Queries; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 13, No. 1, 1904

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Queries

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 1.
   (Jul., 1904), p. 71.

                           QUERIES.

                  QUERIES BY MRS. MARY SELDEN KENNEDY.

   Have you any record of the early Lanes who settled in Virginia?  1.  I want the ancestry
of Joseph Lane, of Westmoreland.  His wife was Mary Newton.  Was she daughter of Willoughby
and Sarah Eskridge Newton?  William Lane, father of this Joseph, married Martha Carr.  Can
you give her descent?  Family traditions say she was a sister of Jefferson's wife.  2.  In
WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY, Hannah Ashton is given as second wife of George Eskridge.  Family
record gives her first name as Elizabeth; last name not known.  She left a will and mentioned
Elizabeth, who seemed to be her only child.  Can you throw light upon this also?  Can you
give name of father and mother of Hannah (Ashton) Eskridge?  My account of the Ashtons has no
Hannah.  Katharine Eskridge, daughter of George Eskridge and one of his wives, married, first,
William Jett; secondly John Lane.  This John had braothers, William Lane and James Hardidge
Lane.  Who was their father?  Who did Willoughby Newton Lane, grandson of James Hardidge
Lane marry?  I think William, one of these brothers, married Miss Carr. - Mrs. Mary Selden
Kennedy, "Cassilis", near Warrenton, Va.

                          QUERIES BY CHARLES H. BROWNING.

   SPOTSWOOD, READE, CARTER. - I am printing the sixth edition of Americans of Royal
Descent, and I hope the descendants of the following Virginia worthies will not consider me
impertinent if I ask some questions concerning them.  It has frequently been stated in print
that - 1.  "Gen. Alexander Spotswood's father, Dr. Robert Spottiswood, was a son of the
unfortunate Sir Robert Spottiswood", of royal descent, who was executed by the Covenanters.
What is the legal evidence that the said Dr. Robert was the son of Sir Robert?  This is to
prove that General Spotswood's descendants are co-heirs to the property of blood-royal
through Sir Robert.  2.  "Col. George Reade, a Virginia councillor, was the son of Robert
Reade, of Linkenholt, Southants, by his wife, Mildred Windebank", a lady of royal descent.
What is the legal evidence that the said Sarah was the mother of Colonel Robert?  This is
to prove that colonel Robert's descendants are co-heirs to the property of blood-royal 
through Sarah Ludlow. - Charles H. Browning, Ardmore P. O., Penn.