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I have said before of Gen. Green, that I was in some degree a pet of his, and I have assigned the cause why I was so. Being a good deal at headquarters, I knew him to be an amiable and excellent domestic character; he was devoted to his wife amid all the danger and excitement of war. And the elder Judge Tucker told me this anecdote of him: that after the battle of Guilford, and the retreat to the Iron Works, the General discovered that he had no bed; he invited him to take a part of his, and in the morning, when Tucker awoke, he found him admiring his wife's picture which hung round his neck. He was much beloved by the army; was cautious not to engage in battle, unless there was a prospect of crippling or defeating the enemy. There is a letter in Johnson's life of him, from Gen. Washington, after the battle of Eutaw Spring, which begins: "I rejoice, my dear General, that you have, at length, gained a victory," etc. I loved him, and to the page of history consign his memory. I did not know Gen. Gates in the army, but, after the peace, he resided twelve months in Fredericksburg, and being fond of young company, I frequently saw him; his manners were very fine. He had served in the British army, was, I have no doubt, an excellent camp officer,
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acquainted with taetics in the drill, but not qualified to command an army.
I have said that I knew also the leading civil characters of that period. I knew Mr. Jefferson very well. The first time I saw him was at the Magazine, at Westham, above Richmond, as I have men- tioned before. I was afterwards often at Monticello, and saw much of him there; and while he was President of the United States. Ile was a man of easy and ingratiating manners; he was very partial to nie, and I corresponded with him while I was Vice-President .of the Society of Cincinnati; he wished the funds of that Society to be appropriated to his central college, near Charlottesville; and on one occasion I obtained an order for a meeting of the Society, to that effect; but in my absence the order was rescinded, and the funds appropriated to the Washington College, at Lexington, to which Gen. Washington had given his shares in the James River Company, which the State had presented him with. Mr. Jefferson never would discuss any proposition if you differed with him, for he said he thought discussion rather rivetted opinions than changed them. When I was elected Speaker of the Senate of Virginia, he sent me his parliamentary manual, with a very flattering note wafered in it, which is now in the possession of my son Robert. Of Mr. Madison, I personally did not know as mueh; his manners were not so fine or insinuating as Mr. Jefferson's; he was devoted to Mr. Jefferson but differed with him in some respects; he never shunned discussion, but courted it-told many excellent anecdotes of times past-and was among the purest and ablest statesmen we ever had. I knew Mr. Monroe, practiced law with him, and I think, though a slow man, he possessed a strong mind and excellent judgment. When I was at York, in 1824, with Gen. LaFayette, Mr. Calhoun, then Seere- tary of War, was there, and I asked him the question, whether it was the President Monroe, or his Cabinet, who were in favor of that passage in his message which deelared to the Holy Alliance, that America would not be indifferent to any attempt to aid the Spanish Government to prevent the enfranchisement of the South American powers, then at war with Spain; and he replied, that it was the President's own sentiment, and though he was a slow man, yet give him time, and he was a man of the best judgment he had ever known.
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This narrative has been written, or dictated by snatches, at different times, and may therefore contain some repetitions, and I may have omitted some things that ought to be in it; but my recollections are too numerous for me to record them all, and I believe I have given a sufficient number of them to answer my purpose-to gratify my family and friends-and I will now rest.
FRANCIS T. BROOKE.
Richmond, May 1st, 1849.
GENEALOGY.
Judge Francis Taliaferro Brooke2, son of Richard Brooke1 and Elizabeth Taliaferro, b. at Smithfield, Va., August 28, 1764; d. at St. Julien, March 3, 1851, aged 87. Married Mary Randolph Spotswood, October 3, 1791; b. New Post, Va., June 19, 1775; d. St. Julien, Va., January 23rd, 1803, aged 28. Issue :
I. John Brooke3, who was a surgeon in the Navy, d. off the coast of China and was buried in some Chinese port. Married --; d. without issue.
II. Robert Spotswood Brooke3. Married Margaret Lyle Smith, of Egypt, Va., Nov. 24, 1835.
III. Mary Randolph Spotswood Brooke3. Married Dr. Ed- mund Berkeley.
IV. Elizabeth Brooke3, d. aged 15.
Robert Spotswood Brooke3 (Francis T.2, Richard1), son of Francis Taliaferro Brooke and Mary Randolph Spotswood, his wife, b. at St. Julien, September 5, 1800; d. Staunton, Va., May, 1851. Married (first) Elizabeth Smith, of Folly, Va., near Staunton, Va. Issue :
I. Margaret Brooke+. Married Thomas P. Eskridge. Issue : Elizabeth, Brooke, Meta and Mary.
II. Virginia Brooke4. Married Dr. Briscoe Baldwin Donoghe. Issue : Mary, Florence and Virginia Donoghe.
III. Elizabeth Smith Brooke4. Married John Lewis Cochran, of Charlottesville, Va. Issue: Anne, John, Joseph and James Cochran.
Robert Spotswood Brooke3. Married (second) Margaret Lisle Smith, daughter of Abraham Smith, of Harrisonburg, Va. Miss Lisle was daughter of Mr. Lisle and Margaret Baker, daughter of
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John Baker and Judith Howard Baker, who was daughter of Peter Wood and Susanna C. Joanna Howard. Issue :
I. John Franeis Brooke4. Married Ann Carter Berkeley.
II. Juliet Lyle Brooke4, unmarried.
III. Mary Randolph Spotswood Brooke+. Married Overton Boweock.
IV. Martha Washington Brooke4. Married Walter Frederick Churnside, of England, had issue.
V. Franeis Taliaferro Brooke4. Married Ann Aurelia Burnley.
VI. Edmund Berkeley Brooke4, unmarried. It is supposed that the Bakers and Brookes were related before they eame to this country. Baker Brooke's name is recorded of the same date as Spotswood's, and in that case both Margaret and Virginia married cousins. The Eskridges and Doneghe or Druaghes (?) both were descendants in the Baker line of the sisters of John Baker who married Judith Wood.
Mary Randolph Spotswood Brooke3 (Francis Taliaferro2. Richard1), daughter of Judge Franeis Taliaferro Brooke and Mary Randolph Spotswood. Married Dr. Edmund Berkeley, of Staunton, son of Dr. Carter Berkeley and Katherine Spotswood Carter, of Shirley, of Edgewood, Hanover Co., who was son of Nelson Berkeley I (and Elizabeth Wormeley Carter, of Sabine Hall), of Airwell, Hanover Co., Va .; who was son of Edmund Berkeley II, of Barn Elms, Middlesex County, Va. (and Mary Nelson of Yorktown) ; who was son of Edmund Berkeley I, of Barn Elms, Middlesex Co., Va. (and Luey Burwell of Carter's Creek, Gloucester Co., Va.) ; who was son of Edmund Berkeley I, of Gloucester Co., Va. (and Mary - -); who was son of Edmund Berkeley; who was a son of Maurice Berkeley; who was a son of John Berkeley, the head of the Beverstone branch of the Berkeley family in England, and wlio came to Virginia in 1619 and was killed in the massacre of 1622 at Falling Creek.
Dr. Edmund Berkeley4 and Mary Randolph Spotswood Brooke? had issue :
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I. Dr. Thomas Averett Berkeley, was educated at Jefferson College, Pa .; University of Virginia. Surgeon in C. S. Army. Afterwards was at Western State Hospital, Asst. Surgeon, Staunton, Va .; d. unmarried .*
II. Lavinia Berkeley4. Married Col. Norborne Berkeley, of "Stoke," Loudoun Co., Va.
III. Katherine Spotswood Berkeley4. Married William Igle- heart, of Annapolis, Md., lawyer. He served in C. S. A. Issue :
I. Annie Iglehearts, unmarried.
II. Lieutenant Berkeley Igleheart®, Lieut. U. S. Army. Un- married (1906).
IV. Capt. Franeis Brooke Berkeley+ (married) ; d. Oct. 5, 1898, leaving issue.
V. Dr. Carter Berkeley+. Married twiee; d. March 7, 1905, leaving issue by first wife.
VI. John Francis Berkeley+, d. young.
VII. Mary Botts Berkeley+ (still living), never married.
VIII. Edmund Berkeley+, served in Confederate Army; never married, resides at Staunton, Va.
IX. Alexander Spotswood Berkeley4, served in the Confederate Army, at the age of 15; never married, lives at Staunton, Va.
Lavinia Berkeley+ (Mary R. S. Brooke3, Franeis Taliaferro2, Richard1), daughter of Dr. Edmund Berkeley of Staunton and Mary R. S. Brooke, his wife. Married Col. Norborne Berkeley, of "Stoke," Loudoun Co., Va. He was a graduate of Virginia Military Institute; Colonel 8th Virginia Infantry, Civil War; member of the Constitution Convention of Virginia, 1869. Issue :
I. Edmund Spotswood Berkeley5.
*NOTE .- "Dr. Thomas Averett Berkeley4 was a great admirer of my mother, Catherine Ambler Moneure; they met at St. Julien. Dr. James D. Moneure, my unele, visited Staunton Hospital, to see a friend, on a Sunday; he was told by the attendant, visiting was not allowed on Sunday. He asked for Dr. Berkeley. Dr. Moneure asked to see his friend. Dr. Berkeley replied, "Did you know Catty or Kate Moncure (as she was called) ?" Dr. Moneure replied, "She was my own dear sister, but has passed away." Whereupon Dr. Berkeley grasped his hand, saying, "Yes, you can see your friend for the sake of your sister that I loved and still love."
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II. Norborne Berkeley". Married Florenec Lee De Spain, of Oregon.
III. William N. Berkeley5, Ph. D. Johns Hopkins University ; will be married soon to Miss Gerheart, of New Jersey (Jersey City).
IV. Charles C. Berkeley5. Married Geraldine De Spain, of Oregon.
Captain Franeis T. Brooke Berkeley+ (Mary R. S. Brooke", Franeis Taliaferro2, Richard1), son of Dr. Edmund Berkeley and Mary R. S. Brooke, his wife. He served in the Confederate Army, became Adjutant General, Imboden's Brigade. Married Jennie Baird, daughter of Rev. Baird. Issue :
I. Eva Berkelcy5. Married Dr. Charles Robins, of Rich- mond, Va. Issue :
I. Francis Berkeley Robins".
II. Dorothy Randolph RobinsG.
III. Charles Russell Robins".
II. Franeis B. Berkeley", assistant Librarian Va. State Librarian, Richmond, Va.
III. Edmund Berkeley5, Richmond, Va.
IV. Robert B. Berkelcy5, Kentucky.
V. Jeanie Berkeley", unmarried.
VI. Esther Berkeley5.
VII. Maurice Fitzhardinge Berkeley5.
VIII. Shirley Berkeley".
Dr. Carter Berkelcy4 (Mary R. S. Brooke?, Franeis Taliaferro2, Richard1), son of Dr. Edmund Berkeley, of Staunton, Va., and Mary R. S. Brooke, his wife. He was educated at University of Virginia and University of Maryland, studying medieinc at both places, and receiving his degree at latter. Hc served in C. S. A., bceame First Lieut. Artillery. Married (first) Janc L. Gilkeson, daughter of William and Margaret Gilkcson, of "Hillside," Augusta Co., Va .; she d. 1884. Dr. Berkeley married (second) Jane Hale, of Rocky Mount, Va .; d. 1889, no issue. Dr. Berkelcy (l. March 7, 1905, leaving issue by his first wife :
I. Edmund Berkeley5, served in Spanish American War, resides at Monroe, La.
II. Margaret Brooke Berkeley", d. in childhood.
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III. Charles C. Berkeley5, served in Spanish American War, Cuba. Capt. U. S. Vol. Infantry. Married Linda B ---- -, daughter of J. Alexander and Sarah B ,
of "Bethu Green," Augusta Co., Va. Issue :
I. Sarah Spotswood Berkeley®, infant.
II. Elizabeth Landon Berkeley6, infant.
Mr. Charles C. Berkeley and his cousin Francis L. Berkeley, of "Red Hill," Albemarle Co., Va., are pre- paring a book, "The Berkeleys and Their Ancestors," to which any one may refer for information eoneern- ing the Berkeley Family.
IV. Randolph Carter Berkeley5, served in Spanish American War. Is now (1906) Capt. U. S. Marine Corps.
The following notice of Capt. Berkeley's marriage recently ap- peared in the Baltimore Sun:
CAPTAIN BERKELEY WEDS.
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA., Sept. 12, 1906 .- One of the most brilliant weddings ever witnessed in Shepherdstown occurred to-night, when Capt. Randolph Carter Berkeley, of the United States Marine Corps, and Miss Carrie Phillips, only daughter. of Pay Inspector and Mrs. J. S. Phillips, were united in marriage. The ceremony was performed by Rev. C. E. A. Marshall, in Trinity Episcopal Church, which was filled with a large and fashionable assemblage.
The best man was Capt. A. E. Harding, aid to the President, and the ushers were Dr. Richard Blackburn, of Washington; Lieut. Russell B. Putnam, Capt. Henry Davis, Paymaster W. H. Dougherty and Paymaster D. M. Addison, of the navy, and Messrs. William Muzzey and Lawrenee Lee and David Leman, of this place. The maid of honor was Miss Harriet Tilghman, of Norfolk, Va .; and the bridesmaids were Misses Janet Berke- ley, of Staunton, Va .; L. E. Hanna, of Washington; Marie Muzzey, of Philadelphia; N. C. Williams, L. Turner, E. Butler, E. L. Potts and Vir- ginia Van S. Reinhart, of Shepherdstown. The ribbon-bearers were Graee Darling Chapline and Joseph A. Chapline. The maid of honor was gowned in blue radium silk, while the bridesmaids wore handsome dresses of white organdie and laee over blue taffeta. The bride wore a beautiful gown of white satin, with duchesse and rose point lace, with bridal veil, and earried Bride roses, as did her attendants. The ushers in the military serviee wore the full-dressed uniforms of their respective corps, the others wearing dress suits.
The seene as the bridal party entered the church and grouped around the chancel was strikingly beautiful. The processional music was the wedding mareh from "Lohengrin," while the recessional was Mendelssohn's
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"Wedding Mareh." The bride was given in marriage by her uncle, Pay Director Mitchell MeDonald, of the United States Navy. Her father, Pay Inspector Phillips, was unable to attend the wedding because of his duties as a special representative of the State Department at Monte Christi, Santo Domingo, the present revolution in that country rendering it impera- tive that he should be at his post there.
Immediately after the wedding a reception was held at the home of the bride. Thompson's Orchestra, of Martinsburg, rendered music during the evening, and later the younger set were entertained at daneing. The bridal party left for a trip East.
This marriage unites two of the oldest families of Virginia. The bride's aneestors came to Virginia in 1607 and 1610 and the groom's in 1618, all having settled at Jamestown. Captain Berkeley is a son of the late Dr. Carter Berkeley and his wife, Lovie Gilkeson, of Staunton, and a grandson of Dr. Edmund Berkeley and his wife, Mary Randolph Spottswood Brooke, the daughter of Judge Franeis T. Brooke and his wife, who was a direct descendant of Governor Spottswood, famous "Knight of the Golden Horse- shoe." The bride is a granddaughter of the late Congressman William A. Phillips, of Kansas, and his wife, Margaret Caraway Stewart Spillman, of Tennessee. On her mother's side she is a daughter of the late Judge Joseph A. Chapline, of Shepherdstown, whose ancestors were among the earliest settlers in this section.
Among the out-of-town guests attending the wedding were the Misses Berkeley, of Staunton, Va .; Miss Ann Iglehart, of Annapolis, Md .; So- licitor Edwin Phillips Hanna. the Misses Hanna, Miss Frances Cox and Mrs. C. Piquette Mitchel, of Washington, and Mrs. Robert Gibson, of Philadelphia.
V. Mary Randolph Spottswood Berkeley", Staunton. I have had several interesting letters from Miss Berkeley".
VI. Janet C. Berkeley5.
VII. Robert Brooke Berkeley3, Atlanta, Ga.
Norborne Berkeley" (Lavinia4, Mary R. S. Brooke3, Francis Taliaferro2, Richard1), son of Lavinia Berkeley4, and Col. Nor- borne Berkelcy, of the "Stokes." Hc was educated at the Virginia Agricultural College, Blacksburg, Va. He went to Oregon in 1884 and has been there ever since, In 1894 he was admitted to the Bar, and has been practicing law since that timc. His residence is Pendleton, Oregon; b. July 17, 1860, married (March 8, 1893) Florence Lee De Spain. Issue :
I. Mildred Minor Berkeley6, b. Jan. 31, 1894.
II. Norborne Berkeley®, Jr., b. Sept. 26, 1901.
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Charles Carter Berkeley® (Lavinia+, Mary R. S. Brooke3, Fran- cis Taliaferro2, Richard1), son of Lavinia Berkelcy4 and Col. Norborne Berkeley of the "Stokes," b. January 27, 1871, married (September 14, 1898) Editlı Geraldine De Spain. Mr. Berkeley left Virginia in 1889; went to North Carolina, where he had a position on the Engineering Corps of the Seaboard Air Line. In 1890 he went to Birmingham, Ala., where he worked some time at mining engineering. In 1891-2 he was connected with the engi- neering department of the Norfolk and Western R. R. in West Virginia. In 1893 he was assistant engineer on the Ohio Southern, Lima, O. He went west in 1893, and was connected with the Astoria and Columbia River R. R. until 1897; then he resigned and accepted a position as resident engineer for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co., which position he held until 1900, when he resigned and took up private practice in Pendleton. No issue.
Judge Francis Taliaferro Brooke married second, Mary Champe Carter, daughter of Edward Carter of Blenhicim and Sarah Champe, son of John Carter and Elizabeth Hill of Shirley, whose father was King Carter, married Judith Armistead.
(See Chapter VII, Carter Family.)
Issue :
I. Frank Brooke, married Gabriella Ambler.
(Issue Volume I, Chapters VI and VII.)
II. Helen Brooke, married Robert Hamilton. Issue :
I. Mary Champe Hamilton, married Capt. Wm. Farleigh. Issue :
I. Mary Farleiglı.
II. Brooke Farleigli, living in New York.
II. Helen Brooke, married, second, Mr. Forman. Issue:
I. Helen Forman.
II. Flo. Forman.
III. Ella Forman.
THE BERKELEY FAMILY.
The name Berkelcy comes from two words, the Danish and Old English word "Birke," meaning birch (one impress left on Eng- land by the Danes), and the word "ley," "lay" or "Ica," meaning meadow ; a grassy, flat pasture land, as a lay for cattle. (See any standard encyclopædic dictionary for these words.) These two
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words were compounded into the word "Berkeley," meaning birch- meadow. In the early days, when men had but one name, such as John or Henry, they were more specifically designated by the place at which they dwelt, such as John of the Birk-ley, finally contracted into John Berkeley, the name of the place being taken as the family name. And thus evidently came the Berkeley family name.
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BERKELEY COAT-OF-ARMS.
In Gloucestershire, England, near the banks of the Severn River, seventeen and a half miles by rail southwest of Gloucester, and one hundred and one miles west by north of London, in the "Vale of Berkeley," which consists of rich meadow pasture land, lies the ancient town of Berkeley, and on an eminence to the southeast is "Berkeley Castle," built in the reign of Henry I, out of the ruins of a nunnery which had been in existence some time before the Norman Conquest. This castle is to-day one of the most perfect specimens of Norman style in Great Britain. In 1162, Henry II granted this castle to Robert Fitzhardinge, with whose
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descendants it has ever sinee continued, they having held the title of Baron of Berkelcy from 1259, and Earl and Viseount from 1679.
See "Imperial Reference Library, Eneyelopadie Dictionary and Atlas of the World," Vol. I; "Chambers' Encyclopedia," Vol. II; "Eneyelopædia Brittanica," Vol. III; and "Lives of the Berkeleys," by John Smyth of Nibley, covering the period from 1066 to 1618, edited by Sir John Maclean, in two volumes, in 1883-84; also "Berkeley Castle," by George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge Berke- ley, published 1836.
It is said that before the Norman Conquest of 1066, the Berkeley family was of some importance in Gloucestershire; that they fought with Harold at Hastings, and for years afterwards resisted William of Normandy with the other lords of Western England, and during the reign of Henry II, this eastle was in the possession of Eva Berkeley, all of the men who would have been entitled to the eastle having died and been killed in the numerous wars and insurreetions. A deseendant of Maurice Fitzhardinge, a knight, who came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066, married Eva Berkeley, and was granted Berkeley Castle by Henry II (England then being under the feudal system), and took the name of Berkeley, from which union eame the present Berkeley family. Thus it would be necessary, to trace baek the lincage of Mauriee Fitzhardinge, to go beyond 1030 (presumably about the time he was born), for the paternal side of his union. Eva Berkeley's line no doubt ran baek before 1000, under the name of Berkeley (from the ancient origin of the name). Thomas Berkeley, eighth Lord or Baron of Berkeley Castle, who was in the battle of Poitiers 1356, in 1361 bought the ancient Castle of Beverstone in Gloucestershire and gave it to a younger son, whose descendants lived there for eight generations. In the latter part of the sixteenth century, this estate having become very much deeayed in 1597, John Berkeley, Esq., then the owner of this estate, and at that time the head of the Beverstone braneli of the Berkeley family, and the cighth generation of same, sold it. In 1618 he eame to Virginia to superintend the iron works at Falling Creek, in Chesterfield County (about seven miles south of Manchester, near where Falling Creek empties into James River), was appointed a member of the council under Governor Yeardley, and was killed at Falling Creek by the
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Indians in the massacre of 1622. Hc had ten children, of whom the sons werc :
I. Maurice.
II. Thomas.
III. William.
IV. Henry. V. John.
It is not known whether any of these were killed in the massacre of 1622; but, at the time, Maurice was in England, and afterwards came to Virginia with a view of reestablishing the iron works, which was never done. Of Maurice nothing more is known, except that he had charge of the salt works for the colony, and had a son, Lieutenant Edward or Edmund Berkeley, who, with his (Edward's) wife Janc and daughter Jane, was living at Neck of Land (be- tween Island and the mainland), Virginia, in 1620, and who was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1625; and the report which was carried to England by John Harvey in February or March, 1625, stated that Lieutenant Edward Berkeley was living on Hog Island in James River. From this period (1625) there is no mention of the family in records now extant until twenty-six years later, 1651, when there was a grant to Henry Berkeley, Esq., of 2,400 acres on the north side of Chickahominy River, in what was then James City County, but afterwards doubtless New Kent. "Captain Berkeley's Land," on Chickahominy, is afterwards men- tioned in 1655. The next of the name was Captain William Berke- ley, who, as appears from Hening, was a member of the Virginia Long Parliament, the House of Burgesses, 1660 to 1675. In the records of Middlesex, in 1673, is mention of a Thomas Berkeley. In 1694 we find an Edmund Berkeley in Gloucester County, Va., married Mary Mann, by whom he had issue, Edmund Berkeley, the first, of "Barn Elms," Middlesex County.
Mrs. Mary Berkeley married, second, John Mann, of "Timber- neck," Gloucester County, Va. The said Edmund Berkeley, the first of Middlesex County, married but once, in 1702, Lucy Burwell, a daughter of Major Lewis Burwell, of Carter's Creek, Gloucester County, Va., who was by his first wife, Abigail Smith, niece and heiress of General Nathaniel Bacon-and between 1712 and 1718, he moved to his seat at "Barn Elms," Middlesex County, Va.
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From this union of Edmund Berkeley and Lucy Burwell are deseended most of the Berkeleys now living in Virginia.
There is another family of Berkeleys that have sprung up in Virginia, and inasmuch as the said John Berkeley had five sons living in Virginia from 1619 to as late as 1675, it may be that this braneh, who spell their name "Berkley," are descendants of one of the said five sons.
R. A. Brock, in his notes to Spottswood's Letters, "Virginia His- torical Society," Vol. II, p. 59, says: "Edmund Berkeley of Barn Elms, Middlesex County, a descendant probably of Henry Berkeley who patented 2,400 aeres of land on the north side of the Chick- ahominy River, in James City County, April 5, 1651 (Virginia Land Registry, page 277)." But it is most likely that he was a son of Lieutenant Edmund Berkeley (who was the son of Maurice Berkeley, who was the son of the John Berkeley, of Beverstone Castle), because, first, it will be noted that he named his eldest son Edmund and the grandson of this first Edmund Berkeley, of "Barn Elms," who was named Edmund and who married Judith Randolph, and had issue by her one son, whom he named Edmund ; and Judith Randolph died and he married again, this time a Mary Burwell, and his first child was a son, whom he named Edmund, and he died young; and thus ended the unbroken line of the Ed- munds ; second, Henry Berkeley was a son of the John Berkeley, of Beverstone Castle, and the unele of Lieutenant Edmund Berke- ley, and Henry was very old to be the father of the first Ed- mund Berkeley, of Barn Elms, who was probably not born be- fore 1650, which would make him sixty-eight years of age at his death in 1718, and forty-four years of age at the time of his first marriage with Mary Mann. The probability is that he was not more than thirty-four at the time of his first marriage, which would place his birth at 1660, and there is no evidence of Henry Berkeley ever being married. The first Edmund Berkeley of "Barn Elms" was undoubtedly a member of the Beverstone branch of the Berkeley family, for no other Berkeley ever settled in Virginia before the time of his birth save John and his sons, aforesaid Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Bottetonit, who was Royal Governor of Virginia a short while before the Revolutionary War, and who had no descendants. Sir William Berkeley and Lord Norborne Berkeley were both of the English family of Berkeleys,
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