Howard, Wood, Baker, Gilmer; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 6, No. 2, 1897 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Howard, Wood, Baker, Gilmer William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Oct., 1897), pp. 94-97. HOWARD, WOOD, BAKER, GILMER. WILLIAM HOWARD, who lived about the time of the battle of Culloden, married Judith -----, and had several children born in England. Henry Howard, the youngest, was born February, 1745. Susannah Howard, an elder sister, married PETER WOOD(1), of Maryland, and had issue, four daughters, one of whom, Judith, married John Baker, of Devonshire, england, who settled in Jefferson Co., Va. - Abstracted from an old letter, 1838, of Judge L.P. Thompson, quoting the family Bible. JOHN BAKER and Judith, his wife, had issue: 1, Margaret, who married William Lisle, of Staunton, Va., and left issue; 2, Anna, who married Zachary Waters, of Montgomery county, Md., and left two sons, Baker and Tilghman, and one daughter, Courtenay; 3, Susannah, who married, first, James Wood, of Botetourt county, Va., and had issue, James, Stanhope, and Fonrose. She married, second, James Tapscott, the immigrant, of English descent, and had Baker Tapscott, who married Ellen Morrow Baker, his cousin, of whom hereafter; 4, Arabella, who married Judge robert White, of Winchester, Va., and had two sons, John Baker and Robert Baker White. Judge White was born in 1759 and died in 1831, a soldier at Boston from Virginia in 1775, wounded at Princeton, lawyer in 1783, and judge of the General Court from 1793 to 1826; 5, John, who married Ann Mark, of hom hereafter; 6, Alcinda, who died unmarried about 1831; 7, Juliet Wood, who married col. James Hite, of Jefferson county, Va, and left one son, Thomas, d.s.p. about seventy-five years, and Frances, who married Dr. William Waters, of Frederick City, Md., Caroline who married Danile Buckey, of Bal- timore, Juliet, who married Major Thomas Briscoe, of Jefferson county, Arabella, who died unmarried, about seventy-five years, Mary, who married Jacob Grove, of Sharpsburg, Md; 8, Mary. _______________________________________________________________________________ (1) In the parish register of Leonardstown, Md., were recorded the births of the children of James Wood, "who emigrated to Maryland prior to 1689", as also his own death and age. His sons were James, John, Gillam, Samuel, Peter, Benjamin, Joseph, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (Letter of W.B. Scott, of Leonardstown, to B. Tapscott, 1838). Gillam had a son, Leonard, who had an only daughter, Patsy, living in 1838. (Same letter). In 1838 there appeared an advertisement for the heirs of Isaac Wood, a lunatic in England, whose grandfather, Clement Wood, a cousin of the lunatic, settled in Virginia in 1784. Page 95. JAMES TAPSCOTT and Susannah Wood, his wife, had issue: Newton Tapscott, married Louisa, daughter of Ferdinando Fairfax, second son of Bryan, eighth Lord Fairfax; Chichester, married a daughter of William Naylor, esq., of Romney, Va.; Baker, of whom hereafter; Susan Caroline, first wife of Judge Lucas P. Thompson, of Staunton, Va.; Louisa, married John Baker White, of Romney, and had three daughters, one of whom was second wife of Judge Lucas P. Thompson, her uncle-in-law. - Abstracted from statement of John. B. Tapscott, Esq. BAKER TAPSCOTT (died at Shepherdstown, 1838, aged 42 years) and Ellen Morrow Baker (died 1846, aged 43 years) had issue: 1, John Baker, lieutenant C.S.A. civil engineers, much relied upon by General Lee. He married, first, Mary Aurelia, daughter of Dr. Joshua and Marina T. Cobb, of Clarksville, Tenn.; married secondly, 1872, Katie Andrews, daughter of Capt. George Pegram, of St. Louis, Mo., son of Dr. John and Caroline Pegram, of Petersburg, Va.; 2, James Newton, died infant; 3, Samuel Baker, C.S.A., died in 1863; 4, Susan Caroline, died infant; 5, Ellen Morrow, died infant; and 6, Elizabeth Gilmer, died unmarried 1856. JOHN MARK was an emigrant from Ulster, in the north of Ireland, a Scotch- Irish Presbyterian and an ardent Whig of the Revolution. Mark purchased a splendid estate in Berkeley county, called "Traveller's Rest," from Gen. Horatio Gates, with whom he carried on a familiar correspondence, which was afterwards published in the Home Journal. He removed to Fredericksburg, and was a leading member of the First Presbyterian Church, whose first minister, in 1806, was Rev. Samuel B. Wilson, of North Carolina. He married Ellen Morrow(1), and his daughter Ann married John Baker, Jun., a distinguished lawyer, and a Federalist member of Congress from 1811 to 1813. Baker died at Shepherdstown August 18, 1823. His wife, Ann Baker, was a passenger on James Rumsey's boat in 1786 at Shepherdstown, when he was the first to succeed by steam alone in propelling a vessel against the current of the Potomac, and "at the rate of four or give miles an hour". Issue: 1, George, _______________________________________________________________________________ (1) Children of John Mark and Ellen Morrow Mark: Ellen, married Samuel F. Smith, of Philadelphia. Margaret, married John Lisle, of Philadelphia. Anne, married John Baker, of Shepherdstown, Va. Sallie, married Van Ruther- ford, of Shepherdstown, Va. Eliza, married Aaron Jewette, of Jefferson county. Samuel, married Ann North, of Jefferson county. John Mark, Jun., married Maria Forman, of Trenton, New Jersey. Page 96. died at 6 years; 2, John Mark, d.s.p. in his 21st year; 3, Robert White, d.s.p. in his 19th year; 4, Samuel, d.s.p.; 5, William Lisle, a lawyer, died in 1853 in his 35th year; 6, Juliet Wood, died unmarried; 7, Ellen Morrow, married Baker Tapscott, of whom already; 8, Ann Elizabeth, married Thomas Walker Gilmer, Secretary of the Navy, on May 23, 1826. Issue: Elizabeth Anderson* Gilmer, born April 3, 1827, married 20 Sept., 1849, St. George Tucker, Esq., author of Hansford, Lt. Col. C.S.A.; John Baker; Juliet Ann; Ellen Tapscott; Thomas Walker*; George Hudson*; Francis Robert; James Blair*; Virginia Douglass. The following letters are interesting in this connection: [JUDITH HOWARD WOOD TO JUDITH WOOD]. Copy of the original letter endorsed: "The writer of the letter below was a maiden lady, and at its date was in the 84th year of her age." - John Baker, March 14, 1802. HOWARD HALL, ENGLAND, 26 June, 1748. As I have just wrote a long letter to your Father, my dear Judith, I have thought it Right to enclose a note to you, for fear you might be mortified that I only sent my Love. I assure you, my dear child, there is not a moment of Time passeth that my Mind does not notice those whose Bodies are away, but Interests and Memories have my Heart; and surelye, it noticeth none more affectionately than dear little Jude - my Darlinge Namesake. Since I have be- come old and Infirm, it is my only Pleasure and Employment to measure the Past and see wherein I did Wronge, so that I may advise the younge to avoide my erring Example. I do hope you never neede any Corrections in youre Behaviour, for an account of you to the contrary of that woulde paine me in Fleshe and Soul. It doth not sit well on a Grand Child of the Goode Judith Howard, to act in Deed what would cause any to blushe for shame. I have only to speake further - first giving you my consent to read your Father's Letter which here ---------(1) that God may bless you and directe your conduct to His Likinge and Perfection. Your Devoted Kinswoman, JUDITH HOWARD WOOD. _______________________________________________________________________________ * Those marked with asterisks (*) have left descendants. (1) "Here four words are illegible". - John Baker. In Mrs. T. W. Gilmer's hand, "The letter on the opposite page is copied from the original w hich was in possession of the late Mrs. Lisle, of Staunton, the eldest sister of John Baker, and was addressed to Judith Wood, soon after the removal of her father to Charles county, Maryland, from England. Judith Wood afterwards married John Baker, Sr., and settled in Jefferson county, Va. Mrs. Lisle and John Baker were children of Judith Baker." Page 97. [JOHN MARK TO JOHN BAKER] FREDERICKSBURG, January 18, 1812. Dear Sir, By a letter from Samuel yesterday, I am informed that you have been visiting your Dear little family. I hope you found and left them all well and that you enjoy good health also. I have had a very Severe Cold, but am now in my usual plight. News last evening from Richmond announces the total destruction of Six homes by fire, opposite the Eagle Tavern, no lives lost, that place this winter Suffers much, by Severe and truly afflictive Providences, I trust that they may have the Sanctified use of them. We have got into our New Church, it is very well finished, and Situated on a Pleasant Lot, which was given gratis, by Mrs. Patton, and she wishes to make a Deed to it, Provided we knew how to make it, or to whom; We are not as a congregation an incorporated body. We are anxious to have the title Secured, I am requested to write to you on the Subject, to know if you can give us any information in what manner it can be acomplished; and remain forever the Property of the Presbyterian Congregation of this Place. I cannot conceive why every denomination of Christians Should not be incorporated. I am at a loss to know what evil could attend it, certainly none, that I can conceive. Anything strage in Jefferson? how long did you stay there? Report says Con- gress means to adjourn for a Short time, indeed I think it is hard for them to do much at this present time, until they hear from Europe. I was happy in reading in the paper your Support to the claim of the revolutionary Soldier. I hope that congress will do away the Statute of limitation and grant him and his heirs what is justly due them, for assisting to gain our freedom from threatened Bondage, and our Independence, and give us a Standing amongst the Nations of the Earth. Indeed I think we are almost the only free People on the face of the Globe. This Liberty we enjoy, calls loudly upon us, individuals, and as a Nation to make suitable returns to him who gives peace in our Land, while the greater part of Europe are in a continual warfare, Liberty and Equality not known amongst them, while we enjoy all the blessings of a free and Independent People - I am Dear Sir, yours Sincerely. JOHN MARK. John Baker esquire Washington.