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Historical and Genealogical Notes

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 3.
   (Jan., 1895), pp. 202-209.

                         HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

   GRAVES. - See vol. II., p. 271.  Richard Croshaw4 Graves, of New Kent Co., living in 1792,
m. Elizabeth, dau. Joseph Valentine, whose will is recorded in  York Co. (1771).  Children,
William5, Richard5, Joseph5, Edmund Valentine5, Polly5 m. Furnea Bullifant (Records Charles
City Co., and in Auditor's Office) and Elizabeth5 Graves who married Joseph Christian (Judge
J. C. Lamb's MSS.).
   William Graves5 (will proved in Charles City Co., 18 Aug. 1805) m. Tabitha; children,
Joseph C.6, William W.6, Robert6, Elizabeth6, Melvina6 ("not yet christened").
   Joseph C.5 Graves of New Kent Co. (died about 1896) m. Angelica ------.  Children, Henry6
of Charles City, Croshaw6 and Bartholmew6 (Records in Auditor's Office and Charles City Co).
   Edmund Valentine5 Graves, grandfather of John Edmund Graves of Charles City Co.

   GRAVES. - According to the Register of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co.:  Thomas and Mary

Graves had John, christened 1677, Mary, bapt. Aug. 19, 1684.  Jeffrey and Dorothy Graves had
Eliza, born May 15, 1680, Jeffrey, born May 29, 1683, Sarah, bapt. July 1, 1688.  William and
Mary Graves had John, bapt. Dec. 26, 1686, William, April 29, 1688, John, bapt. Jan. 5, 1689,
Benjamin, bapt. April 28, 1700.  Jeffrey and Elizabeth Graves had Thomas, bapt. Jan. 21, 1704.
Jeffrey Graves had Eliza, bapt. June 23, 1706.  John

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and Rebecca Graves had rebecca, b. Jan. 21, 1704.  John Graves had John, born March 9, 1706.
William Graves had Susannah, bapt. April 6, 1707.  Robert Graves had Thomas, born Sept. 19,
bapt. Dec. 15, 1714.  Robert and Mary Graves had Robert, bapt. Jan. 24, 1717, James, bapt.
Oct. 24, 1724.  Elizabeth, dau. John Graves, died No. 21, 1731.  Thomas Graves and Elizabeth
Laffinghouse were married Oct. 20, 1733.  Thomas and Lucy Graves had Mary, bapt. Oct. 10, 1736,
William, b. March 2, 1738-9, Thomas, born March 2, 1741-2, Susanna, born May 4, 1744, John,
born Sept. 4, 1745. Lucy, wife of Thomas Graves, died Oct. 7, 1760.


   GRAVES. - William, of Norfolk, married Euphan Armistead, daughter of William Armistead,
who was son of Col. Robert Armistead of Elizabeth City County.  Her will was proved Dec. 2d,
1829, mentions son, William A. Graves, niece, Mary Phillips, and makes executors, Mordecai
Cooke and son William.

   QUERIES. - Prof. Joseph J. Casey, 26 Est 129th Street, New York, would "highly appreciate
any information, however slight", regarding the following persons:
   Martin, Robert:  Born in King and Queen Co. 1738 (?); paternal homestead on both sides of
the Mataponi River.  Information wanted relative to his brothers and sisters, and his
ancestors.  Were George and Susanna (West) Martin his parents?
   Callaway, Richard, and wife, Celia Ragland.  In Chatham Co., N.C., after the Revolution,
perhaps during it.  Was this the Hillsborough Richard?  What was his relation to Will Kennon,
the Mecklenburgh signer?  His line of descent from the Virginia Kennons?  How was the name
spelled before it appeared in Virginia?  Wanted, Celia Ragland's line of descent.
   Venable, Abraham and (Mildred Lewis?) Hicks or Nix.  What English branch produced this
Abraham?
   Holder, John:  Lieutenant in Alexander Spottswood's 2d Virginia Regiment.  His Virginia
ancestry and locality required.

   LAMB. - Vol. III., p. 127.  The 34, 35, and 36 lines should be corrected so as to read as
follows:  "John, his son, married Mary -----, and had issue, Rachel (born July 2, 1720, 
baptized July 29, 1720, married Anthony Lamb), and John, Mary, Robert, and James".  The date of
the birth of this Rachel Hay, wife of Anthony Lamb, is also given erroneously in the 8th line.
On page 128 read for "Rev. Lycurgus Lamb", Lycurgus Anthony Lamb, and add the following data,
since received:  John Lamb married Mary Emory, and their children were - 37, Lycurgus Anthony
Lamb, b. April 29, 1814, died Oct. 12, 1855; 38, Rev. John Moody Lamb, now living; 39, Junius
Lamb, deceased, leaving issue.  37, Lycurgus Anthony Lamb had issue: 40, John Lamb, born
June 12, 1840; 41, Susan Christian Lamb, b. Feby. 26, 1842, died Sept. 1, 1865; 42, Mary Emory
Lamb, b. Jany. 11, 1844; 43, Nannie A. Lamb, b. Mch. 7, 1848, died Aug. 7, 1859; 44, Elizabeth
Allen Lamb, b. Jany. 8, 1850, d. July 3, 1850; 45 Fannie Beverly Lamb, b. July 13, 1851; 46,
James Christian Lamb, b. Nov. 18, 1853.
   The will of Richard Lamb, "lately of the city of Richmond, but now of the Borough of
Norfolk, devises a legacy to Henry Gibson, of Richmond; to his mother, if she be living in
the kingdom of Great Britain, $500; to Sarah

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Lambert, sister to Col. William Lambert, $500."  Dated 9th June, 1829; proved 28th Jan, 1833.

   BOLLING, COCKE, STITH, ETC.  Queries by E. M. Heyl, Colonel U.S. Army, Inspector-General's
Office, Room 401, Pullman Building, Chicago, ILL.
   Robert Bolling, born 1682, died 1749, married  Ann Cocke, 1706.  What were the names of
Ann Cocke's parents, and when did the family come to Virginia?
   Robert Bolling, born 1646, died 1709, married Anne Stith, 1681.  The names of Anne Stith's
parents, also when they settled in Virginia, is desired.
   Did Mary Walke, or Mary Walker, marry, 1756, Charles Carter, of "Shirley", Virginia?
   [Anne Cocke was probably the daughter of Richard3 Cocke, the younger of Bremor (Richard1,
of Malvern Hills, Richard2, of Bremor).  At Bremor, in Henrico county, James River, I
observed two badly shattered stones with the following inscriptions:

Here lyes Interr'd the Body of
Richard Cocke
Son of Richard Cocke of B * *
He was Born the 10th day
* * ecember 1639 and departed
* * * ife on the 20th November * *

Here lyeth Interred the Body
of Anne, the wife of Richard Cocke,
the younger of Bremor in this county,
and Daughter of Thomas Bowler late
of the County of Rappahannock.
She was born the 23d day of Jan:
1675 and departed this life the 24th
day of April 1705 Aged
30 * * 3 months 1 Day.

   Anne Stith was daughter of Col. John Stith, of Charles City county, who patented land there
in 1663; was lawyer, burgess, etc.  For account of Stith family, see Richmond Critic for
September 27, 1890.
   The Critic, June 18, 1888, states that Charles Carter, of "Shirley", married, first, Mary
W. Carter, daughter of Charles Carter, of "Cleve", and Mary Walke, his wife. - EDITOR.]

   HARPER. - William C. Pennington, 7 E. Eager street, Baltimore, Md., states the following
descent, "beginning with the family Bible of Abraham Harper, who lived probably near
Fredericksburg": Abraham Harper married Lettes George; issue, Jesse Harper, who m. Diana
Goodloe; issue, Robert Goodloe Harper, who m. Catharine Carroll; issue, Charles Carroll
Harper, who m. Charlotte Hutchinson Chefelle; issue, Emily Louise Harper, who m. William
Clapham Pennington.
   "Robert Goodloe Harper was the eminent lawyer, Federalist, and United States Senator from
Maryland, and Catharine, his wife, was the youngest daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,
and died in 1825.  Mrs. Emily Louise Pennington is the granddaughter, sole heir-at-law, and
personal repre-

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sentative living of Robert Goodloe Harper.  Information desired regarding any immigrants of
the name of Harper".

   CARTER. - Information desired regarding John Carter, born about 1729-'30; lived and died
in Caroline County.  He married 1st, Miss Armistead; 2d, Miss Hannah Chew, daugher of John
Chew, of Spottsylvania, and Mary Beverley, daughter of Capt. Harry Beerley; issue, thirteen
children, of whom four were William, John, Robert, and Robert, Jr.  The Carter tree, by Mr.
Carter, of "Shirley", is wanting the name, but "from all the circumstantial evidence I can
gather, the Capt. John was the second son of Robert, of Nonini, married in 1725 to Priscilla
Bladen, of Maryland".  "Seven of his daughters left descendants in Virginia - Haisleys, 
Marshalls, Suttons, Stevens". - Miss R. E. Miller, Pendleton, S.C.

   JENINGS. - "Can any one inform me where a copy of the genealogy of the 'Jenings family',
prepared for the Jenings heirs, can be found?"
   "Nancy Belfield, born about 1750, married William Lane, by whom she had several children,
the last of whom was a posthumous child, and at the request of her husband, the wife promised

to name the child for him.  It being a girl, she was named "Willey" Lane, and she married a
Bennett.  She was living somewhere in Virginia, 1840-'50.  The widow, Nancy (Belfield) Lane,
married Enoch Smith.  Can any of your readers inform the writer of the date of birth,
marriages, and death of Nancy Smith, the names of her brothers and sisters and of their
parents; also, of any of her descendants by her first marriage? - James M. Bourne, 1400 Third
Ave, Louisville, Ky.
   [There is in the New York Curio, Vol. I., a pedigree of the Jenings family, taken from
the Herald's College, and brought down to about 1800.  The solitary male representative in
1800 of Edmund Jenings, the Secretary of State of Virginia, was Edmund Jenings, Esq.  There
were other Jeningses in Virginia contemporary with Edmund Jenings.  One of these was Charles
Jenings, clerk of Elizabeth City county, and another was John Jenings, clerk of Isle of
Wight county, who took a leading part in Bacon's rebellion.  There was also Peter Jenings,
Attorney-General of Virginia, who left descendants. - EDITOR.]

      "VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES" and CHARLES H. BROWNING:  Will you please state, for the benefit
of your Virginia readers, the following?  In the New England Hist.-Gen Register, April, 1894,
and the American Historical Register for December, 1894, of which he is editor-in-chief, Mr.
Browning attacks my Virginia Genealogies with a tissue of misrepresentations that must be
apparent to any ordinary intelligence on careful comparison with the matter and authorities
which he pretends to quote.  His efforts to disprove the Peyton deductions in my Virginia
Genealogies will thus be found full of falsehoods, and inaccuracies even in the spelling of
names and giving of dates.  Indeed, it will appear, on examination of my reply to him in the
New England Hist.-Gen. Register for July, 1894, page 343, that it is impossible for him to
give accurately the smallest quotation from my pages, and it also shows that his methods are
not of that manly order that should prevail among gentlemen.
   Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 8, 1894.               HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN.

   [The controversy between Charles H. Browning and Rev. Horace E. Hayden shows some feeling.
In the case at point the public desires only the facts about Sir John Peyton.  How stands
Sir John Peyton's ancestry?  The King-

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ston Register and Vestry Book mentions "Thomas Peyton, Gent., son of Major Robert Peyton",
and the births, marriages and deaths of Thomas's children are entered in that record.  The
statement on page 469 of Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, Jesse Peyton's Recollections, page
471, the statement from the Vestry Book of Kingston Parish, page 476, and the obituary to 
Mrs. Tabb, page 477, confirm the identity of Robert, Thomas and Sir John.  Perhaps Mr.
Browning was led into error by mistaking Mr. Hayden's quotation marks.  Mr Hayden says, "Mr.
Thomas Peyton, Gent., son of Major Robert Peyton", patented one hundred and ten acres in
Gloucester Co., etc.  Mr. Browning puts the quotation marks at the end of the sentence, and 
searches the Land Books, and does not discover Thomas Peyton described as "son of Major
Robert Peyton"; whereas Mr. Hayden must be quoting from the Kingston Register and Vestry Book,
which so reads.  But independently of this high authority, the assumption of the title of
"Knight Banneret" by such a man as Sir John Peyton does afford strong evidence of a rightful
claim.  Mr. Browning says, "Sir" John was not known as such till 1783; but see Hayden, 476,
where it is shown he was so called as early as 1756.  Mr. Browning says that the pedigree in
the Heralds' College states that Major Robert Peyton, of Virginia, died s.p.m., but elsewhere
in the same paper he declares the pedigree asserts he was living in Virginia in 1693, s.p.m. -
EDITOR.}

   BENNETT - UTIE. - Notes from an address delivered before the Society of Colonial Wars by
Bennett Bernard Browne, M.D.:
   Governor Richard Bennett, (died 1675; will probated April 12, 1675, in Nansemond Court;
proved in England 3d of August, 1676; will executed 15th of March, 1674.*
   Richard Bennett, member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1629.**
   Member of Virginia Council, 1642-'44-'45-'46.**
   One of the Commissioners appointed in 1651 by the Council of State in England to reduce
all the plantations within the Bay of the Chesapeake to due obedience to the Parliament of
the Commonwealth of England.***
   Reduced Virginia March 12, 1652.***
   Reduced Maryland March 27, 1652.***
   Made the treaty with Susquehanna Indians on July 5, 1652, by which the Indians gave up a
large portion of Maryland.***.
   Elected Governor of Virginia April 30, 1652; served three terms to March, 1655.***
   Elected Commissioner to England, 1655.**
   Signed the agreement with Lord Baltimore November 30, 1657, by which the province of
Maryland was restored.***
   Member of Virginia Council, 1658-'59-'60.**
   Major-General of the Virginia forces in 1662-1672.****
   [I made an interesting discovery in the Lower Norfolk county records last summer.  There
is an order in 1641 referring to the wife of Hon. Richard
_____________________________________________________
   *New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January, 1894, p. 114.
   **Henning's Statutes.  [But he was a councillor as early as 1639 (Va. Mag. of Hist. and
Biog., II., p. 99) and the Sainsbury MSS. show that he was a councillor before his death
in 1675. - EDITOR.]
   ***Bozman's History of Maryland.
   ****Colonial Papers, Vol. II., paragraph 1250.

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Bennett, Esq., "formerly Mary Ann Utie."  Her name had been lost hitherto.  The first Utie
known in the records of Virginia was Capt. John Utie, of the council, who took a leading
part in arresting Sir John Harvey and opposing Lord Baltimore.  He was one of the first
persons to settle at Chiskiack in 1632.  He called his place "Utimaria".  His wife was Anne,
and he was dead before 1642.  His "son and heir", John, who married Mary ------, sold
"Utimaria" to Col. William Tayloe, and the "Utie" name disappears from our records.  About
this time there appears in the Maryland records Nathaniel Utie, who became a member of the
Maryland Council, and George, his brother, who was a member of the Maryland Assembly.  The
latter's will was proved in Balto. Co., Md., 24 Oct. 1678 (Christopher Johnston MS.), and
mentions his wife Susannah, children, George (under 14), Mary Anne and Bethya (both under
16), brother, Mr. Nathaniel Utie, loving friend, Capt. Thomas Long.  Bennett's wife was
proabably the dau. of Capt. John Utie; and Nathaniel and George were probably younger brothers
of John Utie; and Nathaniel and George were probably younger brothers of John Utie, "son and
heir of Capt. John Utie".  Judge H. H. Goldsborough has furnished me with a complete note
of the public services of Nathaniel Utie, Esq., which will appear in due time - EDITOR.]

   BOTETOURT MEDAL. - Mr. P. L. Burwell writes that it is an error that "he inherited" the
Botetourt Medal, as stated in last issue.  The medal was given by Col. Nathaniel Burwell's
widow to their grandson Nathaniel Burwell of "Carter's Hall", when a very small boy.  After
his death it became the property of Mr. George H. Burwell, residing near Millwood, Clarke
Co., Va., who still has it.  Mr. Mord. Lewis, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, relates thus the
tragic manner of the death of the younger Nat. Burwell mentioned above:  "He had been quite
sick for some days before the battle of 2d Manassas, and was ordered to a hospital, but would
not go, hoping each day he would be well enough for service.  He was in camp when the 2d
Virginia Infantry of the Stonewall Brigade was ordered to the front, and consented to remain
behind; but as the day advanced and he could hear the firing growing more intense, he said
he could stand it no longer, and started to the front, hoping to find the brigade and take
his place with the regiment.  Aftery trying for some time to find the regiment and failing,
he found a Texas regiment about the make a charge and went in with them, and received the
wound from which he died, I think, the next day.  I was present at the battle of Cold Harbor,
or Gaines' mill, as we called it, June 27, 1862.  We were ordered to charge a battery of
Gatling guns, and in order to make it we had to go through a swamp almost waist deep.  After
getting through the swamp, the regiment was, of course, very much out of line.  Nat., who
was a sergeant-major, was busy getting the men up in line, and urging them to give a good
account of t hemselves.  When the regiment was all up and in line, he saluted Col. Botts and
turned the regiment over to him.  As he did so Botts said"  'Come here, Burwell; you are a
gallant fellow.  Give me your hand.'  Nat. touched his cap, shook hands with Botts, and
crying, Forward men! we all gave a yell, and dashing forward took the battery."
   [The medal given to Rev. Samuel Sheild is noticed in the will (proved June 20, 1824,) of
his son Col. Robert Sheild, who requests his brother, the distinguished lawyer, Henry Howard
Sheild, to keep the medal, and at his death to transfer it to any of his (Robert's) sons then
living, "so that it may

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be handed down to the male members of our family so long as a just estimate shall be placed
by them upon the merits and virtues of him on whom it was honorably and, I hope I may add,

worthily bestowed".  A description of hte medal will be given in some future account of the
Sheild family. - EDITOR.]

   TIMSON. - 1, Colonel William Barber of York county, born 1602, and will proved January,
1669; burgess, justice, etc.; m. 2, Mary, widow of John Dennett.  2, Mary had issue by both
marriages.  Her granddaughter was 3, Mary Juxon, whose brother was "William Juxon, Gentleman",
who removed to London, and made a power of attorney in 1701 to dispose of his lands on
Skiff's Creek, in James City county.  3, Mary married, 4, Samuel Timson, who, in 1677, came
to Virginia as attorney of William Fellows; of london, woodmonger, to take charge of two
plantations belonging to his wife, 5, Margaret, relict of 6, Capt. Philip Chesley, of
Queen's Creek, York county, Va.  4, SAMUEL TIMSON was justice in 1683 and subsequent years,
and died January 23, 1694-'95; will proved May 24, 1695.  His wife died October 10, 1702.
Their children were - 7, William; 8, John; 9, Samuel; and 10, Mary.  7, CAPTAIN WILLIAM
TIMSON was born May 23, 1678, died in 1718-'19, and his will, proved September 21, 1719, is
recorded in York county.  His son, William, who died in 1726, set up five tombstones at the
mouth of Queen's Creek; two cost L15 sterling.  His estate was also credited "with two large
pictures and a large Bible, returned in the inventory, though not his estate".  The tomb of
Samuel Timson, the immigrant, bearing the arms of Tomson impaling Juxon, is still at Queen's
Creek, and Miss Molly Galt, of Williamsburg, is the fortunate possessor of two handsome
portraits, dressed in elegant costumes, which were obtained from a descendant of the Timsons,
and are reputed portraits of two English Timsons, sister and brother, very probably the same
as those mentioned in the account of William Timson's estate.

   BALLARD. - See Vol. II., p. 274.  Thomas Ballard, son of Hon. Thomas and Anne (Thomas)
Ballard, was burgess, justice of the peace, and Colonel of York county.  His will was proved
June 18, 1711.  He married Katharine, daughter of John Huberd, and his issue was Anne, wife
of John Major; Matthew, Elizabeth, Katharine, Thomas, Robert, John, William, and mary, the
last five perhaps by a second wife, being under age.  One of these, Captain John Ballard, of
Yorktown (will proved in 1745), hadn Thomas, John, Robert, William, Catharine, Elizabeth, and
Anne, and the last named, Robert, was clerk of Princess Anne In the QUARTERLY, Vol. II., No. 2.
The Ballard family is a very numerous one, and difficult to trace in later generations.
   Thomas Ballard is mentioned in Charles City Records as early as 1737.  In 1794 John
Ballard, Thomas Ballard, William Talbot Ballard, Francis Dancy Ballard, Elizabeth, wife of 
Moses Fontaine; Sarah, wife of Abraham Fontaine, Lucy, wife of Peter Eppes, are mentioned
as children of Thomas Ballard, of Charles City, deceased.  Henry Talman married Ann Eliza,
daughter of Thomas Ballard, before 1733.
   Hon. Thomas Ballard, Esq., memeber of the Council, etc., was doubtless of the family whose
pedigree and arms are printed in The Visitation of London, 1633, 1634, 1635.  Investigation
might show that he was the sone of either Humfry, Robert, or John Ballard of London, vintner - 
the two last being family names.

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   In the inventory (1720) of Mathew Ballard, of York Co., son of Thomas Ballard of the
Council, there is an account of plate and a seal, with the deceased's "arms upon it".

   SURRY COUNTY. - It is erroneously stated by many writers that Surry was taken out of Isle
of Wight.  The records of Surry show that Surry was taken from James City.  Places in Surry
are referred to as in James City before the formation of the county.  See QUARTERLY, last
issue, p. 125.
   The date of the proclamation at Southwarke was "the 11th day of October", 1660 - not as
stated on page 122, "the 11th day of ffebruary", 1660.

   PEACHY. - In last number, page 115, the date "Died 9th Sept. 1839", has reference to Mary
Monro Peachy(6) and not to Sally Cary Peachy(7).

   OLD TIMES. - See page 136, 15th line, "handsomed" should be printed handsomest - a
typographical error.

   PRESTON - TYLER. - See page 140.  In Rev. Mr. Norcliffe's Preston Chart, Priscilla
Preston, dau. of Rev. William Preston, should be represented as marrying "William Wilkin",
and not "George Stephenson Preston", her brother - a typographical error.

   COLLIER, MIHILL, BOOKER, THRUSTON, SHEILD, VALENTINE, SMITH, CAMM, and otehr families
will receive notice in the next issue.