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Historical and Genealogical Notes

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 2.
   (Oct., 1900), pp. 134-136.

                       HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

   NIMMO. - "Please correct the statement in the April number of the QUARTERLY, page 274,
that Jacob Hunter married the widow of James Nimmo.  Jacob Hunter's second wife was the
widow of

Page 135.

Gershon Nimmo, son of James Nimmo, and was the daughter of Maximilian Boush the second by
his second wife, who was the widow of Lazarus Sweny and daughter of Major James Wilson, of
Norfolk county.  Mary Nimmo was the sister of the mother of Jacob Hunter.  Maximilian
Boush's firs wife was Sarah Woodhouse, and Jacob Hunter's first wife was Susannah Moore,
daughter of Captain Henry Moore". - EDWARD W. JAMES.

   NAME "YANKEE". - "In Notes and Queries for December 14, 1878, fifth series, x. 467, is
the following:  "The inventory of the effects of William Marr, formerly of Morpeth, and 
afterwards of Carolina, in parts beyond the seas, but in the parish of Stepney' (1725),
ends with, 'Item one negroe man named Yankee to be sold'."  When in London last summer I
saw at Somerset House a copy of Marr's will, and after some search found the inventory.  I
can, therefore, vouch for the accuracy of the statement.  I am anxious to know whether any
other instances are known of the application of the word Yankee to be a negro.  I care only
for examples prior to April 19, 1775.  Perhaps some of your readers can give further in-
formation on this point". - ALBERT MATTHEWS, Boston, April 26, 1900.

   LUNSFORD. - "In January number (1900) of WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY I read article on
'Sir Thomas Lunsford'.  I wish to learn the name of the author, in order to get the source
of his information concerning the children of John Lomax.

   "My wife was a Loving, the daughter of Judge W. V. Loving, born in Nelson county,
Virginia.  Family history has always had it that John Loving married the sister of Lunsford
Lomax in 1737.  My wife's ancestor, Wm. Loving, was born 1740, and he had a brother,
Lunsford Lomax Loving.  The name of John Loving's wife is reported by some as Hannah, and
by others as Susan, his second wife being Sarah.  I have been met outside by a quotation
from a letter written by Judge John Tayloe Lomax, which says that Lunsford Lomax was the
only issue of John Lomax and Mary Wormley (?)  (I write this name from memory.)  Judge
Lunsford Lomax Lewis, of Richmond, Va., gives the names of other children, as does the
author of the article referred to.  While he and Alexander Brown says there is no doubt
of the intermarriage, they cannot state definitely where it came in".  EDWIN R. CRUTCHER,
Kansas City, Missouri.

Page 136.

   LOMAX. - "Mr. John Lomax and Mrs. Elizabeth Wormley were marriked June ye 1st. 1703
(Middlesex Reg).  Issue:  Lunsford, born Nov. 5, 1705; Catharine, born Oct. 5, 1707; 
Catherine, Susanna, John, Frances.  (WM. & M. QUAR.)

   "In the Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia for 1796, page 7, will be found
the following:
   "'A petition of Henrietta Payne, Keziah Payne and John Payne, children of Josiah Payne,
deceased; William Dalton, John Dalton, Josiah Emmett and Catharine, his wife (late Catharine
Dalton); Saunders Alexander Reed and Ann, his wife (late Ann Dalton); Rachel Dalton and
Daniel Dalton, children of John and Ann Dalton, devisees of John Lomax, of the town of
Alexandria, deceased, praying that an act may pass to confirm a nuncupative will of the
decedent'.

   "The will of John Lomax was sworn to before Justices Richard Conway and Wm. Herbert at
Alexandria by the witnesses, Wm. Hunter, Jr., Sally Edwards and Joseph Veroni, January 10,
1787.  He leaves all property to his wife Rachel her life-time.  At her death it was to be
equally divided betweent he children of Josiah Payne and the children of John and Anne
Dalton.  The wife Rachel died in 1792, and these Paynes and Daltons inherited her property.
The relationship between the parties is not given.  Probabaly some descendants of these
heirs may be able to state it.

   "Could the John of the will be the John son of John and Elizabeth Wormeley Lomax?  The
dates suit well.  Who are descendants of these Daltons and Paynes?  How allied to the
Herberts and the Washingtons?" - X.