Notes and Queries; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 2, No. 3 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Notes and Queries William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 2, No. 3. (Jan., 1894), pp. 212-214. NOTES AND QUERIES. BATHURST, "who was the wife of Lancelot Bathurst, mentioned in the visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1682, edited by J.F. Fenwick, & W.C. Metcalf, Exeter, 1884, as of Virginia, mar. there and living, aet. 36, in 1682?" - Christopher Johnston, 5 West Chase Street, Baltimore, Md. BLAIKLEY - "From the Va. Hist. Coll. xi., 70 I have obtained the epitaph of Mrs. Catharine Blaikley, who d. 25 Oct, 1711 aet, 73 years & upwards, who is burined in Bruton churchyard. An old sampler, now in my possession, said to have been worked by Mary, dau. of William Blaikley, afterwards Mrs. Griffin Stith, reads as follows: William & Catharine were married September the eleven day 1718. Benjamin Sadler Blaikley, born April the 7th day, 1723, and died May the fifth following. Mary Blaikley, born January the seventeenth day 1726-7. James Blaikley, born January the twenty-third day 1728-9, died the first of July 1734. Jannet Carson Blaikley, born the nineteeth day of March 1730. Elizabeth Blaikley, born the thirtieh day of March, 1734. The Mary Blaikley mentioned above married Griffin Stith 19 Augt 1743. Mrs. Catherine Blaikley (Blackley) lived, according to her epitaph, in Williamsburg. Can you put me on the track of these Blaikleys?" Christopher Johnston, Baltimore, Md. [From Bruton Register, York Co. "Mr William Blaikley buried May 30, 1739". The will of William Blaikley was proved in York Court, June 21, 1736; children: James, Mary, Jennet Carson and William; mentions land left to him by William's (his son's) grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Weldon, in Brunswick Co. Witnesses James Shields, Mathew Shields, Page 213. Hannah Shields. - Editor]. RANDOLPH ARMS. Mr. Brock says Ryland Randolph used the arms which he gives in the QUARTERLY Hist. Papers, Vol. I, p. 106, as "Gules on a cross argent five mullets pierced sable. Crest - An antelope's head erased ar". The enclosed plate as you will see are not these, but - "Azure on a cross argent five mullets sable, in the dexter chief a mullet of the second for difference. Crest - An antelope's head erased argent, bearing in it mouth a torch or bton. Now whether it was intended that the field should be gules, one can not say, but it is certainly conventionally represented azure. The charge in the antelope's mouth is certainly not a scroll, it apepars to be a torch, it may be a baton, it does not look like the trumpet in John Randolph of Roanoke's plate. W. G. Brown, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. OTEY - "From a fly leaf in the Family Bible of Dr. John A. Otey, of Liberty, Va., to whom it was communicated by his father, the late Col. Armistead Otey, it appears that John Otey came to Bedford Co., Va., about the time of the Revolutionary War. He left one brother in New Kent Co. John Otey was captain in the Revolution, and died at Liberty, Bedford Co., in 1816. Can you throw any light upon the family ancestry?" E. L. McClelland, 1405 F. St., Washington, D.C. [The following data are from the badly mutilated register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent Co: John, son of Jno. Otey, born July the 19th 1713 Mary, daughter of Jno. Otey, born July the 17th 1715 William, son of Jno. Otey, deceased Sept. 20 1721 Martha, daughter of Jno Otey, deceased Oct. 3 1721 Martha, daughter of Jno Otey, born July 23 1717 William, son of John Otey, born March 18 1719 Betty, dau. of Isaac and Frances Otey, born May 13 1737 Page 214. Sarah, negro girl, belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Otey, June 5 1738 Mary, dau. of Isaac and Frances Otey, born Aug. 24 1738 Elizabeth, dau. of John and Sarah Otey, born Nov. 29 1738 Captain John Otey, of Bedford County, was doubtless a son of John and Sarah Otey the last named. The Bedford records would perhaps show. - EDITOR] HOWARD Pedigree - See p. 168. From QUARTERLY, Vol. I., No. I., p. 54. William5 Howard married Ann Chisman, probably Anna dau. of Capt. Thomas Chisman, son of Edmund, son of Thomas, son of Capt. Thomas, brother of Major Edmund Chisman, of Bacon's Rebellion. She, Anna, was born Aug. 28, 1755, and marriage bond is dated 24 Nov., 1777. CABELLS AND THEIR KIN. Dr. Alex. Brown, editor of the "Genesis", has in preparation a volume to be entitled as above, which will be deemed very welcome to a host of people in this State and throughout our Union. The work he announces "will be genealogical, bio- graphical, and historical". The ability of Dr. Brown has been so signally exhibited that it is patent that he will only aggrandize his reputation in the results of work for which he is inherently and by study so well fitted. It may be of interest to note, also, that he is at work upon a history of the Colony of Virginia in the Council period, 1606-1625, which is designed to be a popular work - that is - for the general reader.