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GENEALOGY COLLEICTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
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A HISTORY
OF
Two Virginia Families
TRANSPLANTED FROM
COUNTY KENT, ENGLAND
THOMAS BAYTOP
TENTERDEN
1638
JOHN CATLETT
SITTINGBOURNE
1622
3F
DR. AND MRS. WILLIAM CARTER ^TUBBS
NEIV ORLEANS. LA. — '^
TO THE MEMOEY OF MY GEANDPAEENTS,
CAPT. JAMES BAYTOP,
OF SPKINGFIKLD, GLOUCESTER COUNTY, VIRGINIA,
AND HIS WIFE,
LUCY TALIAFEEEO CATLETT,
OF ""TIMBERNECK/" GLOUCESTER COUNTY, VIRGINIA,
THIS PAMPHLET
IS MOST LOVINGLY DEDICATED.
William Carter Stubbs.
PREFACE.
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For many years the author of this pamphlet has been collecting
data relative to the Catlett family of the United States. So far
as our extensive investigations have been made, the only immigrants
of this name to this country at any time were Col. John and his
two minor sons, Nicholas and Thomas, who came over in 1650 and
settled on the Eappahannock Eiver in Virginia. Therefore every
one bearing this name must trace his descent back to Col. John
or his two minor sons. Mr. W. G-. Stannard, Editor of the Virginia
^.., Historical Magazine and Secretary of the Virginia Historical So-
Y ciety — the highest authority on Virginia genealogies — entertains
)^ the same opinion. With this opinion, every one bearing this name,
^- wherever found, has been requested by letter (sometimes several),
to give all the information possessed or obtainable, of her or his
branch and its history. Many of these letters are still unanswered,
■ and therefore no additional information obtained. It is reasonably
certain that a goodly number of families of this name scattered
throughout the country are still unrevealed, and therefore cannot
be named in these pages.
In all, several hundred letters have been written and many
responses obtained. In addition, court records, land books and
family Bibles — yes, even cemeteries, with their almost forgotten
tombstones — have been levied upon for information. With all
these aids, much valuable data have been collected and arranged,
and, while thoroughly conscious of incompleteness, it is deemed
best to publish what has been obtained.
AVhen this investigation began it was deemed an easy task. Since
beyond our immediate branch, few members of the Catlett names
were known to us, but, as our researches extended, family after
family, branch after branch, were revealed, until our correspondence
extended to nearly every State in the Union. With the revelations
already made, it is safe to say that the number of descendants of
the original immigrant. Col. John Catlett, now living in this
country reach far into thousands. The name is purely English,
ii Preface.
derived from Catt's lot — upon which the first of the name settled —
passing through the various changes: Catts' lot — Catelot — Catlett.
Its history is given in the extracts from English records published
elsewhere.
It is impossible to give the names of all those who have aided us
in this work, since their number is too large, but we wish to return
here grateful thanks to every one who has contributed in any way
towards the accomplishment of the work herein presented. The
hope is entertained that the recital of the deeds and virtues of our
ancestors may inspire every living member with fresh determination
to excel in every good work which goes to make "perfect men and
women."
THE IMMIGRANT.
Col. Jolm Catlett came in 1650 to Eappahaunock county, Vir-
ginia (now Essex county), from Sittingbourne, County Kent, Eng-
land, naming the parisli in which he located for Sittingbourne, his
birthplace. His home place, "Green Hill" was at the mouth of
Golden Vale Creek (now Essex county). With him came his son,
Nicholas Catlett, and half-brothers, Ealph and Edward Eowzie,
followed later by his son, Thomas Catlett. (See patents.). Catherine
and Sarah Eowzie, wife and sister of Ealph Eowzie, came later as
headrights of Capt. Thomas Lucas,
English Eecoeds.
The family was seated in County Kent, England, as early as
1464, when John Catelot bequeathed "fourpence for the light stand-
ing in the middle of Bearsted Church before the high cross." The
will of John Catlott, 1499, bequeathed twenty shillings to the
reparation of the steeple of Bearsted Church,
The Virginia Historical Magazine contains the following from
the History of County Kent, England, printed by Harris in 1917,
in three volumes:
"Catts Place, with the manor belonging thereto, called Catletts,
otherwise Salmon, is situated in Brenchley parish, about a mile
northward from Brenchley Town, but within the Hundred of Twy-
ford, being held of the manor of Yalding. The mansion was
anciently the residence of Hugh de Catte, from whom it acquired
its name. His descendants continued to possess it until tlie Eeign
of Henry VI (1442). (Vol. Ill, 223.)
"Sittingbourne lies about the middle of the north side of Kent,
in the road between Eochester and Canterbury, and about a mile
southward from Milton, in the Bailiwick and Hundred of Milton.
It is the Deanery of Sittingbourne and Diocese of Canterbury, a
Vicarage valued in the King's Books at £10 per annum. The
church, a large and handsome building in good repair, is dedicated
to St. Michael. In it are several Memorials of the name of Cate-
LET. (Vol. I, p. 28 Jf.)"
History of County Kent, Hasted^ Vol. II, 369, contains the
following :
"Catts Place, with the manor belonging to it, called Catlcfs
Salmon, is likevrise situated in Brenchley parish, within the Hun-
dred of Twyford, The mansion, situated about a mile north from
the village of Brenchley, was anciently the residence of Hugh de
Catte, who implanted his name upon it. His descendants con-
N \
2 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
tinued in possession nntil the Reign of King Henry YI" (1442)
(page 369).
"Lawrence Catlote, of the parish of Great Chart, ])y his will,
proved 1469, devised his messuage called The Place, in Chart
street, on the death of Joane, his wife, to John, son of ISTicholas
Phylipp. * * * About the same time, Eowland Clarke sold
twent.v-one acres to William Catlett, who. Trinity Term, Anno
4th Elizabeth (1562), levied a fine of his estate here. He died,
Anno 5th Elizabeth, possessed of 100 acres of land and twenty acres
of wood in this parish (Tong), of which Thomas, his son, levied a
fine in Easter term, Anno 5th Elizabeth (1563). Rowland Clarke
sold a moietv of this manor onlv." (Hasted's Kent, Vol. II, page
60J,.)
The Virginia Historical Magazine, Yol. Ill, p. 63, contains the
following from Chancery Proceedings, Charles I, C. C. 39, 20th
April, 16JfS:
"Humbly complaining, sheweth unto y'e honour yo'r orrators:
George Catlett ve elder, of Blackwell, in County Middlesex, gent.,
Judeth Catlett," Thomas Catlett, William and Edward Catlett,
sonnes of ye s'd Judeth and of Thomas Catlett, late of Sitting-
bourne, in ye County of Kent, deceased, by ye s'd Judeth Catlett,
their mother and guardian, George Catlett ye younger, of Sand-
wich, in ye County of Kent, marriner, and John Catlett, sonne of
John Catlett ye younger, yo'r orrators, George Catlett ye elder, and
Thomas Catlett, deceased, George Catlett ye younger, being all
sonnes of John Catlett ye elder, late of Sittingbourne, in ye County
of Kent aforesaid, gentleman, deceased, —
"Whereas, heretofore, yt. abt. Easter, 1646, George Catlett ye
elder, and Thomas Catlett, George Catlett, ye younger, and John
Catlett ye younger, did exhibit their Bill of Complaynt against
Silvester Herlakenden and Roger Herlakenden, thereby shewing
yt. Walter Herlakenden, late of ]\Iole Ashe, in County Kent, gent.,
deceased, father of the s'd Silvester and Roger, was lawfully seized
in his demesne as of fee in ye manor of Uston, with all ye lands
and tenements thereunto belonging, lying and being in ye several
parishes of Tunstell Borden, Milton als Middleton, and Sitting-
bourne in County Kent, and also of and in all ye tenement called
Sollimans, and lands thereunto belonging to Tunstall afs'd, and
also of certaine lands in greate Sittingbourne field, conta.yning 32
acres in one close, 3 orchards, and certayne lands in Milton, con-
tayning 20 acres and of and in other houses and yeards in 3^e Borth
street in Milton, and of one messuage and marsh landes and tene-
ments belonging in Brensett in ye s'd county; and ye s'd Walter
Herlakendon, being thereof seized by Indenture 12th July
conveyed unto John Catlett ye elder, for security of £69, all his
estate, title, interest in ye manor of Uston, on condition neverthe-
less that is Katherine Trollop, widdowe, her ex'orr or assigns, or
Descendanis of Col. John Catlett.
ye s'd Walter Harlakendon, his ex'orr and assigns, pay unto John
Catlett ye elder, his heires and assigns, in ye South Porch of ye
Church of Sittingbourne ye some of £69, in instalments at certain
tymes, ye s'd Indenture sh'd be voyd, and your complanients
shewed that noe part of the said money was paid, and the property
descended unto ye complainents, George Catlett ye elder, Thomas
Catlett, deceased, George Catlett ye younger, and to John Catlett
ye younger, father of ye compl't, John Catlett." [This last was John
Catlett, of Virginia.]
John Catlett^ ye elder, of Sittingbourne,
County Kent, Gent. — Issue :
George- Catlett, John^ Catlett, Thomas^ Catlett. George Catlett,
ye elder, of Blackwell, ye younger, was dead of Sittingbourne, was ye younger, of Sand-
in County of Middle-
sex, gent., and living
in 1648.
(Chancery Suit.)
1624, whei
widow, Sarah, mar-
ried (II) Lodowick
Rowzie, of Ashford,
aged 36, by whom
were Ralph, Edward
and Sarah Rowzie.
A son,
JoHN^ Catlett,
bom about 1622, came
to Virginia in 1650
with Ralph and Ed-
ward Rowzie, and
sons, Nicholas and
Thomas Catlett, and
settled on the Rap-
pahannock River.
dead in 1648 ; wife,
Judith, was daughter
of Gawen Heard, of
Maston, County
Kent.
Their son.
Thomas' Catlett,
of Hollingbourne,
County Kent., gent.,
living in 1663 (Visi-
tation of Kent). Mar-
ried Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Thomas
Thatcher, of Holling-
bourne.
wich, in ye County
of Kent, Mariner.
Living in 1646.
Thomas, Elizab
Son and heir,
aged four in
1663.
This line of "Thomas'
tio7i of Kent, 1663.
is from the Visita-
CATLETT.
Hon. Armistead Churchill Gordon, LL. D., of Staunton, Va., has
kindly furnished the following for insertion here :
"In August, 1910, at the request of E. H. Catlett, Jr., I wrote to
Leo Cullerton, genealogist and searcher, 92 Piccadilly, London,
W., asking him to make a search for the armorial bearings of the
Catletts of Sittingbourne, County Kent, England. The following
shows the result of this investiaration :
"'92 Piccadilly, London, W.,
28 September, 1910.
" 'Dear Sir — My investigation shows a pedigree of Catlett, of
Sittingbourne, County Kent, recorded in 1663, when the Heralds
visited the county in order to put on record the families of stand-
ing and armorial bearings they were using (if with authority).
4 . Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
" 'The Catlett family recorded their pedigree, but evidently they
claimed no arms, for none are found in connection with this record.
I have carried my researches over a good field, including a large
number of Kentish references, and the results are interesting from
a genealogical point of view, but disappointing from the heraldic
point of view. Yours faithfully,
" 'Leo Cullerton.
" 'To Ar mislead C. Gordon, Esq.,
Staunton, Virginia, U. S. A.' "
The enclosures with the foregoing letter of Mr. Cullerton in-
cluded a transcript of the Herald's Visitation, which is copied on
the following page; a transcript of Canterbury Marriage Licenses,
1568-1750, containing Catletts; a transcript of Marriages at All
Saints' Maidstone (Kent), 1542-1754; of Catlett's "Testamenta
Cantiana" ; "Intrantes of Canterhiiry," 1392-1592"; "Freemen of
Canterhury," 1392-1800, containing Catlett names, together with
Catlett extracts from the Registers of .St. George's, Canterhury,
1538-1800.
The Canterbury Marriage Licenses contain, among others, the
following :
"1626 : Sept. 19. Lodwick Rowzie, of Ashford, Doctor of
Physic, bachelor, about 36, and Sarah Catlet, of St. Peter's, Canter-
bury, widow, about 24, relict of John Catlett, late of Sittingbourne,
gentleman, deceased, at Bettersden."
The following seems to be the earliest recorded appearance of
the name in Kent, as shown by these papers :
Testamexta.
"1464. In the will of John Catelot, he leaves 4d. for the light
standing in the middle of Bearsted Church, before the High Cross.
"1499. Jolm Catlott bequests 20s. to the reparation of the steeple
of Bearsted Church."
Marriages at All Saints', Maidstone, loJf2-17o4.
1624. Oct. 7. Joseph Nepleton [of Faversham] and Dorothie
Catlet [of West Yarleigh] Licence.
1631. Oct. 24. William Catlet, of Upchurch, to Dorothie Wood.
1654. June 15. Edward Catlet, of Gravesend, and Patience Bing-
ham, of Boughton ]\[onclialsoy.
1679. Jime 17. Andrew Catlett and Jane Boone.
1731. Jan. 6. Joseph Fisher and Jane Catlid.
1748. Mar. 19. Nicholas Rawlings and Frances Catlett,
Descendants of Col. John Catleti. 5
Virginia Eecords.
John Catlett and Edward Dudley, 1654, collected the levies of
Lancaster County, and in 1658 he witnessed the olographic will
of Eichard Lawson (Virginia Historical Magazine, V, 159), in
which he bequeathed "another heifer" to James Gaines. (Ihid. 26Jf.)
"John Catlett, gent.," in 1666 established the rights of his wife's
son, Francis Slaughter, to Indian lands, (Virginia Historical
Magazine, XVII, 243.)
Col. John Catlett was vestryman of Sittingbourne parish, colonel
of militia and presiding justice of Eappahannock county, 1665,
and with Edmund Scarborough and Eichard Lawrence in 1663 was
commissioner to settle the boundary line between Virginia and
Maryland.
In 1668 Gov. Berkeley wrote to Major General Eobert Smith
commanding the militia in this district, concerning the depreda-
tions of the Northern Indians, and recommended that they be de-
stroyed and the women and children sold as slaves to defray the
expense. This letter, forwarded to the justices of Eappahannock
county, received the following reply :
"We intend, with the assistance of Almighty God, by the strength
of our Northern part, utterly to destroy and eradicate without
further incroachment than the 'spoyles of our enemies.' "
(Signed) John Catlett.
John Weire.
Thomas Goodrich.
Humphrey Booth.
(WUlmm and Mary Quar-
terly, VIIl, 165.)
In 1668-9, Eev. Eras. Dougherty came to Sittingbourne parish
from Massachusetts and New York, and became very obnoxious to
Col. Catlett and Mr. Humphrey Booth. He refused to administer
the Holy Sacrament to them, stating that "his conscience would
not suffer him so to doe." Charging him with non-conformity and
scandalous living, they made complaint to Gov. Berkeley and
Council, who authorized the county court to investigate, and, if
found grounded upon truth," to put out the said Dougherty." It
resulted in said Dougherty's saying he would "transport himself
out of the Colony into some other clymate that may prove more
favorable to his aged, infirm and decayed body," etc. {Virginia
Historical Magazine, V, 288.)
Essex county records show that Col. John Catlett, of Eappahan-
nock county, made a deed, 1663-4, stating that Mrs. Margaret
*NoTE. — Old Rappahannock county was extingviished in 1692, when it was divided to
form the counties of Essex and Richmond on either side of the Rappahannock river. A
part of Essex became Spotsylvania county in 1720, and another part of Essex went to form
Caroline county in 1727, in which was also a part of King and Queen and King William,
Orange from Spotsylvania, 1734, and Culpepper from Orange 1748.
6 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
Upton had conveyed certain personal property to Capt, Francis
Slaughter, deceased, for his son, Francis Slaughter, Jr., and that
he (Catlett) had married Elizabeth, widow of Capt. Francis
Slaughter,
He was county Justice, 1665, and county colonel in the Colonial
forces, and active in campaigns against the Indians, by whom he
was finally slain while defending the fort at Port Eoyal, 1770.
The records of Eichmond county, Virginia, contain the marriage
contract, April 20, 1672, between the Eev. Amory Butler, of Eap-
pahannock county, and Mrs. Elizabeth Catlett, widow of Col. John
Catlett and state that Col. John Catlett, in his will, directed his
estate in England be devoted to the education of his children in
that country.
General Court Eecords, Eichmond County, pp. 25, 30: In 1670,
Col. John Catlett was umpire, and Eobert Beverley and John Lewis
arbitrators in a certain controversy involving boundaries of con-
tiguous tracts of land.
Economical Histon/ of Virginia, by Philip Bruce, states that at
this period, 1650, John Catlett, and also John Clayton, of Glou-
cester county, Virginia, were in the enjojinent of estates in Kent,
England.
See, also, Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, 241, 498; Meade's Old
Churches and Families, 11, 96, 98; Slaughter's St. Mark's Parish,
17, 144, 148; Life of Madison, in American Statesmen Series;
Henning's Statutes, V, 287.
Fro7n Virginia Land Bools, Richmond.
Bool- II, 22Jf, and VI, i^.— 2.3rd May, 1650, John Catlett and Ealph
Eowzie, 400 acres on south side of Eappahannock river. Four
head rights, among them Nicholas Catlett.
Bool' II, G6.— John Catlett, 450 acres called "Green Hill," on the
south side of the Eappahannock, between the Golden Vale and
Cedar creek. [This was his home-place and long continued
in his family.]
10 September, 1660. — Grant of 832 acres in Essex county.
Of this, Francis Taliaferro and wife, Elizabeth Catlett, deeded
416 acres to Augustine Smith, of Gloucester county, March 11,
1701. (Essex Records.)
Bool: V, Jfll. — August, 1663. John Catlett, gent., 500 acres in
Sittingbourne parish, Eappahannock, and in 1666, 2,000 acres
on north side of Eappahannock, forty-five headrights, and
again, same year and locality, 500 acres additional.
September, 1667. — John Catlett, 1,850 acres, Eappahannock
county.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett . 7
Nicholas Catlett.
Bool- II, 23J^.—1650. Nicholas Catlett, headrights of John Catlett
(his father).
Bool- VI, 5^0.— October, 1670. Nicholas Catlett and William
Moseley, 646 acres, Eappahannock county.
Bool YI, 55^.^1672. Nicholas Catlett and William Moseley, 1,750
acres in Eappahannock comity.
Booh VI, 559.— September, 1672, Nicholas Catlett and William
Moseley, 1,200 acres, adjoining Capt. Humphrey Booth, south
side of Eappahannock.
From, Essex County Deed Booh.
April, 1654.— John Catlett assigned to John Page and Nicholas
Hundley land which was patented formerly by Eichard Cole-
man. Witness: Thomas Lucas, Eichard Coleman, Ealph
Eowzie. (Lancaster Records.)
1661. — Mr. John Catlett's letter of recommendation, signed in
London by several friends.
1661. — A deed of John Catlett and wife Elizabeth (Underivood)
was witnessed by Thomas Catlett and Eobert Bledsoe. (Essex
Deed Boohs.)
1663. — John Catlett witnessed deed from Alex Fleming to John
Barrow.
1663.— John Catlett, gent. A deed from William Hearsey, 500
acres, north side Eappahannock, Sittingbourne parish. Signed,
John and Elizabeth Catlett. Witness: Humphrey Booth, who
transferred this land in 1664 to Joseph Yeats.
1663. — John Catlett, deed to Ealph and Sarah Eowzie (heirs of
Ealph Eowzie), one-half of land which he patented jointly with
Ealph Eowzie, Sr. One-half of this is to be returned to Cat-
lett's heirs if the Eowzies have none. Joined in deed by
Humphrey Booth and wife, Margaret (Underwood). Witness:
Thomas Hawkins and James Gaines.
23rd March, 1664. — John Catlett appointed by Gov. William Berke-
ley high sheriff of Eappahannock.
Feb. 3, 1665. — Marh for the hogs of Nicholas Catlett: Two crops
and slit in each ear, and an under keel on the right ear.
March, 1669. — Nicholas Catlett and John Cox witnessed a deed.
28th March, 1668, Nicholas Catlett and wife, Susannah, made
a deed to one-half interest in 285 acres.
(Signed) Nicholas o, Catlett,
Susanna X Catlett.
Witness : John Catlett,
1669 — John Catlett and Nicholas Catlett witnessed a deed together.
1672. — Mrs. Elizabeth Catlett made a deed to her children, Sarah
and William Catlett.
8 Descendanis of Col. John Catlett.
David Catlett.
1690. — David Catlett made deposition in Essex connty that he was
twenty-one years of age (hence born 1G69).
1695. — David Catlett, planter, made a deed to land as "son and
only lieir of Nicholas Catlett." In August, 1696, Francis
]\reriwcther made a deed to David Catlett; and his wife, ]\Iary
Bathurst ^leriwether, gave power of attorney to John Bettaile
for her acknowledgment. (WiUiam and Mary Quarterly, VIII,
99.)
10th N'ovember, 1663. — At a court held in Accomac, it was reported
that the Lord Lieutenant of Maryland was angry with the Vir-
ginians and their Governor, and also with Col. Edmund Scar-
brough, for executing the demands of the Governor of Vir-
ginia and Grand Assembly. He deserved to be hung, etc., etc.
Col. Scarbrough said : "It resteth with your Hon'bles to direct
what further course is to be taken. I writt to ye Lord Lieu-
tenant of j\Iaryland and sent him ye copy of ye Act, to which
I added my readiness to attend with Mr. Catlett and Mr.
Eichard Lawrence* if his Hon'r did desire it^ but have received
noe other answer," etc.
This relates to the long contest between Virginia and the
Colony of Lord Baltimore over the boundary line run by
Messrs. Scarbrough, Catlett and Lawrence, who were the com-
missioners. (Virginia Magazine of History, etc.. Ill, 180.)
Thomas Catlett.
1661. — ^^Thomas Catlett witnessed a deed to John and Elizabeth
Catlett in Essex county.
Land Bool- VI, 4:?7.— 1672. Thomas Catlett, 50 acres on western
branch of Elizabeth river.
Thomas Catlett, sheriff of Essex county, 1716. (Virginia
Historical Magazine, XVII, 155.)
From Land Bool's at Richmond, Va.
BOOK XII, p. 308.— IIU. Thomas Catlett, of St. Mary's parish,
Essex county, 1,000 acres in Spotsylvania.
Booh XIII.— May 21, 1726. Thomas Catlett, of Essex. His patent
of 1,000 acres in Spotsylvania, on the Rapidan river,
both sides S. W. Mountain, transferred to Francis Conway,
gent., of same, Nov. 7, 1727, for £60. Witness: John Battaile
and John Taliaferro. This land Francis Conway, gent., of
Essex, conveyed to John Taliaferro, of Spotsylvania, same date.
Witness: John Battaile, John Taliaferro and Thomas Catlett.
'Mr. Iticluird Lawrence, the Oxford graduate, and friend of Nathaniel Bacon, the Rebel.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 9
Bool: XIV, p. 512. — 1728. — Major Thomas Catlett, G6 acres in
Caroline county, next to Eobert Taliaferro.
Booh XV. — 1730. Major Thomas Catlett, 1,376 acres in Caroline
county, St. Mary's parish, bounding on Taliaferro and Eoy-
ston's line and the Golden Vale swamp.
From Spotsylvania Records.
May 11, 1730. — Thomas Catlett witnessed a deed from Eiehard
Buckner, of Caroline county, planter, to Lawrence Battaille,
of same, planter, for £74, 371 acres in fork of Mattapony,
which Buckner purchased of one Shackelford; and again, Oct.
19, 1733, witnessed a deed from Richard Buckner, of St. Mary's
parish, Caroline county, gent., to William Strother, of King
George county, part of a patent conveyed by Augustine Smith
to said Eiehard Buckner and Col. John Catlett.
July 1, 1735. — Thomas Catlett witnessed sale of two lots in Fred-
ericksburg, Spotsylvania county, to Hancock Lee, of Spotsyl-
vania, by the trustees : Col. Henry Willis, John Taliaferro and
John Waller, gents.
March 14, 1733. — Will of Eiehard Buckner, gent, presented by
. executors, Elizabeth and Eiehard Buckner, and proved by oath
of Thomas Catlett.
Caroline County Records.
1730. — Among justices of county court were Thomas Catlett, Wil-
liam Taliaferro and Eiehard Buckner; and in 1734, present,
Thomas Catlett and John Catlett, justices.
June 13, 1735. — The justices were Thomas Catlett, John Catlett,
Jonathan Gibson, William Taliaferro, John Taliaferro, Eieh-
ard Taliaferro, Francis Thornton, Nicholas Battaille and-
others. Thomas Catlett, of Caroline;, died in 1739; wife,
Martha, executrix.
Sept. 5, 1687.— Francis Taliaferro and wife, Elizabeth Catlett, a
deed to John Battaille, 300 acres, reciting that "Col. John
Catlett, in his last ivill and testament/ did bequeath 300 acres
each, of this tract, to his two daughfers," viz: Elizabeth and
Sarah Catlett. Sarah married Eobert Taliaferro, brother of
Francis, above.
Booh 13, 295.—112Q. John Catlett, Jr., of St. John's parish,
Spotsylvania, 400 acres in Spotsylvania, on the Eapidan. (He
was from St. Mary's parish, Essex county.)
1728. — John Catlett, Jr., of St. Mary's parish, Essex county, 400
acres in Spotsylvania.
1715.— John Catlett, 358 acres in Stafford county. In 1726 his
lands mentioned as joining Thomas Helm, in Stafford, and in
1730 his lands joined also John Maden in Stafford.
1805. — John Catlett and G. and S. Eennolds, a trust deed to Benj.
Thos. Newben. (Essex Records.)
10 Descendants of CoJ. Jolm Catlett.
Mrs. Annie Catlett Bullock, the daughter of Patrick Eobb and
Elizabeth (Fitzhugh) Catlett, and granddaughter of John Gibson
Catlett (the sixth Jolm in direct descent), and who lives at Guinea,
Caroline county, Virginia, has inherited the "old Catlett Bible"
with records of two generations, which she has furnished for this
work. She writes : "I have heard there was another generation in-
cluded, but one of the old great-grandmothers, who was left a widow,
although young and pretty, being anxious to conceal her age, relent-
lessly destroyed it — so the legend goes." In another letter she
writes: "The 'Green Hill' estate once belonged to my father, who
inherited it from his father, John Gibson Catlett. I send you some
very old papers to read. They are curious on account of their
antiquity."
The oldest of these very ancient papers is the original deed given
to Col. John Catlett, in 1666, by John Spearman and his wife,
Susannah, to the "Green Hill" estate, which has descended through
the male line directly to Mrs. Bullock's father. It is so ancient and
interesting that it is inserted in full below.
The next is a survey of some land made for the second Col. John
Catlett, 11th January, 1688, and gives as a reason for the survey
that he "finds his patents of ye land going to decay," 1,364 acres.
The next is the original will of William Catlett, son of the first
Col. John, made on the 11th day of April, 1677. This will is given
elsewhere.
Another is a. copy of a deed of 3,640 acres of land made by Alex.
Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor, at Williamsburg, Va., to Eobert
Carter, of Lancaster county, on the 22nd of January, 1718. These
lands were in the fork of Eappahannock river and adjoined the
lands of Col. Catlett ; hence an official copy was furnished the latter.
The next, an indenture made on the fourth day of January,
MDCCXXX, between John Catlett, gent., of Caroline county, to
John Catlett, Jr., of th^ame county, planter, conveying one moiety
of tract of land purchased by him and Eichard Buckner, gent., of
Augustine Smith, gent., is interesting, since both the signatures
of "J^ Catlett" and Mary Catlett (Mary Grayson), his wife have
attached a seal in red wax, an antelope's liead, erased. No. Arms
of the Catlett family have been found, but this seal, coupled with
the gift to his son John of his "silver seal," in the will of the second
Col. John Catlett, is significant of armorial bearings.
The will of the third John Catlett, of Caroline county, made the
4th of June, 1730, and witnessed by Jonath. Gibson, George Todd
and Eol)ert Lindsay, is also among these valuable papers.
The following is the deed in full to a part of the original tract
known as "Green Hill," the remainder having been previously pur-
chased of John Prosser :
Descendants of Col. John Catlett: 11
1666.
Knoiv all men by these p'nts that I Jolin Spearman for The con-
sideration of three thousand three hundred pounds of good Tob°-
the Receipt whereof hereby acknowledged & Contented therewith,
have bargained & Sold and doe by thee p'nts give grant bargain &
sell from me & my heires
Unto CoW- John Catlett gent his heires & ass's for Ev''- two hun-
dred acres of Land lying in the Freshes of Rapp'^- county on the
Southside the Eiver beginning at a m'ked white Oake at a nrked
oake at' the Mouth of a Creeke called by the Name of the Golden
Yale being a pcell of Land belonging to a Greater Patent of John
Prossers & running from the afores^- White Oake into the Woods
w*- a lyne of trees that parts the s^- Land formerly John GeUetfs
deced, 320 p So. West thence through John Prosser's Land now
the Land of Coll°- John Catlett So." West 400 p thence N. West
63 p thence No. East 400 p thence So: East 43 p butting on the
Miles End of The Land formerly Jolin Gelletts thence No. East
315 p to the creeke, thence to the place begann Near the Creeke
side 20 p, to Say in all two hundred acres that I, John Spearman
doe acknowledge to give grant Bargain sell from me & my heires
unto Coll°- John Catlett Gent, his heires & assignes for Ever. To
Have and to Hold the s^- two hundred acres of Land w*"^- all Im-
munities Eights Titles privileges & pffitts whatsoever to him the
s*^- Coll"- John Catlett his heires & assigns for Ever w*^- Sufficient
Warranty in as full & ample Manner as may be Collected out of a
Conveyance made to me John Spearman from John Prosser & his
tvife Martha, dated the 15 of August 1665.
Moreover I, the S"^- John Spearman, & Susannah his wife doe
Covenant & grant for themselves & their Heires unto Coll°- Jn°-
Catlett his heires & assignes that they have Good & Lawfull Title
at the Sealing & Delivery of these p'nts Unto the afores'^- parcell
of Land & that they will make aeknowledgm^- in the County Court
Court of Eapp'*- of this their Act & Deed & give Livery & Seizin
According to Law —
I, the said Coll°- John Catlett his heires & assignes discharging such
Quitrents as are Imposed on the said Land according as is Expressed
in the patt. to John Prosser of 1750 acres dated the 20th of July
1660.
In Witness whereof I John Spearman & Susannah my wife have
to these puts sett o""- hands & Scales this 24th day of Aug*- 1666.
Signed
Sealed Signed & deliv*^- John Speaeman f~| [Seale]
in p'nts of Us ^ ^ ^'^f'^rci i i
Alex: Fleming. Susannah Spk4.rman 0 [Seale]
WalJcer Hoivard.
John Prosser.
Memorand This first day of Septembe''- 1666
12 Descendatits of Col. John Catlett.
This Deed o^ Sale was acknowledged before us by John Spear-
man and Susannah his wife to the Use & pp behoof of CoU"- John
Catlett & his heires for Ever according to the true intent & mean-
ing of the Law in Such Case pvided. — Alex : Fleming
Eecognifi- Cor Xobis] Hump: Booth
IJeeordat'- in Com Kapp^- 12°- dies Septemb^- " 16GG
P EoB'- Davies CI- Curp'd.
I Susannah Spearman doe Constitute and appoint A'// EdEing-
ton to acknowledge all my Right Title & Interest of two hundred
acres of Land Sold by me & my Husband unto CoU"- John Catlett
to say my right tS: Title as to my thirde or Dower for the w'^h- I doe
Acknowledge myself fully satisfied by Coll°- John Catlett. In
witness whereof I have Sett mv hand & Seal this 24*'' day of Aug^*
1666
Test: Susannah Spearman {) [Scale]
Alex: Fleming
John Prosse/ Eecordat'- in Com Eapp^- 12°- die: 7^"^- 1G66
P EoB^- Davies C^- Curp'-^-
Starting with Jno. ye younger, d. before 1626 (when his widow,
Sarah Catlett, 24 years old, Mar. (II) Lodowick Eowzee, aged 36,
and bachelor, and doctor of physics), and Sarah, his wife, who
furnished their onhj son, Col. John Catlett, as the immigrant to
Virginia in 1650. Col. John appears to have married before coming
to Virginia, since there accompanied him Thomas and Nicholas,
apparently his sons, and since no mention is made of his wife, it
is presumed she died before he left England. He was accompanied
by his half-brother, Ealph Eowzee, and together they patented lands,
and also a half-brother, Edward Eowzee. Thomas and Nicholas
Catlett, though coming over at the same time, did not patent lands
until later, showing them to be minors. Thomas Catlett was wit-
ness in 1661, and Nicholas patents lands and records his mark for
hogs in 1665, Col. John, Thomas and Nicholas are fovmd associated
closely in all the early records, and unless proven to the contrary it
is reasonable to assume that both Thomas and Nicholas were sons
by a deceased wife.
Col. John Catlett came to Virginia in 1650 and settled upon the
banks of the Eappahannock river. He came from Sittingl)ourne
parish (Kent county), England, and doubtless gave this name to
his new church parish. As shown above, he was a man of great
importance, if not of distinction. He was presiding justice, burgess,
sheriff, colonel of militia, and of the vestry. He was one of three
commissioners to settle the l)Oundary line between Virginia and
Maryland, with Edmund Scarl)orough and Eichard Lawrence, the
last a distinguished Oxford graduate. He seems to have been an
expert surveyor, and the records of ]\Iaryland show niuch work done
by him in that State.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett: 13-
DESCENDANTS OF COL. JOHN CATLETT, THE
IMMIGRANT, AND WIFE, ELIZABETH
UNDERWOOD.
He was born before 1626, probably about 1622, and donbtless
married in England before coming over, and had two sons, Thomas
and Nicholas. He mar. (II) 1657, Elizabeth Underwood, widow
of Col. Francis Slaughter, whom she mar. 1653, and by whom had
one son, Francis Slaughter, Jr. After the death of Col. John she
mar. (Ill), 1671, Eev. Amory Butler, d. 1678. Mrs. Butler d.
1673, and in her will mentions her four Catlett children.
Abstract of Will of Mrs. Elizabeth Butler. •
"To son, Francis Slaughter, furniture of chamber, except
"To dau. Sarah, a chest of drawers and except further
"To son John, a close stool.
"To Son Francis Slaughter, to be delivered when he reaches 19
years of age, and shall not dispose of same without consent of Ex
and Overseers, all goods, money, plate, rings and tobacco, mentioned
in an account now in hands of Dan'l Gaines, and one negro boy, an
equal share of sheep, pewter, crepe and iron ; also a great chair and
small couch and 1 chest and such things in my house as my mother
gave me by will.
"To dau. Elizabeth, bed and furniture in the dining room, the
press and cushion thereon, the great looking glass, drawing table
and Turkey carpet, a child bed, turning blankets, five baskets, my
wedding ring, my biggest diamond ring, my gilded bodkin, and
necklace with biggest pearls, a small Bible, a silver sucking bottle
and my small cabinet.
"To dau. Sarah, two of my biggest stone rings, small pearl neck-
lace, silver bodkin, new trunk and napkin press, a small Bible, a
small Testament, a dram cup, my wedding ring and oval table.
"To son John, small diamond ring, map in dining room, a rapier,
great cutlash, pair of silver buttons and a pair of silver buckles,
antimonial cup.
To son, William, one small cutlash, a ring with a stone inamelled
with blue, my silver seal and wearing linen.
"To sons John and William, all the books mentioned in inventory,
to be equally divided according to their father's will.
"To my sons John and Wni. Catlett, \ All of my plate, except-
"To my daus., j ing three spoons marked
with names of owners, to be equally divided; all of my pewter,,
brass, linen and other household stuff, except what is given Francis
14 Descendants of Col John Catlett.
Slaughter, with a bed to each son and Elizabeth, except two suits
of damask, which I give to m}- two daus, are to be equally divided.
"To my thre sons, a carbine each.
"To the four children of my deceased husband, John Catlett, my
grey mare with her increase.
"To my two daus., delivery of former legacies at 1? years or mar-
riage.
"To my cousin (nephew), Wm. Underwood, the elder, one stoned
colt out of sorrel mare.
"To my cousin (nephew), Humplirey Booth, chest with goods
that was my mother's.
"To my cousin (niece), Catherine Booth, one silver caudle cup
that was her grandmother's, and if she dies, to Bro. Humphrey.
"Item. — If Francis dies, my children get his former and present
legacies. If my Ex. breaks up housekeeping, household stuff be-
queathed my children shall be packed and locked up, and linen and
other things in each trunk be forthwith locked up until time of de-
livery. All household stuff to Francis be kept by itself.
"To sister Pierce, mourning ring of twenty shillings value in
England.
"If my Ex. surrenders my estate, Mr. Dan'l Gaines, if he has the
children, shall have the estate, provided, he gives good security.
"Item. — My Ex. shall supply tobacco required for my children's
education, now in England, according to my husband's will, to pro-
vide when they come home from school for their accommodation,
the bringing of them to Virginia.
"Wearing clothes sent for last year, as profits of my tobacco, on
arrival shall be locked up in my cask and kept for my two daus., to
be divided between them, and the rest my Ex. may have for house-
hold uses.
"Money in hands of Jeffries and Mumford be used for bed and
furniture for son Francis, in lieu of one his father-in-law owes him,
and two small silver tankards (if it holds out) to be added to plate
for children of my deceased husband.
"Item. — My children's Est. to be kept entire and not parted
until their legacies become due, and if the court takes the estate
out of my Ex.'s liands my children shall altogether be maintained,
well educated and provided for with profits of their own Est. and
my thirds and profits remain in my Ex.'s hands until they come of
age.
"Item. — I appoint my luisband, Amory Butler, sole Ex. and
guardian of my children, and cousin (nephew), Ca])t. Thos. Haw-
kins, my bro., Edward Kowzie, and Mr. Dan'l Gaines overseers,
provided if said Ex. does not educate and keep them well tliat Mr.
Daniel (iaines shall be guardian of my children, my Ex. allowing
sufficient maintenance according as my overseers and Ex. shall de-
termine. If Mr. D. Gaines die. Cousin (nephew) Hawkins to take
the children. If Ex. embezzles or forsake the country, my overseers
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 15
shall call him to account and make him pay out of his own estate
or yield up my estate to Mr. Gaines.
^ "Item. — Ex. do for son Francis with profits of the Est. in lieu
of one his father-in-law did owe him.
"Item. — Of the cattle that were my mother^s and now in keeping
of Thos, Kirk, I give two females to Sister Pierce's children and
two females and eight steers to Bro. Booth's children, said steers
and increase of heifers to he disposed of by my Ex. to purchase a
negro woman to be delivered when they become of age, mortality
excepted.
"Item. — If my Est. is taken out of my Ex.'s hands in a half year,
and it shall be short, must be made good out of increase of negroes,
and if not enough, out of my thirds of profits.
"Item. — To beloved husband, a bed and furniture and mourning
ring of 22 shillings value in England.
"Item. — After legacies paid, any remainder of my thirds except
profit paid over to my children.
"Elizabeth Butler. [Seal]
"Witness : Thos. Lucas, Sen.
Jno. Dawson."
Col. Catlett was killed by the Indians while defending the fort at
Port Eoyal in 1670. Port Eoyal is on the Eappahannock river, in
Caroline county, Va., opposite Port Conway. His children were :
(1) John,- b. 1658, d. 1721.
(2) Elizabeth,- b. 1663, d. 1710.
(3) SaralV b. 1666, d. 1726.
(4) William,- b. 1670, d. 1698.
(2) *Elizabeth,- b. 1663, mar. Francis Taliaferro, d. 1710, son of
Eobt. Taliaferro, the immigrant, who settled in Gloucester co. in
1650, and his wife, Sarah Grymes, dau. of Eev. Charles Grymes.
Issue : Francis, d. y. ; John, of the "Mount" ; Eobt., d. s. p. ; Wm,,
who mar. Ann. Walker, of Urbana; Eichard; Elizabeth, mar. Thos.
Stribling, and Agatha.
On Sept. 5. 1687, Francis and Elizabeth Taliaferro made a deed
to John Battaille for 300 acres of land, reciting that Col. John,
in his last will and testament, did bequeath the said land, 300
acres, to his two daughters. (Essex Eecords.)
This, together with the reference to his will in Mrs. Butler's will,
shows that the immigrant. Col. John, made a will^, though not found
among Court Eecords.
(3) Sarah^ mar. 1682 Eobt. Taliaferro, d. 1688, brother of
Francis, and had one son, Eobt.
* In 1684 it is ordered that Elizabeth Catlett, having attained the age of 21 years, by-
legacy from her mother shall receive one- fourth of money in hands of M. & J., London.
(Essex Records.)
16 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
(4) * William,- b. 1670, d. 1H98, mar. Elizabeth Thompson, d.
1710, who mar. (IT) Wm. Moseley. Wm. Catlett's will is given
below. It leaves his wife executrix. His only child, Elizabeth, was
born after death of her father, as noted in the will of her mother,
probated in Essex co. 1710, mentioning son, Wm. Moseley, daugh-
ter, Mary Moseley, and daughter, Elizabeth Catlett, born after her
father's death, to have her father's effects when 18 years old.
In 1088-9, will of Jno. Thompson, of Surry co., James Eiver,
gives to his sister, Elizabeth Catlett, wife of Wm. Catlett, £50.
Xothing furtlier is known of this Elizabeth Catlett.
Will of William Catlett, of Essex, Sittinghourne Parish, Gent.,
11th April, 1097.
"1 give my soul, etc.
"My will is that my debts be paid by my executors.
"To my dear wife ye land I now live on, 300 acres, provided she
live to have a child, and that ye child be called by ye name of Cat-
lett. If my wife have a child I give to ye said child, whether male
or female, all of my lands not bequeathed, etc.
"Item. — If my wife should dye without a child by me my nephew
Wm. Slaughter shall enjoy possession of ye land called Eichland,
lying by ye land of Ralph Eowzy.
"Item. — If my wife dye childless I give to my nephew Thomas
Catlett ye lands I now live on, if he should come of age, if not, to
Elizabeth Catlett his sister.
"Item. — If my wife be childless I give to my two nephews Eobt.
and ffrancis Taliaferro 400 acres upon ye Long Point.
"Item. — I give to my dear Bro. John all my books except such
as my wife shall except.
"Item. — To my nephew Wm. Slaughter 1 negro man when he
shall arrive at age of 21.
"Item. — To my nephew Eobt. TaHaferro my rapier, pistolls and
ten shillings.
"Item. — ^To my nephew Francis Taliaferro a young mare.
"My dear and loving wife, my sole executrix, to whom I give and
bequeath my whole estate. I mean my personal estate, of wliat
nature soever.
"Testi: William Catlett.
"Wm. Thompson (bro. of wife),
"ffras. Slaughter (half-bro. of Wm. C).
"Eobt. Payne (mar. Catherine, sister of wife).
"Catherine Payne (sister of wife)."
Elizabetli Catlett qualified on above will l(!i)9.
* In 1692-3, Wtti. Catlett, having reached 21 years, will receive one-fourth of the money
in hands of M. & J., London (Essex Records). ["M. & J." above were initials of Mumford
& Jeffries, large and wealthy merchants in London.]
Descendants of Col, John Catlett: 17
Mrs. Elizabeth Catlett mar. (II) Wm. Moseley and died 1709,
and left the following will :
Will of Elizabeth (Catlett) Moseley.
"1. Son Wm. Moseley, dau. Mary Moseley and dau. Elizabeth
Catlett (born after death of her father) to have a ring that was her
father's and 3 silver spoons and my pearl necklace, to be delivered
to her at age of 18. Dau. Mary a similar legacy. I give all my
books not yet bequeathed to be equally divided between my three
children. Sole Executor Bro. Samuel Thompson.
"Trustees, Bro. Ed. Moseley, Jno. Hawkins and Wm. Thompson.
"Ex. 30th Xber 1709, prob. 10 Feb. 1709/10."
Will of Lawrence Catlett, 27th October, 1724, probated 19th
January, 1724/5, mentions wife Alice, and bros. John and Thomas.
His wife and father-in-law, Francis Thornton, his executors. • Jno.
Eoy and Eobt. Smith, witnesses.
This Lawrence was oldest son of the 2nd John Catlett, who is
usually referred to as "the 2nd John."
Desendants of Col. Jno. Catlett the Second.
John,- known as the 2nd John, was the only son of Col. John
Catlett and his wife, Elizabeth Underwood, to leave male issue. It
is thought that this John married twice and that Lawrence, and
perhaps Elizabeth, were by his first wife, who, it is believed, was a
daughter of Major Lawrence Smith, of Bacon's Eebellion. There
are deeds recorded in Spotsylvania co. to Jno. Catlett, Jr., and
Eichd. Buckner, in 1722, from Augustine Smith, the son of Major
Lawrence.
Jno^ certainly married Elizabeth Gaines, daughter of Dan'l
Gaines, who is believed to have married Miss Eowzie, half-sister
of Col. Jno. Catlett the imgt., since Capt. Dan'l Gaines, in his will
(Essex CO.), Aug. 18, 1682, mentions wife "Margaret," and
"orphans of Col. Jno. Catlett to be paid out of the negroes who
belong to his estate," and calls Jno. Catlett "his kinsman," and
directs that "children of Col. Jno. Catlett to remain with my wife
until they come of age or until she married."
Again, in 1671, Mrs. Elizabeth Catlett, widow of Col. Jno., gave
power of attorney to Mr. Dan'l Gaines, and also later made him
"overseer of her will" and to have main charge of the children
(1673). After a suit in May court, 1673, between Eev. Amory
Butler (who married the widow of Col. John Catlett) and Capt.
Thos. Hawkins, who married the sistr of Mrs. Jno. Catlett, Dan'l
Gaines took charge of the Catlett children and Eev. Butler of the
estate. (All from Essex Eecords.)
Col. John- Catlett was burgess (1693-1702), and justice of the
peace (1692), coroner (1700), president of court, sheriff (1705)
18 • Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
for Essex co. He patented lauds extensively in Spotsylvania co.
and elsewhere. He gave power of attorney to John ^lumford
(June 16, 1701), of London, to sell all my lands at Sittiugbourne,
in Kent co., Eng., and at Eadwischeim, which he inherited from his
father. His will, dated 172-1, is given below :
Issue.
(1) Lawrence,^ d. 1724, mar, Alice Thornton, dau. of Francis
Thornton. (She mar. II James Taylor, b. 1705, d. 1781, and left
Taylor issue.) Lawrence, d. s. p. 1724. Will Oct. 27, 1724, prob.
19th. Jany, 1724/5. (See above.) Subsequently there was a deed
made to his widow "i\.lice" of slaves and signed by Jno.Catlett,
Thos, Catlett of Essex, Francis Conway of Essex, Jno. Taliaferro
of Spotsylvania, and Eowland Thornton of King George co. Wit-
nesses : Jno. Catlett, Jr., Chas. Taliaferro, Jr.^ and John Battaille.
(Essex Eecords.)
(2) Elizabeth,^ b. Sept. 6, 1G89, d. 1751, mar. Eowland Thorn-
ton of "Crowes," King George co., b. 1685, d. 1748, who was J. P.
of said county and had issue, among others :
(a) Alice,"^ mar. Jno. Fitzhugh, b. 1727, d. 1819, sou of Henry and
Susannah (Cooke) Fitzhugh of Belvoir, and had, among
others, Elizabeth, b. 1754, d. 1825, mar. 1770 Capt. Francis
Conway, b. 1748, d. 1794, and had Elizabeth, b. 1783, d. 1853,
mar. 1802 Lawrence Catlett (See below). The above are be-
lieved to be by his first wife. By Elizabeth Gaines he had
(3) John,^ mar. (I) Taliaferro, (II) Mary Grayson. (See
below.)
(4) Thomas,^ mar. Martha . He died 1739 and
his wife Martha administered upon his estate in Caroline co. He
was sheriff of Essex co. 1716, J. P. in Caroline co. 1739, and pat-
ented a goodly quantity of lands. (See Thomas branch, below.)
(5) Mary,=^ mar. Dec. 22, 1708, Jno. Taliaferro,* of Snow Creek,
b. 1687, d. 1744, and had a daughter, Margaret, mentioned in Col.
Catlett's will.
(6) Eebecca,^ d. 1760, mar. (I) 1718 Francis, b. 1697, son of
Col. Edward Conway, will April 12, 1733; (II) Jno. Moore, will
*Mr. John Taliaferro was a frontiersman, as per his testimonj' given before the com-
missioners to settle the boundary between the Colony of Virginia and the royal grant by
King .James of the "Northern Neck" to Lord Culpepper, which had descended to Lord
Fairfax, who had married his daughter. These commissioners were to determine the upper
waters of the Rappahannock river. According to Col. Wm. Byrd, of Westovcr, one of the
commissioners on the part of the Crown, as recorded by Rev." Phil. Slaughter in "History
of St. Mark's Parish," page 2.5, the following is his testimony: ".Jno. Taliaferro, Gentle-
man, aged forty-nine years, saith about the year 1707 he came to live where he now lives
above 'Snow Creek,' nine miles below the falls, and there were then but three settlements
above his house on the south side of the river. He had been acquainted with the fork of
the river above twenty-four years and that one of the forks was called South River until
Governor Spotswood, above twenty years ago, named the south branch 'Rapidan,' and it
has ever since been so called." The final decision of the boundary gave Lord Fairfax the
original county of Culpepper, now included in the present counties of Culppper, Madison
and Rapabannock.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
19
prob. 1759 in King George co. By first marriage were Catlett
Conway, mentioned in Col. Catlett's will, and Eleanor Rose, b
1732 mar 1749. Col. James Madison, Sr., who were parents ot
President James Madison, b. March 5, 1751, at Port Conway, on
Eappahannock, opposite Port Eoyal. Eebecca Moore s will, 6th
Nov., 1759, prob. 8th March, 17G0. ,,,,.,
(7) Margaret,^ to whom her father bequeathed Ins home-place,
"Green Hill " and 1,800 acres on the freshes of the Eappahannock
river married late in life John Gibson, of Essex. It is said by the
historian of the family, Wm. Fitzhugh Catlett, that the above
legacies were left upon' the condition that she remained unmarried.
"She preferred matrimony to patrimony and forfeited her right to
above."
Will of the second John Catlett, dated 18th November, 1724, and
witnessed by John Elliott, John Evars and John Catlett, gives to
his two sons, John and Thomas, and his daughter, Margaret, 1,800
acres in freshes of Eappahannock river, in the coimty of Essex.
• "To son Thos., lands on south side of Cedar creek.
"To dau. Margaret, dwelling plantation.
"To dau.-in-law Alice Catlett, land and four negroes.
"To son John, household furniture and some stock.
"To granddau. Martha Taliaferro, some negroes, with son John
as her trustee. .
"To dau, Margaret, household and kitchen furniture and some
"To son Thomas, all of my land purchased by me and Eowland
Thornton, of Micajah, and Eichd. Perry, being part of mortgage
from Chas. Smith, Micajah Perry, Thos. Lane and Eichd. Perry.
"To son Thomas, upper part of said purchased land.
"To son Thomas, 600 acres in Spotsylvania co. and 100 acres, part
of same tract that I gave to my grandson Catlett Conway.
"To son John, a negro, my silver tankard and silver spoons, silver
seal and old damask table cloth and napkins.
"To son Thomas, my clock.
"Eest of personal estate, money, tobacco, cattle, hogs, horses, sheep
and whatever else I have not given away, to be divided equally
among my said five children, John, Thomas, Mary, Elizabeth and
Eebecca. Executors, sons John and Thos."
Descendants of John Catlett the Third.
Descendants of third John, d. 1739, who is believed to have mar.
(I) Mary or Elizabeth, dau. of Jno. Taliaferro, and had a son, John
4th of age at father's death 1739, who in his will mentions ' John
and my minor children," and names his son John and brother
Thomas as executors. He mar. (II), 20th October 1^26 Mary
Grayson, of Spotsylvania co., Va. He witnessed a deed m 1724 and
20 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
signs "Jno. Catlett, Jr., and in 1730 he made a deed to his son, Jno.
Catlett, Jr., and signs himself "Jno. Catlett, Gent." He was of the
vestry of St. George, 1738.
Issue.
(1) Bv first marriage he had John,^ b. circa 1705, d. Dec. 13,
1744, to whom he made a deed in 1730; mar. Sept. 25, 1727, Alice
Gibson, d. Mar. 15, 1761, daughter of Jonathan Gibson, justice and
burgess for Caroline, 1736-38-40. He was of Orange co. and of
vestry of St. Mark's. His will. Mar. 28, 1744, prob. 1745, recorded
in Eichmond co. (See below.)
Issue by Second Marriage (Mary Grayson).
(2) Mary* mar. Jonathan Gibson, who had lands in King George
CO., in 1748, and had issue, among others, Catlett, who mar. Martha
Ball, whose mother was a dau. of Chas. and Mildred (Thomson)
Washington. Jonathan Gibson was sheriff of King George co.,
1736; tobacco inspector at a warehouse on Eapp. river, opposite
Eoy's, in Caroline.
(3) Judith,* one of the sponsors of President Madison, 1751,
mar. John Bowie, of the "Hill," Caroline co., Va., and had dau.,
Catherine, mar. Col. Jas. Pendelton and had nine children, among
them, Catlett, died unmarried, and Catherine, mar. Archibald
Tutt. (See Slaughters. St. Mark's.)
(4) Elizabeth,* one of sponsors for President Madison, 1751.
■ (5) Benjamin* sold in 1762 lands to Jas. Garnett, in Caroline,
and a suit in same county i'n 1762. No further information of him.
(6) Eeuben,* living in K. E. part of Caroline co. in 1776.
(8) William* mar., 1765, Elizabeth, dau. of Dr. Wm. and
Martha (Taliaferro) Fitzhugh. Nothing further known of him.
No descendants have been found of either Benjamin, Eeuben or
William.
Will of 3rd John Catlett, dated 14th June, 1738, prob. June 3,
1739, gives :
"To son John, five shillings.
"To son Benjamin, tract of land I now live on and tract I bought
of Jno. Todd.
"To son Eeuben, tract called Mamum Oak Quarters.
"To son William, 500 acres in Orange co.
"To wife, 1/7 part of personal property and at her death equally
divided between my six children, who receive balance of personal,
viz: Mary Catlett and Judith and Eliza A. Catlett, and three sons,
Benjamin. Eeu])en and William Catlett.
"Bro. Thomas Catlett and son John Catlett, Exs."
Witnesses: Jonathan Gibson, Geo. Todd and Eobt. Lindsev.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 21
Will of 4tli John Catlett, dated 28th Nov., 1744, probated 28th
March, 1745, gives :
"To dau. Elizabeth some negroes, furniture and a black mare
called jSTelty Clare.
"Wife to live on any of my land during her life or widowhood.
"To my four sons, Lawrence, Jonathan, Thomas and G-eorge,
land I now live on, to be equally divided when Lawrence comes of
age.
"To my son John all lands in Caroline co., and in case he dies
before he becomes of age then to Lawrence.
"Eest of estate divided equally between wife and five sons, John,
Lawrence, Jonathan, Thomas and George."
Wife, son and Jonathan Gibson, executors. Wife Alice renounced
will and claimed dower.
Descendants of John, d. 1744, Max., Sept. 25, 1727, Alice Gibson, d. March
15, 1761, of Orange County, Va. (the Fourth John).
(1) Child born dead.
(2) Elizabeth,^ b. Mar. 25, 1729, mar. Johnson, who lived
but a short time.
(3) Sarah, b. Jan. 15, 1731, d. April 18, 1732.
(4) John,^ b. Oct. 8, 1733, d. Dec. 9, 1789, mar. Elizabeth Thorn-
berry. (See below for descendants.)
(5) Sarah, the second of this name, b. Sept. 8, 1735, d. Sept. 17,
1743.
(6) Lawrence, b. July 23, 1737, will prob. June, 1782, mar.,
1760, Mary, dau. of Kemp Taliaferro, d. 1749, and wife, Mary
Thornton, settled at "Locust Grove," near Stevensburg, Culpepper
CO., Va.
Kemp Taliaferro was son of Charles, and his wife, Ann, dau. of
Matthew Kemp, and grandson of Jno. Taliaferro, "the Eanger,"
and his wife, Sarah, dau. of Major Lawrence Smith, of Bacon's
Rebellion. He was of vestry of St. Mark's parish. For descend-
ants, see below.
(7) Jonathan,^ b. Sept. 27, 1739, sells to his bro. Lawrence, in
1770, his part of a tract left to Lawrence, Jonathan, Thomas and
George, surveyed and divided in 1764. In this deed he signs from
King William CO., joined by his wife, Elizabeth, and witnessed by
Jno. Quarles, Wm. Aylett and Jno. Catlett (son of Thos.). Who
was this Elizabeth, his wife, is not known, nor his descendants, but
in King William Records lands and negroes are assessed to Samuel
Jones Catlett from 1798 to 1810, to Jonathan Catlett from 1802 to
1810, and to Ann Catlett from 1805 to 1819. It is highly probable
that these are descendants of Jonathan and suggests that his wife
was a Jones, possibly daughter of Samuel Jones.
22 Descendants of Col John Catlett.
Miss Laura Lenoir Xorwood, of Leuoir, N". C, in a letter seeking
information relative to the Catlett family, says that in the olden
days there we^c several intermarriages between the ''Jones," of
Orange co., Va., and the Catletts. It is highly probable that the
wife of Jonathan was Elizabeth Jones. It is also probable that
Sam'l Jones Catlett or Jonathan Catlett may be ancestor of the
following and other Catletts now found in and around Eichmond,
since none are found to-day in King William county. The follow-
ing are given, with others, in and around Eichmond, unclassified :
Descendants of Wm. Saniuel Catlett and First Wife, Elizabeth
Beaslei/, of .Spotsylvania County.
(1) Jno. L., b. 1862, d. July 6, 1913, in Goochland Co., mar. Jennie
E., and lives in Eichmond, and has: (a) Clarence D., (b)
Horace L., (c) Bessie, (d) Louise, (e) Euth.
(2) Mary Ellen, mar. Britt and lives in Eichmond. Issue:
(a) William, (b) Maurice, (e) Eussell, (d) Beatrice, (e)
Otis, (f) Lucy.
By Second Wife, Sarah C. Garnett.
(3) Philip, mar. Florence Carter, and lives in Caroline Co. Issue:
(a) Julian, (b) Elmo, (c) Dewey.
X4:) Muscoe Eussell, d. July 9, 1910, mar. 1890, Julia Brown, of
Cumberland Co., who mar. (II) W. L. Toone, of Eichmond.
Issue by first marriage: (a) Gertrude, mar. Lewis Heath
and lives in Eichmond ; (b) William J., (c) Curtis, (d) Ella,
(5) Morris, mar. Mrs. Maud Harlow and had one son,- Eobert.
The following live in Eichmond and have not been classified :
Charles M. Catlett, Eugene Catlett, Eussell Catlett.
The following from the Caroline Eecords perhaps belongs here:
"Married, by Eev. E. H. W. Buckner, Eobt. S. Catlett to Kitty Ann
Lafoe, May' 19th, 1849."
(8) Thomas,'^ b. Sept. 15, 1741. He entered Eev. Army, 1776
and the following is his record from Heitman : "Ensign 2nd Va.,
19th Feb., 1776; 1st lieut., 26th Xov., 1776; capt.-lieut., 11th
March, 1777; capt., 8th March, 1779. Killed at Waxhaws 29th
May, 1780."
This company, as it stood March 1, 1776, according to Saffel :
Morgan Alexander, capt. ; ]\Iarquis Calmes, 1st Lieut. ; Thos. Cat-
lett, 2nd lieut.
Campbell, in his "History of Virginia," says ^lajor Catlett was
killed at Guilford Court House, N. C. A search everywhere, in
military records at Eichmond and Washington, failed to sub-
Descendants of Col. John Catleti. 33
stantiate this assertion. It is presumed he referred to Capt. Catlett,
killed in Buford's defeat by Tarleton at Waxhaws, S.. C. A land
warrant was issued to his brother John, as per following extract:
"June 26th, 1783, Capt. Thos. Catlett, of Va. Continental Line
allowed 4,000 acres, paid to Jno. Catlett, heir and legal representa-
tive of Capt. Thos. Catlett, Dec. 5." (Land Warrants Ed., Va.,
Book I, page 211.)
In 1837 the following memorial was presented :
"To His Excellency :
"The memorial of Lawrence Catlett, Robt., Willy Ann, Mary,
Peter (Patrick), Washington, Fitzhugh, Thomas, Evelina and
Elizabeth Catlett and Sarah Thornton, all of Caroline co., and
Samuel Catlett, of Fauquier, being nephews and nieces and only
heirs at law of Capt. Thos. Catlett, who was a citizen of Caroline
CO. when he entered the Eev. Army. * * * jjg entered army
very early in the war, was appointed Capt. and was killed by the
enemy at the battle of Bluford's (Buford's) defeat.
Signed: Lawrence Catlett. Sarah A. Thornton.
Samuel Catlett. Eliza Catlett.
Washington Catlett. Eobt. G. E. Catlett.
Fitzhugh Catlett. Patrick Catlett.
Thomas Catlett. Willy Anne Catlett.
Evelina Catlett. Mary E. L. Catlett.
"Lawrence Catlett personally appeared and made oath, &c.
"F. W. Battaille, J. P."
This paper is endorsed on back :
"Thos Catlett
"Service from 2nd Feb., 1776, to 3rd Nov., 1783. Deducting
amt. formerly received for 3 yrs. services D. Campbell, 4,000 acres
26th June, 1783, Ensign 2nd Feb., 1776, killed at Buford's defeat."
The following Bounty Warrants in the State Library :
"Certified that Captain Thomas Catlett entered the Army Febru-
ary 2nd, 1776, as an ensign, and continued in service till May 29th,
1780, when he was killed in action at Waxhaws, S. C.
"Samuel Hawes, Lt. Col.
"Jany. 17th, 1782."
"Capt. Thomas Catlett served in the Eev. Army from February
2, 1776, to Nov. 23, 1783. Heirs: Lawrence Catlett, Washington
Catlett, Fitzhugh, Thomas, Evelina, Washington, Sarah A. Thorn-
ton, Elizabeth C, Eobert G. E., Patrick E., Willy Ann, Mary E. L."
Eeport of House of Delegates, 1835, Doc. 6, p. 80 :
"Thos. Catlett enlisted Feb. 5th, 1776, continued in service to
May 29th, '1780. See certificate of Lieut. Col. S. Hawes. His
24: Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
heirs received in 1783 4.000 acres of land for three years' service.
Entitled to additional Bountv Land. Service should be estimated
from Feb. 2, 1776, to April 22nd, 1783."
''House of Delegates, May 31st, 1779.— Warrant to Capt. Thomas
Catlett for provisions &c for his company from King William
County, per P. E., and account book, 1779.""
"Company as it stood March 1st, 1777: Thomas Catlett, 2nd
Lieut."
Revolutionary Soldiers, Vol. 4: "Thomas Catlett, Captain In-
fantry 322,16,8. received by Mr. Gilchrist Jan. 4, 1783."
From land books at Eichmond, Va., we find the following :
"28th Mar. 1853.— Thomas Catlett allowed additional 699 acres
on account of service from 2nd Feb. 1776, to Nov. 3rd, 1783.
"Geo. W. Stephens, Assignee."
This warrant was paid to Thos. L., Geo. W., Willy Ann, Marv E.,
Eobt. G. E., Susan, Edwin C, Patrick E.. Elizabeth F., Thos. C,
Jno. F., Mary C, Sarah T., Elizabeth G., and Wm. F., Catlett and
Sarah Ann and Maria Evelina Thornton, heirs at law of Capt Thos.
Catlett.
loth January, 1854, Warrant jSTo. 9619 issued for 585 acres to
Samuel Catlett and the heirs generally of Elizabeth and Alice
Buckner, heirs at law of Thos. Catlett, deceased, captain in Conti-
nental Line. (Book 3, 573.)
(9) George,^ b. May 6, 1743, d. Sept. 13, 1814, was lieutenant
in Xavy during the Eevolution. Campbell, in his history, page
723, says : "Geo. Catlett, Lieut, in Marines, and in the brig '^Mos-
quito,' Capt. Harris, in a voyage to the West Indies, 1781, was
captured by the British frigate 'Ariadne," after taking two prizes,
and carried with others to Barbados, where they were confined in
jail and in prison ship. They were taken to England and incar-
cerated in Fortune Jail at Gosport, where they were cruelly treated.
They escaped and returned to America, and again bore arms against
the enemy."
The following extracts are taken from the State Library :
Ms. Vol. Rev. Soldiers. No. 5 :
"George Catlett, Lieut. Infantrv, received pension, himself,
March 12, 1785."
"April 25th, 1838. Bounty granted to the heirs of Lt. George
Catlett of the Navy. He was Lieut, of Marines ^larcli, 1776; went
to sea in brig Mosquito in 1776 ; was captured and imprisoned in
England till 1781, when lie escaped and returned to the United
States and enlisted in the Land Forces as Lieutenant of Infantry;
and continued in service till Siege of Yorktown, then retired. He
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 25
lived iu Port Eoyal and his children were William, Colin B., Greorge,
Harriet and Ann E."
From Land Warrants of Richmond we find :
"On Feb. 1st, 1834, Geo. Catlett, Lieut, in Navy, allowed 2,666
acres through Geo. T., Colin B., Harriet and Ann E. Catlett, his
children, and Lucy Catlett, his wife.
"On May 18th, 1838, Geo. Catlett allowed 1,333 acres additional
to same."
Lieut. Geo. Catlett lived at Port Royal, Caroline co., Va., and in
1788 held office of searcher of vessels. (Calendar Papers.)
He mar. (I) Eleanor Johnson, no issue; mar. on May 11, 1798
(II) Lucy Beverley Buckner, of "The Neck," d. Nov. 11, 1855,
dau. of Wm. and Dolly (Eoy) Buckner, and had issue:
(a) Harriet Thronton,^' b. 11th April, 1799, d. Aug. 11, 1873; im-
married.
(b) George Thomas,^ b. 4th Aug., 1801, d. 29th Sept., 1842; un-
' married.
(c) Wm. Aylett,^ b. 9th May, 1804, d. 29th June, 1833 ; unmarried.
(d) John Gibson,« b. 30th Mar., 1806, d. 1809, aged three years.
(e) Colin Buckner,^ b. 24th Mar., 1808, d. Aug. 9, 1856, mar.,.
June 27, 1840, Ellen Bankhead Thornton, of "Olmsby,"
Caroline co., dau. of Griffin and Ann (Harrison, nee Fitz-
hugh) Tliornton, and had issue. (See below.)
(f) Ann Eliza,« b. 20th July, 1811, d. June 18th, 1880; unmarried.
Descendants of Colin Buckner*' and Ellen Bankhead (Thornton)
Catlett are :
(a) Geo. William,^ mar. Lucy Garnett Brooke, of Essex Co., dau
of Wm. Hill and first wife, Jane Lawrence Brooke, and had :
(1) Wm. Brooke,® electrical engineer, of Richmond, Va. ;
mar. Anne Shepherd, of Richmond, and has Anne and
Shepherd. They have Lieut. Geo. Catlett's Bible and
have kindly furnished dates above.
(2) Lucy Brooke,® mar. Herman Pollard, and has Herman
and Alice.
(3) Ellen Bankhead,® d. y.
(4) Hattie Brooke,® d. y.
(5) John Allen,® d. y.
(b) Lucy Beverley," mar. (2nd wife) Wm. Hill Brooke, of Brooke's ■
Bank, Essex co., Loretto P. 0. She has furnished much in-
formation relative to this branch. Issue :
(1) Ellen Bankhead,® mar., 1890, Henry Latane, son of
Dr. Griffin and Ann (Govan) Fauntleroy, and had (I)
26 Descendants of Col Jolin Catlett.
Wm., (II) Harriet Tunstall, (III) Henry Latane, (lY)
:\Iarv Gordon, (Y) Ellen Garnett.
(2) Harriet Catlett,^ mar., 1890, Robt. Bruce Faimtleroy,
son of Capt. Yirginius Hillman and Mary Peachy
Fauntlerov, and had (I) Stuart Baylor, (H) Ellen
Perrv, (III) Lucille Beverley, (lY) Yirginius Hill-
man," (Y) Wm. Garnett, (YI) Anne Brooke, (YII)
Mary Peachv. (YIII) Francis Downing, (IX) Eobt.
Bruce, (X) Julian Hill.
(3) Ann Eliza,** mar., 1894, Latane Sale, son of Chas. and
Mary Susan (Latane) Sale, and has (I) Chas. Latane,
(Ilj Beverley Brooke.
(4) Geo. Colin,« d. y. (5) : ]\Iaria Whitinir,« d. v. (6) ; Hill
Beverly,^ d. y. (7) ; Colin Bankhead," d. y.
(fi) Harriet Thornton,'^ mar. Alexander Tunstall, d. s. p.
(d) Ann Gordon,'^ unmarried.
(e) Uobt. ]\Iaurice,' unmarried.
(f) Alice Gilison,^ mar. Wm. Bagbv, of King and Queen, and had
(1) Eliza Ware,^ (2) Wm. Catlett.^.
Deseeuclant^ii of Ljiwrenoe^ (Married in 1760) and Mary Taliaferro Catlett.
In will, June 30, 1782, recorded in Culpepper co., he mentions
wife Mary and seven children, viz: Mary, Kemp, Thomas, Sarah,
Alice, Xancy and George. Xames wife Mary and two sons, Kemp
and Thomas, and James Pendleton executors. There is a deed in
Culpepper Records, dated 4th of January, 1770, from Jonathan
Catlett, his brother, and wife Elizabeth, of King William co., to
Lawrence Catlett, his part of 340 acres of 1,528 acres left by his
fatlier. John Catlett, d. 1744, to his sons, Lawrence, George,
Jonathan and Thomas. Witnesses to deed in King William co.
were Jno. Quarles. Wm. Aylett and Jno. Catlett (son of Thomas).
This tract of 1,528 acres was on the Great Fork of the Rappahan-
nock, on the north branch of Mountain Run, called "Jonas Run,"
and was divided as follows, July 21, 1768: Jonathan, 340 acres;
Thomas, 400 acres ; George, 448 acres, and Lawrence, 340 acres.
The vestry of St. IMark's parish met at the house of Lawrence
Catlett in 1770 to decide upon the location of a glebe. Tracts of
Francis Slaughter and Geo. Catlett had lieen recommended; they
selected the former.
Issue of Laicrence Catlett.
(1) J\lary,° b. 17(51, d. 181G, mar. (I) Dr. George Yates, surgeon
in the Revolution. His will, dated Xov. 15, 1788, mentions
wife, Mary Catlett ; bro.-in-law, Kemp Catlett ; son, Lawrence
Catlett Yates, and grandson, Geo. Yates, of Caroline Co., Ya.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett: 27
From his will, he had a grandson, Geo. Yates, therefore must
have been previously married. Mary mar., (II) in 1790, Major
Keuben Zimmerman, d. 1811, son of Frederick and Sarah
Morgan Zimmernum, and had issue. (See "Zimmerman,
Waters and Allied Families," page 7.)
(2) Kemp,*' b. 1765, d. April 4, 1813, of dropsy of the heart, mar.
June 16, 1790, Sallie Zimmerman Pierce, b. June 5, 1774, d.
sAug. 15, 18-43, at Darlington, S. C, and had issue. (See
below.)
(3) Thomas,*' b. 1765, a soldier in the Eevolution, and received in
1835 a pension, then 70 years old. Little is known of him; he
is probably the father of Albert Catlett, who mar, Lucy Pollard
Dec. 26, 1807, according to the records of Culpepper co., Va.
(4) Sarah,« b. 1767, mar. Sept. 7, 1798 (2nd wife),Robt. Toombs,
of Ga., and had Lawrence, a half-brother of Hon. Robt.
Toombs, the distinguished orator, statesman and soldier of Ga.
(5) Alice,*' b. 1769, d. Jan., 1796; unmarried.
(6) Ann'' (recorded always as Nancy), b. 1770, mar. Major Jno.
Chevis, of Spotsylvania, and brigade inspector during Revolu-
tion. No issue.
(7) Geo. W.,*' b. 1772. After his father's death he moved to
Augusta, Ga., where he became a Judge and amassed a fortune,
and died unmarried, and his estate distributed among charities,
so a relative was informed by Hon. Robt. Toombs, of Georgia.
Descendants of Kemp and Sallle Zimmerman (Pierce) Catlett.
Kemp Catlett was a friend and neighbor of Thomas Jefferson and
lived in a large brick house upon grounds of present University of
Virginia, which, it is said, he sold to Mr. Jefferson. In Henning's
Statutes, Vol. 16, page 212, Kemp Catlett, Gent., was one of the
trustees of the town of Milton, Albemarle Co., \a. They had issue :
(1) Lawrence^ Taliaferro, b. April 30, 1792, d. in Fairmount,
111., mar. Jan. 8, 1718, Sallie Nelson Harmon, b. April 10,
1792, of Staunton, Va. (See below.)
(2) William,^ b. Dec. 18, 1793, mar. Dec. 6, 1818, Polly Seay, and
d. s. p.
(3) Thomas Kemp,^ b. May 11, 1796, died before 1845, mar. Dec.
6, 1832, Caroline Ann Crosby, He was a presiding elder of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and lived and died
in Abingdon, Va. Issue: Thos. Kemp,*, b. Aug., 1835, no
other information of him ; Fannie,* mar. Long.
Sumner's "History of Washington County, Virginia," of which
Abingdon is the county seat, has the following : "At a session of
the court in January, 1863, Rev. Thomas Catlett was appointed
28 Descendmits of Col. John Catlett.
agent of the county to go to Xorth Carolina to purchase cotton,
yarn and domestic for the destitute families of the soldiers of this
county." This shows that Thos. Kemp followed in tlie footsteps
of his father and became a minister of the Gospel, but we have no
further information of him or his descendants.
(4) George Washington,' b. July 10, 1798, mar., in Alexandria,
Va., Margaret Murray, a widow, nee McDonald. He moved
to Jackson, La., engaged in planting, and died there. Issue :
(a) Georgiana,^ mar. Henrv Clark and had (I) Susan Ann,''
mar. Wm. Love and had William; (II) Charles," (III)
Clinton," (IV) a daughter."
(b) Margaret,* mar. Louis Pulliam and had Margaret," who
mar. Jackson and had Catlett^" Jackson.
(c) Eliza,^ mar. (I) Eugene Brady and had Eugene," killed
by an Italian; (II) Isaac Hooper. Xo issue.
(d) Flora,^ mar., (I) White, no issue; (II) Isaac Hooper
and had Irene Stone," mar. Harry Beck Hill, of Hart-
ney, Montana, and has (I) Flora Virginia,^" (II) Lydia
• • Beck,^" (III) Irene Catlett.^"
(5) Mary Ami,~ b. Sept. 7, 1800, d. s. p. in Darlington, S. C.
(6) Eobert,^ b. Aug. 9, 1802, d. s. p. of bilious fever, Aug. 9, 1830,
in Darlington, S. C.
(7) Eeuben Pierce,^ b. July 30, 1804, mar. Virginia Winter, sister
to Mrs. Gov. Foote, of Miss., and d. s. p. June 28th, 1833, at
Clinton, Miss.
(8) John Catlett,', b. May 20, 1807, at Charlottesville, Va., mar.
in Jackson, La. (whither he had moved with his brother Geo.),
April 22, 1834, Mary Elizabeth McDonald, whose mother was
Agnes Spink, dau. of Dr. Patrick Spink, of Jamaica. Jno.
Catlett died in Jackson, La., April 15, 1853. (For issue, see
below.)
(9) Sarah Pierce,' b. June 16, 1809, mar. Eev. Louis DuPre, of
Darlington, S. C, where she died s. p.
Descendants of Lawrence Taliaferro' and Sallie Nelson (Harmon) Catlett.
They moved to Bloomingburg, Ohio, in 1835, and from there to
Fairmont, 111., in 1844, Avhere they died. Issue:
(1) Maria Louise,^ b. Oct. 31, 1817, d. 1892, mar., 1837, Wm.
Sandford Carr, of North Carolina, who, in 1854, moved to
Illinois, and had issue: John, b. 1839; Elizabeth Sarah, b.
1841; Wm. Sanford. b. 1843; Mary Louisa, b. 1845, now Mrs.
Julian, of Urbana, 111.; James Hess, b. 1847; Carrie, b. 1849.
(2) Matthew Kemp Taliaferro,* b. Feb. 16, 1820, d. Sept. 23, 1853,
mar,, 1843, Elizabeth Anderson, and had issue:
Descendants of Col. John Catlett: 29
(a) Joseph Lawrence,''^ b. 1844, of Broadlancls, 111., mar.
Hannah Rush, and had (I) Thos. B.,^° b. Sept. 23,
18(i8, mar. , and has issue; (II) Addie M.," b.
April 10, 1870, mar. , and has issue; (III)' Lucy
V.,^'^ b. July 28, 1880, mar. , and has issue.
(b) Nancy," b. 1846, d. 1950.
(c) Emma,° b. 1848, d. 1850.
(d) Hettie,'' b. 1850.
(e) Kemp," b. 1853.
(3) Mary Ann Catherine,^ b. Aug. 1821, d. 1897, mar. three
times, (I) Albert Booker, no issue; (II) James Lee, issue
Theodosia," d. y.; (Ill) Wm. Davis, no issue.
(4) Hiram Harmon,^ b. Oct. 21, 1823, d. Feb., 1902, mar., 1858,
Lou Eoudebush, and had issue :
(a) Nellie Taliaferro," b. Aug. 2, 1859, mar. Geo. Clarence
Adams, and had (I) Marjorie," b. 1886, mar. Perry
Howe; (II) Marian,^" b. 1886. All live at 775 Garland
street, Los Angeles, Cal.
(b) Blanche Lewis," b. 1862, d. 1864.
(c) George Eoudebush," a banker in Fairmount, 111., b. Aug.
23, 1864, mar., 1890, Bertie V. Tilton, and has: (I)
Shirley Tilton," b. 1891, mar., 1913, Effie Wehrman;
(II) Kemp Eoudebush," b. 1897, a student in college
at Granville, Ohio. They live at Fairmount, 111.
(d) Hiram Harmon," Jr., d. y.
(e) Percy Lawrence," b. 1870, mar., 1904, Elizabeth Fair-
clough, of Pennsylvania, and they now live in Arkansas,
Issue : Donald," b. 1906, and Philip," b. 1911.
(f) Corinne Marguerite," b. 1875, mar., 1904, George W.
Le Fever, and live at Olney, 111.
(5) Harold Alexander,^ b. June 5, 1826, d. 1902, mar., April, 1858,
Elizabeth H. Boulware, "a woman of strong intellect and char-
acter," and had issue :
(a) Oren," b. 1859, mar. Mary Morrison and lives at Mo-
desta, 111. . •
(b) Boulware," b. 1861, mar. Nora Newlin, and has issue :
Poland," b. 1891; Elizabeth," Stanley," Eugenie,"
Eobert,^" and an infant; all living at Wiluka, Okla.
(c) Michael," d. y.
(d) Eobt. Lee," b. 1865, mar. Eosa Nicholson, and had
issue: Gilbert," b. 1897; Thelma," b. 1901;, and live
at Scottsville, 111.
(e) Jno. Shotwell," d. y.
(f) Portia Louise," b. 1879, mar.Dr. Wulwur, and have twins,
Elizabeth and Esther, and live at Willisville, 111.
(g) Wilfred Hall," b. 1881, mar., 1904, Archa Gones, and
had issue: Dorothy, 1905; Herald, 1,907; Kathlyn,
30 Descendants of Col. John CatJett. '
1909; Theodora, 1911; and John ^Y., 1915, and live at
Fairmont, 111.
(h) Lncius Harman,^ b. 1884, mar. 1907, and has Margaret,
1908, and infant, d. v., 1915, and live at Scottsville, 111.
(6) Wm. Lewis.« b. Aug. 22, 1828, d. Oct. 4, 1814.
(7) Robt. Thomas,^ b. No\. 29, 1831, d. Jan., 1832.
(8) Sarah Elizabeth,^ b. Jan. 8, 1833, d. 1905, mar, 1850, Alonzo
Stearns. Issue : Edwin, b. 1852 ; Jester, b. 1853, mar. Emma
Dougherty. Issue : Dorance, and live at Winchester, Ind. ;
Herman, b. 1853, of Fairmont, 111., mar. Anna Gerling, and
has Frances, b. 1891, mar. Cash Frazier, and Mildred b. 1895;
Lawrence Taliaferro, b. April 18, 18(30, mar. INIillie Perry;
Clement, b. Dec, 1862, mar. Ella Yerkes, and lives at Fair-
haven, Mo., and has Vernon, Hester, Eena, Alonzo, and two
other children; Herbert, b. 1865, mar. Lillie Hawkins, and
live at Guthrie, Okla. Two children, Clyde and Lucille.
(9) Virginia Lawrence,^ of Fairmont, 111., b. May 16, 1835, and
still lives and has furnished the above accurate account of the
descendants of her brothers and sisters, mar. (I) April 2, 1860,
Joseph Reese and had :
(a) Jeannette L.,» b. 1864, mar., 1886, Chas. B. Tilton,
and has Claude Enoch, b. ISTov. 16, 1887; Nina V.
Tilton, b. June 11, 1890; Walter J., b. June 23, 1894,
student at Universitv of Illinois ; Julia E., b. Sept. 2,
1897, student in high school ; Edith Ruth, b. Nov. 27,
1902.
Virginia Lawrence mar. (II) April 17^ 1873, Dr. C. E.
Lamon. No issue.
(10) Caroline,^ b. Jan. 22, 1838, d. July 23, 1852, s. p.
(11) Sophia L.,« b. May 7, 1840, d. 1868, mar., 1862, Reese Davis,
of Maryland, and had :
(a) Virginia R.,^ b. 1863, mar. Frank Allsworth, and had
Paul,io John,io Herald,!^ (d. y.) and twins, Frank"
and Walter.
(b) Marv," b. 1865, mar., 1886, Dr. Frank Van Dorn, d.
1887.
(12) Lawrence Taliaferro,^ b. Nov. 9, 1843, d. 1854.
Descendnnt-s of John,^ h. May 20, 1807, and Mary Elizabeth McDonald
Catlett, of Jackson, La.
ISSUE :
(1) Sarah Agncs,^ I). Nov. 3, 1833, d. 1905, mar. (I) Nov. 3, 1853,
Daniel Boone Pinson, of Wilkinson co.. Miss., and had: (a)
Nancy Eliza, mar. (I) Alex Sebastian Pipes, and had Lilian,
mar. Eugene Barham, of Oak Ridge, La., and liad IMary Eliza-
beth, Garnett, Wm. McKowen, Sarah, Eugene and a son; (b)
Descendants of Col. John CatleU. 31
Alex Sebastian, mar. Bertie Mcintosh, no issue; (c) Sarah
Agnes, immarried; (d) Mary, d. y.
Eliza mar. (II) Abner Wimberly; no issue.
(2) Eeuben Pierce,^ b. 1837, member Co. C, 2nd Regiment, Con-
federate Army, Sibley's Brigade; wounded at Glorietta, Mes-
illon Valley, ISTew Mexico, and died in hospital at Santa Fe
1862, from amputation of leg, aged 25 years.
(3) Mary Eliza,® mar. April 5, 1866, Clark Wm. Miller, and had:
(a) Jno. Catlett,'* mar. a Spanish lady and had Jno. and one
other son. They live in Mexico.
(b) Mary Eliza,^ d. y.
(c) Wm. Clark," mar. Mary Bartlett, of Dallas, Texas, and
had Wm. Clark, Mary, Jennie, Alberta, all living in
Seattle, Wash.
(d) Merrick McDonald,^ mar. Fannie Ellis, of Cleveland,
Texas, and now live in Los Angeles, Cal., and have
Madeline and Jno. Ellis.
(4) Virginia Zimmerman,® b. 1844, d. 1912, mar., Oct. 12, 1875
(2nd wife). Judge Rufus King Howell, of Supreme Bench of
Louisiana, and living at "Afton Villa," West Feliciana Parish,
La. Issue :
(a) Wm. Catlett," mar. Beatrice Hubert, of 'New Eoads, La.,
and has Garnett Claudia.
(b) Garnett Catlett,'* mar. Lena Webre, widow of Ed.
Newsham, of Baton Rouge, La., and has Virginia Zim-
merman.
c) Robt. Catlett, mar. Minnie Boyd, dau. of Col. Thos. D.
Boyd, president of La. State University. No issue,
(d) Mary Catlett, d. y.
(5) John,® b. i845, died at Port Hudson in 1863, member of
Signal Corps under Capt. Youngblood, aged 18 years.
(6) Corinne Lawrence,® b. 1847, d. Aug. 10, 1913, mar. (2nd wife)
Sept. 25, at Afton Villa, La., Paul J. Christian, d. 1913, and
had :
(a) Lelia,^ a teacher in Manual Training School of New
Orleans, La.
(b) Sarah,'' mar. Dr. Joseph H. Slaughter, of Bogalusa,
La., and has Jane Philips.^**
(c) Corinne,'' a teacher in Franklin, La.
(d) Jno. Catlett," United Fruit Co., of New Orleans, La.
(7) Wm. Robert,® b. 1860, d. 1877. Twin with
(8) Kemp Taliaferro,® a large planter of St. Landry parish, b.
1860, mar. Annie Littell, of Opelousas, La., and had:
(a) Wm. Robert," drowned in Alexandria, 1908.
(b) Jno. Littell," mar. Willie Haw, of Morrow, La., and
now a sugar chemist in Cuba.
32 Descendants of Col John Catlett.
(9) Louisiana Jolni, the distinijuished professor of inatliematics
in Sophie Xeweomb College of Xew Orleans, La.
Descendants of John, to. Oct. 8, 1733, d. Dec. 3, 1789, and Mar. Elizabeth
Thornberry (the Fifth John).
(1) Jno. Gibson (the sixth John), b. March 10, 1780, d. Jan. 16,
1837, mar. Dec. 4, 1795, Ann Eobb, b. Jan., 1777, d. 1853, dau.
of Jas. and Lucy (Waring) Eobb. (Lucy Waring was dau. of
Frank and Lucy (Cocke) Waring and Lucy Cocke was dau. of
Secretary Wm. and Eliza (Catesby) Cocke, of Williamsburg,
Va. Issue :
• (a) John James,^ b. Dec. 30, 1796, d. April 27, 1823, un-
married. He was a medical student in 1823 at Mary-
land University, and presumably died while studying
medicine.
(b) Emma Eobb,^ b. Aug. 19, 1799, d. Sept. 3, 1800.
(c) William Ann,^ b. April 23, 1783, d. Sept., 1878, un-
married.
(d) Eobt. Gilchrist Eobb,^ b. Sept. 22, 1808, d. Mar. 9,
1879, unmarried.
(e) Mary Elizabeth Lucy,^ b. Aug. 28, 1811, d. Oct. 6, 1878,
unmarried.
(f ) Patrick Eobb,^ b. Sept. 15, 1814, d. May U, 1890, mar.
Eliza Fitzhugh Catlett, dau. of Thos. L. and ^fary
(Fitzhugh) Catlett, and was the last owner of "Green
Hill," the original home of the Catletts. Issue: (1)
Ann Maria, mar. Jas. Edgar Bullock, of Spotsylvania
CO., and had Bernice Eobb, mar. Ed. Hennan Scott, of
Isle of Wight CO ; Edgar Duncan, mar. ]\Iyrtle Long, of
Brunswick co. ; Page Bowie, mar. Hazel Dean Chase, of
Denver, Col.; Jesse Cave, mar. Mary Augusta Miller,
of Mathews co. ; Park Farley, mar. Gregory Preston
Smith, of Caroline co. (2) Edward Thornton, mar.
Mary Nelson Catlett, and had Eobt. Nelson, mar. Sally
Durette, of Caroline co ; Bessie Fitzhugii, Edward
Henry, unmarried. (3) Jno. Gibson, d. y. ; (4) ^Mar-;
garet Eobb, d. y. ; (5) Eobert Eobb, unmarried.
(g) Agnes Ellen,^ b. Dec. 13, 1817, d. Nov. 28, 183G, un-
married.
(2) Lawrence," b. 1776, d. 1843, of "North Garden,"' mar., 1802,
Elizabeth Conway, b. 1783, d. 1832, dau. of Capt. Francis and
Elizabeth (Fitzhugh) Conway, and had issue:
(a) Jno. Francis,^ b. 1803, d. 1821.
(b) Jonathan Gibson,^ b. 1805, d. 1805.
(c) Elizabeth Gibson,^ b. 180G, d. 1821.
(d) Thos. Conway,^ b. 1808, d. 1865; never married.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett 33
(e) Ellen Maclison,^ b. 1811, d. 1883, mar. Frank W. Bat-
taile and had seven children.
(f) Mary Conway,^ b. 1811; unmarried.
(g) Sarah Taliaferro,® b. 1815; unmarried,
(h) Edwin Conway,^ b. 1818; never married.
(i) Susan Fitzhugh,® b. 1820, mar. Wm. J. Jones. Ko issue,
(j) Jno. Francds,^ b. 1823, d. 1853, mar. Mary McColgar,
and had Arthur, mar. Fannie Glass,
(k) Elizabeth G.,® b. 1825, d. 1859.
(3) Samuel,^ d. 1813,* mar., 1800, Charlotte Madison, dau. of Geo.
Madison, and had :
(a) James Madison,'^ b. 1814, d. Dec. 19, 1890, who gave
his name to Catlett's Station and was railroad agent
until his death, mar. Laura Marsteller, of Fauquier Co.,
b. 1828, d. Sept. 12, 1906, and had (1) Charlotte, b.
Oct. 15, 1853, d. y.; (2 and 3) Nancy and Samuel Gib-
son, twins, b. Sept. 12, 1855; Samuel Gibson, d. y.; (4)
James Madison, b. April 11, 1857, mar. Fannie T.
Tredick, sister of Edward Tredick, president of Nye &
Tredick Co., manufacturers of knitting machines, Phil-
adelphia, Penn. She died Jan. 1, 1914. Mr. Catlett has
been connected with Nye & Tredick Co. for 30 years
and has his residence at Haddenfield, N. J. Issue : An-
narell Madison, mar. Eobt. Thos. Wood, and has one
dau., b. Oct., 1814; Mary Wendell, mar. Wm. Henry
Snowden Alexander and live in Philadelphia, and has
one dau., b. 1917 ;Edward Tredick, b. 1889 and lives with
his father; Frances Louise, b. 1895. (5) Mary Stuart,
b. Sept. 22, 1863, on the night of Gen. Jeb. Stuart's
famous raid through Catlett's Station, hence her name
Stuart, and she mar. Frank E. Allen and lives in
Florida. (6) Laura C, b. June 17, 1866, mar. A. J.
Burgess and lives at old home at Catlett's Station.
(b) Samuel Gibson,^ of Catlett's Station, mar. Elizabeth
McCormick, of Fauquier Co., Va., and had Charlotte
Vivian, d. y. ; Lewis M., lives with his mother at Cat-
lett's Station; Samuel Gibson, Jr., mar. a lady from
Holyoke, Mass.
(4) Thomas Lawrence,^ d. July 1821, of "Locust Hill," Guinea
Station, Caroline Co., Va. He is the author of the letters to
Jno. C. Bowie, his cousin, recently published by Virginia His-
torical Magazine, one from "Green Hill," July, 1917, the other
from Richmond, Sept., 1818. He mar., May 28, 1810, Maria,
IP^al '^t^r^ 'l^/^^ recorded in Culpepper Co Va., from Samuel Catlett and wife, Charlotte,
34 Descendants of Col John Catlett.
dau. of Wm. and Sarah (Diggs^ Fitzluigli, of "Prospect Hill."
"Sarah Diggs was a lineal descendant of Sir Dudley Diggs,"
says a descendant of above.
Wm. Fitzhugh mar. (I) Ann Debnam, of Gloucester Co.,
Va., and had Dr. Wm. Debnam Fitzhugh. He mar. (II) Sarah
Diggs, dau. of Coh Edward Diggs, of Bellsfield, York Co., Ya.,
. and these were parents of above Maria. Issue :
(a) Geo. Washington," d. May 28, 1895, mar. Dec. 5, 1845,
his half first cousin, Eliza Debnam, d. Dec. 26, 1875,
dau. of Dr. Wm. Del)nam Fitzhugh, of Fauquier Co.,
Ya., and his first wife. Patsy Taliaferro, of Orange Co.,
Ya., and had issue: (1) Pattie Julia, living at the old
home at Port Eoyal, Ya., and has furnished valuable
information relative to the family. She has in her
home portraits of her father and mother and grand-
mother, Maria Fitzhugh. (2) Elizabeth Fitzhugh, lives
with her sister at Port Eoyal; (3) Eosalie Taliaferro, d.
Aug., 1908, mar., 1872, Wm. Henry Washington, d.
Sept. 11, 188G, of King George Co., and had Eosalie
Meade, mar., 1897, her cousin. Fielding Ashton Berry,
and has Ella Meade, Yarna Maguire, Eosalie Catlett,
Wm. Alexander and Fielding Lewis Ashton; Eliza
Fitzhugh, Yirginia Grymes, mar., 1906, her cousin,
Horace Ashton Fitzhugh; Henry Thacker, mar. Nov.
25, 1914, Mary Stuart Grymes; Susan Gordon, Wm.
Henry. (4) Geo. Washington, professor in Wilmington,
N. C, and mar. Margaret McElhany, of N. C, and has
issue: (1) Margaret, mar. Oct. 3, 1906, Clarence Eowe,
and had Geo. Catlett; (2) Eliza Fitzhugh, d. y; (3)
Geo. Fitzhugh, of New York, mar. (I) Jennie A. Hodg-
son and had Jennie A., mar. (II) Lillian Styron, of
N. C; (4) Sarah Cowan, mar. Paul L. Cantwell and
had John Lucas, Margaret McElhany and Paul L., Jr. ;
(5) Susan Howard, mar. Lieut. John Hutson, of the
navy, and has Joan.
(b) Wm. Fitzhugh,'^ Avho wrote a brief history of Catlett
family, mar. Eleanor, dau, of Walter C. Winston,' of
Auburn, Culpepper Co., Ya., and had: (1) Walter Win-
ston, d. y. ; (2) Thos. Washington, d. in Chesterfieild
Co., June 25, 1909, mar. Kate Worcester, no issue;
(3) Eleanor Yirginia, d. 1880, mar. Benjamin Hart and
had Leonard, Ada Winston, d. 1873, and Ada Winston.
(e) Maria Evelina,^ mar. Edward Coles Thornton, and
had (1) Thos. Catlett, mar. A'ictoria Gray, is now
mayor of city of Warrenton, Ya. ; (2) Lucy Winston;
(3J Mary Anne; (4) Evelina Maria.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett: 35
(d) Sarah Ann/ mar. Charles W. Thornton. Issue: (1)
Maria Fitzhugh; (3) Fitzhugh Catlett; (3) Anthony
Rootes; (4) Ellen Bankhead, mar. Clayton Yerby.
(e) Elizabeth Fitzhugh/ mar. her cousin, Patrick Eobb
Catlett. See back for issue.
(f) Thomas Lawrence/ d. 1879, mar. Nannie Schooler and
had: (1) Eev. Wm. Schooler, Baptist minister. Oak
Lane, 6605 IST. 13th street, Philadelphia, Penn., mar.
Mary Custer, of Philadelphia; no issue. (3) Mary
Nelson, mar. her cousin, Edward Thornton Catlett ; see
back for issue. (3) Fannie Page, mar. Charles Bowie,
and has William, Nannie, Walter and Frank. (4) Ed-
ward Henry, of Summit Station, who furnished the
history of Catlett family by Geo. Fitzhugh Catlett and
other valuable information, mar. Nellie Eubank, and
has Sterling and Vivian.
(5) Elizabeth,^ b. 1766, mar., 1789, Henry, d. 1833, son of Thos.
and Elizabeth (Taliaferro) Buckner, of Caroline and moved
later to Fayette Co., Ky., where he died. (See Buckner Family,
page 183.) Issue: Eight children, of whom the voungest, Lucy
A. T. Buckner, b. Oct. 14, 1808, d. July 18, 1849^ married,
• Feb. 5, 1839, Jesse D. Winn, b. 1811,d. 1878. Issue, five chil-
dren, of whom theyoungest, William H. Winn, b. Fayette Co.,
Ky., Jan. 30, 1836, married, 1861, Sarah E. Grubbs, b. 1838,
and had six children, among whom Pierce Winn, of Mt. Ster-
ling, Ky., b. Nov. 15, 1868, mar., Dec. 9, 1896, Agnes Thrus-
ton Catlett, b. April 7, 1876, dau. of Dr. John Catlett, of
Gloucester Co., Va., who married, in Ky., March 11, 1875, Elva
Ewing. (See line of John Catlett, of Gloucester Co., Va., in
this book.)
(6) Alice,'' d. 1838, mar. Peter Ballard Buckner, and moved to
Clarke Co., Ky. (Buckner Family, 389.)
1235103
36 Descendants of Col. Joli n Catlett.
DESCENDANTS OF MAJOR THOMAS AND MARTHA
CATLETT, SON OF COL. JOHN AND ELIZABETH
GAINES, SON OF COL. JOHN AND ELIZA-
BETH UNDERWOOD THE IMMIGRANT
IN 1650.
Descendants of Major Thomas Catlett^ (second son of second Col.
John Catlett- and Elizabeth Gaines), and his wife Martha, whose
surname, after dilgent search, remains unknown. Major Thomas
d. in 1739 and his wife "Martha" administered on his estate, which
was inventoried Tth November, 1739.. (Caroline Co. Eecords.)
He was of the vestry of St. Mary's parish, J. P. in 1732-1735, major
and sheriff in 1716, and patented in 1726 a large body of lands in
Spotsylvania Co., on the Eapidan, and in 1730 lands in Caroline
Co. He had issue :
(1) Martha,* d. 1760, mar. William Hampton, d. 1750, and had
issue: (a) Edward, (b) George, mar. Mary Colston; (e)
Thomas Catlett, mar. and left descendants in King William
Co.; (d) John,* d. in Stafford Co. and has numerous descend-
ants in and near Clarksville, Tenn. ; (e) Susannah, mar. John
Quarles; (f) Frances, mar. Thomas Buckner, of Caroline; (g)
Sarah, mar. Eichard Durret, of Caroline Co.; (h) William.
Wm. Hampton, d. 1750, and in his will he says: "Lastly I
do make my wife Martha Hampton, and my son Edward Hamp-
ton, and my wife's brother Mr. Geo. Catlett, the Exe"^ of this
my last Will and Testament," etc., etc. Martha Hampton, d.
1760, leaving her brother, Geo. Catlett, as executor. In Caro-
line Order Book, March 12, 1761, the court appointed Benj.
Eol)inson, Jr., Seth Thompson, Nicholas Battaile and Frans.
Taliaferro to appraise estate of Martha Hampton, widow,
deceased. On July 9, 1762, Edward Hampton sued George
Catlett for the remainder of the estate of Wm. Hampton,
unadministered by Mrs. Martha Hampton. Geo. Catlett d. 1766,
and the suit was renewed against his wiU Man in 1769, prob-
ably as administratrix of Geo.
(2) George,** d. 1766, mar. Mary Hampton, d. 1769, of Caroline
Co. He figured in the suits above given. No issue.
(3) Tlios.,* who witnessed will of Humphrey Booth in 1759, but
was dead when will was probated in 1763. With his brother
John he witnessed will of Francis Taliaferro in 1757. No
further knowledge of him.
(4) James,* who witnessed deed (1734) of Benj. Bibb to Humphrey
Descendants of Col. John CatleU. '37
Booth of lands in Hanover Co. Nothing further is known of
him.
(5) Probably "Frank,"* mentioned in Col. Frank Taylor's diary,
as quoted by Eev. Philip Slaughter, D. D., in his history of St.
Mark's parish, as one of the animated social circle which had
its center at Orange Courthouse. This is the only occurrence of
the name that we have found. There is a possibility of his being
a son of either Benjamin, Reuben, or Wm., mar. Elizabeth Fitz-
hugh, 3 sons of the 3rd John, and his wife, Mary Grayson, for
whom, as before mentioned, no descent has been found.
(6) John,* of King William Co., d. 1802, mar. Mary M. Eggleston
(living in 1820), sister of Richard Eggleston, whose mother is
said to have been a Jackson. He was J. P. in 1788-93 with
Benjamin Temple. Hi 1773 he advertised a horse taken from
John Catlett's pasture in King and Queen Co., near Todd's
Bridge, in the Virginia Gazette. Again, in same paper, John
Catlett, of King William, in June, 1779, has a stray horse to
be delivered either to himself or to Mr. Richard Eggleston, in
James City Co. John Catlett, of King William, and Chris-
topher Tompkins made, in 1787, commissioHcrs to estimate
damage done by the British at St. David's Point. Virginia
Calendar, lY, 4A7. Issue:
(1) John,^ of Timberneck, b. 1760, d. 1808, will 3rd
Ma}^, 1808 — an eminent lawyer of King William and
Gloucester counties. He bought in 1792 "Timberneck"
(the old home of the Mann's and where is now the
burying ground containing Mann tombs), from Gov.
John Page, of "Rosewell." Mar., in 1780, Ann Walker,
b. 1763, dau. of Charles, d. 1764, and his third wife,
Lucy (Taliaferro) Carter, of "Cleve," King George
Co., Va., and grand dau. of Robt. (King) Carter, and
his second wife, Betty Landon. Lucy Taliaferro Carter
mar. (II) 1766, Col. Wm. ("Horn") Jones, b. 1734, of
Hanover Co., and soon after the Revolution bought
"Marlfield," Gloucester Co., the old Buckner home,
from Geo. Booth, of Poropotank, whose mother was
Ann Buckner, dau. of Col. Thos. and Sarah (Morgan)
Buckner, and there died in 1795.
(2) Richard,^ on tax list of King William Co. in 1788-1791,
and believed to have died young and unmarried.
(3) Benjamin,^ who first appears on the tax rolls of King
William Co., Va., in 1802, and continues to 1820, but is
mentioned in later years as of King and Queen Co., Va.,
where he mar. Mary Gwathmey, whose grandfather was
Benjamin Temple. Had issue ; see below.
(4) Thomas Eggleston,^ mar. Ann Gwathmey, sister of
Mary above, of King and Queen Co. He purchased
38 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
"Barren Point," in Gloucester Co., from Francis Thorn-
ton in 1794, where he died. Had issue; see below.
(5) George,^ mar. Dec. 23, 1800, Mary Dixon, dau. of John
and Eliza Peyton Dixon, of "Airville,"' and had issue.
See below.
(6) XancY,^ mar. (2nd wife) Jno. (Jack) Taliaferro, and
had (a) John," mar. Dabne}^ and had George, John
and Mrs. Waring, of Essex Co.; (b) Eichard;*' (c)
Charles," mar. (I) Stringfellow, of Fauquier, and
had ]\Irs. Spindle, mar. (II) Kelly, of Culpepper,
and had several children; (d) Frank," mar. Talia-
ferro, of Eichmond, and had James L.,'' of Eichmond,
mar. Clark, Charles^ and Fannie,^ mar. Hig-
gins; (e) Lawrence"; (f) Thomas."
(7) Elizabeth,^ mar. Christopher Tompkins, and had (a)
Mary Ann." mar. Wm. Kirby, Sr., killed in the fall of
the Capital at Eichmond, and had Thos.,' mar.
Boulware, and had issue; (b) Lizzie," mar. Jno. Wren,
Jr., her cousin. See below.
(8) Katherine,^ mar. (I) Aug. 21, 1812, Vernon Metcalf,
and had James," b. 1813, d. 1868, mar., 1855, Margaret
Harrison, and had Catherin Vernon,^ b. 1856, d. 1858 ;
mar. (II) Cobbler. Xo issue.
(9) Martha,^ mar. Jno. Wren, Sr., and had Jno.," Jr., mar.
his cousin, Lizzie Tompkins, and had issue (a) Xoelva,'^
mar. Wm. Ivirl)y, Jr., and had issue; (b) Alverton,^
mar. ;" (c) Jno. Catlett,® mar. , and
three others. .
The following is the will of Jno. Catlett, of "Timlcrnecl',"
Gloucester Co., Va., made May 3, 1808, prob. July 4, 1808. It was
re-recorded 6th March, 1821, after the burning of the clerk's office in
1820, by which all records were destroyed :
"Imprimis: .1 give to my son Charles my Wilson Creek planta-
tion, to him and his heirs forever, but if he should die without issue
living at his death, then it is my wish that the said land should be
sold by my executor hereinafter named upon such terms as he shall
think proper and the money arising from such sale to be equally
divided amongst my daughters living at the time of his death.
"Item. — To my son John Walker Carter the plantation on Avhich
I now live, which was purchased of John Page, also that part of
said tract purchased of Dr. IMarshall's estate, to him and his heirs
forever, but if my said son John Walker Carter should die witliout
issue living at his death, then it is my will that my son Charles
should have and possess the said tract of land on which I now live,
to him and his heirs forever, and the land which I have given him
above to be sold for the purposes aforesaid. It is my further will
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 39
and desire that all my children should live with my son, or sons, in
my said mansion house plantation so long as they remain single,
but it is my intention that my son Charles, when he arrives at the
age of twenty-one or marriage, shall take possession of his estate
left him above, and not before, nor is he to be entitled to any part
of the rents and profits until he is of age or marries, but the said
rents and profits are to be for the benefit of all of my children until
the arrival of that period. It is to be further understood that when
my son Charles shall come to the enjoyment of his estate left him
as aforesaid that then he is no longer to live in the mansion house
except in the event of his being entitled to the said mansion house
plantation by the death of my son John as aforesaid.
"Item. — I give to my dau. Hetty a mulatto girl called Sally
Peters, to my dau. Sally a girl called Courtney, to my dau. Polly a
girl called Evelina, to each of my other daughters a maid a piece to
be chosen by them, but neither of them is to choose one older than
those already given to my other daughters. It is my further wish
that all the rest of my estate of what nature or kind soever, in-
cluding that part of my father's estate which I shall be entitled to
at the death of my mother, and the negroes which I shall be entitled
to at the death of Mrs. Brooke, shall be equally divided amongst all
of my children, but as I have advanced considerable sums of money
and am now bound to pay other considerable sums of money for
Bartholomew Yates, who hath intermarried with my dau. Sally,
and as it is my wish that all of my daughters shall stand on equal
footing, I desire that the amount of the money so paid or to be paid
by me for the said Bartholomew Yates shall be upon the distribu-
tion of my estate deducted from my daughter Sally's portion. But
if Bartholomew Yates should think proper to refund to my estate
all the money which I shall have paid for him or shall pay himself
any money which I was bound to pay, then it is to be understood
that his portion is to be lessened only for the amount of money
actually deficient. It is my express wish and desire that upon the
allotment of my dau. Sally's portion my executor hereafter named
shall secure the same to her and her issue by putting it in the power
of trustees or otherwise, so as to prevent Bartholomew Yates, her
husband, from selling or disposing of the same. It is my further
wish that the whole of my estate be kept together for the benefit
and maintenance of all of my children until my son Charles shall
be of age or married, at which time I wish his portion allotted him,
or if either of my daughters should marry, then I wish those so
marrying to have their portion. My dau. Sally will be entitled to
her portion immediately or at the end of the year, if Bartholomew
Yates will pay and reimburse to my estate all the money which I
shall have paid or my estate be bound to pay; then I wish him to
live at my mansion house until my son John shall be of age or if
John should die as aforesaid, and Charles should in that event be
40 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
entitled to the said mansion house, then Bar. Yates shall have the
liberty of living in said mansion house until Charles shall be of age,
but it is to be understood that if the said Yates should live at the
mansion house as aforesaid his portion of the negroes and other
property is to remain to work on the said plantation for the benefit
of "all of my children. If the negroes or some one of them should
behave himself or themselves very badly, I authorize my executor
to sell and dispose of him or them as an example to the others. I
do hereby nominate my friend William Jones my whole and sole
executor so long as he lives, and if my estate at his death is not
distril)uted among those who are entitled, then I appoint my
brother George Catlett my whole and sole executor. I expressly
wish and desire that as my children shall be entitled to an allotment
of their portion respectively, my aforesaid friend Wm. Jones, with
one or two other friends chosen by himself, shall make the said
allotment without the interposition of a court of chancery.
"It is not my wish that my executor shall give any security for
his executorship, nor do I wish any inventory or appraisement of my
said estate to be made.
"In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal
this 3rd day of May in the year of our Lord 1808.
"John Catlett. [Seal]
"Test. :
' "W. Taliaferro.
"Dan'l Duval.
"Catesby Jones."
Descendants of John^ and Ann Walker (Carter) Catlett, of Timberneck,
Gloucester County, Va.
(1) Henrietta,'' mar. Benjamin Waller, of Williamsburg, Va., and
had issue. See below.
(2) Sarah," mar. Bartholomew Yates.
(3) Mary,« mar., Dec. 20, 1820 (2nd wife). Col. Eobt. Thruston,
1). 1783, d. 1857, of "Landsdown." His first wife, Sallie Brown,
d. 1818.
(4) Matilda," mar. (1st wife) Christopher Staats Morris. ?\"o issue.
By his second wife, Ann Thruston, he was father of Mrs. Nannie
Davis, the mother of Hon. Westmoreland Davis, the present
Governor of Virginia (1918).
'MnjoY Henry Morris (died 1812), of New Kent Co. and of
the Eev. Army, married (I) Margaret, daughter of Eev. Samuel
Davies, ))resident of Princeton College (and sister of Col.
William Davies). He then was living at Petersburg Va. He
married (IT) Feb. 24, 1744, Christiana Holmes Meredith,
(laughter of Samuel ]\[eredith, whose wife, Christiana, was a
daughter of Eichard Gregory and Miss West, a daughter of
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 41
Thomas West, of King William Co., Va. Issue of first mar-
riage (Davies) : (a) Wm. Henry Morris, married Harriet B.
F. C. Gregory, dau. of Eoger Gregory; (b) Margaret Davies
Morris, mar. Eobert Wallis (an own cousin to President
Zachary Taylor. Issue by second marriage (Meredith) ; (b)
Eichard Gregory Morris, b. Feb. 28, 1795, member House of
Delegates, mar. E. H. Yancey, dau. of Major Charles Yance}^,
of Buckingham Co. Va.; (d) Christopher Staats Morris, of
"West End," Gloucester Co. (b. Feb. 28, 1797), mar. (I)
Matilda Catlett {ante), (II) Ann Harwood Lewis Thruston,
dau. of Eobert Mynn Thruston and Sarah Brown, of ''Lands-
down," Gloucester Co. He moved to Hinds Co., Miss. Issue
by second wife, Ann H. L. (living in 1918), married Col.
Thomas Davis, of South Carolina, parents of the present Gov-
ernor of Virginia (1918), Westmoreland Davis.*
(5) Lucy Taliaferro," d. 1866, mar. Capt. James Baytop, d. 1860,
of War of 1812. See Baytop family.
(6) Ann Walker Carter,® mar. John Field and had issue. (See
below.)
(7) Charles,® d. unmarried.
(8) Martha,® mar. 1st, Wm. Banks, 2nd, Charles Beverly Thrus-
ton; issue by each. (See below.)
(9) Hon. Jno. Walker Carter,® b. Dec. 23, 1803, d. June, 1883, at
Timberneck, where he was born and spent his life. He was a
lawyer, farmer, member of State Senate, a man of high probity
and excellent business capacity. He was a distinguished and
honored citizen of Gloucester Co. He mar. (I) 6th July, 1826,
Agnes Jane Thruston, d. April 15, 1838, dau. of Eobt., b. 1783,
d. 1857, and Sarah (Brown) Thruston, of Lansdown, mar.
(II), 1844, in Petersburg, Va., Frances King Burwell, b. 1814,
d. 1903, dau. of Eobt. and Mary Cole (Turnbull) Burwell, of
North Carolina. By his first wife he had :
(1) Sarah Berkeley Brown,'^ b. March 11, 1828, at Lans-
down, mar. Nov. 26, 1850, Dr. William Wilmer Nelson,
a prominent physician of Gloucester Co., and had (a)
Agnes Thruston^, d. y. ; (b) Elizabeth Nicholson,^ d. y. ;
(c) Sally Berkley; (d) Fannie Wilmer;^ (f) Anne
Page,® d. y.; Sally Berkeley,^ mar. (2nd wife) Wm.
Todd Eobins, d. Oct. 27, 1906, Col. of 24th Va. Cavalry,
C. S. A., and had (1) Euth Nelson,^ mar. Thos. Chris-
tian Gordon, of Eichmond, Va., and has Euth Nelson,^®
Wm. Westmore,^® Sallie Berkeley,^® and Thos. Chris-
tian;" (2) Elizabeth Todd,» mar. Maurice J. Lunn,
no issue; (3) Augustine Warner,'' a graduate of West
Point Military Academy and now an officer in the L^. S.
Army, mar. Dorothy Hyde, of South Dakota; (4)
* Christiana Holmes (above) married, first, Dr. Thomas Cooke, of Gloucester.
43 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
Wilmer Xelson,^ editor and reporter, mar., Oct. 7, 1914,
Louise Bowman, dau. Xath Eobb and Nellie (Moore)
Bowman, of Lynchburg, Va. ; (5) Sallie Berkeley Nich-
olson, mar. Russell Sydnor Crenshaw, of U. S. Navj^,
and has "Wm. Robins.
Mrs. Robins has been Asst. Sect'y of Va. Hist. So-
ciety, is a vigorous and spicy writer, an authoress of
note and an authority on genealogy. She resides in
Richmond.
Fannie Wilmer Nelson," mar. (2nd wife) Horace
AVellford Jones, son of Dr. Walter F. and Fannie Well-
ford Jones, and had Wm. Nelson,** d. y.
(2) Ann Walker Carter,' b. Nov. 9, 1839, at Lansdown, d.
Mar. 31, 1895, in Alexandria, Va., mar., Oct. 33, 1849,
at ''Timberneck," her cousin, Chas. Carter Page Waller
(b. March 9, 1833, d. Feb. 6, 1867), of Williamsburg,
Va., and had issue: (a) John Benjamin,* b. Feb. 13,
1850, in Williamsburg, Va. ; he was a devoted son and
brother and lives unmarried in Alexandria, Va. ; (b)
. Hettie Catlett,^ b. Dec. 34, 1857, d. y.; (c) Marv
Louise,* b. Mar. 11, 1853, d. y.; (d) Chas. Carter Page,*
b. April 4, 1854, d. y.; (e) Wilmer Nelson,* b. Feb. 13,,
1855, d. y.; (f) Agnes Thruston,* b. March 31, 1858,
d. May 33, 1880, unmarried; (g) Chas. Carter Page,*
3ud of name), b. March 3, 1861, mar., Jan. 39,1884,
Ann Joyce. Issue: (1) Chas. Page,", b. Jan. 1. 1886;
(3) Wilmer Joyce," b. May 25, 1889, mar. Nov. 9,
1910, Courtney Greennough; issue, Courtney Page,^^
b. Oct. 16, 1911; (3) Katherine Carroll," b. Dec. 19,
1893; (h) Ann Stubbs,* b. Jan. 34, 1864, d. y., and
buried at "Valley Front"; (i) William Page,* b. April
31, 1865, d. Dec. 8, 1893, mar., Dec. 16, 1891, Elizabeth
Murray Addison, no issue; (j) Robt. Page,* b. March
6th, 1867, d. y.
The writer pauses liere to pay a grateful tribute to
the memory of Cousin Ann W. C. Waller, above. While
he was a young student at William and Mary College
she was unceasing in her attentions to the writer and
his brothers, and carried with her through life our
veneration of her noble character. As refugees during
the Civil War, she and her family were guests at our
home, "Valley Front," where a child, named for my
dear mother, was born, and tliere lies l)uried.
(3) Charity Jones,^ b. Oct. 39, 1831, d. April 3, 1833.
(4) Dr. John Robert,^ b. at Timberneck, Dee. 13, 1835, d
Descendants of Col. John CatleU: 43
Sept. 29, 1895. He was a gallant Confederate soldier,
a member of the 12th Va. Eegt., Mahone's Brigade,
Army of Northern Va. After the war he removed to
Owingsville, Ky., and there married, March 11, 1875,
Elva, b. May 28, 185G, dan of Andrew Jackson Ewing
and his wife, Lydia Harrison Conner. Issue: (a) Agnes
Thruston,^ b. April 7, 1876, mar. Dec. 9, 1896, Pi^erce
Winn, of Mt. Sterling, Ky. (See page 35) ; (b) Robert
Ewing,'^ of Owingsville, Ky., b. Dec. 12, 1878, mar.
A^ov. 18, 1903, Emily Barnes Brothers, and had Lucile
McClellan,^ b. Sept. 10, 1906, and Eichard Brothers,^
b. 1906, d. y.; (c) Lucile Ewing,« b. March 1, 1887, d.
May 28, 1896.
(5) Wm. Thruston,^ b. April 9, 1838, d. June 13, 1841.
Issue by .Second Wife, Frances BuriveU.
(4) Judge Charles,^ b. July 12, 1845, d. Oct. 7, 1917, a gal-
lant Confederate soldier, member Co. D, 24th Va. Cav-
alry, county judge and resided at Timberneck, a mem-
ber of board of supervisors of Gloucester Co., Va., mar.
Feb. 16, 1887, at Glendale, Henrico Co., Va., Lucv
Chiswell Nelson, b. 1861, d. Dec. 23, 1904, dau. of Regi-
nald Heber and Sallie (Nelson) Nelson, and had (a)
Jno. Walker Carter ,« b. Jan. 10, 1888, grad. Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and is now using his scientific
skill in developing a prosperous agriculture on Timber-
neck; (b) Sallie Nelson,^ b. Sept. 10, 1889, and presides
with grace and dignity over the old home; (c) Fanny
Burwell,« b. Oct. 24, 1891, d. Sept. 15, 1892; (d)
Charles,^ Jr., b. Feb. 24, 1893, mar. in Norfolk, Aug.
23, 1913, Deborah Powell Cockey, dau. of Wm. War-
field and Elizabeth (Jones) Cockev, of Suffolk, Va.,
issue, Chas.'' Ill, b. Nov. 29, 1914'; (e) Powell Bur-
well,« b. Feb. 22, 1895 [a twin with Powell, d. y.] (f)
Mary Randolph,^ b. Nov. 18, 1897, and now a student
at college.
(7) William Burwell," b. Dec. 29, 1847, d. Oct. 18, 1864.
(8) Mary Armistead,'^ b. Jan. 15, 1850, mar. Dec. 16, 1873,
at Abingdon Church, Maryus Jones, b. 1844, attorney
at law, son of Catesby and Mary (Pollard). Jones, of
Marlfield. They now live in Newport News. Issue:
(a) Wm. Catesby, b. July 30, 1871, a brilliant young
lawyer, and died Jan. 25, 1904, after a successful con-
test for commonwealth's attorney for Gloucester Co
(b) Hetty Catlett,^ b. May 23, 1877, mar. July 26, 1904^
Lewis Boulden, an insurance agent of Newport News,
no issue; (c) Dr. Jno. Walker Carter,® a distinguished
44 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
specialist iu e3'e, ear, nose and tliroat, of Xewport News,
b. Jyne 28, 1878, mar. Aug. 31, 1910, at Warm Springs,
Va., Charlotte Wilson Stephenson, dan. of Jno. AYilson
Steplienson, and has no issue; (d) Anne Burwell," b.
July 26, 1880, mar. Dec. 11, 1905, Earnest Garfield
Rogers and has Wm. Catesbv, Sarah Shattuck, Powell
Burwell, ]\Ia.rv Catlett and Elizabeth.
(9) Hettie,' b. Xov. 5, 1852, d. :\rarch 31, 1875.
(10) Powell Burwell,' b. Oct. 11, 1854, d., immarried, July
2, 1894.
(11) Landon Carter,' b. April 18, 1857, grad of Richmond
Collesfe and now farm demonstrator for Gloucester Co.,
mar.^at Glendale, Henrico Co., Ya., Oct. 26, 1893,
Letitia Eebecca Xelson, dau. of Reginald Heber and
Sallie (Nelson) Xelson. Issue: (a) Landon Carter,^
Jr., b. Feb. 11, 1898, now a student at University of
Va.; (b) Letitia Xelson,^ b. Sept. 3, 1902, d. July 2.
1904; (c) Mary Mann Page,^ b. Nov. 1, 1904; (d)
Fanny Burwell,^ b. Aug. 30, 1906.
The children of Henrietta Catlett" and Benjamin Waller were :
(1) Chas. Carter Page Waller/ mar. his cousin, Ann Walker
Carter Catlett. For issue, see back.
(2) Dr. Wm. Jones Waller," of "Oakwell,"' mar. his cousin,
Martha Catlett Field, and had Ella.« mar. (first wife)
Horace Wellford Jones and d. s. p. Dr. Waller, in later
life, became insane and died in asylum. Mrs. Martha C.
Waller mar. (II) Wilson Williams. Xo issue.
The children of Sarah Catlett" and Bartholomew Yates were
Chas. Ann. d. unmarried, and Robt., mar. Mary Ann Booth, dau.
of Jno. and Mary Ann (Field) Wood, and gr. dau. of Stephen and
Ann Booth Field, and had :
(1) Xancy," d. unmarried; (2) Sally ,^ d. unmarried: (3)
]\rary Eliza,'' d. unmarried; (4) Robinette," mar. Jno.
Samuel Cook, clerk of Gloucester Co., C. S. A., and
had (a) Jno. S.,« Jr.; (b) Eliza,^ mar. Robt. S. Ross.
Children of Mary Catlett,^ and Col. Robt. Thruston are:
(1) Mary Carter,^ mar. Jno. Sinclair, and had: (a) Robt.^
of Newport News, mar. Cora Banks, and had seven chil-
dren, only one now living, Blanche ^Nlunford : (b)
Henry, of Hampton, d. 1915, mar. Florence Banks, and
has Henry,* and Lizzie Baytop,* mar. Xewkirk, of
New Jersey, no issue; (c) William/ of Elizabeth City
Descendants of Col. John'Catleti: 45
Co., mar. Susie Moore, of Elizabeth City Co., and has
Angie,* Fraiik,^ Susie,^ William,^ Fannie,^ and Ma-
rion;^ (d) John," d. s. p.
(2) Sarah,*' mar. Jno. N. Eose and has Minnie^ and Robert,^
living in Lynchburg, Va.
Children of Lucy Taliaferro'^ Catlett and Capt. James Bayton,
of Springfield, are given in full in Baytop Family, which see.
Children of Ann Walker Carter'' Catlett and Jno. Field :
(1) Chas. Carter,'^ mar. Harriet Taliaferro, dau. of James
Baytop and Kate (Booth) Taliaferro, of Roaring
Springs; issue, (a) Helen,^ d. unmarried; (b) Hallie,*
mar. Merrill; (c) John,^ mar. Loulie Cary and
had Kitty; (d) Ellen ;« (e) Kate/ mar. Willie' Cary
and had French; (f) Eugene,^ mar. Lelia Shackelford,
no issue.
( 2 ) John Catlett," mar. Eliza Brown, and had : ( a ) Mary,^
mar. Short, of Richmond, and had Norman; (b)
Elizabeth,^ mar. (I) — — Yancey, of Richmond, and
had issue; mar. (II) Orgain; (c) Alice,^ mar.
Wilborn and had Field.
(3) Thos. W.,'^ mar.' Julia Pryor Davies and had (a) Chas.,^
mar. Lane, of Matthews; (b) Ann.^
(4) Ann Buckner,^ mar., 2nd wife, Tabb Yelverton Catlett;
no issue.
(5) Martha Catlett,'^ mar. (I) Dr. Wm. Jones Waller, her
cousin, and had Ella,^ mar. (1st wife) Horace Wellford
Jones; mar. (II) Wilson Williams; no issue.
Children of Martha Catlett*' and Wm. Banks were Thos. W.,^ a
gallant Confederate soldier, who died in prison in 1865, mar.
Eugenia T. Baytop, his cousin, and had Wm. T.,^ d. y. ; Cora,^ mar.
Robt. Sinclair (See back) ; Florence," mar. Henry Sinclair (See
back).
Martha Catlett," mar. (II) Chas. Beverley Thruston (2nd wife),
and had Martha,'^ mar. Rev. S. T. Graham, of New Jersey, and had
four children — Thruston,* Everett,® Evelyn,® and Herbert.®
Descendants of Benjamin, b. 1785, Son of John and Mary E:^gIeston
Catlett, Married Mary G^vathmey, of Kin^ and Queen.
(1) Temple Grwathmey," b. 1809, of Locust Grove, Gloucester Co.,
mar. his cousin, Martha Catlett, dau. of Geo. and Mary (Dixon)
Catlett, and had: (a) Thos. Yelverton,^ of Baltimore, mar.
Margaret Hackney, and had Lucius Lanier,® d. unmarried;
46 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
Eva,^ mar. Chas. Kingman, and lives in Charleston, S. C. ; (b)
^larv Dixon," d. unmarried; (c) Ada Gwathmey,' mar. Shep-
hard G. Miller, of Matthews Co. ISio issue.
(2) Thos. Eggleston.'' b. 1812, a somnambulist, and on a trip to
Baltimore walked overboard and was drowned, mar. Fannie
Catherine Wood, dau. of Jno. and Mary (Field) Wood, and
had: (a) Geo. Temple,' b. 1837, d. unmarried, C. S. A.; (b)
Agues Temple,' d. y.; (c) Fannie Eggleston,' mar. Elijah
Powell, of King William Co., and had Lula,^ Susie,^ Simon,*
Benjamin,^^ Eva,* Maud,* Agnes* and Thomas,*; (d) Thos.
Benjamin,' b. 1844, mar. Xannie Waring; no issue; (e) Wm.
Stephen Field, member Co. D, 24th Va. Cavalry, mar (I) Lucy
Clayton Hughes and had (a) Thos. Otis Hughes,* d. y. ; mar.
(II) Mary Catherine Hughes, and had (b) Wm. Waller,* d. y. ;
(c) Mary Sue,* mar. Elben Clive Folkes and is living in Eich-
mond; issue, Joseph Ashby," and Henry Skinner;^ (d) Wm.
Hunter,* mar. Fannie Hill Ash, of Gloucester Co., Va., and
has Stephen Ashby,'' and Willard Hughes;^ (e) Ashby Lee,*
d. y.
(3) Hannah,'^ mar. Richard Taliaferro Shackelford, of King and
Queen Co., and had Williamtina,'^ mar. Lambeth ; Frank,'
Temple,' Fannie," living in 1911 in Baltimore, very old and
unmarried.
Descendants of Thois. Eggleston,^ Son of John and Mary Egrgleston
Catelee, Married Ann Gwathmey, of King and Queen County.
He purchased '''Barren Point," Gloucester Co., Va., in 1793,
from Francis Thornton, where he died. Had issue — one son and
two daughters.
(1) John Catlett,** of Gloucester, known as "Gate-Post John," d.
before 1850. In 1822 he was promoted from ensign to lieut.
in 21st Eegt., Va. Militia (Glo. P., Vol. II). Mar. Martha, dau.
of Col. James Baytop, of the Pevolution, and had one son,
James Baytop,'^ who, possessed of an ample fortuiie, spent his
time between his two farms, Endfield and Gloucester Place,
accompanied by his favorite slave, William, to whom he had
promised freedom at his death. After an unusual absence from
Endfield, where his mother resided, a hunt was instituted by
his friends, and his body was found in the woods, butchered
with an axe by this favorite body-servant, who had fled to tlie
woods for safety. After an extensive search of the entire com-
munity William was captured and tried by the court and hung.
Tbe body of James Catlett, witli tbose of his father and mother,
are buried at Springfield with a])propriate tombs.
(2) Nancy," mar. Albert G. Dabney and lias issue in Kentucky.
(3) Mary," mar. Cornelius Dabney and had (a) Ann Eliza,^ mar.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett 47
Wm. W. Jones and had Gary Winston,^ mar. Miss Ann
Tappan, of Petersburg ; (b) Caroline Catlett/ mar. (2nd wife)
Thos. C. Baytop, no issue; (c) Benjamin/ went to Ky. and
had issue. (In 1834 Albert G. and Cornelius Dabney sold their
interest in the farm Barren Point to Jno. Catlett, their brother-
in-law.)
Descendauts of George,B Son o£ Jno. and Mary Gggrleston Catlett, Married
Dec. 23, 1800, in King^ and Q,ueen County, Mary Dixon, Daughter
of Jno. and E^liza Peyton Dixon.
(4) Tabb Yelverton,^ mar. (I) Martha Brown, dau. of Wm. Bur-
nett and Mary (Booth) Brown and had (a) Henry Bradley/
lieut. in Capt. Allen's Co., 24th Va. Cavalry, survived the war
and went into business in Baltimore, Md., where he died un-
married; (b) Wm. Burnett,^ member of Gloucester Cavalry,
5th Va. Cav., Eosser's Brigade, mar. Mary Louisa Booth, dau.
of Thos. B. and Margt. (Sinclair) Bootli, and had one dau.,
]\Iary,8 mar. Keith Sinclair, and had Henry," d. y., Eloise,"
b. 1903; (c) Martha Louisa,'^ mar. Henry Sinclair, and has
Keith,« mar. his cousin, Mary Catlett (see above), Diana,^
mar Joseph Andrews and has issue ; Louisa,® mar. Edwin
Philips and has issue.
Mar. (II) Ann Buckner Field; no issue.
(2) Martha,« mar. her cousin. Temple Gwathmey Catlett, which see.
(3) Eliza,*^ mar. Geo. Booth and had Tom,^ d. unmarried before
1861; Wm. Tufts/ d. unmarried before 1861; Geo. Yelverton/
member of Gloucester Cavalry, 5th Va. Regt., Eosser's Brigade,
survived war and died soon after unmarried.
(4) George," mar. Maria Hackney, b. 1829, who still lives in Bal-
timore, Md., and had issue, (a) Eliza Peyton,'^ b. 1850. mar.
Geo. Burton, of Baltimore, Md. Issue: Sallie Peyton,* mar.
Dr. John Underwood ; Alice,® mar. Harold Covington and has
Harold Peyton,;^ Catherine,® mar. Bernard Manning, of S. C,
and Geo. Catlett,® unmarried; (b) John/ nothing' known of
him.
48 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
DESCENDANTS OF NICHOLAS AND SUSANNAH
CATLETT.
Accompanying Col. Jno. Catlett, the immigrant, besides his half-
brothers, Ealph and Edward Eowzie, were Nicholas and Thomas
Catlett, believed to be the sons of Col. Jno. by his first wife (name
unknown), who died Ijefore his emigration to Virginia in 1650.
Xicholas was a headright of Col. Jno. Catlett and Kalph Eowzie in
a patent of 400 acres of land on 23rd May, 1650, situated on south
side of Eappahannock river. (Land Book 6, page 12.)
Nicholas patents, with Wm. Moseley, October, 1670, 646 acres
and in 1672 1,750 acres, and in September, 1672, 1,200 acres, all
on south side of Eappahannock river, and the last adjoining Capt.
Booth's. (Land Books, Vol. 6, pages 320, 384 and 539.)
In 1669, with Col. John, Nicholas witnessed a deed in Essex Co.
Nicholas and Susannah, his wife, on 28th March, 1668, sold one-
half interest (i. e., 285 acres) of land, and in deed witnessed by
Col. Jno. Catlett was signed :
Susanna v Catlett.
Nicholas o. Catlett.
Nicholas Catlett recorded, Feb. 2, 1665, his mark for his hogs
in the Essex court, viz : Two crops and a slit in each ear and an
undercut in the right ear (Essex Eecords).
Nicholas married before 1668 (as in that year they made the above
deed). Susannah, believed to be the daughter of David Meriwether,
son of Nicholas, the immigrant to Essex Co., who died Dec. 19,
1678. Nicholas Meriwether had five sons — Nicholas, Francis,
David, Wm. and Thos., of whom Francis, with his wife, Mary
Bathurst, made a deed to David, "son and only heir of Nicholas
Catlett," on Aug. 10, 1696 (Essex Eecords).
A partial corroboration of the above is that Thomas, the son of
David Meriwether, named his oldest daughter Susannah, probably
after both his mother and sister.
Nicholas was dead before 1695, as in that year David Catlett
("planter") makes a deed, reciting that he was son and only heir
of Nicholas Catlett.
In 1716, in a list of tithables in St. Mary's White Chapel (:\[ajor
Ball's list), Mrs. Catlett is given with four.
In 1728 Wra. Catlett has a suit in Lancaster Co. with Wm.
Auch. His name occurs again in 1731 (Lancaster Eecords). This
Wm. and Mrs. Catlett, presumably son and mother, can, by the
process of differentiation, be placed only as son and wife of David.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 49
In 1735-40 there lived in Lancaster Co. Geo. Keville, who came
with his father from London and a Mr. Gibbs, of Scotland. A
daughter of the latter married Geo. Neville, and the two families,
being friends of Lord Fairfax, the latter induced the young couple
to move to his lands in Fauquier Co. (Wni. Mauzy Buck's Family
M. S.).
From the frequent subsequent unions of the Catletts of Fauquier
and Frederick counties with the Buck, Eichardson, Calmes, Neville
and Blakemore families, all of whom frequently intermarried, it is
fair to presume that Wm. Catlett also went to Lord Fairfax's do-
main and became the progenitor of the Catlett family in the Shena-
doah Valley. This is further suggested by finding his name, Wm,
Catlett, as a witness with Marquis Calmes, to an old deed to Peter
Catlett (his son?), now in my possession, to the "White Post"
tract of land, Aug. 21, 1759. This deed, lent me by Mrs. Fannie
Catlett Cravens, of Kansas City, Mo., is a long and curious docu-
ment, as were all indentures of that date. Its location was "on
south side of great road that goes by and from Col. Jno. Kite's to
Ashley's Bend or Gap, * * * known by name of Dutch Wagon
Eoad." It was purchased "of the trustees appointed by act of As-
sembly for the sale of the estate of the late George Carter, Esq.,
dec'd, being Lott no nine and joining lands of Col. Landon Carter
and Lord Fairfax — ""Quit rents payable to our sovereign Lord the
King."
This is the "White Post" farm so long the home of the Catlett
family in Frederick, and from which so many fledgelings of this
branch have flown to the West and South.
The constant recurrence of the names of David, Eobt. and Peter
in this branch, names almost unknown in the Eastern branches,
gives emphasis to the belief that they are descendants of David.
Information relative to Thomas, who came with Col. John the
immigrant, is very scarce and meagre. In 1661 he was a witness to
a conveyance of Jno. Catlett and wife Elizabeth (Essex Eecords).
In 1672 he patents 50 acres of land on west branch of Elizabeth
river (Land Book VI, page 417).
In 1709 a Eeuben Catlett enters a suit in Northumberland county
and suit is dismissed (Northumberland Eecords). This Eeuben
must have been of age in this year 1709, and^ if so, could not have
been son of David, who, on his own deposition, was 21 years old in
1690. Again, in 1695, David Catlett (planter) makes a deed alone,
no wife's signature, to lands, reciting that he was the only son and
heir of Nicholas Catlett (Essex Eecords). He was not, therefore,
the father of Eeuben. Again, all of the issue of -Col. John and
Elizabeth (Underwood) Catlett up to this time are fully accounted
for. Therefore, Thomas only can be assigned as father of Eeuben.
50 Descendants of Col. John Cntlett.
But this gives but little relief, since this is the only occurrence of
Eeuben in the records. The name of Eeuben occurs much later in
the children of John^ and Mary (Grayson) Catlett, but he, too, seems
to have left no descent. Therefore, no known descendants of Thomas
the immigrant can be found.
Presuming that William, the son of David, is the progenitor of
all of the Catletts of the Shenadoah Valley, we will have :
Wm., of Lancaster, mar. and moved to valley about 1740-45, died
about 1788, since he disappears about this time from the tax books
of Frederick Co., where he had paid taxes on 500 acres for years.
He is believed to be the father of John, of Fauquier, will 1778; of
Peter, will 1785, prob. 1791; James, will 1797; and Eobt., estate
administered in 1804, all of Frederick Co. From the wills and the
intermarriages of the four families, it is almost positive that these
were all brothers.
In the Fauqier records occurs the will of Jno. Catlett, recorded
23rd March, 1778, in which he mentions "son John, one shilling; son
Wm., 190 acres; son Alexander, 179 acres; to dau. Elizabeth, two
negro boys, certain rents and other property ; to dau. Jane Coppage,
certain personalty; to dau. Barsheba Young, personal property; to
granddau. Margaret Hume, personalty; to Mary Ann Hagan, Eliz-
abeth Catlett, Jane Coppage, Barsheba Young, Isabell Summers
and Frances Priest, residue of estate."
On May 2, 1778, soon after recording of above will, Wm. and
wife Lettice, and Alexander, of the county of Loudoun, and Su-
sannah, his wife, convey to James Dowdell the above devised lands.
(Fauquier Eecords.)
Of John, cut off with a shilling, we have found no records
in Virginia. We find, in the History of the Scott Family, that
Frances Ann, daughter of James Scott and Frances Collier, mar-
ried (I) Eenben Coleman, who died in 1796 in Georgia, and she
married (II) Jno. Catlett, with no issue. She was doubtless his
second wife.
In "Smith's Story of Georgia," lands were granted in 17(57 in
Burke Co., Ga., to Jno. Catlett. In 1774 the same author mentions
that Jno. and Wm. Catlett sign with others a protest in Burke Co.
against the Patriots or "Liberty Boys."
These extracts from Smith's book suggest that the John men-
tioned may have been the son of Jno. Catlett, whose will is given.
We find further the will of Geo. Catlett in Chatham Co., Ga., in
1789, who was probably the Judge Catlett already alluded to as
dying in Georgia without issue and his estate given to strangers,
and Wm. Catlett on the jury in Montgomery Co., Ga., 1816. Wm.
may be a descendant of the above Jno.
Frederick County Catletts.
Allusion has already been made to Wm. Catlett as probable
Descendants of Col. John Catlett: 51
father of John, of Fauquier, Peter, James and Robt., of Frederick
County.
In Frederick Co. occur the following wills :
Book 5, page 303: Peter Catlett's will mentions wife Ann,
nephew Henr}^, son of his bro. Eobt. ; nephew Jno. son of his bro.
James; nephews Jno. and Peter, sons of his bro. Eobt.; nephew
Charles, son of his bro. James, and in a codicil changes a bequest to
his nephew Jno., son of his bro. Eobt., and he to pay to each of his
five bros., Eobt., David, Peter, Jesse and George, also to his cousin
Chas. Catlett, son of his bro. James, etc., dated Sept. 23, 1785,
prob. April 8, 1791.
Book 6, page 296 : James Catlett's will speaks of himself as
James Catlett, Sr., son John, son James, dau. Betsy McPherson,
Jane Gosnev, son Charles Catlett gr. son Chas. McPherson, gr. dau.
Edy Catlett, dated March 27, 17-97, prob. Sept. 4, 1797.
Book 4, page 448 : Peter Catlett's will mentions wife Mary, dau.
Edy. Jas. Catlett, Jno. Bell and Polly Catlett, executors; Eobt.
and Henry Catlett, witnesses. Will dated April 3, 1778; recorded
June 1, 1779. In the appraisement of his estate he is spoken of as
Peter, Jr.
In the Jefferson Co., Ky., Eecords is a deed dated June 20, 1800,
to lands, signed by John Catlett, Nath. McPherson and wife, Eliza-
beth, James Catlett, Charles Catlett and Jane Gosney, Avidow of
Henry, and Edy Catlett, reciting that they are heirs and heiresses
of James Catlett, deceased. In same records, on Aug. 1, 1801,
Edith Catlett sells one-sixth part of 500 aGres granted to James
Catlett in 1785, grandfather of said Edith.
March 16, 1801, Charles Catlett and wife Catherine, of Frederick
Co., Va., convey 500 acres given him by his deceased father James
Catlett (Jefferson Co. Eecords).
In 1783, in Jefferson Co., Ky., occurs also an olographic will of
Eobt. Catlett, leaving his estate "to his bro. Charles (Book 1, page 2).
This Eobt. was a son of James, whose will is given above.
Eobt. Catlett seeems not to have left a will. His estate is ap-
praised and sales account rendered Jan. 2^ 1804 (Frederick Eecords).
From the above it is fair to presume that William, who came
from Lancaster to Frederick, some time about 1735-1750, and ap-
pears for the last time in tax book of Frederick Co. in 1788 for 500
acres, had four sons, viz :
(1) John, of Farquier, will 1778, whose decendants are given
beneath.
(2) James, mar. Jane . He had deed to land in Frederick
Co., 1753, and was in a poll for Geo. Washington in Fred-
erick Co. in 1758. Will given about 1797, and had issue.
(3) Peter, Mar. Ann Calmes, dau. of Marquis Calmes, b. 1705,
52 Descendants of Col John Cntlett.
d. 1773, mar., 1725, Winnifred Waller, b. 1709, d. Oct. 6,
1857. No issue. He bought "White Post'' farm in 1759 (see
deed above), and at his death bequeathed it to his nephew,
Henry Catlett (son of Eobt.), who mar. Miriam Calmes, the
niece of Ann Calmes above. Peter's will, 1785, given above,
mentions the sons of his two bros., Eobt. and James.
(4) Eobt., b. 1721, d. Feb. 26, 1803, mar. Mary Floyd, living in
1816, and had numerous issue. He left no will, but his estate
was administered 1804 (Frederick Co. Eecords. Book 7,
page 191).
Before giving descendants of above it is well to insert here the
following marriages, taken from Frederick Co. Eecords :
Marquis Calmes Eichardson and Henrietta Catlett, married by
Alexander Bahlmain, Feb. 19, 1789.
Jesse Catlett and Euth Banham, by Elisha Phelps, Feb. 9, 1792.
Joseph Catlett and Nancy Allensworth, bv Wm. Williamson, Jan.
6, 1801.
William Catlett and Lucy Ashby, by Wm, F. P. Davis, Nov.
30, 1803.
Jno. Campbell and Dorotha Catlett, by Wm. Hill, March 10, 1803.
Thos. Catlett and Polly Payles, by Wm. Hill, Jan. 20, 1808.
Peter Senseny and Louisa Catlett, bv Sam'l 0. Henderson, Nov.
22, 1808.
Horatio Catlett and Mary Ann Catlett, by Wm. Hill, Dec. 22,
1809.
James Allensworth and Eliza Catlett, by Wm. Northern, Jan.
16, 1810.
Adam Hamburgh and Matilda Catlett, by Wm. Northern, Feb.
3, 1813.
Here, too, may be entered records from several Family Bibles.
It appears that John Catlett, who married Allie T. King, kept a most
complete family record, which has been copied by several of his
descendants.
His grandson, Jno. Allensworth Catlett, before emigrating to
the West, copied this record and carried it with him, and a copy
is now furnished by his grandson, John Asabel Catlett, of Clarks-
ville, Tenn., who writes :
"While out at the old Allensworth graveyard I was shown the
place where my great-great-grandfather was buried, and along the
creek. Little West Fork, the place where he first settled in 1785 and
built his mill, blacksmith shop and still. Just above the old mill-
dam they showed me a tree — beechnut — that has just died, carved
with my grandfather's initials, J. A. C, on the day he came there
from Virginia (July 27, 1823). My father carved his initials on it
just fiftv vears later (July 31, 1873). It is wonderful that the
Descendants of Col. John Catlett: 53
initials and date should have lasted, but it is clear even now that
the tree has died, and seems to be the only record that our family
has been able to keep for that length of time."
The writer of the above is a descendant of Joseph King Catlett,
d. 1803, and ISTancy Allensworth, d. 1802, leaving a son, John Al-
lensworth Catlett, b. 1801. The father or grandfather of Nancy
Allensworth settled in Kentucky in 1785, and it seems that John
Allensworth followed him in 1833.
The record from this same original Bible of Jno. Catlett has been
sent to me by Mr. Grandison Catlett, of Bucktown, Va., who is a
grandson of Jno. and Allie T. King Catlett, through his youngest
son, John, b. 1797, d. 1873. The following are the records :
''Eobt. Catlett, my father, departed this life Feb. 26, 1803, 2 :30
o'clock, age 83 vears.
'Teter D. Catlett died Feb. 25, 1871.
"John (son of Robt. and Mary Flovd), b. Sept. 30, 1749, d.
1836, mar. June 17, 1775, Allie T. King, b. Dec. 26, 1755, d. Oct.
28, 1803."
Their children were :
Nancy Catlett, b. May 17, 1776.
Elijah Catlett, b. Dec. 33, 1777.
Joseph King Catlett, b. Nov. 3, 1779, d. Feb. 26, 1802.
Henrietta Catlett, b. Oct. 30, 1781.
Amelia F. Catlett, b. Feb. 31, 1784, d. April 30, 1802.
Eobt. Catlett, b. Jan. 13, 1786, d. July 5, 1801.
Louisa Catlett, b. Nov. 7, 1787.
Mary F. Catlett, b. Dec. 24, 1789.
Patsy D. Catlett, b. March 26, 1792, d. Feb. 26, 1871.
Caroline Matilda, b. Sept. 3, 1794, d. Sept. 12, 1825.
John Catlett, b. March 27, 1797, d. May 24, 1873.
All born in Frederick County, Va.
The following marriages are recorded:
Joseph King Catlett, d. 1802, and Nancy Allensworth, d 1802,
Jan. 6, 1801.
Nancy Catlett and Spencer Lehue, June 10, 1802.
Henrietta Catlett and Butler Allensworth, Sept. 23, 1802.
Louisa Catlett and Peter Senseney, Nov. 22, 1808.
Caroline Matilda Catlett, d. Sept. 12, 1835, and Adam Ham-
baugh, d. Sept. 8, 1835, Feb. 11, 1813.
Patsv D. Catlett, d. 1871, and Alexander Catlett, Jr., Aug. 36, 1813.
Elijah Catlett and Peggy Sperry, Feb. 18, 1816.
Jno. Catlett and Cornelia T. Catlett, Dec. 8, 1825.
54 Descendants of Col John Catlett.
The following also occurs in Mr. J. A. Catlett's Bible :
"John AUensworth Catlett (son of Joseph King, cl. Feb. 26, 1802,
and Nancy (AUensworth) Catlett, d. April 7, 1802), born Sunday,
Nov. 1, 1801, in Frederick Co., Va..
"Allie Ann Senseney, dau, of Peter and Louisa (Catlett) Sen-
seney, born Sept. 17, 1815, at Mount Hope, Shenadoah Co., Va.
"John AUensworth Catlett and Alice Ann Senseney, mar. ^larch
28, 1839, in Montgomery Co., Tenn."
Thechildren of above :
x\nn Louisa Catlett, b. Jan. l(i, 1840, Montgomery Co., Tenn.
Cornelia Catherine Catlett, b. April 7, 1842, in Trigs Co.. Ky.
Alexander Clay Catlett, b. Aug. 13, 1844, in Trigg Co., Ky.
John Joseph Crittendou Catlett, b. Saturdav, Aug. 12, 1848.
Addison Clay Catlett, b. Wednesday, Aug. 3, 1853, in Christian
Co., Ky.
John AUensworth Catlett, d. Sept. 11, 1867, in Christian Co., Ky.
Allie Ann Catlett (his wife), died .
Alexander Clay Catlett died in Columbia, S. C, Feb. 26, 1865,
from a wound received in the Confederate service.
John Joseph Crittendon Catlett mar. Fanny Elizabeth Patch,
(b. June 16, 1860), Aug. 17, 1887.
John Joseph Crittendon Catlett died Oct. 1, 1898.
Cornelia Catherine Catlett, b. April 7, 1842, d. Nov. 9, 1904,
mar. Willie C. Oliver, Sept. 21, 1869.
Addison Cyrus Catlett, b. Aug. 3, 1853, mar. Maria Leavill, April
29, 1903.
Ann Louisa Catlett, b. Jan. 26, 1840, d. Oct. 8, 1880, mar. Chas-
tien Wilson Luderman Jan. 16, 1864.
Descendants of Col. John CatleU. 55
DESCENDANTS OF JNO.* (WM.'^ DAVIDr NICH-
OLASO OF FAUQUIER WERE, ACCORDING
TO HIS WILL, DATED MARCH 23, 1778:
(1) Jno.,^ cut off with a shilling, believed to have gone to Ga.
(2) William,^ mar. Lettice Lee ( ?). (See below.)
(3) Alexander,^ mar. Susannah Hanson (?) and had numer-
ous descent. (See below.)
(4) Jane, mar. Coppage.
(5) Barsheba, mar. Young.
(6) A dau., mar. Hume and had Margaret.
(7) Mary x\nn, mar. Hagan.
(8) Elizabeth Catlett.
(9) Isabell, mar. Summers.
(10 Frances, mar. Priest.
(1) Of the above, as already mentioned, John is believed to have
gone to Georgia and entered lands in Burke Co. in 1767. There
may be numerous descendants of this John now living in Georgia,
but the writer has failed to find them. There are, however, tra-
ditions in several branches now residing in Arkansas and Illinois
which point strongly to this John as an ancestor.
(2) William, to whom a legacy of land was left by his father,
sold the same immediately after receiving it, to James Dowdall,
and this deed is signed by his wife, Lettice . His brother Alex,
who received a similar tract, sells it at same time to the same James
Dowdall, and is joined by his wife, Susannah Hanson. Since
Arthur Lee married Charity Hanson and had a niece, Lettice,
daughter of Philip Lee, and his wife, Bridget, of Maryland, who
is unaccounted for in "Lee of Virginia," and with this branch of
the Lee family in this book is given an "Excursus of the Hanson
Family" (page 153), it has been suggested that the wife of Wm.
Catlett was Lettice Lee. This suggestion is further emphasized by
the peculiarity of the name "Lettice" in the Lee family after the
marriage of Eichard Lee and Letitia Corbin (about 1674).
Again, Thos. Lee, Sr., and wife, Mildred Corbin (Washington),
lived in this section and made sales of land to several meml^ers of
the Catlett family. These, however, are mere suggestions, and
leave the surname of Lettice still in the domain of conjecture.
By this marriage there was only one child, John, b. 1776, and
William mar. (II) Miss Miller. This son John kept an accurate
age-book, which has preserved a record of the births and marriages
of this branch, which has been kindly copied by Mr. Denver E. Cat-
lett, of Okonoko, W. Va., and are herewith reproduced.
56 Descendants of Col Joliji Catlett.
Descendants of William and Two Wives, Lettice Lee (?)
and Miller Catlett.
(1) John, b. May 16, 1776, d. 1861, mar. Aug. 20, 1796, first
wife, Ursula Bailey, b. March 2-1, 1772, and had issue (see
below) ; "Wni. mar. (II) Miller and had .
(2) William, mar. Sarah Havermale and had (a) Lena, (b)
John Bunyan, (c) James, (d) Joseph, (e) Emanuel, (f)
Alexander, (g) Elizabeth, (h) Basil, (i) Samuel, (j)
Elijah.
(3) Celia, mar. James Luttrell and had (a) John, (b) Wil-
liam, (c) Leonard, (d) Henry, (e) Adam, (f) James,
(g) Nancy, (Ti) Mary, (i) Celia, (j) Elizabeth.
(4) Mary, mar. Elias Trotter; no iss^^e.
(5) Yada, mar. Jolly and had (a) Daniel, (b) Elias.
(6) Margaret, mar. Elias Gaither and had (a) William, (b)
Frank, (c) Xancy, (d) Hannah.
Descendants of John and Ursula (Bailey) Catlett, First Wife.
(John, b. 1776, d. 1861, mar., 1796, First Wife, Ursula
Bailey, b. 1772.)
(1) John, b. Nov. 20, 1797, mar. Phoebe Finch and had issue.
(See below.)
(2) Ann, b. May 30, 1799, mar. John Place, and had (a) Nan,
(b) Joseph, (c) John, (d) Joshua, (e) Abraham, (f)
Ursula, (g) Phoebe, (h) Margaret, (i) Sarah.
(3) William, b. April 15, 1801, mar. Charlotte Iden (Zeiler?),
and had issue. (See below.)
(4) James, b. Jan. 1, 1805, mar. (I) Kate Miller and had
issue (see below) ; mar. (II) Widow Brewer, no issue;
mar. (Ill) Elizabeth Unger Hardy, no issue.
(5) Sarah, b. Oct. 29, 1808, mar. Moses Batt, and had (a)
Joseph, (b) Aaron, (c) John, (d) Basil, (e) Moses,
(f) Thomas, (g) Abner, (h) Edward, (i) Mary, (j)
Nancy, (k) Margaret, (1) Hannah.
(6) Margaret, b. June 9, 1811, d. unmarried.
(7) Ursula, b. Nov. 9, 1812, d. unmarried.
(8) Basil, mar. Elizabeth Luttrell and had issue. (See below.)
John mar. (II) May 14, 1847, Mary Jane Puffenburger
and had issue.
(9) Mary Jane, b. March 24, 1848, mar. (I) Wm. Beanhop,
and had (a) Basil; mar. (II) Middleton Gilbreath, and
had (b) Wilmer, (c) Michael.
(10) Jacob, b. June 25, 1850, mar. Martha D. Hinckle, and
had issue: (a) Robert, mar. Laura Unger and had William
Oakiey, Ada May and Viola; (b) Hillary Jefferson, mar.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett: 57
Melvina Kline and had issue: Clark, Payne, Edward and
Helen ; (c) Denver E., of Okonoko, W. Va., who has kindly
fniTiished the data in this branch, the births and mar-
riages being taken from his grandfather's "Age Book."
He is unmarried.
(11) Elizabeth, b. Dec. 17, 1852, mar. Jasper Burton, and had:
(a) Virginia, (b) Eoss, (c) Eichard, (d) Elmira (e)
Martha, (f) Millard Blaine, (g) Benjamin, and three
younger children.
(12) John W., b. Dec. 25, 1856, unmarried.
(13) Zachariah, b. March 4, 1860^ unmarried.
Descendants of John and Phoehe (Finch) Catlett.
(1) James, unmarried.
(2) Basil C, mar. Mary Ellen Clevenger, of Penn., and had:
(a) John, (b) Basil Lee (c) Florida, (d) Phoebe Vir-
ginia, (e) Abigail, (f) Elizabeth, (g) Grace, (h) Lilly.
(3) William 0., mar. Kate Echols, and had: (a) Daniel, (b)
John, (c) James, (d) George, (e) Charles, (f) Samuel,
(g) Emma. He left Va. in 1865 and settled in Howell
Co., Mo., and in 1905 moved to Sidney, Ark., where he and
family now live.
(4) Jno. F., mar. Sarah Belle Shackleford, and had seven
children. He went early to Missouri and afterwards to
Eoe, Ark., where he died.
(5) Isaac, d. 1918, mar. (I) Kate Harbough, and had: (a)
Lorenzo, (b) Lorena, (c) Belle; mar. (II) Clara Shafer,
and had: (d) Grace. They now live at Searcy, Ark.
(6) Sarah, d. unmarried.
(7) Ursula, mar. John Shockey.
(8) Phoebe Ann, mar. (I) Wesley Bishop, and had : (a) Bene-
dict, (b) John W., of Clarendon, Ark., mar. Birdie Rich-
ards and has four children; (c) Elizabeth, (d) Elisha,
(e) James, (f) Mary; mar. (II) Peter Holland, of
Florida, and had (g) Phoebe, (h) Florida, (i) Peter.
(9) Mary, mar. Joseph Lynch, and had: (a) Lussetta, (b)
Katherine.
Descendants of William and Charlotte Iden (Zeiler)
Catlett.
(1) Euth, mar. (I) James Grone, and had: (a) William, (b)
Calmes, (c) Joseph, (d) George, (e) Tamson, (f) a dau.,
(g) a dau.; mar. (II) Henry Moore; no issue.
(2) Samuel, mar. Elsie Hoile, and had: (a) Turner Ashby,
58 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
(b) Stump, (c) Tamson, and several others.
(3) William, d. unmarried,
(-t) Daniel, d. unmarried.
(5) George, mar. Ellen Adams, and had Jacob and several
daughters.
(6) Martha Ann, mar. Hammock.
(7) Dorothy, mar. Van Williams.
Descendants of James and Kate (Bliller) Catlett.
(1) Margaret, mar. Elias Grouse, and had Doc. Grouse.
(2) James, mar. Mary Ann Puffenburger, and had: (a)
Joseph, (b) Mary, mar. Tom Allen, (c) Edward d. un-
married, (d) Albert, (e) Aden A., a teacher at Okonoko,
W. Ya.
(3) Eliza, mar. , and had Francis Marion Gatlett.
Descendants of Basil and Elizabeth (Luttrell) Catlett.
(1). Ellen, d. unmarried.
(2) Isaac, d. 1879. Will mentions mother Elizabeth and
bro. Jno. T. (Frederick Go. liecords.)
(3) Eebecca, mar. Benjamin Marpole; no issue.
(4) Mary, d. unmarried.
(5) Benjamin Franklin, b. 1850, mar. Jane Grozen, and had:
(a) William, mar Stotler and had Ghloe, Delia,
Ada and Hilda; (b) Sherman, mar, Barney; (c)
Holland, d. unmarried; (d) Solomon Jefferson, mar.
Phoebe F. Holland; (e) Edward; (f) Glara, mar.
Keynor; (g) Rose, mar. Steele; (h) Oscar.
(6) Martha, mar. James Luttrell, and had: (a) Ulysses S.
Grant, (b) Sheridan, (c) Mathias, (d) Floss}^ (e) name
unknown.
(7) James Thomas, unmarried.
(8) Annie Tamson, mar. Wm. Line, and had Isaac Taylor and
Annie.
(9) John Taylor, d. unmarried.
(3) Descendants of Alexander and Susannah Hanson Catlett, Son
of John, of Fauquier. Will 1778.
He seems to have been a prosperous man. In 1776 he is a citizen
of Prince William Gounty, Va., and published in the Virginia
Gazette "one Ghas. Adams, wlio sold him a negro woman whom he
knew to be a lunatic." In 1778, as the deed given al)Ove shows, he
was a citizen of Loudoun Gounty, Va., In 1790 the census of Mary-
land places him in Montgomery Gounty, Md., with two white males
over sixteen years, and si,\ white males under sixteen years, and two
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 59
white females. He probably had at this time seven sons and one
daughter besides himself and wife.
In the early part of the nineteenth century he settled at the
mouth of the "Big Sandy River" in Kentucky and gave the name
of Catlettsburg to the now thriving city built upon his lands on the
Ohio Eiver, as the following will show. He seems not to have left
a will, as in June, 1833, at a court held in Greenup County, Ky.,
Horatio Catlett obtained letters of administration on the estate of
Alexander Catlett, Sr., and appraisers were appointed that made
their final report on the 23rd January, 1824, and ordered recorded.
Alex. Catlett was appointed commissioner of revenue taxes by the
county court of Greenup, Ky., Feb. 24, 1805 (County Records').
Extract From Ely's History of the Big Sandy River.
"The CaMetts
were Virginians. Sawny, the father of Horatio, came with his
family to the 'mouth' early in the century. He brought negro
slaves with him and was a well-to-do man. The creek running
through the town of Catlettsburg bears the Catlett name, in addition
to the name of the live, busy mart of trade often called the 'Gate
City' — the only monuments commemorating the once proud family.
"Sawny Catlett's bones lie buried in the old Catlett burying
ground near the barn of Col. L. T. Moore. His son Horatio was
the first prominent hotel-keeper at the 'mouth.' He was also a mer-
chant, postmaster, farmer, ferryman and general trader. A line of
stages ran through the place from Lexington, Ky., to Charleston,
Va., in early times, and Mr. Catlett had the honor of entertaining
such notable personages as Gen. Jackson, Henry Clay and Felix
Grundy. While the 'Catlett House" was only a plain log building,
the splendid menu spread for its guests, with the charming love-
liness of the ladies of the household, made it a hostelry far in ad-
vance of its day. Several of the present matrons, who were young
misses in the days of the Catletts, tell us that the Misses Catlett
were the most charming and lovely maidens they ever knew.
"As the outgoes of the Catletts were greater than their income,
they got badly in debt, and to extricate themselves they sent away
one by one of their numerous slaves, and then followed on' after
them to the west of the Mississippi, hoping, no doubt, to raise
enough money by the sale of the negroes to lift the mortgage from
the Catlett estate at the 'mouth.' But, like nearly all such cases,
the scheme failed.
"Fry and Lester^
who inherited from Wilson, the mortgagee, the title to the property,
as the mortgage had been closed, came upon the scene. In 1849,
being in sore need of ready cash, he laid off the town of Catletts-
60 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
burg, from Catlett's street to Division Creek, and in less than
two years sold the remainder to a syndicate consisting of John
Culver, Wm. Hampton (grandfather of Geo. Shortbridge Hamp-
ton, who later married Ann F. Catlett), who in 1857 laid out that
part of the town which lies above Division street. In 1847 Horatio
Catlett returned to the 'mouth.' Hearing before he came that the
valuable property was about passing from his ownership caused his
rage to boil over on reaching the hotel, and he died so suddenly that
an autopsy was deemed necessary. * * * jjjg remains are in-
terrred by the side of his father and two of his daughters. The death
of Horatio Catlett ended the Catlett djTiasty at the 'mouth.' They
will long be remembered as giving their name to the creek running
through the town and to the town itself."
From the census of 1790 it was inferred that Alexander had seven
sons and one daughter. All cannot be accounted for. The follow-
ing children only are given :
(1) Dr. Hanson, of Kentucky, a surgeon in the U. S. Army. His
record, given by Heitman is : Surgeon's mate, 26th March,
1804, resigned 23rd November, 1804; surgeon 1st Infantry,
Feb. 18, 1813; post surgeon, 1816; asst. surgeon, 1821. Died
21st October, 1824. He married Minerva Lyon, dau. of Hon,
Matthew Ly on,M. C, from Vermont and Kentucky. He was
second to Charles Dickerson in his duel with Gen. Andrew
Jackson. There was passed by Congress "An act for the relief
of the representatives of Dr. Hanson Catlett, late of the U. S.
Army," approved Feb. 24, 1832 (6 U. S. Statutes at L.). Dr.
Hanson Catlett had issue :
(a) Albert Gallatin, his only son, named for the great states-
man, who was a close personal friend of Dr. Catlett, was
born at Old Fort Belle Fountain, Mo., Nov. 26, 1818,
mar. Oct. 29, 1835, at Wellsville, Ohio, Catherine Ann
Aten. He was in wholesale grocery business in Pitts-
burg, Pa., and afterwards in same business in AVells-
ville, Ohio, where he died March 14, 1848. Issue:
I. Hanson Henry, b. April 16, 1839, at New Troy,
Pa., and now lives at Wellsville, Ohio, mar., 1887, Eachel
Marker, d. 1914. No issue.
II. Jno Chadwick,* b. May 30, 1841, in Wellsville,,
mar., Jan. 22, 1873, Frances Abbey, dau. of Capt. Wm.
Abbey, of Glastenbury, Conn. Issue: (a) Albert Wil-
liam, b. Jan. 21, 1874, at Wellsville, Ohio, mar. in Pitts-
burg, Pa., 1903, Margaret Ann McDonald; issue: Emily
Frances, b. Aug. 17, 1904; Eoberta Lindsey, b. Nov.
5, 1910, d. Feb. 13, 1914, and John Lindsey, b. Dec. 31,
* John Chadwick married a daughter of Col. Shortridge, sister to the mother of Geo.
Shortridge Hampton, who married Ann C^atlett Hepburn.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 61
1915; (b) Fred Wayne, b. Feb. 10, 1882, mar. Florence
Chase, of Cambridge, Mass., and is an attorney at law
and professor in Washington University, Seattle, Wash.,
and has two children : Dorothea Lucille, b. May 12,
1910, and Fred Wayne, b. Jan., 1914.
III. Catherine Virginia, b. Sept. 23, 1816, d. Aug.
15, 1857, in Wellsville, Ohio.
(b) x\nn Fairfax mar. (I) Dr. James S. Hepburn, surgeon
U. S. Army, and died 1833 in New Orleans, La., where
he went to aid in the suppression of the cholera epi-
demic. Issue, several children, of whom only two reached
maturity, viz :
I. Frances, b. 1822, d. 1911, in Washington, D. C.
She was a woman of great intelligence, and her exten-
sive acquaintance with public men gave her a fund of
valuable information. She furnished indirectly some of
the material of this branch of the family.
II. Hon. Wm. Peters, b. Nov. 1, 1833, in Wellsville,
Ohio, moved to Iowa with his mother and step-father
in 1841, and died at Clarinda, Iowa, Feb. 7, 1916. He
was a lawyer of eminence, a soldier of distinction, being
captain, major and lieutenant colonel of the Second
Iowa Cavalry in the Civil War; member of Congress
from Iowa in 47th, 48th, 49th, 53rd, 54th, 56th, 57th
and 58th Congresses as a Eepublican. Col. Peters mar.
Melvina A. Morseman, Oct. 7, 1855, and had issue four
children: (a) Edith, mar. W. P. Thummill; (b) Frank,
died and buried in Clarinda, Iowa; (c) Margaret, mar.
E. H. Chamberlain and has Hepburn, of Bayonne, N. J. ;
(d) Capt. Chas. B. Hepburn, mar. , and
has a son, Hal, of Oakland, Cal.
Since the above was written Col. Hepburn has died, Feb. 7, 1916,
at his home in Clarinda, Iowa, and the Journal, of that city, has a
lengthy tribute to his memory. The church, the bar and the Masons
aided his fellow-citizens in paying merited tribute at his large
funeral exercises. His career was intimately connected with public
service in the State and United States. He was the author of many
public acts, which bear his name, passed by Congress. Ex-President
Roosevelt has said the first session of the 59th Congress would ever
be memorable because of the constructive legislation, and named
five acts that gave it renown. Four of these acts came from the
committees over which Col. Hepburn presided and three of these
four bills he introduced.
After the death of Dr. Hepburn his wife, Ann Fairfax Catlett,
mar. (II) Geo. Shortridge Hampton, son of Wm. Hampton and his
wife, Malinda Shortridge, of Kentucky, b. 1806, d. 1876. They
62 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
moved to Iowa in 1841. He was a lawyer, and during the Civil War
served with distinction on the staff of Gen. Roseerans.
"Col. Geo. Shortridge, his maternal grandfather, was a brave
officer of the Revolution and settled in Kentucky, three miles above
Catlettsburg. The Shortridge family impressed their mental and
physical vigor upon their descendants, and the Hamptons got much
of their dash and energy from the Shortridge house." (Ely's History
of Big Sandy River.)
Issue by the Hampton marriage :
(c) George, Jr., d. 1911, mar. , and
had Frank, mar. , and live at Pullman,
111.; Alex, mar. , 1913, and live at Pull-
man, 111. ; Mary, mar. Mr. Drown, of Boston, and has
two daughters.
(d) Columbus.
(e) Catherine.
(2) Alexander, Jr., mar., Aug. 26, 1813, his cousin, Patsy D., b.
1792, d. 1871, dau. of Jno. (b. 1749) and Allie T. King Cat-
lett (b. 1755). He lived for a time at Catlettsburg, Ky., where
he kept a tavern in 1809 and was elected J. P. in same year.
He returned to Frederick Co., Va., to attend to the properties
of his many relatives, and d. s. p.
(3) Horatio Gates, d. 1847 at Catlettsburg, Kv., mar., Dec. 22,
1809, by Rev. Wm. Hill, his cousin Molly Ann, b. Jan. 2, 1784,
dau. of Henry and Miriam (Calmes) Catlett, of White Post,
Frederick Co., Va. Horatio once owned everything at Catletts-
burg, Ky., but sold out and moved to St. Joe, Mo., and died
at Catlettsburg, Ky., on a visit to it in 1847, and is buried
there beside his father and other members of the family.
Horatio had issue:
(a) Miriam Calmes, mar. Thos. H. Frame, of Staunton,
(I) Fannie Catlett, b. 1840 in Catlettsburg, Ky.,
mar., 1861, Jno. Kenny Cravens, b. 1838, d. 1892, a
distinguished lawyer of Kansas City, Mo., and had
Horace, b. 1862, d. 1864; James Harrison, b. 1865, a
graduate of Williams College, Mass., 1887, and after a
year spent abroad graduated at Columbia College, N. Y.,
mar. Lorena Searcy and lives in Kansas City, Mo.
Issue: Jno. Kenney, b. 1902, d. 1911; Virginia, d. at
birth, 1912 ; Elizabeth, b. 1915 ; Lanier, b. 1869, mar.
Agnes Maud Hughes, born in Ireland. They live in
Toronto, Canada and have Francis Fairfax Cravens,
b. 1905. John Smith, b. 1871, mar. Mildred May
Myers; no issue. He is a banker in Pasadena, Cal.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 63
. Francis Catlett, b. 1878, mar. Frances Page Carter
and have issue: Miriam Calmes, b. 1913. They live in
Kansas City, Mo.
(II) Sarah, b. 1842, mar. James P. Caldwell, of
Larimie, Wyo., and had issue: Miriam, unmarried;
Jane, unmarried ; James mar. and lives in Denver, Col.
III. James mar. and has two daugh-
ters.
lY. Son; no issue.
V. Son; no issue.
VI. Son; no issue.
Mrs. Fannie Catlett Cravens is still living in Kansas
City and she and her daughter, Mrs. Carter, have kindly
furnished much information relative to their branch of
the Catlett family.
(b) Hanson, died in California. There is a Hanson George
Catlett given as captain and assistant quartermaster in
Mexican War, 1847-8, by Heitman, but Mrs. Cravens
says this Hanson lived at home in Missouri until he
went to California in the gold fever of 1849, where he
died unmarried.
(c) Susan Frances, b. 1819, d. 1899, never married, made
her home with her niece, Mrs. Cravens, in Kansas City,
■ Mo., who speaks of her as "truly a saintly, much-ad-
mired woman."
(d) Henry, died in Virginia, whither he went late in life
to take care of his aunts. N'ever married.
(4) Charles Jefferson. The Norfoll' Gazette and Public Ledger
of May 7, 1806, has the following:
"Catlett-Fairfax. — Alexandria, May 2nd, married at Wood-
ville, by Eev. Dr. Muir. Charles Jefferson Catlett, Esq., mer-
chant of Norfolk, to Miss Ann Fairfax, daughter of the late
Lord Fairfax, of 'Mount Eagle,' Fairfax countv." (Va. Hist.
Mag., IX, p. 207.)
This was Eev. Bryan Fairfax, son of Geo. Wm. Fairfax, of
"Belvoir," whose sister married Lawrence Washington, and
father of Ferdinand and of Thomas, who inherited the empty
title of Lord Fairfax. Issue :
(a) Louise Fairfax, mar. , and has descend-
ants living near Washington, D. C.
(b) Erskine, died in Egypt, unmarried.
(c) Fairfax, living in New Orleans, La., in 1830, when he
patented large quanties of land in Texas through the
Texas Land Office, then located in New Orleans, La.
The deeds for these lands are on record in this city, and
land agents and lawyers have sought in vain for his heirs.
64 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
He moved to Austin, Texas, where he was living in 1836.
The above facts are all that is known of him.
(5) Grandison is given by Mrs. Fannie Catlett Cravens, of Kansas
City, Mo., as one of the brothers of her grandfather, Horatio,
and Mr. Grandison Catlett, of Buckton, Ya., writes that he
was named for him at the request of ]\Ir. Alexander' Catlett,
Jr., brother of Grandison, who married his aunt, Patsy D. Cat-
lett, daughter of John and Allie T. (King) Catlett. ^"He died
when I was very young and I know nothing of him." It is
believed he died unmarried.
(6) Nancy, mentioned in Bro. James' will, mar. Bailey and
d. in Ohio s. p.
(8) Thomas, mar., Jan. 26, 1808, by Eev. Wm. Hill, Polly Payles,
as recorded in Frederick County Records, is believed to be a
son of Alex and Susannah Catlett. All the sons of the other
available Catletts at this time have been fully accounted for.
There is a John Catlett, who went early in life to Jessamine
Co., Ky. (perhaps attracted thither by his uncle James, who
had previously moved there), and is the ancestor of a large
progeny in Kentucky and elsewhere, who may be a son of this
couple. (See page .) There may also be other descend-
ants; if, so, they moved away early in life from Frederick Co.,
Va., since these records give no further mention of either
Thomas or his possible children.
(9) Elisha is given by the Hon. Brice W. Catlett as the father of
his grandfather, Alexander Catlett, and Mrs. Fannie Catlett
Cravens, of Kentucky, says that her grandfather had a brother
by the name of Elisha that lived and died in Virginia; there-
fore Elisha and his descendants are placed here. A further
corroboration is the fact that Mr. Bailey Catlett named his
first son Elisha. Elisha mar. , and had :
Alexander, mar. Mrs. Williams, perhaps nee Bailey,
with cliildren, some of whom afterwards lived in Sedalia,
Mo., and had issue :
(1) Bailey, mar. Elizabeth Huff, of Hampshire Co.,
Va. He went West before the Civil War. leaving his
family in West Virginia. Issue: (a) Elisha, mar. (I)
Hardy, mar. (II) : (1)) Harrison,
mar. (I) Lona , (mar. (II) Mrs. Burke, widow
of Geo. Burke, a prominent lawyer; (c) Amanda; (d)
Mary C, mar.. May 18, 1858, first wife, Daniel Mor-
gan, b. 1831, son of George Catlett and his wife Clarissa
Lentz (See Dan'l M. Catlett for issue) ; (e) Silvia,
mar. Jacob ISToland; (f ) Arilda mar. P. Xoland, of Davis,
of W. Va.; (g) Sarah, mar. Joshua Pownall, of Hamp-
shire Co.; (h) Nannie, mar. Gen. Stotler; (i) Ida, mar.
L. Benj. Kidwell, of Great Cacopon, W. Va.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 65
Miss Tillie Compton, a granddaughter of B. and E.
Catlett, above, was a recent graduate of University of
W. Ya. at Morgantown,
(2) Eachel, d. y.
(3) Mary, mar. John Scource and moved West be-
fore 1861 and had two daughters: (a) Mary, mar. (I)
Manson, mar. (II) Coh Bacon, a prominent law-
yer of Michigan, no issue; (b) Minerva, mar. —
Clay, of Ky., a near relative of Cassius M. Clay; no
issue.
(4) William Gassaway, of Berkeley Springs, at Bath,
Morgan Co., Va. (now W. Va.), mar., 1852, Ann Maria,
dau. of Eev. Curtis Williams, of Frederick Co., Md.
She was related to the Brices, Worthingtons, Eidgeleys,
Simpsons, Clemsons and Warfields, of Maryland. Issue:
I. Hon. Brice Worthington, b. 1853, educated at
Military Academy of Winchester, Va. He was J. P.,
State Senator of W. Va. in 1894, and has filled many
important offices of trust. He has been a conspicuous
citizen in every community in which he lived, and now
resides at Upperville, Va. He mar., May 18, 1875,
Frances Smith Bowler, and has: (a) Gray, d. 1877;
(b) William Brice, a newspaper man of repute; (c)
Charles Victor, of Fort Worth, Texas; (d) Oliver War-
ren, a merchant of Upperville, mar. E. Pearl Lake and
has Virginia Gray, b. 1914; (e) Lucas Wilson, living
in Upperville, Va. ; (f) James Garland Hurst, a student
in the University in 1915, Washington, D. C.
II. Curtis Morgan, d. y.
III, Addie Louise, d. y.
IV. William Gassaway, Jr., of Berkeley Springs,
W. Va., mar. (I) Kernan, a lady of great talent and
a poetess of Nebraska, who died soon after marriage ; no
issue; mar. (II) Garland, of Penn., and has issue:
(a) Wm. Gassaway, III, b. 1903; (b) Mary Bryan; (c)
a daughter.
(10) James. For several years Mrs. Gross E. Scruggs, of Dallas,
Texas, has sought energetically to locate her ancestors, James
Catlett and wife, Mary Yates. This couple left only two
daughters, one of whom, Catherine, married Thos. Butler, and
the other, Evelina, married Edward Mason, Jr. Her persistent
efforts finally located them in Jessamine Co., Ky., where she
obtained the following will, which is given as copied by the
present clerk of the court. This will, dated Nov. 1, 1820, prob.
December court, 1820, makes James, the son of Alexander and
Susannah Catlett, since two of the brothers mentioned,
Hanson and Alexander, Jr., are known to be the sons of this
Q6 Descendants of Col. John Cailett.
couple. Of William we have no data, uor of his sister, Xancy
Bailey, who receives only a life interest in the lands given her,
hence the presumption that she had no children. The follow-
ing is the will :
Will of James Catlett, of Jessamine County, Ky.
''Be it remembered that I, James Cotlet, of Jessamine County
and State of Kentucky, being in a low state of health, but Sound
of mind and desposing memory do make and ordain this my last
will and testament, To-wit: — I hereby give and bequeath to my
beloved wife, Mary Yates Cotlet during her natural life the planta-
tion whereon I live, with all its appurtenances, also the Slaves,
Pinto and Sukey and Obediah. I will to her, my said wife, during
her natural life it they can be so long held imder the claim by
which I hold them, I order, that my Executors shall not commence
any suit on a note for one hundred and eighty-two dollars bearing
date 8th day of April 1819 against Wiilliam Walker and George
Walker. So long as my said wife will keep peaceable possession of
the above named Sukey and her children under the sale of W.
^Valker and L. Singleton to me. I order and it is my will that at
the death of my wife that the plantation on which I live be equally
di vided between my two Grandsons James Bulter and John Butler,
so to be divided between them that each part may be of equal value,
to remain to them and their heirs forever. I order and it is my
will that my lands in the State of Ohio be divided as followeth to
begin at the Beginning corner of my 1000 acre Survey at a White
Oak Sugar tree and Cherry tree, the beech marked X. D. D. Mc. St.
in a bottom about three miles westerly from Isaac Tanes present
improvement and one and one half mile up a branch that heads
Northeastwardly from an old Indian Town and about eighteen
poles west of said branch running to said branch and with said
branch to Dickerson's line, if the branch should intersect, said
intersect said Dickerson's line, if it should not, then with said
branch to the longest line of said Survey, which line will divide the
said Survey into two unequal parts, the smaller of which I hereby
demise to my daughter, Catherine Butler, and Thomas Butler her
husband, to them and their heirs forever, the greater part of said
Sun^ey with all my other lands in the State of Ohio, I demise to
my daughter Evelina Mason and Edward Jr. her husband, to them
and their heirs forever. I except in the demise made to my daugh-
ter, Evelina, and her husband one hundred acres of land and and of
my 500 acre Survey in the State of Ohio, for Xancy Bailey, my
sister, which is to be laid off to include the improvements on Avliich
she lives, Avhich hundred acres I give to the said ISIancy during her
natural life only, tlien to go to the said Evelina and her husband as
above stated. To my brother Hanson Cotlet I give the sum of two
hundred dollars. To William Cotlet my brother I also give two
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 67
hundred dollars. To Alexander Cotlet, Jr., another brother, I also
give two hundred dollars. To my mother-in-law Elizabeth Yates
I also give the sum of one hundred dollars. For the raising of the
foregoing legacies to my brothers and mother-in-law I hereby ap-
propriate the notes in the hands of William Butler and two notes
on Jno. Miller both in the State of Virginia to the amount of
$384.54 cents and the balance of $315.56 cents I order to be raised
out of notes on men in Kentucky. I order that my Grandson, James
Butler have a pair of gold sleeve buttons, to be worn by him in
remembrance of me. To my wife, Mary I give my watch to be kept
by her in remembrance of me. I have two bonds on Vincent Moore
of Virginia for a thousand dollars (principal) each, the first of
these I give to my wife Mary, the others I give to my son-in-law
Thomas Butler. To Evelina Mason I give two hundred dollars
and her daughters Mary and Catherine one hundred dollars each,
these last three gifts are to be made out of my notes on men in the
State of Ohio. To my daughter, Catherine Butler I give two hun-
dred dollars and to her four children, James, John, William and
Evelina, I give one hundred dollars each to be paid out of my notes
on men in Kentucky. I order and it is my will that my wife Mary
keep the household and kitchen furniture, four choice cows and two
of her choice out of my horses, with as many of the hogs and sheep
as she wants, and as much of the crop as will be sufficient for her
and the stock which she keeps one year. Also one plow, axe and
hoe and two pair gear and wagon. At the death of my wife, the
negroes or the proceeds arising from the contract under which I
hold them is to be equally divided between my two daughters Cath-
erine Butler and Evelina Mason. Any Estate which I may have
which has not been herein before appropriated I order to be equally
divided between the said Catherine and Evelina_, I hereby appoint
my wife, Mary Yates Cotlet, Executrix and Jno. Perry, Executor
of this my last will and testament hereby 'revoking all fonner wills.
"In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the
1st day of November 1820. James Cotlet.
"Test.
"Steward Dillon.
"John M. Eoff."
"State of Kentucky,
"Jessamine County Set. December Court 1820.
"The foregoing will of James Cotlet Deed, was produced in Court
and proved by the oathes of Steward Dillon and John M. Ruff.
Subscribing witnesses thereto to be the last will and testament of
James Cotlet, deed, which was therefore ordered by the Court to be
recorded, wherefore Mary Y. Cotlet, Executrix and John Perry,
Executor, therein named took the oath prescribed by law and ex-
ecuted bond with Thomas Butler and Joseph Wallace their sureties
68 Descendants of Col John Cntlett.
in the penalty of Ten Thousand DoUars conditioned according to
law and certificate of probate was granted said Ex'ors. in due form.
"Test. Dax7 B. Brice, Clerk.
"A Copy
'•Attest. R. S. Perry, Clerk,
"Jessamine Count}' Court."
Elizabeth Yates Catlett, after the death of James Catlett, mar.
(II) Dillon, and died in 1839.
James and Mary Yates Catlett moyed to Jessamine Co., Ky.,
in 1817, evidently from Virginia, as is shown by the debts due him
in that State. His son-in-law, Thos. Butler, and his wife, Catherine,
followed him in 1819. This Thomas had a brother, William Butler,
of Jefferson Co., Ya., mentioned in the will aboye. This William
married Morse and had Xancy Morse, Vincent ]\Iorse, Charles
Thomas and Matilda. James Catlett bought his first tract of lands
in Jessamine Co., Ivy., Jan. 17, 1818, and Thos. Butler made his
first purchase of land in that county Sept. 19, 1831. The Butlers
were originally from Westmoreland Co.;, Va. James and Mary
Yates Catlett had issue :
(a) Evelina, mar. Edward Mason, Jr., and lived in Clarksburg, W.
Va. They had, as far as known, Catherine and Mary, men-
tioned in the will above.
(b) Catlierine, d. in 1834, mar. Thos. Butler, will May 8, 1834;
executors, sons, James and John and Thos. Elliott West. Issue :
I. James Catlett, b. 1810, living in Fayette Co., Ky., where
he sold to his bro. John his interest in his mother's estate, mar.
Lula and had a son, d. y.
II. John, b. 1812, of Jessamine Co., Kv., mar., Feb. 26,
1834, Mary Ann Thomas Settle, b. July 17, 1817, dau. of Thos.
and Priscilla Settle, and had: Thos., mar. Phoebe Wynne;
Evelina, mar. Capt. Aikin ; Mary, mar. Capt. Harris : Lulie ;
Katherine, mar. Luther Spears and had Lutie, mar. Alex M.
Savage, of New Orleans ; John, mar. and has three children ;
Margaret, b. 1842, mar. Eobt. Stuart Price, son of Daniel
Branch Price, and his wife, Mary, dau. of Rev. Eobt. Stuart
and his wife Hannah, dau. of Gen'l Levi Todd, and had Eobt.
Lee, mar., in 1900, Susie Coffey, of Dallas, Texas, and has
Marian ; ]\Iarian, mar. Nov. 18, 1890, Gross Eobt. Scruggs,
and has Margaret, b. 1892, mar., 1911, Eaymond P. Caruth
and has Walter, b. 1914; Stuart Briscoe, a student (1916) in
Lehigh University.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
DESCENDANTS OF JAMES* (WM.,^ DAVIDr NICH-
OLAS^) AND WIFE, JANE , OF
OF FREDERICK CO., VA. WILL 1797.
(1) John/ d. 1816, called in tax books of "Blue Eidge" and
"Manassas Gap." Will, dated, March, 1814, prob. Aug. 4, 1818,
mentions wife Eachel, sons Eobt. and Peter^ dau. Winnifred
Green, and grandson John Catlett Green. He was "recom-
mended and qualified" for lieutenant in Virginia forces by
county court of Frederick, Aug. 4, 1779 (McAllister's Vir-
ginia Militia) . He married, Jan. 23, 1777, Eachel Eosett,
according to Fauquier Eecords, as interpreted by the clerk,
but the prevalence of a prominent family at this time in this
county by the name of Eosell suggests that her name may have
been Eachel "Eosell." She is assessed as the widow of John
of Blue Eidge on 100 acres of land in Manassas Gap as late
as 1824. He seems to have named his two sons after his two
brothers, who died early in life. Issue:
(a) Eobert,*^ who administered his estate and mar. Ann
Clayton Tutt, dau. of Ben. and Elizabeth Pendleton
Tutt. Eliza was dau. of ISTath. and Elizabeth (Clayton)
Pendleton. Nath. was son of Henry and Mary (Taylor)
Pendleton, and Henry was son of the immigrant, Philip,
b. 1650, mar. 1682, Isabella Hart, d. 1721. (For issue,
see below.)
(b) Peter,^ mar. Polly Green, dau. of James and Elizabeth
(Jones) Green, and d. s. p.
(c) Winnifred,^ mar. John Green, bro. of Polly above, and
moved to Henderson Co., Ky., and had, among others,
Jno. Catlett Green^ mentioned in will above, mar. Laura
Ellen Euggles (no issue), and Hector Green, mar. also
Laura Ellen Euggles, widow of his brother John C,
and had Charles Catlett, David Simmons and John
Williams, Of these, Chas. Catlett mar. Margaret Bell
and has two sons ; David Simmons mar. Fannie Gunter
and has Lilian, wife of Clarence David Simpson, of
St. Louis, Mo. ; John Williams, of Louisville, Ky., mar.
Annie Amis and has an only daughter, a graduate of
Vassar College, 1906.
Mrs. Green, through the Taylors, of Orange, is a descend-
ant of Margaret Catlett, daughter of Col. Jno. and Elizabeth
(Gaines) Catlett, whom the historian of the family, Wm. Fitz-
hugh Catlett (elsewhere given), marries to "John" Gibson,
while some of her descendants claim it was "Jonathan" Gibson.
70 Descendants of Col. John ratlctt.
(2) James, Jr., so called in his father's will^ may have served in
the Eevolution, as a James Catlett was a member of the 2nd
Va. Eegt., in 1777, in Capt. Jno. Willis' company. Col. Alex-
ander Spotswood, colonel commanding (War Eecords). He
qualifies in 1798 on his father's estate and continues a tax-
payer in Frederick Co. until 1806, when his lands are assessed
to "James' heirs." It is thought that he left no issue.
(3) Elizabeth mar. Xathaniel McPherson and had at least one son,
Charles, mentioned in his father's will (1797).
(4) Peter, Jr., will recorded June 1, 1779, mar. Polly Bell and
had a daughter, Edith, mentioned in the wills of her father and
grandfather, and also sells her interest in lands left by her
grandfather in Jefferson Co., Ky. Nothing further is known.
(5) Jane, mentioned in lier father's will, mar. Henry Gosney, dead
before 1800, as in that year she sells lands left by her father in
Jefferson Co., Ivy., and signs herself as widow of Henry Gosney.
(6) Chas., mar. Catherine . In 1804 he sold lands in Jeffer-
son Co., Ky., and signs from Frederick Co., Va. In 1809
occurs the last assessment of lands to him in Frederick Co.,
Va. He was recommended as "ensign" in 1783 by county
court of Frederick Co. (Abstracts of Eecords of Augusta Co.).
He is believed to have been the father of Ambrose Catlett, who
mar. Lucy Lewis Ashbv, dau. of Lewis and Leana (Buckner)
Ashbv, of Frederick Co., Va., will prob. Sept. 1, 1806. In
1829 Lewis Asliby Catlett and wife Eliza Ann; Mildred
Catlett, the wife of j\Iandy Oliver, and Alfred Ashby Catlett,
all of Frederick Co., Va., sell to their uncle, Buckner Ashby,
all of their right to their deceased mother's, Lucy L. Ashby, as
one of the heirs of Lewis i\shby, in lands in. Jefferson Co. Ky.
(Book D B, Jefferson Co. Eecords, page 242.)
We have no information of the descendants of any of the
above.
(7) Eobert, d. 1783, unmarried, in Jefferson Co., Ky., and in an
olographic will leaves all of his property to his brother Charles.
DeNoendants of Robert Catlett and Ann Tutt.
(1) Elizalieth Pendleton, d. unmarried in Staunton, Va.
(2) Xathaniel Pendleton, b. 1840, mar. Bettie Breckinridge and
had issue. In the Annals of Avgusta he is mentioned as com-
missary of tlie Eegt. of Home Guards in 1863 and cashier of
Augusta National Bank in 1876. Issue :
(a) Maria Breckinridege, b. 18(50, mar., Oct. 17, 1883, Hon.
Armistead Churchill Gordon, LL.D., a distinguished
lawyer, author and statesman of Staunton, Va. He is
rector of board of visitors of the University of Virginia.
Their children are: Margaret Douglass, Mary Daniel,
James Lindsay, Armistead Churchill, Jr., George Loyall.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 71
(b) Nathaniel Pendleton (d), of Montgomery, Ala., mar.
Eunice D. Grigsby (d.), of Tenn., and had issue, Na-
thaniel Pendleton.
(c) John Breckinridge, physician, mar. Lizzie Garth, eldest
dau. of Capt. H. Clay Michie, of the "Meadows," and
his wife, Eunice Sykes, dau. of U. S. Senator Dr. Frank
and Lizzie (Garth) Sykes, of Courtland, Ala. Issue:
Clay Michie.
(d) Frances Burwell Catlett, who corresponded with the
author of this book in 1895, then with Dr. Goode, in
Washington, D. C, author of "Our Virginia Cousins."
(3) Kate, mar. Peyton Grymes, of Orange Co., Va. Issue: (a)
Peyton, Jr., (b) Minor, (c) Robert Catlett, (d) Mary Lewis,
(e) Fannie, (f) Nannie, d. 1897; (g) Bettie Braxton.
(4) Eichard Henry, mar. (I) Mary Patton, dau. of Dr. Farley
Patton, U. S. N., and had issue :
(a) Charles, a distinguished mining engineer and an author-
ity on mineral resources and developments, of Staun-
ton, Va., mar. Elizabeth Patton, niece of Gen'l Eppa
Hunton, IJ. S. Senator, of Fauquier Co., Va. This
estimable woman died Nov. 9, 1916. Issue: Lucy
Hunton, Richard Henry, Elizabeth, d. y ; Mary Mercer.
(b) Richard Henry, Jr., of Washington, D. C. This valu-
able member bore the expense of an investigation by
Leo Cullerton, of the Catlett family in England, and
the results, obtained through the courtesy of the Hon.
Armistead C. Gordon, of Staunton, Va., are published
elsewhere in this pamphlet.
Richard Henry, Sr., mar, (II) Fannie Boiling Gay,
a descendant of Pocahontas, and had :
(c) Margaret Erskine, mar. Lawrence W. H. Peyton, of
Staunton, and had issue: Richard Catlett, John, Law-
rence,
(d) Fannie Gay, mar. Livingston Waddell Smith, of Lex-
ington, Va., professor in Washington and Lee Uni-
versity, and has children : Amey Pendleton, Elizabeth.
(5) John R., mar. (I) Margaret Swann, of Petersburg, Ya. Issue:
(a) Nannie, died unmarried; (mar. (II) Selina Henry, dau,
of Winston Henry, of Charlotte Co.. Issue: (b) Col. Robt. of
Lexington, late asst. atty gen'l of Va., mar. Jennie Daniel (d),
of Charlotte Co., A^a,; issue, Lily, Bessie Daniel; (c) Winston
Henry, d.>.
(6) Mildred, mar. Philip Williams, son of James, captain in Con-
tinental Army and major general in War of 1812, and his wife,
Elizabeth Bruce, only dau. of Charles Bruce, of "Soldiers'
72 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
Eest." (See Slaughters St. Mark's, page 155.) Issue: (a)
Bettie Bruce, died unmarried; (b) Eobt., late adjutant gen-
eral of U. S. Army, mar. Adele, dau. of James Madison Cutts,
of Washington, D. C, and widow (2nd wife) of Hon. Stephen
Arnold Douglass, of Illinois, U. S. Senator and candidate in
1860 for presidency of U. S. Issue: Eobt., mar. Miss Yoe,
of Chicago, 111. ; Ellen, mar., Dec. 5, 1898, John Bryan Patton,
of U. S. Army; Philip, mar. Miss Harrison; Adele; James,
killed in Philippines; Mildred, mar. June 11, 1913, Walter
Farwell, of Chicago; Anne, (c) George Morton, mar. Ger-
trude S. Long, of Baltimore, Mel. Issue : Elizabeth, mar. T,
Clifford Stark; Lucy Pendleton, mar. Edwin S. Slaughter;
Mildred, Ellis, Helen, John, George, Mary, Gertrude, Bettie,
Pendleton, Ann, Lucy, Mary.
(7) Mary, mar. Lewis Burwell Williams, son of Wm. Claj^ton
Williams and his wife. Miss Burwell. He was the veteran com-
monwealth's attorney for Orange Co. Issue: (a) Judge Wil-
liam, of Orange, mar. Eoberta Hansborough and had issue:
Lewis, William Clayton, Eichard, d. y. ; Bessie and Saul; (b)
Jno. G., of Orange Co., mar. Kate Willis, of Orange, and had
issue: Sally Innis, Lewis, Kate, Page, John; (c) Lewis Bur-
well, Col. ist Va. Infantry, killed while leading the charge at
Gett3'sburg; (d) Charles, d. s. p.; (e) Mildred, mar. E. Sin-
clair Booten, of Madison Co., and had issue: Eichard, Lucy
Scott, Susan Walker, Mary Catlett, Lewis Burwell, William,
Georgiana, Alice, Kate; (f) Alice; (g) Nannie, mar.
Caldwell, of King William Co., and had issue; (li) Mary Blair,
mar. Leigh, of King William Co., and had : Mary, Lottie,
Georgiana.
Salie Innis, dau. (given above) of John G. Williams, of
Orange, and his wife, Kate Willis, mar. Lewis Marshall Byrd,
of "Whitehall," Gloucester Co., Va., and has two sons, Jno.
Williams and Lewis Innis.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 73
DESCENDANTS OF ROBT. AND MARY FLOYD
CATLETT.
Descendants of Eobert-* (William,^' David,- Nicholas^), b. 1721,
d. Feb. 26, 1803, mar. Mary Floyd, living in 1816, as per letter of
George, her son, to his brother Henry, of "White Post," dated 22nd
Sept., 1816. (See letter, page 75.) His estate was administered
in 1804 (Fred. Records) .
(1) Eobt.,^ b. 1751, d. 1810, of Fauquier Co., Va., mar. Elizabeth
Farrow, dan. of Nimrod Farrow, and had issue. (See below.)
(2) David,5 b. 1753, d. Sept. 11, 1834. He lived in Frederick Co.,
later moved to Morgan Co. (now W. Va.), and died at Coving-
ton, Ky. He served in the Eevolution, and in his declaration
for pension says he was at Fort Pitt, guarded 800 Hessians
near Philadelphia, and was at Yorktown, Served with Lieut.
Catlett (Peter, his bro.) and Ensign Catlett (afterwards Capt.
Thos. Catlett, killed at Waxhaw (1780) in the expedition
against the Indians. He asked for pension in 1831, declaring
he was 78 years old. He received $90 in pensions ]\Iarch 12,
1834. Mar. Ann. Morgan, d. Oct. 26, 1840, dau. of Daniel ( ?)
Morgan, and had issue. Only two children can be found from
the Family Bible, and these, with descent, are given below.
(3) John,5 b. Sept. 30, 1749, d. Feb. 5, 1826, and was known by
his relatives as "the wealthy John," since he owned lands on
North River, in the Forks of the Eiver and on Punch Eun.
He was recommended and sworn in for captain in Virginia
forces by the county court of Frederick Co., Va., Oct 7, 1777
(Mc Allister, Va. Militia.). He kept a full and neat record in
his Family Bible, which has been handed down to the present.
He mar., June 17, 1775, Allie T. King, b. Dec. 20, 1755, d.
Oct. 28, 1803, and had issue. See below.
(4) Peter,^ doubtless the oldest son, d. July, 1831, mar., ^Tqv. 19,
1789, Susan Meeks, in First Baptist "Church of Xew York.
In the church book appears, "Peter Catalock was married to
Susannah Meeks, of N'ew York." He kept tavern in Washing-
ton, Mason Co., Ky., in 1808, resided in Boone Co., Ky., in
1829, and died in Covington, Campbell Co., Ky.; July, 1831.
They left no issue. He was lieutenant in 7th Eegt. of Virginia
line, commanded by Col. Elias Edmonds, and served through
the entire war. He was "at Guilford Court House and was
wounded at Jamestown, Va., a rifle ball penetrating his thigh,
disabling him from performing manual labor." He applied
for pension while living, and Caleb White certifies that he had
seen and read his commission as lieutenant, signeed by His Ex-
74 Descendants of Col John CatJett.
cellencv, George Washington, while Jacoh White certifies that
he was in the army witli him — he in the militia and Ijieut.
Catlett in the regular army. His application is endorsed :
"Peter Catlett, Lt., ;th Eegt. Ya. Line, Col. Elias Edmonds.
Commutation certificate for five years' full pay, 1831."
At his death his widow renews the application for pension
and calls him ]\Iajor Catlett, and files a copy of his will.
Will of Peter Catlett.
"In the name of God, I, Peter Catlett, of Camphell Co., Ky., do
make this my last will, &c., &c.
"I constitute my wife Susan Catlett extrix. and bequeath my
whole estate to her during life, after her death to our connections
that are the most worthy and attentive to her interests.
"Item — 1000 acres in ]\Iuhlenburg Co., also my farm in Boone
Co. on the Ohio, those lands I wish sold for the best price and the
money put at interest for her support. Home and silver to her, also
negroes, l)onds and notes, and my wife, if it suits her, to leave what
remains at her death to Caleb and Elizabeth White, formerly Eliza-
beth Catlett (dan. of Pobt. and Elizabeth (Farrow) Catlett).
"Proved in Cam])bell Co., Ky., Aug. 23, 1831, by oath of Rd. S.
Wheatlev and Caleb White.
"Jno. N". Taliaferro, Clerk."
His widow must have spent quickly what was left her, since she
makes the following application for pension:
"Susan Catlett made oath 27th March, 1834, that she married
Peter Catlett 1795, whom she had met after the Eevolution in 1793,
He died July, 1831, when she had just reteurned from a visit to
relatives in N". Y. and he from a visit to Ya. She was 55 vears old
in 1831. He died in Covington, Campbell Co., Ky., July, 1831,
without issue, and she was now destitute and far from her relatives
and dependent upon strangers for a home. Sworn to before me.
"Ed. M. White, J. P."
Tlure is no evidence that pension was ever paid,
(5) Jesse, mar., Feb, 9, 1792, Euth Banham. He appears pn land
l)ooks of Frederick Co., as late as 1812. Xo record is found of
his descendants and it is barely possible that he may be father
of Cornelia T. Catlett, who mar. Jno. Catlett in 1825, also of
Euth Catlett, who, according to Eev. Jno. L. Clearwater, of
Lander, Wyo., nuir. Jno. Lemon and moved to Harper's Ferry,
A"a. It may be that there were male descendants of this couple.
If so, they moved away from Frederick Co., Ya., since only the
father, "Jesse," appears on the tax rolls.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 75
(6) Henry, b. Feb. 8, 1758, d. Dec. 16, 1836, was chief legatee in
his uncle Peter's will 1785, and thus inherited "White Post,"
where he lived and died. He mar., Dec. 8, 1783, Miriam
Calmes, b. Dec. 13, 1758, d. Peb. 36, 1835, dau. of Wm. Calmes
and Lucy Keville, his wife. Henry was recommended Aug. 4,
1779, as a lieutenant in Virginia forces by the county court of
Frederick (McAllister, Va. Militia). At the graveyard at
White Post is a tomb with the following inscription : "Here
rests remains of Mrs. Miriam Catlett, wife of Henry Catlett,
b. Dec. 13, 1758. She lived and died in the full hope of a
blessed immortality." For issue, see further on.
(7) George, mar., 1790, Letitia Buck, dau. of Chas. and Mary
(Richardson) Buck. He moved to Morganfield , Ky., in 1816,
as per following letter now in our possessio, kindly lent by Mrs.
Fannie Catlett Cravens, of Kansas City, Mo. :
"Brownsville:, 33nd Sept., 1816.
"Dear Bro. — I arrived here this evening. Have promise a boat
to start to-morrow down the river. My family are all well and have
got out safe — much more cheerfully than I expected. There is three
familys going down the river with me — one from the city of Wash-
ington, a very gentlemanly man with his family, who had been
clerk in the war office for several years. Chas. Smith is going on
with his family to the mouth of Sandy to take possession of his
property there as he says, — I shall expect you to write me frequently
to Hopkinsville. My love to our old mother and hope she may be
reconciled to my leaving her in her old age, as necessity was the
cause. Should she want a winter gown, please to get her a good
one on my account, as I hope you may have supply in your hands.
I am scarcely any time to write but have never neglected any oppor-
tunity to embrace in writing to you. My family joins me in love
to you and family and all enquiring friends — -not forgetting my
respects to my old and worthy friend Mr. Funsten.
"I am Dr. Bro. Yours Geo. Catlett.''
This letter was directed to "Mr. iHenry Catlett, White Post,
Fred. Co., Va., per Mr. Carson,"
George settled at Morgansfield, Ky. For issue, see further on.
(8) Henrietta, mar. by Eev. Alex Bahlmain, Feb. 19, 1789, Mar-
quis Calmes Richardson, and had, among others, Emily, mar.
Benjamin Robertson, and had Sarah, mar. Geo. A. Morrow,
and are parents of Miss Emily G. Morrow, 1146 Union avenue,
Memphis, Tenn.
(9) Sarah, mar. John Buck, bro. of Letitia Buck.
(10) Nancy, mar. Jeremiah O'Rear, son of John O'Rear.
(11) Mary, mar. Benjamin O'Rear, bro. of Jeremiah,
76 Descendants of Col. John Catlctt.
Descendants of Robt. Catlett, of Fauquier, b. 1751, d. 1810, and His Wife,
Elizabeth Farrow, d. 1818, Daughter of Niinrod Farrow, of Fauquier.
His will in Faiuiiiier comity, probated 1810, leaves bis estate to
wife Elizabetli for life, witli remainder to bis cbildren, viz: dau,
Mary Ann Enders, son Wm. Catlett, dan. Sarah Catlett. dan. Xancy
Dews, son David Catlett, son Peter Catlett, dan. Lneinda Catlett,
son Geo. F. Catlett, sou Eobt. Catlett, sou Ximrod Catlett, son
Bryant Catlett and dan. Elizabeth Catlett.
In 1778, after the death of Elizabeth, his wife, the following con-
veyed land, specifying it. was purchased by Eobt. Catlett, their
father, who devised it for life to his wife, with remainder to his
children: (Signed) David Catlett, Sarah Catlett, Lnciuda Catlett,
Geo. F. Catlett, Rol^t. Catlett.
It will be observed that several of the children mentioned in his
will, and who were known to be living at that time, did not sign the
above deed. The children of above were, according to will :
(1) Mary Ann, d. 18-10, mar. Jacob Enders and moved to Ken-
tucky. Issue: (a) Jno. Catlett Enders, d. Oct. 25, 1842, mar.
Elizabeth Coffield, d. Dec. 28, 1886; (b) Henry, mar. Adelia
Jacob; (c) Marquis, wife unknown; (d) Peter, mar a wealthy
woman of La. or Miss, and was a prominent physician in Baton
Eouge; (e) William, mar. Lydia Walters; (f) Mary. mar.
Capt. Jesse K. Bell, of New Orleans, the owner of the famous
steamboats "Eobt. E. Lee" and "Jesse K. Bell"; (g) Eliza-
beth, mar. (I) Hines, mar. (II) Lashbrook; (h)
Eobert, mar. (I) Amanda Barber, mar. (II) Melvina Barber,
sisters, and daughters of Andrew Barber and Avife, Margaret
Bradford, and had issue:
I. Henry, d. unmarried.
II. Mary, mar. Eobt. VVoolfolk. Issue : Xannie, in convent
in New Orleans, La. ; Bertie, unmarried ; Owen, unmar-
ried; Kate Temple, mar. Wm. Gaston Whitfield; Eieh-
ard, mar. Nellie Wilson.
III. Martha, mar. Edmund Tavlor Woolfolk and had
Martha, d. y. ; Edmund Taylor AYoolfolk, mar. (II)
Ann Lou McKnight and had John, unmarried ; Ed. T.,
mar. Allie Cabell, and Henry, unmarried.
IV. Amanda, mar. Ei chard Huey W. Woolfolk. bro. of Ed-
mund, and had: Henry, mar. Amelia Boyd; Mary E.,
mar. Joseph L. Sawyer; Eo1)t. Lee, mar. Emma Wheeler;
Junius A., mar. Virginia Singleton ; Lewis Rogers, mar.
Josephine ; Eichard, mar. Florence Miller.
(2) William, b. 1781, d. Dec. 6. 1855, mar. (I) Xov. 30, 1803,
Lucy Ashby, dau. of I^ewis Ashby, by Eev. Wm. F. P. Davis,
in Frederick County, Va., and had issue: (a) Alfred Ashby,
k 1810, d. Jan. 6, 1864, and buried at Union Church, Eankin
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 77
Co., Miss., on ground given to clun-cli by him, mar., Dec. 31^
1833. Martha Eachel Hadley, b. 1812, dan. of Moses Laurence
and Ann (Roberts, b. 1772) Hadley, and had issue (see below) ;
(b) Lewis, mar. and moved to Texas; no further information;
(c) Sidney, mar. Peter Glasscock, of Paris, Va., and had:
I. Lean Amanda, b. Jan. 14, 1838, d. Sept. 1, 1902, mar.
April 25, 1865, in Virginia, Eichard Hamilton Bell,
b. 1839, d. Jan. 6, 1911, of Maryland, and settled in
Madison Co., Miss., and had : Hattie Elizabeth, b. Jan.
19, 1868, mar., Jan. 1, 1884, Joshua W. Dorman, of
Bolton, Miss.; Anne C. M. E., b. Aug. 1, 1871, mar.,
Sept. 1, 1894, Doster Bradley, d. Sept. 14, 1895, of
Jackson, Miss. ; Lula J., b. 1874, mar., June 12, 1897,
Chas. Williams, d. Jan. 13, 1901, of Jackson, Miss.,
and has Paul, b. 1898; Wesley Catlett, b. 1866, d. 1867;
Ezra Ebnor, b. Julv 7, 1878; Eichard Ashby, b. Oct.
31, 1881.
II. Catlett, mar. , and was killed in C. S. A.,
1864, in Tenn., and left a son, who was father of Lula
Glasscock, of Jackson, Miss.
Joshua W. and Hettie Elizaheth Dorman, above, have
following living: Georgia Elizabeth, b. 1886, mar.,
1908, D. D. BuBose, and have Wm. H. D. and Eichard
A.; Adelaide Stevenson, b. 1892; Lula Lean, b. 1894;
Earl Dewit, b. 1896; Allie May, b. 1899; Neil, b. 1900;
Anna Bell, b. 1905; Mayor, b. 1909.
Children of Doster and Ann C. M. E. Bradley are
Franklin D., b. 1895; Amy May, b. 1896, mar. — ,,
and Guion, b. 1899.
(d) John, mar. Miss Dunn, and d. s. p.
(e) Mildred, mar. Mr. Olive, of Va., and had two children,
(f) Landora, d. single, in 1835, in Jefferson Co., Ky. Wm.
Catlett and wife Ann sell to Buckner Ashby 1/6 part of
1/7 part of an undivided moiety belonging to Landora
Catlett ; said Landora died intestate and said Wm., being heir
at law of said Landora. The said land was devised by Lewis
Ashby, who mar. Leanna Buckner, to his two sons, Buckner
and Lewis Ashbv, and Landora was a granddaughter of the
latter. (Jefferson Co. Eecords, Book T. T., page 445.)
Wm. Catlett mar. (II) June 29, 1817, Anna Mallory, b..
1794, d. April 17, 1850, of Fauquier Co., Va., and had:
(g) William Mallory, b. 1820, d. 1865, mar. Helen T. Steigler,
and had one son, Frank, b. 1863, and was drowned, 1901, at
Newport News, Va. Wm. M. died in Point Coupe Parish,
La., in 1865. Mrs. Catlett mar. (II) Jno. T. Coleman and
now lives at Manassas, Va.
78 Descendants of Col. John Cuilett.
(h) Angelina, b. Dec. 23, near, Paris, Fauquier Co., Va.,
mar. Oct. 12, 1853, Col. Felix Davis,, who died in 1878.
In 1879 his widow moved with her three children to Ohio,
living many years near ITrbana, removing later to i\Iechanics-
burg, where she died in 1908 and is buried in Maple Grove
Cemetery. Her children are:
Annie, mar. Charles Layton, of Wilmington, Del., and has
two grown sons, Felix and Thomas.
Samuel, never married, devoting his life to his mother.
Sarah, after many years as teacher in the public schools
of Champaign Co., Ohio, mar. Percy Horr, of Mechan-
icsburg, and has a dau., Martha, b. 1901.
These are all living in Champagne County and are well-
to-do- farmers,
(i) Martha mar. Eobt. Massie and has Mamie, living in Me-
chanicsburg, Ohio.
( j ) Minerva, mar. D. Triplett. ^o issue.
(k) Alcinda, mar. Sperry, son of Elijah and Margaret (Sperry)
Catlett, her cousin, and had :
Mardonius, of Frederick Co., Va., d. in 1888, mar.
Miss Willy, of Middleton, Va. She survived him, with
children, according to will of Allietta Catlett, recorded
in Frederick Co., Va., Dec. 3, 1888, in which she men-
tions children of Mardonius Catlett, her sister Matilda,
and sister-in-law Alcinda.
(1) Adelaide, mar. Jno. Vincent, of Westville, Ohio, and had
Joseph, Alton, Adelaide and Emma.
(m) Lucy, died in New Orleans, La., Dec. 18, 1905, mar, in Jack-
son, Miss., Dr. J. Alex. Brown, of New York, who died in
New Orleans, La., Jan. 16, 1887, and had (a) Elizabeth,
mar., 1892, in New Orleans, La., Judge Samuel Myers, d.
1902 Issue: Ernest; (b) James Stonewall, d. in Spring-
field, Ohio; (c) Blanche, mar. in New Orleans, 1892, Eoss
Mitchell Horne, of Dayton, Ohio ; issue, all born in New Or-
leans : Wilbur Emerson, Hazel Hart, and Cleveland, d. 1901.
Mrs. Horne and her children live at Bay St. Louis, Miss, (d)
Walter, mar., in New Orleans, Annie Barringer, and has
Yvonne, b. in Jackson, Miss,
(n) Andrew Jackson (Jack) was a lieutenant in C. S. A. and
killed at Rome, Ga., in 1864.
(o) David, d. y.
(p) Robert, b'. 1826, d. 1917, mar., March 19, 1863, IMar-
garet Burton, of Brownsville, Miss., and live at Canton, Miss.
Mr. and Mrs. Catlett celebrated their golden wedding in 1913,
with thirteen cliildren and many grandchildren present. Mr.
Catlett came to Miss, from Va. in 1850 with his bros., Alfred,
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 79
William, John and Lewis, and sister, Lucy. The above have
had sixteen children:
(a) Annie Burton, mar. Eev. E. L. Bunyard, of Magnolia,
]\Iiss., and have two boys, Robert and James. "They are
doing their part of the world's work and hope to make
their little corner brighter and better by having lived
in it."
(b) Mary Lee, d. at age of 13, 1878.
(c) Eobt. Burton, mar. Lula Spruill; no issue.
(d) AV^illiam Jackson, mar. Minnie Mullen and live in
Denver, Col., and have Wm. Jackson and Margaret
Elizabeth.
(e) Pennington Tucker, d. 1899.
(f) Walter Clarence, mar. Mattie Lou Johnson, and live in
in Canton, Miss., and have Clarice, James Bradford,
Sarah and Walter Clarence, Jr.
(g) Aurora, mar. Dr. M. A. Eobinson, and lives in Reno,
Xev., and has Clarence, M. A., Jr., and Mallory Catlett.
(h) Mallory, mar. Agatha C. Henebry, of Denver, Col., and
has two girls, Dorothy and Jeanne,
(i) Margaret Burton, not married,
(j) Helen Coleman, mar. Robt. E. Hinton, of Canton, Miss.,
and has Robt., Anne, MargaretJosephine, and Mallory.
(k) Lillian, mar. Earnest B. Maxwell, of Hernando, Miss.,
and has Thos. Roe.
(1) Lucy Brown, (m) David Alfonso, (n) Gertrude, (o)
Ashby, mar. H. Turner, of Canton, Miss.; (p) Myrtle,
d. y. '
(3) Sarah Catlett. ISTothing known of her.
(4) Nancy, mar. Dews. Nothing further of her.
(5) David. No records or other information of him.
(6) Lucy, b. 1789, mar. Isham Randolph Allen, b. Jan. 23, 1799,
and had :
(a) Nimrod Bryant, b. 1820, mar. (I) Rose Davis and had
issue : John, d. s. p. ; Randolph (mar. , and
had John, Jr.) ; Nimrod Bryant, Jr., mar. Celice Ra-
venscroft and had Rose Allen, mar. Charles Valier and
had Chas. Bryant; Willam, Charles (mar. ).
Nimrod Bryant (mar. ), Maurin.
Nimrod Bryant mar (II) Mrs. James Page Hirsh-
burger, no issue; mar. (Ill) Mrs. Alice Hughes Folly,
no issue.
(b) Napoleon Bonaparte, b. 1824, mar. Lizzie J. Weir. No
issue.
(c) Robt., unmarried, and living in Canada.
(d) Richardson Walker, b. 1825, mar. (I) Mrs. Sallie Mc-
Connell Wilson and had issue : Adelia, d. y. ; Henrietta,
80 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
mar. Eemiis Glover Carey, of Calhoun, Ky., and had
issue: Sallie Ann. (mar. Geo. Lowery, issue. Henrietta
and Fred) ; Jennie Way land (mar. Clarence Stroud,
issue, Mary Sue and Jennie) ; Chas. Madison, Glover
H. (mar. Bessie Miller, issue, Wm. Ke and Sarah) ;
Ora, Joe Allen, Stewart, a rover, whereabouts unknown ;
mar. II) Josie Rudy and had Janey (mar. Dr. Parker,
of Evansvile. Ind.; issue, two daughters),
(e) Henry Clay, b. 1832. mar. (I) :\Iartha Elizabeth Cheat-
ham and -had (1) Xapoleon Bonaparte, Jr. (mar. Mattie
Walden and had Joseph, mar. Katie Bell Dawson, no
issue) ; Wirt, of Owensboro, Ky., and Henry Clay, Jr.
(2) Lucy Allina, mar. Sam'l E. Crowley, of Hibbards-
ville, Ky., and had: Edward C. (mar. Mrs. Addie
Smith, issue, Winston) ; Clement (mar. Eachel Til-
lottson, no issue) ; Eulus, T. Y. Mable (mar. Robt. L.
Schatfer, issue Laura Louise) : Katherine (mar. Robt.
H. Galloway, issue Pauline H.) ; Seffin, unmarried;
(3) John Ida, unmarried; (4) Jennie Bell (mar. Jos.
Wright, of Owensboro, Ky., and has Bessie, AYillie, An-
nabel, Mary Blanche, Henry Allen, mar. Robt. Wm,
Wells and had Robt., Wm. and Joseph Allen) ; (5)
Lizzie Weir, mar. Sidney Hatchell Trice, no issue: (6)
Wm. Henry (mar. Lena Frank, issue Frank Allen).
Henry Clay mar. (II) Annie Hall Enders and had:
Nimrod, unmarried ; James Bell (mar. Susan Benson
Walthen, issue James Bryant) ; Annie Dunn (mar.
Prof. James ReubenAlexander, of Bowling Green, Ky. ;
no issue) ; Hiram Hall (mar. Mary Davis; no issue).
Mrs. Enders, above, was doubtless widow of a son of Mary
Ann Enders, a sister of Lucy and aunt of Henry Clay Allen,
(7) Peter went to Princeton, Ky., with his brothers, Geo. Farrow
and Robt., mar. Juliette Belle and had: (a) Marv Elizabeth,
b. 1832, d. 1905, at Mineral Mound Farm, near Eddyville,
Ky., mar. (I) Jno. Von Tress, no issue; mar. (II)
Gabriel Fletcher, Rabb, b. 1834, d. 1905, and had (a) Nannie,
mar. Alexander Kirkland, of 1611 W. Broadway, Paducah, Ky.,
who has kindly furnished the above; (b) Camilla, mar. Benj.
Berry; (c) Juliette, mar. Gibson Taylor and now lives at 825
Carson street, San Antonio. She has a daughter, ^Irs. Thomp-
son, living in Texas and a son, Catlett Tavlor, living in Kansas
City, Mo.
(8) Robert, a taxpayer- in Fauquier county until 1819. He is
recorded as going to Kentucky with his brotliers, Geo. F. and
Peter, but nothing further is known of him or his descendants.
(9) George Farrow, d. March 24, 1848. Heitman gives a Geo. F.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 81
Catlett as 2ik1 lieutenant Eifies, 20th April, 1818, resigned 8th
August, 1818. This may be our subject. He mar (I) in Va.,
July 30, 1818, Dolly Ann Massie, d. 1828, and had: (a) Mi-
nerva Frances, b. July 2, 1821 (mar. October, 1841, Philip
Hillver) ; mar. (II) Sept. 21, 1833, Marv Jane January, d.
Oct." 19, 1853, and had: (b) Samuel January, b. Aug. 4, 1834,
d. Jan. 5, 1847: (c) *Elize Ann Marshall, b. Feb. 26, 1837, d.
May 18, 1858 : (d) George Buckner,b. July 1, 1839, d. in Texas,
1895, mar. (I) Sallie Welch: mar. (II) , who sur-
vives him in Eoyse, Texas; issue. Chandler, b. 1887; d. Mav
3, 1913 ; (e) Eobt. Peter, b. April 22, 1842, d. Sept. 18, 1889,
mar., Feb. 22, 1866, Adele Eueker, and had Nannie Eucker, b.
Nov. 22, 1866, supt. of schools in Princeton, Ky., and doing a
noble work; Geo. Farrow, b. March 17, 1868 (mar., Oct. 25,
1893, Laura Williams, d. April 4, 1914, leaving one child, d. y.
He is editor of Princeton Courier) ; Eobt. Muir, b. Feb. 25,
1870 (mar. Ida Eobinson, no issue) ; Joshua Eucker, b. Aug.
16, 1873 (mar., Oct. 26, 1894, James Warren Sublette; issue,
Marion Francis, b. Dec. 22, 1906; James Warren, b. Oct. 8,
1909, and Elizabeth, b. Sept. 12, 1914) ; Mary Elizabeth, b.
Dec. 21, 1875 (mar., Feb. 1, 1905, Thos. V. Johnson, of Eoyse,
Texas; no issue) ; Frank Stanard, b. March 5, 1878, d. May
19, 1914, s. p.; Jno. Albert, b. Dec. 13, 1880, d. April 5, 1883;
Mamie Belle, b. Feb. 16, 1883, d. March 19, 1883; Alice Urey,
b. Aug. 10, 1884; Samuel Orr, b. Aug. 7, 1889 (mar., Nov.
26, 1910, Dolly Crowder; issue, Geo. Farrow, b. Sept. 6, 1913,
and Chas. Welborn, b. Nov. 29, 11914) ; (f) Alice Amanda,
b. April 14, 1844, d. July 11, 1845; (g) Albert Lamar, b. Aug.
27, 1846, died at Blytheville, Ark., in 1895. He married about
three weeks before he died.
(10) Nimrod, of whom we know nothing.
(11) Bryant, of whom we know nothing.
(12) Elizabeth, mar. Caleb White, of Kentucky and is mentioned
in will of Lieut. Peter Catlett, given above.
Descendants of Alfred Ashby (b. 1810, d. 1864) and Martha Rachel
(Hadley, b. 1812) Catlett, of Rankin County, Miss.
(1) Eudora, b. Oct. 12, 1835, d. April 1, 1914, and buried in Jack-
son, Miss., mar. April 2, 1863, Eichard C. Drake, d. 1870, of
Brownsville, Miss. :Issue: (a) Irene Virginia, b. Dec. 19,
1863, d. Jan. 1, 1864; (b)Ethelbert Alfred, b. March 8, 1865,
mar., August, 1902, Sarah Leslie Stone, and has Louis Francis,
b. 1905; Ethel Leslie, b. 1906, and Mary Vinson, 1908.
*Jane Marshall, a maiden sister of Gen'l Humphrey Marshall, in her will Sept. 6, 1836,
leaves legacy to Jane Catlett, negroes and a lot in Maysville, Ky. Her brothers were:
James, John and Humphrey Marshall ; sisters, Nancy Marshall, Mary, married Thos. Whit-
tington, and Elizabeth, married Sam January, and these were parents of Mary Jane Janu-
ary, who married Geo. Farrow Catlett.
82 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
(2) Lucretia P., b. July 20, 1837, d. 1875, mar., Dec. 2-t, 1863,
G. W. Dameron and had issue: Jesse Mabry, b. Feb. 2, 1865.
Mr. Dameron has married again and lives in St. Joe, Mo.
(3) Alfred Ashby, b. Dec. 10, 1839, d. 1848.
(4) Wm. B., born Xov. 10, 1841, served through the war in Eankin
Rifles, C. S. A., and on his return moved to Dallas, Texas,
where he mar. and had: (a) Alfred, of Memphis
and California, mar. and has Lewis; (b) Lewis,
unmarried and lives in California; (c) Lula, mar. to a captain
in Salvation Army and is now serving with him.
(5) Hattie E., b. Dec! 14, 1846, d. Dec. 14, 1869, unmarried.
(6) Georgia A., b. :\rarch 10, 1848, d. Xov., 1913, mar., July 7,
1869, James A. Blackmore, of Clinton, Miss. Issue: Chas.
Ashby, b. Sept. 9, 1869, d. Sept. 14, 1869.
(7) John Bolivar, b. Aug. 25, 1857, d. June 19, 1915, mar., Dec.
21, 1894, Bessie Henderson, b. Aug. 4, 1876, and had: (a)
Eachel Emma, b. July 14, 1896; (b) Joseph, b. Sept. 14, 1898,
and died same day; (c) Dave Lucretia Ogden, b. Jan. 29, 1900;
(d) Mary Anne "idele, b. Jan. 12, 1905.
(8) Lillie M., b. May 15, 1854, mar.. May 18, 1883, Henry Eitchie,
of Mobile, and has issue: (a) Henry, b. Aug. 10, 1885, living
in Memphis, unmarried; (b) Myra, b. Aug. 14, 1887, mar..
May 18, 1910, Jno. Goodwin, of Forest, Miss. Issue: Jno.
Albert, b. March 13, 1910; Helen Elise, b. June 13, 1911; (c)
Helen, b. Oct. 4, 1889, mar., June 14, 1911, Frank E. Lehman,
d. Oct. 21, 1914; issue, Fred Ashby, b. Aug. 4, 1912, and lives
in Mobile, Ala. ; (d) Ashby, b. Jan. 29, 1886, in Jackson, Miss.,
d. July, 1912, in Chicago, 111., and buried by Oddfellows, mar.
Edna Gillett, of Chicago, and had Lillian Myra, b. July, 1909;
(e) John, b. July 21, 1902, d. y., and buried at Jackson, Miss.
Children of David, b. 1753, d. Sept. 11, 18,34, and Ann Morgan,
d. Oct. 26, 1840, Catlett.
(1) Dorothy, b. June 19, 1785, d. Feb. 24, 1819, mar., March 10,
1803, by Eev. Wm. Hill, John Campbell. Issue unknown.
(2) George, b. Feb. 12, 1793, d. Aug. 12, 1854, mar., Xov. 3, 1822,
by Eev. James Eiley, Clarissa Lantz, b. Feb. 16, 1799, d. Aug.
11, 1854, dau. of Daniel and Margaret Lantz, and had issue:
(a) Margaret Ann, b. Aug. 4, 1823, d. May 15, 1856, mar.,
April 25, 1847, by Eev. Myers, Jno. Bevans. Issue:
John H., b. April 1, 1848; Anna Maria, b. Julv 12,
1849 ; Ellen Clara, b. Aug. 1, 1851, mar. Scott, of
Berkelev Springs ; Martha Ann, b. March 8, 1854.
(b) Dr. Willoughby David, b. March 12, 1825, d. suddenlv
Jan. 19, 1852, of Mt. Crawford, mar., Dec. 1. 1847,
Lucy Devier, sister of Wm. Devier, by Eev. Geo. Martin.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 83
Issue: Geo. Alleu, b. April 11, 1850; Ada Willoiighby,
b. July 21, 1851.
(c) Henry Van Eobert, b. Aug. 10, 1826, d. March 22, 1834,
of scarlet fever.
(d) Foushee De Witt Clinton, b. Nov. 3, 1828, d. March 6,
1834, of scarlet fever.
(e) Daniel Morgan, b. Feb. 17, 1831, mar. (I) March 18,
1856, by Eev. Campbell, Mary C. Catlett, dau. of Eobt
Bailey and Elizabeth Huff Catlett, and moved to Mar-
shall Co., Mo., in 1857, and had issue : Fannie Virginia,
b. April 20, 1857, mar. and was a widow in
1887; Lula May, b. Sept. 27, 1858, mar. and
lived in 1887 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory;
Eobt. David, b. May, 1860, living in Kansas City, Mo.,
in 1887 ; Emma, b. 1868 ; Henry Clayton, b. 1871.
Mar. (II) Mrs. Lynch, of Marshall, Mo., with three
children, two boys and one girl, Nov. 21, 1883 ; no issue.
Most of above is taken from a letter written by Dan'l
Morgan Catlett to his niece, dated November, 1887.
(f ) Maria Louisa Dorothy, b. March 27, 1833, d. Aug. 23,
1887, mar. (I) May 10, 1853, Wm. Devier, d. 1860, and
had issue : Clara Bell, b. Aug. 1, 1854, mar. Eev. C. F.
Fry, d. 1891, a Baptist minister; no issue (Mrs. Fry
lives in Harrisonburg, Va., with her brother-in-law,
J. C. Staples) ; Emma Scott, b. Oct. 29, 1856, d. 1904,
mar., 1876, Junius Clay Staples, C. S. A., of Harrison-
burg, Va. Issue: Earnest Lee, b. 1877, living in Ma-
nilla, P. I.; Emma Catlett, b. 1878, mar, Dudley
Staples, no issue; James K., b. 1879, physical director
in high school in Houston, Texas; Eobt. Tyler, b. 1881,
electrical engineer. New York ; Catherine Louise, b.
1883, teacher in Meredith College, N. C. ; Ealph, b.
1885, mar. May Cooper, of Philadelphia, Pa., and has
one child; Julia Tapscott, b. 1893.
Mar. (II) Sept. 22, 1863, Wm. J. Blackwood and has
issue: Thos. Jefferson, b. Aug. 12, 1865, d. unmarried;
Marion Damaris, b. Jan. 12, 1867; Adelaide, b. April
24, 1869, mar. Frank Weiss; Elizabeth Morgan, b. Aug.
24, 1871, at Berkeley Springs, W. Va., mar., Oct. 22,
1890; Jno. Slater Bradley, of Harrisonburg, Va. (Issue:
Marceline, b. Aug. 22, 1891; Jno. Slater, Jr., b. Jan.
15, 1893; Frances Elizabeth, b. Sept. 20, 1895; Mar-
garet, b. Aug. 9, 1897; Eichard Blackwood, b. Nov. 12,
1900; Helen Catlett, b. Nov. 20, 1902.) [Mrs. Bradley
has the old Family Bible of David and Geo. Catlett, her
ancestors, and much of the data on this branch is taken
from this Bible and from her letters.] Sidney Pern-
84 Descendants of Col. John Cailett.
bertou, b. Xov., 1873, d. unmarried; Don Piatte, b.
Nov. 13, 1876.
(g) Marion Clarissa, b. Feb. 16, 1835, d. Dec. 18, 1882,
mar., Xov. 22, 1855, hy Kev. Karney. Jno. ]\IcLaughlin,
still living, but blind from old age. Issue : Anna Helen,
b. Oct. 14, 1856, mar. Frank Campbell, of Orleans Cross
Roads, W. Va.
(h) Foushee Tibbs, b. April 2(;, 1837, d. Dec. 2-4, 1856, s. p.
(i) Lavinia Helen, b. Dec, 1838 d. Jan. 16, 1862, mar.,
June 11, 1861, bv Rev. Dolly, Jas. C. Hunter. Issue:
Frank A., 1). March 10, 1862.'
Descendants of Capt. Jolin (b. 1749, d. 1826) Catlett, of Frederick
County, Va., and His Wife, Allie T. King.
(1) Nancy, b. May 17, 1776, mar., June 10, 1802, Spencer Lelme.
(2) Elijah, b. Dec. 23, 1777, d. 1826, mar., Feb. 18, 1816, Margaret
Sperry and had issue : Sperry, mar. Alcinda, dau. of William
Catlett and his wife, Ann ]\Iallory, and had Mardonius, d. be-
fore 1888 (mar. Miss Willy and left children) ; Matilda Ann,
unmarried ; Ally Etta. Her will, dated Nov. 5, 1888, mentions
sister Matilda Ann and Alcinda, widow of Mardonius Catlett
and her children .
(3) Joseph King, b. Nov. 3, 1779, d. Feb. 26, 1802, mar., Jan. 6,
1801, Nancy Allensworth, d. April 7, 1802, and left one son,
Jno. Allensworth, b. Nov. 1, 1801, in Frederick Co., Va., moved
to Montgomery Co., Tenn, where he mar., March 28, 1839, his
cousin, Allie Ann Senseney, b. Sept, 7, 1815, at Mt. Hope,
Shenandoah Co., Va. For issue, see below.
(4) Henrietta, b. Oct. 30, 1781, mar., Sept. 23, 1802, Butler Al-
lensworth.
(5) Robert, b. Jan. 13, 1786, d. July 5, 1801.
(6) Louisa, b. Nov. 7, 1787, mar., Nov. 22, 1805, Peter Sensenev.
(7) Mary F., b. Dec. 24, 1789.
(8) Patsy D., b. March 26, 1792, d. Feb. 26, 1871, mar., Aug. 26,
1813, Alexander Catlett, Jr., son of Alexander of Catlettsburg,
Ky., and his wife, Susannah. No issue.
(9) Carolina Matilda, b. Sept. 3, 1794, d. Sept. 12, 1826, mar.,
Feb. 11, 1813, Adam Hamburgh. Issue: Amanda, Arabella,
Ally Ann, Amelia and Peter Catlett.
(10) Jno., b. March 27, 1799, mar., according to Family Bible in
hands of the Catlett familv in Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 6, 1825,
Cornelia T. Catlett. Jolin died Fel). 5, 1856.
According to the Family Bil)le of Mr. Grandison Catlett. of Buc-
ton, Va., this Jolni married, first, Nov. 6, 1825, Catherine L. Hulett,
and second, Martha Kean, d. Sei)t. 12, 1873. Otherwise the contents
of the two Bibles are identical. Since Mr. Grandison Catlett is the
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 85
son of this John by his second wife, his record is esteemed of great-
est value. For issue see below.
Descendants of John Allensworth Catlett and His Wife, Allie Ann Sen-
seney, of Montgomery County, Tenn., and Christian County, Ky.
Jno. Allensworth Catlett followed his mother's relatives to Ten-
nessee, and on arrival at the old Allensworth plantation he carved
his name, with date, upon a prominent beech tree, "J. A. C, July
27th, 1823." Fifty years after, his son, J. J. Catlett, carved his
initials, "J. J. C, 1873." Both initials are still visible — a valuable
family record, says Jno. A. Catlett, of Clarksville, Tenn. He mar-
ried, after reaching Tennessee, his cousin, Allie Ann Senseney, who
had also moved from Virginia to Montgomery county, Tenn. They
had issue :
(1) Annie Louise, b. Jan. 16, 1840, d. Oct. 8, 1880, mar., Jan. 16.
1864, Chastien Wilson Lunderman, and had issue :
(a) Allie Ann, b. Oct. 28, 1864, mar., April 24, 1889, E. R
Perkins, and had issue : Helen Louise, b. Feb. 14, 1893 ;
Ann Louise, b. Feb. 7, 1903 ; Dorothy, b. July 9, 1905.
(b) Louise, b. Jan. 16, 1869, mar., June 6, 1893, S. B.
Lawson, and has issue : Lawrence Wells, b. Aug. 20,
1894; Julia Neville, b. June 26, 1895; Lucile, b. June
21, 1909.
(c) Malcolm Chastien, b. Nov. 16, 1876, mar., April 26,
1910, Euth Marshall Payne, b. June 29, 1880, and has
issue: Jack Catlett, b. Dec. 22, 1911; Alma Payne, b.
Jan. 31, 1915.
(d) Jackie Cornelia, b. Aug. 8, 1867.
(e) Henrv Clay, b. Jan. 23, 1872, accidentally killed while
hunting, Dec. 2, 1882.
(1) Cornelia Catherine, b. April 7, 1842, d. Nov. 9, 1904, mar.,
Oct. 21, 1869, W. T. Oliver, who still lives. No issue.
(3) Alexander Clay, b. Aug. 13, 1844, in Trigg Co., Ky., and died
in Columbia, S. C, Feb. 26, 1865, from wounds received in
battle in the Confederate service.
(4) John Joseph Crittendon, b. Aug. 12,1848, d. Oct. 1, 1898, mar.,
Aug. 17, 1887, Fanny Elizabeth Patch, b. June 16, 1860. Issue:
Mary Louise, b. July 17, 1888, d. Oct. 1, 1888; Sarah Marsh,
b. Aug. 23, 1889 ; John Asahel, b. Nov. 4, 1890, of the firm of
Catlett & Patch, Clarksville, Tenn. [He has furnished from
Family Bible and other sources the complete record of his
branch. He is unmarried] ; Fannie Eliza, b. Feb. 1, 1892, d.
Mav 1, 1894; Eichard Kimble, b. Oct. 7, 1893; Marion, b. Aug.
4, 1895 ; Margaret, b. Nov. 29, 1897.
All of above live in Clarksville, Tenn.
(5) Addison Cyrus, b. Sept. 3, 1853, mar., April 29, 1903, Maria
P. Leavill.'
86 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
Descendants of John Catlett, the Youngest Son of John Catlett and
Allie T. King.
John Catlett, b.' 17-1:7, d. 1826, was known as the rich John, and
owned large tracts of land on the Shenandoah Eiver. By his will
the main farm descended to his youngest son, John, b. 1797, d.
1873, and now owned and occupied by Mr. Grandison Catlett, his
grandson.
John, b. March 27, 1779, d. Sept, 12, 1873, son of John, b. Sept.
30, 1749, d. Feb. 5, 1826, mar., Jmie 17, 1775, Allie T. King, b.
Dec. 26, 1755, d. Dec. 1803, mar. (I), ^o\. 1, 1825, Catherine
L. Hnlett and had two children, of which we have no information.
He mar. (II) Martha Kean (Caine) and had) :
(1) Ophelia, b. Jan. 12, 1848, d. July 7, 1905, mar., April 7, 1870,
Peter S. Einker, b. May 8, 1846/d. Aug. 2, 1916. Xo issue.
(2) Henson, b. April 21, 1850, d. March 4, 1888, mar. Frances
Hatton and had :
■ (a) Lucy A., b. April 23, 1876, mar., Oct. 8, 1902, Isaac G.
Wilson, of Wallacetown, Pa., and had Edgar Henson,
b. July 30, 1903 ; Viola Frances, b. Jan. 25, 1905; John
Wesley, b. March 25, 1910.
(b) Edgar E., b. Jan. 13, 1887.
(3) Scott, b. Aug. 28, 1852 ; unmarried.
(4) John, b. June 13, 1854, mar., March 10, 1880, Bettie Sant-
myer, of Warren Co., Va., and had issue :
(a) Eobert Edward, b. Aug. 8, 1882, mar., Sept. 24, 1905,
Annie Derflinger, of Warren Co., Va., and had issue:
Albert Francis, b. Oct. 19, 1906, d. Jan. 8, 1907 ; John
Adams, b. Nov. 23, 1909; Eachel Virginia, b. Sept.
11, 1911.
(b) Samuel, b. Dec. 11, 1883, mar. Katie Bowers, of Hagers-
town, Md. No issue.
(c) John Walter, b. Nov. 25, 1885, d. Sept.' 5, 1889.
(d) Annie Edith, b. May 11, 1888, mar., Nov. 26, 1913,
Frank Eugene Bayley, of Warren Co., Va. Issue :
Annie Matilda.
(e) Joseph Carl, b. May 10, 1890, d. Feb. 29, 1892.
(f ) Earl Warren, twin"to Joseph Carl, mar., May 20, 1916,
Edna May Shadier, b. July 26, 1894. of Pottstown,
Pa. No issue.
(g) Bertha, b. July 7, 1892, mar., June 17, 1916, Henry
Hoffman.
(h) Frank Eaymond, b. Dec. 24, 1894.
(5) Landora, b. Feb. 17, 1856, mar., Jan. 23, 1879, Jeremiah Clem,
b. Oct. 18, 1852, of Frederick Co., Va., and has issue :
(a) Lela Mae, b. April 16, 1880, mar., June 6, 1899, Clem-
ent St. Clair Mason, b. Nov. 28, 1858, of White Post,
Descendants of Col. John Catletl.
87
Clark Co., Va. Issue: Howard Edward, b. Sept. 5,
1900; Ollie St. Clair, b. Aug. 19, 1902; Arthur Koy, b.
May 14, 1904; Ethel Marie, b. June 17, 1900; Gretta
Clem, b. Jan. 13, 1914.
(b) Grandison, 1). Ang. 9, 18H1, niar., Jan. 1, 1902, Lydia
S. Whitaere. Issue: Opal M., b. Nov. 19, 1902; Thelma
A., b. May 17, 1905, d. Aug. 22, 1905; Myrtle E., b.
Aug. 10, i9()(;, d. Aug. 15, 1913; Anna L., b. Deo. 26,
1908; Raymond I^]., b. Feb. 18, 1911; Ketha B., b. April
14, 1913; Martlia L., b. Aug. 0, 1915, d. March 27, 1916.
(c) Earnest, b. Nov. 25, 1882, mar., April 3, 1906, Mary
Trenary, b. Aug. 1885, and has: Edward Lee, b. May
8, 1907; Irene Helen, b. March 21, 1908; Earnest Koy,
b. Dec. 31, 190!) ; Bertie Earl, b. Dec. 29, 1911, d. Aug.
15, 1912; Kichard Athle, b. Jan. 2, 1913; Cora Vir-
ginia, b. March 13, 1915.
(d) Jeremiah Franklin, b. Jan. 31, 1884, d. Sept. 29, 1899.
(e) William C^lide, b. April 14, 1886, mar., Nov. 29, 1906,
EfTie Mae Ware, b. Aug. 29, 1888, and had issue: Mil-
dred Louise, b. Jan. 13, 1908; Selby Stephen, b. Sept.
15, 1909; Hilda M., b. Jan. 3, 1912; Ralph Calvin, b.
Nov. 29, 1913.
(f) Kcuben Henry, b. Sept. 18, 1887, d. Aug. 12, 1888.
(g) Mattie Virginia, b. June 20, 1892, mar., Fel). 8, 1909,
W. W. Mason, of Frederick Co., Va., and had : Jeremiah
L., b. Jan. 20, 1910; Perry N. b. Nov. 21, 1912; Charles
L., b. Aug. 13, 1913.
(h) Thomas Wilson, b. Feb. 20, 1896, killed by electricity
Oct. 20, 1910.
(6) Gandison, b. Sept. 9, 1858, named by Alex Catlett, Jr. (who
married his aunt, Pattie D. Catlett) for his brother. Grandson
Catlett (whi(4i see). He owns and occupies the original farm
settled by his grandfather, Jolm, who married Allie T. King at
Bucton, Warren Co., Va. He is a member of the board of
commissioners of Warren Co., Va., and a successful farmer.
He has furnished the original Bible, from which extracts given
above have been taken. He married Eudora C. Kean, of Mad-
ison Co., Va., and has issue:
(a) Pauline G., mar., Aug. 17, 1910, P]dwin Sherwood
Stonnell, of Occoquan, Va. ; issue, Edward Sherwood, Jr.
(b) Turner, b. July 11, 1893, is still single (1918), and
lives with his father at Bucton, Va. He has kindly
furnished the details of this branch of the family.
(e) Harry, unmarried (1918).
(7) Wilmer, b. April 7, 1860, mar., Sept. 5, 1894, Adelaide Hutch-
inson, b. April 27, 1866, in Greulthoy, Yorkshire Co., England,
and has issue :
88 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
(a) Calvin Hutchinson, b. Jan. 15, 1905, in Warren Co., Va.
(b) Ashbv Grandison, b. Sept. 26, 1907, in Warren Co. Va.
(8) Mattie, b. Feb. 20, 1864, mar., Dec. 23, 1884, Samuel S. Sant-
myer, b. March 21, 1849, and has issue:
(a) Henrv, b. April 11. 1885, d. April 12, 1885.
(b) Mabel, twin witli Henry, d. Sept. 26, 1886.
(c) Selby S., b. July 26, 1888, mar. Blanche Elizabeth
Krauss, of Wilmington, Del., and has issue : Martha
Susan, b. Jan. 2, 1890 ; Dora Silesia, b. Aug. 5, 1892,
mar. E. H. Lattin, of Muskegon, Mich. ; Jessie Mae^ b.
Jan. 21, 1894; Frederick Catlett, b. Feb. 8, 1896, mar.
Stella Page, of Wilmington, Del.; Hilda Adeline, b.
June 12, 1905, d. March 10, 1906; Sanford Ennalls, b.
Dec. 24, 1906.
( 9) Sandy, b. Jan. 24, 1862, d. s. p.
(10) Sally, b. Dec. 13, 1866, d. s. p.
Descendants of Henry and Miriam (Calnxes) Catlett.
Henrv Catlett, b. Feb. 8. 1758, d. Dec. 15, 1826, at his farm,
White Post, Frederick Co., Va., which farm he inherited from his
uncle, Peter Catlett, who patented same in 1759 (See page 52),
and who married Ann Calmes, the aunt of Miriam Calmes, b. Dec.
12, 1758, d. Feb. 26. 1825, dau. of Wm. Calmes, d. 1773, and Lucy
Neville, b. 1732, d. 1789, whom Henry married Dec. 8, 1782. Peter
and Ann (Calmes) Catlett left no issue. Peter's will, dated 1875,
probated 1791, after giving legacies to sons of his brothers,
James and Eobt. Catlett, leaves the larger part of his estate, in-
cluding the farm "White Post," to his nephew, Henry, son of his
brother, Robert Catlett. Both Henry and his wife are buried at
"White Post.'^- They had issue :
(1) :\rolly Ann, b. Jan. 2, 1784, mar., Dec. 22, 1809, her cousin,
Horatio G. Catlett, of Catlettsburg, Ky., son of Alexander and
Susannah (Hanson) Catlett. For issue see back,
(2) Isabella, mar. Jas. V. Glass. No issue.
(3) Calmes, b. Nov. 14, 1786, d. April 6, 1841, at Morgansfield,
Ky. He was lieutenant commander at Fredericksburg, Va.,
July 15, 1813, Robt. Carter Burwell, captain; subsequently he
was captain. Mar. at Morgansfield, Ky., Fannie Madison, b.
Oct. 15, 1797, d. Feb. 4, 1837, dau. of George C. and Letitia
Buck Catlett, who moved from Frederick Co., Va., to Morgans-
field, Ky., in 1816 (See Letter). Fannie Madison was so
named, according to a tradition in the family, by President
Madison, who was travelling on horseback through Frederick
Co., and stopped for the night at her father's house. The "little
baby girl'' was brought out, and at his request she was called
Fannie Madison. Capt. Calmes Catlett, after the war closed.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 89
moved to St. Joe, Mo., where he lived, dying while on a visit
to Morgansfield, Ky., in 1841. Issue:
(a) Ann Letitia, b. Nov. 19, 1817, d. 1912, at St. Joe, Mo.,
in her 95th year, the last of her immediate family.
(b) Hemingway, b. jSTov. 27, 1820, and died in Pembroke,
Christian Co., Ky., mar. David Hord, and had issue :
Calmes, Fanny, d. 1868; Annie, Thos., Elizabeth,
David, Mamie, Harry.
(c) Isabella Richardson, b. Oct. 3, 1823, at Morgansfield,
Ky., d. July 18, 1898, at Windsor, Mo., mar., Oct. 1,
1846, at Hopkinsville, Ky., Thomas Deane Page, and had
issue: (I) Fanny Catlett, b. Aug. 12, 1845, in Logan
Co., Ky., (mar. Oct. 28, 1874,, in Bates Co., Mo., Wm.
M. McCown, and has May Belle McCown, b. Sept. 27,
1875, of Windsor, Mo., who, with her mother, has fur-
nished much valuable information on this branch of the
family) ; (II) Henry Casey, b. Dec. 27, 1849 (mar.
Maude G. Crews, and has issue : Eoy, Archibald Carey,
Harry, Eussell, infant, Eoger [mar. Waketta Major and
has Eoger, Jr.], Francis, d., all inKansas Citv, Mo..
(III) Jennie Deane, b. Aug. 27, 1851, d. July 8," 11855;
(IV) Thos. Deane, Jr., b. Oct. 20, 1853, mar. " ,
d. 1915 ; (V) Calmes Catlett, b. April 24, 1856, d. May
28, 1883; (VI) Carter Page, b. Jan. 22, 1858. d. Aug.
30, 1876; (VII) Isabella, b. April 22, 1859 (mar. Oc-
tavius Parker; issue, Eobt., Edgar Eandolph, Harold
Page, Noel Winston, Mayonne Virginia ; all live in Berk-
lev, Cal.) ; (VIII) John Crittendon, b. Feb. 12, 1861.
(d) Miriam, b. Oct. 3, 1822, d. July 13, 1846, while visiting
her aunt, Mrs. Coombs, at Independence, Mo.
(c) Henry, Jr., b. Oct. 18, 1826, d. Aug. 30, 1833.
(f ) Dr. Geo. Calmes, b. June 18, 1829, d. 1886, in St. Joe,
Mo. He was Supt. State Hospital No. 2 and was a dis-
tinguished physician. He mar. Amelia Culver and
had issue (I) Corinne Belle, d. 1911, mar. Dr. Alfred
P. Busey, for many years with State Asylum No. 2, of
Mo., then with State Asylum, Pueblo, Col., and now in
charge of asylum for idiotic children at Eidge, Col. — "a
very able man." Issue: Corinne Neville, b. 1880, mar.,
t 1908, Eobt. S. Gast, attorney at law in Pueblo, Col., and
has Eliza Busey, b. 1909, and Chas. Edwin, b. 1913 ; Al-
fred P., Jr., b. 1883, mar., 1915, ; Geo. Cat-
lett, b. 1886; Jeannette Anabell, b. 1888) ; (II) Henry,
. d. unmarried; (III) Geo. Calmes, d. unmarried; (IV)
Jeannette.
(g) Calmes Neville, b. Nov. 19, 1832, d. Aug. 30, 1835.
(h) Henry, b. April 11, 1835, d. 189—.
90 Bescendanis of Col. John Catlett.
( 4 ) Miriam, d. at "White Post," Va., over 90 years old.
( 5 ) Henrietta, will June 3, 1830, prob. 1832, in Frederick Co.,
Va., mentions sister, Susan Neville.
( 6 ) Henry, lived and died unmarried at "White Post," Va.
(7 ) Lucy, mar. Wm. Stevenson, a wealthy man of Baltimore,
]\Id. Issue : Lucy, Virginia and others.
( 8 ) Sarah, d. unmarried in Virginia.
( 9 ) Elizabeth, mar. Jas. H. Sowers and left no issue.
(10) Susan Xeville, mar. Dr. E. Coombs, of Independence, Mo.,
and left no issue.
Descendants of Geo., b. 1770, Son of Robt., b. 1721, d. 1803, and His Wife,
Mary Floyd (Living in 1816) Catlett, of Frederick County, Va.,
and His Wife, Letitia Buck (Daughter of Chas and
Mary (Richardson) Buck).
Mary Eichardson was dau. of Wm. and Isabella (Calmes) Rich-
ardson. Isabella Calmes, d. June 10, 1796, was dau. of Marquis
Calmes, the Huguenot imgt., and his wife, Winnifred Waller. They
moved to Kentucky in 1816 and settled near Morgansfield, "where
he acquired several large fanns." He gave one to each of his chil-
dren. "His own ran down to the town and is still a beautiful place."
"The one he gave our father is quite near." (Mrs. Letitia Pinner's
[granddaughter of Geo.] letter.) Issue:
(1) Eannie Madison, b. 1797, d. 1837, mar., 1818, Capt. Calmes
Catlett, b. 1786, d. 1841, at Morgansfield, Ky., while on a visit
there. He was her cousin, the son of Henry, b. 1758, d. 1826,
and Miriam Calmes, b. 1758, of "White Post," Frederick Co.,
Va. For issue see "Calmes Catlett."
(2) Mary, mar. Dr. Sutton, professor in the University of Ky. at
Lexington and the author of several standard medical works.
(3) Henrietta, mar. Joseph Major, of Hopkinsville, Ky., and had
issue, one of whom, Mary Eliza, mar. her cousin, John N'ewton
Catlett, given below.
(4) Thos. Washington, b. 1796, in Frederick Co., A^a., came with
his fatlier in 1816 to Ky. and settled near Morgansfield, where
he mar. his first wife, Isabella Fields Helm, dau. of Wm. Helm,
of "Helmsby," near Versailles, Ky., whose parents were Vir-
ginians, and settled in Woodford Co., Ky. Issue:
(a) Helen, mar. Judge Skinner, of "Kuttawa," "one of the
most beautiful homes in Ky.," and liad : Bartlfett, Fred-
erick (mar. , and has Frederick, Jr., a lawyer
in Xewport News, Va.), Eliza, and perhaps others.
(b) Letitia, b. 1831, mar. Dr. Pinner. Slie was injured in
an automobile accident in 1914. She lives at Eddyville,
Ky. Issue: Fred, d. y. ; Thomas, mar. , and
has one son, Dodridge Helm, of Nashville, Tenn, and
Belle, mar. Dr. Hussey, of Eddyville, Ky.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 91
(c) Marian, mar. Cobb. No issue.
(d) John Newton, mar. Mary Eliza Major, his cousin.
Issue: Belle, Henry, d. 1889 (mar. Hattie Hite; no
issue) ; Forest (mar. Willie Garrett; issue, Nellie Belle,
mar. Lucius B. Webb, and F. Newton) ; Etta Marian,
of 354 Pulliam street, Atlanta, Ga.; Robert, d. 1891.
(e) Hervey, d. 1906, a Mexican War Veteran.
Thos. Washington mar (II) Louisa Clark, "one of
the most rarely cultivated women I have ever known, a
descendant of Oliver Cromwell," says Mrs. Sallie Powell
Catlett. Issue :
(f) George, d., of Mineral Mound Farm, near Eddyville,
Ky., mar. Sallie Powell, of Princeton, Ky., a most
brilliant woman, who has furnished much family data,
issue: Corinne, b. 1890, mar., Jan., 1915, Jesse Guyer
Stevens, a lawyer, of Salt Lake Citv, Utah; Powell
Clark, b. March 1892, mar., 1916, Cora D. Eldred and
lias Dorothy D., b. Oct., 1917; George Poindexter, b.
1894, of Louisville, Ky., now in U. S. Army in France.
(g) Ollie Clark, mar. Effie Bowman, of Eddyville, Ky. Issue :
Mary, Henry, Robert, Ollie, Laura, and Laina Belle.
(5) Dr. Henry, mar. Mary Buck, of Hickman, Ky., and died with
yellow fever, s. p.
(6) Rebecca, mar. Armistead Ludwell Churchill, b. Oct. 27 1910
of Louisville, Ky., a brother of Major Gen'l Thomas James
Churchill, C. S. A., and Governor of Arkansas, and of Mrs. Dr.
Luke P. Blackburn, whose husband was Governor of Kentucky
and had : '
(a) Samuel, of Nobester, Mo., mar. Elizabeth Finney.
(b) George, d. y.
(c) Letitia, mar. Chas. Buck.
(d) Henry, mar. (I) Virginia Owsley and had Lida, mar.
Theo. Evans and had Churchill (d) and Herman; mar.
(II) Missouri Campbell and had Sam'l Barber and
Mary Jane; mar. (Ill) Sarah Barber.
(e) Fanny, mar. Dr. Calmes and settled in Arkansas.
93 Descendants of Col John Catlett.
OTHER CATLETTS.
In the census of North Carolina for 171)0 there occurs, in the
Halifax District, Franklin county, the name of Laljorne Catlett,
■with one white male over 16 years of age, one white male under 16
and one white female.
In the census of South Carolina for 1790 one finds in the Cheraw
District the name of John Catlett with one white male over 16 years
of age, one white male under 16, and four white females.
Allusion has already heen made to a John Catlett who patented
lands in Burke county, Ga., in 1767, and in 1774 John and Wm.
Catlett protesting against action of the "Liherty Boys" in the same
county. Again, a John Catlett matriculated in the University of
Pennsylvania in 1779 and graduated in 1782, and recently informa-
tion has heen sought hy the authorities of that institution as to
whether he was from Virginia or Kentucky. Up to this date no
member of the Catlett family is recorded as having gone to Ken-
tucky, and yet there is no record of such a student from Virginia.
Is it possible that he was the son of the John who was in Burke
county, Ga., in 1767?
It is difficult to place all of the ahove without assuming more
descendants of David and Elizabeth Catlett, or of Thomas Catlett,
the minor son of tlie immigrant, yet careful examination of all the
early records fails to throw any light on this subject.
There is a large family in Georgia, Arkansas and Mississippi,
that have records showing descent from a John Catlett, of Green-
ville District, S. C. The legend goes that Wm. and John, sons
of John, left orphans early in life, were adopted by two men, who
subsequently "fell out," and John's "boss" took hijn to Kentucky,
from whom probably descends Jasper L. Catlett, of Vincenues, Ind,
(which see).
After Wm. was grown he moved to Jackson county, Ga., where
he married Olivia N . About 1835 they moved to Walker
county, Ga., and settled near Pidgeon J\lt. and opened up a road
across the mountain in the direction of Lookout Mountain, now
callled "Catlett's Gap."
William died in 1856. They had nine children, viz:
(1) Wm., d. 72 years old in Walker Co., Ga., leaving five sons and
two daughters, whose descendants are living, mainly in Logan
Co., Ark., viz (a) Berry, d., mar. ; (b) Calvin, d.,
ma,r. ; (e) Washington, mar. Morgan and had
Lance, Reuben, Martha and ^fary ; (d) Lance mar
Fuller; (e) Posey, mar. Fuller; (f) Frances, mar. Peuben
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 93
Satterfield and had two children; (g) Margaret, mar.
and has a son and daughter, hoth having families.
(2) Alsey, mar. and moved from Jackson Co., Ga., to
La. and lived near Clinton (according to Gen'l Howell Carter,
who knew him when a hoy), and had ]\[ary, mar Coon
and Susan, mar. Xoah Whittington, a sugar planter near Baton
Rouge.
(3) Ezekiel, mar. twice, the second time during the Civil War, and
died after the war near Artesia, Miss., leaving three children.
(4) Clark, d. in Jackson Co., Ga., and left John and Benjamin,
who moved to Marshall, Texas, where they now live.
(5) Dr. and Col. John, b. May 15, 1800, d. 1886. (See below.)
(6) Eebecca.
(7) Elizabeth.
(8) Polly.
(9) Olivia, d. y.
Dr. and Col. John, above, b. 1800, d. 1880, mar. three times, (I)
Sept. 18, 1819, Amelia M , and had (a) Hettie A., d. y. ; (b)
Amanda C, mar. E. Little, d. 1863; (e) Harriet, mar. F. Jones;
(d) Olivia G., mar. Eussell; (e) John M., of Walker Co., Ga.,
mar. Jessie James and had Angeline, d. y. ; John F., mar. Ellen
Gaboon and had three sons and three daughters, all of Walker Co.,
Ga. ; Lucy A., mar. Kingman and has four children, and Wm.,
mar. and has two children; (f) Richard M., mar. Wallen and
had Wm. G. and Samuel; (g) Sarah E., mar. Madarions; (h)
Theodore L., d. unmar; (i) Amelia, d. y. ; (j) Ezekiel, mar.
Antry and had Jno. R., mar. — Clifton and has issue, and Rich-
ard, mar. Bell and had issue living in Cherry Valley, Ark.
Dr. and Col. John mar. (II) Sept. 9, 1843, Hester A. Dean and
had (k) Rev. Wm. A., b. 1844, mar., 1869, Sarah A. Wallin and
had issue (See below) ; (1) A. L., a teacher, mar. (I) Roberts,
(II) Hadene and had Jas. L., now living in the State of
Washington; (m) F. L., mar Slocum; (n) Jas. L., mar.
and had x\lsey and Richard, of Springfield, Mo. ; Mary mar.
Colquit, Eva mar. Pearson, and Lula mar. Pitts;
(o) Jno. L., mar. Barnes and had Barnes and Jasper.
Dr. and Col. John mar. (Ill) Aug. 19, 1869, Xancy G. Fuller
and had (p) Joseph E., mar. Hawk, and (q) Nancy, mar.
Ushman.
Rev. Wm. A. Catlett, above, was b. 1844, in Walker Co., Ga., mar.
there in 1869, Sarah N. Wallin, and later moved to Cross Co.,- Ark.
He was for some time a minister in the Methodist church, but
changed to the Cumberland Presbyterian faith and is now a minister
in this church. He lives at Wynne, Ark., and has kindly furnished
me with this incomplete and unsatisfactory account of his branch.
94 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
They have issue : John Monroe, mar. Martha Woods and has Hettie
Bell, mar. Garnett, of Paragould, Ark., and has two children,
James G. L., mar. Xora White and has Wm. Lawrence and Lucile;
Richard, mar. Mollie Thompson and has one child; Jessie, mar.
Helen Hamsen and has Theodosia, Mabel, Frederick, Cora, Lo3^e
and Ida Lee ; Wm. H., d. y.
Dr. and Col. John, above, had 18 children, 64 grandchildren and
28 great-grandchildren. He was a practicing physician of Walker
Co., Ga., until late in life, when he removed to Arkansas, where he
died. He was appointed colonel commanding the forces which
transferred the Cherokees from iSTorth Georgia to Indian Territory.
AX INDIANA BRANCH.
The following extract from the letter of Mr. Jasper L. Catlett,
of Vincennes, Ind., does not fully coincide with the facts given
above, but shows a similar origin of his branch and an entire
ignorance of his grandfather. It is, therefore, uncertain whether
his father came from this same branch. The occurrence of the
imusual name of Jasper in both branches may be suggestive of sim-
ilar origin:
"Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 14, 1916.
""'Wm. C. Stubbs, New Orleans, La.
"Dear Sir — My father's people originally came from Virginia to
Kentucky or Tennessee, and his father diecl, when he was an infant,
in one of these States. His mother came North to this city with
him and he was taken and raised by a man by the name of Timms,
and practically spent his entire life near this city. After becoming
of age he learned the blacksmith trade and followed it for 30 or 35
years, and then went to farming on a farm in Illinois, which we
still own.
"He was born in 1820, and was about 60 years old when he died.
There are four of us children — Jasper L., Harlen, Emma and John.
I was born in 1860
"As for grandparents on my father's side, I have no trace of them,
as I said before he was only a small child when his father died.
^'Hoping to hear from you, I am. Yours truly,
"J. L. Catlett."
Br. H. D. Catlett, of West Monroe. La., has given the following
imperfect account of his branch, with the request that I write his
mother for fuller information. Several letters addressed to his
mother have failed to elicit a response, hence this incomplete ac-
count is given.
His grandparents were William Catlett and Louisa Culpepper,
with many children, among them his father, Wm. Simson Catlett,
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 95
mar. Beatrice J. Bland and live at Toomsuba, Miss. Issue: (a)
Theodosia, mar. J. H. Sims, of Meridian, Miss.; (b) Irene, mar.
Harden; (c) Wm. C. Catlett, of Toomsuba, Miss.; (d) S. L.
Catlett, of Kewonee, Miss. ; (e) Dr. H. D. Catlett, of West Monroe,
La., mar. by Rev. W. P. Tard}^ Mrs. Emma K., widow of A. H.
Griffin, of Monroe, La., and has Beatrice A., Kathleen, dy y.; Hen-
rietta, McVea, Eoyster, d. v., and Carrie Catlett.
John, of Jessamine County, Ky. — early in the history of Ken-
tucky a John Catlett went from Virginia to Jessamine County, Ky.
His descendants are numerous and scattered throughout Kentucky.
Mr. John L. Catlett, of Coburg, Ky., who has recently lost his wife,
leaving him six young children, says he is the son of James, who
had, besides himself, four sons and five daughters; that James was
the son of Charles and grandson of John, the immigrant, to Jes-
samine county, Ky. He says that this John had also five sons and
five daughters. Among those whose names he recalls, besides his
grandfather Charles, are Washington, died in Kentucky; Richard,
went to Illinois, and Eliza and Betsie, of the daughters.
He refers me to Geo. Catlett, of Washington county, Ky., as one
of the descendants of John who could give fuller information, but
lettters to him are still unanswered.
The names of Charles and James suggest descent from Charles,
of Frederick county, Va., the son of James, who early patented lands
in Jeiferson county, Ky., which were sold after his death by his son
Charles and other children.
Mr. Wm. B. Catlett, of Inverness, Miss., writes as follows:
"I am sorry to say that I know nothing of my father's people.
He married my mother, Julia Bradley, in Franklin county. Miss.,
about 1869. They only had two children — myself and a little girl,
who lived only a few months. My mother died when I was ajjout
three years old, after which my father and I made our home with
my mother's relatives. My father died in 1882, when I was only
eleven years old. I don't remember ever hearing him speak of his
early life, but I think now that there must have been some reason
why he never talked of the past. He was very quiet and reserved.
* ^ * I have pictures of him and specimens of his handwriting.
My father's name was Robert C. Catlett. I would be very glad if
I could trace his ancestry back, and if you can give any information
I would appreciate it very much. Please let me hear from you at
once. Yours truly, W. B. Catlett."
Mr. Catlett has a son, Robert, who lives with him. No definite
information has been secured of Mr. Catlett's ancestry.
96 Descendants of Col John Cntlett.
THE FOLLOWING CATLETTS HAVE NOT BEEN PLACED:
Albert C. Catlett, major 3rd Tenn. Cavalrv, U. S. A., in Civil
War.
Robt. Catlett, of London, Sevier county, Tenn., to whom letters
addressed have been unanswered.
In the Louisville, Ky., City Directory the following names occur,
but letters to each have failed to elicit further information :
Henry D. Catlett, manager, r. 3005 Grand avenue.
Jno. W. Catlett, inspector Sou. Ey. Co., r. 2G19 W. Walnut street.
Jno. E. Catlett, r. 1013 S. Floyd street.
Van R. Catlett; r. 1463 Hazel street.
It is extremely annoying to know that there are members of this
family who could throw much light upon their branches, and thus
aid in completing a record of this large family, who will not respond
to repeated inquiries for information.
Therefore the writer closes this pamphlet, which he has spent
many years in preparing, wuth much regret at its incompleteness;
but, in justice to so many of its members who have freely given full
information, he cannot longer withhold it from pu)3lication.
It is, therefore, presented to the Catlett Family with many thanks
and many regrets.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett, 97
UNDERWOOD— Note.
Capt. William^ Underwood, Sr., mar. Margaret , name un-
known. (She mar. [II] Capt. John Upton, will prob. 1652, and
[III], 1656, Capt. Thomas Lucas, will prob. 1673, both of whom
were widowers.)
Issue, Underwood (none by the others) : William,- Mary,- Eliza-
beth,- Margaret,- Anne,- and Sarah,- as follows:
I. William- Underwood, Jr., grant 1650, mentions "wife Mary
and son William." He mar. (II) Elizabeth and was burgess
of Lancaster Co. 1652, and had also son, John.
II. Elizabeth^ Underwood, will 1673, mar. (I) 1653, Francis
Slaughter (will, Va. Hist. Mag., Y, 283) burgess, d. 1656; mar. (II)
1657, Col. John Catlett, d. 1670; mar. (Ill), 1671, Eev. Amory
Butler (will 1678).
III. Mary- Underwood, mar. Capt. Thomas Hawkins, who was
dead 1676. (Hening, II, 416.)
IV. Margaret- Underwood, m. 1663, Capt. Humphrey Booth,
"gent," Justice in Eappahanock Co. 1656. Issue' Humphrey, Grace
and Catherine, who mar. Eobert Brooke, of Essex Co. (Lancaster Co.
Records, Sept., 1653, mention "Humphrey Booth, of London, mer-
chant.")
V. Anne-, mar. James Williamson, gent., justice Lancaster Co.,
1652.
YI. Sarah- LTnderwood, mar. Capt. William Pierce, of Westmore-
land Co. (will prob. 1702), justice 1668. He was brother of Jane
Pierce, the third wife of John Rolfe. {Willi-am and Mary Quarterly,
IX, 270.) Their daughter Mary mar. Edward Eowzie (will 1719).
William- Underwood, Jr. (above) had son, John^ Underwood,
will proved. King George Co., April 5, 1722; executors: wife, Eliz-
abeth, and William Underwood. His son, William* Underwood,
will prob. King George Co., 1772, mentions, "To son John, not of
age, the negroes given by Mrs. Strother to said son, to be returned,
in case of his death, to Mrs. Strother, or, in case of her death, to her
daughter. Elizabeth Strother."
Francis Slaughter (son of ^Irs. John Catlett) had a grant of
550 acres, part of which, 100 acres, he devised to John Underwood
and wife Elizabeth. They conveyed it, in 1719, to Francis Wofen-
dall. This deed was recorded in King George Co., 1743. Francis
Slaugter's will was proved in Eichmond, Co., 1718. He and wife
Margaret made a deed, 1699. His legatees were daughters, Martha,
Mary and Elizabeth. Mentions "brother-in-law" John Taylor.
98 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
UPTON— Note.
Capt. John Upton, will prob. 1653; witnesses, William Under-
wood and Edward Skinner. He was born 1596 and came to Vir-
ginia 1632, aged 26. (Hotten's Emigrants.) Burgess 1639. Patent,
Isle of Wight, 1,650 acres, in 1635. He served in the expedition
against Potomac Indians and was mint-master general, 1645. John
Upton, Jr., died unmarried. Capt. Upton then bequeathed his estate
to the Underwood children of his wife (ante).
LUCAS— Note.
Capt. Thomas Lucas, "gent.," will l-ith December, 1669, prob.
March, 1673. His grant in 1653 was for 600 acres, and among the
headrights were Thomas Lucas, Jr., and Catherine and Sarah
Eowzie. His sale of tobacco, 1653, was witnessed by John Catlett
(Lancaster Eecords). He was burgess for Eappahannock Co.,
1657-63 (Henning, I, 431). His will was dated in Sittingbourne
par., Eappahannock, and speaks of himself as "aged." He mar.
(II), 1656, Mrs. Margaret Upton, widow of both William Under-
wood and John Upton. His legatees were son, Thomas Lucas, Jr. ;
son-in-law (i. e., step-son-in-law), John Catlett ;son-in-law (step-
son-in-law), Capt. Thomas Hawkins; sister-in-law, Mrs. Margaret
Paine, wife of Eobert Paine.
EOWZIE— Note.
Ealph, Edward and Sarah Eowzie came with their brother, John
Catlett, to Virginia. Of these, Ealph Eowzie, gent., bom about
1625, was dead in 1663. He patented, in 1650, with John Catlett,
400 acres on south side of Eappahannock, of one-half of which Col.
John Catlett made a deed in 1663 to Ealph Eowzie, Jr. (son of
Ealph, dec'd), and his sister, Sarah. Witnesses, Thomas Hawkins
and James Gaines.
Efalph^ Eowzie, Jr., will 28th Sept., 1716, prob. 1719, mentions
wife Margaret and the following children : Ealph. Benjamin, John,
Elizabeth, Martha, Margaret, Mary, Sarah, mar. Fenwick, and
Eebecca, mar. Davis.
Sarah" Eowzie. There is a deed, 1663 of John Catlett to Ealph
and Sarah Eowzie, heirs of Ealph, joined by Humphrey Booth and
wife Margaret. One-half is to be returned to Catlett's heirs if the
Eowzies have none.
Edward- Eowzie, will 16th Dec, 1674, prob. Jan. 1677; execu-
trix, wife Mary. To son Edward. 400 acres at head of Occupatia
creek when he comes of age. To sons Lodowick and John, the land
I now live on when they come of age. To daughters Sarah and Eliza-
beth, 1,000 acres in freshes of the Eappahannock, on the south side,
when they come of age or marry. Witness : Eobert Pley and George
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 99
Bruce. Issue: Edward,^ Lodowick,^ John/ Sarah^ and Elizabeth.^
Of these, Edward^ Eowzie, will 5th Nov., 1719, prob. 17th May,
1720, wife Mary, who mar. (II) Henry Oswald, "chirurgeon" will
(1726), name the following children of Edward Eowzie: Edward,*
John,* Lodowick,* Mary,* and Elizabeth.* (Hay den's Virginia
Genealogies, 498.)
Edward* Eowzie, of St. Anne's par., Essex Co., 1724, 250 acres
of Francis Browning on north side of river Po. in Spotsylvania, for
£40. This he sold, 1725, to Thomas Turner, of King and Queen Co.
John* Eowzie and wife Mary, of Amherst Co., July 5, 1766, to
James Frazer, 183 acres in Spotsylvania, for £20. (Spotsylvania
Eecords.)
Va. Gazette, Sept. 19, 1771 : "John Spotswood, Esq., of Spotsyl^
vania, married Miss Sally Eowzie, youngest daughter of Mr. John
Eowzie, of Essex Co." He was son of John and grandson of Gov.
Spotswood. Edward T. Eowzie married, Sept. 20, 1798, Dorothy
Waller. (Spotsylvania Eecords.)
GEAYSON, of Spotsylvania County.
John Grayson, of Christ Church parish, Lancaster Co., bought
500 acres in Spotsylvania Co. in 1714 of William Smith, of Glou-
cester Co., and with his wife Susannah sold 200 acres of this tract to
Ambrose Grayson in 1729. He died 1736, leaving sons Thomas,
John, Jr., and perhaps others. Executrix, his widow ; and her bonds-
men were Ambrose Grayson and Thomas Hill. (This Thomas Hill
had married in 1731 Elizabeth Grayson, and died 1741, leaving
daughters Sarah and Susannah. His brother, Humphrey Hill, his
administrator. )
October, 1725, John Grayson, Jr., witnessed, with John Catlett,
William' Taliaferro and Francis Slaughter, a deed of Augustine
Smith to Jonathan Gibson, Jr., gent., of Essex Co., 400 acres in
Spotsylvania, for £400. In 1729 he was lieutenant in Capt. William
Hansford's company.
In 1727 Ambrose Grayson, probably brother of John, patented
100 acres in Spotsylvania. He and wife Alice sold this tract in
1729, and in that year Ambrose Grayson, gent., was church warden
in St. George parish, and also witnessed a deed of Henry Willis,
gent., of King and Queen Co., to Goodrich Lightfoot. In 1733 he
and wife Alice sold to Matthew Gayle, of Gloucester Co., 300 acres
in St. George parish, and in 1736 he was bondsman for Mrs.
Susannah Grayson, above. His will (St. George parish, Sept. 6,
1742, prob. March 6, 1743) mentions legatees: wife, Alice, sons
John and Ambrose, and "other children." Executors : wife, brother
Benjamin Grayson, and son John. In 1754 the non-cupative will
of Ambrose Grayson bequeathed "my part of my father's estate to
be divided between my unmarried brothers and sisters," proved 1756.'
100 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
Oct. 20, 1726, Mary Grayson married the third John Catlett. She
was probably sister of Ambrose and Benjamin Grayson.
Benjamin Grayson was of age 1726. and living 1732.
HAMPTON— Note.
William Hampton had a patent in Mathews (then Gloucester
Co.), 1657, and again in 1698. His son, Capt. John- Hampton,
lived at "Hampfield," Kingston parish, on Eastermost river, mar-
ried, before 1683, Mary, niece of John Mann, of Gloucester (will
1694), who left a legacy "to my cousin, Mary Hampton" (cousin
meaning niece in ancient times). Issue: John,^ Thomas.^, William,^
and Eicliard^ Hampton, who lived in Matthews Co. in 1735. Of
these,
1. John-' Hampton, b. June 3, 1683, mar. Margaret Wade and
lived in Faifax Co., Ya., and had Eose, Anthony, and probably
others. Of these:
1. Eose* Hampton mar. William Winn and moved to South
Carolina. Her daughters mar. Broughton, Eobert Stark,
John Hampton and Dr. John Hughes. (Richmond Times-
Dispatch .)
2. Anthony* Hampton mar. Elizabeth Preston and moved
to South Carolina, where he was killed, 1776, with wife, son
Preston and a Harrison, grandchild. Issue:
I. Elizabeth^ Hampton mar. James Harrison, ofthe Eev.
Army, who came to South Carolina with his brother. Major
Eichard Harrison, from the James river, Va. She was the
mother of Mrs. David Moore, of Huntsville, Ala; of Thomas
Harrison (who was grandfather of Mrs. Gen'l Stephen D. Lee,
C. S. A.), and also of Isham Harrison, of Mississippi, who had
thirteen children, among them James E. Harrison, of Waco,
Texas, Brig. Gen'l C. S. A., and of Harriet, who mar. Samuel
Earle Mem, 4th Congress, U. S. This is a distinguished Har-
rison family in the South.
II. Wade^ Hampton, Lieut. Col. Light Dragoons in the
Eevolution (See Book of Society of Cincinnati, S. C.) ; General
in war 1812. His son. Col. Wade" Hampton, mar. Ann Fitz-
simmons and had, among otliers :
1. Caroline,' mar. Hon. John Smith Preston (b. 1809, d.
1881, of South Carolina.
2. Gen'l Wade^ Hampton (b. 1818, d. 1902), mar. (I) Mar-
garet, dau. of Gen'l Francis Preston; (mar. (II) Mary,
dau. of Gov. McDuffie, of South Carolina. Commanded
the "Hampton Leijion" and was Lieut. Gen'l in Civil War
and Gov. of South Carolina. 1876, and in V. S. Senate
1878.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 101
3. Susan Frances/ mar. (1838) Gov. John Laurence Man-
ning, of S. C, b. 1816, d. 1889 (first wife). Issue, three
children :
III. Edward^ Hampton, captain in Eevolution, killed by
Tories, 1781, mar. Sarah, dau. of Judge Bayliss Earle, of S. C.
Has descendants in Georgia, Mississippi and Texas.
IV. Henry^ Hampton, captain in Eevolution. (Book of
Cincinnati, S. C.;, vrhich mentions five of these brothers.)
V. Eichard^ Hampton, lieutenant colonel Light Dragoons
VI. Johu^ Hampton, captain S. C. Dragoons in Eevolution.
(McCall's Hist. Ga., II, 312.)
2. Thomas' Hampton, of Caroline Co., Va. His home was
"Hamptonville." Mar. Mary (Buckner?) and had:
1. John* Hampton, gent, (the only son), who sold "Hamp-
field" in Mathews Co. to Thomas Hayes in 1745. His
only child mar. (1780) Joseph Latane De Jarnette, of
"Spring Grove." Prof. Abram Penn Staples, of Washing-
ton and Lee University, is a descendant.
2. Mary* Hampton mar. George Catlett, son of Thomas and
Martha Catlett, of Caroline Co. She administered his
estate in 1769.
3. William^ Hampton, will 1746. died in Stafford Co. 1750, lived
in Caroline Co. His administrator was George Catlett, above, whose
sister, Martha Catlett, was his wife.
His will mentions four sons and three daughters, of whom Ed-
ward and the three daughters may have been by a former marriage.
He willed his entire estate to wife (Martha Catlett), viz: "The
home plantation in Drysdale parish, Caroline Co.; the Indian Old
Field plantation in King William Co. ; the Hampton Quarters in
Stafford Co., and an additional 280 acres in Stafford Co. and 435
acres in Frederick Co." Executors : wife Martha, son Edward and
"wife's brother, Mr. George Catlett." Her will, 1761, also made her
brother, George Catlett, executor.
In Caroline Co., Order Book, March 12, 1761, the court ap-
pointed Benjamin Eobinson, Jr., Seth Thompson, Nicholas Battaile
and Francis Taliaferro to appraise estate of Martha Hampton,
widow, dec'd. Edward Hampton, the son, brought suit July 9,
1762, vs. George Catlett, administrator of the estate of his father,
William Hampton, unadministered by Martha Hampton. He again
brought suit May, 1769, vs. Mary Catlett, who was probably ad-
ministratrix of George Catlett. (Eiclimond Times-Dispatch, jSTov.
26, 1911, and Caroline Co. Eecords, folio 37.) Issue :
I. Edward* Hampton, of Caroline Co., mar. probably a Miss
Buckner and had son Philip Buckner, mentioned in will, who
102 Descendants of Col. John Catlett.
mar. Judith Hammond, and their daughter mar. Edward Hern-
don, of Spotsylvania Co.
II. George* Hamjiton, mar. Mary Colston, dau. of John, of
Spotsylvania, and lived in Frederick Co., leaving numerous
descendants. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Xov. 26, 1911.)
III. Thomas Catlett* Hampton, was dead in 174(5, leaving
at least two young children. His descendants are in King Wil-
liam Co.
IV. John* Hampton, died in Stafford Co., leaving a daugh-
ter, Sara,^ mar. Edward Gibson, b. 1751 (their children lived
in Clarksville, Tenn.), and George^ Hampton, wdio mar, in
Fauquier Co., 1782, ^lary Xugent Pollard. Their children
also live in Clarksville, Tenn.
V. Susannah* Hampton, mar. John Quarles before 1746.
VI. Frances* Hampton, mar. Thomas Buckner, of Caroline
Co. (his 2nd wife), and had son, Geoi-ge Thomas^ Buckner,
mentioned as "■grandson" in William Hampton's will, 1746.
VI. Sarah* Hampton, mar. Eichard Durret, of Caroline Co.,
before her father's death, 1746.
Note I. — William Hampton, born in Prince William Co., Va.,
and died in Ky., 1819 (probably from John and ]\Iargaret [Wade]
Hampton), married in Alexandria, Va., 1803, Malinda, dau. of
Col. George Shortridge, of the Revolution, and wife, Margaret Muir,
who were mar. 1778 in Alexandria, and emigrated to Ky., 1792,
three miles above Catlettsburg. William Hampton settled near him
and had issue six children :
1. Dr. Henry Hampton, Jr.
2. George Shortridge, 1). 1806, d. 1876, lawyer and on Gen. Eose-
crans' staff in Civil War, mar. (I) Sarah Johnson, of Ky. ;
(II) Mrs. Anna F. Hepburn, dau. of Hanson Catlett, of Cat-
lettsburg, Ky., and had son by first marriage and George,
Columbus and Catherine by second. (Richmond Times-
Dispatch. Dec. 10, 1911.)
3. Wade Hampton.
4. Levi J. Hampton, kept hotel in Catlettsburg.
5. Pev. William Hampton, of Catlettsburii:. grandfather of Mrs.
Dr. Joseph L. ^liller, of Thomas, Va. (who gave these notes).
6. Mrs. Tbomas E. Henderson, of Henderson, Ky.
Note II. — Issue of George and Margaret (^luir) Shortridge, of
Ky. (above) :
1. George Shortridge.
2. Eli Shortridge, lawyer and district judge.
3. Malinda Shortridge, mar., 1803, William Hampton (above),
b. 1779.
Descendants of Col. John Catlett. 103
4. Shortridge, mar. John Chadwick, and their daughter
mar. Joseph Ewing, who came from Monroe Co., Va., to
Catlettsburg 1812 as business representative of the Beirne
Bros., whose vast business extended throughout the South
from New Orleans to Virginia.
OALMES— Note.
Col. William Burwell, of Gloucester Co., owned several thousand
acres in Frederick Co. (in what is now Clarke Co.). He met at
Williamsburg (the capital of Va.) a Huguenot gentleman,Marquis
Calmes, with whom he was so pleased he induced him to settle upon
a fine tract on the Shenandoah, three miles east of Millwood, join-
ing his lands. This tract Marquis Calmes called the "Vineyard
Plantation" and planted the first vineyard in the valley. He had
a numerous family. Many went South and West. Near them was
settled another French family by name of Marquis, whose descend-
ants were also numerous in the valley, as the tax books attest.
Marquis Calmes was born in France, 1705, came to Va. 1720, and
died Sept, 10, 1773. Married, 1725, Winifred Waller, b. 1709, d.
Oct. 6, 1751, daughter of William Waller (son of John, of West-
moreland Co., son of Col. John Waller, of New Kent, the immi-
grant). He secured a large grant from Lord Fairfax, in which was
the Vineyard Plantation, above. Near him settled the Eichardson,
Buck, Neville, Ashby and other families, with his own intermar-
ried. Issue: Isabella, William, Marquis, Anne and Elizabeth, as
follows :
(1) Isabella Calmes, d. 1796, mar. William Eichardson and had
issue :
(a) Elizabeth, b. May 29, 1741, mar. Samuel Price.
(b) Marian, b. Dec. 27, 1748, mar. Col. John Buck.
(c) Sarah, b. July 25, 1750, mar. BenJ. Combs.
(d) Mary, b. Aug. 31, 1752, mar. Charles Buck, half-brother
to Col. John.
(e) John, b. March 12, 1754, mar. Sarah Hall.
(f) Ann, b. Oct. 10, 1756, mar. Thomas Buck, half-brother
of Col. John.
(g) Samuel, b. Feb. 7, 1760, mar. Catherine Hall.
(h) Wm. E., b. Aug. 16, 1763, mar. Pugh.
(i) Marquis Calmes, b. Sept. 21, 1768, mar., Feb. 19, 1789,
Henrietta Catlett.
(From Famiy Bible of Marquis Calmes, son of Sam'l Eichardson.)
(2) Wm. Calmes, b. Jan. 18, 1729, d. Sept. 10, 1773, mar. Lucy
Neville, b. Jan. 17, 1732, d. May 20, 1789, dau. of Geo. Neville
and wife Mary Gibbs. Issue :
(a) Gen'l Marquis Calmes, b. 1755, officer in Eevolution
104 Descendants of Col John Catlett.
and Indian fighter, of Lexington, Ky., d. 1834.
(b) George, b. 1757, mar. Miss Price, of Fredericktown, Md.
(c) Miriam, b. Dec. 12, 1758, mar., Dec. 8, 1782, Henry
Catlett, of '^hite Post."
(d) William, b. May 15, 1761, mar. Berry and moved
to Xewberry, S. C.
(e) Fielding Gi'bbs, b. Jan. 30, 1766, mar. Jane Helm.
(f ) Isabella E., b. Dec. 24, 1767, mar. Benson.
(g) Spencer Xeville, b. April 5, 1771, mar. Henrietta Chew
Buck and moved to Kv.
(h) Gen'l Henry Walker, Id. April 9, 1774, mar. Betsy Griggs
and moved to Ky., was a celebrated Indian fighter.
(3) Marquis Calmes, member of vestry, Frederick Co., 1771, d. s. p.
(4) Ann Calmes, mar. Peter Catlett, of White Post Farm, Fred-
erick Co., Va, No issue.
(5) Elizabeth Calmes, mar. Thos. (?) Helm.
Issue of Chas. and Mary Eichardson Buck (ante) :
(a) Letitia, mar. George Catlett.
(b) Eev. Thomas, mar. Amelia Dawson.
(c) Samuel, mar. Mary Bayly,
(d) John, mar. Sarah Catlett.
(c) Eev. Wm. C, mar. (I) L. Wright; (II) Marian Fields.
{^) Charles, mar. Lucy Bayless.
(g) Mary, mar. Dr. Wm. Bayly.
The above is taken from jMS. of these families prepared by Wm.
Mauzy Buck, a copy of which was furnished by Powell C. Catlett,
of Eddyville, Ky.
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106 The Bay top Family.
"Mrs. William Carter Stubbs Itas for many years actually spent
her summers among Virginia records, and she has sent us such a
scientific study of the Baytop family that ive are sure tve are giving
a "bonne houche" to all genealogists when we print it just as Mrs.
Stubbs sent it to us. This genealogy contains so much data concern-
ing the Booths, Taliaferros, Catletis, Stubbses and many other
families (besides the Baytops) that we are confident that a host of
people will be glad to read it.
"This genealogy opens up wide family connections in Virginia.
Many of its descendants have been distinguished in the South,
notably in the Scott and McGehee families. It also answers many
queries lately made in the Times-Dispatch. It places for the first
time Philip Taliaferro, who m^an'ied Sarah Baytop, in his right
place. There are various notes concerning the allied fa7nilies, and,
as the network of families unwinds, so much material becomes plain
which heretofore has been inexplicable, and gleams of information
dart from the mass of faithful research."
(Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch.)
The Baytop Family. 107
THE BAYTOP FAMILY.
Thomas^ Baytop and his wife, Pell, were living in County
Kent, England, in 1638, when she was left a legacy in the will of
her great-imcle, Smallhope Bigges, of "Cranbrooke," County Kent,
England, who mentions "My cousin (nephew) Pell's children, viz:
John, Elizabeth, Richard and Thomas Baytop's wife." John Bigges
(brother of Smallhope Bigges), in his will, 1640, mentions "Eliz-
abeth Pell living with me, and my Cousin Baytop's wife, of 'Ten-
terden.' " ( For these two Bigges' wills see "Water's Grenealogical
Gleanings in England.")
Note. — Of these, John Pell became a "citizen and cooper of
London," and married Hannah Thorpe, "niece and heir-at-law of
Otho Thorpe, merchant, of London," and of that Thorpe family
which came to York Co., Va., in 1701.
Note. — Richard Bigges,^ muster at West and Shirley Hundred,
23nd of January, 1624, aged 41 (born 1583), "came in the Swan,
1610, and Sarah, his wife; Richard, his son; Thomas Turner, his
cozen (nephew) ; Susan Old, his cozen" (niece). His patent in
Charles City County, 1626. "Hotten's Emigrants" mentions him
and wife, and sons, Richard, Thomas and William, at Shirley Hun-
dred. "English Wills," by William S. Appleton, mentions his will
of date 1626.
The Biggeses had five coats-of-arms. (R. H. Hinman's "Cata-
logue of First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut," No. 11, Hartford,
Conn., 1852, page 215.) Col. Timothy Bigges, 1683, a suit against
Robert Miller. (York Co., Va., records.) John Bigges, 1675, fined
2,000 pounds tobacco for not having his children baptized. (General
Court Records.)
Robert Bigges, of Middlesex Co., Va., mar., April, 1703, Mary
Armistead, who died 1706. He mar. (II) 1706, Elizabeth Pate,
and had issue: Mary, b. 1707; Elizabeth, b. 1711; Jane, b. 1713,
and James, b. 1717. (Christ Church Register.)
Benjamin Biggs, captain in the Revolution (Virginia Magazine
of Histry, etc., II, 245). The wills of John and Smallhope Bigges
(above) mentioned their relationship to the families of Baytop,
Pell, Bates and Thorpe in Virginia, and Stowe in New England.
Thomas^ Baytop and Pell, his wife, had at least two sons,
Daniel- and Thomas.- Of these, DanieP Baytop was "grocer in
Maidstone, Kent, England," and was administrator, 1691, of his
brother, Thomas Baytop, and guardian of the infant, Thomas Bav-
top (b. 1676).
From York Co., Va., records, 1691 :
"Daniel, Baytopp, of Maidstone, in ye County of Kent, grocer,
108 The Baijiop Family.
brother of Thomas Baytop, and guardian and administrator of
Tliomas Baytopp, the minor, constitutes Capt. Francis Page in
Virginia his attorney to take possession of ye plantations, stock,
etc., of ye said Baytopp in ye parts of America in right of ye minor,
Jan. 2dth, icni." The said Tliomas Baytop, merchant, deceased,
came over to Virginia twelve years before the above date, and came
from Staplehurst, where he lived for several years in the lawful
estate of matrimony with Hannah, his wife, and where was bom
his son, Thomas Baytopp, May 9, 1676, as appears by the register
of Staplehurst and the testimony of his godfather, Peter Burren,
of said place, clockmaker, aged 58 years, and John Stanter, clerk,
and register of the aforesaid parish of Staplehurst, aged 69 years."
Tlionuis- Baytop (above) married Hannah and moved to
Staplehurst, County Kent, England, where he was a merchant and
"lived in the lawful state of matrimony with Hannah, his wife, and
where was born his son Thomas''* in 1676." He came to Virginia
16T9 and invested in ''plantations, merchandise, stock," etc. (York
County Records), and April 35, 1681, witnessed indenture of
Humphrey and Philip Moody, of York Co., Va., a division of land
with Elizabeth, daughter of their brother Josias Moody, deceased
(whose widow, Elizabeth, married [II] Thomas Hansford), "300
acres Hampton parish. Other witnesses: Joseph Ring (justice),
David Crawford and Richard Moore. — Edward Jennings, clerk
court." Also witnessed (24th August, 1682) deed from Philip
^Moody and wife, ^lagdalene, of Hampton parish, to Joseph Ring,
of same parish, "land patented 1638 by John Waine," Thomas
Baytop witnessed also, 26th February, 1682-3, deed from David
Crawford to Joseph Ring. Other witnesses were Benjamin Reade
and Thomas Chaml)erla>Tie.
Joseph Ring was justice York Co.; will proved 1703. Children:
Edmund, Joseph, Isaac, Elizabeth, Sarah and Mary. Legacy to Isaac
Sedgewick. Executors : His loving brothers, Capt. Matthew Page and
Edmund Berkley. His wife, Sarah, was daughter of Edmund Berk-
ley, of Gloucester Co. Her half-sister, Mary Mann, married ]Matthew
Page, b. 1659, son of Col. John. Thomas Baytop died in 1691. The
following is from P. C. C. Admon. account book, 1692 : "Thomas
Baytop, Sr., late in Virginia, widower, deceased ; administration
granted to Daniel Baytop (his brother), uncle and guardian of
Thomas Baytop, a minor, son of defunct, 19th January, 1691-2."
This grant "expired at the full age of said Thomas Baytop, and
a new grant was made, 25th September, 1699." Virginia Magazine
HiMonj and Genealogjj, X, 69.)
February 24, 1700, Thomas^ Baytop witnessed indenture between
William Sedgewick, clerk of York Co., and James Cosby, "200 acres
in Beaver Dam, on Utey's Creek" — £42. This 'was the third Thomas
Baytop, now 24 years of age. April 19, 1707, Thomas Baytop was
the owner of lot No. 9 in Miles Gary's survey of Gloucestertown
The Baytop Family. 109
(now Gloucester Point). Eichard Lee, Benjamin Reade, Edmimd
Berkeley, Major Bnrwell, Edward Porteus, John Mann, Peter Bev-
erley, Dr. David Alexander, John Todd, John Gwyn, Lawrence and
John Smith, Thomas Scott, John Perrin, Ealph Wormley, Mor-
decai Cooke, William Thornton, John Stiibbs, Dr. William Kemp,
John Bnckner, Eobert Carter, Eobeit Thrnston, Col. Whiting and
others also owned lots in this town, which was regularly laid off
with streets with the names of Gloucester, Bread, Tyndall, Queens,
Kings, Eead, Marlborough, Fleet and Fish. John Fleet had pat-
ented Gloucester town (then Tvndall's Point) in 1662 and was
living there in 1667. John Pratt bought lots 79 and 80 in 1719,
and William Pratt, merchant (will 1722), was living there 1720,
when he married Elizabeth (b. 1701), daughter of William^ Cocke
(secretary of the colony), and his wife, Elizabeth Catesby, sister of
Mark Catesby, the traveler. (Mrs. Pratt married (II) Col. Thomas
Jones (ancestors of the Jones family in Gloucester Co. intermarried
with the Bay tops). Gloucester Point was of considerable impor-
tance during the Eevolution, when troops of the opposing armies
camped and fought there, and its citizens were proud witnesses,
across the narrow York, of Cornwallis' surrender.
Thomas Baytop married (before 1710) the daughter of David
Alexander, of Gloucester Co., and was living in Gloucester in 1726,
where, on 6th of February, his signature may be found in the extant
Petsworth vestry book as witness (with Alexander Roane) to an
indenture of the vestry with Lawrence Smith, to whom they bound
a "poor child" of the parish. (Lawrence Smith affixed his seal in
red wax.) In 1737 he witnessed the will of Dr. Charles Tomkies,
an "eminent physician and a justice in Gloucester Co." This will
is preserved in the chancery papers at Williamsburg. (Dfivid Alex-
ander and John Edwards were also witnesses to this will.) Dr.
Tomkies and Thomas Baytop had married the sisters of David
Alexander, daughters of Dr. David Alexander (whose wife, Ann,
was one of the two heiresses of Francis Morgan, the other, Sarah,
having married Major Thomas Buckner, of Gloucester, church
warden of Petsworth parish, 1695, son of the immigrant, John
Buckner.) Francis Morgan owned a large body of land on the Poro-
potank from its mouth up, called "Morgan's Neck," running from
"Violet Bank" to "Marlfield," which was heired by Thomas Buck-
ner's wife and descended to her daughter^ Ann Buckner, who mar-
ried (I) Thomas^ Booth (b. 1685, d. 1756), church warden Pets-
worth parish, 171-1, son of the immigrant, Thomas. Their sen,
George Booth, of "Poropotank," finally heired all that neck of land,
married Mary Taliaferro and had a daughter, Sarah Booth, who
married Thomas Baytop (b. 1751) of the Eevolution.
Thomas^ Baytop and his wife, Alexander, had at least two
Children — Anne,* who married (before 1727) Col. Thomas Scott
(the immigrant, ancestors of a large and prominent family through-
110 The Baytop Family.
out the South), and James* Baytop, of "Springfield'' Gloucester
Co., \a., d. 17GG. The settlement of his estate, 1767, with its many
accompanying papers, is yet preserved in the family of Mrs. Jeffer-
son W. Stubbs, of '"Valley Front," Gloucester Co., Ya. It mentions
his children, and even the neighbors who were present at "the estate
sale,"' and every article they purchased. He married Sarah Smith,
said to be of the "Purton," Gloucester Co., family of that name, and
a "sister of Capt. John Smith." She died 1771, and the settlement
of her estate (as complete as that of her husband) is also preserved
at "Valley Front," with the names of their children and a list of
those of the neighbors present at her estate sale, etc. The executor
of James Baytop's will was his cousin. Col. Francis Tomkies, son of
Dr. Charles and Mary (Alexander) Tomkies (above noted). Col.
Tomkies had married (before 1748) Elizabeth, daughter of Mor-
decai Cooke, and was Justice in 1768, and a man of affairs ; and his
sister. Catherine (b. 1733) married Thomas Scott (b. 1727), son
of Thomas and Anne (Baytop) Scott, above. Hence all were re-
lated. (See Scott Family.)
Gloucester land books contain a deed (23rd January, 1745) from
Eobert Pryor* and wife (ancestors of the Eoger and Luke Pryor
family) to James Baytop, "309 acres on Craney Creek, Ware parish,
next to Christopher Greenaway, Mr. Eigault and Thomas Wisdom's
land." Ninety-two acres of it had first been granted to Thomas Jef-
ferson, April 1, 1668, and by him deserted, and then granted to
Eobert Collis, who increased it to "309 acres, at the head of Craney
Creek, in Ware parish," and then assigned it, April 21, 1689, to
Eobert Pryor.*
This became the family home, "Springfield," called in its early
history ])y the Indian name, "Mundunga." James Baytop's assess-
ment to Petsworth ])arisli in 1767 (the year of his death) was £8. 3. 0.
In 1758 he was executor of the estate of James Carter, Petsworth
parish. i\Iany of these papers are preserved, containing the accounts
of the three sons, Thomas, James and John Carter.
Eobert and John Carter are mentioned previously in Petsworth
parish vestry.
*Note. — Samuel Pryor, of Gloucester, married Prudence Thornton and
moved to Caroline Co. (then to Hanover and Spotsylvania). Issue: Wil-
liam, Samuel, John, of Nottoway (father of Hon.' Luke, of Alabama);
Frank, Josej)h (who was the smallest of them all and weighed 220
pounds); Nancy, married Col. Samuel Wells, judge of the County Court
of Amelia; Mary (b. in Gloucester Co., Nov. 1.5, 1730), mar. (I) Major
William Berry, of Gloucester, and died, leaving Nancv and Prudence
Berry, of whom Nancy married Jonathan, son of Col. George Taylor, and
Prudence married Major George Blackburn, both families moving to Ken-
tucky in 1799. Mrs. Mary Pryor Berry (d. 1804), married (II) James
Mitchell (d. 1819), and had issue: Edward Mitchell (b. 1760, d. 1837),
James (b. 1762, d. 1781), Samuel (b. 1764, d. 1855). Of these, Edward,
b. 1760, was great-grandfather of James T, Mitchell, b. 1834, judge of
The Baytop Family. Ill
Eoger Blackburn was living in Abingdon parish, Gloucester Co.,
1777. He was the son of William, living in Gloucester 1702 ; will in
Middlesex, 1748, mentions children, William, Eoger and Mary.
Ann Blackburn married Capt. Ceeley Saunders, of the Eevolution-
ary Navy, and had an only child. Major John Saunders, of Norfolk,
father of Capt. John Loyall Saunders ; Ann B., who married Arthur
Taylor, of Norfolk; Mary, who married William Green, and Jane
B., who married W. W. Hunter.
James Baytop was tobacco inspector at Poropotank in 1739 {Vir-
ginia Magazine of History, etc., XV, April number), and his lists
as inspector are before me for 1754. "Thomas and Beverley
Whiting, shipped four hogsheads by the Whiting, and also Dr.
Charles Leith one hogshead, and Messrs. Beverley and Thomas
Whiting one hogshead, by the Ausgood. In 1755 Philip Eootes and
John Metcalf, each, one hogshead by the Ausgood. In 1756 Capt.
Thomas Whiting & Co., fourteen, and John Metcalf one, and Capt.
Thomas Whiting, for himself, seven hogsheads, by the Swift."
Hening's Statutes, Vol. VIII, pages 78-88, mentions for the year
1765, four tobacco warehouses in Gloucester, "Poropotank, Easter-
most, Gloucester Town (now Point) and Deacon's Neck, where
the warehouses are now kept." In 1757 John Scott shipped nine
hogsheads, also March, 1761, nine, by Scott & Du Val. These papers
contain the autograph of James Baytop. Thomas Baytop, the Eevo-
lutionary captain, succeeded his father as tobacco inspector for
Gloucester county.
The original signature of Mrs. Sarah (Smith) Baytop is also pre-
served, as the executrix of her husband's estate, with his cousin.
Col. Francis Tomkies. Dr. Alexander Dalgleish lived in her family
from 1767 to June 1770. (It is claimed for his brother. Dr. John
Dalgleish, of Norfolk, that he first introduced inoculation for small-
pox into Virginia. He died in 1771.)
Some Gloucester Citizens in 1766.
Purchasers at the estate sale of Mrs, Sarah Smith Baytop, widow
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who has the old Mitchell Bible. Gen.
Eoger Pryor, of New York, was of the above family (Virgini Historical
Magazine, VII, 75.)
Judge Eoger Atkinson Pryor, of New York, born near Petersburg, in
Dinwiddie Co., Va., on July 19, 1828. He married Sarah A. Eice, of Vir-
ginia, in 1848. He distinguished himself as a journalist, and prior to the
Civil War was special minister to Greece under President Pierce. He was
a member of the Confederate Congress in 1862. He entered the Confed-
erate Army and was breveted brigadier-general, distinguishing himself in
the battles of Williamsburg and Sharpsburg, He was captured, and after
the war settled in New York, where he studied law, practiced at the bar
and was appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas by Gov. Hill.
He retired from the bench in 1899 on account of old age.
112 The Baytop Family.
of James Bavtop. First sale Mareli 9, ITTl; second sale. March
8, 1772:
John Clayton, William Austin, Hansford Anderson. "William
Bellamy, Peter Barnett, John Blassingame. William Beckham (the
schoolmaster), John Collier. Joyeux Collins, Francis Whiting Cooke
(son-in-law), William Collier, ]\Iordecai Cooke's estate. Samuel
Dawson, William Crittenden, John Figg, Jr., Thomas Figg, Henry
Hall, Bohert Hill, Rev. Arthur Hamilton (minister of the Pets-
worth parish, 17G8, in place of Bev. Charles Mynn Thruston, who
had gone to Frederick county), John Hall, T)v. William Hearn,
Capt. Bichard Jones, Willoughby Jordon, William Lennnon, Jr.,
Cornelius Livingston (a son-in-law), Bobert Montaine, Bichard
Proctor, Thomas Pollard, Michael and Henry Pointer. William
Bamsey, Thomas Stubbs, of Cappahosic; John Smith, John Shel-
burne, Philip Taliaferro (a son-in-law). Sterling Thornton (of
Petsworth parish, will 1790), Nathaniel Taylor, Stephen White,
William Thornton, Anthony Thornton and Bichard Wright.
]\rost of these were also purchasers at the estate sale of James
Baytop, Jan. 13, 1767, as were also John Buckner, Nathaniel Bur-
well, Bartholomew Blunt, Dr. Thomas Cla_\i:on, James Carter (son
of James Carter, deceased, of Petsworth parish), Thomas Conerly,
of King and Queen; Dr. x41exander Dalgleish (resigned vestry of
Petsworth 17(55, and moved to Ware parish and to the home of
James Baytop in order to teach his children, and Henry Wbiting
elected to vestry in his place), John Brown, William DuYal. James
Fontaine. Nathaniel Fletcher, Thomas Guthrie, James Gressett,
Isaac Howlet, Capt. James Hubard (the admiralty judge), William
Hall, Sr., William Kemp, Sr., Thomas Kemp, Cornelius and George
Livingston (brothers), Mr. Lightfoot, j\Ir. Nelson, James Nuttall,
John New, Henrv Pursell, Sr., John Bilev, John Scott (who died
1773), William Stubbs (ancestor of Stubbs, of "Valley Front,"
Gloucester Co.), John Stubbs, Sr., John Shackelford, Edward
Slie]:)lierd, Col. Francis Tompkies^ (who had married p]li:<abeth,
daughter of Mordecai Cooke), Philip Taliaferro (a son-in-law in
1770), William Thornton, Mr. Tarris, Charles Mynn Thruston,
John Whiting, of Ware parish; Peter Whiting, of Gloucester; Capt.
Francis Whiting, of Gloucester; John Whiting, of King and Queen
county.
Also concerned in the estate bills were James ]\[ills, merchant,
of Urbanna ; William Pollard, John Fox, Samuel Tomkins, Edward
Cary, of York; William Hubbard (son-in-law of Col. Thruston),
Seymour Powell, B. Jemmerson, John Drummond, "for making a
pair of pumps, and his wife for making two gowns"' ; Charles Flem-
ing, "for crying the estate"; Philip Taliaferro, "for his brother,
Bichard Taliaferro, £66, 3s. 2d."; George, Lorimer, "two hogsheads
I\Iaiden tobacco, £17, 15s. 7d." (Old family estate-papers of Baptop.)
January 13, 1767, the inventory of James Baytop's estate: Per-
The Baytop Family. 113
sonal property, £516, 19s. 5d. March 9, 1771, inventory of Mrs.
Sarah Baytop's estate.
Among the receipted bills of the estate of Mrs. Sarah Baytop
were, in 1768, "Dr. Carter, paid £20; 1768, James Puller, for school-
ing 3 boys, £, 16s. 3d. ; 1770, William Bickham, for schooling and
boarding James and John Baytop; 1769, Doiley L. Kee, £9, 10s. Id.
for dancing school, 2 scholars, 1 year and 6 months.
Mrs. Sarah (Smith) Baytop's signature, round and firm, is found
on two of these papers, one of them an order upon Col. Francis
Tomkies, as executor, to pay an estate bill to Mrs. Frances Lewis.
In 1762 James Baytop rented the Petsworth glebe lands for 500
pounds tobacco, and in 1772 the vestry paid his estate for the hire
of a negro. In 1766 his assessment to Petsworth parish was £8, 3s.
James* Baytop, of "Springfield."
Issue of James* Baytop and his wife, Sarah Smith (first of the
family at "Springfield, Gloucester Co., 1745) :
1. Elizabeth,^ mar. Francis Whiting Cooke.
2. Mary,^ mar. Cornelius Livingston.
3. Thomas" Baytop, of the Eevolution, b. 1751.
4. James^ Baytop, of the Revolution, b. 1754.
5. Sarah,^ mar., 1770, Philip Taliaferro, of "Hockley," King and
Queen Co.
6. John^ Baytop, of the Eevolution (the youngest child).
The descendants of these follow in succession, excepting John.^
who died unmarried 1799. Elizabeth^ Baytop (dau. of James* and
Sarah (Smith) Baytop, born about 1747, mar. (before 1766)
Francis Whiting Cooke, son of Mordecai Cooke (b. 1708, d. 1751),
of "Wareham," and his wife, Elizabeth Whiting (b. 1713, d. 1762),
who Avas oldest daughter of Francis and Mary Whiting, of Ware
parish. Mordecai Cooke was son of John Cooke,* of "Wareham,"
and Ann, daughter of Capt. Thomas and Elizabeth Todd, of "Todds-
burv." (Wareham Tombs.)
*Note. — John and Ann (Todd) Cooke, of "Wareham," had also a
daughter Luev, b. 1716, who married, first, 1732, Gregory Smith, of King
and Queen, b. 1712, d. 1737, by whom she had Col. Gregory, of the Eevo-
lution; Eev. Thomas, of Cople parish, and Ann (Mrs. Armistead), and,
secondly, she married Thomas Booth (d. 1756), of Gloucester, who was son
of Thomas, the immigrant (andwho had previously married Ann Buckner
and Susannah Thornton), and since his mother was Mary Cooke (daughter
of Mordecai, the immigrant), he was hence cousin to his third wife, Lucy
Cooke (above). They had also a relative in Mordecai Cooke, Jr., of Ware
parish, d. 1748. Old Gloucester County Survey Book gives the following:
In April, 1749, at the request of Capt. Mordecai Cooke, three com-
missioners, viz.: Major Robert Throckmorton, Mr. James Baytop and Mr.
John Jones, met and divided a tract of land between the widow and
114 The Bayiop Family.
Issue of Francis Whiting Cooke and Elizabeth^ Baytop: Mor-
deeai/ Sarah Smith," and Francis Whiting® Cooke, as follows :
I. Mordecai" Cooke (d. 1830), mar. Ann Macon Pendleton (dau.
of Benjamin Pendleton, who mar., 1750, Mary Macon, in
Spotsylvania Co.). Mrs. Cooke was first the wife of AYilliam
Harwood, of King and Qneen Co., by whom she had one child,
Maria Pendleton Harwood.) Issue:
1. Sarah Smith' Cooke, died immarried.
2. Catherine Pendleton" Cooke, mar. Emanuel Jones Thrus-
ton, of 'Olillwood" son of Col. Eobert Thruston, b. 1759,
and his wife Frances, who was a dau. of Dr. Eichard
Jones and wife, Ann Simmons, of Gloucester. Issue :
(a) Frances Ann" Thruston, mar. Eobert Coleman
Eobins. Xo issue.
(b) John Mynn^ Thruston, d. 1883, who bought the
"Warehouse tract" (Deacon's Xeck") in 1858, mar.
]\rary Ann Eobins (d. 1917), dau. of Mr. Thomas
C. Eobins and sister of Wm. A. Eobins, of Glouces-
ter and had (1) x\melia,^ b. 1856, immarried : (2)
AVilliam Pendleton Cooke ,'» b. 1860, mar., 1893,
Eose Johnson, and had John Mynn, mar., 1916,
Lettie Broaddus and has John ; Mary Blanche,
William P., Wellford Jones, Grace, Stephen De-
catur, b. 1908, and Amelia. (3) Mary,** mar. (I)
Frank Horslev,* and (II) Lewis Wiatt, son of
Hugh Gwyn Wiatt, and had Euth Horsley. (4)
Ellen Coleman^ (mar. William Bailey Barton, of
Texas, and had Thruston, Clarence and Lindsley
Barton).
daughters — Mrs. Cooke, who had her "thirds"; Elizabeth Cooke, wife of
Capt. Francis Tomkies, one-fourth of the remainder; Susannah Cooke,
wife of Mr. John Perrin, one-fourth, and Mrs. Frences and Ann Cooke
(spinsters), each one-fourth. (Frances married, 1750, Sir John Peyton.)
Capt. Mordecai Cooke (above) inherited "Mordecai's Mount" from
his father, and married, 1735, Sarah (b. 1717), daughter of Augustine
Smith, of "Shooter's Hill," Middlesex Co., and had issue: (1) Mordecai,
died without issue; will, 1769, prob. 1770, left his estate to his mother (Mrs.
Sarah Throckmorton); (2) Augustine, student at William and Mary Col-
lege 1752. Mrs. Sarah (Smith) Cooke married (II) Major Eobert Throck-
morton, above (his second wife (the first, Mary Lewis, of Warner Hall),
and had issue: Mordecai and Warner and Sarah Throckmorton, who mar-
ried Peter Presley Thornton, of "Northumberland House," thus " Mor-
decai's Mount" ("Churchill") came finally to Warner Throckmorton
(above) from his half-brother, Mordecai Cooke (will 1769), who also left
600 acres near Beech Swamp, known as "Lanes," for the free school of
Ware parish.
Col. Francis Tomkies' son, "Charles Tomkies, Jr.," was administrator
1771 for John Smith, and 1774 for Augustine Smith, of "Shooter's Hill"
(above).
The Baytop Family. 115
(c) Dr. Stephen Decatur^ Thruston, d. 1907, mar. (I)
Annie Everett, of North Carolina, and (II) Mrs.
Chappell, of Louisiana. jSTo issue.
(d) Emanuel Jones' Thruston (b. 1837, d. 18S3), mar.,
1872, Sarah Ann Eootes, d. 1907, sister of Thomas
Eeade Eootes and dau. of Jacquelin Eootes and his
wife, Emily Eobins (dau. of Thomas), and had
issue a son, Eobert Eeade^ Thruston, now living at
"Millwood," mar. Miss Oliver.
(e) Sarah Catherine' Thruston, mar. Franklin Hay-
wood, and had Annie Bettie, Catherine and Eobert
Franklin.
3. Benjamin Pendleton' Cooke, mar. Emetine Bagby, Issue:
(a) Bettie,' b. 1836, d. 1905, mar., 1854, Charles W.
Porter, of King and Queen, and had Lizzie Lee,
Pendleton, Mary Macon, Gertrude, Lina, Charles
Wesley, Laura Wailes and William Franklin.
(b) Mary" Macon,' mar. Eichard Coleman Haywood,
and "had Ann, Lina Coleman, William Franklin,
Mary Peachy and Eobert Coleman.
(c) Franklin,' mar. Fanny B. Turpin, and had Hugh
Lansing, William Norvel, Franklin, Lawson and
Charles Porter.
(d) Mordeeai,' died unmarried.
11. Sarah Smith^ Cooke (dau. of Francis Whiting Cooke, above),
mar., 1798, her cousin, Mordeeai Cooke, second wife. (He first
mar., 1781, Elizabeth Scrosby, d. 1795, and by her had seven
children.) He had three bv Sarah S. Cooke, i. e., Francis
Whiting^ Cooke, b. 1802; Sarah Smith Cooke, b. 1805, and
Lucy Todd Cooke, b. 1807, d. unmarried. Of these:
1. Francis Wliiting^ Cooke (b. 1802, d. 1888), of "The
Cedars," Gloucester Co., mar. (I) Fanny Thruston
Kevan, and (II) Catherine Chapman. Issue, ten chil-
dren :
(a) Miss Mary Frances' Cooke, an intellectual and be-
loved instructress in Gloucester, d. 1910. She felt
great pride in assisting in collecting Cooke family
data.
(b) Alfred C
(c) James Baytop,' killed at battle of Gettysburg.
(d) Mordeeai Throckmorton,' mar. Sallie Powers, and
had Mary Evelyn, mar. E. D. Hatch, and had
Harold Franklin, James Baytop, Francis Whiting
and Olga Mordeeai.
(e) Fanny Thruston.'
116 The Baytop Family.
(f) Giles Buckner/ Confederate States Army, killed in
battle of New Market.
(g) Thomas Paul,^ mar. Ellen Waldron, and had
Thomas Waldron and Francis Whiting.
(h) Sarah^ Smith, mar. Joseph A. Williams, and had
Olivia, Yirginius Cassell, Mangns, Catherine
Pauline, William Francis Whiting and Blanche,
(i) Eobert.«
(j) Frank Whiting.^
2. Sarah Smith" Cooke (b. 1805, d. 1892), mar. Isaac Rose.
No issue.
III. Francis T\niiting" Cooke, son of Francis Whiting and Elizabeth
(Baytop) Cooke, d. 1820, mar. Sarah , d. 1823. His
will proved by wife Sarah, 1821. The appraisers were jNIatthew
Harmenson, i?ol)inson Bridges, John Baytop (a nephew), Eich-
ard M. Thornton and Simon Burton. There seems to have been
no issue. (Gloucester records, 1821, at Gloucester courthouse.)
Issue of Cornelius Livingston and Mary'' Baytop* (b. 1746).
He was born of the King and .Queen family (published in the
Times-Dispatch, 1909), and moved to Gloucester and was practicing
law in 1766, and employed by J. H. Xorton to "settle his father's
estate" in 1768 (Virginia Gazette); commissioner of the revenue
for Gloucester, 1796.
(1) Cornelius''' Livingston, Jr., mar. and had Cor-
nelius, d. s. p.. and Susan, mar. Beverley Anderson. He was
deputy sheriff, 1795. In 1813 he was sergeant in Capt. Wil-
liam Eogere' company, and later first sergeant in Capt. James
Baytop's company.
(2) Jolm*' Livingston; nothing more known of him.
(3) Sarah" Livingston, mar. Henry Hughes. It was in lior l)ehalf
that Eev. Cliarles Thruston left the note to Capt. TlKmias
*Note. — Land Book, 1663: John Livingston, 400 acres, west side Poro-
potank creek; John Livinjiston, Sr., and Jr., Stratton Major parish, King
and Queen county, upon Poropotank creek, 1713, when the elder made
the deed to his son, 40i) acres, witnessed by Samuel Livinsiston and sealed
with a coronet in red wax. The son John, in 1743, bought 250 acres on
Poropotank of John Townley and Sarah, his wife, witnessed by William
Todd Livingston and George Livingston. (Old family wills at Valley
Front.)
Virginia Gazette, 1773: Cornelius Livingston advertised a tract of
400 acres in lower end of King and Queen county, with the dwelling-house,
and also a tract of 500 acres a mile further, lying on Poropotank creek,
with three good landings.
Virginia Gazette, 1773: John Livingston advertised three fine negroes
for sale in Norfolk, and in 1774 John Livingston, of Essex county, is
going abroad.
The Bay top Family. 117
Baytop (ante), and she was also the author of the following
deed, found in the Baytop family papers :
"To all whom these presents may concern : I, Sarah Living-
ston, of the county of Gloster and parish of Ware, do give unto
my brothers, John and Cornelius Livingston, a bond, now in
the hands of Mr. Hugh Holmes, which the said John Living-
ston, with others, are bound unto Cornelius Livingston, Sr.,
for the sum of £450, which I give unto my said brothers, John
and Cornelius Livingston, to be divided equally between them.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal 19th May 1797. Sarah Livingston.''
Witnesses: Thomas Baytop, Sarah Cooke, Francis Whiting
Cooke.
ISSUE.
(a) William Clayton^ Hughes, mar. Maria Wright and had
Henry, Confederate States Army, killed in battle 1863 ;
Sallie, mar. Albert Stubbs, Confederate States Army,
moved to Baltimore and has three children.
(b) Thacker^ Hughes, mar. Mary Caffee, and had Sarah,
d. s. p., and James. C. S. A., killed 1863.
Issue of Philip Taliaferro and Sarah Baytop,
Philip Taliaferro, of "Hockley," King and Queen county, was a
son of William Taliaferro, vestryman Stratton Major parish, 1762,
who was the son of William Taliaferro, Sr., of the vestry of Stratton
Major parish. King and Queen county, 1735, and died 1760. This
last William was the eleventh and youngest child of Col. John Talia-
ferro, the Sanger (who was the son of the immigrant), and was also
the brother of Col. Lawrence Taliaferro, sheriff of Essex, and not
his son, and should have been so placed in the "John Stubbs, of
Cappahosic," pamphlet.
Philip Taliaferro was of the vestr}^ 1775. He had been assigned
a seat in the "N"ew Stratton Major Church," 1767. Prom his pro-
pinquity to the Eootes and Grymes family, his given name, "Philip,"
would suggest a descent from one of these families, with whom
Philip was also a popular name. There seems also to have been a
Shackelford relationship. He had, certainly, a brother, Eichard
Taliaferro, who is called his "brother" at the estate sale of Mrs.
Sarah Baytop, 1771 (the mother-in-law). It is probable he was
also brother to William Taliaferro, who married Elizabeth Holden,
called at that date William, "the elder." Eichard Taliaferro died
1790, land tax in Gloucester 1787, and his estate tax 1790. He was
in the vestry of Petsworth parish, 1785, with James Baytop and
George and Thomas Booth, and acknowledging the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in America. Will, 1786 ; wife, Elizabeth ; son, Eich-
ard ; executors, Philip Taliaferro and Zachariah Shackelford.
Feb. 18, 1777, Capt. William Taliaferro was paid £12 for the use
118 The Baijtop Family.
of twenty-four guns one year (Virginia Magazine of llisiorij, etc.,
XV, 87). Philip was a member of the House of Delegates 1780,
justice in King and Queen 1784, sheriff 1791, with John Wedder-
bum as deputy sheriff.
The expense of Sarah Baytop's marriage, 1770, is mentioned in
inventory of her mother's estate, 1771. She was born about 1753.
Philip Taliaferro and Sarah^ Baytop had issue. Dr. William,"
of Churchill ; James Baytop,^ of "Bearing Springs" ; Eev. Philip ;«
George;" Eichardf Thomas ;« John;" Sarah ;« Mary« ("Polly"),
as follows :
I. Dr. William" Taliaferro, of "C'liurchill," mar. (I) Mary Throck-
morton, and (II) Harriet Throckmorton, daus. of Warner
Throckmorton (who was the son of Major Eobert Throck-
morton and his second wife, Sarah Smith, a dau. of Augustine
Smith, of "Shooter's Hill," and widow of Mordeeai Cooke, of
Mordeeai's Mount" [now Churchill]). Issue of first marriage
(Throckmorton), an onlv son.
1. Warner Throckmorton" Taliaferro (b. 1797, d. 16th Oc-
tober, 1877), mar. (I) 1822, Fannv, dau. of George
Wythe Booth, of "Bellville," and (11) Leah, dau. of
Thomas Seddon, of Fredericksburg (and sister of Thos.
A. Seddon, Secretary of War, Confederate States). Issue
(by Booth marriage) :
(a) Gen. William Booth« Taliaferro, of "Dunham
Massie," major-general, C. S. A., and also a hero
of the Mexican War, mar. (17th February, 1853),
Sallie Nivison, dau. of Hon. James Lyons, of Eich-
mond, and had issue : Leah S., Judge James Lyons
(member of Legislature), Fanny B. (d), Prof. War-
ner Throckmorton, of Maryland Agricultural Col-
lege; George Wythe Booth, William C, lawyer, of
Hampton, Va. ; Dr. Edward C. S., a distinguished
physician of Norfolk; Nina, mar., 1899, Harry Os-
borne Sanders, of Albany, N. Y., now deceased.
Issue by second marriage (Seddon) :
(b) Dr. Philip A.« Taliaferro, of "Burgh Westra,"
Gloucester Co. (d. 1900), surgeon C. S. A. and in
Legislature from Gloucester, mar. Susan Byrd, dau.
of George McCandlish. No issue.
(c) Susan* Taliaferro, mar. Judge Beverley E. Well-
ford, Jr., of Eichmond. Issue: Eev. Edwin T.,
mar. Courtney B. Selden; Fanny Beverley, mar.
Eev. Henry Alex. White; Susan Seddon, mar.
Major Thomas Marshall.
(d) Thomas Seddon* Taliaferro, major C. S. A., mem-
ber of Legislature, nuir. Ilallie, dau. of Cassius F.
Lee, of Alexandria, and has five children.
The Baytop Family. 119
(e) Warner T.« Taliaferro (d. 1881), major in C. S. A.
member of Legislature, lived at "Isleham" and
later in Norfolk, mar. (I) Martha Paul, (II)
Fanny Hardy, and had issue: Thos. H., president
of Florida Agricultural College.
(f) Edwin S.« Taliaferro (b. 1835, d. 1867), pro-
fessor in William and Mary College, major of or-
dinance, C. S. A., mar. Fanny B. B. Tucker, dau.
of Judge N. Beverly Tucker. No issue.
By second marriage of Dr. William® Taliaferro
(also Throckmorton).
2. Gen Alexander Galt^ Taliaferro (b. 1808, d. 1884), of
"Cowslip Green" and Anandale, Culpepper Co., Va.,
brigadier-general C. S. A., max., 1836, Agnes Harwood
Marshall, dau. of Thomas Marshall, of "Oak Hill" and
granddaughter of Chief Justice Marshall. Issue:
(a) Mary J.« (b. 1841, d. 1864), mar. Dr. Charles W.
Chancellor.
(b) Leah S.« b. 1843, d. 1862.
(c) Margaret^ (b. 1844), mar. Chapman Maupin, son of
Dr. S. Maupin, chairman of faculty of University
of Virginia, and had issue.
(d) Eleanor W.« (b. 1847), mar. George E. Nelson,
and had issue.
(e) Agnes Marshall,^ mar. E. W. Maupin, son of Dr.
S. Maupin (above).
(f) William A.« (b. 1851), mar. Charlotte Franklin.
3. Philip^ Taliaferro, died young.
4. Dr. William'^ Taliaferro, of Churchill, d. unmarried.
A Eichard Taliaferro was living in the Fourth precinct of Pets-
worth parish 1763, near Poropotank creek. He was of the vestry of
Petsworth parish 1767, in place of Augustine Smith, moved out of
the parish.
II. James Baytop** Taliaferro (b. April, 1775), of Eoaring Springs,
Gloucester Co., mar. (I), 1796, Catherine, dau. of Geo. Booth,
of Poropotank, and his wife, Mary Taliaferro, and (II) Eliza-
beth L. Hackney, widow of Sterling Thornton. (Gloucester
Eecords, II, 552.) Issue by first marriage:
(1) Philip,^ b. 1796, d. 1819.
(2) Mary Booth,^ h. 1799, d. 1801.
(3) Matilda Ann,^ b. 1800, mar. Major Eoane and had Emily
C.,* mar. Capt. Junius B. Brown,* C. S. A.; Louise
Booth ;^ George Alvin,« C. S. A., mar. Margaret Booth,
*Capt. Junius B. Brown, C. S. A., was long an honored resident of
Gloucester county. His father's name was changed from Claiborne to
120 The Bay top Family.
and Harriet Elizabeth,^ mar. Frank Eoane and had six
children.
(4) Mary Frances," b. 1803, d. 1827, and mar. Richard
Shackelford (first wife) and had James William, b. 1825,
mar. Trent, had two children; and ]\Iarv Frances,
b. 1827, d. 1836.
(5) George Booth," b. 1805, killed in a street car accident
in Baltimore, unmarried.
(6) Sarah Baytop," b. 1807, mar., 1825, ^Villiam W. Spen-
cer, and had seven children, as follows : j\Iarv Catherine,^
mar. (I) Eobert Hart, C. S. A., killed in" battle; mar.
(II) Thomas Corr, and had several children; Eliza
Ann,^ mar. William Bland, and had Margaret,® who
inar. Thruston ; Alexander,^ William,^ Margaret
A.,'^ mar. Oliver Marston and had seven children; Sarah
Bavtop,- mar. Dr. Moore and had two children ; James.^
(7) Eliza Ellen," b. 1809, d. 1823.
(8) James William,^ b. 1812, d. 1814.
(9) Thomas Bootb," b. 1816, d. 1879, mar. (1846) Mary M.
Sinclair, dau. of John Sinclair, and had issue: Mar-
garet B.« (d. 1901), mar. Dr. Charles Gwyn (d. 1900)
and moved to Galveston and suffered death in the great
storm. Six children; James Alexander,^ d. y. ; Hon. Sin-
clair,^ U. S. district attorney under President Cleve-
land, Houston, Tex., prominent lawyer , mar. Eose
Palmer and had two children, of whom Bettie Milby,
mar. Wm. Arthur Sherman; Thomas W.,^ unmarried;
Philip,* d. y. ; Mary Alexander,'^ mar. Granville Healy,
(several children); Ellen Fielding,* d. y. ; Philip
Henry,* d. y. ; Kate Booth,* mar. Wm. Lawson and had
several children; Eobert S.,* d. y. ; Edwin,* mar., 1892,
Brown. Herbert Claiborne, of Chestnut Grove, Kent county, was married
(the second time) to Mary, the daughter of William Burnet Browne, of
Elsing Green, in King William county, who settled a large estate upon his
eldest Claiborne grandson, upon the condition that he would take the
name of William Burnet Browne, whose wife, Judith, was a daughter of
Charles Carter, of "Cleve. " The elder William Browne married a daugh-
ter of William Burnet, Governor of New York, and granddaughter of
Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury.
Mr. .Junius Browne, of Gloucester, was his descendant, and inherited
from him many rare and beautiful things, among them magnificent por-
traits of Wm. Brown and Margaret Burnet. These portraits were sold to
a dealer in antiques by Mr. Browne's son a few years ago. A sister of
Mr. Browne, Mrs. Tabb Catlett, also inherited many beautiful and artistic
things from the same source, which unfortunately burned when the old
Mount Pleasant house in Gloucester was destroyed by fire.
(For Browne, see Essex Institute Historical Collections, Salem, Mass.,
Vol XXXII.)
The Baijtop- Family. 131
Catherine, dan. of Wm. and Elizabeth Mitchell, and had
Wm. S., b. 1893; Eugene S., b. 1894; Elizabeth, b.
1897; Eichard N., b. 1899.
(10) Harriet Amanda,^ b. 1818, mar. (184-1) Charles Carter
Field. Issue: Helen,^ of Baltimore, d. 190T; John,«
mar. Lucy, dau. of Edward S. Cary, of Gloucester, and
had Catherine;'' Charles,^ Harriet,^ married; Kate,^
mar. William Cary, son of Edward S. Cary, of Glou-
cester, and had Frank;'' Eugene,^ mar. Lelia Shackel-
ford, dau. of William and Mary (Cooke) Shackelford.
(11) Margaret Catherine^ Taliaferro, b. 1822, d. 1835.
III. Eev. Philip*' Taliaferro, Baptist preacher, and later a Camp-
bellite, mar. (I) Oliver, of "Elson Green," Hanover Co.;
mar. (II) Elizabeth Piemont, of Norfolk, and had:
(1) Benjamin,^ died without issue,
(2) Eichard,'^ died without issue.
(3) James 0.,'^ of Caroline Co., mar. Taylor, and had
issue: Lucy James,^ mar. (1857) William George Talia-
ferro, of "Spring Hill," Caroline Co., a son of Thomas
H. and Lucy (Allen) Taliaferro.
In 1823 Philip Taliaferro had 350 acres, the "Ware-
house Tract," two miles east of courthouse. (Tax books.)
ly. George*' Taliaferro, mar. Louisa Dixon, of Airville. Issue :
Maria,'^ mar. James Gwyn.
V. Eichard*' Taliaferro, of "Hockley," King and Queen Co., mar.
(I) Elizabeth, only dau. of Col. Wedderburn, of King and
Queen; mar. (II), about 1803, Margaret Holclen Stubbs, dau.
of John and Margaret Holden (Taliaferro) Stubbs, of Glou-
cester. Issue by last marriage, an only son, John P.,' of "Todds-
bury," mar, Eleanora Anderson, dau, of William Anderson,
and had issue :
(1) John Albert,^ mar. Mary L. Seawell, of Gloucester.
(2) Eichard,^ of "Hockley," Gloucester Co., mar. Fanny
Johnson, of Baltimore, widow of Powell Byrd, Esq., of
Gloucester.
(3) Hansford Edward,^ mar, Fannie Perrin,
(4) William Hockley,® mar. Pearl Lucile Kent.
(5) Bernard.®
(6) Nora.®
VI. Thomas** Taliaferro, mar. Sarah Oliver, of "Elson Green," Han-
over Co. Issue:
(1) William Lewis,^ died in early manhood.
(2) Thomas,^ mar. in Eichmond, Va., and had issue.
1?.2 The Baytop Family.
(3) Martha/' mar. Fox, of Hanover Co.
(4) Gabriella," mar. Col. Davis, of King and Queen Co.
(5) Lewis,^ mar. Catherine, dan. of Major Thomas Dos-
well, of "Buimeld," Hanover Co., and had Lewis,« of
Augusta, Ga. ; Susan/ mar. Pindell, of Eichmond.
YII. John" Taliaferro, died unmarried.
YIII. Sarah*^ Taliaferro, mar. (I) Col. Lyne Shackleford, of King
and Queen; and (II) Hooper. Issue:
(1) Richard Taliaferro' Shackleford, of King and Queen,
mar. Hannah Catlett (dau. of Benj.), and had Wil-
liamtina,'^ who mar. ' Lambeth; Fanny,^ and
Temple^ Shackelford.
(2) Betsy' Shackelford, mar. Wood, and moved to
Kentuckv, and had a daughter,® who mar. Estill,
and their dau., Betty Estill, b. 1840, mar. (before 1863)
William E. Garrison, of New York.
(3) Baytop" Shackelford, d. s. p.
(4) George'Shackelford (apparently of this line), mar.
Martha Hockaday and moved to Kentucky with his
sister Mrs. Wood, and had William H.® Shackelford, mar.
Martha. Hickman, and had Betty « Shackelford (b.
1838), mar. Charles L. Thompson.*
IX. Mary*' ("Polly") Taliaferro, mar. (I) Leonard Smith er, and
(II) Matthew Kemp. Issue:
(1) Buck" Smither, went West and died unmarried.
(2) Emily" Smither, mar. George Hall, of Hanover, and had
tliree children.
(3) Matilda' Smither, mar. (I) Peter Kemp, and (II)
Simon Burton, and had :
(a) Parmelia/ mar. Nathan E. Walker, and had
William Curtis, Marian and others.
(b) Sarah Baytop Kemp, mar. William Jones, of
Mathews Co. (his second wife; the first a Miss
Booker), and had (1) Santa Maria,'' mar. Wil-
liam Ellis Corr, and had four children; (2) Mary
Dudley,^ mar. also William Ellis Corr, of Glou-
cester (second wife) ; no issue (3) Lee," mar.
McCormack, and had several children.
William Jones had also Eussell and John Jones,
*Our authority for descendants of Mrs. Betsy Shackelford Wood and
of George Shackelford (all of Kentucky) is Mrs. John Booth, of St. Louis,
Mo., who is of the Garrison family, and her husband of the Booths^ of
Gloucester county. STie says Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Garrison were
cousins, and claimed descent from Philip and Sarah (Baytop) Taliaferro.
Mrs. Wood certainly went to Kentucky.
The Bayiop Famihj. 123
and India, who mar. John Cassady (by first
wife) ; Mrs. Matthew Kemp had also (4) Philip
Kemp, died unmarried ; and , a dau. ; and
Thomas Kemp, married Indiana Pointer and
had Solomon Kemp, mar. Maria Eobins, father
of George Kemp, living in Baltimore.
Line of Thomas Baytop, of the Revolution (b. 1751, d. 1812), Married,
1780, Sarah, Daughter of George Booth (d. 1786), of
Poropotank, Now "Violet Bank."
Gloucester County, 13th April, 1775. — Gloucester regiment of
militia was organized at Gloucester Courthouse; Col., Sir John
Peyton, Bart. ; lieut.-col., Thomas Whiting, Gent. ; county-lieut.,
Warner Lewis, Esq.; major, Thomas Boswell, Gent. There were
sixteen captains, sixteen lieutenants, and sixteen ensigns. Among
the captains were George Booth, William Buckner, Jasper Clayton,
John Whiting, John and James Hubard, John Willis and otliers.
Among the lieutenants were James Baytop, Philip Tabb, Thomas
Buckner and others; and among the ensigns were Thomas Baytop,
Thomas Tabb, Samuel Eddins, John Fox, Christopher Garland and
others. (Virginia Gazette, 1775.)
His oath of allegiance as captain of artillery (old paper in posses-
sion of his family) :
"I, Thomas Baytop, captain of artillery, do acknowledge the
United States of America to be free, independent and sovereign
States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or
obedience to King George III, King of Great Britain; and I re-
nounce, refuse and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him; and
I do swear that I will, to the utmost of my power, support, inaintain
and defend the said United States against the said King George
III, his heirs and successors, and his or their abettors, assistants
and adherents, and will serve the said United States in the office of
captain of artillery, which I now hold, with fidelity, according to
the best of my skill and understanding. Thomas Baytop,
"Sworn before me at the Artillery Park this 12th day of June,
1776. H. KivTox, Colonel Artillery."
Thomas Baytop was captain-lieutenant First Continental Artil-
lery Jan. 13, 1777; captain Feb. 5, 1778; resigned Dec. 11, 1779.
Gen. Charles Harrison's Artillery, Co. 9, as it stood at Valley Forge
June 3, 1778: Thomas Baytop, captain-commander, Feb. 5, 1778;
William Fleming Gaines, captain-lieutenant; Holland Haynie, first
lieutenant; William Stevenson, second lieutenant; James Tyrie,
second lieutenant. (See Heitman's List of Eevolutionary Officers
for him and his brothers, James and John).
Capt. Thomas Baytop received a military land warrant for 4,000
124 The Baijlop Family .
acres May 25, 1784, for three years' service as captain iu Virginia
Continental line. Original preserved.
William Keyser, petitioning for a pension, stated that he ''served
in Revolntionary Army under Capt. Thomas Eaytop, in Second Vir-
ginia State Eegiment; that they marched to Hampton, and from
there joined Gen. Washington at Valley Forge. In the summer,
under the command of Col. Dabney, they overtook the British at
Monmouth Church, and fought most of the day, when the enemy
then retreated to their ships. They were also in a skirmish near
Fort Montgomery under Col. Gist, where they lost twenty-eight
soldiers and two officers captured. They were in front of the battle
at Stony Point Fort, under command of Gen. Anthony Wayne.
Gen. Wayne was wounded and Col. Febiger took command, with
Col. Fleury in command of the vanguard," etc. (Virginia Maga-
zine of History, I, 4G3.)
There is also a receipt of $1,100 for a horse l)ought of Capt.
Samuel Eddens at ^lorristown, X. J., April 6, 1T80. Another,
March 9, 1778, signed Wm. Finney, Williamsburg, deputy quarter-
master-general ,for goods, '"part of a cargo arrived at Fdenton,
N". C, from France; property of the United States, furnished by
order of the governor.''
Another receipt: "Camp Eariton Landing, July 5, 1778. Capt.
Thomas Baytop, of Col. Charles Harrison's Regiment of Artillery,
one large red leather portmanteau, for the sum of £15 currency."
Signed Jacob Weiss, D. Q. M.
From a census of Ware parish, 1783: Tliomas Eaytop, two white
and twelve black.
The following note to him from "the fighting parson," Col. Chas.
Mynn Thruston, of the Revolution (who 4iad married his cousin,
Miss Buckner), is an amusing evidence of the nonchalance with
which those ancient worthies dispensed their money :
"32nd June, 1788. — Dear Sir: I called in great haste just to see
you and to deliver to Miss Livingston a few things sent by her
father (i. e., Cornelius Livingston). He desires a^ou by me to collect
the bonds of his in your hands, and when done to vest tlie amount
in a negro girl, or girls, for his daughter, and to get a pair of stays
for her, as he could get none here.
"I am, with compliments to your lady, sir, your most obedient,
humble servant, C. M. Thrustox."
Addressed "To Capt. Thomas Baytop."
]\Irs. Wm. C. Stubbs gave this communication to Prof. James T.
Harrison, of the University of Virginia, a descendant of "the fight-
ing parson," as being quite too valuable (if only for its signature)
to escape his possession. It was relinquished with a smile at the
calm manner in which the old gentleman mixed up purchase of
"negro maids" and young ladies' "stays." He rented the Petsworth
glebe lands, as did also his father. In the vestry book is this entry
The Baijtop Family. 125
for 1788: "Eeceived of Capt. Thomas Baytop 505 pounds tobacco
for rent of the glebe."
He was appointed inspector of tobacco at Deacon's Neck Ware-
house in 1-791 by Beverley Eandolph, Governor. Hening (VIT, 479)
says that in 1793 the only remaining tobacco warehouses in Glou-
cester were at Deacon's Xeck and Poropotank. Appointed inspector
of tobacco at Deacon's Neck Warehouse 1794 by Henry Lee, gov-
ernor. He was also justice for many years in Gloucester. Deacon's
Neck is now called the "Warehouse." A commission from Gov.
Page (the original preserved by Prof. T. J. Stubbs) "to Thomas
Baytop, Eichard Baynham and Matthew Anderson, issued June 1,
1804, under an act passed by Congress May 21, 1804, to amend an
act for appointing electors to choose a president and vice-president
of the United States."
Col. Thomas^ Baytop was master of Boteourt (Masonic) Lodge
No. 7, Gloucester, of which an ancient lodge book, beginning April
19, 1800, is preserved in the clerk's office. It bears a very handsome
seal, "England 1773-1857 Virginia," and some wonderful flourishes
in penmanship, of knights, ladies, dragons, etc. (The hospitalities
of the courthouse ordinary were long dispensed by Capt. William
Eogers, of the Eevolution and War of 1812. Here old comrades met
and "fought their battles over again" — and John Kiningham was
mine host of the Ark Ordinary at the same time. The "Ark" still
stands in Gloucester.) He (Thomas Baytop) was justice in Glou-
cester, 1808.
He was executor of many estates and guardian to the children of
many of his neighbors, and with the son, John Jones, was executor
of the estate of Dr. Eichard Jones, 1784. He was executor also of
Christopher Pryor's estate, 1804, and paid to Mann Page, deputy
clerk, $4.89 for recording the appraisement (receipted by Eobert
West, D. S.).
From a poll of Petsworth district, 1810, for House of Delegates,
the candidates were: Thomas Baytop (elected), John Lewis, John
Wood and Wm. K. Perrin (elected) ; and among the voters, John
Baytop and James Baytop, Sr., and James Baytop, Jr. . (Old family
papers. )
Capt. Thomas Baytop served in the Assembly, 1805, with
Matthew Anderson; 1806, with Morgan Tomkies ; 1808, with Eich-
ard Jones; 1809, with Peter Wiatt, and 1811, with Wm. Perrin.
He was of the vestry of Ware parish, 1797, when the church glebes
were being sold by the 'State, after the Eevolution. There is pre-
served in the family papers a long letter to him upon this subject
by the minister of Ware, Eev. Elkanah Talley, of whom Bishop
Meade said he was more profane than pious (as his letter indicates),
and that he "died the death of a drunkard, and a Universalist be-
sides." This letter was as follows, and related to the preservation,
to the church, of Ware Glebe, his method having excited the sus-
126 The Baytop Famihi.
picions of some of his vestry. He seems to have been unfortunate,
and was expelled by Botetourt Lodge in 1802 — '"Brothers iMatthew
and Samuel Anderson, from motives of decency, requested they
might be absent." He married (1789) "the relict of John Ander-
son, of Hanover county."
"Ware Glebe, Oct. 2-t, 1797.
"Dear Sir — Last Wednesday, taking it altogether, may be ranged
among my most disagreeable days. All the forenoon engaged in
discovering and punishing rascality ( ?). And as soon as I reached
the courthouse, discovered that violent threats had been thrown out
against me for attempting to cheat the church and parish out of the
glebe, and that the very devil was to be played with me if I did not
accede to propositions wliich were to be made to me in vestry ! This,
I confess, rowzed my Irish, and I M-as determined then not to men-
tion in vestry the steps I had taken to secure the glebe for the
church (although I had intended on that day to lay the whole of
the business before the board), and when it was introduced to be
on ray guard ; to act the philosopher — and disappoint my adversary.
"Now, let me ask you whether I was right or not in not agreeing
to anything tiiat was proposed ? If you recollect, Mr. Pryor asked
if I would withdraw tlie entry, etc., if the conveyance from Curtis
or Brown could be found? To which I answered in the negative,
and for this reason: if no patent can be found (which I am now
pretty certain is the case), the very instant my entry was with-
drawn, another person might make an entry, divest me of my place
of residence and wrest the glebe from the church.
"The precarious situation of our church property is a subject
which I have repeatedly heard argued by able hands for ten years
back. We have, repeatedly, had good counsel on the subject; con-
sequently I have had a good opportunity to form an opinion relative
to its situation, the limited uncertain powers of vestries and the
great caution that ought to be used in making a conveyance. Under
these circumstances, I am certain that some of the methods hinted
in vestry the other day would have fixed the title of the glebe in my
representatives, in case the Baptist bill passes. Admit for a moment
I had agreed to make a conveyanace of the glel)c to the parish so
soon as the ])atent issues and had l)ound myself to do so. jMark
the consequence. So soon as the Baptist bill passed into a law the
reversion of this freehold would immediately revert to me or my
representatives.
"Mr. Tomkies' ])roposition comes the nearest a secure plan of
anything that was hinted, but T think there is a small amendment
in his plan necessary, which I will i)oint out to you when we meet
again.
"As I had been at so much trouble in endeavoring to secure the
church, and had sent forward the whole of my proceedings to a
The Bmjtop Family. 137
person who would have the best counsel in order to secure the prop-
erty to the church, which was, and is still, my intention; and as
those threats were thrown out against me, I would not, on that day,
have acceded to any proposition whatever after my original one was
rejected, which, if'you recollect, was 'that the business should re-
main in a state of suspense till we could have the best counsel.'
"I had sent forward for counsel in behalf of the church, which
will be made to appear to the vestry. Now, suppose there had been
a proper mode proposed? The question is whether you would on
that day have agreed to it. Had I agreed to any proposition on that
day, it would have been immediately said that, although I was about
to chouse the parish out of their Glebe, the vestry had caught me
at it, and that Mr. Hall's threats and the vestry's exertions had
forced me to do right !
'"That the business might have remained in a state of suspense
for many months is certain. True it is Capt. Peter' B. Whiting
informed the vestry, that Mr. Blair informed him, that a patent
would issue in favor of me in six months unless a caveat was en-
tered. But the plain state of the business is this: A patent will
issue after the entry, survey, etc., have been returned to the land
office and remained there six months, unless a caveat is entered and
prosecuted; but not within six months after the survey is made.
The papers are in the hands of Mr. Duvall, and in order to have
placed the business in a state of suspense till the board could have
been fully satisfied, I would have put them in the hands of a member
of the vestry. But the threats of one member, the apparent Jealousy
of some and the warmth of others, forbid my attempting to set
Capt. Whiting right and making a proposition.
"The situation of this Glebe (if unpatented, required a survey,
which I mentioned to three members of the vestry, towit: Capt.
Whiting, Mr. Baynham and yourself, and should have mentioned
it to Mr. Pryor, as I went to his house more than once for that pur-
pose, but he happened to l)e from home. With respect to the land
law. I know a number of the upland farmers understand it better
than the lowland lawyers, and perhaps your land is in a ticklish
situation. I may be counted a fool for throwing out this idea, but
certain I am that Gary's and Anderson's representatives had as
good a title to our land in Cumberland as Ware parish has to Ware
Glebe, and many other men in Gloucester have to the land they
hold, jSTevertheless, we have lost ours in Cumberland— for what?
For want of a patent. With respect to the caveat the vestry are
about to enter, etc. Can they sue or be sued? If the land was
patented by Brown, if I mistake not, I am intimately acquainted
with his legal heir.
"I have mentioned my intentions to three members of the vestry.
After fixing the business I was pleased, and mentioned it to a few
■of my acquaintances how completely I had speculated on and dis-
128 The Baijtop Family.
appointed the dissenters. How my intentions have been so mucli
misrepresented I cannot say. I am your friend and servant,
••Elk'h Talley.
"To Captain Thomas Baytop."'
In 1788, upon St. John's Day, lie (Elkanah Talley) addressed the
Masons in Richmond. The year 1798 was his last at Ware Church.
In 1799 Thomas Baytop paid $20, "liis subscription in full for
Ware parish, to John Robins, vestryman, who receipted for same for
Rev. Armistead Smith." (Old familv papers.)
In 1797— a survey of Ware Glebe "for Rev. Elkanah Talley: "By
virtue of a land office treasury warrant, Xo. 2180, dated ]\Iay 14,
1797, and surveyed October 14. 1797, for 400 acres, which survey
containeth 3.52 acres on Ware river, 217 poles on the river back to
a spring on Back creek, 320 poles."' (Old Gloucester Survev Book.)
The assignees of Rev. Elkanah Talley, April 28, 1800," for 352
acres, commonly known and occupied as the Glebe of Ware parish :
Philip Tabb. Thomas Baytop. Christopher Pryor, Matthew Ander-
son, Richard Baynham. Morgan Tomkies. Mordecai Cooke. George
Wythe Booth, Peter Beverly Whiting, Philip Sansum. William
Hall, John Dixon, trustees of the church property in the parish of
Ware and county of Gloucester. (Gloucester Land Books.)
The following recalls some names of ancient worthies :
"2xD March, 1809.
"Thomas Baytop, Esq. — Dear Sir: Mr. Lewis told me that you
had been kind enough to promise to apply to Mr. Randolph for the
money on Mr. Berkeley's draft. If you have received it. I will be
much obliged if you will send it by my son, Baylor, who will deliver
you this. With many thanks for the trouble you have taken for me,
I remain, with real esteem, your ob't ser-s^t, Jaspee S. Claytox.
"Received of Mr. Bajiop the sum of $117 by order of mv father,
2nd March, 1808. ' J(ohx) B(aylor) Claytox."
Obituary of Col. Thomas Baytop in Alexandria Herald. 1812:
"Ax Old Relic.
"The subject of the following obituary has a large numlier of re-
lations in tliis county and in other parts of this and other States,
where your paper has circulation. Your readers would be generally
gratified by the publication of this old relic, which has been copied
from an Alexandria Herald, published in the year 1812. He was a
Revolutionary officer of merit and distinction, was the son of Sarah
Smith, a daughter of John Smith, and of Colonial fame, and a man
f<ans penr, sans reproche. Capt. James Baytop (son of the above-
named Thomas Baytop) served thrnugb the War of 1812. Win. J.
Baytop, his grandson, volunteered and served througli tlie ^lexican
War, and was killed at the Battle of Seven Pines, gallantly leading
The Batjtop Family. 129
his company into action in the war between the States. J. C.
Baytop, another grandson, volunteered in our late war, served
through it all faithfully as an officer of cavalry, and surrendered
with his company at Appomatox C. H. Gen. Wm. Taliaferro and
Gen. Alexander Taliaferro, whose record is too well known to men-
tion here, have the same adventurous and warlike Smith blood in
their veins :
"Died. — On the 11th instant, at his seat, in the county of Glou-
cester, Capt. Thomas Baytop, aged sixty-one years.
"Capt. B. was an officer in the Eevolutionary Army, during a
part of its struggle for freedom. At the commencement of the
glorious contest he voluntarily stepped forth among the first who
tendered their services to their country. True to the cause he had
espoused, he resolutely stood by her in the hour of trial and danger,
wielding in her defense the sword of liberty, in order to sever the
Gordian knot which the hand of tyranny was about to rivet upon
her. N"or was this the only way in which he proved serviceable.
When the object for which he hacl contended was obtained, and free-
dom illumined our happy land, he stopped not short and exclaimed,
'Thus much have I done, the rest I leave to others !' ISTo ! But, like
a genuine patriot, he endeavored to render himself as useful in the
capacity of a citizen as he had been in that of a soldier. And in
his love of order and obedience to the laws he sat a worthy example
to his fellow citizens, which did not fail to attract their attention
and finally secure to him their confidence, as a mark of which he
was elected to a seat in the honorable Virginia Legislature, for a
number of years, from the count}^ in which he died. He also held
the office of magistrate, whicli, though of little profit, is of much
importance to the people, and the duties of which he never failed
to discharge with promptitude. Capt. B. was a man of sound prin-
ciples— no political weathercock was he — during the boisterous
reign of terror he remained firm and immovable, pointing to the
then Spartan band, but now formidable phalanx of Eepublicanism.
In a moral point of view, few could stand a test with him, none sur-
pass him. He was a kind father, a good neighbor, a humane master ;
long will his death be mourned by a grateful family, sensible of the
loss which nature's law has imposed upon them. Long, too, will an
extensive acquaintance deplore the sad catastrophe, which has de-
prived society of a useful member and themselves of an amiable
friend.
"Peace, worthy man ! peace to thy departed shade ! No impure
breeze shall ever waft thy name nor ruffle the green herbage that
lightly bedecks thy l)reast."
Issue of Capt. Thomass and Sarah (Booth) Baptop.
(1) James,« (S) Sarah Smitl^ (3) Mary,<' (4) Thomas,« as fol-
lows :
130 The Bay top FainUy.
I. James« Baytop (b. :March 25, 1792, d. March 27, 1860), mar.
Lucy Taliaferro (b. 1797, d. April 20, 1866), dan. of John and
Ann Walker (Carter) Catlett, of Tiniberneck. John Catlett
mar., 1780, Ann Walker Carter (b. 1763), dan. of Charles
Carter, of "Cleve," and his third wife, Lncy Taliaferro, dan.
of Wm. Taliaferro and Ann Walker (who was a dan. of James
Walker and Clara Robinson, a dan. of Christopher Eobinson,
the immigrant, and his wife, Catherine Hone). Wm. Talia-
ferro, father of Mrs. Lncy Taliaferro Carter, was justice of
Caroline Co., and son of Francis Taliaferro and his wife. Eliza-
beth Catlett (son of Kobt. Taliaferro, the immigrant), ^[rs.
Lucy (Taliaferro) Carter mar, (II) Col. Wm. Jones. James
Baytop was delegate from Gloucester Co., 1826, with ^lann
Page. (See issue farther on.)
XL Sarah Smith** Baytop, mar. Whitaker Campbell,* of King and
Queen and had:
(1) Mary Jane H.,' mar. (I) John Smither, and (II) Wm.
Bland. Xo issue.
(2) Thomas W.,'^ mar. Louisa S. Dunstan and had Sarah
E., mar. Kay; James E.; Walter P., mar.
Tabb; Emma J., mar. Eobert Curtis, four children;
Mary Booth, mar. We3'mouth, three children;
Hugh A., mar. Sally Johnson ; Ellen Lee.
(3) Lucy Ann,^ d. s. p.
(4) Pompey W.,^ d. s. p.
III. Mary® Baytop, mar. John Smith Stubbs. No issue.
IV. Thomas® Baytop, surveyor of Gloucester, 1821 ; lieutenant of
artillery, 1818, Fourth Eegiment, Fourth Division Militia,
commissioned by Gov. James B. Preston. "March, 1822. Thomas
Baytop obtained letters of administration on the "'unadminis-
tered estate of Thomas Baytop, deceased. James Baytop,
security." (Gloucester Eecords, Vol. II. 60.) In a note of
1824 he says he "finds himself indebted to his brother. James
Baytop, for $1,200, and adds that he had suffered as security
for Major James Baytop. and was then suing to recover the
security money, which he wished his attorney, Wm. Eoy,
to pay to his brother James." He died at Springfield, un-
married, after 1835.
Notes.
♦December 15, 1818 : "Eec'd from Whitaker Campbell $233 in
full for all my interest in the estate of Whitaker Campbell, Sr ,
dec'd — that is "to say, what I may be entitled to at the death of Mrs.
Martha Campbell, of the e,«tate of her dec'd husband Whitaker C^amp-
bcll. (Signed) Eobert Courtney, Jr. Witness, Eobert Courtney."
The Baytop Family. 131
December 21, 1818 : "Eec'd from Mr. Whitaker Campbell, Jr.,
$140 in full for all of my mother, Jane Jones', right or interest
that she may hereafter have in the estate of her late father, Whit-
aker Campbell, dec'd, which was held by his widow, Martha Camp-
bell, and which was sold some time past under a decree of County
Court of King and Queen, by the executors of said dec'd, and I do
for my mother, Jane Jones, relinquish all her right, title, claim and
demand by the same to Whitaker Campbell, Jr. Given under my
hand as attorney in fact for my mother, Jane Jones. Hill Jones,
atty. in fact for Jane Jones. Witness, Eobert Courtney."
i835 : "James Baytop, Thomas Baytop, John S. Stubbs, admin-
istrator of Mary Stubbs, his late wife, who was Mary Baytop ; Whit-
aker Campbell and Sarah, his wife, who was Sarah Baytop ; Drs. to
the clerk of Gloucester Circuit Supreme Court, Law and Chy.,
D. C. 2, continuances on court docket vs. Baytop's executors, Xo.
50. A. L. Davies, Clk."
DESCENDANTS OF JAMES BAYTOP, OF ''SPRING-
FIELD," AND WIFE, LUCY TALIAFERRO
CATLETT, OF ''TIMBERNECK/'
GLOUCESTER COUNTY.
Report of Auditor, United States Claims, act of Sept. 28, 1850. —
"James Baytop, sergeant, Capt. Eogers' Company, Virginia Militia,
from 12th February, 1813, to 13th May, 1813, including travel;
also nineteen days between 11th June, 1813, and 7th August, 1813 ;
one month, sixteen days between 11th May, 1814, to 29th August,
1814. He was also in Capt. Hugh Gwyn's company one month and
twenty-one days, beetween 24th September, 1814, and 11th Decem-
ber, 1814. No mileage allowed."
The following is from the muster rolls found among Baytop
family papers at "Valley Front." Extracts from Sergeant Baytop's
reports for his company of artillery :
"March 12, 1813. — Received of Major Wm. Lindsay, lanthorns
for Sergts. Livingston and Cluverius, and delivered to Major Lind-
say a weekly report.
"15th. — John Brown joined my company at Fort Norfolk this
day. Delivered to Capt. Edward James one of my pieces of artillery.
"16th. — Delivered to Capt. James Clark eighteen blank cart-
ridges, six grape and twelve canister loads.
"17th. — Drew provisions for forty-seven men. James Bentley
joined my company at Fort Nelson.
"19th. — Received of Lieut. St. Medard eighteen tin pans agree-
able to a return made on Lieut. Yeaton, A. D. quartermaster.
132 The Baytop Family.
"10th April. — Drew upon Col. Cargill, quartermaster-general, for
twenty carbines, seven cartouche boxes and eight gun slings.
-l;{th. — Weekly report returned to Col. Trueman, etc.
"•■?3d. — Drew on contractor for eighteen rations for Capt. Blake
wliile sick in Xorfolk.
"2-lth. — Henry Eaton joined my company at Fort Xorfolk to-day.
"26th. — Commenced boarding with My. Davis at Fort Xorfolk
at $3 per week, and also $3 for Lieut. Smith (which I lent him).
'''27th. — Robert Shields and Carter B. Dunlevy joined my com-
pany this day. Drew on Lieut. Yeaton for two quires paper, twenty-
four quills and twenty-four wafers for the use of my company.
'•3(^11. — Drew on contractor for thirteen rations for Sergt. Bay-
top's back rations while on a furlough.
"Brigade Quarters, 3d May, 1813. — Brigade Order: It is the
pleasure of His Excellency, the Governor, that the following volun-
teeer companies may be discharged and the men permitted to re-
turn to their homes, viz :
"Capt. Heath's Troop of Cavalry, Capt. Ta.vlor's and Capt. Hen-
ley's TJifle Companies and Capt. Eogers' Company of Artillery.
Brig.-Gen. Taylor will take the necessary measures for fulfilling the
Governor's wishes and for affording these troops the best facilities
for their transportation that the moment will afford. The major-
general can but regret parting with a body of troops whose com-
position and appointments made them so effective a portion of his
force and whose orderly and soldier-like conduct has gained so
much of his confidence. He is, however, gratified to find that the
motive of His Excellency for the discharge of these troops proceeds
from the impression he entertains of the promptitude and zeal with
which tliey turned out at the call of danger before the regular tour
of duty. By order, etc.
"Brig.-Gen. Taylor directs the officers commanding the corps that
are to l)e discharged by the foregoing orders to attend at brigade
quarters to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock for the purpose of an
arrangement by which the pay of those corps may be secured to
them and all means be adopted for their transportation from Xor-
folk. By orders, etc."
Company of Gloucester Artillery, Fourth Ixegiment of Artillery
of Virginia ^filitia, Capt. Wm. Rogers. Called into actual service
under general orders Feb. 0, 1813. Co])ied from the original roster
brought from Fort Xorfolk by Sergt. James Baytop l\ray 9, 1813:
James Baytoj). first sergeant; Cornelius Livingston, second ser-
geant; Overton Seawell, tliir sergeant; Holt Cluverius, fourth ser-
geant; James Leigli, first corporal ; Thomas Green, second corporal;
Meakins Browning, third corporal; Austin Blake, fourth corporal;
Geo. D. Bristow, John Bohannon, Robt. Brown, Reuben D. Berke-
ley, Chas. R. Burton, Thos. Coleman, John Dawson, Thos. Douglass,
John Davis, Geo. W. Dare, John Dunston, Wm. Fleming, Thos.
The Bay top Family. 133
Fleming, Wm. Fletcher, Ptolemy T. Graves, Wm. Gibbs, Thos.
Gayle, Henry L. Guthrie, Thos. E. Hobday, James Jarvis, James
H/ Jones, Wni. and Sam'l Jackman, Wm. Kemp, Wm. Lawson, John
B. Gregory, Wm. Leigh, Henry Mouring, Benj. Minor, James Phil-
potts, James Powers," Sam'l D. Puller, Thos. Robins, Ed. Shields,
Eol3t. B. Shields, Wm. Singleton, Chas. E. Tomkies, Abraham
Shackelford, Francis- West, Geo. West, Eichard West, Wm. Wood,
James Bentley, Eobt. Saunders, John Brown, Henry Eaton, Carter
B. Dunlevy, Eobt. Shields, John Figg, Josiah Minor, John Minor,
Joel Machem. These are familiar names in Gloucester to-day, and
many will read them with interest.
The account throws much light upon the War of 1812, and ex-
tracts from the old papers now at "Valley Front" are published for
the first time.
"January 6, 1811. — Eegimental Orders from William Camp,
Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding Twenty-first Eegiment. — 0. Sea-
well, Adjutant, to Capt. William Eogers : Sir— You will convene
your company without delay at Capt. Sinclair's, in Eobins' ISTeck,
the present station, as a portion of the enemy's vessels renders it
necessary to guard that part of the county. You will take with you
your field pieces and ammunition."
And again, January 25, 1814. — "Sir : You will immediately con-
vene your company at Capt. Sinclair's, and on your arrival there
you will take steps to have every man about brought to your quar-
ters. No man able to walk must be permitted to remain at home.
The number and situation of the enemy's vessels renders it ad-
visable that you should have your company full and be at the ground
apppointed in the shortest possible time. Seven sail are now in
sight. You will send for Lieut. (Hugh B.) Gwyn."
The company of guards in "Ware Neck" January and February,
1811, consisted of James Baytop, sergeant; John Brown, Henry L.
Guthrie, Eobt. Gwyn, Thos. Fleming, James Bentley, Thos. Eobins,
Wm. Fleming, John A. Pointer. Benj. Minor, James Thomas and
Ed. Jarvis, Thos. E. Hobday, Wm. Leigh, Geo. West, Wm. Lawson,
James Phillpotts, Chas. E. Burton, Geo. D. Bristow, James Crewd-
son, Eeuben B. Berkeley, Terry Bristow. Sam'l D. Puller, Wm.
Wood, John Dunston, Wm. Jackman, Addison Hall, Thos. Cole-
man, John Singleton, Wm. Kemp, Carter B. Dunlevy, John' Minor,
Ed. Griffin, Geo. Dare, Henry Eaton, Eobt. Saunders, John Bo-
hannon, Ed. Shurlds, John Bright, John Dawson, Henry Mouring.
Eegimental orders, Feb. 8, 1811.— "Capt. Thos. Hall's and Capt.
Eich. Jones' companies will relieve Capt. Wm. Eogers' and Capt.
Catesby Jones' companies next Saturday. The above companies
will relieve each other alternately once in two weeks. * . * * The
officers in Eobins' Neck will send me a return of their companies
and ammunition; also a list of those who have not been on duty
134 The Bay top Family.
agreeably to my orders, ete. The commaiuling officer on the ground
will send a horseman to each officer commanding the relieving com-
panies with a copy of this order. My adjutant is with his deadi
brother, which compels me to call on a horseman. I wish to see
Capt. Pryor before I say anything about his company to-morrow,
if possible. (Signed) William Camp, Lieutenant-Colonel, com-
manding."
"To Capt. Hugh Gwyn : I have no other papers in my possesison.
One list 1 gave to Capt. Eogers. The others, it appears to me, I
gave or sent to Sergt. Baytop. On ^fay 1 (1814) I took command
on Ware Neck and was released the 11th. (Signed) John B. Sea-
well."
His list of men : Lieut. John B. Seawell, Sergt. Holt Cluverius,
Corporal James Leigh, Corporal Chas. Burton. Privates : Geo.
Jackman, Wm. Kemp, Wm. Leigh, Robt. Gwyn, Wm. Jackman,
Stephen Puller, Thos. Baytop, Thos. Jarvis, "Wm. Moore, Thos.
Douglass, Thos. Fleming, Sam'l Jackman, James Jarvis, Ed. Jarvis,
Thos. Hobday, Addison Hall and Ed. Griffin.
Dec. 19, 1814.— -The contractor owes Capt. Hugh B. Gwyn's
company 135 rations, vinegar, soap and long forage for eight horses
three days.
Later (1918), Sergt. Baytop became captain of the Gloucester
Company of Artillery, and the muster rolls of successive years are
yet preserved, and in which many of the above names repeat them-
selves.
He was treasurer of the school board, 1830, and paid the salary
of Meredith P. Muse, teacher. Late in life Capt. James Baytop
interested himself in the erection of Bellamy's Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, built of brick and upon land donated by an humble,
God-fearing neighbor, Wm. Bellamy. He became its local minister
for several years, and his descendants consider it a monument to
his memory.
Issue of James'i and Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, of "Springfield,"
Gloucester County.
(1) Thomas Charles;' (2) Ann Walker Carter;" (3) William
Jones ;^ (4) James Christopher;" (5) Lucv Helen ;^ (6) Martha
Agnes;^ (7) Henrietta Ellen;" (8) Rowena' Matilda^; (9) Indiana
Winborn;" (10) Margaret Eugenia,^ as follows:
I. Thomas Charles^ Baytop (b. 1815, d. 1893), mar. (I) 1836,
Sarah A. McLaughlin (b. 1816, d. 1869), and (II) 1870, Caro-
line Catlett Dabney (b. 1830, d. 1885).
II. Ann Walker Carter'^ Baytop (b. 1817, d. 1894), mar. (March
4, 1835) Jefferson W. Stubbs, of "Valley Front," and cele-
brated their golden wedding in 1885. "If ever husband had a
The Baytop Family. 135
finer type of a real helpmeet, I have never known her ; if chil-
dren ever had a truer nobler Christian mother, I have failed to
see her — friend to the poor, sick and suffering, all knew the
tone of her gentle voice and the touch of her healing hand . She
gave her three sons to the Confederate Army, and made her
home a hospital for as many as fifty sick and wounded soldiers
at a time; and waited with a fervent hope while her husband
languished in a Federal prison. He was presiding justice of
Gloucester county for many years; president of the Gloucester
charity school for fifty years, and during that period recording
steward of the Methodist District Conference, and was always
prominent in the business and religious life of the county."
Issue, eleven children:
(1) Eebecca Eobins,« d. y., 1850.
(2) Lucy Ellen,^ d. Dec. 24, 1877. Of prominent educa-
tional influence — a noble life devoted to others. Died
unmarried.
(3) Major James New« Stubbs (b. 1838), lawyer, of
"Church Hill," Gloucester Co. ; alumnus of William and
Mary College and of Judge John W. Brockenborough's
law school, Lexington, Va., and, after the war, of the
University of Virginia. Of the Gloucester Artillery,
1861, and of the Signal Corps, rising to rank of major;
accompanied Gen. John B. Magruder to Texas, 1862,
and remaining with him until the surrender; member
of House of Delegates, 1869, and has served as a dele-
gate or senator for fifty years; vice-president of board
of William and Mary College, and president of Blind,
Deaf and Dumb Asylum board at Staunton; commander
of Virginia Confederate Veterans, and member of
Botetourt Lodge (Masons) N'o. 7. Mar. 1866) Eliza,
dau. of Joseph and Hester (Shackelford) Medlicott;
celebrated golden wedding 1916. Issue:
(a) Jefferson Dunbar" (b. 1869), graduate of Lou-
isiana State University, mar. Edna Coleman (d,
1896), and had Eebecca Eobins.
(b) William Carter" (b. 1871), mar. Marguerite
Pearson.
(c) Emma Linwood," teacher in Botetourt High
school
(d) John Catlett," d. 1879.
(e) Samuel Medlicott," of Norfolk.
(f) James Lucian," of Norfolk.
(4) Thomas Jefferson^ Stubbs, A. M., Ph. D. (b. 1841, d.
Nov. 17, 1915), graduate of William and Mary College,
alumnus of University of Virginia; Co. A, 34th Vir-
136 The Baytop Family.
ginia Infantry, Wise's Brigade; of the faculty of Ar-
kansas College, and member of General Assembly of
Arkansas, 1877-79; professor of mathematics in Wil-
liam and ^laiy College, Xn., 1888, until his death; a
Mason and elder in Presbyterian Church; commandant
of ^ilagruder-Ewell Camp," V. C. Y. ; member Phi Beta
Kappa. ^Married (1869) Mary Mercer Cosnahan, dau.
of Capt. Joseph B. Cosnahan, C. S. A., and wife, Louise
Mercer Waller (dau. of Dr. Eobert Page Waller, of Wil-
liamsburg, Ya., and wife, Julia Weeden Mercer, a de-
scendant of Gen. Hugh Mercer, of the Eevolution).
Issue :
(a) Mary Ix)uisa," d. 1870.
(b) Anne Waller Carter," mar. (1904) Ballard E.
Boswell, of Huntington, Ya., of an old family
wliose immigrant settled in Gloucester Co. in
the 17th century.
(c) Eobert Catlett,^" d. August, 1870.
(d) JeflFerson Lawrence," d. ]\Iarch, 1879.
(e) Tliomas Jefferson," Jr., alumnus of William and
]\rary College and Johns Hopkins University,
professor of history in John Marshall High
Seliool Eichmond, Ya.
(f ) Luc-y Taliaferro Conway," d. 1914 in lovely young
womanhood.
(g) :\rary Mercer" ("Mab"), mar., 1917, Eobert
Marshall Tomlinson, now in TJ. S. Army.
(5) William Carter^ Stubbs, Ph. D., of New Orleans,
alumnus of William and Mary, Eandolph-Macon and
University of Yirginia, 1868 ; member of Company of
"Partisan Eangers" of Gloucester Co., 1863, (Japt.
Thos. C. Clopton, which later became Company D, 24th
Yirginia Cavalry, Col. Wm. A. Eobins, surrendered at
Appomattox ; professor of chemistry in Alabama Agri-
cultural and ^fechanical College 1872, and State chemist
of Alabama 1878 ; director of Louisiana Sugar Experi-
ment Station at Audubon Park 1885, esttablished by the
sugar planters, and professor of agriculture in Louisiana
Sttate University and director of its three experiment
stations; State chemist of Louisiana 1886; established
Audul)on Sugar School 1892, and State geologist for
Louisiana ; author of works on sugar cane and genealog-
ical ])amphlets on "Descendants of !Mordecai Cooke 1650,"
"Descoiidanisof Jolin Stul)l)s 1652," and "Descendants of
Col. John Catletl 1650"; meml)er of Cavalry Camp No.
9, U. C. Y., New Orleans. Appointed by Gen. John B.
Gordon, Commander U. C. \., on his staff 1894, rank
The Baijtop Family. 137
of brigadier general ; was commissioned, 1900, by Pres-
ident William McKinley to visit Hawaiian Islands and
report upon their resources and to locate an experiment
station at Honolulu. His report was published as House
Document l^o. 368. Was State commissioner at fol-
lowing expositions: Atlanta, Buffalo, Charleston, St.
Louis, 1904, and Jameston, 1907. He mar. (1875)
Elizabeth Saunders, dau. of Henry D. and Mary Lou
(Saunders) Blair and granddaughter of Col. James E.
and Mary (Watkins) Saunders, of Lawrence Co., Ala.,
author of "Early Settlers of Alabama," and of "The
Baytop Family."
(6) Mary Ann^ Stubbs, d. unmarried 1893.
(7) Dr. John Catlett« Stubbs, of Baltimore, d. 1874, un-
married, alumnus of Universities of Virginia and Mary-
land ; practicing in Baltimore, with promise of a brilliant
future when he died.
(8) Martha Maria^ Stubbs, now survives of all the once
numerous household at Valley Front.
(9) Elizabeth Baytop^ Stubbs, died in 1913, unmarried.
(10) Francis Dunbar,^ d. y.
(11) Susannah Eobins,® d. y.
III. Capt. William Jones^ Baytop, of the Mexican War and of tlie
Confederate States Army. The history of this company shows
the unique fact that his father, James Baytop, was its captain
in the War of 1912, and his grandfather, Thomas Baytop, was
its captain in the Eevolution. The roll-calls of each are almost
identical in family names of the county people. He was killed
at "Seven Pines," 1862, while leading a charge; mar. Eebecca
Dobson and had Pocahontas,^ mar. Capt. Wm. W. Green, of
West Point, Va., and had issue :
(1) Ashby Baytop^ Green (b. 1874), of Norfolk, mar. Myrtle
Avery.
(2) Pattie Saunders^ Green (b. 1879), mar. Custis Hans-
ford of Williamsburg and Norfolk.
(4) Carrie Peyton^ Green, unmarried.
IV. James Christopher,^ lieutenant, C. S. A., Fifth Virginia Cav-
alry (d. 1896), surrendered at Appomattox, mar. Josephine
Spotswood Lewis, descendant of John Lewis, of "Warner Hall,"
Gloucester Co., and of Gov. Spotswood ; no issue. WITH HIM
DIED THE SURNAME OF BAYTOP IN AMERICA.
V. Lucy Helen^ Baytop (b. 1825, d. 1900), mar. (1848) John Sin-
clair, of "Sherwood," Gloucester Co., Va. Issue :
(1) Katherine Leslie® Sinclair (b. 1849), mar. (1873) Eev.
John H. Dye, of Searcy, Ark. (b. 1842, in Sulphur
138 The Baijtop Family.
Rock, Ark.), ineml)er Board of Yanderbilt University,
president of Galloway College, and major' genl IT. C. V.
of Arkansas. Issue:
(a) John Sinclair" Dye (b. 1874), distinguished
physician of Chattanooga, Teiin, major U. S. R.,
and head of Surgical Department Base Hospital,
Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C, mar. (Sept. 29,
l!»()!l) Lucy Starkweather Wade, of Waterbury,
Conn., and has ]\rartha Starkweather (b. Chat-
tanooga 1913). John Sinclair, Jr. (b. Fisher's
Island, X. Y., 1915), Robert Carter (b. Water-
burv. Conn., 1918).
(b) Pattie Penn" (b. 187G at Searcy, Ark.), mar.
(1!)().')) Nathaniel Bradford Birge, and has Xa-
thaniel B., Jr. (b. 1900), and John Sinclair (b.
lilOS in Sherman, Texas).
(c) :\Iartha Hicks" (b. 1878), mar. (1906) William
Herbert Appleton, of Xew York City, and both
are now engaged in canteen work, Eagle Hut,
London, England.
(d) Amanda Henderson" (b. April 8, 1880, Searcv,
Ark.).
(e) Ann Carter Gregory" (b. 1882, d. same day),
(f) Lucian Lightle" (b. Jan., 1888, d. June, 1888).
(2) Ann Carter^ Sinclair (b. 1850), mar. Minor Gregory,
of Augusta. Ark. (d. 1916) (his first wife). She died
soon after marriage.
(3) Lucy Rowena^ Sinclair (b. 1852, d. 1887), mar. Jeffer-
son Sinclair (first wife), son of Jefferson, of Gloucester
Co. Issue :
(a) Fanny Lowry^ (b. 1877), mar. Fay Curtis, of
Hampton, Ya., and has Margaret.
(b) Frederick Walker^ Sinclair, of Xew Orleans (b.
1878), prosperous insurance agent, mar. (1907)
Mary Rugeley, dau. of Daniel Dessassure Colcock,
of the Sugar Exchange, Xew Orleans, and his
wife, ]\Iattie Rugeley. Issue: Marjorie Leslie,*
Lucv Taliaferro,'' Evelyn Rugeley,** Ellen Blair,*
Frederick W.,« Jr., and William Carter,* b. 1918.
(c) Kate Leslie" Sinclair (b. 1880).
(d) John Baytop" Sinclair ("Jack") (b. 1882).
(e) Tlioinas I^owrv" Sinclair (b. 1884), missionary
of E|)iscopal Church in China, mar. (1913) Lucy
Xelson, dau. of Dr. David Xewton Rust, and has
two children. Thomas L., Jr., and .
(f) Lucv Carter' Sinclair (b. 1886).
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(■1) James Bavtop^ Sinclair, of Bay Cottage, Gloucester Co.
(b. 1854), now game warden and farmer, mar. Indiana,
dau. of Jefferson and Fanny Lowry "Sinclair. Issue :
(a) Georgia Wray^ (b. 1889).
(b) Jack.' (b. 1891), now in U. S. Army.
(c) Jefferson'^ (b. 1893), now in U. S. Army.
(d) Lucy Baytop.^
(e) Indiana.
(f) Caroline.^
(5) Caroline Eebecca« Sinclair (b. 1857), mar (1880) John
Edward Lightle (b. 1848, d. 1913), of Searcy, Ark.
Issue :
(a) Ann Carter^ (b. 1882), mar. (1909) Charles
Bradford Foster, and has Chas. Bradford, Jr.
(b. 1915).
(b) Jennie'* (b. 1884), mar. (1910) Arthur W. Jack-
son, and has Eebecca Jane (b. 1911), John Rich-
ard (b. 1913), Arthur Wm. (b. 1915).
(c) Martha HickV (b. 1888), mar. (1911) Wyatt
Stephen Sanford.
(d) Lucy Helen» (b. 1890).
(e) James Sinclair" (b. 1893).
(f) Katherine" (b. 1895).
(g) Caroline Eebecca" (b. 1897).
(h) Mary Taliaferro" (b. 1899), (all in Searcy).
(6) Christopher Booth« Sinclair (b. 1858, d. 1908), mar.
(1892) Sue Lunnie Bonner. Issue:
(a) Pattie Lucile" (b. 1893), A. B. of Galloway Col-
lege 1913. B. S. of Columbia University 1918.
(b) William Christopher" (b. 1895), student Hen-
drix College 1914-17, 2nd lieutenant U. S. E.,
and now in 19th Infantr}^ U. S. Eegulars.
(c) Edwin Bonner" (b. 1898, d. 1905).
(d) Christine Lunnie" (b. 1901), Graduated Laura
Connor High School 1918.
(e) Jack Dye" (b. 1907).
(7) William Baytop^ Sinclair (b. Gloucester Co., Va.. 1862,
d. Searcy, Ark., 1894), mar. Annie Bell, of Searcy,
Ark. Issue:
(a) Josephine" (b. 1890, d. 1901.
(b) Christopher Booth" (b. 1892), cashier of First
Kat. Bank of Gloucester 1919; Hampton Artil-
lery 1915.
(c) William Baytop" (b. 1894), now 2nd lieutenant
34th U. S. Infantry.
140 ' 21ic Baijtop FamUy.
VI. Martha Ajrnes' Bavtop (b. 18t>r, d. 18i»8), mar. (1851) Dr.
Walker Fretlerick Jones (d. 1900), of Gloucester Co., a de-
scendant of Capt. I\oger Jones and Eev. Hawte Wyatt. (See
Jones Book.) His beloved and familiar figure will be long re-
membered in Gloucester Co., accompanied bv his gentle, gray-
haired wife. Issue :
(1) Klizn Wiatt** Jones (b. 1853), has lived a useful life in
church and school.
(2) Clara Walker^ (b. 1854, d. 1868).
(3) Frederick Bavtop** Jones (b. 185G), of Gloucester Court-
House, mar. (1894) ^lary Lee Fitzhugh, his cousin.
Issue: Fitzhugh Bavtop,'' graduated first in his class at
Y. M. I. 1918; Frederick Walker ;» Hetty;'' Mary Lee.»
(4) Lucy Catletf* Jones (b. 1857), mar. 1886) Charles
Jones, son of her uncle, Wm. Ap Jones. Issue : Fred-
erick Wm.," graduate of Columbia College, and in U. S.
service 1918; Catesby Graham,'' graduate of Eichmond
College; Lawyer,** lieut. IT. S. Army; Maria Pollard;^
Marv Pollard,** and Anne Walker Carter.'-*
(5) Ann Walker Carter^ (b. 1859, d. 1860).
(6) Mary Graham^ Jones (b. 1860), mar. 1894) Jefferson
Sinclair, of Gloucester (his second wife), son of Jeffer-
son and Fanny Lowry Sinclair (See Sinclair). Issue:
Koger Jones,'-* died infant ; Martha Baytop f Emilv,"
and Lila Wiatt.«
(7) James Baytop^ Jones, of Gloucester (b. 1863), mar.
Claude Philpotts, of Texas. Issue : Eebecca" and Walker**.
(8) Martha Agnes* Jones (b. 1866, d. 1913), mar. (1886)
Dr. John Butler Broaddus. Issue. Letitia Miller," mar.
(1916) John ]Mvnn Thruston, of Gloucester, and has
Edward Mynn: Martha Baytop,** mar. (1915) Hughes
Ware and has ]\Iartha Hughes; Genette,'-* John Butler
Broaddus", Jr., and Dabney** (b. 1912).
\n. Henrietta Ellen" Bavtop (b. 1829, d. 1902), mar. (1850) Col.
Eufus King Fitzhugh (d. 1888), of Greene Co., Va., and
moved to Augusta, Ark. He was a descendant of William Fitz-
hugh tlie immigrant, and brother of George Fitzhugh, author
of "The Old Families of the Eappahannock" in De Bow's Re-
view, 1859. Issue:
(1) Lucy Stuart« Fitzhugii (b. 1851), mar. (1874) Judge
Stevadson Allen Hail, of Batesville, Ark. Issue:
Hetty** (d. 1875); Stevadson Allen** (b. 1876), mar.
(1907) Afabel Eouse, and has Sadie Lulu and Allene;
Fitzhugh Xormand** (b. 1878, d. 1914), corporal Co. B,
2nd Ark. Infantry in Spanish-Anlerican War, mar.
(1913 Helen Martin; no issue; Lulu Underwood** (b.
The Baytop Family. 141
1879, d. 1881) ; James Conway'* (b. 1882) mar. (1917)
Bertiedean Davis; Fairfax Stuarf* (b. 1884, d. 1911) ;
Eiifiis King« (b. 1887, d. 1888) ; Leeuell Virginia" (b.
1887), (twin), mar. Otto Kenton McAdams, and has
Virginia Laura (b. 1913), and Otto Kenton (b. 1917),
all of Batesville, Ark.
(2) Eufus Kings pitzhugh (b. 1852, d. 1914), came, in
childhood, with his parents, from Virginia to their beau-
tiful country home, "Walnut Wood," near, Augusta
Ark., graduated at age of 22 at Auburn Polytechnic In-
stitute, Ala., under the care of his cousin. Dr. William
Carter Stubbs (then professor of chemistry). He be-
came one of the most successful planters of his county,
was a j\Iason of the 32nd degree, and was eminently
loyal to his family and friends. He married Lollie
Davis, who has made a devoted wife and mother, and is
giving her talents to the rearing of their two voung sons,
Eufus Davis (b. 1906) and Thomas Baytop '(b. 1908.
(3) James Baytop^ Fitzhugh (b. 1855), of Batesville, Ark.,
a very successful merchant and planter, mar. (1890)
Jessie Coffin, of Powhatan, Ark. Issue: Lucv C.** and
Virginia Stuart" (by 1907).
(4) Eugene Carter® Fitzhugh, of Augusta, Ark. (b. 185G),
unmarried.
(5) John Conway® Fitzhugh (b. 1859), mar. (1889) Mary
Virginia Maxfield, of Batesville, Ark. Issue: John
Conway," Jr. (b. 1893), now in aviation service U. S. A. ;
Frederick Eugene" (b. 1896), now in U. S. Navy; Mary
Maxfield" (b. 1899).
(6) Xellie® Fitzhugh (b. 1860), mar. (1906) Wm. W.
Byers, of Batesville. Xo issue,
(7) Alexander Stuart® Fitzhugh (b. 1861), of Augusta, Ark.,
planter, mar. (1890) Alice Yarnell, of Searcv, Ark.
Issue: Stuart B." (b. 1895), now in U. S. motor ser-
vice in France; Eufus King" (b. 1905).
(8) Mary Lee® Fitzhugh (b. 1863), mar. (1894) Frederick
Baytop Jones, of Gloucester, Va., her cousin. (See
aiite for Jones.)
(9) Henry Lay® Fitzhugh (b. 1866), prominent lawyer of
Fort Smith, Ark., mar. (1903) Leila, dau. of Capt. John
Allen. Issue: Lucy Lee" (b. 1908) ; Jack" (b. 1912).
(10) Charles Carter® Fitzhugh, of Batesville, Ark. (b. 1828),
mar. (1907) Mary Duffey, and has Frances E." (b. 1910) .
VIII.Eowena Matilda" Baytop (b. 1831, d. 1873), mar. (1855)
Eobert Munford Sinclair (b. 1828), son of John and Margaret
(Munford) Sinclair, of Gloucester Co., Va. Issue:
142 The Baytop Family.
(1) Margaret Baytop^ Sinclair (b. 1857), mar. (1880) Cecil
Wrav Sinclair, son of Fayette : Issue : Rolland Carter"
(b. iSSl), killed bv accident; Cecil Ashton" (b. 1882) ;
:Marv Etta''' (b. 1881), mar. (191G) Edward P. Ander-
son;" Kowena Baytop'' (b. 188G), mar. (1910) Howard
F. Collier ; Edward Allen" (b. 1888), mar. Fanny Robins ;
Robt. Munford» (b. 1890) ; Marshall Wray** (b. 1892),
ass't surgeon U. S. A.; Tliomas Jefferson** (b. 1895).
(2) :k[aude l?oberta^ Sinclair (b. 1859), mar. (1881) Alex-
ander Taliaferro Wiatt, now, and for many years, clerk
of (iloucester, and president of Bank of Gloucester. He
and his brother, Wm. E. Wiatt (d. 1917), long the be-
loved minister of the Baptist Churches in Gloucester,
are descendants of the Rev. Hawte Wyatt, brother of Sir
Francis Wyatt, governor of Virginia 1(J21. (See Wiatt
this volume.) Issue: Mary Rowena** (b. 1882), mar.
(1908) Wm. A. Wright, and has Robert Sinclair and
Marv Palmer; Clara Louise," d. y.; Robert Graham" (b.
1884), M. D., lieut. IT. S. A., Camp Greenleaf, Fort
Oglethori>e, Ga. 1918, mar. (1916) Xannie Mav Rudd ;
■\Iaude Sinclair" (b. 1885) ; Eleanor Bavtop" (b. 1887),
mar. (1912) Dr. Burton Belcher, U. S. A., and has Wm.
Alexander: Fay Carter" (b. 1890), mar. (1914) Robt.
Rhodes, and has Maude Roberta and Clementine Lee;
Haut€" (b. 1892); Jack Munford" (b. 1895); Helen
^Margaret:" Herbert," and Americus Yespucius." (See
Wiatt.)
(3) Fayette Munford^ Sinclair, mar. Kate F. Reid, and has
]\Iaude," mar. Rogers, and has Fay S. and Grover
Coleman ; Theodore" now in U. S. Armv.
(4) :\Iary Taliaferro^ Sinclair (b. 1866)," mar. (1893)
Edwin C. Garrett, of Baltimore. Issue: Mary Rowena;"
jMaude," mar. ^\v. ^loore of Baltimore.
(5) Helen :\rackie'^ Sinclair (b. 1870), mar. (1893) Thomas
Branch Paschall (1). 18(i(i. d. in Searcy, Ark.. 1908).
Issue: Pattie Sinclair" (b. 1896), an"d Rowena" (b.
1905).
IX. Mary Indiana Winburn' Baytop (b. 1832), yet living, the last
sur\nving of seven sisters, mar. (1856) Charles Wortley Mon-
tague (d. 1888) (his second wife), lawyer of Gloucester Co.,
and in C. S. A., Co. D., 24th Va. Cavaliy. Issue :
(1) Charles Carter^ Montague (b. 1857), mar (1879) Lida
P.n)wn Bethcll (d. 189(J), of Dcs Arc, Ark. Issue:
Cbarlcs Wortley" (b. 1880); Ellen Brown" (b. 1882);
Catosby Jones" (b. 1884) ; Winburn Bavtop" (b. 1886) ;
Bedford Bethell" (b. 1889) ; Helen Gregory" (b. 1891),
and .Marv Lee" (b. 1893).
The Bay top Family. 143
(3) Helen Baytop^ Montague (b. 1858), mar. (1884) Minor
Gregory (d. 1916), of Ark. (ante) (second wife). Issue:
Wm. Xathan Gregory^ (b. 1885).
(3) Marv Wortley^ Montague (b. 1859, d. 1895), mar.
(1881) John B. Kittrell, of Ark. Issue : Samuel Carter''
(b. 1883) ; Caroline Bavtop^ (b. 1885) ; Mary Wortley"
(b. 1888) ; Charles Minor" (b. 1890) ; Emma Catherine^
(b. 1893), and John B.« (b. 1895).
(4) James Baytop^ Montague (b. 1869, d. 1878).
X. Margaret Eugenia T.^ Baytop (b. 1834), mar. (I) (1856)
Thomas William Banks, of Gloucester Co., C. S. A., who died
in prison, 1865, and (II) 1869, Eobert Shield (b. 1833, d.
1895. Issue:
(1) William Thomas^ Banks (b. 1857, d. 1881).
(2) Cora Carter^ Banks (b. 1859), mar. Eobert Munford
Sinclair, and had Blanche (b. 1885).
(3) Florence Catlett^ Banks (b. 1861, d. 1891), mar. Henry'
Fielding Sinclair, and had Lizzie Baytop (b. 1883),
mar. Mr. Xewkirk, and Henry (b. 1886). Issue by sec-
ond marriage (Shields) : Eobert Saunders (d.) ; Wil-
liam Henry, Anne Carter (b. 1875), mar. James White
Chandler; Orlando Fairfax, and Eugene Shield.
It is quite a remarkable fact that two of the sons of
James" Baytop left no issue, and one had an only daugh-
ter, and amongst his numerous descendants not one now
bears the name of Baytop.
Major James^ Baytop, of the Eevolution (b. 1754, d. 1833), first
lieutenant Seventh Virginia Eegiment, ]\Iarch 7, 1776 ; captain,
Dec. 11, 1777, transferred to Fifth Virginia Eegiment Sept. 14,
1778. Eesigned May 13, 1779; major Seventh Infantry Jan. 10,
1799; honorably discharged June 15, 1800. (Heitman.) A census
of Petsworth parish, 1783, gives him three white in family and
eleven blacks. He was of the Petsworth parish vestry 1785. Col.
John Page recommended to the Governor that James Baytop be
commissioned lieutenant-cononel, he having been unanimously se-
lected by a full court of field officers, since he had served with credit
as captain in the Continental service, and is esteemed an excellent
officer of Virginia cavalry. (State Papers, Vol. 1.)
His home was Barren Point, York Eiver. In 1787 he was as-
sessed for 338 acres,, and in 1789 for 1,050 acres, and same each
succeeding year. He was member House of Delegates, 1793, with
John Hughes, and in 1795 with Mordecai Cooke, and the Virginia
Calendar of State papers mentions him as balloting, 1794, for a suc-
cessor to Judge Spencer Eoane, of Court of Appeals. He was of the
committee, 1790, with Philip Tabb, Armistead Smith, Samuel Cary,
IMachen Boswell, James Booker and Eichard Bilkips, to settle the
account of Sir John Peyton (died 1790), sheriff, with Gloucester
144 The Baijtop Family.
county, for revenues and taxes of 1782. Hening's Statutes, Vol.
VII, contains an interesting account of this settlement. John Dixon
(d 1789) and John Whiting (d. 1798) were the succeeding sheriffs.
Sir John Peyton had married (I), 1850, Frances, daugliter of
Mordecai Cooke. h\ whom were horn all his children. He married
(II) Mary Dick, of Fredericksburg, widow of James Taliaferro,
with one son, John. Peter Beverley Whiting had been security for
certain deputies of Sir John Peyton. Both were now dead, and their
widows, Mrs. Ann Mason Fox and Mrs. Elizabeth Cooke Whiting,
were also involved in the suit as executors.
Major James Baytop's taxes in Ware parish, 179G, were £2.13.8.
He was executor of Mordecai Cooke, 179(). On June 9, 1792, he
petitioned for "arms for C41oucester and Mathews counties, fearing
an insurrection of the blacks, being alarmed at the late insurrection
on the Eastern Shore." (Virginia Calendar of State Papers.) He
was a member of the Order of Cincinnatus at its meeting at Eagle
Tavern, Richmond, Ya., Oct. 25, 179G (with several other liloucester
gentlemen). He was justice in 1816; March, 1822, appraisement
of James Baytop's estate, ]\Iordecai Cooke, executor ; Richard Jones,
"sheriff and committee of the estate." (CTloucester records.)
In a deposition (1829) William Armistead, of Franklin county,
Ohio, said that in the year 180G Col. James Baytop, of Hampton,
employed him to build him a house on the farm called "Goodwood."
Elizabeth City county, etc. This deposition was in a chancery suit
at Williamsburg between James Baytop, plaintiff, and John S.
Westwood and others, defendant.
He married three times: (I) Marv (b. 1748, d. 1796), daughter
of John Cooke (b. 1718, d. 1795)," who married (Oct. 9, 1744)
Elizabeth I^ee. (Abingdon Register.) In 1796 Giles Cooke, her
brother, qualified as "trustee of children of Col. James Baytop by
his late wife, Mary Cooke." (She was sister also to Thomas Cooke,
who married Rachel Murrey Yates, below.)
James'' Baytop married (II) Elizabeth, widow of ]\Iatthew
Wliitiug, with sons, ^latthew Whiting and John B. Whiting.
In a suit (1805), Daniel et al. vs. Whiting, as to a legacy of
negroes, ^Irs. Elizabeth Baytop, of York county, deposed ; also
James Baytop, of York county, and John B. Whiting, who men-
tioned James Baytop as his "step-father." John Baytop, "of Mid-
dlesex," also made depositions. In another deposition in York
county, 18(»5, Major James Baytop said he was "late of Gloucester
county." He married (III) Dec. 31, 1807, Catherine Klug Yates
(b. 1784), daughter of Henry Beverley Yates (who was son of Rev.
Bartholomew Yates and his wife [1741], Elizabeth Stanard). Her
sister, Rachel Murray Beverley Yates, had married (1797) Thomas
Cooke (his second wife). Another sister, Elizabeth Stanard Yates,
had married John (^uarles, of King and (^)ueen county. These were
the "orphans" of Harry Beverley Yates, who married (I) Lucy
The Baytop Family. 145
Murray, and (II) (1783) Jane, daughter of Col. James Montague.
Commissioners were appointed ,1800, by county court of Middlesex
county to settle with Thomas Eoane "his administration of the
estate and guardianship of the orphans of Harry Beverly Yates."
In the final settlement of Harry Beverley Yates' estate James^
Baytop assumed his part, "in place of his wife," Catherine Klug
Yates. James Baytop came into court and made affidavit (1830)
that he was "sixty-six years old." (Gloucester Eecords, Vol. 1, 114.)
Issue: James, Thomas, John, Anne, Martha and Sarah Elizabeth
Baytop (b. 1790). Of these:
(1) James*' Baytop (b. 1776), "d. 1817, and unmarried," as tes-
tified by his uncle, Thomas Cooke). His executor was Mor-
decai Cooke, in 1821. (Gloucester Eecords, 1, 411.)
(2) Thomas« Baytop, d. y., 1805.
(3) John" Baytop. He was a merchant in Urbanna, of the success-
ful firm of "James Eoss & Co.," 1800. He made a deposition
in York Co., 1805, as "John Baytop, of Middlesex Co.," and
Gloucester County Eecords (Vol. I) mention him as one of the
appraisers (1821) of the estate of Francis Whiting Cooke (his
cousin), who died 1820.
(4) Martha," mar. John Catlett, of "Endfield," Gloucester Co., and
had an only child, James Catlett,^ murdered when a young man
by a favorite slave, to whom he had promised his freedom at
his death. Mother and son are buried at "Springfield," in
Gloucester Co. (See note.)
(5) Anne," the eldest daughter, mar. Thomas Archer, and had
Mary,^ mar. John Minson, and had Archer Minson and others.
There are now surviving female descendants only.
The following is a letter from Ann Baytop (IMrs. Archer) "to
Mrs. Francis Whiting Cooke" (nee Elizabeth Baytop) :
"August ( undated ) .
"My Dear Aunt — It gives me great uneasiness to inform you that
I cannot, as soon as I expected, return home. Believe me, nothing
but the distresses of niy poor papa would have detained me so long
from one for whom I feel all the tenderness of a child for its mother.
T have long been convinced that you have ever supplied that place
to me, and I would think myself unworthy the regard of any person
if I ever forget the ol)ligations you have conferred upon me. It
gives me the sincerest pleasure to hear that you are anxious to see
me, and I am certain that nothing would afford me more happiness
than to be with you now, but I also wish to be with papa until his
affairs are more settled than they are at present. I expect in October
the place he now resides at will be sold, and where he will then
direct his steps I know not. Heaven, I trust, will look witli pity
upon his suffering and send him that peace he so much wants, and,
I hope, is not undeserving of. I have been some davs with Cousin
146 The Baijtop Family.
Sally since slic came from ^fatthews county. [This was a daughter
of her aunt (above), and wlio married Mordeeai Cooke.] 1 received
the bonnet you were so good as to have made for me, and for which
I am extremely obliged to you. Give my love to all the family, and
believe me to be Yours affectionately, Anne Baytop."
It seems her father had many financial worries and contracted
many debts, and, like a good daughter, she grieved with him ; but
he was twice married after tliat, and she herself married, before
180r, Thomas Archer.
(6) Sarah Elizabeth Smith« Baytop (b. Sept. 18, 1790, d. April 15,
1879), buried at "Pear Tree Hall," Warwick Co., mar. (Xov.
18, 1818) Gill Armistead Carv (b. :\rarch 18, 1783, d. March
25, 1843), son of Col. John Cary (b. 1745, d. 1795), of Eliza-
beth City Co., A^a., who was member of county committee, 1774,
and captain in Revolution. His wife was Susan, dau. of Gill
Armistead, of Xew Kent Co. Cary issue :
(a) John Baytop" Cary (b. Oct. 18, 1819, d. Jan. 13, 1898),
founder and principal of Hampton ]\Iilitary Academy,
colonel in C. S. A. on Gen. Magruder's staff, and super-
intendent of public schools in Eichmond, mar. Columbia
Hudgins, of Alathews Co., and had issue: (1) Gilla,*
mar. (1915) Col. W. Gordon ]\IcCabe (second wife),
the distinguished president of Virginia Historical So-
ciety (b. 1842) ; (2) John Baytop^ (d. 1860; (3) Eliza-
beth Earle,® mar. Daniel, of Eichmond; (4) Effie,*
mar. John L, White, of Pensacola, Fla.; (5) Sallie
CampbelP (d. 1891), mar. Louis P. Knowles, of Caro-
line Co. ; (6) Thomas Archibald.® mar. ]\raria Abert and
had issue.
(b) Dr. Eobert X." Cary (b. 1822, d. 1874, at Pensacola,
Fla.), major artillery C. S. A. around Eiclnnond, mar.
(1878) Susan Fisher (b. 1834, d. 1865). of Northamp-
ton Co., dau. of Miers W\ and Julia (Holland) Fisher,
and had: (1) Sarah Elizabeth Smith® (b. 1858), mar.
(1873) Prof. Wm. S. Graves, of Xorth Carolina, four
children; (2) Juliet F.« (b. 1856), mar. Herbert Sitt-
well, of England, two children; (3) Susan A.,® mar.
Geo. Nichols, of Bedford Co., six children.
(c) Richard Aliles" Cary (b. 1825), of Hampton and Peters-
burg, Va., and jMohile, Ala., C. S. A. and wounded
severely June 9, 1864, near Petersburg, mar. Hannah
E. (d.*1893), dau. of John Cary Whiting, and sister of
Dr. John Whiting, and granddaughter of Horace Whit-
ing. Issue: (1) Sallie Baytop,® mar. James E. Aber-
crombie, and had Sallie Cary, J. Edwin (d. 1888), Eich-
ard Whiting, and Lelia Abercrombie; (2) Martha A.;*
Tlie Baytop Family. 147
(3) Major Eicliard Miles^ Gary, of Gary & Go., of Pen-
sacola, Fla., major of Third Battalion, First Regiment,
Florida State troops, in Spanish War, and "king" of
Pensacola Garnival Association, 1902; (4)Lelia,^ mar.
Henry Hall, Jr., of Mobile, Ala., and had Lelia Gary,
Henry and Elizabeth Whiting; (5) Glara Whiting;*
(6) Martha A.'
(d) Gill Armistead^ Gary (b. June 5, 1838, d. March 5, 1829.
(e) Gill Armistead^ Gary (b. 1831, d. 1880), lieutenant, G.
S. A., mar. Virginia Smith, of South Garolina, and had
issue : Belle,^ and Martha Baytop.^
Note. — John^ Gary (Miles,* Miles,^ Henry,- Miles^)
mar. Susan, dau. of Gill Armistead, of New Kent Go.
Issue: Miles (b. 1767) ; John (b. 1770) ; Nathaniel and
Gol. Gill Armistead, of Hampton (b. 1783, d. 1843),
mar. Sarah Elizabeth Smith Baytop, above (b. 1790).
"In the close of the genealogy we find 'James* Gatlett murdered
when a young man by a favorite slave." This was perhaps the most
intensely dramatic situation ever felt in Gloucester county.
James Gatlett was the only son of his mother, who was a widow.
He was just returned from college, brilliant, handsome and rich,
with life in its fullness spread out before him.
His body-servant, a mulatto fellow, promising, too, and apparently
faithful, was present when he read his will to a friend. To this
body-servant he left the priceless boon of the human soul — freedom.
Soon after this incident James Gatlett one bright morning started
with this man to a distant plantation. He was to return that even-
ing, but he did not. The servant did return, and announced that
his master was detained. The master's prolonged absence created
suspicion, and when the negro was gravely required to tell what he
knew he lost courage and fled to the woods. The men of the whole
countryside started in pursuit; the women stayed at home Allied
with a despairing dread.
Dogs were let loose and fell in with spirit for the ghastly chase.
A favorite dog of James Gatlett led to the discovery of his body near
his home, where it was covered deep with earth, brushwood and
leaves. Days passed before the murderer was trapped, desperate,
weak and famished in the woods.
A trial ensued and he was condemned to death. Old residents
have told us of the hanging — how the negroes from all the planta-
tions, and many white citizens, too, filed in garrulous lines from the
various plantations to the courthouse to watch a pitiful and tre-
mendous tragedy.
No doubt the condemned body-servant professed religion noisily,
if he had not done so before, and his admiring colored friends saw
him rise from the gallows to realms of untold freedom within the
blue sky which spread above his shame.
148 The Baytop FamUii.
This Baytop genealogy embraces so much that it will ever be a
valuable reference, not only for genealogy, but also for history.
Much light is thrown on the War of 181-^. We can hear dramatic
tones and smell the battle, if, indeed, afar !'* — Mrs. Sally XelsoiJ
Robins.
John^ Ba.vtop (youngest son of James* and Sarah [Smith] Bay-
top) (b. 175(5), ensign Second Virginia, June 1, 1778; second lieu-
tenant Aug. 9, 1778; first lieutenant May, 1779, and served till
January, 1780. (Heitman.) He died, unmarried, 1799, at the
home of his sister, ]\rrs. Philip Taliaferro, "Hockley," in King and
Queen county.
"In the name of God, Amen ! I, John Baytop, of the county of
King and Queen and parish of Stratton IMajor, being of sound and
perfect memory, do make and ordain this writing to' contain my
last will and testament and do dispose of my estate as follows:
"Imprimis. — I give and bequeath unto Colo. Philip Taliaferro
my mare, saddle and l)ridle, to him and his heirs forever.
Item. — I lend unto my niece, Sarah Smith Shackelford, during
her natural life my negro woman Hannah and lier two children,
with their future increase, and at her death to be equally divided
between the children she may then have or their heirs, which said
negroes I then give to them and their heirs forever.
"Item. — I desire that the money due me from Capt. Thomas
Booth (after all just debts and expenses are paid therefrom), to-
gether with the rest of my negroes not disposed of, may be divided
into five parts, one of which I lend unto Cornelius Livingston and
Sarah Hughes during their natural lives, and at their deaths to be
given to their children. One other part I give to my sister, Eliza-
beth Cooke ; one other part to my brother, Thomas Bavtop ; one
other part to my brother, James Baytop, and the remaining part
unto Philip Taliaferro, which said parts I give to them and their
heirs forever; and I do further make the said Philip Taliaferro my
residuary legatee and executor of this my last will and testament. In
witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-
seventh day of Jan'y, 1799. Johx Baytop. [seal]
"Signed, sealed and acknowledged in presence of James Jones,
James Banks. James B. Taliaferro, Richard Taliaferro.
"At a court lield for Kiuir and Queen county at the courthouse,
Aloiulay Sth^ of April, 1799, this last will and testament of John
Baytop, dec'd, was offered for proof by Philip Taliaferro, the ex-
ecutor therein named, and was proved l)y the oaths of James B.
Taliaferro and Ridiard Taliaferro, two oi" the witnesses thereunto
subscribed, and also by the oath of the said executor, and is ordered
to be recorded. teste. HonKirr Pollard, C. C
This copy was made for Mr. William T. Shackelford and ad-
dresssed to him at Little Plymouth, King and Queen county.
The Batjtop Family. 149
SINCLAIE NOTE.
It is the tradition of the Sinclair family of Gloucester county,
Va., this their ancestor, Henry Sinclair, from Aberdeen, Scotland,
"the lost heir," was stolen and brought to Virginia when a small
child, and identified later by his name and the clothing of a gentle-
man^s son. At any rate, he lived in Isle of Wight county, and was
the father (besides of others, perhaps,) of John^ Sinclair, of "Berry
Hill," near Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, and Robins Neck,
Gloucester county, whose will was probated in Gloucester county,
Aug. 18, 1815: Gloucester tax books give him 1,280 acres in 1795,
and 1,110 in 1798. He married (I) Elizabeth, sister of Solomon
Wilson, of Isle of Wight, and had Elizabeth, Thomas and Mary
Jones Sinclair. Of these:
Elizabeth" mar. Copeland Parker (first wife), customs officer for
Norfolk, 1772, and brother of Col. Josiah Parker. Issue; Nich-
olas Wilson Parker, mar. Elizabeth Bush, and had Elizabeth,
mar. Dr. Robert Rose, and Mary, mar. Dr. Herbert M. Nash;
Elizabeth Sinclair Parker, mar. Capt. John Courts Jones, of
Clean Drinking Manor, Md., and had Nichola E, Jones; Ann
Parker, married John Allmond, of Norfolk. (Va. Hist. Mag.,
VI,422.) Thomas Sinclair was living 1813, and had daughter,
Margaret M.
Capt. John Sinclair married (II) Mary Mackie, of Gloucester,
daughter of Andrew ]\[ackie, widow of Thomas lanson, with chil-
dren, Archibald, Richard and Elizabeth lanson. In an old survey
book at the clerk's office is a survey of 2,000 acres in 1792, "the
Mackie estate," at the point of Robin's Neck. Elizabeth lanson
married — ■ Webster, and had John, Alice and Archibald Web-
ster. Andrew Mackie appears in the Gloucester tax lists, 1787, with
1,600 acres. In 1792 the division of his estate, with accompanying
plat, was as follows: "Mrs. Mackie's dower, 400 acres; Patsy
Mackie, wife of lanson, 160; Charlotte Mackie, 160; Mary, wife
(first) of Thos. lanson, and (second) John Sinclair, 160; Elizabeth
Mackie, 160; Andrew Mackie, 160; Archibald Mackie, 200; John
Mackie, 300; Margaret Mackie, 300" (the last three at the point).
By this last marriage (Mackie), John Sinclair had issue:
(1) John-^ Sinclair (b. 1798), mar. (I) Mary Munford, (II) Lucy
Baytop. (iSee Bay top.)
(2) Caroline^ Sinclair, mar. Gary Jones, and had Martha, mar.
Lockey Collier.
(3) Mary3 Sinclair, mar. Jones, and had one child, Elva,
mar. Dr. Cooper, U. S. A. He was surgeon at Fortress Monroe,
150 The Baytop Family.
1865, and thcv extended nianv courtesies to their distinsruished
prisoner. President Jefferson Davis, of the Confederacy.
(4) Jefferson^ Sinclair, of Hampton, Va., mar. Georgiana Wray.
Issue :
(a) Jefferson,* mar. Frances Lowry, and had Jefferson, mar.
(I) Lucy Sinclair, (II) Mollie Jones, her cousin. (See
Baytop Family for issue.) See page 151.
(b) Lafayette,* mar. ]\[ollie Allen, and had Margaret, Ed-
ward, Cecil, Mollie, Fanny. Thomas, Lockey and Ann.
(e) John,* mar. , and died without issue.
(d) Wray,*d. s. p.
(e) Henry,* mar. Martha Louisa, dau. of Tabb Catlett, and
had Keith, mar. Mary Catlett; Diana and Louisa.
(f) Georgiana* Wray. mar. Eobt. Colgate Selden, and had
Eobt. Colgate, Sinclair, ]\Iary, Wray, Elizabeth Lewis,
and Charlotte.
(g) Keith,* mar. Ida Phillips, and had Jefferson, Caroline
and Eoy.
WHITING NOTE.
James^ Whiting, 1642, a patent in Gloucester county. His land
on North river, Gloucester county, 1653, joined J.ohn IJssery and
Joseph Croshaw. His son, Dr. Henry- Whiting, of Ware parish
1670, vestry 1674, major of Horse 1680, burgess 1683 with John
Buckner, councillor 1690, treasurer of \a. 1692, mar. (before 1670)
Aphia, widow of Eichard Bushrod, (II) Elizabeth , living
in Gloucester 1729 as "widow of Col. Henry Whiting." Issue:
Henry, Francis, Thomas, Elizabeth (Mrs. John Clayton), and
Catherine (Mrs. John Washington). Of these. Major Henry Whit-
ing (d. 1728), tobacco agent 1702, sheriff 1723, mar. Anne, dau. of
Col, Peter Beverley (d. 1728), and wife, Elizabeth Peyton, and
had, among others, C*ol. Thomas Whiting (b. 1712, d. 1781), influ-
ential merchant at Gloucester Town 1751, burgess 1758, colonel of
Gloucester militia 1775, mar. (I) Elizabeth (b. 1740, d. 1766),
dau. of John Tliruston and wife, Sarah Mynn; (II) Elizabeth, dau.
of Wm. Beverly, of "Blandfield" ; (III)" Elizabeth, dau. of John
Seawell, of Gloucester, who mar. (II) Samuel Cary. Issue, fifteen
children, of whom eight survived him, as mentioned in his will, Oct.
15, 1780 ((Va. Hist. May., XVIII, 358; Wmiam and Mary Quar-
terly, IV, 108) : "To son Thomas, 600 acres in Abingdon parish,
30 slaves and houses and lots in Gloucester town (Gloucester Point) ;
son Henry, one-half tbe Hackney and Munford plantation in
Abingdon parish ; son Horatio G., one-half of above plantation ; to
daughters, Sarah, 15 slaves; Catherine B., 15 slaves; Elizabeth
The Baytop Family. 151
Thruston, 15 slaves; Susannah, 15 slaves; Jane, 15 slaves, and Ann
Beverley, 15 slaves." Of these :
(1) Elizabeth (d. 1722), mar. (I) (1782) her cousin, John Thrus-
ton (b. 1761, d. 1802), son of Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston;
(II) Capt. Aaron Fontaine, of Louisville.
(2) Sarah, mar. James Hubard, and had son, Thomas Hubard.
(3) Catherine Beverley, mar. (I) Lieut. Stevenson, of the Revolu-
tion; (II) William Lowry, and had Thomas Wliiting Lowry.*
(4) Thomas Beverly, mar. (I) — Whiting; (II) Elizabeth
Kennon, widow of Henry Perrin, and had Dr. Tom and Ken-
non Whiting, of Gloucester (b. 1796), mar. Ann Wythe Mal-
lory, parents of Gen. Julian Wythe Whiting, of Mobile, Ala.
(5) Susanna, mar. (I) (1786) Gibson Cluverius, d 1790; (II)
(1792) John Lowry, brother of William (above).
(6) Jane, mar. Chas. Grymes, and had Charles and Mary Grymes.
(7) Henry (d. 1810), executor of John C. Pryor.
(8) Horatio Gates.
(9) Anne Beverley, mar. (I) Major John C. Pryor, of the Revolu-
tion; (II) Charles Fremont. Issue: Gen. John C. Fremont,
U. S. A.
*Thomas Whiting Lowry (above) married Martha Bush Mallory, and
and had ten children, among them (1) Frances, married Jefferson Sinclair,
and had Jefferson, married (I) Lucy Sinclair, (II) Mollie Jones; (2) Thos.
Lowry; (3) Ashton; (4) Martha Mallory, mar. (I) Bartlett Robins, (II)
Archie Robins; (5) Indiana Lowry, mar. James Baytop Sinclair (brother
of Lucy); (6) Ann Wythe, married Loekey Sinclair.
LOWRY NOTE.
Wm. Lowry, of Elizabeth City county. Feoffee of Hampton 1719
(will probated 1724), married (1689) Frances Purefoy (widow of
Richard Hand, d. 1689 ) . Issue :
(1) Frances, mar. Thos. Kerby and had five children,
(2) John Lowry, mar. Mary , and had William, captain
under Col. George Washington 1758, mar. Catherine Bev-
erley Whiting (above) (dau. of Thomas), widow of Capt. Ste-
venson. Issue, four children : Thomas Whiting Lowry, Cath-
erine, Elizabeth, and Mary Lowry.
(3) Wm. Lowry, mar. (I) Jane , (II) Rachel .
(4) Capt. Edward Lowry.
(5) Margaret, mar. Richard Booker, and had son, William Booker.
Frances^ Purefoy, above (Thomas,^ Capt. Thomas,^ burgess 1629,
councillor 1631), had issue by her first husband, Richard Hand :
(1) Hannah Hand, mar. (I) Capt. Wh. Marshall, (II) (1694)
153 Tlte Bat/top Family.
Capt. Kicliard Booker, of Gloucester Co., and had George and
Frances (d. 1752), mar. Stokes, and others.
(2) ]klartha Hand, mar. John'' Tabb, b. 1676, (Thomas,^ Hum-
phrey^). Issue:
(a) Thomas,* of Amelia (d. 1769), mar. (I) Elizabeth
Mavo, (TI) (1735) Rebecca Booker.
(b) Edward,-* of Gloucester (b. 1719, d. 1782), mar. (1749)
Lucv (b. 1721, d. 1791), dau. of Christopher Todd.
(c) William.*
(d) John,* of Kingston parish, Mathews Co. (then Glou-
cester). (William and Manj Quarterly, 125; Va. Hist.
Mag., lY, 171).
WYATT NOTE.
Wiatt, from County Kent, England, and Gloucester County, Virginia.
Arm^. Wvatt : Partv per fesse azure and gules, a barnacle argent.
Arms, Haute : Or, a cross engrailed gules.
(William and Mary Quarterly, XII, 35, et seq.)
Adam Wyatt married a daughter of Wiggan de Norwoods.
Henry Wyatt (sixth in descent from Adam) was knighted by
Henry YII. While imprisoned, his life was saved by nourishment
from a cat. His son, Thomas' Wyatt, married Elizabeth, daughter
of Thomas Brook, Lord Cobham. Elizabeth married (II) Sir Ed-
ward Warner, and their descendants also came to America. Thomas^
Wyatt, the son, married Jane, daughter of Sir Wm. Haute, of Kent.
He was knighted temp Edward YI, and beheaded first year
of ]\rary. His son. Sir George'' Wyatt, of Boxley Abbey, Kent,
England, died 1625. Elizabeth restored his estate and knighted
him. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Finch, and had,
among others. Sir Francis (Governor of Virginia 1621, d. 1644),
and Rev. Haute" Wyatt (b. 1594, d. at "Boxley," Kent, England,
163S), minister at Jamestown, Va., 1621, married (I) Elizabeth
(d. 1626), (II) Anne (d. 1631). Left m Virginia
sons, Gec)rge'^ and Edward, ^^ by first wife, and John" by second.
Edward" patented 1,230 acres on the Poropotank in Glo\icester,
1662. The Wyatt seats in Gloucester were "Boxley," "Oakley," and
"Old" and "Xew ri)ton." He married Jane Conquest and was
dead in 1672. His son, Conquest'- Wyatt (d. 1706), had, among
others, Edward,'"' merchant in Gloucester, church warden of
Petsworth parish, 1742, died 1745, and had Captain John^*
(b. 1732, d. 1805), church warden Petsworth parish 1755, mar-
ried Mary (b. 1725, d. 1794), daughter of Christopher and
Elizal)eth Todd, of "Todds1)ury." His son. Dr. Wm. Edward"^ (b.
1762, d. 1802), sheriff of Gloucester 1802, married (1781) Marv,
The Baytop Family. 153
daughter of John Graham,* of Prince William county, Va., and
Elizabeth Cocke, and had, among others, Eliza Maria^*^ Wyatt,
married Walker Jones, grandson of Secretary William Cocke and
his wife, Elizabeth Catesby (sister of Mark Catesby, the traveler
and naturalist, who died in London 1748, leaving 200 copper plates
of American birds and beasts, drawn, engravened and colored by
himself. These were the parents of Dr. Frederick Walker^' Jones,
William Ap Jones and others), and Dr. William Graham^" Wiatt,
sheriff of Gloucester 1830, who married (1822) Louisa C. Stubbs,
daughter of John Segar Stubbs, parents of Eev. Wm. E.^^ Wiatt,
and Alexander Taliaferro^' Wiatt, now clerk of Gloucester and pres-
ident of the Bank of Gloucester, married Maud Sinclair ( above).
SCOTT-BAYTOP FAMILY.
Anne Baytop, of Gloucester county (daughter of Thomas, born
1676 in Staplehurst, County Kent, England), and sister of James,
of "Springfield," Gloucester county, Va., married Thomas Scott, of
Gloucester county (the immigrant from County Cumberland, Eng-
land), and removed to Caroline county, where they were living
1771. Issue : Thomas, James, and John, who died, 1773, in Glou-
cester county. Of these :
L Col. Thomas^ Scott (b. 1727, d. 1804), mar. (I) (1754) Cath-
erine (b. 1733, d. 1766), dau. of Dr. Charles Tomkies, of Glou-
cester (will 1737), and his wife, Mary, dau. of Dr. David Alex-
*Note 1. — Dr. Wm. Cocke, Secretary of State 1712-1722^ married Eliza-
beth, sister of Mark Catesby. A son, Catesby Cocke (b. 1702), of Bel-
mont, Fairfax county, father of Capt. John Catesby Cocke, of the Revo-
lution, who married (1784) Thornton, and of Elizabeth Cocke, mar-
ried John Graham, of Prince William county (son of John Graham, of
Perthshire, and related to the Duke of Montrose). His will, 1783 (probated
1787) mentions children: "Eobert, Walter, William, John, Catesby, Jane,
and son-in-law, William Edward Wiatt," who had married his daughter,
Mary Graham, in 1781. (William and Mary Quarterly, XII, 112.)
Note 2.— Elizabeth Cocke, died 1762 (daughter of Secretary William
Cocke and sister of Catesby Cocke, of Belmont, Fairfax county), mar-
ried (I) William Pratt, will 1722 (Page book, 60), merchant in Gloucester
county, and (II) Feb. 14, 1725, Col. Thomas Jones (will, probated Hano-
ver county 1758), son of Capt. Roger Jones, the immigrant. Among their
ten children was Col. William Jones (b. 1734), "Old Horn," of "Marl-
field," Gloucester county, married (1766) Lucy, daughter of William and
Ann (Walker) Taliaferro, widow of Charles Carter, of "Cleve" (son of
Robert, or "King," Carter). His wife's only child, Ann Carter, married
John Catlett, of "Timberneck," and both families moved from King
William to Gloucester county 1780-93. A son. Walker Jones, married
Elizabeth Maria Wiatt, parents of Mrs. Wortley Montague, Dr. Walker
F., Capt. William Ap, and Mrs. Stephen Field, all of Gloucester. Only
the descendants of Col. Thomas Jones and wife, Elizabeth Catesby Cocke,
are entitled to the name of ' ' Catesby. ' '
154 The Baytop Family.
ander, of Gloucester (whose wife, Ann, was one of the two
daughters of Francis :\[organ, burgess in 1647) ; (II) (1790)
:^Irs. Ruth Billups, of Gloucester. Issue (all by first wife), five
children :
(1) Thomas,'' b. 1755, d. infant.
(2) Marv^ Scott (b. 1758), mar. Wm. Watts, of Campbell
Co., and had issue :
(a) Bettie-* Watts, mar. Hon. Wm. Rucks, of Missis-
sip])i, and liad Arthur, Henry and Malvina, who
mar. Hon. Wm. Yerger, of Jackson, Miss.
(li) Gen. Edward* Watts, of Botetourt Co., Va., mar.
a dau. of Gen. Breckenridge, and had Jolm B.
Watts.
(c) :\Iarv* Watts, mar. Hon. Richard Morris, of Han-
over Co., Ya. Issue: Mary Louisa^ mar. Thos.
Boiling, of Goochland Co.; John Barton,'' of
Ky. ; Hon. Richard,^ of Texas; Edward,^ of Ya.;
Charles,^ of Ya., professor in University of Ga. ;
Bettie,^ mar. Richard K. Cralle, of Greenbriar,
Ya. ; Sylvanus\ M. D., of Hanover Co., mar.
Page Waller.
(d) Alice* Watts, mar. (1814) Judge Fleming Saun-
ders (b. 1778, d. 1858), of Franklin Co., Ya.,
son of Peter Hyde Saunders (See Early Settlers
of Alabama.) Issue (besides four who died
young) : Peter^ (b. 1823), mar. Elizabeth, dau.
of Rev. Jolm Blair Dabnev, and had Edward
W.," Speaker of Ya. 1898 and member of Con-
gress, mar. ]\Iary Walker, of Lynchburg, and had
several children; Wm. D.," mar. (1899), Eliza-
beth, dau. of Robt. jNIontgomery, of New Orleans,
and Alice** Lee; Anna Maria^ (b. 1825), mar.
Col. Thos. L. Preston, of Charlottsville, Ya.;
Major Robert Chancellor^ (b. 1837), mar.
(1851) Caryetta, dau. of Prof. John Davis, of
University of Ya., and had Alice," mar. James
Davis ; Eugene Davis," professor of law in Tulane
I^iiiversitv, Xew Orleans; Dr. Edward," of St.
Louis; ^farv Jane;" Elizal)eth Gardner," mar.
Wm. Hickson; Robt. C," Staige," and Walter,"
lawyer, of St. Louis, mar. Louisa Kiser, and
Susan }\. ;" Louisa Morris.'^ mar. Richard T,
Davis (first wife), and had Lucy," Anna," and
Caryetta ;" Fleming,'* mar. Gwathmey, and
had Eva," Fleming," Carter," and Ailsie."
(e) Ann* Watts, mar. Tenijde Gwathmey, of Rich-
mond, Va.
The Baytop Family. 155
(3) Major Francis^ Scott (b. 1756), of Prince Edward Co.,
captain in Lee's Legion in Eevolution, mar. (1777)
Ann, sister of Col. Joseph Wyatt, of Charlotte, Va. ;
she died in Lawrence Co., Ala. Issue, fourteen children :
(a) Joseph W.* Scott, mar. Mary Carrington, and
had George C.^ and Mary C.,^ mar. Tazewell Mor-
ton, of Eichmond, Va.
(b) Catherine Tomkies* Scott (b. 1777), mar. John
Garden, of Charlotte Co., and was living 1854
with son, Thomas J. Garden, of Prince Edward
Co.
(c) Joseph Wyatt* Scott (b. 1780), mar. Mary, dau.
of Judge Carrington. Issue : George C.^ and
Mary Carrington,^ who mar. Tazewell Morton,
of Eichmond.
(d) Francis* Scott (b. 1782), mar. Price, of
Charlotte Co. Issue: Susan' A., mar. Alex. C.
Owen, of Lafayette Co., Ark, and had five chil-
dren.
(e) Hon. Thomas* Scott (b. 1784), mar.
Inge and moved to La. A son, Frank,' lived in
Alexandria, La.
(f) Sarah* Scott (b. 1785), mar. Dr. Young, of Mo.
(g) Ann* Scott (b. 1788), mar. Jemison, and
was living in Lawrence Co., Ala., 1854. (Her
mother's sister, Sarah Wyatt, was the wife of
Wm. Bibb and mother of two Governors of Ala-
bama : William and Thomas Bibb. These sisters
met in Alabama after many years' separation.)
Issue : Thomas f Francis,' mar. Emily ]\Iicheaux,
of Ala.; Sarah,' mar. Gibson, of Ala.;
Catherine,' mar. Eobt. Moseley, of Miss.; Clem-
ent,' d. y.
(h) Elizabeth* Scott (b. 1790), mar. Capt. Matthew
Williams, of Charlotte Co., and left tAvo children,
names unknown.
(i) Charles Tomkies* Scott (b. 1792), lawyer and
State senator, Alexandria, La.
(j) Martha* Scott (b. 1794, d. 1843), moved to Ala.
with ]\Irs. Jemison and there married Hartwell
Thompson, of Huntsville, Ala., and moved to
Columbus, Miss. Issue: (1) Francis Scott,"
mar! (I) Sykes, (II) Mrs. Outlaw, and
had several children by first wife (names not
known), and Baird,'^ and Scotf^ Thompson by
the second, who moved to Florida; (2) Thomas
Burton, d. y.; (3) De Witt;" (4) Elbert H.;«
156 The Baytop Famihj.
(5) Sarah," and Julia Scott," born in Morgan
Co., Ala., mar. ^Nfilton Odeneal, of Colnnibns,
Miss. ; no issue,
(k) Mary* Scott (b. 1796), mar. Thos. Bouldin
Spencer, of Charlotte Co., Ya., and had five chil-
dren.
(1) John Baytop-* Scott (b. 1799) ; lived in Alexan-
dria, La.
(m) Eobert* Scott (b. 1801), formed a law partner-
ship with Isaac Garrett in Monroe, La.
(n) William* Scott (b. 1807), moved to Texas, and
had sons, Frank'^ and Thomas,^ of Alabama.
(4) Gen. John Baytop^* Scott (b. 1761, d. 1813), of Halifax
Co., Va., left Hampton-Sidney College at age of 16 and
joined the famous T^egion of Gen. "Light-Horse'' Harry
Lee, with rank of lieutenant, and was colonel command-
ant by l)revet and civil commandant at Cape Giradeau,
Mo., of the District of Mississippi, from April 20, 180.5,
to April 21, 180(), and was captain in War of 1812 of a
company of Ecvolutionary veterans called "The Silver
Greys," and l^rigadier-general of State troops, member
of Society of Cincinnatus and was candidate for Con-
gress when he died in 1814. Married (I) (1782) Eliz-
abeth Coleman (d. 1783), no issue; (II) (1785)
Martha, dau. of Wm. and Eachel Thompson. Issue :
(a) Mary C.,* mar. John E. Cocke and moved to
Greene Co., Ala., 1824. Issue : John Cocke,^
mar. (I) Amanda Bohannon, (II) America
Cherrv, and had John," Lucv Herbert," mar. (I)
S. M.'Webb, (II) Brooks of Eankin Co.,
Miss.; Mary Bathurst," mar. Westbrook, of
Texas; William," C. S. A., killed 1863 ; Amanda ;«
Lucy H.^ Cocke, mar. Geo. Goodrum, of Ark.,
and had William,*' Mary," ]\Iartha," George^ and
Jack," captain in Ark. infantry, C. S. A.;
Martha T.''" Cocke, mar. (I) John Grav (of James
Scott line), and had John," Jr., C. S. A., killed
1863; Frances" C, mar. Burden, Jr.;
:\rary Scott," mar. (I) John B. Scott, (II)
Sam'l Harwood, and had Mary L.'^ Scott,
Matthew^ Scott, and Enffin G. Harwood and
Eobet E." Harwood. Wm. T. S. Cocke,= M. D.,
mar. Harriet Jack (of James Scott line). Issue:
Marv," Margaret," and Anna."
(b) William T.* Scott, M. D., mar. Cliarlotte (d.
1821), dau. of Hon. Christopher Clark, member
of Congress from Bedford Co., Va. Issue : Chas.
The Baytop Family. 157
Clark,^ mar. Mary Bell, of Kemper Co., Miss.,
and died 1863 in C. S. A., leaving Jennie,*' mar.
Hale, of Ky.; Willie," Samiiel,« Char-
lotte,'' Chas. Clark,*' Jr., and perhaps others.
(c) John Watts* Scott, mar. Eliza C, dan. of Wm.
Irvine, of Bedford Co., Va. Issue: Charlotte
C.,° mar. A. W. Davis, of Tallahatchie Co., Miss.,
and had Bettie** and Kate;" Martha A.,^ mar.
Francis M. Watkins, of Farmville, A^a. (author of
"Thomas Watkins of Chickahominy" pamphlet).
Issue: Henry I.*' Watkins, city engineer. Little
Eock, Ark.; Eliza,® Agnes V.,** Charlotte D.,®
Catherine C.,** Mary Cabell,*' Francis S,*' Samuel,**
Judge Asa," of Farmville; Martha." Wm.
Irvine^ Scott, lawyer, died 1846 immarried;
Catherine Tomkies^ Scott, mar. Dr. E. Coleman,
of Miss. ; Charles T.""' Scott, of Cal. ; James T.^
Scott; Christopher Hudson^ Scott, killed in Nica-
ragua 1858, in expedition of Gen. Wm. Walker.
(d) Thomas Baytop* Scott, lawyer, died 1824 in
Ala. No issue.
(e) James Baytop* Scott, mar. Louisa Bohannon.
Issue: John Baytop,^ 'mar. Mary Scott Gray
(ante); Martha Ann,^ mar. James Mooring, of
Gainesville, Ala., and had Lizzie** and John;**
James T.,^ mar. Mattie Beckham, of Marengo
Co., Ala., and had Mattie M." and Kate W."
(f) Francis Tomkies* Scott (b. 1800), of Miss., mar.
(T) Margaret, sister of Patrick and Church
Jack, (II) Elizabeth White, (III) Annie Wal-
ton, of Kenyon and Noxubee counties. Miss.
Issue : Patrick Jack,'^ Thomas Francis,^ and per-
haps others.
(g) Martha A.* Scott, mar. Dr. James P. Hill. Issue :
Anne P.,^ mar. Erasmus Fawcett, and had
Francis S.** and Elizabeth.*'
(h) Christopher Columbus* Scott (b. 1807, d. 1859),
moved to Ala. 1824 with his brothers and sisters,
mar. (1832) Elizabeth Strotlier, dan. of Judge
Daniel Smith (of Waverley, Buckingham Co.,
Va., president of General Court and 'of Special
Court of Appeals of Va.) and located at Gaines-
ville, Ala., and in 1844 at Camden, Ark., and
was judge of the Supreme Court of Arkansas,
1849, until death. Issue, nine children : Daniel
Smith^ Scott, M. D. (d. 1857), unmarried;
Francis Tomkies^ Scott (b. 1835, d. 1918), cap-
158 The Bayiop FamUij.
tain Co. B., 11th Ark. Cavalry, C. S. A., mar.
Leila McMalion. Issue: Fannie*^ (b. 1869), mar.
J. F. Walker and has Leila Scott;' Helen" (b
1872); Jennie" (b. 1875); Frank" (b. 1880);
Christopher," mar. Katherine Harwell and has
Francis Tomkies," Christopher," and Katherine;^
Mary."— Marv Fram^es'' Scott (b. 1837, d. 1915),
mar. (185-1:) Capt. John W. Tobin. of New Or-
leans. Issue: ]\Iarv Hidev" (b. 1856, d. 1859) ;
Daniel Gaillard" (b. 1858, d. 1859) : Mary Gail-
lard," mar. Charles P. ^IcCan. of Xew Orleans,
and had Kate Eliz.' mar. Ed. E. Greenlaw ; Fannv
Tobin,' mar. A. Ward Cobb; Hester^ (1). 1885,
d. 1891); David Chambers' (b. 1884), and
Charles P.^ (b. 1887) ; Fanny John," mar. Thos.
H. Underwood, of New Orleans, and had Tobin
Herndon' (b. 1887), mar. (I) Sophie Dure],
(11) Jehanne Durel, four children: Emily Eliza-
beth i\Iaud," mar. Leon Gustave Gibert. of New
Orleans, and has Leon G.' (b. 1893) ; Ellen Vir-
ginia," mar. Albert Sidnev White (son of Maun-
sell), and has Maud Tobin" (b. 1897); Ellen
Tobin^ (b. 1899) ; Elizabeth Bradford" (b.
1901) ; Albert S.,^ Jr.. and John Tol)in" White.
John Francis Tobin," of Xew Orleans (b. 1871),
mar. (1904) Eliska Paule Provostv, of Xew
Orleans, and has John Wm." (b. 1905) ; Eliska
P." (b. 1907) ; Mary Frances" (b. 1909) ; Mary
Louise Eugenie'^ (b. 1911) ; John Francis Paule^
(b. 1915) ; Christopher Columbus^ Scott, Jr. (b.
1841), captain 5tli Ark. Battery, Light Artillery,
C. S. A., now of Arkadelphia, Ark., mar. Jane
Toney, and had James" (1). 1866, d. 1890) ; Eliza-
beth"" (b. 1869), mar. B. Luce, and has Mary
Blucker,'^ Jane Elizabeth," and Charlotte;^
Birdie" (b. 1872), mar. X. W. Sharpe, and has
Xorville Wallace^ and Donald Scott;' Claire" (b.
1877, d. 1879); Xellie," mar. Albert Jordan,
and has Elizabeth Scott:" Elizalx'th Strother=
Scott (b. 1843) mar. (1858) L. W. Gay-
lord, of Bristol, Connecticut, and had issue:
Scott" (. 1859), mar. Mary Spencer: Elizabetii
Lillian," mar. Chas. P. Frquhart, of Xew Or-
leans, La., and has Elise," mar. Philip Pichard
Duggan, and has Philij) Pichard,*^ Jr. (1). Aug.
2, 1915) : ^rarie" Elise (b. Fel). 19, 1918) ; Lil-
lian Gavlord," iiiai'. Charles Wliitnev Boudeu
The Baijtop Family. 159
(1915), and has Barbara^ (b. Dec. 19, 1915;
Wilkins risk' (b. Aug. 18, 1896) ; Eobert Scott,^
d. y. ; Kate Scott^ (b. 1846, d. 1863, unmarried) ;
Julia Stone^ Scott (b. 1819), mar. I. W. Carhart,
of Ark., and had Whitfield Scott« (b. 1876), mar.
Bessie Chamberlain; Henrietta Danlev^ Scott (b.
1852), mar. Alfred A. Tufts, of Camden, Ark.
Issue: Maud^ (dec'd).
(i) Elizabeth Rebecca Coleman* Scott, mar (I) Dr.
T. D. Bell, (II) L. B. Fawcett, (III) Eobert G.
McMahon, of Gainesville, Ala. Issue (Bell) :
Fann}',^ Hessie,^ Bessie,^ Turner,^ Kate,^
Martha^ and Mary^ (twins), Effie^ and Lily^
(twins), and Eobert M.^ (By McMahon) : Eliza-
beth E. C.^ and Mary Scott. ^
(5) Capt. Charles^ Scott (b. 1763), of Falkland, Halifax
Co., Va., mar Priscilla Eead, of Charlotte Co., Va.
Issue : Isaac Eead,* d. y. ; Mary E.,* mar. Nathaniel E.
Venable ; Catherine Tomkies,* d. y. ; Sarah,* mar. Wm.
A. Carrington, of Halifax Co., Va., and had Charles
Scott^ Carrington; Henry E.,* joined a company of
Eangers in Texas and was killed by Indians; Harriet,*
mar. (I) Thomas Eead, (II) Anderson Morton; Maria,*
died unmarried; Louisa,* mar. Samuel V. Watkins, of
Petersburg, Ya. ; Charles.* d. y. ; John B.,* mar. Mrs.
Mary Eedd and moved to California.
(6) Thomas Tomkies'"' Scott (b. 1765), died unmarried at
the old homestead in Prince Edward Co., Va. See his
letter, dated "Charlotte, Sept. 23, 1804," to Capt. Thos.
Baytop, of Gloucester, beginning, "Dear Kinsman," and
signed "Your aff' t Kinsman."
11. James- Scott (b. in Caroline Co., Va., 1728, d. 1776), son of
Col. Thomas and Anne (Baytop) Scott, moved, 1750, to Prince
Edward Co., Va., and, in 1770, to South Carolina, mar.
Frances Collier (dau. of John Collier, of "Porto Bello," above
Yorktown, who mar. (I) Ballard, (II) Gaines,
(III) Nancy Eyres). Issue, ten children:
(1) Frances A.,^ mar. (I) Eeuben Coleman, (It) John
Catlett. No issue.
(3) Anne,^ mar. Mica j ah McGehee, son of Edward and
(De Jarnette) McG^hee, of Amelia Co., Va., and
moved to the settlement of Virginians on Broad river,
Georgia (See- "Gov. Gilmer's Georgians"). Issue, 13
children, born in Oglethorpe Co., Ga. : James,* mar.
■ Johns and had five children ; Thomas Baytop,* mar.
Betty, dau. of John Gilmer, and had 12 children ; Eliz-
160 The Baijtop Family.
abeth.* mar. Abraham Hill, of Ga., and had Dr. Abra-
ham^ and Mrs. Blanton Hill;^ Charles,* d. s. p.; Fran-
cis,* d. s. p.; Abner* (b. 1779, d. 1855), of Montgom-
ery, Ala., mar. (I) Charlotte Spencer, (II) Jane Gilmer,
14 children: William* (d. 1833), mar. (I) :Martha, dan
of Gen. Benj. Taliaferro, of Ga., (II) (1817) Elizabeth
(b. 1783, d.' 1836), dau. of James and Jane (Thomp-
son) Watkins, of Elbert Co., Ga., and had 10 children;
Sarah,^ mar. (I) Thomas Hill, (II) Dionysius Oliver
(second wife), and had six children in all; Judge Ed-
ward* McGehee (b. 1786, d. 1880), of Woodville, Miss.,
planter, philanthropist and financier, mar. (I) (1811)
Margaret L. Crosby, (II) (1823) Han-iet A. Goodrich,
(III) (18-29) Mary H. Burriiss (b. 1812, d. 1873),
dau. of Eey. John C. and Elizabeth (Brame) Burruss,
and had issue :
(a) Cynthia Ann,'' mar. John S. Walton, of Xew Orleans;
no issue.
(b) James Jack,"' died young.
(c) Sarah Houston,-'^ mar. John W. Burruss (son of Eev.
John) and had Ann M.," mar. Judge John H. Kennard;
Catherine F.," mar. Henry Ginder, of Xew Orleans;
Edward M.," died unmarried; Mary E.,^ died unmar-
ried ; Sarah L.,'' mar. Judge Robt. Semple.
(d) James H.,'^ died young.
(e) Edward John"' (b. 1820, d. 1868), mar. (1841) Ann Car-
ter (b. 1825, d. 1879), and had Edward J.,« C. S. A., 31st
Miss., mar. Corinne Evans, and had six children ; Harry
T.," C. S. A., mar. ]\Iargaret Percy, three children, and
A. Kerwin," mar. Kate Towles, six children.
(f) Charles Goodrich^ (b. 1823, d. 1903), of Woodville,
Miss., mar. Stella McN'air (d. 1859). Issue: Eobt. M.,«
Dr. Edward," of New Orleans; Laura," mar. Hugo
Davis, nephew of Jefferson Davis; Stella," mar. George
A. Adams : Charles," d. y. ; Howard B.," mar. Hattie,
dau. of Bishop Galloway, of M. E. Church, South.
(g) Micajah-' (b. 1826, d. 1880), unmarried; went with
Gen. Frcemont's expedition to California, 1848. See
Ccniunj Mag., March, 1891).
(h) Harriet Ann,"' d. y.
(i) William,"' d.y.
( i ) Francis,"' d. y.
(k) George l^iomas" (1). 1833), of Woodville, Miss., A. :M.
of Yale College, captain 21st Miss., C. S. A., and on
Gen. Kershaw's staff, mar. Lily McNair. No issue.
(1) John Burruss"' (b. 1835, d. 1913), of Laurel Hill,
Miss., C. S. A., planter and member of Legislature, of
The Baytop Family. 161
rare wit and charm, mar. (1834) Catherine Elizabeth
Stewart, and has J. Stewart,^ planter, mar. L. C. John-
son.
(m) Caroline Elizabeth,^ mar. Duncan Stewart and has
George,** Mary," Louise,'' Ida," Henry," Ed." and Cath-
erine."
(n) Wilbur Fisk^ b. 1839, d. 1859).
(o) Mary Louisa,^ mar. S. H. Snowden, and had Wilbur
Fisk," d. y. and Mason," mar. Elizabeth, dau. of E. M.
McGehee.
(p) Scott,^ of New Orleans (b. 1843, d. 1916), Third La.
Eeg., C. S. A. (Col. Fred N. Ogden), mar. (1873)
Louise (b. 1856, d, 1896), dau. of Charles Schaumberg,
of St. Louis. Issue : Louise," Ethel," and Major Schaum-
berg McGehee, of Washington Artillery, 141st U. S. Eeg.
(1918).
(q) Abner,^ d. y.
(r) Harriet,^ d. y.
(s) Augusta Eugenia^ (b. 1854, d, 1882, unmarried).
John Scott* McGehee, of Panola, Miss., Mar. Malinda,
dau. of Miles Hill, and had 11 children, all wealthy and
influential; Abraham* McGehee, mar. (I) Harriet Hill,
(II) Catherine, dau.^ of John Peniston, of England,
Governor of the Bermuda Islands, (III) Smith,
of Ala. ; issue : James,^ Harriet,' Ira Edward,^ andMarie
Josephine,^ mar. Aug. W. Jourdain, of New Orleans. —
Hugh* McGehee, of Panola, Miss., mar. Sarah, dau. of
Shelton White, and had five children; Lucinda* Mc-
Ghee, mar. Dionysius Oliver (first wife), and had
Mary,^ Frank,' Susan Scott,' Peter/ Dionysius' and
Edward' (twins) Susan' and Margaret Oliver.' (See
"Early Settlers of Alabama" for McGehee and Oliver.)
(3) Thomas Baytop^ Scott (d. 1820 in Cahaba, Ala.),
fought, as a lad, in the Eevolution. His second wife
was Cunningham, of South Carolina (first not
known). Issue: John James,* mar. Benson, of
Montgomery, Ala., had John,' mar. Englehardt,
and had Eebecca; William,* killed in battle, and Cath-
erine.*
(4) Col. John B.^^ Scott (b. 1773, d. 1839). (See further).
(5) James^ Scott, sherifi: Eichmond Co., Ga., died unmar-
ried.
(6) Daughter,^ mar. Hezekiah Gray, of Elbert Co., Ga.
(7) Mary Eliza,^ mar. (1770) James Stubbs, of Georgia
(ancestors of many of the name in the South. See "De-
The Bay top Family.
scenclant of John Stubbs of Cappabosic, Ya., 165-2/' by
Dr. William Carter Stubbs, of Xew Orleans.)
(8) Daugbter,-' mar. Key, of Edgefield, S. C.
(9) Daugliter,^ mar. Spencer, of Augusta, Ga., and
bad Ottavius,* Cbarlotte,* and Harriet.*
(10) Daugbter,^ mar. Dr. Charles Gacbet (first wife), no
issue; he mar. (11) Ann, dau, of James and ]\[ary Eliza
Stubbs, above. Descendants in Ala.
Of the above. Col. John Baytop^' Scott (b. 1773, d.
1839). mar. (179o) Eliza Coleman, in Augusta, Ga.,
moved to Milledgeville 1804, and built the capitol, and
then to ;Montgomerv, Ala., 1808. Issue, 14 children,
of whom (1) Frances Ann* (b. 1796); (2) Eliza* (b.
1797), and (3) Emily* (b. 1799), all died young. The
others were:
(4) Thomas Bavtop* Scott (b. 1800, d. 1854), mar. (1823)
Martha G. (b. 1807, d. 1854), dau. of Xicbolas and
Ann (^lattbews) Marks; both died of yellow fever in
Montgomery. Issue: Alfred M.^ (b. 1824, d. v.; Clem-
entina E.' (b. 1826), d. v.; Marv Virginia^ (b. 1827,
d. 1862), mar. (I) Edward Xesbitt, and had Anna,«
mar. (1869) Eobt. Goldthwaite and had Mary Y., Eobt.
W., Edward X., Olivia, Eiehard, George and Duval
Bedford Goldthwaite; Susan," mar. George Hailes;
Mrs.^ Xesbett mar. (II) Philomon T. Savre and had
Thos. Scott" (b. 1856), Mary" (b. 1859), and John B."
Scott (b. 1862)"; John Baytop'^ Scott (b. 1831), mar.
(I) Howard, (11) (1863),, Grace Eay (b.
1846)), dau. of Eobt. Tyler, of Montgomery, Ala., and
had James Marks" (b. 1866), Marv Y." (b. 1868), and
Eobt. Tvler" (b. 1871) ; Eliza Camilla^ Scott (b. 1834).
mar. (I) (1852) Joel Joseph Knox (b. 1829, died of
yellow fever 1854) ; issue, Edward Xesbitt" (b. 1853),
Joel Joseph" (b. 1854) : mar. (II) (1858) Wm. Boyd
Armistead (b. 1830), and had Elliott Scott" (b. 1860),
Geo. :\[attbews" (b. 1861), Eosalie (b. 1866, d. 1868).
(5) Alfred Yernon* Scott (b. 1803, d. 1860), mar. (I) :\rary,
dau. of Gov. Wm. Bibli, of Alabama, and had Eliza
Ann,'' mar. James Boykin, and had Frances," mar.
Micou, ]\rary Bibb," Charlotte Tavlor," James Bur-
well," Ernest," and Thomas;" John ' Eandolph'^ Scott;
Ellen,^ mar. Eobert Darrington Boykin and had Cath-
erine," Sarah," and Eobt, D. ;" Thomas James^ Scott,
C. S. A., killed at Seven Pines; Alfred,* mar. (II) Ee-
becca Xixon : issue, Alice,"' mar. Dr. Algernon Sydney
Garnett, of Hot Springs, Ark., and had five children
(names not given), Alfred"' Scott; William 0. Xixon^
The Bay top Family. . 163
Scott (b. 1850), of Washington, D. C, and greatly in-
terested in this family genealogy.
(6) John^ Scott (b. 1805), d. s. p.
(7) Elliott^ Scott (b. 1807), d. s. p.
(8) James Edward^ Scott, D. D., of Texas, (b. 1809), mar.
(I) (1833) Milly De Jarnette Hall (b. 1818, d. 1858) ;
issue, JohnElliott^b. 1835), Benj. Wartield-' (b. 1837),
James Edward^ (b. 1838), Alfred A^ernon^ (b. 1839),
Samuel Coleman^ (b. 1841) (all died young) ; Thomas
Bavtop^ (b. 1842, d. 1873), Euth Amr^ (b. 1844), mar.
(1867) Champion S. Hill, and had James Scott« (b.
1867), John Elliott" (b. 1870), Milly« (b. 1871), Sarah"
(b. 1873), and a son" (b. 1874); Mary Vernon^ (b.
1846, d. 1847), Clifton^ (b. 1847), Emily V= (b. 1849),
mar. Edwin G. Bower, and had Edwin S." (b. 1869),
Wm. Aubrey" (b. 1870), Euth Hall," (b. 1873) ; Eobt,
Scott^ (b. 1851, d. 1864), Wm. Scott^ (b. 1854), John^
(b. 1856), James^ (b. 1857, d. 1868) ; Eev. James Ed-
ward^ (b. 1809), mar. (II) (1859) Mary Martin El-
more, and had Lilea" (b. 1861), and Vernon" (b. 1865).
(9) Eliza Ann* Scott (b. 1811), mar. in Lowndes Co., Ala.
(1827) Lorenzo James (b. 1805 in Kershaw District,
S. C, son of Samuel and Mary (Darrington) James,
of S. C.) Issue: Emily Virginia^ (b. 1829) (wrote,
1875, most of the above Scott family register), mar.
Major Henry Churchill Semple, of Montgomery, Ala.,
C. ,S. Artillery (son of Judge James Semple, pro-
fessor of law at William and Mary College, Va.), and
had T. Darrington" (b. 1858, d. 1905), lawyer of New
York, mar. Eosa Gu,nter and had T. Darrington, Jr.,
Ellen and Emily ; Eev. Henry Semple," S. J., of Mobile,
Ala. ; Lorenzo ;"*Sister Margaret Mary," of Mobile ; Irene"
and Emily," living with their mother in Montgomery,
1905: Alfred Scott^ (b. 1831, d. 1874); Clementina^
(b. 1833), mar. (1857) Daniel H. Cram; Mary Eliza^
(b. 1837), mar. (1856) Charles L. Mathews, and had
Eliza" and Frances M. ;" Frances^ (b.l842), mar.
(1866) Burwell Boykin, and has Thos.," Elliott" and
Henry" (b. 1874); Elliott L.^ (b. 1845), mar. (1873)
Theresa Ann Gilchrist, and had Norman" (b. 1874) ;
Ellen Scott^ (b. 1849) ; Laura^ (b. 1852).
(10) Clementina* Scott (b. 1814), mar. (1832) Thomas
James (b. 1807, d. 1834), brother of Lorenzo. Issue:
Clara Lee,^ mar. (1853) Origen S. Jewett (b. 1822),
of Mobile.
(11) Emily V.* Scott (b. 1818), mar. Charles T. Pollard, of
Montgomery, AIsl. Issue: Bettie,-^ mar. Dr. Paul C.
164 TJie Baijtop Family.
Lee and had Virginia S.,° Rebecca,*' Joseph P.,'' and
Clara \.f Joseph,^ C. S. A., killed in battle; Charles
T.,^ Jr., mar. Rebecca Matthews ]\Iarks and had Mary
L.,« A^irginia S.," Charles L.," and Rebecca IsLf Clara
Vernou,= mar. Wm. R. Cocke, and had Charles P.,*'
Philip St. George," of Xew Orleans; Paul Lee,*' Cary
Hartwell," Virginia S.," Clara Vernon," and Wm. R."
(12) Robert Lindsay' Scott (b. 1820, d. 1852), mar. (1841)
Laura Ann (b. 1824) dau. of Dixon H. and Susan E.
Lewis, of Ala. Issue: Eliza Elliott^ (b. 1844), mar.
1865) Lorenzo Clarke Fisher, and had Laura F." (b.
1869), Ella Scott" (b. 1872), and Wm. Phillips" (b.
1875); Claride Vernon^' (b. 1848), mar. (1870) Jos.
Archibald Robertson, and had Mary Pettus" (b. 1871),
Robt. Scott" (b. 1872), Joseph Archer" (b. 1874);
John Archer," d. y. ; Robert Lindsay," d. y.
(13) William Bibb* Scott (b. 1823), mar. Elizabeth H., dau.
of Gov. John Murphy, of Ala. Issue : Clara Viola^ (b.
1847), mar. (1872) Col. A. M. Shannon, and had
Clara May," and Alexander;" James Edward^ (b. 1851) ;
Mary Eliza^ (b. 1853) ; Alfred Vernon^' (b. 1856, d.
1868).
INDEX TO CATLETT PAMPHLET
INDEX TO CATLETTS.
Abigail 57
Ada 46, 56, 58 83
Addie 29, 65
Adam 56
Addison 85
Adelaide 78
Aden 58
Agnes 25, 32, 35, 43, 46
Albert 27, 57, 63, 81, 86, 96
Aleinda 78, 84
Alexander 50, 53, 54, 55, 56,
58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 67, 84, 87, 88
Alfred 70, 76, 78, 81, 82
Alice 19, 26, 27, 35, 81
Allie 64, 91
Allietta 78, 84
Amanda. , 64, 93
Ambrose 70
Amelia 53, 93
Alsey 93
Anderson. . , 54
Angelina 78
Ann . . . .21, 25, 26, 32, 33, 38, 41,
42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 51, 54,
56, 58, 60, 61, 77, 79, 80,
81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 89
Annarell 33
Arilda 64
Arthur 33
Ashby 46, 79, 88
Anna 79
Aylett 25
Bailey 64
Barnes 93
Basil 56, 57, 58
Beatrice 22, 95
Belle 57, 91
Benjamin 20, 37, 45, 58, 93
Bessie 22, 32, 71
Betsy 95
Bertha 86
Blanche 29
Boulware 29
Brice 64, 65
Bryant 76, 81
Calmes 88, 89, 90
Calvin 87, 92
Camille 80
Caroline 30, 84 95
Carter 22
Catherine 51, 61, 65. 68
Catlett Marriages 4
Celia 56
Chandler 81
Charity 42
Charlotte 33
Chloe 58
Charles 22, 39, 40, 41, 43, 51,
63, 65, 70, 71, 81, 95
Clara 58
Clark 57, 93
Clarence 22
Clariss 79
Clay 71
Colin 25, 26
Cora 94
Corinne 29, 31, 89, 91
Cornelia 53, 54, 74, 85
Custis 65
Daniel 57, 64
David . ...8, 48, 49, 50, 51, 65, 69,
73, 76, 78, 79, 82, 83, 92
Delia 58
Denver 55, 57
Dewey 22
Donald 29
Don Piatte 84
Dorothy . ...29, 52, 58, 61, 79, 82, 91
Earl 86
Edith 33
Edward 2, 32, 33, 35, 57, 58
Edwin 54, 70
Eleanor 34
Ellen 25, 33, 58
Elijah 53, 56, 78, 84
Elisha 64
Eliza 41, 52, 55, 58, 70, 81, 95
Elizabeth. ... 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23,
24, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36,
38, 49, 50, 51, 56, 68, 69, 70,
71, 74, 76, 81, 83, 90, 92, 93
Ella 22
Elmo 22
Emanuel 56
Emily 60
Emma 32, 51, 94
Erskine 63
Etta 91
Eudora 81
Eugene 22
Eugenia 29
Eva 93
Index.
Evelina 23, 24, 67, 68
Ezekiel 93
Fairfax 63
Fitzhugh 23
Flora 28
Florida 67
Forest itl
Foushee 83, 84
Fi-anees 33, 35, 44, 46, 62, 71,
81, 83, 85, 88, 90, 92
Frank 37, 77, 81, 86
Fred 61, 94
George . 2, 3, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27,
28, 29, 34, 36, 38, 40, 45, 46,
47, 50, 51, 57, 58, 64, 75, 76,
80, 81, 82, 83, 88, 89, 90, 91
Georgia 28, 82
Gertrude 22, 79
Gilbert 29
Grace 67
Gray 65
Grandison 53, 64, 84, 87
Hannah 46
Hanson 60, 63, 65 - 66, 86
Harlen 94
Harold 29
Harriet 25, 26, 93
Harrison 64
Hattie 25, 82
Helen 57, 90
Hemingway 89
Henrietta . ..29, 39, 44, 47, 52, 53,
75, 84, 90, 93, 94, 95
Henry ...46, 47, 51, 52, 56, 62, 63,
73, 75, 83, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96
Hilda 58
Hill 26
Hillary 56
Hiram 29
Horace 22
Horatio. . , 52, 59, 60, 62, 88
Ida 64, 94
Irene 95
Isaac 57, 58
Isabella 88 and 89
Jackson 78
Jacob 5(), 58
James 33, 36, 46, 50, 51, 52,
56, 57, 58, 63, 64, 65, 66,
67, 68, 69, 70, 79, 93, 94, 95
Jane 57, 69, 70, 81
Jasper 92, 93, 94
Jeanne 79
Jennie 34
51. 52, 74
Jessie 94
John On every page
Jonathan 21, 22, 26, 32
Joseph 46, 52, 53, 54,
56, 58, 64, 86, 93
Joshua 81
Judith 2, 3, 13, 20
Julian 22
Juliette. . . , 80
Kate 71
Katherine 38
Kathleen. . . , 29 95
Kemp 26, 27, 29, 31
Laborne 92
Laina 91
Lance 92
Landon 47
Landora 77, 86
Laura 33, 91
Lavenia 74
Lawrence 2, 17, 18, 21, 23,
26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 94
Lena 56
Letitia 44, 50, 82, 88, 90
Leonard 56
Lewis 33, 77, 79, 82
Lilian 79
Lilly 57, 71
Lorena 57
Lorenzo 57
Louisiana 32
Louise 4, 22, 52, 53, 54, 63, 84
Love 94
Lucas 65
Lucile 43, 94
Lucinda 76
Lucius 30, 45
Lucretia 82
Lucy 22, 25, 29, 41, 71,
78, 79, 82, 83, 90, 93
Mabel 94
McVea 95
Mallory 79
Mardonius 78, 84
Margaret. . ..19, 28, 30, 32, 34, 56,
58, 69, 71, 78, 79, 82
Marian 81, 84, 85, 91
Maria 26, 27, 34, 70
Martha 18, 36, 38, 41,
45, 47, 58, 78, 88, 92
MatUda 40, 52, 53, 78, 84
Mary On every page
Maurice 22
Michael 29
Mildred 'J\ ^^
Minerva, , , , ~^, ■'^l
Index.
Ill
Miriam 62, S9, 90, 91
Morris 22
Museoe 22
Myrtle 79
Nancy 26, 27, 33, 36, 64, 75, 93
Nathaniel 70, 71
Nellie 29, 91
Nicholas 1, 3, 6, 7, 8,
12, 13, 48, 55, 69, 73
Nimrod 76, 81
Olivia 65, 93
Ophelia 86
Oren 29
Oscar 58
Otis 22
Pattie 34, 53, 62, 64, 84, 87
Patrick 10, 24, 32, 35
Pauline 87
Payne 57
Pennington 79
Percy 29
Peter 49, 50, 51, 52, 53,
69, 70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 80, 88
Philip 22, 29
Phoebe 57
Polly 39
Portia 29
Posey. , 92
Powell 44, 91
Eachel. , 65, 69, 82, 86
Rebecca ..18, 19, 58, 91, 93
Reuben 20, 28, 32, 37, 49, 50, 92
Richard ..3, 37, 43, 71, 85, 93, 94, 95
Robert 22, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30,
32, 43, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56,
69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 78, 79,
80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 90, 91, 95, 96
Roberta 62
Roland 29
Rosalie 34
Rose 58
Royster 95
Russell 22
Ruth 22, 57, 74
Samuel 21, 22, 23, 24, 33,
56, 57, 81, 86, 93
Sandy 88
Sarah 21, 24, 26, 28, 39, 43,
56, 57, 63, 64, 75, 76,
79, 85, 88, 90, 93
Scott 86
Sherman 58
Shirley 29
Solomon 58
Sophie 30
Sperry 78, 84
Stanley , 29
Stephen 46
Sterling 35
Stump 58
Susan 20, 33, 63, 74, 90, 93
Susannah 7, 48, 50, 64, 65, 83
Sydney 77, 84
Sylvia. 64
Tabb 45, 47
Tamson 58
Temple 45, 47
Theodora 30, 93
Theodosia 94, 95
Thomas 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9,
12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23
24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34,
35, 36, 37, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50,
52, 64, 73, 90, 91, 92
Turner 57, 87
Ursula 56, 57
Van 96
Viola 56
Virginia 31
Vivian 35
Walter 79
Washington 23, 54, 92, 93
Willard 46
Willfred 29
Willoughby 82
William.. 7, 10, 13, 15, 16, 20, 22,
24, 27, 34, 35, 36, 47, 48, 49, 50,
52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 65, 66, 69, 73,
76, 77, 79, 82, 84, 92, 93, 94, 95
Wilmer. ... 87
Winston 71
Yada 56
Zachariah 57
Index.
NAMES XOT CATLETT.
Abbev, Frances 60
' William 60
Adams, Charles oS
George and family 29
Addison, Eliza 42
Aiken, Capt 68
Alexander, James 80
Morgan 22
William 33
Allen, Frank 33
Henry 80
Isham and family 79
Thomas \ 58
Allensworth, Butler 53
James 52
Nancy 52, 53, 5-1, 84
Alsworth, Frank and family 30
Amis, Annie 69
Anderson, Eliza 28
Andrews, Joseph 47
Ash, Fannie 46
Ashby, Buckner 70, 77
' Lucy 52, 70, 76
Lewis 70, 76, 77
Ate.n, Catherine 60
Avlett, W 21, 26
Bacon, Col 65
Bacon, Nathaniel 8
Bahlmain, Alex 52, 75
Bagbv, Eliza 26
Bagbv, Wm 26
Bailey, Frank 86
Naucv 66
Ursula 56
Ball, Martha 20
Banham, Ruth 52, 74
Banks, Cora 44
Florence 44
William 41, 45
Barber, Amanda 76
Andrew 76
Melvina 76
Sarah 01
Barham, Eugene, etc 30
Barringer, Annie 78
Yvonne 7S
Barron, John 7
Bartlett, Marv 31
Battaile, Frank 33
John 8, 9, 15, 18
Lawrence 9
Nicholas 9, 31
Batte, Moses, etc 56
Baytoi'. Knf,'enia 45
James 41, 45, 46
Martha 46
Thomas 47
Beanhop, Wm 56
Beasley, Elizabeth 22
Bell, Jesse 76.
John 51
Juliet 80
Margaret. 69
Mary 70
Richard 77
Berkeley, Gov. Wm 5, 7
Berrv, Benj 80
Fielding, etc 34
Bevans, John, etc 82
Bibb, Benj 36
Bishop, Weslev 57
Blackburn, Luke 91
Blackmore, James, etc 82
Blackwood, Wm., etc 83
Bland, Beatrice 95
Bledsoe, Robt 7
Booker, Albert, etc 29
Booth, George 37, 47
Humphrey .5, 7, 12, 14, 36, 37
Margaret 7
Mary 47
Thomas 47
Catherine 14
Booten 72
Bouldin, Lewis 43
Boulware, Elizabeth 29
Bowers, Kate 86
Bowie, Catherine 20
Charles, etc 35
John 20, 33
Bowler, Francis 65
Bowman, Effie 91
Louise 42
Nathaniel 42
Nellie 42
Boyd, Amelia 76
Minnie 31
Thomas 31
Bradford, Margaret 76
Bradlev. Doster 77
John 83
Julia 95
Brady, Eugene 28
Breckenridge, Bettie 70
Brice, Daniel 68
Britt, Mary 22
Brooke, Lucy 25
William Hill 25
Brothers, Emily 43
Brown, Alex., etc 78
Eliza 45
Julia 22
Martha 47
Index.
Brown, William 47
Sarah 40, 41
Bruce, Charles 71
Elizabeth 71
Buck, Charles. . , 75, 91
John 75
Letitia 75
Mary 91
William. , 49
Buckner, Ann 37
Alice 24
Elizabeth 9, 24, 35
Dolly 25
Henry 35
Leanna 70, 77
Lucy 25, 35
Peter 35
Richard 9, 10, 17, 22
Sarah 37
Thomas 35, 36, 37
William 25
Bullock, Anne 10
James, etc 32
Bunyard, R. L., etc 79
Burgess, A. J 33
Burton, George 47
Jasper, etc 57
Margaret 78
Burwell, Frances 41
Mary 41
Robert 41, 88
Busey, Alfred, etc 89
Butler, Rev. Amory. ... 6. 13, 14, 17
Catherine 66, 67, 68
Elizabeth 15
James 66, 67, 68
John 66, 67, 68
Matilda 68
Nancy 68
Thomas 65, 66, 67, 68
Vincent 68
William 67, 68
Byrd, Lewis 72
John 72
Cabell, Allie 76
Cahoon, Ellen 93
Caldwell, James 63
Calmes, Ann 51, 52, 88
Dr 91
Isabella 90
Miriam 52, 75, 88
Marquis 22, 49, 51, 54, 91
Note 103
William 75, 88
Campbell, Frank 52
John 52, 82
Missouri 91
Cantwell, Paul 34
Carr, William, etc 28
Carter, Ann W. . 37
Charles T. . . . 37
Florence 22
Frances 63
George 49
Howell 93
Lucy 37
Robert 10, 37
Caruth, Raymond. . , 68
Cary, Lulie 45
Remus 80
William 45
Chadwick, John 60
Chamberlain, E 61
Chase, Florence 61
Hazel 32
Cheatham, Martha 80
Christian, Paul, etc 31
Chyrchill, Armistead 91
Thomas 91
Clay, Cassius 65
Henry 59
Clark, Charles 28
Clinton 28
Henry 28
Louise 91
Susan 28
Clayton, John g
Clearwater, John 74
Clem, Jeremiah 86
Clevenger, Mary 57
Cocke, Eliza 32
Lucy 32
William 32
Cockey, Deborah 43
Elizabeth 43
William. , 43
Coflfey, Marion 68
Susan 68
Coffield, Eliza 76
Coleman, John. , 77
Reuben 50
Richard 7
Collier, Frances 51
Colston, Mary 36
Conway, Catlett 19
Edwin 18
Eleanor 19
Elizabeth 18, 32
Francis 8, 18, 32
Compton, Matilda 65
Conner, Lydia 43
Cooke, Elizabeth 44
John 44
Thomas 41
Susannah 18
Coombs, E. . , 90
Cooper, May. . , 83
Coppage, Jane 50, 55
Index.
Corbin, Letitia 55
Covinjcton, Harold 47
Cox, John 7
Cravens, Fannv -40, 63, 64, 75
John . . ' 62
Crenshaw, Russell 42
Crews, Maud 89
Crosby Caroline 21
Crouse, Elias 58
Crowley, Dolly • • • 81
Samuel 80
Crozen, Jane 58
Culleton, Leo 3, 4
Culpeper, Louisa ^4
Culver, Amelia 89
John <'0
Cutts, Adele l^
James '2
Dabney, Albert 40, 47
Caroline 47
Cornelius 46, 47
Dameron, G. W.. etr 82
Daniel, Jennie ''^1
Davies, Julia 45
Margaret 40
Eobert 12
Samuel 40
William 40
Davis, Felix, etc ''^8
Mary 80
Nannie 40
Reese, etc ?'0
Rose 79
Thomas 41
Gov. Westmoreland 40, 41
William 52, 76
Dawson, John 15
Kate SO
Dean, Hester ■ ■ ^3
Dews, Nancy 76, 79
Devier, Lucy 82
William, etc 82, 83
Dickerson, Charles 60
Diggs, Edward 34
Sarah 34
Dillon, Steward 67
Dixon, John 38, 47
Mary 38, 47
Dorman, Joshua 77
Daugherty, Emma 30
Rev. Francis 5
Douglass, Stephen A 72
Dowdell, James 55
Drake, Richard, etc 81
Dubose, D 77
Dudlev, Edward 5
'Robert <>
DuflBnger, Annie 86
Dupre, Louis 28
Durrett, Richard 36
Sally 32
Du A'al, Daniel 40
Echols, Kate 57
Edmonds, Elias 73, 74
Egglestou, Mary 37
Richard 37
Eldred, Cora 91
Elliott, John 19
Ellis, Fanny 31
Enders, Annie 80
Jacob 76
Marv 76, 80
Eubank, Nellie 35
Evans, Theo 91
Evers, John 19
Ewing, Andrew 43
Elva 43
Fairclough, Eliza 29
Fairfax, Ann 63
Bryan 63
Ferdinand 63
Thomas 63
Farrow, Elizabeth 73, 76
Nimrod 73, 76
Fauntlerov, Ann 25, 26
Ellen 26
Francis 26
Griffin 25
Henry 25, 26
Harriet 26
Julian 26
Lucile 26
Marv 26
Stewart 26
Virginius 26
William 26
Farwell, Walter 72
Field, Ann 41, 44, 47
John 41, 45
Martha 44
Steidien 4i
Finch, Phoebe 56, 57
Fitzhugh, Elizabeth 20, 34, 37
Henrv 18
John.' ]8
Martha 20
William 18, 20, 34
Fleming, Alex 7, 11, 12
Flovd, Marv 32, 33, 73, 90
Folkes, Elb'en 46
Folly, Alice 79
Foote, Gov 28
Frame, Thos., etc 62
Frank, Lena 80
Frazier, Cash 30
Index.
Fry, C. F 83
Fuller, Nancy 93
Gaines. Daniel 14, 17
Elizabeth 17, 18
James 5, 7
Margaret 17
Gaither, Elias, etc 56
Galloway, Robt 80
Garnett, James 20
Sarah 22
Garrett, Willie 91
Gast, Eobert, etc 81
Gay, Fanny 71
Gerling, Anna 30
Gibbs, Mr 48
Gibson, Alice 20, 21
Catlett 20
John 19, 69
Jonathan 9, 10, 20, 69
Gilbreath, Middleton, etc 56
Gillett, Edna 82
Glass, Fannie 33
James 88
Glasscock, Liila 77
Peter 77
Gones, Archa 29
Goodrich, Thomas 5
Goodwin, John, etc 82
Gordon, Armistead 3, 41
Thomas, etc 41
Gosney, Henry 70
Jane 51
Graham, S. T., etc 45
Gray, Victoria 34
Grayson, Mary 10, IS, 19, 57
Note 99
Gregory, Harriet. 41
Eichard 40
Eoger 41
Green, Charles 69
David 69
Hector 69
John 69
Lilian 69
Pollv 69
Winifred 60
Greenhow, Courtney 42
Griffin, Emma 95
Grigsby. Eunice. . 71
Grone, James, etc 57
Grundy, Felix 59
Grymes, Charles 15
Mary 34
Peyton, etc 71
Sarah 15
Gwathmey, Ann 37, 46
Mary 37, 46
Gunter, Fanny 69
Hackney, Maria 47
Margaret 45
Hadley, Martha. , 77
Moses 77
Hagan, Mary . .50, 55
Hambaugh^ Adam 22, 84
Hampton, Alex 62
Catherine 62
Columbus 62
Frank 62
George. . , 60, 61, 62
Martha 36
Mary 36, 62
Note 100
William, etc 36, 60, 61
Hamsen, Helen 94
Hansborough, Eoberta 72
Hanson, Charity 55
Susannah. , 55
Harbaugh, Kate 57
Hardy, Eliza 50
Harlow, Maud 22
Harmon, Sallie. , 27
Harris, Capt 68
Harrison, Margaret 38
Hatton, Frances 36
Hart, Isabella 69
Benjamin, etc 34
Hartman, Henry 86
Havermale, Sarah 56
Hawes, Samuel. , 23
Hawkins, John 17
Thomas 7, 14, 17
Heath, Lewis. ... 22
Henderson, Bessie 82
Samuel 52
Helm, Isabella 90
William 90
Henbery, Agatha 79
Henry, Selina 71
Winston 71
Hepburn, Ann 61
Charles 61
Edith 61
Frances 61
Frank 61
James 61
Margaret 61
William 61
Hill, Harry, etc 28
William 52, 63
Hillyer, Philip 81
Hinckle, Martha 56
Hinton, Eobert, etc 79
Hirshberger, James 79
Hite, Hattie 91
John. . , 48
Hodgson, Jennie 34
nu
Jmh
Holland, Peter, etc 57
Phoebe 58
Hooper, Isaac 28
Hor.l, David, etc 89
HoiT, Martha 78
Percy 78
Home, Ross, etc 78
Howard, Walker 11
Hoyle, Eliza. . , 57
Hubert, Beatrice 31
Huff, Eliza 64
Hughes, Agnes 62
Lucv 46
Mary 46
Hulett, Catherine. ... 81
Hume, Margaret 50, 55
Hundley, Nicholas 7
Hunter, James. . , 84
Hunton, Eppa 71
Hussey, Dr 90
Hutchinson, Adelaide 87
Hutson, John 34
Hyde, Dorothy 41
Iden, Charlotte 56
Jacob, Alelia 76
Jackson, Andrew. . . , 59, 60
Catlett 29
Margaret 29
James, Jessie 93
January^ Mary 81
Samuel 81
Johnson, Eleanor 25
Mattie 79
Thomas 81
Jolly, — , etc 56
Jones, Cary 47
Catesbv 40, 43
Elizabeth 22
Fanny 42
F 93
Horace 42, 44, 45
Mary 43
Maryus, etc 43
Walter 42
William 83, .17, 40, 47
Joyce, Ann 42
Kcan, Eudora 87
Martha 89
Kemj), Matthew 21
King, Allie T .',12, 7;?, 86
Kingman, Charles 46
Kirbv, William 38
Kirk', Thomas 15
Kirklan.i, Alex 80
Kline, Malvina 51
Krauss, Blanche. , 88
Lafoe, Kitty 22
Lanion, Dr. E. C 30
John 74
Lantz, Clarence. . . , 82
Daniel 82
Latten, E. 11 88
Lavtou, Charles 78
Felix 78
Thomas 78
Lawrence, Richard 5, 8
Lawson, Richard 5, 12
S. B., etc 80
Leavill, Maria 54, 85
Lee, Bridget 55
Lettice 55, 56
Martha 55
Mildred 55
Philip 55
Richard 55
Thomas 55
Lafever, George 29
Lehue, Spencer 53, 84
Lentz, Clarence 64
Libermau, Frank, etc 82
Littell, Annie 31
Little, E 93
Lindsay, Robert 10, 20
Line, William, etc 58
Long, Fanny 27
Gertrude '. 72
Myrtle 32
Love, William 28
Lowerv, George 80
Lucas 'Note 98
Thomas 1, 7, 15
Liindermann, Chastien 54, 85
Lunn, Maurice 41
Luttrell, Elizabeth 56
James 56, 58
Lynch, Josejih, etc 57
Lyon, Matthew 60
Minerva : 61)
Madison, Charlotte 33
George 33
President 19, 20
McColgar, Mary 33
McCormick, Eliza 33
McCown, William 89
May 89
McDonald, Margaret 60
Mary 28, 30
McKnight, Ann 76
Mcllhenv, Margaret 34
Mcintosh, Bertie. 30
McLaughlin, John 84
McPherson, ('has 70
Nath 51, 70
Betsy 59
Index.
Major, Joseph 90
Mary 91
Mallory, Ann 77, 87
Marker, Eachel 60
Marpole, Benj 58
Marshall, Ann 81
Eliza 81
Humphrey 81
Jane 81
John - 81
Marstellar, Laura 33
Martin, George 82
Mason, Catherine 67, 68
Clement 80
Edward 65, 66, 6S
Evelina 66, 67
Mary 67, 68
Massie, Dollie 81
Mamie 78
Robert 78
Maxwell, Earnest 79
Thomas 79
Mee^s, Susanna 73
Meredith, Christina 40
Meriwether, David 48
Francis 8, 48
Mary 8, 48
Nicholas 48
Thomas 48
William 48
Metcalf , James. , 38
Vernon 38
Michie, H. Clay 71
Lizzie 71
Miller, Bessie. , 80
Clark, etc 31*
John 67
Mary 82
Shepherd 46
Moore, Henry 57
John 18
Susan 45
Vincent 67
Morgan, Ann 73
Daniel 64, 73, 83
Morris, Ann 41
Christopher. . , 40, 41
Henry 40
Margaret 41
Richard 41
William 41
Morrow, Emily 75
George 75
Morrison, Mary 29
Morseman, Melvina. 61
Moseley, Edward 17
Mary 16, 17
William 7, 16, 17, 48
Mullen. Minnie 79
Munford, John 18
Muir, Dr 63
Nelson, Fannie 42
Heber 43
Letitia 43
Lucy 43
Sally 43
Wm. W 41
Neville, George 49
Lucy. , 85, 88
Susan 90
Newkirk, 44
Newlin, Nora 29
Newsham, Edward 31
Nicholson, Rosa. , 29
Noland, Jacob 64
P 64
Northern, William 52
Norwood, Laura. . , 22
Oliver, Mandy 70
William 54, 85
O 'Rear, Benjamin. 75
Jeremiah 75
John 75
Owsley, Virginia 91
Page, John 7, 37, 38
Stella 88
Thomas, etc 89
Parker, Octavius, etc 89
Patch, Fanny 54, 85
Patton, Elizabeth 71
Farley 71
John 72
Mary; 71
Payles, Polly 52, 63
Payne, Catherine 16
Robert 16
Ruth 85
Pendleton, Catherine 20
Catlett 20
Elizabeth 69
Henry 69
James 20, 26
Nathaniel 69
Philip 69
Perkins, E. R., etc 85
Peyton, Lawrence, etc 71
Perry, John 67
Micajah 19
Mildred 30
Richard 19, 68
Pierce, Sarah 27
Phelps, Elisha 52
Philips, Edwin 47
Pinner, Dr., etc 90
Pipes, Alex 30
X
Index.
Pinson, Daniel, etc 30
Place, John, etc 56
Pollard, Herman 25
Lucv 25
Powell, EHjah, etc 46
Sallie 91
Pownall, Joshua 64
I'riee, Robert 68
Priest, Frani-es 50, 55
Prosser, John 10, 11
Puffenberger, Mary 56, 58
Pulliuni, Louis 28
Quarles, John 21, 26, 56
Rabb, Gabriel 80
Ravenseroft, Celice 79
Reeee, Joseph, etc 30
Richardson, Emily 75
Marcus 75
Marquis 52
Marv 90
William 90
Rinker, Peter 86
Ritchie, Henrv, etc 82
Robb, Ann. /. 32
James 32
Lucy 32
Roberts, Ann 77
Robins, Sally 42
William, etc 41
Robinson, Benj 36, 75
Ida 81
M. A., etc 79
Sarah 75
Roff, John 67
Rof^ers, Ernest, etc 44
Rootes, Philip 6
Rose, John, etc 45
Roselle, Rachel 69
Ross, Robert 44
Roudebush, Lou 29
Rowe, Clarence 34
Roy, John. . , 17
Rowzie Notes 98
Edward 3, 12, 14
Ludowick 3, 4, 12
Ralph. ... 1, 3, 6, 7, 16, 48
Sarah 1, 4, 7, 9, 12,
13, 15, 30, 33, 34, 35, 41, 44
Rucker, Adele 87
Rudy, Josie 80
Rujrtjles, Laura 69
Rush, Hannah 29
Sale, Beverley 26
Charles 26
Latane 26
Mary 26
Santmyer, Bettie. , 86
Samuel 88
Satteifield, Reuben 93
Savage, Alex 68
Sawyer, Joseph 76
Scarborough, Edward 5, 8, 12
Schaffer, Clara 57
Robert. .... 80
Schooler, Nannie 35
Scott, Edward 32
James 50
Scource, John. , 65
Scrujigs, Gross 65, 68
Margaret 68
Stuart 69
Seay, Polly 27
Searcv, Lorena 62
Senseiiev, Allie 54, 84, 85
Peter 52, 53, 54, 84
Settle, Marv 68
Priscilla 68
Thomas 68.
Shackelford, Lelia 45
Richard 46
Sarah 67
Shadier, Edna 86
Shortridge, George 62
Melinda 62
Skinner, Judge 90
Fred 90
Simms, J. H 95
Simmons, Isabella 50, 55
Sinclair, Cora 45
Florence 45
Henry 45
John, etc 44
Keith 47
Robert. , 45
Singleton, L 60
A^irginia 76
Slaughter, Elizabeth 6
Frances.. 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 26
Dr. Joseph 31
Philip 77
William 16
Smith, Augustine 0, 9, 10, 17
Addie 80
Charles 19, 75
Gregory 32
Lawrence. , 17, 21
Livingston 71
Robert 5, 17
Sowers, James 90
Sjiearman, John. . , 11, 12
Susannah 11, 12
Spears, Luther 68
Si)erry, Margaret 53, 84
Spink, Agnes 28
Patrick 28
Spotswood, Gov 10
Alex 70
Index.
Staples, Dudley 83
James, etc 83
Stark, Clifford 72
Stearns, Alonzo, etc 30
Steigier, Helen 77
Stephens, Geo. W. , 24
Stevens, Jesse 91
Stevenson, Charlotte 44
John 44
William, etc 90
Stone, Sarah 87
Stonnell, Edwin 87
Strother, William 9
Stroud, Clarence 80
Stuart, Mary 68
Eobert 68
Sublette, James. . , 81
Sutton, Dr 90
Swann, Margaret 71
Styron, Lilian 34
Taliaferro, Agatha 15
Ann 21
Charles 18, 21
Elizabeth 15, 19
Francis 6, 7, 15, 16, 36
Harriet 45
John 8, 9, 18, 21, 38, 74
James 45
Kate 45
Kemp 21
Margaret 18
Mary 21
Patsy 34
Kichard 9, 15
Robert 9, 15, 16
Sarah 21
William 9, 15, 40
Tappan, Ann 47
Tardv, Frank 87
Taylor, Catlett 80
Gibson 80
James. , 18
Zachary 41
Temple, Benjamin 37
Thompson, Elizabeth 16
John 16
Samuel 17
Seth 36
Williain 16, 17
Thornbury, Elizabeth 32
Thornton, Alice. 17, 18
Charles, etc 35
Edward 34
Francis 9, 17, 18, 38
Maria 24
Mary 21
Eowland 18, 19
Sarah 23
Thruston, Agnes 41
Ann 40, 41
Charles 41, 45
Martha 45
Marv 44
Eobert 40, 41, 44
Sarah 45
Thummill, W 61
Tidwell, Benj 64
Tillotson, Rachel 80
Tilton, Bertie 29
Charles, etc 30
Tompkins, Christopher 37, 38
Todd, Geo 10, 20
Hannah 68
Levi 68
Toombs, Lawrence 27
Eobert 27
Trediek, Fannie 33
Trice, Sidney 80
Triidett, D. , 78
Trotter, Elias 56
Tunstall, Alex 36
Tutt, Ann 69, 70
Archibald 20
Benjamin 69
Elizabeth 69
Underwood, Elizabeth 13, 17
John. . , 47
Note 97
William 14
Unger, Laura 56
Upton, Margaret 6
Note 98
Valier, Charles 79
Van Dorn, Frank 30
Vincent, John, etc 78
Von Tress, John 80
Walden, Mattie. . . , 80
Walker, George 66
William 66
Wallace, Joseph 67
Waller, Benjamin 40, 44
Charles, etc 42
John 9
William 45
Winifred 52, 90
Wallen, Sarah 93
Wallis, Eobert. ... 41
Walters, Lydia 76
Walthen, Susan 80
Waring, Nannie 46
Warren, Frank 32
Lucv 32
Index.
Washington, Charles 20
George 51
Lawrence 63
Mildred 20
President 74
William, etc 34
Webb, Lucius 91
Webre, Lena 31
Wehrman, Effie 29
Weine, John 5
Weir, Lizzie 70
Weiss, Frank 83
Welch, Sallie 81
Wells, Robert 80
West, Thomas W, 41, 68
Wheatley, Eichard 74
Wheeler, Emma 76
Whitacre, Lvdia 86
Whitfield, William 76
White, Caleb 73, 74, 81
Eliza 74
Jacob 74
Nora 94
Richard 74
Whittinjiton, Thomas 81
Xoah 93
Williams, Ann 65
Charles 77
James 71
Laura 81
Lewis, etc 72
Philip 71
Sally 72
Williams, Van 58
Wilson 44, 45
William 72
Williamson, William 52
Willis, Henry 9
John. 70
Kate 72
Wilson, Isaac, etc 86
Xellie 76
Sallie 79
Wimberley, Abner 31
Winn, Jesse. . 35
Pierce 35, 43
Winston, Eleanor 34
Walter. , 34
Winter, Virginia 28
Wood, Fannie 46
John 44
Mary 44
Robert 33
Woods, Martha 94
Woolfoik, Edmund 76
Richard. , 76
Robert 76
Wren, Alverton 38
John 38
Wright, James 80
Wulwur, Dr., etc 29
Wynne, Phoebe 68
Zimmerman, Fred 27
Reuben 27
Sarah 27
INDEX TO BAYTOP PAMPHLET.
BAYTOP NAMES.
Ann 109, 135, 145, 153
Daniel 107, 108
Elizabeth 113, 114
Eugenia 135, 143
Henrietta 135, 140
Indiana 135, 142
James 110, 111, 113, 116, 117,
125, 128, 129, 131, 135,
137, 144, 145, 147, 153
John 112, 113, 116, 125, 145, 147
Lucy 135
Martha 135
Mary 113, 116
Rowena
Sarah Ill, 113, 117
Thomas. . ..107, lOs!
117,
128,
William 128,
130, 145,
109, 111,
123, 124,
129, 130,
135, 137,
135. 136.
140, 145
129, 130
135, 141
118,
146, 147
113,
125,
131,
145, 147
137. 144
NAMES NOT BAYTOP.
Abort, Maria 140
Adams, George 160
Alexander, David 109
Maryj 153
Allen, John 141
Leila • 141
Anderson, Beverlev 116
Eleanor. . . " 121
John 136
Mathew 125
Samuel 126
William 121, 142
Archer, Thomas 145, 146
Armistead, Gill 146, 147
Susan 146, 147
William 162
Bagby, Emeline
Ballard, .
115
159
Banks, Cora 143
Florence 143
James 147
Thomas 143
William 143
Barton, Clarence 114
John 154
Lindslav 114
Thruston 114
William 114
Bates Family 107
Beckham, Mattie 157
Bell, Annie 139
Dr ,T. D., etc 159
Mary 157
Belcher, Burton, etc 142
Berkeley, Edmund 108
Berry, William 110
Bethel, Lida 142
Bibb, Gov. Thomas 155, 162
Gov. William 155
Mary 162
Billups, Euth 154
Bigo-es Family 107
Blackburn, Gov 110
Roger, etc Ill, 112
Blair, Elizabeth 137
Henry 137
Bland, William, etc 120, 130
Bohanon, Amanda 157
Boiling, Thomas 154
Bonner, Lunnie 139
Booth, Mrs. John 122
George . ..109, 117, 118, 119, 123
Sarah 109, 123
Booth, Thomas 109, 113, 117, 147
Catherine 119
Fanny 118
Boswell, Ballard 136
Burden, Charles, etc 158
Bouldin, Thomas 155
Bower, Edward, etc 163
Boykin, Burwell, etc 163
James, etc 162
Robert, etc 162
Bridges, Robinson 116
Broaddus, Dabney 140
Genette 140
John 140
Lettie 114, 140
Martha 140
Brown. Junius 119, 120
William 120
Index.
Biu-knor, Ann 109, 113
Thomas 109
Burnet, Gilbert 120
William 120
Biirruss, Marv 160
John and Elizabeth 160
John W., etc 160
Burton, Simon 116, 122
Caflfee. Mary JIJ
Campbell, Luty }^}
Mary }31
P'omi^ev ^"^^
ThomaV, etc 130, 131
Whittaker 130, 131
Carv, Ar.hibal.l If 6
■ Belle 147
(lara 1*7
Effie •• 47
Eliza 147
E.lward 121
Ojll 146, 147
GillaV.' 146
John 146,147
Ju.lith 147
Lelia 14'
Lucy 21
Martha 147
Miles 147
Nathaniel 147
Ki.hard 146, 147
Robert 146
Sarah 146
S^san ]f,
William If 1
Carhart, I. W., etc 159
CarrinL'ton, Wm., etc lO"
Mary l^^^
Carter, Ann 130, 160
Charles 120, 130
James 110
John 110
J-lith 20
Thomas 110
Robert IJ^
Cassady, John 1-2
Catesbv, Mark 109
Catlett, Eliza •••_• l^H
James 14o, 14^
John 130, 145, 159
L"t-y {5S
Hannah ^^-^
Chappel, Mrs 115
Chapman, Catherine 115
Chamberlain, Bessie 159
Chancellor, Charles 11-'
Chandler, James 143
Cherrv, America 156
Claiborne, Herbert J-0
Clark, Christopher 156
Clavton, Jasper 128
Cobb, A. Ward 158
Cocke, John, etc 156
Wm. R., etc 164
Coffin, Jessie. 141
Colcock, Daniel 138
Marv 138
Coleman, Dr. R 117
Edna 135
Elizabeth 156, 162
Reuben 159
Collier, Howard 142
Frances 119
Cooke, Alfred 115
Ann 114
Augustine 114
Benjamin 115
Catherine. ... 114
Charles 115
Eliza 110, 114, 115, 147
Francis ...113, 114, 115, 144, 145
Franklin 115
Giles 116, 144
Hugh 115
John 113, 116, 144
Lawson * 115
Lucy 113, 115
Marv. 113, 115, 144
Mordecai Ill, 113, 114,
115, 118, 145
Robert 116
Sarah 114, 115, 116, 117
Susannah 114
Thomas 116, 144, 145
William 115
Corr, Thomas 120
William, etc 122
Cosnahan, Joseph 136
Mary 136
Courtney. Robt 130, 131
Cralle, Richard 154
Cram, Daniel 163
Curtis, Fay 138
Robert 130
Dabnev, Caroline 135
John 154
Dalgleish, Alex Ill
John Ill
Davj«, A.W 157
Bertiedean 141
Col 122
Hugh 160
James 154
John 154
Lollie 141
Richard 154
DicK, Mary 144
Index.
XV
Dixon, John 144
Louise 121
Doswell, Catherine 162
Lewis 162
Susan 162
Thomas 162
Duffey, Mary 141
Duggan, Philip 158
Dunstan, Laura. 130
Durel, Jehanne 158
Sophie 158
Dve, Alnanda 138
Ann 139
John 138
Lueian 138
Martha 138
Pattie 138
Elmore, Mary 163
Evans, Corinne 160
Everett, Ann 115
Eyres, Nancy 159
Eaweett, L. B 159
Field, Charles, etc 121
ritzhugh, Alex 141
Carter 141
Conway 141
Eugene 141
Francis 141
Henry 141
James 141
Lucy 140, 141
Mary 140, 14]
Nellie 141
Eufus ■ . . . . 140, 141
Stuart 141
Thomas 141
William 140
Virginia 141
Fleet, John 109
Foster, Charles 139
Franklin, Charlotte 119
Gachet, Dr. Charles 162
Gaillard, Daniel 158
Gaines, 159
Galloway, Bishop 160
Hattie 160
Garden, Thomas 155
Garnett, Dr. Algernon 162
Garrett, Isaac 156
Garrison, William 122
Gaylord, L. W 158
Gibert, Leon, etc 158
Gilchrist, Theresa 163
Gilmer, Betty 159
Jane 160
John 159
Ginder, Henry 160
Goldthwaite, Robt., etc 162
Goodrich, Harriet 160
Goodrum, George, etc 156
Gray, Hezekiah 161
John, etc 156
Green, Ashby 137
Carrie 137
Pattie 137
William Ill, 137
Greenlaw, Edward 158
Gregory, Minor 138, 143
Nathan 143
Gunter, Rosa 163
Gwathmey, Temple 154
Gwyn, Charles 120
Capt. Hugh 131
Hail, Conway 141
Fairfax 141
Fitzhugh 141
Leenell 141
Lula 141
Rufus 141
Stevadson 141
Hailes, George 162
Hall, George 122
MiUy 163
Hansford, Curtis 137
Hardy, Fanny 119
Harnianson, Mathew 116
Harrison, James 124
Hart, Robert 120
Harwell, Katherine 158
Harwood, Samuel 156
William 114
Hatch, E. D 115
Haywood, Franklin 115
Richard 115
Healy, Granville 120
Hickman, Martha 122
Hill, Abraham 160
Champion, etc 163
Harriet 161
Dr. James 157
Malinda 161
Miles 161
Thomas 160
Hockadav, Martha 122
Holden, Elizabeth 117
Hone, Catherine ■ • 130
Horselev, Frank 114
Ruth 114
Hudgins, Columbia 146
Hughes, Henry, 116, 117
James 117
Sarah 117, 147
Thacker 117
William 117
Indci:
Ihint.'r. W. W Ill
Irvine, Eliza 157
William 157
Jaik, Church 157
Harriet 157
Marjraret 157
Patrick 157
Jackson, Arthur 139
John 139
Rebecca 139
James, Lorenzo, etc 163
Mary 163
iSamuel 163
Thomas 163
Jemison, Cash 155
Clemeut 155
Francis 155
Sarah 155
Thomas 155
Johnson, Fanny 121
L. C 161
Rose 114
Sally 130
Johns, Miss 159
Jones, Ann 140
Clara 140
Charles 140
Eliza 140
Fitzhugh 140
Frederick 140
Graham 140
Hill 131
India 122
James 140
Jane 131
John 122, 125
Lucy 140
Maria 140
Martha 140
Mary 140
Rebecca 140
Richard 116, 125, 144
Rofier 140
Russell 122
Walker 140
William, etc 122
Kemp, George 123
Mathew 122
iVtcr 122
Philip 123
Solomon 123
Thomas 123
Konnard, John, etc 160
Kent, I'earl 121
Kcvan, P''annv 115
Key, ' 162
Keyser, William 123
Kittrell, Caroline 143
Charles 143
Emma 143
James 143
John 143
:Mary 143
Samuel 143
Kiiiingham, John. ,• 125
Knowles, Louis 146
Knox, Joel, etc 162
Lawson, Wm., etc 120
Lee, Elizabeth 144
Dr. Paul, etc 164
Lewis, Dixon 164
Josephine 137
John 125
Laura 164
Susan 164
Lightle, Ann 139
Caroline 139
E.lward 139
James 139
Jennie 139
Katherine 139
Lucv 139
Martha 139
Mary 139
Livingston, Cornelius. 116, 117, 124, 147
George 116
John 116, 117
Samuel 116
Sarah 116, 117, 124
Susan 116
William 116
Lowrv Note 151
Luce," B., etc 158
Lyons, James 118
Susan 118
Macon, Marv 114
Marks, Ann! 162
Martha 162
Ncholas 162
Rebecca 162
Mathews, Charles 163
McAdamas, Otto and Virginia 141
McCabe, Gordon 146
McCan, Charles, etc 158
McCandlish, George 118
Susan 118
McGehee, Abner 160, 161
Abraham 161
Augusta 161
Caroline 161
Charles 160
Cynthia 160
Index.
MeGehee, Edward 159, 160
Ethel 161
Francis 160
George 160
Harriet 160, 161
Harry 160
Hugh 161
Howard 160
Ira 161
James 159, 160, 161
John 160, 161
Kerwin 160
Laura 160
Lucinda 161
Louise 161
Marie 161
Mary 161
Micajah 159, 160
Sarah 160
Schaumberg 161
Scott 161
Stella 160
Stewart 161
Thomas 159
Wilber 161
William 160
McLaughlin, Sarah 135
McMahon, Lula 158
Kobert 159
McNair, Lily 160
Stella 160
Marshall, Agnes 119
Thomas 118, 119
Marston, Oliver, etc 120
Martin, Helen 140
Maupin, Chapman. . , 119
Robert 119
Maxfield, Virginia 141
Mercer, Hugh 136
Julia 136
Medlicott, Eliza 135
Joseph 135
Michaux, Emily 155
Minson Archer 145
John 145
Mitchell, Catherine 121
Edward 116
James 116
Williams 121
Montgomery, Eobert 154
Montague, Bedford 142
Catesby 142
Charles 142
Ellen 142
Helen 143
Jane 145
James 145
Mary 143
Winburn 142
Mooring, James, etc 157
Morgan, Ann 154
Francis 109, 154
Morris, Richard, etc 154
Morton,Anderson 159
Tazewell 155
Moseley, Robert 155
Murphy, Eliza 164
Gov. John 164
Murray, Lucy 144
Nelson, George 119
Nesbitt, Edward 162
Newkirk, 143
Nixon, Rebecca 162
Odeneal, Milton 155
Oilicers of Gloucester Militia 1775. . 123
Oliver, 121
Alex 155
Dionysisus, etc 160, 161
Sarah 121
Page, Mann 125
Mathew 108
Palmer, Rose 120
Pate, Elizabeth 107
Paul, Martha 119
Pearson, Mary. , 135
Pell Family 107
Pendleton, Ann 116
Benjamin 116
Peniston, Catherine and John 161
Percy, Margaret. 160
Perrin, Fanny 121
William 125
Peyton, Sir John 143, 144
Philpotts, Maude 140
Piemont, Eliza 121
Pointer, Indiana 123
Pollard, Chrles, etc 163
Porter, Charles, etc 11?
Powers, Sallie 115
Pratt, John 109
Preston, Thomas 154
Provosty, Eliska 158
Pryor, Christopher 125
Luke 110, 112
Robert 110
Roger 110, 112
Samuel HO
Purchasers at Baytop Sales 112
Purchasers of Lots in Glou. Town. . 109
Quarles, John 144
Read, Priscilla 119
Thomas 119
Eedd, Mary 153
Indcr.
Rhodes. Robert 142
RiufT, Joseph, etc 107
Roane, Frank, etc 119
Maior, etc 119
Thomas 145
Koliertson, Archibald, etc 164
Robinson, Christopher 130
Robins, Emily 115
Fanny." 142
Maria 123
Marv .' 114
Robert 114
Rogers, William 131
Roll of Glou. Artillery 132, 133, 134
Rootes, Jacquelin 115
Philip. Ill
Sarah 115
Thomas 115
Rose, Isaac 116
Rouse, Mabel 140
Rucks, William, etc 154
Rudd, Nannie 140
Rush, David 138
Lucy 138
Sanf ord, Wyatt, etc 139
Saunders, Ceeley Ill
Fleming, etc 154
Harry ; 118
James 137
John 110
Mary 137
Sayre, Philemon, etc 162
Scott, Alfred 162, 163, 164
Ann 155, 159
Benjamin 163
Catherine .155, 157, 158, 159, 161
Charles 155, 157, 159
Charlotte 157
Christopher 157, 158
Clara 164
Claride 164
Clementina 162, 163
Clifton 163
Daniel 157
YA\7.a. . ...155, 159, 162, 163, 164
Ellen 162
Elliott 163
Emily 162, 163
Frances ..155, 157, 158, 159, 162
Frank 1,55, 159
George 155
Henry 159
Isaac 159
James. . ..153, 157, 158, 1.59,
161, 162, 163, 164
John. 153, 156, 159, 161, 162, 163
Josei)h 155
Jeanne 157
Scott, Lelia
163
Mary .... 154,
155,
158,
159
161,
162,
163
164
Martha
. 155,
157
159
Micaiah
lfi'>
Patrick
157
Rebecca
161
Robert
.156,
162,
163
164
Ruth
163
Samuel
.157
163
Sarah
.155
159
Susan
163
Thomas ..109,
110,
153,
154
155,
157,
159,
162
163
163
William ..156,
157,
162,
163
164
Schaumberg, Louise.
161
Shackelford, George.
122
Lelia. . .
121
Lvne. . .
122
James. .
119
Richard.
119
Sarah. .
147
William.
147
Zachariah. . .
117
Scrosby, Elizabeth. .
115
Seddon Leah . .
lis
Thomas
lis
Selden, Courtney. . .
118
Shannon, A. M., etc..
164
Sharp, N. W., etc....
158
Sherman, William. . .
. . . .
120
Shield, Robert, etc.. .
143
Sample, Major Henry
etc.
163
Robert
166
Simmons Ann. . . .
114
Sinclair Ann
138
Blanche. . . .
143
Caroline. . .
139
Cecil
149
Christopher.
139
Christina. . .
139
Edward. . . .
142
Edwin . . .
139
Etta . ...
14''
Fav
14"
138
138
Georgia. . . .
139
Henry
143
India ....
139
Jack . . .
139
13Q
Jefferson. . .
139
John
120,
137
Josephine. . .
139
Kate
139
Lida
140
Lizzie
143
Index.
Sinclair, Lowry 138
Lucy 138
Margaret ^ . . . . 141
Marshall 142
Martha 138
Mary. 120
Maude 142
Note 149
Pattie 139
EoUand 142
Rowena 142
Robert 141, 143
Thomas 142
William. , 138
Smith, Gregory 113
John 110
Sarah 110, 118
Thomas. , 113
Smither, John 130
Leonard, etc 122
William 130
Snowden, S. H., etc 161
Spencer, Charlotte 166
Mary 159
Thomas 156
William, etc 121
, etc 162
Stanard, Eliza 144
Stewart, Catherine 161
Duncan, etc 161
Strother, Eliza 157
Stubbs, Albert 117
Ann 136, 162
Emma 187
Elizabeth 137
Francis 137
James 135, 161
Jefferson 135, 136
John 130, 131, 137, 162
Lucian 137
Lucy 135, 136
Margaret 121
Mary 135, 136, 137, 162
Martha 137
Rebecca 135
Robert 136
Samuel 137
Susannah. 137
Thomas 135, 136
William 135, 137, 162
Taliaferro, Agnes. , 119
Alex 119, 129
Benjamin 121, 160
Bernard .121
Edward 118
Edwin 118
Eleanor 119
Elizabeth 117, 120
Taliaferro, Ellen 120
Francis 130
Gabriella 122
George 118, 120, 121
Hansford 121
Harriet 121
James 118, 119, 120,
121, 144, 147
John 117, 118, 121, 122
Kate 120
Lawrence 117
Leah 118, 119
Lewis 122
Lucy 130
Margaret 119, 120
Martha 122, 160
Mary 118, 119, 120, 122
Maltida 119
Nora 121
Philip.. 117, 118, 119, 120,
121, 122, 129, 147
Richard. 117, 118, 119, 121, 147
Robert 120, 130
Sarah 118, 120, 122
Sinclair 120
Susan 118
Thomas 118, 119, 120, 121
Warner 118, 119
William . ...117, 118, 119, 130
Talley, Elkanah 125, 126, 127, 128
Taylor, Arthur Ill
George. , 110
Thompson, Charles 122
Eliza 160
Hartwell, etc 155
James 160
Jane 160
Martha. 156
Rachel 156
William 156
Thorpe Family 107
Thornton, Prudence 110
Richard 116
Sterling 117
Throckmorton, Harriet IIS
Mary 118
Robert 113, 118:
Warner 118
Thruston, Amelia 114
Ben.iamin 115
Charles 116
Ellen 114
Emanuel 114, 115-
John 114, 140
Mary 114, 115
Eobert 114, 115
Sarah 115
Stephen 115
William 114
Index.
Tobiu, John, etc 158
Todd, Thomas Uli
Tonikies, Catherine 110, 153
Charles 10!), 110, 112, 153
Franc-is 110
Morjjan 123
Toniliiison, Robert 136
Tonev, Jane 158
Tovvl'es, Kate 160
TiK-ker. Beverlv 119
Bhin.l. . ". 11!)
Tiirpin, Fannv 115
Tufts, Alfred", etc 159
Tyler, Grace 162
Robert 162
T^nderwood. Thomas, ett- 158
Urquhart, Charles, etc 158
Venable, Nath 159
Waldron, Ellen 116
Ware, Hughes 140
Walker, Ann 130
James 130
J. F., etc 158
Marv 154
Nathan, etc 122
Waller, Louise 136
Page 154
Robert 136
Walton, Anne 157
John. , 1(50
Watkins, Francis, etc ]57
Samuel 159
Watts, William, etc 159
Webb, S. M 156
Wedderburn, Eliza 118
John 118
Wellford, Beverlv, etc 118
White, Alex. . . ." 118
Eliza 157
John 146
White, Maunsell 158
Shelton 161
Svdnev, etc 158
Whiting, Beverly. . , Ill
Francis 113
John 144
Mathew 144
Philip 144
Note 150
Wiatt, Alex 142
Americus 142
Clara 142
Eleanor 142
Fay 142
Francis 142
Haute 140, 142
Helen 142
Herbert 142
Jack 142
Marv 142
Maude 142
Peter 125
Robert 142
William 142
Note 152
Williams, Josephine 116
Mathew 155
Wood, Eliza 122
John. . 125
Wright, Maria 117
William, etc 143
Wyatt, Ann 155
Jose])h 155
Sarah 155
Varnell. Alice 141
Yates, Bartholomew 144
Catherine 144, 145
Eliza 144
Henry 144, 145
Rachel 144, 145
Yerger, William 154
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