HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES. HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES: Wm and Mary Coll Qtly, Vol. 11, No.2 (Oct.,1902)pg.146-148 Transcribed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Margaret Risby. ************************************************************************ 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 LEWIS FAMILY -"In the Lewis record just concluded, the marriage of Fielding Lewis to Frances Hubard Bowyer was omitted. He died young, leaving one son, Fielding Lewis. She married afterwards John Poindexter, and died about fifteen years ago at Lexington, Va., at the advanced age of eighty-five years. "In the catalogue of the Alumni of Washington and Lee University, Fielding H. B. Lewis appears in the class of 1838, and it is stated that he is a son of Warner M. Lewis, of Halifax county, of the class of 1817-1818. This is a mistake, because it states that said Warner did not die till 1848. He is probably the son of Robert H. Lewis, of same county and class, who died in 1824; but I have written back to Virginia for accurate information, and will furnish it. He left a large property to his son Fielding Hubard Bowyer Lewis, who died in 1876 in this State." Otis Bowyer, Baird, Texas. RANDOLPH FAMILY -"I noticed on page 264 of Vol. VIII. of your magazine that you say, `Lucy, daughter of Archibald C. Randolph, married Edward Hutchinson.' This is an error. It should be `Lucy Burwell Randolph, married Eleazer Carter Hutchinson.'"-Cary T. Hutchinson. TOMKIES. - Chancery papers in Williamsburg in J. M. McDouall & Co. v. Brooke, Tomkies and others show that Francis Tomkies, of Gloucester county, died before 1806, leaving wife Mildred, who married, secondly, Humphrey Brooke, of Fauquier, also dead. He had issue (1) Charles, now deceased, (2) Mary, married Robert Yates, now dead, and Bartholomew Yates in his executor; (3) Susanna, married William Darricott, of Hanover. He is also dead, leaving issue, John Darracott, Elizabeth Darracott, Mary Darracott, and Susanna Darracott. Thomas Price, of Hanover, his executor. (4) Elizabeth, who married Samuel Buckner, both dead, leaving daughter Elizabeth; (5) Catherine, married John S. Stubbs, of Henrico, and she is dead; (6) Thomas Tomkies, (7) Mordecai Tomkies, (8) Morgan, (9) Ann, now deceased, who married Jasper Hughes. GESSEDGE, GUESSEDGE, OR GISSEDGE -- BICKLEY. -The under-signed would be pleased to know the parentage of Sarah, wife of _______ Shelton, and mother of Ralph Shelton, who appears to have been resident in King and Queen county, Va., previous to 1703. The said Sarah married, secondly, Richard Gessedge, whose patronymic appears in legal documents in the above forms; the said Richard Gessedge died before March, 1703, about which time his widow married again, her third husband being Joseph Bickley, sheriff of Louisa county, Va., 1742, and judge there in 1745. He would also be pleased to communicate with any one having knowledge of or possessing portraits of the Bickley family of Louisa county, Va., particularly those painted in England, and willed to the above named Joseph Bickley by his brother, the Rev. Sir Humphrey Bickley, Bart., Rector of St. Mary's Church, Attleborough, County Norfolk, England, died 1752.- W. Bleddyn Powell, 740 A, City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. SOME DEATH NOTICES IN THE "RICHMOND ENQUIRER." Another Revolutionary officer, on Friday, 18th January, 1833, Capt. George Tyler, died at his residence in Spotsylvania, aged 78 years. He married in early life, and raised 11 children. Wyatt Walker died at his residence in Charles City county, 18 Dec., 1832. In early life clerk of his native county, afterwards representative in the Legislature, member of the Baptist Church, etc. Rev. Abner W. Clopton, of Charlotte county, Va., died 20 March, 1833, at the age of 50 years. Educated at the University of North Carolina. Settled in Charlotte, N. C., in 1822, and had charge of the Baptist Church there; trustee of Columbian College. Nicholas Johnson, Gent., of Louisa county, died June 4, 1766. Funeral sermon preached by Rev. Robert Barret. (This last announcement from the leaf of an old book.) BRUTON RECTORSHIP. Whereas, the Rev. Mr. Henley has insinuated that some of the Gentlemen of the Vestry have repented of their Choice of the Reverend Mr. Bracken, we the Subscribers, who gave him our Votes, think it becomes us to contradict so injurious a Suggestion, which has no Foundation in Truth, and to declare that his Conduct has ever met with our full Approbation. Ben Waller J. Tazewell John Prentis Jos. Hornsby W. Eaton W. Graves Mr. Henley will hardly suppose that I have repented of our choice. Ro. C. Nicholas. - Virginia Gazette, March 3, 1774. (Communicated by Edward Wilson James, Norfolk, Va.) JONES - WARD. - Wanted to know names of parents of Robert Jones, of Amelia county, Va., who married Miss Annie Ward, sister of Col. Edward Ward, once governor of Tennessee. He is believed to have been of the Major Peter Jones family. Wanted to know the names of the parents of Colonel Edward Ward.-X. STARK FAMILY.-(Quarterly, IV., p. 271 and 272.) It is said that Elizabeth Belfield (born 1732) married Mr. Stark, of Southampton county. (Descendants of Roger Jones.) Burwell and Belfield Stark were living in Dinwiddie county in 1789. (Assessor's Books.) There is a deed recorded in Sussex from Belfield Stark and Elizabeth his wife, of Dinwiddie county, Va., for 525 acres, being the land devised by the late Bolling Stark to his widow Ann Stark, and after her death to his son Belfield Stark. Dated 22 June, 1797. WOONSON, DAVIS.-Wanted, the parentage of Sanborne Woodson, who married Elizabeth Michaux (daughter of Abram). (2) Wanted, the name of the mother of Martha Davis (wife of Abraham Venable).-(Mrs.) Jennie M. Cunningham