Queries; Wm. and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1904

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Queries

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 4.
   (Apr., 1904), pp. 272-274.

                             QUERIES.

   Joseph Lane, of Westmoreland county, married Mary Newton.  Was she a daughter of
Willoughby and Sarah Eskridge Newton?  William Lane, father of Joseph Lane, married Martha
Carr.  Who was she?  According to QUARTERLY, George Eskridge married, secondly, Hannah Ashton.
Who were her parents?  A family record states that he married, secondly, Elizabeth -----.
She left a will, and mentions Elizabeth, her only child.  How about this?  Katherine Eskridge,
daughter of George Eskridge, married (1) William Jett, (2) John Lane.  This John Lane had
brothers, William Lane and James Hardidge Lane.  Who was their father?  Who did William
Newton Lane, grandson of James Hardidge Lane marry?  I think William, one of these brothers,
married Miss Carr. - Mary Selden Kennedy, "Cassilis", near Warrenton, Va.


   Captain Alexander Handley was with Gen. Morgan in the Southern campaign, Revolutionary
War, and was captured by the British, and died in 1781.  He had two brothers - William
and Archibald.  Who were the parents of Capt. Alexander Handley?

Page 273.

   Who was James Willis, who in 1652 received a land grant in Ball's Neck, Northumberland
county?

   In the history of the Randolph family, which appears in the WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY", I
find that Isham, of Dungeness, son of William Randolph, of Turkey Island, had a son William,
who married a Miss Little, and moved to bristol.  Nothing is said of their children.  My
relatives tell me that their issue was as follows:  Nathaniel, Peyton, Isham, Henry and 
Miriam, and that Nathaniel was my great-great-grandfather.  Is this statement correct?  I am
told that my great-grandfather was a commissary in the Revolution.  Is this correct? - Mrs.
W. H. Kistler, 976 South Fifteenth Street, Denver, Col.

   WYATT. - Sally S. Wyatt, wife of William Bibb, of prince Edward county, Va., and afterwards
of Elbert county, Ga., and mother of Wiliam Wyatt Bibb, first governor of Alabama (as to whom,
see Appleton's Cyclopaedia of National Biography).  In Gilmer's Georgians it is stated that
"her brother, Joseph Wyatt, represented in the Senate of Virginia, for more than twenty years,
a part of Mr. John Randolph's congressional district."  My wife is a great-granddaughter of
William Wyatt Bibb. - H. H. Parker, Portland, Oregon.  Joseph Wyatt, of Charlotte county,
long a member of the Virginia Assembly, was the son of Joseph Wyatt, of New Kent County, and
was born August 24, 1767.  He was son of Joseph Wyatt and Dorothy his wife, and had a brother
Peyton, born Nov. 15, 1763.  Joseph  Wyatt was in 1752 executor of John Wyatt, of New Kent.
Joseph Wyatt, Sr., may have been a son of George Wyatt, of Middle Plantation, a nephew of
Governor Sir Francis Wyatt.  (See QUARTERLY, X., p. 61).

   In QUARTERLY, Vol. VII., under the caption "Marriage Bonds in Goochland County", there is
a record of the marriage bond of some ancestors of mine, my great-grandparents.  The lines
read as follows:  "Dec. 25, 1779, Wm. Bowman, of Chesterfield, to Mary Crosby, sec. Zach
Haden; witness Val. Wood; Joseph Bowman consents to marriage and certifies that William was
21, July 31, 1776".  A few years after the marriage this (Dr.) William Bowman and his wife
lived in Richmond, and then they moved with the children to Rutherford county, N.C.

Page 274.

I should like to know which family of Cosbys Mary belonged to, and also which family of
Bowmans her husband sprang from.  There are on record several Joseph Bowmans, who were
officers in the Revolutionary War from Virginia, and one from North Carolina.  Dr. Bowman
and his wife were possessed of considerable means when they emigrated to North Carolina, as
they bought land in North Carolina, and had a good many slaves.  The tradition in my family
is, that mary Cosby was an orphan, and I take it that this is true, since she had to have no
one consent to her marriage as shown by the record above.  Perhaps the name of Joseph Bowman
(evidently of Chesterfield county, Va.) and Mary Cosby, of Goochland county, may be of the
family tree of some one of your readers, and I may hear of it through them.  Will N. Harben,
Care Harper & Bros., Publishers, Franklin Square, New York.