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2. The original patent of Knighthood of the Order of St. Stanislaus, 1790, signed by the King.
3. The letter from the Prince of Nassau requesting the Marshal de Ligne to give Lewis Littlepage a captaincy in the regiment Royale l'Allemande, re- citing Littlepage's distinguished service at Port Mahon and Gibraltar.
4. The letter of the Duque de Cuillon assigning Lewis Littlepage to his staff.
5. The letter of Court Florda Blanca recommending Lewis Littlepage.
6. The passport of Lewis Littlepage for his mission to France.
7. Lewis Littlepage's gold-hilted rapier presented to him by the Queen of Spain.
8. Lewis Littlepage's gold key, his badge as chamberlain to the King of Poland.
9. The portrait of the King of Poland presented to Lewis Littlepage by the King on their final parting at Grodno.
Dr. Payne has too the insignia of Littlepage's knighthood, the Star of the order of Stanislaus. In the centre is a convex silver plate, on which, formed of small ruby sets, are the initials S. A. R., Stanislaus Augustus Rex; sur- rounding this, wrought with gold thread, is the motto, INCITAT PROEMIANDO. Around this is a brilliant green border with gilt leaves. The rays of the star are silver spangles.
THE TOBACCO PLANT.
A very curious article might be written on the literature of tobacco, in- volving its relation to the church and the State, and its influence on the indi- vidual mind and body, on manners and habits, and the general wealth and happiness of the world. Such an article might be illustrated by the authority of statesmen, lawyers, medical men, merchants, farmers and political econo- mists, and adorned with gems of wisdom and of wit from nearly all the En- glish scholars and poets, from King James' "Counterblast" to Charles Lamb's "Farewell to Tobacco," in which praises and curses alternate with amusing felicity. It is interwoven with the history of Virginia at every stage of its progress. In colonial times many Acts of Assembly were passed regulating its culture, and one office of the early vestries was to appoint reputable freehold- ers to count tobacco plants in each parish. Thus, as early as 1728, Goodrich Lightfoot and Robert Slaughter counted the plants from the mouth of Moun- tain Run (in what is now Culpeper) up to Joseph Howe's Plantation, and across to the mouth of the Robinson River; Robert Green and Francis Kirtley on the other side of Mountain Run to the North River; George Woots and Michael Cook from the mouth of the Robinson River up to the Great Moun-
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tains. The salaries of ministers and civil officers were paid in tobacco, and it, or notes representing it in the warehouse, were the currency of the country. Some of these notes are now before us. Parishes too were known as "Orinoco" and "Sweet-scented" parishes, according to the kind of tobacco grown in them. The salary of a minister was 16,000 lbs. of tobacco, the value of which varied from £40 to £80 in money. A sweet-scented parish was worth much more than an Orinoco parish. There was a deduction of 8 per cent. for cash, and tobac- co was sometimes as low as six shillings current money. A minister's tobacco was worth less than other like bulks of tobacco, because it was so mixed. Many flourishing towns, as Dumfries and Fahnouth, &c., where Scotch merchants grew rich in this trade, sprang up in Virginia. In Glasgow there is now a "Virginia Street," and that city received a great impulse from becoming the entrepot whence the farmers-general of France derived their supplies of to- bacco from Virginia.
THE PINE TREE AND ITS FRUITS-SALARIES PAID IN TAR.
These two were subjects of legislation. Tar was once in great deinand for tarring the roofs of public and private buildings. Special instructions were given by the General Assembly of Virginia for preparing pine-trees by strip- ping the bark from the trunk of the trees, eight feet from the root, leaving a small slip to keep the tree alive, when in a short time, it was said, the sun would draw the turpentine to the surface, and the whole trunk would become light-wood.
It may not generally be known that towards the North Carolina line, where little or no tobacco was grown, the minister was paid in tar, pitch and pork; so says the Rev. Mr. Bagg in his report (1724) to the Bishop of London.
GENEALOGIES
OF SOME OF THE OLD VESTRYMEN AND COMMUNICANTS OF ST. MARK'S PARISH.
Many of these family-trees had their roots in Great Britain ages ago; but it would take too much space to trace them there. As a general rule, we limit ourselves to the branches which were transplanted in Virginia. If our notices of some of the families are more extended than those of others, it is because the former were better known to us. Our design in printing these genealogies is to gratify a natural desire, which most persons feel, to know something of their forefathers, and to show how family-trees in a few generations interlock their branches. It is more creditable to transmit an honorable name to one's children than it is to derive it from one's ancestors, and to be descended from good and true men than from a long line of unworthy forefathers, even though it be a line of kings and queens. But it seems to be unnatural and irrational to attach more value to the pedigrees of horses and herds than to the pedi- grees of men and women. One end of history is to reproduce the past for the gratification and instruction of the present: and it is surely (at least) an inno-
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cent curiosity to look back at those who in the past century cleared the land which we now till, and who laid the foundation of the institutions under which we live.
Explanations of the abbreviations to be found in the genealogies :- m. means married; ch., child or children; dau., daughter, and d. s. p., died with- out offspring.
THE BARBOUR FAMILY.
This family is of Scotch origin. There was a John Barbour who was Archdeacon of Old Aberdeen as early as 1357. He was the author of the his- torical poem of the Life and Actions of King Robert Bruce. Whether he was the root in Scotland of the branches of the family in Virginia, the writer does not know. Our relations are with James Barbour, the first of the name in what is now Culpeper. He was one of the first vestry men of St. Mark's Parish at its organization at Germanna in 1731. and served in that office until the di- vision of the parish in 1740. which threw him into the new parish of St. Thom- as in Orange County where he lived. If the old register of St. Thomas Parish had been preserved, we should doubtless have found his name as vestryman there. Among his children were 1st James, who represented Culpeper in the House of Burgesses in 1764. He was the father of Mordecai Barbour, who married a daughter of John Strode of Fleetwood in Culpeper, and of Thomas, Richard and Gabriel, of whom the last three migrated to Kentucky. The Hon. John S. Barbour, M. C., brilliant at the bar and in the legislative halls, was the son of Mordecai and Miss Strode. He married Miss Beirne of Peters- burg, and their children are, 1st John S. Barbour, President of the Virginia Midland Railroad, who married a daughter of Henry Dangerfield of Alexan- dria; 2d. James, member of Assembly and Convention, who married Miss Beck- ham; 3d. Alfred, deceased; 4th. Dr. Edwin Barbour; 5th. Sally; 6th, Eliza (Mrs. George Thompson.)
Thomas, son of James 1st, represented. Orange in the Assembly in 1775, and St. Thomas Parish in the Convention in 1785-86-90. He married Isabella Thomas, daughter of Philip Pendleton. There children were, 1st. Dr. Richard, and 2d. Thomas, who died in their youth; 3d. Hon. Philip P. Barbour, Speak- er of Congress. and of the Convention of 1829-30, and Justice of the Supreme Court U. S. He married Frances Todd, daughter of Benjamin Johnson of Orange. His children were: 1st. Philippa, who married Judge Field of Culpep- er; 2d. Elizabeth, who married John J. Ambler of Jacquelin Hall, Madison County; 3d. Thomas, M. D., who married Catherine Strother of Rappahan- nock County; he died in St. Louis of cholera in 1849; 4th. Edinund Pendleton who married Harriet, daughter of Col. John Stuart of King George, and died in 1851; 5th. Quintus, who married Mary, daughter of James Somerville of Culpeper; 6th. Sextus, died in St. Louis; 7th. Septimus, died in infancy. The Hon. P. P. Barbour died in Washington, attending the Supreme Court. Feb- ruary, 1841 His widow died April, 1872, aged 85.
4th. James, son of Thomas and grandson of James 1st, was born June 10th, 1775. He was Governor of Virginia, Senator of U. S., Minister to England, Secretary of War, &c. Besides their other qualities, the two brothers had a wondrous faculty of speech in conversation and in the forum. James married, October 29th, 1792, Lucy, daughter of Benjamin Johnson. Their children were: - 1st. Benjamin Johnson Barbour, who died in 1820 in the 20th year of his age; 2d. James, who died November 7th, 1857: 3d. Benjamin Johnson Bar- bour, born June 14th, 1821. and married November 17th, 1844, Caroline Homoe- sel, daughter of the late emment Dr. George Watson of Richmond. Mr. Bar-
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bour inherits the genius of his father, informed by rare culture, but he follows the example of his great-grandfather, and is content to be warden of the church. He was elected to Congress in 1865; but the representatives of Vir- ginia of that year were not admitted to their seats. 4th. Lucy, daughter of Governor Barbour, married (1822) John Seymour Taliaferro, who was unhap- pily drowned in 1830; 5th. Frances Cornelia Barbour married William Handy Collins, a distinguished lawyer of Baltimore.
Among the daughters of Col. Thomas Barbour were: 1st. Lucy, who married Thomas Newman and had three daughters, Mrs. Macon, Mrs. Welch and Wil- helmina, and one son. James Barbour Newman. 2. Nelly, married Martin Nalle of Culpeper, father of P. P. Nalle, warden of St. Paul's Church, who married first Miss Wallace, and second Miss Zimmerman, and is the father of Mrs. Steptoe, wife of the Rector of St. Paul's. Cordelia Nalle married Joseph Hiden of Orange, father of Rev. J. C. Hiden (Baptist), Greenville, S. C. Ed- monia Nalle married William Major, Esq., of Culpeper: Fanny Nalle married John C. Hansbrough (lawyer); Martinette Nalle married Blucher Hansbrough of Culpeper; Lucetta Nalle married George Booton of Madison; Jane Nalle married George Clark of Washington, D. C .; Thos. Nalle married Miss Hooe of Fredericksburg; Benjamin Johnson Nalle died ummarried; Sarah Ellen Nalle married Col. Garrett Scott, father of Rev. F. G. Scott of Christ Church, Gordonsville, Va. ; and Mary Nalle in. Richard H. Willis. Sally, daughter of Thomas Barbour, married Gabriel Gray, and had daughters, Mrs. S. F. Leake, Mrs. William Anderson, Mrs. R. W. An- derson, and Mrs. Cowles. Mary, daughter of Thos. Barbour, married Daniel Bryan-children, Mrs. Lathrop, Mrs. Judge Wylie, Mrs. Brown, and two sons, B. Bryan and Wm. Bryan.
James Barbour the head of the foregoing family, took out a patent for land on the Rapidan in 1734.
On the farm of Col. Garrett Scott in Orange is a granite tombstone just as old as St. Mark's Parish. The inscription is as follows: Here lyeth the body of Jane, wife of John Scott, who was born ye 28th Dec., 1699, and departed this life ye 28th April, 1:31. This farm is in direct lineal descent to the pres- ent owner from a grant known as the "Todd Grant," from the Crown of En- gland.
Note: In the Barbour genealogy page 52, the second paragraph should read that Thos, son of James 1st. m. Mary dau. of Richard Thomas and Isa- bella Pendleton Thomas.
THE CARTER FAMILY.
The first of this name in Virginia was Jno. Carter of Corotoman, who died in 1669. A chart of his descendants would fill this book. I limit this notice to those known to the writer in St. Mark's Parish. Robert, called King Carter, was the son of John 1st, by his wife Sarah Ludlowe. Robert m. (1688) Judith Armstead, and among their children was John, who (1723) m. Eliza Hill of Shirley, and their third son Edward of Blenheim m. Sarah Champe and their dau. Eliza, m. William Stanard of Roxbury, Spots- ylvania, who was the grandfather of Virginia Stanard, who m. Samuel Slaughter, the old churchwarden of St. Mark's, and was the mother of Mrs. William Green of Richmond, of Mrs. Dr. Daniel Green, of Sally C., wife of Rev. William Lockwood of Md., of Marcia (Mrs. John B. Stanard). Elizabeth Stanard m. Jno. Thompson father of Fanny, wife of Rev. John Cole, of Miss Eliza Thompson, and of Mrs. Buffington. Jane, daughter of Edward of Blen- heim m. Major Bradford of the British army, father of Samuel K. Bradford of
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the Revolution, whose son, Samuel K. Bradford. vestryman of St. Mark's m. Emily, daughter of Samuel Slaughter (churchwarden of St. Mark's), and was the father of S. S. Bradford, present churchwarden; of Mrs. Gen. Wright, U. S. army ; of Mrs. Professor Nairne of Columbia College, New York; of Dr. Robert B. Bradford, and of Mrs. Van Schaik of New York City. William Champe Carter of Farley, Culpeper County, sixth son of Edward of Blenheim, m. Maria Farley, and their daughter Eliza Hill m. Col. Samuel Storrow, the father of Mrs. Judge Bell, of Mrs. Dr. Win. Thompson, of Mrs. Weston, of Mrs. Green, of Samuel and Farley. Charles Carter of Cleve, son of King Carter by his second wife Mary Landon, had a daughter Sarah who m. William a son of Rev. John Thompson of St. Mark's, who was the father of Commodore Char- les Carter Byrd Thompson, U. S. navy, of Gilliss and of William Thompson.
THE CAVE FAMILY.
Among the members of the first vestry of St. Mark's in 1731 was Benjamin Cave. I have in my possession the original patent for 1000 acres of land on the Rappidan (sic) River, to Abraham Bledsoe and Benjamin Cave, "to be held in free and common socage, and not in capite or knight service, by pay- ing yearly the free rent of one shilling for every fifty acres, on the feast of St. Michael the Archangel"; signed by William Gooch, Lieut .- Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia. Done at Williams- burg, under the seal of the Colony, 28th September, 1728.
Benjamin Cave was vestryman of St. Mark's until 1740, when St. Thomas Parish was cut off from St. Mark's; and he and David Cave, who was Lay Reader at the old Orange Church near Ruckersville, became members of the new parish (St. Thomas) in Orange County, where they lived The records of St. Thomas being lost, their relation to it cannot be traced. It is known, how- ever, that the family adhered to the Church of their fathers; and one of the old ministers, about 1740, lived with Benjamin Cave, Sr., whose residence was within reach of the first chapel (near Brooking's) and the old Orange Church.
I have in my possession some original poems in MS., entitled "Spiritual Songs," written by a sister of Benjamin Cave, Sr., endorsed 1767. It is very pleasant to find one of these old-time church people, who some modern people think had no religion, giving utterance to her pions emotions in songs which are evidently the outpourings of a truly devotional spirit. It is said that Ben- jamin Cave used to repeat the church service from memory, chanting the psalms.
The first Benjamin Cave lived for a time at what is now known as Rhodes in Orange, and then moved to land on the Upper Rapidan near Cave's Ford, which derives its name from hifn.
Benjamin Cave represented Orange in the House of Burgesses in 1756. He m. Hannah, dan. of Wmn. and sister of Abraham Bledsoe; ch. David, John, Win., Richard (who moved to Kentucky), Ann (to North Carolina); Sally m. a Strother, Hannah m. Capt. Mallory; ch. Elizabeth in. Oliver Welch. Another daughter m. Capt. Robert Terrill, the father of Mrs. Robert Lovell. Another daughter m. Oliver Terrill, the father of Dr. Uriel Terrill, Delegate from Orange. Another daughter m. Welch. William Mallory m. Miss Gibson, and was the father of Robert Mallory, late M. C. from Kentucky. Uriel Mallory was the father of Mrs. John Taliaferro. Phil. Mallory lived near Raccoon Ford. Elizabeth, dau. of Benjamin Cave in. Col. Wmn. Johnson; ch. 1. Valen- tine m. Elizabeth Cave, ch. Belfield m. Miss Dickerson. 2. Fontaine in. Miss Duke. 3. Lucy m. Mr. Suggett. 4. Sally m. Mr. Dickerson. 5. Benjamin m. Miss Barbour (see Barbour genealogy). 6. Col. Robert mu. Miss Suggett; ch. 1.
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Richard M., Vice-President and hero of the "Thames"; 2. J. T. Johnson (M. C.); 3. James; 4. Benjamin. Benjamin Cave, son of first Benjamin, m. a dau. of Dr. John Belfield of Richmond County; ch. Belfield, m1. Miss Christy; ch. Belfield, Clerk of Madison County, m. Miss Jones, and was the father of Mrs. Governor Kemper. Emily m. Col. Cave; Sally m. Shackelford; Hudson was Professor at Chapel Hill, N. C .; Benjamin mn. Miss Glassell (father of Mrs. John Gray, Jr., of Traveller's Rest.) Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth, m. Miss White; ch. William, Belfield, John and Margaret, all settled in Kentucky. Sarah, dau. of Benjamin, m. Win. Cassine; ch. Mary, who m. Mr. Taliaferro. William, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Cave, m. Miss Smith; ch. John, Wmn. and Hudson, settled in Kentucky. Elizabeth mu. John Bell, father of Nelson H. Bell of Baltimore, who m. Hannah Cave. Another dau. m. Mr. Irvine. Richard Cave m. Miss Porter; ch. Thomas, Capt. William (father of Mrs. Cornelia Thompson), Felix, Elizabeth, Mary, Cornelia. Anne, and Hannah.
I am indebted to Mrs. Thompson for contributions to the above notice.
THE CLAYTONS.
The first person of this name who appears in the history of Virginia was the Rev. Jolin Clayton, who had been Rector of Crofton in Yorkshire. In 16- 83 he addressed to the Royal Society in England, at their request, several let- ters giving an account of what he calls "Several Observables" in Virginia. These letters discuss the soil, climate, natural history and agriculture of the colony of that day. They display great acuteness of observation, fullness of learning, and practical suggestions. He seems to have been the first to point out the value of marl and inuck as fertilizers, and suggest to the planters the advantage of draining the tidewater swamps. And when his opinion was laughed at and rejected by the overseers, he went to work and put them to shame by laying dry a pond of water, bringing to the light of the sun inex- haustible soil.
The next inan of mark of this naine was the Rev. David Clayton, minister of Blissland Parish, New Kent Co., Virginia, from 1704 to 1724. In his paroch- ial reports to the Bishop of London he says (1724) that his parish was sixty miles long, that he had under his charge 136 families and about seventy com- municants.
There is John Clayton at Williamsburg, Attorney General. and a friend of Spotswood, who accompanied Mr. Fontaine in the first trip to Germanna in 1714. There was also a Clayton a vestryman and justice in Essex Co. The family tradition is that Major Philip Clayton came to Culpeper from New Kent through Essex. What was his precise relation to the foregoing clergy- men is not certainly known. His name first appears in our church records in the year 1741, when he was chosen vestryman of St. Mark's, and a patent for land from Lord Fairfax to John Brown (now before us) is endorsed as having been surveyed by Phillip Clayton, 1749. He was the deputy, doing all the duties of the office for Roger Dixon, Clerk of Culpeper, who lived in the lower country. He married Ann, sister of Robert Coleman, on whose land the courthouse was built. He had one son, Samuel (his successor in the vestry), who married his cousin Ann Coleman, and among their children were Major Philip Clayton the second, an officer of the Revolution, whose daughter Sarah Ann married Dr. James B. Wallace.
Nancy, sister of the last Philip, and daughter of Samuel, married Jeremi- ah Strother, and was the grandmother of the Rev. J. S. Hansbrough, and Mrs. Judge Williams of Orange C. H., Colonel Woodson Hansbrough, and Mrs. Waldridge.
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Lucy, dau. of the first Philip, married William Williams (vestryman), and their children were Major John, General James, both officers in the Rev- olution, Philip of Woodstock, William Clayton of Richmond, Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Green. (See Williams genealogy.)
Susan, another daughter of the first Philip, married Colonel James Slaugh- ter, father of Captain Philip Slaughter. (See Slaughter genealogy).
Another daughter married Nathaniel Pendleton, brother of Judge Edmund Pendleton, President of the Court of Appeals (see Pendleton genealogy). An- other daughter married a Crittenden, and was the mother (I believe) of Sena- tor Crittenden of Kentucky.
Major Philip Clayton the elder lived at Catalpa, so named from a Catalpa tree he transplanted from Essex, the first of its kind in the county.
Philip Clayton went from Virginia to Georgia, where he died, and was buried at Sand Hills, near the city of Augusta. His children were first. George Roots of Milledgeville, cashier of State Bank and treasurer of the State, high- ly honored and esteemed. 2. Augustine Smith Clayton, of Athens, graduated at Franklin College, distinguished at the bar, Judge of the Western Circuit, and member of Congress, where lie won a national reputation. He was an able statesman, jurist and man of letters, and left his impress upon the policy and literature of the State. He died a Christian, on 1st of June, 1839, in the 50th year of his age, leaving nine children, viz. George Roots, Augustine Smith, Wm. Wirt, Cashier Merchants Bank, Atlanta; Philip, consul at Callao, and churchwarden, St. Paul's, Greensboro. died 1877; Almyra; Dallas; Edward P., cotton factor and commission merchant of Augusta, and church warden of St. Paul's; Julia; Claudia, and Augusta.
THE COLEMANS.
Robert Coleman, 1st of the name in Culpeper, in. Sarah Ann Saunders. The town of Fairfax (Culpeper) was founded on fifty acres of his land in 1759.
He had one son, Robert, who emigrated to Kentucky and m. Mrs. Thomp- son, a sister of Major Philip Lightfoot.
Gilly, dau. of the 1st Robert and Miss Saunders, m. General Edward Stev- ens, the Revolutionary hero and elector, who cast the yote of the district for Washington, and whose son John m. Polly, dau. of the first William Williams.
Ann, 2d dau. of 1st. Robert, m. Samuel Clayton, (See Clayton genealogy.)
Rosa, 3d dau., m. Foster of Tennessee, one of whose ch. was the Senator in Congress from that State.
Another dau. of 1st Robert in. Col. John Slaughter, son of the 1st Francis of that name.
Another dau. m. Francis Slaughter, brother to the foregoing John. (See Slaughter genealogy.)
Another dau. m. a Yancey.
Lucy, another dau., m. French Strother, so long representative of Culpep- er in the General Assembly and in the Convention of 1775-6, and whose oldest daughter. P. French was first wife of Capt. P. Slaughter. (See Slaughter gen- ealogy.)
The 8th dau. of Ist. Robert m. a Crutcher, and one of their daughters mn. a Foushee.
Robert Coleman in his will (1793) recorded in Culpeper, leaves legacies to his daughters Ann Clayton, Sarah Slaughter, Lucy Strother, Frances Crutch- er Susanna Yancey. Philip Clayton was his executor.
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THE CONWAY FAMILY.
This family has been identified with the Episcopal Church from the earli- est times. You may trace the name through the vestry-books from the first settlements in the Northern Neck to the present time. I have in my posses- sion the will of Edwin Conway, dated 19th of March. 1698. In the graveyard of Whitechapel, Lancaster County, there is a tombstone of Mary Ball, daugh- ter of Edwin Conway, and one of James Ball, her husband, who was a near relative of Gen. Washington's grandfather, who was the son of Col. Wm. Ball, the first of the name who came from England in 1650 and settled at the mouth of Corotoman River. I transfer from the will the following clauses :- "First and PRINCIPALLY, I bequeath my soul to the God that gave it, in certain hope, notwithstanding my unworthiness, to receive pardon of all my sins, through the blessed merits of my dear Redeemer; and by no other way or means do I hope for pardon. My body I commit to be buried in my burying- ground at Lancaster, by the left side of my dear wife Sarah, in certain hope, thro' the merits aforesaid, that soul and body will have a joyful meeting at the resurrection of the just." He gives to his son Francis and to his heirs law- fully begotten 706 acres of land in Essex; to the child or children "whereof my wife now goeth withal" the crop of sweet-scented tobacco on the lower planta- tation. To his son Edwin all the lands in Lancaster given him by deed, with his mathematical books and instruments, and all "the cloth and stuff sent for to England." He appoints his friend Andrew Jackson, Reuben Conway and H. Thacker to be OVERSEERS of his will, desiring them to carefully advise and instruct his children in their persons and estates and to be assistants to his dear wife.
The aforesaid E. Conway married Elizabeth Thompson. Their son Fran - cis, near Port Royal, Caroline, married Rebecca, daughter of John Catlett and Elizabeth Grimes. (This John Catlett was son of the John Catlett killed by the Indians while defending the fort at Port Royal.) Nelly, daughter of Fran- cis and granddaughter of Edwin Conway, married James Madison, Sr., and was the mother of President Madison, who was born at Port Conway, opposite to Port Royal, where his mother was visiting, at 12 o'clock at night between the 5th and 6th of March, 1751, and was baptized the 31st of March by the Rev. Win. Davis, and had for godfathers John Moore and Jonathan Gibson, and for godmothers Mrs. Rebecca Moore and Misses Judith and Elizabeth Cat- lett.
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