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miles from Walkerton, to see three old family servants, Parthenia Allen, Nellie Jackson, and Andrew Jackson.
In King and Queen Court House I copied the follow- ing :
"In 1835 Harris Carlton was made guardian of Louisa F. Campbell, William H. Campbell, Emily Campbell, and Peter Campbell." Harris Carlton was brother to Benoni Carlton, Jr.
From a Bible owned by Mrs. S. E. Porter, Pine Bluff, Ark., I obtained the following :
" Alexander Campbell married (first wife) Lucy L. Browne, April 24th, 1828." The second marriage of this Alexander Campbell is not recorded.
" Alexander Campbell, probably a son of Captain Whittaker Campbell, died August Ist, 1829, in his 55th year.
"Sarah Campbell (née Courtney) died August Ist, 1827, in her 57th [or 5Ist] year." She was first wife to Alexander Campbell.
"Edward Fox and Emily P. Campbell were mar- ried November 30th, 1815.'
Whittaker Campbell's descendants are numerous. He was a captain in the war of the Revolution. Born about 1727, died about 1814. His first wife's name is not known. His second wife was Miss Deshazo. By his first wife I know of five children (and there were others ) ,-William Campbell the first, Alexander Camp- bell, Polly or Mary Campbell, Emily Campbell, Pris- cilla Campbell. His children by his second wife were: Peter Campbell, Jack Campbell, Elizabeth or Betsy Campbell, Sarah or Sally Campbell. Polly married Benoni Carlton, Sr., Emily married Edward Fox, Pris- cilla married Captain Robert Courtney, Sr., Jack died unmarried in Mississippi, Elizabeth married James Wood, and second, Robert Pendleton; Sarah married Robert Courtney, Jr., of Richmond. Captain Whit- taker Campbell's daughter Priscilla and his son Will- iam the first form the first cousinship of William Camp- bell the second and his wife, at Essex, where now lives William Campbell the third. Captain Robert Court- ney married Priscilla Campbell, a sister of William
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Campbell the first. Their daughter, Priscilla Courtney, married her first cousin, William Campbell the second, who was son of William Campbell the first. So Will- iam the third is great-grandson to Captain Whittaker Campbell.
Captain Robert Courtney's son, William P. Court- ney (married Martha E. Campbell) and daughter, Priscilla, form the first cousinship of Theodore Court- ney and William Campbell the third of Essex. So Theodore Courtney and William Campbell the third are first cousins and each a great-grandson of Captain Whittaker Campbell.
If I am correct, Captain Whittaker Campbell is great- grandfather to Rev. Alfred Bagby, Theodore Courtney, William Campbell the third, and B. A. Purks. He is grandfather to Major Alfred Courtney, and great-great- grandfather to myself and several others. Two of his grandsons are Major Alfred Courtney and Mr. Mor- timer Courtney.
I have never seen the name in print but once, and it was in a payroll of Captain Robert Courtney's company, at Smithfield, 1812 to 1813. Captain Campbell was at that time a helpless rheumatic, in a rolling chair, 85 years of age, and living on the Campbell home in King and Queen. The Marginal Remarks read:
" The time in this Pay Roll is not sufficient but it is believed that this company was also at Norfolk, in the service of the United States."
I copied it from the Virginia Militia Pay Roll, 1812 to 1813, Virginia. Reference Shelf D 35, page 437, Virginia State Library, Richmond.
The second wife of Benoni Carlton, Jr., was Miss Martha Hill Bagby.
The Alexander Campbell here mentioned was no rela- tive of Rev. Alexander Campbell (Scotch) of the Dis- ciples.
The Purks family came to this country from Wales, probably in 1806: the mother, two sons, William and James, and a daughter, Polly. These four are re- membered by a few persons still living (the mother lived to be 94 years old). They are all buried in King
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and Queen except James, who died unmarried in Nor- folk.
I know of 23 grandchildren to William Purks, Sr. The daughter Polly, Mrs. Prince, had three sons, who are all dead.
His son, Dr. William Purks, died recently, aged over 80; B. A. Purks is 80 [1907], and Cornelius (no chil- dren) is about 77.
Dr. William Purks and family are among the most influential in Salome, Green County, Ga. (near At- lanta ), where he has lived nearly a lifetime; and a life- time friend of his was Alexander H. Stephens, Vice- president of the Confederate States of America.
One of Dr. Purks' sons is a banker, another a pro- fessor.
The other son of William Purks, Sr., John, died in California when quite young.
DUDLEY FAMILY BY GEORGE F. DUDLEY
4043 McPherson Ave., St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 7th, 1904.
At the request of my cousin, Miss Ann Eliza George, of No. III North Third St., Richmond, Va. (now here present at my residence named at the head of this paper), I make a copy of the following names of the Dudley family from whom we are directly descended. They are taken from an official copy of the will of my grandfather, William Dudley, belonging to me and now before me and my cousin (Miss George, above named), at my residence. This will was made by my grandfather, William Dudley, of the county of King and Queen, in the State of Virginia, on the 7th day of November, 1794, and admitted to probate on Monday, July 12th, 1802, at the courthouse of that county; the witnesses to the will being Thomas Metcalfe, Judith Shackelford, and Carter Braxton, Jr. The executors appointed by him in the will were his wife, Anne Dud- ley, executrix; his son, Henry Fleet Dudley, and Wil- liam Chamberlayne of New Kent County, executors.
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The only one of the executors who appears to have qual- ified was his son, Henry Fleet Dudley. The order of the names of his family in which the will makes the be- quests is as follows :
His wife, Anne Dudley; his son, Henry Fleet Dud- ley; his daughter, Mary Dudley; his daughter, Anne Pinchback Dudley; his daughter, Frances Dudley (the grandmother of Miss Ann Eliza George of III North Third Street, Richmond, Va., above mentioned, and now present at my residence, 4043 McPherson Avenue, November 7th, 1904, attending the World's Fair at St. Louis, Mo.) ; his daughter, Martha Elizabeth Dudley; his son, William Dudley; and his son, George Fleet Dudley, the father of the writer of this paper, and whose name I bear in full.
It will be seen from the above list of his children that my grandfather had four daughters and three sons; a peculiar circumstance in the names of his sons is that two of them had Fleet for their middle name, Henry and George. The last survivor of his children, so far as I can learn, was Aunt Mary Dudley, known better as Polly Dudley, who never married. She died about 1862 at the residence of her niece, Mrs. Mary Frances George, then the wife of Mr. Miles George, and the mother of Miss Ann Eliza George of Richmond, Va. Miss Mary (Polly) Dudley spent much time at the res- idence in Richmond, Va., of Mrs. Margaret Young and sister, old friends of the Dudley family. Mrs. Young told me she saw President Washington riding out the last time he ever left his house, her father then being an overseer of the General's and living on Mt. Vernon farm.
The official copy of the will of my grandfather above referred to was made by Robert Pollard, clerk.
The home of my grandfather, William Dudley, of King and Queen County, Va., was well identified by his establishing Dudley's Ferry, which still bears his name, over York River, near the junction of the two rivers which form the York. His brother-in-law, General William Chamberlayne's residence, one of the execu- tors named in his will, but who does not seem to have
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qualified, was historic socially at a very early period as the first meeting place of General Washington and the widow Custis, afterwards Mrs. Washington. My father, as he often told my mother, and his brother and sisters often visited his uncle, General Chamberlayne, and spent much time there. I often regret that in Octo- ber, 1881, when I visited Mrs. Margaret Young and her sister, Miss Nellie Anderson, in Richmond, Va., they were so far advanced in age and so infirm, as they were dear friends of the Dudley family, and, had con- ditions been different with them, could have told me much about my relations.
DR. GEORGE FLEET DUDLEY.
209 GRACE STREET, RICHMOND, VA., August 16th, 1907 .- I have left out of this paper a statement made to Cousin Ann Eliza George about the time I made the foregoing (from which I have taken the above copy this day in substance), about my granduncle, Henry Dudley, brother of Grandfather William Dudley, about his service in the Revolutionary War,-for lack of time to copy it. It can be seen at Cousin Eliza's residence, III North Third Street, Richmond, Va.
GEORGE FLEET DUDLEY.
INTERESTING NOTES
From COLONEL B. CAMERON, Stagville, N. C.
It looks as if I can never finish the Roane chart, for constantly I am discovering some new line, and when I do this it seems like a long time to get the desired information.
I wrote you about the discovery of the Richie line, but that the lady was at the White Sulphur Springs. I finally went to Washington City to see her. Then this week I got some information about a line in South Carolina.
Then there is a line which I have not been able to trace, but now I think I have located by reason of an
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article in last week's issue of the Confederate Veteran. It gave a sketch of the life of Spencer Roane Thorp in California, who the article said was the great-great- grandson of Patrick Henry. Therefore I think he must be the child of Sallie Roane, the missing line. In other words, Chief Justice Spencer Roane married Anna Henry, the daughter of Patrick Henry. Their eldest son, William Henry Roane, was United States Senator from Virginia, and their youngest, Lafayette Roane, married and settled in Kentucky, leaving an only child, Sallie, whose descendants, if any, I have never been able to trace. I now think I have the clue, as this gen- tleman was born in Kentucky, and served in the Con- federate army. I have written to his widow, whose ad- dress was given in the article. When I hear from her I will let you know. In the meanwhile I trust I am not delaying your work. I received the Brockenbrough lines through Mr. Stanard of your city and Mrs. Semmes of Lexington. Also from the latter about the Bernards, Dykes, and Hipkins. There are two lines still deficient, the Garnetts and the Calstons. The for- mer will give me some trouble, the latter I think I will procure without trouble.
I have a very nice sketch of the Roane and Ruffin families, written by my kinsman, Colonel Frank G. Ruffin, whose mother was a Richie and her mother a Roane. This I thought you could use as an introduc- tion or preface to the chart. I have sent it to a friend to edit, as it is in his own writing.
REMINISCENCES OF LOWER KING AND QUEEN
BY GEORGE S. SHACKELFORD
Richard Shackelford, son of John, was born Decem- ber 18th, 1801, and died May, 1858. He was married three times. His first wife was Frances Taliaferro, who left two children, Frances and James W., both now dead. His second wife, my mother, was Mary Anne
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Thornton, daughter of Frank Thornton, of Gloucester, who left seven children,-all dead, except myself. His third wife was a widow Leigh, née Sears, who left five children, three of whom are still living,-Laura, Lulie, and Sarah, widow of Captain James B. Pleasants of Richmond.
I was born July 31st, 1834. I have four children, George P., R. Estelle, Eva G., and Mary T. I have seven grandchildren.
There lived in the same neighborhood with my boy- hood home the Anderson family. Mr. Frank Ander- son had three sons and one daughter, all dead, leaving large families of children. The sons were Beverley, William H .; and Hansford. His daughter married Henry Roane. There was also a Hansford Anderson, known as " Big Hansford," and Robert S. Anderson, brothers, each of whom left a family. I did not know their father.
There was also another Beverley Anderson, a near relative of the others. He left two sons, Dr. Garry and Wilbur F., each of whom has two children.
There was also a large family of Roanes in the lower end of the county. Charles Roane, born in 1776, had eight sons and two daughters: Wiley P., Ellett, Allen, Curtis, Charles A., S. F., Warner P., and Joshua. Neither of his daughters, Lillie and Sarah, left an heir, but each of the sons left a family. Wiley P. Roane is still (1903) living, and has quite a number of children. He is about seventy-six years old.
Shackelford's Church was built in the early days of Methodism. Bishop Asbury preached there, as did the early preachers. The church was rebuilt in 1823. A new church, brick, was built just across the road in 1856-'57, and is in good order.
There was a Baptist church about three miles away, called Poroporone, which has been moved four miles farther up the county to the village of Centreville. There is an old church, of that name, three or four miles farther up, which was built some time before the Rev- olution. It was used by all denominations, but, because all claimed it, it was ordered to be sold, and was bought
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by Colonel Shelton, who made a deed of it to the Meth- odists, and it is still owned by them.
Some time before the Old Church was sold, Mr. Corbin built an Episcopal church on his land, but failed to make a deed to them [the Episcopal society]. Mr. Peter S. Pollard bought the farm from Mr. Corbin, but there being no reservation of the church, he claimed it and sold the bricks to different parties. My father bought some of them; I know this to be a fact.
I have given but an imperfect sketch, for I can tell it better than I can write it.
Yours,
GEORGE S. SHACKELFORD.
This from Col. Fleet of Culver: "Thos. Walker, ancestor of the distinguished Dr. Thos. Walker, and Riveses of Albemarle, and Gov. Thos. Walker Gilmore, was from K. & Q."
Semple, John and James S., were sons of Rev. James Semple of England. John settled in King and Queen, marrying a Miss Walker. Their son, Robert B. A. Cro- ghan, married Lucy Clark, and their son, Major Cro- ghan, then a mere youth, held the fort at Sandusky against Gen. Proctor with a large force of Indians and whites. He also distinguished himself at Tippecanoe.
Col. Anderson of Fort Sumter was a son of Col. A. W. S. Anderson and Sarah Marshall Clark (Taylor and Anderson Families).
Capt. Thos. Dew served in the War of 1812; for a time he was stationed at Tappahannock, a small town on the banks of the Rappahannock River. There were efforts, and possibly repeated efforts, to effect a landing of British troops at that point, but they were successfully repulsed.
Col. Jacob Lumpkin, who died 1708, and is repre- sented on his tomb as a " dux militum," was a promi- nent man in the early wars of the colony. The Lump- kin family seems to have been quite distinguished in the county. He is buried at Mattapony Church.
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OTHER FAMILY NAMES :
Giles Bland, Hansford, and Drum- mond, three men of King and Queen, were among Berke- ley's martyrs, i.e., they were with Nathaniel Bacon in his rebellion against Berkeley, and were put to death by order of the latter.
Governor Spottswood and his knights were absent about six weeks in their transmontane expedition.
Speaker Robinson, of King and Queen County, was in the chair on the occasion when a vote of thanks was passed by the Assembly to Washington; when Wash- ington rose to reply, and hesitated in his speech, the Speaker said: "Sit down, Mr. Washington; your mod- esty is equal to your valor, and that surpasses anything which I can express."
A man named Estis, living in the lower part of the county, was tall, square-shouldered, with long legs and arms-a powerful man physically. He always called himself in public, "Mr. Estis," and ventured largely upon his dignity. He had the reputation of being the biggest eater in the county, and was quite as fond of whisky as he was of Old Virginia ham. Again and again he got himself in trouble with the court when John Barleycorn got the better of him. Several times the Judge sent him to jail. A story was told of him, which I believe was true, that on one occasion at the Court- house he bargained with an unsophisticated man who brought oysters to court to sell, to give him as many oysters as he could eat for a quarter. The man told Mr. Estis to help himself, when he forthwith devoured all that were in his bucket and took the bucket, because, he said, he had not had enough.
Fleet, Ryland, Garnett, Gaines, Hill, Bagby, Pollard, Courtney, Campbell, Wright, Shackelford, Shackford, Lumpkin, Davis, Latane, Nunn, Howerton, Dew, Boul- ware, Lyne, Hutchinson, Broaddus, Carlton, Evans, Haynes, Rice, Jones, Smith, Gresham, Walker, Taylor, Hoskins, Motley, Dudley, Todd, Garlick, Fauntleroy, Jeffries, Coxe, Porter, Garrett, Purcell, Bird, Harwood
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(7), Street, Thurston, Hundley, Williams, Diggs, Hen- ley, Sutton, Deshays, Gwathmey, Pointer, Spencer, Guthrie, Scott, Tunstall, Bray, Councill, Watkins, Allen, Land, Anderson, Robertson, Robinson, Mann (9), Roane, Dew, Yarrington, Burton, House, Lipscomb, Cook, Hall, Brooke, etc.
FROM BISHOP MEADE'S "OLD CHURCHES," ETC.
CORBIN FAMILY (VOL. 2, P. 14)
Henry Corbin settled in the parish of Stratton Major, King and Queen, about the year 1650. He had three children : Thomas, Garvin, and Henry. Henry, m. Bassett, was once President of the Council. Garvin had three sons and four daughters: Sons, Richard, of Laneville, m. Betty Tayloe, daughter of Col. John Tay- loe; John; Garvin, Jr., m. Hannah, sister of Richard. Henry Lee was also a member of Council.
TAYLOR FAMILY (VOL. 2, P. 98)
They settled between the North (James) and York Rivers, 1698. This was James Taylor. His daughter Mary was the mother of Judge Edmond Pendleton. His son John was the ancestor of Col. John Taylor, of Caroline. John's son, James, was the father of Francis Taylor, who became the wife of Ambrose Madison, and the grandmother of President Madison. George Taylor had fourteen sons, seven of whom served in the Revolutionary Army. James Taylor, Jr., had four sons : James, George, Zachary, and Erasmus. Zachary was the grandfather of President Taylor. James Tay- lor, Sr., above mentioned, was for years a resident of King and Queen.
WM. C. RIVES (VOL. 2, P. 45)
Married a Miss Walker, formerly of King and Queen.
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ROBINSON FAMILY (VOL. I, P. 378)
John (1) was of Yorkshire, England. Christopher (2). John (3), b. 1683; President of the Council; m. Beverly, a daughter of Robert Beverly. John (4) was Treasurer, and Speaker of Burgesses, He was a de- faulter to the government, but the deficit was subse- quently paid over to the government. Here is the epi- taph inscribed upon the monument to Speaker Robin- son : "Beneath this place lieth all that could die of the late worthy John Robinson, Esq., who was a represent- ative of the County of King and Queen, and Speaker to the House of Burgesses about twenty-eight years. With what fidelity he acted as Treasurer is well known to us. He was a tender husband-a solid Christian."
On land belonging to Melville Walker, just below Walkerton, there are marks of an old fort. We sur- mise that this fort was erected by whites vs. Indians at an early period, but have been able to learn nothing definite.
Messrs. Carter Braxton of Mantua, and John Gaines, neighboring lawyers, were of opposite political parties. Each represented his party on the stump, and many were the sharp thrusts given and taken. Gaines was a Whig and Braxton a Democrat.
TAYLOR FAMILY
James Taylor (2d), ancestor of Gen. Zachary Tay- lor, the hero of Buena Vista, and afterwards President of the United States, was a Burgess from King and Queen, and was in the Spotswood (Horse Shoe) expe- dition across the mountains, 1716. Married Martha Thompson. These were, singularly enough, great- grandparents of two Presidents, Madison and Taylor (Robinson and Taylor families, p. 234) .
Col. Richard Taylor, of the Continental Army, re- moved to Kentucky in 1794. When dying, he said, " The ship is foundering, but the cargo is saved " (p. 255).
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Donald Robertson was born in Scotland, Sept. 27, 1717; came to King and Queen 1763; died 1783.
Apple Tree " P. E. Church stood on land called Farmington, and was probably Robertson's Church. This is one mile below Rosemont. Cattail Church (St. David's) was a mile and a half below Ayletts, in King William.
We avail ourselves of the following from the pen of our venerable friend, Dr. B. H. Walker-himself a member of one of our first families;
" Some of the best and noblest people in the world were natives of King and Queen. Living on the farm adjoining my father's was Gen. John Young, who was Quartermaster-General under Washington. My father always spoke of him as a splendid specimen of the Vir- ginia gentleman, independent in his words and acts, and for many years presiding justice in the county. He never married, and at his death distributed his property among his near kin. He had a favorite nephew, Charles Chilton, whom he educated and expected to make his heir, but the boy was restless and left his home for one of the South American republics fighting for independ- ence. When he returned his uncle was dead and his property given to others. Gen. Young's former home is now owned by his great-grandnephew, John Temple, Superintendent of Schools of Westwood.
" Another prominent and noted character in the early history of the county was Col. Richard Corbin of Lane- ville. He was a large owner of lands, slaves, and money. People used to say, 'Rich as Dick Corbin.' He built the large hotel at the Court-House, which re- mained until the Civil War, when the Yankees burned it, along with the Court-House, Clerk's office, records, and private dwellings. There is a tradition that Col. Corbin was a Royalist and hid away in the subterranean cellar at Laneville many of the colonial archives. He was probably the man whom Patrick Henry, with a company of soldiers, was looking for as being Treasurer of the Colony, to recover money for the powder de- stroyed by Dunmore."
"I mention also," the Doctor continues, " Mr. Sam-
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uel Fauntleroy, who lived first at the Mount, and then at Holly Hill, who was the last man in the county to ride in a coach and four. He used to come in that style to Bruington Church, of which he was a member. His family was of French Huguenot extraction. He was the father of Dr. S. G. Fauntleroy, Sr., and grand- father of the late Dr. S. G. He was father also of Thomas W. L. and Dr. Moore Fauntleroy, and of Mrs. James Govan, Mrs. Arch. Harwood, Mrs. Thornton Pollard, and Mrs. Toler. Only three of his grandchil- dren are now living, Samuel F. Harwood, Esq., of New- ington, Mrs. Susan Fauntleroy, née Govan, and Mrs. Virginius Fauntleroy of Holly Hill. Samuel F. mar- ried first, Miss Todd, daughter of William Todd of Toddsberry."
CHAPTER XIX REPRESENTATIVES OF KING AND QUEEN IN BURGESSES, COMMITTEES, CONVENTIONS, ETC.
The following extracts are from old records found in State Library : " Thos. Walker, b. in K. & Q., 1715, able, bold and energetic, traversed mountains into Ken- tucky among the first. He was commissary to Brad- dock and present at his defeat in 1755. His son John lived at Castle Hill; was Aide to Washington, member Burgesses; U. S. Senator; d. 1809. His son Thos. a Captain in Revolution (9th Reg.) ; another son, Francis, Col. of 88th Reg. Hon. W. C. Rives married Judith, Francis' daughter, and owned Castle Hill.
COMMITTEE OF SAFETY, KING AND QUEEN COUNTY Chosen by Freeholders Monday, Dec. 12, 1774.
Thomas Coleman, George Lyne, Gregory Baylor, Richard Tunstall, Jr., Robert Hill, Gregory Smith, Tunstall Banks, Anderson Scott, William Richards, Wil- liam Todd, Henry Todd, John Bagby, George Brooke, Henry Lumpkin, Benjamin Pendleton, John Collins, Thomas Rowe, Stephen Field, William Lyne, Jos. Tem- ple, John Lyne, and Richard and Matthew Anderson, gentlemen.
DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS March 20, 1775-George Brooks, George Lyne. July 17, 1775-George Brooke, George Lyne. Dec. 1, 1775-George Brooke.
May 6, 1776-George Brooke, William Lyne. 1788-William Fleet, Thomas Roane. 1901-1902-C. B. Jones.
REPRESENTATIVES OF KING AND QUEEN COUNTY IN THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES The following record of the County Representatives
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in the House of Delegates contains some breaks which I could not fill :
1781-Thomas Coleman.
1788-Anderson Scott and Larkin Smith.
1788-Convention, William Fleet and Thomas Roane.
1789-William Roane and Larkin Smith.
1791-John W. Sample and Benjamin Dabney. 1792 and 1793-John W. Sample and Larkin Smith. 1794-Benjamin Dabney and Henry Young.
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