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Massie, William, son of Thomas Massie (q. v.), was born in New Kent county, May 28, 1718. He was burgess for the county in 1748 and 1749, in which latter year he died. He married Martha Macon, daughter of Colonel William Macon, and after his death she married Theodorick Bland. He was father of Major Thomas Massie, of Am- herst, aide to Washington.
Mathew, Thomas, was a merchant, who acquired lands in Stafford and Northumber- land counties. In 1676 he represented Staf- ford in the house of burgesses. He removed to England at a later date and lived in the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster. He is celebrated as the author of a narrative of Bacon's rebellion, published in Force's Tracts, signed "T. M." In his will dated May 6, 1703, and recorded February 8, 1706, in the probate court of Canterbury, he re- fers to himself as "formerly of Cherry Point, in the parish of Bowtracy, Northumber- land county., Va.," and asks to be buried by the side of his son William in the "Church of St. Dunstan's in the East." He gave all his estate in England and Virginia
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to his three children-John, Thomas and Anna-and in 1712 the will was presented in Northumberland county court by his "brother-in-law," Captain John Crallé. Rob- ert Walton, in his will proved in Northum- berland, July 19, 1671, mentions his sister, Frissie Mathew, and brother-in-law, Thomas Mathew, and there is a power of attorney dated January 3. 1737, and on record in Northumberland, from Thomas Mathew, of Sherbon Lane, London, gent., and Mr. John Mathew, of London, merchant, and Anna, his wife, which Thomas and Anna were the surviving children of Thomas Mathew, for- merly of Cherry Point, in Virginia, to Thomas Crompton, of Maryland, to sell his lands in Virginia.
Matthews, George, son of John Matthews, who came to Virginia about 1737 and was . one of the first settlers on the great tract of land granted to Benjamin Borden, was born in 1739; was first a merchant in Staun- ton ; in 1774 a captain of a company in the battle of Point Pleasant ; in June, 1775, a burgess for Augusta in the assembly ; soon after appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Ninth Virginia Regiment; captured with his regiment at Germantown; exchanged in 1781 and commanded the Third Virginia Regiment under General Green in the south ; removed to Georgia in 1785, where he was elected to the first congress, 1789-1791, and niade governor, 1793-1796; brigadier gen- eral in the expedition for the capture of West Florida in 1811. He died in Augusta, Georgia, August 30, 1812.
Maury, James, son of Matthew Maury and Mary Anne Fontaine, was born April 8, 1718; was educated at William and Mary College; ordained a minister in 1742; then
was a minister one year in King William county, and afterwards was minister of Fredericksville parish, Hanover and Louisa counties ; plaintiff in the famous parson's cause, 1763; and died June 9, 1769. He married Mary Walker, daughter of James Walker, and was father of Rev. Matthew Maury, who succeeded him in the parish, and of Rev. Walker Maury (q. v.).
Maury, Matthew, was of Castle Mauran, Gascony, France, came to Virginia in 1708. He married, in 1716, Mary Anne Fontaine, sister of Revs. Francis and Peter Fontaine (q. v.). He was ancestor of the Maurys of Virginia.
Maury, Walker, son of Rev. James and Mary (Walker) Maury, was born July 21, 1752; educated at William and Mary Col- lege, 1770-1774, where in the latter year he obtained the Botetourt gold prize for class- ical learning ; had a grammar school in Wil- liamsburg, and in 1786 was made principal of the Norfolk Academy. He died of the yellow fever, October II, 1788. He married Mary Grymes.
Mayo, John, son of Major William Mayo and Anne Perratt, his wife, was born in Virginia about 1737; was burgess from Cumberland county in the place of John Fleming, deceased, at the session of March 31, 1768, till the close of the assembly, 1769; then burgess for Cumberland in 1769-1771, 1772-1774, 1775-1776; member of the con- ventions of 1774, 1775, 1776; he was colonel of militia ; died at his seat "Powhatan," in Henrico county, June 17, 1780. He married Mary Tabb, of Gloucester county and left issue.
Mayo, William, a noted surveyor, was son
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of Joseph Mayo and Elizabeth Hooper, his wife, of Poulshot, county Wilts, England, and was baptized at Poulshot, November 4, 1684; he first emigrated to Barbadoes, of which he made a survey. He married here Frances Gould and went with her to Vir- ginia in 1723; qualified in 1728 as one of the first justices for Goochland; in 1730 ap- pointed major of militia ; in 1729 one of the surveyors to run the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina ; made in 1737 a map of the Northern Neck ; surveyed Rich- mond in 1737; in 1740 colonel of the Gooch- land militia. He married (second) Anne Perratt, about the year 1732. He died Oc- tober 20, 1744.
McCarty, Charles, a descendant of Den- nis McCarty, who came to Virginia about 1670; was a member of the convention of May, 1776. He married Winifred Tarpley, daughter of Travers Tarpley, of Richmond county, and his will, dated 1784 and proved 1788, names children-Bartholomew, Charles Travers, Fanny, Winney, Elizabeth, Tarpley, Presley and John.
McCarty, Daniel, son of Dennis Mc- Carty, who died in Richmond county in 1694, was born in 1679; was burgess for Westmoreland county in 1705-06, 1715, 1718, 1720-1722, 1723. He was speaker of the house of burgesses in 1715 and 1718. He was a man of great estate and his massive silver table service, still preserved, bears the date of 1620, and the arms of the Earls of Clancarty. He died May 4, 1624, leaving issue, among others Daniel McCarty Jr. (q. v.).
McCarty, Daniel, Jr., son of Daniel Mc- Carty (q. v.), was collector of Potomac
river, colonel of the militia, and burgess for Westmoreland county from 1734 to 1744, when he died. He married Penelope Hig- gins, and had issue.
McDowell, Samuel, son of John Mc- Dowell, a surveyor for Benjamin. Borden (q. v.), and grandson of Ephraim Mc- Dowell, who emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania and thence to Virginia about 1735. He was burgess for Augusta county, 1772-1774, 1775-1776, and member of the conventions of 1774, 1775 and 1776. He was father of the celebrated surgeon, Ephraim McDowell, who married a daughter of Gen- eral Evan Shelby.
Mckenzie, Dr. Kenneth, born in Scotland, resided in Williamsburg; married Joanna Tyler, daughter of John Tyler, of James City county. His will was proved March 17, 1755. Portraits of Dr. Mckenzie and his wife are still extant.
Mead, William, born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1727, moved to Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1746, and thence to Bedford county, about 1754. He was one of the incorporators of New Lon- don, Bedford county ; sheriff of the county, justice of the peace and deputy surveyor under Richard Stith. He served as lieu- tenant of militia in the French and Indian war, and as ensign in the American revolu- tion. He married (first) Anne Haile, (sec- ond) Martha Cowles.
Meade, Andrew, was the son of David Meade (q. v.), of Nansemond county. He married Susanna, daughter of Buckner Stith, of Brunswick county. He represented Nansemond county in the conventions of July 17, 1775, and December 1, 1775.
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Meade, David, was the son of Andrew Meade (born in the county of Kerry, Ire- land) and Mary Latham, his wife. David Meade, in 1729 or 1730, married Susanna, daughter of Sir Richard Everard, governor of North Carolina, and Susannah Kidder, his wife, eldest daughter of Dr. Richard Kidder, bishop of Bath and Wells. He re- sided in Nansemond county, and died there il: 1757, in his forty-seventh year.
Meade, David, son of David Meade and Susanna Everard, his wife, was born July 29, 1744. He was a burgess for Nansemond county in 1769, but in 1774 removed to "Maycox," on James River in Prince George county. In 1796 he removed to Jessamine county, Kentucky, where at a very old age he died at his beautiful residence "Chau- miére des Prairies." He married Sarah Waters, daughter of William Waters, of Williamsburg, and left issue.
Meade, Richard Kidder, son of David Meade (q. v.) and Susanna Everard, his wife, was born in 1750, in Nansemond county. During the American revolution he was first captain of a company in the Second Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel William Woodford, and afterwards was aide-de-camp to General Washington. He married (first) Jane Randolph, aunt of John Randolph, of Roanoke, and (second) Mary Grymes, daughter of Benjamin Grymes. He was father of Bishop William Meade.
Meares, Thomas, patented 300 acres in the Upper county of New Norfolk in 1637; was burgess for Lower Norfolk in Febru- ary, 1645, October, 1646, and November, 1647. He was a Puritan and removed to VIR_19
Maryland in 1649, and in 1654 was a resi- dent at Providence or Annapolis. He was born in 1602.
Melling, William, came from England to Virginia before 1636, when he obtained a grant for 100 acres in Accomac. He was a member of the house of burgesses from Northampton, July, 1653, and March, 1657- 58. There is a notice June 28, 1661, in the Northampton records of "William Mellings, late of Virginia, now resident in London, gentleman."
Mercer, George, eldest son of John Mer- cer, of "Marlborough," was born June 23, 1733, was educated at William and Mary College; was lieutenant and captain in Washington's First Virginia Regiment in the French and Indian war, and later lieu- tenant-colonel of Colonel Byrd's Second Virginia Regiment ; aide-de-camp to Wash- ington, and was wounded at Fort Neces- sity, July 3, 1754. In 1761-63 he was bur- gess for Frederick county, and in 1763 went to England as agent for the Ohio Company. While there he was appointed stamp distributor and was given charge of the stamps for Maryland and Virginia. When he reached Virginia and learned of the feeling among the people, he resigned his office and, entrusting the stamps to Cap- tain Sterling, commander of his majesty's ship, Rainbow, he returned to England. He married, on August 18, 1767, at Scarboro, England, Mary Neville, daughter of Chris- topher Neville, of Lincoln. He was later appointed lieutenant-governor of North Carolina, but he did not ever act as gov- ernor. He died in London, April, 1784.
Mercer, James, younger brother of John
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Mercer, of "Marlborough," was born Feb- . seat, "Marlborough," in Stafford county, ruary 19, 1716; was a resident of Virginia Virginia, October 14, 1768. before 1745. He was captain in the Car- thagena expedition in 1740. He returned to Virginia in 1755 as captain of the Eighteenth Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel Dunbar, in the expedition against Fort Duquesne, and continued in the mili- tary service till his death, when he had attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He died. unmarried at Albany, New York, Sep- tember 27, 1757.
Mercer, John, of "Marlborough," an emi- nent lawyer, was son of John Mercer, of Dublin, Ireland, and his wife, Grace Fenton, and grandson of Robert Mercer and his wife, Elinor Reynolds, and great-grandson of Noel Mercer, of Chester, England, and his wife, Ann Smith ; born in Dublin, Febru- ary 6, 1740, and emigrated to Virginia in 1720, at the age of sixteen. He studied law, and entered on the practice in 1728. He acquired large landed possessions in Vir- ginia and Ireland, and improved his great natural abilities by extensive study in polite literature. He left a library of 1500 volumes, one-third of which were law books. He was secretary of the Ohio Company and vestryman of Acquia church. He was the author of an "Abridgement of the Laws of Virginia," published at Williamsburg in 1737, with a continuation in 1739, no copy of which last is known ; and of a second edi- tion published in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1759. He was also the author of a tract against the Stamp Act, said to be the first published in Virginia. He married (first) Catherine Mason, aunt of George Mason, the states- man of the revolution; married (second) Anne Roy, of Essex county. He died at his
Mercer, John Fenton, son of John Mer- cer, of "Marlborough," was ensign in 1754 in Fry's regiment in the French and Indian war, lieutenant in Robert Stewart's com- pany on the Fort Duquesne expedition, and captain in Washington's regiment; was killed in action and scalped by the Indians, April 18, 1756, at Edwards' Fort, on the Warm Springs mountains, while in com- mand of a scouting party of 100 men.
Meredith, Samuel, son of Samuel Mere- dith (died April 14, 1762), was born in Han- over county in 1732; captain of a company in the French and Indian war, 1758; cap- tain of an independent company of Hanover in 1775; burgess for Hanover county in 1766-1769, and member of the convention of December, 1775 appointed colonel of the first battalion of minute men in May, 1776; moved from Hanover to Amherst county about 1780; was lieutenant-colonel of the Amherst militia, justice of the peace and sheriff. He died December 22, 1808. His second wife was Jane Henry, a sister of Patrick Henry.
Meriwether, Francis, son of Nicholas Meriwether, a native of Wales, was a large landholder in Essex county ; clerk of Essex county from 1692 to 1702; senior justice of Essex in 1711 ; and burgess for the county in: 1705-1706. He married Mary Bathurst, daughter of Lancelot Bathurst, and died in 1712 or 1713.
Meriwether, Nicholas, son of Nicholas Meriwether, of Wales, was born October 26, 1667; resided first in James City county, then in New Kent, and latterly in Hanover.
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He was a justice, coroner, sheriff and lieu- tenant-colonel; burgess for New Kent in the assemblies of 1705-1706, 1710-1712, 1712- 1714. 1715, 1718, 1720-1722; burgess for Hanover, 1723-1726 and 1727-1734. He was a large landowner in New Kent, Hanover and Albemarle counties. He married Eliz- abeth Crafford, and his will was proved in Goochland county, November 20, 1744.
Meriwether, Nicholas, a native of Wales, born in 1631; was clerk of Surry county, Virginia, in 1655, and in 1656 purchased from Nathaniel Bacon the "Island house," on Jamestown Island; appointed justice of Surry county in 1672 and died December 19, 1678. He was a large patentee of land and founder of an influential Virginia family.
Meriwether, William, son of Colonel Nicholas. Meriwether, of Hanover county, was a burgess in 1734-1740. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Bushrod, of Westmoreland county and had issue.
Metcalfe, Richard, son of Gilbert Met- calfe, merchant of London, descended from an ancient family in Yorkshire; settled in Richmond county, Virginia. He died be- fore 1712, leaving Gilbert Metcalfe and other children.
Metcalfe, Thomas, son of Samuel Met- calfe, grocer of Northwich, Cheshire, Eng- lanl, was born August 10, 1734. He came to Virginia in 1751 with his uncle, John Metcalfe, and settled in King William county. He married, in 1756, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr. John Strachey, for- merly of Sutton Court, England, but then of King and Queen county, Virginia. Left issue.
Meux, John, immigrant, resided in New Kent county, Virginia. He died March 19, 1727, and his wife, Elizabeth, died August 7, 1713. They left issue-John, Ann, Rich- ard.
Milner, Francis, son of Colonel Thomas Milner, was a burgess for Nansemond county in 1699. His daughter Anne mar- ried Major Thomas Cary.
Milner, George, an officer under Bacon, who made terms for his life at the surrender of West Point, January 16, 1677.
Milner, Thomas, lived in Nansemond county in 1675; was clerk of the house of burgesses, 1681-84; burgess in 1688 and 1691-93, and speaker during 1692 and 1693. He was lieutenant-colonel of the militia of Nansemond in 1680. His daughter Mary married Colonel Miles Cary, of "Rich Neck," Warwick county, and died October 27, 1700. He used the same coat-of-arms as the Mil- ners of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, Eng- land. He died in 1694.
Milner, Thomas, son of Colonel Thomas Milner, was a burgess for Nansemond county in 1698, 1699, 1700-1702. It was doubtless his son Thomas, third of the name in Virginia, that married, in 1719-20, Mary Selden, daughter of Samuel Selden and Re- becca, his wife, of Elizabeth City county. They had a son, Samuel Milner, who died without issue in 1788.
Minge, James, was the first of the family of Minge in Virginia. He lived in Charles City county, Virginia ; was well educated, and in 1671 is called a surveyor. He took sides with National Bacon, Jr., and was clerk of the house of burgesses which assem-
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bled in June, 1676 under Bacon's authority. He was also clerk of the assembly called by General Ingram, shortly after Bacon's death, in October, 1676. He was very useful to Bacon in drawing up his laws and papers.
Minor Doodes, was a Dutch ship captain who came to Virginia about 1650, and set- tled first in Nansemond county. In 1665 he was living in Lancaster county. In 1673 the general assembly naturalized Minor Doodes and his son Doodes Minor. His will, dated December 13, 1677, was proved in Lancaster county. It is sealed with the wax impression of a ship. He was ancestor of the Minor family of Spottsylvania county.
Miller (Muller), Adam, was a native of "Shresoin," Germany, and was the first set- tler, or one of the first settlers, in the valley of Virginia. In 1726 or 1727 he located land at Massanutting, on the Shenandoah river. This tract, now in the southwestern part of Page county, near the Rockingham line, he sold; and in 1741 settled near Elkton, at Bear Lithia Springs. He served in the French and Indian war, and died about the close of the revolution. In religion he was a Lutheran.
Mitchell, John, was an eminent physician and botanist. He was born in London, and his Virginia home was at Urbanna, Middle- sex county. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and gave to Linnaeus much valuable information on American flora. Among his researches in this science are "Dissertio brevis de Principio Botanicorum et Zoolo- gorum," dedicated to Sir Hans Sloane, and dated Virginia, 1738, and "Nova Plantarum Genera," dedicated to Peter Collinson (1741). They were published at Nurem-
berg, 1769. He contributed several articles to the "Philosophical Transactions." He wrote an article on the "Yellow Fever in Virginia in 1737-42," which was published by Benjamin Rush in the "American Medi- cal and Philosophical Register" (1755). He is also credited with "A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America," London, 1755; "The Contest in America be- tween Great Britain and France" (anony- mous about 1757), and "The Present State of Great Britain and North America." Lin- naeus bestowed Mitchell's name on the "Mitchella Repens." He died in London in March, 1768.
Mitchell, Richard, was burgess for Lan- caster county in the assemblies of 1761- 1765, October, 1765, 1766-1768, 1769-1771, 1772-1774. He was son of Robert Mitchell (q. v.). He was living in 1789.
Mitchell, Robert, was burgess for Lan- caster county in the assembly of 1742-1747 ; living in 1755; father of Richard Mitchell (q. v.).
Mitchell (Michell), William, came to Northampton county from Maryland, where he had in 1650 served as councillor; was burgess for Northampton in 1658; captain, etc. He appears to have been an early ex- ample of an atheist (see Neill, “Virginia Carolorum").
Molesworth, Colonel Guy, was son of An- thony Molesworth, Esq., of Fotherington, in county Northampton, England. During the civil wars (1642-1649) he was colonel of a regiment of horse and received twenty- five wounds battling for the King. In 1650 he was banished to Barbadoes, and after- wards came to Virginia. In 1660 he aided
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Berkeley in drawing an address to Charles Il. for pardon, and soon thereafter returned to England. His nephew, Robert Moles- worth, was created Viscount Molesworth in 1716.
Monroe, Andrew, uncle of President James Monroe, represented Westmoreland county in the house of burgesses from 1742- I746.
Monroe, Andrew, ancestor of President Monroe, was an early resident of Maryland, where he commanded a pinnace in the serv- ice of Cuthbert Fenwick, general agent of Lord Baltimore. He was a Protestant, and when Richard Ingle declared for parliament in 1645, Monroe took sides against Lord Baltimore's government and eventually set- tled like other refugee Marylanders at Mat- tox Creek, in Westmoreland county, under the Virginia authority. He died there in 1668.
Monroe, Andrew, grandfather of Presi- dent James Monroe, was a burgess for Westmoreland county in 1742-1747.
Montague, James, son of William Mon- tague, a descendant of Peter Montague (q. v.), was born in Middlesex county, Febru- ary 18, 1741. He was one of the magistrates of the county and a burgess in the assem- blies of 1772-1774 and 1775. He was a cap- tain of militia. He married Mary Eliza Chinn, daughter of Joseph Chinn, and died in 1781 or 1782, leaving issue.
Montague, Peter, was born in 1600, and was the son of Peter and Eleanor Montague, of Boveny parish, Burnham, Buckingham- shire, England. He came to Virginia in 1621 and was employed by Captain Samuel
Mathews on his plantation on James river. He afterwards removed to Upper Norfolk (Nansemond) county, which he represented in the house of burgesses in 1652 and 1653. About 1654 he removed to Lancaster county, then including Middlesex, and represented that county from 1651 to 1658. He was a large landholder and leading citizen. His will was recorded in Lancaster, May 27, 1659. He has numerous descendants in Virginia.
Moody, Sir Henry, baronet, was son of Sir Henry Moody, baronet, of Garsden, Wiltshire, and Deborah Dunche, his wife. After her husband's death, in 1632, Lady Deborah, with her young son, sailed for America, and after living at Lynn, Massa- chusetts, from 1639 to 1643 sought religious freedom among the Dutch at Gravesend, Long Island. Her son, Sir Henry, served in the army of King Charles I., and in 1650, after due submission to the parliamentary authorities, he sailed to Long Island in order to join his mother. Later he came to Virginia, and in 1660 was sent by the assem- bly to New York to make a treaty with the Dutch, but Governor Berkeley would not confirm the articles. He returned to Vir- ginia and died at the house of Colonel Fran- cis Moryson, at Elizabeth City, about 1662.
Moon, Captain John, born at Berry, near Gosport, in the parish of Stoke, Hampshire, England. He represented Isle of Wight county in the house of burgesses in 1639, 1652, 1654, and perhaps other years. His will was recorded August 12, 1655, in Isle of Wight county, and mentions a wife Pru- dence and three daughters, Sarah, Susanna and Mary Moon.
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Moore, Augustine, came from England to Virginia about 1705, and acquired a great fortune in the tobacco trade. He was born about 1685 and died July 28, 1743. He erected a large brick building on his planta- tion in King William county, which he called "Chelsea," after the more famous seat of his ancestors in England. He was a de- scendant of Sir Thomas Moore. He mar- ried twice, (first) Mary Gage, (second) Elizabeth Todd, daughter of Thomas Todd and Elizabeth Bernard, his wife, daughter of Colonel William Bernard, of the council.
Moore, Augustine, was son of Bernard Moore (q. v.) and was burgess from King William county, succeeding his father in the assemblies of 1772-1774 and 1775-1776. He married Sarah Rind, and left issue.
Moore, Bernard, was son of Colonel Au- gustine Moore, of "Chelsea," King William county, and Elizabeth Todd, his wife. He was a justice and colonel of the militia in King William county, and was burgess for the county from 1744 to 1758 and from 1761 to 1772. He married Anna Katherine Spots- wood, daughter of Governor Alexander Spotswood, and was father of Augustine Moore (q. v.).
Morgan, Francis, was a justice of York county in 1648; captain of militia, and bur- gess for York in 1647, 1652 and 1653. He died in 1657, leaving one son Francis, who was heir to his large estate. This last left two daughters, co-heiresses, living in 1698 -Sarah, wife of Thomas Buckner, and Anne, wife of Dr. David Alexander.
Morgan, Morgan, a Welshman, removed from Pennsylvania to Virginia; settled within the present boundaries of Berkeley
county, West Virginia, and erected, about 1726 or 1727, at the site of the village of Bunker Hill, within the present county of Berkeley, West Virginia, what is said to liave been, and probably was, the first cabin on the Virginia side of the Potomac, be- tween the Blue Ridge and North mountains. He died in 1779.
Morlatt (Morlet), Thomas, was a burgess in 1624 and signed "The Tragicall Relation."
Morley, William, was a burgess for James City county in 1660.
Moryson, Colonel Charles, son of Major Richard Moryson, succeeded his uncle, Major Francis Moryson, as captain of the fort at Point Comfort. In 1680 he was colonel of the militia of Elizabeth City county and presiding justice. He died about 1692 at Plymouth, in England, when about to return to Virginia. His widow, Rebecca, who had previously been the widow of Leonard Leo, married (third) Colonel John Lear.
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