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KENNEDY  FAMILY 

Arms :  Argent  on  a  chevron  gules  between  three  cross 
cross^ets  fitchee  sable  all  within  a  double  tressure  flory 
counterfiory  of  the  second. 

Crest:    A  dolphin  naiant  proper. 

Supporters :  Two  swans  proper  beaked  and  mcm- 
bered  gules. 

blotto  :    Avise  la  fin. 

The  follow^ing  history  has  been  taken  from  the  His- 
torical and  Genealogical  Account  of  the  Principal  Fami- 
lies of  the  Name  of  Kennedy,  from  an  Original  }.Ianu- 
script,  by  Robert  Pitcairn,  writer  of  His  ^lajesty's  Sig- 
net, F.  S.  S.  A.,  and  the  Honorable  F.  S.  A.  Perth,  &c., 
published  in  Edinburgh,  by  William  Tait  and  John  Stev- 
enson, and  in  London,  by  Longman  and  Company.  Re- 
garding it,  the  author,  Pitcairn,  makes  the  following 
statement :  ''This  account  is  appended  to  an  Anony- 
mous MS.,  'Chronicle  of  Scottish  Affairs,'  from  the  ear- 
liest period  of  King  James  Yl,  which  is  preserved  in  the 
Library  of  the  Faculty  of  Advocates,  Edinburgh." 

The  origin  of  the  name  of  Kennedy  is  from  the  Celtic 
"Ceaunathigue,"  meaning  the  head  of  a  sept  or  clan. 
The  Gallic  or  Celtic  words  are  Kean-na-ty,  the  head  of  a 
house  of  chief  of  a  clan.  The  Kennedys  are  originally 
believed  to  be  of  Carrick.  At  all  events,  previous  to  the 
year  1256  (the  date  of  his  death),  Neil,  Earl  of  Carrick, 
granted  a  charter  in  favor  of  Roland  of  Carrick,  who  is 
proved  to  be  the  ancestor  of  the  Kennedys,  granting  and 
confirming  to  him  and  to  his  heirs  forever  to  be  the  head 

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or  chief  of  his  race,  "ut  ipse  et  heredes  fui  sint  caput 
progenisi  Suae,"  which  grant  was  confirmed  by  King 
Alexander  III,  January  20,  1275-6,  and  ratified  by  Rob- 
ert II,  October  1,  1372.  (Reg.  Mag.  Sig.,  114,  115,  116.) 
As  the  family  ever  after  this  grant  bore  the  name  of 
Kennedy  (the  head  of  the  house  or  family),  it  is  prob- 
able that  this  surname  was  adopted  by  it  in  commemora- 
tion of  this  circumstance.  (See  Crawford  and  Wood's 
Peerage.) 

'^Seing  that  thair  is  sum  noittis,  for  memory,  heirefter 
to  follow,  off  the  name  of  Kennedy,  I  thocht  it  gude  to 
conteyne  heir  thair  beginning  and  how  they  rease  to  be 
gritt,  and  soe  furthe  to  this  hour. 

''And  first,  concerning  thair  name:  it  is,  out  of  all  dout, 
the  same  proceidit  fra  then  nem  Kennethe ;  for  of  that 
nemme  thair  was  sundry  Kyngis  and  also  sum  very  fynd 
Capitanis.  For  by  the  thrie  Kingis  that  had  to  thair  name 
Kennethe,  thair  was  ane  Kennethe  Thaine  of  Carrik, 
quha  was  ane  of  King  Gregories  Capitanis  in  his  weir  in 
the  land,  be  quhais  skill  of  rowing  doun  of  Stanes  from 
ane  hiche  hill,  he  vanne  ane  gritt  battell  of  King  Gregorie. 
And  of  this  Captane  the  Kennedyes  sayis  thai  had  thair 
beginning  Bot  the  Blak  Bulk  of  Skoyne  settis  thair  begin- 
ning to  be  in  the  ring  of  King  Malcome  the   Secund. 

(Without  the  aid  of  the  Glossary,  this  narrative  would 
be  hard  to  understand,  therefore  what  follows  will  be 
written  in  English,  retaining  the  quaint  phraseology  and 
spelling  whenever  possible.) 

"The  Black  Book  of  Skoyne,  which  sets  their  beginning 
to  be  in  the  reign  of  King  Malcome  the  Second,  who  was 
crowned  in  the  year  of  God  1010,  and  was  the  four- 
score King  of  Scotland.     There  was  with  this  King  one 


in  Wallace  Book,  was  hanged  in  air  by  the  deceit  of  the 
English ;  but  because  that  Cronikill  makes  mention  there- 
of, I  rest  thereon.  But  the  heirs  of  this  Sir  Neil  held  the 
lands  of  Cassillis  till  the  reign  of  Robert  the  Second,  the 
first  of  the  Stewarts,  at  the  which  time  the  lands  fell  to  a 
lass ;  and  the  Laird  of  Dalrumpill,  her  neighbor,  came  to 
her  house  of  Cassillis,  and  pursued  her  by  force  to  have 
her  in  marriage ;  the  which  she  would  not  consent  to  but 
defended  her  house.  And  at  this  time,  the  Laird  of  Don- 
our  that  then  was,  he  coming  by,  and  seeing  the  dame, 
set  upon  the  Laird  of  Dalrumpill  and  slew  him,  and  re- 
leased the  lady  and  took  her  with  him  to  his  house  of 
Donour ;  where,  under  promise  of  marriage,  he  made  her 
surrender  her  lands  that  w^re  in  the  King's  hands  to  him ; 
but  I  cannot  read  that  ever  he  married  her  to  his  wife. 
But  she  seeing  herself  disappointed  by  that  deed,  took 
displeasure  and  died  shortly  thereafter.  This  was  about 
the  third  year  of  Robert  the  Second,  which  was  the 
1373  year  of  God. 

"Now  the  Laird  of  Dalrumpill  being  slane  as  ye  have 
heard,  his  lands  fell  to  his  brother's  sons,  amongst  the 
which  there  was  great  strife:  but  the  youngest  at  last 
sold  his  right  to  the  Laird  of  Donour.  and  then  the  Laird 
of  Donour  sett  for  the  Eldest  and  slew  him,  a  little  above 
the  Kirk  of  Dalrumpill  where  now  there  is  a  great  cairne 
(pile  or  heap),  of  stone  to  this  day.  And  so  by  that 
right  he  had  of  the  youngest,  he  took  the  lands  of  Dal- 
rumpill, and  thus  was  Dalrumpill  acquired. 

'*Now  at  this  time,  there  was  a  Laird  in  Carrick  who 
was  called  Macktaise.  The  Laird  of  Donour  made  this 
Macktaise  his  Gossop  (Godfather),  and  the  bairne  be- 
ine  a  man-child,  this  Macktaise  would  needs  have  him 
to  be  his  foster  son ;  and  in  the  end,  by  wanting  children 


McKenane  of  the  Yllis  that  was  slain  by  the  Danes  at 
the  Battle  of  Murlaik,  and  by  him  come  the  McKenane 
of  the  Yllis  who  enjoy  the  lands  Stroworddell  to  this 
hour.  This  McKenane  and  his  race  or  posterity  were 
at  the  time  of  King  Donnallis'  reign,  when  the  Danes  got 
possession  of  the  whole  Yllis.  banished  by  them  to  Ire- 
land where  they  remained  till  the  reign  of  Alexander  the 
Third.  He  then  came  to  King  Alexander  before  the  Bat- 
tle of  Larkis  with  three  score  of  his  name  and  his  serv- 
ants ;  and  after  that  King  Acho  was  defeated,  he  fled  to 
Air  and  there  took  shipping.  The  principal  man  that 
pursued  him  was  McKenane  with  his  sons ;  and  after  that 
the  King  of  the  Danes  was  received  in  the  Castle  of  Air. 
McKenane  followed  one  Lord  or  great  Captaine  of  the 
Danes  to  a  Craig  in  Carrick,  whereon  there  was  a  strong- 
hold McKenane  and  his  sons  took,  and  slew  this  Captaine 
and  all  who  were  therein.  For  the  which  deed  this  Mc- 
Kenane got  the  same  stronghold  from  King  Alexander, 
with  certain  lands  thereto;  the  which  he  gave  to  his  sec- 
ond son.  And  this  was  the  first  beginning  of  the  name 
of  Kennedy  in  the  Mainland.  On  the  stronghold  and 
craig  there  is  now  a  fair  castle,  which  the  Chief  of  the 
Lowland  Kennedys  took  their  stile  of  for  long  space  and 
were  called  Lairds  of  Donour,  because  of  the  Don  of  the 
hill  above  the  House.  Of  this  house  the  rest  of  that  name 
are  come.  This  battle  was  fought  on  the  third  day  of 
August  the  year  of  God  1263. 

"The  House  of  Donour,  of  Dunnurc. 
''This  house  remained  a  long  time  but  in  sober  estate, 
not  having  any  great  rent  nor  power  in  the  country.  For 
we  hear  no  great  mention  made  of  them  in  Wallis  days, 
nor  the  Bruce's  time.  For  at  the  Barnis  of  Air  the  Laird 
of  Cassillis  was  Sir  Neil  Montgomery,  who,  as  we  read 


of  his  own,  made  his  foster  son  his  heir  and  gave  him  his 
lands  after  him.     And  of  this  son  came  the  House  of 
Bargany  which  had  no  benefit  of  the  House  of  Donour. 
"The  House  of  Blaquhan,  or  Blairquhan. 

"It  is  thought  that  the  House  of  Blaquhan  came  of  the 
House  of  Donour  at  this  time;  and  got  from  the  Laird, 
his  father,  the  twenty  pound  land  of  Donourtoune,  which 
they  had  off  the  House  to  this  hour.  But  their  prefer- 
ment came  by  the  marriage  of  one  McColloche  who  was 
here-triy  of  Twymone;  by  the  which  they  gat  the  lands 
of  Cronstoune  and  many  more  lands  in  Galloway. 
"The  House  of  Bargany. 

"The  House  of  Bargany  came  to  their  preferment  by 
the  valor  of  the  second  brother,  who  was  first  put  to  have 
been  a  Friar;  but  his  courage  not  agreeable  to  this  of- 
fice, lost  the  same,  and  went  with  the  Laird  of  Blaquhane 
to  France,  to  Charles  the  VH,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord, 
1431.  He  was  called  Friar  Hew  (Hugh),  and  was  for 
his  valor  so  beloved  by  the  King  of  France  that  he  re- 
mained with  him  many  years  thereafter,  and  went  with 
him  to  the  Holy  Land.  And  at  his  returning,  he  received 
word  that  his  brother,  the  Laird  of  Bargany,  was  dead. 
Whereupon  he  took  leave  of  the  King  of  France,  and  got 
in  recompense  of  his  service,  many  great  rewards  of 
gold  and  money.  And  above  all,  he  gave  him  leave  to 
wear  arms  quarterly  in  his  arms,  to  wit,  flour-de-lyse, 
which  that  house  wears  to  this  day.  He  came  to  Scot- 
land, and  bought  the  ten  pound  land  of  Arstensar,  and 
built  the  house  thereof,  and  acquired  many  more  lands, 
by  the  benefit  of  the  stypend  of  the  King  of  France.  This 
Friar  Hewis  (Hugh's)  grandchild  was  called  'Com  with 
the  penny,'  who  acquired  the  greatest  part  of  all  the  liv- 
ing, which  now  is  a  great  rent,  and  has  of  it  come  the 


houses  of  Ardmillane,  Dunneane,  Bennane,  Kirkhill,  Bar- 
drohatt." 

Sir  Gilbert^-de-Carrick  had  issue,  Sir  John^  Kennedy 
of  Dunure,  whose  son,  Sir  Gilbert^  Kennedy,  was  the  next 
Laird  of  Donour.  By  his  two  wives  he  had  seven  sons. 
He  was  one  of  the  hostages  for  the  hberation  of  King 
David  II,  Anno  Domini  1354.  His  first  wife  was  Marion, 
daughter  of  Sir  James  Sandiland  of  Calder,  by  Eleanora, 
only  daughter  of  Archibald  Douglas  of  that  Ilk,  and 
relict  of  Alexander  Bruce,  Earl  of  Carrick,  who  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Hallidon  Hill,  Anno  Domini  1333. 
Her  third  husband  was  William  Towers  of  Dairy;  her 
fourth  husband  was  Sir  Duncan  Wallace  of  Lundrum; 
her  fifth  husband  was  Sir  Patrick  Hepburn  of  Hales  (See 
Wyntown  II,  268).  Sir  Gilbert  Kennedy  had  by  her  the 
following  children : 

i  Gilbert,  who  was  disinherited  by  him  and  died 
in  the  French  service  without  issue. 
1  ii  Sir  James,  of  Dunure,  married  Princess  Alary, 
second  daughter  of  King  Robert  III,  and  wid- 
ow of  George  Douglas,  first  Earl  of  Angus, 
iii  Alexander,  who  was  Alschunder  Dalgour. 
iv  Sir  Hugh,  of  Ardstinchar,  who  accompanied 
the  Scottish  troops  under  the  Earl  of  Buchan, 
and  was  distinguished  at  the  battle  of  Bauge 
in  Anjou,  March  22,  1421,  in  being  honored  by 
the  King  of  France  with  his  armorial  bearings. 
Azure,  three  fleurs  de  lis  or.  From  him  sprung 
the  House  of  Bargany,  Kirkhill,  and  Benning. 
These  arms  are  still  borne,  quarterly  with  those 
of  Kennedy,  by  descendants.  By  his  wife,  Ag- 
nes, daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Maxwell  of  Cald- 
erwood,  he  had  three  sons,  John,  Thomas,  and 


David,  who  was  one  of  the  retinue  of  knights 
and  esquires  who  attended  Margaret  of  Scot- 
land into  France  on  her  marriage  to  the  Dau- 
phin, Louis,  Anno  Domini  1436. 

1  Sir  James-  Kennedy  (Sir  Gilbert^)  of  Donour, 
had  a  charter  of  the  barony  of  Dah-ymple,  on  his  father's 
resignation,  January  27,  1405-6,  by  which  the  old  privi- 
lege is  declaimed  and  ratified  by  the  King  as  follows : 
■  yuod  dictus  Jacobus  et  hereaes  sui  mascuii  smc  caput 
totius  progeniei  suae,  tam  in  Calumpniis  quam  in  aliis 
articulis  et  negotiis  ad  Kynkynol  pertinen.  Va'entibus 
vnacum  Officio  Ballivi  predictae  terrae  (Carrick)  et 
hominum  ipsius  directione,  ac  cum  armorum  ostenta- 
tione,  in  omnibus,  sub  comite  de  Carrick,  qui  pro  tem- 
pore fuerit."  [Confirmed  by  King  James  II,  August 
2,  and  November  21,  1450.] 

Sir  James  married  Mary,  daughter  of  King  Robert 
III,  and  the  widow  of  George  Douglas,  first  Earl  of  An- 
gus. Sir  James  Kennedy  was  killed  in  a  quarrel  with 
his  disinherited  brother,  Gilbert,  during  his  father's  life- 
time. He  left  two  sons, 
2         i     Gilbert,  the  first  Lord  Kennedy. 

ii  James  Kennedy,  who  was  created  Bishop  of 
Dunkeld,  1438 ;  made  Postulate  of  St.  Andrews, 
Anno  Domini  1440,  during  his  absence  in  Flor- 
ence with  Pope  Eugenius  iv,  who  at  that  time 
bestowed  upon  him  the  Abbacy  of  Scone  m 
commendam ;  chosen  one  of  the  Regents  of 
Scotland,  during  the  minority  of  King  James 
III;  died  May  10,  1466.  This  highly  eminent 
and  talented  prelate,  according  to  Buchanan, 
"surpassed  all  men  in  Scotland  in  point  of  au- 


thority;  his  prudence  was  held  in  the  highest 
estimation,  and  he  was  lamented  at  his  death  as 
a  publick  parent."     [See  Buchanan's  History  of 
Scotland,  Keith's  History  of  the  Bishops,  Craw- 
ford's Lives  of  Officers  of  State,  &c.,  Pinker- 
ton's    History    of     Scotland,     I,   347-254,    and 
Wood's  Peerage,  I,  328.] 
But  now  to  return  to  the  House  of  Donour  again. 
'There   was   one   brother   of   the   House,   which   was 
either  the  fourth  or  fifth  brother.     The  eldest  who  was 
Laird  being  dead,  the  friends  convened  to  take  order  who 
should  be  Tutor;  But  this  brother,  although  the  young- 
est, starts  up  and,  drawing  his  sword,  said,  'I  am  best 
and  worthiest  and  I  will  be  Tutor !'     This  brother  was 
called  Alschunder,  and  because  he  wore  a  dagger,  which 
at  that  time  was  not  common,  he  was  called  Alschunder 
Dalgour. 

"This  Alschunder,  or  Allexander.  fell  in  misliking  with 
the  Earl  of  Wigtone  Douglasse,  who  was  a  very  gritt 
manne,  and  had  great  power  in  all  the  country.  This  Doug- 
las was  so  much  offended  at  him,  because  it  was  thought 
that  he  had  been  in  a  deadly  feud  against  him  at  Glayn- 
naip,  and  in  another  against  Lindsay,  then  Lard  of 
Craigy,  at  the  water  of  Done,  both  in  one  day,  that  the 
Earl  promised  to  any  that  would  bring  this  Alexander's 
head,  they  should  have  the  forty  mark  land  of  Stewart- 
toune,  in  Cuninghamey  the  which  words  coming  to  Alex- 
ander's ears,  he  assembled  a  hundred  horsemen,  and  on 
Yuill-day,  in  the  morning,  came  to  the  town  of  Wigtone, 
about  the  time  he  knew  the  Earl  would  be  at  the  morn- 
ing Mass,  and  having  all  his  right  to  the  said  forty  mark 
land  put  in  form,  came  into  the  Church,  and  said,  'My 
Lord,  you  have  promised  this  fourty  mark  land  to  any 


that  would  bring  you  my  head,  and  I  know  there  is  none 
so  meet  as  myself  and  therefore  will  desire  your  Lord- 
ship to  do  to  me,  as  you  would  to  any  other.' 

"The  Earl  perceived,  that,  if  he  refused,  the  same 
would  cost  him  his  life;  and  therefore  took  the  pen  and 
subscribed  the  same.  Alschunder  thanked  his  Lordship, 
took  his  horse,  lept  on,  and  went  his  way.  He  and  his 
heirs  enjoyed  the  same  at  this  time  or  at  least  to  1602 
year  of  God  when  the  Earl  John  sold  the  same  to  the 
Laird  of  Langschaw.  He  got  this  in  the  fourth  year  of  the 
reign  of  Robert  the  third  which  was  about  the  year  of 
God  1380.  This  Alexander,  coming  home  to  Donour,  be- 
gan to  grow  proud,  and  it  was  feared  he  would  disin- 
herit his  brother's  son,  and  also  he  began  to  be  a  tyrant 
above  his  friends.  Whereupon  they,  meeting  in  Donour, 
took  him  in  his  bed,  cast  fedder  bed  above  him,  and 
smothered  him,  and  there  he  died,  leaving  behind  him 
but  one  bastard  son,  of  whom  the  House  of  Kirkdall  is 
descended." 

"The  spirit  of  the  author's  remark  is  that  it  was  feared 
that  this  violent,  bold-spirited  man  would  have  disin- 
herited his  brother's  son,  i.  e.,  that  he  would  have  usurped 
the  inheritance  of  his  nephew,  lawful  heir,  and  main- 
tained himself  in  possession  by  force." 

How  far  this  story  is  founded  on  fact  it  would  now 
be  difficult  to  trace,  but  it  is  certain  that  the  Earl  of 
Wigton  made  a  grant  of  the  town  Kyrkyntulach  to  Sir 
Gilbert  Kennedy,  knight,  which  was  confirmed  May  13, 
1372.     [Reg.  Mag.  Sig.  104;  Wood's  Peerage,  II,  630.] 

2  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  (Sir  James-  Kennedy, 
Sir  Gilbert^)  was  the  first  Lord  Kennedy  and  the  son  of 
Sir  James   Kennedy  and  his  wife,  the   Princess   Mary, 


daughter  of  Robert  III.  He  was  made  Lord  by  King 
James,  and  got  the  lands  of  Lachsuad  and  Meurig  from 
the  said  King  James,  at  the  forfeiture  of  the  Earl  of 
Wigtoune,  the  which  lands  the  House  of  Cassillis  enjoys 
to  this  day.  This  Gilbert  was  the  King's  sister's  son, 
who  was  made  the  first  Lord  Kennedy.  From  the 
numerous  lands  acquired  by  this  Lord,  and  the  Charters 
in  his  favor  passing  under  the  Great  Seal,  it  would 
appear  that  he  was  possessed  of  great  power  and  in- 
fluence. He  was.  Anno  14G0.  appointed  one  of  the 
Six  Regents  of  Scotland,  on  the  death  of  James  H. 
He  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  Herbert,  first  Lord 
Maxwell  of  Caerlaverock.  The  issue  of  this  marriage 
was  three  sons  and  two  daughters. 
3         i     John,  second  Lord  Kennedy. 

ii  James,  married  Egidia  Blair;  half  the  barony 
of  Glenstinchar  was  granted  him,  on  his  father's 
resignation.  May  17,  1473. 
iii  Walter,  called  brother  of  John,  Lord  Kennedy, 
in  the  Charter  of  the  Earl  of  Angus,  September 
25,  1498. 
iv     Catherine,  married  to  Alexander,  second  Lord 

Montgomery. 
V     Mariot,  married  to  Sir  John  Wallace  of  Craigie. 

3  John*,  Lord  Kennedy  (Gilbert\  Lord  Kennedy, 
Sir  James",  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  the  second  Lord  Kennedy. 
He  married  Elizabeth  Montgomery,  second  daughter  of 
Alexander,  the  first  Lord  Montgomery,  by  whom  he  had 
an  only  son,  David,  who  became  the  third  Lord  Kennedy. 
He  married,  second,  Elizabeth,  second  daughter  of  Sir 
Alexander  Seton  de  Gordon,  first  Earl  of  Huntley  (by 
his   third   wife,   Elizabeth,   eldest   daughter   of  William, 


Lord  Crichton,  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  whose  posterity 
took  the  name  of  Gordon),  and  relict  of  Nicol,  second 
Earl  of  Errol.  She  had  a  charter  of  the  lands  of  Cassillis, 
dated  July  12,  11:71.  By  this  marriage  there  were  three 
sons  and  two  daughters. 

Children  (by  Elizabeth  ^Montgomery)  : 
1         i     David,  third  Lord  Kennedy. 
Children  (by  Elizabeth  Seton  de  Gordon)  : 

ii     Alexander,  ancestor  of  the  Kennedys  of  Ger- 
vanmains  and  Barquhanny,  who  had  charters 
of  the  lands  of  Garvane,  &c.,  in  Carrick,  with 
the  lands  and  Barony  of  Lessvalt. 
iii     John, 
iv     William. 

V  Janet,  one  of  the  mistresses  of  King  James  IV, 
who  granted  a  charter  to  her,  for  her  lifetime, 
under  the  title  of  Lady  Bothwell,  of  the  Castle 
and  Eorest  of  Dernway,  &c.,  &c.,  in  shire  of 
Elgin,  June  1,  1501 ;  with  this  qualification : 
"Tamdiu  remanserit  abseque  marito  seu  alio 
viro,  cum  Rege  et  suo  condilecto  filio  Jacobo 
Stewart,  in  Castro  Regis  de  Dernway,  vel  alibi 
pront  Regiy  placuerit  et  convenientius  visum 
fuerit."  This  son  was,  the  same  year,  created 
Earl  of  Moray.  There  is  evidence  of  this 
lady  having  formed  a  similar  connection  with 
Archibald,  Earl  of  Angus,  commonly  known 
by  the  name  of  Bell-the-Cat.  At  all  events, 
confirmations  of  Charters  exist  in  the  public 
Records ;  one  of  them  to  him  and  Janet,  daugh- 
ter of  John,  Lord  Kennedy,  and  the  heirs-male 
procreated,  or  to  be  procreated,  betwixt  them., 
whom  failing,  to  William  Douglas,  son  of  said 


Earl  of  the  Barony  of  Bradewode,  etc.  This  con- 
firmation was  dated  July  20,  1498.  The  other 
is  a  confirmation  of  a  grant  by  the  Earl  to 
her  of  the  Barony  of  Crawford-Lindsay,  Sep- 
tember 25,  1498.  Hume  of  Godscroft  says 
that  Archibald,  Earl  of  Angus,  was  confined  to 
the  Island  of  Arran  for  taking  Jean  Kennedy, 
daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Cassillis,  out  of  Gal- 
loway, to  whom  the  King  bore  affection — and 
to  whom  the  Earl  gave  investment  and  seisin 
of  the  lands  of  Bothwell,  though  he  never  mar- 
ried her. 
vi  Helen,  married  to  Adam  Boyd,  of  Penkill. 
This  Lord  appears  frequently  in  the  records 
of  Parliament,  as  taking  an  active  share  in  all 
public  affairs.  On  October  16,  1488,  he  ob- 
tained a  royal  commission  ''for  stanching  of 
theft,  reff,"  etc.,  in  Carrick,  and  on  February 
15,  1489-90,  he  is  held  responsible  for  the  King's 
Casualties,  in  Carrick,  Leswalt,  Monybrig,  etc. 

4  David^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  First  Earl  of 
Cassillis  (John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy 
Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  third  Lord  Kennedy,  and 
first  Earl  of  Cassillis.  (Created  Earl  in  1509.)  He  mar- 
ried Anna  Bothwick,  eldest  daughter  of  Lord  John  Bor- 
thwick.  After  the  death  of  Anna  Bothwick  he  married,  for 
his  second  wife,  Gregoria  Boyde,  daughter  of  Lord  Boyde 
and  grandchild  to  King  James  II,  by  whom  he  had  no 
issue.  This  Earl  David  was  slain  at  the  battle  of  Flou- 
done  in  Anno  1513. 

Children    (by  Anna  Bothwick)  : 
5         i     Gilbert,  second  Earl  of  CassilHs. 


ii 

William,  Abbot  of  Crosregnall. 

iii 

James,  Laird  of  Broinestoune. 

iv 

Thomas,  Laird  of  Coiff;  children: 
Helen;  Christiane. 

Katherine ; 

V 

Katherine. 

vi 

Helen. 

vii 

Christiane. 

5  Gilbert*^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  Second  Earl  of 
Cassillis  (David^,  Lord  Kennedy,  the  first  Earl,  John*, 
Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir 
Gilbert^)  succeeded  his  father  in  the  Earldom.  He 
married  Issobell  Campbell,  daughter  of  Colin  Campbell, 
Earl  of  Argyll,  and  had  seven  sons  and  two  daughters. 

"The  Earl  shamefully  neglected  his  hostages  who  had 
been  placed  under  the  care  of  the  Archbishop  of  York 
*  *  ^'  Earl  Gilbert  was  killed  at  the  Pon  of  Prestick 
in  Kyll,  by  Hew  Campbell  of  Londoune,  Sheriff e  of 
Aire  28  December,  in  Anno  1527  and  was  buried  at  the 
Collegiate  Church  at  Mayboll." 
Children : 
6         i     Gilbert,  "his  eldest  sonne  succidit  him.'' 

ii  David,  married  Janet  Kennedy,  eldest  daughter 
of  Duncan  Kennedv  of  Dalgabre.  He  was  one 
of  the  hostages  for  his  brother,  the  Earl,  in 
England,  1543,  who  was  one  of  the  prisoners 
taken  at  the  rout  of  Solway  by  Dacre  and 
Musgrave,  in  November,  1542.  Thomas  Ken- 
nedy of  Coif,  and  David  and  Thomas,  his  broth- 
ers, were  hostages  for  his  ransom,  which  was 
fixed  at  il,000. 
iii  Quinton,  Abbott  of  Crosregnall,  "the  learned 
and  pious   Churchman,  who  publicly  disputed 


with  John  Knox  on  the  subject  of  the  Sacri- 
fice of  the  Mass  for  three  days,  at  Maybole," 
After  his  death,  in  1564,  he  is  said  to  have  been 
canonized.  (See  Tracts  reprinted  by  the  late 
Sir  Alexander  Boswell  of  Auchinleck;  Knox's 
History,  Irving's  Lives,  1,  80;  Appendix  to 
Keith's  Church  History,  etc.) 

iv     Archibald. 

V     Henry. 

vi     James. 

vii     Robert. 

viii     Janet,  married  the  Laird  of  Freuche  and  had 
issue. 

ix     Helen,  married  the  Laird  of  Kilhilt  and  had 
issue. 

6  Gilbert',  Lord  Kennedy  and  Third  Earl  of 
Cassillis  (Gilbert^  the  second  Earl,  David^  the  first 
Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir 
James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  succeeded  his  father,  in  1527,  when 
he  was  in  his  thirteenth  year.  He  married  Sophia  Ken- 
nedy, daughter  of  Alexander  Kennedy,  the  Laird  of 
Bargany. 

Earl  Gilbert  was  sent  to  France  by  Mary,  Queen  of 
Scotland,  as  an  ambassador  to  conclude  the  marriage  be- 
twixt her  and  Francis,  the  Dauphin  of  France,  "who 
in  his  return  home  departed  this  mortal  life  at  Deipe 
in  France,  not  without  suspicion  of  poison,  14  Novembus, 
in  Anno  1558,  he  lays  buried  at  the  Collegiat  Churche 
of  Mayboll."  [See  Buchanan,  lib.  16.]  This  nobleman 
appears  to  have  been  the  most  eminent  and  excellent 
of  the  early  Earls  of  Cassillis.  He  was  educated  by  George 
Buchanan,  with  whom  he  went  abroad,  who  wrote  the 


following  epitaph  of  him:     "Hie  situs  est  Heros  hnmili 
Gilbertus  in  urna  Kennedus,  antiquae  nobilitatis  honos : 
"Musarum    martlsque    decus,    pacisque    minister, 
*'Et  columen  patriae  consiliumque  suae 
"Parce  hospes,  lachrimis,  et  inanem  comprime  luctum ; 
"Non  misere  quisquam  qui  bene  vixit  obit." 
In  November,  1542,  he  was  one  of  the  prisoners  taken 
at  the   disastrous   rout  of   Solway,   and  was   committed 
to  the  charge  of  Cranmer,  through  whose  means  he  was 
finally  induced  to  espouse  the  reformed  religion  to  which 
he  had  already  been  secretly  attached  by  the  instruction 
of  Buchanan.     Having  procured  hostages,  he   returned 
home  next  year  and   engaged,   in   the   English   interest, 
to  promote  the  marriage  between  Queen  Mary  and  Ed- 
ward,   Prince    of    Wales,    for    which    service    he    got    a 
pension  from  Henry  \^ni  of  300  marks.     The  sureties 
were  neglected  and,  early  in  the  year  1545,  he  went  to 
London  and  delivered  himself  to  the  King. 

He  was  succeeded  in  the  Earldom  by  his  eldest  son. 
He  had  three  sons  and  two  daughters : 
Children : 
7         i     Gilbert,   fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis. 
ii     David,  died  as  a  child. 

iii     Sir  Thomas,  Laird  of  Reiland,  was  knighted, 
iv     Jeane,  married  Willam,  Earl  of  Orknay. 
V     Catharine,  married  Sir  Patrick  Vans  of  Barn- 
baroch  and  had  issue. 

7  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  Fourth  Earl  of 
Cassillis  (Gilbert',  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^  the  second 
Earl,  David%  the  first  Earl,  Tohn\  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  succeeded 
his  father.     He  married  Margaret  Layone,  daughter  of 


Patrick,  Lord  Glames,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  a  son  and  a 
daughter,  who  both  died  in  childhood.  He  then  had  two 
sons,  John  and  Gilbert.  Another  account  gives  Hew 
(Hugh)  as  second  son  and  says  of  him,  "This  Hew 
was  married  to  the  Laird  of  Carslandis'  sister,  who  bore 
to  him  two  laidis  and  one  dochter  and  Hew  died  within 
twenty  five  years  of  age.  He  was  a  well  conditioned 
man  and  had  the  love  of  all  men." 

Another  statement  about  LIugh  is  as  follows : 

"Hew,  Master  of  Cassillis,  married  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Uchtred  Macdowall  of  Garthland,  who,  on  the  death 
of  her  husband,  married,  secondly,  James,  Lord  Ochil- 
tree." 

Mr.  Wood,  in  his  Peerage,  mentions  a  third  son,  Gil- 
bert, Master  of  Cassillis,  on  the  authority  of  Doctor 
Stewart,  in  his  history  of  the  Stewarts,  page  121.  This 
Earl  Gilbert  was  one  of  the  judges  of  Francis,  Earl  of 
Both  well,  who  was  convicted  of  the  murder  of  Henry, 
Duke  of  Albany,  the  husband  of  Mary,  Queen  of  Scot- 
land, and  the  father  of  James  VI,  King  of  Great  Britain. 
This  Earl  Gilbert  departed  this  mortal  life  at  Edinburgh, 
December  14,  1516,  and  was  entombed  at  MayboU. 

"Gilbert  was  a  particular  man,  and  a  very  greedy 
man,  and  cared  naught  how  he  got  land,  so  that  he  could 
come  by  the  same ;  and  for  that  cause  he  entered  into  an 
agreement  with  one  Abbott  of  Glenlufe,  concerning  the 
Abacie,  to  take  the  same  in  fee ;  but  or  he  got  the  same 
performed,  the  Abbott  died.  And  then  he  dealt  with 
one  monk  of  the  same  Abacie^  who  counterfitt  the 
Abbott's  hand-writt,  and  all  the  whole  convent,  and  got 
him  counterfitt  their  names.  And  when  he  had  gotten 
the  same  done,  fearing  that  the  monk  would  reveal  it, 
he  caused  one  Churl  they  caUd  Carnachane,  to  kill  him, 


and  then  for  fear  that  Carnachane  would  reveal  it,  he 
got  his  uncle  on  his  father's  side.  Hew  of  Bargany 
(Barquhouny)  accuse  this  Carnachane  of  theft,  and 
hang  him  in  Corsragall.  And  so  the  lands  of  Glenluse 
was  obtained."  (See  full  account  of  the  Roasting  of 
the  Abbott  of  Crossraguel  in  the  notes  of  Ivanhoe.) 

''Now  as  concerning  the  Abbacye  of  Coisragall,  this 
Earl  Gilbert  acquired  the  Abbacy  in  this  form:  There 
was  an  fader-broder  of  his,  called  Abbott  Ouinteyne,  a 
good  man,  and  one  that  feared  God,  after  the  manner 
of  his  religione.  He  at  the  alteration  of  the  religion 
My  Lord  dealt  with  the  Abbott,  and  got  the  rent  of  the 
said  Abbacy  set  to  him,  but  this  was  refused  by  the  next 
incoming  Abbot ;  and  because  the  same  was  not  confirmed 
by  the  King,  the  same  was  made  null.  And  then  the 
Abott,  Allane  Stewart,  got  the  Abbacy;  and  this  Abott 
had  married  the  sister  of  Lady  Barganyis ;  and,  for 
that  reason,  the  Abott  was  with  the  Laird  of  Bargany, 
and  followed  his  opinions  in  all  his  doing.  My  Lord 
of  Cassillis  perceiving  the  same,  desired  the  Laird  of 
Bargany,  to  induce  the  Abbott  to  confirm  his  right  as 
given  by  Abbott  Ouinteyne  before.  But  the  Laird  could 
not  get  the  Abbott  to  agree  to  come  to  him,  that  he 
might  deal  with  him,  in  that,  himself,  with  faithful  prom- 
ises to  use  him  well.  Whereupon  the  Laird  persuaded 
the  Abbott,  and  sent  him  to  Mayboll,  to  my  Lord.  At 
which  coming,  my  Lord  delt  with  him  to  ratify  his  right ; 
but  could  not  get  him  moved  thereto.  Whereupon  he 
took  purpose  to  convey  him  to  Donour  and  there  to  move 
him  to  do  the  same  by  violence.  And  when  he  found 
him  obstinate,  at  last  took  him  and  bound  him  to  a 
form,  and  set  his  bare  legs  to  a  great  fire,  and  ex- 
tremely burnt  him,  that  he  was  ever  thereafter  unable 


of  his  legs.  The  word  of  this  coming  abroad,  the  Laird 
desired  my  Lord  to  send  him  back  the  Abott;  but  my 
Lord  gave  answer,  that  he  remained  with  him  of  his 
own  win,  and  not  by  compulsion.  But  the  truth  coming 
to  the  Laird  of  Barganyis  ear  how  he  was  used,  he  con- 
sulted with  a  man  of  his  own,  called  David  Kennedy 
Max^altone,  who  had  been  his  page  before;  who  took 
with  him  the  number  of  ten  or  twelve  of  his  master's 
servants,  and  in  the  night  drew  near  the  gate,  within 
a  chapell,  which  was  at  the  draw  end.  And  in  the 
morning  when  the  keepers  were  opening  the  gate,  the 
draw  and  all  being  free,  they  issued  out  of  the  chapell, 
and  forced  open  the  gate,  and  so  entered  the  house,  and 
took  them  all  prisoners  that  were  there.  But  the  day 
being  bright,  and  this  house  in  my  Lord's  bounds,  they 
could  not  then  carey  itt  with  them,  and  therefore  were 
forced  to  remain  in  the  house,  and  send  one  away  to 
the  Laird,  to  show  him  what  was  proceeding,  but  or 
ever  before  he  could  get  his  force  gathered  together 
the  Master  and  my  Lord's  brother  entered  about  the 
house,  with  all  my  Lord's  force,  and  enclosed  the  same, 
and  entering  in  the  afore  said  chapell,  and  thought  to 
have  pierced  the  wall,  because  the  chapell  was  joined  to 
the  dungeone.  But  the  Laird's  men  that  were  within. 
Cast  great  stones  down  from  the  battlement  of  the  dun- 
geon and  so  brake  the  roof  of  the  chapell,  in  such  manner, 
that  they  were  obliged  to  leave  the  same.  And  in  their 
waygoing  shot  at  them,  and  shot  the  master  through  the 
sholder.  The  Laird  of  Bargany,  in  this  time  had  gathered 
his  whole  force ;  and  also  a  great  part  of  Kyill  and  Cun- 
inghame  came  with  him,  that  he  was  such  a  number,  as 
the  Master  and  my  Lord's  servants  and  friends  were 
forced  to  retire,  and  suffer  him  to  release  his  men,  and 


take  the  Abbott,  burnt  as  he  was.  to  Air,  home  with  him. 
And  this  moved  a  great  feud  between  them,  but  in  the 
end  it  was  taken  away  by  friends,  Mr.  David  Lindsay 
of  Leithe  minister,  being  umpire ;  and  my  Lord,  the  Laird 
and  Abbott  all  agreitt.  ]\Iy  Lord  gave  the  Abbott  some 
money  to  live  upon,  which  contentet  him  all  his  days ;  and 
this  was  my  Lord's  conquest  of  Crosragall,  which  was  but 
a  bad  form," 

In  reference  to  the  Abbacy  of  Crossraguel,  which 
was  the  bone  of  contention  in  this  barbarous  affair,  it 
is  proper  to  say  a  few  words. 

''Doctor  Irving,  in  his  learned  and  valuable  life  of 
George  Buchanan,  observes,  that  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots 
was  not  insensible  of  his  powerful  claims  upon  the 
protection  of  his  country.  In  the  year  1564,  she  had  re- 
warded his  literary  merits  by  conferring  upon  him  the 
temporalities  of  Crossragwell  x\bbay,  which  amounted 
in  annual  valuation  to  the  sum  of  five  hundred  pounds, 
in  Scottish  currency.  The  Abbacy  was  at  that  time 
vacant  by  the  decease  of  Quinton  Kennedy,  who  was  a 
man  of  learning,  and  the  brother  of  Buchanan's  former 
pupil,  the  Earl  of  Cassillis.  And  that  about  the  period 
wdien  Buchanan  was  appointed  preceptor  to  the  King, 
he  seems  to  have  entertained  some  apprehensions  for  his 
personal  safety,  as  well  as  his  pension,  &c."  (Irving's 
Life  of  Buchanan,  Ed.  1817,  pages  123,  168.) 

In  his  i\ppendix,  Xo.  V,  and  No.  V^I,  Doctor  Irving 
has  preserved  copies  of  the  documents  from  the  Privy 
Seal  Record,  relative  to  Buchanan's  pension,  etc.,  to 
which  the  reader  is  referred.  The  following  are  Ex- 
tracts from  the  Acts  of  the  Privy  Council,  October  16, 
1564. 

"Master  George  Buchanan  makes  complaint  that  al- 


though  the  Temporalities  of  the  Abbay  had  been  given 
to  him,  Gilbert  Earl  of  Cassillis  had,  since  the  death 
of  the  last  Abbott,  taken  possession  of  said  Abbay  and 
would  in  no  way  deliver  the  same  to  Master  George 
Buchanan  *  *  '''  The  Lords  of  Secret  Council  ordered 
the  said  Gilbert  Earl  of  Cassillis  to  deliver  the  said  Abbay 
and  Place  Corsragwell  with  its  orchards,  &c.,  to  said 
Master  George  or  any  one  in  his  name,  within  six  days 
next  after,  under  pain  of  rebellion.  And  if  he  fail,  the 
said  six  days  being  bipast  to  put  him  to  the  home  *  *  "^ 
Master  Allane  Stewart,  friends  of  Captain  James  Stewart 
of  Cardonal,  by  means  of  the  Queen's  corrupted  court, 
obtained  the  Abbacies  of  Crosraguel.  The  said  Earl, 
thinking  himself  greater  than  any  King  in  these  parts, 
determined  to  have  the  whole  benifice.  And  because  he 
could  not  find  such  securities  as  his  insatiate  appetite 
required,  this  shift  was  devised.  Here  follow  the  dread- 
ful account  of  the  roasting  of  Master  Allen  Stewart, 
much  more  grusome  in  detail  than  the  one  herein  re- 
corded." (See  History  of  the  Kennedys,  by  Robert 
Pitcairn.) 

The  children  of  the  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis  were  as 
follows : 

i     A  son,  died  in  childhood. 

ii     A  daughter,  died  in  childhood. 

iii     John,    fifth    Earl    of    Cassillis,    succeeded    his 

father.     He  married  Jean  Fleming   (daughter 

of    Malcolm,    Lord    Fleming,    and    widow    of 

•  Thome  Mettelane,  Lord  Thirlstane,  Chancellor 

of    Scotland,    and   mother   of   Jhone,    Earl    of 

Lauderdaill) ,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.     He 

departed    this    life   at   London,    England,    and 

was  brought  home  and  interred  at  Mayboll  in 


the  year  1615,  in  the  reign  of  James,  King  of 
Great  Britain,  Ireland,  &c.     He  was  succeeded 
by  his  nephew,  John,  the  son  of  his  brother, 
Gilbert  Kennedy, 
iv     Hugh. 
8        V     Gilbert. 

8  Gilbert^  Kennedy  (Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy  and 
fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert",  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert*^, 
the  second  Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord 
Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gil- 
bert^) was  the  son  of  the  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis.  His 
brother,  John,  the  fifth  Earl,  dying  without  issue,  was 
succeeded  by  his  nephew^,  John,  the  son  of  Gilbert^  Ken- 
nedy. 

Children : 

i  John,  the  sixth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  and  the  ''eldest 
son  of  Gilbert  Kennedy,  who  was  second 
brother  to  John,  the  fifth  Earl  of  Cassillis, 
succeeded   his    uncle   who   died   without   heirs 

gotten  of  his  own  body.  He  married Ham- 

iltoune,  third  daughter  to  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Haddingtoune,  and  had  issue.  He  lives  Earl 
of  Cassillis  in  this  present  year  of  God  1628." 
The  narrative  from  which  the  early  history  of 
the  Kennedys  has  been  obtained  here  termi- 
nates abruptly  at  the  period  of  the  public  ac- 
cusation of  Auchindrayne  and  his  son  of  being 
guilty  of  the  murder  of  the  Laird  of  Dalrymple. 
In  Elias  Davidson  Kennedy's  "History  of 
Descendants  of  William  Kennedy  and  his  wife, 
Mary,  giving  their  chain  of  the  Kennedys  from 
Scotland  to   Ireland  and  thence  to  America," 


is  the  following:  "John  Kennedy,  sixth  Earl 
of  Cassillis,  was  one  of  the  three  Scotch  noble- 
men appointed  to  act  as  lay  assessors  to 
Westminster  assembly  in  16 13,  but  he  never 
attended." 
9        ii     Gilbert. 

The  following  line  of  descent  is  to  be  found  in  Burke's 
Landed  Gentry : 

King  Robert  Bruce  of  Scotland  married  Isabella, 
daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Mar,  and  had  Princess  Margery 
Bruce,  who  married  Walter,  Lord  High  Steward  (a 
qus  Stewart  and  Stuart)   of  Scotland,  and  had, 

King  Robert  II,  who  had. 

King  Robert  III,  who  had. 

Princess  Mary  Stewart,  who  married  Sir  James  Ken- 
nedy of  Dunure,  and  had 

Gilbert,  first  Lord  Kennedy,  who  married  and  had 
John,  Lord  Kennedy,  who  married  and  had  D;avid, 
Lord  Kennedy  and  first  Earl  of  Cassillis,  created  1509 
(ancestor  of  the  Marquis  of  Ailsa,  by  his  wife,  Agnes, 
eldest  daughter  of  William,  Lord  Bothwick).  David 
had  three  sons,  Gilbert,  the  second  Earl,  James,  and 
Thomas  of  Coif.  Gilbert,  the  second  Earl  of  Cassillis, 
married  and  had  Gilbert,  the  third  Earl,  who  died  in 
1558,  Quinton,  Abbot  of  Crossraguel,  and  other  sons. 
Gilbert,  the  third  Earl  of  Cassillis,  married  and  had 
Gilbert,  the  fourth  Earl,  and  Thomas  of  Culleau.  Gil- 
bert, the  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  who  died  1576,  married 
and  had  John,  the  fifth  Earl,  who  died  in  1615,  without 
issue,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  nephew,  John,  the  sixth 
Earl,  who  died  in  1668.  His  brother,  Gilbert  Kennedy, 
was  the  progenitor  of  two  lines  of  Kennedys  in  America. 


9  Colonel  Gilbert^^  Kennedy  (Gilbert^  Gilbert^, 
Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert^,  the 
third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second  Earl,  David^,  the  first 
Earl,  John"*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir 
James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  served  under  Cromwell  at  the 
battle  of  ]\Iarston  Moor. 

Children : 

10  i     Thomas. 
37        ii     Gilbert. 

10  Rev.  Thomas^^  Kennedy  (Gilbert^o,  Gilbert^ 
Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis, 
Gilbert^,  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second  Earl,  David^, 
the  first  Earl,  John^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  of  Donoughmore  and 
Carlan,  in  Tyrone,  Ireland,  where  he  removed  in  1642. 
The  following  baptismal  record  refers  to  him  and  is 
from  Airs.  Goodall's  Memoir  of  her  husband's  residence 
and  imprisonment  at  Armagh  in  Reid's  History  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Ireland :  "Joseph,  our  third  son 
was  baptized  by  ]\Ir.  Thomas  Kennedy,  minister  of 
Dungannon,  A.  D.,  1658-77." 

i     Thomas,  a   Presbyterian  minister. 

11  ii     John,  a  Presbyterian  minister. 

11  Rev.  John^-  Kennedy  (Thomas^^,  Gilbert^°, 
Gilbert^,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of 
Cassilhs,  Gilbert",  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second 
Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John"*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  of  Newton 
Cunningham,  County  Donegal,  Ireland,  married  Lilly 
.    He  died  after  1786. 


Children  (all  born  in  Ireland)  : 

i  Andrew,  born  in  1747.  He  came  to  Pennsyl- 
vania some  time  previous  to  the  Revolution. 
He  was  a  man  of  property,  which  he  used  to 
aid  the  Government  during  the  war.  He  owned 
an  estate  called  Langhorn,  in  Bucks  County, 
Pennsylvania,  six  miles  from  Kittany,  which  is 
in  Armstrong  County.  This  was  afterward  the 
home  of  his  niece,  Mrs.  Joyce.  He  was  a 
man  of  fashion  and  entertained  lavishly.  He 
bought,  on  March  18,  1795,  for  $30,000,  the 
house  on  Market  Street,  Philadelphia,  which 
had  been  used  as  a  presidential  mansion.  It 
remained  in  possession  of  Andrew  Kennedy 
and  his  heirs,  until  April,  1832.  It  is  now 
526-530  Market  Street.  The  stairway  and  two 
pier  glasses  from  this  house  were  removed  to 
the  house  of  Anthony  Kennedy  at  Frank  ford, 
Pennsylvania.  These  pier  glasses  were  after- 
ward bought  by  Mr.  Cadwallader  of  Philadel- 
phia. There  was,  for  many  years,  a  curious 
little  box  in  the  family  of  Andrew  Kennedy, 
which  had  been  used  by  the  sons  of  the  Rev. 
John  Kennedy  of  Ireland  to  send  Guineas  to 
the  old  country  to  their  parents.  There  is  a 
tradition  that  the  mother  in  Ireland  was  blind. 
Andrew  Kennedy  died  in  1800,  in  Philadelphia, 
without  issue.  Plis  will,  dated  December  20, 
1786,  is  to  be  found  in  Philadelphia,  and  has 
the  following  items : 

'T  Andrew  Kennedy  of  the  City  of  Philadel- 
phia, Merchant,  do  make  and  ordain  this  My 
last  Will  and  testament  in  manner  and   form 


following  that  is  to  say  Imprimus  I  give  and 
bequeathe  to  IMy  Honored  father  and  Mother, 
John  and  Lilly  Kennedy  and  to  my  loving 
Sister  Elizabeth  Kennedy  and  Janet  Rusk  an 
annuity  of  twenty-five  pounds  sterling  money 
of  Great  Britain  to  be  remitted  to  them  several- 
ly by  My  executors  hereinafter  mentioned, 
yearly  and  every  year  during  the  respective 
natural  lives,  and  at  the  decease  of  either  or 
any  or  all  of  them  then  My  will  is  that  the  an- 
nuity above  devised  to  him,  her,  or  them,  so 
deceased,  shall  thence  forth  be  equally  and 
annually  divided  among  the  children  of  my 
above  two  sisters,  regard  being  had  to  the 
number  of  such  children  who  shall  be  alive 
at  every  annual  payment,  and  in  case  that  any 
of  the  children  of  My  said  Sisters  shall  die 
without  legal  issue,  before  they  arrive  at  the 
age  of  21  *  "^  "^  I  give  and  bequeathe  to  my 
loving  brother  Anthony  Kennedy  *  *  *  to  be 
employed  in  commerce  or  otherwise  at  his  dis- 
cretion until  the  beginning  of  the  year  1793. 
The  beginning  of  the  year  1793  an  inventory 
of  My  estate  *  '^  "^  and  a  division  of  the  whole 
be  then  made  between  my  said  brother  Anthony 
and  my  brother  John  Kennedy.  He,  My  said 
brother  Anthony,  to  have  2-3  and  brother  John 
1-3.  And,  in  the  Case  of  Anthony's  death  be- 
fore 1793,  *  *  *  be  delivered  unto  My  said 
brother  John  as  soon  as  he  shall  arrive  at  the 
age  of  21. 

Made  this  20th  day  of  December,  1786. 
Proved  21st  day  of  April,  1800." 


Anthony,  born  in  1749 ;  came  to  America ;  died 
in  1828,  in  Frankford,  Pennsylvania,  without 
issue;  the  following  names  appear  in  his  will, 
made  March  15,  1828,  and  proved  October  7, 
1828. 

"Anthony  Kennedy  Joyce,  son  of  my  niece — 
Rebecca  Joyce,  till  he  is  of  Suitable  age  and 
qualified  to  enter  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Princeton,  Nevv^  Jersey.  '^  *  '^  Jane  McCoy, 
in  right  of  her  Mother  *  '^  '^  John  Kennedy, 
Andrew,  Pendleton,  and  Anthony.  '^  '^  ''' 
Niece,  Nancy  K.  Risk  [spelled  Rusk  in  Andrew 
Kennedy's  will]  *  *  *  Nephew,  Anthony  Ken- 
nelly  Joyce,  *  '''  '^'  then  to  his  brothers  Andrew 
Kennedy  Joyce,  '•'  *  '•'  John  Joyce  whose  edu- 
cation shall  be  under  the  care  and  direction  of 
the  Rev.  Thomas  I.  Riggs  &  the  same  Nancy  K. 
Risk  ^  -!^  *  If  Anthony  Joyce  die  in  his  mi- 
nority then  the  same  shall  go  to  his  Sisters, 
Catharine  Joyce  and  Jennet  Joyce  '^  '^  *  Buck 
County,  Pen:  part  of  Langhorn  Park  whereon 
James  Joyce  &  My  Niece  Rebecca  his  wife 
now  reside,  6  miles  from  Kittaning  in  Elders 
District  in  Armstrong  County  *  *  *  My  Niece 
Jane  or  Jannett  Risk  (Anthony  McCoy)  *  '•'  * 
if  Jannett  die  without  heirs  her  property  is  to 
go  to  her  Sister  Rebecca  Joyce  *  ■'■  *  I  give 
to  my  niece  Lilly  Colhoun  wife  of  Benjamin  C. 
Colhoun  *  *  ^  [Her  eldest  son,  John  Calhoun, 
he  excludes  from  any  share  in  the  estate] 
*  *  *  My  Niece  Margaret  Risk,  My  Nephew 
David  Risk  *  *  *  ^q  \)q  p^j^j  ^q  j-^y  Niece 
Nancy   K.   Risk  *  '^  *  John   Risk  son  of   My 


Nephew  David  Risk.  *  "^^  ''•'  Nephew  Anthony 
McCoy  '''  '^  *  My  Kinsman  Anthony  Kennedy 
Calhoun  *  "^  '^  Anthony  Kennedy  Joyce  and  An- 
drew Joyce  Children  of  my  Niece  Rebecca 
Joyce  '''  '•'  '•'  Anthony  Kennedy  Calhoun  Son  of 
My  Niece  Lilly  Calhoun  *  *  -^  My  friend  Rev. 
Thomas  J.  Riggs  J\Iy  nephew  John  Kennedy 
&  Anthony  Kennedy  Calhoun." 

The  following  account  of  Anthony  Kennedy 
is  from  the  diary  of  his  nephew,  John  Pendle- 
ton Kennedy,  published  in  the  Life  of  John  P. 
Kennedy,  by  Tuckerman : 

''^ly  uncle  Anthony,  an  older  brother  of  my 
father  by  some  twenty  years,  paid  off  his 
debts.  This  uncle  was  a  man  of  fortune  and 
resided  in  the  neighborhood  of  Philadelphia. 
Pie  enabled  my  father  to  retain  our  little  coun- 
try residence,  known  as  Shrub  Hill,  where  my 
father  had  built  a  small  but  comfortable  house 
and  which  now  became  our  only  dwelling  place. 
Anthony  Kennedy  w^as  an  old  bachelor  who 
had  grown  rusty  from  solitude.  He  lived  near 
Frankford,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Philadel- 
phia, in  a  large  house;  had  a  great  deal  of 
property  in  the  City  and  out  of  it;  collected 
his  rents  with  all  imaginable  punctuality; 
looked  at  a  penny  on  both  sides  before  he 
parted  with  it,  and  grew  to  be,  in  his  old  age, 
a  silent,  unsociable,  and  apparently  unsympa- 
thising  man — the  natural  effect  of  solitary  life. 
But  he  loved  my  father,  paid  many  thousands 
for  him,  and  left  about  seventy  thousand  dol- 
lars of  his  property  to  my  father's  children — 


that  is  to  my  three  brothers  and  myself. 
When  he  died,  in  1828,  and  left  us  these  be- 
quests, my  father  was  in  debt  in  his  business 
about  twenty  thousand  dollars,  sixteen  thou- 
sand of  it  to  John  McKim;  so  we  paid  the 
whole  amount  off  and  left  our  parents  very 
comfortable." 

The  following  is  a  letter  written  by  this 
nephew,  John  P.  Kennedy,  soon  after  his  uncle 
Anthony's  death: 

"Philadelphia,  Oct.  18,  1828 
"*  "^  "^  I  have  been  too  much  engaged  since 
I  left  you  almost  to  write;  my  Uncle's  estate 
having  been  left  under  the  control  of  three 
executors,  of  whom  I  am  the  only  counsellor, 
you  may  imagine  the  few  days  I  have  been 
here  have  not  been  idly  spent.  I  can  hardly 
tell  you  the  value  of  what  he  has  devised  to 
myself  and  my  brothers — property  in  town  here 
worth  perhaps  forty  thousand  dollars  &  Heaven 
knows  how  much  land  in  Maryland,  Virginia 
&  Penn:  some  of  it  about  thirteen  miles  from 
Pittsburg — a  rather  troublesome  inheritance 
and  I  apprehend,  in  my  hands  not  worth  much. 
I  shall  let  it  all  be  quiet  to  increase  in  value 
as  the  country  grows,  and  support  myself  and 
family  by  my  professional  labors,  seeking  that 
darling  of  my  hopes,  renoun,  in  a  course  of 
assiduous  application." 

This  will  of  Anthony  Kennedy  is  to  be  seen 
in  the  City  Hall,  Philadelphia.  It  covers  pages, 
and  his  fortune  seemed  to  be  largely  in  lands 
in  all  parts  of  the  country. 


John   Kenxkdv 


12       iii     John,  born  in  1769;  came  to  America;  married 
Nancy  Clayton  Pendleton  of  Virginia. 
iv     Elizabeth,  married  Anthony  McCoy  of  Pennsyl- 
vania; had  issue. 
V     Jannett,  married  David  Rusk  of  Scotland;  had 

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12  JoHN^^  Kennedy  (John^-,  Thomas^\  Gil- 
bert^^,  Gilbert^,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl 
of  Cassillis,  Gilbert^,  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second 
Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James^,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born 
in  Ireland,  in  1769.  He  emigrated  to  America,  and  mar- 
ried Nancy  Clayton  Pendleton,  of  Virginia.  (See  Pendle- 
ton Family,  No.  18.)  He  resided  in  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land. The  following  account  of  him  is  taken  from 
Tuckerman's  Life  of  John  P.  Kennedy. 

"Some  of  the  most  successful  merchants  of  Baltimore 
were  of  Scotch  descent,  although  they  came  directly  from 
the  north  of  Ireland;  and  by  their  exertions  and  wealth 
the  city  became  originally  famed  as  a  commercial  port. 

''Among  these  emigrants  was  John  Kennedy,  the  father 
of  John  P.  Kennedy,  who,  after  some  years  of  prosperous 
activity,  was  unfortunate,  but  being  generously  aided  by 
his  elder  brothers  who  resided  in  Philadelphia,  was  en- 
abled to  maintain  his  family  in  comfort  and  give  his 
children  a  good  education.  He  married  a  daughter  of 
Philip  Pendleton  of  Berkeley  County,  Virginia.  A  minia- 
ture of  this  lady,  taken  two  years  after  the  period  of  her 
marriage,  which  occurred  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  exhibits 
a  face  of  singular  beauty,  wherein  gentleness  and  dig- 
nity combined  to  give  the  impression  of  rare  womanly 
charm  with  unusual  intelligence  and  force  of  character. 


She   was    evidently   one   of   the   recognized   beauties   of 
her  day,  and  the  announcement  of  her  wedding  in  the  i 
old  county  paper  is  accompanied  with  a  quaint  but  glow- 
ing tribute  to  her  attractions,  after   the  chivalric   style  ; 
of   the  times.     It  is   from  the   Potomac   Guardian  and 
Berkeley  Advertiser,  of  Alonday,  October  6th,  1794.         ■, 
'Martinsburg,  October  6th,  1794,  i 

'Married  last  Thursday   evening  by   Rev.   Mr.   Boyd, 
Mr.  John  Kennedy  of  Baltimore,  Merchant,  to  the  elegant 
and  equally  accomplished  Miss  Nancy  Pendleton  of  this  ^ 
town,  a  young  lady  j 

Tor  whom  art  and  nature  kindly  strove 

'To  form  an  object  for  the  love 

'Of  a  distinguished  few. 

'How  blest  to  gain  the  sparkling  prize, 

'Bask  in  the  radiance  of  those  eyes, 

'Thy  Sex's  pride  and  envy  too. 

'May  all  the  joys  of  disint'ested  love 

'(And   such   alone   the   Gods   were   wont   t'approve), 

'May  all  the  honour,  sense — the  bliss  virtue  can  yield, 

'Mark  every  movement,  every  hour  shield, 

'And  when  the  mortal  fleeting  period's  o'er 

'O  May  this  happy  pair  attain  the  Elysian  shore 

'Those  regions  fraught  with  every  joy  supreme 

'Where  gold's  not  bliss,  nor  dignity  a  dream.'  " 

John  Kennedy  died  on  February  17,  1836.  His  wife, 
Nancy  Clayton  (Pendleton)  Kennedy,  died  on  September 
13,  1854,  in  her  seventy-sixth  year. 

The  following  account  is  copied  from  the  diary  of 
John  P.  Kennedy,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Nancy  Clayton 


Xaxcy  Claytox   (Pexdletox)   Kexxkdy 


(Pendleton)  Kennedy,  in  the  Life  of  John  P.  Kennedy, 
by  Tuckerman. 

"  'Aly  Father,  John  Kennedy,  born  in  Ireland  in  1769, 
died  in  Virginia,  in  1836,  was  an  excellent  man.  He 
came  from  Ireland  in  the  year  1785,  was  brought  up  to 
business  as  a  merchant  by  my  uncle  Andrew,  in  Philadel- 
phia ;  had  a  good  estate  left  him  by  that  gentleman — suc- 
ceeded well  in  trade  in  Baltimore,  where  he  came  about 
1792,  married  in  1791:.  He  was  respected  and  loved  by 
his  townsmen,  and  was  an  upright,  liberal,  true-hearted 
man,  who  always  did  his  duty  and  stood  by  his  friends. 
He  was  involved  in  some  unlucky  speculations  in  1804  by 
his  partner,  Air.  Benjamin  Cox,  which  resulted  in  bank- 
ruptcy in  1809.  He  struggled  after  this  with  industry 
to  retrieve  his  fortune;  tried  business  again,  which,  how- 
ever, brought  him  nothing  more  than  a  meagre  support 
for  his  family.  My  mother  had  a  small  landed  estate 
in  \"irginia,  which  was,  at  last,  our  main  reliance.  *  "^  * 
[Xext  comes  an  account  of  his  uncle,  Anthony  Kennedy, 
which  will  be  quoted  in  the  latter 's  biography.] 

''  'Aly  Father  was  an  excellent  horseman,  a  brave  man, 
and  somewhat  distinguished  as  a  dragoon  in  the  Volun- 
teers in  the  time  of  Ross's  invasion  of  Washington  and 
Baltimore.  He  was  in  both  actions  of  that  campaign, 
and  did  there,  as  everywhere  he  did,  his  duty. 

"  'In  1820  he  removed,  with  my  mother  and  my  three 
brothers — for  I  stayed  in  Baltimore — to  a  farm  of  my 
mother's  in  Jefferson  County,  near  Charlestown,  in  Vir- 
ginia. Jane  McCoy,  a  niece  of  my  father's,  lived  with 
them.  When  she  died,  which  occurred  about  1825,  and 
my  younger  brothers  grew  up  and  set  off  to  take  care 
of  themselves,  my  father  and  mother  being  left  alone, 
sold  ''Clayton,"  the  farm  they  lived  on,  to  my  brother, 


Andrew,  and  removed  to  the  "Bower,"  the  residence  of 
my  mother's  sister,  Mrs.  Dandridge,  a  gay,  Hvely  estab- 
Hshment,  where  they  made  a  portion  of  the  family  by  an 
arrangement  much  desired  by  my  aunt ;  and  there  my 
father  died  on  the  17th  of  February,  1836  of  a  paralysis, 
being  the  third  attack  of  this  disease,  originally  produced, 
some  years  before,  by  a  fatiguing  journey  on  a  hot 
summer's  day,  without  protection  from  the  sun.  He 
was  sixty-seven  years  old.  He  was  a  man  of  compact 
and  vigorous  frame  with  great  capability  to  endure  fa- 
tigue, his  nature  was  kind  and  sociable,  and  full  of  trust 
in  every  one.  He  had  a  relish  for  humor,  loved  his 
friends,  and  had,  as  far  as  I  know,  no  enemies.  He  was 
careless  and  liberal  in  money  matters,  and  preserved 
that  trait  through  all  the  period  of  his  struggles  to 
maintain  his  family.  He  was  very  fond  of  me,  and 
proud  of  me  for  what  little  I  had  to  make  him  proud, 
and  never  for  one  moment,  allowed  the  straitness  of  his 
circumstances  to  interfere  with  the  due  progress  of  my 
education.  Luckily  he  was  ab^e  to  sustain  my  brothers 
and  myself  in  the  destiny  he  had  allotted  to  us  through- 
out. He  was  rich  while  I  was  a  child,  and  when  his 
affluence  might  have  done  me  harm  in  the  way  of 
indulgence;  and  he  was  poor  just  at  that  period  of  my 
life  when  his  wealth  might  have  given  me  many  advan- 
tages. Heaven's  blessing  on  his  memory !  There  was 
nothing  which  he  had  which  was  not  at  my  disposal  if 
I  needed  it. 

"My  mother  was  a  Virginian.  I  ought  to  say  is,  for 
she  is  now  (April  18,  1847)  living  in  Martinsburg,  in 
her  father's  house,  in  Berkeley  County.  Her  father  was 
Mr.  Philip  Pendleton — a  lawyer,  and  something  better — 
a  most  worthy  and  honorable  gentleman.     His  brothers 


were  Judge  Henry  Pendleton  of  South  Carolina,  who  has 
given  the  name  to  one  of  the  districts  of  that  State;  Na- 
thaniel Pendleton,  the  Aid  de  Camp  of  Greene  in  the 
War  of  the  Revolution,  and  the  second  of  Alexander 
Hamilton  in  that  fatal  duel  with  Burr — also  Hamilton's 
executor.  William  Pendleton  was  another  brother.  How 
many  more  there  were  of  them  I  do  not  know.  But  the 
family  was  full  of  good  men  and  distinguished  men,  of 
whom  Air.  President  Edmund  Pendleton  of  the  Court 
of  Appeals  of  Virginia  was  chief.  The  connection  is 
spread  all  over  Virginia,  reticulated,  as  Governor  Barbour, 
who  was  one  of  them,  would  say.  Wlien  General  Harrison 
was  inaugurated  in  1841,  everybody  was  in  Washington. 
There  I  met  John  S.  Pendleton, — Jack,  as  we  call  him — 
the  present  member  of  Congress  from  Culpeper  and 
lately  minister  or  charge  d'affaires  at  Chili.  He  pro- 
posed to  me  that  we  should  get  up  a  dinner  of  the  fam- 
ily then  happening  to  be  in  Washington.  So  we  set 
about  it  and  ordered  a  large  table  to  be  provided  at 
Brown's.  When  we  mustered  our  Company  thirty-two 
gentlemen  took  their  seats.  Governor  James  Barbour 
presided.  I  remember  among  the  company  Edmund  H. 
Pendleton  of  New  York,  former  member  of  Congress 
from  Duchess ;  Green  Pendleton,  his  brother,  member  of 
Congress  from  Cincinnati ;  Jack,  of  Chili ;  three  sons  of 
my  uncle,  Philip  Pendleton ;  Ned  Hunter,  and  others. 
Mr.  Clay  came  in  after  dinner  and  made  us  a  speech  with 
some  laudation  of  the  old  President  Pendleton,  whom 
he  knew  when  he  (Clay)  was  a  boy.  But  the  country 
is  full  of  Pendletons  and  their  descendants.  Amongst 
them  is  General  Zachary  Taylor,  the  hero  of  Buena 
Vista,  and  next  President,  I  hope,  and  General  Gaines, 
a  pretty  good  specimen  of  the  old  stock. 


"  'My  mother,  Nancy  Clayton  Pendleton,  was  very 
beautiful  when  she  was  married.  I  have  a  miniature 
which  proves  this,  independent  of  the  traditions  of  the 
elders,  which  I  often  hear.  She  is  an  uncommonly  good 
looking  woman  now,  at  seventy.  She  was  married  at 
seventeen,  in  Martinsburg,  in  the  house  which  she  now 
owns  and  dwells  in.  My  father  brought  her  to  Balti- 
more, where  she  was  greatly  admired.  The  year  of  his 
marriage  was  that  of  the  Whiskey  Insurrection,  and  my 
father  was  the  lieutenant  in  command  of  a  Company  of 
Volunteers,  which  marched  under  General  Washington, 
against  the  rebels.  His  Company  had  reached  Frederick- 
town  and  were  encamped  there,  when  the  quarrel  was 
settled,  and  my  father  went  from  that  encampment  to 
Martinsburg  and  took  his  wife,  as  the  Scripture  has  it. 
They  were  married  on  Thursday,  the  second  of  October, 
in  the  year  1794.  It  was  about  the  year  1809  that  we 
made  Shrub  Hill  our  permanent  Residence;  before  that 
we  had  a  house  in  Baltimore  and  only  went  to  the  coun- 
try in  the  summer.  My  mother  was  in  delicate  health 
for  many  years  before  this,  and  travelled  a  great  deal. 
My  brother,  Andrew,  and  myself  were  her  constant 
companions  on  these  rambles.  Our  circuit  always  ended 
at  Martinsburg,  where  I  passed  a  month  or  two  always 
in  hot  weather.  My  grandmother  was  then  alive  (Mrs. 
Philip  Pendleton),  and  took  great  delight  in  having  my 
mother  with  her.  The  family  in  Martinsburg  was  large. 
My  mother's  eldest  sister,  Mrs.  Hunter,  lived  there  with 
her  husband.  Colonel  Hunter,  and  a  house  full  of  chil- 
dren. Philip  Clayton,  and  Edmund,  James,  and  Henry, 
all  younger  than  My  Mother,  were  at  home;  Sally  and 
Maria,  now  Mrs.  Dandridge,  and  Mrs.  Cooke,  were  very 
young  then.     I  remember  my  grandmother's  sister,  Mrs. 


Ferguson,  an  old  lady  who  used  to  come  in  from  the 
country,  somewhere  near  Martinsburg,  and  stay  a  few 
days  at  a  time  with  us  *  *  *. 

"  'My  uncle  Philip,  with  whom  I  have  passed  the  last 
ten  days,  I  think  the  first  man  in  point  of  talents  and 
acquirements  and  manners  that  I  have  ever  been  ac- 
quainted with.  His  influence  upon  society  here  is  per- 
vading &  irresistible,  and  his  reputation  throughout  the 
State  very  high. 

'•  'iMy  mother  had  a  face  of  singular  beauty  wherein 
gentleness  and  dignity  combined  to  give  the  impression 
of  rare  womanly  Charms  with  unusual  intelligence  and 
force  of  character.'  Family  and  social  tradition  amply 
confirmed  the  promise  of  her  youth,  and  even  in  advanced 
age  she  exercised  an  influence  and  retained  an  afi'ection 
among  kindred  and  friends,  which  is  the  best  evidence  of 
womanly  traits  and  noble  principles.  Of  her  four  sons, 
John  Pendleton  Kennedy  was  the  first  born,  and  through- 
out life  he  was  a  devoted  son  and  the  object  of  maternal 
pride  and  tenderness.  He  writes  of  her  and  describes 
her  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight  as  a  'majestic  looking  wo- 
man.' More  than  twenty  years  after  this  date  she  was 
vigorous,  and  in  the  enjoyment  of  all  her  faculties  when 
her  death  occurred,  after  but  a  few  hours'  illness,  from 
Cholera. 

''The  following  mention  of  the  news,  when  first  re- 
ceived, is  noted  in  her  son's  journal. 

"  'Patapsco,  September  12th,  1854 — My  poor  Mother 
died  Tuesday  night  at  eight  o'clock.  I  am  deeply 
grieved  at  this  melancholy  message — so  sudden  and  un- 
expected is  the  event.  My  Mother  was  so  cheerful  when 
I  parted  with  her  a  few  days  ago;  she  was  quite  well, 
but  with  a  calm  outlook  towards  her  end,  resigned,  con- 


tented  &  happy,  in  the  contemplation  of  it;  but  not 
dreaming  of  it  so  soon  or  by  such  a  disease.  Martins- 
burg  was  entirely  free  from  all  signs  of  cholera  until 
Thursday;  and  my  Mother,  after  she  had  gone  to  the 
Bower  (The  home  of  her  sister  Mrs.  Dandridge)  was 
particularly  well ;  On  Monday  morning  when  my  brother 
Anthony's  three  children  left  her,  she  had  been  playing 
the  piano  for  the  family  and  was  in  unusually  good 
spirits.' 

Nancy  Clayton  Pendleton  Kennedy,  born  1778,  died 
September  13,  1854,  in  her  seventy-sixth  year. 

The  line  of  descent  of  the  Kennedys  is  given  by  John 
Pendleton  Kennedy  (Life  of  Kennedy  by  Tuckerman, 
page  32),  in  a  half  playful  style;  but  it  coinsides  with 
the  other  accounts,  and,  as  John  Pendleton  Kennedy  was 
the  oldest  grandson  in  this  country,  his  testimony  is  most 
valuable  in  establishing  the  Kennedy  pedigree  as  it  has 
been  given  in  this  work. 

"  *As  every  man  has  a  pedigree,  I  state  mine  thus,  be- 
ing the  exact  truth  established  upon  the  most  precise 
historical  dates.  Somebody  begat  the  father  of  Ken- 
neth, King  of  Scotland — ^I  do  not  wish  to  carry  the 
roll  of  my  lineage  beyond  the  king — and  he  of  course 
begat  his  son ;  and  Kenneth  begat  sons  and  daughters ; 
and  one  of  the  sons  begat  sons  who  begat  others,  and, 
in  due  time,  one  of  them  begat  a  gentleman  who  was 
on  Flodden  Field,  having  therefore — he  or  some  of  his 
fathers — changed  the  spelling  of  the  name  to  Kennedy. 
And  he  of  Flodden  Field,  who  had  degenerated  from 
a  king  into  an  Earl,  begat  a  son,  and  in  regular  proces- 
sion of  begetting,  a  great  Clan  of  Kennedys  came  to  in- 
habit certain  Mountains  of  Scotland.  And  they  got  into 
feuds  and  rows  and  sprees;  and  lifted  blackmail,  stole 


cattle,  burnt  barnyards,  whereby  many  got  themselves 
hung.  And  some  kept  the  border  in  hot  water ;  and  some 
fought  the  Irvings ; — by  the  bye,  I  brought  this  to  Wash- 
ington Irving's  notice,  and  we  established  upon  it  a  truce 
between  the  clans,  and  have  found  out  some  honest  re- 
lationship. And  while  some  got  hung,  and  some  staid  to 
keep  up  the  reputation  of  St.  Kennedy'  as  Sir  Walter 
calls  him,  one  man  went  over  to  Ireland  and  fixed  his 
tent  at  Newton  Cunningham  in  Donegal,  where  he  begat 
tvv'o  sons  and  daughters,  all  Presbyterians,  and  the  last 
of  these  (name'y  John)  begat  .\ndrew,  Anthony,  John 
which  last  John  was  my  father." 

These  three  sons,  with  their  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Risk  and 
Airs.  ]\IcCoy,  all  came  to  America  and  settled  in  Penn- 
sylvania, two  of  them,  Andrew  and  Anthony,  before  the 
Revolution,  John  and  his  sisters  later.  John  was  the  only 
one  of  these  three  brothers  who  married  and  left  de- 
scendants. 

John  P.  Kennedy's  journal  gives  the  following  account 
of  the  Pendleton  family: 

"  'On  my  Mother's  side  certain  Pendletons  lived  in 
England  in  the  time  of  the  Conqueror.  Whereby  it  hap- 
pened that  Philip  Pendleton  came  to  be  a  resident  of 
Norwich;  and  about  the  close  of  seventeenth  century 
he,  with  his  household,  migrated  to  America  &  Settled 
in  Caroline  County  in  Virginia;  &  there  he  begat 
Henry  Pendleton  who  married  ]\Iary  Taylor  &  they 
had  sons  &  daughters.  One  of  the  sons  was  Edmund 
of  celebrated  memory  who  was  born  in  that  County  of 
Caroline,  1721.  And  the  brother  of  this  Edmund  begat 
the  father  of  Henry,  Nathaniel,  William,  and  Philip,  of 
whom  I  have  spoken,  which  father  in  like  manner  begat 
his  own  sons. 


"  'Philip  ran  away  with  Miss  Patterson  of  Berkeley 
by  whom  he  got  a  good  landed  Estate  near  Martinsburg, 
which  induced  him  to  leave  Culpeper  &  take  up  his 
residence  at  Martinsburg;  &  hence  my  good  mother 
&  all  her  brothers  &  sisters,  &  hence  again  the  sub- 
ject of  this  memoir. 

"  'I  was  born  on  the  25th  of  October,  1795,  being  the 
oldest  of   four  children  all  sons.     My  Mother  had  an- 
other son  after  my  brother  Andrew  but  he  died  when  a 
few  months  of  age.'  " 
Children : 

i  John  Pendleton,  born  in  Baltimore,  October 
25,  1795.  He  was  an  author,  statesman,  and  a 
patriot.  His  life,  written  by  Henry  T.  Tuck- 
erman,  gives  his  history,  both  as  a  statesman 
and  an  author.  He  was  Secretary  of  the  Navy 
under  President  Filmore.  This  period  was 
made  interesting  in  Naval  history  by  Doctor 
Kane's  search  for  Sir  John  Franklin.  His 
books  are :  Swallow  Barn ;  Horse-shoe  Robin- 
son ;  Rob  of  the  Bowl ;  Annals  of  Ouodlibet ; 
Life  of  Wirt ;  Notes  for  Essays ;  Miscellaneous 
Writings ;  Autograph  Leaves ;  Occasional  Ad- 
dress, etc.  He  was  a  member  of  Congress,  and, 
in  1824,  Mr.  Monroe  appointed  him  Secretary 
of  Legation  to  Chili.  For  some  time  he  hesi- 
tated as  to  his  final  acceptance,  but  at  last 
resigned  the  office.  He  died  without  issue, 
August  18,  1870,  after  a  prosperous  and  happy 
life,  in  all  the  blessedness  of  a  Christian's  hope. 
One  of  his  oldest  friends  said  of  him,  "All 
wholesome,  glad  influence  flowed  out  from  his 
daily  life,  strong  a.^  the  strongest  of  men,  and 


sweet  as  the  sweetest  of  women.  Such  men  as 
he,  at  once  so  genial  and  so  intellectual,  with 
a  fascination  alike  for  young  and  old,  ought 
never  to  die." 

There  is  a  small  Bible  belonging  to  John  P. 
Kennedy,  with  this  inscription,  written  by  John 
P.   Kennedy  of  Baltimore. 

"This  little  Bible  belonged  to  my  Grand- 
father John  Kennedy  of  County  Donegal,  Ire- 
land. It  was  given  by  him  to  his  son  John  Ken- 
nedy, My  father,  then  leaving  Ireland  to  Emi- 
grate to  the  United  States  when  but  a  boy  of  ten 
or  twelve  years.  It  is  signed  with  his  name  1785. 
He  gave  it  to  me  in  1820.  I  now  give  it  to 
my  Nephew  John  Willoughby  Kennedy  with  an 
injunction  that  it  be  handed  down  to  his  son 
John  P.  Kennedy  and  be  transmitted  there- 
after to  those  of  the  family  who  may  succes- 
sively bear  the  name  of  John. 
"John  Pendleton  Kennedy,  d.  Aug.  13,  1870." 

13        ii     Andrew,  married  Mary  Ann  Riddle  Lane. 

32       iii     Anthony,  married,  first,  Sarah  Stephena  Dan- 
dridge,  second,  Margaret  S.  Hughes, 
iv     Pendleton,  died  unmarried. 

13  Andrew^*  Kennedy  (John^^  John^-,  Thom- 
as^\,  Gilbertl^  Gilbert^  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and 
fourth  Earl  of  CassiHis,  Gilbert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^ 
the  second  Earl,  David^  the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord 
Kennedy,  Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gil- 
bert^), second  son  of  John  and  Nancy  Clayton  (Pen- 
dleton) Kennedy,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  July  27,  1797. 
He  married  in  Charlestown,  Jefferson  County,  Virginia, 


January  1,  1822,  Mary  Ann  Riddle  Lane,  born  in  Charles- 
town,  December  3,  1799,  daughter  of  Willoughby  Wash- 
ington and  Rebecca  (Riddle)  Lane  (see  Lane  Family, 
Number  3,  Westmoreland  branch). 

Mary  Ann  Riddle  Lane,  wife  of  Andrew  Kennedy, 
died  at  Cassillis,  April  21,  1873.  She  was  often  in  ill 
health  in  her  young  life  but  later  became  very  strong 
and  well.  She  died,  after  a  short  illness,  of  erysipelas. 
She  was  a  woman  of  great  personality,  a  strong,  beauti- 
ful Christian  character,  loved  and  respected  by  all  who 
knew  her.  She  lived  in  a  beautiful  home,  where  she 
entertained  with  true  hospitality,  rarely  being  without 
guests.  She  loved  her  church,  "Mount  Zion,"  and  under 
its  shadow  she  was  buried. 

Andrew  Kennedy  died  at  Cassillis,  Jefferson  County, 
Virginia,  the  beautiful  home  that  he  built  about  1825, 
on  February  17,  1858.  He  was  a  lawyer.  The  esteem 
in  which  he  was  held  was  shown  at  the  time  of  his  fun- 
eral, the  line  of  carriages  being  more  than  a  mile  long. 
The  Virginia  Free  Press  published  the  following  obitu- 
ary: 

DIED,  on  Saturday  evening,  the  27th  of  February, 
1858,  ANDREW  KENNEDY,  Esq.,  aged  about  61 
years. 

Rarely,  if  ever,  has  Death  in  his  onward  and  resistless 
march,  stricken  down  one  more  worthy  the  esteem  and 
honored  recollection  of  those  who  knew  him,  than  the 
subject  of  the  above  notice. 

The  unmerited  eulogies,  so  often  lavished  upon  the 
memory  of  the  recfent  dead,  ought  not  and  will  not  deter 
the  hand  of  friendship,  in  this  instance,  from  penning  a 
just  tribute  to  the  pure  character,  and  solid  worth  of 
him,  who  has  gone  from  among  us,  to  dwell  in  the  nar- 
row house  appointed  for  all  the  children  of  Adam. 


To  speak  of  him  simply  as  an  honorable  man,  might,  in 
times  like  these,  when  the  word  Honor  is  so  often  mis- 
applied, leave  room  for  misconstruction  among  those  who 
knew  him  not ;  but  applied  to  him,  as  all  who  did  know 
him  will  cordially  respond,  the  term  is  applicable  in  its 
highest  and  most  significant  sense. 

An  innate  love  of  the  just  and  true,  mantled  over  with 
an  enlarged  charity,  constituted  the  ruling  feature  of  his 
character.  Scrupulously  upright  himself  in  all  the  busi- 
ness intercourse  of  life,  he  indulged  in  no  harsh  condem- 
nation of  the  faults  and  foibles  of  others. 

A  certain  reserve  of  manner,  and  somewhat  retired 
course  of  life,  may  have  left  many  unprepared  to  ap- 
preciate fully  the  genuine  excellencies  of  his  character. 
But  those  whose  opportunities  enabled  them  to  see  the 
inner  man,  valued  him  the  highest.  Those  who  knew  him 
best  loved  him  most.  Whatever  of  the  praise-worthy  and 
commendable  marked  his  conduct  and  course  of  life, 
sprang  not,  as  too  often  occurs,  from  the  love  of  popular 
favor  and  applause.  They  proceeded  alone  from  the 
inborn  nobleness  of  his  soul,  and  the  constant  culture 
of  the  higher  developments  of  his  moral  nature.  He  may, 
and  perhaps  did,  err  by  an  excessive  disregard  of  the 
former.  The  latter,  for  this  reason,  endeared  him  the 
more  to  those  who  saw  and  knew  him  within  the  inner 
circle  of  his  friends  and  acquaintance. 

As  a  member  of  the  Bar  in  early  life,  and  latterly  an 
intelligent  and  efficient  magistrate  of  the  county,  and  at 
the  same  time  presiding  over  the  Banking  institution  of 
this  place,  there  is  but  one  voice  going  up  from  the  whole 
community,  proclaiming  in  terms  of  peculiar  emphasis 
truly  and  faithfully, 

"He  acted  well  his  part." 


Such,  briefly,  was  his  pubHc  and  social  position.  But 
if  from  this,  the  phase  of  his  character  as  seen  by  the 
outer  world,  we  turn  to  view  him  in  the  sacred  precincts 
of  home,  and  the  domestic  circle,  the  qualities  of  his 
character  are  seen  here  to  stand  out  in  still  more  shin- 
ing and  attractive  relief. 

As  a  husband,  father  and  brother,  those  alone  who 
bore  to  him  those  endearing  relations,  can  measure  the 
greatness  of  their  loss.  It  is  not  meet,  that  others  should 
intrude  upon  the  sacred  privacy  of  their  sorrow ;  yet  it 
may  be  allowed  to  them,  his  friends  and  neighbors,  who 
knew  and  esteemed  him  so  highly  to  mingle  with  their 
sadness,  their  deep  regrets  that  the  hand  of  Death  had 
not  spared  him  a  few  years  longer. 

As  a  master,  the  ingenuous  grief  of  his  servants 
around  the  open  grave  attested  how  keenly  they  felt  the 
loss  of  one,  who  was  ever  kind  and  indulgent. 

And  last — but  above  all;  he  died  a  Christian,  leaning 
upon  and  full  of  the  blessed  hopes,  which  alone  can,  and 
did  in  his  case,  rob  Death  of  all  its  terrors. 

"The  chamber  where  the  good  man  meets  his  fate, 

Is  privileged  beyond  the  common  walk 

Of  virtuous  life,  quite  on  the  verge  of  Heaven." 

Children : 
14         i     John  Willoughby,  born  in  1822 ;  married  Sarah 

M.  Rutherford;  died  in  1905. 
18        ii     Andrew  Eskridge,  born  in  1824;  married  his 
cousin,  Maria  Pendleton  Cooke ;  died  in  1900. 

22  iii     Anne   Rebecca,   born   in   1825 ;   married   John 

Selden   (see  Selden  Family,  No.  50)  ;  died  in 
1854. 

23  iv     Mary  Elizabeth  Lane,  born  in  1830;  married 

Henry  Pendleton  Cooke;  died  in  1902. 


25  V     Sarah    Pendleton    Dandridge,    born    in    1834; 

married  John  Selden  (see  Selden  Family,  No. 
50). 

26  vi     Edmund    Pendleton,    born    in    1836;    married 

Julia  Chew  Paca;  died  in  1881. 

14  Judge  John  Willoughby^^  Kennedy  (An- 
drew^*,  John^s,  John^-,  Thomasi\  Gilbertl^  Gilbert^  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gil- 
bert^, the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second  Earl,  David^, 
the  first  Earl,  John^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Sir  James",  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  in  Charlestown, 
Jefferson  County,  Virginia,  November  25,  1822.  He  was 
a  Judge  in  Wheeling,  West  Virginia.  He  married  Sarah 
M.,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Duffield)  Ruther- 
ford, in  Charlestown,  April  30,  1857.  Judge  Kennedy 
died  of  paralysis,  February  2,  1905,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  following  record  of  his  children  is  from  his  wife: 

Children : 

i     Alice,  married  Charles  Stevens;  no  children. 

15  ii     Thomas  R.,  born  May  26,  1861 ;  married  Min- 

nie Whittaker. 

16  iii     Mary  Willoughby,  born  October  2,  1865;  mar- 

ried Henry  Clay  Sincell. 
iv     John  W.   (baptized  John  W.,  but  adopted  the 
name  of  John  Pendleton,  his  brother  of  this 
name  having  died),  born  May  17,  1871;  mar- 
ried May  9,  1903,  Minnie  C.  Haukness. 

17  v     Annie  R.,  born  September  27,  1874;  married 

November  28,  1901,  Francis  Randolph, 
vi     Elizabeth  Gray,  born  November  2Q,  1875. 

15  Thomas  R.^^    Kennedy    (John  Willoughby^^, 


Andrew^-^,  John^^,  John^-,  Thomas^\,  Gilbert^^  Gilbert, 
Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis, 
Gilbert',  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert''',  the  second  Earl,  David^, 
the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^  Lord 
Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  May  26, 
18G1.  He  married,  December  18,  1889,  Minnie  Lee, 
daughter  of  A.  O.  Whittaker,  of  Woodlands,  West  Vir- 
ginia. 

Children : 

i     Thomas  R.,  born  December  13,  181)1. 

ii     John  Alexander  W.,  born  May  21,  1898. 
iii     Jennie  R.,  born  October  6,  1903. 

16  Mary  Willoughby^*^  Kennedy  (John  Wil- 
loughby^^,  Andrew^^,  John^^,  John^-,  Thomas^S  Gilbert^'', 
Gilbert^,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of 
Cassillis,  Gilbert^,  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert*^,  the  second 
Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born 
October  2,  1865.  She  married,  September  10,  1892, 
Henry  Clay  Lincell. 

Children : 
i     Sally  Douglas  Sincell,  born  August  9,  1894. 
ii     Leah  R.  Lincell,  born  October  1,  1898. 
iii     Margaret  R.  Lincell,  born  July  8,  1901. 

17  Annie  R.^'^  Kennedy  (John  Willoughby^^  An- 
drew^*, Johnl•^  Johni2,  Thomas^\"  Gilbert^^  Gilbert^  Gil- 
bert*, Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gil- 
bert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert",  the  second  Earl,  David^, 
the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  September  27, 
1874.  She  married,  November  28,  1901,  Francis  Ran- 
dolph. 


Children : 
i     Sarah  Winifred  Randolph,  born  May  6,  1903. 

ii     — ,  born  about  1907. 

iii     ,  born  1909  or  1910. 

18  Andrew  Eskridge^^  Kennedy  (Andrew^^, 
John^^  John^-,  Thomas^\  Gilbert^^,  Gilbert^  Gilbert;\ 
Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert",  the 
third  Earl,  Gilbert^',  the  second  Earl,  David^,  the  first 
Earl,  John"^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert",  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir 
James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  July  18,  18,24.  He  mar- 
ried October  11,  1859,  his  cousin,  Maria  Pendleton, 
daughter  of  Philip  and  Willie  Ann  (Burwell)  Cooke,  of 
the  "Vineyard,"  Clarke  County,  Virginia.  (See  Cooke 
Family,  Number  4.)  She  was  born  in  1840,  and  died 
February  17,  1902,  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Andrew  Esk- 
ridge  Kennedy  died  of  paralysis,  January  1,  1900.  He 
and  his  wife  are  both  buried  at  Mount  Zion,  Charles- 
town,  West  Virginia.  'The  following  record  of  their 
children  is  taken  from  the  family  Bible : 

19  i     Philip  Cooke,  born  September  20,  1860;  mar- 

ried Selina  Anderson  Frizell. 
ii     Agnes  Esten. 
iii     Elizabeth  Pendleton, 
iv     Rebecca  Willoughby. 

20  V     Andrew  Eskridge,  born  March  9,  1875 ;  mar- 

ried Blanche  Breeden ;  died  in   1908. 

21  vi     Margaret  Hughes,  born  June  23,   1878;  mar- 

ried Alexander  Stronach. 

19  Philip  Cooke^^  Kennedy  (Andrew  Eskridge^^, 
Andrewl^  John^^  John^^  Thomasi\,  Gilbert^^,  Gilbert^ 
Gilbert^,   Lord    Kennedy   and    fourth    Earl   of    Cassillis, 


Gilbert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second  Earl,  David^, 
the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  at  Cassillis, 
September  20,  1860.  He  married,  November  17,  1887, 
Selina  Anderson  Frizell,  of  Westminster,  Maryland. 

Children : 
i     Caroline  Wright,  born  at  Tompkinsville,  Staten  Is- 
land, New  York,  October  28,  1889. 
ii     Philip  Eskridge,  born  in  Charlestown,  West  Virginia, 
April  27,  1891. 

20  Andrew  Eskridge^*'  Kennedy  (Andrew  Esk- 
ridge^^,  Andrew^*,  John^^,  John^-,  Thomas^\  Gilbert^*^, 
Gilbert^,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cas- 
sillis, Gilbert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert*^,  the  second  Earl, 
David^,  the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^, 
Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  at 
Cassillis,  Charlestown,  March  9,  1875.  He  married,  in 
June,  1902,  Blanche  Breeden,  of  Richmond.  He  died  in 
the  winter  of  1908-9. 

Children : 
i     Maria  May,  born  January  13,  1903. 
ii     Elizabeth  Pendleton,  born  December  24,  1904. 
iii     Blanche  Breeden,  born  March  25,  1907. 

21  Margaret  Hughes^^  Kennedy  (Andrew  Esk- 
ridge^^,  Andrew^*,  John^^,  John^-,  Thomas^\  Gilbert^^, 
Gilbert^,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of 
Cassillis,  Gilbert^,  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second 
Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born 
June  23,  1878.  She  married,  October  11,  1904,  Alex- 
ander  Stronach,  a  lawyer,  of  Raleigh,   North  Carolina. 


Children : 
i     Alexander  Stronach.  born  July  22,  1905. 
ii     ^Margaret  Hughes  Kennedy  Stronach,  born  January  6, 

1908. 
iii     Maria  Pendleton  Stronach,  born  October  39,  1909. 

22  Anne  Rebecca^^  Kennedy  (Andrew^^  John^^ 
John^-,  Thomas^\  Gilbert^'\  Gilbert^  Gilbert^,  Lord  Ken- 
nedy and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert^  the  third  Earl, 
Gilbert*^,  the  second  Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John^, 
Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James",  Sir 
Gilbert^)  was  born  September  29,  1825.  She  married, 
June  19,  1845,  John  Selden.  (See  Selden  family,  Num- 
ber 50.)     She  died  July  11,  1854. 

Children  (see  Selden  family,  No.  50)  : 
i     Wilson  Gary  Selden. 

ii     ]\Iary  Selden,  married  Dr.  Stephen  Dandridge  Ken- 
nedy (see  No.  33). 
iii     Elizabeth  Gray  Selden. 
iv     Andrew  Kennedy  Selden. 

23  Mary  Elizabeth  Lane^^  Kennedy  (Andrew^*, 
John^\  John^-,  Thomas^\,  Gilbert^^,  Gilbert^,  Gilbert^ 
Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert^,  the 
third  Earl,  Gilbert*^,  the  second  Earl,  David^,  the  first 
Earl,  John'',  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir 
James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  January  3,  1830.  She 
married,  January  1,  1855,  Henry  Pendleton  Cooke,  son 
of  John  Rogers  and  Maria  (Pendleton)  Cooke  (see 
Cooke   family).      She   died   in   March,   1902. 

Children : 

i     Annie  Selden  Cooke, 
ii     Marian  Willoughby  Cooke,  of  Norfolk,  Va. 


24  iii  Henry  Pendleton  Cooke  (name  changed  from 
John  Rogers),  born  March  21,  1857;  married 
Mrs.  CaroHne  L.   Richardson,  nee  Evans. 

24  Henry  Pendleton^*^  Cooke  (Mary  EHzabeth 
Lane^^'  Kennedy,  Andrew^-^,  John^''',  John^-,  Thomas'\ 
Gilbert^o,  Gilbert^,  Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth 
Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert",  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the 
second  Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John^,  Lord  Kennedy, 
Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was 
born  March  21,  1857.  His  name  was  originally  John 
Rogers,  but  was  changed  to  Henry  Pendleton.  He  mar- 
ried, at  Galveston,  Texas,  January  1,  1886,  Mrs.  Caro- 
line L.  (Richardson)  Evans.  (See  Cooke  Family,  No. 
8.)     They  had  one  son, 

i     Willard  Cooke. 

25  Sarah  Pendleton  Dandrtdge^^  Kennedy  (An- 
drew^^,  Johnl^  John^^  Thomas^  \  Gilbert^",  Gilbert^ 
Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis, 
Gilbert',  the  third  Earl,  Gilberf"',  the  second  Earl,  David^, 
the  first  Earl,  John"^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  September  23, 
1834.  She  married,  January  7,  1858.  at  Cassillis,  Jeffer- 
son County,  John  Selden   (see  Selden  Family,  No.  50). 

Children  (see  Selden  family)  : 
i     John  Selden,  born  October  3,  1859  ;  married   Susan 

Worthington. 
ii     Annie  Rebecca  Selden. 

26  Edmund  Pendleton^^  Kennedy  (Andrew^*, 
John^'-,  John^-,  Thomas^ \  Gilbert^o,  Gilbert^,  Gilbert^ 
Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert",  the 


third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second  Earl,  David^,  the  first 
Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir 
James-,  Sir  Gilbert\)  was  born  at  Cassillis,  December  15, 
1836.  He  married,  July  25,  1860,  Julia  Chew,  daughter 
of  Edmund  Tilghman  and  Marian  Eden  (Jones)  Paca,  of 
Wye,  Eastern  Shore,  Maryland.  The  mother  of  Julia 
Chew  (Paca)  Kennedy  died  while  visiting  her  daughter 
at  CassilHs,  January  30,  1873,  and  is  buried  in  Zion 
Church  yard.  She  was  born  June  28,  1818.  Her  hus- 
band, Edmund  Tilghman  Paca,  died  many  years  before, 
and  is  buried  at  Wye  (see  Paca  Family,  No.  3).  Ed- 
mund Pendleton  Kennedy  died  May  30,  1881. 

The  children  of  Edmund  Pendleton  and  Julia  Chew 
(Paca)   Kennedy  are: 

27  i     Julia  Chew  Paca,  born  May  12,  1861 ;  married 

Edmund  Randolph  Taylor, 
ii     Mary  Selden,  born  at  Wye,  Maryland. 

28  iii     Edmund  Pendleton,  born  NovCTnber    14,  1865 ; 

married   Josephine   Maria  Martelle. 

29  iv     Andrew,  born  July  8,  in  1867;  married  Ethel 

Phillips. 

30  V     Anthony  K.,  born  September  12,   1870;  mar- 

ried Katherine  Conrad. 

vi     Margaret  Hughes  Paca. 

vii  John  Pendleton,  born  March  21,  1873 ;  mar- 
ried January  21,  1905,  at  the  English  church, 
Rue  des  Tanneurs,  Antwerp,  Belgium,  and  also 
at  the  British  Consulate,  to  Fanny  Pickard, 
who  was  born  in  Battersea,  London,  in  1872. 

31  viii     Ethel,  married  Charles  Pitt  Nicholson. 

ix  Paca,  born  August  2,  1878 ;  a  clergyman ;  mar- 
ried, August  16,  1906,  at  Buena  Vista  Springs, 
Pennsylvania,  Erin,  daughter  of  Doctor  F.  H. 
H.  Paine,  of  Galveston,  Texas. 


27  Julia  Chew  Paca^*^  Kennedy  (Edmund  Pen- 
dleton^^  Andrew^^  Johnl^  Jolini-,  Thomasi\  Gilbert^o, 
Gilbert^,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of 
Cassillis,  Gilbert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second 
Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born 
at  Wye,  Eastern  Shore,  Maryland,  May  12,  1861.  She 
married,  July  7,  1892,  Edmund  Randolph  Taylor,  of 
Charlestown,  West  Virginia.  (See  Taylor  Family,  Num- 
ber 3.) 

Children : 

i     Julia  Paca  Taylor,  born  January  31,  1894. 

ii     Elizabeth  Gray  Taylor,  born  June  10,  1895. 
iii     Edmund  Randolph  Taylor,  born  October  5,  1898. 
iv     Margaret  Beverly,  born  in  January,  1908. 

28  Edmund  Pendleton^^  Kennedy  (Edmund 
Pendleton^^,  Andrew^*,  John^^,  John^-,  Thomas^\  Gil- 
bert^^,  Gilbert^,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl 
of  Cassillis,  Gilbert^,  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second 
Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born 
November  14,  1865.  He  married  June  20,  1901,  Jo- 
sephine Maria  Martelle. 

Child: 
i     Josephine  M.,  born  June  2,  1907. 

29  Andrew^*'  Kennedy  (Edmund  Pendleton^^, 
Andrewl^  John^^  John^-,  Thomasi\  Gilbert^^,  Gilbert^, 
Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis, 
Gilbert^,  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second  Earl,  David^, 
the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)   was  born  July  8,  1867. 


He  married  Ethel  Phillips,,  February  ,21,  19()(),  in  jersey 
City,  Xew  Jersey. 

Child  : 
i         Ethel  Paca,  born  December  30,  1906. 

30  Anthony  K.^«  Kennedy  (Edmund  Pendleton^^ 
Andre\v^^  John^",  John^-,  Thomasi\  Gilbert^^  Gilbert^ 
Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gil- 
bert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^  the  second  Earl,  David^ 
the  first  Earl,  John^  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  September  12, 
1870.  He  married,  at  Camden,  New  Jersey,  June  18, 
1901,  Katherine  Conrad. 

Children : 
i     Anthony,  born  March  18,  1902. 
ii     Joseph  Conrad,  born  September  28,  1903. 
iii     Edward  Tilghman,  born  September  27,  1905. 

31  Ethel^'^  Kennedy  (Edmund  Pendleton^^  An- 
drew^^  John^s,  John^-,  Thomas^S  Gilbert^o,  Gilbert^ 
Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis, 
Gilbert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^  the  second  Earl,  David^ 
the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert%  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  married  February  16, 
1905,  Charles  Pitt  Nicholson. 

Child : 
i     Charles  Pitt  Nicholson,  born  December  3,  1905. 

32  Anthony^*  Kennedy  (John^^,  John^-,  Thom- 
as^\  Gilbert^^  Gilbert^  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and 
fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert^  the  third  Earl.  Gilbert^ 
the  second  Earl,  David^  the  first  Earl,  John^,  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^) 


Democrats,  as  he  was  not  in  sympathy  with  some  of  the 
tenets  of  the  American  party  men.  He  did  not  Hke  their 
secret  society  features  or  their  bitter  prejudices  against 
Cathohcs,  and  soon  after  he  took  his  seat  the  party  went 
to  pieces.  Mr.  Kennedy  was  a  war  Democrat  as  long 
as  he  was  a  member  of  the  Senate,  and  was  one  of  a 
celebrated  quartet  consisting  of  Kennedy,  the  late  ex- 
Minister  Pendleton,  Voorhees  and  Clement  L.  Vallandig- 
ham. 

"His  colleague  in  the  Senate  was  James  Alfred  Pearce. 
He  remained  in  the  Senate  until  1863.  In  1867  he  was 
selected  by  the  Democrats  as  a  member  of  the  State 
Constitutional  Convention.  Since  then  he  has  taken  no 
active  part  in  politics.  He  resolved  to  spend  his  last 
years  in  the  enjoyment  of  domestic  peace,  and,  with  that 
object  in  view,  purchased  a  country  home  on  the  Fred- 
erick road,  about  nine  miles  from  Baltimore,  where  he 
lived  until  very  recently,  when  he  took  up  his  residence 
with  his  son  at  Annapolis,  where  he  died  July  31, 
1892. 

"Senator  Kennedy  was  tall  and  commanding  in  per- 
son, of  a  genial  disposition  and  took  a  lively  interest  in 
public  matters  up  to  within  ten  days  of  his  death.  He 
had  three  children,  two  of  whom  survive  him.  The  sur- 
viving ones  are  Mrs.  Harrison,  wife  of  Rev.  Hall  Har- 
rison, rector  of  St.  John's  Church,  near  Ellicott  City, 
and  Dr.  S.  D.  Kennedy,  of  Annapolis.  The  deceased 
son  was  Captain  Philip  C.  Kennedy,  United  States 
Marine  Corps. 

"Mr.  Kennedy's  career  was  a  singularly  interesting  one, 
and  until  a  few  years  ago  his  memory  for  the  remarkable 
scenes  through  which  he  passed  was  wonderfully  minute. 
He  could  repeat  whole  debates,  reproducing  the  speeches 


word  for  word,  and  tell  anecdote  after  anecdote  of  the 
great  men  who  rose  and  fell  beside  him. 

"One  of  Mr.  Kennedy's  stories  about  Jefferson  Davis 
was  especially  interesting,  and  shows  that  duelling  as  a 
settlement  for  Congressional  disputes  was  held  in  favor 
up  to  a  comparatively  recent  date.  'One  day  about  1860/ 
he  said,  in  giving  an  account  of  the  occurrence,  'Mr. 
Davis  and  I\Ir.  Benjamin  became  angry  with  one  another 
in  a  debate  on  the  floor  of  the  Senate.  Mr.  Benjamin 
thought  his  colleague  from  the  South  was  talking  in  too 
petulant  a  strain,  and  exclaimed,  angrily,  "Do  you  want 
to  insult  me,  sir?"  I  shall  never  forget  Mr.  Davis'  ex- 
pression when  he  waved  his  hand  at  Mr.  Benjamin,  as 
if  he  were  throwing  an  insult  at  him,  and  said,  with 
equal  emphasis;  "You  have  it  now,  sir!"  The  occur- 
rence created  a  sensation  among  the  other  senators. 
Davis  left  his  seat  and  sent  for  Rob  Johnson,  of  Ar- 
kansas, of  whom  he  thought  a  great  deal.  I  asked  John- 
son what  they  were  going  to  do,  and  he  answered  in  a 
low  tone,  with  his  head  down  to  avoid  attention;  "Chal- 
lenge." 

"  'All  that  night  Crittenden,  Toombs  and  another  man, 
whose  name  I  cannot  remember,  worked  on  Davis  in  an 
effort  to  get  him  to  make  an  explanation  to  Benjamin,  as 
it  was  evident  there  had  been  some  misunderstanding 
on  both  sides.  When  the  Senate  met  the  next  day  the 
men  were  in  their  seats.  Mr.  Benjamin  arose  and  ad- 
dressed the  presiding  officer,  withdrawing  his  remarks  in 
a  beautiful  speech  of  ten  or  fifteen  minutes,  which  seemed 
to  fall  from  his  mouth  like  running  water.  It  was  a  fine 
effort  but  Davis  did  fully  as  well  when  it  came  his  turn 
to  explain. 

"  'As  I  remember  Mr.  Davis,'  the  Senator  said  recently, 


in  talking  over  the  reminiscences  of  his  life,  'he  was  a 
very  courteous  man,  scrupulously  polite  to  everybody, 
ordinarily,  but  petulant  and  cross  w^hen  his  health  was 
bad,  as  was  often  the  case.  His  habits  were  temperate 
and  he  did  his  work  faithfully.  Although  he  did  not 
speak  often,  his  remarks  were  always  delivered  with  a 
force  which  commanded  attention.  I  heard  a  great  deal 
of  private  conversation  among  the  southern  leaders  at 
Mr.  Davis'  desk,  where  they  sometimes  collected  to  talk. 
Nearly  all  they  did  was  decided  upon  in  caucus  before- 
hand.' 

"It  used  to  be  told  as  a  good  thing  on  Mr.  Kennedy 
that  although  he  was  sent  to  the  Senate  as  a  Know- 
nothing,  he  was  the  son  of  a  native  born  Irishman  and 
selected  for  an  appointment  during  his  term  another 
man  of  the  same  nationality.  This  appointee  he  made 
doorkeeper  in  the  Senate,  and  the  incident  aroused  some 
attention  at  the  time. 

"Mr.  Kennedy  used  to  possess  an  extensive  fund  of 
reminiscences  about  his  campaign  with  Bedinger,  one  of 
which  is  as  follows :  On  a  certain  afternoon  both  candi- 
dates rode  up  to  the  house  of  an  ignorant  but  aggressive 
old  man  named  Johnson,  who  was  a  well-known  Demo- 
crat and  a  great  admirer  of  Bedinger.  Mr.  Kennedy, 
as  a  measure  of  necessity,  made  his  companion  known  to 
Johnson,  but  cleverly  avoided  introducing  himself. 
When  both  visitors  prepared  to  leave  in  the  morning, 
Johnson  noticed  the  omission  and  said  to  Mr.  Kennedy: 
*Why,  hang  it,  mail,  you  haven't  even  told  me  who  you 
are!'  Bedinger  let^  the  cat  out  of  the  bag  by  explaining 
that  it  was  the  Wtiig  candidate.  The  host  at  first  re- 
fused to  believe  if  true  that  his  political  idol  would 
thus  travel,  eat  and  $leep  with  a  Whig,  and  was  not  con- 


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vinced  until  he  heard  both  speak  in  the  afternoon.  Never 
afterward  would  he  say  another  word  in  praise  of  Mr. 
Bedinger. 

"Senator  Kennedy  was  the  only  man  ever  elected  to 
the  United  States  Senate  as  representative  of  the  Ameri- 
can or  Know-nothing  party." 

Children  (by  first  wife)  : 
33         i     Stephen  Dandridge,  married  jMary  Selden. 
ii     Philip  Pendleton,  died  young. 
iii     Agnes  Spottiswoode. 

33  Dr.  Stephen  Dandridge^^  Kennedy  (Anth- 
onyl^  Johni3,  John^-,  Thomas^S  Gilbert^^^  Gilbert^  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert^, 
the  third  Earl,  Gilbert®,  the  second  Earl,  David^,  the  first 
Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy 
Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  married,  in  Baltimore,  Novem- 
ber 24,  1863,  Frances,  daughter  of  Lewis*  and  Margaret 
(Armistead)  Howell  (Benjamin^,  Joseph",  Joseph^) 
(see  Armistead  Family,  Number  22).  Doctor  Kennedy, 
married,  second,  June  22,  1869,  his  cousin,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Selden  (see  Selden  Family,  Numbers  50 
and  52).  She  was  born  at  Cassillis,  Jefferson  County, 
Virginia,  October  3,  1847.  Doctor  Kennedy  was  born 
May  25,  1834,  at  the  "Bower,"  Jefferson  County.  He 
was  educated  at  the  Virginia  Military  Institute,  at  the 
University  of  Virginia,  and  the  LTniversity  of  Mary- 
land. He  graduated  in  medicine  from  the  last-named 
institution  in  1855.  He  practised  in  Baltimore  and  was 
one  of  the  visiting  physicians  to  the  Baltimore  City  and 
County  Almshouse.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Baltimore 
Pathological  Society,  the  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Fac- 
ulty of  Maryland,  as  also  of  the  Alston  Art  Club,  and 


of  the  Maryland  Club.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Convention  of  Physicians,  which  met  in  Washington, 
in  1857. 

In  1861  he  entered  the  United  States  Navy  as  Assistant 
Surgeon,  and  served  with  distinction  as  surgeon  under 
Farragut.  In  1861  he  was  ordered  to  the  U.  S.  S. 
Colorado,  which  joined  the  Gulf  Squadron  off  Fort 
Pickens,  Texas.  On  September  13,  1861,  a  boat  expedi- 
tion under  command  of  Lieutenant  J.  H.  Russell  was 
sent  in  from  the  Colorado  to  cut  out  and  destroy  the 
Confederate  Privateer  Schooner,  Judah,  which  was  lying 
at  the  Pensacola  Navy  Yard,  awaiting  a  chance  to  run 
past  the  fleet.  Doctor  Kennedy  was  detailed  as  medical 
officer  of  the  expedition  and  assigned  to  Lieutenant  Rus- 
sell's boat.  Fort  Pickens,  on  Santa  Rosa  Island,  was 
held  by  Federal  troops.  On  the  mainland  across  the 
narrow  channel  were  Forts  Macrea  and  Barrancas,  with 
Confederate  garrisons.  From  the  latter  for  two  or 
three  miles  up  to  the  Navy  Yard  was  a  line  of  batteries. 
The  Judah  was  at  the  dock  of  the  Yard  which  was  held 
by  about  twelve  hundred  Confederate  troops.  To  reach 
the  Yard  it  was  necessary  to  pass  close  to  Forts  McRea 
and  Barancas,  and  beyond  all  of  the  batteries. 

The  expedition  numbered  one  hundred  men  and  of- 
ficers in  four  boats,  one  launch  and  three  cutters.  Doc- 
tor Kennedy  was  in  Lieutenant  Russell's  boat,  the  launch, 
which  carried  thirty-seven  men,  of  which  number  two 
were  killed,  and  seven  wounded.  Leaving  the  ship  near 
midnight,  when  it  was  very  dark,  the  boats  pulled  with 
muffled  oars  to  the  narrow  channel  between  the  island 
and  the  mainland.  They  passed  close  to  the  Forts  with- 
out being  seen  and  pulling  farther  across  the  bay,  passed, 
unnoticed  by  the  batteries  in  the  darkness.    When  abreast 


of  the  Judah,  the  boats  formed  in  Hne  and  stopped  for 
a  few  moments  for  the  order  to  attack.  Russell's  and 
Blake's  boats  were  to  attack  and  board  the  schooner  and 
set  fire  to  her.  The  other  two  boats  were  to  attack 
one  eleven-inch  gun  battery  near  either  end  of  the  vessel. 
During  this  pause,  an  officer  asked  Doctor  Kennedy  to 
change  seats  with  him,  and,  as  he  did  so,  the  man  by 
whom  he  sat  down  said,  "Doc,  that  may  be  a  luck  swap 
for  you,  some  of  us  will  miss  the  number  of  our  mess 
in  a  few  minutes."  The  boats  rushed  in  and  in  a  few 
moments  the  schooner  poured  a  heavy  fire  into  them. 
At  the  first  fire,  the  two  men  on  either  side  of  Doctor 
Kennedy,  were  killed,  one  of  whom  had  joked  about  his 
change  of  seat,  and  the  officer  who  had  exchanged  with 
him  was  hit  in  the  arm.  After  a  short  but  hot  fight, 
the  privateer  was  taken  and  set  on  fire,  the  batteries 
taken,  and  their  guns  spiked.  The  troops  in  the  Yard 
came  rushing  down  the  dock,  but  the  men,  regaining 
the  boats,  checked  them  by  a  fire  from  their  howitzers, 
and,  pulling  over  to  the  other  side  of  the  bay,  stopped 
to  look  after  the  killed  and  wounded.  Aided  by  the 
dim  light,  they  succeeded  in  passing  out  without  being 
hit 'by  the  Forts  or  batteries,  and  reached  the  Colorado 
at  daylight. 

Doctor  Kennedy  was  afterward  attached  to  the  Hart- 
ford, Farragut's  Flagship,  and  was  in  the  fights  with 
the  batteries  at  Port  Hudson,  Grand  Gulf,  and  Warren- 
ton,  below  Vicksburg,  Mississippi.  He  was  promoted  to 
the  post  of  Surgeon  in  1863.  While  attached  to  the  U.  S. 
S.  Lackawanna,  cruising  in  the  Pacific,  he  was  at  the 
Hawaian  Islands  during  the  great  eruption  of  the  volcano 
of  Kilawea,  earthquakes  and  tidal  wave  in  1868.  A  few 
days  before  its  eruption  he  visited  the  volcano,  and  went 


down  into  its  crater,  and  while  exploring  it  twice  made 
very  narrow  escapes,  once  from  suffocation  by  poisonous 
gases,  and,  again,  by  walking  on  a  lake  of  partially 
cooled  and  hardened  lava  which  suddenly  started  into 
renewed  activity.  The  escape  was  accomplished  in  both 
instances  by  a  rapid  and  trying  run. 

Doctor  Kennedy  resigned  from  the  Service  at  the 
close  of  the  War,  but  re-entered  it  a  year  or  two  later. 
In  1880  he  was  promoted  to  the  post  of  Medical  Inspector 
with  the  relative  rank  of  Commander  in  the  Navy  and 
Lieutenant  Colonel  in  the  Army.  He  remained  in  the 
Service  until  1882.  After  this  he  lived  at  Annapolis, 
where  he  practised  his  profession  until  1897,  when  he, 
with  his  family,  removed  to  Warrenton,  \^irginia,  where 
they  have  since  resided. 

Children  (by  first  wife)  : 

34  i     Fanny     Howell     Hughes,     married     William 

Maurice  Manly, 
(by  second  wife)  : 

i  Anthony  K.,  born  at  the  "Cave,"  April  22,  1873  ; 
married  Sept.  8,  1897,  by  the  Rev.  William 
Mumford,  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hall  Harrison 
Ellen,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Mumford.  She 
died  Dec.  29,  1909. 
ii  Mary  Willoughby,  born  in  Norfolk,  Va.,  Feb. 
28,  1875. 

35  iii     Margaret    Hughes,    married    Arthur    Merwin 

Ross. 

36  iv     Agnes    Gray,    married    Dr.    William    Beverley 

Mason. 

34     Fanny  Howell  Hughes^^  Kennedy  (Stephen 
Dandridge^^,     Anthony^*,     John^^,     John^^,     Thomas^\ 


Gilbert^*^,  Gilbert^,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and 
fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis,  Gilbert^,  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^, 
the  second  Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord 
Kennedy,  Gilbert",  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gil- 
bert^) was  born  October  9,  1864.  She  married,  June 
10,  1886,  William  Maurice  Manly,  son  of  Matthias  E. 
and  Sarah  (Simson)  Manly,  of  Newburn,  North  Caro- 
lina. She  died  July  20,  1894.  Mr.  Manly  married, 
second,  in  1902,  Mathilde  L.,  daughter  of  William  and 
Sarah  (Brent)  Keyser,  of  Baltimore,  by  whom  he  had 
a  son,  William  Keyser  Manly,  and  a  daughter. 

Child: 

Christopher    Hughes    Manly,    born    March    29,    1888; 

member  of  the  Order  of  the  Cincinnati,  eligibility  for 

which  he  inherited  from  his  uncle,  Lewis  Howell. 

35  Margaret  Hughes^^  Kennedy  (Stephen  Dan- 
dridge^^,  Anthony^'^,  John^",  John^-,  Thomas^S  Gilbert^^, 
Gilbert^,  Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of 
Cassillis,  Gilbert^,  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert*^,  the  second 
Earl,  David^,  the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^, Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born 
in  Charlestown,  Jefferson  County,  Virginia,  July  17, 
1877.  She  married,  June  9,  1900,  Arthur  Merwin  Ross, 
son  of  Albert  and  Alice  (Brewer)  Ross  (see  Ross  Fam- 
ily, Number  3).  They  were  married  at  Cassillis,  Fau- 
quier County,  Virginia,  by  the  Reverend  Joseph  P. 
McCormick. 
Children : 
i  Arthur  Merwin  Ross",  born  May  28,  1901;  lived 
twenty-four  hours. 

ii     Margaret    Selden    Kennedy   Ross,   born   at   Cassillis, 
Virginia,  Sept.  30,  1902. 


36  Agnes  Gray^"  Kennedy  (Stephen  Dandridge^^ 
Anthony^^  John^^  John^-,  Thomas^\  Gilbert^^  Gilbert^ 
Gilbert*^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis, 
Gilbert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert*^,  the  second  Earl,  David^, 
the  first  Earl,  John*,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^  Lord  Ken- 
nedy, Sir  James^',  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born  at  the  Navy 
Yard,  Portsmouth,  Virginia,  December  4,  1881.  She 
married,  August  39,  1907,  Doctor  William  Beverley 
Mason  of  Marshall,  Virginia,  son  of  John  Stevens  and 
Eliza  (Beverley)  Mason.  They  were  married  at  St. 
James'  Church,  Warrenton,  Virginia  (see  Mason  Family, 
No.  10). 

Child: 

William  Beverley  Mason,  born  in  Washington,  D.  C., 
Monday,  July  13,  1908,  at  2 :30  p.  m. 

37  Rev.  Gilbert^i  Kennedy  (Gilbert^«,  Gilbert^ 
Gilbert^,  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of  Cassillis, 
Gilbert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert",  the  second  Earl,  David^, 
the  first  Earl,  John'*,,  Lord  Kennedy,  Gilbert^,  Lord 
Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  a  Presbyterian 
minister,  at  Girvan,  in  Ayrshire,  in  1651. 

Reid's  History  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Ireland, 
Volume  II,  page  300;  and  Volume  III,  pages  168,  177, 
193,  278,  and  357,  refer  to  him  and  one  of  his  grandsons, 
as  follows : 

"In  1662  the  Reverend  Gilbert  Kennedy,  who  had  been 
ordained  as  a  minister  of  Gervan  in  Ayrshire  in  1651, 
was  ejected  from  that  Parish  and  came  to  Ireland  about 
1668.  He  settled  in  Dundonald,  after  the  death  of  Mr. 
Peebles,  and  died  in  that  charge,  February  6,  1687-88. 
He  was  brother  to  the  Rev.  Thomas  Kennedy  of  Don- 
oughmore  and  Carlan  in  Tyrone,  and  grandfather  to  the 


Rev.  Gilbert  Kennedy,  minister  successively  of  Lisburn, 
Killileagh  and  Belfast,  who  died  1773." 

'In  1744  when  the  second  congregation  of  Belfast 
became  vacant  by  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Kirkpatrick,  the 
Rev.  Gilbert  Kennedy  became  his  successor." 

Son: 

38  Gilbert,  a  Presbyterian  minister. 

38  Rev.  Gilbert^-  Kennedy  (Gilbert'\  Gilbert'^ 
Gilbert^  Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of 
Cassillis,  Gilbert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^  the  second 
Earl,  David^  the  first  Earl,  John\  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^,  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James^  Sir  Gilbert^)  was 
minister  of  Donaclony  or  Tullylish,  and  afterward  dis- 
tinguished himself  as  a  writer  on  behalf  of  subscrip- 
tions. He  was  elected  moderator  in  1720.  He  had  three 
sons  and  one  daughter,  who  all  emigrated  to  America. 
Children: 

i     Gilbert,    ordained    a   Presbyterian   minister   in 

1704;  emigrated  to  America  in  1730. 
ii     Robert,    ordained   a    Presbyterian   minister   in 
1704;  emigrated  to  America  in  1730. 

39  iii     WilHam,   born  in   Londonderry,   in   1695;   or- 

dained a  Presbyterian  minister  in  1704;  married 
Mary  or  Marian  Henderson;  emigrated  to 
America  in  1730. 
iv  Katharine,  married  William  Tennant,  an  Epis- 
copal clergyman,  who  afterward  became  a  Pres- 
byterian minister;  he  came  to  America  in  1716, 
and  built  the  Log  College,  in  Bucks  County, 
Pennsylvania,  the  only  place,  outside  of  New 
England,  where  a  classical  theological  educa- 
tion could  be  obtained  at  that  date. 


39  Rev.  William^-  Kennedy  (Gilbert^\  Gilbert^", 
Gilbert^  Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl  of 
Cassillis,  Gilbert',  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^  the  second 
Earl,  David^  the  first  Earl,  John^  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born 
in  Londonderry,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  in  1685.  He 
was  ordained  a  minister  in  1704,  and  emigrated  to  Ameri- 
ca in  1730,  and  settled  in  Bucks  County,  Pennsylvania. 
His  wife  was  Mary  or  Marian  Henderson.  His  death 
occurred  in  1777,  and  he  was  buried  in  this  country. 
He  and  his  wife  have  numerous  descendants,  but  the 
genealogy  has  not  been  carried  beyond  his  grandson  in 
this  volume. 
Children : 

i     Thomas,  born  in  1729;  married  Janet  ; 

no  issue;  died  January  24,  1794. 
40        ii     James,  born  in  1730,  in  Bucks  County,  Penn- 
sylvania; married,  first,  Jane  Maxwell,  second, 
Jane  McCalla  or  McCauly. 
iii     Robert,  born  in  1733. 
iv     John, 
v     Lucy, 
vi     Mary, 
vii     Rebecca   Jane,    unmarried. 

40  James^^  Kennedy  (William^-,  Gilbert'\  Gil- 
bert'^  Gilbert^,  Gilbert^  Lord  Kennedy  and  fourth  Earl 
of  Cassillis,  Gilbert^  the  third  Earl,  Gilbert^,  the  second 
Earl,  David^  the  first  Earl,  John^  Lord  Kennedy,  Gil- 
bert^  Lord  Kennedy,  Sir  James-,  Sir  Gilbert^)  was  born 
in  Bucks  County,  Pennsylvania,  in  1730.  He  married, 
first,  in  17G1,  Jane  Maxwell,  sister  of  General  Maxwell  of 
the  Revolutionary  Army.     She  died  September  7,  1784. 


He  married,  second,  Jane  McCalla  or  McCauly,  by  whom 
he  had  no  children.  James  Kennedy  and  his  second  wife 
died  on  the  same  day,  October  7,  1799,  and  were  buried 
in  the  same  grave. 

Son  (by  first  wife)  : 

John,  had  twelve  children. 


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