Note by the Editor; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 5, No. 1

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Note by the Editor

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1.
   (Jul., 1896), p. 39.

                        NOTE BY THE EDITOR.

   The family account of Mrs. L. A. Page, wife of Mann Page, of Greenland,
Gloucester county, Va., has the following statement, which seems to confirm
the belief that the emigrants, William and John Dandridge, were brothers; 

"Mamma's Grandfather Langbourn emigrated to this country with his uncles, the
Dandridges, leaving a sister, Mary Langbourn, living in the city of London.
He married, as I have already stated, a Miss [Susanna] Smith, of Shooter's
Hill, Middlesex county.  His wife and himself both died when their two children
were quite young.  William remained with his Dandridge relations, and Mary
lived with her Aunt Throckmorton, whose son she married.  William entered the
Revolutionary army when quite a youth, and acted as aide to La Fayette to whom
he became much attached, and afterwards visited him in France.  He was very
much attached to his Dandridge relations, having been brought up among them,
particularly to his Cousin Martha Dandridge, afterwards Mrs. Washington, and to
another cousin, Mrs. Dandridge Claiborne, he formed an early romantic attach-
ment", and whose daughter Elizabeth he subsequently married.  The tombstone of
the first William Langbourn, at his place in King William county, on the 
Pamunky River, states that he was the son of Robert and mary Langbourn, of
Fetter Lane, London, and it bears the Langbourn arms impaling Dandridge.  (See
QUARTERLY IV., 166, 184).