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RKYNOLD5  HISTORICAL 
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SOMETHING  ABOUT  THE 
DULANEY  (Dulanii)  FAMILY 

AND^ 
A   Sketch  of  the  Southern 

COBB  FAMILY 


BY 

BENJAMIN  LEWIS  DULANEY 
WASHINGTON.  D.  C. 


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CONTENTS 

rage 

Foreword     7 

Prologue 

"Tracing  An   Irish   Name"   11 

Narrative 

"Story  of  Three  Brothers"   17 

William  Dniany    CWilliani  of  Wye)    25 

Daniel    Dniany    (The    FJder )    27 

Daniel   Dniany    (The   \'(>nnger)    ^^4 

Daniel    Dniany,   Jr.,    (3)    39 

Walter  Dniany  (of  Daniel,  1"he  h:ider  )   40 

I'.enjaniin  4"asker   Dniany    (of  Daniel,  tlie  S'.-cond  )  41 

Joseph  Dniany  (The  Youngest  of  the  d'hree  l'rr)thers)  49 

William  Dniany   (Third  Son  of  J(ise]ih   I)   50 

Note    to    Genealogists ^^2 

C'iMicerninL'    the   Spelling  of   the    Name   53 

Dulaneys   in    the    Revolution    ."^."^ 

Dulaneys   in   the    \drginia    Mihiia    56 

The    P.ranch    in    d\*nnessee    r^') 

l<dkanah     Uoherts    Dulaney    59 

William    Roljerts    Dulaney    60 

r>enjamin    Lewis  Dulaney   69 

Something  Ahout  the  ("ohh  h^anndv  in  the  South  ~}) 

(, 'oMceruuii'    ihe    1  Kat    o  l'    Arms lacing  21 


ILLUSTRATIONS 

Facing  Paj^e 

Benjriniin   Lewis  Dnlnnev   6 

William  Roberts   Dulaney  58 

Dr.    Nathaniel   Taylor   Dulaney    65 

Dr.    Nathaniel   Taylor   Dulaney,    Jr 9 

Benjamin  Bewis  Dulaney  (3)  81 

Paul    Dulaney    12 

Alice   Rebecca   70 

Jane    49 

Alary  Jane  17 

lienjamin  W'eems 35 


CHARTS 

I' a. ire 

(;eori;e  W'illian)  Dulany  and  William    11.    Dulany  .  23 

St.  Louis  i'.ranch  30-31 

Benjamin  Weems  Dulany  35 

Tennessee  Branch  61 

(ban    (if    Many    r.arlkll     I  )nlancy facin-      .^5 

The-  I'.rancb  in   Kentucky  iiiclu<lin-    Abir-ball.   Illiuni^....   S6a 


BENJAMIN  LEWIS  DULANEY 

Youngest  son  of  Dr.  Elkanah  R.  Dulaney,  born  April  9, 
1815,  at  "Medical  Grove,"  Sullivan  County,  Tennessee, 
and  died  Sept.  17,  1859.  Twelve  years  High  Sheriff  of 
Sullivan  County,  Tenn.,  and  Master  of  Whiteside 
Alasonic  Lodge  many  years. 


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FOREWORD 

f-^^T  THIS  time  in  this  country  the  things  which 
count  are  individual  worth,  efficiency,  fairness 
—character,     and     not     pedigree.  Normal 

American  sentiment  forbids  that  anyone  should 
have  preferment  solely  on  account  of  the  deeds  or  social 
position  of  one's  forebears.  Aristocrat  and  parasite  are 
synonyms  in  the  lexicon  of  democracy  ;  and  the  foundling, 
who  makes  an  honest  effort,  has  the  odds  in  his  favor,  in 
contest  with  the  man  relying,  for  preference,  upon  the 
achievements  or  high  standing  of  his  progenitors. 

Nevertheless,  to  have  an  ancestry  that  has  consistently 
lived  up  to  the  best  standards  of  the  times,  honoring  and 
obeving  the  laws  oi  Ciod  and  oi  CiUiiUry,  is  :i  splendid  in- 
heritance; and  I  have  not  yet  found  a  j)erson  of  wholesome 
}>edigree  who  was  not  justly  i)roud  of  it. 

While  making  up  these  records,  I  have  incidentally  traced 
the  lineage  of  many  of  my  old  neighliors,  living  in  the 
sections  once  called  "Kings  Meadows"  and  "Watauga  Settle- 
ment," and  feel  safe  in  asserting  that  that  vicinity  can 
justly  claim  as  high  percentage  of  "l)lue  blood"  as  any  other 
part  of  our  country:  Cavalier  and  Huguenot;  pure  Irish; 
pure  Scotch  and  Scotch-Irish;  Dutch  from  Holland  and 
Germans  without  I'russian  blood  in  their  veins;  Scandi- 
navians with  lineage  straight  back  to  the  Vikings,  and  Jews 


8     -/<  The  Didauey  Fcniiiiy 

with  nndispiited  pedigrees,  reacliinj^  to  the  patriarch, 
Abraham. 

History  teaches  that  many  came  to  America  to  escape  re- 
ligious oppression;  but  I  suspect  that  some  of  tliem  came  to 
escape   their   inheritance   to   social    sycojjhancy. 

My  apology  for  preparing  this  genealogy,  with  its  notes, 
comments  and  narratives,  is  not  that  T  have  considered  my- 
self best  qualified  for  the  task.  No  one  else  has  done  it, 
or  shown  a  disposition  to  do  it,  and  I  have  long  felt  that 
it  ought  to  be  done.  So  I  ha\-e  [prepared  it  as  a  modest 
tribute  to  the  memory  of  my  ancestry,  for  the  special  use 
and  benefit  of  my  children  and  other  kinsmen,  and  for  any 
others  who  may  choose  to  read  it. 


%-m^. 


DR.  XATHAXIEL  TAYLOR  DULAXEY.  JR. 

Son  of  Dr.  Xalhaniel  T.  Dulaney,  was  born  in  Bloimtville, 
Tenn.,  in  the  early  seventies.  He  received  his  early 
education  in  iJlountville;  graduated  in  King  College, 
Bristol,  Tenn. ;  then  attended  medical  lectures  in  Louis- 
ville, but  graduated  in  Tennessee  Medical  College.  He 
took  post-graduate  work  in  Xew  York,  Philadelphia 
and  London.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Tennessee 
State  Board  of  Medical  Examiners  for  several  years  and 
is  now  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  Governor  of  Ten- 
nessee. 


PROLOGUE 

(The  following  historical  letter,  by  Alichael  Scanian,  was 
given  to  the  writer  by  Air.  IT.  Rozier  Diilany,  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  who  obtained  it  from  the  late  Air.  .Vrthur  Her- 
bert, of  Alexandria,  Virginia. ) 

"TRACING  AN  IRISH  NAME" 

"Interesting  Particulars  Regarding  The  Origin  and  History 
of  The  Delaneys. 

"In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Irish  W'drld  I  noted  the  follow- 
ing paragrajjh  : 

'The  Delaneys  are  probably  of  Anglo-X(;rman  origin, 
but  we  have  no  means  of  knowing  for  certain,  because 
the  history  of  the  family  is  not  given  in  any  of  our 
books  of  Irish  pedigree.' 

"P.y  a  strange  coincidence,  when  this  Delaney  paragraph 
caught  my  notice,  1  had  been  requested  by  an  American 
literary  friend  t<j  hunt  up  fcjr  him  anything  I  could  tind 
relative  to  the  Dulaneys  of  Maryland,  Washington  and 
Virginia,  who,  after  the  manner  of  the  Delaneys,  consider 
themselves  Anglo-Norman.  I  do  not  know  whether  they 
even  come  near  enough  to  Ireland  to  claim  descent  from 
the  Irish  Anglo-Xormans,  nor  could  my  friend  enlighten 
me  on  this  jjoint. 

"Dclany  an  Anglicication  of  O'Didancy. 

"The  following  memoranda  cover  the  information  which 
I   compiled   for  my    friend   relative   to   the   Dulaneys,    and 


12  77u'  nidaiicy  Family 

instead  of  beinj^  .Anglo-Norman,  they  are  Irish  of  the  Irish. 
"To  save  breaking  into  the  Dnlaney  narrative,  I  may  here 
state  that  the  name  Delaney  is  but  the  Anglicization  of 
O'Dulaney,  and  that,  according  to  the  annals  of  the  h^onr 
Masters,  the  Anglicization  has  occurred  within  the  last  250 
years.  This  sIkjnvs — and  it  is  hut  one  of  many  similar  cases 
— that  the  Maryland  Dulaneys  left  Ireland  for  Maryland 
previous  to  this  Anglicization,  for,  with  the  exception  of 
dropping  the  O,  they  have  preserved  the  original  name  in 
sound  and  in  sense. 

"Heremon  (Irish  pronunciation  F.remoan),  one  of  the 
five  sons  of  Milesius,  who  came  from  Si)ain  to  Ireland  a 
thousand  or  more  years  before  the  Christian  era.  became 
monarch  of  all  Ireland,  and  had  his  chief  residence  in  Os- 
sory,  at  a  place  called  (and  still  so  called)  Rathbeagh. 
Rath  (pronounced  Raw)  lueans  a  fortress.  The  full  word 
is  pronounced  Rawbay. 

"  TJ\c  Ancestry  of  the  O' Dulaneys. 

"In  the  topographical  map  which  accompanies  the  I 'our 
Masters — map  of  ancient  Ireland — the  home  of  the  ()' Du- 
laneys, Tuath-Na-Toraidh  (Toraidh  is  pronounced  Thora, 
the  peoj)le  or  the  District  oi  the  towers,  the  early  Irish 
l>eing  great  tower  builders)  is  placed  very  close  to  Rath- 
beagh, the  residence  of  Meremon.  King  I  leremon  was 
buried  at  this  place,  and  the  tumulus  which  was  raised 
above  hiiu   still   remains! 

"The  bard  O'lleerian,  who  died  in  1420,  in  his  topo- 
graphical poem  enumerating  the  Munster  clans,  refers  to 
the  Chief  of  the  O'Dulaneys  as  follows,  which  shows  that 
even  then,  say  1400,  the  Normans  had  not  ventured  near 
Tuath-Na-Toraidh : 


The  Diilancv   FtiinUx 


'High  chief  of  the  jM'oductive  territor}', 

'iM-i.ni  the  (leh-htful  Coil  ()ui;htern,L;h 

'Js  O'Duhlilaine,  the  man  of  liospitnhty, 

'From  the  mountains  of  the  most  deh[:;]itful   Ijay.' 

"I  am  under  the  im|:)ression  that  tlie  translator  of  D'licer- 
ian  was  not  justihed  in  t^nviTiL;-  the  word  "Bay"  in  this  quo- 
tation, hut  1  am  not  U])  enou.^h  in  Irish  to  j;ive  tlie  right 
\vord.      It  is  a  matter  of  little  C(^nse(juence,  however. 

".Vncient  Ossory  com])rised  what  is  now  the  County  of 
Kilkenny,  Southern  Tijjperary,  and  the  I'.arony  of  Upper 
Ossory,  in  Queens  County. 

"There  is  scarcely  a  dnuht  hut  that  the  progenitors  of 
the  sept  \\hich  hecame  the  ()'nulane>'s  came  to  Ossory  with 
lieremon,  and  t(j  he  ahle  to  trace  descent  U)  this  source,  the 
first  of  the  Irish  race,  has  ever  been  a  matter  of  great  pride 
in  Ireland. 

"Ossory  the  Mother  Earth  of  the  Irish  Race. 

"In  the  limited  reference  at  mv  disposal,  the  first  of  the 
vecmdcd  I  >' I  )ulane)s  1  can  tind  is  tha.t  oi  VvVw  O'Pulaney, 
Bishoj)  of  Ossory,  the  cradle  of  the  name,  who  was  interred 
in  Jerpoint  Abbey,  in  1202.  ddiat  bY-lix  O'Dulaney  was 
Bishop  of  Ossory  in  those  days  is  suthcient  evidence  of 
the  high  station  of  the  family,  for,  as  a  rule,  the  ancient 
hierarchy  of  Ireland  was  composed  for  the  sons  of  the 
Kings  and  chiefs,  and  to  this  was  due  the  worl<l-wide  re- 
nown of  the  early  Irish  Church.  They  made  it  a  church 
militant  indeed ! 

"As  further  ])roof  that  Ossory  was  the  mother  earth  of 
the  Irish  race,  it  is  to  be  noticed  that  of  the  many  clans 
which  made  up  its  ])eople  there  is  scarcely  a  Mac  in  the 
map;  they  are  all  O's. 


14  The  Piilnney  Family 

"Perha])s  it  is  well  to  sav  here  that  .Mac  means  'son'  and 
O  'of,  the  latter  re])re.sentini^r  the  trunk  and  roots  of  the 
i(enealogical  tree,  and  the  Macs,  the  hranches.  At  the  time 
of  taking  surnames  the  Macs  took  the  names  of  their  fathers, 
while  the  O's  took  the  name  hy  which  the  families  were 
designated,  or  the  names  of  historic  warriors  from  A\'hom 
they  claimed  descent.  Thus  the  Macs  were  the  younger 
1)ranclies,  \vhi1e  tlie  O's  representeil  tlie  historic  features  of 
the  fanndies;  all  of  equal  and  pure  hlood.  of  course.  This 
is  illustrated  in  the  case  of  Scotland,  which  was  settled  by 
the  younger  branches  of  the  Irish  houses  or  septs.  There  is 
not  to  my  recollection  an  O  in  Scotch  nt)nienclature,  all 
being  Macs. 

"Purcty  of  Blood  Scz'crch'  Guarded  in  Ireland. 

".\s  it  is  a  matter  of  jjossible  interest  to  the  Dulaneys  of 
Maryland,  I  give  the  names  of  the  ])rinciple  septs  of  ancient 
Ossory,  for  they  all  were  'befrjre  the  (lis])ersar  one  kindred 
and  pure-blooded  people.  There  was  no  other  country  in 
which  purit\-  of  blood  was  so  severely  guarded  as  in  Ireland, 
the  kings  and  chiefs  to  the  hum!)lesl  in  the  clans  being  of 
the  same  bUnul  and  held  to  strict  accountabilit}'  inr  its 
preservation  in  all  its  purity.  Tn  both  Pagan  and  Christian 
Ireland,  virtue  in  woman  was  the  in\-iolable  rule.  Thus 
the  boasted  virtue  of  the  Irish  wnmen  of  today  is  an  in- 
heritance 'from  all  time.'  Hence  the  purity  of  the  Irish 
race. 

"r\Iac  r.iolla  Padraig,  Anglicized  FitzPatrick  Cnot  an 
honest  inheritance,  like  lMtz(jeral(l,  iMtzGibbon  and  other 
Norman  Fitzs),  was  an  historic  name  in  ancient  Ossory, 
and  is  one  of  the  very  few  Macs  shown  on  the  map.  It 
was  originally  an  O',  but,  after  the  manner  of  many  of  the 
e;irlv   Irish  Christians,  was  changed  to  MacCiolla    Padraig, 


TJic  Dnlanc\  Faiiiilx 


wliich  means  the  cliild  of  I^itrick.  or  one  who  took  the  name 
to  be  brouglit  within  th.e  special  protection  of  the  tutelar 
saint.  The  adoption  of  the  name.  althouc;h  praiseworthy 
enr)n,i(h,  evidenced  a  "chaiTL^e}"  sjiirit  in  the  sept,  and  this 
feature  is  borne  out  in  the  suliseciuent  change  to  Fitz- 
Patric]<,  accepting  the  yol-ce  oi  the  Sassanagh,  but  saving 
their  estates!  This  is  the  more  to  be  regretted  when  it  is 
remembered  that  up  to  the  time  of  the  change  no  sept  in 
Ireland  did  more  heroic  tighting  for  Ireland's  ancient  inde- 
pendence than  the  Mac^lioHa  Padraigs. 

"Patriotic   Irish    Clans    Jllio    Fou(/lit    Aqaiiist    the 
liiradcr   To    The  Last. 

"Tlie  clans  of  Ossor)-  wIkj  remaincil  true  to  CkkI  and 
Ireland  (how  manv  of  them  can  now  la\-  claim  to  such 
truth?)  and  who  fought  to  the  last  against  the  Sas^anagh, 
and,  of  coiU"se,  lost  all  earthly  possessions  A\'ere:  The 
()'("arrolls,  from  whom  the  I  Baltimore  (^"arrolls  are  de- 
scen<Ie(l;  the  O'Donoghoes,  the  O'Coimors,  the  ()'Dem])seys. 
from  whon'i  her  ^^bxMishiny  Iliglniess  l.a\-inia,  (Tueen  <»f  the 
I  lolhmd  Hames.  is  \ery  lil:ely  descended,  although  she  ig- 
nores her  paternal  house,  which  was  noble  in  Irisii  history 
befcjre  llolland  was  snatched  from  the  sharks  or  the  mer- 
maids; the  O'Dunnes,  the  (  )'l  lennese_\s.  from  whom  the 
late  Sir  John  Ilennesey  prcnullv  claimed  descent;  the  (J'Mil- 
ilkens  or  O'AIullig'ans,  changed  in  man\'  cases  to  Moly- 
neaux ;  the  O'Kearneys,  from  whom  lighting  Phil  Kearney 
was  descended;  the  MacAuleys,  the  OTiijrmans.  from  whoin 
the  late  Richard  OTlorman  was,  and  the  present  Chevalier 
O'Gorman,  of  bVance,  is,  descenderl  (doubtless  your  ex- 
Senator  Gorman  is  of  the  srune  stock)  ;  the  O'lXiffs,  .Vngli- 
cized  DulTy,  from  whom  Charles  (lavin  iJu.lV}-  is  prciud  to 
claim  descent,  and  the  ( J'Scanlans. 


16  The  Didaiicy  Fninily 

"The  Dulaneys,  of  Maryland,  in  life's  ii^reat  struggle,  may 
have  lost  the  key  to  old  Ossory,  but  at  any  time,  from 
the  days  of  Heremon  to  the  fifteenth  century,  or  later,  their 
forefathers  marched  side  by  side,  under  the  Kings  of  Ire- 
land, for  honor  and  Ossory,  with  the  foregoing  Ileremon- 
ians. 

"The  Dulaneys  must  have  left  Ireland  before  the  name 
was  Anglicized  Delaney,  for  they  have  preserved  the  name 
almost  as  the  bards  sang  it,  in  Tuath-Xa-Turaidh  ;  and  thus, 
as  in  a  great  circle  of  more  than  three  thousand  years,  they 
can  give  the  hand  of  Dulaney  in  Maryland  to  the  hand  of 
the  O'Dubhlaine  who  stood  for  the  name  in  the  palace  of 
Heremon,  at  Rathbeagh !  Under  the  intervening  circum- 
stances the  ancient  Heremonians  might  overlook  the  drop- 
ping of  the  O." 


y.  '^  'C 


NARRATIVE 
"The  Story  of  the  Three  Brothers." 

IN  THE  preparation  of  the  followin!,'  annals,  the  writer 
has  dihgently  made  search  in  all  the  available  records, 
with  a  definite  purpose  of  establishing  the  relation  and 
c'.ges  of  the  members  r)f  the  Immigrant  family,  who  settled 
in  Port  Tobacco.  Maryland  (then  a  frontier  and  river 
town),  about  the  year  17U0,  and  to  trace  their  dt-sccndants, 
if  possible,   at  least  u])  to  the  beginning  of    1800. 

One  or  two  traditions  seem  to  be  common  to  all  branches 
of  the  family:  (1)  that  the  name  was  changed  from 
DcIaiiX  to  Dulany  on  account  of  a  family  di^agrcement,  due 
to  the  induction  of  an  unpopular  stei)-mother ;  and  (2)  the 
story  of  the  "Three  brothers  who,"  etc.,  after  landing  in 
America,  "one  dew  I'^a^t  and  one  flew  \\'est  and  the  other 
llew  over  the  cuckoo's  nest."*  Ihil  William.  Daniel  and 
Josei)h,  instead  of  separating,  made  their  home  at  Port 
Tobacco,  Maryland,  for  several  years,  Joseph  being  the  first 
to  leave,  as  he  soon  ventured  into  the  far  West — across  the 
Potomac ! 

They  were  all  well  educated  and  refined  Iri^h  gentlemen, 
but  evidently  plain  folk  of  modest  means,  and  not  aristo- 
crats, with  crests  and  coats  of  arms,  as  some  generous  eulo- 
gist has  clothed  one  of  them  (Daniel  the  "Elder").  Tbey 
were  Irishmen,  whose  cliief  aml)ition  seems  to  have  been 
to  become  good  Americans;  and  they  did  become  go(jd 
Americans.     William  was  a  school  teacher  at  Port  Tobacco 


^^  The    Dulancy    Family 

as  late  as  1721  (  Court  Record,  Book  Iv-2,  pa^e  165,  Charles 
County,  -Maryland,  viz.:  "William  Dulany  took  oath  to 
qualify  him  to  keep  a  public  school,  Auoust  Court,  i;21"'). 
Daniel  sturlied  law  and  the  Court  minutes  referred  to 
above  show  that  he  was  admitted  to  i)ractice  in  Charles 
County,  Maryland,  in  170«);  and  it  is  refreshing  to  learn 
from  these  early  court  records  that  he  was  human,  like  some 
of  the  rest  of  us,  and  withal  probably  a  i^fjod  sport.  At 
that  time  Maryland  had  "I'.lue  Laws."  an-l  ])C(.ple  were 
punished,  for  example,  for  h^hino-  and,  n:.aybe,  for  smoking- 
or  tellini;-  a  joke  on  Stmday.  (Court  records,  Charles 
County,  l]ook  D-a,  pat^^e  190,  viz.:  "We  (the  -rand  jury) 
do  likewise  present  .Mr.  Daniel  Dulany,  Cent.,  for  a  breech 
of  Sabbath,  Connnitted  by  said  Dulany  at  Port  Tobacco 
on  the  8th  day  of  July  last"  (  1711).  However,  the  Court 
minutes  of  a  later  date  show  that  this  char-e  was  dismissed. 
Another  item:  "Daniel  Dulany,  Cent.,  ..ne  (jf  the  attorneys 
of  this  court,  hned  five  hundred  pounds  of  Tobacco." 
(Liber  ]•,.  No.  2,  folio  321,  Court  Records  of  Charles 
e\nuuy.  .Mar^huid,  A.  \\  1713),  but  tb.ere  is  nothin-  iu 
the  records  to  show  whether  he  did  or  did  not  pay  the  hue. 
fie  "rode  a  circuit"  practicing  law  in  several  counties  in 
Maryland  for  many  years  before  settling  permanently  in 
Anna])olis,  about  1721. 

JusepJi  studied  medicine;  and  there  is  a  tradition  that, 
while  William  "kept"  school  and  Daniel  wrestled  with 
Law,  Joseph  served  an  apprenticeship  in  a  doctor's  office 
at  Port  Tobacco,  l)ecomin<,r  very  proficient  in  the  knowledg^e 
of  herbs  and  their  medicinal  uses.  P.ut  whether  that  tra- 
dition is  true  or  false,  it  is  a  fact  that  his  line  of  descendants, 
in  every  generation  down  to  the  present  day,  has  been  dis- 


The    Ihdancy    Family  19 

linti^nished  by  its  medical  doctors,  whetlier  l)y  inheritance 
or  not.  lie  left  MarN'land,  probably,  before  1710  and 
joined  the  \'iri^inia  Militia. 

Revertini;  to  the  tradition  accountinL;  for  the  chanL;e  of 
name  frf)m  Dclaiiy  to  Piilany,  it  is  pleasin^L;'  to  relate  that 
not  many  years  after  the  arrival  of  the  Three  Brothers, 
some  more  immij^rants  landed  and  settled  near  by.  They 
were  the  father,  TlKimas  I  )nlany,  and  his  new  family;  for  it 
seems  that  the)',  too,  changed  their  name  from  Delan}'  to 
Dnlany,  thus  probably  terminatini;-  the  traditional  disagree- 
ment. 

The  search,  in  compilinc^  these  annals,  has  covered  the 
Court  and  I.rmd  recortls  at  Amia])olis,  I'altimore,  U]iper 
Marlboro,  La  Plata  (Port  dVjbacco )  and  several  other  coun- 
ties in  Mar\lan(l.  Also  the  Historical  Society  of  Mary- 
land, the  Land  Office  at  Anna])r)lis,  the  Library  nf  Conj^ress, 
the  Colonial  Library  of  the  D.  A.  R.  at  W'ashini^ton,  and 
tlie  CoiH't  and  Land  records  in  several  counties  in  A'irginia, 
includinj,'-   the   Revolutionary   Records    at    Richmond. 

Many  of  the  Colom'al  Will  liooks  and  marrias^e  records, 
civil  as  well  as  church  recortls,  and  many  other  book's  and 
documents,  in  practically  all  of  the  couTities  visited  in  l)oth 
Virs^inia  .and  Maryland,  were  reported  "lost"  or  missiu':;- 
by  the  (derks  in  charL^^e,  all  of  whom  made  about  the  same 
explanation:  that  the  missin<^  books  and  documents  (almost 
invariablv  the  W^ill  PcMik's,  Marriaq;e  Records  and  other 
(locnments  of  the  Colonial  ])eriod  )  were  supposed  to  have 
been  destroyed  by  Federal  soldiers  durinc^  the  Civil  \Var. 
But  it  seems  remarkable  that  the  soldiers  ( different 
soldiers)  would  have  destroyed,  at  all  places,  the  books  and 
documents  of  only  one  particular  jieriod;  and  very  sinj^ular 


20  The  DuUincx  FauiU\ 


that  they  should  liave  confined  their  dejiredations  ahnost 
excKisively  to  Will  Hooks,  Marriage  Records  and  such  other 
documents  as  might  naturally  he  expected  to  contain  family 
history.  Naturally,  it  gi\'es  ground  for  suspicion  that,  in 
those  old  colonial  days,  when  "primogeniture"  had  its  money 
value  as  well  as  its  social  prestige,  esi)ecially  among  the 
titled  gentry,  there  may  have  heen  amI)itious  and  willing 
Jacohs,  not  without  fond  and  quick-witted  mothers,  ready 
to  lend  a  heli)ing  hand  and  secure  a  "liirth-right"  either  in 
exchange  for  a  "mess  of  pottage"  or  hy  the  more  modern 
method — that  of  destroying  h^.sau's  title  pa])ers.  Ikit  it 
would  not  he  fair  to  raise  the  suspicion  that  the  ancestors 
of  the  families  under  discussion  were  involved,  except  as 
innocent  victims,  as  scores  of  other  families  in  \'irginia 
and  Maryland  have  lost  their  family  histr.ry  hv  the  destruc- 
tion of  these  same  hooks  and  documents;  and,  moreover,  it 
is  not  impossihle  that  the  missing  l)ooks  and  documents 
might  have  heen  taken  away  during  the  Civil  War  hy 
parties  expecting  to   return   them   later    for   a   reward. 

r.ut  1  am  gl.id  to  say  that  from  the  deetl  records  auil 
land  grants  ot  \-arious  counties  in  \'irginia,  liy  much  worl:, 
covering  periodical  searches  during  the  past  twenty  }'ears, 
an  incomplete  history  of  Josejih  Dulany  and  some  of  his 
family  has  heen  ohlained;  and  to  a\-oid  hreaking  int(j  the 
narrative  with  too  mrmy  references,  the  writer  gives  here 
some  of  the  citations  in  support  of  his  narrative,  to  wit: 

( Congressitmal  I^il)rar_\-,  Spr)ttsyl\-ania  County  Records. 
page  90,  1723,  Septemher  3d;  page  130,  April  2,  1734: 
page   134,  June  29,    1734.) 

(Manassas,  Virginia,  Deed  Book  R,  page  435,  April  21. 
1737;  Deed  Rook  R,  page  68,  Decemher  11,   176S.  ) 


Tlic  Didancx  Familx 


(W'arrenton.  A'ir-inia.  Deed  B,u,k  1,  pa-e  126.  Septem- 
ber IS,  1760:  Deed  Book  2,  pa-e  144.  AJay  24.  1764;  ditto, 
pa.o-e  161,  June  6.  1774;  ditto,  pa-e  93.  October  7.' 1763; 
\Vil]  Book.  1749  to  I.SUO.  pa-e  163.  July  18.  1797;  also 
Deed  Book  No.  2.  pa-es  68.  69  and  70.) 

(Hennini^'s  Statutes,  Vol.  6.  pa-e  376.) 
^     r\'ir-inia  Land  Grant.s,  Book  F,  pa-e  258.      Richmond, 
\'irc;inia. ) 

(Revolutionary  War  Record.s,  Library  of  Conoress.) 
(Fauquier  Marria^^e  Records.  September  26,   1785.) 
(Spottsylvania  (rounty  Records,  ])a_i;es  90,  129,  130  and 
134,  Congressional  Library.) 

(\\'ill  of  Benjamin  Roberts,  Fsq..  Culi)e].er  ^^'ill  Book, 
1782,  pages  128  to  131.) 

(Will  of  William  Dulaney,  Culpeper  Will  Book  D,  j.age 
392.     Leanne  Dulane>-,  Will  Book  D,  page  407.) 

(Prince  William  County  Records,  Book  B,  page  435. 
Same  County,  Book  J,  page  64. ) 

(Fx.  Documents,  Xo.  37,  32d  Congress.  Congressional 
Library.) 

(Note. — A  valuable  jiajier,  obtained  for  the  writer  bv 
:\rr.  Coons,  then  Court  Clerk  at  Culi)eper,  about  1903,  has 
been  lost  or  mislaid.  It  was  an  old  land  warrant,  or  certi- 
fied copy  of  one,  dated  before  1720,  containing  the  infor- 
mation that  it  had  been  given  to  Joseph  Dulany,  of  Port 
Tobacco,   for  services  in  the  Militia.) 


CONCEKMNT.  THi:  COAT  OF  AIl.MS. 

Soun"  bi-iiiiclit'S  of  till"  fiiiuily  rliiiui  to  he  of  Frciicli  oii-in  ii)i<I 
have  adojitcd  flic  coat  of  anus  of  oiu;  Gideon  de  Lune,  who,  arc-ord- 
iiij;  to  a  Dicrionaiy  of  Frciicli  Heraldry,  was  kni^^htcd  in  tlu-  year 
l(il.'2.  r.iit  till'  iiaiiic  Diilaiicy  runs  |.a<-k  t]l^)U^'ll  Irish  history, 
li'.aclically  nninlcrniplcd  to  Ihe  year  of  oiii-  hold,  ll'iiiJ,  wlioii  ••Felix 
O'Dulaiiey,  Hislioi)  of  Ossary,  died  and  was  hurled  in  Jeri.oint 
Ahh(>y,"  so  tliat  the  name  Diilaney  was  ])roniinent  over  four  <-en- 
tnries  before  the  period  of  (luleon  de  Luiie.  In  the  year  Kii'ii  the 
surname  Diilaney  with  its  variations  in  soellinj,',  was  iirohahly  as 
eonnnon  or  ]ilentifu!   in    li-eiand,  as   the  ^iveii-name   I'atriek    was. 

The  elaiui  that  the  name  i^rew  out  of  de  Lime  ("de  Lime,  de 
Liiiine,  Delaiiey,  Dulaney"  as  one  entliusiasi  puts  it)  is  in  my  opin- 
ion a  groundless  assumption-  too  alisurd  to  he  eonsidered  seriously. 
However  hero  comes  a  les.v  .serious  \  iewpoint  that  may  iiidvide  a 
family  crest  ( hy  a  little  .uirl  who  has  acquired  some  Juiowh'd,i,'e  of 
French):  '•Well,  well  I"  she  said,  tjlancinj;  at  the  papers,  '•it  doe-; 
si-em  that  you  are  akin  to  everybody,  even  the  man  in  the  moon!" 
Why  soV  "LMnmmie  de  Lune",  she  replied,  •isnt  he  one  of  your 
ances(oi-s^.'  And  wasn't  he  the  father  of  Limaire  and  Claire  de  Lime? 
Oh  yes!  I  see  your  cunnin.!,'  design:  A  baby  moon  crowiiini;  a  liask 
of  'niooashine' ".   ((tnly  a  ph'asanti'y  with  an  apolo.;;y.) 


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WILLIAM    DULANY 

(Known  as  William  of  Wye) 

iriLLL-IM,  the  eldest  of  the  three  Tiniiii-rant  1;rother>, 
moved  from  Port  l\jl)acco,  Charles  C^nint}'  fi)rr)hahlv  ahout 
1725),  to  Oueen  Anne  Count}',  Maryland,  and  was  known 
as  "William  of  Wye,"  "Wye"  heini;'  at  that  time  the  name 
of  a  lar<;e  ])lantatio!i  in  which  (from  the  land  rec(;rds) 
Daniel  the  Inkier  owned  an   interest. 

In  Warheld's  "l'\)unders  of  Anne  Arundel  ("ounty," 
page  184,  it  is  stated  that  the  "Maryland  records  mention 
William  and  Daniel  Delany,  sons  of  Thon^as  and  Sarah 
Delanev,  of  (jueenes  C^mnty,  Ireland,  who,  in  I'l.K),  an 
their  arrival  here,  chan,!.;e(l  their  name  to  Pithviy:"  and  the 
same  airthorit_\-  also  mentions  that  William  Duiany,  the  elder 
of  the  tw(~>.  \vent  to  Cul]ieper,  \'irL;inia,  for  a  \\hile,  hut 
afterwards  "rL-turned  to  Wye,  (Jueene  Anne  C'^unty,  Mary- 
land, and  died  there."  (William  was  i)robal)ly  on  a  visit 
to  his  brother  joseiih,  who  at  that  time  had  become  a  pros- 
])erous  land  owner  in   Ctil])ei)er  County.) 

The  Will  of  William  Duiany  of  Wye,  Oueene  Anne 
County,  was  probated  in  1745,  and  recorded  at  Annapolis 
in  Will  I'ook  "D  D  3,"  jiage  ril.  lie  left  four  sons: 
Daniel,  Thomas,  William  and  Michael,  and  a  daughter, 
Fdizabeth.  Daniel,  William's  eldest  son,  dijd  three  years 
later,  1748,  leaving  one  child,  a  daughter,  antl  his  will  is 
recorded  at  Annapolis,  Will  I'ook  "!)  D  5,"  page  69. 


26 -^<  The  DuUnicx  luniiHy 


William's  will  devises  to  his  third  son.  William,  an  estate 
called  "Sanford,"  and  to  his  lourth  son,  Michael,  an  estate 
called  "Mount,"  on  Tnckahoe  Creek.  It  appears  from  the 
will  that  Thomas,  the  second  son,  went  away  and  was  never 
heard  from. 

It  has  elsewhere  been  shcnvn  that  William  (of  W've)  was 
teachin<:^  school  at  Port  Tcjhacco  as  late  as  1721,  and  it  is 
])rol)al)le  that  all  of  his  children  were  born  there,  as  they 
seem  to  have  been  "grown"  at  the  time  of  their  father's 
death,  1745. 

It  has  also  been  stated,  under  another  heading",  that  a 
lew  years  after  the  arrival  in  Maryland  of  the  three  Immi- 
grant brothers,  their  father  Thomas  Dulany  and  his  family, 
by  the  second  marriage,  came  to  Maryland.  The  names 
of  two  sons  l)y  the  second  marriage  were  ddiomas  and 
Dennis  (Will  of  Thomas  Dulany,  recorded  in  I'altiniore, 
1738).  Thomas,  the  son,  was  nineteen  years  old  in  1708, 
according  to  his  own  affidavit,  made  in  attesting  a  will 
(Maryland  Caletular  of  Wills,  \'ol.  3,  page  146),  and  it  is 
worthy  oi  remark  thai  this  citation  gives  the  only  authentic 
information  that  1  have  found  as  to  the  exact  age  of  anv 
member  of  this  interesting  family;  for,  while  the  inscription 
on  the  tomb  of  Daniel  the  bdder  states  his  age  at  sixty- 
eight,  it  is  a  welbknown  fact  that  his  age  was  onl\'  estimated 
and  put  upon  the  tomb  in  18^AS. 

From  the  foregoing  facts,  it  is  j)robable  that  the  ancestors 
of  many  of  the  Dulaneys  and  ]3ulanys  now  residing  in 
jMaryland  were  Thomas  and  Dennis,  the  younger  brothers 
of  Daniel  the  h4der,  and  William  and  Alichael,  the  sons  of 
William  of  Wye. 


DANIEL  DULANY 
(The  Elder) 

"Of  his  coming  to  America,  the  following  was  written 
a  little  over  one  hundred  years  afterward,  on  the  first  leaf 
of  a  IVayer  j'.ook,  by  his  grandson,  Daniel  (3).  Jr.,  then 
residing  in  Lijntlon.  The  l)Ook  had  lieen  his  mother's,  whn 
was  a  Tasker,  who  died  in  IJrighton,  England,  in  1822,  in 
the  ninety-eighth  year  of  her  age: 

"  'Of  my  father's  family,  my  grandfather,  Daniel 
Dulany,  the  elder,  was  born  in  Queen's  County,  Ire- 
land, and  until  the  year  1710  wrote  his  name  Delany, 
and  afterwards  ]3ulany.  He  was  a  cousin  to  Dr. 
Patrick  Delany,  the  friend  of  Dean  Swift,  Dean  of 
Down,   Head  Master  of   Trinity   College,   Dulilin. 

."T  have  several  letters  fn^m  Dr.  Delany  to  his 
cousin,  my  grandfather.  The  father  of  my  grand- 
father married  a  second  wife,  when  my  grandfather's 
home  Ijecame  unea>y  lo  him,  and  the  litile  aid  he  re- 
ceived from  his  lather  made  him  ([uit  the  University 
while  yet  a  yotith,  and  leave  his  country  for  .Maryland, 
where  he  arrived  alnujst  jjenniless  and  would  liave  been 
indentured  for  a  term  of  years  to  pay  his  jjassage  but 
for  the  kind  aid  of  :\Ir.  Plater.' 

"The  gentleman  referred  to  was  Col.  Ceorge  Plater,  of 
St.  Mary's  Countv,  who  had  been  Attorney  Tleneral  of 
the  Province,  1691-ir/)8,  an  office  which  was  subsecjuently 
held  for  many  years  by  the  young  settler  him.^elf.     *     *     * 


28  77/c^    Piilaitcx    Fajiiily 

"Daniel  Dulanv  was  horn  in  Oueen's  Countv,  Ireland, 
in  1685,  and  arrived  in  the  Province  of  Maryland  in  1703. 
At  that  time  the  popnlation  was  f)nly  ahout  33,000  and  no 
settlements  of  any  conseiinence  had  then  ])een  made  in  that 
portion  of  the  Province  now  emhraced  in  the  connties  of 
Frederick,  Washington,  Allei^any  and  Garrett;  and  only  a 
part  of  the  territory  now  known  as  Howard  and  Carroll 
Counties  had  then  heen  settled. 

"Presumahly  cstal)lished  in  Colonel  Plater's  office  in  St. 
Clary's  County,  he  was  douhtless  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
that  county  in  due  time,  hut  the  records  no  lon,ger  exist. 
lie  was  admitted,  however,  lo  the  har  oi"  ( "harles  Cr)unty 
in  1709,  in  which  year  he  served  as  clerk  to  the  Committee 
on  Laws  in  the  Lower  House  of  Assembly  and  of  which  he 
was  in  later  years  Chairman. 

"About  1721  he  removed  permanently  to  Aima])olis, 
which  as  the  capital  was  then  enterim;-  u])on  that  ^^enial  and 
cultured  life  wliich  henceforth  ma<le  it  the  si^cial  and  jioliti- 
cal  center  of  the  Province.  And  by  the  foundiuL;'  in  1606 
o\  KIu'j:  \\'illi;im's  School  (the  forerunner  of  St.  j(>hn"s 
Collei^e  )    it  became  the  center  of   learning;-. 

"From  that  time  on  his  career  was  one  of  uninterru])ted 
honor  and  usefulness.  For  nearly  forty  years  Daniel 
Dulany  (the  elder)  held  the  first  place  in  the  confidence 
of  the  Proprietary  and  the  affections  of  the  people.  Dur- 
ing- that  period  he  held  the  various  offices  of  Alderman, 
Councilman  and  Recorder  of  Annapolis,  Attorney  General, 
Judge  of  the  Admiralty,  Commissary  General,  Agent  and 
Receiver-General,  and  Member  of  the  O'ouncil,  the  latter  of 
which  he  held  under  the  successive  administrations  of  (^lOv- 
ernors  Lladen,  Ogle  and  Sharjje. 


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The    Dulancy    Family ^  ' 

"Mr.  Dulany's  first  wife,  Charity  Courts,  daughter  of 
Colonel  John  Courts,  of  Charles  County,  died  childless. 

"He  married  secondly  Rebecca  Smith,  second  daughter 
of  Colonel  Walter  Smith,  of  Calvert  County,  by  whom  he 
had, 

"1.  Daniel  Dulany,  the  younger,  who  married  Rebecca 
Tasker,  second  daughter  of  Hon.  Benjamin  Tasker. 

"2.  Rebecca  Dulany,  who  married  James  Paul  Heath,  of 
Maryland. 

"3.  Rachel  Dulany,  who  married  first,  November  7, 
1741,  William  Knight,  of  Cecil  County,  and  secondly,  Rev. 
Henry  Addison,  M.A. 

"4.  Dennis  Dulany,  who  entered  the  British  Navy  in 
1743,  and  in  1754  was  made  Clerk  of  Kent  County. 

"5.  Margaret  Dulany,  who  married  first,  ^lay  29,  1747, 
Dr.  Alexander  Hamilton,  of  Annapolis,  formerly  of  Scot- 
land, and  secondly,  William  Murdock,  of  Prince  George's 
County. 

"6.  Walter  Dulany,  Commissary  General  of  the  Prov- 
ince oi  Mavvland,  who  married  Mary  Grafton,  daughter  oi 
Richard  Grafton,  of  New  Castle.  Delaware. 

"Mr.  Dulany  married  thirdly,  Henrietta  Maria  (Lloyd) 
Chew,  widow  of  Hon.  Samuel  Chew,  and  daughter  of 
Philemon  Lloyd,  of  Talbot  County,  by  whom  he  had  Lloyd 
Dulany,  born  December  10,  1742,  who  married  Elizabeth 
Brice,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Frisby)  Brice,  of 
]\Iaryland,  and  died  June  21,  1782,  in  Park  Street,  Gros- 
venor  Square,  London,  of  a  wound  received  a  few  days 
before  in  a  duel  fought  in  Hyde  I'ark  with  Rev.  Bennett 
Allen,  formerly  rector  of  St.  Anne's  Church.  Annapolis. 
His  widow  afterwards  married  :\lajor  Walter  Dulany,  Jr.. 


34  The    Ihdancy    Fainily 

the  son  of  Walter  Dulany  and  his  wife  Mary  (Grafton^ 
Dnlany. 

"Daniel  Dulany  (the  Elder)  died  in  Annapolis.  Decem- 
ber 5,  1753,  in  the  sixty-eighth  year  of  his  age." 

(Extracts  from  Maryland  Historical  Magazine,  pub- 
lished l)y  The  ^lar}-land  Historical  Society,  Vol.  3,  pages 
20  to  25.) 

Daniel  Dulany,  the  younger  (Daniel  2d),  married 
September  16,  1749,  Rebecca  Tasker,  born  in  Annapolis, 
November  4,  1724,  died  in  Brighton.  Sussex,  England,  in 
September,  1822,  having  nearly  completed  her  ninety-eighth 
year.  She  was  the  second  daughter  of  lion.  Benjamin 
Tasker,  for  thirty-two  years  a  member  of  the  Council  and 
Acting  Governor  of  the  Province  from  ^lay  3,  1752,  to 
August  10,  1753,  and  Ann  Bladen,  his  wife,  the  only  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  William  Bladen,  of  Annapolis. 

He  was  educated  at  Eton  College  and  Clare  Hall,  Cam- 
bridge University,  England,  where  he  was  well  grounded 
in  English  and  classical  literature,  and  was  entered  at  the 
Middle  Temple  in  January,  1743.  Like  his  father,  he  chose 
the  profession  of  the  law,  but  he  was  soon  destined  to  out- 
shine him  in  legal  attainments  and  to  become  the  great 
oracle  of  the  law  in  the  Province. 

Returning  to  America,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1747,  and  in  1751  he  was  practicing  before  the  Provincial 
Court,  where  he  continued  to  practice,  with  marked  success, 
until  the  fall  of  the  Proprietary  Government. 

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Parliament'  supplied  the  great  Pitt  with  the  chief  grounds 
of  his  argument  against  taxing  America.  A  Maryland 
lawyer  had  turned  from  leading  the  bar  of  a  province  to  set 
up  the  true  theory  of  the  constitution  of  an  empire  with 
the  dignity,  the  moderation,  the  power,  the  incommunicable 
grace  of  a  great  thinker  and  genuine  man  of  letters." — 
(History  of  the  American  People.  By  Woodrow  Wilson, 
Vol.  3,  p.  ^7,  1902.) 

"Hon.  Daniel  Dulany,  barrister  at  law,  was  Commissary- 
General,  Secretary  of  Maryland,  and  one  of  the  Proprietary 
Council.  Although  a  loyalist,  the  eminent  barrister  did  not 
hesitate  to  throw  all  the  weight  of  his  intellect  and  influ- 
ence against  any  attempt  to  execute  the  obncxious  Stamp 
Act.  His  pamphlet  'Considerations  on  the  Propriety  of 
Imposing  Taxes  in  the  British  Colonies  for  the  Purpose  of 
Raising  a  Revenue  by  Act  of  Parliament'  was  of  the  most 
convincing,  statesmanlike  and  logical  character  and  as  much 
applauded  in  England  by  those  who  opposed  the  Stamp  Act 
as  in  the  Colonies.  It  is  said  that  the  great  Pitt,  when  he 
made  his  cck-bratetl  speech  in  the  House  of  Commons  in 
ojiposition  to  the  proposed  taxation,  held  a  copy  of  Daniel 
Dulany's  pamphlet  in  his  hand.  Prior  to  the  Revolution 
the  barrister  stood  without  a  rival  in  the  Colony  as  a  law- 
yer, scholar  and  orator,  and  in  the  first  volume  of  Maryland 
Reports  his  opinions  are  published  with  the  decision  of  the 
Provincial  Court. 

"Letters  from  the  people  through  the  vehicle  of  the  press 
appear  to  have  been  quite  as  much  the  prerogative  of  early 
Marylanders  as  at  the  present  time.  Over  anonymous  sig- 
natures in  the  Maryland  Gazette  Daniel  Dulany  and  Charles 
Carroll,   of   Carrollton,   carried   on  a  brilliant   controversy 


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relative  to  an  act  regulating  the  fees  of  public  oflkers.  The 
Vestry  act  relative  to  taxes  imposed  by  law  for  the  support 
of  the  Established  Church  was  another  important  measure 
which  enlisted  Daniel  Dulany's  interest.  The  Revolution 
followed  close  on  the  heels  of  this  rebellious  period,  and, 
opposing  the  separation  of  the  colonies  from  the  mother 
country,  Daniel  Dulany,  when  the  Revolutionary  War  be- 
gan, retired  to  private  life,  left  his  home  at  Annapolis  and 
took  up  his  abode  at  his  country  seat,  Hunting  Ridge,  on 
the  crest  of  the  Patapsco  Hills.  liis  estates  at  that  time,  in 
addition  to  Hunting  Ridge,  included  over  seven  thousand 
acres  of  very  valuable  land  lying  in  the  vicinity  of  Frederick 
City,  and  he  had  another  property  besides,  all  of  which  was 
confiscated  and  sold  in  1781    for  84,602  pounds. 

"After  the  confiscation  of  his  property  Daniel  Dulany 
removed  to  Baltimore  Town,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death,  in  1797." — (Extract  from  documents  obtained  from 
the  Historical  Society  of  Maryland.) 

The  childiou  of  Daniel  Dulany  (2),  the  Aounger,  and 
Rebecca   (Tasker)   Dulany,  his  wife,  were  : 

1.  Daniel  Dulany,  Jr.  (Daniel  3),  born  in  Annapolis  in 
1750,  died  unmarried,  in  Downing  Street,  Westminster, 
August  12,  1824. 

2.  Benjamin  Tasker  Dulany,  born  in  Annapolis  in  1752. 
died  1816;  married  February  10,  1773.  Elizabeth  French, 
of  Virginia,  leaving  many  descendants. 

3.  Ann  Dulany,  born  in  Annapolis,  married  M.  de  la 
Serre,  and  died  at  Grand  Parade,  Brighthelmstone  (now 
Brighton),  October  2,  1828.  Her  only  child,  Rebecca 
Ann,  the  heiress  of  her  uncle,  Daniel  Dulanv  (3).  Jr..  as- 


TJic  D  Ilia  lie  y  Faiiiih:  39 

sumed  the  name  of  Dnlany  and  married  Sir  Richard  Hunter 
and  died,  without  issue,  at  Brighton,  Sussex.  England. 

Daniel  Dulany,  Jr.  (Daniel  3j,  the  eldest  son,  was  taken 
to  England  by  his  father  in  July,  1761,  and  was  educated 
at  Eton.  lie  never  returned  to  Aiiierica  but  once  after 
he  was  taken  abroad  to  be  educated,  and  that  was  in  1785, 
when  he  paid  a  visit  to  his  family.  General  Washington 
in  his  diary  thus  writer:  "ThursdaN-,  December  22.  1785, 
at  Mount  Vernon,  went  a  fox  hunting  with  the  following 
gentlemen  who  came  here  yesterday,  Daniel  Dulany,  Jr., 
Benjamin  Dulany,  Samuel  Harrison,  Thomas  Harrison, 
Philip  Alexander,  together  with  b^erdinando  I'\airfax  and  a 
.Mr.   Shaw." 

In  1783  the  British  Parliament  appointed  a  Commiss'i-'^ 
to  nivestigate  the  claims  of  the  American  Loyalists.  Their 
report  was  afterwards  made  with  an  account  of  the  com- 
pensation allowed  them  by  Parliament  in  1785  and  1789. 
A  vokime  in  the  Public  Record  Office,  London,  written 
on  vellum,  contains  a  list  of  all  the  claimants  under  the 
commission,  showing  their  claims  and  the  amoimts  allowed. 
Mr.  O.  Locker  Lamjjson,  of  Xorfolk,  b'nghmd,  a  lineal 
descendant  of  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Boucher,  who  was  Rector 
of  St.  Anne's  Church,  Annapolis,  June  12,  1770,  to  Jime 
4,  1771,  is  authority  for  the  following  amounts  allowed  to 
Daniel  Dulany,  Jr.  (3),  (2-l-,130  pounds);  and  to  his 
mother,  Mrs.  Reljecca  Dulany  (5,000  |:)f)unds )  on  account 
of  the  property  of  Daniel  Dulany  (2),  the  younger,  con- 
fiscated and  sold  by  the  State  of  Maryland  in  1781,  under 
the  Confiscation  Act. 

DANIEL  DULAXY,  JR.  (3).  never  married,  and  at  his 
death,  in  1824,  he  left  his  large  fortune  to  his  niece.  Rebecca 


40  Tlic    Dulancy    Family 


Ann  de  la  Serre,  whom  he  had  adopted  and  who  had  taken 
the  name  of  Dulany.  She  married  July  21,  1829,  Sir  Rich- 
ard Hunter.  Lady  Hunter  dyin<;-  childless  at  Brighton, 
March  29,  1835,  left  one-half  of  her  fortune  to  her  cousin 
and  namesake,  Rehecca  Ann  Dulaney,  of  Virginia,  and  the 
other  half  to  her  hushand,  Sir  Richard  Hunter,  who  married 
a  second  time,  July  24,  1836,  Frederica  Emma  Bishop, 
daughter  of  Charles  Bishop,  Esq.,  of  Sunhury,  Middlesex, 
Procurator  General  to  His  Majesty  George  HL 

On  the  death  of  Sir  Richard  Hunter,  of  Dulany  House, 
Sussex,  March  16,  1848,  his  widow  married  secondly,  No- 
vember 24,  1851,  the  fifth  Earl  of  Lanesborough. —  (Vol. 
13,  No.  2,  pages  155,  156  and  157,  Maryland  Historical 
Magazine,  published  by  The  Maryland  Historical  Society.) 

Walter  Dulany,  second  son  of  Daniel  Dulany,  the 
Elder,  succeeded  his  father  as  Commissary-General  of 
Maryland.  He  married  .Mary  Grafton,  daughter  of  Richard 
Grafton. 

The  children  of  Waller  and  Mary  (Grafton)  Dulany 
were:  Waller  Dulany,  Jr.,  who  married  Elizabeth  Brice 
Dulany,  widow  of  his  half-uncle  Lloyd  Dulany;  Grafton 
Lloyd  Dulaney,  Daniel  Dulany,  Rebecca  Dulany,  who  mar- 
ried first  Thomas  Addison,  and  secon<l  Captain  Thomas 
Hanson,  of  the  Revolutionary  Army;  Mary  Dulany,  who 
married  George  Mason  Lee  Fitzhugh;  Catherine  Dulany, 
who  married  Mr.  Horatio  Belt;  and  Peggy  Dulany,  who 
married  Rev.  John  Montgomery. 

Walter  Dulany,  2d,  accej)ted  a  commission  as  captain 
(afterward  promoted  to  major)  in  the  P.ritish  /\rmy; 
Grafton  went  to  the  West  Indies  and  died  soon  after  of 


The  Ihdancy  FaniHv  41 

yellow  fever ;  Daniel  went  to  England,  where  he  remained 
until  his  death  soon  after.  In  1776  Mrs.  Mary  Grafton 
Dulany  removed  to  Epping,  the  home  of  her  daughter, 
Mrs.  G.  M.  L.  Fitzhugh. 

The  Dulany  name  still  survives  in  the  tract  of  land  in 
Maryland,  once  Dulany  Manor.  The  manor,  owned  by 
Daniel  Dulany,  the  elder,  embraced  20,000  acres,  and  the 
part  inherited  by  the  lion.  Walter  Dulany  included  5,000 
acres  in  Baltimore  County,  still  known  as  Dulany's  Valley. 
Dennis  Dulany,  brother  of  Walter,  who  died  unmarried  at 
(he  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  bequeathed  his 
portion  of  the  estate  to  his  sister-in-law,  Mary  Grafton 
Dulany,  but  the  inheritance  of  her  Tory  sons  was  confis- 
cated, though  Congress  allowed  400  acres  to  each  of  her 
three  daughters  who  remained  in  the  country. 

BENJAMIN  TASKER  DULANY 
(The  Younger  Son  of  Daniel  the  Second) 

I-'rom  the  American  point  of  view,  Benjamin  Tasker 
Dulany  stands  at  the  head  of  all  his  illustrious  kinsmen, 
the  embodiment  of  modesty,  courage  and  conviction,  the 
model  American,  and,  justly,  the  ancestral  pride  of  hordes 
of  noble  descendants  in  all  parts  of  the  Union. 

Notwithstanding  his  great  love  and  sympathy  for  his 
mother  and  sister,  his  brother,  and  his  greater  admiration 
for  his  illustrious  father,  all  of  whom  were  loyal  to  the 
crown,  yet  he  answered  the  call  of  conviction  and  of  dutv 
and  took  up  the  cause  of  the  Revolution  ;  for  he  was  in  full 
sympathy  with  the  Colonists  and  joined  the  armv  in  \''ir- 
ginia.     Ele  was  a  warm  personal  friend  of  General  Wash- 


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ington,  who  made  liini  one  (jf  his  aides,  and  he  threw  him- 
self into  the  Revolutionary  cause  with  all  the  ardor  of 
youth,  and  that  in  spite  of  the  great  losses  of  his  father 
through  the  confiscation  of  his  property. 

Benjamin  Tasker  Dulany  went  to  I'>ederick  County  to 
live  before  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  residing  at  "Prospect 
Hall,"  near  Frederick  Town.  He  married,  February  10. 
1773,  Elizabeth  French,  daughter  of  Daniel  French,  of 
"Claremont,"  Fairfax  County,  Virginia,  and  the  ward  of 
General  Washington,  who  gave  her  away  at  her  marriage. 

"Not  long  after  this  event  Mr.  Dulany  presented  to 
General  Washington  the  celebrated  horse  Elueskin.  which 
he  rode  during  the  W\ar  of  the  Revolution.  The  horse  was 
returned  to  Mrs.  Dulany  with  the  following  note  after  the 
close  of  the  war : 

"  'General  Washington  presents  his  best  wishes  to  Mrs. 
Dulany,  with  the  horse  Blueskin,  which  he  wishes  was 
better  worth  her  acceptance.  Marks  of  antiquity  have  sup- 
plied the  place  of  those  beauties  with  which  the  horse 
abounded  in  his  better  days,  nothing  but  the  recollection 
of  which  and  of  his  having  been  the  favorite  of  Mr.  Dulany 
in  the  days  of  his  courtship  can  reconcile  her  to  the  meagre 
appearance  he  now  makes.     Friday,  past  2  o'clock.'  " 

Benjamin  Tasker  Dulany  and  Elizabeth  (French) 
Dulany,  his  wife,  had  six  sons  and  six  daughters,  many 
descendants  of  whom  are  now  living  in  Maryland,  Virginia, 
and  elsewhere. 

1.  Benjamin  Tasker  Dulany,  Jr.,  who  married  Eliza 
Rozier,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Rozier,  of  Xotley  Hall. 
Maryland.  Their  son.  Major  Rozier  Dulany,  United  States 
Army,  married  Fannie  Carter,  of  Sabine  Hall,  Virginia. 


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2.  I'^lizabclh  I'Vcnch  Diilany,  who  married  Major  Joseph 
l^'orrest,  of  MarylaiKl.  Their  children  were  (a)  Dulany 
Forrest,  lieutenant  in  United  States  Navy;  (b)  French 
Forrest,  flag  officer  in  United  States  Navy,  subsecinently 
Confederate  States  Navy,  ^vhose  son  was  Rev.  Douglas 
French  Forrest,  D.D.,  deceased;  (c)  Sojjhia  Forrest,  who 
married  John  de  Puitts.  Their  son,  Richard  l^arl  de  Butts, 
married  Sarah  Ilall,  and  their  daughter,  ]\lary  W'elhy  de 
Butts,  married  Major  Richard  II.  Carter,  of  Glen 
Welby,  Va. 

3.  Julia  Dulany.  who  married  Thomas  Clagett,  of 
Maryland. 

4.  David  French  Dulany,  who  married  Sarah  Ann 
Tingey,  daughter  of  Commodore  Thomas  Tingey,  United 
States  Navy.  Their  son,  Daniel  French  Dulany,  Jr.,  lieu- 
tenant in  United  States  Navy,  married  Miss  Gault,  of  Alary- 
land.  Their  daughter,  Nancy  Dulany,  married  Dr.  John 
Hunter,  of  A'irginia.  Their  daughter,  Sarah  Dulany,  mar- 
ried Major  John  Chichesler,  Confederate  States  Army,  of 
Virginia.  Their  daughter,  Ahiry  I^ulany,  marrie<l  .Spencer 
Mottrom  Ball,  of  Virginia. 

5.  Rebecca  Dulany,  who  married  1'imothy  Winn,  ]nn-ser 
in  Unlterl  States  Navy.  Their  daughter,  ITiza  Winn,  mar- 
ried Hon.  Powhatan  I'dlis,  of  Mississippi,  United  States 
Senator.  Their  son,  William  Wirm,  married  Sophia  Gault 
Carroll,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  James  Carroll,  of  Maryland. 
Their  daughter,  Mary  Winn,  married,  first,  William  Dunlop, 
charge  d'affaires,  and,  second.  Col.  William  Henry  Dainger- 
field,  of  Virginia. 

6.  Ann  Bladen  Dulany,  who  married  Commodore 
Thomas  Tingey,  United  States  Xavy.     He  was  of  Fnglish 


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The  IJtiliiiicv  Family 


birth  and  had  served  in  the  British  Xavy  before  the  Revo- 
kition.     In  that  war  lie  lont^ht  gallantly  for  the  American 


cause. 


7.  John  Peyton  Dulany,  of  Melbourne,  Loudoun 
County,  Virgniia,  who  married  jXIary  Ann  de  Butts  (born 
in  England),  daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  de  Butts  and  Mary 
Welby,  niece  of  Sir  William  Welby,  of  Grantham,  Lincoln- 
shire, England.  Their  daughter,  Julia  Dulany,  married, 
first,  Welby  de  Butts,  her  cousin,  and,  second,  Rev.  Samuel 
Rozell,  D.  D.  Their  daughter,  Mary  de  Butts  Dulany, 
married  George  William  Carlyle  Whiting,  of  Virginia,  son 
of  Carlyle  Fairfax  Whiting,  and  great-great-grandson  of 
Hon.  William  Eairfax,  of  Belvoir,  Virginia.  Their  son. 
Col.  Richard  Henry  Dulany,  married  his  cousin,  Rebecca 
Dulany,  daughter  of  Major  Rozier  Dulany,  United  States 
Army,  the  heiress  of  her  cousin,  Lady  Hunter. 

8.  Louisa  Dulany,  who  married,  first,  Richard  de  Butts, 
of  Mount  Welby,  Va.,  son  of  Dr.  Samuel  de  B.utts,  and. 
second,  Jam-es  Hall,  of  Virginia. 

".      lames   Heath   Dulany,    .M.    P.,   wlio  died. 

10.  Bladen  Dulany.  Commodore  United  States  Navy, 
who  married,  first,  Mary  Walker  Carter,  of  Virginia,  and. 
second,  Caroline  Nourse,  daughter  of  ^lajor  James  Nourse, 
of  the  District  of  Columbia. 

11.  Henrietta  Marie  Dulany,  who  married  William 
Blerbert,  of  Alexandria,  Va.,  son  of  William  Herbert  and 
great-great-grandson  of  the  Hon.  William  l^airfax,  of  Bel- 
voir, Va. 

12.  William  Dulany,  Colonel  United  States  Marine 
Corps,  who  married  Mrs.  Susan  W^ade,  widow  of  Lieut. 
Nelson  Wade,  United  States  Army. 


The  Diilancx  Fannl\ 


(Maryland  Historical  Magazine,  published  by  the  ]\Iary- 
land  Historical  Society.  \'ol.  13,  Xo.  2,  pages  155,  156, 
157.     Also  from  document  obtained  from  same  source.) 

Among  living  descendents  of  Colonel  Benjamin  Tasker 
Dulany  and  Elizabeth  (French)  Dulany  are:  Col.  Richard 
H.  Dulany,  .Mr.  Richard  Hunter  Dulany,  Miss  Rebecca 
Dulany,  Mr.  Robert  L.  Dulany,  Mr.  Cassius  C.  Dulany, 
:^Iiss  Eliza  Dulany,  Mrs.  Robert  Neville,  Mr.  Henry  Arthur 
Hall,  Col.  Arthur  Herbert,  .Mr.  Upton  Heath  Herbert,  Mrs. 
John  Hill  Carter  Beverly,  Mrs.  William  Wirt  Henry,  Mrs. 
Welby  Carter,  Hon.  Richard  Carter  Scott,  Mrs.  R.  Taylor 
Scott,  Mrs.  James  Keith,  Mrs.  Robert  I'everly,  Mr.  Neville 
Herbert  Whiting,  Miss  Nina  Carlyle  Whiting,  all  of 
Virginia;  Air.  H.  Rozier  Dulany,  Dr.  Guy  Fairfax  Whiting, 
Miss  Alice  Van  Doren  Whiting,  Aliss  Julia  B.  W'hiting, 
Mrs.  liardin,  Aliss  Lucy  Hunter,  Mr.  Dulany  Hunter, 
all  of  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Airs.  Henry  S.  Belt,  Mr.  Henry 
Dulany  Belt,  Airs.  Sinclair  Beall,  Miss  Louise  Ogle  Beall. 
Miss  Marv  Winn,  Mrs.  J.  Southgate  Lemmmi,  Mr.  Henry 
S.  Ik'll,  Miss  Julia  laverly  Wlniing,  Airs.  Ivichard  Henry 
Spencer,  Air.  Clarence  Carlyle  Whiting,  Aliss  Rose  W\'lby 
Whiting,  Aliss  Jeanette  B.  Chew.  Aliss  Rosa  Dulany  Chew, 
Air.  James  Heath  Dulany,  all  of  Alaryland;  Air.  Richard 
Dulany  Whiting,  of  New  A'ork ;  Airs.  Emma  Eader,  Airs. 
Rebecca  Brown  and  Airs.  Alary  \\'alton. 

Alajor  Walter  Dulany,  eldest  son  of  Hon.  Wvalter  and 
Alary  (Grafton)  Dulany,  married  Elizabeth  Brice  Dulany. 
Their  children  were:  (1)  Grafton  Lloyd  Dulany,  who 
married  Olivia  Donaldson;  (2)  Alary  Grafton  Hesselius 
Dulanv,  who  married  Henry   W.   Rogers. 

The   children   of    Grafton   Lloyd   and    Olivia    Donaldson 


46  The  Didaiicx  Family 

Dulany  were:  (1)  Walter  Dulany,  who  married  Eleanor 
Simmons;  (2)  Rozier  Dulany,  who  died  unmarried;  (3) 
]\lary  Dulany,  now  deceased,  who  was  a  celebrated  beauty 
and  married  Gardiner  G.  Howland,  of  New  York;  (4)  Lily 
Dulany,  who  married  Robert  M.  Gushing;,  of  Boston;  (5) 
Garrie  Dulany,  who  married  Sefton  Brancker,  formerly  of 
Baltimore  but  now  of  Wales.  England;  (6)  Jane  Dulariy, 
wdio  died  unmarried. 

The  children  of  the  late  Walter  and  Eleanor  Simmons 
Dulany  are:  (a)  Mary  Dulany,  who  married  John  A. 
Barker,  Jr.  They  have  two  children.  Eleanor  Dulany  and 
John  A.  Barker,  third;  (b)  Olivia  Donaldson  Dulany,  now^ 
Mrs.  J.  Howard  Wheeler.  Jr..  who  has  one  daughter,  Olivia 
Dulany  Wheeler;  (c)  Grafton  Lloyd  Dulany;  (d)  Mildred 
Dulany;    (e)    Nellie  Grafton  Dulany. 

Mrs.  Walter  Dulany  is  a  daughter  of  James  Simmons, 
of  the  United  States  Army,  and  granddaughter  of  the  late 
Lambert  Gittings. 

The  children  of  Air.  and  the  late  ]\lrs.  Gardiner  G.  How- 
land,  of  Xew  York,  are:  (a)  G.  G.  Howland.  Jr.;  (b) 
Pulany  IJouK-uul;  (c)  Meredith  Howland;  ( d)  Maud  How- 
land, who  married  Percy  Pyne,  of  Xew  York. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  M.  Gushing,  of 
Boston,  are:  (al  Grafton  Dulany  Gushing;  (b)  Louisa 
Gushing,  wdio  married  Llenry  James,  of  Seattle;  (c) 
Howard  Gushing,  who  married  Ethel  Gochran,  of  Boston; 
(d)  Olivia  Dulany  Gushing,  who  married  Andreas 
Anderson. 

The  children  of  Mrs.  Sefton  Brancker  are:  (\)  Sefton 
Dulany  Brancker;  (2)  Grafton  Dulany  Brancker,  of  the 
British  Army,  who  Avas  killed  in  the  South  African  war; 
(3)   James   Lowry  Donaldson  Brancker. 


The    Dulancy   fdiiiily 


Anion<;  livint;  descendants  of  Alary  Dnlany,  daughter  of 
Walter  and  Mary  (Grafton)  Dulany,  who  married  George 
Mason  Lee  In'tzhngli,  are:  Mrs.  Alargaret  Alurray  Mayn- 
adier  Schwartze,  Mrs.  Augusta  D.  Maynadier,  Miss  EHza- 
beth  Fitzhugli  Schwartze,  Mrs.  Julward  L.  Ilardcastle, 
Yellott  iMtzlnigli  Ilardcastle,  Alary  Lock  wood  Hardcastle, 
iulmund  Maynadier  ilardcastle,  Margaret  .Murray  Hard- 
ca.stle,  Miss  hJizabeth  G.  N'ellott,  Miss  Alice  1>^.  Yellott,  Mrs. 
Mary  Grafton  Ballou  and  Mrs.  Anne  George  Fitzhugh,  of 
Michigan;  Airs,  llenrietk-  AI.  Smith,  of  New  York;  Afr. 
Wm.  Jlenry  iMtzhugh.  of  Alichigan;  Airs.  U.  Al.  Fitzhugh, 
Dr.  Henry  ALaynadier  iMtzhugh,  Jr.,  Air.  Daniel  Dulany 
Fitzhugh  A'ellott,  and  his  four  children,  John  Southgate 
Yellott,  Daniel  Dulany  \'ellott,  Frederick  AIcG.  ^'ellott  and 
Alary  Dulany  \'ellott. 

Among  the  living  descendants  of  Catherine  Dulanv. 
daughter  of  Walter  and  Alary  (r~irafton)  Dulany,  who 
married  Horatio  P.elt,  are:  Aliss  Catherine  Dulany  Lelt,  of 
Philadelphia;  .Mr.  Ilarry  S.  P.elt,  Air.  Charles  W.  Belt,  Air. 
Henry  Dulany  Pelt,  of  P.altinKu-c;  Mrs.  Alexander  Prown 
Cox   and    Mrs.   Ch;irles   Cox.   of    Philadelphia. 

Airs.  Commodore  Pidgley,  of  Park  .\vemie.  is  the  only 
descendant  of  Air.  and  .Mrs.  Henry  W.   Rogers. 

Among  the  Addison  descendants  are:  Miss  Elizabeth  H. 
Murray,  Mr.  Frank  Addison,  Bishop  Addison  Tngle,  Bishop 
Peterkin,  of  West  Virginia,  and  Airs.  Peterkin,  of  Rich- 
mond; Mr.  Alurray  Addison.  Airs.  Pratt,  the  Alisses  Ad- 
dison, ATrs.  John  Chew,  Dr.  John  Payne,  all  of  Washing- 
ton. 

(From  genealogical  document  obtained  from  the  Alary- 
land  Historical  Society.) 


Ai^e  three,  (lau<;iner  of  Paul  nulaney  and  liis  wife,  P.ane 
Summers  Diilaney,  one  of  the  1-Ji;luh  (ieneratioii  in 
America. 


JOSEPH   DULANY 
(The  Youngest  of  the  Three  Brothers) 

JOSEPH  DULANY  (here  (lesiL;nated  Josei^h  1),  Hved 
first  at  Port  Tobacco,  ^laryland;  then  at  St.  George's 
Parish,  Virginia;  and  after  1734,  at  Hamilton  Parish, 
Virginia.  He  served  in  the  \'irginia  Militia  for  a  while. 
He  married  Alary  Lewis  (1714  or  1715,  daughter  of  the 
elder  Zacliary  Lewis,  who  settled  in  I'rince  W^illiam  County 
in  1692)  atul  had  seven  sons  (possiljly  more)  viz.,  [osepli, 
Daniel,  William,  Zachary,  Charles,  Lewis  and  Klkanah  ;  and 
at  least  two  daughters;  one  married  a  Smith,  son  of  Augus- 
tine Smith,  and  another,  Barbee;    (the  citations 

given  show  that  Josej)!!  Dulany  (1)  gave  negroes  to  his 
grandsons.  h»hn  Smith,  Andrew  luirbee  and  to  Joseph 
Pulany.  o\   William.) 

The  sons  and  daughters  and  grandsons  and  grand- 
daughters of  Joseph,  in  the  course  of  lifty  years,  married 
into  scores  of  the  ])rominent  families  of  Northern  Virginia 
— the  Roberts,  the  hTenches,  the  hields,  the  Hlackwells,  the 
Slaughters,  the  Strothers,  the  Wallers,  the  Lewises,  the 
Carters,  the  Routs,  the  Meriwethers,  and  other  leading  fam- 
ilies. Joseph  (2  )  Dulany's  wife's  name  was  Sarah  and  two 
sons  are  mentioned,  one  of  whom  was  Joseph  (3),  whose 
grandson  married  Alolly  Duncan,  July  18,  1797.  ElkniiaJi 
abridged  his  first  name  to  "Cana"  and  was  a  prominent 
attorney  at  law  in  Northumberland  County,  in  1746.   Charles 


50  The  Dulaney  Family 

married  Miss  Smith  and  had  a  son  named  Smith  Dulany, 
who  married  Mary  W'ris^ht,  of  h\auqnier  County,  Sejjtem- 
ber  26,  1785,  and,  as  ah-eady  stated,  one  of  tlie  dauj^hters 
of  Joseph  (1)  married  a  son  of  An^iLsline  Smith  and  had 
a  son  named  John,  and  one  named  Daniel   Dulany  Snn'th; 

another  married  Barl)ee  and   had   a   son  named 

Andrew.  Daniel  (of  Joseph  (1))  lielonged  to  the  Cul- 
peper  Militia  in  1756.  But  the  task  of  working  out  the 
genealogy  of  all  of  these,  from  the  Land  Records  and  war 
records,  is  too  much  for  one  silting,  so  the  writer  now 
takes  leave  of  all  these  Dulanys  for  the  present,  exce])t  his 
ancestor,  William,  of  Joseph  (1). 

WILLIAM  DULANY,  third  son  of  Joseph  (1),  married 
Mary  Roberts,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Rolierts,  Sr.,  ( \^estry- 
man  of  St.  Mark's  Parish  for  many  }'ears),  who  died  in 
1782,  (Culpeper  Will  Book,  pages  128  to  130)  and  his  other 
daughters  (Mary's  sisters),  Anne,  llannah  and  jemima, 
married:  Anne  married  Daniel  hield  (of  J  lenry  1);  Han- 
nah marrietl  1  lem-y  ImcUI  (nf  Henry  1  ),  and  Jemima  mar- 
ried Captain  iM-ancis  Kirtley;  and  Slaughter's  History  of 
St.  Mark's  Parish  shows  that  Daniel  and  Henry  h^ield, 
Benjamin  Roberts  and  Francis  Kirtley  were  all  vestrymen 
cf  St.  Mark's.  P.enjamin  Roberts,  Sr.,  had  a  sister  also 
named  Jemima,  who  married  James  Lewis  (of  Zachary  1), 
and  a  brother,  John,  who  was  father  or  grandfather  of 
Major  John  Roberts,  of  the  Revolution. 

The  children  of  William  Dulany  (of  Joseph  1)  and 
Mary,  his  wife,  were  as  follows:  Benjamin,  Joseph,  Wil- 
liam, Elkanah,  Anne  and  Margaret.  Bcujaiiun  married 
Judith  Barnes,  of  Culpejier  County  and  Kapi)ahannock 
County,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  an  im[)ortant  branch  of 


The  Dulancy  Family  51 

the  family  in  those  two  Counties,  as  well  as  in  Madison 
County.  Joseph  (of  William  1)  moved  to  Kentucky  about 
1800,  and  was  living  in  1811  at  Harrodsburg.  JVilliain  (2) 
(of  William  1)  lived  for  several  years  in  Shenandoah 
County  and  left  many  descendants  in  X^rginia  and  in  Mis- 
sissippi. Elkanah  Roberts  (of  William  (1))  married  Mar- 
garet Snapp,  of  Shenandoah  County.  I'\M3ruary  7,  1799,  and 
moved  to  Sullivan  County,  Tennessee,  the  same  year.  He 
had  just  graduated  in  medicine  and  he  estalilished  "Med- 
ical Grove,"  the  oI<l  homestead  (jf  the  Dulaneys,  which  was 
the  first  brick  residence  in  the  county,  and  which  has  since 
been  owned  and  occupied  by  the  Dulaneys,  being  occupied 
now  by  Doctors  Nathaniel  Taylor  ])u]aney  and  Charles 
Aleigs  Dulaney,  great  grandsons  of  Dr.  l-^lkanah,  who 
founded  the  home  and  medical  center  in  1799,  and  who 
was  the  ancestor  of  the  Tennessee  Dulaneys,  with  many 
descendants  in  the  far  West,  the  Middle  West,  Texas  and 
other  Southern  States. 

Note:  Of  the  two  daughters  (of  William  1),  one  of 
them  seems  to  have  married  a  I-'rench. 

The  following  is  a  i)artial  list  of  the  granddaughters  and 
great  granddaughters  of  Joseph (1),  who  married  into 
other  families,  as  culled  from  deed  books,  will  books  and 
from  Slaughter's  "Culpeper  County  and  St.  Mark's  Parish," 
(but  this  list  does  not  include  the  daughters  of  daughters 
and  granddaughters  who,  of  course,  took  the  names  of 
their  fathers)  viz.,  Janette  Dulaney  married  Reuben  Bur- 
ley;  Susanah  Dulaney  married  James  luherington;  Millie 
Dulaney  married  John  Edins ;  Eliza  Dulaney  married  Dan- 
iel Earmer ;  Erances  Dulaney  married  Thomas  l'\irness; 
Delilah  Dulaney  married  James  Inskeej);  Johanna  Dulaney 


S^  The  Dulanex  Fa)uilv 


married  Robert  Lig^htfoot;  Nancy  B.  Dulaney  (of  Benja- 
min 1)  married  William  Sims,  and  Judith  (of  Benjamin 
1 )  married  Georf^e  Sims. 

Note  to  Genealogists 

At  this  point  in  the  narrative  it  may  be  useful  informa- 
tion,  for  those  desiring  to  trace  their   forebears,  to  know 
that   Benjamin   Tasker    Dulany    (of    Daniel   the   ^'cnmger, 
j\'Iaryland)  did  not  come  to  X'irginia  until  aliout  1773,  when 
(at   the   age   of   twenty-two   or   twenty-three)    he   married 
Elizabeth   h>ench,    of    h\airfax   County,   and   settled   there; 
and,  after  a  careful  investigation  from  all  available  sources 
of  information,  my  conclusion  is  that  all  the  Dulanys  of 
Spottsylvania,  Culpeper,  Orange,  Albemarle  and  that  section 
of    Northern    Virginia,    who   had    reached    the   age   of   men 
and  women  prior  to   1783    (the  close  of  the   Revolution), 
were  the  descendants  of  Joseph  (  1  )  ;  and  that  tbe  descend- 
ants   of   -these    two    branches     (Joseph     1     and     Benjamin 
'i\-iskcr)  did  not  converge  bv  interuKU  riage  until  alter  1S20. 
In  this  connection   I   wisli  to  say  it   is  not  improljable  that 
Klizabeth  hVench   (wife  of  IkMijamiti  Tasker  Dulany)   was 
related    to    Joseph    (1),    for,    as    already    show^n.    he    had 
married    and     settled     in     St.     Cieorge's     Parish     prior    to 
1720.  and  three  generations  of  his  descendants  had  inter- 
married with  the  leading  families  of  that  section.     I  have 
before  me  now  a  copy  of  the  Will  of  William  Dulaney  (of 
Zachary   1),   from  the  Culjjeper  County  records,   probated 
SeiJtember  12,   1802.     He  had  a  large  family.     His  wife's 
name  was  Elizabeth  and  his  oldest  son's  name  was  Erench 
Dulaney    (suggesting  that   his  wife's  name  was    Elizabeth 
Erench  or  that  he  had  near  kin  bv  that  name),  and  he  had 


TJic  Dulaucy  Family  5,^ 


another  son  named  Zacliary.  who  enhsted  in  the  Revohition 
about  ]7<S(),  showini:;-  that  Wilh'am's  marriai^e  antedated,  a 
j^ood  many  years,  that  of  benjamin  Tasker  to  a  youni^er 
KHzabetli  hVcncIi,  wlio  also  liad  a  son.  hVench  Dulany. 
This  coincidence  of  names  is  mentioned  here  to  prevent  the 
^genealogists  from  confusing  iM-ench  Dulany  (of  Benjamin 
Tasker)  with  hTench  Dnlaney  (of  William,  of  Zachary,  of 
Joseph  1  )  ;  and  also  to  show  that  some  of  the  third  genera- 
tion from  Joseph  (  1  )  were  at  tliat  time  (  1773)  older  than 
Benjamin  Tasker  Dulany. 

The  other  sons  and  daughters  of  William  Dnlaney  (of 
Zachary  1),  as  shown  hy  the  Will  referred  to,  were  Josej)!!. 
Zachary,  Leroy  and   Braxton;  I^eanne.   1  )elpha  and  Deliah. 

CCNCERNING  THE  SPELLING  OF  THE  NAME 
AND  OTHER  OBSERVATIONS 

In  the  pnl)lic  records,  both  in  Virginia  and  r^Laryland. 
covering  a  period  from  1700  to  1783,  the  name  is  used  inter- 
changeal^ly  "Dnlaney,"  '"Dulany,"  "Delaney,"  "Delanv," 
notwilhstandiug  the  Irailition  thai  the  Immigrant  famil}'. 
on  arriving  in  America,  changeil  it  from  "Delany"  to  "Du- 
lany." ]\Iany  other  family  names  fared  just  as  badly  by 
change  in  spelling  during  that  same  period.  I'.ut,  in  docu- 
ments, letters,  etc..  during  that  ])eriod  which  had  original 
signatures  or  copies  of  original  signatures,  the  name  is 
spelled  "Dulany"  almost  invariably;  and  the  same  is  true 
in  deeds,  wills,  etc.,  when  drawn  by  members  of  the  familv 
or  by  friends  of  the  family  who  supposedly  knew  how  to 
spell  the  name  correctly.  The  name  "Dnlaney"  does  not 
appear  with  regularity  in  the  public  records  until  after  the 
Revolution;  but  I  have  not  found  anvthing  to  show  whether 


54  TJic  Dulaiicy  Family 

the  slight  change  was  accidental  or  intentional ;  although, 
at  the  same  period  that  this  slight  change  in  spelling  the 
name  occurred,  the  name  "Daniel"  was  dropped  by  some 
branches  of  the  family;  whereas,  prior  to  the  i)eriod  of  the 
Revolution,  every  family  had  a  "Daniel,"  if  any  sons  at 
all.  Of  course,  the  omission  of  this  popular  family  given- 
name  may  have  been  accidental ;  but,  true  to  the  traditions 
of  the  Imnn'grant  family,  who  f)nce  changed  their  name  to 
express  disapproval  of  their  stejMuother,  some  of  the 
branches  of  the  family,  under  war  tension,  may  have  added 
an  "e"  and  eschewed  "Daniel,"  as  an  inherited  right  (a 
rather  harmless  procedure)  to  express  their  disapproval  of 
the  conduct  of  their  loyalist  kinsman,  Daniel  the  Third, 
who  at  that  time  had  eschewed  every  thing  American  and 
was  laying  his  ])lans  to  become  a  liritish  subject;  and  he 
did  become  a  British  subject — thoroughly  Anglicized!  A 
British  barrister  of  Downing  Street  (as  shown  elsewhere, 
possessed  of  a  large  estate  and  jjossihly  enthralled  by  an 
environment  of  a  most  radical  aristocracy) — so  he  lived, 
and  died,  childless,  in  [.ondun,  leaving  no  descendants  to 
take  notice  oi  that  resentful  "e",  if  it  was  so  intended; 
and  thus  the   British  branch  of  the   family  terminated. 

Some  quotations  have  been  made  in  this  narrative  from 
Barrister  Daniel  Dulany  (Daniel  third)  not  for  their  his- 
torical value  alone,  but  rather  to  show  how  a  wish  mav 
be  "father  to  the  thought" — how  a  desire  may  become  a 
tradition  and  a  tradition  be  made  to  pass  as  history.  Here 
is  an  example:  A  hundred  years  after  the  event.  Barrister 
Daniel  Dulany  (the  third),  is  said  to  have  written  on  the 
fly-leaf  of  his  mother's  prayer  book  quite  a  biograjihy  of 
his  grandfather,  Daniel  the   l':ider,  in  which,  among  other 


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The  Diilaiicv  FaDiily 


things,  he  asserts  that  Daniel  the  Elder  was  horn  in  Ireland 
in  1685  and  came  to  Maryland  in  \703,  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  years..  The  Barrister  also  makes  reference  to  the 
fact  that  his  grandfather  had  been  aided  by  Col.  George 
Plater,  of  St.  Mary's,  Attorney  General  of  the  Province 
(1691  to  1698);  while,  at  least,  one  historian  states  that 
Daniel  the  Inkier  worked  in  Col.  Plater's  office  prior  to 
1698,  and  at  a  later  date  married  Col.  Plater's  daughter. 
But  the  marriage  records  of  that  period  are  not  to  be  found, 
and  so  the  date  on  the  fly-leaf  of  "mother's  prayer  l)Ook" 
gave  the  basis  for  the  inscription  on  the  tomb  of  Daniel  the 
Elder  at  Annapolis.  The  (piestion  naturally  arises,  why 
was  Barrister  Dulany,  nf  I  )(i\vning  Street,  so  much  on 
the  defensive,  concerning  the  a^e  (jf  his  grandfather? 

What  could  have  been  the  occasion  in  the  year  1803,  or 
fifty  years  after  the  death  of  Daniel  the  Elder,  that  made 
it  so  important  to  fix  the  exact  dates  in  question? 

DULANEYS IN  THE  REVOLUTION 

BENJAMIN  (Tasker)  DULANY  (son  of  Daniel  the 
Younger,  of  Annapolis).  Washington  MSS.  122  and  1557 
Revolutionary   Records,   Richmond,   Virginia.) 

BENJAMIN  (Lewis)  DULANEY  (son  of  William 
Dulany  and  Mary  Roberts,  St.  Mark's  Parish.)  S.  of  W. 
1835;  Penn.  3,  Tenn.  100;  Revolutionary  Records,  Vir- 
ginia). 

JOSEPH  DULANEY  (of  Hamilton  Parish)  ;  enlisted  in 
Cavalry,  December,  177^,  under  Captain  Robert  Yancy. 
(Henning's  Stat.  Vol.  14,  page  336.) 

WILLIAM   H.   DULANEY,    (of  William   Dulany  and 


56  The  Dulaiiey  Family 

Mary  Roberts,  St.  Clark's  Parish).  (Henning's  Statutes, 
Vol.  15,  page  99,  Vol.  16,  page  29.) 

REV.  JAMES  DULAXEY  (also  spelled  "Delaney"). 
(V.  1,  Reg.  101,  Revolutionary  Records,  Richmond.  \'ir- 
ginia.) 

DANIEL  DULAXEY,  Queen  Anne  County.  ^Maryland, 
enlisted  1780,  under  Lieutenant  William  1  k-nsley. 

EDWARD  DULA^MA^  enlisted  Baltimore,  July  IS, 
1776,  under  Captain  Thomas  Yates. 

ANTHONY  DULAXEY  (of  Charles  County,  Mary- 
land), enlisted  in  \'^irginia  under  Ca])tain  Robert  \'ancy, 
December,  1778.     f  llenning's  Statutes,  \'ol.  16,  page  336.) 

ZACHARY  DULANEY,  (Virginia  Revolutionary  List. 
page   134,   Congressional  Library.) 

JOLIN  DULANEY,  enlisted  Eebruary  7,  1779.  (Arch- 
ives of  Maryland,  Vol.   18.  page  202.) 

CHARLES  DULANEY,  enlisted  April  6,  1780.  (Arch- 
ives of  Maryland,  Vol.  18,  page  :>?>?.) 

NICHOJ.AS  DULANEY,  enlisted  January  24,  1778. 
(Archives  o\   Maryland,  \'ol.   18.  page  200.) 

(Virginia  Magazine  of  History,  \'ol.  1,  page  389; 
Washington  MSS.   112,  85.  1,  96.) 

DULANEYS  IN  VIRGINIA  MILITIA 

JOSEPH  (1)  DULANY,  (of  St.  George  and  after- 
wards of  Hamilton  Parish,  Virginia)  enlisted  in  \'irginia 
Militia  prior  to  1720.  (As  hitherto  stated,  Mr.  Coons, 
Clerk  of  the  Culpeper  Court,  procured  ior  the  writer  in 
1903,  an  original  document  showing  that  Joseph  Dulany  (  1 ) 
had  enlisted  from  Port  Tobacco,  Maryland,  in  the  \'irginia 
Militia  and  was  entitled  to  land  as  a  bounty  for  services; 


The    Dulancy    fauiily  ^y 

but  that  dociiiiient  lias  disappeared  in  some  nnacconntable 
way.  But  Joseph  (1  )  got  the  land— "on  Little  Fork  of  the 
Rappahannock  in   Si)ottsylvania   County"). 

DAXIF.L  DULAXV  (son  of  Jose])h  1),  enlisted  in 
the  Culpeper  Militia  in  1756.  (Hennin-'s  Statutes,  Vol. 
7.  page  23  ) . 

John  Smith,  Captain,  and  Daniel  Dulaney  Smith,  Lieuten- 
ant, (both  in  Culpeper  Militia,  by  same  authority)  were 
grandsons  of  Joseph  (1)   Dulaney. 


DR.   WILLIAM    ROBERTS    I^ULANEY 

Eldest  son  of  Dr  I'Jkanah  K.  Dulaiiey.  born  April  2,  ISOO. 
at  "Medical  Grove,"  Sullivan  County,  Tennessee,  and 
died  May  24,  1860. 


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THE  BRANCH  IN  TENNESSEE 

Dr.  FJkaiuili  Roberts  IJuIancx.  born  Cnlpeper  County. 
\'iri^nnia,  about  1770,  married  Pei^ji^y  (Margaret)  Snapp, 
of  Shenandoah  County,  X'irginia,  I'^ebruary  7,  1799,  and 
moved  to  Tennessee  the  same  year.  He  died  July  10,  1840; 
and  his  wife  Pegi^y  died  February  19,  1843. 

Extracts  from  the  Family  Hible  of  Flkanah  Roberts 
Dulaney,  showin;^  tlie  descentlants  of  Dr.  Fdkanah  Roljerts 
Dulaney  and  his  wife,  Pei^gy  Snapp  Dulaney.  who  estab- 
lislied  the  Dulaney  H(_>mestead,  "Medical  Grove,"  (^ne  mile 
west  of  Blountville,  Sullivan  County,  Tennessee,  about 
1799:  The  issue  of  this  marriage  was  hve  sons  and  three 
daughters  as  follows : 


60  The    Dulaucy    Family 

SONS  DAUGUrERS 

Dr.     Williain    Roberts    Dii-      Elica  Diihincy,  born  July  28, 
laiicy.   born    Ajjril    2,    1800,      1802.   and  married  Thomas 
and    married    Mary    Carter      Marshall    March     18,     1819. 
Taylor,  31st  of  May,   1825.      She  die<l  July  24,  1819. 
He  died  May  24.  1860.  Edna    Dulaucy,    l)orn    May 

John  Rhea  Dulancy,  born  1?),  1806,  and  died  Jan.  26 
Nov.   25,    1808.     died    J^'eb.      1826. 

3,   1833.      Xever  married.  Mar\    Dulancy,    born    Aug. 

Joseph  Abbott  Dulancy,  horn  20.  1817.  married  Dr.  Par- 
Sept.  13,  1811,  died  Oct.  9,  mtt.  She  died  Aug.  6.  1843. 
1814. 

Alfred  Carter  Dulanev,  born 
June  30,  1813,  died  July  11, 
1831. 

Benjamin  I^ewis  Dulancy, 
born  April  9,  1815,  and  mar- 
ried Rebecca  Cobb  Masengill 
Sept.  17,.  1846.  He  died 
Sept.  23,   185*\ 

It  will  be  noted  that  two  only  of  the  sons  of  Dr.  Elkanah 
Dulaney  married  and  had  families,  to-\vit:  (1)  the  eldest, 
William  Roberts  I^ilaney,  and  (2)  the  youngest,  J^>en- 
jamin   Lewis  Dulaney,  as   follows: 

( 1 )  DR.  WILLL4M  ROBERTS  DULANEY 
and  his  wife,  ]\]ary  Carter  Taylor  Dulaney,  had 
four  sons  and  eight  daughters,  as  shown  by  the 
Family  Bible  records,   to-wit : 

Mary  James  (died  in  infancy) 
Joseph  Elkanah   (M.  D.) 


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Margaret   Eliza 
Serai)hina  Jackson 
Evalina  Elizabeth 
Sarah   Caroline 
Nathaniel  Taylor  (M.  D.) 
Mary  Theresa 
Eleanor  Virginia 
John   (died  in  infancy) 
Lorena  Adelaide  Jackson 
William  Alfred   (M.   0.) 

Joseph    Elkanah    [)itlauc\     (AT.     D.)     married 
Lucy  Fields  and  had  two  daughters  and  one  son : 
Corrie, 
Annie, 
Joseph  (M.  D.) 

Margaret     Eliza     married      Matthew     Taylor 
Haynes,*  and  had  three  daughters: 

Eannie  (married  X.  C.  St.  John.     Chil- 
dren: Margaret,  Mamie.  Alice,  Kittie, 
Kelly,  Preston  and  Charles.) 
Maggie   (married  Capt.   \V.  D.   Haynes 
and  had  :  Lannie,  Berta  and  Matthew\) 
Mary  Emma  (died  in  youth). 


*Aitt-r  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  Atattliew  Taylor  Haynes 
(a  lawyer  of  marked  ability  and  integrity  and  brother  of  the  famous 
oraitor,  Landon  Carter  Haynes)  married,  second,  Kate  Snapp  (dis- 
tant cousin  of  his  first  wife)  and  had  a  daugliter,  IMattie,  wlio 
married  Dr.  J.  M.  King;  and  two  sons:  Charles  who  died  in  youth; 
and  Hal.  H.  (now  Chancellor  Haynes)  who  married,  hrst,  Laura 
Dulaney  (see  Dulaney  Record)  and  second,  Kate  Walace,  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  has  a   daughter,   Shirley,  and   a   son,   William. 


64  TJie  Diilaney  Family 

ScrapJi'uia  J.  married  William   Snapp  and  had 
three  children : 
Ellen; 

Lillie  (married  Hr.  Hurd,  of  McKinney, 
Texas,   and  had  a   son,    Fred,   and  a 
daughter,    Katie )  ; 
William    (iicver  married )  ; 
(Rev.  Sullivan,  second  husband  of  Sera- 
phina  J.   Dulaney,  no  children). 

Ez'alina  Elizahctli  married  Rev.  J.  W.  Bachman 
and  had  five  dauj^hters  and  four  sons : 
Fannie  (married  Magill)  ; 
Mary    (married  Anderson  rmd  had  two 

sons:    William     (M.    D.)     and    John 

(Major,  U.  S.  A.); 
.\nne  (married  Rev.  Charles  Hyde  and 

had  one  son,  John  B.)  ; 
William    (died   in   infancy); 
Twin  lio)-.s  (died  in  infancy); 
Nathan  (married  Miss  IXike,  of  Durham. 

N.  C); 
Carrie    (died   in    infancy); 
Fva  1).  (married  Mr.  Beuke). 
Sarah   Caroline   married   Judge   Charles   J.    St. 
John  and  had  three  sons  and  four  daughters : 

Charles  J.,  Jr.  (married  Miss  Pitzer  and 

had   a   daughter,    Louise,   and   a   son, 

Edmuml )  ; 
I)lanche   (married  Mr.   Reynolds); 
William    (  M.   D.  )    (not  married); 
i'^va   (married  Mr.   Kite); 


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DR.  NATHANIEL  TAYLOR  DULANEY 

Son  of  Dr.  William  R.  Diilaney.  born  at  "Medical  Grove," 
Sullivan  County,  Tennessee,  in  1834,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  76  years.  lie  graduated  with  distinction  at 
Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  in  1854,  and 
was  offered  the  position  as  assistant  in  surgery  to  the 
celebrated  Dr.  Mutter;  but  chose  rather  to  live  among 
his  own  peo[)le.  He  practiced  medicine  in  Sullivan 
County,  Tennessee,  for  fifty  years.  He  served  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  State  Medical  Society,  and  was  three  times 


The  D Ilia ney  Family ^ 

Minnie   (married  Mr.  Kent); 
Carrie  Lee    (not  married); 
^lattbew  Blair  (not  married)  ; 

Nathaniel    Taylor   Dulancy    ( M.    D.)    married 
Pauline  Davis  and  had  twelve  children: 

Almeda    (married  Rev.   J.   B.   Converse 
and  had  three  sons:  Engene,  Charles 
and  Paul,  and  one  daughter,  Flavia). 
William    R.    (died  in  childhood); 
Mary    1).    (married    Benj.    L.    Dulaney 
and  had  three   sons   and   a   daughter. 
Laura    (married    Judge    Henry    ITalum 
Ilaynes  and  had  five  daughters,  viz: 
Nataline  (married  Dr.  Rogers).  Katie 
(married    Mr.    LavinderL    Margaret 
(married      Mr.      Pendleton),      Helen 
(married  ^Ir.  Rhea),  and  Mary  Lynn, 
who  died  in  youth;  and  a  son,  Henry 
II.,    (now    :i    law    student    at    Stetson 
I'niversity")  ; 
Chas.    Meigs    (M.    D.)     (married    Miss 
Rhea  and  has  a  large  and  interesting 
family,  and  owns  and  occupies  the  old 
"Medical  Grove"  residence  at  Blount- 
ville); 
Ollie,   (not  married)  ; 
Nathaniel  Taylor.  Jr.    (M.   D.).    (mar- 
ried   Miss    Lucile    King    and    has    a 
daughter,  Mary  Taylor)  ; 
Eugene  (married  Miss  Delaney  and  had 
a  son,  Joseph  Eugene)  ; 


68  'I !ic  Dnlmicy  Fatiiily 

Henry  Parrolt  (M.  D.  )  (married  and 
has  a  son  Henry  Parrott  Dulaney,  Jr. ) 

(Three  other  children  of  Dr.  X.  T.  D. 
and   PauHne,   died   in   infancy.) 

Marx   Theresa   (Molh'e)    married   Dr.    Matthew 
M.  Butler,  and  had  three  sons  and  two  dau^i^hters  : 
IJeverly,  died  in  youth  ; 
Charles     (?*[.     D.),    promiuent    bacteri- 

olo<^ist,  in  U.  S.  X. ; 
Joseph,   died  in  infancy: 
Lorena,   married   Gov.    John   Isaac   Cox 

and   has   a   son,    Matthew    V>.,    and   a 

daughter,     Mary,    who    married    Mr. 

Fleminc^; 
Carrie,  married    F.   C.   W'ric^ht  and  has 

three  danc^hters,  Catherine,  Carrie  and 

Marjorie,     and     four     sons,     Charles. 

hVank,  John  and  David. 

Eleanor  J'injiuia  (Fllen),  married  Fultou  ?t. 
J.'hn  aud  had  six  dauL^lUcrs  and  two  sons: 

Charlr.)tte  (unmarried)  ; 

Xell    (married   Mr.   Turk)  ; 

Carrie  (married,  first.  Judge  Thomas 
Curtin  and  had  a  son,  Thomas,  and  a 
daughter,  Fleanor ;  married,  second 
Mr.   Morley)  ; 

^Tattie    (married  Dr.   McKee)  ; 

Josephine  (married  Dr.  hdeenor)  ; 

\^irginia   (married  Dr.  Moonev)  ; 

George  Fulton ; 

X^athan. 


The  Diilauex  Faniilv  69 


Lorcna  Adelaide  Jackson,  married  Geo.  B. 
Smith  and  had  one  son,  Geo.  Fiikon,  and  two 
danc^hters:  Evahna,  married  Chas.  Dederick ; 
Delia,  not  married. 

U'UUam  Alfred  (AI.  D.),  married  Blanche 
Marsh  and  had  one  son  who  died  in  infancy. 

(2)  BEN7Ai\TIN  LEWIS  DULANEY,  youngest  son 
of  Elkanah  Roberts  Dulaney  (M.  D.),  married,  first,  Tvlary 
Love,  of  Carter  County,  and  had  one  son,  Roberts  Elkanah. 
who  never  married ;  second.  Rebecca  Cobb  Mascngill, 
September  17,  1846,  and  had  one  daughter  and  three  sons: 

(a)  Louisa  Maryaret,  born  Alarch  17,  1851;  married 
Professor  John  E.  L.  Seneker  (Educator)  and  had  two 
sons,  Beverly  and  Oliver,  and  two  daughters.  Estelle  and 
Lora; 

(b)  JosepJi  Michael,  born  March  9,  1833;  died  Decem- 
ber, 1890;  married  Miss  Walters  and  had  three  daughters: 
Willie,  married  Captain  Shutz,  U.  S.  A.,  (El  Paso.  Texas), 
and  has  one  ilaughter  and  three  sons;  Clara,  married  Mr. 
Smyre,  and  has  two  daughters,  X'irginia  and  Margaret.  A 
third  daughter  died  in  childhood ; 

(c)  ]Villiam  Casz^'ell,  born  April  2,  1855,  and  died  at 
Plant  City,  Elorida,  June  4,   1884,  unmarried; 

(d)  Benjamin  Lezvis,  born  September  12,  1857;  mar- 
ried, first.  Mary  Davis  Dulaney  (of  Dr.  N.  T.  Dulaney) 
and  had  three  sons  and  one  daughter.  The  eldest  son. 
Paid,  born  January  17,  1883,  married  Bane  Summers  and 
has  three  children,  Benjamin  Bane,  Paul  Summers,  and  a 
daughter,  Jane;  the  second  son,  Fred,  born  June  10,  1885, 
married   Grace   Haves,   and   has   two  children,    Marv    Jane 


70  The    Dulaney    Family 

and  Fred;  the  third  son,  Benjamin  Love,  died  in  infancy, 
and  a  daughter,  ]\Iary,  died  in  infancy.  Benjamin  Lez^'is 
Dulaney  married,  second,  Ahce  St.  John  (daughter  of  N. 
C.  St.  Jolin,  of  Virginia),  and  had  two  sons,  Landon  Cobb 
and  Benjamin  Leivis,  and  one  daughter,  Alice  Rebecca. 
Landon  Cobb  Dulaney,  born  Alarch  28,  1897,  married 
Miss  Virginia  Urion,  October  11,  1920.  Benjamin  Lcivis 
died  at  the  age  of  two  years  in  Jacksonville,  Florida.  Alice 
Rebecca,  the  daughter,  was  born  August  11,  1909. 


Some  of  the  Great  Grandchildren  and  Great 
Great  Grandchildren  of  Dr.  Elkanah  Robert.s  Du- 
laney  {the  ancestor  of  the  Tennessee  Branch): 

Alamie  St.  John  (of  N.  C.  St.  John),  who  married 
Senator  Robert  L.  Taylor,  was  a  great  great  granddaughter. 

Alice  St:  John  (of  X.  C.  St.  John),  another  great  great 
granddaughter,  married  IkMijamiu  Lewis  Dulaney.  Issue: 
Landon  Cobb,  Benjamin  Fewis  (died  in  infancy),  and 
Alice   Rebecca. 

Kittie  St.  John  (of  N.  C.  St.  John),  another  great  great 
granddaughter,  married  Nathan  D.  Bachman.  Issue: 
Nathan,  John,  Katherine  and  Landon. 

Lorena  Butler  (of  Dr.  M.  M.  Butler),  who  married  John 
Isaac  Cox,  Governor  of  Tennessee,  was  a  great  grand- 
daughter.    Issue:     Matthew  and  Mary. 

Carrie  Butler  (of  Dr.  ^1.  M.  Butler),  another  great 
granddaughter,  married  Frank  C.  Wright.  Issue:  Kath- 
erine,  Carrie,   Marjorie,   Charles.    Frank,  John   and   David. 

Carrie    St.    John    (of    A.    F.    St.    John),    another    great 


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WACV.    \<\'A\\'A'C.\ 
A^^e  eleven,  (kuii^^hter  of  I'.enj.  Lewis  Dulanev  (  3.1  i.  and  Ins 
wife    Alice    St.    J<.hn    Dulanev.      One    .-f    the    .seventh 
Ct-neration    in    America. 


The  Diihnicy  Fainily  71^ 

grandclauj;hler,    married    Judge    Thomas    Ciirtin,    of    Ten- 
nessee.    Issue :  Eleanor  and  Thomas. 

Laura  Dulaney  (of  Dr.  N.  T.  Dulaney),  another  great 
granddaughter,  married  Chancellor  Hal.  H.  liaynes  (of 
Matthew  T.  Haynes,  of  Landon  C.  Ilaynes,  the  celehrated 
lawyer  and  orator).  Issue:  Nataline,  Katie,  Helen,  Mary 
Lynn,  Margaret  and  Henry. 

Dr.  Charles  Butler,  a  distinguished  surgeon  of  the  United 
States  Navy,  is  another  great  grandson. 

Judge  Nathan  Bachman,  a  memher  of  the  Supreme  Court 

of  Tennessee,  is  a  great  grandson  of  Pdkanah  R.  Dulaney. 

Judge  Charles  Joseph  St.  John  (of  C.  J.  St.  John)  and 

his  two  distinguished  hrothers.  Drs.  William  and  Matthew, 

are  great  grandsons  of  Dr.  Elkanah  R.  Dulaney. 

In  the  direct  line  of  descendants  of  Edkanah  R.  Dulaney, 
prohahly  the  three  most  representative  of  family  traits  and 
characteristics,  men  who  are  universally  beloved  and  re- 
spected, are  Dr.  William  Alfred  Dulaney,  of  St.  Charles, 
Virginia;  Dr.  Nat  T.  Dulaney,  of  Bristol,  Tennessee,  and 
Paul  Dulaucy,  lawyer,  oi  Washington.  D.  C.  Drs.  Xat 
T.  and  William  A.  Dulaney  have  n.>  children.*  But  Paul 
Dulaney  has  two  sons,  Benjamin  and  Paul,  and  a  daughter, 
Jane. 

Anne  Bachman  (of  Rev.  John  W.  Bachman)  married 
Rev.  Charles  Hyde.     Issue:  a  son,  John  B. 

Another  distinguished  great  grandson  is  Major  Henry 
Parrott  Dulaney  (M.  D.),  son  of  Dr.  N.  T.  Dulaney,  in 
charge  of  the  Soldiers'  Plome,  Los  Angeles,  California. 

Dr.  Henry  Parrott  (of  Dr.  Henry  Parrott).  of  Blount- 
ville,  Tenn.,  is  a  grandson  of  Dr.  Fdkanah  Roberts  Dulaney. 


*Since    the    above    was    written,    a    ^irl    l>al>y,    Mary    Taylor,    has 
been    l)orn    to    Dr.    Xat.    T.    Dulaney    and    his    wife. 


PAUL  DULANEY 

Lawyer,  ^Vashington,  D.  C,  son  of  Benjamin  Lewis  Du- 
laney  (3),  born  January  17,  1S83,  at  "Medical  Grove," 
Sullivan  County,  Tennessee.  Graduated,  Kinj^  College, 
1901;  University  of  Virginia,  1903. 


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SOMETHING  ABOUT  THE  COBB   FAMILY 
IN  THE  SOUTH 

(Over   300   Years  in   America.) 

Totten's  List  of  Immigrants  to  America,  1600  to  1700 
page  246:  "Joseph  Cobb,  age  25,  in  the  (boat)  'Treasurer,' 
1613.  Elizabeth  Cobb,  age  25,  in  the  (boat)  'Bonne  Bess,' 
1623." 

Under  the  caption  "AInster  Calls,"  the  same  authority 
says  that  Joseph  Cobb  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Cobb,  were 
living  in  "Elizal)eth  Citie"  in  the  year   1624. 

The  will  of  Joseph  Cobb,  dated  March  1,  1635,  and  of 
record  in  Isle  of  Wight  County,  Virginia,  names  his  wife 
Elizabeth  and  two  sons,  Benjamin  and  Pharaoh,  and 
daughter  Elizabeth. 

In  tho  llisti>ry  of  the  llabcrsluun  I'aniily  (Congressional 
Library),  it  is  stated  that  Ambrose  Cobl>  came  to  York- 
Town  in  1613,  and  had  a  son,  Robert  Cobb,  who  in  turn 
had  a  S(;n  named  Robert  Cobb.  These  records  also  show 
that  the  last  named  Robert  Cobb  was  a  vestryman  of  ]\Iars- 
ton  Parish  in  1660,  and  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  York 
County,  in  1667,  and  High  Sheriff  in  1687. 

This  Habersham  Family  History  also  records  that  John 
Cobb,  son  of  Robert  Cobb  (2),  married  Mildred  Lewis; 
and  that  Alary  Willis  Cobb,  daughter  of  Robert  (2),  mar- 
ried Robert  Flournoy. 

In  Totten's  List  the  name  is  spelled  Cobb,  as  it  is  in  the 


74  The  IhiUincy  Family 

English  records  at  Cobham ;  l)ut  in  the  Virginia  records  it 
is  spelled  "Cob,"  "Cobb"  and  "Cobbs" 

Ambrose  Cobb  is  referred  to  as  tlic  head  of  the  family, 
indicating  that  he  was  the  father  of  the  eldest  brother  of 
Joseph   Cobb  of   "Elizabeth   Citie." 

The  records  of  Isle  of  Wight,  York  and  Prince  Edward 
Counties  show  that  the  later  generations  of  the  Cobb  family 
were  likewise  citizens  of  high  standing  in  Church  and  State. 

The  names  I'haraoh  and  Ambrose,  Penelope  and  Bar- 
slieba  are  rather  unusual ;  yet  these  names  have  followed 
the  Southern  branch  of  the  family  down  to  the  present  day. 

The  Habersham  History  also  shows  that  the  Cobb  family, 
the  Lewis,  the  Washington,  the  Jackson,  the  Adams,  the 
Flournoy,  the  Whitehead,  the  Willis  and  many  other  lead- 
ing families  of  that  section  of  Virginia,  were  all  coimected 
and  related;  and  that  all  the  Cobbs  of  the  Carolinas,  Ten- 
nessee, Georgia  and  Alabama  are  descended  from  this  Vir- 
ginia line  of  ancestry.  And  yet,  the  unusual  given  names, 
mentioned,  were  likewise  favorites  with  the  old  branch  of 
the  family  tliat  scltknl  in  I'arnstablc,  Massachusetts,  in  the 
year  U)3i.  as  shown  by  Philip  Cobb's  History  of  the  Col)b 
I'amily  (Congressional  Library,  Washington,  D.  C). 

Under  the  caption,  "Notable  Southern  h^amilies,"  the 
"Lookout,"  Chattanooga,  Tennessee,  recently  published 
a  genealogy  of  the  Cobbs,  from  which  the  following  extracts 
were  made : 

"Cobb  is  one  of  the  oldest  family  names  known  to  Eng- 
lish history.  The  different  branches  of  the  family  were 
early  seated  in  Devonshire,  Lancaster,  London  and  North- 
ern England." 

"Joseph  Cobb  took  up  land  in  Isle  of  Wight  County,  at 


The  Didancy  FaDiily  75 

the  mouth  of  the  James  River.  In  'Uennin-'s  Statutes,' 
Vol.  1,  he  is  shown  as  ownini^  hind  on  Laurens  Creek,  Isle 
of  Wight.  This  Joseph  Cohh  was  probahly  the  son  of 
Joseph  Cobb,  the  immigrant,  who  landed  at  \'orktown  in 
1613." 

"The  court  records  of  Yorktown,  ^vhich,  strange  to  say, 
having  passed  through  the  vicissitudes  of  three  wars,  are 
still  intact  and  are,  jierhaps,  the  oldest  continuous  records 
in  this  country,  contain  the  name  of  Cobl)s  hundreds  of 
times,  but  unfortunately,  when  I  was  there,  being  very 
much  hurried,  I  had  not  time  to  search  out  the  valual^le  in- 
formation they  contain,  but  it  would  repay  any  member  of 
the  family  to  go  there.  In  1635  Ambrose  Cobbs  received 
land  grants,  and  it  is  supposed  that  Ambrose  and  Jovcph 
were  brothers." 

"Edmond  Cobbs,  son  of  Robert  Cobbs,  high  sheriff  of 
York  County,  in  1631,  died  in  1692-3,  leaving  no  living 
children,  but  in  his  will  makes  bequests  to  a  son-in-law, 
Matthew  Pierce,  and  provides  that  his  whole  estate  lie 
ihvidod  among  his  three  br(nlR'rs — Ambrose  and  Otho.  Of 
these  three  brothers,  Robert,  born  about  1660.  son  of  b.d- 
mond,  who  died  in  16* )2,  married  and  left  three  sons: 
Thomas,  John  and  Rol^ert,  born  in  the  early  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  These  three  1)rothers  and  their  descen- 
ants  are  to  be  found  in  the  records  of  Henrico  County,  and 
are  the  ones  generally  spoken  of  as  the  Cc)1)bs  family  of 
Virginia. 

"John  Col)l)S.  of  Goochland,  is  the  only  one  of  the  three 
brothers  whose  line  has  been  at  all  well  worked  out.  John 
Cobbs,  of  Goochland,  married  Susannah,  whose  surmane  is 
not  known.  She  is  mentioned  in  the  records  of  Goochland 
as  earlv  as  1736. 


76  The  Diilaiicy  Family 

"John  and  Susannah  Cobbs  had  issue  three  sons:  Samuel, 
Edmond  and  John,  whose  descendants  are  \'ery  well  known 
in  the  history  of  Virginia. 

"Samuel  Cobbs,  oldest  son  of  John  Cobbs,  of  Gooch- 
land, married  Alary,  daughter  of  Robert  Lewis,  of  Belvoir, 
Albemarle  County,  about  1750. 

"John  Cobbs,  of  Goochland,  lived  but  a  short  time,  as 
his  will  (probated  in  1758)  shows.  His  widow,  Alary, 
survived.  John  and  Mary  Cobbs  had  issue:  Robert,  Jane 
and  Judith.  Jane  Cobbs  married  Mr.  Waddy  and  left  one 
child,  Judith,   who  died  leaving^  no  issue. 

"Robert  Cobbs  was  a  very  interesting  character  in  his 
day,  and  there  are  many  anecdotes  told  about  him.  He  is 
said  to  have  taken  the  oath  of  allegiance  in  Virginia  under 
the  Colonial  government,  and  later  became  a  captain  in  the 
Revolutionary  army,  and  served  under  General  Gates  and 
General  Green,  in  the  Carolinas.  Robert  Cobbs  married 
Anne  G.  Poindexter,  daughter  of  ](;hn  Poindexter,  of 
Pouisa  County,  \^irginia.  In  issue  by  this  marriage:  John 
Poindexter  Cobbs,  Alary  Lewis  Cobbs.  Robert  Lewis  Cobbs 
(died  without  issue),  Samuel  Cobbs  (died  without  issue), 
William,  Charles,  Lewis,  Sarah  White  Cobbs,  Anna  Lliza- 
beth  Cobbs,  Meriwether  Cobbs. 

"John,  William  and  Penjanu'n  Cobbs  settled  in  Albe- 
marle County,  Virginia,  at  a  very  early  day;  and  named 
their  jilace  "C()l)l)ham"  in  honor  of  Cobliham,  F.ngland. 

"One  of  the  Cobbs  had  an  estate  settled  on  him  in  Bed- 
fordshire. About  the  middle  of  the  twelfth  century 
heraldry  was  established,  and  conferred  on  the  descendants 
of  those  who  took  part  in  the  battle  of  I  lastings.  Cobbs, 
of  Bedfordshire,  coat  of  arms:  'A  bird  between  three  hshes.' 


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Cobb,  of  Akbngton,  County  of  Kent,  coat  of  arms:  'ram- 
pant leopards.'  Cobljs,  County  Romney,  County  of  Kent: 
'Three  cocks.'  Cob]),  or  Cobbs,  Ireland:  'Arm  brandish- 
ing salire.'  Cobb,  of  Peterborough,  County  of  Norfolk: 
'A  swan's  head,  holding  a  fish.'  Cobb,  Oxfordshire:  'An 
elephant.'  l"he  above  description  of  coats  of  arms  was 
copied  from  book  on  heraldry  in  the  Lenox  Library,  New 
York. 

"It  has  been  more  than  three  hundred  years  since  the 
Cobbs  came  to  America  and  settled  in  X'irginia.  ALiny  of 
their  descendants  crossed  the  State  line  and  settled  in  Last- 
ern  North  Carolina.  William  Cobb,  one  of  their  descend- 
ants, married  Barsheba  Whitehead,  lie  emigrated  to  what 
is  now  Tennessee,  before  the  Revolutionary  War,  or  war 
with  England  of  the  Colonies  for  their  intlependence,  and 
settled  in  the  forks  of  the  llolston  .and  Watauga  Rivers, 
not  far  from  the  AWatauga  Old  I-'ields,  in  Sullivan  County. 
It  was  there  that  Governor  William  Blount  arrived  and 
opened   his   Territorial    Court. 

"lie  madr  William  Cobb's  hou^e  his  home.  Dr.  J.  G.  M. 
Ramsay,  in  his  'Annals  of  Tennessee,'  page  542.  i)ays  hitn 
the  following  compliment:  'Mr.  Cobb  was  a  wealthy  farmer, 
an  emigrant  from  North  Carolina,  no  stranger  to  comfort 
and  taste,  nor  unaccustomed  to  what,  in  that  day.  was  called 
style.  Like  the  old  Carolina  and  X'irginia  gentlemen,  he 
entertained  elegantly,  with  ] profusion,  rather  than  with 
plenty,  with  ceremony  and  without  grudging.'  Like  theirs, 
his  home  was  plain,  convenient,  \\ithout  {jretension  or  shr)w. 

"His  equipage  was  simple  and  unijretending.  He  kept 
his  horses,  his  dogs,  his  rifles,  even  his  trajjs,  for  the  use, 
comfort  and  entertainment  of  his  guests.     His  servants,  his 


78  The  Duhiiicy  Family 

rooms  and  his  grounds  were  all  at  their  l)idding.  They  felt 
themselves  at  home  and  never  said  adieu  to  him  or  his  fam- 
ily without  the  parting  regret  and  the  tenderness  of  old 
friendship.  It  was  here  and  under  such  circumstances  that 
Governor  Blount  opened  and  held  his  court  in  the  ancient 
woods  of  Sullivan. 

"William  Cobb  had  three  sons :  Pharaoh,  William  and 
Jesse.  Pharaoh  came  to  Tennessee  (perhaps  with  his 
father).  I  have  been  told  by  very  old  settlers  that  the  army 
under  Sevier  and  Shelby  met  at  William  Col)b's  and  not  at 
Sycamore  Shoals,  as  stated  by  Ivamsay. 

"Pharaoh  Coljb  was  a  sergeant  in  Captain  Jacob  Wom- 
mack's  company,  and  in  Ca])tain  Thomas  Price's,  and 
marched  under  Colonel  Lsaac  Shelby  and  took  part  in  the 
battles  of  King's  Mountain  and  Alusgrcne  Mill,  and  there 
are  persons  now  living  who  C)ften  heard  him  talk  of  the 
expedition  and  of  the  battle,  also  with  Captain  Ceorge 
Rutledge. 

"Pharaoh  (^'bb  moved  down  the  Holstoti  River  in  a  tlat- 
botlom  boat  to  Poor  \'alle>  Slioals,  and  built  a  brick  house. 
Tbe  timber  of  the  boat  was  used  in  the  construction  of  the 
house  in  179^.  The  house  was  still  standing,  1906, 
and  (Kcupied  as  a  residence.  The  shingles  were  fastened 
on  by  wooden  pegs,  instead  of  nails.  The  i)lace  is  called 
'Cobb's  Ford.'  He  owned  a  large  farm,  including  an 
island." 

"Caszvcll  Cobb,  his  eldest  son,  married  Rebecca  Bucking- 
ham, in  Sevier  County,  Tennessee,  at  Ihickingham  Island, 
in  the  French  Broad  River,  near  the  mouth  of  Boyd's 
Creek.  Pier  father's  name  was  yafhaiiirl.  He  caiue  from 
Virginia.      Caswell's  oldest  daughter,   f.oiiisa,  married  her 


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cousin,  Michael  Masciu/ill,  son  of  l/al.  MascncjiU,  a  gentle- 
man of  excellent  education  and  ample  means,  who  came  to 
America  from  the  North  of  Ireland  about  1776,  and  after- 
wards married  a  sister  of  Caswell  Cobb." 

The  issue  of  the  marriage  of  Louisa  Buckingham  Cobb 
and  Michael  MascncjiU  follows :  Penelope,  married  Leander 
AI.  King;  BarsJieba,  married  William  \i.  Tipton;  Rebecca 
Cobb,  married  Benjamin  Lewis  Dulaney ;  Richard  Henry 
married  Harriet  Stoflle. 

The  second  daughter  of  Caswell  Cobb,  Darsheba,  married, 
first,  David  Stuart  and,  second,  John  Talbott.  Issue  (first 
marriage)  John,  Ambrose,  Ceorgc  (Rev.),  and  Penelope 
Stuart. 

The  tJiird  daughter  of  Caswell  Cobb,  Sallie  Cobb,  mar- 
ried, first,  George  C.  Rutledge.  Issue:  (1)  William  G., 
who  married  Rosa  Clark;  (2)  Annis  Penelope,  who  mar- 
ried Thomas  B.  Eanes;  (there  were  other  children  who  died 
without  issue);  and  second,  John  C.  Rutledge:  issue, 
Rebecca  Katherine,  who  married  Oliver  C.  King;  Barsheba, 
who  uKirricd  (K'(M-ge  Gammon;  and  Sallie  P..,  who  married 
(1)  Alexander  Rankin  and  (2)  Theodore  Speer. 

Reverting  to  Michael  Masengill:  He  was  born  October 
10,  17":)2;  married  January  17,  1S17,  and  died  September 
3,  1856;  and  his  wife,  Louisa  IL  Cobb  (of  Caswell  Cobb, 
of  Pharaoh  Cobb,  of  William  Col)l))  was  born  February 
20,  1801,  and  died  January  10.  1830.  They  had  three 
daughters  and  one  son  as  follows: 

1.  Penelope  Louisa,  born  h\"bruary  25,  ISIS;  married 
Leander  Montgomery  King,  November  5,  1839:  issue:  (1) 
Oliver  C,  who  married  Katherine  R.  Rutledge  and  had 
Michael    M.     (died    unmarried),    Penelope     (married    Dr. 


80  The  Diilancy  Family 

Hisey),  John  and  Leander  .M.;  (2)  Xaniiic  (married  Gill) 
and  had  Mamie  (married  W^ooten  and  had  John  and  Kini(), 
and  (2)  Louisa,  (married  Donaldson,  and  had  a  son  and 
daughter. ) 

2.  Barsheha  Stuart,  born  December  25,  1821,  married 
William  R.  Tipton  (of  Abraham  Tipton)  April  12.  1S38. 
They  had  eight  children:  John  A.  Tipton,  George  A.  Tip- 
ton, Louisa  Rebecca  Tipton,  Henry  Gaswell  Tipton,  Ab- 
raham Dulaney  Tipton,  William  Rutledge  Tipton.  Jr., 
Joseph  Masengill  Tipton,  ^^largaret  Penelope  Tipton. 

JoJin  A.  Tipton,  the  oldest  son,  was  wounded  in  the 
Battle  of  Murfreesboro  and  died  from  the  wound  in  Jan- 
uary, 1863. 

George  A.  Tipton,  married  Anne  R.  Bachman.  They  had 
eleven  children:  Louela,  Kannie,  luioch  William,  Mary, 
John  Hannibal,  Margaret,  Nathan  Bachman,  George  A.  and 
Abraham  D.,  twins,  who  died  in  infancy,  Anne  Bachman, 
and  Nellie  Powell. 

Louisa  Rebecca  Tipton  married  Hannibal  Hord.  They 
IkuI  no  children. 

Henry  Cas^cell  'Tipton  married  Rebecca  Masengill.  They 
had  six  children:  Mary  Jane,  Plenrietta  Ikirsheba,  Williaui 
Henry,  Elsie  Gobi),  Alargaret  and  Kathleen. 

Abraham  Dulaney  Tipton  married  Mary  Armstrong. 
They  had  seven  children:  Annie,  Alfred  Armstrong,  Hugh 
]\rurray,  H.  Hord,  William  King.  Joseph,  Louise,  ]Mary 
Armstrong  (died  in  1895).  In  1902  d'ipton  was  married 
the  second  time  to  Kate  Grey  Phipps.  They  had  five  child- 
ren:  Eleanor.  Abraham  Dulaney,  Jr.,  Penelope  Rogan,  John 
Stuart,  James  Hale.  Abraham  Dulaney  Tipton  died  in 
December,  1918. 


BENJAMIN   LEWIS   DULANEY    (3) 

Son  of  Benjamin  L.  Dulaney,  born  in  Sullivan  County, 
Tennessee,  Sept.  12,  1857.  Completed  high  school 
course,  Jefferson  Academy,  1878;  and  normal  course 
at  Jonesboro,  1879. 

Commissioner  to  Paris  Exposition,  1900;  and  to  St. 
Louis  Exposition  in  1904. 

Organized  Virginia  Iron,  Coal  and  Coke  Co.,  and  V. 
&  S.  W.  Ry.,  1898-9. 

Developed  the  Black  Mountain  Coal  field  in  Virginia 
and  Kentucky,  1902  to  1915. 

Through  the  assistance  of  the  Naval  Committee  of 
the  U.  S.  Senate,  succeeded  in  opening  a  free  coal  ship- 
ping port  at  Charleston,  S.  C,  giving  southern  coal  an 
outlet  to  the  markets  of  the  world,  1914  to  1916. 

One  of  the  founders  of  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America. 


llic    Pulaiicx    Faiiiily  83 

Joseph  M.   Tipton,  died  in   1883. 

Margaret  Penelope  Tipton,  married  James  Rogan.  They 
had  no  children.     James  Rogan  died  in  1900. 

3.  Rebecca  Cobb  Mascngill,  born  January  17,  1825; 
married  Benjamin  Lewis  Dulaney,  September  17,  1846,  and 
died  December  8,  1870.  Issue:  One  daughter  and  three 
sons. 

(a)  Louisa  Margaret,  born  IMarcli  17,  1851;  married 
Professor  Jolm  E.  L.  Seneker  ( l^^ducator),  and  had  two 
sons,  Beverly  and  Oliver,  and  two  daughters,  Estelle  and 
Lora. 

(b)  Joseph  Michael,  l)orn  Marcli  9,  1853;  died  Decem- 
ber, 1890;  married  Miss  Walters  and  had  three  daughters: 
Willie,  married  Captain  Shut/.  (El  Paso,  Texas)  and  has 
one  daughter  and  three  sons;  Clara,  married  Mr.  Smyre, 
and  has  two  daughters,  Virginia  and  Margaret.  A  third 
daughter  died  in  childhood. 

•  (c)  Jlllliain  Caswell,  born  A]iril  2,  1855,  and  died  at 
Plant  City.   Morichi,  June  4,    1884,  inimarried. 

(d)  Penjamin  Leicis,  born  Se[)tember  12.  1857;  mar- 
ried, first,  Mary  Davis  Dulaney  (of  Dr.  N.  T.  Dulaney)  and 
had  three  sons  and  one  daughter.  The  eldest  son,  Paul,  born 
January  17,  1883,  married  P.ane  Summers  and  has  three 
children,  Benjamin  Bane,  Paul  Summers,  and  a  daughter, 
Jane;  the  second  son,  Fred,  born  June  10,  1885,  married 
Grace  ILayes,  and  has  two  children,  Mary  Jane  and  Ered; 
the  third  son,  Benjajuin  Lozw  died  in  infancy,  and  a 
daughter,  Mary,  died  in  infancy.  Benja)itin  J.c:<'is  Piilaney 
married,  second,  Alice  St.  John  (daughter  of  X.  C.  St. 
John,  of  Virginia),  and  had  two  sons,  Landon  Cobb  and 
Benjamin  lu'wis,  and  one  daughter,  Alice  Rebecca.     JMndon 


84 Tlh^    Dnlaiu-y    Family 

Cobb  Didaney,  born  March  28,  1897,  and  married  Miss 
Virginia  Urion,  October  11,  1920.  Bcnjaiiiin  Lewis  died 
at  the  age  of  two  years  in  Jacksonville,  Florida.  Alice 
Rebecca,  the  daughter,  was  born  August  1 1,  1909. 

Michael  Masengill  married,  second,  Hannah  Torbett,  and 
had  two  sons  and  four  daughters : 

Joseph,  died  unmarried. 

William  Allen, 

Sallie,  married  Henry  Hyder  and  had  Michael,  Edward 
and  other  children. 

Lucretia,  married  IMalonee. 

Susan,  married  Marion  Shell. 

Evaline,  married  . 

Note:  Returning  to  Hal.  Masengill,  the  Immigrant: 
He  married  a  second  time  and  possibly  a  third  time,  and 
had  two  sons,  John  and  Felty.  John  Masengill  was  the 
father  of  the  late  Dr.  John  Masengill,  of  Blountville,  who 
had  two  sons,  Norman  and  Samuel,  and  a  daughter,  Fannie. 

Felty  Masengill  had  five  sons:  Josej)!!,  James,  Dallas, 
Benjamin  and  Taliaferro  (Toll),  and  one  or  two  daughters. 

Both  John  and  Felty  (of  Hal.  Masengill)  are  the  an- 
cestors of  large  and  influential  families  in  the  South  and 
West. 

"To  return  to  William  Cobb,  the  first.  His  second  son, 
William,  did  not  emigrate  to  Tennessee,  with  his  father, 
but  came  several  years  later.  He  married  Martha  Boone 
in  North  Carolina.  She  was  the  sister  of  Daniel  Boone's 
father.  His  children  were :  Joseph,  Ethelred  and  Fred- 
erick, and  two  daughters.  Eliza  married  a  man  named 
Baker.  Fannie  married  a  Teal.  They  both  lived  in  Mis- 
sissippi. I  do  not  know  whom  Ethelred  married.  He  lived 
in  some  of  the  states  south  of  Tennessee.     Joseph,  when 


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very  young,  went  with  John  Cohb,  his  great  uncle,  to 
Georgia,  who  built  a  house  at  an  early  day  near  where 
Athens,  Georgia,  now  stands.  The  house  is  still  standing, 
and  is  called  the  Cobb  home.  He  was  the  ancestor  of  the 
Cobbs,  of  Georgia.  Josej)!!  Cobb,  at  the  request  of  his 
father,  returned  and  met  his  father,  William  Cobb,  the 
second,  at  the  Wolf  Hills,  near  where  Abingdon,  Virginia, 
now  stands.  He  came  with  his  father  to  a  place  five  miles 
west  of  where  Kingsport  has  since  been  built,  where  William 
Cobb  was  stricken  with  fever  and  died,  and  was  buried  in 
Hawkins  County,  Tennessee,  near  the  farm  once  owned  by 
John  Ellis. 

"Joseph  Cobb  came  on ;  when  he  reached  Rocky  Springs, 
in  the  eastern  part  of  Grainger  County,  Tennessee,  he  met 
with  people  fleeing  from  Bean  Station,  on  which  place  the 
Indians  had  made  an  attack  and  killed  a  young  woman  and 
a  man  named  English  (1788).  The  families  gathered  and 
prepared  to  defend  themselves  against  the  Indians.  There 
Joseph  formed  the  acquaintance  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Blair,  widow 
of  Captain  John  Blair,  a  man  who  won  his  commission  in 
the  war  of  the  American  Revolution,  fighting  on  the  Amer- 
ican side.  Joseph  Cobb  married  Mrs.  Sarah  Blair.  She 
was  a  woman  of  refinement  and  well  educated  for  one  of 
her  day.  She  was  a  member  of  and  lived  up  to  all  the  re- 
quirements of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  She  was  loved 
by  all  who  knew  her.  Her  maiden  name  was  Sarah  Smith ; 
her  mother's  name  was  Cornwall  is.  The  family  came  from 
England.  Sarah  Smith's  mother  was  said  to  be  a  first 
cousin  to  Lord  George  Cornwallis,  who  surrendered  the 
British  army  to  General  George  Washington  at  the  close  of 
the  American  Revolution  at  Yorktown.  At  one  time  Sarah 
Smith  owned  the  land  known  as  Bean  Station. 


86  TJic  Diihuicy  Fauiily 

"Pharaoh  Boone,  Joseph  and  Sarah  Cobb's  eldest  son, 
was  born  about  the  year  1798,  near  Bean  Station,  Grainger 
County,  Tennessee.  He  studied  medicine  and  took  the 
course  of  lectures  at  Jefferson  ]\Iedical  College.  He  prac- 
ticed medicine  a  few  years  at  Bean  Station.  He  moved  to 
Henderson  County,  West  Tennessee,  and  lived  at  Hifllin, 
where  he  practiced  medicine  until  after  the  close  of  the  Civil 
War.  Some  years  before  he  died  he  removed  to  Hernando, 
Mississippi. 

"Arthur,  second  son  of  Pharaoh  Cobb,  married  Alice 
(Ailsie)   Masengill,  of  Sullivan  County,  Tennessee. 

"William  married  and  lived  and  died  at  Cobb's  Ford. 
His  children  were  Barshcba,  who  married  Daniel  Read,  and 
Pharaoh,  who  was  killed  while  in  line  of  duty,  serving  in 
the  Confederate  Army.     He  never  married. 

"Jessee  Cobb  married  Lenah  Cocks.  Their  children  were: 
Eliza,  who  married  William  Galbraith ;  Barsheba,  who  mar- 
ried James  W.  Moore,  of  Alooresburg,  Tennessee,  who  died 
between  1861  and  1865.  Alter  his  death  she  married  Dr. 
Ji'hnson.  11  is  si»n  (Jesse's').  Pharaoh  A.  Cobb,  married 
• Chcstruit.  He  is  now  living  at  St.  Clair,  Ten- 
nessee, in  Hawkins  County.  He  was  major  of  the  second 
Confederate  Cavalry  (Tennessee)  regiment  during  the  Civil 
War.  He  was  also  a  soldier  in  the  war  with  Mexico.  His 
son  is  Reverend  P.  L.  Cobb. 

"Catherine  married  James  Conner.     ?^[oved  West. 

"Barsheba  married  Absolom  Kyle.  They  have  numerous 
descendants." 


The   Didaucy    Family  860! 

DLLANEY   AM)   ROITT   FAMILIES 

From    Memoranda 

BY  WOODFOKD  D.  Dl  LANEY,  KENTUCKY. 

(IS.VJ) 

"Genealogical    History    of    molher's    family    from    recollection. 

■•Joliii  lioutt,  born  and  raised  in  ('idi)('i)L'r  County,  Va.,  married 
Miss  Witliers,  of  same  County,  and  liad  two  sons  and  five  dau^liters, 

viz:    John,    Ximrod,    Aim,    Margaret,    EJi/.jihctli,    Mary    and . 

Jolm  married  Miss  Duncan,  of  ("uliiepcr,  and  had  cliililren.  .Nimrod 
married  in  KonnK-l<y,  and  li.id  childi-cn.  Ann  marri.'d  l.elloy 
l>idaney,  and  liad  tive  cliildrcn.  Klizalicth  Itontt  nuirricd  John 
Whitehead,  and  liad  children;  lived  at  Clay  villa;<e  in  Harrison 
County,    Ky.      Mary    Knutt    married    John    Cnlii,    ot    Kentucky,    and 

had  children.     Anotlier  dan;,diter, Jioutt,  marrieil   Keyser 

or  Kizer,  of  Kentucky.  .Mar^'aret  Itoutt  married  Sliadrack  I'.rown- 
ing,  and  had  a  dauj,'hter,  Mary.'" 

Tlie  Diilaney   Family 

-My  ^grandfather  William  Didaney  (horn  \T.V1,  ("uliieper  Co..  Va.) 
married  Elizabeth  I'.ntler,  of  Culiieper  Co.,  \'a.,  and  had  live  sons: 
Jo.seyh,  Zaehariab,  LeKcjv,  French  and  liraxton:  and  four  daut^lders, 
Leo  Anna,  Delphia,  Delilah  and   Jannetle. 

].  "JOSEril  married  Sarah  lain^ford.  of  Stafford  Co.,  Va.,  and 
ha-il  one  son  and  three  <lan-!ilers,  viz:  William  L,,  Klizabeth  I.., 
llan-ie:  .\nn  and  Drusilla.  i  :ii,-.al.el  h  ni.irried  Daniel  l''anner,  ,.f 
Vir^rini.a,  and  had  .me  damrliler.  Sarah.  uIk.  niairied  Josi'j.h  Work, 
of  Kentucky,  who  had  a  dau^diter,  .lulia,  and  a  son,  Sanmel. 
Elizabeth's  second  husband  was  David  rhillips,  and  she  lia<l  issue 
by  him  three  sons,  viz:  Joseph  !>..  David  H.  and  William.  Fler 
third  husband  was  C.eiieral  William  Marshall,  of  Kentucky,  by 
whom  she  had  two  dau^diters.  Juliette  and  Drusilla.  Drusilla  died 
in  Xashville,  Tenn.  .luliette  died  in  Memnbis,  Teini.,  havintj  mar- 
ried a  .Mr.  Thomi)so!i  ;  (me  son  named  Marshall.  Hari'iet  married 
Ednmnd  Duncan,  (d'  Fau(|uier  ('<>.,  A'a..  ami  bad  issue  tive  sons  and 
four  daufrhters:  Josenh  Dillard.  Charles  L.,  AVilliam  E..  Wood- 
ford, Edmund,  Eliza,  Drusilla,  Vir.s,'inia  and  Henrietta.  J.  1).  Dun- 
can marrii'd  Jane  (^ovin.!?ton.  of  Warren  County,  Ky.  Charles  mar- 
ried Jane  F.lundell,  of  ^ilarshall.  111.  William  E.  married  .Mar- 
fraret  Dulaney.  lOliza  mari-ied  French  C.  Didaney,  son  of  /. 
Dulaney,  and  had  one  d:im,'hter,  Harriet  .\nn.  wlio  married  William 
J.  Plobson.  P.owlins  Creen.  Ky.  Drusilla  marrieil  Frank  Carson. 
Vir.sinia    married    I'bineas    Proctor.      Henrietta    married    Sam    Car- 


86b  Th.c  Dnlaiiev  Family 


pentiT,    of    Allen    ("onnty,    Ky.      Wodili'did    married    Hetty    .lulmsou. 
Eduiiiiid    married    Tempe    llutehiiisoii. 

•J.  "ZACHAHIAH  Dl'LANKV,  .M-eond  son,  married  Mary  Duncan. 
and  had  twu  sons,  William  and  French.  William  married  Matilda 
Tutt,   and    had   issue  one  .•^on,   Arcliy,   and   a    dau'.,diter. 

3.  "LEKOY  DL'LANEV.  third  sun  df  William  Dulaney  married 
Ann  Routt,  of  Culpeper  County,  Va.,  and  had  four  sons  and  one 
daughter,  viz:  Zachariah.  John.  M'oodford  and  Ilii'am.  Zachariuh 
married  Mary  Eleanor  ]!raden,  dau,i,diter  of  Major  Itobert  JJraden 
of  Loudoun  County,  Va.,  and  had  thrive  sons  and  two  daughters,  viz: 
liohert  L.,  Woodford  II.,  and  Charles  E.,  and  Elizabeth  A.  and 
Mary  E.  Kohert  E.  married  Eelty  I'.artlelf,  of  Clark  County,  111., 
and  had  four  children,  ("liarlie,  Harry.  Mary  Eleanor  and  Hector 
IJraden.  Woodford  H.  married  .T<j<erhine  Cawthon,  of  Louisville. 
Ky.  Mary  E.  married  I).  Martin,  of  Louisiana.  Charles  E.  died  in 
California.  John  Dulaiiey  married  Nelly  Ilunton,  and  had  four 
sons  and  two  daughters,  viz:  liohert  II.,  LeUuy.  I'.raxlon,  ^largaret, 
Harriet  and  Daniel  F.  liohert  II.  married  Miss  Itohertson.  Mar- 
garet married  William  E.  Duncan  and  ha<l  .lolin,  Charles,  Hector 
and  A'irgiiua.  Mary  K.,  only  daughter  of  L(d;ny  Dulaney,  married 
John  D.  r.rowidng,  of  Cidiieper  Counly,  \'a.,  ami  had  tlii'ee 
daugiitei-s,  Margart't  A.,  Maiy  i:.  and  l^liza.  M.irg.iret  married  in 
Culi)ei»er  and  died  without  issue.  Mary  i:.  mairied  .h.hn  K.  Lrown- 
ing  of  Culi)ei)er  and  had  Mary  E.,  Clinton  \V.  and  Mary  Wo-nUord. 
Eliza  married  :\Lij(ir  l-^asthan,  of  Culpepei-,  and  had  nine  children. 
Woodford  Dulaney,  third  son  of  LeKoy  Dulaney,  married  i:iiza 
Harlan  Archer,  dauglifer  of  Colonel  William  L.  Ari-her.  Clark 
County,  111.,  and  liad  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  viz:  William 
LeKoy,  Hiram  Woo.llnrtI,  Aiui  Elizaheth  and  Kohert  Fenlon 
Dulaney.  Hiram,  the  youngest  son  of  L<dioy  Dulaney,  n^ver  mar- 
ried. 

4.  "LEE  ANNA,  the  oldest  daughter  o\'  William  nnd  Elizalieth 
Dulaney,    never   married. 

r..  "DELILAH  nmrried  James  Inskep,  (d'  Culi.eprr.  and  had  Eliza- 
heth and  Lee  Ann.  I'Mizaheth  married  Mr.  Syhert  of  Teiuiessee.  and 
had  no  issue.  Lee  Ann  married  John  H.  Craliam,  of  I'.owling 
Creen,    Ky. 

0.  "JANNETTE  married  Keuhen  Deasley.  of  Culpeper.  Va..  moved 
to  Alahanni,  and   had   eight   children. 

7.  "DELPIHA  nmrried  John  Smith,  of  Culpeper ;  had  three  sons 
and  three  daughters,  viz:  John,  Joseph,  William,  Delphia,  Nancy 
and  Mary.  Joseph  went  to  Georgia  and  dii-d.  John  died  at  the 
residence  of  LeKoy  Dulaney,  Clouds  Spring,  Ky.,  in  1S2:!.  William 
was  living  in  Cidpeper  in  ISfiT.  Nancy  died  in  isjo.  :\rary  mar- 
ried  Mr.   earner   and    moved    to   Edgar   Couidy.    111. 


The   Ihilaiicy    luiuiily  ^(J^. 

S.  "FRENCH  Dl'LANEV,  l\.urth  snii  of  William  and  Kli/.abL-tli, 
nian-ii>d  Nancy  .Sale,  of  Cariiliiie  ("oiiuty,  Vn..  and  had  one  sun. 
William,  and  daui,'lit(>i's,  Emily,  Frances,  .Al.aria,  Kli/.aheth  and 
Ann. 

Jl.  "UKAXTON  DULANEV,  y.unLrest  s.,n  ,.f  William  and  KlizalK-rh 
Dnlaney,  died  at  Xoii'di-k-.  \'a..  in  the  serxice  oT  his  c-uunrry.  in  1S14; 
nevei'  married." 

Kidiii  memoranda   by  Jml-e  W.   L.  Dnlaney,  nf  Kentncky,  in  l.sMT: 

"Z.aehary,  s(.n  of  LeKoy,  died  at  I'atl.'rsonville,  L;i.  .Mary,  the 
dan.uhter  of  Z.ichary  .and  wife  (d'  Dr.  Martin,  died  in  .Mississiiipi, 
without  issiu'.  Wondlord  II.  Dnlaney  had  is>n>':  Klorcnrt',  \v\u< 
married  lion.  Alhert  S.  A\'illjs.  .Minister  to  Hawaii  ;m<l  who  died 
there;  \V.  II.  Diilane.v,  ,lr.,  an  allorney  at  Lonisxiljc,  Ky  ;  Josephiii*-. 
who  dh'd  uinnarried  ;  Robert  I.ee  Dnlaney,  married  A  nine  McAf(H'  and 
died  leaving  a  widow  two  dan.i;hters  ;in<l  son.  Woodfonl  Ih'ctor 
Dnlaney,  IVewee  Valley.  Klizahelh  Dnlaney  win.  married  .Tudsun 
Clements,  of  (;e(n'i,Ma:  and  .Mar.\,  not  marrit'd.  I'.etty,  the  widow  (d' 
Robert  L.,  (son  of  /acharyi  died  :it  Marshall.  111.,  and,  in  addition 
to  tlie  children  innncd  by  my  father  aliove,  had  Kli/.a,  ("ecile  and 
Rol)ert  AVilliam.  ('ecile  married  .(.  U.  r.eiinett,  and  lives  at  .Marshall. 
Mary  Kleamu-  (Xellyi  m.arried  .Inli.in  1'.  l'.ar<-lay.  of  llowdin-  (Jreen. 
Ky..  and  had  several  children,  the  family  now  residin.-  at  .s.an  Antonio, 
Texas.  Charley  W..  smi  (d  liobert  1...  married  .Miss  .Mary  Kice.  of 
Princeton,  Ky.,  and  died  wilhont  issne.  l-'Jizabelh,  daimhter  of 
Zachary,  not  nmrried  and  lives  on  San.abel  Island.  I'^lorid.i.  Uolu-rl 
H.,  Son  of  .Fohn,  died  in  Warren  Connly,  withont  issiu'.  J,eKoy  ti.,t 
ma'rriiMl.  Mar-aret.  dau-hter  of  .lohn.  is  dr:\,\  :  h.-r  children  are  in 
this  r.Miiiiy:  M.ii-y  married  W.  II.  Ihuvh  :  Willie,  dan.^hler  (d'  thi> 
.Mari-aret.  married  ,lohn  Itardniaker  and  had  issue.  She  lives  in 
I'.owlin-  Creen.  Hector  Duncan  was  killed  here  by  ;i  train,  .\elly, 
another  d;iu.uhter  of  .Mar,i,'arei  married  Willi.am  Ih'rndon.  and  had 
m.iny  children.  Charles  is  now  here,  nmnarried.  ,I(d\n  l).  nnirried 
his  cou.sin,  .Mathihla,  the  danuhter  of  Charli-s  1..,  of  M.arshall,  111., 
and  ha.s  one  son,  Didaney  Dnn<-an.  ("lint(ui  r.rowidnj,'  died  without 
is.sne  at  KI  I'aso  ov  I'ueblo,  .\.  .M.  His  sister.  .Mary  Woodford, 
married  a  .ueidleman  named  Anderson,  of  <,>nincy.  Ilk,  and  has  three 
son.s  and  three  danj^hters.  Anna  Kliza  l>rowninj;,  another  dau^'hter 
of  Mary,  married  Mr.  Marvin  and  had  three  sons.  They  live  at 
Pueblo,  Col.  Another  (humhter,  Adeline,  married  a  Mr.  .M<>rrell  and 
lives  at  Denver,  C(d.  William  L.  Dnlaney.  son  of  Woodford,  married 
Jane  Barcday  ;  has  an  ad<ii)te(l  s(ui,  Paul  l.ePoy,  and  they  live  in 
Bowlins  (irei'u,  Ky.  Hiram  \V.  Dnlaney  m.arried  Cecile  Stuhbins  and 
died,  leaving  children  as  follows:  .Mary  S.,  Annie  Woodford,  Edward 
H.,  William  L.,  and  (]leorKia.  They,  too.  live  in  Bowling  Green.  Ann 
Elizabeth    Didaney    mariied    Jos.    C.    Barclay    and    died,    leavin<j    a 


86d  The  Didancy  Family 

(laughter,  Eliza,  who  married  li(jliert  Mason,  of  MorgaiiUi'ld,  Ky. 
Robert  Feiitoii  Dulaiiey  married  ("lara  ("ovin^'toii,  iiiul  tliey  have  one 
son,  Albert,  and  two  ihiui,'hters,  Lena  and  Kliza.  Tliey  live  in 
Howling   Green." 

'•John  Dulauey,  the  .son  of  LeUoy,  and  his  brother  Hiraui  Dulaney, 
died  in  Warreu  County,  Ky.  William  L.,  Son  of  Joseph,  married  and 
had  one  son,  Robert  Lewis,  who  was  six  feet,  four  inches  tall  and 
was,  thiM-efore,   nieUnamed   "Lon^'  Hob",     lb'  died  luimarricd. 

••Wootiford  Dulaney,  my  fathei-,  bad  a  store  at  York,  111.,  on  the 
Wabash  River,  when  the  "Black  Hawk  War"  broke  out  and  went  out 
a  Lieutenant  in  a  company  of  volunteei's,  of  which  John  F.  Ricliardson 
was  Captain.  He  si-rved  wilii  Jefferson  l);nis,  Albert  Sydney 
Johnston,  Alu-aham  Lincidn  and  others.  lie  was  thiouLrh  life  a 
personal  frii'iid  of  -Mi'.  Lincoln,  tliovi,i;li  differing;  so  far  finm  liim  in 
political  belief.  My  broMiei-  Hiram  and  niysi'lf  were  Confederate 
soldiers  of  (Jeneral  J(jhn  R.  Mor-an's  Command.  My  Im-oIIht  served 
throuf^h  the  whole  war  in  I'.reckiniidi,'!'  Re^'iment  and  surri'ndered 
at  Washington,  (Jeorgia,  in  isC").  I  was  at  last  engaged  in  what  was 
known  as  the  "Northwestern  Conspiracy",  imt  wliidi  was  really  a 
military  endeavor  to  effect  the  release  of  tbe  prisdiiers  conlined  at 
Fort  Douglas,  to  arm  lliem,  take  tiie  City  (d'  Cliicago,  etc.  .My 
military  career  endeil  witli  tlie  failure  of  tliat  euterpiise.  My 
(Jrandfather  Dulaney  died   in   IS-H  ;  my   father,  in  IMS." 

Harry  Bartlett  Dulaney,  of  Marshall,  III.,  (son  of  Rob't  LeRoy 
and  iCIizalieth ),  born  ]s:,{>  and  mairied  i:(iitli  Trevn,  I'.KIL  issue: 
one  son,  liobert  Lcroy  Dulaney,  Imoii  IMiiL',  now  a  catln  at  West 
Point. 

Eleanor  (dnugbter  of  Robert  Lero\-  and  i:ii/.abeili  I .  born  1S.-,K, 
nnirried  Julius  1'.  I'.arclay,  now  living  in  San  Antonio,  Texas. 
They  have  live  children:  Rob't  D.,  married  Margaret  .Magnum: 
Loui.se,  marrieil  Fidele  Chamberlain:  Sani'l  A.,  married  INtlicr 
(Juntor ;   Julius   I'.,   not    married;   and    Kleanor,    not    married. 

Cecile  (<Iaughter  of  Robert  Leroy  and  Hlizabetb),  born  ISC,!), 
inarrh'd  J.  R.  Rurnett,  issue,  four  children:  Flizalietli,  Woodfoid, 
Anna  Doe  and  Jas.  R. 

The  other  sons  and  daughters  of  Rob't  Leroy  and  Elizabeth,  were 
Chas.  W.  who  nmrrii-d  Mary  Rice,  no  children;  Ileelor  Hradeii, 
not  married;  and  Elisa,  who  married  W.  C.  I'.erry,  San  Anf<niio. 
Texas. 

Elizabeth  Dulaney  (daughter  of  Woodford  Hector  and  Josephine 
Cawthorn  Dulaney),  married  Judson  Clements,  of  Ceoi-gia,  w1h» 
died  in  1917,  while  a  member  of  the  Interstate  Connuci-cc  Com- 
mission, leaving  his  widow  and  three  daugliters  :  Clodine,  Margaret 
and  Mary  Park.     They  all  residi"  in  Washington.  D.  C. 


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