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may be heard and determined by any of the Justices of the Peace, in England, in their Courts of Sessions, not extending to life and member."
At the same writing Lord Baltimore also authorized Robert Brooke to be Commander-in-Chief under him, "of all the forces which shall be armed, levied or raised in the said County and to lead and conduct them against the Indians and other foreign enemies." A commission was also forwarded to Maryland by the proprietary, naming Robert Brooke as "member from privy Council to meet and assemble himself in Council upon all occasions." Therefore, when on the last day of June, 1650, Robert Brooke, lineal descendant of King Fergus II (A. D. 404), sailed into the Patuxent River in his own ship, with a retinue of twenty-eight servants, he was accorded, no doubt, the welcome which the herald- ing of Lord Baltimore naturally insured to him. Charmed by the picturesque shores of the Patuxent he sailed many miles farther up than any adventurer had sailed and chose for his abiding place the two thousand acres known as the "Manor of de La Brooke," of which his eldest son, Baker, was created Lord, while his father became Commander of the new County, named Charles, in honor of the King.
Although Robert Brooke lived but five years after his arrival in Maryland, he left a lasting impression upon the history of his day.
The fact that he came to Maryland as a friend of King Charles and was an adherent and privy Councilor of Lord Baltimore and changed his allegiance to the Cromwellian party when they deposed Governor Stone in 1652, has caused much surmise among his descendants. Robert Brooke was, however, not the only man who changed his politics at this time, and it is quite impossible to judge at this distance whether he thought he could best serve Lord Baltimore's interests as Acting Governor under Parliament, or whether he really was diplomatic and accepted the goods that the gods provided. Certain it is, however, that Lord Baltimore resented the change of front by annulling his commission as Commander of Charles County, in 1654, at which time Calvert County was erected in its place.
That there was no more depth of feeling, however, between the Calverts and the Brookes than the 'mere passing of a political
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campaign is evident from the fact that when Anne Calvert, the daughter of Governor Leonard Calvert, eame to Maryland to inherit in connection with her brother the estate of her father, Baker Brooke, the Lord of De La Brooke Manor, was the suitable match made for her Ladyship. Baker Brooke was twenty years of age when he arrived in Maryland and this high-bred young Lord of De La Brooke was commissioned as a member of the Council in the year 1658 and continued till the time of his death. This marriage of Anne Calvert took place between the years 1664 and 1671. On the latter year Baker Brooke received his Commission as Surveyor General of the province, dated August, 1671, on which Lord Baltimore designates him "our trusted and beloved nephew." On the year 1664, when Charles Calvert wrote to his father, Cecilious, that his Cousin William's sister had arrived, and that he was looking out for a good match for her, he little thought that the coming of this Anne and her brother, William Calvert, would destroy the romanee woven about their father, Leonard Calvert's noncupative will, in which he said to Mistress Margaret Brent: "Take all; pay all." The ineident gave a pretty suggestion for a Colonial love story, in which a young bachelor Governor and the first Woman's Right Advocate, Mistress Brent, were the eentral figures. But, alas ! the cold unromantie faets have dispersed the dreams of fancy, and the belief of all students of the Calvert papers is that Mistress Brent was Leonard Calvert's sister-in-law, and as nearest of kin to his children, was the exeeutrix of his estate, and the reason of her fighting so vigorously to protect it, was in the interest of her sister's children.
Whether this be proved true in time, certain it is that Baker Brooke and Anne Calvert, the daughter of Governor Leonard Cal- vert, married and left three sons and one daughter, from whom descended many of the Brookes of Maryland. Major Thomas Brooke, the second son of Robert Brooke and Mary Baker, beeame prominently identified with the official and military life of the Commissioners of Maryland to confer with Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia and others regarding the over production of tobaeco in the year 1667. Like his brother, Baker Brooke, Major Thomas married a lady of high social position. She being Eleanor Hatton, niece of the distinguished Secretary of the Province. Their son, Col. Thomas Brooke, of Brookefield, Prince George
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County, was not only a member of the Council, but also a Justice of Calvert County, several years before he attained to this high post of honor. Like his father, he was an Indian fighter and one of the Commissioners to treat with the Piscataways in the year 1697. As Commissary General, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty and President and Acting Governor of the Province, he practically filled every office in the gift of the King, Queen, and the Royal Governor. This distinguished official was twice married. By his first wife he left two daughter and a son, all of whom intermarried with prominent families (Colonial familics). By his second wife, Barbara Dent, Col. Brooke had eleven children, six of whom were girls, and all married men of high standing.
Roger Brooke, another son of Robert Brooke, of De La Brooke, was a Colonial official of importance, being one of the gentlemen Justices of Calvert County and member of the quorum.
Later he was appointed High Sheriff of the County. Through his marriage to Dorothy Ncalc, he has left numerous descendants in Montgomery County and elsewhere. His second wife was Mary Worseley, of England.
While it is impossible in so limited a space to more than touch upon the individual members of a family so large and officially important as the various generations of the Robert Brooke descendants of Whitchurch, England, and De La Brooke, on the Patuxent, it may prove of interest to know that almost every representative family of the State can trace some connection with this eminent name.
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CHAPTER XII
THE BARBOUR, GREEN, FLEMING, COLEMAN AND HENRY FAMILIES.
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BARBOUR
BARBOUR COAT-OF-ARMS
THE BARBOUR FAMILY.
Mr. John Strode Barbour has given the following about the Barbour Family :
There is some confusion as to the name of the first emigrant and founder of the Barbour Family of Virginia, or rather who was the emigrant of this particular family. All traditions seem to give their extraction as Scotch, and the time of coming to this country as about the middle of the 17th century. Some traditions give William Barbour, who was said to have been a younger son of the Baron of Mulderg, and who was County Lieutenant of York in 1656, and also one of the commission appointed by the governor, Sir William Berkeley, in 1660, to superintend the erection of the State house at Jamestown, as the first emigrant (see Hardesty's His- torical and Geographical Encyclopedia, 1884, p. 358), while others give James Barbour a Scotch merchant. One tradition, in connection with this
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last theory is, that, on arriving in Virginia, James Barbour established a home on a plantation, since famous as the seat, for generations, of another distinguished Virginia family. That he then married a Miss Taliaferro, and died, leaving an infant son, James, and a widow. That the widow re-married, and by some means the issue of this second marriage, who was almost an imbecile, became the owner of the entire Barbour property. He was a great gambler, and soon squandered it. The only form of gambling he had intellect sufficient to engage in was "push pins," and he is reported to have lost the homestead upon the issue of a single game. However true this tradition may be, the son, James, left the home of his childhood after his father's death, and came to Culpeper near the end of the first quarter of the 18th century, and settled finally in Culpeper Co., Va. It was here that he lived and died, and was buried. The tombstone marking his grave is still standing at Smith's Cottage, the old homestead, now in Madison County. This second James, spoken of by Dr. Slaughter as the first, was a vestryman of St. Mark's Parish at its organization in 1731. Probably the most authentic account of the founder of the Virginia family, now attainable, is the following extraet from the bible of Governor James Barbour, entered therein in his own handwriting, under the date of June 6th, 1806. It will be observed that he makes no reference to William Barbour, and no claim to descent from titled aneestry, but sceins rather to emphasize the faet that his ancestors were "farmers or yeomen." It will be observed also that he refers to the defeat of the expectations of the second James, by reason of the re-marriage of his mother. Ile says:
The farthest back that I have been able to trace, with any certainty, is my great-grandfather, who came over to this country from Scotland in the 17th century. He came in the character of a merchant, and was wrecked on his first adventure. His friends, as stated by tradition, being rich, furnished him with a new eargo, which he turned to a profitable account in (I believe) the county of King and Queen. He had issue, only one son, whom he called after himself, James, who intermarried with Sarah Todd, of a most respectable family. My grandfather's prospects in life were considerably blasted by the second marriage of his mother, an usual con- eomitant of such connections with the wreek of his expectations. IIe was either the first or second settler in this country; I mean the South West Mountains. I am certain he was the first inhabitant of this neighborhood, which was at first about the plantation now in the occupancy of the New- man family, that being the place of residence from which he moved to a place nearer the river that belonged to William Johnson. He had issue: five sons and three daughters. My father Thomas, as well as his father, were farmers or yeomen.
In the obituary notice of his distinguished great-grandson, Judge Philip Pendleton Barbour, published in Vol. 16, Peters' U. S. Supreme Court reports, it is said:
His (Judge Barbour's) great-grandfather (the second James) was the founder and first settler of the country lying between the eastern base of the Blue Ridge and the South West Mountains.
While it is possible that the first James, instead of being the emigrant, was a son of a grandson of the William Barbour, above mentioned, in the following chart this James Barbour is treated as the founder of the family.
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FIRST GENERATION.
James Barbour1 emigrated from Seotland in the 17th century; settled in King and Queen, or in Gloucester County. Married Miss Taliaferro, and had but one son, James, erroneously ealled James the first by Dr. Slaughter, who was "defeated of his expeetaney" by the second marriage of his mother.
SECOND GENERATION.
James Barbour2 (James1). Married twiee; first, Elizabeth Todd, by whom he had one son, Richard, who never married ; second, Sarah Todd, probably a sister of the first. He was pre- siding justice of the Culpeper County Court in 1764, and d. 1775, in Culpeper Co., Va. His widow, Sarah, d. 1781. Their wills are both recorded in Culpeper Co., Va., and show them both to have been possessed of large estates. There were by the second marriage the following issue :
I. James Barbour3.
II. Thomas Barbour3.
III. Philip Barbour3.
IV. Ambrose Barbour3.
V. William Barbour3.
VI. Mary Barbour3.
VII. Fanny Barbour3.
VIII. Betty Barbour3.
IX. Daughter. Married James Boyd.
THIRD GENERATION.
James Barbour3 (James2, James1) married Franees Throek- morton, of Gloucester Co., Va. He was a member of the House of Burgesses of Culpeper in 1764, County Lieutenant of the militia of Culpeper County in 1775, an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and was also a judge of the first eourt ever held in Ken- tueky, being the head of a commission appointed by the Legisla- ture of Virginia to settle disputed land titles. They had issue :
I. Mordecai Barbour4. Married Elizabeth Strode.
II. James Barbour4, d. single.
III. Thomas Barbour4. Married Mary Taylor.
IV. Richard Barbour4. Married Mary Moore.
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V. Gabriel Barbour+.
VI. Philip Barbour4. Married, first, Lucy Taylor; second,
Eliza Hopkins.
VII. Frances Barbour+. Married John Moore.
VIII. Sarah Barbour+. Married Col. John or James Harrison ..
Issue :
I. James Harrison". Married Miss Talbot, issue.
II. Lucy Harrison5. Married Mr. Davis.
IX. Mary Barbour4. Married Col. David Walker, who was for years a member of Congress; they had seven children. X. Lucy Barbour4. Married Wythe Baylor.
Thomas Barbour3 (James2, James1) married Mary Pendleton Thomas, of Orange, Va. He was a member of the House of Bur- gesses from Orange Co., Va., and signed the non-importation act of 1769 between this country and Great Britain, and after the formation of the union was a member of the Legislature. Richard Henry Lec, in a letter to his brother, Arthur Lee, wrote that he was glad that Thomas Barbour was in our State Councils, "for he was a truly intelligent and patriotic man." Thomas and Mary Barbour had issue :
I. Richard Barbour+.
II. James Barbour4.
III. Thomas Barbour4.
IV. Lucy T. Barbour4.
V. Philip P. Barbour4.
VI. Nelly Barbour4.
VII. Mary or Polly Barbour4.
VIII. Sally Barbour+.
Mary Barbour3 (James2, James1) married John Harrison. They had one daughter, married a Mason, and their son, James Barbour Mason, at one time represented Garrard Co., in the Ken- tucky Legislature. He married a daughter of Hugh Logan, and their son, James B. Mason, was Clerk of Garrard Co., Ky., and (1899) lived in Lancaster.
Fanny Barbour3 (James2, James1) married Smith. Of this family was Geo. A. Smith, who sold the old Barbour homestead, Smith's Cottage, and moved to Texas before the Civil War. His older brother was Dr. Camm R. Smith, of Galveston, Texas. Mrs.
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Jeremiah Morton was their sister. Their mother was Mildred Glasscl. (See Glassel Family, Hayden's Genealogy.)
FOURTH GENERATION.
James Barbour+ (Thomas3, James2, James1) married Lucy, daughter of Benjamin Johnson and Bettie Barbour. Resided in Orange Co., Va., was a representative in Congress from Virginia from 1815 until he resigned in 1825; was Secretary of War, and Minister to England under John Quincy Adams' administration, and Governor of Virginia during the war 1812. Their issue were:
I. Benjamin Johnson Barbour5, d. 1820, aged 20 years.
II. James Barbour5, d. 1857, no issue.
III. Benjamin Johnson Barbours, b. 1821. Married Caroline Watson.
IV, Lucy Barbour5. Married John Seymour Taliaferro.
V. Frances Cornelia Barbour". Married Wm. Handy Collins, of Baltimore, Md.
Philip Pendleton Barbour+ (Thomas3, James2, James1) was a brother of Governor James Barbour; married a sister of his wife, Frances Todd Johnson, and earned equal distinction with his dis- tinguished brother, b. May 25, 1783; was a member of the Vir- ginia Assembly in 1812. In 1814 was elected to Congress, and continued therein until 1825, and was chosen Speaker of the House in 1821. He was a lawyer of great distinction ; was offered the professorship of law at the University of Virginia by. Mr. Jefferson, but declined it, and was appointed a Judge of the General Court of Virginia. In 1827 he resigned, and was re- elected to Congress without opposition. In 1829 he, together with ex-President Madison, represented Orange County, Va., in the Constitutional Convention of that year, and on the death of ex- President Monroc, succeeded him as president of that distin- guished body. In 1830 he was appointed U. S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia. He declined the post of Attorney-General, and refused nominations for a seat on the Court of Appeals of Virginia, for the gubernatorial chair, and the Senate of the United States, but in 1836 accepted an appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and held this position until his death in 1842. He had issuc :
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I. Philippa Barbour5. Married Judge R. H. Field.
II. Elizabeth Barbour". Married John Jaquelin Ambler, who wrote Ambler MSS. Issue given in Ambler Genealogy.
III. Dr. Thomas Barbour".
IV. Edmund Pendleton Barbour5.
V. : Quintus Barbours.
VI. Sextus Barbour".
VII. Septimus Barbours, d. leaving no issue.
Full account of Barbour Genealogy in Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper Co., Va., by Dr. Philip Slaughter.
THE GREEN FAMILY.
Robert Green, son of William Green, an Englishman, emigrated from Ireland with his uncle, William Duff, a Quaker, to Vir- ginia, and settled in King George Co., about the year 1710. He was born in 1695. He soon left his uncle and settled in what is now Culpeper Co., near Brandy Station on the Southern Railway. He built his home near a large spring which is on the road lead- ing from Brandy Station to Rixeyville, and took up large tracts of land in what was, in 1712, Essex; in 1721, Spotsylvania; in 1735, Orange, and in 1749, Culpeper. His father was an officer in the body guard of William, Prince of Orange. He died in 1748, his will and inventory of his estate being recorded in the Orange County Clerk's Office. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1736, and was one of the first vestrymen of St. Mark's Parish. When a young man he married Eleanor Dunn, of Scotland, and had seven sons. Issue :
I. William Green2, b. Essex Co. Married Miss Coleman, of. Caroline Co., Va .; was vestryman of St. Mark's Parish from 1749 to his death, in Culpeper Co., Va., in 1770. He was called. Colonel Green, probably from military service against the Indians.
II. Robert Green2. Married Patty Ball, of Northumberland ; d. in Culpeper.
III. Duff Green2. Married, first, Miss Thomas; second, Anne Willis; he died in Culpeper about the beginning of the Revolution. His three youngest sons moved to Ken- tucky about 1779, and afterwards carried out their mother and younger sister.
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IV. John Green2. Married Susanna Blackwell; d. 1793, in Culpeper.
V. Nicholas Green2. Married Elizabeth Priee, daughter of Ajola Priee, of Orange, whose mother was a daughter of Capt. William Barbour; d. in what is now Madi- son Co., Va., and left many children, who moved to Kentucky.
VI. James Green2. Married Elizabeth Jones; d. in Culpeper. VII. Moses Green2. Married Mary Blaekwell, sister of Susanna; d. in Culpeper.
SECOND GENERATION.
Colonel John Green2 (Robert1) was born in Culpeper Co., about 1730. Married Susanna Blackwell; was chosen eolleetor of St. Mark's Parish 1761; made ehureh warden, with his brother, Robert, in 1764. In 1776 Riehard Yaneey was chosen vestry- man "in place of John Green, in Continental serviee." Captain Green entered the military service of Virginia as Captain 1st Va. Bat., September 4, 1775. When his eommand was mustered into the Continental Line, he was re-elected Captain, January 20, 1776, at which time he was under the command of Gen. Andrew Lewis at Williamsburg. In the fall of that year, he served under Wash- ington in New York; was engaged with his troops at Mamaroneek in the attack on Maj. Roberts, of the British Army, October 21, 1776, when he was wounded in the shoulder. Colonel John Green and his wife had issue :
I. William Green3. Married Luey Williams. He was Captain of the navy, and was lost at sea on the brig Defianee.
IT. John Green3, killed at 18, at Valley Forge.
III. Robert Green3. Married Franees Edmunds; d. 1789.
IV. Moses Green3. Married Fanny Richards.
V. Thomas Green8. Married, first, Miss Miller; second, Luey Peyton, and moved to Christian Co., Ky.
James Green2 (Robert1) married Elizabeth Jones, and had issue :
I. Gabriel Green3. Married Miss Grant and moved to Green River, Ky.
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II. James Green3. Married Betsy Jones.
III. Jones Green3. Married Miss Nevil and moved to HIardy Co., Va., and had issue:
I. Nevil Green4.
II. Jones Green4.
III. Nancy Green+.
IV. Green+. Married Mr. Parsons.
V. Mary Green+.
VI. Betsy Green+.
IV. Robert Green3. Married Miss Edmunds, and had issue :
I. William Green+.
II. James Green+.
III. Thomas Green+.
IV. Robert Green+.
V. Fanny Green+.
VI. Ellen Green+.
VII. Eliza Green4.
VIII. Green+. Married Mr. Cross.
THIRD GENERATION.
William Green3 (John2, Robert1) married Frances Edmunds. Issue :
I. John W. Green+, Judge of Virginia Court of Appeals.
James Green3 (Jno.2, Robert1) married Betsy Jones, and had issue :
I. Eliza Green+. Married Wm. A. Lane.
II. J. Strother Green4. Married, first, Miss Jett; seeond, Mrs. Jones.
III. James Green4. Married Miss Shackleford.
IV. Fanny Green+. Married George M. Parsons.
V. Duff Green+. Married Miss Payne.
VI. Dolly Green4. Married Turner Ashby. Had issue :
I. James Ashby5. Married Miss Moneure.
II. Gen. Turner Ashby5, killed in battle. (My mother
[author] knew Gen. Ashby very well.)
III. Dolly or Dora Ashby5. Married P. Moneure.
IV. Betty Ashby5. Married Geo. Green.
V. Mary Ashby5. Married George Moneure. (More of this Family in Moneure Chapter.)
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VII. Jones Green+. Married Miss Seott, of Fredericksburg, Va.
VIII. Charles Green+. Married Ann Herndon. Had issue :
I. Elizabeth Green5. Married Philip St. George Ambler, of St. Moore, near Lynehburg, Va. (See Ambler Geneal- ogy, Chapter I.)
II. James William Green5. Married M. T. Jett.
IX. Mary Green+. Married Sam Bailey.
X. Austin Green+. Married Miss Gordon, of Stafford.
FOURTH GENERATION.
Judge John W. Green+, Judge of Virginia Court of Appeals (William3, John2, Robert1), married, first, Mary Browne; second, Million Cooke, a granddaughter of George Mason, of Gunston Hall.
(Col. Wm. Ball1, b. 1615; d. 1680. Married Hannah Atherold in London, 1638. Joseph Ball2 married Elizabeth Beomney; Hannah Ball3 married Raleigh Travers.
Raleigh Travers. Married Hannah Ball.
Elizabeth Travers. Married John Cooke.
Travers Cooke. Married Mary Doniphan.
Col. John Cooke, of "West Farms," Stafford Co. Married
Mary Thompson Mason, daughter of George Mason, of Gunston Hall.
Million, daughter of Col. Jno. Cooke, of "West Farms." Married Hon. John W. Green.)
Hon. John W. Green by first marriage had issue :
I. William Green5. Married Columbia Slaughter. Issue :
I. John Slaughter®, killed in battle.
II. Bettie Slaughter®. Married James Hayes, of Richmond; had two sons and several daughters.
II. Raleigh B. Green5, d. single.
III. D. Daniel S. Green5, U. S. A. Married Virginia Slaughter, and had issue :
I. Dr. William Green®, of Baltimore, Md.
II. Samuel S. Green6, of Charlestown, W. Va.
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III. Mollie Green". Married Richard Morton, of Baltimore, Md., having issue :
I. One daughter".
II. Daniel G. Morton™.
III. Richard Morton™, Jr.
IV. William W. Morton7.
V. Allen Waller Morton ?.
Hon. John W. Green by second marriage had issue:
I. John Cooke Green3. Married Luey Morton, still living (July, 1905), Culpeper, Va. Hlad issue :
I. Bessie Green". Married Jolin Ambler Brooke.
II. Cooke Green". Married Edward Brooke. (Chapter I,
Ambler Genealogy.)
II. Thomas Claiborne Green5, Judge of the West Virginia Court of Appeals. Married Mary Naylor MeDonald and had issue :
I. Claiborne Green". Married Miss Harris.
II. Annie Green". Married Jolin Porterfield.
III. Flora Green". Married Kruger Smith.
IV. Kate Green". Married Jno. Lattimer.
V. Elizabeth T. Green". Married Dr. Perry.
III. George Green5. Married Bettie Ashby, had several children, one of whom, Dora Green, married G. M. Wallace, of Stafford Co., Va. I met Mrs. Wallace in Fredericksburg, 1905. She was a charming lady.
IV. James William Green5. Married Anne Sanford Me- Donald, and had issue :
I. Augustus MeDonald Green". Married Miss Taylor.
II. Mary Mason Green". Married J. R. Norris.
III. Leaey Naylor Green". Married J. M. Leaeh.
IV. Naney Craig Green6. Married Dr. W. W. Grant, of Denver.
V. James Williams Green". Married Mamie Hill, of South Carolina.
VI. Sue MeDonald Green". Married Franklin Stearns.
VII. John Williams GreenG.
V. Luey Williams Green5, d. single.
(Full account of Green Genealogy, "St. Mark's Parish," by Dr. Slaughter.)
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THE COLEMAN AND FLEMING FAMILIES.
The following is copied from the Richmond Standard, published Saturday, May 29, 1880; contributed by R. A. Brock :
In vigour of intellect in its various exemplifications, in true manhood, and in illustrious and material service in the one sex, and in the typical exhibition of womanly grace and virtues characteristic of Virginia and the South in the other, no citizen of the Old Dominion within its annals or traditions has been more honored in his descendants, to the present genera- tion, than John Henry, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, and son of John Henry and Jane, the sister of Dr. William Robertson, the historian, and thus the cousin of the distinguished Lord Brougham. John Henry emi- grated to Virginia sometime before 1730. He enjoyed the friendship and patronage of Robert Dinwiddie, who introduced him to the acquaintance of Colonel John Syme, whose widow he married. He was Colonel of militia, surveyor, and for many years presiding magistrate of Hanover Co., Va. He had been liberally educated, was well grounded in the classics, possessed an excellent judgment and strong natural ability. Hc executed a map of Virginia, which was published in London in 1770, a copy of which was in the possession of Joseph Horner, Esq., of Warrenton, Va., a few years ago.
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