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I. Andrew Lewis.
2. Sarah, who m Rev. James McFarland, of Kentucky.
3. Patsy, who m Prof. Wells, of Roanoke College, Salem, Va.
4. Emeline, who m C. C. Thompkins.
5. James
6. George M.
AEBCB. Mary Preston Massie m John Hampden Pleasants, and at her death, in 1837, left issue two children:
I. James, who m Caroline T Massie, [AEBCCB] and has no issue. 2. Ann Eliza, who m Douglas Gordon, and has issue.
AEBCC. Henry Massie, jr., m Susan E. Smith, only d of Thomas Bolton Smith, of S. C., and has issue ;
I. Henry Lewis.
2. Caroline m James Pleasants [AEBCBA ]
3. Sarah Lewis, unm.
4. Thomas Bolton, dead.
5. William Russell Thompson.
6. Susan Derby, dead
7. Charles, dead
8. Eugene Carter, unm.
D. Eugenia Sophia Massie m Col. Samuel Gatewood, and left issue :
I. Susan m W. Taliaferro.
2. Mary m Samuel Goode.
3. William.
4. Andrew Cameron.
5. William Bras.
6. Fillmore Stanley, dead.
ALBCE. Dr. Thomas E. Massie m the widow of Waller Massie, of Ohio, and at his death, in 1863, left three children :
I. Frank.
2. Eugenie,
3. Nita.
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THE M'DOWELL FAMILY.
Though the founder of this family settled on Burden's grant, the whole of which lies in the present county of Rockbridge, it is intimately con- nected with many of our people The McDowells and Lewises were re- latives and lived near each other, previous to 1732, in Ireland. They intermarried so extensively with the McCues, Prestons, Pattons, Cochrans, Moffetts, Bells, Alexanders, &c., of our county, that we take pleasure in inserting the following brief account prepared by our esteemed friend, Judge John H. McCue :
"Ephraim McDowell came to this country and settled in Pennsylvania previous to 1735, and between 1735 and 1740, with his son, John, who had married Magdalene Woods, in Pennsylvania, came to the home of his re- lative, John Lewis, the Founder. There they met with Burden, and be- came settlers on his grant near Fairfield, in what is now Rockbridge. John McDowell was Burden's Surveyor. His wife's mother was a Camp- bell, of the house of the Duke of Argyle. McDowell and eight of his men were killed near Balcony Falls by the Indians on the 25th of December, 1742. John McDowell, oldest child of Ephraim, had two sons, Samuel and James, and one daughter, Sarah. Ist. Samuel was the ancestor of the Reids and Moores of Rockbridge, &c. 2d. James married Eliz. Mc- Clung, and their son, Col. James McDowell, dec'd, of Cherry Grove, near Fairfield, was the father of the late Governor James McDowell, of Mrs. Thos. H. Benton, and of Mrs. Wm. Taylor. Their mother was Sarah Preston, a descendant of the original John Preston, who, at the May term of the County Court of Augusta, 1746, proved the importation, at his own expense, of himself and family from Ireland to Virginia. [See ante, p. 56.] "The third child of John McDowell and Magdalene Woods was Sarah. She married Col. George Moffett, of Augusta county, the same who drove the Indians from Kerr's Creek, and was ambuscaded and repulsed by them on the Falling Spring farm, in Alleghany county. Col Moffett (not Moffitt, as generally printed,) was distinguished in Indian warfare, at Guilford, Cowpens, King's Mountain, and fought from the beginning to the close of the Revolutionary war. Col. Moffett and wife, Sarah Mc- Dowell, had nine children : Ist. John, died young; 2d. Margaret, married her cousin, Gen. Joseph McDowell, of North Carolina, one of the heroes of King's Mountain, and their son, Gen. Joseph Jefferson McDowell, of Hillsboro, Ohio, who died a few years since, married Sallie McCue, daughter of Rev. John McCue, of Long Meadows, Augusta county, Va., who is still living, the only surviving child of her eminent father ; 3d. Jas. McDowell Moffett married Hannah Miller (daughter of the founder of Miller's Iron- works on Mossy Creek, the first west of the Blue Ridge ) One of their daughters, Hannah Winters Moffett, married John McCue, of the Long Meadow, Augusta county, Va., father and mother of Mrs. Col. D. S. Bell, of Augusta county, Va, : Judge J. H. McCue, Staunton ; Mrs. Dr. C. Alex- ander, Staunton ; Mrs. W. B. Dorman, Texas; Mrs. Decatur Hedges, of W. Va .; Jas M. McCue, W. Va .; Wm. A. McCue and Miss Hannah W. McCue, both of Augusta co., Va. The said John McCue was long Presiding Justice of Augusta, and for a number of years represented the county in the Legislature. The fourth child of Col. Moffett, and wife, Sarah, was George, who married Miss Gilkeson, and removed to Fayette, Ky. 5th. William, married a Miss McChesney, and a Jones. 6th. Mary married Dr. Joseph McDowell, of North Carolina, and after his death, she married, secondly,
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Col. Jno. Carson, of North Carolina, member of Congress ; their son, Sam'l P. Carson, was also a member of Congress from that State. 7th. The seventh child of Col. George Moffett and wife, Sarah McDowell, was Magdalene, who married James Cochran, of Staunton Their children were, so far as I am informed, the late John Cochran, of Charlottesville ; Geo. M. Cochran, of Staunton ; the late Mrs. Benj. Crawford; the late J. Addison Cochran ; the descendants of these, are many of them, among the most distinguished professional and business men of the country. 8th Martha, who married Capt. Robert Kirk, of the U. S Navy 9th. Eliza- beth, who married James Miller, of Mossy Creek,"
THE PRESTON FAMILY.
The following account of the Preston family, one of the earliest which settled in Augusta, is from the pen of an unknown writer in the Brooklyn " Eagle :"
CONEY ISLAND, September 1, 1879.
DEAR EAGLE :- Charles W. Woolley, of Cincinnati, has been visiting New York, and a glimpse of him here brings up many reminiscences of the Tilden contest for the presidency, and of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. " Richileu " remembers being one of a din- ner party given at Walker's, in Washington, at which the unlucky num- ber thirteen was present, among whom were General Hancock, General Preston, of Louisville, and other celebrities. Benjamin F. Butler got it it into his head that some treasonable designs were at the bottom of the dishes of that elegant entertainment, and Mr. Woolley was suspected of knowing all about it. Butler had him summoned as a witness, and on his refusing to answer some questions, had him arrested. Poor Miss Vinnie Ream, who had a studio in a cryptic corner of the basement of the Capi- tol, was suspected as no better than a Copperhead, and her studio was taken from her and prepared as a prison cell for the contumacious Wool- ley. William Preston, of Kentucky, one of the guests at that dinner, is a near relative of Mr. Woolley, as is also his wife. He has been a Con- gressman from that State, a lieutenant-colonel in the Mexican war, United States Minister to the Court of Spain, and a major-general in the Confed- erate army. He married his relative, Miss Margaret H. Wickliffe, daugh- ter of Robert Wickliffe, of Lexington, who is an aunt of Mr. Woolley. Randal Lee Gibson, member of Congress from Louisiana, is also a rela- tive of Mr Woolley; and thinking of Woolley and Gibson and Preston, " Richelieu " got turning over American genealogies, and thought it might not be uninteresting to your readers to trace the progress of one family in America from its emigration till the present time.
The paterfamilias or original emigrant was John Preston, who was buried in Tinkling Spring Cemetery. He was a native of county Derry, Ireland, and married Miss Elizabeth Patton, of county Donegal. They had five children, all born before emigration. They came to America in 1740, and purchased large possessions in Virginia. To show what a host of heroic men and beautiful women came from this one emigrant, the honors they held, the intermarriages they made, and the prominent influence exerted by them in every department of American society, I propose to group to- gether a few of his descendants under the heads children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great great-grandchildren.
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HIS CHILDREN.
William married Miss Susanna Smith. He was a member of the Vir- ginia House of Burgesses, and a zealous patriot in the Revolution.
Letitia married Col. Robert Breckinridge, of Virginia, and after her husband's death, emigrated to Kentucky.
Margaret married Rev. John Brown, a graduate of Princeton College, and a prominent Presbyterian minister in Virginia and Kentucky.
Ann married Francis Smith, of Virginia, and went to Kentucky, where one of her daughters married James Blair, Attorney-General of Kentucky, and father of Francis P. Blair, Sr.
Mary married John Howard, of Virginia, one of whose sons was a mem- ber of Congress from Kentucky and Governor of Missouri Territory.
HIS GRANDCHILDREN.
John Breckinridge, a Senator in Congress, and Attorney-General in Jef- ferson's Cabinet.
James Breckinridge, a member of Congress from Virginia.
Elizabeth Breckinridge married Col. Samuel Meredith, a nephew of Patrick Henry.
John Brown represented Kentucky in the Virginia Legislature; was first (and thrice elected) Senator of the United States from Kentucky, and married to the daughter of the Rev. Dr. John Mason.
James Brown, the first Secretary of State of Kentucky ; many years Senator of the United States from Louisiana; United States Minister to France ; married to the sister of Mrs. Henry Clay.
John Preston, member of the Legislature of Virginia, and many years Treasurer of that State.
Francis Preston, a member of the Senate of Virginia, a Congressman from that State, and a brigadier-general in the war of 1812 ; married to a daughter of Gen. William Campbell, the hero of King's Mountain, and a niece of Patrick Henry.
William Preston, a captain in Gen. Wayne's army
James Patton, President, a member of the Virginia Senate, colonel in the U. S. Army, and Governor of Virginia.
Letitia Preston married to John Floyd, Governor of Virginia, and moth- er of another Governor ( John B. Floyd) of Virginia.
Thomas Lewis Preston, a member of the Virginia Legislature ; a major in the war of 1812; married to a daughter of Edmund Randolph, who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, a member of the convention that framed the United States constitution, Governor of Virginia, and Attorney-General and Secretary of State of the United States in Washing- ton's Cabinet.
John Smith, married to the first white child born in Kentucky.
Margaret Howard, married to Robert.Wickliffe, of Kentucky.
Letitia Breckinridge, married to Peter B. Porter, of Niagara Falls, Sec- retary of War in John Quincy Adams' Cabinet, a major-general in the war of 1812, and the only man who ever refused the office of General-in-Chief of the United States army.
HIS GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, of the Kentucky House of Representatives and Secretary of State of Kentucky.
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John Breckinridge, a professor in Princeton College, and married to a daughter of its President, Dr. Miller.
Robert J. Breckenridge, a distinguished theologian.
William L. Breckinridge, president of Danville College.
John B. Preston, many years a member of the Kentucky Legislature.
William C. Preston, president of South Carolina, United States Senator from South Carolina, and among the foremost orators and statesmen of the United States.
John S. Preston, member of the South Carolina Legislature, brigadier- general in the Confederate army ; married a daughter of Major-General Wade Hampton, Sr , then the most wealthy planter of the United states.
Margaret B. Preston married General Wade Hampton, Jr., Governor of South Carolina, now United States Senator.
Elizabeth McDowell married Senator Thomas Hart Benton, the distin- guished Senator of Missouri.
James McDowell, member of Congress and Governor of Virginia.
Henrietta Preston, married Albert Sidney Johnson, the great general of the Confederate army.
William Preston, member of Congress from Kentucky, lieutenant-colo- nel in the Mexican war, United States minister to Spain, and major-gene- ral in the Confederate army.
William Ballard Preston, Secretary of the Navy in President Taylor's Cabinet, and senator in the Confederate Congress.
John B. Floyd, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of War in Buchanan's Cabinet, and general in the Confederate army.
Nickettie Floyd married John W. Johnston, United States Senator from Virginia.
John Thomas L. Preston, colonel in the Confederate army, and professor in the Virginia Military Institute.
Francis P. Blair, Sr., the veteran editor of General Jackson's organ.
Thomas F. Marshall, the congressman and eloquent orator of Kentucky.
Alexander K. Marshall, also member of Congress from Kentucky.
Agatha Marshall married Chancellor Caleb Logan, of Kentucky.
Edward C Marshall, member of Congress from California.
Mary W. Parker, married to Thomas L. Crittenden, Secretary of State of Kentucky.
His two great-granddaughters, both daughters of Francis Preston-Su- san S. and Sally Buchanan Preston-married their two cousins, James McDowell and John B. Floyd, both Governors of Virginia, one of them a Cabinet minister, and both members of Congress.
Lavallette Floyd married Professor Holmes, of the University of Vir- ginia.
HIS GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
Peter A. Porter was colonel in the Union army, and fell in the battle of Cold Harbor.
John C. Breckinridge, member of Congress and United States senator from Kentucky, Vice-President of the United States, receiving eight hun- dred and forty-eight thousand votes. He was also Major-General and Secretary of War in the Confederate States.
Samuel M. Breckinridge, a lawyer and judge in St. Louis.
Margaret M. Breckinridge, devoted to hospital and other charities in the late war.
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William E. P. Breckinridge, colonel in the Confederate army, married to a granddaughter of Henry Clay.
Benjamin Gratz Brown, senator in Congress from Missouri, and Demo- cratic candidate for Vice-President on the ticket with Horace Greeley, re- ceiving two million, eight hundred and thirty-five thousand votes.
John Mason Brown, a colonel of cavalry in the United States army, and a prominent lawyer of Lexington, Ky.
Edward Cabell Carrington was a captain in the Mexican war, member of the Virginia Legislature, brigadier-general in the Union army, and United States attorney for the District of Columbia.
William Campbell Preston Carrington, a Confederate officer, who fell in battle at Baker's creek, near Vicksburg.
Susan Taylor married John B. Weller, member of Congress from Ohio, senator of the United States from California, Governor of California, and United States minister to Mexico.
Jessie Benton married Maj-Gen. John C. Fremont, Republican candidate for President and Governor of Arizona.
Sarah Benton married Richard T. Jacob, Lieutenant-Governor of Ken- tucky.
Susan V. Benton married Baron Souldree Boilleau, French minister to Peru.
Sally C. P. McDowell married Francis Thomas, Governor of Maryland.
William Preston Johnston, colonel in the Confederate army, confidential aide to President Jefferson Davis, and professor in Washington College, Virginia.
Randall Lee Gibson, brigadier-general in the Confederate service, now member of Congress from Louisiana.
Hart Gibson, member of the Kentucky Legislature. William Preston Gibson, member of the Louisiana Legislature.
Six brothers of these Gibsons, sons of John Preston's granddaughter, Louisiana Hart, named respectively Randall Lee, William Preston, Hart, Claude, Tobias and Mckinley Gibson, were all distinguished officers in the Confederate army. William Preston and Claude Gibson gave up their lives for the Southern cause.
Mary Massie married John Hampden Pleasants, the well-known Vir- ginia journalist, killed in a duel by Thos. Ritchie-1846.
Ann M. Lewis married the celebrated lawyer, John Howe Peyton. His son, John Lewis Peyton, the well-known author of " The American Crisis," &c., "Over the Alleghanies and Across the Prairies," &c., " The Adven- tures of My Grandfather," and other popular works, published in Eng- land, was accredited Confederate States agent to England and France during the civil war ; he married Henrietta, daughter of Col. J. C. Wash- ington, and niece of Gov. William A. Graham, of North Carolina, and has issue a son, Lawrence W. H. Peyton. Mr. Peyton's eldest daughter mar- ried the late lamented Col. John B. Baldwin, M. C., etc.
Three of his great-great-grandchildren, brothers, named Cochran, were officers in the Confederate service.
Montgomery Blair. Postmaster-General in Lincoln's Cabinet.
James Blair married a daughter of Gen. Thomas Jessup, of the United States army.
Francis P. Blair, Jr., member of Congress and United States senator from Missouri, major-general in the Union army and Democratic candi-
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date for Vice-President on the ticket with Horatio Seymour, receiving two million, seven hundred thousand votes.
Elizabeth Blair married Admiral Lee, of the United States navy.
Ellen Preston married James W. Sheffey.
Mary Sheffey married Prof. W. E. Peters, of the University of Virginia, who was educated in Germany. Prof. Peters married secondly the only sister of his first wife.
Mary T. Payne married Professor Neville, of the University of Ken- tucky.
Mary W. Packer married Tod Robinson, Judge of the Supreme Court of California.
Alexander Packer Crittenden is a prominent lawyer in San Francisco.
Thomas T. Crittenden, a brigadier-general in the United States army and member of Congress from Missouri.
Robert W. Woolley, secretary of United States legation to Spain, and Charles W. Woolley, who provoked these reminiscences.
LATER GENERATIONS.
Of the children of his great-great-grandchildren I cannot fully speak. Ten years ago several of them were making for themselves positions in society. In 1870 his great-great-grandson, John C. Breckinridge, had seven chil- dren, the eldest of whom, Cabell Breckinridge, was married to a daughter of Hon. R. W. Johnson, of Arkansas. His great-great-grandson, B. Gratz Brown, had six children. His great-great-granddaughter, Jessie Benton, had three children, the second of whom, Charles Fremont, was a midship- man in the United States navy. His great-great-granddaughter, Sarah Benton, had a daughter married, and a son, Richard Jacob, jr., a lieuten- ant in the navy. His great-great-granddaughter, Mary Massie, wife of John Hampden Pleasants, had a son, James Pleasants, a lawyer in Rich- mond, Va., who had married his cousin, Caroline Massie. and a daughter, Ann Eliza Pleasants, who had married Douglas H. Gordon, of Baltimore, and has four children, who were grandchildren of this great-great-grand- child of this John Preston. His great-grandson, Montgomery Blair, has five children, one of whom had married Gen. Comstock, of the United States army. His great-great-grandson, Francis P. Blair, Jr., had six chil- dren, one of whom, Andrew A. Blair, was an ensign in the United States navy.
It is not improbable that at present there are hundreds of grand and great-grandchildren, who, in the not distant future, will sustain the charac- ter of this great American family for brains, bravery and beauty in the sixth and seventh generations. But enough for to-night of American genealogies. RICHELIEU.
THE CAMPBELL FAMILY.
John Campbell emigrated to America from Ireland in 1726, and first settled in Lancaster, Pa. In 1733 he came south to Augusta-then Orange county, and settled near Bellefont. He left two sons, Patrick and David. Patrick left a son Charles, whose son William was born near Staunton 1744, and was the hero of King's Mountain. David Campbell, the youngest son of the original settler, married Mary Hamilton, and left thirteen children. In 1765, John, the eldest son of David Campbell and Mary Hamilton, explored the southwest, and purchased lands on the head-
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waters of the Holston, where, soon after, the family settled itself. One of the daughters, Mary, married Wm. Lochart ; a second, Margaret, married David Campbell. All the Campbells supported the Founder in his early plans, and shared in the hardships and dangers of the Indian wars. John Campbell, the eldest son of David, born in Augusta, 1741, was a lieuten- ant in Wm. Campbell's company, in Col. Christian's regiment, under Gen. Lewis, in 1774. He commanded a company in the battle of Long Island Flats of Holston, in July, 1776, defeating the Indians under their famous chief, Dragon Canoe. He also commanded a company in October, 1776, in Col. Christian's expedition against the Cherokee towns. In 1778, he was appointed clerk of Washington county. He died in 1825, in his 85th year. His younger brother was Col. Arthur Campbell. David, the fourth brother of those who came to Holston, was educated for the bar. He re- moved to Tennessee, and was one of the Judges of the Supreme Court. He died in 1812. Robert, the next brother, born in Augusta, 1752, was a volunteer under Lewis in 1774, was in all the battles with his brother, and an ensign at King's Mountain. He was an active, energetic and useful man. He died 1831, aged 77. Patrick, the youngest brother, was also in the battle of King's Mountain. He married and left a large family, and died in his Soth year. Such is a brief sketch of the five brothers, sons of David Campbell, and grandsons of Jno. C., the original Irish emigrant. The father of Gen. Wm. Campbell was Charles Campbell, who died in Augusta. Wm. C., with his mother and sisters, then removed to Hols- ton. Elizabeth, the eldest sister, married Jno. Taylor, from whom Judge Allen Taylor and the Taylors of Montgomery county are descended. Jane, the second sister, married Thos. Tate; Margaret, the third sister, married Arthur Campbell; the fourth sister, Ann, married Richard Pas- ton. All left families of high respectability.
Another branch of the Campbell family also settled in Augusta. Dun- can Campbell, of Invergrary, Argyleshire, Scotland, married in 1612 Mary McCoy, and the same year emigrated to Ulster county, Ireland, and died there, leaving descendants, who about 1726 emigrated to Pennsylvania, and in 1738 they removed to Augusta county, Virginia. Charles Camp- bell, a descendant in the fifth degree of the original Duncan, settled in Augusta, near the present Fort Defiance, about four miles northeast of Fort Lewis, and married Mary Trotter, his brother, William Campbell, marrying about the same time Elizabeth Wilson, a sister of Rev. Wm. Wilson, pastor of the Old Stone Church. William Campbell and family removed to Bourbon co., Ky., in 1790, and in 1800 removed to Brown co., Ohio, where his son, Charles, married Elizabeth Tweed. Charles Campbell and Mary Trotter, left a son, John Campbell, who settled in Lawrence co., Ohio, in 1833, and left issue.
Among our biographical notices will be found sketches of two eminent members of this family, which is allied by marriage with the Lewis', Pres- tons, Peytons, Tates, Taylors, and other early and leading families.
THE STUART FAMILY.
The Stuarts are of Scotch origin. During the reign of James I, they removed to Ireland, where Archibald Stuart married Janet Brown, a sister of Rev. Jno. Brown, the ancestor of the Browns of Rockbridge and Lou- isiana. In 1727, A. Stuart emigrated to Pennsylvania, after the birth of two children, Thomas and Eleanor. In 1738, he removed to Augusta,
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and settled on Pratt's farm, near Waynesboro, where he died 1761. He left issue: I. Thomas; 2. Eleanor ; 3. Alexander ; 4. Benjamin ; all of whom left large families. Archibald Stuart was joined in Augusta some years after 1738 by two brothers, John and David, who came from Ire- land, and both of whom married in Augusta and left descendants-the de- scendants of the one being the Stuarts of Ohio and Illinois, and of the other, the Stuarts of S. C.
Thomas Stuart, who was a man of mark, married Elizabeth Moore, and had issue nine children : I. Jane, died unm. ; 2. John, died s. p .; James, who removed to Tenn., married Miss Montgomery, and left descendants ; 4. Thomas, U. S. A ; 5. Robert, married Miss Roland, of Botetourt ; 6. Judy, died unm. ; 7. Mary, married James Moffett, of Augusta, and they had issue ten children, viz: 1. John Moffett, who married Eliz. Tate; 2. Betsy, who married J. McClanahan ; 3. Robert S., married H. Guthrie; 4. Thomas, died young ; 5. Jane, married Dr. J. K. Moore ; 6. Wm., mar- ried Jane Robertson; 7. Eleanor, married J. C. Moore; 8. Mary, married Alex. T. Barclay ; 9. Thomas S., died unin .; 10. Julia, married W. H. Paxton.
Julia, daughter of Thomas Stuart, married Capt. Wm. Lyle, and left issue : Elizabeth, who married Capt. Wmn, Paxton, and they left five chil- dren.
Eleanor Stuart, daughter of the original emigrant, married Ed. Hall, who emigrated from Ireland to Augusta 1736, and they left issue : six sons and four daughters.
Major Alex. Stuart, second son was born in Pennsylvania, 1733. He was a man of uncommon intellect and energy, and patented large tracts of land in the western counties. He was Major during the Revolution in Col. Samuel McDowell's regiment, and commanded the regiment at the battle of Guilford, where he was dangerously wounded. He was an ar- dent friend of education, and contributed largely of his private means to the endowment of Liberty Hall Academy, now W. & L. University. Major Stuart married first Mary Patterson, of South river, Augusta co., by whom he left issue : 1. Judge Archibald Stuart, of Staunton ; 2. Robert, of Rockbridge ; and five daughters : Frances, Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, and Eleanor. He married secondly Mary Moore, by whom he left four chil- dren : James, Priscilla, Alexander and Benjamin. He married thirdly Anna Reid, whose maiden name was Miller, but left no issue by her at his death in his 90th year.
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