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William Mathews m , and left issue : 1. Richard ; 2. John; 3. Isaac ; 4. Kate, died unm .; 5. Mary, m -Rankin, of Ky .; 6. Marga- ret, m Fred Hanger ; 7. Jane, died unm ; and 8. Elizabeth, b 1774, m Ab- ner Gaines, b 1766, of Orange co., Va., about 1789. They removed to Kentucky and left issue; 1. James Mathews Gaines, b 1793 ; 2. John P., b 1795; 3. Wm. H., b 1797 ; 4. Mary W., b 1800; 5. Richard M., b 1802; 6. Benj. F., b 1804 ; 7. Augusta W., b 1805 ; 8. Arch'd K., b 1808; 9. Ab- ner, b 1810; 10. Elizabeth, b 1812; II. Mildred Pollard, b 1815; 12. Har- riet B., b 1818.
James M m Elvira Toussey, and they left one child. now living.
John P. removed to Oregon and became Governor of the Territory. He m Eliza Kinkead, of Ky., and had a large family.
Wm. H. m first Miss Early, a relative of Gen. Jubal A Early, and had five children. He in second Miss Belden, of Arkansas, and has seven children.
Mary W. m Craig Bush, and they left five children.
Richard m Eliza Hutchins, of Miss., and they left three children.
Benjamin P. also m a Miss Kinkead, of Ky., and they have issue living in Florida.
Augustus m Miss Daniel, of Richmond, Ky., and they left a large family. Archibald m first Miss Dudley, of Georgetown, and they left issue. He m second the sister of his first wife, and they have issue : a large family. Abner died unm.
Elizabeth m Lewis Hubbell, of N. Y., and left issue living in Boone co., Ky.
Mildred m Anthony H. Davies, of Chicot co , Arkansas, and they have issue, eight children, namely : 1. Anthony, d ; 2. Fanny Walker : 3. Walter ; 4. Mildred ; 5. Robert Geddes Davies ; 6. Anthony ; 7. Abner ; 8. Joseph Davies.
Governor George Mathews, of Georgia, and Sampson Mathews, of Staunton, one of whose daughters m Sam'l Clark, another Gen. Sam'l Blackburn, were of this family, but no list of their descendants in Va. or the South could be procured.
THE PORTERFIELD FAMILY.
The first of this family emigrated from England early in the 18th cen - tury, and settled in Penn. Thence two of his sons removed to Va. and settled in Jefferson, namely : Robert and Charles. A third son removed to the West and became a citizen of Ky. Both Robert and Charles were officers during the war of the Revolution, and Charles died unm., from wounds received during the war. After the war, about 1782, Col. Rob- ert Porterfield removed to Augusta and settled on South river, on a farm which he called " Soldiers' Retreat." He m Rebecca Farrar, of Amelia co., by whom he had issue : 1. Charles, who died unm .; 2. Polly ; 3. John ; 4. Rebecca. Polly m Lewis Wayland, of Augusta, and left a large family,
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who have removed to Ky. John Porterfield m Betsy McCue, a sister of John and Col. Franklin McCue, and had only one child, Robert Porter- field, who m a daughter of John Wayt, and left one son, Robert Porter- field, of Lewisburg, Greenbrier co., W. Va., who m Miss McClung, of Greenbrier and they have three children, namely : Mattie, Herbert and An- nie. Rebecca Porterfield m William Kinney, Esq., of Staunton, and they left issue, nine children, viz : 1. Mary, m Alfred Chapman, of Orange, and they have a large family ; 2. Jane, who m E. M. Taylor, of N. Y., and they have eight children ; 3. Robert Porterfield, who m Isabella, d of L. L. Ste- venson, and they have a large family ; 4 Rebecca, who m S. A. Richard- son, of Mass., and they have three children ; 5. William Kinney, M. D., who died unm .; 6. Annie Maria, who m Maj. H. M. Bell, a lawyer of Staunton, and they have three children: I. Richard P .; 2. Annie ; and 3. Henderson M., jr .; 7. Eliza, unm .; 8. Charles N., who died unm .; 9. John C., d unm.
Gen. Porterfield had two sisters : 1. Rebecca, who died unm .; 2. Eleanor, who m Mr. Heath, Attorney-Gen. of Ky., and they left no issue. He was a man of high character, strong sense and martial spirit.
THE WAYT FAMILY.
The first of this family who emigrated from England to Va. was George Wayt, who settled in Orange county, circa 1750. He had three sons, namely : 1. John ; 2 William ; 3. James. John, the eldest son, removed to Augusta about 1790, and m Susan, a d of Joseph Bell, by whom he left no issue. He was a distinguished Mason, merchant, and Mayor of the town. He was an eminently good and pious man, being an Elder in the Staunton Presbyterian Church. William Wayt m Miss Hodges, of Caroline coun- ty, and left one son, John Wayt, and three daughters. John Wayt re- moved to Augusta in 1811. He married twice : first, Margaret A. Bell, d of James Bell, by whom he left issue, one daughter, who m Robt. J. Porterfield, by whom she left issue, one son. She m secondly Johnston E. Bell, of Lewisburg, and left three children, one son and two daughters. John Wayt m second Sarah A. Bell, d. of Maj. Wm. Bell, of Lewis creek, and left issue at his death in Staunton in 1877, three children : 1. Dr. Newton Wayt; 2. J. Howard Wayt; 3. Mattie, who m Thos. A. Bledsoe, Cashier Nat. V. Bank, Staunton, and they have issue, two daughters, S. Bell and Mary Lou Bledsoe.
Dr. Newton Wayt m Julia B., a d of Wade H. Heiskell, and has issue, two sons and one daughter, viz : I. Baldwin ; 2. Hampton ; 3. Mattie. J. Howard Wayt is unmarried.
John Wayt, was long a magistrate of the county, an elder in the churches in Waynesboro and Staunton, and was for years a leading mer- chant and banker. He had a strong mind, great industry and enterprise. He enjoyed the confidence, respect and esteem of the community, and died beloved and regretted by the entire public.
THE WADDELL FAMILY.
The first person of this name, of whom we have any knowledge, is John Waddell, rector of the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland, in 1527, pre- vious to the Reformation.
The Waddells afterwards became staunch Covenanters, Protestants of
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the strictest sect £ The whole family seems to have participated in the bat- tle of Bothwell Bridge, June 22d, 1679. No less than four of them were taken prisoners there, viz: William and Robert Waddell, of Monkland Parish ; Walter Waddell, of Sprunston, and Alexander Waddell, of Castle- town. The sufferings of the prisoners in Grayfriars Churchyard, Edin- burg, is a matter of history. Some of them died under the harsh treat- ment they received; others made their escape; others were set free on signing a declaration never to take arms against the King ; and about two hundred and fifty were banished to the Island of Barbadoes. These were taken away by a merchant of Leith, named Paterson, who contracted with the government to transport the banished men, the four Waddells being among them. After leaving port a storm arose, and the vessel being driven around the Orkney Islands, was wrecked at a place called the Mule- head of Darness. By Paterson's order, the prisoners were shut up be- neath the hatches, and two hundred of them were drowned. All the Waddells perished, except William. The fifty prisoners who escaped found their way to the north of Ireland and settled there, the government interfering with them no further.
It is believed that William Waddell was the grandfather of the Rev. James Waddell, DD., widely known as the Blind Preacher. The father of Dr. Waddell was named Thomas, and came to America from County Down, Ireland, in 1739. He settled in the southeastern part of Pennsyl- vania, near the Delaware line. He had three sons, William, Robert and James, and a daughter named Sally. William and Robert moved at an early day to Western Pennsylvania, where Robert reared a large family of children. William and Sally never married.
James Waddell was an infant when the family came to America. His father was a plain man, and the son at first looked forward to nothing bet- ter than a life of manual labor. But while a small boy, he and his older brothers chased a hare into a hollow tree, and thrusting his left hand into the hollow to seize the game, it was nearly severed by his brother's axe. The parts adhered, but the hand was permanently disabled. This "acci- dent " led to his being sent to the school of the Rev. Dr. Finley, afterwards President of Princeton College, then one of the most celebrated schools in the country. He rose to be an assistant teacher, and among his pupils was the eminent Dr. Benjamin Rush.
About the year 1758, he started, on horseback, to go to Charleston, South Carolina, where he expected to spend his life in teaching. Passing through Virginia, he encountered, in Hanover county, the Rev. Samuel Davies, who prevailed upon him to remain here. At first, he taught for some time in Louisa county, in association with the Rev. Mr. Todd. Be- coming a minister, he located in Lancaster county, where he married Mary Gordon, daughter of Col. James Gordon. When the Revolutionary war began, he removed to Augusta county, and lived during the war on a large farm which he purchased and called Spring Hill. This farm is on South River, some miles above Waynesboro, and part of it was lately owned by Mr. Zachariah McChesney. During his residence here he preached at Tinkling Spring and Staunton. After the war he removed to the place where he died, near Gordonsville, his dwelling being in Louisa county, but the farm in the three counties of Louisa, Orange and Albemarle.
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THE PEYTON FAMILY.
The Peyton family is of high antiquity in the mother country. Accord- ing to Camden, Du Moulin, and other historians and antiquarians, the founder was William de Malet, one of the great barons who accompanied William I to the conquest of England, and obtained from that monarch many grants of manors and lordships as a recompense for his military services. Among these lordships were Sibton and Peyton Halls, in Nor- folk, from the latter of which, Reginald, a nephew of William de Malet, assumed the surname of Peyton, in accordance with the usage of the times.
The name is also one of the earliest connected with the colony of Va. Sir Henry Peyton was knighted by James I, and was gentleman of the Privy Chamber of Prince Henry, 1610, was a member of the London Company to whom King James, May 23d, 1609, granted a charter "to deduce a colony and make habitation in that part of America commonly called Va." Sir Henry Peyton was the fourth son of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Peyton, M. P. for Dunwich in 1557, and Customer of Plymouth, by his wife, Lady Cecilia Bouchier, daughter of John, second Earl of Bath. He m Lady Mary, d of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. His nephew, son of his brother, Robert, namely: John Peyton, is sup- posed to have been the first who made the voyage to Va., circa 1622, when in his 26th year, and to have settled in the colony 1644. He m Ellen Pakington, of London, and left two sons :
I. Henry Peyton, of Acquia, Westmoreland county, Va .;
II. Valentine Peyton, of Nominy, Westmoreland county, Va., a colonel in the British army.
The descendants of the two are scattered through Va. and the South and West. From Valentine was descended the gallant and patriotic Col. Harry Peyton, of Revolutionary fame, who, when he heard that his last son, Yelverton, had been killed at the siege of Charleston, S. C , 1780, by a cannon ball from the enemy's fleet, exclaimed : "Would to God I had another to put in his place."* Frances Peyton was a daughter of Col. Harry P., and m the late Judge John Brown, of the Staunton Circuit, and left issue :
I. Judge Jas. E. Brown, of Wytheville, uncle by marriage of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart.
II. Martha Steele, who m Judge B. G. Baldwin, father of Col. J. B. Baldwin, Mrs. A. H. H. Stuart, Mrs. James M. Ranson. and Mrs. Chap- man J. Stuart.
III. Margaret Brown m William S. Eskridge, and left issue : Mrs. John Towles, of La., and Mrs. R. T. W. Duke, of Albemarle.
From the elder brother, Henry Peyton, of Acquia, was descended Hon. Balie Peyton, of Tenn., a distinguished lawyer, soldier and statesman. He served as M. C. for Tenn., 1833-37, as colonel of 5th Louisiana regi- ment in the Mexican war, 1845-48, and was Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili, 1848-1852; Hon Jos Peyton, M. C. for Tenn. ; Hon. Francis Pey- ton, an influential and patriotic member of the H. of D. of Va. from 1777 to 1785-also a member of the Convention of 1776 to frame a Constitution for Va. ; Hon. E. G. Peyton, late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Miss. ; Col. Robert L. Y. Peyton, late Confederate States Senator for Mis- souri ; Hon. Samuel O. Peyton, M. C. for Ky., and others.
*Yelverton Peyton, when shot, fell into the arms of the late Gen. Ro. Porterfield, of Augusta, who was standing by his side.
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Another branch of the original stock of Peytons settled in Va. circa 1665, namely : Robert Peyton, a grandson of Sir Edward Peyton, Baronet of Isleham co., of Camb. He took up large tracts of land in Gloucester, and made his home at Isleham, in the present county of Matthews. From these early settlers have sprung a numerous progeny settled in almost every part of the U. S., from N. Y. to Georgia and from Minnesota to Texas and California. The earliest Peyton connected with Augusta was Henry J. Peyton, who came up from Prince William to Winchester, and thence to Augusta about 1796. In 1802 he was appointed Clerk of the Chancery Court of this district, and served with great satisfaction to the public until 1814. The second who came to the county was John Howe Peyton, of Montgomery Hall, who settled in Staunton in 1809, on receiv- ing the appointment of Attorney for the Commonwealth. He was the son of John R. Peyton, of Stony Hill, Stafford, who was known and acknowl- edged in his day as a man of gifted intellect and penetrating good sense. He lived in the seclusion of the country, devoted to rural pursuits and the cultivation of social happiness. He died in 1798, in his 45th year, and now sleeps under the solemn trees of Stony Hill Cemetery side by side with his fathers. " He was one of many thousand such that die betimes, whose story is a fragment, known to few." His father, John Peyton, was a man who combined within himself every noble and generous quality, of whom one of his contemporaries said : " It would require no common pencil to depict the undeviating rectitude of his conduct, the unshaken constancy of his friendship, the unwearied activity of his benevolence and invariable warmth of his affections, the untarnished purity of his habits, and the unabated fervor of his piety." John H. Peyton inherited in a re- markable manner these moral qualities, and was, says Mr. Bezer Blundell, F. S. A. : "A wise and good man, eminent alike for his learning and ability as a jurist, and for the purity of his private morals. Trained in the best principles, and early imbued with a veneration for the noblest characters of antiquity, Mr. Jno. H. Peyton did not seek public favor by courting the
populace, or his reputation might have been more extended. His virtue was of another complexion. Content with his profession, and with his own consciousness of rectitude, he always sought to be in reality what he appeared, and might have changed his family motto, 'Patior-Potior,' for that of the late Lord Somers : 'Esse quam videri.' He was noticeable, also, as a fine specimen, doubtless much over the average, of the upper class of our Colonial gentry, at a period when Virginia flourished first under the direct influence of monarchy, and subsequently as a republic, but a republic whose institutions were tempered, and so to speak, toned down by traditionary influences, which still refined, though they no longer controlled them." John H Peyton m first Susan Madison, d of Wm. Strother Madison, a relative of Bishop Madison, by whom he left issue, one son, the late Col. Wm. M. Peyton, of Roanoke, who m Sally, a d of Judge Allen Taylor, by whom he left issue a large family, of whom there are now living : Mrs. Walter Preston, of Abingdon, whose eldest daughter m Judge Geo. W. Ward ; 2. Capt. Wm. M. Peyton, of Kanawha, W. Va., who m Miss Mann, of Gloucester co., Va., and has a large family . 3. Sally, who m T. C. Reed, and left one child, Betty, who m Dr. Wm. Berkeley, of Roanoke, a relative of Lord Botetourt, once Gov. of the colony ; 4. Ber- nadine, who m - Lewellyn, Esq., of Albemarle, who has a large family. Col. Wm M. Peyton died in 1868 deeply regretted by a numerous circle of friends throughout the State and country. He was a man of ability and
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learning, a ripe scholar, possessing all the essentials of a great writer. His mind was broad, his power of dramatic description remarkable, and in his analysis of character, elaborate and distinct. With his clear, vivid and eloquent style, and love of literature, he would doubtless have risen to the first distinction as a writer, but for a physical malady (vertigo), causing partial paralysis, which early interfered with his labors, and finally put an end to his life. He served at different times in the General Assembly and in other public positions, and was universally respected for the purity of his life, the activity of his benevolence, and the rectitude of his conduct. John H. Peyton m secondly Ann Montgomery, d of Maj. John Lewis, of the Sweet Springs, by whom he left issue at his death at Montgomery Hall in 1847.
I. John Lewis Peyton, who m Henrietta E. C., d of Col. J. C. Wash- ington, of N. C., by whom he has issue: one son, Lawrence W. H.
II. Yelverton, unm, a resident of Texas.
III. Susan Madison m Col J. B Baldwin ; no issue.
IV. Ann Montgomery, d unm.
V. Mary Preston m Robt. Gray, and has issue: I. Robert; 2. Peyton ; Preston ; 4. Susan ; 5. Isabella.
3 VI. Lucy Garnett m Judge Jno. N. Hendren, and has issue : one son, Samuel, and two daughters, Annie M. and Lucy Peyton.
VII. Elizabeth, m Wm. Boys Telfair, of Ohio, and they have issue : I. William ; 2. John ; 3. Susan.
VIII. Margaret Lynn m Capt. Geo M. Cochran, of Staunton, and they have issue : 1. Susan ; 2. Maria ; 3. George ; 4. Ann ; 5. John ; 6. Margaret ; 7. Peyton.
IX. Virginia, m Col. Jos. F. Kent, of Wythe, and they have issue : I. Joseph F. ; 2. Susan ; 3. Mary.
X. Cornelia m first Dr. Thos Brown, and at his death he left issue : two sons, I. Baldwin; and 2. Peyton. Mrs. Brown m secondly Wm. H. Greene, of Augusta, but they have no living issue.
THE BALDWIN FAMILY.
Dr. Cornelius Baldwin (the great-grandson of John Baldwin, who set- tled at Milford, Conn., in 1638-9,) was born in Elizabeth City, N. J., in 1751 ; served as an army surgeon during the Revolution, and at the end of the war settled at Winchester, Va. He married, about 1784, Mary, the youngest daughter of Col. Gerard Briscoe, of " Cloverdale," near Win- chester. Colonel Briscoe was from Montgomery county, Md .; his wife, Mary Baker, was born in Annapolis; they had only two children-viz .: Elizabeth Briscoe, who married Judge Hugh Holmes, and Eleanor Bris- coe, who married Judge Archibald Stuart, of Staunton, (the father and mother of Hon. A. H. H. Stuart.)
Dr. Cornelius Baldwin's children by his first wife, Mary Briscoe (she was born 1767, died September 26, 1808,) were ten-viz .:
I. Margaret, b 1785, d 1826.
II. Eliza C., b 1787, d December 11, 1844.
III. Briscoe Gerard, b January 17, 1789, d May 18, 1853.
IV. Cornelius E., b 1791, d about 1828.
V. Robert T., b 1793, d 1863.
VI. Archibald Stuart, b 1797, d 1873.
VII. Hugh Holmes; d young.
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VIII. Mary Briscoe, b November 18, 1800; living in 1878.
IX. William Daniel, b 1803, d 1830.
X. Alexander G., b 1805, d in 1835, at Fort Towson, Arkansas. He was educated at West Point. and died a lieutenant in the U. S. A .; un- married
Dr. Cornelius Baldwin married secondly, in May, 1813, Mildred, d of Dr. Throgmorton, of Clarke county, Va. She d in September, 1816, leav- ing issue.
XI. Cornelia, who married the Rev. William H. Mitchell, of Washing- ton, D. C.
Dr Cornelius Baldwin married thirdly, in 1819, Miss Susan Prichard. No issue.
Margaret Baldwin married, in 1803, Judge William Daniel, Sr., of Lynchburg, bin Cumberland in 1770, d in Lynchburg November 20, 1839. He first entered the State Legislature in 1798-99; served in both of its branches with distinguished ability ; was transferred to the Bench, and con- tinued to his death a member of the General Court of Virginia. His chil- dren were :
I. Mary C. B., b 1804, d at "Union Hill" in 1843 ; married, in 1825, Mayo Cabell, Esq., of " Union Hill."
II. William, Jr., judge, b in Cumberland 1808, died at Nelson court- house in 1873 ; married first, in 1843, Sarah A., (d in 1846) d of John W. Warwick, of Lynchburg. Their eldest child is John W. Daniel. Judge Wm. Daniel, Jr., married secondly Miss Elizabeth, d of Governor William H. Cabell, president of the Virginia Court of Appeals
III. Eliza, b 1810, d in 1831 ; married, in 1831, William J. Lewis, M. C. for Lynchburg District. No issue.
IV. Elvira Augusta, b 1817, d June 29, 1862 ; married, in 1836, Col. Charles Ellet, Jr., of Philadelphia.
V. Martha, married Judge Wood Bouldin, of the Virginia Court of Appeals.
Eliza Cook Baldwin married, in 1810, Capt. Joseph C. Baldwin, who descended from Nathaniel Baldwin, who settled at Milford, Conn., in 1638-9.
I Cornelius Clarke, b 1811 ; established the Lexington "Gazette" in 1836 ; married first, in 1837, Margaret, d of Hugh Paxton ; secondly, in 1858, Miss Sue A. Sale.
II. Elizabeth Holmes, b 1813, d 1844 ; married, 1832, William H. Gar- ber, Esq , of Staunton Among their children are Judge John Garber, formerly of the Supreme Court of Nevada, Virginia Garber, who married Gen. Reuben Davis, of Mississippi, M. C., &c , and Maj Alexander M. Garber.
III. Joseph Glover, born at Friendly Grove, one mile south of Winches- ter, January 21, 1815 ; received his elementary education in Staunton, being a class-mate of the writer, who at that early day discovered his intellectual superiority, and predicted for him a brilliant future; married, in 1839, Miss Sidney, d of Judge Jno. White, of Talledega, Ala. In 1835 he edited the " Buchanan Advocate ;" removed to De Kalb county, Miss , in 1836, and to to Gainesville, Ala , in 1838, where he practiced law for twelve years in part- nership with J. Bliss, Esq .; represented Sumpter county in the Legislature in 1843-4 ; removed to Livingston, Ala., in 1850 ; wrote " The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi " in 1853, and " Party Leaders " in 1854 ; re- moved to California in 1854 ; was a judge of the Supreme Court from October
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1858, to January, 1862, when he resumed the practice of law in San Fran- cisco; he d September 30, 1864. His eldest son, Judge Alex. White Bald- win, bin 1840, killed in a railroad collision near San Francisco in November, 1868; educated at the University of Virginia; a practicing lawyer at eighteen ; a prosecuting attorney at nineteen ; a leader of the Nevada Bar at twenty-one ; a United States District Judge at twenty-five; one of the most brilliant and promising young men of his day in America. His ( J. G. Baldwin's) oldest daughter, Kate Baldwin, married Hon. John B. Fen- ton, of California.
IV. Cyrus Briscoe, b 1819, d June 25, 1862, in C. S. A .; married, first, Miss Gates ; second, a d of Judge Vandegreff, of Gainesville. Ala.
V. Cornelia, married, in 1859, Hon. Edward Stanley, M. C., of North Carolina. He moved to San Francisco, where he died without issue July, 1872.
Gen. B. G. Baldwin married, 1812, Martha Steele (b September 12th, 1791, died January, 1870,) d of Chancellor John Brown and his wife Fanny Peyton (d of Col. Henry Peyton, a distinguished patriot and soldier of 1776.) Gen. B. G. Baldwin was educated at William and Mary College ; studied law ; frequently a member of the Legislature; a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1829 ; appointed a judge of the Court of Appeals 1842. His children were :
I. Frances Cornelia, married August 1, 1833, Hon. A. H. H. Stuart.
II. Mary Eleanor, married July 1, 1841, Col. James M. Ranson.
III. John Brown, b near Staunton January 11, 1820, d September 30, 1873; Speaker of the House of Delegates of Virginia ; Inspector-General of the State forces ; colonel of the Fifty-second regiment Virginia volun- teers, C. S. A .; member Confederate Congress, and filled most acceptably other positions of honor and trust. He married in 1842, Susan M., d of Hon. John H. Peyton, an eminent lawyer of Staunton, Va. No issue.
IV. Margaret, married Dr. Chapman Johnson Stuart.
V. Col. Briscoe G., and VI. James William. Briscoe was chief of ord- nance C. S. A. of Northern Virginia. James was drowned in James river, at Richmond, Va., October, 1876.
Dr Cornelius E. Baldwin married Nelly, daughter of Major Isaac Hite, of Belle Grove, near Middletown, whose wife was the sister of President Madison. Mr. Madison left each of Dr. Baldwin's three daughters a hand- some legacy. Issue :
1. Eleanor, married Lewis Davidson ; moved to Missouri.
II. Mary B., a missionary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Athens, Greece ; d in 1877 at Jaffa, Syria.
III. Dr. Hite, formerly a surgeon U. S. N.
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