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BOLLING. - In an old volume of "the laws of Virginia", known as the "Purvis Collection", are entries which show that it once belonged to Robert Bolling, the emigrant: "Robt. Bolling, the son of John and Mary Bolling, of all Halloway's Barking Parish, Tower street, London, was born the 26th day of December, 1646, and Page 276. came to Virginia October ye 2d, 1660: & in the yeare 75 married Jane, the daughter of Thomas Rolfe, gent., by whom he had one son, John Bolling, Born ye 27th day of Jany, 1676. She dying he married a second venture Anne, ye daughter of Major John Stith, in ye yeare 1681, by whem he hath Robt Bolling, Born Janr ye 25th, 1682, ditto Stith Bolling, Borne March ye 28th, 1686, ditto Edward Bolling borne ye first day of October, 1687, ditto Anne Bolling born ye 22d of July, 1690, ditto Drury Bolling borne ye 21st day of June, 1695, ditto Thomas Bolling borne ye 30th day of March 1697/8, & Agnes Bolling borne ye 30th November 1700, and that god almighty may bless these Blessings shall be the continuall prayer of theire father Robt. Bolling". In another place in the same handwriting of the period is: "These may certifye all persons to know that in the yeare one thousand six Hundred ninety & nine, there was in Charles City County, in Virginia, men, women, children, & slaves, the number three thousand nine hundred and fifty was listed P Robt Bolling then sherr." The book descended to the Robert Bolling who wrote the Bolling Memoirs, as there is written on a leaf: "Ex Libris Robert Bolling, jun. 1764". There is also this item of family interest evidently written by him: "Robert Bolling(1) and Anne Bolling, her maiden name was Meri- wether(2), [had issue] Mary, married William Stark 1727/8, Elizabeth -- James Munford 1727/8, Anne - John Hall, Lucy - Peter Randolp, Jane - Hugh Miller, Martha - Richd Eppes, Susanna - Alexander Bolling, Robert - Mary Tabb". JAMES. - In a volume of the "Collection of the Acts of Assembly", printed at Williamsburg by William Parks, 1733, owned by the State Library, are the signatures of Thruston James, John James, and George W. James, and this memorandum, Elizabeth James, Susanna James, Sally James, Thruston James, John James, Grace James, children of John and Susan James. The Thruston Register (QUARTERLY, Vol. IV., p. 118) shows that John James and his wife, Justina Thruston, came to James City county in 1713. Major Thruston James was one of the committee of James City in 1774. He was probably a grandson of John James, the immigrant. BRYAN. - There is a deed in King George county which recites that Richard Bryan (and Frances, his wife), of the parish of Brom- ___________________________________________________________ (1) Son of Robert Bolling and Anne Stith. (2) Slaughter makes her out Anne Cocke. Page 277. field, Culpeper county, sold to John Champe in 1753 land in King George county, purchased in 1694 by his grandfather, Richard Bryan, late of Stafford county, which land descended to Richard Bryan, his son and heir, late of King George, decased, who by his will January 18, 1747, devised the same to the first-mentioned Richard. Frances Bryan above is shown by a marriage license issued to Richard Bryan, in Spotsylvania, January, 1748, to have been Frances Batteley, and deeds in Culpeper show that she was a daughter of Moses Batteley, of Spotsyl- vania. They had at least two children in 1755, Batteley and Anna Bryan. Was William Bryan, of the same county, who died in 1806, another child? This last was the known ancestor of William Jennings Bryan. Moses Battaley was the direct descendant of Gov. Samuel Mathews, of Virginia. As shown by a deed in King George (1754), a patent in the Northern Neck (17--), and earlier records, Gov- ernor Mathews' oldest son was Lieutenant-colonel Samuel Mathews. He had issue, Capt. John Mathews, who married Elizabeth, the only daughter of Michael Tavernor, of York county. He had issue, Captain Samuel Mathews, whose will was proved in Richmond county in 1718. This last had Francis, John, Baldwin, Mary and Elizabeth. But only the last, whose mother was a sister of Major George Braxton (Essex Records, 1706), and who married Moses Battaley, survived, having issue Samuel Battaley, Frances Bryan, and other children. From a marriage bond in Spotsylvania, Elizabeth Mathews first married, about 1728, Robert Taliaferro, and there are land patents which show that she had two daughters by him. A Daniel Bryan wrote and published in 1815, at Harrisonburg, Va., a poem called the "Mountain Muse." In 1753 the General Assembly gave Richard Bryan 250L as a reward for discovering a cure for the "dry gripes". PEACHEY. - Vol. III., p. 111, 209, 132. The will of Phebe Slaughter (daughter of Col. Toby Smith, of Rappahanock, and widow, first of William Hodgskin (died 1673), and second of William Slaughter) names daughter Phebe Lantane, and grandson Samuel Peachey. So that it seems William Peachey (p. 113) married Phebe Slaughter, who married subsequently Rev. Lewis Latane. (See Phebe Slaughter's will, proved in Essex, April 10, 1710; Lewis Latane's proved April 17, 1733). MATHEWS. - The will of John Mathews, "of the Forks of James River and county of Augusta, Gentlemen", proved November 16, Page 278. 1757, names children, Sampson, George, John, Joshua, Richard, William and Archer (last two under age), Jane, Anne, and Rachel. Wife Anne. Sons Sampson and George made executors. MATHEWS. - Vol. III., p. 173. Governor Samuel Mathews had two sons, Samuel and another (Neill's Virginia Carolorum, p. 220), whose name was certainly Francis, captain and justice of York county. Francis left one son, Baldwin, justice, J.P., of York county, died in 1736, leaving at least two daughters: Mary, who married Philip Smith, of Northumberland county, and another, who had a daughter Mary, who married Thomas Buckner. (Deed in York county). As Samuel Timson (died 1740) had a daughter Mary Buckner, the other child of Baldwin Mathews may have been a wife of Samuel Timson, who resided near him. (See Buckner-Mathews below). BURNET-BROWNE-CARTER. - "Governor William Burnet, of New York and New Jersey, and sub- sequently of Massachusetts, had a daughter Mary, who married William Browne, of Salem, Mass. Their oldest son, William Burnet Browne, married Judith, daughter of Colonel Carter of Virginia, and brought her hom in 1763. Can you tell me who is Colonel Carter was?" William Nelson, Secretary of Hisotircal Society, Patterson, New Jersey. The tombstone of William Burnet Browne at "Elsing Green", the home of Carter Braxton in King William county, ont he Pamunkey (now residence of Judge Roger Gregory), shows that he was born at Salem, in New England, October the 7th, 1738, and died at his seat in King William, Virginia, May 6, 1784. He married Judith, the daughter of Charles Carter, Esq., of "Cleves", in King George county, in 1763, by whom he had five children, of whom three daughters survived him. An infant son and daughter, and his sister, Mary Browne, of Salem, lie interred with him. What became of his daughters? BUCKNER-MATHEWS. - At "Marlfield", in Gloucester county, is a tomb which reads: "Here Lyeth ye Body of Dorothy Buckner, the wife of Baldwin Mathews Buckner and dau. of Col. Samuel and Ann ----, who Departed this Life the 8th of December 1757 Aetat 2 ----. Also the Body of her sister Ann Buckner, who departed this Life the 30th of October - Aetat 18". The house has a brick let in the side, showing the date of erection as 1732. There is an old paper of April 5, 1803, according to which James Jones and Francis Debnam, his wife, sues Dorothy, (widow of Page 279. John Russell, deceased, and before him of John Buckner, executor of Baldwin Mathews Buckner), Thomas Buckner, Samuel Buckner, John Buckner, and Charity Buckner, by Robert Yates, her guardian. (For Buckner, see Vol. III., pp. 173, 274; Vol. IV., p. 181). PATE. - Richard Pate was burgess for Gloucester county in 1653, and in 1657 letters of administration were issued to his nephew, John Pate. (Neill's Va. Carolorum, 368.) In 1660 the latter was added to the commission of Gloucester county. (Hening, II., 15.) John Pate was councillor in 1671, and in 1672 Thomas Pate, his nephew, was his administrator. (General Court Records). This was Majro Thomas Pate, at whose house in Petsworth Parish Bacon died in October, 1676. There is in the Middlesex records a petition from Major John Lewis for damages against Captain Matthew Bentley for taking away his stock and corn to supply the rebel army stationed at "Major Pate's house" during the Rebellion. According to Abingdon Parish Register, Thomas Pate and Elizabeth, his wife, had issue, among others, Matthew Pate, baptized Feb. 20, 1686. He married Anne Reade, and had issue, among others, Sarah, who married William Anderson, 18 Feb., 1736-'37. One of their issue was James Anderson, who married Hannah Tyler, daughter of John Tyler, of Essex county, and she had, among other children, Robert Anderson, of Williams- burg, born in Gloucester, Oct. 22, 1781, and married Helen Maxwell Southall, widow of Peyton Southall, and daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Macaulay. (Bible Records). Oldmixon says that Bacon died at Dr. Green's in Gloucester, and Hening describes this place in 1722 as "then in the tenure of Robert Porteus, Esq." A ferry was run between Poplar Neck in York county and Dr. Green's. Poplar Neck was at the mouth of Carter's Creek (anciently St. Andrew's Creek, where Major Joseph Croshaw lived). Robert Porteus named his place "New Bottle", and his son Bishop Beilby Porteus had a painting of it, of which he was very proud. Opposite to the mouth of Carter's Creek, a mile below the present Cappahowsick wharf, is a field called "New Bottle". It is not at all improbable that Dr. Green purchased Major Pate's residence, and that Bacon died at "New Bottle". In later years the ferry was run between Skimeno, a little above Carter's Creek, and "Cappahowsick", in Gloucester. BLAIR. - Rev. James Blair took A. M. at Edinburgh in 1673. Archibald Blair, his brother, was there in 1685 (matriculation entries). The former had no children. The latter married at Page 280. least three times. By his first wife, unknown, he had John Blair, President of the Council (died in his 85th year, Nov. 5, 1771. - Va. Gazette). In 1703, Archibald Blair and Sarah, his wife, executrix of Bartholomew Fowler's will, sued Thomas Chisman. (York County Records). I think this second wife of Blair was Sarah Archer(1). He married, thirdly, Mary Wilson, only daughter of Col. Wm. Wilson, about 1720. (Elizabeth City County Records, and tombstones at Blunt Point and Rich Neck, Warwick county). She had married, first, Wm. Roscow; second, Col. Miles Cary, of Rich Neck, and Dr. Blair was her third husband. Dr. Blair had issue: 1, President John Blair (he is frequently spoken of as nephew of Commissary James Blair); 2, James Blair, of James City county. The tombstone of Dr. Blair (Va. Hist. Coll., Vol. XI.) speaks of his newphews (nepotibus), see also letter of Gov. Gooch in Perry's Historical Coll., see College Catalogue; 3, Elizabeth, who married John Bolling, Jun. (Bolling's Memoirs); 4, Harrison married Dr. George Gilmer. (Gilmer's Georgians). President John Blair married Mary Monro, daughter of Rev. John Monro. (QUARTERLY, II., p. 82). Issue: 1, Judge John Blair, 2, Dr. James Blair, married Kitty Eustace, of New York, who married, secondly, J. J. Cuthbert, of Georgia (Va. Gazette and marriage bond); he died Dec., 1772 (Va. Gazette); 3, Sarah, married Col. Wilson Miles Cary, of Ceely's (Cary Bible); 4, Anne, married Col. John Banister, of Battersea, Dinwiddie county (Va. Gazette); 5, Christian, married Col. Armistead Burwell, of Stoneland, Mecklenburg county (Burwell's tombtone, John Blair's will, York county, Bruton Register); 6, Elizabeth, married Capt. Samuel Thompson, of the Royal Navy (Va. Gazette, 1768); 7, Mary married Col. George Braxton. (See John Blair's will). Judge John Blair married Jean ----. (Va. Hist Coll., Vol. XI). Judge Blair had three daughers: Nelly, died at fourteen (Va. Gazette), Mary, second wife of Robert Andrews, and Jane, first wife of Rev. James Henderson, married Jan. 8, 1795. None of these daughters left surviving issue. Jane had issue, James Blair, John Blair, Thomas Hamilton, and Blair Monro Henderson. The prayer book in possession of Mrs. F. H. Robertson, of Saltville, Va., a granddaughter of Mrs. Henderson by another marriage, shows their births and deaths without issue. _____________________________________________________ (1) Fowler was Attorney-General of the Colony and lived in Henrico county, where the Archer family was prominent. A child of John Blair was Sarah Archer. - QUARTERLY, Vol. II, p. 82. Page 281. James Blair, second son of Dr. Archibald Blair, died about 1773, when Archibald Blair, "his infant orphan", made choice of John Blair, Esq., as his guardian. (York County Records). Archibald Blair died Oct. 7, 1824, aged 71. He married Molly Whiting, of Gloucester, in 1787. He was Clerk of the Council, and Clerk of Committee of Safety during the whole Revolution. Mary, his daughter, married in 1822 John Minor Botts. The will of Archibald Blair, dated in 1809 and recorded in Richmond, May 17, 1825, names children, John, Beverley, Archibald and Mary. COATS OF ARMS. - It is a curious fact that the arms on the tombstone placed by Philip Ludwell to the joint memories of Sir Thomas Lunsford, Richard Kempe, and his uncle, Thomas Ludwell, bears: On a bend three eagles displayed between two leopards' heads. The same arms appeared on the shattered tombstone at Jamestown of the second Philip Ludwell. (See cut in Century Magazine). But the book-plate used by the Ludwells was always "gules, between two towers on a bend, arg; three eagles displayed, sable". Motto: I pensieri stretti edil viso sciolto. I have seen in Williamsburg some very handsome silver of antique shape and make, bearing the arms and crest of Webb, of New Kent county, Va. They are the same as those of Sir John Webb, of Oldstock. (See Burke.) The Master of Williamsburg Lodge of Masons uses a chair said to have been presented by Lord Botetourt, but it bears these arms: A chevron between three castles. Crest: a castle. The chair is handsomely engraved wtih Masonic emblems, and Washington is said to have once presided in it. TURBERVILLE. - The persons described as parents of George Lee Turberville, on page 254, Vol. IV., were really his grandparents; he was son of Col. John turberville and Martha Corbin, daughter of Col. John Corbin, of Portobago. (See Lee of Virginia, by Dr. Edmund J. Lee). PASTEUR. - Dr. William Pasteur was "partner of Dr. George Gilmer", it should be "partner of Dr. John M. Galt". (See Vol. III., p. 275). MAXWELL. - Some time before his death, Rev. Charles Best Norcliffe, of Yorkshire, England, presented the editor with a Latin "Thesis", prepared in 1803, at his graduation in Edinburgh, by "Dr. Josephus Gulielmus Maxwell, Americanus, Civitatis Georgieanae Civis". It is a pamphlet of thirty-nine pages on vaccination. Page 282. SCOTT - WARE - JORDAN. - Judith Scott Ware, widow of Peter Ware, married Samuel Jordan, and was an aunt of Gen. Charles Scott, afterwards Governor of Kentucky. (Brown's Cabells and Their Kin). I do not think that there can be any doubt that she was daughter of Col. John Scott, of New Kent county, Va. John Scott, of New Kent county, and Judith, his wife, had Jane, bapt. Feb. 7, 1713. John Scott had issue: Samuel, born Feb. 6, 1707; Sarah, baptized March 3, 1710; Mary, bapt. Feb. 17, 1711-'12; Martha, born April 28, 1716; Jesse, born May, 1718. Col. John Scott died Oct. 23, 1729. In this list Judith is not mentioned, but the register is very mutilated. We find, however, in the same register, that Peter and Judith Ware had issue dau. Judith, born march 8, 1728-'29. Mary Scott is mentioned in the will of Wm. Bassett as "sister". The Scotts may have come from Newport, in Isle of Wight, England. See "Bassett Family", in Keith's Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison. BRUTON PARISH CHURCH (p. 213). - For "T. C. Roberts", read Rev. W. T. Roberts. LOST! - Information wanted as to the whereabouts of the early will-book of King George county, Va., which was taken from the clerk's office at King George Courthouse during the war, and some years ago was ascertained to be in New York. A resonable sum would be paid for its return. Communicate with the editor. BOOKS RECEIVED. - The editor wishes to return thanks to Mr. G. C. Callahan, of Philadelphia, for a copy of the "Yardly Family", compiled by Mr. T. T. Upshur, of Northampton county. Special thanks are also due to R. F. Scott, Esq., Bursar of St. John's College, Cambridge, for a valuable copy of the Admissions to St. John's, Parts I. and II. January 16, 1729-'30 to July, 1715". I appreciate also very highly the gift from Prof. Joseph J. Casey of his Index to Hening's Statutes. For numerous other books, pamphlets, papers, etc., the editor feels very grateful.