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Ann-Captain John Gilleland, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but now of Sabine Pass, Texas. Issue, William, of Texas; Ellen, of Gettysburg; Harriet E .- William Gillson, of Frederick, Maryland. Issue, Basil, of Emmittsburg; William, of St. Joseph, Missouri; Frances-Neil Zimmerman, near Frederick; Basil Dorsey, single (dead). Sarah J .- Mortimer Dorsey, of Howard County, grandson of Colonel Richard Dorsey, of the Revolution, who built "Happy Retreat." Issue, Harriet, William, Thaddeus, Alice Patterson, Clarence, late of Boston; Elizabeth, Anna, Richard, Harry, Adele. Thaddeus-Miss Donner, of Boston; Alice-R. Galt, of York Road; Annie-Mr. Barr, of Chicago.
William Woods Crapster-first, Elizabeth Morrison (of William), of Frederick County. Issue, William Bruce, of Washington; Alice Patterson-P. Jones, of Taneytown; Lieutenant Thaddeus Greaves, of the Revenue Service, now at Wilmington, North Carolina; James . W. (deceased).
John J. Crapster-Mary O'Neal, daughter of Dr. I. W. C. O'Neal, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, whose mother was a daughter of John and Susan (Little) Crapster. Issue, Ellen Patterson, Anna P., John O'Neal, Basil Walter, Elizabeth C., all of Taneytown, Maryland.
John G. Crapster (of Basil) was seated upon the estate of Vachel Dorsey. He married Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Philemon D. Warfield; no surviving issue. Gustavus Crapster (of Basil) removed to Westminster. He is the only surviving executor.
Rhodolphus Crapster (of Basil) adjoined his brother John upon Captain Philemon Dorsey's survey. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Mortimer Dorsey and granddaughter of Colonel Richard, of "Happy Retreat." Issue, an only son, Mortimer Dorsey Crapster,
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who resides upon his father's homestead. He married Georgietta, daughter of William Ridgely Warfield, granddaughter of Colonel Gassaway Watkins. Issue, Rodolphus, Ernest, Eleanor, Mary Blanche, Thaddeus, Mortimer, Jr., Alice, Emma, Bowie, Robert Gordon.
Thaddeus Crapster (of Basil) inherited the homestead and married Eleanor Greaves, his cousin, daughter of Dr. Greaves, of Scotland. Her mother, Camsadel Watkins, was named for the Camden battle, in which her father, Colonel Gassaway Watkins, was engaged. There is no issue.
Rev. William Crapster, teacher and minister, succeeded his brother John and married Eleanor Amelia Warfield, daughter of William Ridgely. Issue, William Channing Crapster, Mrs. Emma Taylor and Mrs. Florence Shields, of California.
FLORENCE.
This village was named by Gassaway Watkins Warfield, now dead. Though present when it was named, I cannot remember the favorite lady thus honored.
Florence was started as a cross-roads store, later becoming a post- office; it is now a business centre for a large section of upper Howard. Hon. Walter M. Black, former delegate to the Legislature, adjoins it on the north and Joshua N. Warfield, of the Democratic Executive Committee and School Commissioner of the County, owns the whole village and adjoins it on the south. Both have converted old fields into productive farms, upon which are commodious houses upon the sites of their progenitors' primitive abodes. This whole section was a Welsh settlement.
Four brothers, John, Philip, Samuel and Henry Welsh, sons of John and Hannah (Hammond) Welsh, located north, south, east and west of Florence. Hon. Walter Black is upon a portion of Philip's; Joshua N. Warfield is upon Johns, and owns a portion of Samuel's and of Henry's. Three of the brothers married Griffith descendants. John married Lucretia Dorsey, a niece of Hon. Henry Griffith; Philip married Elizabeth Davis, a niece of Hon. Henry Griffith, and Samuel married Rachel, daughter of Hon. Henry Griffith. Lucretia Welsh (of Philip) became the wife of Philemon Dorsey Warfield, of " Locust Grove;" Rachel (of Samuel) became the first wife of Joshua Warfield, of "Cherry Grove," and great-grandmother of Mrs. Walter Black; Lydia (of John) became the second wife of Joshua, of "Cherry Grove," and grandmother of Joshua N. Warfield. The latter is upon her estate. He also holds the most western survey of Captain Philemon Dorsey, some ten miles west of Captain Dorsey's residence. It was the estate of his daughter Ann, descending to her son Vachel, then to Mrs. Basil Crapster and her sons, John, Rodolphus and William, and thence, by purchase, to its present owner.
Mortimer Dorsey Crapster (of Rodolphus) holds his portion and from his hillside home overlooks the Patuxent.
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Joshua N. Warfield also holds another survey of Captain Phile- mon Dorsey, a portion of his great-grandmother's dower, and beyond that he now owns a survey of Hon. Henry Griffith, in all some 2,000 acres. He found much of it barren fields. By magnificent manage- ment, aided by generous liming, it now yields abundant crops of grass and grain.
"CHERRY GROVE," HOMESTEAD OF CAPTAIN BENJAMIN WARFIELD, OF THE ELK RIDGE MILITIA.
Upon the old rolling road, twenty miles west of "Warfield's Range," Benjamin, the son of Benjamin and Rebeckah (Ridgely) Warfield, seated himself and built, in 1768, the present hipped-roof house, "Cherry Grove." Over that road two generations, at least, rolled their tobacco to Elk Ridge.
Ten years after Benjamin had settled war was at hand. The city of Annapolis and all of its water inlets needed military protection. On Monday, March 2, 1778, a commission was issued, by order of the Council, to "Benjamin Warfield, Captain in the Elk Ridge Battalion of Militia." His assistants were Henry Griffith, first lieutenant, Robert Warfield, second lieutenant; Charles Warfield, ensign. These were all neighbors in upper Anne Arundel, now Howard.
Captain Warfield's wife was of a kindred branch of the same families as himself. She was Catharine, daughter of Captain Phile- mon Dorsey, and was a namesake of her mother, Catharine Ridgely. She brought him an estate about as large as his own, some 400 acres; it was immediately across the old rolling road.
Two sons, Beale and Philemon Dorsey Warfield, entered the next war-of 1812. They were called to defend Annapolis, but, when it was learned that Washington was in still greater danger, the Annapo- lis force was pushed on to Bladensburg. Before reaching it the bridge had been crossed by the British and the battle had been lost. In the midst of that war Captain Benjamin died, in 1814. His will placed Beale upon his mother's dower and his youngest son, Joshua, upon the homestead, whilst his son, Philemon Dorsey Warfield, was seated upon "Ridgely's Great Range," to the north of the homestead.
Beale built "Springdale" down by the spring. His wife was his cousin, Amelia Ridgely.
Philemon Dorsey built his brick house near the pioneer cottage of Charles Ridgely, from whom it was bought. His wife was Lucretia Welsh, daughter of Philip.
Joshua Warfield brought to the homestead, first, Rachel Welsh (of Samuel), and second, Lydia Welsh (of John).
These were daughters of three brothers. In the three grave- yards just named a very interesting record might be made. Upon the marble slab, only recently erected to the memory of Captain Ben- jamin Warfield by the Governor and his brothers, might have been written the following: "Here lie descendant sons and daughters of twelve colonial leaders and friends," the history of whom fills a large portion of this volume. They were Colonel Edward Dorsey, Hon.
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John Dorsey, Major John Welsh, Major-General John Hammond, Captain Philip Howard, Matthew Howard, Colonel Henry Ridgely, Hon. Robert Ridgely, Captain John Worthington, Colonel Nicholas Gassaway and Governor Nicholas Greenberry. In two of these graveyards are the remains of two daughters of a soldier of two wars, Colonel Gassaway Watkins.
CHERRY GROVE.
This hipped-roofed house was built in 1768 by Captain Benjamin Warfield, whose estate was "Fredericksburg." His wife Catharine Dorsey, daughter of Colonel Philemon and Catharine Ridgely, held her dower just across the old rolling road, which passed through the two estates.
Benjamin Warfield, their oldest son died in early manhood. The next two sons, Beale and Philemon Dorsey Warfield, were in the War of 1812 and were hurrying from Annapolis to Bladensburg to assist in its defense on that eventful day of retreat.
Beale was an intelligent man, a writer of deeds and wills, and he held the dower of his mother. Down by a spring he built his cottage and named it "Springdale." His wife was Emily Ridgely, daughter of William Ridgely, of "White Wine and Claret," at Clarksville, a descendant of Hon. Robert Ridgely, Lord Baltimore's Chief Officer.
Emily (Ridgely) Warfield's mother was Elizabeth Dorsey, daughter of Colonel Philemon, by Catherine Ridgely, granddaughter of Colonel Henry Ridgely, of Lord Baltimore's Council.
Beale Warfield's wife was a representative of both branches of Ridgelys, the "Black Heads" and the "Light Heads." The issue of Beale and Emily were George, the intelligent bachelor; 'William Ridgely and Catharine, wife of Warner Warfield, of "Bagdad," near Sykesville, Maryland.
SPRINGDALE.
William Ridgely Warfield held the homestead and married Eleanor, daughter of Colonel Gassaway Watkins. Issue, Rosalba, widow of Rev. Mr. Mosely, of Mississippi, who had one daughter, Bertha, now deceased. Beale A. Warfield, surveyor, married Cordelia England, of Abram; no issue. Bowie Clagett Warfield, horticulturist, of Sandoval, Illinois-Julia Gregory (now deceased). Issue, Alverta- Rodolphus Crapster and Alice Warfield, of Sandoval; Eleanor Amelia-first, Rev. William Crapster; second, Captain Richard Watkins, of California; children elsewhere named; Gassaway Wat- kins Warfield, the merchant, died in early manhood, unmarried.
Emma Warfield (of William and Eleanor), now desceased-John R. Kenley, former General Manager of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail- road, now of New York. Issue, Edna and Nelly Kenly, the former a recent bride of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Camsadel-George England (of Abram). Issue, Elizabeth and Cordelia, the former a recent bride of Mr. Sollers, of Calvert County.
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Alberta Clay-Samuel Sharretts and died a bride.
William Ridgely Warfield, Jr., is a hydraulic engineer and was in charge of the construction of the Harlem River Tunnel.
Georgietta, youngest daughter-Mortimer Dorsey Crapster, of Rodolphus and Elizabeth (Dorsey) Crapster. Issue, Rodolphus, Ernest, Eleanor, Mary Blanche, Thaddeus, Jr., Alice, Emma, Bowie and Robert Gordon. They can claim three Revolutionary ancestors.
Warner and Catharine Warfield, of "Bagdad," had issue- Marcellus Warfield, merchant, of Sykesville-Josephine, daughter of Colonel John Lawrence, Jr., of Linganore, whose mother was Martha West, of "The Woodyard;" issue, Mary, Joseph and Ella Lawrence Warfield; Mary Joseph-Robert H. Ward; issue, William and Warfield Ward; Manelia-Henry Jenkins (of Robert) brother of the late Colonel Stricker Jenkins. She holds the old homestead, " Bagdad," and has considerable data of value to the family.
LOCUST GROVE.
Philemon Dorsey Warfield, third son of Captain Benjamin, of "Cherry Grove," was born at the beginning af the Revolution.
Returning from the War of 1812, he bought of Charles Green- berry Ridgely, Jr., the western part of "Ridgely's Great Range." Building his brick house near the log cabin of this pioneer outpost, he married Lucretia Griffith Welsh, daughter of his neighbor, Philip Welsh.
Leading his negroes he went into the forest and cut it down, raised tobacco, rolled it over the "rolling road" to Elk Ridge Landing and at his death held some 1,500 acres of fertile land.
Standing, to-day, in the centre of that tract the eye rests upon open fields of grain and grass; upon large modern barns; upon comfortable commodious houses; upon land all limed; upon a landscape of surpassing beauty, which to a returning exile is a revelation of agricultural development, for it must be acknowledged that the back country of Anne Arundel has come to the front.
Six daughters and five sons were born at "Locust Grove." To-day, only one son and three daughters remain. Elizabeth Ann (now deceased) became Mrs. John G. Crapster (of Basil). Their children died in infancy. Lemuel Warfield, the oldest son (now deceased), inherited "Columbia," a large tract on the east of the estate. He married Elizabeth Hood (now deceased), daughter of Dr. John Hood Owings. Issue, Philemon Dorsey (deceased)-Carrie Dorsey. Issue, Mary; John Hood O. Warfield-Annie Reed. Issue, Stirling Custis, John H. Owings, Guy Trevelyn, William Howard, Bertha, Irene and Annie Elizabeth; Lemuel, Jr .- Vallie Burgess, daughter of Dr. Carter, of Virginia. Issue LeRoy Carter, Edwin, Margaret Gertrude and Augustus Warfield; Guy Trevelyn Warfield, youngest son, is connected with the Ætna Life Insurance Company, of Baltimore. He married Clara Pettes. They have a son. Amanda Lucretia, oldest daughter, became Mrs. John Willis Kincaid, of
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Baltimore. No issue. Mary Boyle (now deceased) became Mrs. Dr. William S. Magruder, of Shepherdstown. Issue, Roy, Elizabeth Vandoran, wife of Professor Allen, of Missouri; Helen Augusta, bride of Samuel Emory, of Queen Anne County; Hannah Owings, next daughter, became Mrs. Andrew Denison Stanton, son of General David L. Stanton, of Baltimore. Issue, Beatrice Owings and Nellie Denison; Katherine Davis is the bride of Mr. Griffin, of Mississippi; Margaret Gertrude and Mattie Augusta are single.
Elizabeth Ann, wife of Thomas Emory, of Queen Anne County. Clementine, wife of John Myron Adams, of Baltimore.
Amanda, second daughter of Philemon Dorsey Warfield, became the wife of Dr. Artemas Riggs, son of Colonel John Ham- mond and Rebecca (Howard) Riggs. Issue, Kate Riggs, wife of Frank Griffith, whose daughter Francis is the wife of Dr. H. G. Spurrier. Issue, Catharine; Artemas Riggs Griffith-Hattie Calli- flower. Issue, Frank Riggs.
Catharine Dorsey became Mrs. Samuel Greenberry Davis. Their daughter Emma died in early womanhood.
Dr. Milton Welsh Warfield (now deceased), graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, settled at "Welwyn." His wife was Mary Elizabeth Dawley, daughter of John and Adeline (Cummings) Dawley, of Yorkshire, England, a lineal descendant of Lady Jane Grey. Issue, Benjamin Dorsey Warfield, graduate of University of Louisville Law School, adjusting attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, practices before the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. (See sketch elsewhere.)
Dr. Ridgely Brown Warfield, graduate of University of Mary- land, was Surgeon-General upon the Staff of Governor Lloyd Lowndes. He practices in both Howard and Baltimore.
Milton Warfield was a member of the Fifth Regiment, Company D, in the Spanish War.
Anna, only daughter, is the wife of Dr. Archibald Harrison, of Baltimore. Issue, Mary Randolph, Julia Leigh and Alice Harrison.
Augustus Warfield (now deceased), who held the homestead- Kate A. Gaither (now deceased), daughter of Perry and Henrietta Poole. There was no issue.
Lucretia Griffith Warfield (deceased) married Dr. James S. Martin, "California Pioneer," son of "The Old Defender," Dr. Samuel B. Martin, by his wife, Ruth Dorsey Hawkins. Issue, Lizzie Blair, wife of Dr. William Mills, of Baltimore; Augustus Warfield Martin, of Baltimore-Annie, daughter of Captain Lay, U. S. N. Issue, Lay, Ann and Ruth Martin.
Dr. Frank Martin, of Baltimore, surgeon, graduate of the Uni- versity of Maryland-Ann Coates, daughter of Dr. Coates, of Baltimore.
Avolina Warfield (of Philemon Dorsey) is the widow of Major Charles Wayman Hood, of Carroll County. Professor Joshua Dorsey Warfield, only surviving son, graduate of Dickinson College and for ten years Professor of English in the Maryland Agricultural College,
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married, first, Tonnie Dawley (of John and Adaline). Issue, Eldred Dudley Warfield, of the U. S. Army (elsewhere noted), and M. Serenah, wife of George Biglow Schley, of Cincinnati, Ohio. His present wife is Margaret, only daughter of the late Dr. S. J. Cooke, by Mary, daughter of Hon. James Duke Dalrymple and Christiana Clare, of Calvert. Issue, Mary Olivia, John Breckinridge, Bernard Dalrymple and Margaret Clare Warfield.
Joshua Warfield, youngest son of Captain Benjamin, of "Cherry Grove," heired the homestead. He married two Welsh wives. By his first, Rachel (of Samuel), he had Avolina Riggs, wife of Elisha, whose only living daughter is Mrs. Kate Dorsey, of Roxbury, already recorded in the Riggs family; and Nicholas Ridgely Warfield (of Joshua) married Eleanor Warfield and died without issue. She has only recently passed away. Joshua Warfield's second wife was Lydia, daughter of John Welsh, a brother of Samuel. From that marriage were Albert Gallatin Warfield, who built "Oakdale," and Catharine, late widow of Mr. James Baxley. She inherited the homestead which has now passed to her nephew, John Warfield, of Albert.
OAKDALE.
In 1838 Albert G.' Warfield built "Oakdale," then a forest home. Many of its present attractions were his conception. He was a model man in every phase of life. As retiring as a child, he lived the calm, placid life of a typical farmer of the old school, refusing all attempts to draw him from his home life. In the interest of his children, whom he loved with manly fervor, he was induced to accept the position of School Commissioner. That office he filled with intelligent interest, but refused all others. He married early in life Margaret Gassaway Watkins, daughter of Colonel Gassaway Watkins. His life has thus been depicted, from which I quote:
Mr. Albert G. Warfield, one of the most prominent and respected citizens of Howard County, died at his residence "Oakdale," on Wednesday, after a brief illness. He was born February 26, 1817, on the plantation where he lived, in the old Colonial house built in 1768 by his grandfather, Captain Benjamin Warfield. He inherited from his father a large number of slaves and a portion of the home plantation, and spent there his long and honored life. His wife, who survives him, was Miss Margaret Gassaway Watkins, a daughter of Colonel Gassaway Watkins, of Revolutionary fame, and a sister of Dr. W. W. Watkins, of Howard County. Mr. and Mrs. Warfield would have celebrated their golden wedding on the 24th of August next. Mr. Warfield was a cultivated, refined and cour- teous gentleman of the old school, who dispensed at his beautiful home a generous hospitality. He was an indulgent master and, though one of the largest slave-owners of his section of the State, he believed that slavery was inconsistent with the character of our republican · institutions, and acting upon that belief he manumitted his as they arrived at the age of forty years. Henry Winter Davis, who enter-
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tained in his early life similar views, was one of his boyhood com- panions and schoolmates. Mr. Warfield, though often solicited, never accepted public office but once, in 1869, when he served as president of the county school board. Since the war he has been identified with the Democratic party, and was one of Senator Gor- man's first and staunchest political friends and supporters, and always noted with great interest and pleasure his success as a public man and citizen.
Two of his sons served in the Confederate Army-Gassaway Watkins Warfield, who died at Camp Chase, in 1864, and Albert G. Warfield, Jr., who after the war became a well-known civil engineer, went to Japan in 1873 as a member of the American Scientific Commission, of which Colonel Capron was chief, and died in 1883.
Four sons and two daughters survive him-Messrs. Joshua N. Warfield and Marshall T. Warfield, leading farmers of the county; Hon. Edwin Warfield, President of the Maryland Senate in 1886 and late Surveyor of the Port of Baltimore; Mr. John Warfield, member of the Baltimore Bar and editor of the "Daily Record;" Mrs. M. Gillet Gill, of Baltimore, and Mrs. Herman Hoopes, of Philadelphia.
By the death of Mr. Albert G. Warfield, Howard County has lost one of its most honored citizens. He has passed man's allotted threescore and ten years, and it was beyond human expectation that his days could be very many more. But still his demise falls as a heavy and sorrow-bringing blow upon all who were acquainted with the beautiful life which has been yielded up. The general respect and esteem accorded Mr. Warfield gives some idea of his character. He was the soul of honor, a man of quiet refinement, with a quick appreciation of the good and beautiful. He was essen- tially a man of domestic habits, loving his home and fireside. His declining years were happy in the contemplation of a life well spent and in the lustre added to an already honored name by the careers of his children.
Mrs. Margaret Gassaway Warfield, whose death occurred at the home of her daughter, in Pennsylvania, August, 1897, was the widow of Albert G. Warfield, of Howard County, and a daughter of Colonel Gassaway Watkins, of Revolutionary fame, who at the time of his death, in 1840, was president of the Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland, and the last surviving officer of the old Maryland Line. She was born at Walnut Grove, in Howard County, and since her marriage, in 1842, resided at "Oakdale," the old Warfield home, in that county. She was a woman of lovely Christian character, and made her home one of the most beautiful and attractive in the county, where her children, grandchildren and friends loved to meet and enjoy her sweet presence. She was loved by all who knew her, because her life was one of devotion to her family, friends and those in sorrow and need of sympathy.
Four sons and two daughters survive her-Messrs. Joshua N. Warfield and Marshall T. Warfield, prominent farmers in Howard County; Mr. Edwin Warfield, president of the Fidelity and Deposit
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Company of this city, and Mr. John Warfield, editor of the "Daily Record;" Mrs. M. Gillett Gill, of this city, and Mrs. Herman Hoopes, of Philadelphia. Her oldest son was Major A. G. Warfield, Jr., a prominent civil engineer, who died several years ago. He, with Gassaway W. Warfield, served in the Confederate Army, the latter dying in prison at Camp Chase, Ohio, during the war.
Mrs. Warfield was a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was one of three daugh- ters of a soldier who had served in the Revolutionary War.
A daughter of the Revolution, she leaves her credentials and her souvenirs as legacies, that she tried:
"To so live that when the sun of her existence sank in night,
Memorials sweet of mercies done might shield her name in Memory's
light.
And the best seeds she had scattered bloom,
A hundredfold in days to come."
Alice Warfield, oldest daughter of Albert G. married M. Gillet Gill, senior member of Martin, Gillett & Co., the oldest importers of tea in Baltimore. Upon her wedding trip she visited Japan and was the first American lady in that now famous island. She is a member of the Colonial Dames of Maryland. They have three sons, M. Gillet, Jr., Howard and Royal and one daughter, Mildred.
The youngest daughter of Albert G., is Margaret G., wife of Herman Hoopes, of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Issue, Marian, Edward and Albert W.
John Warfield, fifth son of Albert G., and Margaret (Watkins) Warfield, of "Oakdale" is Editor of the "Daily Law Record," of Baltimore. He is a member of the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He and his brother, Marshall T. Warfield are engaged in farming upon the home estate of "Cherry Grove." Both are bachelors, but progressive farmers. The latter is a member of Glenwood Farmers' Club.
Elisha, fourth son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Ridgely) War- field, was upon the Committee of Observation for Anne Arundel County, in 1775. He inherited his mother's dower in Dover. His first wife was Eliza Dorsey, daughter of Henry, grandson of Major Edward and Sarah (Wyatt) Dorsey. By that marriage he had three children, Polly, Sally and Nicholas, the last two dying in infancy. Polly, born December 13, 1772, married July 31, 1795, William Ford, of Fayette County, Kentucky, by whom she had three children, Charles, James C., and Eliza P., from whom are descended a numerous family. James C. Ford was one of the most prominent business men of Louisville, a man of large wealth and strong per- sonality. He married Mary J. Trimble, a daughter of Justice Robert Trimble, of the U. S. Supreme Court. The second wife of Elisha Warfield, of Benjamin and Rebecca (Ridgely) Warfield, was Ruth Burgess, daughter of Captain Joseph, of the Elkridge Militia, of 1776. He was the son of John, of Captain Edward, of Colonel William
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Burgess, Commander-in-Chief of the Provincial Forces and a member of the Quorum. Ruth Burgess' mother was Elizabeth Dorsey (of Michael and Ruth (Todd) Dorsey, of John and Honor (Elder) Dorsey, of Major Edward Dorsey, "Field Officer," in 1694; Judge of the High Court of Chancery in 1695. In 1790 Elisha and Ruth (Burgess) Warfield removed to Kentucky. Their sons were Elisha, Nicholas, Benjamin, Lloyd and Henry. Their daughters were Eliza, Sarah, Rebecca Ridgely, Harriett Burgess, Ann, Ruth and Nancy Dorsey. Their descendants, as far as have been given me, will be noticed in the order named.
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