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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Miscellaneous Notes William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 9, No.4 (Apr., 1902), pp 241-242 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES Prince William County The Guardian's account of George Mason shows that he went to school to Mr. Williams in 1736, 1737, 1738, 1739, and paid each year 1000 pounds of tobacco; that he paid Mr. Wylie, for a year's schooling and books in 1738, 845 pounds. Mary Mason, his sister, paid 1000 pounds of tobacco for board, and 200 pounds for schooling. She went three years to school, and one and a half years to a dancing school. Library of william Dunlop, son of Alexander Dunlop, Greek professor in the University of Glasgow, valued at 44 pounds, 14s 9d. 119 titles. Reported by Capt. Benjamin Grayson in 1741. Deed of John Randolph, of Prince William county, gent., and Anne, his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of Thomas Osborne, late of the said county, deceased, to Cuthbert Harrison, who married John Randolph's widow; 20 October, 1750. Deed of William Henley, of the county of Henrico, and Mary, his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of Thomas Osborne, late of the said county, gent., 1751. Deposition of Humphrey Brooke, aged sixty-one years in 1792. Depositionof Lewis Ellzey, aged seventy-three years, 1792. Louisa County Will of Mary Barrett, of the parish of St. Martin's, in Hanover county. Sons Charles, Robert, daughter Anne Dabney, granddaughter Mary Dabney and grandson Dabney. Dated 3 December, 1741, proved 24 February, 1746. Will of Charles Barrett. Wife Mary and all my children. Brother Robert Barrett, son Charles. 10 September, 1770, June 10, 1771. Will of Joseph Beckley. Wife Elizabeth, sons William Beckley and Francis Beckley, daughter Elizabeth Beckley. Dated 30 January, 1749. Witnesses, Charles Barrett, Thomas McCredie, Richmond Terrill.* Page 242 William and Mary College Quarterly Will of Charles Beckley names cousin Humphrey Beckley and cousin Anne Poindexter. Dated March 5, 1753. Witnesses, Thomas Poindexter, Jr., David Cosby, Jr., Mary Cosby. Administrator's bond of John Beckley on the god of Sir William Beckley. Sec. Cosby Duke, William Snelson, Jr., Dated April 8, 1771. Inventory of James Beckley, deceased. 26 August, 1776. Will of James Beckley, of Louisa county. Desires the residue of his estate to be divided between Joseph Beckely, Elizabeth Beckley, Mary Beckley, Peggy Beckley and Sarah Beckley, the children of my deceased brother, William Beckley. Thomas Darracott and George Holland, exors. Witnesses, Elizabeth Darracott, Elizabeth Beckley. Proved May 13, 1776. Will of William lowry, of Louisa. Property to be kept together during the minority of his younger children. Eight children, Milley, Kitty, Keziah, Betty, William, Nancy, John, Joanna. My children who ahve left me, viz.: Ann, Susan, Mary and Jane; John Falconer, of Caroline, William Trevillian, and brother Aaron Lowry, exors. 18 September, 1781, October, 1781 _______________________________________________________________ * The Barrett pedigree seems to run as follows (see Quarterly, VII., p. 201): William Barrett, burgess for James city 1644, etc., had William, who had James, who married Mary _____, and had probably (1) William, (2) Charles. The latter seems to have married Mary Chis- well. In 1716, Charles Chiswell, of Hanover county, in behalf of Mrs. Mary Barrett, offered to undertake the keeping of the college table at the cost of eleven pounds per annum for each scholar (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. IV., p. 174). She died, as above, in 1746, leaving two sons Charles and Robert, and one daughter, Ann Dabney. Robert Barrett qualified as master of the Indian school at the college June 28, 1737, and married (1) Elizabeth Lewis (deed in Goochland, 1753), daughter of Col. Robert Lewis, (2) Annd (deed 1766). He was minister of St. Martin's Parish from 1754, for many years. In 1791, William Barrett and Rev. Robert Barrett made a deed in Hanover. Charles Barrett, who died in 1771, left numerous children. Rev. Robert Barrett left at least one son Lewis Barrett, who was a minister, and married Elizabeth Anderson, "born 31 July, 1753, and departed this life on Wednesday, 12 January, 1773." (Memorandum in a MSS funeral sermon upon Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett), leaving issue an only son, Anderson Barrett. Rev. Lewis Barrett moved to Georgia, and there is a letter extant from him to his son Anderson at Richmond, Va., reproaching him for not writing to him in his old age. It is endorsed "Favod by Mr. Cosby." (The Cosbys were from Hanover and Louisa.) It is said that Rev. Lewis Barrett married a second wife in Georgia, by whom he had many children. Anderson Barrett was grandfather of Misses Nannie, Leila, and Ellen Jones, of Richmond, Va.