The next memorandum is this: "My dafter, Mary Peachy Walker, was
born y first oure of y"* thirtieth day of Janevary, 1710, babtised the day follows
y" 31st. " There are also in said Bible the following memoranda :
"John Walker borne y" 29 of April, at five, 1711.
"Tho« Walker borne Jan^' y'' 25, 1715.
"Mary Peachy Walker married May y" 13 in the year of our Lord, 1732.
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"John Walker, married 9th Nov.. 1735, Miss Baylor, of Essex Count}', Vir-
ginia, and had three children, viz. :
"1. Baylor Walker, a son.
"2. Susannah Walker.
" 3. Elizabeth Walker. "
Thomas Walker, of King and Queen County, Va., married,
29th September, ITd'.i, at St. Clement's Church, in said county,
Susanna, whose surname was probably Peachy. Their children
were as follows :
1. Mary Peachy Walker, born 1710; married, 13th May, 1732, Dr. George
Gilmer, of Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., and had Dr. Geoi'ge
Gilmer, of Pen Park, Albemarle Co. , Va. , who was the grandfather of
Gov. Thomas Walker Gilmer.
2. John Walker, eldest son, born 29th April, 1711 ; married, but the names
of his wife and children are at present unknown to the writer. His
descendants live in King and Queen County, Va. , of whom Dr. Ber-
nard H. Walker, above-mentioned, is probably the representative. Dr.
Walker A. Hawes, of New York City, formerly of Virginia, is also a
descendant. The Baptist minister, Robert B. Semple, father of Baylor
Semple, who was the Whig editor of the old Fredericksburg (Virginia)
Neivs, was his descendant by his daughter.
3. Dr. Thomas Walker, second son, born in King and Queen Coimty, Va. ,
2oth January, 171."); removed to Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va. He
married, first, in 1741, Mildred Thornton, the widow Meriwether, by
whom he had issue. He married, secondly, about 1781, Elizabeth
Thornton, first cousin of his first wife and sister of Mildred Thornton,
who was the second of the five wives of Col. Samuel Washington,
brother of Gen. George Washington. Dr. Thomas Walker had no issue
by his second wife.
IV. Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle Co.,
Va. , third child and second son of Thomas Walker, of King and
Queen County, Va., and Susanna [Peach}"], his wife, grandson
(?) of Thomas Walker, of Gloucester County, Va., progenitor of the
Walker Family in Virginia, name of his wife unknown, was born
at the second-named place, 25th January, 1T15, and removed to the
first-named place, where he died 9th November, 1794, aged 79 years
and nearh' 10 months.
He was probably the first white man that ever entered Kentucky, having
gone there in 1750. or thirteen years before Daniel Boone. His diary from 16th
March to 13th July, 17.")U, regarding one of his western expeditions was pub-
CASTLE HILL. 201
lished, 1888, in Boston, at the instance of William C. Rives, Esq., of the Ameri-
can Historical Association. The missing portion of the original MS. is in the
possession of the widow Thomas W. Page, of Albemarle County, Va. Dr.
Walker's hatchet, with which he marked trees that formed the boundary lines
of tlie lands purchased by him from the Indians, was found several years ago in
Kentucky, where he had lost it. It was marked "T. W.,'' and is said to be
now in a museum in Ijouisville, Ky.
Walkers Mountains, in Southwest Virginia, are probably named after Dr.
Thomas Walker. On his way to Kentucky, al)out IT.IO, lie gave the name to
Cumberland Gap and Cumberlautl River, in honor of the Duke of Cumberland,
who routed the rebels at the battle of Culloden about 1747.
On the 10th October, 1774, the Indians, under their chief, Cornstalk, were
defeated b}- the Colonial troops under the command of Andrew Lewis, at the
Battle of Point Pleasant. This place is situated on the right bank of the
Great Kanawha River, at its junction with the Ohio River, in what is now
called West Virginia.
The cause of this battle appears to have been disaffection on the part
of the Indians with the Treaty of Lancaster, as well as others that were
subsequently made in confirmation of it. The Treaty of Lancaster was made
on the 2d July, 1744, between representatives of the Six Nations of Indians
and Commissioners of His Majesty, George II. By this treaty the Indians
agreed forever to abandon all claim to any territory within the Colony of Vir-
ginia. The Treaty of Lancaster, and several other documents, which are writ-
ten on parchment, and were in the possession of Dr. Thomas Walker, are now
in the possession of the widow of Thomas Walker Page, of Keswick (Turkey
Hill), Albemarle Co., Va. , they having come to him through his mother, Jane
Frances Walker Page, the granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Walker. The follow-
ing is a copy of the Treat}' of Lancaster :
"To all people to whom these presents shall come.
Canasateego, Tachanoontia, Joneehat, Caxhayiou, Torachdadun, Neeco-
kanyhak, and Rociniwuclito, Sachems or chiefs of the nation of the Onondagas,
Saquesonyunt, Gachiaddodon, Hucdsaly-akon, Rowanhohiso, Osochquah, and
Seayenties, Sachems or chiefs of the nation of Cahugas, Svvadany alias Stucke-
limy Onechuaagua, Onoch-Kally dawy, alias Watsathua, Toliashwaniarorow,
Aniyhoctkhaw, and Tear-Haasuy, Sachems or chiefs of the nations of the Tus-
caroras, Tanasanegoes, & Tanichuintees, Sachems or chiefs of the nation of the
Senikers send Greeting.
Whereas the six United nations of Indians laying claim to some Lands in
the Colony of Virginia, signified their Willingness to enter into a Treaty con-
cerning the same, Whereupon Thomas Lee Esqr, a member in Ordinary of his
Majesty's honourable Council of State and one of the Judges of the Sujireme
Court of Judicature in that Colony, and William Beverly Esqr, Colonel and
County Lieutenant of the Coimty of Orange, and one of the representatives of
the people in the house of Burgesses of that Colony, were deputed by the Gov-
302 WALKER FAMILY.
ernor of the said Colony as Commissioners to Treat with the said Six nations or
tlieir Deputies, Sachems or chiefs as well of, and concerning the said claim as
to renew their covenant chain between the said Colony and the said Six nations,
and the said Commissioners, having met at Lancaster, in Lancaster County,
and Province of Pensylvauia, and as a foundation for a Stricter amity & Peace
at their Juncture, agreed with the said Sachems or Chiefs of the said Six Na-
tions, for a Disclaimer and Renunciation of all their Claim or Pretence of right
whatsoever of the said Six Nations and an Acknowledgement of the Right of
our Sovereign, the King of Great Britain, to all the Land in the Colony of
Virginia. Now know ye that for and in consideration of the Sum of four hun-
dred pounds current Money of Pensylvania paid and delivered to the above-
named Sachems or Chiefs partly in Goods and partly in Gold Money by the
said Commissioners, they the said Sachems or Chiefs on behalf of the said Six
Nations do liereby renounce and disclaim not only all the Right of the said
Six Nations, but also recognize and acknowledge the right and Title of our Sov-
ereign, the King of Great Britain, to all the Lands within the said Colony as
it is now or hereafter may be peoj^led and owned by his said Majesty, our Sov-
ereign Lord, the King, his heirs and possessors. In Witness whereof the said
Sachems or Chiefs for themselves and on behalf of the people of the Six Nations
aforesaid, have hereunto put their hands and Seals the Second day of July, in
the Eigliteenth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second of
Great Britain etc. , and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and forty-four.
Signed Sealed and Delivered )
In the Presence of (
EwD. Jennings, Conrad Weisor, Interpreter
P. Thomas Edw° Smout
P. King William Marshe.
Tho' Colvil
James Hamilton
•Rich" Peters
W^' Logan
Jno. Tayloe Jun""-
Phil. Lud. Lee
Presby Thornton
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Jas. Madison
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Gachradodon
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Seayentus
Tanananego
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204 WALKER FA3IILY.
Virginia ss'
At a General Court held at the Capitol the 25th day of October, 1744.
This Deed Poll was proved by the oaths of Edmund Jennings Esqr. Philip
Lud. Lee, and William Black three of the Witnesses thereto and ordered to be
Recorded.
Teste Ben. Waller C. G C.
A Copy
Teste
Peter Pelhaji Jun. &
Ben. Waller C. G C.
The Capitol of Virginia in those days was at Williamsburg,
James City County.
It apjjears from the foregoing Treaty of Lancaster that the claim
to all lands in the Colony of Virginia was purchased from the Indi-
ans for the sum of four hundred pounds of Pennsylvania currenc}-
(between twelve and fifteen hundred dollars), to be paid '• partty in
Goods and partly in Gold Money," but especially "partly in Goods,"
no doubt, such as cheap whiskey, gunpowder, tobacco, and the like.
This was, however, comparatively, a very large sum to pay for a
sound title to all the land within the Colony of Virginia, v/hen we
consider the fact that Manhattan Island, upon which the city of New
York now stands, was purchased from the Indians by the Dutch for
the sum of twenty-four dollars! Sharp bargains these, all done up
as they were in due form according to law, and not far behind simi-
lar jobs of the present day.
Some of the Sachems probably became dissatisfied with the
Treaty of Lancaster (made 2d July, 1744), and it appears that, sub-
sequently, other treaties were made from time to time, confirming
the Treatj^ of Lancaster. For instance, a " powwow " was held, for
this object, at Loggstown (Ohio) in 1752. The following is a copj'
of the parchment :
Whereas at the Treaty of Lancaster, in the Coimty of Lancaster, and
Province of Pensylvania, held between the Government of Virginia, and the
Six United Nations of Indians in the Year of our Lord 1744, Thehou.'''" Thomas
Lee and William Beverly Esqr, being Commissioners, a Deed Recognizing and
acknowledging the right and Title of his Majesty our Sovereing Lord, the King
of Great Britain, to all the Lands within the Colony of Virginia, as it was
then or might be hereafter peopled and bounded by his said Majesty our Sov-
ereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors, was signed sealed and delivered
CASTLE HILL.
205
by the Sachems and Chiefs of the Six United Nations then present as may moi-e
fully appear by the said Deed, reference thereto beinj^ had : We Conogareira,
Chescaga, Cononsagret, Eaghnisance, Togrondoara, and Tliornarissa, Sachems
and Chiefs of the said Six Nations now inCouncil at Loggstovvn, do hereby
Signify our Consent to & Confirmation of the said Deed in as full and ample a
manner as if tlie same was here recited, and whereas his Majesty., the King of
Great Britain, has at present a Design of making a Settlement or Settlements
of British-Subjects on the Southern or Eastern pai'ts of the River thus called
otherwise Allegany, we in Council Joshua Fry, Lunsford Lomax, and James
Patton Esq"^' being Commissioners on behalf of his Majesty, Do give our consent
thereto and do further promise that the said Settlement or Settlements shall be
unmolested by us, & that we will, as far as in our power, assist and Protect
the British Subjects there inhabiting.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto put our hands and Seals this thir-
teenth dav of June in the Year of our Lord 1752.
Signed Sealed and Delivered )
in the Presence of |
William Trent
Geo. Croghan
Tho" McKee
W^' Blyth
Hugh Craavford
W^' West
]\IicH'^ Teass, Jr
Christ" Gist
W^' Preston
Aaron Price
Peter Foster
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Virginia, ss'
At a General Court held at the Court house in Williamsburg the 2d day of
November 1752.
206 WALKER FAMILY.
This Deed Pf)ll was acknowledged by Montour Eaghnisara one of the Sach-
ems within named and was proved to be the Act and Deed of the said Sachems
also within named by the oath of William Trent, and William Preston, Wit-
nesses thereto and Ordered to be Recorded.
Teste Ben. Waller W. C W.
A Copy
Teste
Peter Pelham, Jun"* &
Bex. Waller C D G. Cur.
The following are copies of parchments which explain them-
selves. They have reference to the purchase of six millions of acres
of land on the Ohio River by certain persons, among whom we find
Dr. Thomas Walker and his two sons, John Walker and Thomas
Walker, Jr.
This Indenture made this thirtieth day of July in the year of Our Lox-d
One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven Between George Croghan
Escf, of Fort Pitt in the State of Virginia of the one part, and Thomas Walker,
John Walker, Thomas Walker Jun% Nicholas Lewis, George Gilmer, Mathew
Maury, Reuben Lindsay, of the County of Albemarle, Henry Fry, of the County
of Culpepper and Joseph Horusby, of the City of Williamsburg, in the State
aforesaid, of the other part WITNESSETH. Whereas the aforementioned George
Croghan Esqr did on the tenth day of July, Anno Domini One Thousand Seven
hundred and Seventy five, purchase of the Chiefs or Sachems of the Six United
Nations of Indians a Certain Tract or Parcel of land in fee marked by Certain
Boundaries and Containing by Estimation Six Million of Acres, all which will
fully appear by a ti'ue and Accurate Copy of the Deed of the aforesaid purchase
hereto annexed, recourse being thereunto had. Now this Indenture WITNESS-
ETH that the said George Croghan Esq' hath for and in Consideration of the
Sum of five thousand Spanish Dollars, to him in hand paid, the Receijit whereof
he doth hereby acknowledge, Bargained, Sold, Aliened, Enfeoffed and deliv-
ered, and by these Presents doth Bargain, Sell, Alien, Enfeoff" and deliver unto
the aforesaid Thomas Walker, John Walker, Thomas Walker Jun', Nicholas
Lewis, George Gilmer, Mathew Maury, Reuben Lindsay, Henry Fiy, and Joseph
Hornsby, one Clear Eight and Fortieth part of the Tract or Parcel of Land of
the Six United Nations of Indians purchased as heretofore-mentioned, and as
by the annexed Deed described, to them, their Heirs and Assigns forever : not
as Joint Tenants but Tenants in Common, in the Proportions hereafter to be
mentioned, that is to say to the afores'^ John Walker one full Sixth part of the
land hereby Conveyed, to the aforesaid Thomas Walker Jun"^ one full Seventh
part of the Premises hereby Conveyed, to the aforesaid Thomas Walker one
full Eighth part of the Land hereby Conveyed, and all the Rest and Residue of
the Land hereby Conveyed after the deducting of the aforesaid three Shares to
be divided among Thomas Walker, Nicholas Lewis, George Gilmer, Mathew
CASTLE HILL. 207
Maury, Reuben Lindsay, Henry Fiy, and Joseph Hornsbj', two Shares to the
said Thomas Walker, and to the others one full share each, the land so to be
laid otf as to allow the aforementioned Grantees their Just proportion on the
River, To have and to hold the aforesaid Land together with all and Singular,
the Profits, Priviledges, Immunities and Hereditaments thereunto belonging or
in any wise appertaining in the Proponions heretofore Specified, them the
aforesaid Thomas Walker, John Walker. Thomas Walker Jun^ Nicholas Lewis,
George Gilmer. Mathew ]Maury, Reuben Lindsay, Henry Fry, and Joseph
Hornsby. their Heirs and Assigns forever, not as Joint Tenants but as Tenants
in Common according to the true intent and meaning of this Indenture. In
Testimony whereof the aforesaid George Croghan hath hereunto set his hand
and affixed his Seal the date first-above written.
Sealed and Delivered )
In the Presence of (
George Rootes
Barnard Gratz
Strother Jones
Thomas Edmondson Jun«
William Cooper
Geo. Croghan [seal]
J. Peyton Jun"
Received of John Walker Esq", one of the Grantees within mentioned, the
within mentioned Consideration Money full this 30th day of Julj- 1777.
Geo. Croghan.
Teste
Geo. Rootes,
Barnard Gratz.
Memorandl^m.
Livery and Seisin made at the dating and ensealing the within Presents
Geo. Croghan.
Teste
Geo. Rootes
Strother Jones. Thomas Edmondson Jun''-
William Cooper
J. Peyton Jun''
Croghan \
to [. Deed.
Walker & al. )
To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greeting :
Know ye that we Kayathsuda, Tiendenago, Guitogunt, Oquncequago,
Tegurahogo and Saquonea, Chiefs and Sachems of the Six United Nations of
Indians, and being and effectually Representing all the Tribes of the said Six
United Nations send Greeting. Now know' ye therefore that we the said
Chiefs or Sachems of the Six United Nations in full Council at Fort Pitt as-
sembled ■ for and in Consideration of the Sum of Twelve Thousand Spanish
Dollars, or value thereof in merchandize to us in hand paid by George Croghan,
208 WALKER FAMILY.
the Receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge : and for and in Consideration
of the great Justice and Integrity of the said George Croghan, Used and Exer-
cised by him towards the Six Nations and their Allies in all his Publick and
Private Conduct and Transactions wherein they have been Concerned, Have
Granted, Bargained, Sold, Aliened, Released, Enfeoffed, Ratified and fully
Confirmed a Certain Tract or Parcel of Land Beginning at the Shore on the
South side of the River Ohio, Opposite the mouth of French Creek or Beef
River, thence down the said River Ohio on the South side thereof Opposite the
mouth of Big Beaver Creek, thence on a straight or direct line, across the said
River Ohio, to the mouth of the said Beaver Creek, thence along the said Beaver
Creek on the northerly side of the same, to an Old Indian Town, known by the
name of Kaskaskias, thence up a Branch of the said Beaver Creek, known by
the name of Shinango, and on the northerl}' side of the same to the Head or
Termination of the said Branch, thence on a Straight or direct line to the head
of French Creek, or Beef River, thence down the said Creek or River, on the
Southerly side of the same, to the mouth thereof, and from thence in a Straight
or direct Line across the River Ohio to the place of Beginning, Containing, by
Estimation, Six Millions of Acres, be the same more or less. And by these
Presents do Grant, Bargain, Sell, Alien, Release, Enfeoff. Ratify and fully
Confirm unto the Said George Croghan, his Heirs and Assigns all the above
described Tract or Parcel of Land, Granted or intended to be Granted, and
also the Mines, Minerals, Ores, Trees, Islands, Woods, Underwoods, Waters,
Watercourses, Profits, Commodities, Advantages, Rights, Liberties, Priviledges,
Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Tract or Parcel of
Land belonging or in anywise Appertaining, and also the Reversion and Rever-
sions, Remainder and Remainders, Rents, Issues and Profits thereof, and all the
Estate Right of Title, Intei'est, Use, Property, Possession, Claim and demand
of us the said Kayathsuda, Tiendenago, Guitogunt, Oquncequago, Tegurahogo,
and Saquonea, Chiefs or Sachems aforesaid, and of all and every Other Person
and Persons whatsoever of or belonging to the said Nations of, in, to, and out
of the Premises and every part and Parcel thereof To have and to hold the
said Tract or Parcel of Land, and all and Singular the said Granted or Bar-
gained Premises with the Appurtenances unto the said George Croghan, his
Heirs and Assigns forever, and the said Kayathsuda, Tiendenago, Guitogunt,
Oquncequago, Tegvirahogo, and Saquonea, for themselves and for the Six
United Nations and all and every Nation and Nations, and their and every one
of their Posterities, the said Tract of Land and Premises and every part thereof
against them the said Kayathsuda, Tiendenago, Guitogunt, Oquncequago,
Tegurahogo, and Saquonea and against the Six United Nations and their Trib-
utaries and Dependents and all and every one of their Posterities unto the said
George Croghan, his Heirs and Assigns shall and will Warrant and forever
defend by these Presents, Provided always nevertheless, and it is the true in-
tent and meaning of these Presents that the said George Croghan, his Heirs,
Executors, Administrators and Assigns shall not make any Settlements on the
above described or mentioned Tract or Parcel of Land for the term of Fifteen
Years, unless the Indians settled in that part of the Country shall remove far-
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209
ther down the River Ohio to a better Hunting Country, anj- thing herein Con-
tained to the Contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
In Witness whereof we the said Chiefs and Sachems in behalf of ourselves
Respectivel}-. and in behalf of the whole Six United Nations aforesaid, have
hereunto set our hands and Seals in the Presence of tlie Persons subscribing as
Witnesses hereunto, at a (Congress held at Fort Pitt this tenth day of July in
the vear of our Lord, One Tliousand Seven hundred and Seventy five.
marlc
Sealed and Delivered j
In the Presence of us. )
John Campbell
Thomas Hosier
Kavathsuda. . .Senecas
Tiendenago OKondagas
[L. S.]
[L. S.]
the Mount"
mark
John .^ ;Mainor. interpreter / ^ . ^ ,
■^ . *i r- , Guitogunt. .Cavhugas
— to the Crown n " . o
mark
A correct copy taken from Oquncecpiago . . .Oneidas
the original
Teste
Geo. Rootes.
Tegurahago . . . Mohawks
Saquonea . . . Tuscaroras
[L. S.]
[L. S.]
Ll. S.J
[L. S.]
the Cross
In one of the above-mentioned documents Fort Pitt is referred
to as being in the State of Virginia. It appears that Virginia and
Pennsylvania both claimed it, the former under a charter from
James I, and the latter under a charter from Charles II. On Aug.
31, 1779, commissioners appointed b}" the two provinces met in
Baltimore, and agreed upon the boundary, which was duly ratified
by their respective legislatures. Since that time Pittsburg has
remained in Pennsylvania.
14
210 WALKER FAMILY.
The following are copied from parchments having reference to
comparative!}' small tracts of land in the counties of Albemarle and
Louisa :
George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
King Defender of the Faith &c. To ^ll to whom these Presents shall come
Greeting. Know ye that for divers good Causes and Considerations, but more
Especially for and in Consideration of the Sum of Twenty Five shillings of good
and Lawful Money, for our Use paid to our Receiver General of our Revenues
in this our Colony and Dominion of Virginia, We have Given, Granted, and
Confirmed, and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors, Do Give,
Grant, and Confirm, unto Thomas Walker, one certain Tract or Parcel of Land
Containing two hundred and twenty six acres, lying and being in the County
of Albemarle, in the Coves and on the Ridges of one of the Ragged Mountains,
and bounded as followeth to wit ; Beginning at Pointers in Thomas Fitzpatrick's
line running thence along the same North thirty two Degrees and a half East
one hundred and twenty Poles to a Chestnut Oak, North eighty nine Degrees
East one liundred and twenty four Poles to Pointers in Samuel Gay's Line, and
with his Lines North twenty nine Degrees East one hundred and seventy eight
Poles to Pointers, South eighty nine Degrees West one hundred and forty Poles
to Pointers thence new lines. South fifty three Degrees West eighty nine Poles
to Poiutei's, South thirty six Degrees West one hundred and eighty five
Poles to Pointers in Jacob Moon's line. South thirty nine Degrees East eighty
Poles to the Beginning. With all Woods, Under Woods, Swamps, Marshes,
Low-grounds, Meadows, Feedings, and his due Share of all Veins, Mines and
Quarries, as well discovered as not discovered, within the Bounds aforesaid
and being Part of the said Quantity of Two hundred and twenty six Acres of
Land, and the Rivers, Waters, and Water Courses therein contained, together
with the Privileges of Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, Fowling, and all other
Profits, Commodities, and Hereditaments whatsoever, to the same or any Part
thereof belonging, or in any wise appertaining, To have, hold. Possess, and
Enjoy, the said Tract or Parcel of Land, and all other the before granted Pre-
mises, and ever}' Part thereof, with their and every of their Ai^purtenancas,
unto the said Thomas Walker and to his Heirs and Assigns forever. To the only
Use and Behoof of him, the said Thomas Walker, his Heirs, and Assigns for-
ever, To be held of us our Heirs and Successors, as of our Manor of East Green-
wich, in the County of Kent, in free and Common Soccage, and not in Capite
or by Knights Service, Yielding and Paying unto us, our Heirs, and Succes-
sors, for every fifty Acres of Land, and so proportionably for a lesser or greater
Quantity than fifty Acres, the Fee Rent of one Shilling Yearly, to be paid upon
the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, and also Cultivating and Improving
three Acres part of every fifty of the Tract above mentioned within three Years
after the Date of these Presents. Provided always that if three Years of the
said Fee Rent shall at anytime be in Arrear and Unpaid, or if the said Thomas
Walker his Heirs or Assigns do not within the Space of three Years, next com-
CASTLE HILL. 211
ing after the Date of these Presents, Cultivate and Improve three Acres part of
every fifty of the Tract above-mentioned. Then the Estate, hereby Granted shall
Cease and be Utterly Determined, and thereafter it shall and may be Lawful
to and for us our Heirs and Successors, to gi-ant the same Lands and Premises
with the Appurtenances unto such other Person or Persons as we our Heirs and
Successors shall think fit. Ix Witness whereof we have caused these our Let-
ters Patent to be made. Witness our trusted and well beloved John Earl of
Dunmore our Lieutenant and Governor General of our said Colony and Domin-
ion at Williamsburg Under the Seal of our said Colony, the first Day of August,
One thousand Seven hundred and Seveutj' two. In the twelfth Year of our
Reign. Dunmore
There is a similar parchment dated 20th June, 1772, and signed
by Dunmore. It is a grant from George I IT. to Thomas Walker of
350 acres of land
" Lying and being in the County of Louisa on the Branches of Great Creek and
bounded as followeth to wit: Beginning at Robert Sharp's Corner several pines,
running thence, on his lines, North Sixty nine Degrees West one hundred
l^oles to a pine, thence North nine Degrees East one hundred and Sixty eight
Poles to Sharps Corner pine in Biggars line, thence on Biggar's line North
twenty seven Degrees West tsventy four Poles to Mathew Launders 's Corner
pine in Biggars Line, thence on Launders line South thirtj- nine Degrees East
one hundred and eighty poles to William Hughson's Corner Pine on the Side
of a hill in his line, thence on Hughson's line South foi^tj^ Degrees East twenty
two Poles to a pine, thence South twelve Degrees West two hundred and eighty
poles to a Corner pine in Graves's line, thence on Graves's line North Seventy
Degi'ees East one hundred and eighty seven poles to his Comer White Oak by
the side of a Branch, thence South twenty poles to Fords Corner three pines in
his line, thence on Fords line East forty poles to a pine in his line, thence
North twelve Degrees East one hundred and Seventy four Poles to the Begin-
ning. "
The price of this last-mentioned tract of land was thirtij-five
shillings, which sum was paid hj Dr. Walker to the Receiver Gen-
eral of the Revenues of the Colony, upon the same conditions with
the preceding grant of 226 acres in Albemarle County.
The following parchment, found among Dr. Walker's papers,
has reference to a grant from George II. to one James Flanegen, of a
" Certain Tract or parcel of Land containing two hundred and fifty acres lying
and being in the Coimty of Louisa and bounded as followeth to wit ; Beginning
at the said Flanegens Corner Pine in Silvanus Morris's line, thence on his line
212 WALKER FAMILY.
South sixty two Degrees West one hundred and ninety six Poles crossing three
small branches of Bvinches Creek to his Corner two Spanish Oaks on the side of
a Hill, thence new lines North sixty Degrees West one hundred and ninety six
Poles to a Corner small Pine, thence North forty Degrees East one hundred and
seventy two Poles to the beginning, " etc.
The price of this piece of land was tiventy-five shillings upon
the same conditions as the two preceding. It ends as follows :
"Witness our Trusty and well beloved Sir William Gooch, Baronet, our
Lieut. Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion, at
Williamsburg under the Seal of our said Colony, the twentieth day of August,
One thousand seven hundred and forty seven, In the twenty first Year of our
Reign.
William Gooch.
Dr. Walker probably received an academic education at the
College of William and Marj", Virginia, but it is not known that he
ever graduated in medicine. He probably served a certain length
of time under some physician and was then licensed to practise by
the County or other authorities, according to law. An original bill
rendered by him for medical services in the case of Peter Jefferson,
father of President Thomas Jefferson, U. S., was for many years
to be seen at Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va.
Fredericksburg, situated on the Rappahannock River, Spottsylvania
County, Va. , was, at that time, like Yorktowu, a point to which goods were
directly imported from England. At Turkey Hill, Albemarle Co. , Va. , Thomas
W. Page, Esqr. , has in his possession an old-fashioned tall clock that has in-
scribed on its face "Thomas Walker, Fredericksburgh, Va."
Dr. Walker is said to have been Commissary General of the Virginia troops
under Washington in Braddock's army, and he was present at the defeat of
the latter in 1755, near the present Pittsburg, Pa. When he returned to Castle
Hill from this expedition, he brought with him a stallion that lived to be
forty-eight years old.
William C. Rives, Esq. , of Newport, R. I. , has in his possession the frag-
ment of a letter from Mr. Jackson, of Fredericksburg, Va. , to Dr. Thomas
Walker, written a shoi-t time after Braddock's defeat. In this letter Mr. Jack-
son inquires after Dr. Walker's health and also that of Col. (afterward Gen-
eral) George Washington. He concludes by saying that "if he had not known
of Braddock's defeat and had read that the Royal forces had been so badly
beaten by half naked savages, he would have disbelieved it and would have
burned ye book. "
Dr. Thomas Walker and Andrew Lewis were appointed Commissioners on
CASTLE HILL. 21:5
the part of the government of Virginia to treat witli the Six Nations of In-
dians at Fort Stanwix, New York, in 1768. There were also Commissioners
from New York, and this ti-eaty occurred during the administration of Governor
Johnson of New York.
Dr. Tliomas Waiker and liis son, John AValker, were Commissioners on the
part of Virginia to treat with the Indians at Pittsburg, Penn., about 1777,
the object being to conciliate them during the war of the Revolution. Com-
missioners were also appointed by the American Government. Dr. Thomas
"Walker was the president of the meeting
Dr. Walker was a member of tlie Virginia House of Burgesses in 1775, for
organizing a plan of defence, and was also placed on the second General Com-
mittee of Safety (see Journal of Convention, I6th Dec, 1775). He was also, in
1778, Commissioner with David Smith, on the part of Virginia, to complete
the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina, from Steep Rock Creek
to the Tennessee line.
In 1728, Col. William Byrd, William Daudridge. and Richard Fitz Williams,
with Thomas and Mayo, as surveyors, ran the boundarj- line between Virginia
and North Carolina, from the sea-coast to Peter's Creek, now in Patrick County,
Va. , a distance of about 240 miles. In 1749, Col. Joshua Fry and Peter Jeffer-
son (father of Thomas Jefferson who was President U. S.) were commissioned
on the part of Virginia to continue the line from Peter's Creek to Steep Rock
Creek — about 40 miles. Lastly, it was completed to the Tennessee line, in 1778,
as above-mentioned. The total length is about 320 miles. The last portion of
the line surveyed is still known as Walker" s line.
Colonel Byrd's MS. of his part of the work is at Lower Brandon, on James
River, Prince George County, Va. It is neatly bound in book fox-mand a num-
ber of copies have been printed.
It may be stated here that Peter's Creek in Patrick County, Petersburg in
Dinwiddle County, and Peter's Mountain in Albemarle County, Va. , are said
to have been named after Peter Jefferson, the father of President Thomas Jef-
ferson, U. S.
Dr. Walker was intimateh' connected both by public and private
relations with Gen. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, to
the latter of whom he was guardian. Dr. Walker was married
twice, and both of his wives were second cousins (or first cousins once
removed) of Gen. George Washington in the following way:
Col. John Washington and Laurence Washington, sons of
Leonard Washington, of Wharton, Count}' Lancaster, England,
and Anne, his wife, emigrated to America together in 1659. They
settled in Westmoreland County, Va., and became the progenitors
of the Washington families in that State. Gen. George Washing-
ton was descended from Col. John Washington by his second wife,
21-1: WALKER FAMILY.
Anne Pope, of Bridges Creek, Westmoreland Co., Va., as follows:
Col. John Washington and Anne Pope, his second wife, had, among
other children, Laurence Washington, who married, about 1080,
Mildred Warner, of Gloucester County, Va., and had by her three
children, viz. :
(1) John Washington, mai-ried, about 1712, Catherine Whiting, of
Gloucester County, Va. Had a large family, of whom Catherine
married Fielding Lewis.
(3) Augustine Washington, married, first, 20th April, 1715, Jane But-
ler, and secondly, 6th March, 173J-, Marj- Ball, by whom he had,
among others. Gen. George Washington, born 22d February, 1732,
and Col. Samuel Washington.
(3) Mildred Washington, who married, first, about 17Uo, Roger Greg-
ory, of King and Queen County, Va. , "and had by him 3 daugli-
ters, Frances, Mildred, and Elizabeth, who married 3 brothers, Col.
Francis Thornton. Col. John Thornton, and Reuben Thornton, all
of Spottsylvania County. Va. She had for her second husband Col.
Henrj' Willis, of Fredericksburgh, Va., and by him the present
Col. Lewis W^illis, of Fredericksburgh" (See Gen. Geo. Washing-
ton's letter, dated 2d May, 1792).
Francis Thornton, progenitor of the Thornton Family in Vir-
ginia, settled in Caroline County. He was the father of the above-
named three brothers, viz. :
(1) Col. John ThoiTiton, who married Frances Gregory, and had : (a)
Mildred Thornton, who was the second of the five wives of Col.
Samuel Washington, the brother of Gen. George Washington; (b)
Elizabeth Thornton, who was the second wife of Dr. Thomas
Walker.
(2) Col. Francis Thornton married INIildred Gregory, and had Mildred
Thornton, who married Charles Washington, brother of Gen. George
Washington.
(3) Reuben Thornton married Elizabeth Gregorj'. His daughter, Mil-
dred, married,, first, in 1738, Nicholas Meriwether, by whom she
had one child, viz. : Mildred Meriwether, born 19th May, 1739 ;
married Colonel Syme, of Hanover County, Va. Nicholas Meri-
wether died, and his widow, Mildred Thornton Meriwether, mar-
ried, secondly, in 1741, Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle Hill. Albe-
marle Co., Va., and was his first wife.
It will thus be seen that the mothers of Dr. Walker's two wives were sis-
ters, who were first cousins of Gen. George Washington, and that Dr. Walker's
tA\'o wives were themselves first cousins, who were second cousins (or first
cousins once removed) of Gen. George Washington.
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According to some statements. Col. Samuel Washington's second wife was
Mildred, daugliter of Col. Francis Tliornton.
Dr. Thomas Walker, by marrying the widow Meriwether, be-
came possessed of the Castle Hill estate, comprising about 11,000
acres of land in Albemarle County, Va., which originally was part
of a grant of land from George II. to a certain (Nicholas?) Meri-
wether. Subsequently the estates of Turkey Hill, Peachylorum,
Belvoir, Kinloch, etc., were cut off from the original Castle HiU
estate for Dr. Walker's children and grandchildren.
The exact date of the founding of the Castle Hill House is not certainly
known. The old part of the present house was not quite finished in 1764, wlien
Hon. Francis AValker was born. Dr. Walker must, therefore, have lived in
some other house previous to that time, which has been removed. He proba-
bly lived at Fredericksburg, Va.. up to the time of his removal to Castle Hill.
The house built by Dr. Walker, and which w^as nearly finished in 1764, fronted
northwest, toward the mountain ; but in 1824 an addition was built by Hon.
William C. Rives, so that the house then fronted southeast. The two wings,
or greenhouses, were added by Mr. Rives in 1840.
The following inscriptions were copied from tombstones in the Walker
burj-ing-ground at Castle Hill, by Dr. ^yilliam C. Rives of New York, 16th
May, 1889:
My Father I H S My Mother
Col : Francis jMy Brother Mrs. Jane Byrd
W^ALKER Thomas Hugh WALKER
Born at Castle WALKER Born (Nelson)
Hill June 22, 1764 Born May 1800 May 1775
Died March 1806 Died Sep : 1807 Died Jan. 1808
[On foot-stone.] [On foot-stone.] [On foot-stone.]
F.W. T.H.W. J. B. W.
According to Dr. Rives, the situation of the graves could only be conjec-
tured by the position of the stones, some of which had fallen down. No other
graves could be made out. They were inclosed by a brick wall, the entrance
of which was px'obably formerly occupied by a gate, but which was perfectly
open.
What is known as the Albemarle Pippin, probably the most deliciously
flavored apple in the world, is nothing more than the Newtown Pipi^in of New
York State, which is said to have been introduced into Albemarle County, Va. ,
by Dr. Thomas Walker. The climate of Albemarle and nature of the soil are
peculiarly adapted to the perfection of this justly celebrated fruit. These
apples are so delicate that they decay very easily, and hence each apple should
be culled separately and carefully packed in clean hay for preservation.
216 WALKER FAIIILY.
It was on the 4th of Juue, 1781, according to Lossing (see "Field Book of
the Revolution") , when Tarleton, with his British troopers, on their way to
Charlottesville, Va., appeared at Castle Hill and demanded breakfast. Among
the rebels surprised there were William and Robert, brothers of Gov. Thomas
Nelson, of Yorktown, Va. , and Francis Kinloch. In their attempt to escape,
the latter was pursued into the vineyard field by a British soldier, who shouted,
"Stop, cousin Frank: you know I could always beat you running." Where-
upon the cousin Frank surrendered to an old acquaintance and relative.
Living at Castle Hill at that time was a colored lad, about eleven years old,
named Thomas Wilkes. Dr. Walker brought him to Castle Hill from King and
Queen County, Va. , and subsequently employed him as his body servant. He
was also at one time fifer of the Eighty-eighth Virginia Regiment. He lived
to an old age, and became known far and near as "Uncle Tom." He died about
1860, aged about 90 years.
According to Uncle Tom, Tarleton's men were mostly ai-med with halberds
and spontoous. They are a sort of spear, and samples of these weapons are
seen in the Tower of London, in tlie room called The Horse Armory. Tarleton
was on his way to Charlottesville, Albemarle Co. , Va. , having received ordex's
from Cornwallis to capture Gov. Thomas Jefferson (afterward President United
States) , and members of the Virginia Legislature, there assembled.
Tarleton was detained at Castle Hill about the breakfast, for more reasons
than one. The cook stated that the soldiers forcibly carried off the food as fast
as she could prepare it. This put Tarleton out of humor, and when he was
told that some of his men were breaking open the stables and stealing the
horses, he lost all patience and beanie furious. The culprits were seized, and,
according to Uncle Tom, punished in a terrible manner. Having been stripped
to the waist, they were bound across tobacco hogsheads. In this position they
were flogged with a perforated sole-leather paddle. The screams of the unfor-
tunate creatures attested the severity of the punishment ; but none except those
who have heard Uncle Tom imitate their cries can fully appreciate it.
Meantime, a Mr. Jewitt, or Jouitte, of Louisa County, had ridden on ahead,
and informed Governor Jefferson, who barely had time to escape into the
woods. According to Lossing, op. cit. , Tarleton had pushed on to Castle Hill,
"where he understood many influential Virginians were assembled. Several
of these were captured, among whom were William and Robert, brothers of
Gov. Thomas Nelson. . . . The delay for breakfast at Dr. Walker's was
sufficient to allow most of the members of the Legislature at Charlottesville to
escape. Mr. Jefferson had not been gone ten mihutes when the British troopers
rode up and found the Monticello mansion deserted. " .
According to Uncle Tom, Dr. Walker was accustomed to meet with Indian
chiefs under an oxheart cherry tree that stood in the then rear of the house,
but which subsetjuently died, and was removed about 1854. He said that he
never heard the Indians talk much, as they eyed him very suspiciously. He,
however, remembered to have heard one of the Sachems say with much excite-
ment. " DOMI-NICKAH-HEE-HAY-SKEESH-SKEESH ! "
Uncle Tom used to say that Dr. Walker had a remarkable dog named Bow-
CASTLE HILL. 217
ser. Tlie doctor went out once upon a tinie aud remained absent among the
Indians for the space of seven years. Upon his i-eturu to Castle Hill one even-
ing, his dog, who had not seen liini in all that time, recognized his voice, and
broke through a shutter in getting out of a room to meet him. The identical
shutter was at Castle Hill in 1852, and Uncle Tom always took great pride in
showing it.
He also used to say that Dr. Walker was very careful with everything that
might V)e of use. On a c(>rtain occasion he was going to split a nice piece of
timber for kindling wood, but the doctor saw him aud bade him put it into
the barn. "If it is not wanted for some useful purpose in seven j-ears, " said
he, " go there then and turn it over. "
It may be said of Uncle Tom. that whenever he was much pleased with
any one, he had a peculiar way of expressing his hope of seeing him again
soon upon his taking leave, thus: "Good mornin'. sir. I shall see you again,
as the bull said to the haystack I "
For a history of Walker's Parish, in the County of Albemarle, see Bishop
Meade, ojj. cit., Vol. II., p. 41 et seq. "Thomas Jefferson (afterward President
United States) and Nicholas Meriwether, " says Bishop Meade, " laid off two
acres for Walker's Church, by order of the Ve.^.try of Fredericksville Parish.
The land was given by Dr. Thomas Walker. An old mountain chapel stood
here first, the age of which is not known, " etc. The old mountain chapel was
succeeded by Walker's Church, which, in 1855, was replaced by the beautiful
Gothic edifice known as Grace Church. This building, an ornament of which
any community maj' be proud, is made of freestone, quarried in the neighbor-
hood, and the interior is finished off with carved oak and Virginia pine. The
windows are of stained glass. The three marble tablets that stand in the rear
of the chancel were the gift of the late Mrs. Henry Sigourney (Amelie Louise
Rives) , of Boston, Mass. , who was lost on the ill-fated steamer Ville du Havre,
22d November, 1873. These tablets are framed in carved oak, and have in-
scribed ui5on them the Ten Commandments. Lewis Eogers, of New York, gave
$3,000. The bell in the to\ver was presented by David Sears, Esq., of Boston,
Mass. It weighs 1,575 pounds, aud was cast by Mr. Hooper, of that city.
On the 1st January, 1845, according to the record on the Vestiy-book of
Walker's Parish, Albemarle Co. , Va. , Dr. Mann Page, of Turkey Hill, Francis
K. Nelson, Esq. , of Cloverfields, Hon. William C. Rives, of Castle Hill, aud
James Terrell, Esq. , of Music Hall, residents of the said parish, w-ere appointed
a committee to take such necessary measures as they might deem exjiedient,
for commencing and proceeding with the building of a new church. Owing
to the estimated cost of the building, however, the corner-stone was not laid
until about 1848. Soon after this occurred, Hon. William C. Rives was ap-
pointed American Minister to France, and was absent four years. Meantime,
Dr. Mann Page and James Terrell, Esq. , both died, so that for some time the
work was postponed. Hon. William C. Rives returned to Castle Hill in the
autumn of 1853, and it was chiefly dvie to the energy and devotion of Mrs.
Rives that the building was completed early in 1855. It was named Grace
Church, and was consecrated on the 9th May. 1855, by Bishop William Meade,
318 WALKER FAMILY.
of Virginia. Edward C. Mead, of Keswick, Thomas W. Page, of Turkey Hill,
and Charlotte N. Meriwether, of Kiuloch (afterward the second wife of Thomas
J. Randolph, Jr.), all of Albemarle County, Va. , were the first persons ever
confirmed in the new building. They were confirmed by Bishop William
Meade, of Virginia, who laid his hands first on Edward C. Mead. The first
marriage occurred on March 15th, 1855, and was that of James Terrell Bacon,
of Boston, Mass. , to Miss Susan Stanford Lewis, of Albemarle. Their daughter
Susie recently married Mr. Money, of Albemarle Co. , Va.
In 1889 a tablet was placed in the church by the vestry, at the
expense of Dr. R. C. M. Page, givmg the date of its corner-stone
laying and consecration. The following is an exact copy :
GRACE CHURCH
WALKER'S PARISH, ALBEMARLE COUNTY,
VIRGINIA.
►:-
The Corner- Stone was laid
5"' Oct. 1848,
By the Rev. E. BOYDEN,
Who was Called to this Parish in 1839,
And was its Faithful Rector
During Forty-one Years.
The Building,
First Opened for Divine Service
22'"' April 1855,
WAS Consecrated
To the Worship of God
On the Q"- of May of the Same Year
By the Rt. Rev. WILLLIAM MEADE, D. D.
Bishop of Virginia.
•J-
The Vestry Have Caused
This Commemorative Tablet
To be Erected A.D. 1889.
The following clipping from the Charlottesville Jeffersonian
regarding the Albemarle court-honse will be of interest :
Editors Jeffersonian : The question of a new Court-house being before the
public, the following letter and account which my brother, Thos. W. Page,
found among his great-grandfather's papers, may be of interest.
Yours truly,
Frederick W. Page.
Charlottesville, February 25, 1886.
(From an old photograph.)
GRACE CHURCH,
Walker's Parish, Albemarle Co., Va.
Consecrated 9th May, 1855.
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WALKER FAMILY.
W"'BURG, March 6, 1762.
Sir : Colonel Richard Eandolph has made application to me in Council in
Relation to the Writ of adjournment for Alhemarle Court-house. He alledges
that the Spot of Ground on w"'' it is agreed the Court-liouse should be placed, was
improperly call'd Hughes's Land ; but that the property was in lien, he never
having disposed of it to Hughes as was supposed. He further says that Mr.
Hughes having some other Land not far off, advantage is proposed to be taken
of the place having been call'd Hughes's Land, by setting the Court house on
tliat Land belonging to Hughes. I should be very glad to know liow this affair
stands, for if the Spot proposed is acquiesced in, let the Land be whose it may,
I need not give the Council any trouble about it by laying it before them ; but
if the point siiould be controverted, I must lay it before them for their Consid-
eration and Determination thereon.
From my thorough knowledge of you, I relj' on your setting this matter
in its true Light to me, w"^'' will oblige
Sir,
To 3Ir. Commissary Walker.
Your very humble
Servant,
Fran. : Fauquier.
(Endorsed). "The Governor's Letter with y** copys of y* order of Court
and Council for remov' v'' Court House. "
DR. THOS. WALKER.
Dr. Cr.
1430 Acres Land @ £30 p. c. £439 . . . .Cash re'd of Stephen Hughes
2 years rent 6 13 at twice £183
Bal. due 258
441 441
Bal. per contra 258 Oct. 30, cash of Col. Tucker. .200
Int. from Jan'y 6, to Oct. 30 10 9.7*. .. .Bal. due 68 9.7i
268. 9. 7i 268. 9 1\
Bal. per contra 68.9 7^
1+ months' interest 8 6
£68.18.U. . . .Dec. 20, order on Alex. Mc-
Cawl £68 18 1*
1762, Dec 30th, E. E. Richard Randolph.
(Endorsed). "Col. Richard Randolph's acct. for ye Court-house Land."
CASTLE HILL. 221
Dr. Thomas Walker married, first, in 1741, Mildred Thornton,
widow of Nicholas Meriwether, She was born 10th March, 1T21,
and died IGth Nov., IT 78, aged 57 years, and was buried at Castle
Hill.
He married, secondly, about 1781, Elizabeth Thornton, first
cousin of his first wife. There was no issue by this marriage. His
second wife becoming a widow, married Alcock, a British officer,
and removed from Castle Hill to Eldon, near Cobham, Albemarle
Co., Va. In 1859 Eldon became the residence of Carter H. Page,
Esq. Alcock had been a Revolutionary prisoner of war at Char-
lottesville, same county, Va.
While Dr. Walker was going to Fredericksburg, Va., to his
second marriage, it is said that he was stopped by the British sol-
diers whom he met on the way, but when they ascertained the object
of his journey, thej' let him through their lines. The children by
his first marriage w^ere as follows :
1. Mar}' Walker ("Capt. Moll, of local tame."— Duke) , born at Castle Hill
24th July, 1742 ; married, about 1760, Nicholas Lewis, grandfather of
the late Capt. Robert Lewis, of Castalia, Albemarle Co., Va., who
married, about 1835, Sally Craven, of Pen Park, same county. Of
their children, Thomas Lewis married, 1874, Jane Walker Page, of
Millwood. (See Page Family, North End.)
2. Hon. John Walker, eldest son, born at Castle Hill, 13th February, 174| ;
removed to Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va. , and married, about 1764,
Elizabeth Moore.
3. Susan Walker (called Suky), born at Castle Hill, 14th December, 1746;
married, in June, 1764, Henry Fry, whose descendants now live in
Albemarle County, Va.
4. Thomas Walker, Jr., second and only son to have male issue, was
born at Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va. , 17th March, 174f, and re-
moved to Indian Fields, same coimty. He married, about 1773, Mar-
garet Hoops, of Pennsylvania.
5. Lucj' Walker, born at Castle Hill, 5th May, 1751 ; married, about 1771,
Dr. George Gilmer, of Pen Park, Albemarle Co. , Va. Children:
(1) James Gilmer, born about 1772 ; died without issue.
(2) Mildred Gilmer (called Milly) , born about 1774: married, about
1794, Hon. William Wirt, Attomej'-General, author of the " British
Spy," etc.
(3) George Gilmer, born about 1776 ; married, about 1801, Miss Hud-
son, and had (a) Thomas Walker Gilmer, Governor of Virginia,
father of the late Rev. Thomas Walker Gilmer of the Presbyterian
222 WALKER FAMILY.
Church wlio married Patty Minor of Albemarle Co. , Va. , and died,
leaving one child, Thomas Walker Gilmer ; Juliet Gilmer ; James
Gilmer, lawyer, removed to Texas : and Lizzie Gilmer, married
St. George Tucker, and their daughter married a son of ex -Presi-
dent Tj^ler ; (t>) Christopher (called Kit) ; (e) John Harmer ; {d)
Anne, married Peter McGhee ; (e) Mrs. Adams, who was the mother
of Miss Mattie Adams; (/) Lucy married E. S. Pegram. Governor
Gilmer was accidentally killed on board the Princeton, U. S. man-
of-war, 28th February, 1844, by the bursting of a cannon. He was
tlien Secretary U. S. Navy, his appointment having been made by
President John Tyler, 14th February, 1844. Mr. Upshur, Secretary
of State, was also killed at the same time. Mr. Gilmer was suc-
ceeded by John Y. Mason as Secretary U. S. Navy, and Mr. Upshur
by John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of State. Hon. William AVilkins,
of Pennsylvania, was at that time Secretary of War. President Tyler
and Hon. and Mrs. William C. Rives were on board when the sad
accident occurred.
(4) Peachy Gilmer, born about 1778, wife unknown. They had : (a)
William Wirt Gilmer (called Billy Gilmer) ; died single. (6)
Dr. Peachy Harmer Gilmer, married Isabella Walker ; (e) George
H. Gilmer, Judge of Pittsylvania County ; (d) Francis W. Gilmer ;
(e) Mrs. W^ilmer ; (/) Mrs. Emina Gilmer Breckinridge, of Bote-
tourt County, Va.
(5) Dr. John Gilmer, born about 1778; married, about 1805, Miss
Minor, and had two daughters, one of whom died single; the other
married Franklin Minor, whose descendants live in Albemarle
County, Va.
(6) Lucy Gilmer, born about 1782 ; married, about 1802, Peter Minor,
of Albemarle County, Va.
(7) Susan Gilmer, born about 1784.
(8) Harmer Gilmer, born about 1786.
(9) Francis Walker Gilmer, bom about 1788; unmarried; Pi'ofessor of
Law at the University of Virginia, author and scholar. He was
sent by Thomas Jefferson (ex-President United States) to England,
for the purpose of procuring professors for the University of Vir-
ginia, near Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., Va.
6. Elizabeth Walker (called Betsey) , born at Castle Hill, 1st August, 1753;
married, about 1778, Rev. Matthew Maury, second rector of old Walk-
er's (now Grace) Churcli, in Walker's Parish, Albemarle Co., Va. ,
and had Reuben, Polly, Milly, Elizabeth, Kitty, John, Fontaine,
Tliomas, and Walker. Their descendants live in Albemarle Count}', Va.
7. Mildred Walker (called Milly), born at Castle Hill, 5th June. 1755;-
married, about 1775, Joseph Hornsby, of Williamsburg, James City
Co., Va. No issue.
8. Sarah Walker, born at Castle Hill, 28th March, 1758 ; married, about
BELVOIR. 323
1778, Col. Reuben Lindsay, of Albemarle County. Va.. and was his
first wife. Children :
(1) Mildred Lindsay ; probably died single.
(2) Sally Lindsay ; married, about 1810, her first cousin, Capt. James
Lindsa> , of The Meadows, Louisa County, Va. He was the son of
David Lindsay, who was the brother of Col. Reuben Lindsay.
They had two children, one of whom died ; the other, Mildred
Lindsay, married, 1837, Alexander Taylor, and died leaving two
children, viz. : Sally Lindsay Taylor, who married, 1858, Col. John
M. Patton, and died 1872, aged 34, leaving childi'en ; and Fannie
Taylor, who was smothered to death by wheat in AVarwick & Barks-
dale's flouring mill, in Richmond, Va., 1850, aged 13 years.
9. Martha Walker, born at Castle Hill, 2d May, 17G0; married, about 1780,
George Divers, of Farmington, Albemarle Co. , Va. No issue.
10. Reuben Walker, born 8th October, 1762. died 23d August, 1765, aged 3
years.
11. Hon. Francis Walker, born at Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va. , 22d
June, 1764 ; resided there. He married, 1798, Jane Byrd Nelson, of
Yoi-ktowu, Va.
12. Peachy Walker, youngest, born at Castle Hill, 6th February, 1767 ;
married, about 1787, Joshua Fiy, of Kentuckj', and had issue. Anne
Fry, their daughter, married, about 1810, Mr. BuUit, of Kentucky, and
had issue. Among the descendants of Joshua Fry and Peachy Walker,
his wife, was James Speed, Attorney -General in Mr. Lincoln's cabinet.
V. Hon. John Walker, of Belvoir, Albemarle Co., Va.,
eldest son and second child of Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle Hill,
same county, Va. , and Mildred Thornton, the widow of Nicholas
Meriwether, his first wife, w^as born at Castle Hill, loth February,
1744, and died 2d December, 1809, aged 65 years. He was buried
at Belvoir, although his death occurred in a house near Madison's
Mill, Orange Co., Va., some distance from Orange Court House,
while he was on his waj" to Philadelphia, Pa., to undergo a surgi-
cal operation. A ruptured artery was the immediate cause of his
death. No operation had been performed. The hemorrhage oc-
curred while Hon. Col. John Walker was in his carriage. He was
speedily removed to the house aforesaid, but he expired a few moments
afterward. His wife, Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Bernard Moore,
of Chelsea, King William Co., Va., died about the same time — in
December, 1809. She was ill at Belvoir when he left home for
Philadelphia. Her sister, Anne Butler Moore, married, in 1770,
Charles Carter, of Fredericksburg, Va. , and was his second wife.
2->4 WALKER FAMILY.
Their daughter, Anne Hill Carter, was born in IT 73, and married
General Lee (Light Horse Harry), of Revolutionary fame.
Tlie following is a copy of the correspondence between Dr. Thomas Walker
and Bernard Moore, in regard to the marriage of Hon. Col. Jolm Walker to
Elizabeth Moore :
May 27th, 1764.
Dear Sir: My son, I\lr. Jolm Walker, having informed me of his intention
to pay his addresses to your daughter. Elizabeth, if lie should be agreeable to
yourself, lady and daugliter. it may not be amiss to inform you what I feel
my.self able to afford for their support, in case of an union. My affairs are in
an uncertain state ; but I will promise one thousand pounds, to be paid in
1766, and the further sum of two thousand pounds I promised to give him ; but
the imcertainty of my i^resent affairs prevents my fixing on a time of payment
— the above sums are all to be in money or lands arfd other effects, at the op-
tion of mj- said son, John Walker.
I am, sir, your humble servant,
Thomas Walker.
Col. Bernard Moore, Esqr. ,
in King William.
May 2.^th, 1764.
Dear Sir : Your son. Mr. Jolm Walker, applied to me for leave to make
his addresses to my daughter, Elizabeth. I gave him leave, and told him at
the same time that my affairs were in such a state that it was not in my power
to pay him all the money this year that I intended to give my daughter, pro-
vided he succeeded ; but would give him fi^e liundred pounds more as soon after
as I could raise or get the money ; which sums you may depend I will most
punctually pay to him.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Bernard Moore.
To THOiiAS Walker.
Castle Hill, Albemarle County, Va.
Hon. John Walker was United States Senator from Virginia in
1790. He was also Confidential Aid to General George Washington
during the Revolutionary War, and was also known as Colonel John
Walker.
The following is a copy of a letter from General George Wash-
ington to Patrick Henry, in regard to the above-mentioned John
Walker :
BELVOIR. 225
To Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia.
MoRRiSTOVVN, 24th Feby, 1777.
Dear Sir : Mr. Walker, I doubt not, informed you of the situation in
which I have placed him, in order that he may obtain the best information,
and, at the same time, have his real design hid from the world ; thereby
avoiding the evils which might otherwise result from such appointments, if
adopted by other States. It will naturally occur to you, sir, that there are some
secrets whicli cannot, or at least ought not, to be entrusted to paper, nay, which
none but the Commander-in-Chief at the time should be accjuaiuted with. If
Mr. Walker's commission, therefore, from the Commonwealth of Virginia,
should be known, it would. I am persuaded, be followed by others of the like
nature from other States, which would be no better than so manj' marplots.
To avoid tbe precedent, therefore, and from your character of Mr. AValker,
and the high opinion I myself entertain of his abilities, honor and prudence, I
have taken him into my family as an extra Aid-de-Camp, and sliall be happy
if, in this character, lie can answer your expectations. I sincerely thank you,
sir, for your kind congratulations on the latter success of the Continental arms
(would God it may continue), and your polite mention of me. Let me ear-
nestly entreat that the troops, raised in Virginia for this army, be forwarded
on, by companies or otherwise, witliout delay, and as well equipped as possible
for the field, or we shall be in no condition to open the campaign. AVith every
sentiment of respect and sympath}%
I am, dear sir, &c. , &c. ,
George Washington.
(See "Writings of George Washington.'' by Jared Sparks, Vol. IV., p. 329.
Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf ; and Hilliard, Gray & Co., 1834.)
Tbe location known as Belvoir is about three miles sontbwest
from Castle Hill, Ablemarle Co., Va., and was first settled by
Lewis. The remains of the old Lewis family burying-ground were
for a long time to be seen, but nearer to the mountain than the house
built by Col. John Walker. The original Belvoir settlement was
undoubtedly made by Lewis, who married Meriwether. It was
to the latter family that all the land in this part of the county was
originally granted by George II. The Lewis house was somewhere
near the old Lewis burial-ground, but has long since passed away.
Hon. Col. John W^alker married Elizabeth Moore in 1764, and it was about
that time that he built his first house. This house was taken down when the
second house was to be built, and moved to Milton, on the Rivanna River,
Albemarle Co. , Va. It was afterward moved down to its present location,
near Cobham, same county, and is the same that was occupied by Howell Lewis.
The second house was built about 1790. This was destroyed by fire in the
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WALKER FAMILY.
autumn of 1836. It was thought that the fire was occasioned by a defective
flue (loose mortar in the chimney) in the garret, as it was first discovered at
that point adjoining the southwest chimney. Tlie following is the ground
plan of this second Belvoir House, built by Hon. Col. John Walker in 1790 :
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There were four rooms on the first floor and three rooms upstairs on the
second floor. Above this was a very large garret. About fifty yards northeast
from the house was the kitchen, and at the same distance southwest was an
outhouse or office. Still further southwest were stables, near the mountain
road.
Just in rear of the house was an ornamental garden, and behind this was
the kitchen garden. At the north corner was a lot planted in fine trees and
shrubs, and at the northern extremity of the latter was the cemeteiy. The road,
with magnificent oaks and poplars on each side, wound gracefully along from
the house to the public highway that runs between Gordonsville and Charlottes-
ville, and entered it a little east of a point opposite old Walker's (now Grace)
Church.
The Belvoir estate was inherited by Eliza Kinloch, only grandchild of Hon.
Col. John Walker, and she married Hon. Hugh Nelson (see President Nelson).
After the death of the latter, it was divided, and the home part fell to the
youngest son. Dr. Robert W. Nelson, of Charlottesville, Albemarle Co. , Va.
He sold it in 1846 to D. C. Carver.
Hon. Col. John Walker married, in 1704, Elizabeth, daughter
of Bernard Moore, of Chelsea, King William Co., Va. She was
a granddaughter of Col. Sir Alexander Spottsvvood, Knight and
Aid-de-Camp to the Duke of Marlborough at the battle of Blenheim.
He was Governor of the Colony of Virginia, and founder of the so-
called Moore House, at Yorktown, York Co., Va.
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They had only one child, viz. :
1. Mildred Walker, born at Chelsea, King William Co. , Va. , 1st August,
1765, and married, at Belvoir, 22d February, 1781, Francis Kinloch, of
Charleston, S. C. They in turn had only one child :
(1) Eliza Kinloch, born 31.st December, 1781 ; married, 28th April,
1799, Hon. Hugh Nelson, fifth child and son of Gov. Thomas Nel-
son, of Yorktown, York Co., Va.
Mildred Walker died 17th October, 1784, and Francis Kinloch married,
secondly, Anne Middleton, of South Carolina. There is no surviving
male issue of Francis Kinloch.
The following is copied from a letter in regard to the Kinloch family in
South Carolina :
Charleston, S. C. , January 30th, 1883.
Dr. R. Channing M. Page, New York City.
Dear Sir: I am just in receipt of your favor of the 28th inst. , and hasten
to reply. Our name is usually pronounced Kinlaw. The Francis Kinloch to
whom you refer as having married, 22d February, 1781, Mildred Walker, of
Belvoir, Albemarle Co. , Va. , has now no representative of the name. I know
one of his granddaughters very well — Mrs. Singleton, of Columbia, S. C. This
lady and her sons and one daughter are special friends of my own. The family
of Kinloch, to which I belong, in this State, is large. We do not know of any
positive relationship with the family of the above-named Francis Kinloch, but
members of each family have talked it over, and we believe that such relation-
ship does exist. My father came to this country from England when quite
young ; but originally his ancestors were from Scotland. It will afford me
pleasure to meet you, should you come this way.
Very truly yours,
R. A. Kinloch, M.D.
V. Thomas Walker, Jr., of Indian Fields, Albemarle
Co., Va., fourth child and second son (being the eldest to have male
issue) of Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va.,
and Mildred Thornton, the widow of Nicholas Meriwether, his first
wife, third child and second son of Thomas Walker, of King and
Queen County, Va., and Susanna (Peachy), his wife, grandson (?)
of Thomas Walker, of Gloucester County, Va., who was a member
of the Virginia Assembly in 16(52, progenitor of the Walker Family
in Virginia, was born at Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., 17th March,
1749. The mill on the public road near Indian Fields, now known
as Cowherd's Mill, was built by Thomas Walker, and a stone in the
front wall of the building has inscribed on it the initials "T. W.,"
also the date of its erection.
INDIAN FIELDS. 229
He married, about 1774, Margaret Hoops, of Carlisle, Pa.,
whose father is said to have educated Benjamin West, the artist.
Some of their children are known to have died infants, and others
are probably not recorded. He alone of the sons of Dr. Thomas
Walker had male issue. Their children were as follows :
1. Jane Walker, born about 1775; married, aboiit 1795, Mr. Rice, of Char
lotte County, Va.
2. Elizabeth Walker, born about 1777 ; married, 1832, Mr. Michie, of Albe-
marle County, Va. No issue. She became blind, and was known as
Cousin Betsey Michie; but retained her maiden name of Walker on
the Maury monument at Grace Church. This moninnent was erected
in memory of Rev. James Maury (father of Matthew), who was the
first Rector of old Walker's Church. His wife was a Miss Walker —
probably a cousin of Dr. Thomas Walker — and it was no doubt in this
way that he became Rector of Walker's Church. The following is the
inscription : "Sacred to the Memory of Rev. James Maury, first Pastor
of Walker's Parish. Born April 8th, 1717. Died June 9th, 1769. This
Monument was erected by Elizabeth Walker, as a tribute to his Piety,
learning and worth. " She was an authoress of considerable local fame : a
novel of some length and merit by her was published in the Southern
Literally Messenger. The monument marks the spot in old Walker's
Church where the pulpit stood under which he was buried.
3. Maria Barclay Walker, born 1780 ; married, in 1805, Richard Duke, an
architect, of Albemarle Count}', Va., by whom many of the ancient
bams and machines in that county were constructed. He was the son
of Clivears Duke, who was the son of Clevieures Duke, whose grand-
father was Col. Henry Duke of Gov. Nicholson's Council, whose sister
was Elizabeth Duke, wife of Nathaniel Bacon, the rebel. Children :
(1) William Johnson Duke, eldest, born 1807; married, in 1844, Miss
Anderson, of Kentucky, and died, leaving Richard, Florence, and
Laura.
(2) Lucy A. Duke ; married, first, Wood, of Tennessee, and, secondly,
Bills, of the same State.
(3) Mary J. C. Duke ; married Smith, deceased, of Texas.
(4) Margaret Hoops Duke ; died single.
(5) Elizabeth Duke ; married Rhodes, deceased.
(6) Mildred Wirt Duke, married George Christopher Gilmer, called
Kit, brother of Gov. Gilmer.
(7) Hon. Richard Thomas Walker Duke, of Charlottesville, Albemarle
Co., Va. : Member of Congress, Commonwealth's Attorney, etc. ;
married Miss Eskridge, and has two sons and one daughter.
(8) Sallie F. Duke ; married Deskins ; she died, leaving one daughter.
(9) Charles Carroll Duke, of Mississippi ; married Hattie Walker, and
has two daughters.
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WALKER FAMILY.
(10) Mattie L. Duke ; single. Resided with Mrs. Smith, at Morea,
University of Virginia.
4. Thomas Walker, Jr., born at Indian Fields about 1785; died infant.
5. Martha Walker, born about 1788 ; married, about 1808, Mr. Goolsby, of
Kentucky.
6. John Walker, bom about 1790 ; died infant.
7. Captain Meriwether Lewis Walker, born at Indian Fields, Albemarle
Co., Va. , about 1792; removed to Logan, same county, Va. He mar-
ried, about 1817, Maria Lindsay, and had male issue.
(From a miniature painting.)
JANE BYRD NELSON,
Wife of Hon. Francis Walker, of Castle Hill.
Married 1798.
V. Hon. Francis Walker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle Co. , Va.,
eleventh child and fourth and youngest son of Dr. Thomas Walker,
of same place, and Mildred Thornton, the widow of Nicholas Meri-
wether, his first wife, was born there 22d June, 1764, and died there
in 1806, aged 42 years.
CASTLE HILL. 231
He was a Representative in the U. S. Congress from the coun-
ties of Orange and Albemarle, 1793-1795.
His watch that was worn by his sister-in-law, Maria Nelson, at the Virginia
Richmond Theatre v.-heu it was destroyed by fire, 26th December, 1811, came
into the possession of Dr. Robert W. Nelson, of Charlottesville, Albemarle Co.,
Va. A little diamond from this watch is now the property of Dr. R. C. M.
Page, of New York City, who had it set in the back of his own watch, with
the following inscription :
"This diamond belonged to Hon. Francis Walker's watch, by which was
identified the body of his sister-in-law, Maria Nelson, who was burned in the
Richmond Theatre, 26th Deer., 1811, set. 17.
"LOKDON, July 1st, 1889."
Hon. Francis Walker married, 1798, Jane Byrd, eldest child of
Col. Hugh Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., and Judith Page,
his wife. Their children were :
1. Jane Fi-ances Walker, born in the Nelson House, Yorktown, York Co.,
Va., 17th February, 1799, and married, in Richmond, Va. , 12th De-
cember, 1815, Dr. Mann Page, of Keswick (Turkey Hill), Albemarle
Co. , Va. She died at Turkey Hill, 7th February, 1873, aged 74 years.
(See Page Family, North End.)
2. Thomas Hugh Walker, only son, born 1800 ; di^ed infant, in 1805, aged
5 years.
3. Judith Page Walker, born at Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va, , 24th
* March, 1802 ; married, 24th March, 1819, Hon. William C. Rives, U. S.
Senator from Virginia. She died at Castle Hill, where she resided,
23d January, 1882, aged 80 years. Children :
(1) Francis Robert Rives, eldest, of New York City, born at Castle
Hill, 1822. He was Secretary of the U. S. Legation, in London,
1842-1845, when Hon. Edward Everett was Minister there, during
President Tyler's administration. Married, 1848, Matilda Anto-
nia, only child of George Barclay, of New York City. Both are
dead. They had : (a) George Lockhart Rives ; married, first, 1873,
Caroline Kean, of Elizabeth City, N. J. , who died, leaving issue ;
married, second, Mrs. Belmont, of New York, by whom he also has
issue ; (&) Ella Louisa Rives ; married, 1875, David King, Jr. , of
Newport, R. I. , and has children ; (c) Francis R. Rives, Jr. ; mar-
ried, first, 1879, Georgia Fellows, of New York City, who died
without issue ; he married a second time and died without issue ;
(d) Constance Rives, married Borland and has issue ; (e) Maud
Rives, twin sister to Constance : married. May, 1882, Walker
Breese Smith, of New York City, and has issue ; (/) Reginald
William Rives, married, and has issue.
232 WALKER FAMILY.
(3) William Cabell Rives, of Newport, R. I., born at Castle Hill, in
1825 ; died, 1890. He married, 1849, Grace Winthrop Sears, of
Boston, Mass. Children : (a) Dr. William C. Rives, married,
1876, Mary F. Rhinelander. of New York City ; (6) Alice Rives,
died single ; (c) Arthur Landon Rives.
(3) Alfred Landon Rives, born in 1830. He graduated with distinc-
tion at the ecole des iwnts et chausses, Paris. He served with
General Meigs in the construction of the new wing of the
Capitol at Washington, D. C. , in 18r)9-60. He married, 1859,
Sadie, daughter of James B. McMurdo, of Richmond, Va. Chil-
dren : (a) Amelie Louise Rives, the authoress, married Archie
V Chanler ; (6) Gertrude Rives, and (c) Sadie Rives.
(4) Amelie Louise Rives, born in Paris, 8th July, 1832. She was
named after the wife of Louis Philippe, who was a great friend of
the family. She married, 1854, Henry Sigourney, of Boston, Mass.
They, with three children and nurse, were lost on board tlie ill-
fated steamship, Ville du Havre, 22d November, 1873, leaving one
survivor, Henry Sigourney, Jr.
(5) Ella Rives, died single, 1891.
The following inscription is copied from the tablet in Grace
Church, Albemarle Co. , Va. :
In Memory
of
The Beloved Wife
of
WILLIAM CABELL RIVES,
Judith Page Walker,
Born 24"' March 1802
Died 23^1 January 1882.
The Vestry of Grace Church
Have caused the following Inscription
to be placed on this tablet
In token of their estimation
of her life and character ;
Through her Munificence
And untiring efforts.
This Beautiful House of Worship
was erected.
It stands a Monument
To her Piety, Zeal, and Self Consecration
to the
Master
Whom she loved and served.
Though dead, her works
do follow her.
CASTLE HILL. 233
There is one also to Mr. and Mrs, Henry Sigourney, who were
drowned at sea.
Hon. William C. Rives was born in Nelson County, Va. , 4th May, 1793,
and died at Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., 35th April, 1868, aged 75 years.
He was educated at Hampden Sidney College, and also at William and Mary
College. He removed his residence to Castle Hill in 1821.
1809-11, he studied law under Thomas Jefferson.
1814-15, Aide-de-camp to Gen. John H. Cocke, of Virginia.
1817-19, Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Nelson County.
1831, Presidential elector.
1822-23, Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Albemarle.
1823-29, Representative in the U. S. Congress.
1829-32. U. S. Minister to France, first time.
1832-34, 1836-39, 1841-45, U. S. Senator from Virginia.
1849-53, U. S. Minister to France, second time.
1853-68. Private life. Devoted his time to the internal improvements of
Virginia, the Virginia Historical Society of which he was President, and his
"History of the Life and Times of James Madison." In February, 1861, he was
a delegate to the Peace Conference.
The following is an inscription on a tablet in Grace Church, Albemarle
County, Va. :
In Memory
of
one of the Founders
of this Church.
WILLIAM CABELL RIVES, LL.D.
Statesman, Diplomatist, Historian.
Born 4th May, 1793,
Died 25th April, 1868.
Uniting a clear and capacious intellect,
A courageous and generous temper,
with sound learning
And commanding eloquence,
He won a distinguished place
among the foremost men
Whom Virginia has consecrated
To the service of the country ;
While he added lustre to his talents.
By the purity and dignity
of his public career.
And adorned his private life
with all the virtues
which can grace the character
of Husband, Father, Friend and
CHRISTIAN.
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. "
234 WALKER FAMILY.
VI. Captain Meriwether Lewis Walker, of Logan
(called after the Indian chief of that name), Albemarle Co., Va.,
sixth child and eldest surviving son of Thomas Walker, Jr., of
Indian Fields, same comity, Va., and Margaret Hoops, his wife,
fourth child and second son (being the eldest to have male issue) of
Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle Co., Va., and Mil-
dred Thornton, the widow of Nicholas Meriwether, his first wife,
third child and second son of Thomas Walker, of King and Queen
County, Va., and Susanna (Peachy), his wife, grandson (?) of
Thomas Walker, of Gloucester County, Va., member of the Virginia
Assembly in 1662, and progenitor of the Walker Family in Virginia,
was born at Indian Fields, about 1792, and died about 1861, aged
about 60 years. He was generally known as Lewis Walker, or
Captain Walker.
He married, about 1817, Maria, daughter of Col. Reuben
Lindsay and Maria Tidwell, his second wife, and the sister of
Elizabeth Lindsay, the wife of General William Fitzhugh Gordon,
of Edgeworth, Albemarle Co., Va. Mrs. Maria L. Walker died
about 1871, aged about 74 years, and her sister, Mrs. Gordon, who
resided with her youngest son. Mason Gordon, at Charlottesville,
Albemarle Co., Va., died August, 1886, aged 95.
The children of Captain M. Lewis Walker and Maria Lindsay,
his wife, were :
1. Isabella Walker, called Belle, bom about 1818 ; married, about 1836, Dr.
Peachy Harmer Gilmer, and had :
(1) Margaret W. Gilmer, burned to death in 1854, when the Indian
Fields house was destroyed by fire.
(2) Walker Gilmer.
2. Dr. Thomas L. Walker, eldest son, born at Logan, Albemarle Co., Va.,
about 1820, removed to Lynchburg, Va. Being the eldest son of the
eldest son, etc., he is the representative descendant of Dr. Thomas
Walker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle Co. , Va. He married, about 1855, -
Miss Dabuey, and has issue.
3. Reuben Lindsay Walker, born at Logan, Albemarle Co. , about 1828, re-
moved to Richmond, Va. He married, first, about 1848, Miss Eskridge,
of Staunton, Augusta Co., Va. , bj- whom he had several children. Of
these Francis Walker married, 1879, Miss Pryor, daughter of Judge
Roger A. Pryor, of the Court of Common Pleas. New York City, but
formerly of Virginia. R. Lindsay Walker married, secondly, about 1858,
Sally Elam, and has issue.
4. Margaret Walker, born about 1832 ; married, about 1856, William H. Pryor.
PABT IV.
PENDLETON FAMILY.
(From an etchius by H. B. Hall, Morrisania, N. Y., 1872.)
JUDGE EDMUND PENDLETON,
Edmundsbury, Caroline Co., Va.
Died 23d October, 1803, aged 82.
PENDLETON FAMILY.
The following is a brief account of the Pendleton family in
Virginia :
Henry Pendleton, of Norwich, England, had two sons: (1) Na-
thaniel Pendleton, minister in the Established Church of England,
who died without any known issue, and (2) Philip Pendleton.
I. Philip Pendleton, of Norwich, England, and New
Kent County, Va., about the second son of Henry Pendleton, of the
first-named place, was born there in 1650. He emigrated to the
Colony of Virginia in 1674, and settling in that portion of New
Kent County, Va., which now forms Caroline County, became the
progenitor of the Pendleton Family in Virginia. He died in the
last-named county in 1721, aged 71 years.
He went to England on a visit in 1680, and upon his returning
to Virginia, he married, in 1682, Isabella Hert (pronounced Hart).
They had three sons and four daughters, whose descendants are
scattered in every direction.
II. Henry Pendleton, eldest son and child of Philip
Pendleton, of Norwich, England, and Caroline County, Va., pro-
genitor of the Pendleton Family in Virginia, and Isabella Hert
(pronounced Hart), his wife, was born in Caroline Count}^ Va., in
1683, and died there in May, 1721, aged 38 years.
He married, in 1703, Mary, daughter of James Taylor. She
was born in 1688, survived him, and married, secondly, Ed. Wat-
kins. She died in 1770, aged 82. Henry Pendleton and Mary
Taylor, his wife, had five sons and two daughters. The two daugh-
ters married Gaines, and one of them, Isabella, was the grandmother
of General E. P. Gaines, of the United States army.
Of the five sons, we shall only notice Judge Edmund Pendle-
ton and John Pendleton. The other three sons married Bar-
bours. Turners, etc.
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240 PENDLETON FAMILY.
Judge Edmund Pendleton, of Edmundsbury, Caroline Co.,
Va., fifth child and son of Henry Pendleton, of the same county,
and Mary Taylor, his wife, was born 9th September, 1721, and died
at Richmond, Va., 23d October, 1803, aged 82 years. He married,
first, in January, 1T41, Elizabeth Roy, who died in November fol-
lowing, leaving one child, a son, who died infant.
He married, secondly, in June, 1743, Sarah Pollard, by whom
he had no issue.
There are on record iu the Virginia Land Registry Office, grants in his
name numbering nearly 10,000 acres. The following autobiography is copied
from the Richmond (Virginia) Enquirer, of the issue of April 11th, 1828:
"I was born September 9th, 1721 ; my father died some time before. In
Februar}-, 1734-35, I was bound apprentice to Col. Benjamin Robinson, Clerk
of Caroline Court. In 1737 I was made Clerk of the Vestry of St. Mary's Par-
ish, in Caroline ; with the profits I purchased a few books, and read them very
diligently. In 1740 I was made Clerk of Caroline Court-Martial. In April,
1741, with my master's consent, I was licensed to practise law as an attorney,
being strictly examined by Mr. Barradell. January 21st, 1741, I was married
to Betty, daughter of Mr. John Roy, against my friends' consent, as also my
master's, who, nevertheless, still continued his affection to me. My wife died
November 17th, 1742. I was married a second time the 20th of January, 1745,
to Sarah, the daughter of ilr. Jose^jh Pollard, who was born on the 4th day of
May, 1725. I practised my profession with great approbation and success,
more from my own good fortune and the kind direction of Providence than
my own merit ; and in October, 1745, my reputation at the County Courts
pi'ompted me to make an effort at the General Court, in which I continued until
1774, when the dispute with Great Britain commenced.
"In November, 1751, I was sworn Justice of the Peace for Caroline, and
continued to November, 1777. In January, 1752, I was elected as a Burgess
from Caroline. I was continued one of the representatives of that County with-
out interruption vmtil 1774, at which time I presided in Caroline Court and
was County Lieutenant. In June of that year news arrived of the inimical
designs of Parliament against the town of Boston, on which account the As-
sembly voted a fast, and were dissolved by the Govei-nment. A number of
members stayed in Williamsburg, to keep the fast, when news arrived of the
Boston Port Bill ; when they collected, and recommended to the people to choose
members for convention, to meet in August. I was chosen a member to that
convention, which voted the utility of a General Congress of the States, to
meet in Philadelphia the 1st of September. I was chosen, and attended that
Congress, and a second in May, 1775. In August, 1775, I was appointed Pres-
ident of the Committee of Safety, and in December following. President of the
Convention, on the death of Mr. Randolph, and re-chosen President of the new
one in May, 1776. In October, 1776, I was elected to the chair of the House of
CAROLINE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 241
Delegates, which sat under the new Constitution. In March, 1777, by a fall
from a horse, I had luy hip dislocated, and have been unable to walk ever
since, except on crutches ; however, the good people of Caroline the next month
chose me as delegate, in hope of my recovery, but I could not attend the May
session, and another Speaker was appointed, in which, however, I was highly
honored by all the candidates having promised to resign the Chair when I
should coDie. I attended on crutches in the October session, but meant then
to take leave of all public business, and retire ; but the General Court and Court
of Chancery being established, I was prevailed on by some worthy members to
consent to be nominated as a Chancery Judge, in which I was elected to the
Presidency of the whole three by a unanimous vote.
"In 1779, when tlie Court of Appeals was organized, and made to consist of
the Judges of the General Court, Chancery and Admiralty, the Chancellors
were to have the first rank, and of course I presided in that Court. In 1788,
when a new arrangement was made of the Superior Courts, and that of Appeals,
to consist of separate Judges, I maintained my rank in tliat Court, and so may
be considered as having been now fifteen years at the head of the Judiciary
Department.
" In 1788, when a State Convention was to meet to consider of a new proposed
plan of Federal government, and all the ofiicers of the State made eligible, my
good old friends in Caroline again called me to their representation in conven-
tion, and that respectable body to preside over them, indulging me in sitting in
all my otficial duties, usually performed standing. Thus, without any classical
education, without patrimony, without what is called the influence of what
is called family connection, and without solicitation, I have attained the high-
est offices of my country.
" I have often contemplated it as a rare and extraordinary instance, and
pathetically exclaimed: 'Not unto me, O Lord, but unto Thy Name, be the
praise. ' In His providence. He was pleased to bestow on me a docile and un-
assuming mind, a retentive memory, a fondness for reading, a clear head and
upright heart, with a calm temper, benevolent to all, though particular in
friendship with but few ; and if I had uncommon merit in public business, it
was that of superior diligence and attention.
" Under the Eegal Government I was a AVliig in principle, considering it as
designed for the good of society, and not for the aggrandizement of its ofiicers,
and influenced in my legislative and judicial character by that princijjle, Miien
the dispute with Britain began, a redress of grievances, and not a revolution
of government was my wish ; in this I was firm but temperate, and whilst I
was endeavoring to raise the timid to a general united opposition by stating
to the uninformed the real merits of the dispute, I opposed and endeavored to
moderate the violent and fiery, who were plunging us into rash measures,
and had the happiness to find a majority of all the public bodies confirming
my sentiments, which, I believe, was the corner-stone of our success. Although
I so long, and to so high a degree, experienced the favor of my country, I had
always some enemies ; few indeed, and I had the consolation to believe that
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242 PENDLETON FAMILY.
their enmity was unprovoked, as I was ever unable to guess the cause, unless
it was my refusing to go lengths with them as their partisan.
"July 20th, 1793. Edmund Pendleton."
"R. D. W.," in the Richmond (Virginia) Daily State, 26th May, 1881, says:
" Judge Edmund Pendleton was the first President of the Supreme Covirt of Ap-
peals of Virginia, and his autobiography will, I think, commend itself to you
as worthy of publication, and as presenting the record of a life which affords
an example that ought to be cherished. Our young men would do well to read
his life and be strengthened to follow on in his slow, steady, useful and brill-
iant career. Judge Pendleton died at the age of eighty-two years, in the full
enjoyment of his mental faculties, and almost literally in the discharge of his
official duties."
III. John Pendleton, of Caroline County, Va., elder
brother of Judge Edmund Pendleton, was about the fourth child
and son of Henry Pendleton, of same county, and Mary Taylor, his
wife, and was born in said county, about 1723, and died in April,
1799, aged about 7G years. He married twice, it is said, but the
names of his wives are unknown. By one of these marriages, prob-
ably the first, he had :
1. Edmund Pendleton, eldest, born in Caroline County, Va. , about 1748,
removed to White Plains, same county, and married, about 1773. Mil-
dred Pollard.
2. Son Pendleton, married and had two daughters but no male issue.
There were several other sons, all of whom went West except Henry Pen-
dleton, who settled in Louisa County, Va. , and raised a large family.
IV. Edmund Pendleton, of White Plains, Caroline Co.,
Va., eldest son of John Pendleton, of same county, was born there
about 1748. He married, about 1773, Mildred Pollard, called Milly,
3-oungest sister of Sarah Pollard, who was the second wife of Judge
Edmund Pendleton. They had the following children :
1. Edmund Pendleton, Jr., eldest, born at White Plains, Caroline Co.,
Va. , IBtli April, 1774, removed to Edmundton, same county. He mar-
ried, first, 23d August, 1794, Jane B. Page. He married, secondly,
16th May, 1798, Lucy Nelson.
2. Mildred Pendleton, born about 1776 at White Plains, Caroline Co., Va.,
married, about 1798, Thomas Page, about the seventh surviving son of
Hon. John Page, of North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) Co., Va. ,
and Jane Byrd, his wife. (See Page Family, North End. )
There were probably other children of Edmund Pendleton and Mildred Pol-
lard, his wife, but they are not known;
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V. Edmund Pendleton, Jr., of Edmundton, Caroline Co.,
Va., eldest son and child of Edmund Pendleton, of White
Plains, same county, and Mildred (called Milly) Pollard, his wife,
eldest son and child of John Pendleton, of same count}- (the names
of his two wives being unknown), about the fourth child and sou of
Henry Pendleton, of same county, and Mary Taylor, his wife, eldest
son and child of Philip Pendleton, of Norwich, England, and Caro-
line County (formed out of New Kent Count}-), Va., progenitor of
the Pendleton Family in Virginia, and Isabella Hert (pronounced
Hart), his wife, was born at the second above-named place, 18th
April, 1774. The date of his death is unknown.
The estate, called Edmundton, was given to him by his great-
uncle. Judge Edmund Pendleton. He married, first, 23d August,
1794, Jane Burwell, eldest daughter and about the second child of
John Page, of Caroline County, Va., and Elizabeth (called Betty)
Burwell, his wife. The latter was the mother of Capt. Hugh N.
Page, U. S. Navy, and others, and was burned to death in the
Richmond (Virginia) Theatre, 26th December, 1811. (See Page
Family, North End.) Edmund Pendleton had one child by the first
marriage, viz. :
1. Elizabeth Page Pendleton, born at Edmundton, Caroline Co., Va. , about
1795 ; nian-ied, 18th April, 1817, John C. Sutton, of Norfolk City, Va.
She died, leaving eleven children.
Edmund Pendleton, Jr. (his first wife dying), married,
secondl}-, 16th May, 1798, Lucy, second child and daughter of Col.
Hugh Nelson, of Yorktown, York Co., Va., and Judith Page, his
wife. (See President Nelson.) The children by the second marriage
were as follows :
1. Hugh Nelson Pendleton, eldest, born at Edmundton, Caroline Co. ,Va. ,
1.3th April, 1800, removed first to Clarke and then to Wythe County,
Va. He married, first, 20th February, 1829, Lucy Nelson, and, secondl}-,
about 1840, Elizabeth Digges.
2. Mildred Pendleton, bom at the same place, 21st March, 1802, maiTied,
17th November, 1825, Edmund A. Pendleton, of Augusta, Ga. Chil-
dren :
(1) Edmund Lewis Pendleton, born 28th January, 1827, married, Octo-
ber, 1850, Catista E. Norton, of Vermont, and had one daughter,
Edmonia Pendleton, married F. S. Mosher, of Augusta, Ga.
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(2) William Pendleton, born 21st June, 1828, married, 24th September,
1862, Zemula C. Walker, of Augusta, Ga. Has four sons.
(3) John Pendleton, born loth March, 1834 ; single.
(4) Hugh Pendleton, twin brother of John, born loth March, 1834,
married, December, 1867, Rebecca Jones, of Nottoway County, Va.
Has two sons and two daughters.
(0) Judith Page Pendleton, born about 1836, married, in 1858, Richard
B. Williams, of Richmond, Va. She died April, 1863, without
issue.
(6) Armistead Franklin Pendleton, born 2otli September, 1838 , married
in March, 1868, Isabella Garvin, of Augusta, Ga. , and has two
daughters and one son.
(7) Anue Elizabeth Pendleton, born 9th October, 1844 ; single.
3. Judith Page Pendleton, born at Edmundton, Caroline Co., Va. , 8th De-
cember, 1803, married, June, 1826, Robert H. Harrison, of the same
county, and died leaving two children, viz. :
(1) William L. Harrison, married, about 1832, Lama A. Lumpkin, of
Dover, King William Co. , Va. , and had Robert, Rosa, Annie, Mary,
and Lama.
(2) Mary F. Harrison, married Dr. James E. Williams^ of Richmond,
Va. No issue.
4. Dr. Francis Walker Pendleton, born at Edmundton, Caroline Co. , Va. ,
7th December, 1808, removed to Warsaw, Richmond Co., Va. He
married, January, 1834, Sarah F. , daughter of Daniel Turner, of Caro-
line County, Va. , and had :
(1) Robert Carter Pendleton, died a youth.
(2) Nannie F. Pendleton, born 1840.
(3) Mildred E. Pendleton, born 1841, married, about 1861, Tasker
Crabbe, of Richmond County, Va. She died, leaving one child,
Fannie Crabbe.
5. Rev. William Nelson Pendleton, born in Richmond, Va. , 26th Decem-
ber, 1809 ; removed to Lexington, Rockbridge Co. , Va. , where he died,
loth January, 1883, aged 74 years.
He married, in 1831, Anzolette Page, of Rugswamp, Hanover Co. , Va.,
who died loth Januar}^ 1884, just exactly one year after the death of
her husband. (See Page Family, Rosewell. ) Their children were :
(1) Susan Pendleton, married, about 1852, Ed. Lee, who died without
issue.
(2) Mary Pendleton.
(3) Rose Pendleton.
(4) Alexander S. Pendleton, only son, called Sandy, born about 1839 ;
died September, 1864. He married, 1863, Kate Corbin, of Moss
Neck, Caroline Co., Va. (See Secretary Nelson.) They had one
child that died infant. Mrs. Kate Corbin Pendleton married, sec-
ondly, Brooke, of Lexington, Rockbridge Co., Va., and has issue.
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(5) Nancy Pendleton.
(6) Leila Pendleton ; married, and has issue.
6. Robert Carter Pendleton, born at Ednumdtou, Caroline Co., Va., 14th
September, 1812; died single, at Uniontown, Pa., in 1836, aged 24
years.
7. James L. Pendleton, born at Edmnndton, Caroline Co., Va., about 1815 ;
removed to Richmond, Va. He married, in 1840, Annalethia, daughter
of Samuel S. Carter, of Richmond, Va. She died there in 1881. He
died many years before. Their children were :
(1) Samuel H. Pendleton, born about 1841, removed to New York
City ; married, 1864, Sallie A. , daughter of Philip H. Pendleton,
of Port Royal, Caroline Co., Va. They had one child, Arthur Pen-
dleton. They now reside at Elizabeth, N. J.
(2) Hugh Thomas Pendleton, died single, 3d July, 1863.
(3) Emma Walker Pendleton, married, 1882, Robert C. Little, of Co-
lumbus, Ga.
(4) Martha Carter Pendleton, married, 1871, Joseph M. Furqurean, of
Richmond, Va. , and has several children.
(5) William J. Pendleton, married, about 1875, Mary J. , daughter of
John M. Royall, of Richmond, Va.
8. Guerdon H. Pendleton, born at Edmundton, Caroline Co. , Va. , 4th April,
1817; removed to Clarke County, Va. He died about 1877, aged about
60 years. He maiTied, 11th May, 1854, Jane Byrd, daughter of Mann
Randolph Page. (See Page Family, North End. )
VI. Hugh Nelson Pendleton, of Clarke County, Va.,
eldest son and child of Edmund Pendleton, Jr., of Edmundton,
Caroline Co., Va., and Lucy Nelson, his second wife (there was
no male issue by the first wife), eldest son and child of Edmund
Pendleton, of White Plains, same county, and Mildred (called
Milly) Pollard, his wife, eldest son and child of John Pendleton, of
same county (names of his two wives unknown) ; about the fourth
child and son of Henry Pendleton, of the same county, and Mary
Taylor, his wife, eldest son and child of Philip Pendleton, of Nor-
wich, England, and Caroline County (formed out of New Kent
County), Va., progenitor of the Pendleton Family in Virginia, and
Isabella Hert (pronounced Hart), his wife, was born at the second
above-named place, 13th April, 1800. He died recently, exact age
unknown.
He married, first, 20th February, 1829, Lucy, only child of
Chancellor Robert Nelson (ninth child and youngest son of Gov.
Thomas Nelson, Yorktown, York Co., Va.) and Judith Carter
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Page, his wife, who was the ninth surviving child and youngest
daughter of Gov. John Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va., and
Frances (called Fannie) Burwell, his first wife.
Hugh Nelson Pendleton and Lucy Nelson, his first wife, had
only one child, viz. :
1. Julia Pendleton, born about 1830; died in 1865, aged about 35. She
married, about 1853, James Allen, of Bedford Coimty, Va. , who died
in August, 1862. They left one child, viz. , Hugh Allen, who is the
sole surviving descendant of Chancellor Robert Nelson.
Hugh Nelson Pendleton married, secondly, about 1840, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Dudley Digges, of Louisa County, Va., and Alice
Page, widow of Dr. John A. Smith, of Yorktown, York Co., Va.,
his wife. Alice Page, the widow Smith, was the second surviving
daughter and about the sixth child of Gov. John Page and Frances
(called Fannie) Burwell, his first wife.
Hugh Nelson Pendleton and Elizabeth Digges, his wife, had
the following children :
1. Dudley Digges Pendleton, eldest, born about 1841 ; removed to Shep-
herdstown, Jefferson Co. , W. Va. Being the eldest son of the eldest
son, etc., he was the Representative Descendant of the Pendleton Fam-
ily in Virginia, from John Pendleton, who belonged to the third gener-
ation of that family in Virginia. Dudley D. Pendleton married, about
1868, Helen Boteler, of Shepherdstown. He was accidentally caught
in machinery while threshing wheat, 25th August, 1886, and so crushed
that he died a few hours afterward, leaving his widow and several chil-
di-en.
2. Robert Nelson Pendleton, born about 1843 ; married, about 1868, Fan-
nie Gibson, and removed to Wythe County, Va.
3. Kenneth Pendleton, born about 1845 ; died young.
For further information about the Pendletons, the reader is referred to the
"History of St. Mark's Parish," Culpepper County, Va. , by Rev. Philip Slaugh-
ter, D.D. Published by Innes & Co., Baltimore, Md., 1877.
PART V.
RANDOLPH FAMILY.
(From an old print.)
JOHN RANDOLPH,
Roanoke, Charlotte Co., Va.
Died 24th May, 1838, aged 60.
RANDOLPH FAMILY.
The following is a somewhat incomplete account of the Ran-
dolph Family in Virginia.
I. Col. William Randolph, of Turkey Island, on James
River, Henrico Co., Va., the first of his family in Virginia, was
born in Yorkshire, England, about 1651. He removed to Warwick-
shire, England, and emigrated from that place to Virginia about
1674. He died loth April, 1711, aged about 60 years. The follow-
ing inscription was copied from his tombstone at Turkej'- Island,
and sent to the author in May, 1884, by Dr. Robert C. Randolph,
of Newmarket, Clarke Co., Va.
Col. W"^ Randolph of Warwickshire, but late of
Virginia, Gent, died April 11"' 1711.
Mrs. Mary Randolph his only wife, she was the daughter
of Mr. Henry Isham by Catherine his wife. He was of
Northamptonshire, but late of Virginia, Gent.
Col. William Randolph was a member of the House of Burgesses
and of the Royal Council in Virginia. He married, about 1680,
Mary, daughter of Henry Isham, of Bermuda Hundred on James
River, and Catherine, his wife, whose maiden name is unknown.
Their children, according to the order arranged by John Randolph
of Roanoke, were as follows :
- 1. William Randolph, Jr., known as Councillor Randolph, eldest, born at
Turkey Island, Henrico Co. , Va. , November, 1681 ; resided there. He
married, about 1705, Elizabeth Beverly.
2. Thomas Randolph, born at Turkey Island, Henrico Co. , Va. , about June,
1683 ; removed to Tuckahoe on James River, Goochland Co. , Va. He
married, about 1710, Judith Churchill.
3. Isham Randolph, born at Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va. , December,
1684; removed to Dungeness, Goochland Co., Va. He married, in
1717, Jane Rogers, of London, England.
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4. Richard Randolph, born at Turkey Island, Henrico Co. , Va. , about May,
1686 ; removed to Curls Neck on James River, same county, and mar-
ried, about 1714, Jane Boiling.
5. Henry Randolph, born about October, 1687, died, unmarried, in England.
He left his part of the Curls estate to his brother Richard.
6. Sir John Randolph, KJaight, born at Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va.,
about Ajiril, 1689; removed to Williamsburg, James City Co., Va.
He married, about 1718, Susanna Beverly, sister of his brother Will-
iam's wife.
7. Edward Randolph, born about October, 1690, removed to Bristol, Eng-
land. He married, about 1715, Miss Grosvenor, of that place, and had
issue. Of these, Edward married Lucy Harrison, and Elizabeth and
Mary married Yates, of Gloucester Countj', Va. Mary's husband was
the Rev. Robert Yates. Their daughter, Catherine, married Dr. Robert
Wellford, a surgeon in the English army, who settled in Fredericks-
burg, Va. His son, William Wellford, married Susan R; Nelson. (See
Secretary Nelson.)
8. Mary Randolph, born at Turkey Island, Henrico Co. , Va. , about 1692 ;
married, about 1712, Capt. John Stith. Their only son was Rev. Will-
iam Stith, President of William and Mary College, and Historian of
Virginia. According to Bishop Meade. Rev. William Stith " wrote his
historj' in 1740, and died, in 1752. at William and Mary College."
He married, in Feljruary, 1744, Judith Randolph, of Tuckahoe.
9. Elizabeth Randolph, youngest, was bom about 1695. She married, about
1711, Richard Bland, of Jordan's Point, on James River, Va., and was
his second wife. She died 22d January, 1720. Among their children
were :
(1) Mary Bland, born aljout 1712, married, about 1728, Henry Lee, of
Lee Hall. Their third son, and fourth child, Henry Lee, was born
about 1733, and maiTied, about 1755, Lucy Grymes, Washington's
Lowland Beauty, by whom he had General Lee (Light Horse Harry) ,
born 29th January, 1756, Avho was the father of Gen. Robert E.
Lee.
(2) Richard Bland, of Jordan's Point, on James River, Va. , was their
eldest son. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses ;
of the Virginia Convention of 1775, and of the First American
Congress at Philadelphia. He married Anne Poythress.
(3) Theodoric Bland, the last and 5th surviving child. Born,
1720, soon before his mother died.
II. William Randolph, known as Councillor Randolph,
of Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va., eldest son and child of William
Randolph of Yorkshire and W^arwickshire, England, and Turkey
Island, Henrico Co., Va., progenitor of the Randolph Family in Vir-
ginia, and Mary Isham, his wife, was born at the first-named place
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in November, 1G81, and resided there. He died 19th October, 174:1,
aged Gl.
The following is the inscription copied from his original tomb-
stone at Turkey Island :
Here lies the HONOURABLE WILLIAM RANDOLPH EsQR.
oldest son of Colonel William Randolph of this
place, and of Mary his wife, who was of the
ancient and estimable family of Ishams of
Northamptonshire : having been easily introduced
into business, and passed through many inferior
offices of Government, with great reputation and
eminent capacity. He was at last, by his Majesty's
happy choice and the universal approbation of his
Counti'y, advanced to the Council. His experience
in men and business, the native gravity of his
person and behaviour, his attachment to the interests
of his Country, knowledge of the laws in general,
and of the laws and constitution of his Colony in
particular, his integrity above all calumny or
suspicion, the acuteness of his parts and the
extensiveness of his genius together with the solidity
of sense and judgment in all he said or did,
rendered him not only equal but an ornament
to the higli office lie bore, and have made him
universally lamented as a most able and impartial
Judge and as an upright and useful magistrate in
all other respects. Neither was he less consjiicuous
for a certain majestic plainness of sense and
honour which can'ied him through all parts of
private life with an equal dignity of reputation ;
and deservedly obtained him the character of
the just good man in all the several duties
and relations of life — Natus November 1681
Mortuus Oct. W^ 1741
Anno ^tatis 61.
The foregoing inscription was copied September 5th, 1874, for
Dr. Robert C. Randolph, of iSTewmarket, Clarke Co., Va., by Mrs.
Charles Nelson Carter, of Shirley, on James River. The stone is a
slab near that of the father, Col. William Randolph, the first of the
Randolph Family in Virginia. The brick house, which for a long
time was the only part of the original Turkey Island mansion left,
does not now exist.
254 RANDOLPH FAMILY.
Councillor William Randolph married, about 1705, Elizabeth,
daughter of Peter Beverly, of Gloucester County, Va., and Eliza
Peyton his wife, who was a daughter of Robert Peyton, descended
from a famil}' of that name in Norfolk, England. Councillor
William Randolph and Elizabeth Beverly, his wife, had the
following children :
1. Be^rly Randolph, eldest, born at Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va. , about
1706, resided there. He married, about 1731, Miss Lightfoot, and died
without issue.
2. Peter Randolph, born at Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va. , about 1708;
removed to Chatsworth, same county. He married, about 1733, Lucy,
daughter of Robert Boiling, and had William, Beverly, Robert, and
Anne. Beverly was born at Chatsworth, in 1754, and married Martha
Cooke, by whom he had issue. He died at his residence, Green Creek,
in February, 1797. He succeeded Edmond Randolph as Governor of
Virginia, 1st December, 1788, and served until 1st December, 1791,
when he was succeeded in that office by Gen. Henry Lee (Light Horse
Harry), the father of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
3. William Randolph, born about 1710 ; removed to Wilton, Henrico ( ?)
Co., Va. He married, about 1735, Anne, daughter of Benjamin Harri-
son, of Berkeley (Harrison's Landing), on James River, Va. , and Anne
Carter, his wife. Their children were . (1) William Randolph, born
about 1736. He was probably the father of Elizabeth Randolph, who
married William Berkeley. (3) Peyton Randolph, born about 1738 ;
married, about 1763, Lucy Harrison, his cousin, and had Betty, Kid-
der, and Peyton. The latter married Anne, daughter of James Innes,
Attorney-General of Virginia. His only son, James Innes Randolph,
married Susan, daughter of Capt. Addison Armistead, U. S. army.
Of the sons of that marriage is Innes Randolph, E.'jq. , of Baltimore,
Md. (3) Anne Randolph, born about 1740; married, about 1760, Ben-
jamin Harrison, of Brandon, on James River, Prince George Co. , Va. ,
and died without issvie. (4) Elizabeth Randolph, born about 1742 ;
married, about 1762, Philip Grymes, of Middlesex Count}', Va. ; prob-
ably the brother of Lucy Grymes, who married Governor Thomas Nel-
son, of Yorktown, Va. (5) Lucy Randolph, born about 1744 ; mar-
ried, about 1764, Lewis Burwell, of Kings Mill (Kingsmel), York Co. (?),
Va. He was probably the brother of Elizabeth (called Betty) Burwell,
wife of John Page, of Caroline County, Va. (See Page Family, North
End.) r
4. Daughter Randolph, born about 1718 ; married Pricer^
5. Elizabeth Randolph, born about 1725 ; married, about 1745, Col. John
Chiswell, and had four surviving children : (1) Lucy Chiswell, mar-
ried, 24th November, 1770, Col. William Nelson, of The Dorrill, Han-
TUCKAHOE. 255
over Co., Va. (See Secretarj' Nelson.) (2) Susan R. Chiswell, mar-
ried Speaker John Robinson of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and
had issue. Mrs. Susan N. Wellford, who married Philip Burwell,
of Chappel Hill, Clarke Co., Va. , was named after her. (3) Daughter
Chiswell, married Warner Lewis. (4) Elizabeth Chiswell, married
Charles Carter of Ludloe, whose mother was ]\Iary Walke, the wife
of Charles Carter of Clere.
Col. John Chiswell and Elizabeth Randolj)!!, his wife, had no surviving
sons, so that the surname of Chiswell in Virginia has become extinct. It was
pronounced " Chizzle " in those days, and is believed to have been originally
written De Choiseul.
II. Thomas Randolph, of Tuckahoe, on James River, Gooch-
land Co., Va., second son and child of William Randolph, of York-
shire, England, and Tm-ke}' Island, Henrico Co., Va., progenitor
of the Randolph Famil}' in Virginia, and Mary Isham, his wife,
was born at Turke}' Island, Henrico Co., Va., about 1683. He
married, about 1710, Judith Churchill, of Middlesex County, Va.
There appears to be some uncertainty as to who was the wife of
Thomas Randolph, of Tuckahoe. According to Rev. P. Slaughter,
in his "History of Bristol Parish," p. 214, she was a Miss Flem-
ing. This corresponds with the statement made in Browning's
"Americans of Roj'al Descent," p. 298. On the other hand, Mrs.
Ellen Wayles Randolph Harrison, of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co.,
Va. , states that her name was Judith Churchill, and that no mar-
riage between Randolph and Fleming took place until a later period.
Mrs. Harrison suggested, however, that application for correct in-
formation on this point should be made to Wilson M. Cary, of
Baltimore, Md. In reply to a letter from the author on the subject
Mr. Cary wrote under date of 8th March, 1883, as follows:
" In the conflict of authorities as to the wife of Thomas Randolph, of Tucka-
hoe, I have always accepted Richard Randolph's accoimt rather than that of
John Randolph, of Roanoke, because the former was a professed antiquary and
more likely to be correct than the eccentric and erratic statesman who probably
took no pains to verify his opinion by general research. There being no ex-
tracts from parish records, there is nothing left but to choose between their
statements, aided by such corroborating testimony as one can obtain at this late
day."
In view of this statement, we shall assume that the wife of
Thomas Randolph, of Tuckahoe, was named Judith Churchill. o^f<^' ^M'l''^*^^
256 RANDOLPH FAMILY.
Their children were as follows :
1. William Randolph, born at Tuckahoe, Goochland Co. , Va. , in 1712,
married, about 1735, Maria Judith, second child and only daughter
of Hon. Mann Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va. , and Judith
Wormeley, his first wife.
2. Judith Randolph, born about 1724 ; married, February, 1744, Rev. Will-
iam Stith, President of William and Mary College, also Historian of
Virginia.
3. Mary Randolph, born about 1726; married, about 1746, William Keith.
Chief Justice John Marshall, of the United States, was descended
from them.
III. William Randolph, of Tuckahoe, on James River,
Goochland Co., Va., eldest son and child of Thomas Randolph, of
the same place, and Judith Churchill, his wife, was born there in
1712, and died 1745.
He married, about 1735, Maria Judith, second child and only
daughter of Hon. Mann Page, of Rosewell, Gloucester Co., Va.,
and Judith Wormeley, his first wife. Their children were as fol-
lows :
1. Mary Judith Randolph, born about 1736 ; married, about 1756, Edmund
Berkeley, Jr. , of Barnelms, Middlesex Co. , Va. , and was his first wife.
He was the eldest son of Col. Edmund Berkeley, of the same place, and
Mary Nelson, his wife, who was the only daughter and about the second
child of Thomas Nelson, known as Scotch Tom, of Yorktown, Va. , and
Margaret Reid, his first wife. They had only one child, who married
Joseph Clayton. Edmund Berkeley, Jr., married, secondly, Mary
Burwell, sister of Colonel Burwell, of Carter Hall, Clarke Co. , Va. , and
had Norboi'ne, Carter, William, Elizabeth (called Betsey) who married
Churchill and was the gi'andmother of J. Churchill Cooke and others,
Lucy who married Hepanon, Alice who married Fontaine, Sally, and
Lewis.
2. Mary Randolph, born about 1738 ; married, abovxt 1758, Tarlton Flem-
ing, of Rock Castle, Goochland Co. , Va. This was the first connection
between the Randolphs and Flemings.
3. Thomas Mann Randolph, born at Tuckahoe, Goochland Co., Va. , in 1741.
He was the only son, and married, 18th November, 1761, Anne Cary.
4. Priscilla Randolph, probably unmarried.
IV. Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe, on James River,
Goochland Co., Va., only son of William Randolph, of the same
place, and Maria Judith Page, his wife, was born there in 1741.
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He married, first, IStli November, 17G1, Anne, eldest daughter and
child of Col. Archibald Cary, of Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., Va.,
and Mary Randolph, of Curls Neck, on James River, Henrico Co.,
Va., his wife. Their children were as follows:
1. Mary Raudolpli, born 9th August, 17G'2 ; married, about 1782, David
"Meade Randolph, of Presqu' Isle, on James River, Va. She was known
as "The Queen." Of their children, Beverly was a clerk in the United
States Treasury Department, at Washington, D. C. , and three of his
sons, James, Maury, and Richard, were in the employment of the Bal-
timore and Ohio Railroad Company.
2. Henry Cary Randolph, born about 1763: died infant.
3. Elizabeth Randolph, born about 1765 ; married, about 1785, Robert Pleas-
ants, of Filmer.
4. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. , eldest surviving son, and Governor of Vir-
ginia, was born at Tuckahoe, Goochland Co.. Va. , about 1767, and
removed to Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va. He married, in 1790, Mar-
tha, daughter of Thomas Jefferson, President U. S.
5. William Randolph, born at Tuckahoe, about 1769 ; married, about 1794,
Lucy Boiling, daughter of Beverly Randolph, of Cumberland Co. , Va. ,
and died, leaving two sons, viz. :
(1) William Fitzhugh Randolph, married Jane Cary, daughter of Ran-
dolph HaiTison. of Clifton, Cumberland Co., Va. She became en-
tirely blind. Her two sons, Beverly and William Eston, resided
near her at Millwood, Clarke Co. , Va. Of these, W^illiam married
Susan, daughter of Dr. Robert C. Randolph, of Newmarket, Clarke
Co., Va. Her only daughter married George Tabb, of Gloucester
County, Va.
(2) Beverly Randolph, married Miss Mayor, of Pennsylvania, and died,
leaving one son, William Mayor Randolph, who removed to St.
Louis, Mo.
6. Archibald Cary Randolph, born about 1771 ; died infant.
7. Judith Randolph, born about 1778 ; married, about 1793, her cousin,
Richard Randolph, of Bizarre, who was the brother of John Randolph,
of Roanoke. They had one son, wdio died a deaf-mute, and left
quite a large pi'operty to be divided among his heirs according to law.
Of these, Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle
Co. , Va. , received about forty dollars !
8. Anne Cary Randolph, born at Tuckahoe about 1775 ; married, about
1795, Gouverneur Morris, of Morrisania, N. Y. , U. S. Minister to
France.
9. Jane Cary Randolph, born about 1777, married, about 1797, Thomas
Eston Randolph, of Bristol, England, and had :
(1) Mann Randolph, Captain U. S. Nav}^
(2) Dr. James Randolph, of Tallahassee, Fla. , married Miss Heywood.
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258 RANDOLPH FAMILY.
(3) Lucy Randolph, married Parkhill, of Jacksonville, Fla.
(4) Harriet Randolph, married Dr. Willis ; no issue.
(5) Elizabeth Randolph, married Francis Wayles Eppes.
(6) Dr. Arthur Randolph, of Tallahassee, Fla., married Miss Duval,
and has issue.
10. Dr. John Randolph, born at Tuckahoe, Goochland Co. , Va., about 1779;
removed to Middle Quarter, same county. He married, about 1804,
Judith Lewis, of Amelia County, Va. They had several children, the
eldest of whom, William Lewis Randolph, married Margaret, daughter
of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va.,
and had : (o) William L. Randolph, Jr., married, 1866, Agnes Dillon,
of Savannah, Ga. They reside near Charlottesville, Albemarle Co.,
Va. , and have five children ; (b) Margaret Randolph, married Ed. C.
Anderson, and had four children.
11. George Washington Randolph, born about 1781 ; died infant.
12. Harriet Randolph, born about 1783 ; married, about 1803, Richard S.
Hackley, of New York, Consul to Cadiz. He died, leaving two daugh-
ters, one of whom married Captain Talcott, and had several sons and
daughters. One of the sons, Randolph Talcott, removed to Richmond,
Va.
13. Virginia Randolph, born at Tuckahoe, Goochland Co., Va. , 31st Janu-
ary, 1786. She married, at Monticello, Albemarle Co., Va. , 38th
August, 1805, Wilson Jefferson Gary, of Carysbrooke, Fluvanna Co. ,
Va. He was the great-nephew of United States President Thomas
Jefferson. Their children were :
(1) Col. Wilson Miles Gary, born at Carysbrook, Fluvanna Co.,
Va. , 1806 ; removed to Baltimore County, Md. , and represented
that countj^ for six years in the Maryland State Senate. He mar-
ried, in 1832, Jane Margaret, daughter of Peter Carr and Hetty
Smith, his wife. The latter was niece of Gen. Samuel Smith, of
Baltimore, Md. Their children were as follows : (a) Sarah Nicho-
las, married J. Howard McHenry, of Baltimore ; (b) Virginia,
died infant; (e) Hetty, married, first, Maj.-Gen. John Pegram,
and, secondl}'. Prof. Newell Martin, of Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore ; (d) Virginia Randolph, died young ; (<?) Wilson Miles,
attorney, of Baltimore, Md., representative of the Gary Family of
Virginia, born 1838; (/) John Brune, married Fannie E. , daughter
of William S. Daniel, of Jefferson County, W. Va. ; {g) Jenny ;
{h) Sidney Carr, of the firm of Gary & Co. , merchants, Baltimore,
Md.
(2) Archibald Gary, born at Carysbrook Fluvanna Co. , Va. ; removed
to Cumberland County, Md. He married Monimia, daughter of
Thomas, ninth Lord Fairfax, and died, leaving three children :
(«) Falkland, a brilliant youth, died young; (&) Constance, mar-
ried Burton N. Harrison, of Mississippi, removed to New York
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City ; (c) Clarence, married, 1878, Elizabeth, daughter of Howard
Potter, of the baukiug- firm of Brown Bros., New York City.
(3) Jane Blair Cary, married Rev. E. D. Smith, of New York City.
(4) Mary Randolph Cary. married Dr. Orlando Fairfax.
(5) Martha J'^^tlVrson Cary, married her first cousin, Gouverneur Mor-
ris, of Morrisania, N. Y.
Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe, married, second!}-, about
1790, Gabriella Harvej^ by whom he had another Thomas Mann
Randolph, who was, oonsequentl)-, the half-brother of Gov. Thomas
Mann Randolph, of Edge Hill.
The said Thomas Mann Randolph, son of Gabriella Harvey, married, first,
Harriet Wilson, and had :
(1) John Randolph, married Margaret Timberlake, of Washington,
D. C.
(2) Mary Randolph, married John, son of Professor Chapman, M.D.,
of Philadelphia, Pa.
(3) Margaret Randolph, married F. A. Donkins.
(4) Harriet, married Albei-t S. White.
Thomas Mann Randolph, son of Gabriella Harvey, married, secondly, Miss
Patterson, and had :
(1) Henry Randolph, of Washington, D. C, clerk in one (if the depart-
ments there.
(2) Daughter Randolph, married Mr. Howard, of Baltimore, Md.
V. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., of Edge Hill, Albe-
marle Co., Va., Governor of Virginia, was the fourth child and
eldest surviving son of Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe,
Goochland Co., Va., and Anne Cary, his wife, and was born at
Tuckahoe about 1767.
He was Governor of Virginia 1819-1821, and was a Presiden-
tial Elector in 1825.
He married, in 1790, Martha, daughter of U. S. President Thomas
Jefferson, and Martha Wayles, his wife. Their children were :
1. Anne Cary Randolph, born 1791 ; married, about 1810, Charles Bankhead,
and had :
(1) Daughter ; married John Carter.
(2) Thomas M. R. Bankhead ; died in Arkansas, without issue.
(3) John Bankhead ; lives in Missouri, and has a family.
(4) William Bankhead ; removed to Alabama.
2. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, eldest son, born at Edge Hill, Albemarle
Co. , Va. , 1792 ; he resided there, and married, 1815, Jane Nicholas.
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3. Ellen Randolph, born about 1794 ; died infant.
4. Ellen Wayles Randolph, born abovit 1790 ; married, about 1834, Joseph
Coolidge, of Boston, Mass. , and had :
(1) Joseph R. Coolidge ; married Julia Gardiner.
(3) Bessie ; died infant.
(3) Ellen R. Coolidge ; married Edmund Dwight.
(4) Sidney Coolidge ; killed in the United States army, at Chattanooga.
1864.
(5) Algernon Coolidge, twin brother of Sidney ; married Mary Lowell.
(6) Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, minister to France, succeeding White-
law Reid, during the administration of President Benjamin Har-
rison ; married Mehitabel (Hettie) Appleton.
5. James Madison Randolph, born about 1798 ; died single.
6. Cornelia Jefferson Randolph ; died single.
7. Mary Jefferson Randolph ; died single.
8. Virginia Randolph, born about 1801 -. married, about 1821, N. P. Trist,
who made the Treaty of Hidalgo Guadaloupe, after the Mexican
war (1848), and had:
(1) Thomas Jefferson Trist, deaf-mute ; married Ellen Lyman, also a
deaf-mute, of Boston, Mass. No issue.
(8) Martha Jefferson Trist ; married John Burke, of Alexandria, Va. ,
and had seven children.
(3) Dr. H. B. Trist; married Anna Warring, of Savannah, Ga. , and
has seven children also.
9. Benjamin Franklin Randolph, born about 1805 ; married, about 1828,
Sarah Carter, and had :
(1) Meriwether Lewis Randolph ; married Louisa Hubard. and has five
children.
(3) Septimia Anne Randolijh, married Dr. David Meikleham, and had
William Morland Meikleham, who married in New York and lives
in Fordliam, with three children — Alice Scott, Randolph, and
Ellen Wayles.
10. Meriwether Lewis Randolph, born about 1808 ; married, about 1830,
Eliza Wharton. No issue.
11. George Wythe Randolph, born about 1815 ; married, about 1853, Mary
E. Adams (the widow Pope). No issue.
VI. Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Edge Hill, Albe-
marle Co., Va., eldest son and second child of Governor Thomas
Mann Randolph, Jr., of the same place, and Martha Jefferson (daugh-
ter of U. S. President Thomas Jefferson), his wife, third child and
eldest son of Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., of Tuckahoe, Goochland
Co., Va., and Anne Cary, his wife, eldest son and child of William
Randolph, of the last-named place, and Maria Judith Page, his wife
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(who was the daughter of the first Mann Page and Judith VVormeley,
his tirst wife) , eldest son and cliild of Thomas Randolph, of the same
place, and Judith Churchill, his wife, second son and child of Will-
iam Randolph, of Yorkshire, England, and Turkey Island, Henrico
Co., Va., i^rogenitor of tlie Randolph Family in Virginia, and Mary
Isham, his wife, was born at the first above-named place in 1792,
and died there in 1875, aged 83 years. He was buried at Monticello,
in the Jefferson graveyard.
He was a Presidential Elector in 1845, and was President of the
National Democratic Convention, which met in Baltimore, Md., in
1873. He was also chosen President of the Philadelphia Centennial
Exhibition of 1876; but, as already stated, died a short time before
its opening. He married, in 1815, Jane, daughter of Gov. Wilson
Cary Nicholas, of Warren, Albemarle Co. , Va. Their children were :
1. Margaret Smith Randolph, born about 1810; married, about 1886, Will-
iam Lewis Randolph.
3. Patsey Jefferson Randolph, born about 1817 ; married, about 1838, J. C.
Randolph Taylor, of Albemarle Count}*, Va. , and had :
(1) Benuet Taylor; married, about 1865, Lucy Colston, and had six
children.
(2) Jane Randolph Taylor.
(3) Susan Beverly Taylor ; married John Blackburn.
(4) Jefferson Randolph Taylor, lawyer. Resides at Charlottesville, Al-
bemarle Co. , Va.
(5) Margaret Randolph Taylor.
(6) Charlotte Taj^lor ; died infant.
(7) Cornelia Jefferson Taylor.
(8) Stevens Mason Taylor.
(9) Edmund Randolph Taylor.
(10) Sidney W. Taylor ; died infant.
(11) I. C. Randolph Taylor ; died infant.
(12) Moncure Robinson Taylor.
3. Cary Anne Nicholas Randolph, born about 1820; married, about 1840,
Frank G. Ruffin, of Albemarle County, Va. , and had :
(1) Jefferson Randolph Ruffin.
(2) William Roane Ruffin ; married, about 1868, Miss Mcllvaine, of
Petersburg, Dinwiddle Co., Va. , and has several children.
(3) Wilson Cary Nicholas Ruffin : married, about 1870, Mary Harvey.
(4) George Randolph Ruffin ; removed to Texas.
(5) Frank Gildart Ruffin. Jr.
(6) Eliza McDonald Ruffin.
2G2 RANDOLPH FAMILY.
(7) Gary Randolph Ruffin.
4. Mary Buchanan Randolph, born about 1821 ; died infant.
o. Mary Buchanan Randolph (No. 2) , bom about 1823 ; resides, unmarried,
at Edge Hill, and is principal of the school there. She very much re-
sembles the porti-ait of Thomas Jefferson (President U. S. ) .
6. Ellen Waj'les Randolph, born about 1825 ; married, about 1860, William
B. Harrison, of Upper Brandon, on James River, Charles City Co. , Va. ,
and was his second wife. She resided at Edge Hill after the death of
her husband. Two children, viz. :
(1) Jane Nicholas Han'ison.
(2) Jefferson Randolpli HarrLson.
7. Maria Jefferson Carr Randolpli. born about 1827: married, about 1848,
Charles Mason, and had :
(1) Jefferson Randolph Mason ; removed to San Antonio. Tex.
(2) Lucy Roy Mason.
(3) John Enoch Mason, Commonwealth's Attorney, King George
County, Va.
8. Caroline Ramsay Randoljih, born about 1828 ; resided, unmarried, at
Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va.
"J. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Jr., eldest son, bom at Edge Hill, Albe-
marle Co. , Va. , about 1830 ; removed to Shadwell, same county ; he
married, first, about 1854, Mary Walker Meriwether, who died July,
1863, leaving:
(1) Frank Meriwether Randolph : maiTied Charlotte Macon.
(2) Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Jr.
(3) ^largaret Douglas Randolph : died young.
(4) Francis Nelson Randolph : died young.
(5) George Geiger Randol^jh.
He married, secondly, in 1865, Charlotte N. Meriwether, and had one
child, viz. , Mary Walker Randolph. He was accidentally killed by a blast
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, about 1870, aged al)out 40 years.
His second wife died about 1876.
10. Dr. Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph, bom at Edge Hill. Albemarle Co. ,
Va. , about 1832; removed to Charlottesville, same county. He mar-
ried, about 1855. Mary Holliday. of that place, and had :
(1) Virginia Rawlings Randolph.
(2) Wilson C. N. Randolph, Jr.
(3) Mary Walker Randolph.
(4) Julia Minor Randolph.
11. Jane Nicholas Randolph, born about 1834 ; married, about 1856, R. Gar-
lick H. Kean, and had :
(1) Launcelot Kean.
(2) Patsey Carj- Kean.
(3) Jefferson Randolph Kean.
(4) Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Jr.
12. Meriwether Lewis Randolph, born at Edge Hill, Albemarle Co. , Va.,
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about 1836 ; died there in 1870, aged about 34 years. He married, 1869,
Anna Daniel, and left one child that died infant.
13. Sarah Nicholas Randolph, authoress, born at Edge Hill, Albemarle Co.,
Va. , about 1838. She removed to Maryland, and became the principal
of the Patapsco Institute there. Died, unmarried, in Baltimore, Md.,
25th April, 1892.
II. IsHAM Randolph, of Dungeness, on James River, Gooch-
land Co., Va., third son of William Randolph, of Yorkshire, Eng-
land, and Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va., progenitor of the Ran-
dolph Familj' in Virginia, and Mary Isham, his wife, was born at
Turkey Island about 1G90.
He married, in 1717, Jane Rogers (or Rodgers) of Shadwell
Street, London, England, and their children were :
1. Jane Randolph, born in London, England, 1720; married, 1738, Peter
Jefferson, of Shadwell near the Rivanna River, Albemarle Co., Va.
This place was evidentlj^ named Shadwell after Shadwell Street, Lon-
don, England, and not because shad-fish formerly came up the Rivanna
River to that point. Of their children, were :
(1) Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,
eldest, born 1743 ; died 4th July, 1826, aged 83 years. He mar-
ried, 1772, Martha, daughter of John Wayles, of The Forest, Charles
City Co., Va., and had two surviving children, viz. : (a) Martha
Jefferson ; married, 1790, Governor Thomas Mann Randolph, of
Edge Hill, Albemarle Co., Va. , father of Col. Thomas Jefferson
Randolph, of the same place. (b) ^laria Jefferson ; married, 1796,
John Wayles Eppes, of Bermuda Hundred, Chesterfield Co. , Va. ,
and had one child, viz. , Francis Eppes, of Poplar Forest, Bedford
Co., Va. , who married, first, 1822, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Eston Randolph, of Ashton, Albemarle Co., Va., and had Jane,
John, Jefferson, Rev. William, and Elizabeth. He married, sec-
ondly, Mrs. Crouch, by whom he had four or five children.
(2) Randolph Jefferson.
(3) Martha Jefferson ; married John Boiling.
(4) Daughter Jefferson ; married Dabney Carr.
(5) Daughter Jefferson ; married Lewis.
(6) Daughter Jefferson ; married Marks. ,
2. Susanna Randolph, born about 1743 ;-'married, about 1764, Carter Henry
Harrison, of Clifton, grandson of Robert (King) Carter, and had :
(1) Robert Harrison, removed to Kentucky, and married Anne Cabell.
He was the grandfather of Carter H. Harrison, who was Mayor of
Chicago.
(2) Anne Harrison, married Thomas Drew.
(3) Peyton Harrison, married Elizabeth Barclay.
264 RANDOLPH FAMILY.
(4) Elizabeth Harrison, married Bradley.
(5) Eandolpli Harrison, of Clifton, Cumberland Co., Va. , married, 20th
March, 1790, at Dungeness, his first cousin, Marj' Randolph. He
was born at Clifton, 11th February, 1769.
(6) Carter Henry Harrison, Jr. , graduated at William and Mary Col-
lege. He died in 1800 when just beginning to practise law.
3. Thomas Isham Randoliih, eldest son ; born at Dungeness, Goochland Co. ,
Va. , about 1745; resided there. He married, about 1768, Jane, third
cliild and daughter of Col. Archibald Cary.
4. William Randolph, born about 1747 ; removed to Bristol. He married
Miss Little.
5. Mary Randolph ; married, about 1770, Charles Lewis.
6. Elizabeth Randolpli ; married, about 1771, John Railej'.
7. Dorothy Randolph ; married, about 1773, John Woodson, of Goochland
County, Va.
8. Anne Randolph, born about 1755 ; married, first, about 1775, Daniel
Scott, by whom she had no issue. She married, secondly, Jonathan
Pleasants, and had Samuel and Jane. She married, thirdly, James
Pleasants, of Goochland County, Va. , and had :
(1) James Pleasants, Governor of Virginia.
(3) Susan Pleasants ; married Webster.
III. Thomas Isham Randolph, of Dungeness, on James
River, Goochland Co., Va., eldest son of Isham Randolph, of the
same place, and Jane Rogers, his wife, was born there about 1745.
He married, about 1768, Jane, third child and daughter of Col.
Archibald Cary, of Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., Va., and Mary Ran-
dolph, of Curls, his wife. Their children were as follows :
1. Archibald (called Archie) Cary Randolpli, eldest, born about 1769, at
Dungeness, Goochland Co., Va. He married, about 1794, Lucy, daugh-
ter of Col. Nathaniel Burwell, of Carter Hall, Clarke Co., Va. , and
had :
(1) Isham Randolpli, eldest, killed by lightning at Benlomond, near
Dungeness, Goochland Co., Va. ; unmarried.
(3) Dr. Philip Grymes Randolph, U. S. army, born about 1769 ; mar-
ried, about 1784, Mary O'Neal, of Washington, D. C, and died
leaving two davighters : (a) Mary Conway Randolph, married
Beverly Randolpli of the U. S. Navy, and(b) Henrietta Randolph,
married Pendleton. Beverly Randolph and Mary, his wife, had
Beverly, died young, 2d March, 1865 ; Nathaniel, also died young,
3d January, 1874 ; Mary Harrison, married, 26th June, 1877, Perry
W. Charington, of England ; Grymes, married Ruth, daughter of
Benjamin O' Fallon, of St. Louis, Mo., and Miss Carter, his wife,
who was descended from Councillor William Randolph and Robert
DUAGENESS. 265
(Kiug) Carter, William Fitzlnigh, Estou, and Julian. Ono of the
brothers married Rebecca Rosalie O'Fallon, sister of Ruth.
Dr. Philip Grymes Randolph was at one time chief clerk in the
U. S. War Department and bearer of dispatches to Spain under
General oacksons administration.
(3) Susan (irymes Randoljih ; married, about 1839, Dr. Robert Powell
Page, of The Briai-s, Clarke Co. , Va. , and was his second wife.
(See Page Family, Broadneck.)
(4) Mary (called Polly) Cary Randolph, married Dr. Matthew Page.
(See Page Family, Rosewell.)
(5) Dr. Robert C. Randolph, of Newmarket, Clarke Co., Va. ; died in
1886. He married, about 1830, LucyNelsou, only child of William
Wellford and Susan R. Nelson, his wife. She was the great-great-
granddaughter of Councillor William Randolph, and great-grand-
daughter of Secretary Thomas Nelson. (See Secretary Nelson.)
They had: (a) Bettie Burwell Randolph, married Warren C. Smith,
of Clarke Co., Va., and has two sons and three daughters; (h) Dr.
Archie Carj' Randolph, eldest son, married 29th September, 1881,
Mrs. Susan Henrj-, nee Burwell ; no surviving issue ; (c) Col. Will-
iam Wellford Randolph, married, 1863, Ada Stewart, of King
George County, Va. He was killed at the battle of the Wilder-
ness, May 6th, 1864, leaving one son, William Wellford, Jr. ; {d)
Philip Burwell Randolph, died at the Uni\ersity of Virginia, 1857,
"while a student ; {e) Thomas Hugh Burwell Randolph, married
Eliza Page Burwell, daughter of George H. Burwell, of Carter Hall,
Clarke Co., Va. , and had one son, Robert Carter; (/) Robert Car-
ter Randolph, Jr. , died single in 1864 ; (g) Susie Wellford Randolph,
- married William Estou Randolph, of Halifax County, Va. , and has
two daughters and one son, Henry Isham. These three children
trace their lineage back to six of the seven sons of William Ran-
dolph I., of Tvn-key Island ; {h) Isham Randolph, of Chicago, -chief
engineer of the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad, married
Mary, daughter of George Taylor, formerly of Richmond, Va. , and
has one son, Robert Isham : (/) Polly Cary Randolph, youngest.
Three others died infant. All of the children of Dr. Robert C. Ran-
dolph and Lucy Nelson Wellford, his wife, are descended from five
of the seven sons of William Randolph I., and \heir daughter
Susan's children from six. The seventh son of William Ran-
dolph I., Edward, removed to Bristol, England, and so became
separated.
(6) Lucy Burwell Randolph ; married Rev. Eleazar Hutchinson, and
had several children : (a) Robert Randolph Hutchinson, of St.
Louis, Mo., (6) Lewis Burwell Hutchinson, of Mississippi, and (c)
Mary Talcott Hutchinson, who married Robert Anderson, of Scot-
land. There were others w^ho died young.
2. Isham Randolph, born at Dungeness, Goochland Co. , Va. , about 1770 ;
266 RANDOLPH FAMILY.
removed to Richmond, Va. He married, about 1795, Nancy Coupland,
of the same place, and had :
(1) Julia Randolph, born about 1805 ; married, 1st February, 1837,
Thomas Nelson Page, of Shelly, Gloucester Co., Va. (See Page
Family, Rosewell.)
(3) Jane Randolph.
(3) Fannie P. Randolph, born about 1808 ; married, 1837, William N.
Page, of <^?i Ira, Cumberland Co. , Va. (See Page Family, North End. )
(4) D. Coupland Randolph, born about 1810 ; married, 1857, Harriet R.
Page, of Union Hill, Cumberland Co., Va. (See Page Family,
North End. )
3. Thomas Randolph, twin brother of Lsham. He married, first. Miss
Skipwith, and had one child, a daughter, who inarried Walkins, but
without issue. He married, secondly. Miss Lawrence, granddaughter
of Governor Findley, of Kentucky ( ?) , and had Mary, who married
William Sheets. Tliey had several children. Mrs. Sheets removed to
Indianapolis, Ind. He was killed at the battle of Tippecanoe, Indiana,
November 5th, 1811. In this battle Gen. William Henry Harrison,
grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison, gained a complete vic-
tory over the Indians led by the famous chief Tecumseh, and the latter
was killed. This victory gave General Harrison the soubriquet of Tip-
pecanoe, and hence the origin of the political campaign phrase when
he was elected President of the United States with John Tyler, of Vir-
ginia, as Vice-President, of "Tiijpecauoe and Tyler too." Thomas Ran-
dolph and Joe Devies, two friends and gallant spirits, were both killed
in this battle and buried together under an oak-tree on which their
initials were cut. Some beautiful lines were subsequently published
by Mrs. Mary Sheets, called "The Lost Initials."
4. Mary Randolph, born at Ampthill, Chesterfield Co. , Va. , 1st February,
1773 ; married, 30th March, 1790, her first cousin, Randoljih Harrison,
of Clifton, Cumberland Co., Va. , and had fourteen children as follows:
(1) Thomas Randolph Harrison, born at Clifton, 37th February, 1791,
died at Dover, Goochland Co., Va. , 3d November, 1833, aged 48.
He married at Cartersville, Cumberland Co. , Va. , 3d December,
1813. Eliza Cunningham, and had : (a) John, born 30th September,
1813 ; {h) Mary Burleigh, born August 1st, 1815 ; (c) William Mor-
timer, born August 4th, 1817, and married Caroline Lambert.
Their daughter Mary married Major Drewry, of Westover, Charles
City Co., Va. Major Drewry formerly resided at Drewry 's Bluff
on James River, but subsequently removed to Westover, the old
Byrd estate. Elizabeth (called Lizzie), the second daughter of
William Mortimer Harrison and Caroline Lambert, his wife, mar-
ried Robert Carter Wellford, of Sabine Hall, Richmond Co. , Va. ;
(d) Eliza Cunningham, bom October 19th, 1819 ; (e) Jane Gary,
born August 14th, 1831; (/) Edward C, born March 10th, 1833;
{g) Thomas Randolph, born September 30th, 1835 ; (li) Burleigh
DUNGEXESS. 267
Cunningham, born August 30th, 1827 ; (/) Archibald Tayloe, born
October itSth, 1829; (k) Randolph, born August 38th, 18:31, removed
to California.
(3) Carter Henry Harrison, born at Clifton, Cumberland Co. , Va. , 28th
August, 1792, removed to Glentivar, same coimty. He married,
16th January, 1819, at Richmond, Va. , Janetta Fisher, and had
many children. He died at Bremo, Hanover Co. , Va. , in October,
1843, aged 51 years.
(3) Archibald (called Archie) Morgan Harrison, born September 6th,
1794; married, first, at Blackheath, 27th February, 1817, Kitty
Heth ; and, secondly, at Gleuavou, Fluvanna Co., Va., 22d Novem-
ber, 1837, Fanny Taylor, who, becoming a widow, married Ellis,
of Richmond, Va. Archie Harrison died at Carysbrook, Fluvanna
Co., Va. , 17th March, 1842, leaving three children, but it is not
known by which of his two wives : (a) Mrs. Kidder Taylor ; (b)
Mrs. Robert Morrison ; (c) Henry Harrison.
(4) Jane Cary Harrison, born at Glentivar, Cumberland Co., Va., 9th
February, 1797 ; married there, in September, 1817, AVilliam Fitz-
hugh Randolph, of Fauquier County, Va. She died November 28th,
1883, at The Moorings, Clarke Co. , Va.
(5) Randolph Harrison, of Elk Hill, Goochland Co., Va. , born 17th
Februaiy, 1799; married, at Wilton, Logan Co., Ky. , 6th Septem-
ber, 1821, Miss Heningham Carrington Wills. He died at Norfolk,
Va. , 18th May, 1844. Their children were : («) Elizabeth, born
1st March, 1823, married at Elk Hill, 28th December, 1848, Alex-
ander B. Gordon, of Baltimore, Md. , and had two sons, Randolph
Harrison and Heningham, and three daughters, Margaret, Emily,
and Mary Nicholas ; (b) William Morton, died infant ; (c) Mary
Randolph, born 26th November, 1825, died infant 26tli May, 1832 ;
(d) Julian, born 6th Febrviary, 1826, resided at Millview, a part
of the Elk Hill estate. He was killed by the accidental dis-
charge of a pistol, 17th July, 1877. He married, first, 7th June,
1849, Lavinia Beverly Heath, by whom he had Heath, Julian,
Walter, Belle, Fannie, and Virginia, and Lulie who died ; and,
secondly, he married, 13th June, 1866, at Narragansett Pier, R. I. ,
Miss Lilly Johnston, by whom he had Hebe, Lizzie, Peyton Ran-
dolph, Bernard, and Alexander ; the latter died infant. Hebe John-
ston, sister of Lilly Johnston, married Joseph H. Craig, of Lex-
ington, Ky. , and had Richard and Joseph. Young Joseph J.
Craig and his cousin, Peyton R. Harrison, at present reside in
New York ; (e) Heningham, died infant, September, 1829 ; (/)
Louisa, born 2d October, 1829, married at Elk Hill, 26th May, 1853,
Alexander B. Hagner, of Annapolis, Md. , no issue ; (g) Randolph,
bora 13th February, 1830, resided at Elk Hill; married, Novem-
ber, 1853, Elizabeth Williamson, of Norfolk Va. , and had is-
sue. He afterward removed to Williamsburg, James City Co. , Va.
268 RANDOLPH FA3nLY.
(6) Rev. Peyton Harrison, of Baltimore, Md. , born at Clifton, 19th
November, 1800. He married, first, at Richmond, Va. , in 1825,
Jane, daughter of Judge Dabney Carr, who was a nephew of Presi-
dent Thomas Jefferson. They had five sons, only one of whom,
Harry Tucker, survives. He lives near Baltimore. There wei'e
also five daughters, of whom two survive : Virginia, married Hoge,
and Willie Irving, married Turnbull. The children that died were
Mrs. Betty Atkinson, Randolph, Dabney Carr, Peyton, William
Wirt, Mrs. Hunter, and Nannie. Rev. Peyton Harrison married,
secondly, at Philadelphia, in 1863, Ellen Smith, by whom he had
one son, Sam Graeme, who resides in Baltimore.
(7) William Mortimer Harrison, born at Clifton, 23d September, 1802 ;
was drowned 19th May, 1811, in the Rivanna River, Albemarle Co.,
Va. , while a schoolboy at Edge Hill, and was buried at Monticello.
His father, who was at Clifton, dreamed tliree times during the
night that lie had seen his son William struggling in the water.
Before daylight a messenger arrived with the fatal news. When
Mr. Harrison heard the knock on the door he remarked to his wife
that he feared his dream had come true.
(8) Mary Randolph Harrison, born at Clifton, September 10th, 1804;
married, 8th February, 1827, at the same place, William Byrd
Harrison, of Upper Brandon, on James River, Prince George Co.,
Va. , and was his first wife. She died at Upper Brandon, 3d Sep-
tember, 1851. Children: (a) Randolph Harrison, of Ampthill, Cum-
berland Co. , Va. , married Harriet Hielman ; (b) Col. Benjamin
Harrison, of The Rowe, Charles City Co., Va. ; married, 11th No-
vember, 1854, Polly R. Page. Col. Harrison was killed at the battle
of Malvern Hill, in the summer of 1862, as before stated. (See
Page Family, North End.) There were several children ; (o) Shir-
ley Harrison; (d) Dr. George Harrison, of Washington, D.C. ;
married, 1876, Jennie, daughter of Dr. Robert Stone, of that city,
and Margaret Ritchie, his wife. Dr. Stone was the first to see
President Lincoln after the assassination. Dr. George Harrison
and Jennie Stone, his wife, have several children.
(9) Susanna Isham Harrison, born at Clifton, September 13th, 1806 ;
married there, December 15th, 1837, Rev. Samuel Blain. They re-
moved to Louisville, Ky. Children : (a) Daniel, minister in the
Presbyterian church ; (h) INIary Randolph ; (c) Randolph Harrison ;
(d) Charlotte, married Charles Richardson, and died lea%ing several
children; (e) Lucia Cary. They all live in Louisville, Ky., ex-
cept Daniel.
(10) Lucia Cary Harrison, born at Clifton, 19th May, 1809 ; married,
19th March, 1829, at the same place. Nelson Page, of The Fork,
Cumberland Co. , Va. , and was his first wife. She died at that
place, August 8th, 1842. Their children were : (a) Mary Randolph,
called Polly, who married Col. Benjamin Harrison and had issue
WILLIAMSBURG. 2G9
as befort' stati'd ; aud (b) Lucius Cary, died young. (See Page
Family, North End.)
(11) Catherine Lilbourne Harrison, born at Clifton, M July, 1811;
married there, 2d October, 1831, Jolin 8. McKim, of Baltimore,
Md., aud had: (o) Emily; (6) Mary Randolph ; (c) Margie Telfair ;
(d) Telfair; (e) Carter Henry, and (/) Rev. Randolph Harrison
McKim, of Washington, D. C. The latter married, in 1862, Miss
Philips, of Staunton, Augusta Co. . Va.. and had several children. Of
these Dr. McKim, formerly of the Chambers Street Hospital, New
York, and late of Washington, D. C. , died a few years ago un-
married.
(12) Williana Mortimer Harrison (called Willie), born at Clifton, 17th
May, 1813 ; married. .Jtli October, 1830, Henry Page Irving, who
removed to California She died at Richmond, Va. , 7th February,
1847. They had two sons: («) Joseph Kincaid, who went to school
at Hanover Academy. 18/)5-56. He died, of wounds received in
battle, at Staunton, Augusta Co., Va. , in 1864; {h) Henry, died in-
fant, a few days before his mother in 1847, aged 2 years.
(13) Virginia Randolph Harrison, born 24th May, 1815 : died at Rich-
mond, Va., 10th December, 1830, aged \~).
(14) Nannie Hartwell Harrison, born at Clifton, 18th Februarj^ 1819 ;
married, 18th June, 1847, at Upper Brandon, Dr. John Boiling Gar-
rett, of Cloverplains, Albemarle Co., Va. , and had three charming
daughters.
II. Sir John Randolph, of Williamsburg, James City Co.,
Va., fourth son and c4iild of William Randolph, of Yorkshire, Eng-
land, and Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va., progenitor of the Ran-
dolph Family in Virginia, and Mary Isham, his wife, was born at the
last-named place in 1693, and died 15th March, 1737, aged 44 years.
Upon a mural tablet that was placed to his memory in William and
Mary College, destroyed by fire in 1859 (the college has been par-
tially burned a number of times — usually from careless manage-
ment), he was called "Johannes Randolph, Eques." It is proper,
therefore, in speaking of him to say Sir John Randolph, as he was
Eques or Knight, and not Armiger or Esquire, nor Generosus, which
signifies Gentleman or Gent.
He married, about 1718, Susanna, daughter of Peter Beverly,
of Gloucester County, Va., and sister of Elizabeth, the wife of
William Randolph, the eldest son, who was known as Councillor
Randolph. According to the above-mentioned mural tablet. Sir
John Randolph and Susanna Beverly, his wife, had the following
children :
270 RANDOLPH FAMILY.
1. Johu Randoljili, born at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va. , about
1727; married, about 1752, Miss Ariana, daughter of Edmund Jennings.
2. Pej'ton Randolph, born at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va. ; died in
Philadelphia, Pa. , 22d October, 1775, aged 53 years. He was Attor-
ney-General for Virginia, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses,
and President of the First American Congress. Married Elizabeth
Harrison. No issue.
8. Beverly Randolph, married Miss Wormeley.
4. Mary Randolph, boru at Williamsburg, James City Co. , Va. ; married,
about 1743, Philip Grymes, of Brandon, Middlesex Co., Va. Children:
(1) Philip Grj-mes, Jr., married, about 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of
William Randolph, of Wilton, and Anne Harrison, his wife.
(2) Lucy Grymes, married, about 1761, Gov. Thomas Nelson, of York-
town, York Co. , Va.
(3) Susan Grj'mes, married Nathaniel Burwell, of The Grove, York
Co. , Va. , and afterward of Carter Hall, Clarke Co. , Va.
(4) Mary Grymes, married, about 1777, Robert Nelson, of Malvern Hill,
Charles City Co., Va. , younger brother of Gov. Thomas Nelson,
and was his first wife. There were perhaps others.
III. John Randolph, of Williamsburg, James City Co., Va.,
eldest son and child of Sir John Randolph, of the same place, and
Susanna Beverly, his wife, fourth son and child of William Ran-
dolph, of Yorkshire, England, and Turkey Island, Henrico Co., Va.,
progenitor of the Randolph Family in Virginia, and Mary Isham,
his wife, was born at the first-named place about 1727. He was
Attorney-General for the colony of Virginia.
He married, about 1752, Ariana, daughter of Edmund Jen-
nings, of Annapolis, Md., who was Attorney- General for Maryland
and Virginia, and their children were as follows :
1. Edmund Randolph, born at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va. , 10th
August, 1753; died in Frederick County, Va., 12th, September, 1813,
aged 60. He did not follow his father to England when the war of the
American Revolution broke out, but remained, and was adopted by
his uncle, Peyton Randolph, who was President of the First American
Congress.
Edmund Randolph was the first Attorney-General of the United States
of America, 1790, having been Governor of the State of Virginia, 1786-88.
He married, 29th August, 1776, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Carter
Nicholas. Speaker of the House of Burgesses and Treasurer of Virginia,
and had :
(1) Peyton Randolph, married Maria Ward, who had been engaged to
John Randolph, of Roanoke.
CURLS NECK. 271
(2) Lucy Randolph, inairit'il Judge Peter Vivian Daniel, and had issue.
(3) Daughter Randolph, married Preston.
(4) Daughter Randolph, married Bennet Taj'Ior, of Albemarle County,
Va.
Edmund Randolph succeeded Patrick Henry as Governor of Virginia, 1st
December, 1786, and was followed in that office by his kinsman, Beverly
Randolph, 1st December, 1788. On the 2d August, 1794, he succeeded
Thomas Jefferson as Secretarj- of State, which office he held until 19th
August. 1795, when he retired to private life.
2. Ariana Randolph, born at Williamsburg, James City Co. , Va. , about
1750 ; went with her father to England when the war broke out. She
married Ralph Wormeley. Their son was an admiral in the British
navy. He had three daughters, viz. : (a) Mrs. Latimer, of Baltimore,
Md. ; (b) Catherine Preble Wormeley, resides at Newport, R. I. ; (e)
Ariana, married Daniel S. Curtis, of Boston, Mass.
II. Richard Randolph, of Curls Neck, on James River,
Henrico Co., Va., fifth son and child of William Randolph, of York-
shire, England, and Turkey Island, Henrico Co.,Va., progenitor of
the Randolph Family in Virginia, and Mary Isham, his wife, was
born at Turkey Island, Va., about 1G95.
He married, about 1714, Jane, daughter of John Boiling, of
Cobbs, Chesterfield Co., Va., and Mary Kennon, his wife. Jane
Boiling was of the fourth generation in descent from Pocahontas.
Richard Randolph and Jane Boiling, his wife, had :
1. Richard Randolph, Jr., born at Curls Neck, in 1715; married, about
1750, Anne, daughter of David Meade, of Nansemond County, Va. , and
had issue. The following epitaph was copied in 1874, by Mrs. Charles
Carter, nee Nelson, daughter-in-law of Mr. Hill Carter, of Shirley-on-
James River, Va. , from the original tombstone at Curls Neck: "This
Monument is erected by R3'land Randolph in memory of his Parents,
Richard and Ann Randolph, of Curies. The former died 6th June,
1786, aged 71 years, and the latter December, 1814, aged 83 years. "
The above mentioned Mrs. Charles Carter was a direct descendant from
Councillor William Randolph through Secretary Nelson, of Yorktown,
Va. When she made the above copy, in 1874, it was the only tombstone
at Curies (or Curls) that bore a legible inscription.
2. Mary Randolph, born at Curls Neck, about 1727 ; married, 31st May.
1744, Col. Archibald Cary, of Ampthill, Chesterfield Co., Va. Of their,
children, Mary Cary (called Polly) married Major Carter Page, of The
Fork, Cumberland Co. , Va. , and Avas his first wife.
3. Jane Randolph, born about 1729 ; married, about 1750, Anthony Walke,
of Princess Anne County, Va. Their son was Rev. Anthony Walke.
272 RANDOLPH FAMILY.
6. John Randolpli (two others died young), born at Curls Neck, Henrico
Co., Va. , about 1737; removed to Roanoke, Charlotte Co., Va He
married, about 1769, Frances, daughter of Theodrick Bland, and had :
(1) Richard Randolph, of Bizarre, born about 1770 ; married, 1790, his
cousin Judith, daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe.
(2) Theodrick Bland Randolph, born 1771 ; died 1792, single.
(3) John Randolph, of Roanoke, Charlotte Co., Va. , born 3d Jvme,
1773. Died unmarried, in Philadelphia, 24th May, 1833. He was
buried at Roanoke, his residence, in Charlotte County, Va. , but his
remains have since been removed to Holywood Cemetery, Rich-
mond, Va.
(4) Jane Randolph.
Judge Roger A. Pryor, of New York City, has in his possession
a little book that formerly belonged to John Randolph, of Roanoke,
entitled: "Petite Dictionnaire de la Langue Frangaise." In it is
a book-plate on which is engraved the Randolph coat-of-arms with
the two mottoes : " Nil Admirari " at the top, and " Pari qui sentiat "
at the bottom. The coat-of-arms may be described as follows:
Akms : Gules (red) , with a cross bearing three stars (the tincture of
the latter not indicated) .
Crest: Antelope's head couped, holding a bone in his mouth. No
tinctures indicated
This description and the motto, *' Nil admirari,'" correspond with
those sent to the author 2d June, 1884, by Isham Randolph, en-
gineer, of Chicago, a son of the late Dr. Robert C. Randolph, of
Clarke County, Va.
For further information in regard to the Randolphs, the reader
is referred to the "History of Bristol Parish," Dinwiddie County,
Va., by Rev. Philip Slaughter, D.D. Published by Randoli^h &
English, Richmond, Va., 1870.
FINIS.
INDEX.
Albemarle Court House, Va. , 220
Battle of Point Pleasant, 201
Bedfont Parish, 39
Belvoir Mansion, Albemarle, Va. , 225
Boiling, Jane, 106
Broadneck, 140
Burwell family, 70
Lewis, 69"
Byrd, Jane, 96
Carter, Judith, 64
Cary, Clarence, New York, 259
Col. Archibald, 106
Col. Miles. 105
Col. Wilson Miles, Baltimore Co . ,
Md., 258
Mary, 105
Wilson Jefferson, 105
Wilson Miles, Baltimore, Md. , 258
Cheesman, Anna E., New York, 126
Chiswell, Col. John, 254
Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson, minister,
260
Custom house, Yorktown, Va. , 157
Feltham, 39
Fitch, Mary Elizabeth, 128
Gilmer, Governor Thomas Walker,
Va., 221
Grace Churcli tablet, 218
Church, Walker's Parish, Va., 217
Graham, Leila, 126
Harrison, Col. Benjamin, Charles
City Co. , Va. , 268
Gen. William Henry, 113, 266
Hon. Carter H. , ex-Mayor Chi-
cago, 263
Mrs. Burton N. , New York, 258
President Benjamin, 260^ 266
Hopkins, John, Wincliester, Va. , 143
Hunt, George E. , 192
Indian chief Cornstalk,
18
201
battle of, 113
Horse Harry, 64, 100,
139,
Jefferson. President Thomas, 263
Keswick School, 132
Kinloch, Dr. R. A., South Carolina,
228
Lake Erie,
Lee, Light
224
Lindsay, Capt. James, The Meadows,
Va., 223
Luckin, Alice, 9
coat-of-arms, 11
Mann, Mary, 54
McKim, Rev. Randolph H. , 269
Memorial Church, Westport, Conn.,
129
Meriwether, Dr. Thomas W. , Kinloch,
Va., 178
Mitchell, Hon. John, M.P., 139
Monuments in St. Mary's Church,
England, 33, 35
Morris, Nanny Watson, 128
Nelson, Captain Thomas, Oakland,
Va., 181
coat-of-arms, 155
Col. Hugh, Yorktown, Va., 172
-^Col. William, The Don-ill, Va.,
186
family Bible of, 170
Francis, Mont Air, Va., 176
Hon. Hugh, Belvoir, Va., 177
Hon. William, Yorktown, Va. ,
160
Hugh, Missouri, 191
John W. , St. Charles Co. , Mo. , 192
Lucy, 108
Major John, Oak Hill, Va. , 188
Major Thomas M. , U. S. A. , 189
Mary Cleland, 181
Nathaniel Bacon, Texas, 193
Philip, Clarke Co., Va., 175
President, 160
X
273
274
INDEX.
Nelson, President, will of, 162
Rev. George W. , 183
Robert, Oak Hill, Va. , 190
Rt. Rev. Cleland K., Bishop of
Georgia, 181
Secretary, 185
Secretary Thomas, 185
Thomas," Clarke Co. , 183
Thomas, General, 166
Thomas, Governor, 166
Thomas, Jr., 166
Thomas, signer of declaration, 166
Thomas, Yorktown, Va. , 155
North End, Gloucester Co. , Va. , 96
Page. Alice, 9
^.'Capt. Hugh Nelson, U. S. N., 113
-'' Cai^t. Thomas Jefferson, 93
Carter H. , Charlottesville. 126
Carter, Willis' Fork. 103
Charles, Hanovertown, 88
coat-of-arms, 9, 10, 35
Dr. John R. , 91
Dr. Mann, 108
Dr. Mann, monument of, 124
Dr. R. C. M., 128
Dr. Robert Powell, Clarke Co.,
Va., 146
Dr. William Byrd, Philadelphia,/
143 J
family, England, first report, 32
family, England, second report, 36
Francis, 9
Francis, Rugswamp, 87
Francis, will of, 43
Francis, Williamsburg, 40
Frederick W. , librarian, 126
Governor John, wife of, 78 '
Henry, Kentucky, 117
Hon. John, North End, 96
Hon. Mann, Jr., First U. S. Con-
gress, 81
Hon. Robert. Janeville, 110
Jane Walker, Keswick, Va. , 127
John, 9
John Cary, Union Hill. 115
John, Gloucester Co. , Va. , 47
Jolm, Gloucester Co., Va. , will, 47
John, Governor, 71
Jolm, monument, 13
Jolm White, Clarke Co. , Va. , 144
John, will, 16-21
Judge John E. , Clarke Co., Va. ,
147
Lady ]\Iary, 39
land office certificates, 28
Page, Legh R. , Richmond, 139
Lieutenant Augustine, U. S. N. ,-'
101
Major Francis Nelson, 94
Maun, Brandon, 90
Mann, of Shelly, 82
Mann, Rosewell, 57
Matthew, 53
Miss Lucy F. M., 139
Nelson, 109
Powhatan Robertson, 91
Rev. Henrj^D. , Japan, 118
Rev. W. W., 138
Robert, Broadneck, 140
Roliert, Hanovertown, 81
S. Davis, Philadelphia, 146
Thomas, Locust Grove, 136
Thomas Nelson, 88
Thomas W., Keswick, Va., 128
Walker Yates, Frederick, Md. , 148
>^ William Byrd, Clarke Co., Va. ,
111
l/ William Byrd, of Pagebrook, Va. ,
145
William Nelson, Ca Ira, 135
Patton, Col. John M., 223
Pendleton, Dudley D., Shepherdstown
W. Va., 246
Edmund. Jr. , Caroline Co. , Va. , 243
family, 239
Hugh N. , Clarke Co. , Va. , 245
Judge Edmund, Caroline Co. , Va. ,
240
Lieut Col. Alexander S. , 244
Rev. (Gen. ) William N. , 244 .
Samuel H. , 245
Pilkington, Vicar, St. Mary's, 39
Pocahontas, 106
Pry or, Judge Roger A. , 234
Mrs. Judge Roger A. , 127
Randolph, Col. Thomas Jefferson,
Edge Hill, Va. , 260
Councillor William, Turkey Isl-
and, Va., 252
Dr. Robert C, Clarke Co., Va.,
265
Edmund, Governor Va., 270
family, 251
Isham, Dungeness, Va. , 263
Jolm, Roanoke, Va., 272
John, Williamsburg, Va., 270
Mary Walker, 262
Pollv Cary, Clarke Co. , Va. , 265
Richard, Curls Neck, Va. , 271
Sir John, Williamsburg, Va., 269
INDEX.
275
Randolph, Thomas Isham, Dungeness,
Va., 264
Thomas Marm. Jr.. Governor Va.,
359
Thomas ilanu. Tuckalioe, Va. , 256
Tliomas, Tuckahoe, Va. , 255
William, Tuckahoe, Va., 256
William, Wilton, Va., 254
Rives, Alfred Landon, 232
Amelie Louise, 282
Arthur L. , Newport, R. I. , 232
Constance, 231
Dr. William C, New York, 282
Ella Louisa, 231
Francis Robert, New York, 281
George L. , 281
Hon. William C, Castle Hill, Va.,
232
Maud, 231
Reginald William, 231
William C. , Newport, R. I. , 232
Rose well, 58
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 75
SiGOiJRNEY, Henry, Boston, Mass., 232
St. Johns Church, 72
Mary's Church, England, 89
Mary's Church, picture of, 41
Thornton family, 214
Treaty of Lancaster, 201
Turkey Island, 251
Tyler, Lyon G. , 24
Uncle Tom, Castle Hill, Va. , anec-
dotes, 216
Wainwright, Maria, New York, 147
Walker, Capt. M. Lewis, Logan, Va. ,
284
Col. Joho, Belvoir, Va., 223
Dr. Tliomas. Castle Hill, Va. , 200
Dr. Thomas L. , Lynchburg, Va. ,
234
family. 199
family Bible, 199
Gen. R. L., 284
Hon. Francis, Castle Hill, Va.,
230
Jane Frances, 281
Jane Frances, monument of, 124
Jane Frances, sketch of. 125
Judith Page, Castle Hill, Va., 231
]\Iargaret, 234
Thomas, Jr. , Indian Fields, Va. ,
228
tombstones. Castle Hill, Va. , 215
Washington family, 214
Winslow, Hon. Richard Henry, 128
Lanier & Co. , 128
Wormeley, Judith, 63
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