Some prominent Virginia families, Volume II, Part 37

Author: Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, 1853-
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Lynchburg, Virginia : J.P. Bell Company
Number of Pages: 836


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165. VII. Landon Carter Moncure®, b. May 22, 1866; d. Feb. 17, 1883.


166. VIII. Fanny Dulany Moncure®, b. April 22, 1868. Mar- ried (Aug. 14, 1893) Edgar Marburg.


Alice Gaskins Moncure5 (Richard C. L.4, John3, John2, John1), third ehild of Hon. Richard Cassius Lee Moncure and Mary Butler Washington Conway, his wife, b. "Glencairn," Stafford Co., Va., February 4, 1830. Married (September 23, 1852) Rev. Henry Martyn Paynter4, M. A., son of Rev. Jos. Painter3, M. A., D. D., who was a son of George Painter, son of - Painter1, who fled from France to Germany, 1685, and then to America, before 1700. (Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, p. 455.)


Mr. and Mrs. Paynter had issue :


167. I. -6, b. -; d. infant.


168.


II.


6, b. -; d. infant.


169. III. Gilman Vredenburg Paynter6, b. - -; d. "Glen- cairn," Aug. 23, 1874. 170. IV. Anna Blanton Coffey Paynter", b. June 28, 1857. Married Hiram A. Tueker, son of Rev. Silas Tueker, D. D., of the Virginia family.


171. V. Mary Moncure Paynter®, b. June 22, 1862. Mar- ried Wm. R. Parker, of Chicago.


172. VI. Susanna Preston Lees Paynter®, b. July 8, 1866.


173. VII. Henry Martyn Paynter®, b. April 22, 1868.


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119. Rev. John Moncure® (William E.5, John4, John3, John2, John1), b. "Woodburn," Stafford Co., Va., July 18, 1857. Married (Gallipolis, Ohio, January 31, 1884) Lalla Marie Vanee, daughter of Capt. Alexander and Eliza A. (Shepard) Vance, of Gallipolis,. Ohio.


Mr. Moneure graduated at Virginia Theologieal Seminary 1881; ordained Deaeon June 1881, and Priest, 1882, by Rt. Rev. F. M. Whittle, D. D. Was rcetor St. Peter's Church, Gallipolis, 1882- 1891. Archdeaeon, Richmond, Va .; residenee, 603 E. Main St. (1906). Issue :


174. I. Eliza Vanec Moneure7, b. May 20, 1885.


159. Conway Moncure® (Hon. John Conway5, Riehard C. L.+, John3, John2, John1), son of Hon. John Conway Moneure and Fanny Dulany Tomlin, his wife, b. July 18, 1852. Married (February 18, 1884) Effie Jones, daughter of Judge Roland Jones, of Shreveport, La., formerly of North Carolina; member of U. S. Congress from N. C., 33d session, and Distriet Judge of Louisiana, for many years, and his wife, daughter of Hon. Montford Stokes, of N. C., member U. S. Congress, 1816-1823, Gov. North Carolina 1830. Gov. Stokes married Mary, daughter of Col. Henry Irwin, who fell at Germantown, 1777.


Conway Moneure and Effie Jones, his wife, liad issue :


175. I. Katharine Moneure7.


176. II. John Conway Moneure7.


177. III. Effie Jones Moncure7.


178. IV. Roland Jones Moncure7.


179. V. Ann Carter Moneure7.


166. Fanny Dulany Moncure® (Hon. John Conway5, Richard C. L.4, John3, John2, John1), daughter of Hon. John Conway Moncure, of Shreveport, and Fanny Dulany Tomlin, his wife, b. April 22, 1883. Married (August 14, 1893) Edgar Marburg, professor in charge of the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.


Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Marburg have following issue :


180. I. Fanny Tomlin Marburg7, b. Sept. 26, 1894.


181. II. Edgar Marburg7, b. Nov. 8, 1895.


182. III. Clara Marburg", b. May 10, 1898. 183. IV. Anita Marburg™, b. Dec. 10, 1899.


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CHAPTER XIV


MARSHALL FAMILY.


The following notes are taken from W. M. Paxton's Book, "The Marshalls-Their Origin":


Tradition is the only anthority the Marshall family have for claiming descent from William le Mareschal, who came over to England with the army of the Norman conqueror. As his name implies, he was a com- mander in the army of invasion. From him was descended John Marshall, the nephew of the great Earl of Pembroke. The estates of the latter were on the border of Wales. After the death of King John, he was Mareschal of England. After the crowning of the infant King Henry III, he was chosen Protcetor of the Kingdom. He had married a daughter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke, surnamed Strongbow, who in 1172, in the reign of Henry II, had conquered the Irish, and reinstated Dermot, King of Leinster. For his services he had been rewarded with the hand of Eva, the King's daughter. On the death of Strongbow, William, Earl of Pembroke, suc- ceeded to his estate in Ireland. As Protector of England and Guardian of Henry III, he sent his nephew, John Marshall, to Ircland, and constituted him Mareschal of Ireland. This John Marshall is mentioned by Irish historians as the leader of the Irish nobility, in thicir efforts to gain for that Island the benefits of Magna Charta. After the confiscation of the Pembroke estates in Ireland, we hear no more of the Marshall name, until it appears in history in 1558, at the fall of Calais, in the reign of Queen Mary. Captain John Marshall there distinguished himself, and was severely wounded at the capture of the city. He returned to Ireland, and there died. From him descended John Marshall, who was a Captain at .the battle of Edgehill in the reign of Charles I. Being an Episcopalian, le did not follow the fortunes of his deposed Sovereign, but came to America about 1650, and settled, first at Jamestown, Va., and afterwards removed to Westmoreland County, in the same colony. He became distinguished in the Indian wars. He appears to have left no will. His son Thomas, an humble farmer, here died in 1704. The second son of Thomas was John, known as John Marshall of the "Forest."


We trace the Marshall lineage as follows:


I. Captain John Marshall, emigrant, 1650.


II. Ilis son Thomas, who died 1704.


III. His son, John of the "Forest," who died 1752. With thesc I begin my history.


John Marshall, a Captain of Cavalry, in the reign of Charles I, of England. He was a zealous supporter of the crown and of the Episcopal


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Church. He was born and reared in Ireland. Having raised a cavalry company, he was one of the first to offer his serviecs to Charles, and from the battle of Edgehill until the imprisonment of his sovereign, he was actively engaged in his support. Unwilling to live under the rule of Cromwell, he removed, with his family, about 1650, to Virginia. Here he was employed in the Indian wars of the colony, and Campbell, in his history of Virginia, gives him eredit for the sueeessful termination of hostilities. Hc may have had other children, but Thomas is the only one whose name has been handed down to us. Capt. John is not mentioned in any of the official records of Westmoreland County, that have been pre- served, and Col. Grecne thinks that he died near Dumfries, and that his tombstone, as late as a generation ago, marked his grave. My letters sent to officials at Dumfries were not answered.


To show that he had other children, I will give the following:


Lineage of H. L. Marshall, of Moulton, Iowa.


I. William Marshall, b. in Virginia, and removed at an carly day to Mason Co., Ky., said his father was a second cousin of Col. Thos. Marshall. He had a brother, Humphrey, of Lewis Co., Ky.


II. William Marshall, b. in Mason Co., Ky., removed to Augusta, Ky., and thenee to Brown Co., O.


III. H. L. Marshall, now of Moulton, Iowa, but b. in Brown Co., Ohio. Now William (No. I above) always elaimed that his father (name not aseertained ) was a second cousin of Col. Thomas Marshall. Capt. John, of Ireland, was therefore his great-grandfather, and therefore had other ehildren besides his son Thomas. I think also a daughter must have mar- ried a Fontleroy, as tradition names her as a great aunt of Col. Thomas Marshall. Mrs. Royall, in letters to me, dated 1884, refers to her as her mother's great aunt, and as one who held herself above her relatives of our braneh.


Thomas Marshall, son of Capt. John Marshall, emigrant, was born in Eastern Virginia, about 1635; d. May -, 1704, in Washington Parish, Westmoreland Co., Va. He was a small farmer and a zealous Episcopalian. His will is of record in Westmoreland County. I give a copy :


In the name of God, Amen! I, Thomas Marshall, of the County of Westmoreland, of Washington Parish, carpenter, being very weak, but of perfect memory, thanks be God for it, doth ordain this my last will and testament, in the manner and form following:


(b) First, I give and bequeath my soul into the hands of my Blessed Creator and Redeemer, hoping, through merits of my blessed Saviour, to receive full pardon and remission of all my sins; and my body to the earth, to be deeently buried according to the direction of my executor, which hereafter shall be named.


(c) Item: I will and ordain that my well beloved wife, Martha Marshall, shall be my full and whole executrix.


(d) Item: I will that my estate shall remain in the hands of my wife as long as she remains single; but in ease she marries, then, she is


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to have her lawful share, and the rest to be taken out of her hands, equally to be divided among my children.


(e) Item: I will that if my wife marry, that David Brown, Sr., and John Brown be guardians over my children, and to take the estate into their hands, bringing it to appraisement, giving good seeurity to what it is valued, and to pay my children their dues as they become of age.


CHIEF-JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL


Painted by Martin; recently presented by Mr. John L. Williams, of Richmond, Va., to the University of Virginia


(f) Item: I will that Elizabeth Rosser is to have a heifer, delivered by my wife, ealled White-belly, to be delivered as soon as I am deceased.


(g) Item: I will that my son William Marshall have my plantation, as soon as he comes of age, to him and his heirs forever, but in ease my son William die before he comes of age, or die without issue, then my planta- tion is to fall to the next heir apparent at law. [No date.]


THOMAS MARSHALL [Seal.] Witnesses: Edward Taylor, John Oxford and John Taylor. Probated May 31, 1704.


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The maiden name of Mrs. Martha Marshall is unknown, and William and John are the only children we can trace. John mar- ried Elizabeth Markham.


William was the father of the celebrated Col. William Marshall, of Mecklenburg, who served in the Revolutionary War, and was one of the patriots who, in 1775, promulgated the Declaration of Independence, which served as a model for the Continental mani- festo.


The posterity of Col. William Marshall has already been re- ferred to and it may be useful to trace one branch of his posterity :


I. Thomas Marshall. Married Martha -; d. 1704.


II. William, his eldest son, b. about 1685.


III. Col. William Marshall, of Mecklenburg and of the Revolu- tionary War. Married Lucy Goode, of Powhatan Co., Va.


IV. William J. Marshall, of Henderson, Ky. Married (1824) Sarah Lyne Holloway, daughter of John Holloway, and Anne, eldest daughter of William Starling, and Susanna Lyne, of Mecklenburg Co., Va. Mr. Marshall was a planter and banker and was highly regarded for his integrity and capacity.


V. John Holloway Marshall, the eldest child, married Martha E. Hopkins. The second son was William J. Marshall, of Henderson, married Lucy Frances Poscy, ninth child. The third son was James B. Marshall, married Harriet E. Hickman. The fourth was Lucy A. Marshall, married Leonard H. Lync.


The above are known as the Henderson Marshalls, and are the only branch of Col. William Marshall's family I can trace. There arc hundreds of others from this source scattered over the South, but they cannot trace their connection. I will here give the lineages of several who claim a common ancestry with us.


Lineage of Dr. J. M. Marshall of Knoxville, Tenn. :


He writes: My great-grandfather came from England, and settled on the Eastern shore of Maryland. His sons werc: 1, Isaac; 2, Thomas; 3, William; and 4, John. They were all patriot soldiers in the Revolutionary War.


I. Isaac, the oldest, married -- Foote; their son :


II. Joseph Marshall, of North Carolina; their son :


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III. Dr. J. M. Marshall, of Knoxville, b. 1821.


He names his brothers :


I. John Marshall.


II. Eleazer Marslıall.


III. Theophilus Marshall.


IV. Henry Marshall.


V. Richard Marshall.


He says his grandfather (Isaac) was a cousin of Chief Justice and claims kin with Thos. F. Marshall, Humphrey Marshall and Alex. Marshall.


Lineage of H. D., Finis E. and Ncal B. Marshall, bankers of Unionville, Mo. :


I. Denis Marshall, of Franklin Co., Va.


II. Louis R. Marshall. Married (in Virginia) Mary Ann Nance. They removed to Putnam Co., Mo., in 1836. The three sons above named.


They elaim to be of our family.


Lineage of J. W. Marshall, of Romney, W. Va .:


I. John Marshall, b. about 1730.


II. John L. Marshall, b. June 29, 1777; d. Nov. 6, 1847.


III. John William Marshall, of Romney.


Mr. Marshall is a highly intellectual gentleman, and was much surprised when he aseertained that his relationship with our branch could not be traced. He was reared at the old family seat in Fairfax Co., Va., some ten or twelve miles from Dumfries, and I think the tombstone of John Marshall, near Dumfries, is the monument to the first of the above Johns. The records of Westmoreland County show there was a James Marshall, who died about 1730, and his posterity may have settled in Fairfax. This James was probably a son of Thomas, and brother of William and John.


CAPTAIN JOHN MARSHALL OF "THE FOREST."


I. Capt. John Marshall of "The Forest," was born in West- moreland Co., Va., about the year 1700; d. April, 1752. Married (about 1722) Elizabeth Markham, b. perhaps in Alexandria, Va., about 1704; d. in Fauquier Co., 1775. Mr. Marshall was a farmer, possessed of a plantation of one thousand and two hundred


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acres on Appomattox (called Mattox) Creek, in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Va. He was a militia captain, and a man of good reputation and influence in his neighborhood. The records of conveyances in Westmoreland County show that in 1728 William Marshall, of King and Queen Co., Va., conveyed to John Marshall, of Westmoreland Co., one thousand and two hundred acres on Appomattox Creek, Washington Parish. This may have been the estate known as "The Forest," and may have been devised to William, the eldest son, by his father, Thomas, as shown by his will. If so, we ascertain that William, the father of Col. William, of Mecklenburg County, was a resident of King and Queen County in 1728. Other records may be here referred to :


1. Louis Markham, died in Washington Parish in 1713, and his estate was divided among eight children.


2. In 1732 William Markham, of Hamilton Parish, Prince William Co., conveys one hundred and twenty-six acres on Mattox Creek to John Price.


3. In 1744, John Smith, Jr., and Patience, his wife, sell to John Smith, Sr., of Westmoreland Co., one hundred and sixty acres adjoining John Marshall.


4. In 1752, Elizabeth Marshall conveys, by decd of gift, to Thomas Marshall, one hundred acres of the homestcad (The Forest) granted her by the will of her husband.


5. Mrs. Marshall is referred to as Lizzie Marshall, of Curls Neck, daughter of John Markham.


But the most important and valuable document that has been preserved is :


THE WILL OF JOHN MARSHALL OF THE FOREST.


The last Will and Testament of John Marshall: Being very sick and weak, but of perfect mind and memory, I first give and recommend my soul to God that gave it, and my body to be buried in Christianlike and decent manner, at the discretion of my executor, hereinafter mentioned:


J. Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter, Sarah Lovell, one negro girl, named Rachel, now in possession of Robert Lovell.


II. Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter, Ann Smith, one negro boy named Daniel, now in possession of Augustine Smith.


III. Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter, Lizzie Smith, one negro boy named Will, now in possession of John Smith.


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IV. Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Elizabeth Mar- shall, one negro fellow, named Joe, and one negro woman named -, and one negro woman -, after delivering the next ehild born of her body, to my son John; until which time she shall remain in the possession of my wife. Likewise .I leave my corn and meat to remain for the use of mare named "Beauty,' and a side-saddle; also six hogs; also I leave her the use of my land during the widowhood, and afterward to fall to my son, 'Thomas Marshall, and his heirs forever.


V. Item: I leave my tobaeeo to pay my debts, and, if any be over, for the elothing of my small eliildren.


VI. Item: I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved son, Thomas Marshall, one negro woman named Hannah, and one negro child named Jaeob.


VII. Item: I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved son John Mar- shall, one negro fellow named George, and one negro ehild named Nan.


VIII. Item: I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved son, William Marshall, one negro woman named Sall, and one negro boy named Hanni- bal, to remain into the possession of his mother until he becomes of the age of twenty years.


IX. Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved son, Abraham Mar- shall, one negro man named Jim, and one negro girl named Bett, to remain in the possession of his mother until he comes to the age of twenty years.


X. Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter, Mary Mar- shall, one negro girl named Kate, and one negro boy, Gus, to remain in possession of her mother until she comes to the age of eighteen year's, or until marriage.


XI. Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter, Peggy Mar- shall, one negro boy named Joshua, and one negro girl named Liz, to remain in possession of her mother until she comes to the age of eighteen, or until marriage.


XII. Item: I leave my personal estate, exeept the legacies above men- tioned, to be equally divided between my wife and six children above mentioned. [Perhaps his six unmarried children.]


XIII. Item: I constitute my wife and two sons, Thomas Marshall and John Marshall, executors of this, my last will and testament.


In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of April, 1752.


JOHN MARSHALL [Seal.]


Interlined before signing.


Benjamin Rollins, William Houston, Augustine Smith, witnesses.


Probated May 26, 1752, and Eliza, his reliet, and Thomas Marshall qualified as executors.


Mr. Paxton is indebted to Col. Marshall J. Smith, of New Orleans, for a copy of the foregoing will, and many other favors. The will has proved of great value, in determining the names and


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ages of the children, and in establishing dates. Among the papers left by Mary Isham Colston, a genealogical chart was found, of which Mr. Paxton has a copy. The children of John Marshall of the "Forest" are named in the order of the will; but Abraham is called Markham; Anne is called Nancy; Lizzie is called Eliza- beth and Peggy is called Margaret. The latter is said to have married Smellan.


The wife of John Marshall of "The Forest" was Elizabeth, daughter of John Markham. Tradition has gone wild over the career of John. Markham. One legend makes him a British peer, another calls him a pirate, a third insists upon his being the buc- caneer Blackbeard, but all authorities agree in pronouncing him a handsome, dashing and fascinating gentleman, and a daring, cruel and adroit villain. Here Col. Thomas Green shows his skill and power in interpreting traditions and in deciphering legends. He writes : .


There lived near the family, a John Markham, an Englishman with a peeuliar history. He was by birth a gentleman, as the term is used in England, and of mixed Anglo-Saxon lineage,-had been an offieer in the British Navy, had killed his eaptain in a duel in the West Indies, and had taken refuge in Virginia, where he had engaged in mereantile pursuits, and had married the widow of a merehant, much older than himself, by whom he had no children, but of whose whole property he managed to obtain possession. His wife died, and he returned to England, sold a small inherited estate which had eome down to him from Anglo-Saxon aneestors, who had owned it before the conquest, for which one of his descendants used to say he ought to have been hung, and eloped with and married a young English girl, with whom he returned to Virginia, and by whom he had seventeen daughters and one son. A shrewd, money-getting, out- breaking, lawless, self-willed, large brained, devil-defying man was this John Markham, if all accounts of him be true, respecting neither God nor man, and fearing neither; and every now and then there breaks out in his raee the genuine Markham streak. His son, named John, gobbled up all the paternal estate, and was the father of Commodore James Markham, a distinguished offieer of a Virginia Navy during the Revolution. One of the first John Markham's seventeen daughters was the grandmother of the late T. Daviers Carneal, well known in Cineinnati and throughout eentral Kentucky. Another was the ancestress of Major McRae, formerly Com- mandant of the Barracks at Newport; of George MeRae, of Mississippi, and of the family of that name, of South Carolina. One of the youngest, Elizabeth, married Captain John Marshall.


Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall was living October 15, 1773, for her deed of gift of a negro woman, so dated, is of record in Warrenton, Fauquier Co., Va. She styles herself Elizabeth Marshall of Leeds Manor.


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In her latter days Mrs. Eliza Colston often dwelt on the traditions of the family, and one who, in his early life, sat at her feet, relates the legend of Markham or Blackbeard, which is as follows:


Blackbeard's correct name was Finch. The scene of his piratieal career was the American eoast and the West Indies, and the time was the early quarter of the eighteenth century.


Prior to the death of Blackbeard, there lived in Alexandria, Va., a merchant, who had acquired a large fortune by trade. He was a married man, and he and his wife were elderly people. In their employ was a young man named John Markliam. The old mereliant died, and his widow inherited all his property. Markham persuaded her to marry him, and he thus acquired a large fortune. Sometime after the marriage, his business called him to England. The handsome, but unprincipled young man, here met a beautiful young lady, attending a boarding school, and prevailed on her to elope with him, and a moek marriage was imposed on her. On their arrival, the imposition was exposed, and great sympathy was expressed for the lovely girl. Regarding her as free, a gentleman proposed honorable marriage to her. Markham was incensed, and challenged and killed him. His real wife was greatly mortified, and soon died. Markham elaimed and appropriated her whole estate, which he had not already squandered. He was now legally married to the young English girl, and a large family of children was born to them. But Markham died, and the widow found herself immensely wealthy. Her beauty was only matured, and her gaiety made her a leader in society.


At this time there appeared in Alexandria a handsome young English- man, wearing a rich naval uniform. He seemed to have an abundance of money, and had the address to recommend himself to the good graces of the blooming widow. Infatuated with him, the widow married him, and placed all her fortune under his control. When their honeymoon was ended, and the adventurer had possessed himself of all her property, he threw off restraint, and introduced into her house a set of rough and desperate companions, and made it the seene of boisterous revels. When his wife remonstrated, he struck her, and treated her with brutal contempt. Her children were purposely sent away, or, frightened by the disorderly conduet beneath their mother's roof, fled to Westmoreland County and found protec- tion from her uneles, William and Lewis. Elizabeth found a home with the widow of Thomas Marshall. She had been finely educated, and pos- sessed not only beauty, but the highest accomplishments of the day. Her mother now discovered that she had married Blackbeard, the notorious buceaneer. When his identity was exposed, he gathered all and hastily departed to his ship. But female constaney elings to the most brutal and abandoned of husbands. She was often present at his orgies, and on one ocasion, when two villains intended to assassinate Blackbeard, and were seated at table, one on his right, and the other on his left, she held two pistols beneath the table, and drawing a trigger with each hand at the same moment, the misereants fell dead at the feet of her unworthy lord. But the ungrateful husband is said to have treated her with such cruelty, that


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she died from the effects of a kick given her in one of his revels. But Blackbeard did not long survive his wife. Lieut. Maynard outwitted him on the North Carolina coast, and his riddled body, hung in chains, was suspended at Williamsburg as a warning to outlaws.


I find no mention of John Markham in the records of West- moreland, but names of William and Lewis frequently appear. This eonfirms the tradition that John Markham lived in Alex- andria, while his brothers resided in Westmoreland County. I have a copy of the will of Lewis Markham, from the records of Westmoreland. He describes himself as of the Parish of Wash- ington, and his plantation on Mattox Creek is given to his widow, Eliza Markham. He refers to his eight minor children, but names none of them. He appoints his widow and Joseph Bayly his ex- ecutors. It is dated March 15, 1713, and probated June 24, 1713. His personal estate was appraised at £709.




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