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Notes by the Editor

   Lyon G. Tyler

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 2, No.4.

   (Apr., 1894), pp. 230-236.

                           NOTES BY THE EDITOR.

   1.  Last summer the editor spent several delightful weeks in Gloucester,
visiting the old homesteads.  He tried to take down as literally as possible the
inscriptions upon the old tombstones, which are rapidly disappearing.  Glou-
cester county was divided originally into Ware, Abingdon, Petsworth, and King-
ston parishes, the last being cut off with Mathews in 1790.  A register and
vestry book of Abingdon parish and a vestry book of Petswsorth are at the
Episcopl seminary at Alexandria.  Abingdon Church is a handsome square brick
building, standing on the road to Gloucester Point.  Upon the arch of the door
have been cut the figures 1765.  The building is probably the last of a series
of similar structures on the same spot.  The silver service, which is kept by
Mrs. Selden of "Sherwood", bears the inscription, "The gift of L.B. to Abingdon
Parish."  One of the leading parishoners in 1700 was Lewis Burwell.

   2.  The arms are those of Flower of Chilton, Co. Wilts: Sa. a unicorn pass.,
or on a chief ar.  Jeffrey Flower died "instestate", Peter Whiting administrator.
(Ludwell MSS).

   3.  At the lower church in Middlesex are tombs of Dorothy and Thomas (child-
ren of William and Elizabeth Blackburne), who died respectively in 1726 and
1727.  Capt. William Blackburn, J.P. and Burgess, died in Middlesex in 1738.
(Va. Gazette.)

   4.  This Thruston tomb is a fragment, placed for preservation in the vestry
room at Abingdon Church.

   5.  This Timson inscription was furnished the editor by Dr. Walker Jones, of
Gloucester county.  Samuel Timson was a descendant of Samuel Timson, formerly a
merchant of London, and Mary Juxon, his wife and sister of William Juxon, mer-
chant of London.  See Virginia Historical Society Collections, XI., pp, 99-100
for the immigrant's inscription.  From various contemporary sources, William
Thornton was guardian of John Liptrott, in York Co. (1646).  He patented land
in Gloucester Co., Petsworth parish in 1665-'66, and was vestryman.  He had
issue - William, Jr., Francis, and Rowland - from whom many of the Thornton
name in the United States are descended.  From an old book-plate (I have seen
a photograph of it) of William Thornton, of Virginia, the family arms are:  A
chevron betw. three hawthorn trees, agreeing in Burke with Thornton of counties
Cambridge, Norfolk and York.  I purpose to give a full account of the Thorntons
and Timsons in some future number of this QUARTERLY.

   6.  "Carter's Creek," the old seat of the Burwells, is situated on a creek of
that name and not far back from York River.  On the high triple chimney are cut
the letters LBA. 1694.  Besides the tombstones mentioned in this paper of the
Burwell family there are extant the tombstone (badly injured) of Elizabeth (Bur-
well) Harrison, of "Westover", and her brother, James Burwell, of King's Creek,
York county (inscription published in Virginia Historical Papers, Vol. XI.).

   7.  Ancestor of Burwell family.  Inscription taken from Meade; tomb missing
or shattered now.  Had grant in 1648 for head rights Roger Wingate, the minister
his son, the Lady Clifton and her two maids, William Burwell, etc.  Mrs. Eliz.
Hull had grant in 1643 for William, George, Elizabeth, and Lewis Burwell.  [She
(Elizabeth Hull) perhaps married 2ndly Robert Vaulx, called "brother" by Lewis
B.]  Francis Hammond, brother of Gen. Mainwaring

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Hammond, had in 1654 head-rights Robert, Eliz., Susan, and Humphrey Vaulx, 
Francis and Mana. Hammond, John Woodington, &c.  Robert Vaulx's brothers were
Thomas, James, and Humphrey Vaulx.  John Woodington, a kinsman.  James Vaulx

went to Dorchester Co., Md.  Lewis Burwell was son of Edward Burwell of Bed-
fordshire, and Dorothy, d. of William Bedell, of Catsworth, who had 1, Edward;
2, Dorothy, perhaps m. ----- Woodington; 3, Elizabeth, probabaly married 1st,
Hull, 2d, Vaulx; 4, Lewis, bapt. at Ampthill Mch. 5, 1621, the immigrant; 5,
George; 6, Edward.  An Edward Burwell was living in York Co. in 1648.  The date
of Lewis Burwell's death was probably 1653, not 1658, as Meade makes the tomb
read.  See Keith's Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, etc., York Co. Records, and
Land-Office Register.

   8.  Arms too worn for the Editor to make out.

   9.  Lucy Higginson married, 1st, Major Lewis Burwell; 2d, Col. William Bernard,
and 3d, Col. Philip Ludwell.  Her father, Capt. Robert Higginson, commanded at
Middle Plantation in 1646, and as a reward for valiant service received from the
Colony 100 acres of land (York Co. Records).  This tombstone is much injured,
and the portion of the inscription in brackets is supplied from Campbell (Southern
Literary Mess., xiii., p. 464).  The last lines (Campbell does not give them) 
were doubtless:  "She was buried on the right hand of her husband.  Erected to
her memory by several of her own grandchildren."

   10.  I found this tomb intact.  The crest is a human bust, the crest of Abigail
Smith, Burwell's first wife.  The arms are, dexter, a saltire between four
griffins' heads erased; sinister, three roses in bend; the former for Burwell,
the latter doubtless for Smith. The Burwell shield, as represented at this place
and on James Burwell's tomb at Kikng's Creek, is not charged with eagles' heads,
as commonly represented.  The last has for crest a griffin's claw with three
talons grasping a twig with four leaves.

   11.  I found Lewis Burwell's will (proved Feb. 19, 1710) on record in York
Co.  He mentions sons, Nathaniel, James and Lewis; grandson, Lewis, son of
Nathaniel; son-in-law, Henry Seaton; daughters, Joanna, Elizabeth, Lucy, Martha,
Jane, and Martha, jun.; godson, William Burwell, about 4 years old, living with
William Davis and Ellinor his wife, whom he directs to be educated at William and
Mary College, in style "becoming a gentleman's son", and to have 65 pds. worth
of plate "that hath his mother's coat-of-arms upon it"; [Matthew Burwell, probably
the father of William, and William Davis were witnesses to Lewis Burwell's deed
in 1700;] brother Philip Ludwell; L30 to the poor of Abingdon parish, and L30 for
mourning-rings.  Should his children die without issue, his property of York,
James City, King William, etc., to go for establishing free schools, and a chair
of Law, Medicine, or Divinity in William and Mary College.  Mr. Keith was probably
unaware of this will.

   12.  Lewis Burwell, the second of the name, had, by Martha Lear, two sons and
three daughters, but meade says eight daughters, which is certainly wrong.  (See
Note 15).

   13.  Burwell had, by his first marriage, four sons and six daughters.  In
March, 1691-'92 (date of the proof of Col. Bacon's will), there were living three
sons, Nathaniel, Lewis, and James, and four daughters named in the will in this
order:  Joanna, Elizabeth, Lucy and Martha.  Bacon and Jane, two others not
mentioned in the will, must have died before 1691-'92.  Lewis died in 1696.
Henry Seaton probably married a daughter, also deceased.  By the second

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marriage after 1694 (date of Col. Wm. Cole's death), he had two sons and three
daughters. Of this number Mary, who died in 1704, was one; Lewis, Jane, and
Martha jun., mentioned in the order of his children in 1710, were doubtless
three others.  One I have no knowledge of.  There must have been two daughters
of the name of Martha living in 1710, one by Abigail Smith, and the other by
Martha Lear, else the whole number of surviving children called for by Lewis B's
tomb would not be the number named in his will.  It also follows that in 1704,
when Governor Nicholson was wild about one of the Burwell girls, the children
of the second marriage were of tender age.  Martha, as being the only child of
the first marriage unmarried, must have been the object of his attentions.
   Mr. Keith suggests only two sons for John Armistead, of Hesse, Henry and
William, and makes the lady whom James Burwell in his will (1718) calls "sister
Martha Armistead," the wife of Henry Armistead.  James Burwell married Mary
Armistead, and speaks also of "brother John Armistead", and Mr. Keith says that
this John was brother of his wife, and a son of William Armistead, who married
Anna Lee, a fact evidenced by Burwell mentioning his "mother, Ann Armistead."
This is contrary to the account given to me by several correspondents, and to
Mr. Brock's Amristead pedigree in the Standard, but is perhaps correct, except
as to the first particular.
   In support of the views of the last, Barradall's Reports (MSS, in Virginia
Historical Society and Law Library) show that in 1737, Burwell Armistead and one
Dudley sued in behalf of John4 Armistead, then an infant, who was eldest son and
heir of John3 Armisttead deceased, who was eldest son and heir of John2 Armistead,
who in 1680 bought land with Robert Beverley, in Gloucester county.  Robinson,
the plaintiff, was eldest son and heir of John Robinson, Esq., who married
Catharine, daughter of Robert Beverley.  Other facts may be added to Mr. Keith's
account of the Burwells.  Col. Bacon's old homestead at King's Creek, descended
under Major Lewis Burwell's will, to his son James, who is buried there (see
Virginia Historical Society Papers, Vol. XI., for inscription on tomb).  James
married Mary Armistead (she married secondly Philip Lightfoot) and had Captain
Nathaniel Burwell and Lucy Burwell.
   Captain Nathaniel Bacon Burwell (Inventory L1669 rec. 1749) married, and had
James, who married Anne Jones (b. Feb. 15, 1739, d 1779) sister of Dr. Walter
Jones, of the Revolution; issue, 1, Nathaniel Bacon; 2, James; 3, Ann; 4, Rachel;
5, Bacon.  "Descendants of Roger Jones" mentions another, Lucy, the reputed wife
of Bishop Ravenscroft; but she is not mentioned in Ann Burwell's will.  In 1790
Nathaniel Bacon Burwell, Jr., and Elizabeth, his wife, sold Kings Creek Plantation,
of 1800 acres, "on which he now lives and his late father, James Burwell lived,"

to John Tayloe Corgin, of King and Queen county.  Elizabeth, his wife, was daughter
of John Smith, brother of Dr. Augustine Smith, and (in 1793 of Richmond county,
but formerly of York) and left a son, James Bacon Burwell, infant in 1793.
   I think a daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Bacon Burwell must have married John
Reade (son of Robert, son of Col. George), as Elizabeth, his daughter, is called
granddaughter in Mary Armistead Lightfoot's will (pr. 1775).  She, Elizabeth,
first married Rev. Richard Hewitt, of Hungar's Parish, Northampton county (he
died before 1779). She had by him, 1, Elizabeth Burwell; 2,

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Mary; 3, Ann; 4, Dorothy; 5, Sarah.  Of these, Elizabeth, who married Henry Lee,
Sarah, who married Littleton Kendall, and Dorothy, alone survived in 1798.  The
widow, Elizabeth (Reade) Hewitt, married secondly Col. Edward Harwood, son of
William Harwood, of Warwick county.  (York Records, Chancery papers, &c.)

   14,  Abigail Burwell, nee Smith, was the heiress of Col. Nathaniel Bacon, and
the arms on her tomb are Burwell impaling Bacon.  The crest is a human bust, 
representing, probably, Smith.  Meade says that Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon was daughter
of Richard Kingsmill, and her tombstone at Norfolk is confirmatory, bearing as it
does the arms of Tayloe (her first husband was William Tayloe, of the Council)
impaling Kingsmill, as in Burke.

   15.  The tomb of Martha (Lear) Burwell is shattered.  This inscription is taken
from Meade, but is erroneous in stating her children.  At Bolthorpe are tombstones
to three children by her marriage with Col. William Cole.  And in the York records
is a deed by Lewis Burwell, dated December 2, 1700, conveying certain negroes "in
trust for William Cole, son of Col. William Cole, late of Warwick county, deceased,
by his wife Martha, and now the wife of me, the said Lewis Burwell, to be delivered
to him when he shall attain the age of 18"; "and in the event of his death, to the
surviving children of said Lewis and Martha Burwell."  The inscription probably
read, "two sons and two daughters," instead of "no sons and no daughters."  In
like manner, instead of "six sons and three daughters" by Lewis Burwell, Martha's
tombstone doubtless read, "two sons and three daughtes", a correction agreeing
with the tombstone, still intact, of Major Burwell himself.

   16.  Meade says, Lewis Burwell, son of Major Lewis and Abigail (Smith) Burwell,
died in 1676, but Campbell sais 1696, which, as Keith shows, is undoubtedly
correct.

   17.  This inscription is taken from Meade; tombstone now missing.

   18.  The arms on the tombstone of Nathaniel Burwell are the same as on that of
James, his brother, at King's Creek.  The crest seems to be also the same.

   19.  The children of Nathaniel Burwell were: Lewis, President of the Virginia
Council, Carter, of the Grove in James City county, Elizabeth, wife of William
Nelson, and mother of Gen. Nelson.

   20.  The arms are enclosed in a lozenge, and represent in Burke "the later
arms" of Booth of Barton, county Lancaster, impaling Cooke, of Whitefield county,
Suffolk.

   21.  The arms as above, enclosed in a shield, bearing as crest: A demi St.
Catharine, ppr. couped at the knees, in the dexter hand a Catharine wheel, in her
sinister a sword, the point downwards.

   22.  Robert Bristow of London, merchant, son of Major Robert Bristow, formerly
of Gloster county, Virginia, made a power of attorney in 1709, to Thomas Booth of
Gloster county, to sell his property and plantations in Virginia.  (York county
Records).  One Thomas Booth still controlled the Bristow estate in 1772, when
William Nelson solicited the agency for Col. Robert Tucker, of Norfolk, who had
suffered heavily from a great fire.  (Nelson MSS. Letter Book at Episcopal
Theological Seminary.)  The Bristow estate was shortly after confiscated by the
Virginia government on the ground that the Bristows were alients (See QUARTERLY
II., July Number for an account of the Bristow family and arms.)  An elaborate
chart pedigree of the

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family, prepared at much cost, shows that Thomas Booth, the immigrant, was son of
St. John Booth, son of John Booth, son of George Booth, whose son William was
the father of George first Lord Delamere, which last was father of Henry, first
Earl of Warrington.
   Thomas1, the immigrant, married Mary Cooke and had George2, Thomas2, Mordecai2,
John2, William2 and 4 daus.
   Mordecai2 mar. ------ and had George3 and two daus., one of whom married twice.
   George3 mar. Mary Wythe Mason, and had George Wythe4, Mary4, Fanny4.
   George Wythe4 mar. Lucy Jones, issue, Mary5, Fanny5, Lucy5.
   Mary4 mar. James H. Roy, issue, William H., James, Mary, Laura.  William H.
Roy mar. 1st Anne Seddon; issue, Thomas S., William, James H. (all died young),
Anne S., Susan S.; mar. 2nd Euphan W. Macrae, issue, Fanny W., Mary M., Ellen D.
   Mary5, daughter of George Wythe, died unmarried.

   Fanny5, d. of Geo. Wythe, mar. Warner T. Taliaferro, issue: General William
Booth Taliaferro6 (1894).
   Lucy5, d. of George W., died unmarried.
   Thomas2, son of the immigrant Thomas1, mar. Anne Buckner and had George3,
Thomas3, John3, and Mordecai3, and one married daughter.
   Sarah4 mar. Thomas Baytop, and had James Baytop, who mar. Lucy Taliaferro
Catlett, and had Ann Walker Carter Baytop, who mar. Jeff. W. Stubbs, of Gloucester
county, and had Prof. T. J. Stubbs, of William and Mary, J. N. Stubbs, State
Senator (1894), Prof. W. C. Stubbs, of Louisiana, &c.  The Booths, of Nottoway,
trace to Gilliam Booth, a reputed descendant of the Gloucester family.  See 
Goode's "Virginia Cousins".
   There was a prominent family of Booths in York Co.  Robert1 Booth was clerk,
burgess, etc., from about 1640 till his death (1657); mar. Frances ----- and
perhaps Robert2, J. P., who mar. Anne, dau. of James Bray, Esq., of the Council,
and Angelica --- his wife.  Robert2 died in 1692, and his widow mar. Capt. Peter
Temple (died 1695), son of Peter Temple, minister of York parish.  After Peter
Temple's death, she married, 3dly, Mungo Inglis, grammar master of William and
Mary College, and had children.  William2 Booth, J.P. (will proved 13 May, 1692),
was perhaps another son of Robert1, and mar. Margaret ------, and had Elizabeth,
who married 1st, Dr. Peter Plovier (d. 1677-'78); married 2d, John Griggs; 3d,
Captain Thomas Nutting, J.P., whose dau. Katherine married, 1st, Capt. William
Sheldon; 2d, Capt. Robert Armistead, son of Major Anthony Armistead, of Elizabeth
City.  The York records say that Elizabeth2 was a daughter of Robert1 Booth,
clerk of York Co., and married Dr. Patrick Napier.  Her children were Robert3
(under 21 in 1672) and Frances3, and lived in New Kent.  Robert3 had Booth4
Napier (b. Feb. 1, 1692) and other children.  (See St. Peter's Parish Register).

   23.  This is a splendid tomb, highly ornamented.  Gen. William B. Taliaferro
has a handsome funeral ring with the engraving on the inside:  "John Booth
obiit --- 1748, AEt. 36"; as also a ring, evidently in memory of his father, on
which all that can be made out is, "Tho: . . . .  73" [Thomas Booth obiit, etc.,
aet. 73].

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   24.  This is a quaint old brick house, near Pianketank, the early residence
of the Cookes.  Mordecai Cooke patented 1174 acres at the head of Ware River in
Mockjack Bay.

   25.  John Smith was member of the Council, and eldest son of Major Laurence
Smith.  See arms and account of his family in QUARTERLY, July, 1893; paper en-
titled "Temple Farm".

   26.  The arms are, apparently: On a chevron between three wolves' heads
erased, three trefoils, - presumably Whiting.  Crest, a wolf's head (?) erased.

   27.  Major John Washington was eldest son of Lawrence Washington and Mildred
Warner.  Lawrence was son of Colonel John Washington, who with his brother
Lawrence came to Virginia about 1655.  Major John was great-uncle of General
George Washington.  See Spark's Life of Washington, I., page 548.

   28.  This tomb bears the arms used by General Washington.  (Spark's Washington,
Vol. I., p. 542).
   The crest on the tombstone is, "out of a ducal coronet a rave, wings addorsed
ppr."

   29.  Peter Kemp, Jr., was the son of Peter Kemp, vestryman of Petsworth parish.

   30.  Col. Augustine Warner came to Virginia about 1628, was justice of York
county, and finally settled in Gloucester county, on the estate still known as
Warners Hall,  (For description of this house see Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography, Vol. I, No. 3, p. 351, n. 11.)  Was burgess for York in 1652, and
for Gloucester, 1655; member of the Council 1659-1667, married Mary ----, and
had 1, Sarah married Lawrence Townley, and was ancestress of General Robert E.
Lee, 12, Col. Augustine.

   31.  Co. Augustine Warner, eldest son of the preceding, married Mildred,
daughter of Col. George Reade, of York county.  He studied at the Merchant
Taylor's School, in London, and was Councillor, Speaker of the House of Burgesses,
etc.  For details as to his descendants, see Richmond Critic, October 5, 1889;
Richmond Standard, iii., 23, 38, 52; iv., 23.

   32.  John Lewis, Esq., member of the Council, etc., was son of Robert Lewis,

who settled in Gloucester county.  Mrs. William Reynolds writes that it was
established through the researches of Capt. Henry Howell Lewis of Baltimore, 
"who had every statement verfied from the old English and Welsh records", that
Robert was the son of Sir Edward Lewis, of Van and Erdington.  It would be
interesting to know the exact evidence by which this important fact was established.

   33.  William Gooch was the son of Governor William Gooch of Virginia.  The
Lady Rebecca, his mother, presented to the College a gilt sacrament cup and
patten, and Bible (Samuel Athawes MSS. 29 July, 1775).  And a cup and patten
answering this description are in the custody of Bruton church in Williamsburg.

   34.  John Chiswell, of Hanover, clerk of the General Court, died in April
1737, in his sixtieth year (Virginia Gazette), had a son, Col. John Chiswell,
who married Elizabeth, daughter of William Randolph, of Turkey Island (she died,
aged fifty-four, in February, 1776), and had, issue, 1, Susanna, married John
Robinson, the speaker; 2d, William Griffin, 2 Mary, married Warner

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Lewis; 3, Elizabeth, married Charles Carter, of Ludlow, Stafford county; 4, Lucy,
born August 3, 1752, died April 4, 1810, married Col. William Nelson.  Col. 
Chiswell, their father, discovered in 1757 the New River lead mines (now known
as the Wythe Lead and Zinc Works); and Fort Chiswell, within a few miles thereof,
was named for him.  In 1766 he killed a Scotch gentleman named Robert Routlidge,
probably a refugee and supporter of the Pretender, as Chiswell called him "a
rebel Presbyterian".  The county court refused to bail Chiswell, but on his way
to jail he wa bailed by three of the General Court, John Blair, Presley Thornton,
and William Byrd.  They were said to be relatives of Chiswell, and were bitterly
attacked for their interference.  His prosecutor was chosen in the prevailing
custom by lot, and it fell to John Blair, Jr., an intimate friend, to conduct
the case, but the suicide of the accused ended the proceedings.  (See Richmond
Times, March 4, 1894; Virginia Gazette, by Purdie, for 1766; Call's Reports,
Vol. IV; and the letter of John Camm in this number.)

   35.  The arms on the tomb of Dr. Thomas Clayton are:  A cross engrailed be-
tween four torteaux; crest, a leopard's gamb erased and erect, graspin a pellet,
or torteau.  From Mr. Stanard's carefully prepared pedigree, based on Le Neve,
Wills at  Somerset House, &c., printed in Wallace's Historical Magazine, for
October, 1891:
   Thomas1, of Clayton Hall, Lancaster, England, m. Agnes, d. of John Thornell,
issue, William2, "2d son but heir," d. 1627.  William2 m.----- Cholmeley, issue,
1, John3, 2, Sir Jasper3 of St. Edmunds, Lombard St., Mercer, Alderman, &c.,
knighted 1660.  Sir Jasper3 m. Mary Thompson, d. of William Thompson, "late
citizen and haber-dasher of London", issue 1 Sir John4 2, George4, 3, Mary4,
4, Prudence4, 5, Rebecca4.
   Sir John4 m. Alice Bowyer, d. of Sir William Bowyer, of Denham, Bucks, baronet,
and relict of William Buggins, of North Crey, Eng.  Issue 1, John5, born 1665,
died Nov. 18, 1737; studied at the university, probably Cambridge, and at Inner
Temple; and in 1705 was appointed attorney-general of Virginia; was judge of the
Court of Admiralty, member of the House of Burgesses, recorder of Williamsburg,
&c.  Married, not known whom, and had 1, John6, the eminent botanist, and author
of "Flora Virginia". (See Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary.)  2, Arthur6, clerk
"of a county on the upper part of James River".  3, Dr. Thomas6, educated at the
University of Cambridge, and completed his medical studies in London, returned to
Virginia, where he married, in 1728, Isabella Lewis, of Warner Hall, and died
October 17, 1739.  He had one child, Juliana, born May 17, 1731, died 12 May,

1734.  The descendants of John6 are numerous in Virginia.
   William Pryor was an early justice of York county; made his will, proved 25th
January, 1646-'47, and appointed his brother-in-law, Jasper Clayton, executor of
his English estate, and Capt. Thomas Harwood and Capt. Thomas Harrison, Gent.,
formerly of Ratcliffe, Middlesex county, Eng., executors of his Virginia estate.
He left two daughters, Mary and Margaret who married Thomas Edwards, of the 
Inner Temple, London.  (York county, Va., Records).  William Bernard, of Purton,
in Glocuester, purchased Pryor's estate in York county, just above Yorktown,
and his wife, Anna, sold it to Robert Baldrey, who left it to Thomas Ballard,
of the Council.  (Ibid.)