THROCKMORTON OF ENGLAND AND VIRGINIA: Wm and Mary Qtrl, 1895, V.3,N3.,pp 192-195 Transcribed by Kathy Hay ************************************************************************ 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 ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm THROCKMORTON OF ENGLAND AND VIRGINIA By W. G. Stanard. [Continued from page 52.] 10. ALBION THROCKMORTON, born November, 1740 (F.B.), served in the Revolution as a cornet in Lee's Legion, and received land bounty for his services. (Virginia Land Office Records.) He married Mary Webb, of Virginia. Issue: 30, James Edmonson; 31, William E.; 32, Robert, a sea- captain, died of yellow fever about 1834; 33, Lucy; 34, Dorothea; 35, Daughter. 13. MAJOR MORDECAI THROCKMORTON, of Gloucester county, served in the Revolution as captain of a company of minute men from that county. In the Journal of the Committee of Safety, July 3, 1776, is the following entry: "A certificate of the appointment of Mordecai Throckmorton, Gent., to be Capt. of a minute Comp. in Gloster district was red'd and a Comm'n issued, dated 6th May." On October 24, 1776, Captain Mordecai Throckmorton's and three other companies of minute men stationed at Gloucestertown were discharged on account of their reduced numbers. Later in the war Page 193. he was a major in the Gloucester militia. He married, December 11, 1773, Mary (born July 11, 1758), daughter of Sir John Peyton, Baronet, of "Isleham", Gloucester county (Hayden's Virginia Genealogies), and died about 1788. In The Virginia Gazette, November 20, 1788, is an advertisement stating that a petition had been presented to the General Assembly to enable Sir John Peyton to make a deed for a tract of land on North River, sold by Mordecai Throckmorton before his death. Issue: 36, Peyton, died unmarried; 37, Warner, died unmarried; 38, Thomas, of "Wilson's Creek", married, April 29, 1815 at "Severn House," Gloucester, Julia Lewis, daughter of Warner Lewis, of "Warner Hall", Gloucester (Richmond Enquirer), and died without issue. (Mrs. Page's Manuscripts.) 14. WARNER THROCKMORTON, of Gloucester county, married Julia Langborne, of King William county, and had issue: 39, Sarah, married John Dixon, Sr., of "Airville", Gloucester county (see his epitaph in the last number of the QUARTERLY. It should be noted that the last two lines of the epitaph, as printed, are really part of that of his son, Dr. John Dixon, and were accidentally transposed); 40, Mary, married Dr. Wm. Taliaferro, of Gloucester; 41, Harriett, married Dr. Wm. Taliaferro (2d wife); 42, Martha, married Captain Richard Jones, of "Hickory Hill", Hanover, and of "The Cottage" Gloucester. (Mrs. Page's Manuscripts and Richmond Standard). 17. THOMAS THROCKMORTON, born in 1739, died April 27, 1826 (F.B.); justice of Frederick county 1784-'90; emigrated to Nicholas county, Kentucky, with all of his sons except Mordecai; was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1808, and of the State Senate in 1811-'16, and 1820- '21 (Collin's Kentucky); married (1), Mary, daughter of Robert Throckmorton; (2), Mary, daughter of John and Ann (Fowke) Hooe. Issue: (1st marriage), 44, Thomas, born November 14, 1765; (2d marriage), Ann, born December 17, 1772, married, March 27, 1807, Joseph Russell, and died March 27, 1807; 34, Thomas; 46, Mordecai; 47, John; 48, Maria, born January 17, 1786, married Matthew Arnold, and died August 28, 1836; 49, Matthew Read, born February 25, 1781, died September, 1802; 50, Ariss (F.B.) 18. ROBERT THROCKMORTON, of "Roxton", Jefferson county, was a justice of Berkeley county in 1786, and sheriff of Frederick county in 1792; married, January 20, 1776, Catherine Robinson (F.B.), and died in 1796 (F.B.). Issue: 51, John; 52, Lucy M., born Page 194. July 16, 1779 (F.B.), and married James Smalley Bate in 179- (F.B.). 19. WILLIAM THROCKMORTON, married Mary ______, and was the father, it is believed, of Colonel Warner T. Throckmorton, of Hampshire county, State Senator, 1819-'22. 20. ALBION THROCKMORTON, married Mildred (born 1765), daughter of Warner and Hannah (Fairfax) Washington, of "Fairfield" (F.B.). Issue: 53, Warner Washington; 54, Hannah Fairfax, born at "Woodbury", Virginia, 1793, married John C. Wormeley, and died in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1858; 55, Catherine R., born in 1796, married Wm. Dickerson, and died at Nashville, Tenn. 30. JAMES EDMONSON THROCKMORTON, died at Princeton, Kentucky, in 1850, aged 63 years; married ---- ----, and was father of Dr. Wallace Throckmorton, who died in Caldwell county, Kentucky, about 1852; married ----- -----, and was father of James Throckmorton, living in Kentucky. (Information of Geo. J.W.T.) 31. DR. WILLIAM E. THROCKMORTON, born in 1800, died October 2, 1842; emigrated to Kentucky in youth; married, first, Jane, daughter of William Rotan, of South Carolina; secondly, Matilda Clements. Issue: (1st marriage), 56, W.A.L., died in Arkansas in 1856; 57, Dr. John A., of Houston, Texas; 58, James W., Governor of Texas and member of Congress, married Ann, daughter of Thomas Rotan; 59, Robert E., Lieutenant Confederate States Army, killed at the battle of Mansfield, Louisana; 60, Nancy; (2d marriage), 61, Edward; 62 Virginia. 45. THOMAS THROCKMORTON, of Nicholas county, Kentucky, born January 24, 1775, died June 17, 1835, married Susan Morton (born December 13, 1776). (F.B.) Issue: 63, Thomas W., born January 11, 1815; died July 10, 1842; 64, William M.; 65, Mordecai B.; 66, Joseph M.; 67, Patsy H., born March 19, 1800; 68, Susan W., born July 4, 1802; 69, Ann R., born Septem'r 2, 1804; 70, Elizabeth M., born July 24, 1806; 71, Lucy V., born Decem'r 8, 1808; 72, Frances W., born October 8, 1810; 73, Mary H., born June 6, 1812 (F.B.) 46. MAJOR MORDECAI TH ROCKMORTON, of "Meadow Farm", Loudoun county, Virginia, born March 10, 1777, died February 6, 1812, married (1), February 22, 1799, Mildred, daughter of Warner Washington, and widow of Albion Throckmorton (she died in September, 1804); and (2), February 6, 1812, Anne, daughter of Bernard Hooe and Mary Symes Chichester, his wife. (A.H., born July 8, 1793; died in May, 1860.) Issue: (1st marriage), 74, Mat- Page 195. thew R.; 75, Thomas Bernard, M.D., born January 14, 1813, died without issue, January 1, 1836; 76, John Ariss; 77, Mordecai, born August 13, 1817, died young; 78, Anna Catherine Hooe, born February 10, 1820, died September 16, 1834; 79, Richard McCarty, born December 5, 1822, died in August, 1855, married Mary Ophelia Digges, of Maryland, and had no issue; 80, James Barbour; 81, Hugh William. (F.B.) (Concluded in next issue).=