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VI.
"Beneath this tomb lyeth the body of Major Nathaniel Burwell, eldest
son of Major Lewis Burwell, who, by well-regulated conduct and firm integrity,
justly established a good reputation. He died in the 41st year
of his age, leaving behind him three sons and one daughter,[97]
by Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of Robert Carter, Esq., in the year of our Lord Christ
1721."
Of these, the daughter, Elizabeth Burwell, married President William Nelson,
and was the mother of General Thomas Nelson, &c. One son, Lewis, was the grandfather
of the late Lewis Burwell, of Richmond, &c., and father of Mrs. P. B. Whiting;
and the other was Carter Burwell, of The Grove, who married Lucy Grymes,
the sister of Alice, wife of Mann Page, and daughter of the Hon. John Grymes;
and he was the father of Col. Nathaniel Burwell, of Carter Hall, in Frederick
county, Virginia; and the third son was Robert Carter Burwell, of the Isle of
Wight, the father of Nathaniel Burwell of the same county, (whose children were
Robert C. Burwell, of Long Branch, Frederick, and his four sisters,) and Fanny,
the first wife of Col. John Page, of Rosewell, since Governor of Virginia.
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