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I. Baily Washington". M. D., U. S. A., b. 1787, Westmore- land Co., Va. ; died in Washington, D. C., Aug. 4, 1854; age 67 years. Married Ann Matilda Lee, b. July 13. 1190; d. Dec. 20, 1880.
Bailey Washington was a surgeon, in U. S. N., July 24, 1813; was on the Enterprise when captured by the Boxer; was on Lake Erie, with Chauncey, Fleet Surgeon, under Commodore Rogers, Elliott and Patterson, in the Mediterranean. Served in the Mexican War, Senior Surgeon, U. S. N., in 1854. He left one son. three daughters, and grandchildren; died in South Carolina. II. Col. John McRae Washington, U. S. N., b. 1793; was on the San Francisco, Dec. 25, 1853; graduated from West Point Academy, in 1817, third lieutenant, artillery, July 17, 1817; second lieutenant, March 30, 1818: first lieutenant, May 23, 1820; transferred to fourth artillery, June 1, 1821; captain, May 30, 1832; captain and assistant quarter-master, July 7, 1838, to Aug. 11. 1839; major third artillery, Feb. 16, 1842; brevetted captain for ten years' service, May 23, 1830; brevetted lieutenant-colonel, Feb. 23, 1847, for gallantry at Buena Vista. Military Governor of New Mexico, 1848-9; married Fannie, daughter of Jack McRae, Prince William Co., and had issue :
I. H. M. Washington, educated W. & M. Col., 1852-'3.
II. William Temple Washington.
III. Euphase Dandridge Washington, married William Starke. The Strother family is of Scandinavian origin, and came to Britain with the Vikings. The name is found in Sweden and Denmark, at the present day.
A graveyard in "Planet," older than the Norman conquest, has in it tombstones inscribed to the Strothers buried there. The earliest form of the name seems to be "Straathor," which is decidedly Scandinavian, and in the graveyard mentioned, it is found in both forms. The coat-of-arms is as old as any in England, with the following description :
Sable, a bend argent three eagles displayed proper.
Motto-"Prius mori quam faleri fidem."
Both in history and romance, the name frequently appears. In Chaucer we find mention of those who bore it. It is in the records
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of the Landed Gentry of Northumberland Co., England. It is found in Masicap Union with the proudest, and most influential families of Northern counties.
Allen del Strother, Lord of Lyham, 1352, during the reign of Edward III, was Sheriff of Northumberland, and was succeeded by his sons Allen and Henry. His daughter, Joanna, married John Copeland, who captured King David, at the battle of Nevill Cross. He was knighted therefor, and made Warden of Rose- borough Castle. Allen del Strother was also warden of the Castle, 1368 to 1396, and was succeeded by Sir Thomas Percy.
William Strother, son of this Allen, died without issue, and his estates descended to his sister and their children. To the descen- dants of this branch of the family they still belong.
William del Strother, brother of Allen, was Mayor of Newcastle. in 1352, and subsequently represented that city in Parliament. The descendants of Henry Strother, grandson of Allen del Strother, and youngest son of Allen Strother, lived in Castle Strother. Glendale, in 1460. In 1639, William, son of William Strother, Gent .. matriculated at Oxford. At this time the name was frequently found among linquists, jurists, and literateurs. In fact, in every generation and in all times and places, this family has been noted for bravery and loyalty to the cause espoused. Holders of high offices, in times of peace, they were specially noted for staunch adherence to their church, sacrificing property and position in its cause.
One of the family mottoes is. "Honesty, truth, fortitude."
William Strother1, the pioneer of the family in America, came to Virginia in 1650, and settled in Citterboone, or Cotterborne Parish, near the present Port Conway, King George Co. He was a man of great prominence in the community, and married Dorothy Savage. William Strother1 died 1702. Will probated, Nov. 4, 1702.
William Strother2, son of above, married Margaret Thornton. They had issue :
1. William Strother3, son of above, married Margaret Watts, and had thirteen daughters.
II. Francis Strother3. Married Susanna Dabney.
III. Anthony Strother3. Married Behethland Starke.
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IV. John Strother3. Married Elizabeth Pendleton Hunter. V. Benjamin Strother3, of Stafford. Married Miss Mary Mason Fitzhugh, sister of George Mason Fitzhugh. Their daughter, Alice Strother+, married Robert Wash- ington, of Mathis Point, Dec. 16, 1756. He was a cousin of General George Washington, President U. S .; they were grandparents of :
I. Col. Peter G. Washington, assistant secretary of the treasury.
II. Col. L. Quinton Washington, Press Correspondent, Wash- ington, D. C.
III. Mary Mason Washington, wife of Dr. Warwick Evans, Washington, D. C.
I. Anthony Strother3, married Behethland Starke Anthony, was born 1:10; died 1765. Behethland Starke was a descendant of Robert Behethland, who came to Virginia in 1607. This couple were ancestors of General David Hunter Strother, Major Beverley Randolph. Prof. Luigar Strother Randolph and Judge Philip William Strother.
Anthony3 and Behethland (Stark) Strother had issue :
T. Benjamin Strother+, married (1778) Kitty Price.
I. Francis Strother3, of St. Marks, married Susan Dabney. They had issue :
I. William Strother+, b. April 20, 1726; d. 1808, will pro- bated in Woodford Co., Ky., Nov. 7, 1808. Married. first (after 1749 and prior to Feb., 1:52) Sarah Bailey Pannill, daughter of Bailey of Nibrum, Middlesex Co., Va., and widow of William Pannill, whose will was dated Feb. 2, 1749; property appraised Oct. 22, 1750, division according to bequests awarded Nov. 21, 1751. Sarah Bailey Pannill died prior to 1774. William Strother married, second, Ann Kavanaugh. who sur- vived him, in Woodford Co., Ky., 1808.
II. John Strother+. Married Mary Wade.
III. Anthony Strother+. Married Francis Eastham.
IT. Robert Strother+.
Strother+. Married Mary Kennedy: they were great-grandparents of Col. William Preston Johnston. VI. Susan Strother+. Married Thomas Gaines.
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VII. Elizabeth Strother+. Married James Gaines. They were parents of Gen'l E. P. Gaines.
VIII. Mary Strother+. Married Detherage.
IX. Behethland Strother+. Married Covington.
X. Francis Strother+. Married Anne Graves. Their son, Francis Strother, removed to Wilkes Co., Ga.
William Strother+ married Sarah Bailey Pannill. They had issue :
I. Susannah Strother5. Married, first (1774), Capt. Moses Hawkins; second, Thomas Coleman, of Orange Co., Va .; later they moved to Woodford Co., Ky.
II. William Dabney Strothers, educated William and Mary ; served in Revolutionary Army, as captain Second Ga. Regiment (roll Aug., 1778) ; killed in battle Guilford Courthouse.
III. Sarah Dabney Strother", b. Dec. 11, 1760; d. Dec. 13, 1829. Married (Aug. 20, 1779) Col. Richard Taylor, son of Zachary Taylor and his wife Elizabeth Lee.
Col. Richard Taylor married Sarah Dabney Strother. They had issue :
I. Hancock Taylor. Married Annah Henby Lewis. They had a daughter, Mary Louise Taylor, whose line of descent is from genealogy :
I. William Strother1, pioneer. Married Dorothy Savage.
II. William Strother2. Married Margaret Thornton.
III. Francis Strother3. Married Susan Dabney.
IV. William Strother+. Married Sarah Bailey Pannill.
V. Sarah Dabney Strother5. Married Col. Richard Taylor.
VI. Hancock Taylor6. Married Annah Henby Lewis.
VII. Mary Louise Taylor7.
Jeremiah Strother2 married Eleanor -, lived in King George Co., later Culpeper Co. They had issue :
I. James Strother6. Married Margaret French.
II. William Strother6.
III. Francis Strother6.
IV. Laurence Strother6.
V. Jeremiah Strother6.
VI. Catherine Strother6.
VII. Christopher Strother6.
VIII. Elizabeth StrotherG.
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James Strother married Margaret French. They had issue :
I. French Strother7. Married Lucy Coleman.
II. Mary Strother7. Married George Gray.
III. James Strother7, d. 1765.
French Strother married Lucy Coleman. They had a son :
George French Strother8, whose son :
James French Strother9, whose son :
Judge Philip Williams Strother10, of Pearisburg, was a gallant soldier of the Confederate Army. He was dangerously wounded in the "Bloody Angle," Spottsylvania Courthouse, May 12, 1864. He served in both branches of the General Assembly of Virginia, declined three times nomination to Congress; twice elected Judge of Criminal and District Courts; member National Convention of 1892; elector at large 1896. Married Nannie Strother Pendleton, daughter of Col. A. G. Pendleton, descendant of Henry Pendleton and Mary Taylor, daughter of James Taylor. also of Francis Strother of St. Marks and his wife, Susan Dabney.
Sarah Bailey Pannill, by her first marriage with William Pan- nill, had six children :
I. William Morton Pannill, b. Oct. 30, 1783. Married Ann Morton, daughter of Jeremiah Morton, and his wife, Sarah Mallory.
II. Samuel Pannill.
III. John Pannill.
IV. Joseph Pannill.
V. Francis Pannill.
VI. David Pannill.
Through this marriage she was ancestor of Gen'l J. E. B. Stuart, uncle of Ada Stuart, who married John Bull Smith Dimitry, of New Orleans, fifth in descent from Edward Jaquelin, of James- town.
Through her second marriage with William Strother, she was ancestor of Zachary Taylor, President of the United States.
William Strother3 married Margaret Watts: were ancestors of
[. Agatha Strother+. Married John Madison, member of the House of Burgesses from Augusta Co., Va. They had issue :
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I. George Thomas Madison5. Married Susanna Henry, sister of Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia.
II. Roland Madison5. Married Anne, daughter of Gen'l Andrew Lewis.
III. James Madison5, bishop 1785, first president of Episcopal Church in Virginia.
IV. Margaret Madison5, b. 1765. Married Judge Samuel McDowell, of Bowling Green, Ky. (Paxton, p. 147, p. 68.)
II. Margaret Strother+, second daughter of Wm. Strother and Margaret Watts. Married Gabriel Jones, "The King's Attorney." Their daughter, Margaret Jones, married Col. John Harvie. Their daughter, Gabriella Jones Harvie, married Col. Thomas Mann Randolph. The son of Col. John Harvie, namely, Gen'l Jaquelin Harvie, married Mary Marshall, only daughter of Chief Justice Marshall. Margaret Strother+ and Gabriel Jones had a daughter. Elizabeth Jones, who married John Lewis, son of Col. Fielding Lewis and Betty Washington, sister of Gen'l George Washington. (See Vol. I, Chapter V.)
III. Anne Strother+, third daughter of Wm. Strother and Margaret Watts. Married Francis Tyler, and were parents of United States President, John Tyler.
GENEALOGY.
I. William Strother1. Married Dorothy Savage.
II. William Strother2. Married Margaret Thornton.
III. Anthony Strother3. Married Behethland Starke.
IV. Anthony Strother+.
Married Elizabeth Kenyon.
V. Anthony Strother". Married Elizabeth Newton.
VI. Elizabeth Strother6. Married James Duff.
VII. Frances Strother Duff. Married Judge Daniel Smith.
VIII. Frances Evelyn Smith8. Married Andrew P. Beirne. IX. Mary Frances Beirne9. Married James N. Kennie. X. Antoinette Kennie10. Married Edward V. Harmon. XI. Mary Benie Harmon11.
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DUFF.
In 1712 Robert Green and his uncle William Duff came to Virginia and settled in King George County. Among his descend- ants was Judge William Green, President of Court of Appeals. and a warm friend of Judge Daniel Smith.
Each named a son after the other. Daniel Smith Green was a surgeon U. S. Army before the war. Judge Daniel Smith named one son John William Green Smith after Judge William Green.
William Duff had a brother James Duff, b. 1:16. Married Mildred Tutt, of Culpeper Co., Va., 1738. They had a son :
. John Duff, b. 1739. Married Sarah Nash, in 1760. They had issue :
I. James Duff, b. April 15, 1761. Married Elizabeth Strother, b. July 20, 1773.
II. Susannah Duff, b. Aug. 23, 1763. Married, first, Benja- min Jennings: second, Daniel Moar, July 12, 1786. She was the ancestor of John Oillard, who shed the first blood of the war for secession.
III. George Duff, b. 1765; d. 1886, unmarried.
IV. John Duff. b. 1768, moved to Kentucky.
Ann Pendleton Slaughter" (Robert+, Col. James3. Robert", Robert1). Married (in 1811) John Dabney Strother. They had issue :
I. Elizabeth Strother. Married (in 1834) Enoch H. Hunter.
II. Mary Strother. Married (in 1837) Henry Glascock.
III. Margaret Strother. Married William A. Slaughter, of Hodgensville, Ky., son of Robert Coleman Slaughter, of Hardin Co., Ky., and his wife, Nancy, daughter of Thomas Haynes.
IV. Dr. Robert T. Strother. Married Miss Whitney. daughter of Mrs. Gen'l Edmond Pendleton Gaines by her first ยท marriage.
V. Sarah Strother. Married Frank Bealmear, of Nelson Co., Ky.
VI. Maria Strother. Married William Howard, of Lee's Summit, Mo., previously of Jefferson Co., Ky .: one child, Anna Howard.
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VII. Dr. William D. Strother. Married Miss Julia Saunders, of Bullitt Co., Ky. Issue :
I. Mary Elizabeth Strother. Married Joseph Field.
II. Dr. Joseph Saunders Strother. Married Miss Cowherd.
III. Hon. John D. Strother, Lee's Summit, Mo .; attorney, and member of Missouri Legislature.
IV. George Beauregard Strother, attorney, Belter, Mo.
V.
Howard Strother, attorney, Belter, Mo.
VI. Benjamin F. Strother, insurance agent, Kansas City, Mo.
VII. Samuel C. Strother, attorney, Kansas City, Mo.
VIII. Juliet Strother, Lee's Summit, Mo.
VIII. Emily Strother. Married Charles J. Cowherd, Missouri. IX. Catherine Strother, unmarried.
Dr. John D. Strother. Married Esther Elliott, of Big Spring, Ky .; they have children.
XI. Benjamin Strother, of Kansas City, Mo. Married Miss Macauley, of Washington, D. C. They have children : Benjamin, Clement, John D., and William.
William Strother2 married Margaret Thornton. They had issue :
I. Anthony Strother3, b. 1710, named for his grandfather, Anthony Savage. He married Behethland Starke.
II. Frances Strother3. Married Susannah Dabney.
Anthony Strother+, son of Anthony3 and Behethland Starke, married Frances Kenyon.
Anthony Strother5. son of Anthony4 and Frances Kenyon, mar- ried Elizabeth Newton.
Elizabeth Kenyon, sister of Francis Kenyon, married Major William Newton, of Westmoreland Co., whose son, Isaac Newton, married Peggy Strother.
Isaac Newton was the uncle of Elizabeth Newton, who married Anthony Strother5.
Francis Strother3 married Susannah Dabney, daughter of Sarah Jennings. His will was probated, April 6, 1752.
Among the English "gentlemen" who came to America, about 1635, were the Taylors, from Carlisle, England. descended from the Earls of Hare. One of the first homes established by them in Virginia was called "Hare Forest," four miles southeast of Orange Courthouse.
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James and Frances Taylor lived in New Kent Co. They had three children :
I. James Taylor. Married Martha Thompson, daughter of William Thompson, an officer of the British Army, and granddaughter of Sir William Thompson. They had nine children. Two of these were grandparents of Presidents of the United States.
I. Frances. Married Ambrose Madison.
II. Zachary. Married Elizabeth Lee.
III. George. Married, first, Richard Gibson; married, second, Sarah Taliaferro.
This Taylor gave ten sons to the Revolution : Charley, Francis, Reuben, William, James, Jonathan, Edmund, Richard, John, and Benjamin.
Zachary Taylor married Elizabeth Lee, daughter of Hancock Lee, of Dichlez, and granddaughter of Richard Lee, ancestor of the Lee family, of Virginia. They had issue :
I. Zachary Taylor. Married Alice Cheu.
II. Hancock Taylor. Married and died in Kentucky.
III. Richard Taylor. Married Sarah Dabney Strother.
IV. Elizabeth Taylor. Married Thomas Ball.
After the death of Elizabeth Lee, her husband married, second, Mrs. Esther Blackburn, widow of Anthony Blackburn.
The will of Hancock Taylor was the first legal document executed in Kentucky. His grave is the oldest known in that state.
Richard Taylor, son of Zachary and Elizabeth (Lee) Taylor, was b. April 3, 1741; rose from First Lieut. to Colonel in the Revolution. Retired Feb. 12, 1781. Married (August 20, 1779) Sarah Dabney Strother, daughter of William Strother and Sarah Bailey Pannill. They had nine children :
I. Hancock Taylor.
II. Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States.
III. Joseph Taylor, rose to rank of Brig. Gen'l U. S. A., and d. June 9, 1864.
IV. Elizabeth Lee Taylor.
V. Sarah Taylor.
VI. Emily Taylor.
VII. George Taylor, d. young.
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VIII. William Taylor, surgeon U. S. A.
IX. Strother Taylor, d. young.
Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States. Mar- ried, first, Margaret McKall Smith, of St. Leonard, Calvert Co .. Maryland. Her ancestor, Richard Smith, was appointed by Oliver Cromwell Attorney General of Maryland, in 1657 ; Burgess. April 16, 1661 and again in 1662. They had four children :
I. Ann Taylor, married Dr. Robert Ward, Surgeon U. S. A. Their child :
I. Mira, married, first, Mr. Boyce; second, Baron Guido von Graber, Prussian Consul.
II. Sarah Taylor.
III. Robert Taylor.
II. Elizabeth Taylor, the brilliant belle of the White House. known as "Betty Bliss," married, first (1848), Colonel William Wallace Smith Bliss, U. S. A., son of Capt. John Bliss, U. S. A., and his wife Olive Hall Limonds, descended from Thomas Bliss, of Hartford, Connecti- cut. 1635. Died Aug. 4. 1852. Elizabeth Taylor Bliss married, second, Philip Dandridge, of Winchester, Va. III. Sarah Knox Taylor, third daughter of Zachary Taylor, President of the United States, and Margaret MeKall Smith. Married Lieutenant Jefferson Davis, U. S. A., afterwards President of the Confederate States.
The marriage of Sarah Knox Taylor and Lieutenant Davis was at first opposed by the Taylor family, owing to the lady's frail constitution, and the hardships to which she would be exposed, as the wife of an officer in active duty on the Indian frontier. But in 1835 the opposition was withdrawn, but the lady died within a year after her marriage, on her husband's plantation in Mississippi, near Vicksburg.
There was always a close friendship, comradeship, and the most cordial relations between Jefferson Davis and Zachary Taylor up to the latter's death and afterwards between the Taylor family and the gracious lady who became his second wife, Miss Varena Howell, of Mississippi, b. at Vicksburg, May 7, 1826, and married to Mr. Davis, at Natchez, February 26, 1845.
IV. Richard Taylor, the fourth child of Zachary Taylor and Margaret MeKall Smith. attained the rank of Lieut. Gen'l C. S. A.
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CHAPTER IV
THE ROOTES FAMILY.
Philip Rootes
COAT-OF-ARMS
[Written by T. R. Rootes, of Whitemarsh, 1816, with Genealogical Notes on the connected families of Rootes, Reade, Martian, Gwyn, Bernard, Higginson, Thompson, Thornton. Grymes. Cobb, Gordon. Lea, Jackson, Minor, Rutherford Smith, Mill, Lipscomb, Whitner, etc., etc., of Virginia and Georgia, and taken from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biog- raphy, Richmond, Va., Vol. IV, No. 2, October, 1896; Vol. IV. No. 3, January, 1897.]
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George Reade [a], a gent. of Hampshire, brought his fortunes into Virginia, in the year 1640, and was immediately made one of his Majesty's Council. He married Miss Elizabeth Martian, one of the daughters of Capt. Nicholas Martian, a French gentle- man who was the proprietor of all of the property about York. Thomas [c]. third son of George Reade and Miss Martian. Mar- ried Lucy Gwin, the daughter of Edward Gwin [d] and Lucy Bernard, a regular Doctor of Physick, who was son of Rev. John Gwin [e], rector of Abingdon Parish many years, and who came to Virginia in Cromwell's time. he being a very stiff churchman. Lucy Bernard was daughter of William Bernard, Esq. [f], one of His Majesty's Council of Virginia, and was the son of the Knight of Huntingdon and a daughter of Col. Hickerson, of Dublin [g], who was the relict of Lewis Burwell. Esq. The said Thomas Reade and Lucy, his wife, had eleven children, one of whom ( Mildred) married Major Philip Rootes of King and Queen [h] and had many children, and whose second son was named Thomas Reade Rootes and was the father of Thomas Reade Rootes. of White Marsh, who writes this part of his genealogy this 15th of March, 1816. Compiled from an ancient paper that contains much more of interest to this writer.
NOTES.
[a] The first clue to the ancestry of George Reade was the fact, shown by several letters in the first volume English Calendar of Colonial State Papers, that he had a brother, Robert Reade, who was private secretary to Sir Francis Windebanke, Secretary of State of England, temp. Charles I.
General Meredith Reade, formerly American Consul at Paris, who, though not related to this family, felt an interest in the name, made researches and published the result in the London Athendum, of April 28. 1894. He ascertained that George Reade was a descendant of the Reades of Faccombe. in the County of Southampton. In 1585, Andrew Reade bought the manor of Linkenholt. Hampshire. His will, dated October 7, 1619. with a codieil, November 15. 1621, was proved October 24, 1623. He owned the manor and rectory of Faccombe. Married - Cooke, of Kent. and had five sons: Henry, Robert, John, George, and Andrew, and four daughters. . The eldest son, Henry, of Faccombe. J. P. for Hampshire. married Anne, the daughter of Sir Thomas Windebanke. and died April 4, 1647. George Reade is mentioned in his father's will as having issue. The fourth son, John, was born at Faccombe. 1579: was a scholar at Win- chester College, and admitted to New College, Oxford, February 4, 1598. Jle probably died before his father. The second son of Andrew was Robert
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Reade, who lived at Linkenholt, and was married three times. His third wife was Mildred. daughter of Sir Thomas Windebanke. of Haines Hill. parish of Hurst, Berkshire, who was clerk of the signet to Elizabeth and James, and died October 24. 1607. Sir Thomas Windebanke's wife was Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke, of Serivelsby, Lincolnshire, hereditary Champion of England. (Volume VI, Chapter I.) Robert Reade's will was dated December 10. 1626. Robert and Mildred ( Winde- banke) Reade had issue:
I. Andrew Reade. mentioned in the House of Lords Calendar as "Andrew Reade. D. D.," of Lugershall Witts.
11. William Reade.
III. Dr. Thomas Reade. b. at Linkenholt, 1606: was admitted scholar of New College. Oxford. December 10. 1624; Fellow. January 15, 1626; LL. D .. 1638: Principal of Magdalin Hall. Oxford, 1643. In 1642. he volunteered in the King's army and saw some service : but on the decline of the Royal cause, went to France and became a Catholic priest. In 1659, he published. in Paris. a work in defence of Catholicism. He returned to England, at the Restoration. and died 1669. There is a sketch of his life in the Dictionary of National Biography which states that he was a brother of Robert Reade. who was secretary to his unele, Sir Francis Windebanke.
IV. Robert Reade. just referred to as Secretary to Windebanke. In March, 1641, he was in Paris, having probably fled abroad with Windebanke to escape prosecution by Parliament, which was then bringing to account the agents of Charles the First's misgovernment. He was living in 1669.
V. George Reade, who came to Virginia. (Warner-Reade, Chapter I.)
[c] The records of York County show that Colonel George Reade had a son. Thomas. An act of Assembly, passed November, 1769, recites that Edmund Gwynn. late of Gloucester, deceased. possessed a tract of land of 550 acres. in the parish of Ware. Gloucester, and by his will, dated March 10. 1683, he devised said land to his son. John Gwynn, and in the event of his death without issue, to his daughter, Lucy Gwynn, and soon after died; and said John entered into possession and was succeeded by his sister, Lucy, who married Thomas Reade, of Gloucester. deceased, and by him had issue. Thomas Reade. her eldest son, and Jno. Reade, her second son. and the said Lucy dying. her son Thomas entered into possession, and dying without issue. was succeeded by the said John Reade, late of the County of King and Queen. Clerk, deceased, and on his death the land descended to his only daughter and heir, Sarah, now the wife of John Rootes. Gentleman. The act also recites that Mildred Warner, relict of Augustine Warner. of Gloucester. Esquire, possessed a tract of land given her by her father, George Reade, Esq .. lying at Chuscake. in Gloucester. which by her will. dated January 4, 1694, she left to two of her sons,
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with reversion to her brothers, Robert, Francis, Benjamin and Thomas Reade, and the sons dying without issue, the land was divided, and two tracts of 200 and 485 acres, respectively, became vested in Thomas Reade, who left issue, as above, Thomas and John Reade, and this land also became invested in Sarah, wife of John Rootes. (Hening, VIII, 483.) As this act was only intended to affect lands inherited by the heir of John Reade, it is no evidence as to whether Thomas Reade (son of Col. George) had other children.
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