The Thruston Family of Virginia (continued); Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 4, 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 *********************************************************************** Pages 180-183 THE THRUSTON FAMILY OF VIRGINIA. (Continued from pp. 23, 116). The family register continues as follows: June 13th 1717 My ffather Mr Edward Thruston came from Boston to live with me Edward Thruston Junir1 and I haveing This Book of him thought fitt to keep ye Births and marriages of my ffamily as followeth, vis.: My birth is of ye other sides I was marryed to my wife Elizabeth who was ye Dauaghter of Mr Thomas Housden Minister of ye upper Pish of Nansemond in Virginia. Our Wedding Day was August ye 31: 1706 Being Satterday. My Daughter Mary was Borne December ye 9th 1707 about ---- In ye afternoon. My son John was Borne October ye 24th 1709 about 3 of ye Clock in ye Morning. My Daughter Elizabeth was Born Aprill ye 8th 1712 about 7 in ye afternoon. My Daughter Franc: was borne January ye 7th 1714 about 5 in ye morning. My son Edmond was Borne July ye 14th:1717 about 6 in ye afternoon. Page 181. My daughter Susannah was Borne July ye 30th 1719 about 6 o'clock in ye afternoon Being Thirsday. My son Perry Thruston was Borne August ye 30th 1721 about 4: in ye afternoon Being Wednesday. My son Thomas was Born the 4th Day of December 1725 between 9 and 10 of the clock in the morning Being Satterday and was Baptized ye 18 Day of March following. My Daughter Franc: Smith departed this Life the 21 day of August 1749: about 2 in ye morning Aged 34 years ye 7th of January last past. My granson Moses Robertson was Born ye 27th of October: 1742 in ye after noone and his sister Francis Robertson was Borne the 11th day of June: 1744. And their Mother, my daughter Susanna Robertson, departed this life the 27 Day of December, 1748. Cornelius Calvert was married to Miss Elizabeth Thruston May 5th 1772. Mrs. Elizabeth Calvert departed this life Jany 18 1782. My son Thomas Thruston departed this Life February 15th 1738, between 4 and 5 o'clock in ye morning being Thiro day. Col John Thruston2 aged 57 years departed this life at Gloster Town in Virginia on the 20th Feby 1766. By his wife Sara relict of Hanes3 (originally Sarah Minn) he had the following children. Charles Minn Thruston born 6 Nov. 1738. Elizabeth born 27th Apl 1740, married to Col Thomas Whiting at Gloster. Sarah born 27 April 1743 married to John Thornton, of Hanover. Mary born 17th May 1746 married Hugh Walker of Gloucester Co. John born 20th May 1750. Frances born 20 March, 1752, Mar. Colo William Hubbard of Charlotte Co. Edward born 12 July 1753, died 24 June 1754. Jemima born 18 Dec. 1755, died 4th July 1756. Mildred born Oct 2nd, 1756, died Sept 30, 1758. Robert born Jany 14th 1759. Sarah relect of Col John Thruston died 12th May 1786 aged 69. Elizabeth died 1766. Mary died since this date. John died Anno 1781. Frances died about 1780. Colo Charles Minn Thruston4, born 6th Nov 1738, married Mary Buckner, daughtr of Col Samuel Buckner of Gloucester County, Virginia. (She departed this life about the 18th of August, 1765), in the year 1760. By whom he had three children: John born 15th Oct. Anno 1761, Buckner born 9th of February 1764, Charles born 3rd Augt 1765. He married in Feby 1766 Ann daughter of Col ------ Alexander of Gloster, by whom he had the following children - Sara Alex. born 15th Dec. 1766, Frederick born 15 March 1770, Mary Buckner born 31st July, 1772, Francis born 3rd Feby 1774, Eliza Minn born 6th Ap. 1775, Alfred born 14 May, 1778, Eloise born 23d Mar. 1782, Sydney Ann born 2nd May 1783, Edmund Taylor born 24th Oct. 1785. John married Eliz. Thruston Whiting5, dau. of Col. Thomas Whiting of Gloster 13 Oct. 1782. Buckner6 mar. Jannett January, daug of Mr. Peter January, Kentucky, in March 1795. Page 182. Charles married Frances O'Fallon7, relict of Dr. James O'Fallon, and daug. of Mr. John Clark, of Kentucky, 20 Jany 1796. Sarah was married to mr. George Floerdew Norton of Virginia Dec 17, 1784. Mary was married to Col. Charles Magill in the year 1792 (25 May) of Winchester. Frances was md to Mr Frederick Conrad of Winchester, 1793 (25 Ap). Elizabeth was md to mr. Henry Dangerfield 1794, 10th Augt. Eloise was married to Capt. Edmund Hanes Taylor, of Kentucky. Charles Thruston, son of Charles M. Thruston & Mary Buckner, departed this life on the 8 Dec 1800, aged 35 years & 4 mo. Sydney Anne Powell, daughter of Col Charles M Thruston. departed this life on the 12th Sept. 1803. I John Thruston8 Having recd. this book from my father Col. C.M. Thruston I have thought proper to insert the births &c of my children. I was married as before mentioned to Eliza T. Whiting, daug. of Colo Tho. A. Whiting of Gloster, 13th Oct., 1782. My daug. Mary Buckner Thruston was born 14th August 1783. Elizabeth Taylor was born the 13th Feby 1785. Thomas Whiting was born the 6th Novem 1786. Sarah born Nov 8th 1788; Catharine born Sept 19th 1790; Charles Minn, born Feb. 26th 1793; Fanny Badello born Mar. 7th 1795; Alfred born 16th April 1797; Lucius Falkland, born July 18th 1799. Col. John Thruston departed this Life 19th February 1802 about 11 o'clock in the Day in the Forty First year of his Age. Algernon Sidney Thrusto(n) was born May 19th 1801 (a)t seven o'clock in the Morning - Eliza T. Thruston. Eliza T. Fontaine9, widow of Capt. Aaron Fontaine, departed this life July 2d, 1822, in the ----- year of her age. Mary Buc, Thruston my daug. was married to Mr. tho. January, of Lexington, Kenty, the 14th Nov., 1799. Eliza T. Thruston, daughter of John Thruston and Eliza his wife, as married to Worden Pope, of Louisville, Kenty, 11th Sept. 1804. Worden Pope died May 1837. Eliza T. Thruston Pope died March 1838. (To be continued.) NOTES. 1. Edward Thruston, Junior, settled in Norfolk county, and his original will, with a wax seal, bearing the arms of Thruston (three bugles horns stringed) is preserved in the clerk's office. It mentions his son John, daughters Mary and Elizabeth, grandson Charles Mine Thruston to whom he gives his quart silver tankard, after the death of his daughter, Eliza- beth Thruston; grandson, John Smith, of Norfolk; granddaughter, Sarah Hutchings, wife of Joseph Hutchings; grandson, Moses Robertson, and granddaughter, Frances Robertson. Son John and daughter Elizabeth made executors. Will dated September 25, 1761; proved June, 1762. 2. Col. John Thruston, of "Landsdowne", Gloucester county, Virginia. The record of this and the two succeeding generations was probably made by his grandson, Col. John Thruston of "Sans Souci", near Louisville, Kentucky. 3. There is a deed of record in York county clerk's office from John Thrus- Page 183. ton, of "the town and county of Gloucester, merchant", in behalf of Martha Haynes, an infant daughter of Herbert Haynes, deceased, by Sarah, formerly wife of said Herbert, but now wife of the said John Thruston. Acknowledged August 18, 1746. 4. Charles Mynn Thruston was a scholar in the grammar school at William and Mary College in 1754; he took orders and was minister of Petsworth about the time of the Revolution, when he donned the soldier's uniform and became colonel of a regiment. He was known as the "Fighting Parson". 5. She was his first cousin and daughter of Elizabeth Thruston. He was under General George Rogers Clarke in the Illinois campaign, and was the John Thruston of Sans Souci, near Louisville, Kentucky. 6. Buckner Thruston removed to Kentucky in 1788, was judge in State court for some years, one of three commissioners in 1800 to settle dispute between Kentucky and Virginia as to the State line, United States Senator in Congress from Kentucky, afterwards judge of the United States Court for the District of Columbia. 7. Quite a romance was connected with this marriage. She was a sister of General George Rogers Clarke, and he was murdered by a negro slave. 8. This was Col. John Thruston of Sans Souci, near Louisville, Kentucky. 9. Her mother was Elizabeth Thruston, daughter of Col. John Thruston, of "Landsdowne", of Gloucester county, Virginia, who married Col. Thomas Whiting, of Gloucester county, Virginia. Their daughter, Elizabeth Thruston Whiting, married, first, her first cousin, Col. John Thruston, of Sans Souci, and after his death, in 1802, she married Capt. Aaron Fontaine, of Louisville, Kentucky.